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Palestinians ride boats in Gaza waters and an Israeli navy vessel patrols, background, as a flotilla of aid ships leaves for the blockaded territory, in Gaza city, Sunday, May 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa
Israel moves to stop Gaza aid fleet
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Israel has vowed to stop a flotilla of six ships carrying aid from reaching the Gaza Strip, sending warships to intercept the convoy, according to reports. The flotilla set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday aiming to break Israel's siege of Gaza by landing there on Monday morning. However, Israel has said that it will not allow the...
Police officers clash with Kosovo Albanians displaying Albanian flags as they demonstrate against Serbia's local elections held in the Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Sunday, May 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Visar Kryeziu
NATO, police separate violent protesters in Kosovo
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MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - NATO peacekeepers and police separated thousands of ethnic Albanians and Serbs in the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Sunday during the worst ethnic unrest since the country's independence two years ago. Kosovo Albanians push local police during a violent protest in the divided town of Mitrovica, May 30, 2010....
Social National Unity Party presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos casts his ballot during presidential elections in Bogota, May 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Fernando Vergara
Colombia vote pits Uribe ally against ex-mayor
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* Runoff between Santos and Mockus seen likely * Front-runners vow continuity of Uribe's policies * Colombians concerned over jobs, healthcare, education (Updates with color, comments from candidates) By Patrick Markey BOGOTA, May 30 (Reuters) - Colombians voted on Sunday for a successor to President Alvaro Uribe in an election pitting a veteran...
File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai walks through a bazaar and greets local men in Nawa, Afghanistan, Jan. 2, 2010.
photo: USMC / Lance Cpl. Caleb Gomez
Peace assembly a "critical moment" for Afghanistan
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KABUL - A huge 'peace jirga' set to take place in Kabul this week marks a critical moment in bringing an end to decades of conflict that have blighted Afghanistan, NATO leaders said Sunday. The National Consultative Peace Jirga, or assembly, aims to bring together leaders from across Afghanistan, representing the country's complicated mix of...
Palestinian flags wave in Gaza port, foreground, and Palestinians ride a boat in Gaza waters, a day before a flotilla of aid ships is expected to try and sail into the blockaded territory, in Gaza city, Sunday, May 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa
Aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza
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GAZA CITY - A flotilla of ships carrying activists and aid for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Sunday finally steamed south from Cyprus, heading for a fleet of Israeli naval vessels determined to stop them. The ships, carrying more than 700 passengers, are on the last leg of a high-profile mission to deliver tonnes of aid to Gaza, which has been under...
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and his wife Sandra Roelofs leave a voting booth during the municipal elections at a polling station in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, May 30, 2010.
photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov
Georgians vote for local leaders in 1st ballot since country's 2008 war with Russia
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TBILISI, Georgia - Voters in Georgia were choosing local leaders Sunday in the first ballot since President Mikhail Saakashvili led the country into a disastrous war with neighboring Russia nearly two years ago. Saakashvili's rule has elevated Georgia's status in the West yet turned it into a bitter adversary of Russia. The brief 2008 war, which...
Wide shot of the General Assembly Hall, venue of the 2010 High-level Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), 5 May, 2010, United Nations, New York.
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Israel rejects new drive to ban nukes from Mideast
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JERUSALEM-Israel, thought to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, has rejected a new U.N. call to come clean about its secretive nuclear program, calling it a "deeply flawed and hypocritical" act that ignores the threat posed by its sworn enemy Iran. Israel declared late Saturday that it would not take part in a 2012 conference on establishing...
In this May 28, 2010 photo, BP CEO Tony Hayward stands aboard the Discover Enterprise drill ship during recovery operations at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, south of Venice, La.
photo: AP / Sean Gardner, Pool
'Top kill' attempt fails to stop Gulf oil leak
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BP's "top kill" operation to plug the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico has failed in a stunning setback to efforts to stem the worst oil spill in US history. BP and federal authorities said Saturday they are now turning to a new strategy to stop the leak, but it will take at least four to seven days before it can be put into...
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
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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...
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
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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...
 
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John Chilcot, the chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, outlines the terms of reference for the inquiry and explains the panel's approach to its work during a news conference to launch it at the QEII conference centre in London, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
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No technical fault in Libya jet crash:investigators read more
Libyan men and policemen inspect the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya Thursday, May 13, 2010.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Investigators have so far found no evidence that mechanical failure caused an Airbus aircraft to crash in Libya this month killing 103 people, a Libyan commission studying the crash said. Rescue workers examine the debris of...
photo: AP / Nasser Nasser
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British Airways strike resumes read more
A British Airways cabin crew demonstrator at the picket line at Heathrow Airport in London as they continue their strike action, Tuesday, May 25, 2010.
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London: British Airways Plc cabin crew resumed their strike following the failure of talks over pay and staffing levels, grounding flights for as many as 22,000 people yesterday during one of the UK's busiest weekends for air travel. Europe's...
photo: AP / Sang Tan
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BP cuts checks for workers' lost wages read more
A sign protesting BP and President Barack Obama is seen in Grand Isle, La., Saturday, May 29, 2010.
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May 30, 2010: 11:03 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The scope of the damage from the Gulf Coast oil spill is still hard to calculate, but here's a grim tally: More than 26,000 workers and business owners along the Gulf Coast have filed claims so far...
photo: AP / Jae C. Hong
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Croatian president honors Serb victims in Bosnia read more
Croatian President, Ivo Josipovic, left, President of Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, Rajko Kuzmanovic, right, and Prime Minister of Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, at centre, pay respects to Bosnian Serb victims of war in the northern Bosnian village of Sijekovac, on Sunday, May 30, 2010.
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IRENA KNEZEVIC Associated Press Writer= SIJEKOVAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — In an effort to promote reconciliation in the Balkans, Croatia's president laid flowers Sunday to honor Serb villagers killed by Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war....
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Venus Williams Is Overpowered by Petrova read more
Venus Williams of the US returns the ball to Russia's Vera Zvonareva
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PARIS — There was a sense that this might be Venus Williams’s time, finally, at Roland Garros. Her see-through lace dress became the sartorial sensation of the French Open. Her rise back to No. 2 in the world this spring, and her strong...
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