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>>   Africa
US says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali funding 
Reuters - 67 Minutes ago
(Reuters) WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday identified two of the more than 50 classified cases in which they say National Security Agency eavesdropping helped thwart terrorist plots
U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali funding WDBJ7.com
U.S. says surveillance thwarted NYSE attack, Somali Yahoo! Singapore
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Nigeria militants kill school pupils 
BBC - 2 Hours ago
Suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria have killed at least nine school children, the second targeted attack on students in recent days. Gunmen believed to be from the Boko Haram group opened     Add Comment

Mali ready to sign deal with Tuareg rebels 
Frontier Post - 73 Minutes ago
MALI (Agencies): Bamako is set to sign a deal with Tuareg rebels on Tuesday to enable nationwide polls to take place next month and put the troubled country back on the path to recovery. After 10 days
Mali and Tuareg rebels sign peace accord Philippine Times
Mali and Tuareg rebels controlling northern city sign accord Yahoo! Canada
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Algeria probes state power boss over Alstom, GE deals 
CNBC - 2 Hours ago
June 19 (Reuters) - Algeria is investigating the head of its state power and gas utility, Sonelgaz, over contracts involving U.S. conglomerate and France's Alstom SA, sources told Reuters and Algerian
Algeria probes state power boss over Alstom GE deals Kenya Star
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>>   Top World Stories
Bayley to serve at least 35 years for Jill Meagher rape, murder 
ABC Online - 2 Hours ago
Adrian Bayley has been sentenced to serve at least 35 years in jail for the rape and murder of ABC staffer Jill Meagher in Melbourne last year. In a case which shocked the nation, Bayley attacked the
Bayley facing life for Jill Meagher murder ABC Online
Bayley being sentenced for Jill Meagher murder ABC Online
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Leave Rolf alone, pleads ex-Goodie 
Melbourne Times Weekly - 2 Hours ago
Frustrated supporter: Bill Oddie. As a member of the famed comic troupe the Goodies, British comedian Bill Oddie wrote and starred in an episode in which the trio ran a zoo filled with celebrities,
Leave Rolf alone, pleads Goodie WA Today
Leave Rolf alone pleads ex-Goodie The Sydney News
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Chrysler agrees to recall 1.56 million older-model Jeeps 
NBCNews.com - 2 Hours ago
UPDATED: After a public disagreement that threatened to blow up into a larger battle, Chrysler said Tuesday that it agreed to recall 1.56 million Jeep vehicles that a government safety watchdog said could
Chrysler agrees to recall 1.56 million Jeeps Bombay News.Net
Chrysler backs down, agrees to recall 1.56 million older-model Jeeps MSN Canada
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Disabled woman and child held as slaves in Ohio 
Melbourne Age - 7 Hours ago
Cleveland: Three people in Ohio are accused of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over two years. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday that the trio forced the woman
Disabled woman and child held as slaves Sydney Morning Herald
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>>   North Africa
Algeria probes state power boss over Alstom, GE deals 
CNBC - 2 Hours ago
June 19 (Reuters) - Algeria is investigating the head of its state power and gas utility, Sonelgaz, over contracts involving U.S. conglomerate and France's Alstom SA, sources told Reuters and Algerian
Algeria probes state power boss over Alstom GE deals Kenya Star
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Libyas democratic transition can benefit from national political dialogue says UN  
Cambodian Times - 97 Minutes ago
Libya's democratic transition can benefit from national political dialogue, says UN envoy 18 June 2013 150 Managing Libya's democratic transition is bound to be difficult given the legacy of decades of
Libya's democratic transition can benefit from national political dialogue, says  United Nations
Libyas democratic transition can benefit from national political dialogue, says  United Nations
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Spain eager to become Algeria's largest investor: FM 
Xinhua News Agency - 2 Hours ago
ALGIERS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Tuesday here that Spain is to become the largest investor of Algeria. Garcia-Margallo told a press conference     Add Comment

Tripoli sheikhs play down local Sunni fighter presence in Syria 
TMC Net - 2 Hours ago
(The Daily Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Despite rumors of Sunni fighters flooding from Tripoli into Syria, two sheikhs from the northern city insist     Add Comment
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>>   Cyberculture
Exclusive - Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers 
Reuters India - 55 Minutes ago
By Jennifer Saba REUTERS (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone
Exclusive - Facebook reaches 1 million active adve Yahoo! Singapore
Exclusive Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers Turkmenistan News.net
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Rihanna Becomes Most-Viewed Youtube.Com Artist 
RoadRunner - 95 Minutes ago
The Umbrella hitmaker passed Bieber's record on video-sharing channel VEVO by about two million views in the early hours of Tuesday (18Jun13). The 19 year old still ranks higher than South Korean rapper     Add Comment

Facebook touts advertising milestone 
Japan Today - 106 Minutes ago
Facebook said Tuesday that more than a million businesses now advertise at the leading social network. ?I know business owners like these invest their hard-earned money and time into running their companies,?
Facebook touts advertising milestone (AFP) West Australian
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Engadget HD Podcast 354 - 06.18.13 
I4U - 72 Minutes ago
The E3 and WWDC news surges have finally calmed, so now we're back into the normal weekly groove. This week, Ben details his time using an Oculus Rift to watch recorded video and Richard attempts to ride     Add Comment
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>>   Blogging
3D opera, Shakespeare on Twitter, and donkeys on Google+: How the performing 
Yahoo! Finance - 90 Minutes ago
On Friday, June 21, the longest day of the year, the Royal Shakespeare Company will launch its latest production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” It will be no ordinary show. The performance will last     Add Comment

Lush puckers up for Twitter 
Cosmetics Business - 97 Minutes ago
All of Lush’s UK shops, along with most of its international stores, are set to participate in the effort which will see Lush’s in-store customers ‘kiss’ a postcard while wearing one of the brand’s Emotional     Add Comment

Bits Blog: Tech Moves to the Background as Design Becomes Foremost 
AllVoices - 2 Hours ago
Stephen Lam/Reuters Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president for software engineering, discussing the redesign of its mobile software system. In the last few decades, the computing industry has
Bits Blog Tech Moves to the Background as Design Becomes Foremost Malaysia Sun
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Bits Blog Google Asks Secret Court for Permission to Publish National Security Request  
Argentina Star - 106 Minutes ago
Bits Blog: Google Asks Secret Court for Permission to Publish National Security Request Data Googles motion to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday is the companys latest move to control
Google Asks Secret Court for Permission to Publish National Security Request Data World News Network
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>>   Sudan
Indiscriminate Shelling Kills UN Peacekeeper in Sudans Oil Region 
Kenya Star - 2 Hours ago
A deadly shelling of the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM) interim headquarters in Kadugli, Sudan's Southern Kordofan state has killed one United Nations Interim Security Force     Add Comment

Debate on Sudan Watch 
BBC - 6 Hours ago
The video for this item of business will appear here. MPs have taken part in a general debate on the UK government's role in supporting peace and development in Sudan and South Sudan. The debate was     Add Comment

Satellite images show widespread destruction in central Darfur 
Times Live South Africa - 8 Hours ago
The images indicate some 2,800 buildings were burned to the ground in Abu Jeradil village and four neighboring villages. According to the New York-based right group, this accounts for 88 percent of all     Add Comment

Foreign minister returns from Ethiopia and Sudan 
Masress.com - 6 Hours ago
Ethiopia has no intention of harming Egypt and Sudan's water interests, Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr assured Egyptians in a Tuesday address.    Add Comment
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>>   Zimbabwe
Southern Africa Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay 
Kenya Star - 2 Hours ago
JOHANNESBURG - Regional leaders have requested that Zimbabwe's government delay upcoming elections to give the troubled nation time to make sure the vote is free and fair. President Robert Mugabe set
Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay AllAfrica.com
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A tribute to the People of the Zambezi Valley 
ActionAid USA - 2 Hours ago
Pupils from Binga (no names supplied) reading a Tonga textbook Photo: ActionAid Zimbabwe team Information Officer I am the Information Officer for ActionAid International Zimbabwe. ActionAid     Add Comment

Nyanga floods affected communities receive relief aid 
ActionAid USA - 2 Hours ago
Tsvakai Stima soon after recieving the food Photo: Actionaid Zimbabwe team Information Officer I am the Information Officer for ActionAid International Zimbabwe. Three hundred and fifty (350)     Add Comment

Joanna Kerr visits Zimbabwe as women join the “One Billion Rising Campaign” 
ActionAid USA - 2 Hours ago
I am the Information Officer for ActionAid International Zimbabwe. Rural women from Local Development Programmes (LDPs) in Zimbabwe had a lifetime opportunity on 14 February 2013 to meet with ActionAid     Add Comment
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>>   South Africa
World Cup chaos as teams field ineligible players 
Sydney Morning Herald - 98 Minutes ago
Ethiopia admitted on Tuesday to fielding an ineligible player in World Cup qualifying after officials "forgot" he wasn't allowed to play, and it could pay for the mistake by losing its place in the final     Add Comment

Corruption-buster found dead hours before murder case 
Times Live South Africa - 77 Minutes ago
The semi-naked and bludgeoned body of Major-General Tirhani Maswanganyi was found by members of the Pretoria dog unit in Hammanskraal early yesterday morning. His hands and feet had been tied together     Add Comment

Corolla has that XI factor 
Times Live South Africa - 2 Hours ago
A Corolla sedan with a European flavour, was unveiled in Istanbul, Turkey; another version, with a noticeably different frontal design, debuted more than 10000km away in Santa Monica, California. The     Add Comment

FIFA to investigate African nations 
Melbourne Age - 105 Minutes ago
Ethiopia admitted on Tuesday to fielding an ineligible player in World Cup qualifying after officials "forgot" he wasn't allowed to play, and it could pay for the mistake by losing its place in the final     Add Comment
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>>   Journalism
Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings dies 
Wichita Eagle - 76 Minutes ago
LOS ANGELES — Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says he learned from a family member that     Add Comment

Journalist Michael Hastings dies in L.A. car crash 
Chicago Tribune - 2 Hours ago
_ Journalist Michael Hastings, best known for a Rolling Stone feature that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, his employer said. Neither     Add Comment

Award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, 33, dies in car accident in Los Angeles 
Washington Post - 90 Minutes ago
LOS ANGELES Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says he learned from a family member that the     Add Comment

BuzzFeed reporter Hastings dead 
CNN - 108 Minutes ago
(CNN) -- Journalist Michael Hastings, known for his 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to the officer's abrupt retirement, died in a car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The 33-year-old
BuzzFeed reporter Hastings dead at 33 CNN
BuzzFeed: Michael Hastings has died Politico
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