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• Analysis: Petraeus faces daunting challenges (AP)
• Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children (AP)
• Mexican governor candidate killed, cartels blamed (AP)
• Bad-call blues: FIFA urged to allow video replay (AP)
• Vatican admonishes Austrian cardinal for comments (AP)
• Outsourcing in Afghanistan: Who's Protecting Our Supply Lines? (Time.com)
• Under pressure, UK promises torture guidelines (AP)
• Israeli flotilla inquiry to question premier (AP)
• US issues Haiti travel alert after Americans slain (AP)
• Steyn, Botha put Proteas in sight of victory (AFP)
• Japan jobless rate rises, household spending falls (AP)
• Toronto faces hard post-G20 security questions (Reuters)
• Australian pair escape charges over Aborigine death (AFP)
• Does world agreement to halve deficits fix things or worsen them? (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Le Monde rejects Sarkozy intervention in media sale (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Vatican Critical After Police Raid Belgian Church Meeting (Time.com)
• Water Trickles Back into Village, Thanks to Solar Desalination (OneWorld.net)

Analysis: Petraeus faces daunting challenges (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 11:53 AM PDT AP - A weak and troublesome Afghan partner. A war strategy increasingly questioned. Sniping between military and civilian officials. Military deaths at record levels. A deadline to begin withdrawing troops that may come too soon.

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 10:06 AM PDT AP - Masked men trashed a U.N. summer camp Monday, tying up guards and slashing tents and an inflatable pool in the second such attack blamed on suspected extremists in just over a month — a sign of how, in Gaza, youth camp is not just about crafts and volleyball.

Mexican governor candidate killed, cartels blamed (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT AP - Gunmen assassinated the front-running candidate for governor of a Mexican border state Monday in what President Felipe Calderon called an attempt by drug gangs to sway local and state elections this weekend.

Bad-call blues: FIFA urged to allow video replay (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:44 PM PDT AP - Tennis does it. Baseball does it. Even American football and hockey do it. So why not soccer, too?

Vatican admonishes Austrian cardinal for comments (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:12 PM PDT AP - The Vatican on Monday issued an unprecedented rebuke of a top cardinal who had accused the retired Vatican No. 2 of blocking clerical sex abuse investigations, publicly dressing down a man who had been praised for his criticism of church abuse cover-ups.

Outsourcing in Afghanistan: Who's Protecting Our Supply Lines? (Time.com) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - The main supply lines for U.S. operations into Afghanistan are dependent on warlords of dubious allegiance and a Central Asian nation on the verge of disintegration

Under pressure, UK promises torture guidelines (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:54 PM PDT AP - The British government promised Monday to quickly issue its spies a fresh set of guidelines on how to avoid being complicit in torture.

Israeli flotilla inquiry to question premier (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:18 AM PDT AP - The Israeli commission of inquiry into last month's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla will summon the country's prime minister to testify, the chief investigator announced Monday as the five-member panel officially began work.

US issues Haiti travel alert after Americans slain (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:33 PM PDT AP - The U.S. Embassy is advising travelers to exercise caution in Haiti after four U.S. citizens were killed in separate robberies near Port-au-Prince's airport.

Steyn, Botha put Proteas in sight of victory (AFP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 02:58 PM PDT AFP - Dale Steyn and Johan Botha bowled South Africa to the verge of victory in the third and final Test against West Indies on Monday.

Japan jobless rate rises, household spending falls (AP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT AP - Japan says the country's unemployment rate climbed to 5.2 percent in May, rising for the third straight month.

Toronto faces hard post-G20 security questions (Reuters) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - After a rare weekend of violence in a city that likes to trumpet its civility, Toronto licked its wounds on Monday as rights groups questioned police tactics in securing the G20 summit and the mayor blasted the decision to hold the world leaders event in the city's core.

Australian pair escape charges over Aborigine death (AFP) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 02:24 AM PDT AFP - Australian Aborigines have expressed anger after two security guards escaped charges over an elder who "cooked" to death in the back of a prison van.

Does world agreement to halve deficits fix things or worsen them? (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 03:37 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - TORONTO — World leaders headed home Monday from a weekend summit with a huge question mark hanging over their work: Will their pledge to curb deficit spending help or hurt the global economy?

Le Monde rejects Sarkozy intervention in media sale (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 01:12 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Le Monde â€" a newspaper so established in France it is sometimes called "the record” â€" was approved for sale today, ending a drama over two symbolic bid-groups, the loser of which was personally backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Vatican Critical After Police Raid Belgian Church Meeting (Time.com) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT Time.com - A police raid of a church meeting prompts criticism from the Vatican. Butwill taking on the police further alienate Catholic Belgians?

Water Trickles Back into Village, Thanks to Solar Desalination (OneWorld.net) Posted: 28 Jun 2010 04:07 AM PDT OneWorld.net - KARACHI, Jun 28 (IPS) - Ismail Achar never thought a day would come when his island village would be reduced to a barren tract of land with hardly a drop of water to drink.

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