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    Mugabe sworn in after widely condemned election (Reuters)

    A woman shows a dye-stained finger after casting her ballot in Zimbabwe's run-off presidential election in Bulawayo June 27, 2008. (Emmanuel Chitate/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was sworn in on Sunday after being declared overwhelming winner of an election which observers said was scarred by violence and intimidation.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:33:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Tigers' Ordonez on 15-day DL with pulled oblique (AP)

    Detroit Tigers right fielder Magglio Ordonez, left, jogs off the field with trainer Kevin Rand in the third inning of an interleague baseball game against the Colorado Rockies Saturday, June 28, 2008 in Detroit. Ordonez left the game because of spasms in his side. Ordonez appeared to pull up as he went after Troy Tulowitzki's leadoff double off the right field wall in the top of the third. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)AP - The Detroit Tigers placed right fielder Magglio Ordonez on the 15-day disabled list with a pulled muscle in his right side on Sunday.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:15:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    'WALL-E,' 'Wanted' team up as $100 million duo (AP)

    In this image released by Disney/Pixar Animation Studios, a scene from the animated film, 'WALL-E,' is shown.  (AP Photo/Disney/Pixar Animation Studios)AP - A lonely little robot made millions of friends during the weekend — and even outgunned Angelina Jolie.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:39:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    NYC keeps the cannoli but drops the trans fats (AP)

    Chef Fanco Amati stuffs cannoli shells at the Ferrara Bakery in New York's Little Italy  Friday, June 27, 2008 in New York.  New York's trans fat ban, the first to be adopted by an American city, is expanding next month to include almost all prepared food sold to the public — in restaurants, bakeries, cafeterias, salad bars, food carts. It initially covered only cooking oils for things like french fries and fried chicken. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:13:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Great Lakes compact focus shifting to Congress (AP)
    AP - A year ago, it seemed a proposed interstate compact designed to prevent thirstier regions from raiding the Great Lakes might be sunk by squabbles among the eight states with jurisdiction over the vast reservoir. -- read full article
    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:45:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Marriage freedom is focus of gay pride parade (AP)

    A demonstrator waves a rainbow flag during the Gay Pride Parade in Mexico City, Saturday, June 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Revelers at San Francisco's gay pride parade are celebrating their newfound freedom to marry as the city's 38th annual march got under way with a matrimonial touch.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:39:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    McCain meets with evangelist Billy Graham and son (AP)

    Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, poses for photo with Christian Evangelist Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham at the Graham family mountain top retreat in  Montreat , N.C.,  Sunday, June 29, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - John McCain met Sunday with evangelist Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, at the family's mountaintop retreat.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:21:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Analysis: Iran harder sell on giving up nukes (AP)

    In this June 11, 2008 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clinches his fist, as he delivers a speech in a public gathering at the city of Shahr-E- Kord,  330 miles south ofl Tehran, Iran,   (AP Photo/ISNA, Saman Aghvami, File)AP - Iran and North Korea may be two points on President Bush's old "axis of evil," but the authoritarian governments are polar opposites when it comes to defusing their nuclear programs.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:16:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Firefighters in stalemate against Calif. wildfires (AP)

    The San Francisco skyline is barely visible through hazy smoke-filled air on June 25, 2008 in Sausalito, California. US President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in California on Saturday and ordered federal aid to help authorities battle more than 1,000 wildfires burning out of control.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - Firefighters are making slow progress against more than 1,000 wildfires throughout Northern California as the region braces for more lightning storms.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:37:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    UN official: Afghan civilian deaths up 60 percent (AP)

    Afghan solders are seen during a patrolling on the out skirts of the city of Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday June 29, 2008.  NATO and Afghan forces recaptured the Arghandab district from Taliban militants recently. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by two-thirds in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior U.N. official said Sunday.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:56:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Zimbabwe's Mugabe sworn in after discredited vote (AP)

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, centre, is seen at his inauguration ceremony at State house in Harare, Sunday, June, 29, 2008. Mugabe was sworn in  following a run off election in which he was the sole candidate following the withdrawal of Morgan Tsvangirai, the main opposition leader in Zimbabwe. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)AP - President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for a sixth term Sunday, just hours after government officials said he overwhelmingly won a runoff that has been widely discredited. His main rival dismissed the inauguration as "an exercise in self-delusion."


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:25:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Pakistan broadens anti-militant offensive (AFP)

    A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard in a bunker at the Hayatabad area near the Khyber tribal agency, on June 28. Pakistani forces have pushed forward with the new government's first major offensive against Islamist militants, retaking control of a key town and demolishing an insurgent group's building.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)AFP - Pakistani forces pushed forward with the new government's first major offensive against Islamist militants Sunday, retaking control of a key town and demolishing an insurgent group's building.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:50:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Mugabe set for inauguration after Zimbabwe's one-man poll (AFP)

    Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media in Harare, June 27. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is expected to be inaugurated Sunday for a new term as Zimbabwe's president following a one-man election that has led to international condemnation and the United States planning new sanctions.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)AFP - Robert Mugabe was expected to be inaugurated for a new term as Zimbabwe's president on Sunday following a one-man election amid growing calls for his fellow African leaders to reject his legitimacy.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:28:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Guatemalan minister dies in helicopter crash (Reuters)

    Rescue workers inspect the site of a helicopter crash in which Guatemala's Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez and Deputy Interior Minister Edgar Umana were killed, in Pacayal, Guatemala, June 28, 2008. Gomez and Umana died together with the pilot and co-pilot when the helicopter they were in crashed on Friday in bad weather north of the Guatemalan capital, officials said. (Daniel LeClair/Reuters)Reuters - Guatemala's interior minister died when a helicopter crashed on Friday in bad weather north of the Guatemalan capital, officials said.


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    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:55:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama to visit Middle East, Europe this summer (Reuters)

    A Secret Service agent holds the door for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senior Advisor David Axelrod (L) on the tarmac at the airport in Washington June 27, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, looking to bolster his expertise in foreign policy, will travel to Europe and the Middle East to consult on issues like terrorism and nuclear proliferation, his campaign said on Saturday.


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    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:04:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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