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• Congo: UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion (AP)
• Gen. Petraeus: US civilian-military team must mesh (AP)
• Drug war fears cast pall across Mexican elections (AP)
• Nigeria: 12 foreign sailors kidnapped by pirates (AP)
• VP Biden visits Iraq amid political impasse (AP)
• Israel: Doing the Math for Gilad Shalit's Freedom (Time.com)
• Reprieved Capello ready to swing the axe (AFP)
• Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US (AP)
• Tour boat capsizes off Galapagos; Dane, 61, dies (AP)
• Fuel tanker explosion kills over 230 in Congo (Reuters)
• Hole in one keeps Choi in front (AFP)
• New Australia PM says boatpeople next priority (AFP)
• General Petraeus takes command of the Afghanistan war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Congo: UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:41 PM PDT AP - A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday.

Gen. Petraeus: US civilian-military team must mesh (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:20 AM PDT AP - America's top diplomat in Kabul jokingly handed NATO's new commander Gen. David Petraeus an access badge to the U.S. Embassy on Saturday, a symbolic gesture of a new partnership in the troubled U.S. management of the Afghan war.

Drug war fears cast pall across Mexican elections (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:56 AM PDT AP - A common theme haunts Sunday's state and local elections across Mexico: drugs.

Nigeria: 12 foreign sailors kidnapped by pirates (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 06:41 AM PDT AP - Pirates kidnapped 12 foreign sailors off the coast of Nigeria's restive and oil-rich southern delta during an attack that left one crew member injured, a naval spokesman said Saturday.

VP Biden visits Iraq amid political impasse (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:57 PM PDT AP - Vice President Joe Biden returned Saturday to Iraq to coax its government into picking a new prime minister, months after elections left the nascent democracy in a state of gridlock as the U.S. prepares to pull out its troops.

Israel: Doing the Math for Gilad Shalit's Freedom (Time.com) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:50 PM PDT Time.com - The flotilla fiasco may embody the Gaza debacle for non-Israelis but the heart of the crisis for the Jewish state is the continuing detention of one of its soldiers

Reprieved Capello ready to swing the axe (AFP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 04:05 PM PDT AFP - Fabio Capello, who has been spared the chop as England manager despite his team's early exit from the World Cup, has indicated that the axe will fall instead on some of his most famous players.

Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:23 AM PDT AP - Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters on Saturday as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago.

Tour boat capsizes off Galapagos; Dane, 61, dies (AP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:00 PM PDT AP - Ecuadorean officials say a tour boat has capsized off the Galapagos Islands, killing a Danish man on board.

Fuel tanker explosion kills over 230 in Congo (Reuters) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:49 AM PDT Reuters - At least 230 people were killed when a fuel tanker overturned and exploded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, unleashing a fire ball that tore through homes and cinemas packed with people watching World Cup soccer.

Hole in one keeps Choi in front (AFP) Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:36 PM PDT AFP - South Korea's Na Yeon Choi had a hole-in-one in her three-under 68 Saturday as she clung to a one-shot lead over late-charging American Christina Kim at the LPGA Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.

New Australia PM says boatpeople next priority (AFP) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:38 PM PDT AFP - New Australian leader Julia Gillard vowed Saturday to provide "solutions not slogans" on the sensitive issue of boatpeople as she works to shore up her position ahead of looming elections.

General Petraeus takes command of the Afghanistan war (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:59 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - With the US-led Afghanistan war in its most precarious position since it began nearly nine years ago, Gen. David Petraeus arrived in Kabul today to implement a strategy similar to the one he successfully pioneered in Iraq.

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