#1 — BBC | Flood deaths in Saudi Arabia rise to around 100
The number of dead in floods following Saudi Arabia’s heaviest rains for years has risen to around 100, officials say.
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#2 — BBC | Honduran presidential election due
Presidential elections are due to be held in Honduras, five months after a political crisis ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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#3 — CNN | Obama to push banks on mortgages
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — As foreclosure casualties mount, the Obama administration is expected to announce additional steps on Monday to get long-term help for troubled borrowers.
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#4 — CNN | Anti-WTO protest in Geneva turns violent
(CNN) — Violence erupted in the Swiss city of Geneva Saturday as a scheduled peaceful protest of a World Trade Organization conference turned violent and police had to use tear gas and rubber bullets.
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#5 — Fox | Pakistan President Under Increasing Pressure to Resign
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s unpopular president is coming under increasing pressure from the powerful army and political opponents to resign or relinquish most of his powers, fueling political turmoil just as the West wants the country to focus on the threat posed by Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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#6 — Fox | Alleged American Ecoterrorist Sentenced in China on Drug Charges
BEIJING — An American man wanted for ecoterrorism attacks in the western United States has been sentenced to three years in a Chinese prison on drug charges.
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#7 — NY Times | Across U.S., Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades
MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.
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#8 — Times | Rumsfield blamed for failing to kill cornered Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was cornered and within reach of US troops in the Afghanistan mountains of Tora Bora in late 2001 when America military leaders made the costly decision not to attack the terror leader with the massive force at their disposal, according to a US Senate report.
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#9 — Times | Democrats in revolt over Barack Obama’s troop surge
Barack Obama’s much-vaunted eloquence faces the biggest test of his presidential career this week when he takes to the stage at West Point military academy to explain to a nation that thought it had elected an anti-war president why he is escalating the conflict in Afghanistan.
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#10 — Telegraph | Woman fights for son taken by sharia court
British mother Rebecca Jones is fighting to win back her son Adam, 10, after a Sharia court in Qatar awarded custody of the boy to her dead ex-husband’s family.
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Breaking news out of the US, four policemen ambushed and killed in Tacamo, Wash. by two men. Military base nearby in lockdown.
What is going on since the Fort Hood terror attack.
I wonder if the media’s attempt to cover up that there was a terrorist attack, and it was just a misunderstood soldier going crazy has anything to do with the increase in random shootings. Man kills family members after Thanksgiving dinner, man kills 2 children in Calgary, and there are other stories of same thing.
What I find missing in all these stories is the ethnic background of the killers.
The killers were human in appearance.
North American natives must have felt the same way when the Europeans first showed up especially in the states where the general attitude was ‘The only good Indian was a dead Indian’
Lets not forget that murderers come in all colours and from most religions.