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• Mexico teen killed by US Border Patrol, anger high (AP)
• Dutchman to do crime scene walk-through in Peru (AP)
• Venezuela to relaunch market for currency exchange (AP)
• Anglicans cut Episcopalians from ecumenical bodies (AP)
• Sex abuse crisis gives new momentum to dissidents (AP)
• Kerviel Goes to Court As French Public Opinion Shifts (Time.com)
• Bernanke says Europe committed to euro's survival (Reuters)
• Anxious Gazans trying to leave blockaded territory (AP)
• Guatemalan gets life sentences in bus massacre (AP)
• Nigeria's lead poison outbreak unprecedented : CDC (AFP)
• NATO goods for Afghanistan attacked in Pakistan (AP)
• Australian Parliament House trashes Obama mugs (AP)
• Why Iran's Revolutionary Guard wants to escort new Gaza flotilla (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Bhopal, BP Oil Spill: Two Disasters, Different Justice (Time.com)
• After 23-Year Case, Verdicts in Bhopal; Victims Outraged (OneWorld.net)

Mexico teen killed by US Border Patrol, anger high (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers at an international bridge near downtown El Paso, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

Dutchman to do crime scene walk-through in Peru (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:15 PM PDT AP - Peruvian police plan to take Joran van der Sloot, who they say has confessed to last week's killing of a 21-year-old business student in his Lima hotel room, to visit the crime scene, officials said Tuesday.

Venezuela to relaunch market for currency exchange (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT AP - The Central Bank on Wednesday will relaunch the bond market widely used for foreign currency trading in Venezuela under new restrictions that will include a band of permitted prices updated each day.

Anglicans cut Episcopalians from ecumenical bodies (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 12:57 PM PDT AP - The Anglican Communion has suspended U.S. Episcopalians from serving on ecumenical bodies because of the election of a lesbian as a bishop in California.

Sex abuse crisis gives new momentum to dissidents (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT AP - The clerical sex abuse crisis is energizing Roman Catholic dissidents who want to open up the priesthood to women and ditch celibacy requirements.

Kerviel Goes to Court As French Public Opinion Shifts (Time.com) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - SociÉtÉ GÉnÉrale says its employee JÉrÔme Kerviel was a rogue trader. He says he was doing business as usual. Who's right?

Bernanke says Europe committed to euro's survival (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:31 PM PDT Reuters - European leaders are committed to ensuring the survival of the euro and have enough money to meet obligations of heavily indebted member countries, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.

Anxious Gazans trying to leave blockaded territory (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:16 PM PDT AP - A Palestinian who had to delay graduate school in Malaysia and an elderly man forced to put off eye surgery in Egypt are among thousands anxiously trying to get out of Gaza now that the blockaded territory's gateway to the world has opened just a little.

Guatemalan gets life sentences in bus massacre (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:57 PM PDT AP - A man found guilty of killing 15 passengers on a bus that was then set on fire during a drug-related attack two years ago has been sentenced to multiple life terms.

Nigeria's lead poison outbreak unprecedented : CDC (AFP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:04 PM PDT AFP - An outbreak of lead poisoning linked to illegal gold mining that left more 160 people dead in Nigeria is unprecedented, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.

NATO goods for Afghanistan attacked in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - Suspected militants attacked trucks carrying military vehicles for foreign forces in Afghanistan early Wednesday close to the Pakistani capital, killing six people and wounding seven others, police and witnesses said.

Australian Parliament House trashes Obama mugs (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 08:44 AM PDT AP - Australia's Parliament House gift shop trashed 200 Barack Obama commemorative mugs — though not because the U.S. president has twice canceled visits.

Why Iran's Revolutionary Guard wants to escort new Gaza flotilla (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 01:47 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today decried the “brutal and barbaric ... Zionist regime,” as if trying to catch up with Turkey's fierce criticism of Israel's raid on the "Freedom Flotilla" last week. In Istanbul for a regional security summit, he heralded the international outcry against Israel as a "reawakening of nations" in a fight of good versus evil.

Bhopal, BP Oil Spill: Two Disasters, Different Justice (Time.com) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT Time.com - A judgment in India may signal the unsatisfying end of the legal battle over Bhopal. It is a lesson the U.S. should heed as it tries to mete justice in the BP oil spill

After 23-Year Case, Verdicts in Bhopal; Victims Outraged (OneWorld.net) Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:19 AM PDT OneWorld.net - BHOPAL, India, Jun 7 (IPS) - Twenty-five years after an industrial gas leak from the factory of a U.S. multinational firm in this ancient Indian city killed thousands and impaired nearly half a million, victims are still crying for justice.

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