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N Korea 'tests series of missiles'

North Korea has test-fired seven more missiles off its eastern coast, days after similar launches sparked international concern, South Korean officials have said.

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US troops in Helmand have met local leaders in an attempt to consolidate gains [AFP]

US soldiers killed in Afghan attack

At least two US soldiers have been killed and four others injured in an attack on a military base in the Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan, officials have said.

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Micheletti has stood firm in face of calls to reinstate the ousted president [Reuters]

Honduras rejects Zelaya restoration

Honduras's supreme court has rejected an ultimatum by the Organisation of American States (OAS) to reinstate the country's president after he was deposed in a military-backed coup.

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Al-Bashir, right, is effectively free to travel across Africa without fear of arrest after the decision [AFP]

AU criticised over Bashir decision

The African Union's decision not to co-operate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it ordered the arrest of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has been heavily criticised by human rights groups.

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Ban, left, met Myanmar's junta leader twice during his current visit [AFP]

UN chief denied Suu Kyi meeting

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has been denied permission by Myanmar's military rulers to meet Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's imprisoned opposition leader.

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Palin to resign as Alaska governor

Sarah Palin, a former Republican vice-presidential candidate, has said that she will resign from her position as Alaska governor at the end of the month.

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Chechnya has sent security forces to assist Ingushetia against fighters [EPA]

Chechen police killed in Ingushetia

Up to nine Chechen police officers have been gunned down in the Russian region of Ingushetia, Russian news agencies say.

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Rethinking America’s Fourth of July as Outdependence Day
By Ben Tanosborn   
Malpracticers of Economic and Foreign Policy

About this time every year I grow a bit philosophical, and melancholic, as we celebrate what this country should be… but isn’t.  Last year, my written words called for a second American revolution, and the year before I underlined the belated realization that the US is not us (the people). FULL STORY...

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Churchill’s Bengali Holocaust
By Gideon Polya   
Inadvertent confessions of Britain's #1 war criminal

History ignored yields history repeated. Mainstream media that ignore the 9-11 million excess deaths so far in the Bush (now Obama) wars also ignore how in 1943-1945 the British under Winston Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in what was described in India at the time as a Bengali Holocaust. FULL STORY...

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Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
By Marjorie Cohn   

From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the American Academy of Medicine as a teratogen (causes birth defects). FULL STORY...

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