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- Chavez: Rotten food at state-run port stinks (AP)
- Twin blasts heard in Kabul as Afghan jirga opens (AFP)
- Thai prime minister survives no-confidence motion
- Russian space capsule with 3 aboard lands (AP)
- Three killed by World War II bomb in Germany
- Cuba moves political prisoners 'closer to home'
- Peacekeeping operations all-time high: think tank
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- 124 Gaza aid flotilla activists arrive in Jordan (AP)
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns
- U.S. acts to restore ties with Turkey; foreign minister likens attack to 9/11
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- Doomed Polish crew tried to land despite warnings, transcript says
- Al-Qaeda is likely to replace No. 3 leader with ease
- Accounts, videos of flotilla assault continue to conflict
- Israel's flotilla raid revives questions of international law
- Building collapse kills nine in Bangladesh
- Prudential pulls out of bid for Asian insurer AIA (AFP)
- Crews probe Guatemala sinkhole as neighbors flee (AP)
- Building collapse kills nine in Bangladesh (Reuters)
| Chavez: Rotten food at state-run port stinks (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:12 PM PDT AP - President Hugo Chavez urged prosecutors on Tuesday to bring charges against those responsible for the putrefaction of roughly 20,000 metric tons of food inside a seaport under the administration of the federal government.
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| Twin blasts heard in Kabul as Afghan jirga opens (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:16 PM PDT
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| Thai prime minister survives no-confidence motion Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:25 PM PDT BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Wednesday brought by the opposition after weeks of political protests during which 88 people died and both tourism and the economy suffered.
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| Russian space capsule with 3 aboard lands (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:39 PM PDT AP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts back from a five-month mission on the International Space Station landed early Wednesday in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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| Three killed by World War II bomb in Germany Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:19 PM PDT BERLIN -A World War II bomb has killed three people who were trying to defuse it and injured six others in Goettingen, central Germany, police have said.
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| Cuba moves political prisoners 'closer to home' Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:22 PM PDT HAVANA, Cuba -Cuba's communist government started relocating political prisoners Tuesday closer to their families after church-government talks aimed at ending politically embarrassing hunger strikes, dissident and family sources said.
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| Peacekeeping operations all-time high: think tank Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:42 PM PDT STOCKHOLM -Military peacekeeping operations around the world and especially in Afghanistan increased significantly last year to reach record levels, according to a report by a Swedish think tank Wednesday.
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| Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:30 PM PDT AP - Russian mission control says capsule carrying three astronauts from space station has landed
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| 124 Gaza aid flotilla activists arrive in Jordan (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:59 PM PDT
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| Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT BEIJING -- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who ended five decades of single-party rule when he swept to power in August but stumbled when he confronted a longtime ally, the United States, resigned Wednesday. 
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| U.S. acts to restore ties with Turkey; foreign minister likens attack to 9/11 Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT The Obama administration moved Tuesday to heal a breach with Turkey over its response to the deadly Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton huddled with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu for more than two hours in Washington, and President Obama spoke to...
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| Doomed Polish crew tried to land despite warnings, transcript says Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT The crew of a doomed Polish government airliner continued to try to land, despite at least a dozen warnings from onboard systems to regain altitude, according to a dramatic transcript released Tuesday of the final moments of the flight that killed the country's president .
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| Al-Qaeda is likely to replace No. 3 leader with ease Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT The death of al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader in a drone strike was portrayed by U.S. officials Tuesday as a severe setback to the terrorist organization. But if history is any guide, the network will have no problem replacing him.
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| Accounts, videos of flotilla assault continue to conflict Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT Under a moonlit sky, Huwaida Arraf, a graduate of American University's law school, watched from a small ship early Monday as Israeli commando boats pulled up to the Mavi Marmara, a vessel filled with about 600 activists hoping to breach an Israeli blockade of Gaza.
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| Israel's flotilla raid revives questions of international law Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:57 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS -- In the two days following its commando raid on an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip, Israel has been accused by Turkey and several other governments of behaving like an outlaw state, and engaging in acts of piracy and banditry on the high seas.
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| Building collapse kills nine in Bangladesh Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:13 PM PDT DHAKA (Reuters) - A five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka Wednesday, flattening several adjacent homes and killing at least 9 people, with dozens more trapped under the rubble, police and witnesses said.
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| Prudential pulls out of bid for Asian insurer AIA (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:59 PM PDT
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| Crews probe Guatemala sinkhole as neighbors flee (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:15 PM PDT
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| Building collapse kills nine in Bangladesh (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 08:13 PM PDT Reuters - A five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka Wednesday, flattening several adjacent homes and killing at least 9 people, with dozens more trapped under the rubble, police and witnesses said.
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