Manchester United say Mexican striker Javier Hernandez will not play at the London Olympics “to get the rest he needs”.

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Hernandez ‘denied’ Olympic chance

There are few places in the world where the opportunity for solar power is more blindingly obvious than India. There are also few industries where the possibility of collaboration between India and the United States is more tantalizing. Read full article > >

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U.S., India glimpse a bright future together in solar power

Three months before he was killed by a U.S. drone strike, Fahd al Quso, one of al Qaeda's top operatives in Yemen, spoke at length to a local journalist. He was asked why al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had stopped plotting against the United States. Was it because all efforts were devoted to an internal project?

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Underwear, printers and al Qaeda

Experts in the United States have been analysing a sophisticated new al-Qaeda bomb to see if it could have slipped past airport security.

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VIDEO: Experts analyse new underpants bomb

ISLAMABAD – Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old American aid expert kidnapped in Pakistan last summer, has appeared in a video asking President Obama to save his life by meeting his al-Qaeda captors’ demands to free convicted terrorists imprisoned in the United States. Read full article > >

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Warren Weinstein, Maryland man kidnapped in Pakistan, pleads for his life in video

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of planning the 9/11 attacks on the United States, is set to be formally charged at Guantanamo Bay.

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Key ’9/11 plotter’ due in court

The United States is restarting its effort to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others at Guantánamo Bay.

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The United States added 115,000 jobs in April | The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof discusses the case of Chen Guangcheng | A knee injury may end Mariano Rivera’s career.

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Syrian forces raided a university Thursday, the opposition said, the latest sign of continuing attacks despite a truce implemented three weeks ago and the presence of United Nations monitors in the country.

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THE DEAL UNDER which Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday was bold, risky and potentially groundbreaking for human rights in China. It could also prove disastrous. By late Wednesday, Mr. Chen, who was then in a Beijing hospital, was telling Western news organizations that his decision had been forced by threats to his family and that he wished to exit China for the United States. That may or may not reopen a six-day crisis over his status . What’s clear is that the Obama administration now bears moral responsibility for Mr. Chen’s freedom and welfare. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Defending Chen Guangcheng

In the first public acknowledgment by the United States of his whereabouts, an American official said Chen Guangcheng left the American embassy accompanied by the U.S. Ambassador to China.

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Blind Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Leaves U.S. Embassy in Beijing

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is enjoying a surge of support and nationalism in a feud with the United Arab Emirates over Abu Musa, a four-square-mile spit of sand with about 2,000 inhabitants.

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Dispute Over Island of Abu Musa Unites Iran

The attack against suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal belt was the first since the Parliament demanded that the United States end the use of drones against targets there.

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U.S. Drone Strike Kills 3 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— The United States resumed drone missile strikes against Pakistan-based militants Sunday for the first time since the nation’s parliament demanded an end to such attacks as one of several conditions for fully normalizing relations with the United States. Read full article > >

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U.S. drone strikes resume in Pakistan; action may complicate vital negotiations

Quick quiz: Which country is the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after the United States and China? The answer, at least in recent years, has been Indonesia . That’s surprising. It’s not the world’s third-largest economy. It’s not an industrial powerhouse. But Indonesia has been clearing its vast rain forests of late, releasing huge stores of carbon into the air. One culprit has been the country’s fast-growing production of palm oil , an edible vegetable oil that’s increasingly being harvested to make biodiesel fuel for cars and trucks in Europe. Read full article > >

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EPA faces crucial climate decision on diesel made from palm oil