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    Sarkozy: Syria and Lebanon will open embassies (AP)
    AP - France's president affirmed Saturday that Syria and Lebanon will open embassies in each other's countries. However, Syria's leader was more cautious. -- read full article
    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:51:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Iraq handing out cash to people on the streets (AP)

    Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki addresses the media in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, May 22, 2008. It is a politician's dream: Handing out cold, hard cash to people on the street as they plead for help. Iraq's prime minister has been doing just that in recent weeks, doling out Iraqi dinars as an aide trails behind, keeping a tally. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - It is a politician's dream: Handing out cold, hard cash to people on the street as they plead for help. Iraq's prime minister has been doing just that in recent weeks, doling out Iraqi dinars as an aide trails behind, keeping a tally.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:57:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Earthquake rocks southern New Zealand, no damage (AP)
    AP - A government-owned agency says a moderately strong earthquake has rocked New Zealand's southern region — but there are no immediate reports of injury or damage. -- read full article
    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:53:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Cambodian journalist gunned down (AP)
    AP - A journalist working for a pro-opposition Cambodian newspaper was killed along with his son in a drive-by shooting in the capital, police said Saturday. -- read full article
    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:53:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Sudan seeks Arab League talks about Criminal Court (Reuters)
    Reuters - Sudan asked the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers after reports the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor may seek the arrest of Sudan's president, Egyptian media said on Saturday. -- read full article
    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:24:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Hurricane Bertha heads toward Bermuda (AP)

    This image provided by NOAA taken at 11:31 p.m. EDT Friday July 11, 2008 shows Hurricane Bertha approximately 245 miles southeast of Bermuda. According to the National Weather Service at 10 p.m. EDT Bertha had sustained winds of near 90 miles per hour and was moving slowly toward the north-northeast at near 5 mph. Bertha is a Category one hurricane and is not expected to strengthen over the next couple of days. Large swells and high surf are affecting Bermuda and these conditions are expected to persist for the next couple of days. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - Hurricane Bertha was spinning over open water and headed toward Bermuda, but tourists didn't expect it to wreck their weekend on the idyllic Atlantic island.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:51:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    AP: 'Lob bombs' biggest worry for US in Baghdad (AP)

    Military vehicles are seen at a U.S.-Iraqi military outpost in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Friday, July 11, 2008, that was struck April 28 by an improved rocket-assisted mortar, a weapon that Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond told The Associated Press on Friday is the greatest threat facing American troops in Iraq now. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)AP - U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday in an Associated Press interview.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:29:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    3 injured in packed bull run at Spanish festival (AP)

    Revelers are chased by Dolores Aguirre's ranch fighting bulls on the six day of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, July 12, 2008. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)AP - A packed running of the bulls left one daredevil gored and two others slightly injured Saturday at Pamplona's annual San Fermin festival, officials said.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:12:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Russia, China veto UN sanctions on Zimbabwe regime (AP)

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses his supporters at Harare airport on July 4, 2008, after flying home from an African Union summit. China and Russia on Friday blocked a US draft resolution in the UN Security Council that would have slapped sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe over his disputed re-election.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AP - Russia and China vetoed U.S.-proposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's leaders Friday, the global community's latest attempt to take action against an authoritarian regime widely criticized for a violent and one-sided presidential election.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:46:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    As violence recedes in Iraq, rebuilding gets tough (AP)

    U.S. Army Capt. Mike Forbes, left, takes a photo at the site of a car bomb blast in west Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 10, 2008. Violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in four years, but ask Capt. Mike Forbes, and he will tell you his job as a troop commander in Baghdad has gotten harder, not easier. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot)AP - Violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in four years, but ask Capt. Mike Forbes, and he will tell you his job as a troop commander in Baghdad has gotten harder, not easier.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:53:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    S. Korea: North not cooperating in shooting probe (AP)

    Yoon Man-joon, president of Hyundai Asan which operates a resort as a tourist enclave inside the communist North Korea, speaks to reporters before leaving for Diamond Mountain in North Korea at the headquarters of Hyundai Asan in Seoul, Saturday, July 12, 2008. A North Korean soldier fatally shot a South Korean tourist Friday at the mountain resort in the communist nation, prompting the South to suspend the high-profile tourism program just as its new president sought to rekindle strained ties between the divided countries. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - North Korea has shown no willingness to cooperate with South Korea's investigation into the death of a South Korean tourist at a mountain resort in the communist nation, a Seoul official said Saturday.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:37:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Iraqi security better; governance falling short (AP)

    Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Baghdad area, left, greets Sheik Ayad al-Jabouri at Combat Outpost Radwaniyah, southwest of Baghdad, Friday, July 11, 2008.   In the rural outskirts of Baghdad, where the war seems distant in Iraq's new period of relative calm, a prominent Sunni tribal chief makes no bones about what is lacking in the drive to turn security improvements into lasting economic and political change. 'Up to now we have seen nothing from the government,' al-Jaborui  said with more than a hint of disdain for the Shiite- dominated leadership in the capital.  (AP Photo/Robert Burns)AP - In the rural outskirts of Baghdad, where the war seems distant in Iraq's new period of relative calm, a prominent Sunni tribal chief makes no bones about what is lacking in the drive to turn security improvements into lasting economic and political change.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:40:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    North Korean nuclear talks lead to agreement (AP)

    South Korean envoy Kim Sook speaks to reporters before leaving for a third day of meetings at Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue in Beijing, China, Saturday, July 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Negotiators from six nations agreed have agreed on steps to verify North Korea's nuclear disarmament, opening the final phase in tortuous efforts to rid the North of nuclear weapons.


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    Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:21:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australia trip is a test for pope's stamina (AP)

    Pope Benedict XVI looks on during his Sunday Angelus address in his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on the outskirts of Rome, Sunday July 6, 2008. The pontiff on Sunday urged the G-8 summit in Japan this week to take courageous measures to help the world's poor, whose plight he says is worsened by the effects of financial turbulence on food and energy prices. Benedict made the plea about the summit, which starts Monday in Toyako on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, while addressing pilgrims gathered outside his summer residence. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)AP - Pope Benedict XVI departs Saturday on a 10-day trip to Australia, the longest pilgrimage of his papacy and a test of the 81-year-old pontiff's stamina.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:52:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Sudan leader's arrest harmful to peace: China's UN envoy (AFP)

    China's UN ambassador said Friday he was concerned at reports that Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, seen here in 2007, might be arrested over crimes against humanity in Darfur, warning such a move would put peace prospects AFP - China's UN ambassador said Friday he was concerned at reports that Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir might be arrested over crimes against humanity in Darfur, warning such a move would put peace prospects "in jeopardy."


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:24:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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