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• US backs South Korea in punishing North Korea (AP)
• Gunbattles intensifying, spreading in Jamaica (AP)
• Afghans: 7 arrests in deaths of 6 NATO troops (AP)
• Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, in trouble again (AP)
• Youngest Everest climber wants others to 'go big' (AP)
• How Britain's King of Sting Nabbed Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York (Time.com)
• White House to host concert honoring Paul McCartney (AFP)
• Gunmen kill newly elected lawmaker in Iraq (AP)
• Ex-cop claims Uribe's brother led death squad (AP)
• Argentina cruise in Canadian friendly (AFP)
• US, SKorea to test military in signal to North (AP)
• Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai hit (Reuters)
• McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Cheonan warship sinking: Will South Korea blame Kim Jong-il directly? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• From Bangkok to Cannes, Thailand Political Tensions Remain (Time.com)

US backs South Korea in punishing North Korea (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 01:37 PM PDT AP - South Korea won U.S. support Monday for slashing trade to North Korea and vowed to haul its communist neighbor before the U.N. Security Council for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship and killed 46 sailors.

Gunbattles intensifying, spreading in Jamaica (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 02:45 PM PDT AP - Jamaica's security forces clashed with masked gunmen allied with an alleged drug kingpin for a second day Monday as an intensifying multi-front battle against gangs spread to volatile slums outside the capital.

Afghans: 7 arrests in deaths of 6 NATO troops (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 12:17 PM PDT AP - Afghan authorities Monday announced the arrests of seven people in last week's suicide car bombing that killed six NATO soldiers including four colonels — three of them American and one Canadian.

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, in trouble again (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 09:41 AM PDT AP - Sarah Ferguson was once considered a lively spark, just the thing to brighten up Britain's staid royal family when she married Prince Andrew and became Duchess of York.

Youngest Everest climber wants others to 'go big' (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 09:33 AM PDT AP - For Jordan Romero, the 13-year-old American who became the youngest climber to summit Mount Everest, it all began with the desire to dream big.

How Britain's King of Sting Nabbed Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York (Time.com) Posted: 24 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT Time.com - The Fake Sheikh, one of Fleet Street's finest -- or most appalling -- journalists exposes Sarah Ferguson for apparent influence peddling

White House to host concert honoring Paul McCartney (AFP) Posted: 24 May 2010 04:14 PM PDT AFP - Legendary musician Paul McCartney will perform at the White House in June, where President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will present the former Beatle with a prize honoring his career.

Gunmen kill newly elected lawmaker in Iraq (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT AP - Gunmen in northern Iraq killed a newly elected lawmaker from a Sunni-backed list that narrowly won Iraq's March elections, officials said, in a slaying certain to rattle the fragile political system.

Ex-cop claims Uribe's brother led death squad (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT AP - A retired police major said Monday that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's younger brother commanded a right-wing death squad in the early 1990s from the family's cattle ranch. He estimated the militia killed at least 50 people.

Argentina cruise in Canadian friendly (AFP) Posted: 24 May 2010 04:09 PM PDT AFP - Two-time World Cup winners Argentina eased to a 5-0 victory over Canada here on Monday for a morale-boosting win ahead of flying to South Africa on Friday for the World Cup finals, which run from June 11-July 11.

US, SKorea to test military in signal to North (AP) Posted: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday announced plans for two major military exercises off the Korean peninsula in a show of force aimed at North Korea, which has been blamed by investigators for a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship.

Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai hit (Reuters) Posted: 24 May 2010 08:49 AM PDT Reuters - Australia's government said on Monday it had ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai in January.

McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 24 May 2010 02:16 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - MARJAH, Afghanistan — Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied military commander in Afghanistan, sat gazing at maps of Marjah as a Marine battalion commander asked him for more time to oust Taliban fighters from a longtime stronghold in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.

Cheonan warship sinking: Will South Korea blame Kim Jong-il directly? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 May 2010 10:53 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak is considering blaming North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il by name for the first time Monday when he condemns North Korea’s sinking a South Korean navy ship as a “clear armed provocation.”

From Bangkok to Cannes, Thailand Political Tensions Remain (Time.com) Posted: 24 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT Time.com - Thousands of Bangkok residents volunteered to restore Thailand's ravaged capital, but political tensions still simmer. The landmark victory of a Thai director at the Cannes film festival serves as a surreal footnote to the current upheaval

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