World Oct. 11th, 2009 (10)
#1 — BBC | Pakistan army raid frees hostages
Pakistani security forces have freed about 40 hostages who were being held by militants at an army base in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
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#2 — CNN | Obama to gay group: ‘Still laws to change, hearts to open’
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama delivered a rousing speech Saturday night to the nation’s largest gay rights group, praising the gay community for making strides in equal rights and pledging to deliver on major campaign promises that some say he’s left on the back burner.
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#3 — CNN | Days of flooding, landslides kill 186 in Philippines
(CNN) — Flooding and landslides from tropical depression Parma have killed 186 people in the Philippines, authorities said Saturday.
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#4 — Fox | Iran Sentences 3 to Death in Post-Election Unrest Trial
TEHRAN, Iran — Three defendants in Iran’s mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country’s postelection unrest have been sentenced to death, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday.
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#5 — DM | Hundreds of protesters face-off at anti-Islamic demonstration
More than 2,000 people took to the streets in political demonstrations in Manchester yesterday.
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#6 — NY Times | A Dogged Taliban Chief Rebounds, Vexing U.S.
WASHINGTON — In late 2001, Mullah Muhammad Omar’s prospects seemed utterly bleak. The ill-educated, one-eyed leader of the Taliban had fled on a motorbike after his fighters were swiftly routed by the Americans invading Afghanistan.
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Times | Taliban ‘daisy chain’ kingpin captured in Afghanistan dawn raid
#7 — Times | Barack Obama’s Nobel peace prize is snub to Bill Clinton
Although the award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama was widely interpreted as a repudiation of the Republican era of George W Bush, the real snub may have been to Bill Clinton.
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#8 — Times | Germans seek to oust Czech president Vaclav Klaus over EU treaty
Revelling in the fuss he was causing, Vaclav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, calmly tucked into a plate of steamed shellfish on the terrace of the elegant Adriatic hotel in the Albanian seaside resort of Durres last week.
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#9 — Telegraph | MPs’ expenses: 325 MPs told to ‘pay up or explain’
At least 325 MPs will be ordered this week to repay money or provide further details of their parliamentary allowances by the head of an official inquiry into the Commons expenses scandal.
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#10 — Telegraph | New Zealand child disappearance ‘similar’ to that of Madeleine McCann
Police in New Zealand are baffled by the mysterious disappearance of a two-year-old girl they believe has been abducted.
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