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• Clinton: World must act on SKorean ship sinking (AP)
• Officials: China could join moves against NKorea (AP)
• New video of UK couple kidnapped by Somali pirates (AP)
• Argentina: Colombian model arrested on drug charge (AP)
• China tries to balance fallout of Korean tensions (AP)
• What Did China Get for Backing Iran Sanctions? (Time.com)
• Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress (AP)
• Officials say Israel will stop flotilla for Gaza (AP)
• Ex-dictator's party biggest bloc in Suriname vote (AP)
• Ethiopia's Meles rejects poll criticism (Reuters)
• AP source: US seeks Pakistan crackdown on Taliban (AP)
• Canada defends huge cost of G8/G20 summit security (Reuters)
• Australian baby lives after stroller hit by train (AP)
• Mexico arrests state politician, links him to drug cartels (McClatchy Newspapers)
• As sanctions loom, is Iran sending peace signals to the US? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios (Time.com)

Clinton: World must act on SKorean ship sinking (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the world must respond to the "unacceptable provocation" represented by the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, as the regime unleashed more blistering rhetoric against Seoul and Washington.

Officials: China could join moves against NKorea (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT AP - China has signaled it could soon join the U.S. and its allies in blaming North Korea in the sinking of a South Korean warship, senior American officials said Wednesday.

New video of UK couple kidnapped by Somali pirates (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 01:23 PM PDT AP - A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates more than six months ago appeared in a video Wednesday appealing to the new U.K. government to secure their release.

Argentina: Colombian model arrested on drug charge (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - A Colombian model accused of leading a drug-trafficking gang that persuaded pretty young women to smuggle cocaine to Mexico was arrested Wednesday after evading Argentine police for five months.

China tries to balance fallout of Korean tensions (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 12:51 PM PDT AP - Rising tensions over North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship are providing an unwelcome reality check for Pyongyang's chief ally, China.

What Did China Get for Backing Iran Sanctions? (Time.com) Posted: 26 May 2010 10:55 AM PDT Time.com - Not only were U.N. measures watered down, say analysts, but China's massive involvement in Iran's economy may have been exempted from the unilateral U.S. sanctions that will follow

Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 04:01 PM PDT AP - Amnesty International accused the United States, Russia and China on Thursday of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in an annual survey meant to pressure governments to act more compassionately.

Officials say Israel will stop flotilla for Gaza (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 01:15 PM PDT AP - Israel's navy will stop a flotilla heading for Gaza with 10,000 tons of supplies and pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaking a three-year blockade of Gaza, officials said Wednesday, in the first definitive Israeli pledge to stop the boats.

Ex-dictator's party biggest bloc in Suriname vote (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 03:44 PM PDT AP - Allies of former dictator Desi Bouterse have overtaken Suriname's governing coalition in parliamentary elections, positioning him to run for president despite a pending trial in the execution of 15 opponents in the 1980s.

Ethiopia's Meles rejects poll criticism (Reuters) Posted: 26 May 2010 01:34 PM PDT Reuters - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi rejected opposition calls for a fresh election on Wednesday, after the Europe Union and the United States said his landslide victory did not meet international standards.

AP source: US seeks Pakistan crackdown on Taliban (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 04:57 PM PDT AP - Two top Obama administration officials have told Pakistan that it has only weeks to show real progress in a crackdown against the Pakistani Taliban, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.

Canada defends huge cost of G8/G20 summit security (Reuters) Posted: 26 May 2010 01:24 PM PDT Reuters - Canada defended on Wednesday the huge cost of providing security to two international summits it will host late next month and attacked critics who asked why the bill had shot up to C$930 million ($880 million).

Australian baby lives after stroller hit by train (AP) Posted: 26 May 2010 07:38 AM PDT AP - A 15-month-old boy escaped with just a few cuts and bruises on Wednesday after a train struck his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his grandmother looked away for just a moment.

Mexico arrests state politician, links him to drug cartels (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 May 2010 07:42 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — A former mayor of Cancun who was running for governor of his Caribbean state laundered cash for two drug cartels, prosecutors charged Wednesday, a possible new sign of the taint of narcotics on Mexican politics.

As sanctions loom, is Iran sending peace signals to the US? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 May 2010 11:44 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iran’s triumphant anti-American rhetoric may have hardly changed.

War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios (Time.com) Posted: 26 May 2010 10:55 AM PDT Time.com - Military retaliation for the Cheonan incident is unlikely. But the possibility of war breaking out between North and South Korea is not negligible. Here are three scenarios

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