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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

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Chavez: Interpol report a 'clown show'
Infowars

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Rumsfeld: Why not another 9/11?
Infowars

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

Bush in Saudi Arabia to press king on oil and Iran

President George W. Bush smiles as he and King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz exchange greetings during a arrival ceremony Friday, May 16, 2008, at the Riyadh-King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh.

Canada Dot Com

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced a modest increase in oil output on Friday after an appeal from visiting President George W. Bush but the news did little to douse oil prices that hit a new record earlier in the day. On his second visit to...
photo: White House / Chris Greenberg

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

President pushes for non-wage benefits

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo confers with Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez on the status of the cases against suspected rice hoarders during a visit to the Department of Justice on Padre Faura in Ermita, Manila this morning (May 14).

The Manila Times

President Gloria Arroyo asked her Cabinet secretaries to convene meetings with labor and employer groups to discuss the possibility of giving more non-wage benefits to workers. The order comes a day after the President announced that the tripartite...
photo: OPS/NIB / Rey Baniquet

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

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