#1 –BBC | British man said to be mentally ill executed in China
A British man convicted of drug smuggling in China has been executed, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
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#2 — BBC | Putin: Russia must counter US missile defences
Russia needs “to develop offensive weapons systems” to counter US missile defences and maintain the strategic balance, PM Vladimir Putin says.
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#3 — CNN | Death toll rises in Karachi suicide attack
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — The death toll from the suicide bombing in Pakistan’s financial capital, Karachi, rose to 40, authorities said Tuesday.
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#4 — CNN | Tom Ridge: Terror suspect doesn’t deserve ‘full range’ of rights
(CNN) — The man who allegedly lit an explosive on board a U.S.-bound international flight deserves none of the constitutional protections afforded American citizens, a former top Bush administration official said Monday.
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#5 — CNN | Wounded Washington deputy dies a week after shooting
Seattle, Washington (CNN) — A Pierce County, Washington, sheriff’s deputy wounded a week ago in a shooting at a domestic dispute died Monday after he was removed from life-support systems, a sheriff’s department spokesman said.
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#6 — Fox | Underwear Bomb Revealed as Terror Suspect Warns More Attacks Coming
Photographs of the charred remains of explosives sewn into underwear allegedly worn by 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on a Detroit-bound Christmas flight were revealed Monday.
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#7 — NY Times | Somali Pirates Seize a Tanker and a Cargo Ship
HONG KONG — A Greek-owned cargo ship and a British-flagged chemical tanker have been seized by Somali pirates as the marauders scored a record number of attacks and hijackings in 2009.
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#8 — Times | President Obama pledges to scour world for terror cells
President Obama vowed to track down and destroy terror cells all over the world last night as he finally ended his silence over a failed Christmas Day plot to blow up an American passenger jet.
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#9 — Times | Seyed Ali Mousavi, opposition leader’s nephew, may have been targeted
In recent days Seyed Ali Mousavi, the nephew of Iran’s opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, had apparently received several death threats and his family were concerned for his safety.
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#10 — Telegraph | Another 250,000 jobs will be lost in Britain before summer 2010.
Another 250,000 jobs will be lost in Britain before unemployment starts to ease in 2010, and the number of jobless will remain high for years, a group of employment experts have warned.
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