World Dec. 2nd, 2009 (10)

#1 — BBC | Australian Senate rejects Kevin Rudd’s climate plan

Australia’s Senate has rejected a bill on the government’s flagship climate change policy for a second time.

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#2 — BBC | Obama orders 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

US President Barack Obama has ordered 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan but warned America would begin to withdraw its military forces by 2011.

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Fox | Obama’s Afghan Plan Fails to Satisfy Left or Right

Times | Obama faces his own battle, on home turf

#3 — ABC | FD: 3-year-old dies in ‘traumatic’ accident at Chandler home

CHANDLER, AZ — A 3-year-old girl killed while playing at her home in Chandler Tuesday was hit in the head ‘on the wrong spot,’ officials say.

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#4 — Fox | Brazil Steadfast in Refusal Not to Recognize Honduran Election

ESTORIL, Portugal  —  Brazil’s president is standing by his refusal to recognize the outcome of elections in Honduras, saying they are the result of “political vandalism.”

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#5 — DM | Windows 7 users hit by ‘black screen of death’

Frustrated Windows 7 users are facing ‘black screens of death’ after logging on to their computers, Microsoft have confirmed.

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#6 — NY Times | Iran’s Plan to Phase Out Subsidies Brings Frenzied Debate

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The outside world may be focused on Iran’s intensifying confrontation with the West over its nuclear program. But at home, Iranians are more concerned with an ambitious and risky new effort to overhaul the country’s troubled economy.

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#7 — NY Times | For Fourth Time, Mistrial in Prosecution of Gotti

A federal jury failed on Tuesday for the fourth time in four years to reach a verdict in the epic prosecution of John A. Gotti, enshrining him as a legendary criminal defendant and a mobster even trickier to convict than his father, John J. Gotti, the Gambino family boss who avoided conviction three times.

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#8 — Times | We are in charge now, Sarkozy tells the City

Alistair Darling has delivered a blunt warning to the EU’s new French finance chief against meddling with the City of London.

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#9 — Times | GM chief ousted after boardroom coup

General Motors (GM), the struggling US carmaker, claimed another high-profile victim last night when Fritz Henderson, its president and chief executive, was abruptly ousted by the company’s board.

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#10 — Telegraph | Spam gang fined £10 million by US court

A group of spammers responsible for one third of the world’s junk mail has been fined £10 million.

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