#1 — BBC | France refuses a citizenship over full Islamic veil
The French government has refused to grant citizenship to a foreign national on the grounds that he forced his wife to wear the full Islamic veil.
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#2 — BBC | Barack Obama is to skip a US-EU summit due in May
US President Barack Obama is to stay away from a Spanish US-EU summit scheduled for May, in what some see as a blow to Europe’s diplomatic prestige.
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#3 — CNN | You lost your house – but you still have to pay
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — As terrible as it is to lose your house to foreclosure, at least it’s a relief to put your biggest financial headache behind you, right?
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#4 — CNN | Pilot error caused 2009 crash near Buffalo, NTSB rules
Washington (CNN) — Confronted with signs that his plane was entering an aerodynamic stall, the pilot of Continental Flight 3407 pulled on the plane’s control column when he should have pushed — a simple but inexplicable error that led to the death of 50 people, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Tuesday evening.
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#5 — Fox | Obama Backs Down After Anti-Vegas Remarks
LAS VEGAS — Nevada lawmakers lashed out at President Barack Obama on Tuesday after he made another reference to Las Vegas while explaining how people should make tough choices on spending.
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#6 — Fox | Medical Journal Retracts Article Linking Vaccines and Autism
LONDON — A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.
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#7 — NY Times | With Raw Recruits, Afghan Police Buildup Falters
KABUL, Afghanistan — The NATO general in charge of training the Afghan police has some tongue-in-cheek career advice for the country’s recruits.
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#8 — Times | North Korea ‘struggling against civil unrest’
North Korea is struggling to contain civil unrest and runaway inflation caused by a drastic revaluation of its currency, which is threatening new food shortages in the already hungry nation, according to reports in South Korea.
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#9 — Times | Fury as giant Belo Monte Amazon rainforest dam is approved by Brazil
Brazil has approved the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon, defying a 20-year protest by indigenous and environmental campaigners who say that the project will devastate the surrounding rainforest and threaten the survival of local tribes.
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#10 — Telegraph | Pakistan blast kills eight including foreigners
A bomb blast in northwest Pakistan has killed eight people, including four foreign aid workers and children at a school which had just been rebuilt after a previous Islamist attack.
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