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A boy uses a plastic to cover himself from heavy rains caused by tropical storm Agatha in Patulul, Guatemala, Saturday, May 29, 2010.

photo: AP / Moises Castillo

1st tropical storm of season kills 12 in Guatemala
read more The Himalayan

GUATEMALA CITY: The first tropical storm of the 2010 season hit the Pacific coastline of Guatemala and Mexico on Saturday, killing 12 people under landslides and rockfall triggered by torrential rains. Agatha's rains caused a landslide in a precarious hillside settlement of Guatemala City that killed four people and left 11 missing, Guatemalan...

In this Wednesday, May 26, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, the mobile offshore drilling unit Q4000 holds position directly over the damaged Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer as crews work to plug the wellhead using a technique known as "top kill."

photo: AP / U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley

Top Kill fails to plug oil gusher; now robots get their chance
read more The Miami Herald

BP on Saturday abandoned its three-day ``top kill'' attempt, declaring it a failure, and said it would next try another engineering strategy to stop the runaway oil and gas leak feeding the worst spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico. Robots will saw off portions of Deepwater Horizon's damaged well, the risers, at a depth of 5,000 feet, said...

Crews anchor boom in Grand Isle, La., as part of the Deepwater Horizon Response May 27, 2010, to prevent oil from coming ashore.

photo: US Coast Guard / PO3 Ann Marie Gorden

BP's behaviour in the Gulf is appalling. But our thirst for oil is the real issue
read more The Guardian

Science will solve this crisis, but the real cause is America's demands and our refusal to pay oil's true price Barack Obama examines tar balls from the spill on a Louisiana beach last week. Photograph: EPA...

File - U.S. Air Force Airmen, assigned to the 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, put together an MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle after it returned from Afghanistan at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., May 19, 2008.

photo: USAF / Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.

US drone crew blamed for Afghan civilian deaths
read more The Press Democrat

At least 23 people were killed in the Feb. 21 attack in Uruzgan province, deepening tensions between the Afghan government and NATO forces over the toll of civilian deaths at the hands of foreign troops. It drew a strong rebuke from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a quick apology from the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen....

File - Wide shot of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York, 3 May, 2010.

photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe

Israel denounces NPT 'hypocrisy' as Iran hails accord
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JERUSALEM - Undeclared nuclear power Israel on Saturday denounced the 'hypocrisy' of a UN call for a nuclear-free Middle East that singled it out but ignored Iran, which is suspected of seeking the bomb and which welcomed the document. "This accord has the hallmark of hypocrisy. Only Israel is mentioned, while the text is silent about other...

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party Jiri Paroubek arrives for a press conference after the preliminary results of the general election in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, Saturday, May 29, 2010.

photo: AP / Petr David Josek

Centre-right ahead in Czech election
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Center-right Czech parties favoring austerity to avoid a Greek-style economic crisis led in a parliamentary election on Saturday and could form a majority coalition government, partial results showed. The Social Democrats, who had pledged to raise taxes on companies and the rich to fund bigger welfare payouts, had the most...

Volcano Tungurahua throws ash and stones during an explosion, just before midnight Friday May 28, 2010, in Cotalo, Ecuador.

photo: AP / Dolores Ochoa

Volcanoes cause chaos in Guatemala and Ecuador
read more The Times

Explosive eruptions shook two volcanoes into life in Central and South America this week, killing two people, forcing thousands to evacuate and causing air traffic disruption. Volcanic ash drifted over major cities in Guatemala and Ecuador, grounding planes at international airports after volcanoes in the two countries sent lava and burning rocks...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) conference at United Nations headquarters, Monday, May 3, 2010.

photo: AP / Richard Drew

NPT session approves steps on nuclear-free Middle East
read more Gulf News

United Nations: A landmark conference to curb the spread of nuclear weapons agreed here Friday on talks toward the establishment of a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East. It was the first agreement in a decade on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which since 1970 has set the global agenda for keeping countries from getting the...

Crews conduct controlled burns in the Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon/BP incident site, May 26, 2010.

photo: US Coast Guard / PO3 Ann Marie Gorden

Some Say Treason, Others Call It Forgetfulness
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. All across rural America in restaurants, grocery stores and churches, there are more and more discussions about how the U.S.-led wars in the Middle East are treasonous. One reason people are using the word "treason" is because they have seen and experienced a disproportionate number of loved...

Indian rescue worker and security personnel perform a rescue operation at the site of a train crash near Sardiha, West Bengal state, about 150 kilomters (90 miles) west of Calcutta, India, early Friday, May 28, 2010.

photo: AP

Night trains suspended on two sections
read more The Hindu

Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: The Railway Board on Friday decided to suspend the running of some important passenger trains on the two sections of Kharagpur-Rourkela and Kharagpur-Adra during night in the wake of the incident in West Bengal....