AFP - Gunmen on Sunday killed the head of the UN Development Programme in the Somali capital, a UN official said, the latest fatality in a string of attacks on aid workers in the lawless country.
Mexico denies US banned its produce
(AP)
AP - Mexico's Agriculture Department is denying reports that the United States will close its borders to some Mexican produce.
BP's rivals shift in Russian tussle
(Reuters)
Reuters - The fate of the second biggest foreign
investment in Russia hangs in the balance amid signs of a
shifting mood in the Kremlin which may have wrong-footed
investors and one of the world's biggest oil companies.
Reuters - Rafael Nadal punched a mighty hole
through Roger Federer's aura of invincibility on Sunday to
become the first Spaniard in over four decades to win the
Wimbledon men's singles crown.
Reuters - The United Arab Emirates has cancelled
almost $7 billion of debt including interest and arrears
payments owed by Baghdad, becoming the first Gulf Arab country
to forgive all of Iraq's debt.
Iraq City Has Brittle Calm and War Scars
Calm has only begun to return to the Diyala Province and its capital, Baquba, once known as the garden of Iraq but that have been all but destroyed last year by sectarian violence.
Resistance by native Caribs prevented colonization on St. Vincent until 1719. Disputed between France and the United Kingdom for most of the 18th century, the island was ceded to the latter in 1783. Between 1960 and 1962, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was a separate administrative unit of the Federation of the West Indies. Autonomy was granted in 1969 and independence in 1979.
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