{"id":4920,"date":"2009-06-05T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2009-06-05T18:17:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T22:17:20","slug":"world-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/uncategorized\/world-links\/4920\/","title":{"rendered":"World Links: U.K.&#8217;s Prime Minister Refuses to Resign, Suicide Bomber Kills 30 in Mosque Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bundesregierung.de\/Content\/DE\/Artikel\/2009\/06\/2009-06-05-statement-obama-buchenwald.html\" target=\"_blank\">visits<\/a> the former concentration camp, Buchenwald, in Germany, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,628739,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">symbolic visit<\/a>, saying the camp &#8220;is the ultimate rebuke&#8221; to Holocaust deniers. His great uncle helped liberate a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bild.de\/BILD\/news\/bild-english\/home\/regularieninhalte\/world-news-ticker\/world\/2009\/06\/05\/obama-visits-buchenwald.html\" target=\"_blank\">satellite camp<\/a> of Buchenwald in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s political parties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iloubnan.info\/en\/article\/id\/35218\/lebanon\/Battle-lines-drawn-for-Lebanon-vote\" target=\"_blank\">wrap up their campaigns<\/a> for a general election on Sunday <a href=\"http:\/\/yalibnan.com\/site\/archives\/2009\/06\/friday_news_bri_51.php\" target=\"_blank\">between pro-Western factions and an alliance led by Iranian-backed Hezbollah<\/a>. At least 19,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&amp;categ_id=2&amp;article_id=102700\" target=\"_blank\">expatriates return to Beirut<\/a> to cast their votes. International monitors, including former U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, will observe.<\/p>\n<p>U.K. Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, vows to he will &#8220;fight on&#8221; even as his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/gordon-brown\/5454657\/Gordon-Brown-vows-to-fight-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">sixth Cabinet minister in the last week steps down<\/a>. Members of Brown&#8217;s Labour party <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/wales\/8086276.stm\" target=\"_blank\">call for his resignation<\/a>, and say they may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/gordon-brown\/5454255\/Gordon-Browns-fate-could-be-sealed-by-Monday-say-rebels.html\" target=\"_blank\">decide his fate<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A suicide bomber detonates himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/dawn-content-library\/dawn\/news\/pakistan\/provinces\/04-explosion-at-upper-dir-mosque-qs-12\" target=\"_blank\">inside a mosque<\/a> in the remote Pakistani village of Hayagai Sharqai during weekly Muslim prayers. The attack kills at least 30 people, continuing a series of violent attacks this week in the Northwest Frontier Province that has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/dawn-content-library\/dawn\/news\/media-gallery\/05-idps-in-karachi-sal-01?pageDesign=new_mg_wht_detail12-1\" target=\"_blank\">displaced<\/a> thousands.<\/p>\n<p><span>Officials in China rescue three people from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-06\/05\/content_11494398.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a landslide<\/a> that buries at least 60 others in an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8084923.stm\" target=\"_blank\">iron ore mining area<\/a> in the country&#8217;s southwest  Chongqing Municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama visits the former concentration camp, Buchenwald, in Germany, in a symbolic visit, saying the camp &#8220;is the ultimate rebuke&#8221; to Holocaust deniers. 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