#1 — BBC | Martial law in Philippines province after massacre
President Gloria Arroyo has imposed martial law in the Philippines province of Maguindanao after the election-related massacre of 57 people.
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#2 — BBC | Fireworks blast in Russian nightclub ‘kills scores’
At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm, 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow.
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#3 — BBC | Fire in Indonesia city of Medan claims 20 lives
At least 20 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a building in Medan, in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, police said.
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#4 — CNN | White House OKs expanding CIA drone program in Pakistan
Washington (CNN) — The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA’s program to attack suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with missiles shot from pilotless planes, a U.S. official confirms.
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#5 — CNN | Dozens dead in Pakistan mosque attack
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Four militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi frequented by military personnel, killing dozens of people Friday — most of them children, the military said.
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#6 — Fox | Little Resistance as Afghan Offensive Targets Militant Supply Lines
KABUL — U.S. Marines and Afghan troops, conducting the first offensive since the new American war plan was announced, met little resistance from insurgents Saturday as they worked to disrupt Taliban supply and communications lines in a key valley in southern Afghanistan.
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#7 — Times | Nuclear arms treaty ends but Russia and US work to agree new deal
It was supposed to be the centrepiece of President Obama’s attempt to reset relations between the US and Russia. Instead, an agreement to cut nuclear weapon arsenals was overshadowed by a scramble to prevent the collapse of an existing arms treaty.
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#8 — Times | How Dubai’s burst bubble has left behind the last days of Rome
The engine of the black Corvette revved to a gasket-popping roar. Its driver leant out of his window. He was dressed in traditional Arab robes but wore a rubber wizard’s mask. He held an aerosol aloft and directed a jet of party foam into the air. Four-wheel drives plastered in pictures of Dubai’s Royal Family roared their engines back in approval. The cacophony was deafening.
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#9 — Telegraph | Pay cut for two million Britons causes collapse in tax revenue
Almost two million Britons have accepted pay cuts or reduced hours to stave off unemployment, causing government income tax receipts to collapse by almost one fifth.
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#10 — Telegraph | American Indian land sold off by IRS to pay off taxes
US tax officials have sold off thousands of acres of an impoverished Indian reservation in what the tribe claims is a “shameful” and unprecedented breach of laws protecting Native Americans.
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