#1 — BBC | Afghanistan parliamentary election postponed
Afghanistan is to postpone its parliamentary elections by four months until September, the country’s election commission has confirmed.
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#2 — BBC | Tanker spills oil off Texas coast after collision
Up to 450,000 gallons (1.7 million litres) of crude oil may have spilled from a tanker into a Texas port, the US Coast Guard says.
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#3 — CNN | 450,000 at risk in foreclosure-prevention program
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Hundreds of thousands of troubled homeowners who are making lower mortgage payments on a trial basis are at risk of being kicked out of President Obama’s foreclosure-prevention program.
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#4 — CNN | Under pressure, Obama backs fiscal commission
Washington (CNN) – In a dramatic concession to senior Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Obama abruptly shifted his position Saturday and declared his public support for creating a fiscal commission that could propose sweeping tax increases and spending cuts to try to slash the soaring federal debt.
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#5 — Fox | Officials Describe Arrest of Christmas Day Bomber for First Time
WASHINGTON — Badly burned and bleeding, the suspect in the Christmas Day flight to Detroit tried one last gambit as he was led away: He claimed there was another bomb hidden on the plane he’d just tried to destroy, officials said.
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#6 — Fox | ACORN Employee Sues Undercover Filmmakers
An employee at a Philadelphia branch of ACORN, the national community organization under fire for allegations of wrongdoing, has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the two filmmakers who set off the controversy last fall with their undercover videos.
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#7 — NY Times | Biden Says U.S. Will Appeal Blackwater Case Dismissal
BAGHDAD — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. promised Iraqi leaders on Saturday that the United States would appeal the dismissal of manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors involved in a deadly shooting here that has inflamed anti-American tensions.
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#8 — Times | All service veterans to get right to jump NHS queues
BRITAIN’S 5m service veterans, from survivors of the second world war to those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, are to be promised priority healthcare on the NHS for the rest of their lives.
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#9 — Times | Officer Training Corps faces the axe
THE Ministry of Defence is drawing up emergency cuts including the scrapping of the Officer Training Corps (OTC) and the withdrawal of troops from Cyprus.
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#10 — Telegraph | Boris Yeltsin’s daughter attacks Vladimir Putin
Tatyana Yumasheva, daughter of Boris Yeltsin, is ruffling feathers in Russia with her blog.
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