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Zelaya has vowed to return after the military forced him into exile on June 28 [AFP]

Honduras 'to block' Zelaya return

The military-backed interim government in Honduras has said that an aeroplane carrying Manuel Zelaya, the president it sent into exile last week, will not be allowed to land in the country.

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The Helmand operation is the biggest undertaken by US marines since the Vietnam war [AFP]

Deaths as Afghan offensive expands

At least two Nato soldiers have been killed in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, as thousands of US marines moved deeper into the province to tackle Taliban fighters.

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Obama to 'reset' US-Russia ties

Barack Obama, the US president, has said he will restore friendly ties between Russia and Washington as he  embarks on his first visit to Moscow.

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Thirty-six senior members of the 'Yellow Shirts' have been summoned by the police

Thai foreign minister to 'resign'

Thailand's foreign minister has expressed outrage at being "criminalised" for his links to last year's protest blockade of Bangkok's airports and said he will "have to resign".

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Up to 35 people have been killed in last two days of fighting in Mogadishu [AFP]

More die in Mogadishu fighting

At least 12 people have been killed in heavy shelling between Somali troops and anti-government fighters near the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu, witnesses have said.

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Iran's reformists face trial threat

An Iranian newspaper says that 100 members of parliament have sent a letter to the judiciary, calling for opposition leaders to face trial over the post-election disturbances.

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Deadly blast hits Philippine city

At least five people have died and 45 others wounded after a bomb exploded outside a church in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman says.

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Rethinking America’s Fourth of July as Outdependence Day
By Ben Tanosborn   
Malpracticers of Economic and Foreign Policy

About this time every year I grow a bit philosophical, and melancholic, as we celebrate what this country should be… but isn’t.  Last year, my written words called for a second American revolution, and the year before I underlined the belated realization that the US is not us (the people). FULL STORY...

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Churchill’s Bengali Holocaust
By Gideon Polya   
Inadvertent confessions of Britain's #1 war criminal

History ignored yields history repeated. Mainstream media that ignore the 9-11 million excess deaths so far in the Bush (now Obama) wars also ignore how in 1943-1945 the British under Winston Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in what was described in India at the time as a Bengali Holocaust. FULL STORY...

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Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
By Marjorie Cohn   

From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man. It has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen (causes cancer) and by the American Academy of Medicine as a teratogen (causes birth defects). FULL STORY...

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