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U.S. crude and Brent crude surged to new record highs above $142 a barrel on Friday, extending gains from the previous session as world stocks fell to a three-month low.
The price rise comes a day after the president of the Organisation of the Petroleaum Exporting countries (Opec), said oil prices could reach $170 a barrel […]

The Indonesian Air Force is still searching for its aircraft went missing since Thursday morning while being on an aerial photography training mission, chief spokesman Air Commodore Chaeruddin Ray told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
“We are combing all the mountain slopes from where the aircraft was last contacted down south to the sea,” he said.
“We […]

BEIJING, June 27
North Korea on Friday blew up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, Xinhua news agency said, citing one of its reporters on the scene. The tower was blown up at 17:05 local time, the agency said in a report filed from Pyongyang. A US State Department official and some US technicians […]

HARARE, June 27
Zimbabweans began voting Friday in an election which was virtually certain to end in victory for President Robert Mugabe but dismissed by the opposition as meaningless after it boycotted the poll. The voters turnout represented only a fraction of those seen in the first round 13 weeks ago when opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai […]

3 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, June 27 
Three soldiers in the US-led coalition and a local interpreter were killed following an attack on a patrol in Sayed Abad District in Wardak province, some 50 kilometres south of Kabul on Thursday, a coalition statement said. “Severe blast and fire damage was inflicted on the vehicle; two […]

Three US marines, two interpreters slain in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 27
Insurgents killed three US marines and two interpreters on Thursday in Iraq’s Anbar province, the American military said. The attack came after a suicide bomber killed 20 people in the town of Garma near Fallujah in the same province while another 18 people were killed in […]

Ein Schweizer und ein Österreicher verstärken die deutsche Mannschaft Team Gerolsteiner bei der Tour de France. Mit sieben deutschen, einem österreichischen und einem Schweizer Fahrer wird das Team Gerolsteiner bei der am 5. Juli in Brest beginnenden Tour de France an den Start gehen:
Robert Förster (30 Jahre alt/Wohnort Markkleeberg), Markus Fothen (26/Kaarst), Bernhard Kohl (26/Klagenfurt, […]

Der deutsche Sportwagenhersteller Porsche verlagert die Produktion der beiden Automodelle Boxster und Cayman ab 2012 zu Magna Steyr nach Graz. Bisher wurden die beiden Modelle in Finnland gebaut.
Magna habe den Zuschlag bekommen, weil es das finanziell attraktivste Angebot unterbreitet habe und Entwicklungsumfänge für Porsche-Sportwagen übernehmen könne, teilte Porsche am Donnerstag mit.
Der Auftrag für Boxster und […]

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1 million to children affected by the war in Iraq.
The Hollywood couple made the donation via their charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
The money will go to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict and will help 8,000 children who have lost parents, homes or the opportunity to go to […]

Protection of Civilians Weekly Report
4 - 10 June 2008
Of note this weekGaza Strip:
· The IDF killed six Palestinians, including an eight year old Palestinian girl, and injured 16 others.
· Four Palestinians were killed and ten Palestinian police officers were injured during armed clashes between several suspected Palestinian drug dealers and Palestinian antinarcotics police in Shejayeh […]

OPEC President Chakib Khelil is saying oil prices could rise to between US$150 and $170 a barrel this summer. Khelil has told France 24 television that he thinks prices “might decline a bit near the end of the year.” He also says he doesn’t think prices will reach $200 a barrel.
Light, sweet crude for August […]

WASHINGTON, JUNE 26 (AP) - The U.S. administration on Thursday will lift some trade sanctions against North Korea and move to take it off the U.S. terrorism blacklist  -  a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime, which President George W. Bush once branded as part of an “axis of evil.”
North Korea handed over […]

BAGHDAD, June 26 (AFP):
A roadside bomb blast killed a US soldier in eastern Baghdad Wednesday at around 9 a.m., the US military announced Thursday. It said the bomb used in the attack was an explosively formed projectile (EFP).
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More than 300 US dignitaries seek executive order explicitly to ban torture by Americans
WASHINGTON, June 26 (AP):
More than 300 former U.S. government officials, including secretaries of state and defence, generals and admirals and other prominent Americans are asking for an executive order that would incorporate as U.S. policy most of the stipulations of the Geneva […]

Wie der Internationale Automobil-Verband FIA am Mittwoch in Paris bekannt gab, umfasst der Rennkalender 19 Rennen für die Saison 2009. Neu im Programm ist das Rennen in Abu Dhabi, wo am 15. November das Saisonfinale stattfindet.
2009 FIA Formula One World Championship*
 
CALENDAR
29 March  Australia
5 April  Malaysia
19 April  Bahrain
10 May  Spain
24 May  Monaco
7 June  Canada
21 June  Great […]

Battle.net and Blizzard.com have recently been displaying some fancy new splash screens alluding to something new and exciting - very possibly Diablo III. The splash screens, upon close inspection, show what appear to be runes. The world-wide invitational is scheduled for June 28th - the eight year anniversary of Diablo II. There is also a press conference […]

Schauspieler Pinkas Braun gestorben

Der Schweizer Schauspieler Pinkas Braun ist im Alter von 85 Jahren in München gestorben. Das teilte sein Verlag Nagel & Kimche in Zürich mit.
Der 1923 in Zürich geborene Braun war ein gefragter und vielseitiger Theater-, Film- und Fernsehschauspieler, Regisseur und Übersetzer. Mit seiner populären Stimme war er auch als Sprecher für Hörbücher […]

Israel closes Gaza crossings after rocket attack
JERUSALEM, June 25 (Reuters):
Israel will not open its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a defence official said, calling the move a response to a Palestinian rocket salvo which breached an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
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NATO soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
KABUL, June 25 (AFP) - A NATO soldier was killed while on patrol in Nahri Sarraj district of Helmand province on Tuesday when a blast struck their convoy. In a separate incident on Tuesday, another ISAF soldier was killed during a firefight with Taliban insurgents in the neighbouring district of […]

Bomb kills three US soldiers, interpreter in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 25 (AFP) -
A bomb attack killed three US soldiers and an interpreter in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province on Tuesday, the American military said Wednesday but it did not specify where the attack occurred and gave no further details.
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