澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2009-07-13（在线收听）

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The former US Vice President Dick Cheney has been accused of ordering the CIA to conceal an intelligence project from Congress. It’s not clear what the program was for, but it was set up 8 years ago after the September 11th attacks. The new CIA chief Leon Panetta had the project terminated when told of its existence last month.

It's been a weekend of deadly violence in the troubled Indonesian province of Papua with the shooting death of 2 mine employees. The latest victim was an American security guard who worked at the Grasberg gold and copper mine. It’s the same mine that employed 29-year-old Australian engineer Drew Grant who was killed on Saturday.

Roadside bombs have killed 2 US soldiers in southern Afghanistan where troops are engaged in a major assault against the Taliban, follows the death of 8 British soldiers killed within a 24-hour period. Britain now has lost more troops in the region than in Iraq.

The interim government of Honduras has lifted a curfew imposed after the president was ousted in a coup last month. Manuel Zelaya was forced to leave Honduras on June 28th. He attempted to return last month but his plane was diverted.

Bad weather and lightning storms have further delayed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor. It was scheduled to lift off today, but NASA says they'll try again tomorrow.