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Pakistani protesters shout slogans as they burn an effigy of U.S. President George Bush and country's President Pervez Musharraf during a rally to condemn an alleged U.S. missile attack in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajour which killed several people, in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, May 16, 2008.

Pakistan protests killer missile strike
CNN

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's army lodged a formal protest Friday to "allied forces" in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that killed 14 people in a Pakistani border village. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Pakistan concluded that Wednesday's attack on a house in Damadola village was launched...
photo: AP / Khalid Tanveer

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People Get the Government They Deserve
All Africa

This is often quoted to explain why some governments are...

Chavez: Interpol report a 'clown show'
Infowars

Colombia did not alter computer files that it claims show Venezuelan support for a leftist...

Rumsfeld: Why not another 9/11?
Infowars

In a newly-released tape of a 2006 neocon luncheon meeting featuring former War Secretary...

Teenager taking helm as mayor of Oklahoma town

John Tyler Hammons, the 19-year-old newly elected mayor of Muskogee, Okla., gestures as he speaks during an interview in his new office in Muskogee, Okla., Thursday May 15, 2008.

Scripps Howard

MUSKOGEE, Okla. -- John Tyler Hammons may have already performed his grandest feat as mayor, even before taking office. He put Muskogee in the national spotlight. Hammons, 19, beat an opponent three and a half times his age in a runoff election this...
photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki

Belgian trains may be canceled

Gare du Nord, Eurostar station, Paris (nv1)

The Boston Globe

BRUSSELS, Belgium—Some high-speed trains from Brussels to London and Paris may be canceled next week due to a Belgian train strike, Eurostar and Thalys said Friday. Belgium's state-owned...
photo: WN / nicolov

Chinese sports stars pledge quake relief

San Diego

BEIJING - Chinese sports stars have opened their wallets to help earthquake victims in their country with Houston Rockets star Yao Ming pledging 2 million yuan ($286,100). 'I plan to do whatever I can,' Yao said in a joint statement with Rockets...
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko

South Asian rivals divided again over week of unrest

Sydney Morning Herald

TENSIONS between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have flared in the wake of renewed unrest in the disputed territory of Kashmir and a bloody terrorist attack in Jaipur. Three separate incidents in the past week have left some analysts...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

ECB's Trichet sees very clear inflation pressure

Mr Didier REYNDERS, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance, Mr Jean-Claude TRICHET, President of the European Central Bank, Mr Jeannot KRECKE, Luxembourg Minister for Economic Affairs and Foreign Trade, Minister for Sport. ula1

Khaleej Times

BRUSSELS/LISBON - Financial markets have undershot their true value and are now too jittery, European Central Bank Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen said on Friday, after ECB President Jean Claude Trichet blamed past overconfidence for present...
photo: The Council of the European Union

China probe into death-trap schools

Li Sunyou searches for possessions belonging to her son, who was killed in Monday's earthquake, at his school in Wufu, in China's southwest Sichuan province Friday May 16, 2008.

The Australian

THE Chinese Government yesterday caved in to public pressure and ordered a probe into the extraordinarily high proportion of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, trapping and killing thousands of children. The 7.9-magnitude quake struck...
photo: AP Photo / Greg Baker

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