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A vessel skims for oil near Queen Bess Island off the coast of Louisiana on Monday, June 14, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to impact areas across the Gulf Coast.
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Documents reveal BP's missteps before blowout
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updated 7:15 p.m. ET June 14, 2010 NEW ORLEANS - BP made a series of money-saving shortcuts and blunders that dramatically increased the danger of a destructive oil spill in a well that an engineer ominously described as a "nightmare" just six days before the blowout, according to documents released Monday that provide new insight into the causes...
Intelligence officers from Asian and Pacific nations look at the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan, which was sunken near the maritime border with North Korea in March, at the Second Fleet Command of Navy in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Friday, June 11, 2010.
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North, South Korea address U.N. over ship sinking
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South and North Korea addressed the U.N. Security Council separately on Monday over the deadly sinking of a South Korean naval ship in March that has raised tension on the Korean peninsula. Navy soldiers stand guard near the wreckage of the naval vessel Cheonan, which was sunk on March 26 near the maritime border with...
FILE - In this June 11, 2002 picture, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. speaks in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss hate crime legislation. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.
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Ted Kennedy was death threat magnet, FBI files say
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WASHINGTON (AP): For decades after gunmen shot down his brothers, Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes chillingly specific, as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday. Five years after President John F. Kennedy was killed and shortly after Sen. Robert...
A Palestinian fuel tanker, decorated on the front with an EU flag, arrives at Gaza's main power plant near the Karni Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2008. Guns went quiet as a six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect early Thursday, but there was widespread skepticism about its ability to hold.
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Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to international pressure
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Israel bowed to international pressure yesterday when it agreed to reopen crossing points into Gaza for everyday goods. The decision was prompted by criticism of its bloody interception of an aid flotilla two weeks ago and condemnation of the Gaza blockade by the Red Cross. Tony Blair, Middle East peace envoy, hailed the move as significant after...
Chairman of the NVA, New Flemish Alliance Party, Bart De Wever , center, speaks from the podium after the results of the election in Brussels, Belgium, on Sunday, June 13, 2010.
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Belgium separatists win election
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A Flemish party which advocates the gradual dissolution of Belgium has won the most seats in the country's general election. The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), whose ultimate aim is independence for Flanders, the northern part of the country, took 27 out of 150 seats in Sunday's vote. The Socialist party from Wallonia, the French-speaking southern...
An Uzbek woman who identified herself only as Khadicha, and who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her husband was killed and house burned down stands in line in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010.
photo: AP / Anvar Ilyasov
Refugees mass along Uzbek border
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Tens of thousands of people from southern Kyrgyzstan are seeking safety in neighbouring Uzbekistan, fleeing violence that has killed 138 people. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said more than 75,000 people had crossed the border, while thousands of others were reportedly waiting on the Kyrgyz side. Yves Giovannoni, the head of the...
President Barack Obama speaks at the Theodore Staging Area in Theodore, Ala., Monday, June 14, 2010. It is Obama's third trip to the Gulf coast following the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Obama labels oil spill an environmental 9/11
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GULFPORT—US President Barack Obama framed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as an environmental 9/11 as he began a tour of the region Monday to stem growing political fallout from the catastrophe. In an interview with the Washington-based news organization Politico, Obama vowed to push for a radical overhaul of US energy policy that would reduce...
File - Iranian riot police roam the streets to prevent supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi from gathering on the streets as they protest the results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009.
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A Terrorist Is a Terrorist and a Rioter Is a Rioter
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Just like Ronald Reagan, who mistakenly said that one man's terrorist was another man's freedom fighter, President Barack Obama should have known better than to call last year's post-election rioters in Iran human rights activists. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran understood this...
Israeli police and soldiers secure the area where three other police officers were shot in an attack by Palestinian gunmen earlier, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Haggai, near Hebron, Monday, June 14, 2010.
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Israeli policeman killed in ambush
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An Israeli police officer has been killed and two others wounded in an ambush outside the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The attackers opened fire on the officers' police car as it travelled north of Hebron on Monday morning. Three officers were shot; one died from his injuries after being transported to a hospital in Jerusalem. The...
Residents and rescue workers gather at the site of a boat accident in Ballia, 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of Lucknow, the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, India, Monday, June 14, 2010.
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35 feared dead as boat capsizes in Ganges
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LUCKNOW: At least 24 people drowned and 11 others were missing after a boat capsized on the Ganges river in early on Monday, police said. The crowded vessel was carrying 60-70 people traveling to...
 
 
As far as we know, nine people died in international waters off the coast of Gaza under...
NUEVO CAMPECHITO, Mexico (Reuters) - Within a week of the explosion of Mexico's Ixtoc offshore...
I would never deny the Jewish right to the land of Israel," the great man told...
 
By MARCUS WALKER in Berlin and DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS in Paris BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy put on a show of unity at a summit Monday, following weeks of tension between the two countries whose...
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LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles judge on Monday rejected calls for Michael Jackson's doctor to be suspended from practicing medicine in California, saying he did not have authority to act on the request. The California Medical Board had requested that...
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Serbia took a significant step towards joining the EU after European foreign ministers relaxed demands for the alleged genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic to be arrested before...
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The BP oil spill is already a calamity for the Gulf Coast ecosystem and economy, but now that Washington is looking to deflect all political blame it could also became a disaster for the rule of law. Exhibit C, or perhaps it's now D, is the new White...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Twenty inmates were shot to death Monday when a group of prisoners attacked another gang inside a prison in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities said. Two policemen guarding the prison were wounded. The lock-up in the Pacific...
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WASHINGTON: Companies receiving money from the government's Wall Street bailout have repaid almost all the $531 million in unpaid federal taxes they owed when they entered the program, a government investigator said in a report Monday. Tax records...
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A security guard stands by a BP logo outside the BP headquarters in London, Monday, June 14, 2010. Shares in BP PLC plunged again on Monday as the company's board discussed U.S. demands that it suspend dividend payments until it pays for the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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An Iranian female protestor chants slogans, in an anti-Israel demonstration in front of the U.N. office in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 31, 2010, to protest over Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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In this long exposure photo released by Japan's Wakayama University Institute for Education on Space, two streaks of the Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid, and its capsule streak across the sky, from left to right, near Glendambo in southern Australia as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere late Sunday, June 13, 2010.
 
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