#1 — BBC | US court sentences Somali pirate to 30 years
A US court has sentenced a Somali man to 30 years in jail for attacking a US warship off the coast of Somalia.
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#2 — BBC | Wikileaks release 'shows China thinking on Korea'
Officials in China have expressed frustration with Communist ally North Korea, according to leaked classified US diplomatic cables.
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#3 — CNN | Mexican authorities: 18 bodies found in mass grave
(CNN) — Authorities in the Mexican state of Chihuahua continued Monday to investigate the discovery of a mass grave holding 18 bodies.
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#4 — CNN | TRENDING: Palin slams Obama administration over Wikileaks 'fiasco'
(CNN) – High ranking members of the current administration are not the only ones criticizing the dumping of hundreds of classified U.S. government documents by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks – possible 2012 presidential contender and former Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is also venting her frustration.
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#5 — Fox | Tax Cut Battle Looms Over Bipartisan Summit as Obama Looks for Reset With GOP
President Obama, at a face-to-face meeting Tuesday with bipartisan congressional leaders, will have his first chance since his party's Election Day "shellacking" to reset relations with congressional Republicans and potentially crack the impasse over the Bush tax cuts.
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#6 — NY Times | Cables Depict U.S. Haggling to Find Takers for Detainees
WASHINGTON — Last year, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed an unorthodox way to return Guantánamo Bay prisoners to a chaotic country like Yemen without fear that they would disappear and join a terrorist group.
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#7 — DM | Exposed: Prince Andrew's four-letter tirade that shocked the American ambassador
Prince Andrew delivered an expletive-laden rant against British anti-fraud officers for hampering trade deals, it emerged last night.
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The U.S. Attorney General today launched a criminal investigation into the biggest intelligence leak in history hours after it plunged the U.S. into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis.
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#9 — Independent | Inconvenient truths about our evolution?
Why do beautiful people have more daughters? Because beauty is more important for a woman than a man, according to evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa.
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#10 — Telegraph | WikiLeaks: Julian Assange plans to turn his attention to US banks
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has caused major embarrassment for both the Pentagon and US State Department, but his next target will be the private sector and an American bank in particular.
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