| Vietnam Appoints Nguyen Minh Tret As New President Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Vietnamese legislators elected Nguyen Minh Triet, the Communist Party chief of Ho Chi Minh City, as the country's newest president. Mr. Triet won 94 percent of the National Assembly vote as he was the only candidate qualified to take over. His appointment is part of a reshuffling of senior leaders within the Communist Party.
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| Abducted Filipino Oilmen Freed In Nigeria Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Two Filipino oil workers have been released after being held for five days in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. Six gunmen in a speedboat abducted the two near the southeastern city of Port Harcourt on Tuesday. This is the latest in a series of assaults on foreign oil workers by militants who want more local control of oil wealth.
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| Iranian Supreme Leader Spurns Iran-U.S. Talks Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Iran's supreme authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday dismissed direct talks with the U.S. saying they had no benefits for his country. Khamenei was speaking in response to a U.S. offer to join the European Union's direct negotiations with Iran if it suspends uranium enrichment.
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| Hamas And Fatah Agree To Recognize Israel Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Hamas and Fatah, the two rival Palestinian factions on Tuesday agreed on a resolution that implicitly recognizes Israel. According to a Palestinian official, the plan allows for a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel.
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| Thai Court Recommends Parties' Dissolution Over Election Violations Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Thai prosecutors recommend that both the ruling Thai Rak Thai party and the main opposition Democrat party be disbanded for breaking election laws. A spokesman for the Attorney General's office told the BBC prosecutors had unanimously agreed that two parties, along with three others, had committed violations.
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| Three Arrested Over Polish Roof Collapse Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Polish police arrested three men who designed an exhibition hall that collapsed in January, and resulted in the deaths of 65 people. Two of those arrested have been charged with intentionally allowing an accident that endangered lives. The third has been charged with a lesser crime.
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| Swedish Bomb Squad Removes "Bomb-Belt" From Man's Waist Updated:27 June 2006 |
| Swedish Police on Monday said that a bomb squad removed a device from around the waist of a man which he claimed was a remote-controlled bomb. The man alleged that he was forced to wear it after he was abducted for three days.
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| India Looks At Morocco For Support On Top UN Position Updated:27 June 2006 |
| India has sought Morocco's support for Shashi Tharoor's bid for The post of UN Secretary General. Morocco has ample influence over the Arab world and Africa.
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| Canada Bestows Honorary Citizenship On Dalai Lama Updated:27 June 2006 |
| The Canadian government has decided to bestow an honorary citizenship on the Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The decision has been welcomed by the Tibetan government-in-exile.
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| India, China Conclude Border Security Talks Updated:27 June 2006 |
| The eighth round of talks between India and China on the border control issue concluded on June 27. The next level of meetings will happen in India.
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| Multinational Force: Iraqi Reconciliation Process "Can Heal The Nation" Updated:27 June 2006 |
| A spokesman for the Multinational Force in Iraq says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation and dialogue process marks the beginning of a healing process in the country. Mr. Maliki announced the plan on Sunday in a move to reduce sectarian violence and spur national unity and reconstruction of the country.
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| Secretary Rice In Afghanistan To Show Support For Karzai Updated:27 June 2006 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Afghanistan to show continued American support in President Hamid Karzai's battle against remnants of the Taliban regime Rice is in Kabul to fight criticism that the Bush Administration's focus has shifted from Afghanistan to Iraq.
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| Israeli Tanks Enter Southern Gaza To Recover Kidnapped Soldier Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Israeli ground forces, including tanks, have crossed the southern border with Gaza, near Kerem Shalom, in an effort to recover a soldier who was kidnapped, Sunday. Israeli fighter jets launched airstrikes destroying a power plant in Gaza City, as well as at least three bridges, in an effort to cut off and isolate the location of militants they believe have captured 19 year old Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
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| Iraqi Reconciliation Plan Releases 450 Prisoners Updated:28 June 2006 |
| As part of the Iraqi national reconciliation plan, nearly 450 prisoners were freed from Abu Ghraib prison. However, according to Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie none of the prisoners had been convicted of any crime.
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| British Police Arrest Man In Connection With Model's Murder Updated:28 June 2006 |
| British police arrest a man in connection with the murder of teenage model Sally Anne Bowman, last September. She had turned 18 just a week before she was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death near her home in south London.
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| Israeli Army Launches Offensive Into Gaza Strip Updated:28 June 2006 |
| The Israeli army on Wednesday launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip area, the first after it quit the territory last year. The move was aimed at putting more pressure on militants to release an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped from the army last weekend.
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| Latest Coal Mine Explosion Hits China Updated:28 June 2006 |
| At least 22 people were killed in a coal mine explosion on Wednesday in north China. According to reports, 37 others were injured in the Wulong Coal Mine in Fuxin, a city in the Liaoning province.
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| Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony Denies Allegations Of War Crimes Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Joseph Kony, a former Ugandan rebel leader who is wanted by a U.N. tribunal says he is not guilty of war crimes. Kony who is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group is blamed for insecurity in northern Uganda and southern Sudan.
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| Possible New Plan In Store For Anglican Church Involving Gay Bishops Updated:28 June 2006 |
| The Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church, has proposed a bi-partisan membership for the church segregating the Church in the U.S. for the consecration of a gay bishop. Archbishop Rowan Williams has laid out a plan dividing the spiritual body of 77 million Anglicans after the Episcopal Church refused to forward an apology for the appointment of a homosexual bishop.
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| G8 Foreign Ministers To Discuss Iran Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Foreign ministers from the G8 member countries will discuss possible ways to get Iran to respond faster to the atomic incentives offered by western nations when they meet in Moscow on Thursday. The move is a continuation of a long running process to persuade Iran to give up uranium enrichment.
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| Iraqi Shrine Bombing Suspect Arrested Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Iraqi officials on Wednesday said they have arrested a key al-Qaeda in Iraq suspect wanted in the bombing of the Shiite Golden Dome shrine last February in Samarra. National Security adviser, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, said a Tunisian identified as Yousri Fakher, was one of the seven men wanted in the attack.
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| Soviet-Era Landmine Kills U.S. Soldier In Afghanistan Updated:28 June 2006 |
| A landmine, probably placed to kill invading soldiers from the Soviet Union, has struck a U.S. vehicle traveling in Afghanistan; killing one soldier, and wounding others. The Pentagon says, millions of land mines lay unmarked across Afghanistan, remnants of a quarter century of conflict, adding that this incident does not appear to be related to extremist activity.
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| India Seeks Bangladesh's Support For UN Secretary General Candidate Updated:28 June 2006 |
| India has sought Bangladesh's support in favor of her candidate to the post of the next Secretary General of the United Nations .The Indian High Commissioner Veena Sikri sought the support while she met Foreign Minister of Bangladesh M Morshed Khan at his office in Dhaka on Wednesday.
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| Italy's Top Clubs Ask Disgraced Prince To Resign Updated:28 June 2006 |
| An Italian newspaper on Wednesday reported that two of the elite clubs in Rome have asked Prince Victor Emmanuel to resign from their membership. The call for resignations follow Prince's arrest on suspicion of providing prostitutes and illegal slot machines to a casino.
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| Putin Orders Russian Embassy Killers Hunted Down And Executed Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin has put a hit out on kidnappers who killed four Russians in Iraq. The order comes after Russian Foreign Ministry officers confirm that Embassy workers, third secretary Fyodor Zaitsev and staffers Rinat Agliulin, Anatoly Smirnov and Oleg Fedoseyev, were abducted and killed in Iraq in June.
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| Russia To Build "Nuclear Gazprom" Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Russia's nuclear chief in Wednesday said that the country is planning to merge its civilian nuclear companies into one state company so as to boost nuclear energy production thus increasing Moscow's influence in world market. The merger plan comes along the lines of Russia's gas giant "Gazprom," which is world's biggest natural gas company by reserves.
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| Israel Sends Fighter Jets Into Syria As Gaza Incursion Continues Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Syrian officials say its air force chased Israeli planes out of its airspace, after a "hostile and provocative act." Israeli fighter jets few over the country home of President Bashar al-Assad in Ladekye, in an effort to pressure Syria to force Palestinian militants to return a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
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| Israel Intensifies Gaza Incursion; Kidnapped West Bank Settler Found Dead Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Israel has intensified its incursion into the Gaza strip, now sending troops further north and continuing airstrikes, in an expanded effort to recover a kidnapped soldier. The body of an Israeli West Bank settler, Eliyahu Yitzhak Asheri, 18, was found in Ramallah, after militant groups claimed responsibility for the killing.
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| No Casualties In Iran Quake Updated:28 June 2006 |
| There are no reports of casualty after an earthquake hit southern Iran. Radio reports said residents of the city of Bandar Abbas poured into the streets after the quake hit.
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| Two Belgian Girls Found Murdered Near Liege Updated:28 June 2006 |
| Police have found the bodies of two young step-sisters, after they disappeared three weeks ago. Now, the Chief prosecutor in Liege, Belgium, Cedric Visart de Bocarme, says that both Stacy Lemmens, 7, and Nathalie Mahy, 10, were murdered.
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