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EU resolve hardens as British workers face Iran show trial
Times Online
Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. The announcement, made by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 83, the head of Iran's ...
Iranian cleric: British Embassy staff to be triedThe Associated Press
Iran's UK embassy action enrages EUABC Online
British Embassy row: Why Iran's hard-liners are inviting isolationChristian Science Monitor
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Video shows Honduran troops shooting protesters' bus tires
CNN
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) -- Honduran soldiers shot out the tires of buses headed for a demonstration in support of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, a video obtained by CNN shows. This image from a cell phone video shows Honduran soldiers ...
Honduras rejects Zelaya restorationAljazeera.net
US Conservatives Support Ouster of Honduran PresidentVoice of America
Top envoy in Honduras for talksBBC News
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Failed strategy in Afghanistan
guardian.co.uk
When will the Obama administration stop transplanting the Bush administration's failed methods from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan (US begins major offensive against Taliban, 1 July)? The strategy is the same one Rumsfeld used in Iraq in 2004-06. ...
Gen. Petraeus says Taliban is a resilient enemyThe Associated Press
US Marines fight to expel Taleban from south Helmand as canal seizedTimes Online
Afghans flee US offensive in HelmandAljazeera.net
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UN chief gambles on Burma breakthrough
BBC News
Ban Ki-moon is not a man known for taking risks. Yet his decision to visit Burma and meet its secretive military rulers - at a time when the rest of the world is outraged by their decision to put opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on ...
UN Chief Asks Burmese Junta for Meeting with Aung San Suu KyiVoice of America
UN chief faces steep challenge in BurmaChristian Science Monitor
UN chief presses Suu Kyi releaseAljazeera.net
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Russians warm to US, poll shows before Obama visit
Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians have warmed markedly to the United States under Barack Obama, but still think official ties are poor, a poll showed three days before the US president visits on Monday. Obama hopes his talks in Moscow during his three-day ...
A senior Obama administration official has told the BBC that ...BBC News
Obama and Medvedev to talk disarmamentGeorgiandaily
Russia Opens Route for US to Fly Arms to AfghanistanNew York Times
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Dispute deepens on who controlled Flight 447
The Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's air force released a recording Friday it said proves it handed over control of Air France Flight 447 to Senegalese authorities before it crashed — but African officials denied that. The audio clip was posted on the air ...
Analysis: Air France crash mystery deepensCNN International
Air crash victim's body recoveredBBC News
Air France flight 447 crashed belly-first into the Atlantic ...Times Online
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Is HC's gay ruling applicable to all states?
Times of India
NEW DELHI: After the Delhi High Court's historic judgment decriminalising homosexuality, can gays across India express their sexuality in private anywhere in the country, or confine it to the territorial limits of the national capital? ...
Indian media hail court verdict ruling gay sex legalAFP
India media hails gay sex rulingBBC News
New Delhi Lifts Colonial-Era Ban on Gay SexWashington Post
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Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Darfur: officials
AFP
KHARTOUM (AFP) — Two women aid workers from Ireland and Uganda were kidnapped Friday by armed men in Sudan's volatile Darfur region, the scene of Africa's longest running conflict, officials told AFP. "Unidentified armed men came to the quarters of the ...
Charity worker kidnapped in SudanBBC News
African leaders denounce international courtThe Associated Press
AU leaders reach agreement on new authority, ICC Bashir indictmentXinhua
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Iraq's Maliki rejects US offer on national reconciliation
Los Angeles Times
The Iraqi prime minister tells visiting Vice President Joe Biden that Iraqis must overcome their political differences on their own and that US involvement would not be welcome. By Liz Sly Reporting from Baghdad -- Vice President Joe Biden's mission to ...
US Commitment to Iraq Is Contingent on Progress, Biden WarnsWashington Post
Progress to prevail in Iraq, says BidenWashington Times
VP Biden urges Iraqis to make political progressThe Associated Press
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6 die in London high-rise fire
CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday afternoon, officials said. A 3-week-old and a 7-year-old died in the blaze, London Metropolitan ...
Six die in fire at London tower blockguardian.co.uk
Six die in London tower block blaze: emergency servicesAFP
Six killed in tower block blazeBBC News
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