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  • Iran tests missiles in Persian Gulf, Hormouz (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 1:11 am
    AP - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday in war games officials say are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats, state television reported.
  • Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goal (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:39 am

    Leaders of the Group of Eight nations pose for a photo with eight leaders of the emerging economies at the Windsor Hotel Toya in Toyako, Hokkaido on the last day of their three-day summit Wednesday July 9, 2008 in Japan. The leaders are from left to right: IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, French President President Nicolas Sarkozy, Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, US President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Juntao, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, EU President Jose Manuel Barroso, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, OECD Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria Trevino. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, POOL)AP - A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global challenges of our time" and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets.


  • No boycott: Sarkozy to attend Olympics opener (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 1:19 am

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a press conference in Toyako, Japan, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Sarkozy, who is participating in the G8 summit on the Japanese northern main island of Hokkaido, says emerging economies including China and India will play a bigger role at the next Group of Eight meeting. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attend the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony next month, his office said Wednesday, ending a boycott threat and seeking to soothe Chinese irritation over French support of Tibet.


  • Iraq bomb kills 3 police officers, civilian (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:58 am

    An Iraqi police officer walks past a police vehicle damaged in a bomb blast in the oil rich city of Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. A bomb left in a plastic bag near a Kirkuk court building went off Tuesday, injuring four people, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - Iraqi police say a bomb in Fallujah has killed three police and one civilian.


  • US chief: Iraq needs time to stabilize after fight (AP)
    July 8, 2008, 4:18 pm

    Joint Chiefs Chairman Ad. Michael Mullen, right, talks with Iraqi Army Gen. Riyadh Jalal Tawfig, the commander of all Iraqi security forces in Ninevah province of Iraq, Tuesday, July 8, 2008 in Mosul, Iraq. The two men were discussing security progress at a combat outpost in western Mosul where al-Qaida held sway until a recent Iraqi-led offensive. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)AP - Even in the chin-high piles of roadside rubble, the crumbled cinderblock and the eerily empty streets of this neighborhood in western Mosul, America's top military officer sees hope. But he also sees peril and an urgent need to get the economy going — jobs, services, some semblance of regular life.


  • Russian aid arrives in NKorea (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:51 am
    AP - A shipment of Russian food aid arrived this week in North Korea, the country's official news agency reported Wednesday.
  • Group: Palestinians shorted by West Bank police (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:15 am
    AP - About one of every 12 Israeli police investigations into complaints of offenses against Palestinians in the West Bank resulted in indictments, a human rights group said Wednesday.
  • Helicopter Ingrid to rebels: 'give up' (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:51 am
    AP - Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt may be in France, but her voice has been booming over Colombia's jungles calling on rebels to turn themselves in.
  • U.S. welcomes Sudan election law as step forward (Reuters)
    July 8, 2008, 9:27 pm
    Reuters - The United States on Tuesday hailed Sudan's new election law, which paves the way for the first free ballot in 23 years in Africa's biggest state.
  • Singapore falls short on rights: lawyers' group (AFP)
    July 9, 2008, 1:35 am

    File photo shows people walking in front of the Supreme Court in Singapore. Singapore fails to meet international standards for political and human rights and there are concerns about the independence of its judiciary, an association of lawyers said.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - Singapore fails to meet international standards for political and human rights and there are concerns about the independence of its judiciary, an association of lawyers said.


  • Anti-Pope fashion parade held ahead of Australian visit (AFP)
    July 9, 2008, 1:08 am

    A member of the NoToPope coalition wears a t-shirt during an AFP - Australians protesting against Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Sydney took a creative turn on Wednesday, staging an "annoying" fashion show of T-shirts displaying anti-Catholic slogans.




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