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• Ethnic riots sweep Kyrgyzstan, govt begs for help (AP)
• UN reviewing Taliban, al-Qaida sanctions list (AP)
• CA teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP)
• Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP)
• Alleged Mossad spy arrested in hit-squad case (AP)
• Is NATO to Blame for Russia's Afghan Heroin Problem? (Time.com)
• Belgians to vote after debate on splitting country (Reuters)
• Iraq election rivals meet in political ice breaker (AP)
• Cuba frees 1 political prisoner, transfers 6 more (AP)
• Fast bowlers put South Africa in charge (AFP)
• Tycoon Ambani brothers to compete in India telecoms (AFP)
• Swiss bus crash kills two in Canadian tour group (Reuters)
• Is Obama starting to prod Egypt on human rights? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• One Year Later, Has Ahmadinejad Weathered the Storm? (Time.com)

Ethnic riots sweep Kyrgyzstan, govt begs for help (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:46 PM PDT AP - Ethnic riots wracked southern Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, forcing thousands of Uzbeks to flee as their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men. The interim government begged Russia for troops to stop the violence, but the Kremlin offered only humanitarian assistance.

UN reviewing Taliban, al-Qaida sanctions list (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:08 PM PDT AP - Fueling momentum for a political solution to the nearly nine-year-old Afghan war, a U.N. committee is reviewing whether certain people could be removed from blacklist that freezes assets and limits travel of key Taliban and al-Qaida figures, the top U.N. representative said Saturday.

CA teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT AP - A California teenager who spent three days adrift on the turbulent Indian Ocean described her ordeal as "crazy" as she started a long journey home aboard a French fishing boat that rescued her Saturday from her crippled sailboat.

Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.

Alleged Mossad spy arrested in hit-squad case (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:26 AM PDT AP - An alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the hit-squad slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai has been arrested in Poland, officials said Saturday.

Is NATO to Blame for Russia's Afghan Heroin Problem? (Time.com) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:50 PM PDT Time.com - As heroin floods over the border into Russia, Moscow points the finger of blame at NATO and its refusal to destroy Afghan opium poppy fields

Belgians to vote after debate on splitting country (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT Reuters - Belgians vote in a parliamentary election Sunday for a government that could move toward breaking up the country and that will need to curb the third-highest debt ratio in Europe.

Iraq election rivals meet in political ice breaker (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:26 PM PDT AP - The leaders of two rival political alliances battling to run Iraq's new government took a step toward ending their power dispute Saturday, as the Sunni-backed coalition that won March elections now faces being sidelined in parliament.

Cuba frees 1 political prisoner, transfers 6 more (AP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:44 AM PDT AP - Cuba on Saturday freed a political prisoner who is confined to a wheelchair and began transferring six others to jails closer to their homes, part of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church and the most important sign yet that the government may be softening its hardline stance on organized dissent.

Fast bowlers put South Africa in charge (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:25 PM PDT AFP - Fierce fast bowling from Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel set them up, and captain Graeme Smith then plundered an unbeaten 79 to put South Africa in command of the opening Test against West Indies on Saturday.

Tycoon Ambani brothers to compete in India telecoms (AFP) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT AFP - India's richest man Mukesh Ambani will return to the country's telecom sector in a move that puts him in direct competition with his younger brother Anil with whom he had a long and bitter feud.

Swiss bus crash kills two in Canadian tour group (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 09:35 AM PDT Reuters - A bus carrying 48 Canadian tourists crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais on Saturday, killing two people and injuring at least 15 others, five of them seriously, police said.

Is Obama starting to prod Egypt on human rights? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:18 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt presented a rosy picture of its human rights credentials today, promising to implement most of the recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council as part of a quadrennial review process.

One Year Later, Has Ahmadinejad Weathered the Storm? (Time.com) Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:50 PM PDT Time.com - The protests that followed his disputed reelection threw Iran's Islamic regime into unprecedented turmoil. But the immediate threat appears to have receded

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