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• U of M students protest re-election of Iranian president
  About two dozen Iranian students protested Monday at the University of Minnesota over the country's recent presidential election.June 15, 2009
• America Abroad: Interrogating torture
  Midday airs a new documentary from the America Abroad series, which looks at torture and the controversial line between providing safety for a country and using unnecessary or violent interrogation techniques.Midday, June 15, 2009
• Guard deployment ceremonies to be held in Duluth, Chisolm
  The Minnesota National Guard will host two deployment ceremonies this weekend for 180 troops heading to Afghanistan.June 12, 2009
• Vietnam vets to be remembered at Capitol gathering
  An estimated 5,000 veterans and their families are expected to gather on the Minnesota State Capitol grounds Saturday to remember those who served in Vietnam.June 12, 2009
• Fort Snelling says goodbye to the 88th
  After almost 80 years in Minnesota, the 88th Regional Support Command is saying goodbye to Fort Snelling. The division is moving to Wisconsin's Fort McCoy. But first - the 88th is holding its last open house for the public this weekend.June 12, 2009
• Head of U.S. Marines at the National Press Club
  General James Conway, the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, speaks live at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. About 10,000 Marines have been deployed throughout Afghanistan in the past six weeks.Midday, June 11, 2009
• Is diplomacy with Iran going nowhere?
  Four foreign policy experts debate as part of the Intelligence Squared series from National Public Radio and the Rosenkranz Foundation.Midday, June 10, 2009
• Iraq: Car bomb kills 35 in southern Shiite area
  A car bomb ripped through a market district Wednesday in a mainly Shiite area in southern Iraq, killing as many as 35 people and wounding dozens, officials said.June 10, 2009
• What geography tells us about the world's hotspots
  Journalist Robert Kaplan suggests the Obama adminstration focus on "shatter zones" in the world. These are places where conflict has historically raged, like Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and continue to unsettle the rest of the world.Midmorning, June 9, 2009
• Family, friends offer differing accounts on how Minneapolis teen died in Somalia
  Conflicting accounts emerged Monday over how Burhan Hassan, a Minneapolis teenager who allegedly went to Somalia to fight with an Islamic terrorist group, was killed in his homeland.June 8, 2009
• Missing Somali teen reportedly killed in Mogadishu
  Family members of a young Minneapolis man killed in Somalia are calling on the federal government to arrange for his body to be brought back to Minnesota.June 7, 2009
• Obama hails 'sheer improbability' of D-Day victory
  Recalling the "unimaginable hell" of D-Day suffering, President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to the against-all-odds Allied landings that broke Nazi Germany's grip on France and turned the tide of history.June 6, 2009
• A tale of two wars
  As a member of both Bush administrations, Richard Haass was involved in the decision-making process around both wars in Iraq. In his new book, he explains how those two conflicts resulted from two fundamentally different views of U.S. foreign policy, and how the lessons of those wars will shape America's foreign policy debate.Midmorning, June 3, 2009
• Walz: Minn. should be open to holding Gitmo detainees
  U.S. Rep. Tim Walz said today that facilities in Minnesota should be open to holding detainees from Guantanamo Bay under some circumstances.June 3, 2009
• Remembering D-Day
  June 6 marks the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the allied landing at Normandy, France in 1944. D-Day marked the first step in the long, allied campaign during World War II to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany's occupation. On Midday, we remember D-Day and the soldiers who fought on those beaches.Midday, June 3, 2009

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