World June 6th, 2010 (10)

#1 — BBC | BP cap captures ’10,000 barrels’ a day in US Gulf

A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day, BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward says.

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#2 — BBC | Israel to deport Rachel Corrie Gaza activists

A group of activists detained for trying to sail an aid ship to Gaza in defiance of Israel’s blockade will be deported soon, Israeli officials say.

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#3 — CNN | Conservatives call for Ground Zero mosque protest

(CNN) — Conservative bloggers called for a protest Sunday against plans to build a mosque near the site of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by Islamist hijackers on September 11, 2001.

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#4 — Fox | NKorea threatens SKorea for hauling it to UN over deadly warship sinking

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea threatened Sunday to retaliate against South Korea for taking it to the U.N. Security Council over the deadly sinking of a warship, calling the action an “intolerable provocation.”

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#5 — NY Times | Washington Asks: What to Do About Israel?

WASHINGTON — Some topics are so inflammatory that they are never discussed without first inserting a number of caveats. And so, when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town’s think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined “Israel as a Strategic Liability,” he made sure to open with a plethora of qualifications.

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#6 — DM | Fishermen make most of Gulf oil disaster

‘I was lucky if I made $1,000 a month before the spill. Now BP pay me $1,200 a day’

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#7 — DM | ‘Doubtful’ Maggie set for No10 talks

Margaret Thatcher is to meet David Cameron at Downing Street on Wednesday amid claims she has grave doubts about some of the Coalition’s key policies.

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Times | Cameron: ‘Years of pain ahead’

#8 — Times | Scandal of aborted IVF babies

DOZENS of young women are having abortions on the NHS after expensive IVF treatment because they have changed their minds about becoming a mother.

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#9 — Times | Rogue traders cash in as watchdog flounders

THE City of London has become a “haven” for insider dealing, with fewer than one in 200 suspected rogue traders being brought to justice over the past five years, an investigation into the lucrative financial crime reveals.

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#10 — Telegraph | Iran using Dubai to smuggle nuclear components

Iran is using the Gulf port of Dubai to smuggle sophisticated electronic and computer equipment for its controversial uranium enrichment programme that are banned under United Nations sanctions.

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