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Oil streaks past a lighthouse as it impacts land land near the mouth of the Mississippi River south of Venice, La. Monday, May 17, 2010. The oil is a result of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico nearly a month ago.

photo: AP / Charlie Riedel

US President Barack Obama to set up oil spill panel

US President Barack Obama will set up a commission to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, officials say. They say the panel will also examine industry practices and the government's role in thedisaster. The news comes as a top coast guard official warned the leaking oil may reach the southern Florida coastline. Separately, the oil...

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Thai protests expose military rifts, incompetence read more

An anti-government protesters and supporters of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra leave from outside Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Leaders of demonstrations that have plunged Thailand's capital into chaos say they are calling off their protests after combat troops ringed their last strongho

The Star

BANGKOK (AP) - Soldiers have been hit by their own tear gas. Riotpolice scattered in fear when a party balloon popped. An anti-government protester, surrounded by security forces, escaped down a rope from a hotel balcony to the cheers of supporters....

photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit

Top EU diplomat Ashton begins anti-piracy tour read more

Hearing of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security and British Vice President designate of the EC before the EP Foreign Affairs Committee and with the participation of the EP Committees on Development, Intenational Trade, Budgetary Control and Constitutional Affairs

BBC News

The EU's top diplomat is to visit East Africa at the start of a tour aimed at curbing piracy off Somalia's coast. The EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, has said she wants to...

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Tar sands oil extraction 'spreading rapidly' read more

In this file photo of Friday, August 5, 2005, mining trucks carry loads of oil laden sand after being loaded by huge shovels at the Albian Sands oils sands project in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Oil sands, also called tar sands, are found in an area almost half the size of Colorado spread across central Alberta.

The Hindu

Terry Macalister The successful development of Canada's tar sands has triggered a rush by Shell and other oil companies to set up similar operations in Russia, Congo and even Madagascar, a new report reveals....

photo: AP / Jeff McIntosh

Mexican Leader to Visit U.S. as Woes Mount read more

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks during the inauguration ceremony of a Spain-Mexico forum at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid, Monday, May 17, 2010.

The New York Times

MEXICO CITY— If President Felipe Calderón of Mexico looks a little preoccupied during the state dinner President Obama has planned for him in Washington this week, it would not be hard to understand why. One of Mr....

photo: AP / Arturo Rodriguez

BA uses High Court to block cabin crew strike on a technicality read more

A British Airways Boeing 747 comes in to land at London's Heathrow Airport, Monday, May 17, 2010.

The Independent

The prospect of the longest cabin crew strike in British Airways' historywas averted at the eleventh hour last night after the airline's last-ditch attempt to secure an injunction was granted by the High Court. The first of four five-day walkouts...

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Coalition to rush through £6bn of cuts and give up power to forecast growth read more

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, third right, sits with members of the coalition cabinet, from left, David Laws, Theresa May, George Osborne, Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan-Smith during the first cabinet meeting at number 10 Downing Street in London Thursday May 13, 2010.

The Independent

Almost £6bn of spending cuts will be rushed out next Monday as the Government begins its attempts to reduce Britain's record peacetime public deficit of £163bn this year. David Laws, the Liberal Democratwho is Chief Treasury Secretary, is sharpening...

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