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Police officers are seen at the location where Derrick Bird killed himself, after going on a shooting spree throughout the Lake District, in Boot, northwestern England, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
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Taxi driver kills 12 in UK shooting spree
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England, June 3, (Reuters) : A gunman killed at least 12 people in a rampage through quiet towns in and around the scenic Lake District of northwest England on Wednesday in Britain's worst shooting spree for 14 years. Terrified locals and walkers were told to stay indoors as 52-year-old taxi driver Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across...
Bill Clinton, former US President and current UN Special Envoy for Haiti, left, shakes hands with Haiti's President Rene Preval during a meeting by the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, which Clinton co-chairs, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
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Haiti donors urged to keep promises
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Haiti's president has called on leaders from Europe and the Americas to keep their promises of aid for the Caribbean country as it struggles to rebuild from the January's devastating earthquake. Speaking at a donor conference in the neighbouring Dominican Republic on Wednesday, Rene Preval said that the nation faced an "immense challenge" to...
A Turkish activist who was injured in Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound convoy Monday, is taken from a military plane to an ambulance at Etimesgut military airport in Ankara, Turkey, early Thursday, June 3, 2010.
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Turkish activist planes land Istanbul
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ISTANBUL (AP) - Hundreds of activists deported from Israel following a bloody raid by Israeli commandos on a pro-Palestinian flotilla returned to a hero's welcome in Turkey early Thursday. Nine bodies were on the first plane. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc and several Turkish lawmakers welcomed them at the airport after Turkey pressured Israel...
In this image made from video released by British Petroleum (BP PLC), oil can be seen pouring out of the blowout preventer, left, as robot submarines work near it early Wednesday June 2, 2010.
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Latest Effort to Stop Oil Flow Hits a Snag
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HOUMA, La. — The latest attempt to contain the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico hit a snag Wednesday when a diamond-tipped saw operated by an underwater robot got stuck in the riser pipe it was intended to slice off, federal officials said. Multimedia Graphic Methods That Have Been Tried to Stop the Leaking Oil Interactive Map Tracking the...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures while giving his opening address to dignitaries attending the peace jirga, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
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Militants attack as Afghan peace conference starts
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants launched a suicide attack on Afghanistan's national peace conference Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai interrupted his opening remarks to reassure nervous delegates hearing the thump of rockets and rattle of gunfire outside. No delegates were harmed but at least two attackers were killed in fighting with...
Kuwaiti women, Pro-Palestinian flotilla activists show their passports as they cross the Israeli controlled, Allenby Bridge which links Jordan with the West Bank, in Shouneh, west of Amman, Jordan Wednesday, June, 2, 2010.
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Israel deports activists from Gaza-bound flotilla
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An Israeli soldier stands guard as a bus carrying activists crosses the... Activists ride on a bus as they cross the Allenby Bridge crossing point... Palestinians look at a floating memorial sign during a protest against the... JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel on Wednesday began deporting the bulk of nearly 700 international activists detained during its...
A bag containing the body of an alleged Taliban militant lies on a pickup truck as police officers wait outside the site of a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
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Karzai Opens Peace Jirga; Taliban Attack
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By ALAN CULLISON KABUL—Afghan President Hamid Karzai opened a three-day national peace conference here Wednesday by appealing for a peace deal with Taliban insurgents, who tried to disrupt the meeting with rockets and suicide bombers. No one was injured in the attacks, officials said, though explosions and gunfire were audible in the...
Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, right, addresses the parliament as Minister to the Prime Minister office Sathit Wongnongtoey, left, listens during the censure debate Tuesday, June 1, 2010 in Bangkok. Thailand
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Thai PM defeats censure motion
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Thailand's prime minister has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament over his handling of last month's deadly street protests in the capital Bangkok. Chai Chidchob, the speaker of the lower house, announced on Wednesday that the censure motion submitted by the opposition against Abhisit Vejjajiva was rejected by 246 votes to 186. Suthep...
In this image reviewed by the Israeli military and taken aboard an Israeli Naval vessel, Israeli Navy soldiers intercept one of several boats headed towards the Gaza Strip, in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, early Monday, May 31, 2010.
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Troubled waters: Israel's shocking attack on a flotilla begs questions
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The Israel Defense Forces' lethal attack on ships 75 miles out in the Mediterranean Sea in international waters, carrying foreign activists with humanitarian gifts for blockaded Gazans, has provoked a firestorm of international fury and anger within Israel itself. At least 10 people are dead, more are wounded and hundreds, including a reported nine...
Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks about the relocation of U.S. Marine base in Okinawa at a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Friday, May 28, 2010.
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Japan's Prime Minister Steps Down Over Base Row
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TOKYO (AP) - Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was resigning over his broken campaign promise to move a U.S. Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa. The prime minister faced growing pressure from within his own party to resign ahead of July's upper house elections. His approval ratings had plummeted over his...
 
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna, exchange documents after signing an agreement on endowment fund for science and technology in New Delhi, India, Monday, July 20, 2009.
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WASHINGTON: Foreign minister S M Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are co-chairing the first Cabinet-level Indo-US Strategic Dialogue; which according to top US officials would set the pace for the long-term strategic relationship...
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University of Jordan students burn the Israeli flag in the campus on Thursday March 18, 2010 in Amman. The rally was held to express support and solidarity for the Palestinians over Jerusalem.
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By CHARLES LEVINSON And JAY SOLOMON JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused his nation's critics Wednesday of an "international offensive of hypocrisy," as the growing diplomatic crisis over the raid on a flotilla of pro-Palestinian...
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BP frees saw from pipe; oil threatens Florida read more
Oil cleanup workers hired by BP walk along the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., Tuesday, June 2, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama coast.
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A boat motors through oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico... Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the Deepwater... Map shows the forecast location of oil for Wednesday, June PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - BP has freed a...
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U.S. Says No, but Nuclear Option for Spill Gains Support read more
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0, Monday Aug. 10, 2009 at The Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas.
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The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well? Multimedia Interactive Map Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf Graphic Methods That Have...
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Pakistan's nuke arsenal bigger than India's read more
A Pakistani-made Shaheen II missile, capable of carrying nuclear war heads, loaded on a trailer rolls down during the Pakistan National Day parade in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday, March 23, 2008. Musharraf said Sunday that an "era of democracy" has begun, a day after his political foes named their candidate to lead a coalition government united against him. The U.S.-backed leader spoke early Sunday at a military parade celebrating Pakistan's national day to commemorate the March 23, 1940, resolution by Islamic leaders in British India that eventually led to the formation of Pakistan.
The Times of India
NEW DELHI: After racing ahead of India in ballistic and cruise missiles, with covert help from China and North Korea, Pakistan seems to be surging ahead on the nuclear front too. A series of recent estimates by international nuclear watchdogs and...
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Egypt's Brotherhood loses vote bid, backs ElBaradei read more
Former U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei talks during an interview with the Associated Press at his house in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday it would back a drive by former U.N. atomic watchdog head Mohammed ElBaradei to reform Egyptian politics after the group secured no seats in a vote to parliament's upper house. Mohammed...
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