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Aussie long distance swimmer Chloe McCardel is on the way to Florida, hoping to become the first person to swim from Havana to Florida without a cage to protect her from shark attacks.

Squabbling has thrown cold water all over high-level talks between North and South Korea aimed at smoothing recent tensio

A new poll says there is overwhelming public support for changing Ireland’s law to allow to Abortion in cases when the mother’s life is in danger.  But it also shows majority support for extending Women’s Reproductive Rights beyond what the government is proposing.

While the Turkish government sought to cool international critics with talk of “democracy” solving its problems, it was fining TV stations that dared to cover the biggest news story of the decade going on in Taksim Square and Gezi Park.

The head of America’s electronic spy agency is defending its massive surveillance programs, claiming that eavesdropping has played a critical role in disrupting dozens of plots.

British Police intervene with anti-capitalists before the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland; An oil spill creeps down into the Brazilian Amazon; Protests accompany Greece’s shutdown of its only public broadcaster.

Bombings in Afghanistan and in Syria have killed at least 30 people, showing the trouble in these parts of the world shows no sign of getting better.

European nations are uneasy about revelations of US surveillance on phone and data communications and are seeking assurances that their citizens’ rights are not under attack by the American spy agencies.

While other nations march towards universal equality and expanding freedom, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament gave its overwhelming approval to a bill that makes homophobia official policy and bans giving children any getting information about homosexuality.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a major US Civil Rights group, is suing the National Security Agency (NSA) over its massive communications surveillance program, revealed by a now-missing whistleblower.

Protesters clashed with cops over control of Taksim Square in Istanbul as the conservative Muslim Prime Minister’s crackdown on two weeks of demonstrations hit a fever pitch.

The former CIA employee who leaked details of the US government’s highly classified and broad-scope Internet surveillance program has himself gone missing in Hong Kong.

Iraq reverts to its recent lawless past as dozens are murdered in terrorist attacks; Egypt vows to protect its water security, as the Nile is dammed way up-river;  And, Canada’s Bowie-loving astronauts announces a career change.

A day after blasting them with tough talk, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning to meet the organizers of ongoing protests against his government on Wednesday.

The tell-tale signs of malnutrition abound in Haiti especially in children as a nation that didn’t have a lot to start with spirals further down three years after the massive earthquake.

The Afghanistan Taliban captured and beheaded two boys, aged 10 and 16 years old, as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the authorities.  The boys’ “crime” was to go to an Afghan Army base to scrounge food.

More evidence that there are good fats and there are bad fats.  And the good ones don’t say “moo” or “oink” or even “cock a doodle doo” before arriving on your dinner table.

What?  The tenth?  June is in double digits already?  Oh well.  Hey, here’s some more world news for your perusal.

An Israeli government draft report is blaming a “serious systemic failure” for the handling of Prisoner X, the Australian man recruited by Mossad and who eventually died in an Israeli prison cell.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened pro-democracy protesters that they would “pay a price” and he said he would have to “speak the language” they understand.