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• Black pastor: Southern Baptists should honor Obama (AP)
• Chinese Muslims urge high court to order release (AP)
• Bomb kills 40 in Pakistan mosque as Holbrooke visits (Reuters)
• Obama seeks to change Muslim perceptions of U.S. (Reuters)

Black pastor: Southern Baptists should honor Obama (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:30 PM PDT AP - A black Southern Baptist pastor has asked his denomination to acknowledge the importance of President Barack Obama's election, despite the convention's opposition to many of his policies.

Chinese Muslims urge high court to order release (AP) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT AP - Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees who continue to be held, though they have been cleared for release, urged the Supreme Court on Friday to put teeth into a year-old ruling that allowed the prisoners to challenge their confinement.

Bomb kills 40 in Pakistan mosque as Holbrooke visits (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 07:24 AM PDT Reuters - A bomb blast killed around 40 worshippers attending Friday prayers at a mosque in a restive area of northwest Pakistan, a senior official in the area told Reuters.

Obama seeks to change Muslim perceptions of U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 07:22 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama sought to change Muslim perceptions of the United States on Thursday in a speech that urged Arabs and Israelis to declare in public the realities he said they accept in private.

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