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10 Things to Know for Today The Associated Press
• • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: • • 1. EXPLOSIONS TARGET POLICE IN CAIRO • Three near-simultaneous blasts, which come ahead of the third anniversary of the Jan. 25 start of the 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak, kill at least 5 people and wound dozens more. • • 2. NO FACE-TO-FACE MEETING IN SYRIAN PEACE TALKS • The U.N. says an encounter between Assad's government and the Western-backed opposition hoping to overthrow it is not going to happen as planned. • • 3. WHY HAGEL ORDERS REVIEW OF NUCLEAR FORCES • After cheating allegations and an investigation of drug use among missile launch officers, the defense chief summons military leaders to discuss the potential threat to the public trust. • • 4. UKRAINIAN PROTESTERS OCCUPY GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS • The crowds broke into the downtown Ministry of Agricultural Policy and are also maintaining the siege of several governors' offices in the country's west, raising the pressure on the government. • • 5. REPORT SAYS MORE THAN 40 MUSLIMS KILLED IN MYANMAR • The U.N. confirms that at least 48 Muslims appear to have been killed when Buddhist mobs attacked a village in an isolated corner of the country, a massacre that has been denied by the government. • • 6. WHICH REPUTED MOBSTER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN 'GOODFELLAS' HEIST • Vincent Asaro, 78, is accused of helping to direct the 1978 $6 million Lufthansa Airlines theft at Kennedy airport, which was dramatized in the hit Martin Scorsese movie.
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