#1 — BBC | West Australia fires raze dozens of homes
Nearly 40 homes have been razed in wildfires tearing through farming areas north of the Western Australian capital, Perth.
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#2 — BBC | Deadly double blast hits street in Iraq city of Ramadi
At least 23 people have died in two suicide bombs in the same street in Ramadi, provincial capital of Anbar.
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#3 — CNN | Former Gitmo detainees investigated in airline bombing plot
Washington (CNN) — U.S. counterterrorism officials are investigating possible links between the attempted Northwest Airlines bombing and two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who say they are leaders in an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group based in Yemen, U.S. officials told CNN on Tuesday.
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#4 — Fox | Rep Urges U.S. to Stop Sending Guantanamo Detainees to Yemen
As hundreds of Al Qaeda militants in Yemen are said to be planning terror attacks against the West, a U.S. lawmaker has called on the Obama administration to halt immediately the release of Guantanamo detainees to the Middle Eastern country.
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#5 — NY Times | Europe’s Vast Farm Subsidies Face Challenges
BRUSSELS — The last time the European Union decided the future of its 50 billion euro agricultural aid program, in 2005, the deal was cut behind closed doors in a luxury suite at the five-star Conrad Brussels hotel.
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#6 — DM | Severe weather warnings across UK
Britain has been placed on a New Year high alert as temperatures plummeted to -18C in some areas and forecasters predicted snowfalls as deep as 12 inches.
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#7 — DM | Hackers crack secret mobile phone codes
Billions could have their mobile phone calls intercepted and recorded after computer hackers cracked the secret code used to protect 80 per cent of the world’s users.
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#8 — Times | Iranian regime rounds up relatives of opposition leaders
Iran arrested the sister of the Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi as the embattled regime stepped up efforts to suppress a resurgent opposition yesterday.
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#9 — Times | Afghans turn to Taleban justice as insurgents set up shadow government
When Habiba’s elderly husband was badly beaten in a village brawl there was only one place, she said, that she could turn to for help and justice.
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#10 — Telegraph | England ready to pull out of Commonwealth Games over terror risk
England is poised to pull out of next year’s Commonwealth Games over fears that athletes will be victims of a terrorist attack, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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