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• Gates prods China on NKorea, military ties to US (AP)
• Peru police recover body of freeskier Backstrom (AP)
• 2 candidates from Iraq's Sunni-backed party killed (AP)
• Expo Fever Mixed with Disillusion in Shanghai (Time.com)
• Britain to give 19 million pounds to Gaza (AFP)
• Egyptians married to Israelis to lose citizenship (AP)
• Venezuela government takes over Bolivar archive (AP)
• Bashir says Darfur peace talks are final round (Reuters)
• Kan, Obama affirm Japan-US alliance: White House (AFP)
• Briton is 1st woman to row solo across Pacific (AP)
• India's Rent-a-Womb Industry Faces New Restrictions (Time.com)

Gates prods China on NKorea, military ties to US (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates challenged China to deal realistically with the short-term question of how to respond to an antagonistic North Korea and the longer-term issue of whether Beijing's expanding military can establish more durable ties with the U.S.

Peru police recover body of freeskier Backstrom (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:11 PM PDT AP - Peruvian mountain rescue police brought the body of acclaimed freeskier Arne Backstrom down off 5,752-meter (18,780-foot) Pisco mountain on Saturday, two days after he died in a high-altitude fall.

2 candidates from Iraq's Sunni-backed party killed (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 01:28 PM PDT AP - Gunmen killed two candidates from the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq's March parliamentary election, slayings that the alliance said Saturday were part of a politically motivated campaign of assassinations.

Expo Fever Mixed with Disillusion in Shanghai (Time.com) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - The rest of the world is gearing up for a certain heavily anticipated sporting event, but Shanghai could care less: Five weeks after the World Expo opened, the city is still in the midst of full-blown world expo fever

Britain to give 19 million pounds to Gaza (AFP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:26 PM PDT AFP - Britain announced Sunday it was giving 19 million pounds for refugees in Gaza and repeated calls for Israel to lift its blockade of the territory.

Egyptians married to Israelis to lose citizenship (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 10:47 AM PDT AP - An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a ruling that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women.

Venezuela government takes over Bolivar archive (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:53 PM PDT AP - Venezuela's government has begun to take an archive of documents that belonged to independence hero Simon Bolivar.

Bashir says Darfur peace talks are final round (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - Sudan's president said on Saturday the current round of Darfur peace talks would be the final negotiations with any armed group.

Kan, Obama affirm Japan-US alliance: White House (AFP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 04:58 PM PDT AFP - Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan and US President Barack Obama held a telephone conversation Saturday in which they discussed "the many issues facing both nations" and the Japan-US alliance, the White House announced.

Briton is 1st woman to row solo across Pacific (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 02:15 AM PDT AP - A British environmentalist has become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean, receiving a rock star welcome in Papua New Guinea after finishing a nearly 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometer) journey that nearly claimed her life.

India's Rent-a-Womb Industry Faces New Restrictions (Time.com) Posted: 05 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - India has proven fertile ground for foreigners seeking a "womb-for-hire," but a new government bill threatens to complicate the country's lucrative surrogacy trade

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