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Cnn.com |
11:53pm PDT |
Sporadic violence hits historic Gaza pullout |
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Summary: Israeli soldiers descended on Jewish settlements throughout Gaza this morning, serving eviction notices to settlers who remained after a deadline for the withdrawal from the territory to begin. Some of the settlers remaining in Gaza rioted early today, wh |
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Cnn.com |
11:53pm PDT |
Sporadic violence hits Gaza pullout |
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Summary: Israeli soldiers descended on Jewish settlements throughout Gaza this morning, serving eviction notices to settlers who remained after a deadline for the withdrawal from the territory to begin. Some of the settlers remaining in Gaza rioted early today, wh |
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Yahoo News |
11:47pm PDT |
Minority Tamils Fear Being Targeted (AP) |
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Summary: AP - With Sri Lanka's foreign minister dead and the country under emergency rule, there is growing fear among the island's minority Tamils that they may once again be targeted by the security forces fighting Tamil Tiger rebels. |
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Yahoo News |
11:43pm PDT |
Troops Hand Out Eviction Notices in Gaza (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Israeli troops on Monday began handing out eviction notices to settlers of the Gaza Strip at the start of a historic withdrawal that will end its 38-year occupation. |
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BBC News |
11:41pm PDT |
Police and firefighters attacked |
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Summary: Stones are thrown at police officers and fire crews during disturbances in County Antrim, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
11:21pm PDT |
Israel seals Gaza settlements, settlers defiant (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Israel launched its
Gaza pullout on Monday, sending police and soldiers to deliver
48-hour eviction notices in Jewish settlements where hundreds
of hardliners blocked gates and vowed resistance. |
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Yahoo News |
11:20pm PDT |
Highway Law Typifies Congress's Tough Time (AP) |
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Summary: AP - For three years, lawmakers who believe welfare recipients should work more have been thwarted by their inability to get Congress to work better. |
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BBC News |
11:17pm PDT |
Paint attack on teen is condemned |
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Summary: Councillors in south Belfast condemn an attack on a
14-year-old in the Village area of the city on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:16pm PDT |
Navy Proposing High-Tech Destroyer (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The Navy, seeking a greater role as the United States wages wars far inland, is pushing an expensive, experimental destroyer it says will be able to bomb targets well away from shore. |
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BBC News |
11:06pm PDT |
Aceh rebels to sign peace accord |
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Summary: The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels are due to sign a peace deal aimed at ending a 29-year conflict. |
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BBC News |
10:55pm PDT |
VJ Day tributes to war's victims |
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Summary: Services are held on VJ Day for the military and civilian victims of the Far East war in World War II. |
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Yahoo News |
10:54pm PDT |
Japan PM marks WW2 defeat with apology to Asia (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi marked
the 60th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War Two on
Monday with an apology for suffering caused by Japanese
military aggression and pledged that Tokyo would never again go
to war. |
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BBC News |
10:52pm PDT |
Football: 'Essien will join Chelsea' |
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Summary: Michael Essien is set to leave Lyon and move to Chelsea, says the French club's president Jean-Michel Aulas. |
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Cnn.com |
10:42pm PDT |
Japan's Koizumi apologizes for war wounds |
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Summary: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday apologized for his country's role in World War II on the 60th anniversary of the war's end, and vowed Japan would never again take "the path to war." |
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Cnn.com |
10:35pm PDT |
Bush neighbor fires gun, startles protesters |
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Summary: Anti-war protesters outside President Bush's ranch here were startled Sunday by gunshots fired by a Texas rancher frustrated by the group's presence. |
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Cnn.com |
10:35pm PDT |
Bush neighbor takes aim at 'doves' |
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Summary: Anti-war protesters outside President Bush's ranch here were startled Sunday by gunshots fired by a Texas rancher frustrated by the group's presence. |
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Yahoo News |
10:30pm PDT |
PGA Suspended With Phil Mickelson Leading (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The PGA Championship finally got a break from days of sweltering heat. It also got an extra day. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24pm PDT |
Qwest, Union Suspend Then Resume Talks (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Negotiations between Qwest Communications and its largest union resumed Sunday evening as workers remained on the job without a contract in hopes a strike could be avoided. |
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BBC News |
10:04pm PDT |
Australian bank considers LSE bid |
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Summary: Macquarie Bank of Australia said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange it is considering a joint bid for the London Stock Exchange. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
A Transformed Neighborhood Awaits Stadium (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Money is on the prowl at M Street and New Jersey Avenue in Southeast, looking for opportunity as plans for a new baseball stadium two blocks away steadily advance. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38pm PDT |
Troops enter first Gaza settlement after deadline set (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Squads of Israeli soldiers
entered the first Gaza settlement on Monday hours after the
army set a 48-hour deadline for settlers to evacuate all Jewish
enclaves in the occupied territory under a pullout plan. |
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Cnn.com |
9:31pm PDT |
Irene a hurricane but no threat to U.S. |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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BBC News |
9:29pm PDT |
Superbugs 'found in chicken' |
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Summary: Significant numbers of chickens on sale in UK shops are contaminated with superbugs, a survey commissioned by BBC's Real Story suggests. |
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BBC News |
9:20pm PDT |
Independence Day raid in Kashmir |
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Summary: Three Indian soldiers are wounded in a grenade attack in Kashmir, as India marks Independence Day. |
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Cnn.com |
9:15pm PDT |
Secret Service contractor sparks bomb scare |
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Summary: A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service agent at a Washington hotel was the "suspicious package" that prompted a building evacuation Sunday afternoon, law enforcement sources said. |
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Cnn.com |
9:05pm PDT |
Cops shoot same man twice, in same shoulder, in one night |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
8:59pm PDT |
Japanese PM Apologizes for Past Invasions (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Japan's leader apologized for Tokyo's wartime colonization and invasions on the 60th anniversary of the country's surrender on Monday, after other Asian nations marked event by honoring their dead and demanding compensation for their l |
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BBC News |
8:55pm PDT |
Talks resume as BA backlog clears |
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Summary: Talks between union leaders and the catering firm at the heart of a dispute which brought chaos to 70,000 passengers at Heathrow are to resume. |
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BBC News |
8:55pm PDT |
BA flights leave as talks resume |
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Summary: Attempts to resolve the dispute which brought chaos to 70,000 Heathrow passengers resume. |
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Yahoo News |
8:44pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Moves Away From East Coast (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Irene strengthened into a hurricane Sunday, but turned away from the East Coast and posed no threat to land, forecasters said. |
