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 Today in History Today is Monday, May 21, the 142nd day of 2012. There are 224 days left in the year. Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:01:00Z Europe faces difficult search for growth  On paper at least, European leaders agree: They need stronger growth measures to help their economies expand out of their 2½-year-old government debt crisis. Figuring out exactly what those new steps might be will be the hard part.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:06:41Z Alibaba to buy back shares from Yahoo! for $7.1 bln  Alibaba, China's top e-commerce player, will re-purchase a 20-percent state in itself from US portal Yahoo! for at least $7.1 billion, the companies announced.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:15:16Z Blind Chinese activist Chen rests in NYC  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University. "(Chen) said he hadn't sat in the sun for many, many years," said Jerome Cohen, a China law expert and professor at New York University's law school, where Chen will study. "He wanted to go out in the garden ... his kids went out first and then he went out," Cohen, who has become a confidante of Chen's, told Reuters. ...Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:13:30Z Ruling party candidate leads Dominican vote count  A long-time governing party official took the lead late Sunday in vote counting from the Dominican Republic's presidential election, leading a brash ex-president whose last term ended with the deepest economic crisis in the country's modern history.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:56:56Z APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight  Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:12:33Z Coyotes live to fight another day in NHL series  The Phoenix Coyotes weren't about to go quietly into the night as long as captain Shane Doan had a say in the matter.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T03:29:21Z Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B  Yahoo Inc. has agreed to sell half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, and the struggling U.S. Internet company said it would return most of the cash to shareholders.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:39:48Z Protesters clash with police at NATO summit  Protesters clashed with riot police as an anti-NATO protest turned ugly in Chicago when a few hundred demonstrators demanding an end to war ignored orders to clear the streets.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:05:56Z Pakistan restores access to Twitter  Pakistan restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over "blasphemous" posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T04:30:58Z |