#1 — BBC | Greece hit by third general strike in a month
Public services and transport in Greece have ground to a halt as workers stage a third general strike in protest at the government’s austerity measures.
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#2 — BBC | Nigeria charges 49 over Jos killings
Nigerian police say 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead.
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#3 — CNN | Pentagon trains workers to hack Defense computers
Washington (CNN) — The Pentagon is training people to hack into its own computer networks.
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#4 — Fox | Democrats, White House Close In on Health Bill
WASHINGTON — A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president’s signature health care overhaul.
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#5 — Fox | Chief Exorcist Says ‘Devil at Work’ Inside Vatican
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See’s chief exorcist.
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#6 — NY Times | Leaders in House Block Earmarks to Corporations
WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders on Wednesday banned budget earmarks to private industry, ending a practice that has steered billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies and set off corruption scandals.
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#7 — DM | Brown’s £9bn Afghan blunder
Gordon Brown was branded ‘cheap’ yesterday by a former head of the Armed Forces as it was revealed he totally miscalculated the cost of the war in Afghanistan.
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#8 — Times | Arab League puts peace talks on the brink
Fresh attempts to revive peace talks in the Middle East were on the verge of collapse last night as the Palestinians threatened to pull out before the negotiations began.
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#9 — Times | Haiti presents Obama with $14bn vision of a rebuilt Caribbean paradise
Haiti’s President went to the White House yesterday with a vision of a Caribbean paradise waiting to be rebuilt after January’s catastrophic earthquake — and a price tag that could rise to $14 billion (£9 billion).
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#10 — Telegraph | French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment
A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
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