A man carries cucumbers collected for destruction at a greenhouse compound outside Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 6, 2011.
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German minister: new cases of E. coli go down
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BERLIN-A decline in the number of new infections in a deadly bacterial outbreak gives reason for hope that the epidemic is abating, Germany's health minister said Wednesday before an E.coli crisis meeting with EU and German health officials in Berlin. "I cannot yet give an all-clear, but after an analysis of the numbers there's reason for hope,"...
A Qatar Emiri Air Force Mirage 2000-5 takes off March 25, 2011, in support of a Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn mission. Qatar is the newest member of the coalition supporting the no-fly zone over Libya.
photo: US Navy / Paul Farley
Libya crisis: Nato meets to review air campaign
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Nato defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to review the results of two months of air strikes in Libya, as the alliance steps up its campaign. More explosions were heard overnight in the...
President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany pause as the national anthem is played during the State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, June 7, 2011.
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Obama, Merkel pledge to cooperate on Libya, economy
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Despite differences between Washington and Berlin, the president and the chancellor jointly demand that Moammar Kadafi give up power....
Syrian protesters carry national flags as they shout slogans against President Bashar Assad in front of the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 7, 2011.
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UK and France seek UN action over Syria's crackdown
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Britain and France are stepping up pressure for a UN Security Council vote condemning the Syrian government's suppression of months of unrest. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said it was "inconceivable that the UN remains silent" in the face of...
A farm worker spreads cucumbers in a field after failing to sell them due an ongoing food crisis in Europe, in Carquefou, western France, Monday, June 6, 2011.
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Commission warns against 'jumping to conclusions' on E. coli
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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. National governments should not jump to "premature conclusions" about the source of the E. coli outbreak in Germany, MEPs have heard. Health Commissioner John Dalli urged member states not to name any suspected source unless backed by scientific evidence. Mr Dalli's comments came during...
Pro Palestinians protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops along the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, Sunday, June 5, 2011.
photo: AP / Ariel Schalit
Terrific Bombings and Massacres and the Politics of Chaos
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. The recent slaughter of 23 Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), along with wounding over 300, was reminiscent of another Israeli pre-emptive military strike. This one, however, occurred thirty-years ago when on June 7, 1981 F-16 Israeli fighter jets, supplied by the U.S.,...
Female anti-government protestors celebrate President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, June 6, 2011.
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U.S. says Yemen's Saleh should step aside 'immediately'
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, anxious to deny al-Qaida's most dangerous offshoot more space in which to flourish, urged Yemen's wounded president Monday to immediately step aside and clear the way for a transfer of power aimed at averting all-out civil war. The administration's call came as U.S. diplomats worked with Saudi Arabian and...
File - In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, a Syrian anti-government protester holds up a bloodied hand during a funeral procession for slain activists in Izraa, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011.
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Attack kills 120 Syrian forces; crackdown feared
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BEIRUT - Armed men killed 120 Syrian security forces and torched government buildings Monday in a northern region where troops have unleashed deadly assaults on protesters for days, Syria said. The government vowed to respond 'decisively,' hinting at an even more brutal crackdown by a regime known for ruthlessly crushing dissent. If confirmed, the...
Doctor Hauke Weilert checks the infusion of an E. coli patient undergoing a kidney dialysis at Asklepios Hospital in Hamburg-Altona, Germany, Monday, June 6, 2011.
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EU to hold crisis talks on killer bacteria
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LUXEMBOURG (AFP) – European Union agriculture ministers were to hold emergency talks in Luxembourg Tuesday on the bacteria crisis that has left 23 dead, as the source of the outbreak remained elusive. The European ministers will discuss aid for farmers who are unable to sell their vegetables due to growing consumer fears over the E. coli...
Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, meets with a U.S. women's delegation in Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 6, 2011.
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Delegation of US women leaders meet with Raul Castro's daughter during visit to Havana
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HAVANA - A group of U.S. women leaders met with Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter Monday for an exchange on topics including gender, reproductive health and gay rights. The delegation, which arrived in Havana on Sunday, includes Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile and former U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat who resigned...
Up until now George Osborne has been able to boast that he has not given extra money to any...
Syria's revolt against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad is turning into an armed...
Between 19 and 21 May, the northern Sudanese Armed Forces annexed the southern border town of...
 
Gypsies carry their possessions through the village of Gyongyospata, eastern Hungary, Friday, April 22, 2011. Roma leaders say they have evacuated 277 women and children from a village in Hungary because a far-right vigilante group is setting up a training camp near their homes.
Far-right activists have built up support in Hungary and are now taking the law into their own hands - prompting accusations that they are stirring racial hatred. Tiszavasvari is the "capital" of the radical right-wing Jobbik...
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Gandhian activist Anna Hazare leaves after a press conference in Gauhati, India, Saturday, May 21, 2011.
Civil rights activist Anna Hazare and his supporters today began a day-long hunger strike at Rajghat to protest the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev's supporters during their agitation against corruption here on Saturday night. After paying floral...
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Libyan rebel fighters battle with pro-Gadhafi troops on Tripoli Street in the besieged city of Misrata, the main rebel holdout in Gadhafi's territory, Thursday, April 21, 2011.
Nato ministers are due to discuss the progress of the military campaign in Libya after Muammar Gaddafi renewed his vow to "fight to the death". The dictator issued the defiant message on Tuesday night just hours after jets launched the most...
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An ethnic Uzbek woman and her relative wait to to board a plane for Bishkek at the airport in the southern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, June 17, 2010 as Kyrgyz soldiers patrol. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Zarip Toroev)
Failure to deliver justice for the killings of civilians in ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 could spark more violence, Amnesty International warns. In a report released ahead...
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France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who serves as chair of the Group of 20, begins a news conference at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington, Friday, April 15, 2011.
France's Christine Lagarde brings her IMF roadshow to India on Tuesday in the latest leg of a world tour aimed at overcoming opposition in emerging countries to her bid to lead the institution. The French finance minister, who has already travelled...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
Ban Ki-moon seeks second term as UN secretary general
Ban Ki-moon has formally announced his candidacy for a second five-year term as UN secretary general. Mr Ban pledged to keep leading the world body as a "bridge-builder" in a time of unprecedented global change. With no rival for the post, the former...
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Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev gestures during a press conference at his ashram in Haridwar, India, Monday, June 6, 2011.
Indian PM Manmohan Singh has said that that the police crackdown on an anti-graft hunger strike by yoga guru Baba Ramdev in Delhi was "unfortunate". But Mr Singh justified the move saying there was "no alternative". Police in Delhi broke up the yoga...
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An anti-government protestor, center, shouts slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, April 16, 2011. Dozens of chiefs from Yemen's two largest and most powerful tribes called on the president to immediately step down and strip his son of control over security forces, as rival crowds of protesters took to the streets Friday.
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