World July 30th, 2009 (10)
#1 — BBC | Cable fault cuts off West Africa
Large parts of West Africa are struggling to get back online following damage to an undersea cable.
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#2 — BBC | Graveside protest planned in Iran
Iranian opposition leaders say they will attend ceremonies to honour those killed in violence which followed the country’s disputed election result.
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Times | More protests planned in Tehran to mark end of 40-day mourning
Telegraph | Iran police beat opposition sympathisers at graveside memorial
#3 — BBC | Ex-royal officer jailed for fraud
A former royal protection officer has been jailed for six years for masterminding a £3m betting and property scam.
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#4 — CNN | Caller in Gates case says she’d do it again
(CNN) — In her first public appearance, the woman who made the 911 call that led to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Wednesday she would make the call again if placed in the same situation.
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#5 — Fox | Moroccan King Pardons Nearly 25,000 Prisoners
RABAT, Morocco — King Mohammed VI pardoned nearly 25,000 prisoners Wednesday, including pregnant women, foreigners and some on death row, in a traditional royal gesture as this North African country feted the 10th anniversary of his coronation.
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#6 — Times | Nigerian Taleban routed as army storms mosque
The Nigerian army claimed today that it has decisively overpowered a violent sect of radical Islamists who have murdered hundreds in the name of al-Qaeda.
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#7 — Times | Law lords pass into history with move to the UK’s new supreme court
The crates are stacked, the law books labelled. All that remains before the law lords pack up their personal effects is to hear the final few short cases and to give their last judgments.
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#8 — Times | Police officer suspended after ‘jungle monkey’ slur on race row Gates
The race row that has inflamed the US took a bizarre twist last night when a Boston police officer was suspended for abusing the Harvard scholar Professor Henry Louis Gates and calling him “a banana-eating jungle monkey”.
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#9 — Telegraph | New form of drug-resistant malaria discovered
A new form of drug-resistant malaria that threatens the front-line of defence against the disease has been discovered in Cambodia.
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#10 — DM | Fiery images as killer volcano that claimed 36,000 lives stirs once more
An amateur photographer has captured new images of the re-awakening of the world’s most famous volcano.
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