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Protesters participate in a demonstration against the expansion of a U.S. military base at the Dal Molin airport, in Vicenza, northern Italy, Saturday, July 4 2009.
G 8   Italy   Photos   Protests   US
 The Star 
Anti-G8 demonstrators clash with police in Italy
Sat 4 Jul 2009
VICENZA, Italy (Reuters) - Anti-G8 demonstrators clashed briefly with Italian police on Saturday in the first big protest ahead of next week's summit of the world's richest nations. Protesters clash... (photo: AP / Luca Bruno)
FILE - In this January 1977 file photo,Yoko Ono, center, and John Lennon, right, are shown with Allen Klein, president of ABKCO Industries Inc.
Alzheimer   Celebrity   Music   New York   Photos
 The Examiner 
Ex-Beatles, Rolling Stones manager Klein dies
Sun 5 Jul 2009
Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - Music manager Allen Klein, a no-holds-barred businessman who bulldozed his way into and out of deals with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died Saturday, a publicist... (photo: AP)
First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Russian President Vladimir Putin  The New York Times  Sat 4 Jul 2009
Heading to Russia, Obama Is Mindful of Its Power Equation

MOSCOW - The summit meeting here this week revolves around two men with some notable affinities. Presidents Obama and Dmitri A. Medvedev are relatively young leaders who represent a new generation of... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office / )
Foreign Policy   Photos   Politics   Russia   US
Weather-sky-forest-mountains-Dharamshala-India  The Guardian  Sun 5 Jul 2009
The G8 must lead on emissions reduction

World leaders have a unique opportunity this year to lay the essential foundations of a solution to the global climate crisis. At the G8 summit in Italy next week, and at numerous other meetings this... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Climate   Leaders   Photos   Weather   World
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Roxas Boulevard in Manila, Philippines Al Jazeera Sun 5 Jul 2009
Deadly blast hits Philippine city

At least five people have died and 45 others wounded after a bomb exploded outside a church in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman says. Separatists... (photo: Creative Commons / TheCoffee)
Asia   Manila   People   Philippine   Photos
Dollar closes lower despite late rally China Daily Sun 5 Jul 2009
China won't press for new global currency at G8

BEIJING: China has no plans to raise its proposal for a new global currency to replace the dollar at the G8 meeting this week but is willing to discuss it, a top Chinese... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
Economy   China   Business   Photos   World
An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways, taxies on the tarmac above a car access ramp at Roissy airport, north of Paris, before taking off for Sana'a, Yemen, Friday July 3, 2009. The Observer Sun 5 Jul 2009
Global blacklist plan to ground unsafe planes

The setting up of a new global blacklist of planes unfit to fly will be discussed this week at a summit meeting between Antonio Tajani, the European transport... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
Airbus   Aviation   Photos   Safety   Transport
The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon The Miami Herald Sun 5 Jul 2009
16 UN deminers kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL -- Gunmen abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial police chief said Sunday. The men were kidnapped... (photo: AP / Filip Horvat)
Afghanistan   Asia   Photos   UN   World
U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth reacts as he listens to his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, Friday, May 8, 2009. North Korea vowed Friday to bolster its atomic arsenal in response to what it called Washington's "persistent hostile policy," even as a special envoy for President Barack Obama traveled to the region in a bid to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear negotiations. Irish Times Sun 5 Jul 2009
US official in N Korea talks

The US pointman for sanctions on North Korea holds talks in Malaysia today, possibly on links banks have to the North's finances, while a report said Pyongyang may have... (photo: AP / Jo Yong-Hak)
Asia   Malaysia   NKorea   Photos   US
Myanmar's junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe, left, is seen before his meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, unseen, Friday, May 23, 2008 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Ban, on a mission to open up Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed Friday to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors. Ban's comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting Friday with Than Shwe, the country's most powerful figure The Times of India Sun 5 Jul 2009
Myanmar gamble backfires for UN chief: analysts

5 Jul 2009, 0854 hrs IST, AFP               Text: BANGKOK: Myanmar's junta has dealt a humiliating blow to Ban Ki-moon's... (photo: AP / Stan Honda, Pool)
Bangkok   Democracy   HumanRights   Myanmar   Photos
 First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev delivers a televised nationwide address in Moscow, Tuesd Philadelphia Daily News Sun 5 Jul 2009
Trip to Russia a test for Obama

The president wants to "reset" relations, but obstacles remain. By Michael A. Fletcher and Philip P. Pan Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Obama is... (photo: AP Photo)
Leaders   Photos   Politics   Russia   Washington


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