#1 — BBC | Chilean miners receive first hot meal in three weeks
Chilean miners trapped underground after a rock collapse have received their first hot meal in 26 days.
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#2 — BBC | Pakistan landlords ‘diverted flood water’
A senior Pakistani diplomat has called for an inquiry into allegations that rich landowners diverted water into unprotected villages during the floods to save their own crops.
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#3 — CNN | Earl strengthens, heads toward East Coast
(CNN) — Hurricane Earl took aim on the Outer Banks of North Carolina early Thursday as the powerful storm prepared to take a swipe at the Eastern Seaboard.
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#4 — Fox | Pakistan Militants Kill 35 Despite Floods
LAHORE, Pakistan — The triple bombing of a religious procession in Pakistan adds to the strains on a government already struggling with devastating floods and shows that Islamist militants are back in business despite the natural disaster.
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#5 — Fox | U.S. Changes Military Commanders in Iraq Amid Debate Over Afghan Withdrawal
Vice President Joe Biden presided over a change-of-command ceremony in Iraq Wednesday marking the final phase of U.S. military involvement — the hand-off comes amid fresh criticism of President Barack Obama’s pledge to replicate such a transition in Afghanistan a year from now.
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#6 — NY Times | Feud With Palin in Background of Alaska Upset
ANCHORAGE — The message might have seemed gracious, on its face.
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#7 — DM | Blair memoir attacks on Brown plunge Labour into new civil war
Tony Blair triggered Labour civil war last night as he tried to demolish Gordon Brown’s character and record as prime minister – and hand the party leadership to David Miliband.
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#8 — Independent | Why Sarkozy went to war on the Roma
The scene is a piece of wasteland on the edge of Saint Etienne in central France. A scrap of land, wedged between a cemetery and a rubbish dump, is home to 100 people, 40 of them children.
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#9 — Telegraph | Prince of Wales tells Vogue readers to wear old clothes
The Prince of Wales has urged readers of Vogue to wear more recycled clothes and natural fabrics to reduce waste and conserve the world’s resources.
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#10 — Telegraph | Two arrested over ‘assisted suicide’
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of assisting the suicide of a severely disabled 76-year-old man who travelled from Britain to Switzerland to die.
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