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• Iran's Ahmadinejad, rival both claim election win (AP)
• UN imposes tough new sanctions on NKorea (AP)
• Top Sunni lawmaker killed outside Baghdad mosque (AP)
• Brazil: 6 more bodies found in jet crash (AP)
• American student testifies at Italian murder trial (AP)
• A Carnival of Provocations as Gaddafi Visits Rome (Time.com)
• Miliband nearly quit last week: report (AFP)
• Lebanon's PM hopeful Hariri seeks compromise (AP)
• Mexico candidate: Drug gangs contact all hopefuls (AP)
• Obama gives Tsvangirai words of support, no money (Reuters)
• Pakistan planning offensive against terror havens (AP)
• Showdown next Friday could prompt Canada election (Reuters)
• Australian family's joy at Kuwait jail reprieve (AFP)
• Chavez's expropriation of oil service firms could spark labor unrest (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Dalai Lama takes his case to Chinese émigrés (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Analysis: Why the Amanda Knox trial has gripped Italy (Time.com)
• Kenya Must Meet Pledge to Somali Refugees (OneWorld.net)

Iran's Ahmadinejad, rival both claim election win (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:17 PM PDT AP - Iran's interior ministry said Saturday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a commanding lead after 61 percent of all votes were tallied, but his pro-reform rival countered that he was the clear victor and warned of possible fraud in the election.

UN imposes tough new sanctions on NKorea (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:07 PM PDT AP - The U.N. Security Council imposed punishing new sanctions on North Korea Friday, toughening an arms embargo and authorizing ship searches on the high seas in an attempt to thwart the reclusive nation's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Top Sunni lawmaker killed outside Baghdad mosque (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:02 PM PDT AP - The moderate leader of the largest Sunni bloc in parliament was assassinated Friday after delivering a sermon at a Baghdad mosque, a killing that could set back efforts to reconcile differences between the two Muslim sects before national elections.

Brazil: 6 more bodies found in jet crash (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:45 PM PDT AP - Six more bodies were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean where an Air France jet crashed, Brazilian officials said Friday, as the race to find the black boxes and gather key evidence from human remains and debris gained urgency.

American student testifies at Italian murder trial (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:00 PM PDT AP - An American college student accused of murdering her British roommate in Italy testified for the first time on Friday, offering an alibi for the night of the 2007 killing and saying police beat her into making a false statement in the case.

A Carnival of Provocations as Gaddafi Visits Rome (Time.com) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:25 PM PDT Time.com - Libya's leader forces Italy to face its colonial legacy, one-ups Berlusconi on respect for women, and makes a hash of his outreach to Jewish exiles

Miliband nearly quit last week: report (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT AFP - Foreign Secretary David Miliband indicated in an interview Saturday he nearly quit in a wave of resignations which left Prime Minister Gordon Brown fighting for his job last week.

Lebanon's PM hopeful Hariri seeks compromise (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:35 PM PDT AP - The pro-Western politician favored to become Lebanon's next prime minister is setting aside the explosive issue of disarming the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, saying Friday he hopes for unity with his political foes in the sharply divided country.

Mexico candidate: Drug gangs contact all hopefuls (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:31 PM PDT AP - A ruling party mayoral candidate in Mexico's richest city told his supporters that drug traffickers have contacted all leading political contenders in the country seeking their loyalty ahead of elections next month.

Obama gives Tsvangirai words of support, no money (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 03:29 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama gave tentative backing to Zimbabwe's fragile national unity government on Friday, but the country's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, left a White House meeting largely empty-handed.

Pakistan planning offensive against terror havens (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:29 PM PDT AP - U.S. defense officials said Friday that Pakistan is planning a new assault into South Waziristan aimed at key al-Qaida strongholds, a move tied to the Obama administration's broader strategy for the Afghanistan war.

Showdown next Friday could prompt Canada election (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 08:12 AM PDT Reuters - A potential double showdown next Friday will determine whether Canada will head into an early election, a government official said on Friday.

Australian family's joy at Kuwait jail reprieve (AFP) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 10:32 PM PDT AFP - The family of an Australian woman jailed in Kuwait for insulting the emir have been celebrating after the country's surprise decision to suspend her sentence.

Chavez's expropriation of oil service firms could spark labor unrest (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 02:30 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - CIUDAD OJEDA, Venezuela — Despite the recent sharp rise in oil prices, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last month expropriated 70 oil service companies in western Venezuela, putting some 10,000 Venezuelans out of work, turning local unions against him and forcing production cuts at important oilfields.

Dalai Lama takes his case to Chinese émigrés (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When the Dalai Lama traveled to the Netherlands last week his Buddhist teaching was heard by 10,000 people and he was received by the mayor of Amsterdam.

Analysis: Why the Amanda Knox trial has gripped Italy (Time.com) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 04:25 PM PDT Time.com - In a media circus pitting Americans against Italians, the star suspect testifies in her own defense after 18 months of silence and lurid speculation

Kenya Must Meet Pledge to Somali Refugees (OneWorld.net) Posted: 12 Jun 2009 08:27 AM PDT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (OneWorld.net) - Aid groups are calling on Kenya to fulfill promises of more land and funding for Somali refugees living in camps on the country's border, now the largest concentration of refugees in the world.

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