World Oct. 6th, 2009 (10)

#1 — BBC | Scam hits more e-mail accounts

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought.

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#2 — BBC | Rwanda queen-killing suspect held

One of the most-wanted suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in Uganda, police say.

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#3 — BBC | Zimbabweans row over donor money

Two key figures in Zimbabwe’s shaky power-sharing government are divided over how to spend some $800m (£500m) in recently approved donor funding.

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#4 — CNN | Clinton, Gates: U.S. in Afghanistan for long haul

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a rare joint interview, said Monday that the United States is committed to a regional strategy to build long-standing relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Fox | Clinton, Gates: Obama Has Big Decision to Make on Afghanistan

#5 — Fox | AG: ACORN Embezzlement Totaled $5M, Not $1M

BATON ROUGE, La. — An internal review by ACORN’s board of directors found that $5 million was embezzled from the community organization, far more than the previously reported amount of $1 million, according to documents released Monday.

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#6 — Fox | Dalai Lama comes to Washington, will not see Obama

When the Dalai Lama visits Washington DC this week, there’s one door he won’t be knocking on – 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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#7 — Fox | Report: Gulf States in Secret Talks to Drop Dollar

The world’s oil producers, as well as China, Japan and France, are in secret talks to end the use of the U.S. dollar to buy and sell crude oil, a British newspaper reported on Tuesday, sending the American currency lower in overseas trading.

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#8 — DM | Boris blows Tory truce on Europe with call for referendum

Boris Johnson has stirred up further trouble for David Cameron with a pitch for the leadership of the Tory eurosceptics.

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Telegraph | David Cameron to push for Lisbon Treaty referendum as he denies split

#9 — Times | New threat to travellers from al-Qaeda ‘keister bomb’

Travellers in Europe could face intrusive airport security measures in response to the latest ploy by al-Qaeda — suicide bombers who carry high explosives inside their bodies, it emerged today.

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#10 — Telegraph | Silvio Berlusconi could face new prosecutions if immunity lost

Italy’s embattled prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, could face a raft of new prosecutions when the country’s highest court rules on Tuesday whether a law which shields him from criminal prosecution should be repealed.

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