World August 11th, 2009 (11)

world#1 — BBC | Activist found dead in Chechnya

The head of a Russian charity and her husband have been found dead in Chechnya a day after their abduction, activists and officials said.

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#2 — BBC | Pakistan drone attack ‘kills 10′

At least 10 suspected militants have been killed in a strike by a US drone in north-west Pakistan, local intelligence officials say.

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CNN | Pakistani Taliban chief alive according to group’s spokesman

Fox | Man Claiming to Be Pakistani Taliban Deputy Calls to Say He’s Alive

#3 — BBC | Burma court finds Suu Kyi guilty

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to an additional 18 months’ house arrest by a court in Rangoon.

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#4 — BBC | Thailand rejects Bout extradition

A Thai court has rejected a US request for the extradition of Viktor Bout, an alleged Russian arms dealer dubbed the “Merchant of Death”.

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#5 — BBC | JFK’s sister Eunice Shriver dies

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, has died aged 88.

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#6 — Fox | House Leaders Drop Plans to Buy Fancy Jets

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders said Monday that they will not force the Pentagon to buy four new passenger jets used to ferry senior government officials.

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#7 — Times | Bee venom destroys cancer cells in tests on mice

Bee venom can be engineered to target tumours and could prove an effective future treatment for cancer, a study has found.

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#8 — Times | ‘My daughter almost died from Tamiflu’

The Health Secretary appeared on breakfast television this morning in a bid to reassure concerned parents after scientists warned that children should not be given Tamiflu.

Instead he was confronted by a GMTV presenter who claimed that the drug had almost killed his daughter.

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#9 — Times | Mystery as cargo ship disappears in English Channel

Mystery surrounds the fate of a cargo ship that disappeared while sailing through the English Channel.

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#10 — Times | China mudslides topple apartment blocks

Rescue workers clawed through massive mudslides this morning after a deadly typhoon toppled six blocks of flats in southern China and sent a mountainside crashing down on a Taiwan village.

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#11 — DM | Ronnie Biggs has remarkable return to health

Freed train robber Ronnie Biggs may be moved to a London care home as early as this weekend after a remarkable improvement in his health.

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