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	01/17/2012
Good afternoon LATEST NEWS Colombia rebels selling cows as drug money drops: Santos BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday the country's largest rebel group was increasingly selling its cattle to finance South America's longest-running insurgency as income from trafficking cocaine drops. | Full Article Priests, farmers, lesbian truckers tweet for Sweden January 17, 2012 12:09 PM ET STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden is tweeting to the world, and this week she is Hanna, "just your average lesbian truck driver." | Full Article Iran cracks down on moral peril of Barbie peddlers January 16, 2012 07:48 AM ET TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday. | Full Article Troubled euro gains currency with counterfeiters January 16, 2012 05:46 AM ET FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Europe's debt crisis may be threatening to unravel the euro but criminals increasingly see the single currency as worth counterfeiting. | Full Article Banned Bulgarian soccer referee uses false identity January 13, 2012 04:29 PM ET SOFIA (Reuters) - A banned Bulgarian referee took charge of this week's friendly between Werder Bremen and AZ Alkmaar under a false identity, state television BNT reported on Friday. | Full Article US TOP NEWS Romney unscathed from debate attacks January 17, 2012 09:10 AM ET MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and government on Monday and challenged him to release his tax returns, but the front-runner emerged largely unscathed from a South Carolina debate. | Full Article Kraft to cut 1,600 jobs in split January 17, 2012 12:00 PM ET (Reuters) - Kraft Foods Inc said that splitting into two companies would lead it to cut about 1,600 jobs in North America this year and that its 2011 profit should be slightly higher than it had previously forecast. | Full Article Citigroup profit falls 11 percent, misses Street view January 17, 2012 12:10 PM ET (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc's fourth-quarter profit fell 11 percent and missed Wall Street estimates as the European debt crisis battered capital markets, hurting trading revenue and discouraging clients from doing deals. | Full Article Wells Fargo beats estimates on lower loan losses January 17, 2012 12:03 PM ET (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co beat Wall Street estimates with a 20 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit, boosted by improving credit quality and continued loan growth. | Full Article Italian coastguard heard pleading with liner captain January 17, 2012 12:33 PM ET GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian coastguards pleaded angrily with the captain of a stricken super-liner to return to his ship, according to recordings released on Tuesday as divers found five more bodies in the half-submerged wreck of the Costa Concordia. | Full Article BUSINESS NEWS Stocks jump on China data, Citi off after earnings Analysis: Rescue fund downgrade raises pressure on euro zone FDIC releases bank stress test proposal New York manufacturing growth accelerates in January Cruise operators' shares fall on ship disaster RELATED VIDEO Accidental fireworks in China tunnel Steve Jobs lives on in comic book L.A. gets futuristic makeover A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today. Your daily briefing on the latest tech developments from around the world from Reuters expert tech correspondents. Register Today. The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day.. Register Today. » MORE NEWSLETTERS TECHNOLOGY NEWS Samsung Group plans record $41 billion investment in 2012 Full Article Symantec: 2006 hacking led to source code theft U.S. online piracy bill headed for major makeover 24 million customer accounts hacked at Zappos ZTE sees China, U.S. key smartphone markets Samsung seeks to merge smartphone operating platforms - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend