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Police Close Streets In D.C. to Steer Drivers to Checkpoint
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 12:59

D.C. police stepped up efforts last night to curb violence in the 
hard-pressed Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington, choking off 
access to several streets there to force drivers to pass through the new 
anti-crime checkpoint, Chief Cathy L. Lanier said.

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US second only to China in illegal wildlife trade: official
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 12:48

The United States is second to China as the biggest market for illegal 
wildlife and wildlife parts, with demand fuelled by interest in 
traditional medicine, a US official said.

"The biggest market for illegal wildlife and wildlife parts is China," 
according to assistant secretary of state for environment, Claudia 
McMurray. "But the number two market is the United States."

Wildlife trafficking is worth an estimated $10.5 billion a year, 
according to Interpol figures she cited.

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Suspected U.S. missile fired in NW Pakistan
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 12:45

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A pilotless U.S. drone was suspected to 
have fired a missile into a Pakistani area on the Afghan border on 
Tuesday, but there was no word on the target or casualties, a government 
official said.

The missile was thought to have been fired into the Mohmand ethnic 
Pashtun tribal area in northwest Pakistan where this year, 
U.S.-controlled Predator aircraft have struck at least four sites used 
by al Qaeda operatives, killing dozens of suspected militants.

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How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 11:38

In 2004, as regulators warned that subprime lenders were saddling 
borrowers with mortgages they could not afford, the U.S. Department of 
Housing and Urban Development helped fuel more of that risky lending.

Eager to put more low-income and minority families into their own homes, 
the agency required that two government-chartered mortgage finance firms 
purchase far more "affordable" loans made to these borrowers. HUD stuck 
with an outdated policy that allowed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to count 
billions of dollars they invested in subprime loans as a public good 
that would foster affordable housing.

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Iran warns of "painful" response if Israel attacks
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 11:24

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's defense minister was quoted on Tuesday as 
warning Israel of a "very painful" response if it launched a military 
strike over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program.

"Our armed forces are at the height of their readiness and if anyone 
should want to undertake such a foolish job the response would be very 
painful," the state Iran daily quoted Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa 
Mohammad Najjar as saying.

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Armed revolution in Latin America is over, says Chavez
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:21

The armed revolutionary has no place in modern Latin America, the 
Venezuelan President has declared. Catching his critics off guard, Hugo 
Chavez called on the Marxist rebel army in neighbouring Colombia to lay 
down its arms and release its hostages, declaring that guerrilla armies 
are now "out of place".

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Group Forms To Head Off War on Iran
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:17

An unusual coalition of interest groups from left and right is launching 
a drive today to head off an American military attack on Iran by pushing 
America into high-level negotiations with Tehran.

The Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran, which bills itself as 
"transpartisan," consists of more than three dozen organizations, most 
of them left-leaning, such as the American Friends Service Committee, 
the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Open Society Policy Center, 
which is backed by George Soros.

However, the campaign also has the backing of a smattering of 
right-of-center groups, including the American Conservative Defense 
Alliance, the Libertarian Party, and the American Cause, which is headed 
by Patrick Buchanan.

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Bomb kills head of Saddam's tribe
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:05

The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe has been blown up in a car bomb in 
the town of Awja, near Tikrit, Iraqi police say.

They said explosives may have been attached to the underside of the car 
belonging to Sheikh Ali al-Nida, head of the al-Bu Nasir tribe.

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UK: Iraq troops decision 'this year'
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 00:07

The final withdrawal of British troops from Iraq could be announced by 
the end of the year, the BBC has learned.

Ministers are under pressure from the military to release the 4,000 
troops who are currently serving in Iraq while pressures are mounting in 
Afghanistan.

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News updated throughout the day:

# Red Cross Is Fined For Blood Violations
# Thousands of Bolivians protest at U.S. embassy
# Pakistan: Lawyers in 'long march' against Musharraf
# Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles

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