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• U.S. Afghanistan drawdown begins slowly, 800 Marines out in fall (Reuters)
• Pakistan panel says bin Laden family won't be repatriated (Reuters)
• Libyan rebels push towards Tripoli on two fronts (Reuters)
• Opposition-led strike in Bangladesh turns violent (Reuters)
• Opposition wants Chavez to get better, lose vote (Reuters)
• Court Says the Dutch Are to Blame for Srebrenica Deaths (Time.com)
• £28 million smashes Guardi record at London auction (AFP)
• Egypt denies local fenugreek seeds caused E. coli (AP)
• Venezuelans ponder life without Chavez (AP)
• Colin Powell to join US delegation to South Sudan (AP)
• Magnitude-7.6 quake shakes Kermadec Islands (AP)
• Air Canada, WestJet fliers got elbow room in June (Reuters)
• Aussie carrier Tiger Airways future in doubt (AFP)
• South Korea goes wild as Pyeongchang wins bid to host 2018 Winter Olympics [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Venezuela: Why Chavez's Reappearance May Not Be Enough (Time.com)
• Mexican Navy, US Coast Guard continue search for US tourists off Baja (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Selling Nature to Save Nature, and Ourselves (OneWorld.net)

U.S. Afghanistan drawdown begins slowly, 800 Marines out in fall (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama's drawdown in Afghanistan will begin slowly, with the departure of just 800 National Guard troops this summer, followed by some 800 Marines in the fall, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Pakistan panel says bin Laden family won't be repatriated (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:51 AM PDT Reuters - Osama bin Laden's family, detained in Pakistan, will only be repatriated once a government-appointed commission investigating the al Qaeda leader's killing allows them to leave, the panel said, a move that could set it on a collision course with the army.

Libyan rebels push towards Tripoli on two fronts (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT Reuters - Rebel fighters seized a village south of the Libyan capital and another group advanced toward Tripoli from the east on Wednesday in the biggest push in weeks toward Muammar Gaddafi's main stronghold.

Opposition-led strike in Bangladesh turns violent (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:34 AM PDT Reuters - At least 50 people were injured in Bangladesh in clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday, the first day of a two-day strike called by opposition parties to protest against the abolition of a system of holding national elections under a non-partisan caretaker administration.

Opposition wants Chavez to get better, lose vote (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:57 PM PDT Reuters - Venezuela's opposition front-runner to face President Hugo Chavez in an election next year said on Wednesday he hopes Chavez recovers quickly from cancer so he could be beaten in the 2012 vote.

Court Says the Dutch Are to Blame for Srebrenica Deaths (Time.com) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT Time.com - In a historic ruling, an appeals court has said that the Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men killed by Bosnian Serb troops in 1995

£28 million smashes Guardi record at London auction (AFP) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:34 PM PDT AFP - A monumental Francesco Guardi painting of Venice's Rialto Bridge on Wednesday sold in London for almost £27 million, the highest amount ever paid at auction for a work by the Italian artist.

Egypt denies local fenugreek seeds caused E. coli (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:12 PM PDT AP - Egyptian fenugreek seeds suspected by European food inspectors to have caused a deadly E. coli outbreak were not contaminated, the Egyptian agriculture minister said Wednesday, citing lab tests.

Venezuelans ponder life without Chavez (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:45 PM PDT AP - Since Hugo Chavez became Venezuela's president more than 12 years ago, he's been a constant presence in the lives of Rosiri de Blanco and her family.

Colin Powell to join US delegation to South Sudan (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:45 PM PDT AP - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel to Southern Sudan this week as part of the U.S. delegation attending ceremonies marking the independence of the world's newest nation.

Magnitude-7.6 quake shakes Kermadec Islands (AP) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:46 PM PDT AP - The eight scientists and staff based at the remote Kermadec Islands in the Pacific Ocean are unharmed after a powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck this morning.

Air Canada, WestJet fliers got elbow room in June (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT Reuters - Air Canada and WestJet Airlines, Canada's two biggest carriers, flew emptier planes in June but both were optimistic about a pickup during the busy travel months in the summer.

Aussie carrier Tiger Airways future in doubt (AFP) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:45 PM PDT AFP - The future of Australian budget airline Tiger Airways was in serious doubt Thursday after regulators sought to extend its grounding and the carrier's chief executive quit.

South Korea goes wild as Pyeongchang wins bid to host 2018 Winter Olympics [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:16 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When the word "Pyeongchang" flashed on the enormous television screen that filled a wall in the central square, the crowd burst into a cocphony of singing, cheering, dancing, and hugging.

Venezuela: Why Chavez's Reappearance May Not Be Enough (Time.com) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT Time.com - The Venezuelan President is clearly ill, but he could not miss his country's bicentennial celebration, if only to keep the opposition unbalanced

Mexican Navy, US Coast Guard continue search for US tourists off Baja (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:46 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The US Coast Guard said Wednesday it will continue rescue efforts all day to find seven missing Americans whose boat capsized Sunday off Mexico’s coast, as the possibility of survival still exists.

Selling Nature to Save Nature, and Ourselves (OneWorld.net) Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:01 AM PDT OneWorld.net - THE HAGUE, July 5 (IPS) - Avoiding the coming catastrophic nexus of climate change, food, water and energy shortages, along with worsening poverty, requires a global technological overhaul involving investments of 1.9 trillion dollars each year for the next 40 years, said experts from the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in Geneva Tuesday.

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