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Rebel roundup
Libyan rebels round up soldiers loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi following their capture in Libya's western mountain region of Qalaa
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Rebel roundup
Libyan rebels round up soldiers loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi following their capture in Libya's western mountain region of Qalaa
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The huge Monument fire burns toward Sierra Vista, Ariz., on June 15. The blaze has scorched 40 homes outside of Sierra Vista and placed more people on the verge of evacuation in the southern tip of the state.
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On patrol in Kandahar
Canadian soldiers from the 6th Platoon, Bulldog Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Royal Regiment, search inside a barn during a patrol in the Panjwai district of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on June 13. Canada will end its combat role in Afghanistan by the end of July.
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Independence Day celebration
Filipino dancers throw colored pieces of cloth during the 113th Philippine Independence Day celebrations at Manila's Rizal Park on June 12. Philippine independence from Spain was proclaimed on June 12, 1898.
Greece: Papandreou picks Venizelos as finance minister
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has replaced his finance minister in a bid to push through unpopular austerity measures demanded by the EU.
Evangelos Venizelos has been promoted to the finance ministry and tasked with tackling a crippling debt crisis.
The former defence minister replaces George Papaconstantinou, who has been moved to the environment ministry.
The proposed reforms have sparked riots in Athens and nationwide strikes, while rattling global markets.
The French and German leaders are due to meet shortly in Berlin to discuss how to prevent Greece defaulting.
Athens is seeking approval for a package of 28bn euros (£24.6bn; $40.5bn) of cuts, due to take effect from 2012 to 2015.
The policies are required for the release of the next tranche of aid - 12bn euros - from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.
Australia PM Gillard wants asylum deal despite setback
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The Australian PM Julia Gillard has said she will pursue a deal with Malaysia on handling asylum seekers despite a rare parliamentary rejection.
On Thursday, the Australian House of Representatives passed a motion condemning the proposed arrangement.
Australia wants to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia, taking 4,000 confirmed refugees in return.
Malaysia is not a signatory to the United Nations conventions on treatment of refugees.
Ms Gillard's aim is to deter asylum seekers from coming to Australia by boat.
"I intend pursuing the discussions of the Malaysia agreement to finality and then I intend to implement it because I intend to break the business model of the people smugglers," Ms Gillard told parliament.
Imprisoned Iran medics win prize for HIV work
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Arash and Kamiar Alaei, seen here in this file image, were respected for their HIV work
Two Iranian doctors imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government have been awarded a global health prize.
Kamiar and Arash Alaei were arrested in June 2008 and accused of communicating with the US to unseat the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
One of the two brothers, released earlier this year, was able to accept the award in Washington.
Kamiar Alaeia, 37, said they had never been involved in politics.
He told the BBC World Service that a project they began in a small clinic was so successful it was replicated nationwide and in the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Battle for Libya
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A wounded rebel is brought to the Benghazi medical center, June 16, 2011, following what the rebels say was a mistaken attack by NATO in West Ajdabiyah, near Brega.
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A Libyan police officer stands at the front desk of the bomb-damaged police station in central Misrata June 16, 2011.
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The View From Above
Yemeni men loyal to opposition tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar look at his destroyed headquarters in Sanaa on Thursday. Anti-government forces have been locked in a power struggle with President Ali Abdullah Saleh's troops.
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Unrest in Nepal
On Thursday in Kathmandu, a police officer walks past vandalized motorcycles during a clash with Youth Force activists, a sister organization of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist Leninist
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Holy Water
Hindu devotees gather for a "holy dip" in the Ganges River during the lunar eclipse in Varanasi, India, on Thursday.
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NATO Bombs Libyan Capital
People walk through the rubble of a Tripoli hotel destroyed in a powerful NATO airstrike on Thursday.
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Don't Get Rear-Ended!
An activist wearing panties with the slogan "Give Way!" hangs out of a car at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Kiev on Thursday. Ukrainian feminists rallied to support Saudi women who are planning to defy a ban and drive on Friday.
Fatal floods hit China forcing over 500,000 to flee
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Sight restored after 55-year wait
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A man in the US, who was blinded in one eye 55 years ago, has had his sight restored, according to the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
The patient was eight when his retina was detached after he was hit in the right eye with a stone.
When the retina is detached for a long time it be permanently damaged, so re-attaching it might not restore vision.
Doctors said restoring sight after this length of time was a medical first.
The man was 63 when he went to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, saying he had pain and redness in his eye.
There was swelling, bleeding and a high fluid pressure in his right eye.
Light sight After washing the eye out and treatment with a drug which stopped new blood vessels forming - the eye went from completely blind to being able to detect the source of a bright light.
Doctors thought this was encouraging enough to try re-attaching the retina.
After surgery he was able to see again.
Surgeons believe it was successful because of the low "height" of the retinal detachment.
Dr Olusola Olawoye said: "To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of visual recovery in a patient with long-standing traumatic retinal detachment.
"This is not only a great result for our patient but has implications for restoring eyesight in other patients, especially in the context of stem cell research into retinal progenitor cells which may be able to be transplanted into diseased retinas to restore vision."
Liberia discovers arms cache near Ivory Coast border
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A huge cache of arms and ammunition has been uncovered in Liberia near the border with Ivory Coast, police say.
The haul included rocket propelled grenades, machine guns, assault rifles.
A police spokesman said 92 Ivorian refugees were being held for questioning about the weapons.
Liberian mercenaries were accused of fighting on both sides during the violence that followed Ivory Coast's disputed election last November.
Alassane Ouattara won the presidential poll but the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to give up power and had to be removed by force.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, says both countries have expressed concern about the return to Liberia of mercenaries who fought for Mr Gbagbo.
Aston Villa appoint Alex McLeish as manager
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Aston Villa have appointed Alex McLeish as their new manager on a three-year contract with immediate effect.
The prospect of the 52-year-old former Birmingham City boss - who resigned on Sunday - joining city rivals Villa had led to fan protests outside Villa Park.
But McLeish said: "I am honoured to have this opportunity to manage a club with such a fantastic history.
"The heritage, the history of success and the tradition of Aston Villa are compelling and irresistible."
The Scot, who began his managerial career in 1994, has previously taken charge of Motherwell, Hibernian, Rangers, and also the Scottish national side before he made the move south of the border with Birmingham.
Despite a series of trophy wins with Rangers and his League Cup victory with the Blues in February, McLeish is keen to make new history at Villa Park.
"The challenge for me is to try to add my own chapter," he said.
China 'closes Tibet to tourists' ahead of anniversary
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China has closed Tibet to all foreign tourists until the end of July, say travel agents in the region.
The move is being seen as an attempt by Beijing to prevent unrest ahead of celebrations marking 90 years since the founding of the ruling Communist Party.
Tibet saw a wave of violent anti-China protests in 2008, on the anniversary of a failed uprising against Beijing.
Beijing blamed the unrest on followers of the Dalai Lama, who it said were seeking to separate Tibet from China.
All foreign tourists need special permits to visit the Tibetan region - which Beijing calls an autonomous region - but the authorities have periodically barred all access, citing safety or security concerns.
Travel agents said the latest ban had been issued at least as early as June this year and would run until the end of July.
One agent, who spoke anonymously, said had he hoped the ban would be eased in time for Tibetan Buddhist festivals in August, but that his company had now had to cancel trips.
Officials in the Argentine town of Villa La Angostura have asked for the area to be declared an emergency zone after up to a foot of ash fell in the area, and the Health Ministry has deployed psychologists to counsel anxious residents,
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Ash from a volcanic eruption in Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle chain cover parts of the water surface of the Nahuel Huapi Lake in the Argentine resort town of Villa La Angostura on June 16. A volcano across the border in Chile erupted on June 4 after being dormant for decades, sending a towering cloud of ash into the air and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights as far away as Australia.
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An aerial view of the Olympic stadium in east London as all of the arena’s lights are turned on together for the first time
Hardline IMF forced Germany to guarantee Greek bailout
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John Lipsky, the acting managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has taken a tougher approach than his predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Germany was forced to agree to bail out Greece for the second time in a year under strong pressure from the International Monetary Fund following the resignation last month of its head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Guardian has learned.
Under its acting chief, the American John Lipsky, the IMF has taken a more hardline stance. The fund warned the Germans in recent weeks that it would withhold urgently needed funds and trigger a Greek sovereign default unless Berlin stopped delaying and pledged firmly that it would come to Greece's rescue.
Senior officials and diplomats in Brussels confirmed that the IMF threat to pull the plug on its funding, in stark contrast to the more emollient line of Strauss-Kahn, had been defused because of a German climbdown.
'Match-fixing' South Korean footballers banned for life
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Players and officials have taken an oath to end match fixing and illegal betting
The top professional football league in South Korea has imposed lifetime bans on 10 players accused of match fixing.
One of them is said to have accepted 120m won ($110,000; £67,000) to lose a match, and then shared the proceeds with team mates.
Eight of the players indicted are from the Daejeon Citizen team. It is the toughest-ever penalty issued in the K-League's 28-year history.
They could face up to seven years in jail if found guilty in court.
Daejeon Citizen lost 0-3 to the Pohang Steelers on 6 April.
Brokers and players from other teams have also been indicted.
An 11th player received a five-year ban.
The scandal has also been linked to a player found dead last month in a hotel room.
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Eight of the banned footballers play for the Daejeon Citizen team.
The South Korean news agency Yonhap reported a suicide note had been discovered referring to the match-fixing ring.
Vietnam and the United States took the first step towards cleaning up Agent Orange contamination on Friday, a development that the top U.S. diplomat in the country said was one of the most significant between the two countries.
A ribbon cutting near a barren, sun-baked corner of the Danang airport grounds where the defoliant was stored before being sprayed from U.S. warplanes during the 1960s and early 70s held symbolic meaning for a relationship that has come under the spotlight amid renewed tensions in the South China Sea.
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U.S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam in this 1966 photo
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Nguyen Thi Kieu Nhung sits inside her family home next to the Danang airbase in Danang, Vietnam on May 21, 2007. The girl was born with physical deformities, including twisted limbs, a misshapen head, and protruding eyes suspected by local health officials to have been caused by dioxin in the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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Agent Orange victims are seen at a hospice in Danang City on June 16, 2011.
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A power company lineman using a pole to remove a young deer carcass that was dropped onto a power line on June 15. It is suspected the carcass was dropped after being snatched by an eagle in East Missoula, Mont. The incident caused a brief power outage.
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Commuters wade through water during a heavy rain shower in Kolkata, India on June 17. Monsoon rains enter India's mainland from the southern state of Kerala at the end of May or in the first week of June, and then progress to cover the rest of the country by July.
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A tribesman loyal to Yemeni opposition tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar walks inside the destroyed headquarters of al-Ahmar in Sanaa, June 16, 2011.
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A group of tourists on bicycles take a break near to the remains of the former Berlin Wall at the Berlin Wall memorial site in Bernauer Strasse, June 16, 2011.