#1 — BBC | Philippines gunmen kill 21 in election violence
Twenty-one politicians and journalists abducted in the southern Philippines have been found dead, the army says.
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#2 — BBC | Gold hits new record high on weakening dollar
The price of gold has hit a new all-time high, boosted by continued concerns about the weakening dollar.
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#3 — CNN | China mine blast deaths exceed 100
Beijing, China (CNN) — The death toll from an explosion at a northeastern China coal mine rose to 104 Monday morning, according to state-run media.
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#4 — CNN | Afghan schools seek survival amid attacks
(CNN) — In his work for a humanitarian agency in Afghanistan, Lex Kassenberg asks an important question when he visits schoolchildren: What will you do when you grow up?
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#5 — Fox | Lawyer: 9/11 Defendants Will Tell Jury ‘Why They Did It’
NEW YORK — The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
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#6 — Fox | 400-Pound Car Bomb Fails to Detonate in Belfast
DUBLIN — Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland’s police commander said Sunday.
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#7 — NY Times | Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government
WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
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#8 — Times | Flood-hit communities in Cumbria could be cut off for months
Thousands of people were warned last night that their towns and villages could be cut off for months after more than a dozen bridges were swept away or badly damaged by flood waters.
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#9 — Telegraph | Japan to build fleet’s biggest helicopter destroyer to fend off China
Japan is set to commission the largest destroyer to join its fleet in response to a Chinese military buildup.
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#10 — Telegraph | Hostility between British and American military leaders revealed
The deep hostility of Britain’s senior military commanders in Iraq towards their American allies has been revealed in classified Government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
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