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• Official: Train kills 12 commuters crossing tracks (AP)
• Australia gets its 1st female PM as Rudd ousted (AP)
• Magnitude-5.0 earthquake reported in Canada (AP)
• June deadliest month of Afghan war for NATO (AP)
• Israel: Flotillas aim to get weapons to Gaza (AP)
• In Afghanistan, U.S. Troops Ponder a McChrystal Firing (Time.com)
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• 2 German aid workers abducted in Darfur (AP)
• Small-scale flooding reported in northwest Haiti (AP)
• Africa's water most precarious, Iceland best - study (Reuters)
• Australia gets first female PM after shock party coup (AFP)
• Quake rattles Ottawa, other Canada cities (Reuters)
• Instant View: Australia gets first woman prime minister (Reuters)
• Obama's Afghan strategy remains plagued by problems (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Burundi election lacks critical ingredient: presidential candidates (The Christian Science Monitor)
• France's Labor Minister Caught in the Fight for the L'Oreal Family Fortune (Time.com)
• UN Report Optimistic on Anti-Poverty Strides (OneWorld.net)

Official: Train kills 12 commuters crossing tracks (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT AP - A train speeding through a station near Barcelona on Wednesday ran over a group of young people crossing the tracks, killing at least 12 and injuring 13, a Spanish official said.

Australia gets its 1st female PM as Rudd ousted (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:24 PM PDT AP - Australia got its first female prime minister on Thursday after the ruling party dumped Kevin Rudd and installed his deputy as leader.

Magnitude-5.0 earthquake reported in Canada (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:34 PM PDT AP - A magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck at the Ontario-Quebec border region of Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and homes and businesses were shaken from Canada's capital in Ottawa on south to an arc of U.S. states.

June deadliest month of Afghan war for NATO (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - June has become the deadliest month of the Afghan war for the NATO-led international military force.

Israel: Flotillas aim to get weapons to Gaza (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:34 PM PDT AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Wednesday that the real motivation behind plans to send blockade-busting ships toward Gaza is to allow free flow of weapons into the Palestinian territory.

In Afghanistan, U.S. Troops Ponder a McChrystal Firing (Time.com) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:35 PM PDT Time.com - In Afghanistan, there are jokes about the troubles of General Stanley McChrystal, but it's not a distraction from the gunfire and suicide bombers

(AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:55 PM PDT AP - Spanish official: At least 10 dead as train runs over people crossing tracks at rail station.

2 German aid workers abducted in Darfur (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:23 AM PDT AP - Gunmen raided a humanitarian agency's office in south Darfur and kidnapped two German aid workers, a spokesman for the international peacekeeping mission said Wednesday.

Small-scale flooding reported in northwest Haiti (AP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:44 PM PDT AP - Haitian civil protection officials say rains have caused small floods in the northwestern city of Gonaives.

Africa's water most precarious, Iceland best - study (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 04:56 PM PDT Reuters - African nations led by Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan have the most precarious water supplies in the world while Iceland has the best, according to a survey on Thursday that aims to alert companies to investment risks.

Australia gets first female PM after shock party coup (AFP) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:42 PM PDT AFP - Welsh-born lawyer Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister Thursday after the once hugely popular Kevin Rudd fell victim to a party coup less than three years after taking office.

Quake rattles Ottawa, other Canada cities (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - A magnitude 5.0 quake struck north of the Canadian capital Ottawa on Wednesday, shaking a wide area of central Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey and witnesses reported.

Instant View: Australia gets first woman prime minister (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:48 PM PDT Reuters - Australia's ruling party dumped Kevin Rudd as prime minister on Thursday, handing power to the nation's first female leader, former deputy premier Julia Gillard, in an effort to avoid election defeat later this year.

Obama's Afghan strategy remains plagued by problems (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:09 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's decision to accept Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation and draft his superior, Gen. David Petraeus, to lead the war in Afghanistan eliminates a source of friction, but it doesn't address the problems plaguing U.S. policy there.

Burundi election lacks critical ingredient: presidential candidates (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 02:23 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Less than a week away from its first presidential vote since the last armed group laid down their guns, Burundi’s election is still missing a critical ingredient: candidates.

France's Labor Minister Caught in the Fight for the L'Oreal Family Fortune (Time.com) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 12:35 PM PDT Time.com - The drama of the fight to control the L'OrÉal family fortune has reached up into the French government, with France's Labour Minister facing accusations of aiding and abetting in tax evasion

UN Report Optimistic on Anti-Poverty Strides (OneWorld.net) Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:15 PM PDT OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 (IPS) - Despite the ongoing financial crisis, global poverty rates are expected to fall by half in the next five years compared to 1990, according to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report 2010 launched on Wednesday by Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon.

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