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• Major military operation under way in Afghanistan (AP)
• Honduras government's isolation grows after coup (AP)
• Teen clung to Comoros plane wreckage for 13 hours (AP)
• Poll: Pakistanis view Taliban as threat to country (AP)
• Iran reformists show fresh defiance against regime (AP)
• Honduras Coup: With Zelaya Ousted, Both Sides Protest (Time.com)
• Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline (AP)
• Amnesty accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza (AP)
• Limbo for Colombia family seeking hostage release (AP)
• Madagascar talks to resume this month: AU (AFP)
• 37 senators seek freedom for Vietnamese priest (AP)
• Canada seen worst of G8 not curbing climate change (Reuters)
• British man begins Australian island dream job (AP)
• Jones: No more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year (McClatchy Newspapers)
• One Gaza fisherman's tale of tribulation (The Christian Science Monitor)
• All Bets Are Off: Russia and Ukraine Ban Gambling (Time.com)
• Electoral Fraud's Unexpected Gift (OneWorld.net)

Major military operation under way in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 05:14 PM PDT AP - Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops moved into Taliban-infested villages with armor and helicopters Wednesday evening in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's revamped strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.

Honduras government's isolation grows after coup (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated Wednesday for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest. Thousands more rallied in favor of the military-backed government.

Teen clung to Comoros plane wreckage for 13 hours (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 02:40 PM PDT AP - The lone survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash, who clung to wreckage for 13 hours before being rescued, lay in a hospital bed with a broken collarbone Wednesday, asking for little — except for a chance to see her mother.

Poll: Pakistanis view Taliban as threat to country (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 10:45 AM PDT AP - More than 80 percent of Pakistanis view the Taliban and al-Qaida as a critical threat to the country, an opinion poll released Wednesday said, marking a turn in public opinion that stands to bolster the army's ongoing offensive against militants close to the Afghan border.

Iran reformists show fresh defiance against regime (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 11:00 AM PDT AP - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

Honduras Coup: With Zelaya Ousted, Both Sides Protest (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 04:15 PM PDT Time.com - In the wake of the military coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, the country is split between those who support his return and those who are glad to see him gone. Now both sides are protesting in the streets

Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 05:01 PM PDT AP - Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday.

Amnesty accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 05:01 PM PDT AP - Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of Gaza Strip homes in attacks that amounted to war crimes, Amnesty International charged Thursday, in the first in-depth human rights group report on the recent war in Gaza.

Limbo for Colombia family seeking hostage release (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 05:10 PM PDT AP - A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.

Madagascar talks to resume this month: AU (AFP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 12:27 PM PDT AFP - International mediation aimed at ending Madagascar's political crisis will resume this month, the African Union's commissioner for peace and security told AFP on Wednesday.

37 senators seek freedom for Vietnamese priest (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 05:14 PM PDT AP - Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years.

Canada seen worst of G8 not curbing climate change (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 08:57 AM PDT Reuters - With only five months to go until a new global pact on climate change, none of the Group of Eight nations is doing enough to curb global warming, with Canada and the United States ranking bottom, a study said on Wednesday.

British man begins Australian island dream job (AP) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 04:26 AM PDT AP - Briton Ben Southall said he'll miss his mom's Sunday roast as he began what's been dubbed the "Best Job in the World" — a six-month contract to serve as caretaker of a tropical Australian island.

Jones: No more U.S. troops to Afghanistan this year (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 03:56 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — After hearing a "drumbeat" for more troops, White House National Security Adviser James L. Jones has told U.S. commanders in Afghanistan that they won't get any more troops this year beyond what President Barack Obama already has promised.

One Gaza fisherman's tale of tribulation (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Israel's naval blockade of the waters off Gaza – part of a wider Israeli effort to seal off the tiny coastal strip controlled by the Islamist militant group Hamas – is devastating a key Gazan industry and source of food: fishing.

All Bets Are Off: Russia and Ukraine Ban Gambling (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 03:15 PM PDT Time.com - With Russia's ban on gambling taking effect on Wednesday, following a similar ban in Ukraine last week, critics fear the move could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and force the industry underground

Electoral Fraud's Unexpected Gift (OneWorld.net) Posted: 01 Jul 2009 01:59 PM PDT OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jul 1 (OneWorld.net) - As the Iranian people continue to call for justice and transparency, democracy researcher Nicholas Benequista points out that public outrage over a case of electoral fraud in Nigeria may spark critical reforms in that notoriously corrupt nation.

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