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Yahoo News |
11:59pm PDT |
London Suspects Have Ties to East Africa (AP) |
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Summary: AP - At least three of the four suspects in the July 21 attempted bombings on the London subway and a bus were born in East Africa, where al-Qaida-linked groups still operate and may be growing in strength, according to a new assessment by counterterroris |
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Dixons to focus on digital sales |
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Summary: High Street retailer Dixons is to stop selling 35mm cameras which use film, as digital cameras become the standard model. |
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Dixons ends 35mm camera sales |
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Summary: High Street retailer Dixons is to stop selling 35mm cameras which use film, as digital cameras become the standard model. |
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BBC News |
11:51pm PDT |
Dixons stop 35mm camera sales |
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Summary: High Street retailer Dixons is to stop selling 35mm cameras which use film, as digital cameras become the standard model. |
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BBC News |
11:47pm PDT |
Football: Wenger unimpressed |
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Summary: Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says Chelsea's "long-ball" tactics won them the Community Shield. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PDT |
UN inspectors 'at Iran plant' |
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Summary: Inspectors from the UN's nuclear watchdog go to Iran's main uranium conversion plant, officials say. |
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BBC News |
11:28pm PDT |
Cook cause of death investigated |
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Summary: A post-mortem examination is due to be carried out to establish how former foreign secretary Robin Cook died. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PDT |
Japan PM to call election after postal defeat (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
will call an election for Sept. 11, his coalition partner said
on Monday after parliament's upper house rejected bills to
privatize the postal system -- the core of Koizumi's reforms. |
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BBC News |
11:00pm PDT |
House attack 'racially motivated' |
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Summary: Police say they are treating a petrol bomb attack in County Londonderry as "racially motivated". |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Man held over 'feud attack' freed |
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Summary: One of the four men being questioned over a shooting in north Belfast is released without charge. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Assembly art 'money well spent' |
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Summary: The cost of four artworks is defended after Tory assembly leader Nick Bourne brands the £300,000 bill a 'waste'. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Assembly defends modern art spend |
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Summary: The cost of four pieces of art for the new assembly building is defended after the Tory assembly leader says the £300,000 bill a 'waste'. |
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Yahoo News |
10:43pm PDT |
U.S. Embassy Will Close Saudi Offices (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The U.S. Embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia will close Monday and Tuesday because of a threat against U.S. government buildings, the embassy said Sunday. |
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BBC News |
10:38pm PDT |
Social work recruitment 'crisis' |
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Summary: A report calls for better pay and conditions for social workers to solve a Wales-wide shortage. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37pm PDT |
Sharon on firm ground despite FinMin walkout -polls (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A narrow majority of Israelis support
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the
occupied Gaza Strip next week despite the 11th-hour resignation
of his top government rival, a newspaper poll found on Monday. |
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BBC News |
10:37pm PDT |
Japanese PM calls for snap poll |
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Summary: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi calls for a snap election after losing a key vote on postal reform. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
Japan PM Koizumi to call snap election -media (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
will call a snap election, public broadcaster NHK said on
Monday after parliament's upper house rejected bills to
privatize the postal system -- the core of his reform agenda. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26pm PDT |
Discovery Ready for Return to Earth (AP) |
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Summary: AP - After circling the Earth for 13 days, astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery powered up their spacecraft early Monday and awaited word from Mission Control to fire their braking rockets and head for home. |
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Cnn.com |
10:25pm PDT |
Discovery crew prepares to land |
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Summary: NASA engineers on the ground and astronauts in space are preparing for the first re-entry of a space shuttle since the 2003 Columbia disaster. |
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Cnn.com |
10:25pm PDT |
Weather delays Discovery's landing |
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Summary: NASA engineers on the ground and astronauts in space are preparing for the first re-entry of a space shuttle since the 2003 Columbia disaster. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20pm PDT |
Japan House Rejects Postal Reform Bills (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Japan's upper house of Parliament rejected a proposal to privatize the country's postal system Monday despite a threat by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that he would order a snap election if the legislation failed. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07pm PDT |
Crude Oil Prices Hit New Record (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Crude futures rose to a new high of $62.69 in Asian trading Monday as the U.S. government announced the closure of its embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia due to security threats and on continued concerns that earlier shutdowns of U.S. oil refiner |
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BBC News |
10:04pm PDT |
Japanese PM loses key reform vote |
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Summary: Japan's upper house rejects PM Junichiro Koizumi's plan to privatise the country's postal service, and an election now looms. |
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Yahoo News |
10:01pm PDT |
No Looking Back As Discovery Heads Home (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Flight controllers and others at NASA struggled to push away thoughts of Columbia's tragic return as Discovery aimed for a landing before dawn Monday, the first for a shuttle since the 2003 disaster. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
ABC News Anchor Was a Voice of the World (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Peter Jennings, 67, the urbane anchorman of ABC's evening newscast for the past 22 years, died yesterday at his home in New York, his network announced. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
D.C. Ballpark Architect Has Towering Test (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Joseph Spear has not spent much time in Washington, but the man who will design one of the most important additions to the city's skyline -- a baseball stadium -- has learned quickly that the city is hard to define. |
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Yahoo News |
9:59pm PDT |
Japan govt defeated in crucial postal reform vote (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Japan's government suffered a big defeat
in a crucial parliamentary vote on reform of the postal system
on Monday, raising chances Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
will call an election that his divided ruling party could well
lose. |
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Yahoo News |
9:59pm PDT |
Japan's Upper House Rejects Postal Reform (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Japan's upper house of Parliament rejected a proposal to privatize the country's postal system Monday despite a threat by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to order a snap election if the legislation failed. |
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Cnn.com |
9:56pm PDT |
Japan's PM loses postal reform vote |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
9:56pm PDT |
Japan's Koizumi loses postal reform vote |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
