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Guard available national but only fraction used in spill cleanup

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Washington (CNN) — While local officials are calling for more federal government — specifically military — help with the oil cleanup, only a fraction of thousands of authorized, federally funded National Guard troops have been put into service. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Larry King Thursday, President Barack Obama defended the current federal endeavor, [...]

Korea condemns North South over warship claims

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(CNN) — A North Korean official has questioned South Korea’s credibility for its rhetoric and actions over the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, state-run media in North Korea reported Saturday.

Drug suspect hunt for Jamaican to resume

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(CNN) — Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said. Police officers and soldiers plan to launch the second phase of an operation Monday aimed at executing an arrest warrant for [...]

UK defiant on Falklands sovereignty

// < ![CDATA[ // Madrid, Spain (CNN) — The United Kingdom has “no doubt” about its sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, a British government minister said Tuesday. The response comes after Argentine President Cristina Kirchner requested new talks with Britain over the disputed islands, which lie off Argentina’s coast in the South Atlantic.

Airport truck kills John Travolta’s dogs

// (CNN) — Two dogs belonging to actor John Travolta were hit and killed by a service vehicle at the Bangor, Maine, airport last week, the actor’s publicist and an airport spokeswoman said. Travolta’s jet was parked on an airport tarmac for refueling, Travolta’s publicist Paul Bloch said. “While there, two small dogs on leashes [...]

Crippled by the job, thousands of Chinese workers struggle for redress

The average lifespan for a worker diagnosed BEIJING // Yang Renbing is still in his 30s, but already his body has suffered damage from which it will not recover. For more than a decade, he worked in a jewellery factory in southern China where he inhaled dust that has permanently damaged his lungs. Mr Yang, [...]

Latest Kabul suicide bombing again shows capital’s vulnerability

A man checks on his relative, right, from outside a hospital in Kabul yesterday. Mauricio Lima / AFP KABUL // A suicide car bomb killed six foreign soldiers and at least 12 civilians in Kabul yesterday, as insurgents again demonstrated their ability to strike inside Afghanistan’s heavily fortified capital. The attack occurred in the south-west [...]

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