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MALE (AFP) - The Maldives military denied Tuesday that a coup had taken place in the island nation but said it had advised President Mohamed Nasheed to resign.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Ministers from the secular Iraqiya bloc on Tuesday ended a cabinet boycott that began in December amid a crisis with the Shiite-led government, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's spokesman said.

MOSCOW (AFP) - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived Tuesday in Damascus with the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Russian foreign ministry said.

BEIRUT (AFP) - The Syrian opposition on Tuesday urged businessmen across the strife-torn country and throughout the Arab world to fund rebel forces seeking the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

MALE, Maldives (AFP) - The president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed announced his resignation Tuesday during a televised press conference after a mutiny by the police and weeks of demonstrations.

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Although the European Union is committed to producing 10 percent of its energy in renewables by 2020, UN experts have claimed that despite being headlined as a magic solution to global warming, biofuels are a less efficient way than originally believed of reducing greenhouse gases.

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