#1 — CBC | German economy sees ‘record’ growth of 2.2%
The German economy grew by 2.2% in the three months to the end of June, its fastest quarterly growth in more than 20 years, official figures show.
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#2 — BBC | Peru battles rabid vampire bats after 500 people bitten
Peru’s health ministry has sent emergency teams to a remote Amazon region to battle an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats.
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#3 — CNN | Man who plotted to kill Obama to be sentenced
(CNN) — A man accused of planning a “killing spree” against African-Americans in a 2008 plot that also targeted then-presidential candidate Barack Obama will be sentenced Friday in a federal courtroom in Tennessee.
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#4 — CNN | Polygamist sect leader Jeffs to be extradited to Texas
(CNN) — At the urging of the Texas governor, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed an extradition warrant that will send polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs to Texas to face criminal charges, according to Gov. Herbert’s office.
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#5 — Fox | Report: U.S. Military Stops Lobbying Pakistan to Help Root Out Militant Group
WASHINGTON—The U.S. military has stopped lobbying Pakistan to help root out one of the biggest militant threats to coalition forces in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say, acknowledging that the failure to win better help from Islamabad threatens to damage a linchpin of their Afghan strategy.
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#6 — Fox | Anonymous Mexican blogger safely posts unfiltered news from country’s raging drug war
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can’t get elsewhere — an inside view of their country’s raging drug war.
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Fox | Mexican governor says drug violence has paralyzed some border areas, seeks federal help
#7 — NY Times | Indian Forces Face Broader Revolt in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Late Sunday night, after six days on life support with a bullet in his brain, Fida Nabi, a 19-year-old high school student, was unhooked from his ventilator at a hospital here.
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More than a million air passengers are facing a summer of misery after workers voted to strike over pay.
The action by BAA staff is expected to shut most of the country’s major airports, possibly during the bank holiday weekend later this month.
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#9 — Independent | Why is the world unmoved by the plight of Pakistan?
Surrounded by brown, fast-shifting water on all sides, the 40 or so families in the village-turned-island had received no food, no medicine and no news as to when they might be rescued.
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Telegraph | US Marines arrive to help Pakistan flood efforts as Zardari finally arrives
#10 — Telegraph | US military to urge Barack Obama to slow down Afghanistan withdrawal
The US military is to urge Barack Obama to slow down the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, which is planned to start next year, it has emerged.
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