Around the World in 80 Dailies
Headlines from Every Time Zone: May 27, 2006

Note: the older the story, the more likely the link is no longer valid as newspapers remove articles from their servers or lock them into their paid-only archives.

• Photos indicate Iraqi civilians shot execution-style by US Marines /LATimes
• The Marines and a massacre in Iraq /UK Times
• US Attorney general Gonzales says he’ll quit if not allowed to continue breaking the law /NYT
• Thousands die in Indonesian quake /BBC
• What civil war? Violence claims 19 lives in Iraq /al-Jazeera
• What civil war? Backed by Iran, Shiite militias take control of southern Iraq /Knight Ridder
• Iran and Washington negotiating via Greece /AP-Jerusalem Post
• Fresh hate-race attacks fuel World Cup run-up in Germany /German Expat
• Pakistan holds over 1,000 al-Qaeda suspects between 2002 and 2006 /Pakistan Daily Times
• To appease UK, Bush deals out of both sides of his mouth on Joint Strike Fighter /Financial Times
• South Korea’s current-account deficit worst since Asia financial crisis of 1997 /Korea Herald
• South African police target immigrants for abuse /All Africa
• 20,000 march in Antwerp to protest racism /Dutch Expat
• Football, Pakistan and globalization: where balls are made /Der Spiegel
• Turkish secularism faces new challenges /Der Spiegel
• Anger as Alzheimer’s drugs ruled too expensive /UK Independent
• Mao portrait auction abandoned /China Daily
• White House compares illegal immigration to traffic ticket /Examiner
• Local Russian press plagued by corruption /St. Pete Times (Russia)
• Eric Alterman on Time magazine’s right-wing bacchanal /The Nation