NKorea denies Beijing visit by Kim's son: report
Analysts: NKorea's chemical arms as grave as nukes
U.S. Military Tracking North Korean Ship Suspected of Proliferating Missiles, Nukes
A ship named Kang Nam left a port in North Korea Wednesday and could be carrying missile parts or nuclear materials in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution.
North Korea 'plan missile launch towards Hawaii on Independence Day'
North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile at the U.S. state of Hawaii on Independence Day, Japanese intelligence officials have warned.
Gates Orders Measures Against North Korea Missile
Chinese police arrest riot witness Zhuihulu who posted pictures on internet
Blogger Zhuihulu disappears after uploading violence video
Sinopec Plans Its First Deep-Water Well
China builds railway to nuke site
Catholics in China told to defend faith even if it means martyrdom
One of the Catholic Church's most senior clerics has told Catholics in China not to 'give in' to pressure from the state-sanctioned church and to remain loyal to the Pope even to the point of 'martyrdom'.
Forget the Pope. Stay true to GOD.
Computer-makers fight China's filter order
Cambodia Tribunal Reduces Sentence for Khmer Rouge Torture Chief
UN-backed court's ruling recognizes illegal detention; life sentence no longer possible
Gah.
Burmese army drives ethnic rebels from last stronghold
Uzbekistan halves Tajik gas supplies
EADS Astrium Wins Satellite Contract In Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan in Talks to Acquire Brazilian Tantalum Miner
Tantalum: Alloyed with other metals, it is also used in making carbide tools for metalworking equipment and in the production of superalloys for jet engine components, chemical process equipment, nuclear reactors, and missile parts.[36][37]
U.S. to issue new uniforms for troops in Afghanistan
???
Up to 10,000 NATO troops for Afghan polls: secretary general
Afghanistan aims to put itself back on the tourist map
I know when I think of tourism, I think "war zone." Pretty lake, though.
Jazeera staff held for promoting terrorism: Karzai
Afghanistan's Karzai defends choice of vice-president
President Hamid Karzai defended Wednesday his pick of vice-president for his bid for re-election, saying Mohammed Qasim Fahim was a choice for unity and an Afghan government not influenced from "outside".
A former anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban military commander, Fahim has been accused by Human Rights Watch as well as Afghan and other international critics of abuses including murder during Afghanistan's nearly three decades of war.
Kyrgyzstan Must End Attacks On Journalists - OSCE
More At Stake In Kyrgyz Presidential Vote Than Would Appear
Official Downplays U.S. Role In Competition For Turkmen Gas
Thousands protest kidnappings in Yemen
5 kidnapped Filipino hospital workers freed in Yemen
Five Filipino workers who were abducted with 21 other hospital personnel on June 11 in the restive northern province of Saada, Yemen have been released, the Philippine government said on Thursday.
YEMEN: Over 3,000 displaced as clashes flare up in north
Oil giant Saudi Arabia struggles to keep power on
Energy superpower Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, is having trouble keeping the lights on, the Saudi Gazette reports. Every afternoon from 1 to 4 o'clock, the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) is cutting power to factories and businesses around Jeddah, the desert kingdom's second-largest city and its major port.
Saudi: Kill network owners
Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.
Syria frees prominent political detainee
Russia's Black Sea Fleet rules out joint drills with Georgia
No, really?
Egypt plans to deport son of Chechen rebel leader
Gazprom warns on delays to key field
Russia hopes "down-to-earth" Obama drops Star Wars
Russia actually granted loan to Ukraine--Putin
Big four new powers hold first summit
Emerging Economies Meet in Russia
Russia May Be Hanging Out With the Wrong Crowd
But perhaps the biggest turn-off for investors was political uncertainty. People are still unsure who’s really running the country – prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin, or his successor, Dmitry Medvedev. “In Russia, we don’t know who’s really in power and there’s no consistency about policy,” says Mr. Turkeltaub.
People still haven't figured it out?
WTO in confusion after Russia customs union plan
I'm not sure it takes much to confuse them.
'Emerging mkts have risen too much, too fast, too soon'
World religious leaders hold their own G8 summit
*hurl*
After $22 billion, little proof UN programs work
*gasp!*
Global Land Grab
Contrary to past trends, countries in the Global South are initiating much of the investment. The Persian Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, are investing in many parts of Africa, as well as Asia and Eastern and Central Europe. These countries are rich in energy but lack arable land and water. For example, Saudi Arabia has acquired land in Sudan to plant wheat, which is inefficient to grow at home. China is also buying up large tracks of land throughout Africa to produce biofuels and to produce food. India's companies have formed a consortium to invest in corporate farming of oilseeds in Latin America, most notably Uruguay and Paraguay.
We Need Greater Global Governance - WSJ.com
We need to strengthen and depoliticize the International Monetary Fund and give it a new surveillance role that covers all aspects of systemic risk. It needs to be mandated to make recommendations on weaknesses in the system, and countries should be obliged to take these recommendations extremely seriously. Peer pressure is going to be vital -- just as it has been in keeping trade barriers at bay over the last year.
We need much greater global coordination of financial regulation, facing up to systemic risk and ensuring that market participants are not able to trade off one regulatory jurisdiction against another, regardless of the short term costs in competitiveness for financial services firms.
Army Mechanic's Garage Tinkering Yields 18-Foot Mecha Exoskeleton
I WANT ONE!!!
Quebec security minister blames Montreal rioting on a few agitators
Greece comes forward for sea route expansion with Black and Caspian seas
New anti-Semitic incidents in Poland
U.S. Says Bonds Seized in Italy Are ‘Clearly Fakes’
U.S. government bonds found in the false bottom of a suitcase carried by two Japanese travelers
attempting to cross into Switzerland are fake, a Treasury spokesman said.
Ukraine proposed EU to form Caspian-Black Sea-Baltic energy transit space
UN 'runs out of aid for Ethiopia'
Armed Gunmen Attack UN Food Aid Convoy in Southern Sudan
Sudan denies sowing south dissent
Somalia's on-shore pirate fight
Somali pirates shift attacks to new locations: IMB
A maritime watchdog Thursday warned seafarers that Somali pirates were targeting ships at the southern end of the Red Sea and off Oman due to bad weather and the absence of naval warships.
"The two new areas are at Bab al Mandab, southern Red Sea, and the Arabian Sea, off Oman," Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur, told AFP.
Lines revert to Suez transits as bunker costs escalate
Back through pirate waters. Yarrr!
Nigerian rebels say destroy Shell oil pipeline
Yet another.
Congo: Army mutinies over pay hurt peace efforts
EU Waives Travel Ban on Zimbabwean Ministers Aligned With President Mugabe
Slabs of cocaine found hidden inside frozen sharks in Mexico
Military finds one of Mexico's largest meth labs
The Mexican Navy gave reporters a firsthand look Tuesday at what they described as one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in Mexico, with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tons of the drug.
7 men beaten, shot to death in northern Mexico
Study: U.S. lacks strategy to fight arms smuggling into Mexico
Peru Repeals Decrees behind Clashes
PM to resign as Peru seeks to quell protests
*whistle* This thing has gone crazy far.
Bolivian leader 'enemy of Peru'
Bolivian President Evo Morales is accused of being an enemy of Peru over his comments on land-rights violence in the Amazon.
Bolivia Becoming a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism, Report Concludes
A poor, agrarian country in South America with a nearly 100 percent Christian population is hardly the place one would expect to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism in. But a report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it's so.
UN envoy: Colombia army kills many innocents
Colombia: Re-armed paramilitary groups attack pastors
Venezuela to get Chinese military planes in 2010
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