Sunday, 14 June 2009

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Air France jet sent message on rudder problem (AP)  

2009-06-14 15:47

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In this photo provided Sunday June 14, 2009 by the French Army shows a small inflatable boat of French oceanographic survey ship Pourquoi Pas during searches Thursday for debris of the Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean. Air France Flight 447, en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro with 228 passengers and crew, went down in the ocean on June 1. Behind is French war ship frigate 'Ventose'.(AP Photo/Mikael Bidart, ECPAD)AP - A burst of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said.


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Netanyahu could use Iran vote in policy speech (AP)  

2009-06-14 14:28

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An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man walk past posters, hung by an extremist right wing group, depicting US President Barack Obama wearing a traditional Arab headdress, in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Senior aides say they don't expect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explicitly endorse Palestinian statehood when he delivers an anxiously awaited policy speech Sunday night, a stance that would preserve an uncomfortable impasse with the United States. T (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel's prime minister delivers a highly anticipated policy speech Sunday in which he could use the re-election of Iran's hard-line president to boost his argument that Tehran poses a bigger threat to Mideast peace than his refusal to endorse Palestinian statehood.


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Yemen arrests suspected al-Qaida financier (AP)  

2009-06-14 13:58

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AP - Yemen has arrested a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.
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Beauty of the beasts: Swiss cows fight to be queen (AP)  

2009-06-14 16:20

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Berkane, the cow, left, and Bergamote battle for the title of 'Queen' in Grimetz in the Swiss Alps, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Judges record every fight as spectators sit on the surrounding mountainside, sipping local wine and cheering their family herd. But it is the cows who choose who to fight and, ultimately, who will reign supreme at the end of the season. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Furie and Cigale eye each other warily, take a step forward and lock horns.


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Family greets dissident Cuban doctor in Argentina (AP)  

2009-06-14 14:30

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Cuban doctor Hilda Molina, center, is greeted by her family including her grandson Juan Pablo, left, and the media as she arrives at the Buenos Aires international airport Sunday, June 14, 2009. Cuba has abruptly dropped its refusal to let Dr. Molina, a prominent physician who defied Fidel Castro by criticizing the communist-run island's health care system, leave the country, allowing her to visit family in Argentina after years of denials. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - A dissident Cuban surgeon who had been denied permission to leave the island for more than a decade hugged her grandchildren Sunday for the first time after arriving to an emotional family reunion in Argentina.


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Sudan denies expelled aid groups allowed to return (AFP)  

2009-06-14 16:03

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Sudanese women carrying sacks of relief food in Boro Medina, in south Sudan, in 2008. Sudan has disputed a declaration by UN humanitarian chief John Holmes that it would allow expelled aid groups to return to Darfur, insisting the agencies must have AFP - Sudan on Sunday disputed a declaration by UN humanitarian chief John Holmes that it would allow expelled aid groups to return to Darfur, insisting the agencies must have "new names and new logos."


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Indian students act against Australia attacks (AFP)  

2009-06-14 10:06

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Indian students demand protection from Lebanese youth near Harris Park in Sydney on June 10. They're getting regular beatings and, they say, the police don't care. For many Indians, it wasn't what they were expecting in Australia.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - They're getting regular beatings and, they say, the police don't care. For many Indians, it wasn't what they were expecting in Australia.


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Ahmadinejad's reelection prompts mass protests in Iran (The...  

2009-06-13 09:00

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The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on Saturday to protest the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clashing with riot police over the surprise result and crying fraud.
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