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Home prices increase 1.3 pct. in May from April (AP)

New townhouses for sale are shown in Beaverton, Ore., Monday, July 26, 2010. Home prices rose in May for the second straight month as federal tax incentives pulled more buyers into the market. .(AP Photo/Don Ryan)AP – Home prices rose in May for the second straight month as federal tax incentives pulled more buyers into the market.


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Iranian nuclear scientist back home from US (AP)

** ADD THE SON'S NAME ** Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared a year ago, listens to a question while holding his 7-year-old son Amir Hossein during a news briefing as he arrives at the Imam Khomeini airport just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Amiri claimed Thursday he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran's allegations he was abducted by American agents. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP – An Iranian nuclear scientist claimed Thursday that he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interrogators after disappearing last year, adding to Tehran’s allegations he was abducted by American agents.


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Iran: Nuclear scientist on his way home (AP)

Members of the media are reflected in a window of the building that houses the Pakistani embassy's office representing Iranian interests in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2010.  A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran claims was abducted by the U.S., has taken refuge in the building, and is planning to return to his homeland, the State Department said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)AP – An Iranian scientist was on his way home to Tehran on Wednesday from the United States, ending what appeared to be a defection gone wrong that could snarl U.S. efforts to gather intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program.


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Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home (AP)

Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP – Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold responsible for days of shootings, arson and sexual assaults.


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BP CEO gets mixed reaction at home in UK

With some sniffy exceptions, the British press Friday tore into their homeboy, BP honcho Tony Hayward, for his know-nothing performance a day earlier before a U.S. House subcommittee.

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Home construction fails to lift recovery (AP)

In this photo made June 2, 2010, a for sale sign is posted in a lot for sale next to a new home under construction, in Cincinnati. Home construction plunged last month to the lowest level since December as builders scaled back without a federal tax credit to lure buyers. Building permits also fell, a sign the construction industry won't fuel the economic recovery.(AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP – Homebuilders are sending a message: They won’t be able to contribute much to the economic recovery now that government home-buying incentives have vanished.


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Huge welcome home for Turkish activists from Gaza (AP)

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd R) shakes hands with an activist, wounded when Israel seized a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, in an ambulance plane at the Etimesgut military airport in Ankara early June 3, 2010. Israel began expelling all activists seized during a raid on an aid convoy sailing to Gaza that has drawn international outrage and officials on Wednesday vowed to prevent any other ships from reaching the coastal territory. Israel had said it would deport 682 activists from more than 35 countries taken into custody after the maritime assault in which nine activists were killed on a Turkish vessel. REUTERS/Cengiz Oguz Gumrukcu/Turkish Foreign Ministry/Handout (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP – Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists seized by Israeli commandos in a bloody raid on their flotilla returned home to a hero’s welcome Thursday, with Turkish crowds cheering their attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.


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