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UN chief gambles on Burma breakthrough
BBC News
Ban Ki-moon is not a man known for taking risks. Yet his decision to visit Burma and meet its secretive military rulers - at a time when the rest of the world is outraged by their decision to put opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on …
Brown urges Myanmar to halt Suu Kyi trialReuters South Africa
UN Chief Asks Burmese Junta for Meeting with Aung San Suu KyiVoice of America
UN chief criticised for praising Burma juntaIrish Times
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Palin Says She Will Resign as Alaska Governor
New York Times
Robert DeBerry/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, via AP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hugs Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell after she announced she would be stepping down as governor. By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Friday …
Palin resigns as governor, leaves plans secretThe Associated Press
Palin drops resignation bombshellIndependent
Alaska Governor Palin to resignBBC News
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Ousted Honduran president riled old guard, business
Reuters
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran rancher Santiago Ruiz has no doubt about the day President Manuel Zelaya finally detonated the crisis that led to his ouster — the moment he signed a trade pact with Venezuela's socialist government. …
Coup leader willing to hold early electionIndependent
OAS secretary-general arrives in Honduras for post-coup political …Xinhua
OAS head presses global concerns in HondurasAFP
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Catholic convert on path to sainthood
Scotsman
THE Pope has placed Cardinal John Henry Newman on the path to possible sainthood by approving a miracle attributed to his intercession. Newman, an influential 19th-century Anglican convert, can now be beatified. …
Cardinal Newman 'to become Britain's next saint'Telegraph.co.uk
Cardinal John Henry Newman, Catholic convert, is beatified by the PopeTimes Online
Pope agrees cardinal miracleTeleText
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Six killed after fire sweeps through London tower block
Independent
Three children and three adults died yesterday when a fire swept through a 12-storey tower block in Camberwell, south London. Fire services rescued 30 people from the building, 16 of whom were taken to hospital. …
Six die in tower block blaze horrorScotsman
Six die in fire at London tower blockguardian.co.uk
Six including newborn baby killed in tower block fireThe Herald
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Failed strategy in Afghanistan
guardian.co.uk
When will the Obama administration stop transplanting the Bush administration's failed methods from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan (US begins major offensive against Taliban, 1 July)? The strategy is the same one Rumsfeld used in Iraq in 2004-06. …
US Marines fight to expel Taleban from south Helmand as canal seizedTimes Online
US Marines push deeper into southern Afghan townsThe Associated Press
UK forces seize key canal crossings in Afghan surgeScotsman
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Irish aid worker kidnapped in Darfur
Reuters UK
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed men seized two female aid workers, one Irish and one Ugandan, in Sudan's Darfur region on Friday, their employer said, the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months. …
Aid workers kidnapped in DarfurAljazeera.net
Two foreign aid workers kidnapped in Darfur: officialsAFP
Charity worker kidnapped in SudanBBC News
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Hardline sermons in Iran stiffen EU resolve
Times Online
Call it pulpit diplomacy. While Western politicians agonise over how to rebuke Iran without undermining talks on its nuclear aspirations, hardline mullahs use their Friday sermons to bullhorn their defiance to the world. Three Fridays ago Ayatollah Ali …
Britain rallies opposition to Iranian threat to put embassy staff …Telegraph.co.uk
STAFF AT OUR EMBASSY IN IRAN FACING EXECUTIONUK Express
Miliband seeks urgent 'clarification' over Iran embassy staffAFP
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Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe's death reignites equipment row
Times Online
The death of the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards has reignited the row over the lack of vital military equipment for British troops in Afghanistan. The Government has been accused of providing too few transport helicopters, …
Prince Charles and PM pay tribute to commander who died on Helmand …guardian.co.uk
Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert ThorneloeTelegraph.co.uk
Charles' heartbreak: Royal salute, but was Colonel R left …Daily Mail
UK Express -WalesOnline -Independent
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Protesters block Paris airport over Yemen crash
The Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros — a route that saw a deadly crash this week, after years of complaints about dangerous conditions on the flight …
France threatens blacklist for Yemenia over crashAFP
Paris protest delays Yemenia flightAljazeera.net
Month mourning for Comoros crashBBC News
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