| Obama: Buchenwald 'rebuke' to Holocaust denial (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 9:50 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson for the modern world is vigilance against evil, against subjugation of the weak and against the "cruelty in ourselves."
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| US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 621 (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 9:47 pm
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| | AP - As of Friday, June 5, 2009, at least 621 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EDT. |
| Britain's Brown refuses to quit as prime minister (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 9:26 pm
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|  AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown battled desperately Friday to keep his job, ignoring demands to quit amid a flurry of Cabinet resignations and a swelling rebellion in the ranks of his Labour Party.
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| Brazil crews struggle to gather plane wreckage (Reuters)
June 5, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  Reuters - Search crews in the Atlantic struggled on Friday to recover wreckage from an Air France flight as hopes dwindled of finding bodies from a crash possibly caused by pilots acting on flawed speed readings.
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| Britain's Brown reshuffles the chairs but his ship is still sinking (Time.com)
June 5, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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|  Time.com - The Prime Minister appoints an unlikely new Minister and steels himself for more choppy seas ahead
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| Snap! Photos of Nude Partygoers Add to Berlusconi's Woes (Time.com)
June 5, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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| | Time.com - The Italian Prime Minister (literally) comes under more scrutiny as a Spanish newspaper prints some revealing photographs |
| UN chief urges war crimes probe in Sri Lanka (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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|  AP - The U.N. chief lent credence Friday to the possibility of war crimes in Sri Lanka, saying an international probe is needed to examine the military actions of the government and defeated Tamil Tiger rebels during the civil war.
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| No wreckage found from doomed Air France plane (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 7:59 pm
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|  AP - Days after Air France Flight 447 vanished, an intensive international effort has failed to recover any confirmed wreckage and concern grew Friday about whether searchers were even looking in the right place.
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| Up to 34 reported killed in Amazon land protest (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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|  AP - Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders separately reporting nine police and 25 protester deaths.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,311 (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 7:51 pm
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| | AP - As of Friday, June 5, 2009, at least 4,311 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. |
| Ex-State Department official, wife charged as Cuban spies (McClatchy Newspapers)
June 5, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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| | McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A former State Department official, with a security clearance above top secret, and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for the Cuban government for nearly 30 years, the Justice Department said Friday. |
| Venezuela tax agency fines anti-Chavez TV station (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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|  AP - Venezuela's tax agency ordered an anti-government television channel to pay $2.3 million in back taxes on Friday, only a day after the station's owner was charged by prosecutors in a separate investigation and troops raided his home.
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| Former extremist now fights militancy in Pakistan (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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|  AP - Ten years ago, Maajid Nawaz came to Pakistan to recruit for an extremist group intent on a global Islamic state. Now he's on a different mission — to steer youth away from militancy.
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| France ready to buy US Hercules given Airbus delay: Morin (AFP)
June 5, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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|  AFP - France's defence minister said Friday that Hercules C-130J military transport aircraft could be bought from US firm Lockheed Martin given crippling delays in delivery of rival European hardware.
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| Obama arrives in Paris after visiting German camp (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama has arrived in Paris after meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany and touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, where tens of thousands of Jews perished during the Holocaust.
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| ICC prosecutor urges Sudan to arrest Beshir (AFP)
June 5, 2009 at 3:14 pm
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|  AFP - International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Friday pressed the Sudanese government to arrest President Omar al-Beshir who stands accused of Darfur war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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| Suicide blast at mosque in Pakistan kills 30 (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 2:45 pm
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|  AP - An attacker wearing an explosive vest blew himself up inside a packed mosque during Friday prayers, killing at least 30 and wounding 40 more in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
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| Reshuffling the Deck Chairs on Gordon Brown's Listing Ship (Time.com)
June 5, 2009 at 2:35 pm
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| Time.com - The Prime Minister appoints an unlikely new Minister and steels himself for more choppy seas ahead
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| Snap! Photos of Nude Partygoers Add to Berlusconi's Woes (Time.com)
June 5, 2009 at 2:35 pm
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| | Time.com - The Italian Prime Minister (literally) comes under more scrutiny as a Spanish newspaper prints some revealing photographs |
| U.S. to impose financial sanctions on N.Korea: report (Reuters)
June 5, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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|  Reuters - The United States has told South Korea it is preparing financial measures to punish North Korea for illicit weapons trade and counterfeit activities following its nuclear test last week, a newspaper report said on Friday.
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| Brown defies calls to step down as British PM (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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|  AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown clung fiercely to his job Friday, defying calls from some within his beleaguered Labour party to resign.
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| Palestinian killed in West Bank demonstration (AP)
June 5, 2009 at 2:06 pm
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|  AP - Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian man Friday during a demonstration against the construction of the West Bank separation barrier, medics and witnesses said.
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| Malaria Vaccine Enters Final Tests (OneWorld.net)
June 5, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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| | OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 5 (OneWorld.net) - A life-saving malaria vaccine could be available within the next few years if final trials, which began last week, are successful -- 16,000 children in several African countries will be inoculated during this last phase. | | | 
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