World Feb. 9th, 2010 (10)
#1 — BBC | Ukraine’s Tymoshenko bloc ‘contesting election result’
Members of Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc say they will contest in court the conduct of Ukraine’s presidential vote after her apparent defeat, media reports say.
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#2 — BBC | Met Commander Ali Dizaei jailed for corruption
Metropolitan Police Commander Ali Dizaei has been sentenced to four years for assaulting and falsely arresting a man in a dispute over £600.
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#3 — CNN | Ripples of Dubai killing spread across region
Dubai, UAE (CNN) — A shadowy figure murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad that the police say operated with European passports. It sounds like the plot of a John Le Carré spy novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
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#4 — CNN | Snow-weary region expects second wallop
(CNN) — The mid-Atlantic region continued digging out Monday from the weekend’s record blizzard, but snow-weary residents learned of a new winter storm due in the area on Tuesday.
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#5 — Fox | Afghans Warned to Keep Their ‘Heads Down’
KABUL — NATO and Afghan officials on Tuesday urged Taliban militants holding a southern town to lay down their arms and warned civilians there to “keep your heads down” as U.S. and Afghan troops prepare their first major offensive of the U.S. troop surge.
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#6 — Fox | Criminal Probe Launched in Deadly Connecticut Plant Blast
Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation Monday, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause.
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#7 — Times | Sri Lanka opposition leader held for ‘plotting coup’
The former Sri Lankan army chief hailed last year as a national hero for defeating the Tamil Tigers was in jail last night facing possible execution.
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#8 — Times | Chinese police arrest six as hacker training website is closed down
A hacker training website that recruited thousands of people to launch cyber attacks was closed in what police claim was the largest operation of its kind.
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#9 — Times | Journalists arrested in Iran crackdown
Iran has arrested ten more journalists in the past several days, opposition sources reported yesterday, in an apparent crackdown before expected protests this week.
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#10 — Telegraph | China jails earthquake activist for five years
A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in China’s devastating 2008 earthquake has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, his lawyer said.
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