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• Thousands march through Chicago to NATO summit
• 'Avengers' solidly on top in North American cinemas
• Thousands protest in Chicago as NATO summit opens
• Media says Obama evolved, not flip-flopped, on major issues through the years
• Lawyers for fugitive Iraq VP withdraw from case
• Ex-TV Anchor: Obama 'Condescending to Women'
• Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest
• Iran MPs urge respect of 'rights' in nuclear talks
• Iraqi Kurdistan to push ahead with oil export plan
• NATO’s Paper Mache Agenda for Afghanistan

Thousands march through Chicago to NATO summit Posted: Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday in one of the city's largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a NATO summit.

'Avengers' solidly on top in North American cinemas Posted: "The Avengers" kept packing its amazing box-office punch, industry data showed Sunday, breaking records and powering its way on the top at North American box offices for a third week.

Thousands protest in Chicago as NATO summit opens Posted: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters carried their anti-war message to world leaders at a NATO summit on a steamy Sunday, in a mostly peaceful march led by a group of Iraq War veterans who symbolically gave back their military medals. During the march, a group of black-clad demonstrators darted toward police lines along the route, and some threw water bottles at officers who pushed back and yelled at them to move along, but there were no major incidents. ...

Media says Obama evolved, not flip-flopped, on major issues through the years Posted: President Barack Obama has evolved — again. And again. And again.

Lawyers for fugitive Iraq VP withdraw from case Posted: Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi's defence team walked out of his trial Sunday after a judge refused to accept their evidence, as witnesses testified he gave them money to kill Iraqi soldiers and policemen.

Ex-TV Anchor: Obama 'Condescending to Women' Posted: President Obama's recent outreach to women voters has won him strong support in polls, but former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown says in an op-ed column published Sunday that the effort "so far has seemed maddeningly off point."

Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest Posted: Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges rejected their request for evidence for his defense.

Iran MPs urge respect of 'rights' in nuclear talks Posted: A majority of Iranian lawmakers on Sunday urged world powers to respect Iran's "rights" in crucial talks next week in Baghdad over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme.

Iraqi Kurdistan to push ahead with oil export plan Posted: ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Sunday it expects to start exporting its crude oil along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghdad in a long-running dispute over who controls the country's oil sales. The Kurdistan region, which has its own government and armed forces, has already clashed with Iraq's central government over autonomy and oil rights, and halted its crude exports in April after accusing Baghdad of not making due payments. ...

NATO’s Paper Mache Agenda for Afghanistan Posted: The Afghanistan-related measures NATO members are expected to adopt in Chicago are a mix of concrete international agreements and paper promises that European capitals may or may not uphold.

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