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    Israeli policeman kills self at Sarkozy ceremony (AP)

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy, bottom right, follows wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, top ,as she runs  onto an airplane during a departure ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, June 24, 2008. An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head on Tuesday at an airport departure ceremony for French President Nicholas Sarkozy, authorities said, sparking fear of an assassination attempt and prompting bodyguards to whisk Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert away from the scene. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head at an airport farewell ceremony Tuesday for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, prompting bodyguards to whisk the visiting leader and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to safety, officials said.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:58:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Divers find bodies in ferry that capsized in storm (AP)

    Injured Jonathan Pendon, a survivor in the ill-fated MV Princess of Stars, is escorted at the Philippine National Red Cross headquarters in Manila on Tuesday June 24, 2008. Divers managed to get inside an upside-down ferry but found only bodies three days after the vessel capsized with more than 800 people aboard during a powerful typhoon, officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A coast guard diver searching for survivors Tuesday inside a ferry that capsized in a typhoon found bodies and a bit of comfort — a plastic rosary floating in the water.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:28:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Baghdad bombing kills 4 Americans (AP)

    Qasim al Sudani, an Al Sadr city council member lies on a bed in hospital in Sadr city, Baghdad as relatives and friend stand next to him, on Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Sudani is one of three council members who was wounded after a bomb struck a municipal council building Tuesday in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district, killing four Americans including two soldiers and two U.S. government civilian employees, U.S. officials said. At least six Iraqi civilians also died.(AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)AP - A bomb struck a district council building Tuesday in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City, killing at least nine people, including four Americans — two soldiers and two government employees, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:37:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Gaza rockets hit Israel despite truce (AP)

    An Israeli protester holds a mock rocket and an Israeli flag during a demonstration against Israeli fuel companies that ship to Gaza, in the southern city of Ashkelon, Wednesday  June 18, 2008. Israel officially confirmed Wednesday that a cease-fire with the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip will begin this week in an effort to end a year of fighting that has killed more than 400 Palestinians and seven Israelis.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)AP - Palestinian militants on Tuesday fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel, the first such attack since a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza militants took effect last week.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:20:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    AP IMPACT: Kenyan children abducted, tortured (AP)

    Job Bwonya stands  outside his office in Bungoma, Kenya, Sunday, May 25, 2008. Bwonya has been collecting information on atrocities committed by both sides in the Mount Elgon violence. Hundreds of children have vanished from the green fields of western Kenya, carried off by a brutal militia or consigned to torture centers in a military crackdown that began three months ago. There is no escape: children who refused to join the fighters were kidnapped or risked having their families killed. Many who escaped the militia say they were plucked from their schools by soldiers and tortured. (AP Photo/Katharine Houreld)AP - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:51:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    BG Group in hostile £6.6 bln bid for Origin Energy (AFP)

    Britain's BG Group has launched a hostile 6.6-billion-pound (13.8-billion Australian dollar) bid for Origin Energy, which if successful, would be one of the biggest foreign takeovers of an Australian firm.(DDP/AFP/File/Jens-Ulrich Koch)AFP - British energy giant BG Group on Tuesday launched a hostile 6.6-billion-pound (13.8-billion Australian dollar) bid for Origin Energy, which if successful, would be one of the biggest foreign takeovers of an Australian firm.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:53:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Thai PM faces critics in no-confidence debate (AFP)

    A member of the People's Alliance for Democracy protests in front of the government house in Bangkok on June 21. Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, already under pressure from street protests and a looming no-confidence vote, has been grilled by the Senate over his management of the economy.(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - Thailand's opposition began grilling Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej in a no-confidence debate on Tuesday, as his four-month-old government faces claims of mismanagement and cronyism.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:41:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.N. condemns violence against Mugabe opponents (Reuters)

    Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai attends a news conference in Harare June 22, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - The U.N. Security Council has for the first time unanimously condemned violence against opposition supporters in Zimbabwe and said a free and fair presidential election is impossible now.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:52:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Chilean president pushes whaling ban (AP)

    A demonstrator holds a poster that reads in Spanish 'No more whale hunting' at a protest outside a hotel where the International Whaling Commission holds its 60th annual meeting in Santiago, Monday, June 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin)AP - President Michelle Bachelet pushed to permanently ban whaling along Chile's sprawling coast at the opening Monday of the weeklong International Whaling Commission meeting.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:07:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Officials: Dozen militants killed in Afghanistan (AP)

    German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (L) and Wolfgang Schneiderhan, inspector general of the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr, attend a news conference in Berlin June 24, 2008. Jung said that Germany planned to increase the number of troops it can send to Afghanistan by 1,000 later this. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY)AP - Afghan officials say an airstrike has killed more than a dozen militants in the east of the country.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:19:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China agrees to pay Rio Tinto double price for iron ore (AFP)

    A Rio Tinto worker helps conduct a pour at the Kwinana plant in Perth. Baosteel, China's largest steelmaker, has agreed to nearly double what it pays Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto for iron ore.(AFP/Pool/File/Tony Ashby)AFP - Baosteel, China's largest steelmaker, said Tuesday it had agreed to nearly double what it pays Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto for iron ore.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:47:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Officials: 15 militants killed in Afghanistan (AP)

    German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (L) and Wolfgang Schneiderhan, inspector general of the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr, attend a news conference in Berlin June 24, 2008. Jung said that Germany planned to increase the number of troops it can send to Afghanistan by 1,000 later this. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY)AP - Coalition warplanes swooped down on militants withdrawing from a firefight with police into the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 of them, officials said.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:01:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    SKorean president pans illegal protests (AP)

    South Korean protesters shout a slogan  during a candlelight rally against U.S. beef imports in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 23, 2008. South Korea said it will resume imports of U.S. beef after an agreement banning meat from older cattle, an attempt to soothe health concerns that have led to weeks of demonstrations against new President Lee Myung-bak. The letters on the cards read ' Out President Lee Myung-bak'. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korea's president spoke out Tuesday against the protests that have rattled his administration, saying the government would not tolerate any illegal, violent demonstrations against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:11:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Only bodies under toppled ferry in Philippines (AP)

    In this handout released by the Philippine National Red Cross, Jonathan Pendon, a survivor in the MV Princess of Stars, is treated in Manila Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Two teams of rescuers prepared to dive into rough waters off the Philippine coast Tuesday to find a way inside a capsized ferry in a desperate effort to locate 800 people believed to be still aboard. (AP Photo/Philippine National Red Cross, Mollie Godinez, HO)AP - Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:45:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Explosion targets Americans in Sadr City (AP)

    Iraqi police commandos stand guard at a checkpoint in central Baghdad. Two Iraqis were killed and eight wounded on Tuesday when a bomb exploded in the district council office in Baghdad's Shiite militia bastion of Sadr City, police and witnesses said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - An explosion apparently targeting U.S. troops struck a local council building Tuesday in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district, killing at least two Iraqi civilians, police and witnesses said.


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    Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:32:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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