International Headlines

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:02:08 -0400
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 19 June, 2010

> JUST BEFORE THE RIG BLEW: 'I SMELL GAS! RUN!'
Sixty days ago, Daniel Barron was on the Deepwater Horizon he
heard hissing. Oil and water rained down. Nearby, someone
yelled, "man, something ain't right."

> CALL FOR INQUIRY INTO KYRGYZ ATTACKS
From an Uzbek refugee camp, a U.S. official calls for a
"substantial" probe into the deaths of more than 170 people
during ethnic clashes in neighboring Kyrgyzstan.

> NOBEL AUTHER JOSE SARAMAGO DIES
Jose Saramago, the outspoken Portuguese author who won the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1998, died Friday at his home on the
Spanish island of Lanzarote, his foundation said.

> 18 DEAD IN COLOMBIA MINE EXPLOSION
The death toll in a coal mine explosion in Colombia increased to
18 Friday with the early morning recovery of two more bodies, a
state government spokesman said.

> WORLD CUP: ALGERIA HOLDS TURGID ENGLAND
Fabio Capello's England were held to a disappointing goalless
draw by Algeria in their World Cup Group C in Cape Town on
Friday night.

> UK MINISTERS: RELEASE AUNG SAN SUU KYI
On the eve of her 65th birthday, British Foreign Office
ministers call for the immediate and unconditional release of
pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

> CAR BOMB NEAR BAGHDAD KILLS 5
At least five people were killed and 52 others were wounded in a
car bombing north of Baghdad on Friday afternoon, police said.

> OIL THREATENS SPERM WHALES IN GULF
Our need for oil almost wiped out the sperm whale once, and now
our insatiable hunger for it threatens them again.

BUSINESS
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> ONCE CHIC, THE EURO NOW FASHION VICTIM
What happened to "euro chic"? Once a contender for world
currency of choice, the euro's current seesaw ride in value is
directly related to the prestige it once enjoyed.

> MOBILES GET PAST CHINA'S NET CENSORS
The mobile web in China has loopholes where content could go
under the radar of government censors, analysts say.

> U.S. LAWMAKERS SLAM BP CHIEF
U.S. lawmakers blast BP's corporate culture, calling the firm's
bosses "oblivious" to what was happening with its doomed oil
well in the Gulf of Mexico.