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Ethnic riots sweep Kyrgyzstan, govt begs for help (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:46 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP ** Ethnic Uzbeks gather near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in southern Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, June 12, 2010, to seek refuge in Uzbekistan from mobs of Kyrgyz men attacking the minority Uzbek community. The country's second-largest city, Osh, slid into chaos Friday when gangs of young Kyrgyz men armed with firearms and metal rods marched on Uzbek neighborhoods and set their homes on fire. Thousands of terrified ethnic Uzbeks were fleeing toward the nearby border with Uzbekistan.(AP Photo/D. Dalton Bennett)AP - Ethnic riots wracked southern Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, forcing thousands of Uzbeks to flee as their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men. The interim government begged Russia for troops to stop the violence, but the Kremlin offered only humanitarian assistance.

UN reviewing Taliban, al-Qaida sanctions list (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 01:08 PM PDT

Afghan schoolgirls rest at a hospital in Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 12, 2010. More than three dozen school girls were hospitalized after becoming ill from suspected poisoning at their high school in Ghazni. There have been similar cases of illnesses at schools around Afghanistan. Some suspect militants are spraying schools with poison gas because they oppose education for girls. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)AP - Fueling momentum for a political solution to the nearly nine-year-old Afghan war, a U.N. committee is reviewing whether certain people could be removed from blacklist that freezes assets and limits travel of key Taliban and al-Qaida figures, the top U.N. representative said Saturday.

CA teen sailor healthy, weary after 3 days adrift (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In a, Jan 23, 2010 file photo , Abby Sunderland, 16, looks out from her sailboat, Wild Eyes, as she leaves for her world record attempting journey at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, Calif.Sunderland who was feared lost at sea while sailing solo around the world has been found alive and well, adrift in the southern Indian Ocean with rescue boats headed toward her, officials said. (AP Photo/Richard Hartog/file)AP - A California teenager who spent three days adrift on the turbulent Indian Ocean described her ordeal as "crazy" as she started a long journey home aboard a French fishing boat that rescued her Saturday from her crippled sailboat.

Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, centre, addresses British soldiers, at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, during his two day visit to Afghanistan, Friday June 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)AP - President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain as the two leaders tried to soothe trans-Atlantic tensions over the disaster.

Alleged Mossad spy arrested in hit-squad case (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 24, 2010 file photo a Palestinian youth walks out of a store covered with posters of of assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas military wing, near his family house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. A spokesman for Germany's federal prosecutor's office says Polish authorities have arrested an alleged Mossad agent who is wanted in connection with the slaying of the Hamas leader in Dubai. He told The Associated Press on Saturday, June 12, 2010, that Germany is now seeking extradition of Uri Brodsky, who is suspected of working for a foreign spy agency in Germany and having facilitated the issuing of a German passport to one of the members of the Mossad's hit squad that was allegedly behind the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)AP - An alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the hit-squad slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai has been arrested in Poland, officials said Saturday.

Is NATO to Blame for Russia's Afghan Heroin Problem? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Time.com - As heroin floods over the border into Russia, Moscow points the finger of blame at NATO and its refusal to destroy Afghan opium poppy fields

Belgians to vote after debate on splitting country (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT

Reuters - Belgians vote in a parliamentary election Sunday for a government that could move toward breaking up the country and that will need to curb the third-highest debt ratio in Europe.

Iraq election rivals meet in political ice breaker (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 12:26 PM PDT

In this image released by the Iraqi government, former premier Ayad Allawi, left, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meet in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 12, 2010. Iraq's top political rivals say they have taken a major step toward ending the power dispute that has stalled the nation's new government since March parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and former premier Ayad Allawi met for the first time Saturday since the vote that Allawi's Sunni-dominated Iraqiya coalition narrowly won. (AP Photo/ Iraqi Government, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - The leaders of two rival political alliances battling to run Iraq's new government took a step toward ending their power dispute Saturday, as the Sunni-backed coalition that won March elections now faces being sidelined in parliament.

Cuba frees 1 political prisoner, transfers 6 more (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:44 AM PDT

Ariel Sigler, an ailing political prisoner, is helped by paramedics after been released from a hospital where he was being held prisoner in Pedro Betancourt, Cuba, Saturday, June 12, 2010. Roman Catholic leaders announced Friday that Cuban authorities agreed to free Sigler and transfer six others to jails nearer their homes. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - Cuba on Saturday freed a political prisoner who is confined to a wheelchair and began transferring six others to jails closer to their homes, part of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church and the most important sign yet that the government may be softening its hardline stance on organized dissent.

Fast bowlers put South Africa in charge (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:25 PM PDT

South African fast bowler Morne Morkel celebrates after claiming the wicket of West Indies batsman Brendan Nash on day three of the first Test, at Queen's Park Oval in the Trinidad & Tobago capital of Port of Spain. Fierce fast bowling from Dale Steyn and Morkel set them up, and captain Graeme Smith then plundered an unbeaten 79 to put South Africa in command of the opening Test.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AFP - Fierce fast bowling from Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel set them up, and captain Graeme Smith then plundered an unbeaten 79 to put South Africa in command of the opening Test against West Indies on Saturday.

Tycoon Ambani brothers to compete in India telecoms (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 03:29 PM PDT

India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, pictured in 2008, will return to the country's telecom sector in a move that puts him in direct competition with his younger brother Anil with whom he had a long and bitter feud.(AFP/File/Raveendran)AFP - India's richest man Mukesh Ambani will return to the country's telecom sector in a move that puts him in direct competition with his younger brother Anil with whom he had a long and bitter feud.

Swiss bus crash kills two in Canadian tour group (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 09:35 AM PDT

Reuters - A bus carrying 48 Canadian tourists crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais on Saturday, killing two people and injuring at least 15 others, five of them seriously, police said.

Is Obama starting to prod Egypt on human rights? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Jun 2010 02:18 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt presented a rosy picture of its human rights credentials today, promising to implement most of the recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council as part of a quadrennial review process.

One Year Later, Has Ahmadinejad Weathered the Storm? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Jun 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Time.com - The protests that followed his disputed reelection threw Iran's Islamic regime into unprecedented turmoil. But the immediate threat appears to have receded

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