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• BP places new cap over leaking oil well (AFP)
• Catholics attack Protestant parade, police in N.Ireland riot (AFP)
• BP fixes new cap to finally stem Gulf oil disaster (AFP)
• Church of England paves the way for women bishops (AP)
• Belfast police, Catholic rioters clash over parade (AP)
• Poland's Solidarity priest Jankowski dies at 73 (AP)
• France's Sarkozy fights back amid finance scandal (AP)
• Paul the psychic octopus wins his own 'World Cup' (AFP)
• Polanski free after Swiss reject extradition (AFP)
• Sarkozy tries to draw line under donations scandal (Reuters)
• Int'l Court charges Sudan president with genocide (AP)
• Ex-diplomat: UK exaggerated Iraq WMD claims (AP)
• Bosnian Serb leader denies Srebrenica genocide (AP)
• Sikh temple shooting trial starts in Austria (AP)
• Legal saga ends over plot that changed air travel (AP)
• Inquest starts into death of Egyptian spy suspect (AP)
• Freed Cubans to be flown to Madrid (AP)
• French parliament set to vote on veil ban (AP)
• Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned (AP)
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BP places new cap over leaking oil well (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 04:53 PM PDT AFP - BP successfully placed a new cap over the Gulf of Mexico oil leak on Monday, hoping the giant valve will seal the well or contain all the gushing crude, underwater video footage showed.

Catholics attack Protestant parade, police in N.Ireland riot (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 04:02 PM PDT AFP - Catholic rioters in Northern Ireland hurled petrol bombs, rocks and other missiles at a Protestant parade and their police escort Monday, seriously injuring a female officer.

BP fixes new cap to finally stem Gulf oil disaster (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:27 PM PDT AFP - BP placed Monday a new cap over the ruptured oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, hoping to stem the catastrophic flow of toxic crude once and for all.

Church of England paves the way for women bishops (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:25 PM PDT AP - The Church of England national assembly decided Monday that women should be allowed to become bishops, making only minor concessions to theological conservatives who have threatened to break away over the issue.

Belfast police, Catholic rioters clash over parade (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 03:20 PM PDT AP - Police battled Irish nationalists for control of a Belfast road Monday as a day dominated by peaceful Protestant parades across Northern Ireland turned violent when night fell.

Poland's Solidarity priest Jankowski dies at 73 (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:59 PM PDT AP - Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who gained prominence in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement but who later saw his reputation marred by anti-Semitism and suspicions of pedophilia, died Monday evening in Gdansk, the city's mayor said. He was 73.

France's Sarkozy fights back amid finance scandal (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy went on national television Monday to fight allegations of illegal financing for his 2007 election campaign, claims that have threatened the government's credibility as it pushes through unpopular cost-cutting reforms.

Paul the psychic octopus wins his own 'World Cup' (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT AFP - What do you give the global superstar who has everything? This was the dilemma facing staff at aquarium home of Paul the octopus whose knack for predicting World Cup games has catapulted him to fame.

Polanski free after Swiss reject extradition (AFP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:31 PM PDT AFP - Switzerland declared Roman Polanski a free man Monday after rejecting a request to extradite the film director to the United States to answer for a child sex case dating back more than three decades.

Sarkozy tries to draw line under donations scandal (Reuters) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 02:25 PM PDT Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, trying to draw a line under a damaging furor over alleged illegal political donations, urged a minister at the center of the affair to step down as treasurer of his ruling UMP party.

Int'l Court charges Sudan president with genocide (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 01:00 PM PDT AP - The International Criminal Court on Monday charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime.

Ex-diplomat: UK exaggerated Iraq WMD claims (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 11:38 AM PDT AP - The U.K. government intentionally exaggerated its assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a former diplomat told Britain's inquiry into the Iraq war on Monday.

Bosnian Serb leader denies Srebrenica genocide (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 10:53 AM PDT AP - The Bosnian Serb leader is denying the Serb massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 was genocide.

Sikh temple shooting trial starts in Austria (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 10:08 AM PDT AP - Six men went on trial Monday in connection with last year's bloody shooting at a temple in the Austrian capital.

Legal saga ends over plot that changed air travel (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 09:40 AM PDT AP - Four years after a plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners triggered tight new security restrictions for travelers worldwide, British authorities closed a lengthy legal chapter Monday when each of the final suspects were jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

Inquest starts into death of Egyptian spy suspect (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 09:01 AM PDT AP - The widow of a wealthy Egyptian businessman suspected of involvement in Middle East espionage told an inquest into his unexplained death on Monday that her husband had expressed fears that his life was in danger.

Freed Cubans to be flown to Madrid (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 08:42 AM PDT AP - A group of political prisoners being released by Cuba will arrive in Spain on Tuesday, a government official said.

French parliament set to vote on veil ban (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 08:05 AM PDT AP - As France's parliament debates whether to ban burqa-like Muslim veils, one lawmaker compares them to muzzles, or "walking coffins." Another proclaims that women who wear them must be liberated, even against their will.

Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned (AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 06:58 AM PDT AP - Two Russian curators who angered the Russian Orthodox Church with an exhibition that included images of Jesus Christ portrayed as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin were convicted Monday of inciting religious hatred and fined, but not sentenced to prison.

(AP) Posted: 12 Jul 2010 06:55 AM PDT AP - International Criminal Court charges Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with 3 genocide counts.

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