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    UN program cleared of North Korea misdealing (AP)

    South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Sook speaks during a press briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul after his meetings with North Korean and US counterparts last week. Kim, Seoul's top envoy, said North Korea was almost ready to declare its nuclear activities under a six-nation disarmament deal, but it seeks to adjust the timing to US corresponding actions.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)AP - A panel of auditors said Monday it found no evidence that a U.N. anti-poverty program in North Korea knew of any counterfeiting, money laundering or other improper financial dealings linked to U.N. money.


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    Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:10:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Chinese police drag grieving parents from protest (AP)

    Dozens of parents who lost children to the May 12 quake kneel outside the court house in Dujiangyan, China Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Parents with pictures of their children who died when a school collapsed, demand for justice and government response to questions of shoddy construction resulting in the school collapsing and high number of deaths. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake.


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    Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:42:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN summit in Italy to look at food security (AP)

    Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon holds a press conference in InfraCity, Stockholm, May 2008. World leaders gathered in Rome on Monday for a UN summit on food security, with Ki-moon warning that the world had come to an AP - World leaders meeting at a U.N. summit Tuesday will try to figure out how to head off skyrocketing food prices before millions more join the multitudes across the globe who already lack enough to eat.


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    Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:39:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN: 1 million in Myanmar aren't getting basic aid (AP)

    In this Monday May 19, 2008 file photo, survivors of Cyclone Nargis rush to get first in line to receive donated goods from a local donor at a monastery outside the capital of Yangon, Myanmar. One month after the devastating cyclone hit Myanmar, the United Nations said Tuesday that more than 1 million survivors were still without basic relief. (AP Photo, File)AP - More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and it's not clear what the military junta is doing to help them, the United Nations said Tuesday.


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    Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:38:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pakistani investigators search for clues in bombing (AP)

    Pakistani policemen carry a body following a suicide attack outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad on June 2. The suicide car bombing killed at least eight people and wounded nearly 30 others, state television and officials said.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AP - Investigators reviewed security video and picked through debris Tuesday to determine whether a suicide attacker blew up a massive car bomb outside the Danish embassy, killing six people.


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    Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:32:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australian PM attacks decision to join war in Iraq (AP)

    In this Dec. 21, 2007 photo released by the Australian Defense Department,  Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd center, with Australian soldiers of the Overwatch Battle Group (West) at Ali Air Base, Tallil in the Dhi Qar province of southern Iraq, while on a visit to the Middle East Area of Operations.The Australian Defense Department said Sunday June 1, 2008 that the nation's troops in Iraq are officially ending combat operations Sunday. Troops were holding a ceremony that included lowering the Australian flag, which had flown over Camp Terendak in Talil, southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Australian Defense Department,Sergeant John Carroll,  HO)AP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accused his predecessor of abusing intelligence information to justify entering the Iraq war, saying Monday that the Australian people were misled.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:50:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.N. agency escapes major censure over North Korea (Reuters)

    South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Sook speaks during a press briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul after his meetings with North Korean and US counterparts last week. Kim, Seoul's top envoy, said North Korea was almost ready to declare its nuclear activities under a six-nation disarmament deal, but it seeks to adjust the timing to US corresponding actions.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)Reuters - A U.N. agency accused by the United States of financial mismanagement in North Korea escaped charges of major wrongdoing in a review made public on Monday, and its chief said this brought closure to the affair.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:40:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.S. "troubled" by arrest of Zimbabwe politicians (Reuters)
    Reuters - The United States on Monday called the arrest of two opposition politicians in Zimbabwe "troubling" and said it was part of a pattern of government intimidation before the run-off election. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:28:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Death toll reaches 23 in mudslide in Colombia town (AP)

    Rescue workers and police search the rubble of homes destroyed by a landslide after a heavy rains in Medellin, Sunday, June 1, 2008. The landslide killed at least 11 people and destroyed many homes on Saturday. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)AP - Colombia's national disaster office says the death toll has reached 23 from a mudslide that buried several dozen homes in a poor district of Medellin.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:31:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Iranian women's rights activist sentenced (AP)
    AP - A young Iranian activist and his lawyer said Monday that he had become the first man sentenced for participating in a campaign to change laws that discriminate against women. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:31:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    New round of climate talks opens in Germany (AP)

    Activists dressed as polar bears, pose with a delegate from Taiwan prior to the start of the UN Sessions of the subsidiary bodies on the Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, June 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)AP - A tax on airline tickets and an auction of pollution rights are just two ideas likely to be studied at a 162-nation conference examining ways of raising the billions of dollars needed every year to fight global warming.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:10:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Fulbright scholarships restored to 7 Gaza students (AP)

    Palestinian student Hadeel Abu Kawik is seen at her home in Gaza City, Friday, May 30, 2008. Abu Kawik was supposed to spend next year in the United States on the prestigious Fulbright scholarship program, but now it appears she will remain where she is now — trapped in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli blockade. Word that the U.S. State Department was canceling her scholarship came after Abu Kawik, 23 and a computer engineering student, went through a lengthy process that included interviews, exams and an English test. 'I was building my hope on this scholarship,' she said Friday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - The U.S. has reinstated the Fulbright scholarships of seven Gaza Strip students blocked by Israel from leaving the Hamas-ruled territory, the State Department said Monday.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:13:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Despite damage, many schools reopen in Myanmar (AP)

    Schoolchildren leave their school with cyclone damaged roof, windows and walls in the village of Thuwana, 26 kilometers (16 miles) south of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, June 2, 2008. Schools reopened Monday with many in and around Yangon still bearing the scares and damage of the May 2-3 Cyclone Nargis that left more than 130,000 people dead or missing. (AP Photo)AP - As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward — at the gaping hole in the roof.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:02:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China working to prevent epidemics in disaster zone (AP)

    Earthquake survivors look at a disinfecting vehicle through the rubble of buildings in Hanwang town, China's southwest Sichuan province, Monday, June 2, 2008. China vowed Monday that health and safety measures introduced in the wake of last month's massive earthquake would prevent any epidemics in the disaster zone. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Workers in hazmat suits crisscrossed collapsed communities in trucks Monday, spraying disinfectant as part of a government campaign to prevent disease outbreaks among 5 million left homeless by last month's earthquake.


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    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:19:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Syria to allow probe of alleged nuclear site (AP)
    AP - Syria will allow in U.N. inspectors to probe allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a remote site destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. -- read full article
    Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:18:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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