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Friday, November 8, 2013

Cheat Sheet - CBS Backs Off Benghazi Source

Today: Kerry: No Iran Deal Yet , Is Pussy Riot's Nadia Tolokonnikova in a Siberian Gulag? , S&P Cuts France's Credit Rating
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

November 08, 2013
RETRACTION

The executive producer of 60 Minutes says a key source for its blockbuster Benghazi report told a different story to the FBI. Eli Lake reports.

Wait and See

After arriving in Geneva Friday amid rising hopes for a deal on Iran's nuclear program, Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized that the parties still have significant ground to cover. "I don't think anybody should mistake that there are some important gaps to be closed," Kerry said, echoing the position of other world leaders. Even before Kerry's arrival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the proposed agreement, which would temporarily freeze Iran's nuclear program in exchange for loosened economic sanctions, would be the "deal of the century" for Iran, and a "grievous historic error." 

MYSTERY

Russian activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who disappeared without a trace in the country's prison transportation system more than two weeks ago, has still not been found. The Daily Beast's Anna Nemtsova talks to her husband, who traveled 3,000 miles to track his wife down to a Siberian gulag—only to find she wasn't there, either.

RELENTLESS

Less than a year after downgrading its AAA status, the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's is taking France down another notch, from AA+ to just plain AA. S&P said the current French government's reforms to taxation and labor seem unlikely to increase its growth prospects or bring down unemployment. French finance minister Pierre Moscovici said the judgement was "critical and inaccurate," and added that "never has a government carried out so many reforms in such a short time, and in such a difficult economic environment." Only a few nations now have AAA ratings from all three agencies, including Germany, Norway, and Switzerland.

WARNING

As polio makes a comeback in Syria after a 14-year absence, health experts in Europe are warning that the disease could easily re-emerge on the continent as refugees from the war-torn Middle East flood in. Martin Eichner, a professor at the University of Tuebingen, warned in a letter to the medical journal The Lancelet that the disease could enter Europe via unsuspecting refugees, who could carry the virus without being affected by it. In addition to areas cut off from vaccination in Syria, polio has recently appeared in Africa, as well as sewage samples from Israel and Egypt. The polio virus is spread through feces, and currently has no cure. So far this year, 322 cases have been reported worldwide.


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