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News -- June 17, 2006
- Australian PM supports proposed World Cup bid
- Bus attack kills 65 in Sri Lanka
- Chinese, Iranian presidents meet on bilateral ties, nuclear issue
- Chinese FM comments on Sri Lanka's bus blast
- "History Does Not Follow Straight Lines", interview with Futurist Alvin Toffler
- On the stand of the World Cup
- Personality: Tharoor -- Indian Nominee for UN top post
- Roundup: Int'l pressure on Iran builds up at IAEA meeting
- Tonga sexually transmitted infections increase
- Two die on slope of Merapi volcano
