AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy was in combative mood Monday as France assumed leadership of the European Union, criticizing the bloc’s trade chief and warning Europe’s central bank against raising interest rates.
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AP - More than half of Cuba’s agricultural land is idle or underutilized, prompting a series of government reforms intended to dramatically boost farm production, government statistics released last week show.
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AP - The spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans raised questions Monday about the legitimacy of plans to create a global network of conservative Anglicans that would challenge his authority and the teachings of liberal North American churches.
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AFP - Four Iraqis announced Monday in Istanbul they are suing two US firms and their employees for allegedly torturing them at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdad five years ago.
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AP - Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month, a grim milestone capping a run of headline-grabbing insurgent attacks that analysts say underscore the Taliban’s growing strength.
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AFP - African Union observers condemned Zimbabwe’s one-man election as undemocratic on Monday, intensifying pressure on Robert Mugabe as he faced his peers after a vote much of the world has dismissed as a farce.
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AP - Iraq opened international bidding for eight enormous oil and gas fields Monday, paving the way for investment in a nation with some of the world’s largest petroleum reserves.
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AP - The two paths of Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai are telling: Mugabe, newly sworn in as Zimbabwe’s president again, is at a summit of African leaders while the opposition leader holes up in a Western embassy in Zimbabwe’s capital.
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AP - Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Monday that a sodomy accusation brought by a male aide is part of a political conspiracy to keep him from running for Parliament, a key step in his goal to become prime minister.
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AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday called for a profound change to the way Europe is being built as France prepared to take the helm of the European Union.
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