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Protesters participate in a demonstration against the expansion of a U.S. military base at the Dal Molin airport, in Vicenza, northern Italy, Saturday, July 4 2009.
G 8   Italy   Photos   Protests   US
 The Star 
Anti-G8 demonstrators clash with police in Italy
Sat 4 Jul 2009
VICENZA, Italy (Reuters) - Anti-G8 demonstrators clashed briefly with Italian police on Saturday in the first big protest ahead of next week's summit of the world's richest nations. Protesters clash... (photo: AP / Luca Bruno)
Dollar closes lower despite late rally
Economy   China   Business   Photos   World
 China Daily 
China won't press for new global currency at G8
Sun 5 Jul 2009
BEIJING: China has no plans to raise its proposal for a new global currency to replace the dollar at the G8 meeting this week but is willing to discuss it, a top Chinese diplomat said, as President Hu... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways, taxies on the tarmac above a car access ramp at Roissy airport, north of Paris, before taking off for Sana'a, Yemen, Friday July 3, 2009.  The Observer  Sun 5 Jul 2009
Global blacklist plan to ground unsafe planes

The setting up of a new global blacklist of planes unfit to fly will be discussed this week at a summit meeting between Antonio Tajani, the European transport commissioner, and Robert Kobeh... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
Airbus   Aviation   Photos   Safety   Transport
The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon  The Miami Herald  Sun 5 Jul 2009
16 UN deminers kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL -- Gunmen abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said Sunday. The men were kidnapped as they traveled between Paktia... (photo: AP / Filip Horvat)
Afghanistan   Asia   Photos   UN   World
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U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth reacts as he listens to his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, Friday, May 8, 2009. North Korea vowed Friday to bolster its atomic arsenal in response to what it called Washington's "persistent hostile policy," even as a special envoy for President Barack Obama traveled to the region in a bid to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear negotiations. Irish Times Sun 5 Jul 2009
US official in N Korea talks

The US pointman for sanctions on North Korea holds talks in Malaysia today, possibly on links banks have to the North's finances, while a report said Pyongyang may have... (photo: AP / Jo Yong-Hak)
Asia   Malaysia   NKorea   Photos   US
Myanmar's junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe, left, is seen before his meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, unseen, Friday, May 23, 2008 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Ban, on a mission to open up Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed Friday to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors. Ban's comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting Friday with Than Shwe, the country's most powerful figure The Times of India Sun 5 Jul 2009
Myanmar gamble backfires for UN chief: analysts

5 Jul 2009, 0854 hrs IST, AFP               Text: BANGKOK: Myanmar's junta has dealt a humiliating blow to Ban Ki-moon's... (photo: AP / Stan Honda, Pool)
Bangkok   Democracy   HumanRights   Myanmar   Photos
 First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev delivers a televised nationwide address in Moscow, Tuesd Philadelphia Daily News Sun 5 Jul 2009
Trip to Russia a test for Obama

The president wants to "reset" relations, but obstacles remain. By Michael A. Fletcher and Philip P. Pan Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Obama is... (photo: AP Photo)
Leaders   Photos   Politics   Russia   Washington
President Barack Obama makes opening remarks at a town hall style meeting at Rhenus Sports Arena in Strasbourg, France Philadelphia Daily News Sun 5 Jul 2009
Obama seeks new start in US-Russia relations

STEVEN R. HURST The Associated Press MOSCOW - Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with both men... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
Moscow   Photos   Politics   Russia   US
An armed Al-Shabaab fighter patrols Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, June 29, 2009. Al Jazeera Sat 4 Jul 2009
'Civilians killed' in Somalia clash

At least 23 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Somalia in the lastest clash between government troops and armed rebels in Mogadishu, the capital, medics have... (photo: AP / Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Civilians   Military   Photos   Rebels   Somalia
FILE - In this January 1977 file photo,Yoko Ono, center, and John Lennon, right, are shown with Allen Klein, president of ABKCO Industries Inc. The Examiner Sun 5 Jul 2009
Ex-Beatles, Rolling Stones manager Klein dies

Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - Music manager Allen Klein, a no-holds-barred businessman who bulldozed his way into and out of deals with the Beatles and the Rolling... (photo: AP)
Alzheimer   Celebrity   Music   New York   Photos
Afghan National Army soldiers search a compound during a joint patrol with U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines in a village in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Friday July 3, 2009. The Observer Sun 5 Jul 2009
Taliban kill two US soldiers in attack on base

Two American soldiers died after militants attacked a coalition base in eastern , exploding a truck outside the gates and sparking a two-hour gun battle. US forces called... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder)
Afghanistan   Militants   Photos   Taliban   US


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