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Reuters - Friday, June 26

Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush

TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama on Thursday of behaving like his predecessor towards Iran and said there was not much point in talking to Washington unless the U.S. president apologised. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.

Google slammed as China, U.S. quarrel over Internet

BEIJING - China on Thursday stepped up accusations that Google is spreading obscene content over the Internet, a day after U.S. officials urged Beijing to abandon plans for controversial filtering software on new computers. The growing friction over control of online content threatens to become another irritant in ties at a time the world is looking for the United States and China to cooperate in helping to pull the global economy out of its slump.

More bombs kill at least seven in Iraq

BAGHDAD - Bombs killed five Iraqi policemen and at least two civilians on Thursday, police said, and the vice president blamed insurgents trying to delay this month's withdrawal of U.S. troops from towns and cities. A string of attacks has cast doubt on the ability of Iraqi forces to keep the lid on a stubborn insurgency after U.S. combat troops pull back from towns and cities by June 30.

Cyprus has historic chance to heal the division

NICOSIA - The European Commission urged estranged Cypriots Thursday to seize a "historic chance" to reunite their island, split by a conflict spanning decades and troubling Turkey's bid to join the EU. "The time is now. Do not allow a situation where the younger generation will simply accept the status quo," EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.

Nigerian rebels say they attacked Shell pipeline

ABUJA said in an e-mailed statement it had attacked the Billie/Krakama pipeline in Rivers state in the Niger Delta.

Israel to limit incursions in four WBank cities

JERUSALEM - The Israeli army plans to limit incursions in four Palestinian cities to try to boost a Palestinian security campaign supported by Washington, Israeli and Western security sources said on Thursday. The move coincides with attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ease tensions with U.S. President Barack Obama over Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank.

Bomb kills at least 72 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - A bomb killed at least 72 people on Wednesday at a busy market in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City slum, police said, six days before U.S. combat troops are due to withdraw from Iraqi towns and cities. About 127 people were wounded by the blast in the poor, mostly Shi'ite Muslim area. A witness said the explosion tore through a part of the Mraidi Market where birds are sold, setting stalls ablaze.

Sri Lanka sets date for first post-war polls

COLOMBO for most of the 25-year separatist war.

FAO says Zimbabwe still faces food insecurity

ROME and World Food Programme.

NATO on the boardwalk: allies chill out at Afghan base

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Down on the boardwalk, a knot of Romanian soldiers are sitting under the umbrellas at the French patisserie, sipping non-alcoholic Becks beer in the shade. At Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut place, U.S. airmen are drinking coffee, surfing on the wireless internet on their laptops and listening to Beyonce on British Forces Radio.

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