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12:15 PM ET, July 11, 2006

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Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
U.S. will give detainees Geneva rights  —  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday that all detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions.  —  White House spokesman Tony Snow said the policy …
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Rethinking Embattled Tactics in Terror War  —  Courts, Hill and Allies Press Administration  —  Five years after the attacks on the United States, the Bush administration faces the prospect of reworking key elements of its anti-terrorism effort in light of challenges from the courts …
CNN:
40 killed in Mumbai train blasts  —  MUMBAI, India (CNN) — At least 40 people have been killed in seven explosions on crowded rush-hour commuter trains in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said.  —  More than 100 people were injured in the blasts, which took place between 6:20 and 7 p.m. …
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Ramola Talwar Badam / Associated Press:
Death toll at 105 in India train bombings  —  BOMBAY, India - Seven bombs hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing at least 105 people and wounding more than 300 in what authorities called a well-coordinated attack.  —  India's major cities were put …
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BBC:
Scores dead in Mumbai explosions  —  Scores of people have been killed in at least seven blasts on trains in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), police say.  —  The city's police Chief AN Roy said on Indian TV as many as 100 people were feared killed and more than 250 hurt.
Amit Varma / India Uncut:
Bomb blasts in Mumbai's railway stations
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Audrey Gillan / Guardian:
Syd Barrett dies aged 60  —  Syd Barrett, the former lead singer of Pink Floyd and one of the key figures of the 60s, has died at the Cambridgeshire home to which he retreated as a recluse more than 30 years ago.  —  The Guardian has learned that the singer, 60, who suffered …
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Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd, dies
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Adam Fresco / Times of London:
Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett dies at home
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Paul Blustein / Washington Post:
Smaller Budget Deficit Projected  —  Tax Cuts Credited; Long-Term Outlook Still Seen as Bleak  —  The Bush administration is planning to trumpet today a midyear revision of its budget estimates projecting that a recent surge in tax revenue will help to shrink this year's federal deficit below $300 billion …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Budget deficit drops $296B under estimate
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Insurgent Group Posts Video of 2 Mutilated U.S. Soldiers  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 10 — Insurgents posted an Internet video on Monday showing the mutilated bodies of two American soldiers abducted in June and found murdered days later during a search by American and Iraqi forces south of Baghdad.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Beheading Desecration Video of Dead U.S. Soldiers Released …
Associated Press:
Judge Rules FBI Raid on Rep. Jefferson's Office Was Legal  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday upheld the FBI's unprecedented raid of a congressional office, saying that barring searches of lawmakers' offices would turn Capitol Hill into "a taxpayer-subsidized sanctuary for crime."
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The UW 9/11 denialist appears on "Hannity and Colmes."  —  The day the university announced its decision to permit Kevin Barrett to teach the one course he was hired to teach, he appeared on "Hannity and Colmes," introduced by Alan Colmes as "University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Barrett."
Lawrence Kaplan / The New Republic:
A REVOLTING TRUTH:  —  Even by the degraded standards of everyday life in Baghdad, this report from CNN's Nic Robertson comes as a shock:  —  From its gruesome particulars, the report goes on to describe the fear that has gripped even the most hardened Iraqis during this latest round of sectarian bloodletting.
Washington Post:
General Speaks of Immigrant Father  —  MIAMI, July 10 — A congressional hearing on immigration came to a dramatic pause Monday when Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, choked up as he talked about his Italian immigrant father and the opportunities that America had given to his family.
Ismail Haniyeh / Washington Post:
Aggression Under False Pretenses  —  GAZA, Palestine — As Americans commemorated their annual celebration of independence from colonial occupation, rejoicing in their democratic institutions, we Palestinians were yet again besieged by our occupiers, who destroy our roads and buildings …
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Attacks across Iraq kill at least 47  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Arab representatives said Tuesday they will end their boycott of Iraq's parliament following a call for reconciliation by a radical Shiite cleric and promises that a kidnapped colleague will be released.
Matt Hughes / Times of London:
Read my lips: the taunt that made Zidane snap  —  Our correspondent finds out what may have caused a great player to lose his head in such spectacular style  —  WITH his monkish mien backed by a sense of brooding menace, Zinédine Zidane has always been something of an enigma …
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The GOP's Looming Battle  —  As it looks beyond the elections of 2006, a Republican Party known for ideological solidarity is on the cusp of a far more searching philosophical battle than are the Democrats, historically accustomed to bruising fights over the finer points of political theory.
 
 
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Edging to the Right  —  The apparent victory of Felipe Calderon …
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British Muslims Mock 7/7 & 9/11 Victims, Support Terror.
 

 
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