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	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:42:11 GMT

Thu, 16 Jun 05 15:08:47 GMT EU leaders head to crisis summit

European leaders gather for a summit in Brussels amid a major disagreement over the bloc's budget.

Thu, 16 Jun 05 15:05:54 GMT Palace rejects Prince Harry video

Film taken by a reporter who infiltrated Sandhurst military academy is not of Prince Harry, Clarence House says.

Thu, 16 Jun 05 14:40:51 GMT Lineker libel jury is discharged

The jury in the Gary Lineker and Harry Kewell libel trial is discharged after failing to reach a verdict.

	Christian Science Monitor \| Top Stories
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:41:58 GMT

As Iraq effort stretches on, doubts mount on home front

Troubling signs include a shortfall in military recruiting and polls that show rising support for a troop pullout.

House votes to repeal part of USA Patriot Act

Today's Terrorism and Security Update: Vote may signal that Bush campaign to renew and extend the Patriot Act isn't winning over Congress.

Japanese TV journalism gets a celebrity makeover

Critics worry that high-profile anchors may mark a trend to make news broadcasts into entertainment.

	NYT > Home Page
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:41:58 GMT

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT Lawyers Fought U.S. Move to Curb Tobacco Penalty

Officials ordered lawyers running the government's tobacco racketeering trial to reduce the penalties by $120 billion.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT Magnet for Iraq Insurgents Is a Crucial Test of New U.S. Strategy

Tal Afar is becoming a test case: using U.S. forces to clear out the insurgents and then leaving behind Iraqis to keep the peace.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT House Blocks a Provision for Patriot Act Inquiries

The House blocked easing federal review of the records of libraries and bookstores on national security grounds.

	U.S. News & World Report
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:41:59 GMT

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Democrats push for probe of detainee abuse

After months of wrangling, leading Democrats in Congress have agreed on a unified approach to push for an independent investigation into allegations of abuse of detainees at military-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Democrats hope next week to introduce the measure, which would call for the creation of an independent panel modeled on the 9/11 commission, as part of the debate on the Defense Department reauthorization bill.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST A liberal strip of comic relief

As a precocious sixth grader, Ward Sutton got a taste of the limelight when he drew his first caricature: a rendering of Jimmy Carter that Sutton's teacher proudly put on display. Since then the self-described news junkie has been on a rampage. For the past seven years, his lefty strip, originally known as Schlock 'N' Roll and now with the title Sutton Impact, featuring a rodentlike George W. Bush, has run in the Village Voice and is now syndicated to 10 alternative weeklies nationwide. His work also appears regularly in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the New Republic, and Esquire. This week, Seven Stories Press releases Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons and Art of Ward Sutton.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Geniuses in the making

In 1980, millionaire inventor Robert Graham launched his Repository for Germinal Choice, an exclusive sperm bank dedicated to "improving" the human race by providing sperm from high achievers to infertile couples. Twenty years later, journalist David Plotz set out to track the fortunes and misfortunes of what came to be known as the Nobel Prize sperm bank, which folded in 1999. He shares his findings in the new book Genius Factory, out this week.

	Yahoo! News: Top Stories
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:41:59 GMT

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:30:01 GMT Six U.S. Servicemen Die in Iraq Violence (AP)

AP - Bombing and shooting attacks west of Baghdad killed six U.S. troops, and a suicide car bomber slammed into a truck carrying Iraqi policemen near the airport Thursday, killing at least eight and wounding 25 — the latest wave of violence aimed at derailing Iraq's advancing political process.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:26:25 GMT Ex-Klansman Leaves Court on Stretcher (AP)

AP - One-time Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was removed from court on a stretcher Thursday on the opening day of testimony in his trial for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:41:48 GMT Judge: Texas Girl to Stay in State Custody (AP)

AP - A judge ruled Thursday that the state will retain custody of a 13-year-old girl who was taken from her parents after they refused to continue her cancer treatments and the cancer, which appeared to have been eliminated, returned.

	ABC News: International
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:42:00 GMT

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:28:02 -0400 Woman Who Aided in Sexual Assault, Deaths of Teens to Go Free

Canadians Still Reeling About Plea Deal in Notorious Slayings

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:30:41 -0400 What Is the Oil-for-Food Program?

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:15:01 -0400 Documentary Highlights Child Labor Horrors

Filmmakers Risk Violence to Document Child Labor Atrocities; Millions of Kids, From Kenya to Texas, Forced to Work

	Guardian Unlimited
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:42:01 GMT

Blair faces fraught EU summit

PM joins EU leaders in Brussels.

Lineker jury fails to reach verdict

Jury in Liverpool soccer star's Harry Kewell's libel action against Gary Lineker is discharged.

From conflict to conciliation

New Delhi dispatch: Randeep Ramesh explains how a Hindu hardliner came to raise the question of whether India and Pakistan are ready to live peacefully side by side.

	CNN.com
	last updated: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:42:08 GMT

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:42:22 EDT U.S.: Al Qaeda leader in Mosul captured

The U.S. military today said it has captured al Qaeda's leader in Mosul, Iraq -- a man identified as Abu Talha. "Numerous reports indicated he wore a suicide vest 24 hours a day and stated that he would never surrender. Instead, Talha gave up without a fight," Air Force Brig. Gen. Donald Alston said.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:47:21 EDT 50 Cambodian students held hostage, 1 killed

Gunshots have been heard inside the international school compound where six masked gunmen have taken dozens of school students and teachers hostage in the northwestern Cambodian town of Siem Reap.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:22:45 EDT U.S. diplomat: Bin Laden not in Afghanistan

The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Thursday that he does not believe Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are in the central Asian country.