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guardian.co.ukAir France flight 447 crashed belly-first into the Atlantic ...
Times Online
The pilots of the Air France aircraft that crashed off Brazil may have fought to control their stricken aircraft to the end, because it was intact when it hit the Atlantic ocean, investigators indicated yesterday. In a first report on the disaster that ...
French Jet Hit Ocean Intact, Officials SayNew York Times
Comoros crash spotlights 3rd-world air travel riskThe Associated Press
Piecing together fate of Air France jetBBC News Wall Street Journal -Voice of America -AFP all 1,562 news articles » 
BBC NewsEnvoy to take demand to Honduras
BBC News
A top Latin American diplomat due to visit Honduras says he will demand the restoration of the country's deposed President, Manuel Zelaya. Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organisation of American States, said he would not negotiate with the ...
US 'hits the pause button' on aid to HondurasCNN International
Diplomats, OAS Press for Resolution of Crisis in HondurasVoice of America
EU nations withdraw Honduras ambassadorsTimes of India Atlantic Online -Inquirer.net -Christian Science Monitor all 10,871 news articles » 
GulfNewsActivists Held by Israel for Trying to Break Gaza Blockade
New York Times
JERUSALEM ? Nineteen foreign activists of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement were being held in Israel awaiting deportation on Thursday, two days after the Israeli Navy seized control of their boat off Gaza. ...
Israel worries over intense 'legal war'Jerusalem Post
Amnesty International places blame on both sides in Gaza conflictLos Angeles Times
UN expert says Israeli seizure of aid ship a crimeReuters Atlanta Journal Constitution -Xinhua -FOXNews all 1,964 news articles » 
Los Angeles TimesTaliban Slip Away From Afghanistan Surge Battle
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON? The US embarked on a large offensive in southern Afghanistan Thursday in which one Marine was killed, while in the east the military mobilized to recover a soldier apparently captured by the Taliban. ...
American soldier feared captured in AfghanistanThe Associated Press
US Soldier May Be Held By Taliban, Military FearsNew York Times
Early success as US Marines flood into HelmandTimes Online Aljazeera.net -MiamiHerald.com -guardian.co.uk all 3,445 news articles » 
MiamiHerald.comMissile experts see Soviet parts in NKorean rocket
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) ? With concerns rising about a possible North Korean long-range missile test this weekend, two independent scientists say the regime may be using an old Soviet ballistic missile to boost a rocket capable of reaching the West Coast of ...
Could a North Korean missile reach Hawaii?Christian Science Monitor
North Korea Launches Short-Range MissilesVoice of America
US says North Korean missile launches are 'provocative act'Telegraph.co.uk Reuters -ABC Online -Newsweek all 1,853 news articles » 
Times OnlineNew Delhi Lifts Colonial-Era Ban on Gay Sex
Washington Post
A top court in the Indian capital of New Delhi yesterday overturned a colonial-era law banning gay sex between consenting adults as the world's biggest democracy struggles to balance tradition and modernity. ...
Court decriminalizes gay sex in Indian capitalThe Associated Press
Judgment on Section 377 welcomedHindu
India decriminalizes consensual gay sexChristian Science Monitor TIME -Times of India -Chicago Tribune all 733 news articles » 
Straits TimesBritain fails on deadline for withdrawal of ambassadors from Tehran
Telegraph.co.uk
Britain was rebuffed last night in its attempt to secure an EU deadline for the withdrawal of the bloc's 27 ambassadors from Tehran if a local embassy employee in Iranian custody was not released. by Damien mcelroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent ...
British calls for diplomatic walkout from Iran are rejected by EU ...Times Online
EU Presidency: Ready To Act If Iran Doesn't Free UK EmployeesWall Street Journal
Europe Weighs Pulling Envoys From TehranNew York Times BBC News -guardian.co.uk -CNN International all 2,604 news articles » 
ABC NewsIran reports more protest arrests
The Associated Press
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official ...
Iranian leaders urge legal action against MousaviABC Online
Moscow opposes new sanctions on IranPRESS TV
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ABC NewsBarack Obama: Putin has one foot in the past
guardian.co.uk
Barack Obama has chided Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, for "cold war approaches" to relations with the US, saying Putin had "one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new", just days before the two men meet in Moscow. ...
Lose the Cold War attitude, Obama tells PutinTimes Online
Text of Obama's AP interviewThe Associated Press
Analysts Say Russia's Influence on Iran Very LimitedVoice of America Aljazeera.net -Hindu -BBC News all 1,724 news articles » 
FOXNewsSaddam Hussein 'lied about WMDs to protect Iraq from Iran'
Telegraph.co.uk
Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he misled the world into believing Iraq still possessed weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran, according to declassified interview transcripts. By Alex Spillius in Washington The ...
Documents Show Iraqi Dictator's FearsNew York Times
FBI notes: Saddam Hussein sought familiar refugeThe Associated Press
FBI says Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at IranReuters Christian Science Monitor -Voice of America -Jewish Telegraphic Agency all 474 news articles »
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