International Headlines

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:02:04 -0400
>TOP STORIES as of 0900 GMT -- 28 July, 2010

> EIGHT PULLED ALIVE FROM PAKISTANI PLANE CRASH
Eight survivors have been pulled from the wreckage of a
Pakistani Airblue passenger plane carrying 152 people which
crashed into hills outside Islamabad.

> AU RELUCTANT TO CHANGE ROLE IN SOMALIA
The African Union summit ended Tuesday without a resolution to
change the mandate of its mission in Somalia from peacekeeping
to peace enforcing, despite calls from some African leaders to
do so.

> REPORT: BILLIONS FOR IRAQ UNACCOUNTED
A federal audit of $9.1 billion targeted for reconstruction in
Iraq cannot account for more than 95 percent of it, a federal
report said Tuesday.

> S. KOREA-U.S. DRILLS ENTER FOURTH DAY
The United States and South Korea on Wednesday plan to end their
joint military exercises aimed at warning North Korea to stop
acts of aggression.

> CHINA: EXPLOSION AT FACTORY KILLS SIX
A plastics factory in eastern China exploded Wednesday, killing
at least three people and sending hundreds more to the hospital,
state media reported.

> U.S.: LEAKED REPORTS NOT TOP-SECRET
American officials from U.S. President Barack Obama down are
trying to downplay the leak of tens of thousands of documents
about the war in Afghanistan.

> IRAN 'READY TO RESOLVE NUCLEAR DISPUTE'
Iran is ready for "effective cooperation" to resolve the dispute
over its nuclear program, the nation's president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, said in an interview with state media.

> BLIX: U.S. WAS 'HIGH ON MILITARY' OVER IRAQ
The man who led the effort to find Iraq's suspected nuclear,
chemical, and biological weapons programs, criticizes the U.S.
and Britain for launching the war without evidence.

BUSINESS
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> STARCRAFT: S. KOREA'S `NATIONAL SPORT'?
In South Korea, the launch of "StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty"
is more than just a follow-up to one of the PC industry's
top-selling games -- it could shake up what many see as the
North Asian country's national sport.

> BUSINESS SCHOOLS TEACHING HAYWARD DISASTER LESSONS
BP's chief Tony Hayward is getting a lot of attention at
colleges across the country. His actions during the Gulf oil
spill are being studied as an example of how NOT to handle a
disaster.

> NEXT BP BOSS VOWS TO LEARN FROM SPILL
BP documents sent to the U.S. Coast Guard this month provide the
"smoking gun" -- showing the extent of oil spewed from the oil
giant's crippled well into the Gulf of Mexico, the head of the
House Energy and Environment Subcommittee said Tuesday.