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- ICC accused of targeting Africa
- German minister top pick for presidency
- Liberal Coalition Demands FCC Move to Shut Down Talk Radio
- Iran, Venezuela seek action on Israel
- Iran questions integrity of IAEA report
- Grant named West Ham new manager
- IHH: Israel shoots Gaza activists dead
- JP Morgan handed record UK fine
- Deadly shooting in Belgian court
- Turkey will "never forgive" Israel
- Israel dismisses UNHRC Flotilla probe
- Naoto Kan likely to succeed Japan PM
- Lebanon greets Gaza Flotilla heroes
- Both sides of Flotilla story
- Interview with Al Jazeera's Jamal ElShayyal: One of the passengers on the Mavi Marmara
- US doctors opt for Iran healthcare model
- China's dating problem
- German archbishop tied to abuse case
- South Africa cleans streets for the World Cup
- US says Japan ties to stay strong
- Police hunt clues over UK rampage
- There is no business like Jew business or who benefits from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster?
- Brazil routs Zimbabwe in WCup warm-up
- Erdogan to Obama: Israel risks losing its best friend in Middle East
- Somali forces free ship
- ADL rewrites New Testament
- Is Israel's blockade legal?
- The urgency of this moment
- 4 Somali pirates killed onboard ship
- Massive oil spill approaches Florida
- Nadal reaches French Open semis
- Egyptian group to back ElBaradei
- Greece, Sweden back Iran declaration
- Turkey holds activists' funerals
- A massacre is not a massacre
- Police hunt for clues in UK rampage
- Lieberman: Israel has no reason to fear probe of Gaza flotilla raid
- Life in Occupied East Jerusalem
- Playing Favorites: Two Illustrations of Rushton's Genetic Similarity Theory
- Flotilla activists return amid cheers
- Of Eggs and Zeros
- The Abominable Snowman
- Japan PM candidate emerges
- Somali pirates seize cargo ship
- Sex and Politics
- UN urges end to CIA drone attacks
- Al Shabab fighters capture Dhusemereb
- 'Israel will never apologize'
- Gulf of Mexico oil spill triples in size
- Former CIA Officer: Israel Controls U.S. Government & Media
- Iran submits letter to IAEA
- Turkey flies home Flotilla wounded
- America's Complicity in Evil
- Child Soldier Case to Kick Off Guantánamo Trials
- The Trillion-Dollar Question
- More Spin from Israel
- UN Expert Calls On US To Halt CIA Targeted Killings
- Israel's Latest Violation
- Israel's Defenders Mobilize, Threaten
- US VP defends Israeli atrocity
- Deaths in Bangladesh house collapse
- 'Israeli attack was Nazi fascist fury'
- 'UNSC to vote on Iran resolution soon'
- Gaza's risky fish business
- UN condemns US drone strikes
- US national debt hits $13 trillion
- Gulf oil slick nears Florida coast
- Katherine Hepburn and the Tomboys Who Followed
- The Crimes of Sir Philip Otton and Rudy Giuliani
- Israel detains Gaza flotilla passengers
- Proposed Joint Resolution No.666 Supporting Israel
- UN demands Israel lift siege of Gaza
- 'US was co-criminal in Flotilla attack'
- Haiti donors urged to keep promises
- Misleading Photos Used by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Justify Killing Activists
- Iran ready for nuclear fuel swap talks
- Turkish aid activists arrive home
- Freedom Flotilla activists released to Jordan
- When Insiders Expose the Ugly Side of the Entertainment Industry
- India Heat wave
- Deaths in UK gun rampage
- What's the Right Way to Board a Hostile Ship?
- High jobless rate fosters 'protectionism'
- Demonstration in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv
- INTERPOL hails Iran war on drugs
- Salman Farsi dam threatens ancient city
- Bangladesh building collapse kills 14
- New IAEA report on Iran 'more positive'
- Iran warns against new resolution
- Israeli Ambassador to US: Attack on flotilla was "humane", "responsible"
- BP diamond-tipped saw fails to fix leak
- Leader pardons post-election convicts
- Chinese-Myanmar relations blurred along border
- Israel underestimated reactions
- Inside Story - The price of Israel's siege of Gaza
- Nonviolent Activist Kidnapped Near Bethlehem
- PA says Flotilla assault 'state terrorism'
- Is Afghanistan 'Medieval'?
- Pope denounces Israel 'violence'
- Soldiers Break Into Arab Hospital In East Jerusalem
| ICC accused of targeting Africa Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:38 PM PDT
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| German minister top pick for presidency Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:32 PM PDT
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| Liberal Coalition Demands FCC Move to Shut Down Talk Radio Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:16 PM PDT  A coalition of more than 30 liberal organizations is calling for censorship and a trashing of the First Amendment. The groups have banded together and have sent a letter to the FCC demanding the government monitor "hate speech" on talk radio, the internet, and the cable television news networks. Read the letter in PDF format here.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Iran, Venezuela seek action on Israel Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:12 PM PDT
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| Iran questions integrity of IAEA report Posted: 03 Jun 2010 06:00 PM PDT
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| Grant named West Ham new manager Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:54 PM PDT
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| IHH: Israel shoots Gaza activists dead Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:35 PM PDT
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| JP Morgan handed record UK fine Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:33 PM PDT  JP Morgan Securities has been fined a record $49m by a UK financial services watchdog for mishandling clients' funds. The fine, handed out on Thursday, is the largest penalty ever handed out by Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA), the AP news agency reported.  |
| Deadly shooting in Belgian court Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:24 PM PDT  A man has shot dead a female magistrate and a court clerk in a courtroom in Brussels, the Belgian capital, before fleeing the scene. The justice of the peace who was killed was presiding over a civil tribunal which deals with matters such as divorce and problems with neighbours.  |
| Turkey will "never forgive" Israel Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:16 PM PDT  The Turkish president has said that Israel's military raid on civilian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip has caused "irreparable" damage to his country's relations with Israel, and will "never" be forgiven. "From now on, Turkish-Israeli ties will never be the same. This incident has left an irreparable and deep scar," Abdullah Gul said in a televised speech on Thursday, as thousands gathered in the streets of Istanbul to pay their respects to the humanitarian activists killed during the raid.  |
| Israel dismisses UNHRC Flotilla probe Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:09 PM PDT
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| Naoto Kan likely to succeed Japan PM Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:26 PM PDT
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| Lebanon greets Gaza Flotilla heroes Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:14 PM PDT
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| Interview with Al Jazeera's Jamal ElShayyal: One of the passengers on the Mavi Marmara Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:09 PM PDT
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| US doctors opt for Iran healthcare model Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:08 PM PDT
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| German archbishop tied to abuse case Posted: 03 Jun 2010 04:04 PM PDT
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| South Africa cleans streets for the World Cup Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:58 PM PDT
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| US says Japan ties to stay strong Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:35 PM PDT
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| Police hunt clues over UK rampage Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:28 PM PDT  British police are searching for the motive behind a taxi driver's deadly gun rampage that left 12 people dead and more than 20 wounded. More than 100 officers are investigating why Derrick Bird, 52, went on a three-hour shooting spree before committing suicide in the Lake District in the northern county of Cumbria.  |
| There is no business like Jew business or who benefits from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster? Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:20 PM PDT  While the competitive advantage of cosmopolitan outlook and tribal coherence is - slowly but surely - being eroded by the Internet, the real Jewish trump card - their ability to thrive where most other people are stopped by what used to be called 'nerve weakness' - has reached a point where it has become a threat to mankind as a whole. I'm talking about the uncanny Jewish ability to brush aside any bad conscience for the sake of profit. I'm talking about the traditional Jewish dominance of all kinds of dirty business: usury, drugs, prostitution, pornography, slavery, a dominance that exceeds their over-representation in less odious industries. And I'm talking about their escalating use of terrorism as a means of advancing their financial and political goals.  |
| Brazil routs Zimbabwe in WCup warm-up Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:20 PM PDT
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| Erdogan to Obama: Israel risks losing its best friend in Middle East Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told U.S. President Barack Obama that Israel is on the verge of losing its best friend in the Middle East due to its deadly raid on a humanitarian aid headed to the Gaza Strip earlier this week, according to a statement from Erdogan's office. Obama called Erdogan late Tuesday to express his "deep condolences for the loss of life and injuries" sustained by Turkish citizens during the attack.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 03:00 PM PDT  Security forces from Somalia's Puntland region have stormed a Panama-flagged cargo vessel held by pirates, freeing the ship's crew. However, the pirates killed the Pakistani captain of the MV QSM Dubai during the confrontation on Wednesday, according to a Somalian government official.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:58 PM PDT  Every ten years since 1635, the small alpine town of Oberammergau, Germany has produced a six-hour Passion Play memorializing the final hours of Jesus Christ. About half the town's citizens help produce the play. Amateur actors fill the stage. The citizens are fulfilling their ancestors' 375-year-old vow to God to produce the play every decade since He delivered them from the bubonic plague.  |
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| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:46 PM PDT  When evidence emerged that a North Korean torpedo sank a South Korean warship in disputed waters two months ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the attack. Clinton demanded that Pyongyang "stop its provocative behavior, halt its policy of threats of belligerence towards its neighbors, and take irreversible steps to fulfill its denuclearization commitments and comply with international law."  |
| 4 Somali pirates killed onboard ship Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:31 PM PDT
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| Massive oil spill approaches Florida Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:26 PM PDT
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| Nadal reaches French Open semis Posted: 03 Jun 2010 02:07 PM PDT
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| Egyptian group to back ElBaradei Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:57 PM PDT  Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has announced that it will support Mohamed ElBaradei's push for political change, following the group's poor showing in parliamentary elections. The Brotherhood vowed on Wednesday to help ElBaradei collect signatures on a petition calling for constitutional changes.  |
| Greece, Sweden back Iran declaration Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:42 PM PDT
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| Turkey holds activists' funerals Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:37 PM PDT  Turkish forensic experts have confirmed that the nine activists killed during the Israeli raid on the Gaza aid flotilla were shot with guns. Eight were Turks and one a US national of Turkish origin, the Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday as funerals got under way in Istanbul.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:34 PM PDT  Long ago, I was made to understand that Palestine was not Palestine;I was also informed that Palestinians were not Palestinians; They also explained to me that ethnic cleansing was not ethnic cleansing. And when naive old me saw freedom fighters they patiently showed me that they were not freedom fighters, and that resistance was not resistance. And when, stupidly, I noticed arrogance, oppression and humiliation they benevolently enlightened me so I can see that arrogance was not arrogance, oppression was not oppression, and humiliation was not humiliation.  |
| Police hunt for clues in UK rampage Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:09 PM PDT  British police are searching for the motive behind a taxi driver's deadly gun rampage that left 12 people dead and more than 20 wounded. More than 100 officers are investigating why Derrick Bird, 52, went on a three-hour shooting spree before committing suicide in the Lake District in the northern county of Cumbria.  |
| Lieberman: Israel has no reason to fear probe of Gaza flotilla raid Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:09 PM PDT  Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday backed U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal for an independent inquiry into a raid on a Gaza aid flotilla that left nine dead. "We have no need to fear any commission of inquiry," said Lieberman. "I told the prime minister … that we should create a commission of inquiry that is open and transparent."  |
| Life in Occupied East Jerusalem Posted: 03 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT  Founded in 1972, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is the country's leading human and civil rights organization through litigation, legal advocacy, education, and public outreach. In May 2009, it published "The State of Human Rights in East Jerusalem: Fact and Figures," then a follow-up June report titled, "Life in the Garbage: A Status Report of Sanitation Services in East Jerusalem."
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| Playing Favorites: Two Illustrations of Rushton's Genetic Similarity Theory Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:44 PM PDT Can humans distinguish subtle genetic differences, even within the immediate family? Apparently, grandmothers can do so, as explained in Molly Fox, et al., Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, in October of last year. The story is an excellent example of how evolutionary thinking sheds light on human behavior. As J. Philippe Rushton has theorized, the genes really do matter. People who share a greater percentage of genes favor each other compared to people with less genetic overlap.  |
| Flotilla activists return amid cheers Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:43 PM PDT
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| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:29 PM PDT  The Humps and Palefeet, a gruff and unkempt sideline of the Germanic Teutons who initiated Rome's decline by rubbing out Quinctilius Varus and his legions in the Teutoburg Forest, dwelt before and during the Common Era some ten leagues downriver from present day Hamelin. Of a parochial temperament, did they espouse an accordingly meagre pantheon composed of only one deity, the Universal black Hen, who had laid one Egg only, our Globe. Though not exactly round as in fact it nearly is, was this an observation already far more accurate than the one held by numerous Popes for many centuries afterwards. Yet it had one serious flaw, namely the assumption that the Egg must have a yolk which they deemed to be pure gold. This was the reason why they dug extensive tunnels and ducts into the Wiehen mountains, though luckily never deep enough to burn their fingers. But they didn't find anything either, a clear lesson for those of their dumb descendants who believe, as the proverb goes, that gold is the yolk of the Egg.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:17 PM PDT Recently something horrible happened. It wouldn't have been horrible if it had happened in Hawaii, for example. Or Khartoum, at that. But as it happened, it happened in Germany. Which made it doubly horrible, nay tenfold so. Because it happened not just in Germany, but in Munich, capital of Bavaria, the latter a staunchly conservative land, at least by German standards. Munich itself is, alas, bright red if not purplish, an unhealthy taint acquired through the alliance of mostly non-Bavarian Socialists, Greens, Turks and Gays who managed to overwhelm the city council and push the indigenous sauerkraut Bavarians flat against a wall.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:13 PM PDT  Japan's finance minister Naoto Kan has emerged as the main candidate to become the country's next prime minister after the resignation of Yukio Hatoyama. Kan confirmed on Thursday that he would run in the contest, a day after Hatoyama announced he was standing down following less than nine months in office.  |
| Somali pirates seize cargo ship Posted: 03 Jun 2010 12:00 PM PDT
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| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:50 AM PDT  Political mores often reflect sexual attitudes. Conversely (and more commonly) political environment affects sexual mores. In our so-called best of all worlds, "free love" has become an aggressive ideology transmitted by left-wing opinion makers. The underlying assumption, going back to the Freudian-Marxist inspired student revolts of 1968, is that by indulging in wild sex a muscled regime can be muzzled and any temptation for an authoritarian rule can be tamed.  |
| UN urges end to CIA drone attacks Posted: 03 Jun 2010 11:09 AM PDT  A United Nations human rights official has called for the US to end the CIA's control over a programme of drone attacks that has killed hundreds of people in northwest Pakistan. Philip Alston, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, issued a report on Wednesday which concluded that the US spy agency does not provide enough transparency or accountability for the programme.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Al Shabab fighters capture Dhusemereb Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:23 AM PDT
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| 'Israel will never apologize' Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:14 AM PDT
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| Gulf of Mexico oil spill triples in size Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:04 AM PDT
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| Former CIA Officer: Israel Controls U.S. Government & Media Posted: 03 Jun 2010 10:02 AM PDT  Add Sal on Facebook http://is.gd/bCEOq Who's Really Running The USA? http://is.gd/cqsjS U.S. Military Knows Israel Did 911 http://is.gd/bXUhi Former CIA Officer: Israel Controls U.S. Government & Media http://is.gd/cs2y2 CIA Officer Explains NWO's Demise http://is.gd/bP1tk EU Uncovers Massive Israeli War Crimes http://is.gd/cnNwr USS Liberty Survivors Expose Israel http://is.gd/cgZ0s Israeli Navy Murdered Humanitarians on Gaza Flotillas http://is.gd/cx6wC Treason Alert! Senator Schumer: "Israel's Guardian" http://is.gd/cwmNz "Anti Semite" Smear Exposed http://is.gd/ctOSi Who Controls American Media? http://is.gd/cxvXQ AIPAC (Israel) Infiltrating U.S. Colleges http://is.gd/bHOIV Ex IRS Agent Exposes Massive Financial Terrorism http://is.gd/cxw4r Defamation 2009 by Yoav Shamir http://is.gd/bX9Z2  |
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| Turkey flies home Flotilla wounded Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:20 AM PDT
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| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT  As I write at 5pm on Monday, May 31, all day has passed since the early morning reports of the Israeli commando attack on the unarmed ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, and there has been no response from President Obama except to say that he needed to learn "all the facts about this morning's tragic events" and that Israeli prime minister Netanyahu had canceled his plans to meet with him at the White House. Thus has Obama made America complicit once again in Israel's barbaric war crimes.  |
| Child Soldier Case to Kick Off Guantánamo Trials Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT  Legal experts and civil libertarians are attacking the administration of President Barack Obama for resuscitating what they regard as "deeply flawed" military commissions to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay — and their choice of a "child soldier" as the first defendant. They are particularly incensed that Omar Khadr — a Canadian captured in Afghanistan seven years ago when he was only 15 and imprisoned ever since — is slated for the first trial to be held since Obama took office in January 2009.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT The full-page ads in The Washington Post seem so reasonable. The military contractor Pratt & Whitney has been arguing that America doesn't need to spend $485 million to develop a second engine for the F-35 jet fighter. It's a compelling argument. We're in a serious economic crisis, so why on earth would we build another jet engine when the first one is sufficient? Pratt & Whitney has supporters in high places. Pentagon Chief Robert Gates doesn't want the second engine, which would be built by General Electric and Rolls Royce, and neither does his Air Force. President Obama, too, has come out against the unnecessary spending.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT  The Israeli commando assault on a flotilla bringing aid to Gaza which killed at least nine civilians should be a wake-up call for those who want to believe that Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's government is capable of making rational decisions. The flotilla, consisting of nationals from as many as twenty countries, was unarmed and carrying relief supplies that had been carefully inspected by the Turkish authorities. It was in international waters when it was attacked. More than 600 passengers and crew, apart from those who were killed, were subsequently arrested by Israel for refusing to identify themselves. If all that is correct, then Tel Aviv is guilty of piracy, kidnapping, and murder while the armed attack on a Turkish flagged vessel might be construed as inviting a military response from NATO. One of the vessels bore an American flag and there were at least eight US citizens on board, including a former ambassador and a USS Liberty survivor, suggesting that a strong reaction from Washington would not be inappropriate  |
| UN Expert Calls On US To Halt CIA Targeted Killings Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT Targeted killings, including those using drones, are increasingly being applied in ways that violate international law, according to a report issued Wednesday by a United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings. The report by special rapporteur Philip Alston will be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday. It says that while targeted killings may be permitted in armed conflict situations when used against combatants, fighters or civilians who directly engage in combat-like activities, they are increasingly being used far from any battlefield.  |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT  Every time Israel's right-wing government engages in yet another outrageous violation of international legal norms, it is easy to think, "No way are they going to get away with it this time!" And yet, thanks to the White House, Congress and leading American pundits, somehow, they do. Israel's attack on an unarmed flotilla of humanitarian aid vessels in the eastern Mediterranean — resulting in more than a dozen fatalities, the wounding of scores of passengers and crew, and the kidnapping of 750 others — has so far not proven any different.  |
| Israel's Defenders Mobilize, Threaten Posted: 03 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT  Faced with what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of Israel's worst international relations disasters in years," the right-wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been pulling out all the stops to defend the Jewish state against global outrage over its deadly seizure of a Gaza-bound vessel in intern |
It was supposed to extend the rule of law to the corners of the world most lacking it. But as ICC delegates meet in Uganda to review the court's progress, it stands accused of focusing exclusively on African countries, and of exacerbating exisiting conflicts in its refusal to drop charges in exchage for peace deals. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Nairobi, Kenya, where some believe the eight-year-old court is picking on the continent.
Following the resignation of the German president, the labor minister appears to be the top contender for the office of the presidency. 
Amid global outrage over the recent Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy, the Iranian president and his Venezuelan counterpart call for an end to Israeli atrocities against Gazans. 
Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) challenges various aspects of the agency's recent report on Tehran's nuclear work. 
English Premier League club West Ham United has appointed Avram Grant as its new manager on a four-year contract to succeed Italian coach Gianfranco Zola. 
Turkish organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla attacked by Israeli naval commandos accuse Israel of shooting activists dead at a close range. 
Israel has dismissed a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to launch a probe into its deadly attack on an aid convoy, calling the UN body of no moral authority. 
Japan's Finance Minister Naoto Kan has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Premier Yukio Hatoyama who resigned Wednesday. 
Four Lebanese nationals, detained by Israel during its deadly attack on a Gaza aid Flotilla, have been released at the border point in Naqoura. 
Al Jazeera had its own camera crews travelling on the Gaza aid convoy. But all of the video they took has been confiscated by Israeli authorities. There is no word on when or even if the pictures might be released. But Israel has been releasing video that supports its version of events and contrasts with the reports of many witnesses. Dan Nolan looks at both sides of the story.
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal has been released by Israeli authorities following Monday's deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship that was destined for Gaza. Our producer, who reported from the ship as Israel launched the raid, was on the top deck when the ship was attacked. Here, he tells his account of what happened.
A team of US medical staff in the State of Mississippi have decided to travel to Iran to receive a crash course on running effective health houses for the disadvantaged. 
An increasing number of young Chinese people say they're having difficulty finding someone to marry. It's a situation made worse by the population control policy, of one child per family. Now specialised dating agencies have sprung up - catering to lonely hearts aged in their thirties or beyond.
German archbishop Robert Zollitsch has been accused of abetting a sexual abuser amid increasing scandals involving Roman Catholic priests. 
The World Cup football tournament kicks off in one week, and host South Africa is busy putting on the finishing touches. But not everyone is looking forward to the tournament. Authorites in cities including Cape Town are being accused of clearing the poor from the streets - to create a good impression for visiting fans. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa has more.
As the relocation of a US base in Japan remains a heated topic, Washington insists the resignation of the Japanese prime minister will not affect bilateral ties. 
Brazil has clinched a comfortable 3-0 victory against Zimbabwe in a World Cup warm-up less than two weeks before its 2010 World Cup debut in South Africa. 
Douglas Guilfoyle, a maritime legal expert at the University College of London, discusses whether Israel's raid on the Gaza aid flotilla - and it's blockade of Gaza - are legal under international law.
Fighting between Somali pirates and the crew of a Libyan-owned ship has left at least four pirates dead, a spokesman of the European Union says. 
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico approaches the shores of Florida as British Petroleum (BP) ratchets up efforts to prevent the spread of the oil slick. 
World number two Rafael Nadal has advanced into the French Open semifinals after dominating Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro. 
Seeking to lighten the mood over Iran's nuclear program, Greece and Sweden have called for the implementation of the recent Tehran declaration on a potential nuclear fuel swap. 
Hundreds of activists from the embattled Gaza Freedom Flotilla have come back home amid cheers from thousands who rush to give the campaigners a hero's welcome. 
Somali pirates have seized control of a Panama-flagged cargo vessel in the Gulf of Aden, the European Union's naval forces say in a statement. 
Somali fighters of Al Shabab have taken control of the town of Dhusemereb in heavy fighting in which 42 people were killed. 
The Israeli prime minister has defended the deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and says Israel will never apologize for the incident. 
A new study by scientists at the University of Miami shows that the spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has nearly tripled in size over a one-month period. 
Iran has submitted a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, criticizing its latest report on Tehran's nuclear energy program. 
Turkey has begun a large-scale operation to bring home people injured in the Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and Turkish citizens detained after the incident. [Message clipped]
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