Karakoram Mountains (photo: GothPhil/flickr)

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  • “Stock markets have fallen in the US and Europe, led by bank shares, as worries over Spain re-emerged. The FTSE 100 dropped 1%, while Spain’s Ibex fell 3.6% and the Dow Jones in New York closed down 1%.”
  • “The broken display cases at Greece’s Museum of Olympia, the site where the first Olympic Games were held thousands of years ago, have stunned members of the Archaeological Service who have been registering a stream of missing cultural artefacts.”
  • “The front-runners in France’s presidential election have held rival mass rallies in the capital, Paris, a week before the first round of voting.”
  • “Dozens of international pro-Palestinian activists have been refused entry into Israel in a large-scale security operation that ensured a high profile for the protesters’ attempted show of solidarity with the people of the West Bank. About 650 police officers, some in plain clothes, patrolled Ben Gurion airport on Sunday ready ‘to prevent disturbances and disruption’, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.”
  • “Shells pummelled the war-ravaged city of Homs yesterday in a flagrant breach of the country’s shaky ceasefire just hours before an advance team of UN observers arrived to monitor the truce.”
  • “A summit of nearly 30 Western Hemisphere leaders has ended without a joint declaration due to divisions over Cuba and Argentine claims to the Falkland Islands. ‘There is no declaration because there is no consensus,’ said Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, at the summit’s closing news conference.”
  • “Some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountains are defying the global trend and getting thicker, say researchers.”

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