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Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti speaks to the press upon his arrival to Juan Santamaria international airport near San Jose, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Interim Honduran leader arrives for talks on coup read more
The Guardian

JUAN CARLOS LLORCA Associated Press Writer= SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) â Leaders of the government that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in a coup have arrived in Costa Rica for talks on resolving the leadership crisis. Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias is leading the talks at the request of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But they seem...

photo: AP / Kent Gilbert

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Press and privacy: Secret spies | Editorial read more
The Guardian

The world is waking up to the extent to which modern technologies can destroy privacy. Any...

All Hail Jessica Lange read more
The Daily Beast

Jessica Lange will likely earn an Emmy nod next week for Grey Gardens, and is now an acclaimed...

A Right to a Revolution and Self-Determination read more
WorldNews.com

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. As if conjuring up patriarchal...

Obama urges poorer nations to fight global warming read more

U.S. President Barack Obama attends a G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

Houston Chronicle

L'AQUILA, Italy - President Barack Obama said Thursday the global recession makes it harder to strike an international agreement to battle dangerous temperature increases, but he urged the poor emerging economies that rejected specific clean-energy...

photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari

Need for exit strategy sure to trouble G20 read more

G8 Summit - first working session with, in a clockwise direction: Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, Taro Aso, Japanese Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, German Federal Chancellor, Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia and José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC

The Guardian

By Brian Love ROME, July 9 (Reuters) - Germany failed to secure harder commitments from Wednesday's G8 meeting on a post-crisis "exit strategy" for cutting public deficits, but the issue is sure to return to haunt leaders in the months ahead....

photo: European Community / © European Communities 2009

Diplomatic test over Honduras crisis read more

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, left, waves as he stands with Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias outside Arias' residence in San Jose, Thursday, July 9, 2009.

BBC News

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is no stranger to diplomacy. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his role in helping to end the military conflicts and civil wars that plagued Central America for decades and claimed the lives of tens of...

photo: AP / Arnulfo Franco

Tough fight coming up in Afghanistan, Petraeus says in Seattle read more

Afghans walk through the streets of Carabar village, Afghanistan, while U. S. Army Soldiers, with 2nd Platoon, Company B, 82nd Airborne Division Special Troops Battalion, provide security, July 4. The DSTB, or Task Force Gladius, is responsible for security and development projects in Afghanistan’s Parwan province, where the village and Bagram Airfield are located.

Seattle Times

Tough months are ahead and "difficult fighting will be necessary" for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus told a Seattle audience Wednesday night. Speaking before the Seattle World Affairs Council, the head of the U.S. Central Command...

photo: US Army / Pfc. Richard W. Jones Jr.

Srebrenica Ceremony To Take Place on July 11 read more

A Bosnian Muslim woman reacts among the coffins of Srebrenica victims during a funeral ceremony at the Memorial center at Potocari near Srebrenica, 120 kms northeast of Sarajevo on Friday, July 11, 2008. The 307 bodies were excavated from mass-graves in Eastern Bosnia and were identified as Muslims killed by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Srebrenica area. Bosnian Serb troops massacred up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men after capturing Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The 307 identified victims will be buried on July 11, in Potocari, next to some 3,200 victims of the massacre already buried t

Balkan Insight

Despite the fact that requests made by the Association of Victims of Srebrenica have not been met, a decision has been made to proceed with the burial in Potocari of around 530 killed people on the 14th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide....

photo: AP / Amel Emric

Yudhoyono vows to push more reforms read more

Indonesian presidential candidate and current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono salutes during a press conference at his residence in Cibubur, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

Al Jazeera

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the incumbent Indonesian president, has vowed to push ahead with economic reforms as the country's election commission said initial results from Wednesday's election put him in the lead to win a second term. Final results...

photo: AP / Achmad Ibrahim