A look at Russia’s intelligence agencies

A look at Russia’s top intelligence agencies: – The Foreign Intelligence Service, known under its Russian acronym SVR, oversees foreign intelligence. It was founded just before the collapse of the Soviet Union when the KGB was split into several successor agencies. The SVR inherited the personnel …

AP – msnbc.com · June 30, 2010, 3:21 AM (PST)

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Washington Post

FBI arrests of 10 "Russian spies" reveal a sloppy operation

MOSCOW, Russia – From afar, it looks like the spy scandal of the decade – 11 alleged Russian agents busted by the FBI on suspicion of infiltrating American society to feed policy secrets back to their spymasters in Moscow. The U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of 10 men and women in …

Minnpost.com · June 30, 2010, 3:21 AM (PST)

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Daily Telegraph

Senate committee backs Petraeus as commander of Afghanistan war

WASHINGTON – The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Tuesday to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as the next commander of U.S. and foreign forces in Afghanistan after the general told senators he would insist on "an unshakable commitment to teamwork among all elements of the U.S. government." The …

Dallas Morning News · June 29, 2010, 9:59 PM (PST)

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New York Daily News

Vatican creates new office to re-evangelize the West

VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican has shuffled some of its top positions. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Monsignor Rino Fisichella has been tapped to head a new Vatican office to fight secularization and re-evangelize the West. The move is a tacit acknowledgment that attempts to …

USA Today · June 30, 2010, 4:25 AM (PST)

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Cyprus Weekly

INTERNET: Google changes China access after Beijing objects

BEIJING —- Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users in China to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license in their latest skirmish over censorship. Google shut down its China-based search engine March 22 to avoid …

North County Times · June 29, 2010, 11:03 PM (PST)

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FOX News

UN, US officials visit site of Kyrgyzstan clashes as humanitarian crisis enters new phase

OSH, KYRGYZSTAN – A delegation of U.N. and U.S. officials is visiting southern Kyrgyzstan to assess the needs of some 375,000 people driven from their homes by ethnic violence. Rampages by ethnic-majority Kyrgyz mobs this month killed hundreds ethnic Uzbeks and reduced entire Uzbek neighborhoods …

San Francisco Examiner · June 30, 2010, 4:25 AM (PST)

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Reuters AlertNet

Europe’s poorest send less money home

(AP) CHISINAU, Moldova – Many of Europe’s poorest migrant workers are sending less money home _ another blow delivered to the continent’s east by global economic and financial turmoil. Probably worst off is Moldova, Europe’s poorest country according to the World Bank. There, money sent by …

WNYT · June 30, 2010, 3:
28 AM (PST)

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Popular South Korean actor-singer found dead at Seoul home in apparent suicide

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – A popular South Korean actor and singer was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide, police and a news report said. Park Yong-ha, 33, apparently hanged himself in his home in Seoul, Yonhap news agency reported, citing police. An official with Seoul Metropolitan Police …

San Francisco Examiner · June 29, 2010, 7:00 PM (PST)

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Salon

Quake rattles Oaxaca state in Mexico

PINOTEPA NACIONAL, Mexico, June 30 (UPI) — A 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Oaxaca state in southern Mexico early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 6-mile deep earthquake was about 25 miles northeast of Pinotepa Nacional, 48 miles east-southeast of Ometepec, 51 miles south of …

United Press International · June 30, 2010, 4:40 AM (PST)

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