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    Iraq nears first major oil service deals (AP)
    AP - Iraq is close to signing oil service deals with several major Western oil companies in an effort to boost its output capacity, the country's oil ministry said Thursday — the first major Iraqi contracts with big Western companies since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. -- read full article
    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:12:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Top Sadrist official arrested in Iraq (AP)

    A woman carries her belongings past an Iraqi national policeman during the beginning of combat operations in Amarah, 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, June 19, 2008. The Iraqi defense ministry announced Thursday that an operation targeting Shiite militia fighters in the oil-producing southern city was underway. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqi troops on Thursday arrested the top official in Amarah, a Muqtada al-Sadr loyalist, officials said, drawing swift condemnations from followers of the anti-U.S. cleric and raising tensions as a military operation against Shiite militias got under way.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:05:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Zimbabwe opposition reports 4 deaths ahead of vote (AP)

    Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks outside the court in Harare, Zimbabwe where his general secretary Tendai Biti, unseen, appeared in court in  Thursday, June, 19, 2008. Biti, was brought to court on charges of treason and other counts the opposition says are politically motivated. Biti's alleged offenses include his announcement that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of presidential voting March 29 before official results were released. (AP Photo)AP - Zimbabwe's opposition party said Thursday that it was facing escalating violence as it tries to campaign in the last days before a presidential runoff pitting its leader against longtime President Robert Mugabe.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:50:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    More weapons caches turning up in Iraq (AP)

    Weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City are on display at the 9th Iraqi Army Division headquarters in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday, June 18, 2008.(AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, Pool)AP - Weapons caches are turning up with increasing frequency in public places in Iraq — from a bakery to a fish farm — as recent security gains embolden more civilians to come forward with tips, U.S. and Iraqi military officials say.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:08:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Guns go quiet in Gaza, but skepticism abounds about truce (AP)

    Palestinian gunmen from the militant wing of the Islamic group Hamas, carry equipment as they leave their position at the beginning of a cease fire near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, Thursday, June 19, 2008. Guns went quiet as a six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect early Thursday, marred only by widespread skepticism about its ability to hold. The cease-fire, which Egypt labored for months to conclude, aims to bring an end to a year of fighting that has killed seven Israelis and more than 400 Palestinians many of them civilians since the Islamic militant group Hamas wrested control of Gaza a year ago. (AP Photo/Wissam Nassar, MaanImages)AP - Guns went quiet as a six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect early Thursday, but there was widespread skepticism about its ability to hold.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:11:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Woman convicted of manslaughter in Australian euthanasia case (AFP)

    Australia's coat of arms is displayed on the Supreme Court in Sydney. An Australian woman on trial over the euthanasia-drug death of her partner, an Alzheimer's sufferer, was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - An Australian woman on trial over the euthanasia-drug death of her partner, an Alzheimer's sufferer, was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:23:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Myanmar junta gang hits Suu Kyi birthday rally (Reuters)

    A Myanmar national living in Thailand yells 'free Burma' while holding a portrait of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok June 19, 2008. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)Reuters - Pro-junta thugs broke up a rally by supporters of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, detaining three people among a crowd chanting for her release on her 63rd birthday, a senior opposition member said.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:47:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Zimbabwe's MDC asks court to overturn media ban (Reuters)

    Armed Zimbabwean policemen stand outside the magistrates courts during the hearing of main opposition Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) secretary-general Tendai Biti in Harare June 18, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC has launched an urgent court action to appeal a state-media ban on its advertisements and media cover of the party ahead of next week's presidential run-off election, a spokesman said on Thursday.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:46:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Argentine leader demands end to farmers' strike (AP)

    Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her husband, former president Nestor Kirchner, right, wave to supporters after she delivered a speech at a pro-government rally in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Fernandez said her center-left government is willing to resume negotiations with farmers who have been protesting an increase in grain export taxes for three months, suspending grain exports and blocking highways since March.(AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)AP - President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters Wednesday that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers lift road blockades that have caused food shortages across Argentina.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:44:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,101 (AP)
    AP - As of Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at least 4,101 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. -- read full article
    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Rights group lauds Politkovskaya murder charges (Reuters)

    A supporter of the dissident 'Other Russia' movement stands with a portrait of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in central Moscow during a rally October 7, 2007. (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)Reuters - A Brussels-based journalists' rights group has welcomed criminal charges against three men in the killing of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but said those who ordered the murder must be held accountable.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:10:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Afghan official: Taliban routed near Kandahar (AP)

    U.S. soldiers patrol through Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 19, 2008.  (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghan and NATO forces have cleared Taliban militants from a strategic group of villages they had infiltrated outside southern Afghanistan's largest city, Afghan officials said Thursday.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:38:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    State media: 110,000 in China quake area evacuated (AP)

    Children play basketball in front of a collapsed school which was damaged by the May 12 earthquake in Luo Shui of Shifang, southwest China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. School collapses have become one of the most charged issues in the earthquake aftermath, and one that local communist leaders seem anxious to suppress.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - China completed the evacuation of 110,000 people from an area near the epicenter of last month's deadly earthquake over fears of possible landslides triggered by annual heavy rains, state media reported Thursday.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:23:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Mexico pursues appeal to stay executions in US (AP)
    AP - The U.N.'s highest court begins emergency hearings Thursday on Mexico's appeal to block the execution of its citizens on death row in the United States. -- read full article
    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:38:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Shell shuts down Nigerian oil field after attack (AP)

    An undated file photo shows an offshore oil platform owned by Shell oil company in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday it has shut down production at a Nigerian oil field that produces about 200,000 barrels per day after a militant attack. (AP Photo/ SHELL)AP - Royal Dutch Shell said it shut down production at an offshore oil installation that produces about 200,000 barrels per day after the most powerful militant group in Nigeria said it launched an attack there Thursday.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:28:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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