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Indian police men beat kashmiri protestors who were protesting after Jinab Sahib Soura Muslim Shrine was burned accidentaly due to fire atleast 100 People were wounded due to fire in Srinagar 05 July 2008.

Indian Kashmir's top official quits
The Guardian

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press Writer SRINAGAR, India (AP) - The top elected official in Indian Kashmir announced his resignation Monday after weeks of violent protests over the transfer of government land to a Hindu shrine in the Muslim-majority region. Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said he would resign after a key party in the ruling...

photo: WN / Imran Nissar

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America's future in Iraq, an annotated reading list
Daily Star Lebanon

By Greg Bruno Commentary by Monday, July 07, 2008...

How one cultural vision has lessons for the whole world
The Guardian

The British Museum is now our top attraction. If only others would shrug off their deadening...

The internet is not free
The Guardian

The result of the court action between Google and Viacom is that YouTube will need to police...

Dalai Lama's envoys cite little progress in talks with China

A young monk plays near prayer's wheels Friday Aug. 13, 2004, at Jokhang Temple in Barkhor in Lhasa, Tibet, far west of China. The Jokhang is considered as the most sacred and active of Tibet's temples

The Boston Globe

BEIJING - Envoys for the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, said over the weekend that their meetings with Chinese officials in the last week were so disappointing that they could not even get the Chinese to agree to issue a joint statement...
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko

Suicide explosion claims at least 15 in Pakistan

The Boston Globe

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A powerful suicide explosion killed at least 15 people and injured dozens of others yesterday evening, shortly after a large protest rally marking the one-year anniversary of the government forces' raid on a radical mosque. Most...
photo: AP / B.K.Bangash

Brown urges Britons to cut food waste

British Treasury chief Gordon Brown launches his campaign to become the Prime Minister, in central London, Friday May 11, 2007. After a decade of waiting in the shadows, Gordon Brown launched his campaign to lead Britain´s government on Friday afte

The Guardian

· 4m tonnes dumped each year · PM to tackle biofuels issue at G8 Discarded rotting oranges left over at a market in London. Photograph: Martin Godwin Britons will today be urged to make saving food as important as saving energy, with the...
photo: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis

Bush, Medvedev agree N. Korea, Iran must give up nuke

AOL

TOYAKO, Japan, July 7 (Kyodo) - (EDS: ADDING DETAILS AT 3RD AND 12TH GRAFS) U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday they have agreed that North Korea and Iran must give up their nuclear programs, though they...
photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel

Oxfam urges G8 to live up to aid pledges -

A member of international relief group Oxfam dressed as US President George W. Bush, center, is joined by other members as they perform a skit of bio-fuel crisis in Sapporo on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido Monday, July 7, 2008.

Yahoo Daily News

51 minutes ago TOYAKO, Japan (AFP) - The charity Oxfam on Monday accused world powers of backtracking on pledges to double aid for Africa by 2010, describing their progress as "desperately slow."...
photo: (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) /

Kerry: McCain is 'wrong' guy for country

Boston Herald

WASHINGTON - Former presidential hopeful , who once courted John McCain as a potential running mate in 2004, said the GOP nominee lacks the judgment to be president. "John McCain . . . has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he's made...
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