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3 injured in Spain bull running
AP – 44 mins ago

AP

PAMPLONA, Spain - Officials say three runners were injured, though none by goring, in a fast-paced running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival. Full Story »
Karzai to ask U.N. to trim Taliban blacklist: report
Reuters – 2 hrs 52 mins ago

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to ask the United Nations to remove as many as 50 former Taliban members from a U.N. blacklist, The Washington Post reported on Monday. Full Story »
775 coffins: Bosnia marks 1995 Srebrenica massacre
AP – Sun Jul 11, 6:58 pm ET

AP

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Hoisting hundreds of coffins aloft, a line of weeping relatives stretched for at least a mile (1.6 kilometers) Sunday as they honored Srebrenica massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II. Full Story »
Srebrenica remembers its dead 15 years on
AFP – Sun Jul 11, 3:18 pm ET

AFP

POTOCARI, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) - Bereaved families and survivors buried hundreds of victims of the Srebrenica massacre Sunday as world leaders demanded the arrest of the general whose troops killed the 8,000 Muslim males 15 years ago. Full Story »
Hundreds rescued from overheated trains in Germany
AP – Sun Jul 11, 1:35 pm ET

BERLIN - A grueling heat wave shut down the air conditioning in three high-tech trains in Germany, leaving dozens of passengers near collapse trapped in temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), authorities said Sunday. Full Story »
UK vets mark 70 years since the Battle of Britain
AP – Sun Jul 11, 12:56 pm ET

LONDON - British veterans of the Battle of Britain, the furious aerial conflict between British and German aircraft in 1940, joined Sunday in a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the battle. Full Story »
Srebrenica massacre memorial to point finger at UN
AP – Sun Jul 11, 5:53 am ET

AP

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Phillip Ruch's monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes, more than 16,000 of them, each pair representing a victim of Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Full Story »
Catalans rally for greater autonomy within Spain
AP – Sat Jul 10, 3:04 pm ET

AP

BARCELONA, Spain - More than a million people gathered Saturday in northeastern Barcelona to demand greater regional autonomy for Catalonia and protest a recent court ruling forbidding this prosperous region from calling itself a nation. Full Story »
Bosnian Serb party lauds genocide suspect Karadzic
AP – Sat Jul 10, 2:39 pm ET

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A Bosnian Serb party is honoring its founder, Radovan Karadzic, a day before the mass funeral for 775 victims of the Srebrenica massacre — a crime for which he is standing trial. Full Story »
Spy swap mystery: Cyprus bail jumper who vanished
AP – Sat Jul 10, 2:16 pm ET

AP

LARNACA, Cyprus - The United States and Russia swapped 14 spies with precision, but one piece of the puzzle remains: The alleged spy who disappeared after posting bail in Cyprus. Full Story »
Sri Lankan president ends minister's anti-U.N. fast
Reuters – Sat Jul 10, 9:40 am ET

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday ordered a cabinet minister to end a hunger strike against a U.N. war crimes panel, part of a five-day protest that hurt ties with the world body and the West. Full Story »
Sri Lanka Cabinet minister ends 3-day protest fast
AP – Sat Jul 10, 8:44 am ET

AP

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A Sri Lankan Cabinet minister on Saturday ended a three-day fast aimed at forcing the United Nations to abandon an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed during the final months of the country's civil war. Full Story »
N.Korea open to nuke talks after escaping UN blame
AFP – Sat Jul 10, 7:52 am ET

AFP/File

SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said Saturday it was willing in principle to return to nuclear disarmament talks after the United Nations failed directly to blame it for a deadly attack on a South Korean warship. Full Story »
EU considers deepwater oil restrictions: report
Reuters – Sat Jul 10, 5:28 am ET

MILAN (Reuters) - The European Union could consider limiting the depth of deepwater oil drilling as part of new rules following BP's spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Europe's energy chief said in an interview on Saturday. Full Story »
UK fugitive kills himself after police move in
AP – Sat Jul 10, 3:50 am ET

AP

LONDON - A fugitive wanted for murder killed himself after police moved in to arrest him Saturday, ending a weeklong manhunt that had transfixed Britain. Full Story »
Gaza aid ship sets sail from Greece
AFP – Sat Jul 10, 3:48 pm ET

AFP/File

JERUSALEM (AFP) - A Gaza aid ship left for Egypt Saturday under Israeli pressure, officials in Greece said, but Libyan organisers declared it intended to defy the Jewish state's blockade of the Palestinian enclave. Full Story »
CA-CANADA Summary
Reuters – Sat Jul 10, 9:20 am ET

Quebec premier to stay in office
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The premier of Quebec said he planned to stay in office and battle separatists who want independence for the province, adding that he would not try to become prime minister of Canada. Full Story »
UN condemns SKorea ship sinking
AP – Fri Jul 9, 9:28 pm ET

AP

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned a deadly attack on a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and pointed a finger toward North Korea but didn't directly blame the reclusive communist nation. Full Story »