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In this image made from television two men grieve among the victims of a second suicide attack in Tal Afar, Iraq, Thursday, July 9, 2009. 0 i

Bomb attacks kill 52 read more
The Australian

A DOUBLE suicide attack and four other bombings killed at least 52 people overnight in Iraq's deadliest day since US forces pulled out of towns and cities nationwide just over a week ago. The suicide bombers targeted the home of a police sergeant and his brother, who also worked for the security forces, in the northern town of Tal Afar, provincial...

photo: AP / Roj/TV

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Press and privacy: Secret spies | Editorial read more
The Guardian

The world is waking up to the extent to which modern technologies can destroy privacy. Any...

All Hail Jessica Lange read more
The Daily Beast

Jessica Lange will likely earn an Emmy nod next week for Grey Gardens, and is now an acclaimed...

A Right to a Revolution and Self-Determination read more
WorldNews.com

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. As if conjuring up patriarchal...

INTERVIEW - U.S. seeks full partnership with Russia on missiles read more

Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2009, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on ballistic missile defense authorization.

The Star

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is seeking full partnership with Moscow to bridge ballistic missile-defense differences that have strained U.S.-Russian ties for years, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on...

photo: AP / Susan Walsh

Obama urges poorer nations to fight global warming read more

U.S. President Barack Obama attends a G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Houston Chronicle

L'AQUILA, Italy - President Barack Obama said Thursday the global recession makes it harder to strike an international agreement to battle dangerous temperature increases, but he urged the poor emerging economies that rejected specific clean-energy...

photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari

Burma and North Korea, Brothers in Arms read more

A North Korean sailor is shown aboard the Kang Nam I, while anchoring in Hong Kong waters on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006.

Wall Street Journal

By AUNG ZAW From today's Wall Street Journal Asia. The North Korean ship that tried to steam to Burma last month isn't the only problem facing the U.S. and its allies. There's a much broader military relationship growing between the two pariah states...

photo: AP / Vincent Yu

Need for exit strategy sure to trouble G20 read more

G8 Summit - first working session with, in a clockwise direction: Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, Taro Aso, Japanese Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, German Federal Chancellor, Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia and José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC

The Guardian

By Brian Love ROME, July 9 (Reuters) - Germany failed to secure harder commitments from Wednesday's G8 meeting on a post-crisis "exit strategy" for cutting public deficits, but the issue is sure to return to haunt leaders in the months ahead....

photo: European Community / © European Communities 2009

Diplomatic test over Honduras crisis read more

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, left, waves as he stands with Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias outside Arias' residence in San Jose, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

BBC News

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is no stranger to diplomacy. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his role in helping to end the military conflicts and civil wars that plagued Central America for decades and claimed the lives of tens of...

photo: AP / Arnulfo Franco

Tough fight coming up in Afghanistan, Petraeus says in Seattle read more

Afghans walk through the streets of Carabar village, Afghanistan, while U. S. Army Soldiers, with 2nd Platoon, Company B, 82nd Airborne Division Special Troops Battalion, provide security, July 4. The DSTB, or Task Force Gladius, is responsible for security and development projects in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, where the village and Bagram Airfield are located.

Seattle Times

Tough months are ahead and "difficult fighting will be necessary" for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus told a Seattle audience Wednesday night. Speaking before the Seattle World Affairs Council, the head of the U.S. Central Command...

photo: US Army / Pfc. Richard W. Jones Jr.