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Bangladesh garment factory collapse kills at least 80, 21 killed in China violence, Iraq’s day of revenge killings, mortar leaves seven dead in Damascus suburb, French protest gay marriage law, Karzai backs media crackdown, US-Japan “provocative actions” against China, UK wants to temporarily quit human rights treaty, and new bird flu “one of most lethal.”

Nothing’s cuter than puppies, so fuck you, Dr. Richard Besser!

Iraq violence kills dozens, France’s Tripoli embassy attacked, Chad and Niger in huge battle on Nigerian border, arsonists target but miss US cultural center in South Korea, Japan PM promises to “expel by force” any Chinese landing on disputed islands, China-India border tension, millionaire businessman sold fake mine detectors to Iraq, Congress blocks Pentagon from cuts, and US hospitals ship unconscious foreigners home to save on costs.

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Writing from the past week by past guests Dean Baker, David Cole, Juan Cole, Glenn Greenwald, Frances Moore Lappé, Bill McKibben, Rick Perlstein, John Vidal, and Dave Zirin.

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Al Jazeera’s Asad Hashim on Balochistan, Salon.com’s Alex Pareene talks debt, and sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild dissects ‘The Outsourced Self’
Correspondents will be investigative journalist Greg Palast, LaddieO.com from the hermetically sealed clean room of URL Labs, and Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth live from India.

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Knee-jerk guesses, wild speculation, guilt by association, tonight’s news has it all.

Baghdad bomb kills dozens, Iraq mosques attacked on election eve, Assad warns King Abdullah about supporting insurgency, “situation in Syria is a humanitarian catastrophe,” former Guatemalan president’s genocide trial suspended, Musharraf taken into custody, GlazoSmithKline allegedly paid generics not to sell drugs, American pessimism on economy continues, and Greece’s far-right is getting violent.

It’s back tomorrow.

Babies raped in Congo war, Assad warns West about backing Al-Qaeda, Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest, dozens of migrant farm workers shot in Greece, Greek children’s “dreams are crushed,” China bird flu’s human-to-human transmission investigated, Afghanistan’s prostitution capital, forced marriages lead Afghan women to suicide, and foreclosure checks are bouncing.

Please E! give me the job as head writer of ‘News Soup’!