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• BA holds fresh talks over cabin crew strikes (AFP)
• Ties with Israel may outlast Turkish anger at raid (AP)
• Prudential fails in bid to buy Asian insurer AIA: report (AFP)
• Fergie blames booze, cash woes (AFP)
• BP shares fall drastically on spill fears (AFP)
• BP shares drop, costs approach $1 billion (AP)
• Oil prices skid on sluggish European, China data (AFP)
• Condemnation across Europe after Israel raid on Freedom Flotilla (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Black boxes in Polish crash reveal pilots warned (AP)
• German labor minister early favorite for president (AP)
• Families honor Air France crash victims a year on (AP)
• Terror suspect's extradition to US to be appealed (AP)
• Venice wants to attract mosquito-eating bats (AP)
• Knox accused of slandering Italian police (AP)
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• Pope appoints panel to investigate Ireland abuse (AP)

BA holds fresh talks over cabin crew strikes (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:32 PM PDT AFP - Fresh talks between British Airways and unions over ongoing cabin crew strikes broke up late Tuesday without any indication of whether any progress had been made.

Ties with Israel may outlast Turkish anger at raid (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:28 PM PDT AP - Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship has ignited unprecedented anger in Turkey and driven the Jewish state's relations with its most important Muslim ally to their lowest point in six decades.

Prudential fails in bid to buy Asian insurer AIA: report (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:54 PM PDT AFP - British insurer Prudential's attempt to buy the Asian unit of US group AIG has ended in failure, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

Fergie blames booze, cash woes (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT AFP - Sarah Ferguson told US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday that alcohol and cash woes had pushed her to tell a reporter in a sting that she could "open any door you want" to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew.

BP shares fall drastically on spill fears (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:43 PM PDT AFP - BP revealed Tuesday that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico had cost it almost a billion dollars, sparking a 13-percent plunge in its shares after the latest attempt to fix the leaking well failed.

BP shares drop, costs approach $1 billion (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 01:25 PM PDT AP - Shares in BP PLC plummeted on Tuesday, wiping billions off the British company's market value, after the failure of its latest attempt to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Oil prices skid on sluggish European, China data (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:41 PM PDT AFP - Oil prices slid Tuesday after a series of sluggish European and Chinese economic indicators sparked concerns about energy demand.

Condemnation across Europe after Israel raid on Freedom Flotilla (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:16 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - European official and public reaction to an Israeli raid that killed at least 9 members of the self-styled "Freedom Flotilla" bound for Gaza on Monday has been uniformly condemnatory.

Black boxes in Polish crash reveal pilots warned (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:14 PM PDT AP - Poland published cockpit conversations Tuesday of the final minutes before the April plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, revealing that pilots decided to land in heavy fog despite warnings from air traffic controllers about poor visibility.

German labor minister early favorite for president (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:08 PM PDT AP - Germany's labor minister is an early favorite for the presidential nomination, a day after President Horst Koehler's surprise resignation, according to an official quoted by a local news agency Tuesday.

Families honor Air France crash victims a year on (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:02 AM PDT AP - Families mourned in more than a dozen languages and the Air France choir performed Verdi's Requiem in a ceremony Tuesday honoring the 228 people killed when a Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight crashed into the Atlantic Ocean a year ago.

Terror suspect's extradition to US to be appealed (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:10 AM PDT AP - A Somali terror suspect's lawyer said Tuesday he will appeal a Dutch court's ruling that his client can be extradited to the U.S.

Venice wants to attract mosquito-eating bats (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 09:00 AM PDT AP - Venice wants its citizens to attract bats in a bid to battle a tiger mosquito infestation in the lagoon city.

Knox accused of slandering Italian police (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 06:10 AM PDT AP - Amanda Knox appeared in public Tuesday for the first time since her murder conviction, returning to court to face slander charges for saying she was beaten by police during questioning over the death of her roommate.

(AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2010 05:55 AM PDT AP - Turkey's Foreign Ministry says 4 Turkish citizens among the dead on Gaza aid ship.

Pope appoints panel to investigate Ireland abuse (AP) Posted: 31 May 2010 09:42 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI has appointed nine prelates, including the archbishops of Boston and New York, to investigate child abuse in Ireland's Catholic institutions.

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