BP embroiled in legal mess as it races to fix oil spill At a hearing on Thursday in Boise, Idaho, lawyers for disaster victims argued over how piles of lawsuits against the British energy giant BP should be dealt with. British PM urges Pakistan to crack down on terror groups British Prime Minister David Cameron Thursday urged Pakistan to crack down any terror group operating within the country and said Britain will not accept any terror group within Pakistan. Iran to rethink production of 20 pct enriched uranium Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi told Press TV on Thursday that Tehran is ready to rethink its uranium enrichment to 20 percent level if it is guaranteed that it will be supplied with fuel for its Tehran research reactor. • Boat accident kills at least 130 people in DR Congo • U.N. Command, DPRK to hold colonel-level talks Friday • Immigrants celebrate judge's ruling on Arizona law • Abbas to refuse direct talks with Israel: official • S Korean PM offers resignation More

Plane engine catches fire after hitting bird in Pakistan One passenger aircraft engine caught fire on Friday after hitting a bird at Karachi airport, south Pakistan, local media reported, adding no casualties. S. Korea's opposition party leader offers resignation Chung Sye-kyun, chairman of South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party (DP), on Friday expressed his intention to resign, DP spokesman Woo Sang-ho said. Gates says war documents leak dangerous to troops, allies U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said the leaking of over 90,000 classified documents in website Wikileaks is "dangerous to troops" stationed in Afghanistan, and promised an aggressive investigation.

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