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Members of the Comorian community living in France, left, block the access to the T3 Terminal at Roissy airport, north of Paris, Friday July 3, 2009.
Airline   Disaster   Photos   Safety   Yeman   		 The Australian 
Crashed Yemenia airliner black boxes detected
Mon 6 Jul 2009
| SEARCH teams have detected a signal from the black boxes of the Yemenia airliner that crashed off the Comoros last week with 153 people on board. | The French accident investigating agency BEA said ... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
Shell CFO Peter Voser, left, and CEO Jeroen van der Veer, right, arrive for a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday Jan. 29, 2009.
Environment   Justice   Nigeria   Oil   Photos   		 The New York Times 
A New Chief at Shell, and a Rocky Inheritance
Mon 6 Jul 2009
| NEW YORK - Even as Jeroen van der Veer was preparing to pass the baton to Peter Voser, who took over as chief executive of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last Wednesday, the contentious legacy of t... (photo: AP / Fred Ernst)
Facebook  The Guardian  Sun 5 Jul 2009
Miliband plays down spy chief Facebook photos

| • 'It's not a state secret that he wears Speedo trunks' | • Lib Dems seek inquiry over Sir John Sawers exposure | John Sawers, the UK ambassador to the UN, who has been appointed head of MI6. Ph... (photo: WN / theresa)
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Opposition Presidential candidate John Atta Mills speaks to journalists after casting his vote at a polling station in Regimanuel Estate, in Accra, Ghana Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008.  Joy Online  Sun 5 Jul 2009
President Mills returns from Libya

President John Evans Atta Mills returned home late Saturday night from Libya where he attended the 13th Ordinary Summit of the African Union which took place from July 1 to 3, 2009. | The summit was h... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
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Facebook BBC News Sun 5 Jul 2009
MI6 chief's Facebook details cut
| Details about the personal life of the next head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, have been removed from Facebook. | The Mail on Sunday says his wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, put ... (photo: WN / theresa)
Children   Internet   Network   Photos   Social  
An Airbus A330-200 from Yemenia Airways, taxies on the tarmac above a car access ramp at Roissy airport, north of Paris, before taking off for Sana'a, Yemen, Friday July 3, 2009. The Observer Sun 5 Jul 2009
Global blacklist plan to ground unsafe planes

| The setting up of a new global blacklist of planes unfit to fly will be discussed this week at a summit meeting between Antonio Tajani, the European transport commissio... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at a press conference at the end of the G20 Summit at the Excel centre in London, Thursday, April 2, 2009. The objective of the London Summit is to bring the world's biggest economies together to help restore global economic growth through enhanced international coordination. The Independent Sun 5 Jul 2009
Gordon Brown: No one in the world should have to go hungry - we need ...
| My first experience of campaigning was volunteering for the Freedom from Hunger movement as a schoolboy. | My older brother ran a small newspaper to raise money for Oxf... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
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Airlines The Times Sun 5 Jul 2009
Sole survivor of plane crash tells of rescue

| A schoolgirl, aged 12, who barely knows how to swim but who survived a plane crash in the Indian Ocean by clinging to wreckage, has said that when the aircraft plunged ... (photo: Creative Commons / Tim Dobbelaere)
Airlines   Crash   Photos   Travel   Yemen  
First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Russian President Vladimir Putin The New York Times Sun 5 Jul 2009
Heading to Russia, Obama Is Mindful of Its Power Equation

| MOSCOW - The summit meeting here this week revolves around two men with some notable affinities. Presidents Obama and Dmitri A. Medvedev are relatively young leaders wh... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office / )
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Haagse Arc (International Criminal Court) ICC Africa and the International Court The New York Times
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pele), World Cup Soccer Champion and Director, Empresas Pele, Brazil and Joseph S. Blatter, President, Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Switzerland captured during the press conference after the session 'Can a Ball Change the World: The Role of Sports in Development' at the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2006. Blatter Pleased With South Africa Sporting Life
Chelsea's Didier Drogba, right, goes to ground under a challenge as Barcelona's keeper Victor Valdes closes in during their Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Wednesday, May, 6, 2009. Didier Drogba Visits Soweto And Compliments South Africa Goal
Spain's Xabi Alonso heads the ball during a training session of the national soccer team of Spain in Vienna, Saturday, June 28, 2008. Spain will face Germany in the final match of the Euro 2008 European Soccer Championships in Austria and Switzerland.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)hg3 Spain see off South Africa in extra-time to finish third in Confederations Cup The Guardian
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ROME REQUEST--FILE--An unidentified man take a cigarette break outside the headquarters of Philip Morris in New York, Wednesday, May 15, 1996 (ai1) Philip Morris agrees to buy pipe tobacco and snuff maker Swedish Match South Africa for $222M Star Tribune
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soybean - cereals - grain - food Scientists find solution to fungal disease threatening soybean in Africa Modern Ghana
South African Deputy Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala- Routledge has a blood sample taken to test for AIDS in Port Shepstone, South Africa, in this Nov. 2006 photograph. President Thabo Mbeki fired Madlala-Routledge, following reports that she had gone to SOUTH AFRICA: Time to rethink testing IRINnews
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Secretary of Interior-designate, Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., right, looks on as he his introduced by President-elect Barrack Obama Opinion: Obama will cry for Africa Joy Online
ANC President Jacob Zuma, left, greets people inside Parliament before the swearing in of members of Parliament and the president in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. South Africa's parliament is meeting to elect Jacob Zuma as the country's president. S.Africa's ANC rejects call to nationalise mines The Guardian
The economic crisis starts by touching the countries in the process of development and the countries African La crise conomique commence par toucher les pays en voie de dvlopement et les pays africains. Togo and Africa Top UN officials urge donors to help Africa weather food crisis United Nations
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, gives the annual address to the Federal Assembly. Russia's plans for Africa Gulf News
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