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An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways, taxies on the tarmac at Roissy airport, north of Paris, before taking off for Sana'a, Yemen, Friday July 3, 2009.

Black Boxes Are Detected From Yemeni Jet read more
The New York Times

PARIS - France announced on Sunday that search teams had detected the acoustic beacons from the two flight recorders of a Yemeni jet that crashed last week in the Indian Ocean. The French Office of Investigations and Analyses said the signals were located Sunday morning by a submarine and were confirmed to be coming from the "black box" recorders...

photo: AP / Michel Euler

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The soldiers give all, while the politicians starve them of cash read more
The Guardian

When you're left wounded on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains...

The G8 must lead on emissions reduction read more
The Guardian

World leaders have a unique opportunity this year to lay the essential foundations of a...

G8 or G20 – will it really make much difference to the world? read more
The Guardian

Is there any point to the continued existence of G8? As this week's summit looks increasingly...

Deadly blast hits Philippine city read more

Al Jazeera

At least five people have died and 45 others wounded after a bomb exploded outside a church in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman says. Separatists were suspected of placing the bomb near a food stall outside the church during...

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China won't press for new global currency at G8 read more

China Daily

BEIJING: China has no plans to raise its proposal for a new global currency to replace the dollar at the G8 meeting this week but is willing to discuss it, a top Chinese diplomat said, as President Hu Jintao left Sunday for Italy. China is not one of...

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Obama seeks new start in US-Russia relations read more

President Barack Obama makes opening remarks at a town hall style meeting at Rhenus Sports Arena in Strasbourg, France

Philadelphia Daily News

STEVEN R. HURST The Associated Press MOSCOW - Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with both men declaring their determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly...

photo: AP / Charles Dharapak

US official in N Korea talks read more

U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth reacts as he listens to his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, Friday, May 8, 2009. North Korea vowed Friday to bolster its atomic arsenal in response to what it called Washington's "persistent hostile policy," even as a special envoy for President Barack Obama traveled to the region in a bid to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear negotiations.

Irish Times

The US pointman for sanctions on North Korea holds talks in Malaysia today, possibly on links banks have to the North's finances, while a report said Pyongyang may have shot mid-range missiles in a series fired on Saturday. North Korea launched seven...

photo: AP / Jo Yong-Hak

16 UN deminers kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan read more

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon

The Miami Herald

KABUL -- Gunmen abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said Sunday. The men were kidnapped as they traveled between Paktia and Khost provinces on Saturday, said Paktia's...

photo: AP / Filip Horvat

Trip to Russia a test for Obama read more

First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev delivers a televised nationwide address in Moscow, Tuesd

Philadelphia Daily News

The president wants to "reset" relations, but obstacles remain. By Michael A. Fletcher and Philip P. Pan Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Obama is scheduled to leave Washington tonight on a weeklong trip that will help determine...

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