#1 — OC | 8 U.S. CIA agents killed in Afghan suicide blast
KABUL — Insurgents intensified their campaign against military targets and U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, killing eight U.S. CIA agents at a base and four Canadian servicemen on patrol and a journalist accompanying them.
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#2 — BBC | US talk show host Rush Limbaugh in hospital in Hawaii
The right-wing US talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been taken to hospital in Hawaii after experiencing chest pains, say reports.
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#3 — BBC | Somali man ‘tried to take bomb onto plane’
A Somali man is in custody in Mogadishu, suspected of trying to take explosives onto a plane in November, officials have revealed.
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#4 — CNN | Parliament calls for arrest of Moussavi, two other opposition leaders
(CNN) — Iran’s parliament has asked authorities to arrest “the main instigators and directors” of Sunday’s violent anti-government protests, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday, the same day massive pro-government rallies were held in Tehran and other cities.
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Times | Iran Government stages rallies as Mousavi’s nephew is quietly buried
#5 — Fox | 13 Republican Attorney Generals Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.
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#6 — Fox | Gunman Opens Fire in Finland Mall, Killing 4
HELSINKI — A gunman killed four people early Thursday in a shooting rampage at a mall in Finland’s second largest city, police told a state broadcaster.
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#7 — NY Times | With Greece Teetering, the Worst May Not Be Over for Europe
LONDON — Never before has Europe’s monetary union seemed so fragile.
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#8 — Times | Obama considering military strikes after Christmas Day aircraft plot
The Pentagon is drawing up urgent plans for increased military co-operation with Yemen, including possible retaliatory strikes against al-Qaeda targets, according to US officials engaged in a high-stakes bid to neutralise Islamist militants without enraging the Arab world.
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#9 — Times | Four foreigners face execution in China over drugs haul
Four foreigners have been arrested in China on drugs charges and may face execution just days after Akhmal Shaikh, a Briton thought to be mentally ill, was executed for smuggling heroin.
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#10 — Telegraph | ‘Dead’ mother and baby revived after Christmas Eve birth
A woman has apparently come back to life after “dying” during childbirth while her newborn son was also miraculously revived by doctors.
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But this is the first time that an attempt to blow up a commercial flight in Somalia has been reported.
“We don’t know whether he’s linked with al-Qaeda or other foreign organisations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him red-handed,” police spokesman Abdulahi Hassan Barise told the Associated Press news agency.
Say what? Just because some lone disgruntled misfit tries to blow up a civilian airliner full of innocent passengers some people go nuts and label him (horrors..shudder) a terrorist? Sheez, the next thing you know they’re going to claim that his is a Muslim. It’s hasty unsupportable racist labels or sterotyping incidents just like this that must cause Obama to ask himself ‘what’s the use’. (sarc off).