#1 — BBC | Snow causes German traffic chaos with three deaths
Heavy snow and high winds have caused traffic chaos across Germany with at least three deaths reported nationwide.
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#2 — BBC | Warning over tax return deadline e-mail ‘phishing’ scam
Tens of thousands of fraudulent e-mails have been sent out ahead of Sunday’s tax return deadline, officials say.
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#3 — CNN | Forces mistakenly exchange fire in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — As talk emerged about a secret meeting of U.N. and Taliban officials, the battlefield lit up in Afghanistan, with a joint Afghan-international force and Afghan soldiers exchanging fire when both sides mistook the other for enemy combatants.
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#4 — Fox | Pakistan Taliban Chief Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Strike
The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. drone attack, Pakistan state television reported Sunday.
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#5 — Fox | TARP Cop: Some Bailout Goals Still Unmet
The government’s top bailout cop said Sunday that more than a year after the financial crisis hit, many of the goals of Washington’s $700 billion bank rescue program remain unmet and that policymakers still have not addressed fundamental problems that triggered the crisis, leaving the financial system vulnerable to another collapse.
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#6 — Fox | Sarah Palin’s PAC Raked in $1.4M in Last Six Months of 2009
The political action committee for the former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee raised $1.4 million dollars in the last six months of 2009.
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#7 — NY Times | Site for Terror Trial Isn’t Its Only Obstacle
For much of President Obama’s first year in office, his national security team worked to devise a secure plan to send dozens of Yemeni detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — the largest single group at the prison camp — home to Yemen, perhaps to a rehabilitation program.
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#8 — Times | Godfather Colin Gunn used Facebook to run empire from jail
ONE of Britain’s most dangerous gangsters has been using Facebook to threaten and intimidate his enemies from a maximum security prison.
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#9 — Times | Hamid Karzai fails Taliban who gave up arms
THE room the Taliban commander Mullah Mohammad now calls home, after bringing his 21 fighters to join the Afghan government’s reintegration programme earlier this month, is barely more comfortable than the mountain redoubt he left.
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#10 — Telegraph | ICC proposes powers to try politicians who wage ‘illegal wars’
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is proposing to take new powers to put politicians who launch “illegal wars” on trial.
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