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22nd

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  • No boycott: Sarkozy to attend Olympics opener (AP)
    July 8, 2008, 8:56 pm
    AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics next month, his office said Wednesday, putting an end to his threat to boycott the event over China's treatment of Tibet.
  • Iraq bomb kills 3 police officers, civilian (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:23 am

    This July 21, 2003 file photo provided by the Defense Department shows then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, center, escorted by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, right, commander, 101st Airborne Division, as they walk through the streets of Mosul, Iraq. Five years ago this month, Paul Wolfowitz, then the Pentagon's second-ranking official, dropped in on this northern city to take its temperature. He walked the streets, chatted with locals and came to a quick conclusion: The people here had grown impatient with post-invasion chaos. (AP Photo/Defense Department, William Turenne, File)AP - Iraqi police say a bomb in Fallujah has killed three police and one civilian.


  • Developing economies don't back G-8 climate goal (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:35 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.


  • 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.


  • Amid oil boom, inflation makes Saudis feel poorer (AP)
    July 8, 2008, 1:25 pm

    In this Thursday, June 19, 2008 file photo, a Saudi man fuels his vehicle at a gasoline station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While the country is getting richer selling oil at prices that have climbed to new records, inflation has reached almost 11 percent, breaking double-digits for the first time since the late 1970s. (AP Photo, File)AP - Sultan al-Mazeen recently stopped at a gas station to fill up his SUV, paying 45 cents a gallon — about one-tenth what Americans pay these days.


  • Sarkozy to attend Olympics opening (Reuters)
    July 9, 2008, 12:15 am

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at New Chitose International Airport near Sapporo July 7, 2008, for the Group of Eight (G8) Hokkaido Toyako Summit. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attend the opening ceremony of next month's Beijing Olympics, representing the European Union as well as his own country, his office said on 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.
  • Mexico City police chief ousted (AP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:16 am
    AP - Mexico City's police chief and its top prosecutor were forced out of office on Tuesday following a botched nightclub raid that resulted in the deaths of 12 people, including a 13-year-old girl.
  • 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.
  • Rich, developing nation leaders tussle on climate (AFP)
    July 9, 2008, 12:33 am

    Japan Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (left) and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the G8 meeting in a mountain resort in Toyako on July 9. The leaders of 16 of the world's biggest rich and developing nations agreed Wednesday to work together to fight global warming but failed to bridge deep differences on how to do it.(AFP/Romeo Gacad)AFP - The leaders of 16 of the world's biggest rich and developing nations agreed Wednesday to work together to fight global warming but failed to bridge deep differences on how to do it.


  • Australia cardinal denies cover-up of sex abuse (AP)
    July 8, 2008, 10:17 am

    Cardinal George Pell gestures during a press conference in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Australia's top Roman Catholic cleric on Tuesday denied trying to cover up a case of clergy abuse and misleading the victim, fighting off an embarrassing scandal just days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a visit. (AP Photo/Paul Miller)AP - Australia's top Roman Catholic cleric has denied trying to cover up a sexual abuse case involving clergy, attempting Tuesday to fight off an embarrassing scandal just days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a visit.




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