#1 — BBC | Indian man attacked and set alight in Melbourne
An Indian man is in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital after being attacked and set alight by a gang.
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#2 — BBC | Attacked Togo stars may quit Africa Cup of Nations
Togo’s are considering pulling out of the Africa Cup of Nations after their team bus came under gunfire in Angola.
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#3 — BBC | Venezuela will slash value of currency, the bolivar
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has announced that the national currency, the bolivar, will be devalued for the first time since 2005, by at least 17%.
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#4 — CNN | US launches new push for Mideast peace talks
Washington (CNN) – The Obama administration is making a renewed push for Mideast peace, stepping up pressure on Israelis and Palestinians to resume talks focusing on borders of a future Palestinian state and the status of Jerusalem.
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#5 — DM | Would Gordon Brown cling on as Labour leader even after an election defeat?
Gordon Brown may refuse to quit the Labour leadership even if his party loses to the Tories in a hung Parliament, Blairite ministers fear.
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#6 — Times | British troops set to hand frontline Afghanistan role to US
Three and a half years after British troops first arrived in Helmand the towns that line its infamous “green zone” have become household names — for all the wrong reasons.
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#7 — Times | Frozen Britain forced to order salt from abroad as stocks dwindle
Britain has had to order salt from America and Europe to supplement exhausted stocks, but it will take at least two weeks for shipments to arrive, ministers said yesterday.
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#8 — Times | Iran opposition leader Mehdi Karoubi escapes mob bullets
Iran’s most outspoken opposition leader has had a narrow escape after his car was hit by bullets as he fled from a mob of government supporters.
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#9 — Times | Eager young recruit, a father to be and man in charge among CIA dead
One was the station chief, a mother of three with an encyclopaedic knowledge of al-Qaeda’s leadership gained in the course of eight years as one of the CIA’s top specialists in the field.
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#10 — Telegraph | Children, 9, saved from ‘forced marriages’, government review finds
Children aged as young as nine are being saved from so-called ‘forced marriages’, a Government review disclosed last night.
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