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BBC News |
11:54pm PST |
Racism 'has no place in society' |
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Summary: Merseyside's police chief says Anthony Walker's murder shows racism has no place in society. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PST |
Australian drug trafficker hanged in Singapore (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Convicted Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van was hanged in Singapore after high-level bids to save his life failed, sparking condemnation from Australia's leaders and rights groups. |
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BBC News |
11:45pm PST |
Zimbabwe to get more UN food aid |
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Summary: Zimbabwe reaches a deal with the UN food agency to feed at least three million people in the country until next June. |
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Yahoo News |
11:37pm PST |
US carries out 1,000th execution since landmark ruling (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The United States executed the 1,000th person since capital punishment was reintroduced in 1976, when Kenneth Boyd was given a lethal injection at a North Carolina jail. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PST |
N. Carolina carries out 1,000th execution (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Convicted killer
Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed in the
United States since the reinstatement of capital punishment
when he was put to death by lethal injection early on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PST |
US carries out 1,000th execution (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Convicted killer
Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed in the
United States since capital punishment resumed nearly 30 years
ago when he was put to death by lethal injection on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PST |
Secret CIA flights: at least two stopovers in France (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Aircraft hired by the US Central Intelligence Agency possibly to transport Islamist prisoners have made at least two stopovers in France, in 2002 and 2005, the daily Le Figaro reported. |
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Yahoo News |
11:28pm PST |
Algerian bomb suspect jailed in France after extradition from Britain (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - An Algerian wanted over deadly 1995 bombings on the Paris metro was imprisoned after being extradited from Britain to France to face trial over the attacks, his lawyer said. |
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BBC News |
11:27pm PST |
US carries out 1,000th execution |
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Summary: A killer becomes the 1,000th person executed in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. |
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Yahoo News |
11:26pm PST |
U.S. Executes 1,000th Person Since 1977 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A convicted murderer was put to death Friday in the nation's 1,000th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1977. |
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Yahoo News |
11:21pm PST |
U.N.: Torture Still Widespread in China (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The first U.N. investigator to visit China's detention centers in years found that torture is still common and accused the government of obstructing his work. |
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BBC News |
11:17pm PST |
Tesco boss Leahy denies quit talk |
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Summary: Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy denies a newspaper report that he is to quit to take up a government tsar role. |
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Crosswalk |
11:10pm PST |
Theological Education That Transforms, Part One |
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Summary: In the first half of the twentieth century, liberal Protestantism lost confidence in the Bible, in the Gospel, and in the unique mission of the church. Progressively, its theological schools grew less and less theological; its missionaries grew less and l |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PST |
Families leave homes after floods |
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Summary: Dozens of people spend the night in temporary accommodation after floods in south Belfast. |
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ChristianToday |
10:50pm PST |
India Supreme Court Postpones Ruling on Rights of Dalit Christians |
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Summary: The lives of millions of Dalit Christians has been once again left hanging in the balance as the Indian Supreme Court delays its decision on whether to give Dalit Christians the same legal rights as Dalits of other religions |
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Yahoo News |
10:45pm PST |
Grace Period for Gulf Coast Mortgages Ends (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Like many homeowners around here, Janet Kisling owes a pile of debt on little more than a pile of debris. She has a $1,000-a-month mortgage on a home that is uninhabitable. |
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ChristianToday |
10:45pm PST |
Aid Organisations Issue Final Warning as Thousands Set to Die in Pakistan |
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Summary:
Six of the largest international aid organisations have urged for more funding to be given urgently to avert a second wave of deaths in Pakistan following the earthquake in early October UN SecretaryGeneral
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BBC News |
10:42pm PST |
New ship deal for Scottish yard |
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Summary: Ministers are expected to place a second multi-million pound shipbuilding order with a Scottish shipyard. |
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Cnn.com |
10:34pm PST |
Vietnam vet awaits death as 1,000th execution |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
10:34pm PST |
Double killer is nation's 1,000th execution |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
10:30pm PST |
Protesters held as 1,000th execution nears (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A convicted killer
prepared to die on Friday in the 1,000th execution in the
United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty
after a final bid for clemency failed to bring a reprieve. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18pm PST |
Academics consider "intelligent design" museum talk (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A panel of academics took a cool look
at the increasingly heated issue of evolution versus
"intelligent design" on Thursday, variously holding up the
latter as a cultural battle, a global phenomenon or even a
brilliant marketing scheme. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08pm PST |
Garner and Affleck Have Baby Girl (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck had a baby girl Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:51pm PST |
Blair to face strong opposition on budget plans from biggest new EU states (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to face strong opposition from the four biggest new European Union members who have vowed to fight his proposals to reduce development funding in the bloc's 2007 to 2013 budget. |
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BBC News |
9:51pm PST |
Nepal's Maoists extend ceasefire |
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Summary: Maoist rebels in Nepal extended their unilateral ceasefire by a month. |
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Yahoo News |
9:43pm PST |
'Inject new momentum' into WTO talks: Brit business, union, charity chiefs (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Senior British union, business and charity leaders called on all World Trade Organisation member countries to secure a deal on fair trade ahead of the Hong Kong global trade talks. |
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Yahoo News |
9:30pm PST |
Clemency denied as 1,000th execution nears (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A convicted killer
prepared to die on Friday in the 1,000th execution in the
United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty
after a final bid for clemency failed to bring a reprieve. |
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Yahoo News |
9:19pm PST |
U.S. to Release New $10 Bills on March 2 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The trees won't be the only thing sprouting new colors come springtime. Americans' wallets will have more red, yellow and orange as the first of 800 million redesigned $10 bills start showing up in cash registers and ATM machines on March 2. |
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BBC News |
9:16pm PST |
Blair in crunch EU budget talks |
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Summary: Tony Blair is set for more crunch talks with new EU members to try to convince them to take a cut in funding. |
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Cnn.com |
8:59pm PST |
Jury urges death for Carlie Brucia's killer |
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Summary: A jury tonight recommended the death penalty for Joseph Smith, the Florida man convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Carlie Brucia. Her case gained nationwide attention after police released videotape last year of her kidnapping. The footage was c |
