June 30, 2008

Israel approves prisoner swap with Hezbollah (AFP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Karnit Goldwasser, wife of captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, speaks during a demonstration outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office in Jerusalem. The Israeli cabinet gave its green light on Sunday for a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, even though two soldiers captured by the Lebanese militia two years ago are known to be dead.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)AFP - The Israeli cabinet gave the green light on Sunday for a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, even though two soldiers captured by the Lebanese militia two years ago are known to be dead.


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U.S. faces Iraqi anger over raid near Kerbala (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

U.S. Marines march during a ceremony where the authorities handed over the town of Heet to Iraqi forces, in Anbar province, February 14, 2008. (Ammar Dulaimi/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. military faced Iraqi anger on
Sunday over a raid near the holy Shi’ite city of Kerbala in
which a distant relative of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was
killed.


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Mugabe begins new term as criticism of one-man election mounts (AFP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the media in Harare, June 27. Robert Mugabe faced mounting criticism Monday after beginning a new term as Zimbabwe's president, with African observers and much of the world denouncing his one-man election as violence-wracked.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)AFP - Robert Mugabe faced mounting criticism Monday after beginning a new term as Zimbabwe’s president, with African observers and much of the world denouncing his one-man election as violence-wracked.


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Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Reuters - A drug developed using
nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment
may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S.
researchers reported on Sunday.

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Israel reopens Gaza border, Hamas looks to truce (Reuters)

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Trucks carrying food supplies wait to cross into the Gaza Strip through the Sufa border crossing June 19, 2008. Israel will reopen its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Sunday because there has been a halt to Palestinian cross-border attacks that had strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)Reuters - Israel reopened three of its border
crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday following a
halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks that had
strained an Egyptian-brokered truce, officials said.


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Spain triumphs at Euro 2008 final (Reuters)

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Spain's Sergio Ramos and Germany's Lukas Podolski (L) fight for the ball during their Euro 2008 final match at Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, June 29, 2008. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)Reuters - Spain turned the Euro 2008 final into a
football fiesta on Sunday, playing a dazzling passing game as
they deservedly swept away Germany with a 1-0 victory.


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Fund manager pays $2.1 million to lunch with Warren Buffett (Reuters)

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Warren Buffett laughs during a news conference in Madrid May 21, 2008. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese fund manager has won a lunch
with famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett after bidding $2.11
million for the opportunity in a charity auction, more than
three times what the lunch fetched last year.


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Mugabe to confront critics (Reuters)

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A woman shows a dye-stained finger after casting her ballot in Zimbabwe's run-off presidential election in Bulawayo June 27, 2008. (Emmanuel Chitate/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will
confront his critics at an African Union summit on Monday,
fresh from victory in a one-candidate election which observers
said was unfair because of violence and intimidation.


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U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran: report (Reuters)

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U.S. President George W. Bush arrives to deliver remarks at the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Conference in Washington, June 26, 2008. .S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. congressional leaders agreed
late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request
for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed
at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The
New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.


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Midwest floodwaters falling, costs rising (Reuters)

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Sergeant Jeff Windmiller of the Louisiana Police Department rides on a boat through the flooded streets in Louisiana, Missouri June 19, 2008. (Eric Thayer/Reuters)Reuters - Levees on the cresting
Mississippi River held on Sunday as the worst U.S. Midwest
flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop
losses may boost world food prices for years.


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