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China defends strict Internet control

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:13 PM PDT

China has defended its tight controls on the use of the Internet, vowing to continue blocking anything considered subversive or a threat to its national unity.

In a white paper published on Tuesday, the Chinese government also cautioned foreign governments and companies to respect how it monitors the world's largest online population where more than 400 million people are now online.

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Leader: US, Europe influence changing

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:09 PM PDT

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, says the world is witnessing fundamental changes to the status and influence of the US and certain European states.

Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the ongoing developments in the Middle East and particularly in Palestine and said, "All these points are an indication of a development in the region while big changes are occurring in the world regarding the status and influence of the US and certain European countries."

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Afghan detentions to be reviewed

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:08 PM PDT

Afghanistan's president orders the review of cases of alleged jailed militants, calling for the release of those being held without sufficient evidence.

"The president issued an order on Saturday to constitute a commission under the minister for justice to review all the cases of Taliban suspects being held in prisons," a presidential palace spokesman, Siamak Herawi, told Xinhua.

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New Iraqi parliament to meet in days

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:04 PM PDT

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's says the country's new parliament will convene later this month for the first time since the disputed March 7 elections.

"The president decided that the parliament will meet on Monday, June 14," Nasir al-Ani, the head of the Iraqi presidency's office, told AFP on Tuesday.

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Iran dismisses prisoner swap with US

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:01 PM PDT

After a nuclear Iranian scientist confirmed his abduction by the US, Iran moves to reject the possibility of his swap with the three detained American hikers.

"The three US citizens had trespassed Iran's border illegally. It is not right to make discussions about a swap between Iranian scholar Shahram Amiri, who went missing last year while on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, and the three US hikers," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday.

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Clinton urges OAS to readmit Honduras

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:55 PM PDT

The US has urged the Organization of American States (OAS) to readmit Honduras, which was expelled last June following the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.

"It is time for the hemisphere as a whole to move forward and welcome Honduras back into the inter-American community," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the 33-member body on Monday.

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Biden in Kenya for Somalia, Sudan

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:37 PM PDT

As ethnic violence flares in east Africa, US Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Kenya for talks about the situation in Somalia and Sudan.

The US official was welcomed at the Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport by his Kenyan counterpart Kalonzo Musyoka on Tuesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

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2 foreign soldiers die in Afghanistan

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:26 PM PDT

Two more US-led soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, a day after NATO forces lost at least 10 soldiers in separate incidents in the war-torn country.

The soldiers died on Tuesday when an improvised explosive device detonated in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force in a brief statement.

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Iran not to talk nuclear if sanctioned

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:57 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran will not continue to sit down with the West to talk over its nuclear work if new sanctions against Tehran are adopted.

"If the US and its allies think they could hold the stick of sanctions and then sit and negotiate with us, they are seriously mistaken," President Ahmadinejad said at a news conference in Turkey on Tuesday.

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Sarkozy's public support lowest yet

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Public support for French President Nicolas Sarkozy dips significantly with only 28 percent of those polled saying they approve of his performance.

According to a TNS Sofres survey, 67 percent of the French questioned said they were dissatisfied with Sarkozy`s leadership at a time when much of Europe is grappling with a deepening debt crisis.

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Virginia gas blast second in a week

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:17 PM PDT

At least seven workers have been injured after a gas explosion ripped through an abandoned coal mine in the eastern US state of West Virginia.

The blast took place late Monday at an energy formation known as the Marcellus Shale field.

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Iran criticizes 'hasty' UNSC approach

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:15 PM PDT

Amid a US-led push for new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear row, the Islamic Republic says it disapproves the UN Security Council's "hasty approach" on the issue.

"The approach of the UN Security Council is not constructive because it is the political will of certain countries, especially of US authorities," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters on Tuesday.

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Bomb blast rocks Istanbul, injures 15

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:13 PM PDT

More than a dozen people have been injured in Istanbul in a roadside bomb explosion apparently aimed at a police vehicle passing through Turkey's biggest city.

The blast struck Istanbul's Buyukcekmece area on Tuesday morning when a remote controlled bomb went off, targeting a passing police minibus, Turkish media reported.

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'Israel won't allow Iran ships to Gaza'

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT

After Iran announced it would send ships loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel said it would not allow any Iranian ships to enter the coastal sliver.

Iran's Red Crescent Director Abdolraoof Adibzadeh said Monday that two Iranian aid ships carrying "food and medical supplies" for the people of Gaza will set sail for the coastal sliver in the coming week.

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Israeli Gen. threatens to drown Erdogan

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:00 PM PDT

A retired senior commander in the Israeli army says that any move by Turkey and its premier to protect aid convoys to Gaza would be considered an act of war and Israel should sink such ships.

"If the Turkish prime minister joins such a flotilla," Dayan said "we should make clear beforehand this would be an act of war, and we would not try to take over the ship he was on, but would sink it," former deputy chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan told Israel's army radio on Monday.

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Spain strikes over austerity measures

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:21 PM PDT

As the recession drags on in much of Europe, public sector workers in Spain go on a nationwide strike against austerity measures that includes pay cuts.

Spain's major trade unions are expecting hundreds of thousands of the more than 2.5 million workers in the public sector to join the strike on Tuesday in protest of the government's plans to slash salaries by 5% as part of an austerity scheme introduced by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in May.

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MoD to acquire new lead-free bullets

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:13 PM PDT

BAE Systems is to develop new ammunition that is lead-free and even more deadly as part of a £2 billion contract with the British Ministry of Defense.

British forces currently use 5.56mm caliber rounds for their SA80 rifles. BAE Systems is working to design new bullets for soldiers to use in Afghanistan and Iraq after concerns arose that the existing ammunition is not deadly enough.

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US: Oil clean-up will take years

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:08 PM PDT

Commander of the US Coast Guard has warned that it will take years to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as oil has been gushing into the sea for 49 days.

Admiral Thad Allen told reporters on Monday that the "long-term issues of restoring environments and habitats will be years."

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Iraq parliament ordered to convene

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Iraq's president has asked the newly elected parliament to convene on June 14 for the first time since inconclusive elections failed to produce a new government, a presidency official has said.

Iraq's parliament has not convened amid the political uncertainty that followed the March 7 polls.

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Ahmadinejad: Israel on verge of demise

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:02 PM PDT

Iran's president has vowed "imminent downfall" of the Israeli regime as he condoled the Turkish nation for the murder of nine Turk activists in a recent Israeli attack on a Gaza aid convoy.

Addressing Turkish worshippers following evening prayers at a Istanbul mosque, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that "oppressors" have reached their end point and that the "Zionist regime and its sponsors are on the verge of a downfall."

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North Korea appoints new premier

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 01:47 PM PDT

North Korea has reshuffled its top leadership, appointing the brother-in-law of leader Kim Jong-Il to a powerful military post and sacking its premier.

At an extraordinary session of the North Korean parliament, Choe Yong Rim, a brother-in-law of leader Kim Jong-Il was named Monday as the new premier, replacing Kim Yong-Il, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

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Iran Caligula to go on European stages

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 01:30 PM PDT

An Iranian theater troupe, lead by Homayoun Ghanizadeh, is slated to take Albert Camus's Caligula on Estonian and Finnish stages.

"Following our performance in the 28th Fajr International Theater Festival in Tehran in February 2010, various countries invited the troupe for further performances," Ghanizadeh told Mehr News Agency on Monday.

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May deadly month in Darfur

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT

Violence in Sudan's Darfur region has taken the lives of about 600 people in May, making it the deadliest month since UN forces were deployed in 2008.

According to a document released by the joint UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), 400 people died in clashes last month between Darfur's most active rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and government troops, the AFP reported.

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Spanish workers strike over cuts

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 01:06 PM PDT

Spanish public sector trade unions are holding strikes around the country in protest against government austerity measures.

Tens of thousands of workers took action on Tuesday following government plans last month to cut public sector workers' wages by five per cent to reduce the country's large state deficit.

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Iran warns against fresh sanctions

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 12:25 PM PDT

Imposing fresh sanctions on Iran will end any prospect of negotiations over the country's controversial nuclear programme, the Iranian president has said.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters in Istanbul on Tuesday that any future participation in nuclear talks is contingent on the attitude of Western countries who accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

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Crowded boat sinks in Bangladesh

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 11:31 AM PDT

At least 12 people, including several schoolchildren, have died after a crowded boat carrying about 50 people sank in northeastern Bangladesh.

Authorities said the boat sank on Monday after it was caught in a storm.

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BP reclaims 11,100 barrels from oil leak

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 10:16 AM PDT

British oil giant BP says it has recovered over 11,100 barrels of crude from the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico over the last 24 hours.

The company now plans to raise its collection capacity to 20,000 barrels a day via a containment cap.

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55 bodies found in Mexican mine

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Mexican prosecutors say they have recovered 55 bodies from an airshaft of a mine in southern Mexico amid conflicts between drug traffickers.

This appears to be the largest mass grave ever found in the country. The bodies were found in the state of Guerrero, which is one of the most violence-stricken states of Mexico.

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Grand dame of US journalism retires

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 10:06 AM PDT

Helen Thomas, the White House reporter of the lengthiest employment has resigned after advising the Israelis to leave the occupied Palestinian territories.

Helen Thomas retired on Monday, a week after saying during the Jewish Heritage Celebration, "Tell them (Israelis) to get the hell out of Palestine," AFP reported.

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Erdogan: the new hero of the Islamic world

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 10:00 AM PDT

The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stirred up international appreciation after he courageously blasted the Tel Aviv leaders for the bloody massacre of the peace activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla convoy of humanitarian aids which was heading towards the besieged Gaza strip to break the three-year-long blockade of the war-stricken enclave.

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'Siege of Gaza is unacceptable'

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:52 AM PDT

In the wake of the attack on the Freedom Flotilla, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has condemned Israel's "foolish" blockade of the Gaza Strip.

On Monday, Bildt said the siege "is a foolish policy," calling it an "unacceptable and counterproductive Israeli policy towards Gaza," AFP reported.

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Report: Israeli government asked the US for more weapons

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:50 AM PDT

JDAM missile (photo from Boeing)

During his most recent visit to the US, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu requested that the US provide him with Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs, rockets, aircraft ammunition and other weapons to vastly increase the "emergency stores" of weapons held by the US in Israel.

Israeli forces used Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs during its 2006 invasion of Lebanon, and its 2009 invasion of Gaza. In both of these invasions, the Israeli use of these U.S.-supplied weapons resulted in heavy civilian casualties among those attacked by the Israeli army.

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Strike hits‏ ‏Hyundai Motors India‏ ‏

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Hyundai Motor workers in India have staged a sit-in strike, demanding the reinstatement of 67 dismissed employees and the recognition of the union.

The work stoppage at the manufacturing unit in Sriperumbudur town in southern Tamil Nadu state, which began on Sunday night, caused a production loss of 2,200 cars on the first day valued at around Rs. 65 crore (approximately $1,380,000.)

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Japan's new PM names cabinet

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Japan's new prime minister has named his cabinet, keeping 11 of 17 previous ministers from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

Naoto Kan also appointed Yoshihiko Noda as the new finance minister on Tuesday.

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Israel to investigate Flotilla attack

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:39 AM PDT

The Israeli military plans to examine what it calls the failures and lessons of its bloody assault on a Gaza-bound multinational relief mission.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the probe on Monday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

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Reporter quits over Israel remark

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:04 AM PDT

Veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas, who has covered every US president since John F Kennedy, has abruptly retired amid a storm of criticism over her controversial remarks about Israel.

Her retirement on Monday as a Hearst Newspapers columnist came after she was captured on video saying Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine" and that they should go "home" to Germany, Poland or the United States.

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Israeli troops issue 10-day eviction orders to Palestinians in Jordan Valley

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:04 AM PDT

Ruins of Palestinian town in Jordan Valley (photo from atlastours)

Five Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern part of the West Bank, received eviction orders from the Israeli military on Sunday, just days after Israeli settlers set up an illegal outpost on the families' land and took over a water well in the area. The eviction orders told the families to vacate their homes and land within ten days so that Israeli troops could occupy it.

According to a local town councilmember from Atuf, Abdallah Bisharat, the eviction will render 50 people homeless and, given that the families receiving the notices are farming families dependent on their land for their livelihoods, the evictions will be "devastating" for the families in question.

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Wali Karzai: A Deal We Should Refuse

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

There is a "chubby" man with a big smile on his face sitting in the middle of the crossroads at Kandahar. He is smiling, no doubt, because he knows he has the power to influence the success or failure of the international military mission in Afghanistan today.

And he embodies everything that is wrong with that mission in the first place.

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CIA Medics Honed Torture Techniques on Detainees, Group Charges

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

A major human rights organization claims it has uncovered evidence indicating that the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush conducted "illegal and unethical human experimentation" and research on detainees in CIA custody.

The group, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), claims "the apparent experimentation and research appear to have been performed to provide legal cover for torture, as well as to help justify and shape future procedures and policies governing the use of the 'enhanced' interrogation techniques."

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King David Rules

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

While I was taking a week off to celebrate Memorial Day the story broke about "King David" Petraeus secretly giving himself authority in back in September 2009 to start a war anywhere from the Horn of Africa to the Bananastans*. His secret directive allows him to bury America in another quagmire any time his black little heart desires without so much as a yes-you-may from the commander in chief or Congress. In a May 25 article, New York Times Pentagon stenographer Mark Mazzetti, to whom "military officials" showed the "secret" directive Petraeus had written, noted that "the precise operations that the directive authorizes are unclear" and that the order "does not appear to authorize offensive strikes in any specific countries."

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Zionist Joke: What Have We Ever Done to Them?

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

There's one big difference I've noticed between the political Left and Right. Even in the worst of times, lefties have a sense of humor. So I wasn't surprised to see the grand old man of the Israeli Left, Uri Avnery, sum up his government's galling attack on the Gaza flotilla with an old Jewish joke. Avnery has been fighting his nation's militarist policies for longer than most of us have been alive. But at 86, he can still blend outrage with humor.

In his response to the attack, he made it clear that he was furious because the violence was premeditated: "The orders given to the [Israeli] forces and made public included the three fateful words: 'at any cost.' Every soldier knows what these three terrible words mean."

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IDF Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT

Mel Frykberg

RAMALLAH – Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza (FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government's version of events.

These include claims of medical treatment being withheld; beatings and abuse of passengers who never resisted; and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) doctoring audio and selectively editing videos.

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China defends web censorship laws

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 08:51 AM PDT

China has defended its tight controls on the internet, saying it has no intention of relaxing its censorship of websites it deems subversive or a threat to national unity.

In a white paper published on Tuesday, the government also said it would not accept outside criticism of its internet controls and warned foreign governments and companies to respect its rules.

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7 killed, 45 injured in 24 hours in Iraq

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 08:35 AM PDT

Within the space of a day, violence has claimed the lives of seven people across Iraq and left 45 others injured.

A bomb attack against the house of a policeman in Ramadi, the capital of the western province of Anbar, killed a young female, injured 10 others, and destroyed three residences on Monday, AFP reported.

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Spain trade unions set to strike

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 08:26 AM PDT

Spanish public sector trade unions are preparing to hold strikes around the country in protest against government austerity measures.

Rallies are also planned for Tuesday following government plans last month to cut public sector workers' wages by five per cent to reduce the country's large state deficit.

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Helen Thomas F*cks With the Jews

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 07:53 AM PDT

In an exchange with Joey Kurtzman at jewcy.com, Be Nice, or We'll Crush You, subtitled "Criticizing Jews is professional suicide", John Derbyshire writes:

Almost the first thing you hear from old hands when you go into opinion journalism in the U.S. is, to put it in the precise form I first heard it: "Don't f*ck with the Jews."

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More bodies pulled from Mexico mine

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 07:42 AM PDT

Police in Mexico have discovered dozens more bodies in an abandoned silver mine suspected of being used by drug gangs to dump their victims.

The first 20 corpses were pulled out more than a week ago from the bottom of a 150-metre deep shaft at the Concha mine in the town of Taxco in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, the state attorney-general's office said on Monday.

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US well cap 'catching more oil'

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 07:27 AM PDT

US officials have said the cap placed by engineers over a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is now capturing about 1.7 million litres of oil a day.

But estimates on the amount of oil being caught range from one-third to three quarters of the total volume that continues to gush into the sea.

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US soldier arrested over Iraq video

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 06:08 AM PDT

A US soldier serving in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly leaking a classified combat video to a whistleblower website, Wikileaks, last year.

The video footage from a helicopter cockpit shows a deadly 2007 aerial strike in the Iraqi capital that killed 12 civilians including two journalists from the Reuters news agency.

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3 dead in Texas gas pipeline explosion

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:23 AM PDT

A section of a natural gas pipeline has exploded in northern Texas, leaving at least three people dead and 10 missing.

The explosion occurred 15 miles south of Godley, Texas, US media outlets reported on Monday.

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Israel to hold own flotilla probe

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:10 AM PDT

Israel has said it will launch its own investigations into last week's deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, after rejecting a UN proposal for an international probe into the attack.

In a statement on Monday, the Israeli military said it was gathering an "internal team of experts" to examine the operation and "establish lessons from the event".

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Foreigners held in Yemen arrests

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:21 AM PDT

Authorities in Yemen have detained 12 US nationals, amid a series of arrests in the country of foreigners suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda.

On Monday a spokesman for the US state department confirmed the American arrests, but gave no details on why they were detained or whether the US government had anything to do with their being picked up.

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Misreading Tehran

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:57 AM PDT

When Iranians took to the streets the day after they cast their ballots for president, the Western media was presented with a sweeping, dramatic story. After a vigorous election campaign, the country saw an unprecedented turnout of voters on June 12, 2009. When the government announced a prohibitive winner -- the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- just after the polls closed, millions of Iranians who felt their votes hadn't been counted took to the streets to protest. The government responded with violence and sweeping arrests. The leading opposition candidate former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who had spent the campaign trying to prove his reformist bona fides, suddenly embraced the role of civil rights leader, urging his supporters not to back down. The protests continued for months, as did the crackdowns: Dozens were killed, hundreds were placed before show trials, and many were thrown into prison and tortured. With the entire world watching, Iran faced its greatest crisis since the 1979 revolution.

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Can the White House Revoke a Reporter's Credentials?

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:08 AM PDT

Today, after 50 years of covering the White House, Hearst newspapers columnist Helen Thomas announced her retirement after the widespread outrage that followed the release of a video in which she says that Jews in Israel should "go back to Germany and Poland." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called Thomas's remarks "offensive and reprehensible." But if the 89-year-old Thomas had insisted on remaining, could the White House have forced her out of the press corps?

 

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Passengers grabbed Israeli weapons to stop the killing

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 12:34 AM PDT

After seeing passengers shot at close range they tried to grab the weapons to stop the killing. Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe was later beaten by the Israelis.

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South Korean Ship Sinking: Another False Flag?

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 11:35 PM PDT

steve lendman This writer's May 5 article included a history of noted previous ones, accessible through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-york-car-bomb-incident-another.html.

Important ones caused the Spanish-American War, WW II, the Vietnam War, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars post-9/11 (a glaring false flag).

 

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South Africans upbeat before World Cup

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 11:33 PM PDT

South Africa will take on Mexico in the opening match as the World Cup begins on Friday. The host country's fans are optimistic, after recent wins against Colombia and Denmark. Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak reports from the final open training session in Johannesburg.

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The Nights' Tale

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 11:21 PM PDT

Last month, a group of Egyptian lawyers accused Gamal al-Ghitany, a famous Egyptian novelist and the editor of the country's most influential literary magazine, of printing obscene materials. The two-volume set that Ghitany had just published in his capacity as editor of a government-sponsored literary series had proved wildly popular, reportedly selling out its first printing in 48 hours. But according to his accusers, it was full of "shameless sexual terms" and "sarcasm towards the divine essence."

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Fault Lines - Dying Inside: Elderly in prison

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:58 PM PDT

The US' massive prison population is getting older. Long sentences that were handed out decades ago are catching up with the American justice system. Prisons across the country are dedicating entire units just to house the elderly. During difficult economic times, the issue has hit a crisis point. Estimates are that locking up an older inmate costs three times as much as a younger one. How are prisons dealing with this issue? Who are the prisoners that are turning gray behind bars? Josh Rushing gains exclusive and unprecedented access to jails and prisons across the country to tell the story.

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Queen Elizabeth Makes a Rare Appearance for King Constantine

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:43 PM PDT

Well, that was an easy one. King Constantine of the Hellenes—that's the Greeks, for any of you who never got past fourth grade—celebrated his 70th birthday in his son's London mansion, and the setting as well as the guest list were fit for a King. Prince Pavlos of Greece is heir to the Greek throne, but the Greeks, being an ungrateful lot, voted against the monarchy back in 1974. The Greek royal family has lived in London ever since. Prince Pavlos is married to Marie-Chantal Miller, daughter of a billionaire, and their house near the river is one of London's finest. The garden is magnificent and very, very large. A tent covered only half of it, and as the guests arrived we were ushered upstairs for drinks, an act that helped break the ice, so to speak. There were 84 of us, and I shall start by mentioning some of the worthies. Queen Elizabeth II and her consort Prince Philip, born a Greek prince. The Queen of Denmark, sister of Queen Anna-Maria of Greece, Sophia, the Queen of Spain, sister of King Constantine, her son Prince Felipe of Spain, (and as some wag had it, Eric, florist to the stars in Hollywood, making up the fifth queen.)

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Oblivious to Oil in Mississippi, Possible Troops in Louisiana

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:28 PM PDT

Mississippi's governor Haley Barbour is not about to let oil washing up on the state's beaches ruin the tourism industry. "The truth is we have had virtually no oil," Barbour told Fox News Sunday. "We've had a few tar balls but we have a few every year" because of natural seepage in the Gulf of Mexico.

It's all the fault of the damn media, Barbour insists. "The biggest negative impact for us has been the news coverage," he grumbled.

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Monday: 21 Iraqis Killed, 72 Wounded

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 07:49 PM PDT

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says al-Qaeda's power base in Iraq has been squeezed by a lack of funds and a power vacuum at the top. Despite al-Qaeda weakening, attacks continue to vex Iraq. At least 21 Iraqis were killed and 72 more were wounded in new violence. Also, Iraq lodged complaints with Iran over reports that Iranian troops have crossed the border and started to erect a new fort as part of their operations against Kurdish rebels.

Iranian troops are reportedly building a new border fort within Iraqi territory without permission from the Iraqi government. This is the second incursion of Iranian troops in the last year. Although sections of the border areas are contested, the crossing is apparently part of operations against the Party of a Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) rebels who use sparsely populated northern Iraq for their bases.

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