World Mar. 10th, 2010 (10)
#1 — BBC | China’s exports see sharp increase
China’s exports jumped by 46% in February compared with a year ago, raising hopes of a strong recovery in global trade.
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#2 — BBC | LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) must close at the end of 2011 for up to a year to address design and safety issues, according to an LHC director.
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#3 — Fox | 6 Killed in Attack on World Vision in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of an international aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organization said.
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#4 — Fox | Terror Suspect Killed in Raid is Bali Bombing Mastermind
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s president says a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings has been identified as the man shot dead by police in a raid on the island of Java.
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#5 — NY Times | Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Finds
As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report.
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#6 — NY Times | Attacks on Detainee Lawyers Split Conservatives
A conservative advocacy organization in Washington, Keep America Safe, kicked up a storm last week when it released a video that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects.
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#7 — Times | Britain made string of protests to US over Falklands row
British diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington’s response to the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands, The Times has learnt.
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#8 — Times | Hundreds held in pre-emptive Tibet crackdown
Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008.
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#9 — Times | Seven Muslims arrested over ‘plot to kill cartoonist’
Seven people have been arrested in the Republic of Ireland over a suspected plot to kill a Swedish artist who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a dog and had a $100,000 (£66,000) al-Qaeda bounty on his head.
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#10 — Telegraph | General election on May 6 ‘practically inevitable’
A May 6 general election is ”practically inevitable” and a ”no-brainer”, political commentators said as Gordon Brown announced March 24 as Budget day.
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Undecided Voter Says:
Well heres something hot off the news wires:
‘Rupert Murdock moving News Corp to Abu Dhab’ and both Beck & O’Reilly refuse to learn Arabic.
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/09/rupert-murdoch-forsakes-u-s-a-will-move-newscorp-to-abu-dhabi/
Posted on March 10th, 2010 at 5:35 pm