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In this photo released by fergana.ru, a man examines a burnt car in Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city of Osh, Friday, June 11, 2010. Riots in south Kyrgyzstan killed scores of people, officials said Friday.

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14 Killed In New Wave Of Unrest In Kyrgyzstan
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - Riots in south Kyrgyzstan killed at least 14 people and injured more than 140, officials said Friday, as fears grew of a new cycle of violence in the Central Asian nation. Witnesses in Osh, the country's second-largest city, reported hearing sustained gunfire late Thursday and early Friday. Local media also reported that...

Populist anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders, center, addresses his supporters on election night in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday June 9, 2010.

photo: AP / Cynthia Boll

Dutch vote swings far to the right
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By Mariette Le Roux, Agence France-Presse June 11, 2010 12:00 AM Geert Wilders celebrates after the announcement of Dutch election results late on Wednesday. Wilders' far-right party captured 24 of 150 seats. Photograph by: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen, Reuters, Agence France-Presse THE HAGUE - The spectacular election breakthrough of Geert Wilders'...

Kyrgyz policemen sit as they guard near the regional government headquarter in the Jalal-Abad, southern Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, May 15, 2010.

photo: AP / Sergei Grits

Violence rocks Kyrgyz city of Osh
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At least 12 people have been killed and 126 wounded in an outbreak of violence in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh, forcing the government to impose a state of emergency in the region. The interim government, led by Roza Otunbayeva, said that the violence was a "local conflict" possibly sparked by an argument, but the unrest in...

Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and CEO of Ericsson, attends a meeting at the ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong Monday, Dec. 4, 2006.

photo: AP / Vincent Yu

White House summons BP brass to face Obama
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Ending days of speculation and criticism about why the president has not met or spoken with top officials of the company responsible for the oil spill off the Gulf Coast, the White House Thursday invited BP's chairman of the board and other senior managers to meet with Barack Obama in Washington next week. The invitation to a meeting next Wednesday...

Members of an Afghan international security force secure the area while in pursuit of militants north of Naglham in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan June 1, 2010.

photo: US Army / Pfc. Joseph Joynt

General: Afghan efforts stalled
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Amid a spike in Afghan and American deaths in southern Afghanistan, U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top NATO commander in the country, conceded Thursday that the military push to secure the Taliban's spiritual capital will take longer than anticipated. As McClatchy Newspapers reported last month, a series of obstacles...

Workers use a suction hose to remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, La.

photo: AP / Eric Gay

BP oil spill estimate doubles
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New studies suggest the amount of oil gushing out from BP's damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could be double what was previously estimated. US scientists said on Thursday that between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels per day (3.2 million and 6.4 million litres) of oil flowed from the well before June 3, when BP's remotely operated robots sawed...

Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to celebrate the end of the Church's year of the priest, Thursday, June 10, 2010.

photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito

Pope defends celibacy for priests at Vatican rally
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NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Writer= VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI strongly defended celibacy for priests as a sign of faith in an increasingly secular world Thursday, insisting on a church tradition that has increasingy come under scrutiny amid the clerical sex abuse scandal. Benedict didn't directly mention the crisis that has rocked...

In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 file photo, handcuffed Swiss businessman Max Goeldi sits inside a police vehicle in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tripoli, Libya.

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Libya frees Swiss businessman, lawyer says
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TRIPOLI - Swiss businessman Max Goeldi has been freed from a Libyan jail and is preparing to go home, his lawyer said on Thursday, raising the prospect Libya and Switzerland can draw a line under their damaging diplomatic row. Goeldi was serving a four-month sentence for violating immigration rules but his supporters say he has been an innocent...

Chinese armed escorts prepare to transport Chinese currency at a bank in Changchun, northeastern China's Jilin province, Tuesday Aug. 22, 2006. China raised interest rates last Friday for the second time this year amid efforts to rein in a boom in lending and construction that the government worries could spark a financial crisis. The central bank raised the minimum rate that commercial banks charge on one-year loans in China's currency, the yuan, by 0.26 percent to 6.12 percent, effective last Saturda

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US lashes out at China over yuan
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The US has renewed call on China to revalue its currency, the yuan, saying its refusal to do so is impeding global economic reforms and hurting domestic demand in the world's most populous country. The call was made by Timothy Geithner, the US treasury secretary, as China posted unexpectedly strong exports, and a $19.5bn trade surplus in May,...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting of Turkish-Arab Cooperation Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, June 10, 2010.

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Turkey Is Committed to Western Ties, Erdogan Says
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By MARC CHAMPION ISTANBUL—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday dismissed as propaganda suggestions that Turkey's government was abandoning its traditional Western alliances to turn East. Addressing the Turkish-Arab Economic Forum in Istanbul, Mr. Erdogan said his government remained committed to taking Turkey into the...