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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, right, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev seen during a welcome ceremony at the presidential palace in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, May 22, 2008. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Kazakhstan on Thursday on his first trip abroad as Russia's new president, reaffirming Moscow's push to control the flow of energy from the Central Asian regi

Medvedev in first foreign trip
Al Jazeera

Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Kazakhstan on his first foreign trip as Russia's president, seeking to revive Moscow's Soviet-era influence in the resource-rich area. Energy were set to top the agenda as Medvedev sat down for talks with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh president, at his white-stone presidential palace in the capital Astana....
photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service

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Kennedy talked, Khrushchev triumphed
International Herald Tribune

In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy expressed in two eloquent sentences, often...

Puerto Rico's moment in the sun
International Herald Tribune

Puerto Rico, an afterthought trophy for the United States 110 years ago at the end of the...

Food insecurity
International Herald Tribune

The food crisis has reinforced two things about the future of agricultural trade. The first is...

Burma allows in first US relief expert

A village damaged by Cyclone Nargis on May 22, 2008 is seen in an aerial view over the Irrawaddy delta, Myanmar from the helicopter carrying United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Ban is on a tour to view conditions in cyclone damaged areas and to meet with Myanmar government official

The Australian

BURMA'S junta has for the first time allowed a US government relief expert into the cyclone-hit country, but his visit is limited and his colleagues remain barred, a US official said today. William Berger, head of a US disaster...
photo: AP / Stan Honda, Pool

Edwards: We shouldn't be writing anybody's obituary

Elizabeth Edwards greets members after arriving for a speech at the City Club in Cleveland, Monday, March 26, 2007. Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, spoke about her battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) (js1)

CNN

(CNN) -- Elizabeth Edwards, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" Wednesday to discuss Sen. Edward Kennedy's cancer diagnosis....
photo: AP/Mark Duncan

Oil price passes US$130 a barrel

A customer returns the nozzle to the pump at Orlean Market and Restaurant in Orlean, Va. on Thursday May 22, 2008. Orlean Market will have to stop selling gas if prices top $4, as the old-fashioned dials only go up to $3.99

NZ Herald

Photo / Reuters Runaway oil prices blew past US$130 ($165) a barrel for the first time yesterday and kept going. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car - and paying for just about everything else...
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin

Immigrants flee South Africa's wave of violence

South African children stand at the scene of a burning shack in the Reiger Park informal settlement outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, May 22, 2008.

AOL

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Hundreds of terrified immigrants fled South Africa on Thursday from a wave of anti-foreigner violence that has killed at least 42 people and shredded the nation's reputation for economic and political stability. Even...
photo: AP Photo / Jerome Delay

Majority of Oceanic Shark Species Face Extinction -

Yahoo Daily News

LiveScience Staff 35 minutes ago More than 50 percent of wide-ranging oceanic shark species are threatened with extinction as a result of overfishing, according to a new study....
photo: WN

Ayala Land cleared in Glorietta blast

Police gather at the scene where a powerful explosion ripped through the busy Glorietta Shopping Mall at the financial district of Makati city east of Manila, Philippines Friday Oct. 19, 2007. The blast killed at least eight people and wounded 70 others.

The Manila Times

By William B. Depasupil and Jefferson Antiporda, Reporters The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday cleared owners of an upscale mall of responsibility over a huge explosion that ripped through the shopping center last year. The explosion left 11...
photo: AP/Bullit Marquez

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