#1 — BBC | Fresh attacks rock north Pakistan
At least 21 people been killed in fresh violence in northern Pakistan, amid an upsurge of militant unrest.
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#2 — CNN | Hate crimes bill goes to Obama for signature
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Senate passed groundbreaking legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.
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#3 — CNN | Mom ‘will not sleep’ until daughter’s killer found
(CNN) — The news was devastating, the aftermath surreal.
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#4 — Fox | 300-Plus Arrests Made in ‘Project Coronado’ Drug Cartel Raids
WASHINGTON — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., federal officials on Thursday announced the arrests of more than 300 people in raids across the country aimed at the newest and most violent cartel.
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#5 — DM | Wait a year for Windows 7, warns consumer watchdog
Microsoft have launched the latest version of its Windows operating system in a bid to ‘make it easier for people to do the things they want on a PC’.
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#6 — Times | Foreign Secretary accuses public of climate change apathy
The Foreign Secretary accused the public yesterday of lacking a sense of urgency in the face of the potentially devastating consequences of climate change.
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#7 — Times | Tibetan protesters executed for Lhasa riot killings
Tibetan exiles have reported the first executions of those convicted for rioting last year in Lhasa, with at least two people put to death in a rare implementation of capital punishment in the restive region.
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#8 — Times | Allied exit strategy at risk as Afghan police run out of recruits
It is the $120-a-month job that is crucial to any Allied exit strategy from Afghanistan but at the moment a career in the police force is only for the desperate.
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#9 — Telegraph | Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years
The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.
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#10 — Telegraph | Czech president ‘satisfied’ with Sweden’s proposals over Lisbon Treaty
Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, is satisfied with a proposal by the European Union’s Swedish presidency addressing his demands to modify the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, his office said on Friday.
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