In the news
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) is sworn in as President of Iran for a second term amid protests.
- North Korea pardons two imprisoned American journalists during a visit by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- Three people are killed in a pneumonic plague outbreak in Ziketan Town, Qinghai, China.
- More than 180 people are killed and 30 others injured in nomadic conflicts in Sudan.
- Bolivia becomes the first country in South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
- A new strain of the human immunodeficiency virus is discovered in a woman from Cameroon.
- Eight Christians are killed in religious unrest in Punjab, Pakistan, triggered by an alleged desecration of a Qur'an.
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