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Sep 5, 2010

Soldiers kill 25 in gunbattle near US-Mexico border

A shootout between soldiers and purported drug cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects in northern Tamaulipas state, near Mexico's border with Texas, the military said.

Mexico plane crash kills 6, including 2 lawmakers, mayor

At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico, the attorney general's office said.

Indian woman burns herself to death over failed marriage

A young Indian woman in the UK burned herself to death to escape the shame of her failing marriage in Leicester, a judicial inquiry was told.

24-year-old Harsimrat Kaur Bains moved from India to marry Dalvinder Bains, 30, in 2007 but soon began complaining of domestic abuse.

One killed, three injured in Israeli air strikes

Israeli warplanes launched three strikes against the southern Gaza Strip, killing one, wounding three and leaving one more missing, Palestinian medical and security sources said.

5 killed, 39 injured in suicide attack in Russia

A suicide car bombing on a military camp in Russia's restive North Caucasus region of Daghestan killed at least five servicemen and injured 39 others on Sunday, the latest in a series of terror strikes that have rocked the area.

Nepal fails to elect PM in 6th run-off poll

Nepal's parliament failed to elect a new prime minister for the sixth time on Sunday as Maoist supremo Prachanda and his Nepali Congress rival Ramchandra Poudyal could not muster a majority, deepening the two-month constitutional crisis in the country.

Nine killed in New Zealand's worst plane crash

Nine people, including four foreigners were killed in New Zealand's worst air accident in 17 years, when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at the remote Fox Glacier tourist spot.

20 killed in Guatemala floods, President Alvaro Colom declares emergency

GUATEMALA CITY: At least 20 people were killed in Guatemala in landslides triggered by weeks of driving rains, according to figures released by national emergency and rescue services.

'Iran orders 99 lashes for woman facing execution'

Iran orders 99 lashes for woman
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.
In an interview published on the website of the French magazine La Regle du Jeu and the blog Dentelles et Tchador, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad said they learned of the new punishment from released inmates.

LE FIGARO International News in French, Sep 05, 2010

Géopolitique américaine et jeu diplomatique aux Proche et Moyen-Orient

Proche-Orient : les nouvelles règles du jeu des négociations

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Les Américains interviennent pour la première fois dès le début dans les tractations entre Israéliens et Palestiniens.
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