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• Russia: Suspected spies include Russian citizens (AP)
• Mexico vote goes ahead despite slain candidate (AP)
• Google scrambles to save Internet license in China (AP)
• Rwanda's Hutus live in fear of attacks, repression (AP)
• China, Taiwan sign trade pact linking economies (AP)
• Assassination of a Candidate for Governor Scars Mexico (Time.com)
• Fire at Total oil refinery, one worker missing (AFP)
• 13 killed in Iraq attacks, including army general (AP)
• Mexico rights agency decries slaying of reporter (AP)
• Arab tribes sign peace deal in Sudan's Darfur (Reuters)
• Petraeus leaves room for changes in Afghan pullout (AP)
• New Australia PM confident of ending mining tax row (AFP)
• Dangerous Afghan highway threatens NATO supply flow (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Syria courts Latin America for oil, trade, and expats (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Kenya Government, Christians Clash Over New Constitution (Time.com)
• Students Tax Themselves to Make Campuses Greener (OneWorld.net)

Russia: Suspected spies include Russian citizens (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:17 PM PDT AP - Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests.

Mexico vote goes ahead despite slain candidate (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT AP - Drug cartels fund a tenth of Mexico's economy. They have infiltrated many local and state police forces and staged assaults on army bases. Now they're violently inserting themselves into politics, killing the leading candidate for governor of a northern state only days before Sunday's elections in 12 states.

Google scrambles to save Internet license in China (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:21 PM PDT AP - China is threatening to revoke Google's business license over the company's decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the communist government's censorship practices.

Rwanda's Hutus live in fear of attacks, repression (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 02:14 PM PDT AP - The Rwandan refugee was walking home one night when four men jumped him and put him in a stranglehold. He lay still, pretending to be dead as one attacker made a phone call and announced the hit had been carried out.

China, Taiwan sign trade pact linking economies (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:13 AM PDT AP - A historic trade deal between China and Taiwan will ease 60 years of hostility and push their economies closer than ever, the latest sign that Beijing's strategy of wooing the self-ruled island with carrots instead of sticks is paying off.

Assassination of a Candidate for Governor Scars Mexico (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Time.com - A high-profile assassination puts Mexico's decade-long experience with multiparty democracy to the test -- as well as its war on drug gangs

Fire at Total oil refinery, one worker missing (AFP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:45 PM PDT AFP - A fire broke out at the third largest oil refinery Tuesday, causing an explosion and leaving one oil worker missing, the company that owns the site and emergency services said.

13 killed in Iraq attacks, including army general (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:38 PM PDT AP - A series of bombings and shootings around Iraq Tuesday claimed 13 lives, including four policemen, an Iraqi army general and a 9-year-old girl, Iraqi officials said.

Mexico rights agency decries slaying of reporter (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:18 PM PDT AP - Mexico's National Human Rights Commission urged authorities Tuesday to investigate the killing of a reporter in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, the fourth slaying of a Mexican journalist this year.

Arab tribes sign peace deal in Sudan's Darfur (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:11 PM PDT Reuters - Two rival Arab tribes have signed a peace deal in Sudan's Darfur region, peacekeepers said Tuesday, raising hopes for an end to fighting that has killed more than 200 people since March.

Petraeus leaves room for changes in Afghan pullout (AP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:16 PM PDT AP - Gen. David Petraeus left open the possibility of recommending that President Barack Obama delay his plans to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan next summer if the new commander can't turn around the stalemated war.

New Australia PM confident of ending mining tax row (AFP) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 07:16 AM PDT AFP - New Australian leader Julia Gillard voiced confidence Tuesday that she will resolve a mining tax row that brought down her predecessor, hoping to cement her party's re-election chances.

Dangerous Afghan highway threatens NATO supply flow (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:14 PM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — Under relentless siege by Taliban insurgents, the crucial road that links the country's most important cities, Kabul and Kandahar, has become one of the most dangerous highways in Afghanistan — if not on the planet — over the past year.

Syria courts Latin America for oil, trade, and expats (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:03 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is touring Latin America in a bid to boost the country's economic and political standing as renewed relations with the US and Europe prove less fruitful than Syria had hoped.

Kenya Government, Christians Clash Over New Constitution (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT Time.com - Fueled by U.S. Evangelicals and by fears of Islam, Kenya's Christians take issue with constitutional reform

Students Tax Themselves to Make Campuses Greener (OneWorld.net) Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:02 AM PDT OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 29 (New America Media) - The student union building at the University of California in Riverside, known as the HUB, is the pride of the school. It is a popular hangout that houses eateries, stores and student organizations.

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