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Yahoo! News: World News


Gates prods China on NKorea, military ties to US (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, shakes hands Japan's Minister of Defense, Toshimi Kitazawa, during the Shangri-La Dialogue's Asia Security Summit in Singapore, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates challenged China to deal realistically with the short-term question of how to respond to an antagonistic North Korea and the longer-term issue of whether Beijing's expanding military can establish more durable ties with the U.S.


Peru police recover body of freeskier Backstrom (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:11 PM PDT

AP - Peruvian mountain rescue police brought the body of acclaimed freeskier Arne Backstrom down off 5,752-meter (18,780-foot) Pisco mountain on Saturday, two days after he died in a high-altitude fall.

2 candidates from Iraq's Sunni-backed party killed (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 01:28 PM PDT

Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) rebels stop a car at a security checkpoint in the Qandil mountains in 2009. Iranian troops have crossed into Iraq twice in three days amid clashes with Kurdish rebels in the Qandil mountains near the border, a security spokesman said Saturday.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Gunmen killed two candidates from the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March parliamentary election, slayings that the alliance said Saturday were part of a politically motivated campaign of assassinations.


Expo Fever Mixed with Disillusion in Shanghai (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - The rest of the world is gearing up for a certain heavily anticipated sporting event, but Shanghai could care less: Five weeks after the World Expo opened, the city is still in the midst of full-blown world expo fever

Britain to give 19 million pounds to Gaza (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:26 PM PDT

Palestinian schoolchildren attend a lesson under a tent at the yard of their Islamic school which was destroyed during Israel's three-week military offensive in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip in 2009. Britain is to give 19 million pounds to help support schools and health clinics for Gazan refugees, the government said Saturday.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)AFP - Britain announced Sunday it was giving 19 million pounds for refugees in Gaza and repeated calls for Israel to lift its blockade of the territory.


Egyptians married to Israelis to lose citizenship (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:47 AM PDT

AP - An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a ruling that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women.

Venezuela government takes over Bolivar archive (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:53 PM PDT

AP - Venezuela's government has begun to take an archive of documents that belonged to independence hero Simon Bolivar.

Bashir says Darfur peace talks are final round (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:28 PM PDT

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir addresses the nation after being re-elected at the NCP Headquarters in Khartoum April 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamed NureldinReuters - Sudan's president said on Saturday the current round of Darfur peace talks would be the final negotiations with any armed group.


Kan, Obama affirm Japan-US alliance: White House (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:58 PM PDT

Japan's new Prime Minister and ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) new President Naoto Kan leaves his DPJ headquarters in Tokyo. Kan and US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation Sunday in which they affirmed ties strained by a row over a US base in Okinawa, news reports said.(AFP/JIJI Press)AFP - Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation Saturday in which they discussed "the many issues facing both nations" and the Japan-US alliance, the White House announced.


Briton is 1st woman to row solo across Pacific (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:15 AM PDT

AP - A British environmentalist has become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean, receiving a rock star welcome in Papua New Guinea after finishing a nearly 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometer) journey that nearly claimed her life.

India's Rent-a-Womb Industry Faces New Restrictions (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - India has proven fertile ground for foreigners seeking a "womb-for-hire," but a new government bill threatens to complicate the country's lucrative surrogacy trade

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