#1 — BBC | Iraq oil development rights contracts awarded
A joint venture between the UK’s Shell and Malaysia’s Petronas oil companies has won the right to develop Iraq’s giant Majnoon oil field.
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#2 — BBC | Greek government bonds have biggest drop in 11 years
Greek government bonds are having their worst week in at least 11 years as investors worry about the state of the country’s finances.
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#3 — Fox | U.S. Marines Train Illiterate Farmers to Be Police
KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan — The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan. Their new Afghan police colleagues were little help, joking around and sucking on lollipops meant for local kids.
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#4 — Fox | Pelosi Signals Support for Senate Medicare Deal
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed support Thursday for a Senate Democratic proposal to expand Medicare, raising prospects that the two chambers of Congress can work out differences on health-care legislation.
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#5 — NY Times | 5 U.S. Men Arrested in Pakistan Said to Plan Jihad
SARGODHA, Pakistan — Five young Muslim American men arrested here on Wednesday were on their way to the heart of the Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal areas with the intention of training to fight American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.
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#6 — NY Times | India Faces Backlash Over a New State
NEW DELHI — India’s governing Congress Party on Friday faced a fierce backlash against plans to divide one of the country’s largest states, Andhra Pradesh, as opponents of the partition staged protests in central India, even as advocates for the creating other new states began agitating in different regions of the country.
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#7 — Times | Britain’s credit rating threatened as Cabinet finances row emerges
Britain’s international credit rating was today threatened as it emerged Gordon Brown blocked a move by the Treasury to raise VAT in Wednesday’s Pre-Budget Report.
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#8 — Times | Iraq fell into chaos after US ignored Blair envoy’s advice
Tony Blair’s top diplomat in Baghdad was ignored when he urged the Americans not to sack 25,000 Baathist officials, the Iraq inquiry was told yesterday.
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#9 — Times | US to use missile-firing drones to supply troops in Afghanistan
The US military plans to use drones to resupply troops fighting in Afghanistan, it emerged today.
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#10 – European Union presses IMF to consider Tobin tax
The European Union increased pressure on the International Monetary Fund on Friday to consider a global tax on financial transactions to limit the risk of another economic crisis.
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