Sri Lanka deports Liberal MP Bob Rae (Reuters)

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Reuters - Sri Lanka on Wednesday deported a MP it views as sympathetic to the Tamil Tiger separatists, the latest foreign official it has sent out of the country at the end of a 25-year war.

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Australian PM urges calm among Indian students (AFP)

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AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned Indian students not to take the law into their own hands after a second night of rowdy protests against alleged racial violence.

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2 officials whose wives own Mexican day care quit (AP)

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AP - Two state government officials whose wives are owners of a Mexican day care center where 44 children died in a fire resigned on Tuesday, saying they wanted to clear the way for an investigation into the blaze.

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Time to Attack Hunger’s Root Causes - UN (OneWorld.net)

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OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 9 (OneWorld.net) - As 115 million more people have been driven into poverty and hunger by rising food prices over the past three years, top UN officials are demanding a new global system to ensure that people across the world have enough to eat.

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Chevron pumping station in Nigeria on fire: rebels (AFP)

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AFP - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main rebel group in southern Nigeria, said it had set a pumping station of US oil giant Chevron on fire.

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Truck bomber attacks hotel in northwest Pakistan, killing 11 (McClatchy Newspapers)

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McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A massive truck bomb Tuesday struck the only luxury hotel in Peshawar, a volatile city in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 11 and injuring 70, with several foreign nationals among the victims.

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In Colombia, FARC rebels strike back (The Christian Science Monitor)

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The Christian Science Monitor - "Phoenix" had been jobless for months in this bustling town on Colombia's southern Pacific coast when he accepted a job, which paid $16 a day, working in a cocaine lab along with 24 others.

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Colombia senate delays vote on Uribe re-election (AP)

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AP - Colombia's senate has delayed a vote on scheduling a referendum that could let President Alvaro Uribe seek a third term.

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Australian charged over anti-Semitic YouTube video (AP)

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AP - Police have charged a man who allegedly posted an anti-Semitic video on YouTube with enticing racism under a so-far untested Australian state law, officials said Thursday.

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to face charges over US visitor (AFP)

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AFP - Myanmar's military junta took pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison on Thursday to face charges over an incident in which an American man swam across a lake to visit her house, officials said.

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