Thursday 30 June 2011

UN allowed to visit looted Sudan offices (AP)

AP - Authorities in north Sudan have allowed aid agencies to visit their looted offices in the town of Kadugli, where clashes in recent weeks have driven thousands from their homes ahead of the south's imminent declaration of independence.


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Hello Kitty goes crystal for Japan disaster relief (Reuters)

Reuters - Hello Kitty, Japan's iconic cat character, glittered and gleamed in Tokyo after being reborn in Swarovski crystals for a good cause -- raising money for disaster relief.


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Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti (AP)

Health workers arrive at a tent city on the outskirts of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to recover the body of a cholera victim in 2010. UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought the strain of cholera to Haiti responsible for an epidemic that has killed 5,500 people, according to a study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.(AFP/File/Hector Retamal)AP - Evidence "strongly suggests" that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says.



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Irish boat drops out of flotilla, cites sabotage (AP)

An activist plays a trumpet as others hold banners on their boat named 'Audacity of Hope' moored in Perama, near Athens, Greece, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Organizers of a pro-Palestinian flotilla that will try to break Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip accused Israel of sabotaging a second ship. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - An Irish ship on Thursday dropped out of the pro-Palestinian flotilla planning to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, citing sabotage, and a U.S. ship declared it may set sail from a Greek port for Gaza without permission, activists said.



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UK: Iran conducting secret ballistic missile tests (AP)

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Mehr News Agency, Iranian revolutionary Guards personnel, foreground, watch the launch of a Zelzal missile during military maneuvers outside the city of Qom, Iran, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander claimed on Tuesday that his country has the ability to produce even longer range missiles than those currently in its arsenal. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Raouf Mohseni)AP - Iran has conducted covert tests of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in addition to a 10-day program of public military maneuvers, Britain alleged on Wednesday.



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Botched replay led to Dhoni dismissal

Reuters - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was incorrectly given out during the second test against West Indies because the television broadcaster showed the wrong replay to the review umpire, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday.


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Wednesday 29 June 2011

7 cops investigated in slay of Mexico police chief (AP)

AP - Mexican authorities are investigating seven police officers in the killing of a police chief in a northern Mexico town.


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Defector promotes Korea unification message (AFP)

Administrator of the Education Center for Unification North Korean defector Cho Myung-Chul at his office in Seoul. Leaving behind his family and a top job, Cho fled North Korea in 1994 to show the world its regime was headed in the wrong direction.(AFP/Park Ji-Hwan)AFP - Leaving behind his family and a top job, Cho Myung-Chul fled North Korea in 1994 to show the world its regime was headed in the wrong direction.



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Libyans hold up the rebel-adopted former Libyan flag in rebel-held Misrata. The country's cash-strapped rebels, facing a long and uncertain fight to recover assets frozen abroad, have called on foreign donors to back new loans using the blocked cash as collateral.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AFP - Libya's cash-strapped rebels, facing a long and uncertain fight to recover assets frozen abroad, have called on foreign donors to back new loans using the blocked cash as collateral.



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Pakistan ends U.S. use of base for drone attacks: report (Reuters)

Reuters - Pakistan has stopped the United States from using an air base in the southwest of the country to launch drone strikes against militant groups, the defense minister was quoted as saying, as ties remain strained between the two countries.


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Chongqing

The Chaotian dock along the Yangtze river in China's southwestern city of Chongqing. After just a few years of explosive growth, China's mega-city of Chongqing has emerged as a major industrial hub, thanks in part to a AFP - After just a few years of explosive growth, China's mega-city of Chongqing has emerged as a major industrial hub, thanks in part to a "Go West" policy to open up China's less-developed inland.



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Bahrain launches probe into mont

Bahraini protesters run for cover from tear gas fired by police to disperse them in the village of Sanabis, near Manama, in February 2011. Bahrain on Wednesday set up an independent committee of legal experts to investigate the bloody unrest during anti-regime protests in February and March, state news agency BNA reported.(AFP/File)AFP - Bahrain on Wednesday set up an independent committee of legal experts to investigate the bloody unrest during anti-regime protests in February and March, state news agency BNA reported.



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Cholera kills 10 in central Nigeria: official (AFP)

A woman stricken with cholera lies on a bed at a hospital in 2008. A cholera outbreak has killed 10 people in central Nigeria's Plateau State over the past two weeks, a local health official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Walter Astrada)AFP - A cholera outbreak has killed 10 people in central Nigeria's Plateau State over the past two weeks, a local health official said Wednesday.



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1 missing after lightning hits boat in Nicaragua (AP)

AP - Officials in Nicaragua say lightening struck a small boat, and the driver was knocked into the water and his body hasn't been found.


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Tuesday 28 June 2011

Cuba, Venezuela put out new images of pos

Reuters - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela released new pictures and video footage of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday showing him chatting with Fidel Castro and walking outside after undergoing surgery in Havana.


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SEC secures $230 million in fraud investigation (AP)

AP - Authorities working to secure assets for victims of a massive, Connecticut-based investment fraud have obtained $230 million from an offshore account.


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Britain summons Syria envoy over intimidation claims (AFP)

Queen Elizabeth II receives the Ambassador of Syria, Sami M. Khiyami, at Buckingham Palace in 2005. Britain on Tuesday summoned the Syrian ambassador to express concerns about reports that a diplomat at the embassy had been intimidating Syrians in Britain, the foreign ministry said.(AFP/POOL/File/Fiona Hanson)AFP - Britain on Tuesday summoned the Syrian ambassador to express concerns about reports that a diplomat at the embassy had been intimidating Syrians in Britain, the foreign ministry said.



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UN: 9 million need aid in drough

AP - The United Nations says 9 million people need humanitarian assistance in the drought-hit countries of the Horn of Africa.


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Sony faces jittery shareholders after cyberattack (AP)

A woman walks by Sony Building in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer says PlayStation Network gamers are 'very loyal' and returning to the service in big numbers, as he sought to reassure shareholders following a series of embarrassing hacker attacks.(AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer credited "very loyal" PlayStation Network gamers for flocking back to the service in big numbers, as he sought Tuesday to reassure shareholders following a series of embarrassing hacker attacks.



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Monday 27 June 2011

UN OKs peacekeeping force in Sudanese region (AFP)

A picture released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan shows a Zambian soldier serving with the international peacekeeping operation on patrol in the Abyei region of Sudan in May 2011. The UN Security Council on Monday ordered a 4,200-strong Ethiopian peacekeeping force to the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei in a bid to douse tensions ahead of southern Sudan's split from the north.(AFP/UNMIS/File/Stuart Price)AFP - The UN Security Council on Monday ordered a 4,200-strong Ethiopian peacekeeping force to the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei in a bid to douse tensions ahead of southern Sudan's split from the north.



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Khamenei urges media to tone down arrest reports (AFP)

Iranian media should refrain from naming those arrested by the judiciary, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen here on June 4, has said. His comments come amid the recent arrests of members of President Mahmoud Ahmdinejad's entourage.(AFP/File/-)AFP - Iranian media should refrain from naming those arrested by the judiciary, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday, amid recent arrests of members of President Mahmoud Ahmdinejad's entourage.



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Indians look to Anna Hazare's village for inspiration (Reuters)

A boy holds a candle in support of social activist Anna Hazare in Chandigarh April 9, 2011. REUTERS/Ajay Verma/FilesReuters - Clad in white home-spun garments and living in a spartan room of his village's Hindu temple, Anna Hazare is an unlikely thorn in the side of the government hundreds of miles away in New Delhi.



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Australian boy knocked unconscious by whale's tail (AP)

AP - A humpback whale has hit a dinghy with its tail off Australia's coast, knocking a 13-year-old boy unconscious and breaking his collarbone.


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Lost penguin more lively, eating fish pos

Veterinary nurse Sarah Papageorgiou cares for an Antarctic penguin that wound up stranded on a New Zealand beach and resorted to eating sand, at Wellington Zoo in Wellington, Monday, June 27, 2011. The penguin was recovering Monday after a very human treatment: an endoscopy performed by one of the country's leading surgeons. It may be months before the young emperor penguin - affectionately dubbed Happy Feet - fully recovers, and officials are uncertain about when or how it could return home about 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) away. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUTAP - New Zealand's favorite penguin visitor is more lively and eating fish after undergoing endoscopic surgery Monday to remove some of the beach sand and twigs it swallowed, apparently mistaking it for snow.



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Police nab Australian cult leader in Fiji raid (AFP)

Police are seen in Suva in 2006. A fugitive Australian cult leader has been arrested during a raid on a former resort in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, authorities and reports said Sunday.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A fugitive Australian cult leader has been arrested during a raid on a former resort in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, authorities and reports said Sunday.



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England draw

England's goalkeeper Karen Bardsley fails to save the 1-1 goal during the Mexico vs England match (group B) of the FIFA women's football World Cup in Wolfsburg, northern Germany. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.(AFP/Johannes Eisele)AFP - England drew 1-1 with Mexico in their opening Group B match of the women's World Cup on Monday.



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Sunday 26 June 2011

Kiwi Smith confident of turning up heat on Japan (AFP)

New Zealand captain Rebecca Smith, pictured in 2007, has high hopes of her side causing an upset in their opening match against Japan at the Women's World Cup here on Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - New Zealand captain Rebecca Smith has high hopes of her side causing an upset in their opening match against Japan at the Women's World Cup here on Monday.



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