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BBC News |
11:48pm PDT |
India counts the cost of floods |
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Summary: The cost of India's monsoon damage reaches 30bn rupees ($690m),
say officials in Mumbai (Bombay). |
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Yahoo News |
11:47pm PDT |
Bolton's Challenge: Pushing Bush Agenda (AP) |
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Summary: AP - John Bolton's chief challenge as ambassador to the United Nations will be to work with diplomats from 190 nations in a place he's called irrelevant as he tries to advance President Bush's reform agenda. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PDT |
Blast heard near British Airways office Iran (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - An explosion was heard near the British
Airways office in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday, but
there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, a
spokesman for the Iranian Interior Ministry said. |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Lost Tall Ship found off Germany |
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Summary: A vessel missing during the Tall Ships Race from Newcastle to Norway is located near Germany. |
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Yahoo News |
11:07pm PDT |
Israel braces for rightist rally against Gaza plan (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli police and soldiers fanned
out around the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to prevent any last effort
by Jewish settlers and their sympathizers to scupper this
month's withdrawal from the occupied territory. |
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Yahoo News |
11:06pm PDT |
Groups Take Roberts Campaign to Voters (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Interest groups troubled by John Roberts' record are blitzing Internet sites and airwaves in hopes of building public support for the Senate to take a close look at the Supreme Court nominee. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55pm PDT |
Signing Ceremony for Trade Bill Arrives (AP) |
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Summary: AP - President Bush's signature puts the final touch on the Central America Free Trade Agreement, an accord with six Latin American countries that Congress barely approved after a bruising battle over the future of U.S. trade policy. |
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Crosswalk |
10:55pm PDT |
Can We Live Without Tradition? Part One |
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Summary: Every civilizational form assumes some role for tradition. No cultural moment emerges from a vacuum, for every generation responds in some way to the tradition it has inherited. Without an appreciation for the role of tradition and the inheritance of mora |
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BBC News |
10:50pm PDT |
DUP demands meeting over regiment |
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Summary: The DUP wants a face to face meeting with Tony Blair over the decision to disband units of the Royal Irish Regiment. |
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BBC News |
10:50pm PDT |
Cricket: Gillespie to keep place |
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Summary: Fast bowler Jason Gillespie is likely to keep his place for the second Ashes Test, says Australian captain Ricky Ponting. |
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BBC News |
10:48pm PDT |
Annan 'ready to work with Bolton' |
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Summary: UN chief Kofi Annan says he is ready to work with new US envoy John Bolton, a stern critic of the world body. |
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BBC News |
10:41pm PDT |
Talks over Muslim women's safety |
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Summary: A group of Muslim women meet ministers at the Welsh assembly to discuss safety concerns after the London attacks. |
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BBC News |
10:37pm PDT |
Ryanair rises on passenger growth |
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Summary: Ryanair, Europe's biggest low-cost airline, sees quarterly profits jump as more people fly on its planes. |
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BBC News |
10:37pm PDT |
Ryanair quarterly profits up 21% |
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Summary: Ryanair, Europe's biggest low-cost airline, sees quarterly profits jump as more people fly on its planes. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Palmeiro Suspended for Steroid Violation (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - BALTIMORE, Aug. 1 - Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, who had defiantly denied using steroids during a Congressional hearing on performance-enhancing drugs in March, was suspended Monday for 10 days for violating baseba |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Palmeiro Suspended For Steroid Violation (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - BALTIMORE, Aug. 1 -- Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, who had defiantly denied using steroids during a congressional hearing on performance-enhancing drugs in March, was suspended Monday for 10 days for violating baseb |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Abdullah Becomes Saudi King On Death of Half Brother Fahd (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 1 -- King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, whose strategic alliance with the United States prompted a far-reaching backlash by Islamic radicals, died Monday and was succeeded by his half brother, Crown Prince |
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Yahoo News |
9:44pm PDT |
Crude Hovers Near Record Closing Price (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Benchmark crude oil futures remained near record closing levels Tuesday, lingering around $61.57 a barrel as traders worried about future oil production from Saudi Arabia after the death of King Fahd. |
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BBC News |
9:41pm PDT |
N Korea talks aim at breakthrough |
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Summary: Envoys from six nations begin a record eighth day of North Korean nuclear talks, still unable to reach a deal. |
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BBC News |
9:41pm PDT |
Differences plague N Korea talks |
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Summary: Envoys from six nations begin a record eighth day of North Korean nuclear talks, still unable to reach a deal. |
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Cnn.com |
7:57pm PDT |
States ordered to cut power plant pollution |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Theophiles |
7:55pm PDT |
Christians, Muslims tackle food shortage in African nation |
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Summary: "Behind the high, brown wall of a clinic run by a Muslim charity, nurses care for hundreds of hungry children. Down the road 150 meters (yards), members of a Christian congregation discuss how to stretch funds collected at Sunday services to help more of |
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Theophiles |
7:55pm PDT |
Rome and Evolution: The Importance of Definitions |
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Summary: Defined in that way, the theory of evolution claims that all life began about 3.5 billion years ago as a single-celled, self-replicating organism from which we are all descended. Since everyone now reading this sentence once began his or her existence as |
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Cnn.com |
7:44pm PDT |
DNA frees wrongly convicted man after 19 years |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
7:44pm PDT |
DNA evidence frees wrongly convicted man after 19 years |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
7:41pm PDT |
Guardsman in Iraq Punished Over Blog Post (AP) |
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Summary: AP - An Arizona National Guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his Internet Web log, an Army official said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39pm PDT |
GM Drops Discount Plan, Ford to Cut Back (AP) |
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Summary: AP - General Motors Corp. dropped its popular employee-discount plan Monday in a signal that the era of big incentives could be ending. Ford Motor Co. said it will continue employee pricing for another month but also will try to cut back on incentives for |
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BBC News |
7:31pm PDT |
Police meet Tube shooting family |
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Summary: A senior Metropolitan Police officer meets the parents of a Brazilian man mistakenly shot dead on the Tube. |
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BBC News |
7:11pm PDT |
Minister to meet Muslim leaders |
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Summary: Home Office Minister Hazel Blears is meeting Muslim leaders and police in the wake of the London bombs. |
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Yahoo News |
7:10pm PDT |
Ivory Bill's Doubters Convinced by Tapes (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Researchers who last month questioned the existence of the ivory-billed woodpecker, saying blurry videotape of a bird in flight wasn't enough evidence, have changed their minds after hearing recordings from the wild. |
