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The group consisted of 7 Germans, two of them children, a Briton and a South Korean.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen Indian sailors set adrift by Somali pirates <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/africa\/2009\/06\/2009614165743573660.html\" target=\"_blank\">are rescued<\/a> by a NATO warship.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian&#8217;s senior negotiator <span class=\"DetaildSuammary\">Saeb Erekat <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/06\/20096157554332740.html\" target=\"_blank\">rejects outright<\/a> the terms Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attached to Israel allowing the creation of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. General McChrystal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD98R87AO0\" target=\"_blank\">takes command<\/a> of nearly 90,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The H1N1 virus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningtimes.co.uk\/news\/display.var.2514436.0.0.php\" target=\"_blank\">claims its first European victim<\/a>, a 38-year old mother from Glasgow who had just given premature birth to a baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One protester is killed and several critically wounded at a massive rally held in Tehran to protest the results of Friday&#8217;s Iranian presidential election. Conflicting reports indicate that at least 3 and as many as all 9 hostages captured recently in Yemen have been killed. 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