World Feb. 5th, 2010 (10)

#1 — BBC | Northern Ireland justice powers to be devolved in April

A deal between NI’s biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, could see policing and justice powers devolved to Northern Ireland on 12 April.

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#2 — BBC | Sweden wants explanation on Baltic nuclear ‘dumping’

The Russian military allegedly dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, according to a report on Swedish television.

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#3 — CNN | Blizzard headed toward mid-Atlantic region

(CNN) — Residents in the mid-Atlantic states have rushed to stores for shovels, ice-melting chemicals and other emergency supplies ahead of a storm that is expected to wallop the region with as much as 24 inches of snow Friday.

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#4 — Fox | Toyota CEO to Address Quality Control at Press Conference

TOKYO —  Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda will speak about quality control Friday in his first — and long awaited — news conference since the automaker issued massive global recalls last month.

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#5 — Fox | Millions in Stimulus Spending Being Doled Out for Questionable Jobs

Federal agencies are spending stimulus money at the rate of $196 million an hour. And they will do so every hour for the next eight months until a September 30, 2010, deadline.

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#6 — Fox | Scott Brown Sworn In as New Massachusetts GOP Senator

It is official: Massachusetts has a Republican representing the state in the Senate.

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#7 — NY Times | U.S. Military Faults Leaders in Deadly Attack on Base

KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States military on Friday issued a long-awaited report on how Taliban insurgents managed to overrun an American Army combat outpost and kill eight soldiers last October in one of the worst single ground attacks in recent years.

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#8 — Times | MPs braced for criminal charges over expenses

The first criminal charges to result from the expenses scandal are expected to be announced today by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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#9 — Times | Turkish teenager buried alive

The father and grandfather of a Turkish teenager are to face trial for burying her alive because they were concerned that her friendship with boys had brought dishonour on their family.

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#10 — Telegraph | US confirms Barack Obama will meet Dalai Lama

US President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama in Washington later this month, US officials have confirmed, despite warnings from China that the meeting would further inflamed already strained diplomatic relations.

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