#1 — NP | Japan set for political sea change
Change doesn’t come easily in Japan, the most conservative country in the industrialized world, where feudal loyalties linger and centuries of tradition teach people to respect authority and mould their personal ambitions to accommodate group consensus.
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#2 — NP | Berlusconi sues local, foreign media for libel
ROME — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday.
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#3 — BBC | Megrahi backs Lockerbie inquiry
The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has backed calls for a public inquiry into the atrocity.
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Times | Britain accused of breaking promise to US over Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi
Times | When truth about Britain’s dealings with Libya turns out to be a mirage
#4 — BBC | Jackson death ruled as homicide
Michael Jackson’s death was homicide, primarily caused by the powerful anaesthetic Propofol, the Los Angeles coroner has confirmed.
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#5 — BBC | UAE ‘seizes N Korea arms cargo’
The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship illegally carrying embargoed North Korean weapons bound for Iran, diplomatic sources at the UN have said.
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#6 — CNN | Ahmadinejad urges stiff punishment for election dissenters
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday urged stiff punishment for those who “orchestrated and provoked” the “painful” unrest after the June 12 presidential election, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV.
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#7 — Fox | Health Care Foes Compete to Frame Kennedy’s Legacy
WASHINGTON – Liberals and conservatives, at odds over health care, are competing to use the legacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to further their goals.
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#8 — Fox | WHO Warns of Severe Form of H1N1 Virus
Doctors are reporting a severe form of H1N1 that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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# 9 — Fox | Questions Arise Over How Kidnapper Went Undetected
ANTIOCH, Calif. — His neighbors knew he was a registered sex offender. Kids on his block called him “Creepy Phil” and kept their distance. Parole agents and local law enforcement regularly visited his home and found nothing unusual, even after a neighbor complained children were living in a complex of tents in his backyard.
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Telegraph | Phillip Garrido’s home searched over prostitute murders
#10 — Fox | Don’t Exhale: EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant
Don’t exhale.
That advice may need heeding if the Environmental Protection Agency declares carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases dangerous pollutants, a move — expected in the next couple weeks — that would require the federal government to impose new rules limiting emissions.
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#11 — DM | Top police officer warns over danger of relaxing assisted suicide laws
Relaxing legislation on assisted suicide could see families using new laws as easy way to get rid of elderly relatives, according to a senior police officer.
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#12 — DM | Michael Martin’s controversial peerage confirmed in middle of Parliamentary recess
The former Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, has had his controversial peerage quietly confirmed – in the middle of the Parliamentary recess.
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#13 — Times | Sight of dead girl at the gates sparked a bloody mutiny
Captain Josh Jones is in charge of Forward Operating Base Gibraltar. About 500m south, a platoon of the Afghan National Army is being mentored by eight Royal Irish soldiers. Their compound is known as the Witch’s Hat.
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#14 — Telegraph | Two thirds want British troops home from Afghanistan
Almost two-thirds of people oppose Britain’s continued deployment of troops in Afghanistan, a new poll shows.
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