#1 — BBC | Thai protest leaders surrender, as troops storm camp
Leaders of the anti-government protests that have paralysed the heart of Bangkok for weeks have surrendered, after troops stormed their barricades.
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#2 — BBC | North Korea role in warship sinking ‘obvious’
South Korea’s foreign minister says it is “obvious” that North Korea sank a South Korean naval ship in March.
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#3 — CNN | Somali pirate pleads guilty in Maersk Alabama hijacking
New York (CNN) — A Somali pirate who prosecutors say led the attack on a U.S. vessel off the coast of Africa last year pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday to charges he hijacked the ship and kidnapped the captain.
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#4 — Fox | US: Insurgents launch complex attack on Bagram Air Field day after deadly Kabul assault
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and around the capital in as many days.
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#5 — NY Times | Deportation Case Presents Test of British Government
LONDON — Britain’s new coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats was confronted with an early challenge to its ability to surmount internal political differences on Tuesday, when an immigration appeals commission granted the right to remain in Britain to a 23-year-old Pakistani identified by the panel as an operative of Al Qaeda who posed a “serious and continuing threat” to Britain’s national security.
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#6 — DM | Lib Dems forces Tories to reconsider promise to scrap the Human Rights Act
A flagship Tory pledge to tear up the Human Rights Act has been watered down in the coalition pact with the Liberal Democrats.
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#7 — DM | Police handed back powers to charge thugs and cut ‘soft’ punishments
Police will be given the power to charge suspects themselves to cut red-tape and stop vicious thugs and thieves escaping with ‘softer’ punishments.
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#8 — Times | Deals with Russia could lead to break-up of Ukraine, warns Tymoshenko
Five years ago she was a driving force behind the Orange Revolution that ousted Ukraine’s proRussian Government and swept a new nationalist coalition to power. Now Yuliya Tymoshenko has given warning that the country could break up, as its new President embraces the Kremlin once more.
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#9 — Times | Clegg risks rift with Tories on tax and human rights
Nick Clegg is promising to make the tax system fairer rather than lower the tax burden as he seeks to imbue the coalition with Liberal Democrat values.
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#10 — Telegraph | Big increase in civil servant objections to Labour spending plans in 2009 and 2010
Civil servants lodged a series of objections to spending plans by ministers, including Lord Mandelson, in the final months of the Labour Government.
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