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AOL News	VS	Al Jazeera
India Reeling After Terror Attacks		Troops battle Mumbai attackers
11/27/2008 9:58 AM EST		11/27/2008 9:58 AM EST
...wounding about 100. Relations between Hindus, who make up more than 80 percent of India's 1 billion population, and Muslims, who make up about 14 percent, have sporadically erupted into bouts of sectarian violence since British-ruled India was split...		...increase in recent years in indigenous Indian Muslim organisations beginning to take a violent stance towards the Indian state and sections of the Indian society, particularly the commercial elite of places like Mumbai, in order to...

More Details Posted by lightman 11/27/2008 9:58 AM EST

India Reeling After Terror Attacks

Troops battle Mumbai attackers

LA Times	VS	Al Jazeera
Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations		Tortured 'terror' suspect 'lied'
06/16/2009 12:55 PM EDT		06/16/2009 12:55 PM EDT
...-- Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. military officials that he had lied to the CIA after being abused, according to documents made public...		...of the 11 September attacks in 2001, lied during interrogations after he was tortured by CIA agents, according to newly released documents....

More Details Posted by ghostly 06/16/2009 12:55 PM EDT

Detainee says he lied to CIA in harsh interrogations

Tortured 'terror' suspect 'lied'

NY Times	VS	FOX News
Past Debates Show a Confident Palin, at Times Fluent but Often Vague - NYTimes.com		Palin Gives a Debate Preview FOX Embeds FOXNews.com
10/02/2008 2:38 PM EDT		10/02/2008 2:38 PM EDT
...development. But just as she does now, Ms. Palin often spoke in generalities and showed scant aptitude for developing arguments beyond a talking point or two. Her sentences were distinguished by the...		...her selection where she felt censored, but she continued her critique of the press saying that "the state of journalism has changed a bit since I received my degree" and hit the media for wanting to "get more news out there on the air regardless of the truth" adding that it was "kind of sad." The Alaska governor said she does care...

More Details Posted by fusehead 10/02/2008 2:38 PM EDT

Past Debates Show a Confident Palin, at Times Fluent but Often Vague - NYTimes.com

Palin Gives a Debate Preview FOX Embeds FOXNews.com

FOX News	VS	NY Times
McCain Needs Knockout in Second Debate, Political Analysts Say		Campaigns Shift to Attack Mode on Eve of Debate
10/07/2008 4:37 PM EDT		10/07/2008 4:37 PM EDT
...in the audience and on the Internet. The town hall setting is expected to play to McCain's strengths. In fact, he lobbied Obama over the summer to debate him in a series of town hall meetings, but the Democratic candidate declined. Now McCain is getting his shot, and it couldn't come at a better time. "McCain has to make some progress,"...		...the gloves off" on Tuesday night. Still, it may not be easy: This debate will be in a town-hall setting and the candidates will be taking questions from voters, a format that historically has made it difficult to mount the kind of attacks Mr. McCain is looking to make. Ms. Palin again invoked Mr. Obama's...

More Details Posted by prdudeguy 10/07/2008 4:37 PM EDT

McCain Needs Knockout in Second Debate, Political Analysts Say

Campaigns Shift to Attack Mode on Eve of Debate

The Guardian	VS	CNN
Sir Ian Blair resigns as Met police commissioner		Top UK police chief forced to quit
10/02/2008 5:17 PM EDT		10/02/2008 5:17 PM EDT
...esignation. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/ PA Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, today announced that he is to step down after losing the support of the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Blair said he would have liked to conti...		...ticle in World LONDON, England (CNN) -- The UK's top police officer, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, announced his resignation Thursday after being urged to step down by London mayor Boris Johnson. Blair: "It has been the proudest task o...

More Details Posted by majormatt 10/02/2008 5:17 PM EDT

Sir Ian Blair resigns as Met police commissioner

Top UK police chief forced to quit

CNN	VS	NY Times
Will Obama have to adjust Iraq timetable?		Bloggingheads Video: Obama vs. Congress
11/08/2008 9:57 AM EST		11/08/2008 9:57 AM EST

CNN	VS	FOX News
Feds raise pressure on BP over oil spill - CNN.com		'The Bad One': Spill Has Recipe for Catastrophe
05/01/2010 2:37 AM EDT		05/01/2010 2:37 AM EDT
...BP says Venice, Louisiana (CNN) -- The federal government is heightening the pressure on BP, pushing the oil company to do more to stop well leaks gushing thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and to beef up its response to the...		...to contain it. Besides BP, a slew of federal and state agencies are scrambling to minimize the onslaught of damage. Experts in oil spills have drills...

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