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• World leaders seek common ground on crises (AP)
• US to Karzai: New general won't alter Afghan plan (AP)
• Vandals mar summit protests in Toronto (AP)
• NKorea to elect leaders; could set stage for heir (AP)
• Tropical Storm Alex soaks Belize, Mexico's Yucatan (AP)
• TIME's Global Forum in South Africa Kicks Off (Time.com)
• Argentina says Europe's fiscal focus is wrong (Reuters)
• Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books (AP)
• Chavez meets with Syria's Assad in Venezuela (AP)
• Botha, Steyn put South Africa on top (AFP)
• Britain, China agree need for deficit cuts: statement (AFP)
• G20 to take separate routes to secure recovery (Reuters)
• Australian advertisers see light side to PM rout (AFP)
• Obama, Europeans split on economic policy (McClatchy Newspapers)
• France's National Front: Will Marine Le Pen take the reins? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• E.U. Moves to Make Cross-Border Divorce Easier (Time.com)

World leaders seek common ground on crises (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - At odds over how to strengthen the global recovery, top world leaders found common ground on foreign policy Saturday, condmening North Korea for the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship and endorsing a five-year exit timetable for Afghanistan

US to Karzai: New general won't alter Afghan plan (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:23 PM PDT AP - America's top military officer assured President Hamid Karzai on Saturday that newly chosen NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus would pursue the policies of his ousted predecessor, whom the Afghan leader warmly praised for reducing civilian casualties.

Vandals mar summit protests in Toronto (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - Black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful demonstrators protesting a global economic summit in Toronto, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers.

NKorea to elect leaders; could set stage for heir (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 11:54 AM PDT AP - Secretive North Korea said Saturday it will choose new ruling party leaders later this year — a surprise announcement that is intensifying speculation the regime is setting the stage for supreme ruler Kim Jong Il's youngest son to eventually succeed him.

Tropical Storm Alex soaks Belize, Mexico's Yucatan (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:49 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of tourists and residents fled low-lying islands off Belize and beachgoers were warned to stay out of the water along Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast, as rain from Tropical Storm Alex began lashing the region.

TIME's Global Forum in South Africa Kicks Off (Time.com) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:40 AM PDT Time.com - In geographic terms, Robben Island sits in the Atlantic Ocean, just a few miles from Cape Town's bustling waterfront, which is nestled beneath Table Mountain. But, for decades, it was a world away.

Argentina says Europe's fiscal focus is wrong (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 05:11 PM PDT Reuters - Europe's focus on cutting deficits is "absolutely wrong," Argentine President Cristina Fernandez said on Saturday, citing her country's experience with austerity she said helped lead to a huge default in 2001.

Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - Palestinian women are speeding into the record books by competing on an all-female car racing team — the Speed Sisters. Along the way, they're crashing through another gender barrier in this conservative Muslim society.

Chavez meets with Syria's Assad in Venezuela (AP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday and called on Latin America and the Arab world to fight what he called America's imperialist and capitalist interests abroad.

Botha, Steyn put South Africa on top (AFP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 03:20 PM PDT AFP - South Africa were 46-2 at stumps on the first day of the final Test against West Indies on Saturday after their attack, led by Johan Botha and Dale Steyn, had helped restrict the home team to 231 all out.

Britain, China agree need for deficit cuts: statement (AFP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 04:43 PM PDT AFP - Britain and China agreed on the need for "fiscal consolidation" to shore up the global economic recovery, Downing Street said Saturday, after the two nations' leaders met ahead of a G20 summit.

G20 to take separate routes to secure recovery (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:34 AM PDT Reuters - World leaders hoping to shore up a fragile economic recovery will leave it to individual countries to decide how best to repair battered budgets without stunting growth.

Australian advertisers see light side to PM rout (AFP) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 02:03 AM PDT AFP - Australians wasted no time cashing in on the shock ouster of Kevin Rudd as prime minister, businesses launching a series of cheeky adverts to run alongside stories about the party coup.

Obama, Europeans split on economic policy (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 02:32 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - TORONTO — They talked nice, but President Barack Obama and European leaders failed Saturday to bridge a fast growing divide over government spending and will emerge from a weekend summit charting different courses for ending the global recession.

France's National Front: Will Marine Le Pen take the reins? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Jun 2010 12:40 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Jean-Marie Le Pen, who heads France's National Front party, has long peppered politics with right-wing bons mots. (Nazi occupation was "not especially inhumane," he once said.) Now his daughter, Marine Le Pen, is showing that she, too, can make headlines.

E.U. Moves to Make Cross-Border Divorce Easier (Time.com) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:40 AM PDT Time.com - Divorce is messy enough, but for international couples in the E.U., it's also confusing as they try to figure out which country's laws apply. Now the E.U. has proposed new rules to ease the strain of breaking up across borders

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