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Obama offers extended benefits to gay partners of federal employees

President Barack Obama has extended partial federal benefits to same-sex partners of US government workers, in what he said was a historic step towards equality for gays and lesbians.

Protesters burned a car next to the building of a pro-government militia base near a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009

Iran's electoral watchdog said on Tuesday it is ready to recount the presidential ballots if it finds irregularities in the disputed election which returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's keynote speech on Middle East peace this week received massive support from the Israeli public but they do not think it will further its aim, a poll showed on Tuesday.

3 foreign women killed in Yemen; Reward offered for information on kidnappers

Yemen said six of the nine foreigners kidnapped last week during a picnic in the northern Saada province are alive, and security forces are hunting the captors, the official Saba news agency reported.


Former US president Jimmy Carter

Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday met Hamas leader Ismail Haniya in the Gaza Strip, where he called for a lifting of Israel's blockade, saying Palestinians are being treated "like animals."

Kim Jong Un is pictured in this June 1999 photo taken when he was a seventh grader at a Bern secondary school. (Photo taken from a group photo with his classmates)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's son and successor Kim Jong-Un has been sent on a secret diplomatic mission to the Chinese capital of Beijing, Japanese media reports suggest.


9 die, 32 trapped in Indonesia coal mine blast

A coal mine exploded in Indonesia's West Sumatra province on Tuesday, killing nine people and trapping at least 33 others underground, according to latest information of the local disaster management agency. 10 people were seriously injured in the...

Peruvian Prime Minister Yehude Simon

Peru's Prime Minister Yehude Simon said Monday he would ask parliament to revoke controversial decrees on foreign investment in the Amazon region that indigenous groups say impacts their claims on land.


Mousavi's supporters have clashed with Ahmadinejad loyalists and police in the streets of Tehran

Iran's government has banned a rally by supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, amid growing unrest over last week's presidential poll.

Debris of the missing Air France flight 447, recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, arrives at Recife's port June 14, 2009.

The search for bodies and remnants of a lost Air France airliner enters its third and possibly final week Monday with the focus now on locating the "black box" recorders that could hold the key to its plunge into the Atlantic. A total of 49 bodies...


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel could accept a peace agreement with a "demilitarized Palestinian state" as its neighbor.

CIA Director Leon Panetta

CIA Director Leon Panetta told The New Yorker magazine that former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make...


Israel jails Iran TV reporters for breaching military censorship law

An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced two Palestinian reporters working for an Iranian television to two months in jail for breaking censorship rules during the Gaza war in 2008, local media said.

General Stanley McChrystal

A veteran commander of top-secret special operations took charge of the nearly 90,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Monday, promising to shield Afghans from civilian casualties that have cost Western troops support.


Baroness Margaret Thatcher

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is recovering after breaking her arm in a fall and will remain in hospital until at least Monday, a spokesman said on Saturday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Final results in Iran's hotly contested presidential race were expected soon, election officials said Saturday morning, as hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a commanding lead.


North Korea to 'weaponize' its plutonium

North Korea vowed on Saturday to embark on a uranium enrichment program and "weaponize" all the plutonium in its possession as it rejected the new U.N. sanctions meant to punish the communist nation for its recent nuclear test.

Six more bodies recovered from Air France crash

Six more bodies from last week’s Air France crash have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean by the French ship Mistral as the hunt for victims and debris goes on amid bad weather conditions, the Brazilian military said. The six are in addition t...


'Rockefeller' sentenced to 4-5 years in jail for kidnapping daughter

A German man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and spun fantastic stories about himself during three decades in the United States was convicted Friday of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and sentenced to four to five years in prison.

California to introduce digital textbooks

The California Department of Education is moving forward on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to scrap printed high school textbooks for digital ones.



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