Thursday 30 June 2011

Sudan grants U.N. limited access to tense border area (Reuters)

Residents gather outside UNMIS sector headquarters in Kadugli town June 9, 2011. REUTERS/Paul Banks/UNMIS/HandoutReuters - Sudan's government is allowing limited U.N. access to Kadugli, capital of a tense border state where fighting and looting has taken place ahead of southern secession, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.



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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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Man grabs Sarkozy during walkabout (AFP)

French president Nicolas Sarkozy addresses employees during a visit of the industrial plywood plant Xilofrance, in the French southwestern town of Damazan.(AFP/Jean-Pierre Muller)AFP - A man grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy and yanked him off balance before being wrestled to the ground by bodyguards on Thursday, television pictures showed.



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Iran secretly tested 'nuclea

Iranian clerics look at a ballistic missile before being launched at an undisclosed location on June 28. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Iran has carried out secret tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions.(AFP/Raouf Mohseni)AFP - Iran has carried out secret tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday.



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Harry Potter to cast final spell with 8th, last film (Reuters)

Actors (L-R) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton pose at the premiere of Reuters - As the studio behind the Harry Potter films likes to remind us, "It all ends here".



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Wednesday 29 June 2011

Convicted killer on run since '89 returns to Conn. (AP)

AP - A convicted killer who fled Connecticut two decades ago and set up a new life in Mexico with a wife, two children and computer business is returning to his home state Wednesday to finally face his 60-year prison sentence.


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Reports of North Korea food shortages overblown, say US, South Korea (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - The US and South Korea are at odds with the United Nations World Food Program over how seriously North Korea is suffering from lack of food and are in no hurry to resume feeding the North’s hungry people.


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African mediators fin

Cars transporting various heads of state leave Malabo international airport on the eve of African Union's 17th summit in Sipopo City, a city built especially for the occasion near Malabo. African leaders mediating the Libyan conflict adopted proposals for a political solution to the crisis that are based on a roadmap drawn up in March and to be presented to Thursday's summit, they said.(AFP)AFP - African leaders mediating the Libyan conflict adopted proposals for a political solution to the crisis that are based on a roadmap drawn up in March and to be presented to Thursday's summit, they said.



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Hundreds of new species found in Philippines (AFP)

A likely new species of Iphiculus crab from the deep sea collected during a California Academy of Sciences 2011 marine survey in the Philippines. The California Academy of Sciences said it discovered more than 300 previously unknown animals and plants during a recent 42-day marine and land survey of the vast but ecologically threatened Southeast Asian archipelago.(AFP/California Academy of Sciences)AFP - Lobsters without shells and a small shark that bulks up with water to scare off predators are among hundreds of potential new species found in the Philippines, according to a US-led biodiversity survey.



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Japanese wary of rampaging Mexicans (AFP)

Title-hopefuls Japan will be wary to avoid a potential upset on Friday when they meet a Mexico side riding high in confidence in their second Group B match at the Women's World Cup.(AFP/File/Patrik Stollarz)AFP - Title-hopefuls Japan will be wary to avoid a potential upset here on Friday when they meet a Mexico side riding high in confidence in their second Group B match at the Women's World Cup.



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Bahrain will probe charges of rights violations (AP)

FILE - In this Thursday, March 3, 2011 file photo, Sheik Ali Salman, head of the Shiite opposition al-Wefaq party, holds up documents that he claims show land sales far below value, during a news conference in Manama, Bahrain, to announce the opposition's terms for negotiations with the Gulf. Just days before Bahrain's Sunni rulers hope to open talks with the Shiite opposition they crushed, the country's most powerful pro-reform bloc is asking supporters a pivotal question: Whether to join or snub the dialogue. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)AP - Bahrain's king said Wednesday that an independent commission will investigate allegations that protesters' rights were violated during the deadly crackdown on anti-government unrest.



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Bloody clashes in Tahrir Square as Egypt tensions mount (AFP)

Egyptian protesters throw stones at anti-riot police during clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Bloody clashes between protesters and anti-riot police that raged overnight in Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in new scuffles on Wednesday amid mounting frustration with Egypt's military rulers over the pace of reform.(AFP/Mohamed Hossam)AFP - Bloody clashes between protesters and anti-riot police that raged overnight in Cairo's Tahrir Square erupted in new scuffles on Wednesday amid mounting frustration with Egypt's military rulers over the pace of reform.



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Wife seeks photo ban at Venezuelan e

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Tuesday 28 June 2011

Images show Chavez on his feet after Cuba surgery (AP)

In this photo released by Venezuela's Information and Communication Ministry (MINCI), Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, listens to Cuba's Fidel Castro as Chavez 's daughter Rosa looks on at an unknown location in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday June 28, 2011. Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba two weeks ago and has been unusually quiet since then. Allies of Chavez have insisted the leader is firmly in control of the country and improving from his operation for a pelvic abscess. Chavez arrived to Havana on June 8 and had surgery on June 10. (AP Photo/MINCI)AP - New videos and photos of President Hugo Chavez appeared on state television Tuesday night, showing him on his feet and talking with Fidel Castro more than two weeks after undergoing urgent surgery in Cuba.



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Russia successfully tests new nuclear missile (Reuters)

Reuters - Russia successfully tested on Tuesday its new Bulava intercontinental missile which Moscow aims to make the cornerstone of its nuclear arsenal over the next decade.


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UN concerned at fate of 7,000 missing Sudanese (AP)

AP - The United Nations said Tuesday it was concerned about the fate of 7,000 Sudanese civilians last seen being forced by authorities to leave the protection of a U.N. compound in the tense border region between the North and South.


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Radioactive water leaks from Japan's damaged plant (Reuters)

An aerial view shows Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima March 17, 2011. REUTERS/KyodoReuters - Tons of radioactive water were discovered on Tuesday to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said.



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Monday 27 June 2011

Chilean begins as UN peacekeeping chief in Haiti (AP)

AP - A career Chilean diplomat has taken up his post as head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti.


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Sanctions blamed for Iran gas field delay (AFP)

A picture dated January 27 shows a view of phases 3 and 4 of the South Pars gas field in the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh. The development of Iran's South Pars gas field in the Gulf has been delayed partly because of international sanctions, the spokesman for the Iranian parliament's energy commission said.(AFP/Atta Kenare)AFP - The development of Iran's South Pars gas field in the Gulf has been delayed partly because of international sanctions, the spokesman for the Iranian parliament's energy commission said on Monday.



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Int'l court issues arrest warrant for Gaddafi (Reuters)

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gives a speech in Rome in this August 30, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Max Rossi/FilesReuters - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and rebels trying to oust him said their forces had advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of the capital.



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Comedy icon Jerry Lewis ill in Australia (AFP)

Veteran US comedian Jerry Lewis (pictured in 2009) had to cancel a sell out Sydney tour after collapsing from exhaustion as he prepared to take the stage, according to promoters. Lewis, 85, was due to perform before a packed house in western Sydney Friday night to raise money for muscular dystrophy but the event was called off at the last minute after Lewis fell ill.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AFP - Veteran US comedian Jerry Lewis has had to cancel a sell-out Sydney tour after collapsing from exhaustion as he prepared to take the stage, promoters said Saturday.



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Comedy icon Jerry Lewis ill in Australia (AFP)

Veteran US comedian Jerry Lewis (pictured in 2009) had to cancel a sell out Sydney tour after collapsing from exhaustion as he prepared to take the stage, according to promoters. Lewis, 85, was due to perform before a packed house in western Sydney Friday night to raise money for muscular dystrophy but the event was called off at the last minute after Lewis fell ill.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AFP - Veteran US comedian Jerry Lewis has had to cancel a sell-out Sydney tour after collapsing from exhaustion as he prepared to take the stage, promoters said Saturday.



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Aussie mining magnate's rare Ferrari burnt out (AFP)

A Ferrari California is seen on display at an auto show in Geneva. Thieves have stolen a one of the rare vehicles from the home of one of Australia's richest men, mining magnate Nathan Tinkler, reports have said.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)AFP - Thieves stole a rare Aus$500,000 Ferrari California from the home of one of Australia's richest men, mining magnate Nathan Tinkler, with police Monday finding it burnt out in bushland.



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Mexico discovers 117 migrants hidden in truck (AP)

AP - The Mexican army has discovered 117 migrants hidden inside a trailer truck in the southern state of Oaxaca.


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Sunday 26 June 2011

Japan begins nuclear charm offensive (AFP)

This handout picture, taken by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) in May 2011 shows International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection team members looking at the unit three reactor building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture. Japan began a campaign to convince communities hosting nuclear reactors to let operations resume.(AFP/TEPCO/File)AFP - Japan began a campaign Sunday to convince communities hosting nuclear reactors to let operations resume, with several local governments blocking nuclear power generation after the atomic crisis in Fukushima.



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