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11:57pm PST |
China's parliament opens with focus on rural poor, wealth divide
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Summary: AFP - China's parliament opens its annual session amid high security with Premier Wen Jiabao listing the plight of the nation's rural poor and the fast-rising wealth gap as top national priorities. |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PST |
Archbishop fears Church 'rupture' |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury says a split in the Anglican Church over homosexuality could take decades to heal. |
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BBC News |
10:57pm PST |
Benin voting in presidential poll |
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Summary: Voters in Benin go to the polls to elect a successor to long-serving President Mathieu Kerekou. |
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8:42pm PST |
US launches drive to plug leaks: Washington Post
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Summary: Reuters - The Bush administration has launched
several investigations to discourage government employees from
leaking classified information to news reporters, The
Washington Post reported in its Sunday edition. |
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7:22pm PST |
Boxing: Calzaghe dazzling in win |
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Summary: Joe Calzaghe out-boxes Jeff Lacy to unify the WBO and IBF super middleweight titles. |
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Cnn.com |
6:56pm PST |
Auschwitz's photographer haunted by images of the dead |
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BBC News |
6:07pm PST |
US army to probe NFL star's death |
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Summary: The army death of American footballer Pat Tillman in Afghanistan will be subject to a criminal investigation. |
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Cnn.com |
6:04pm PST |
Police probe Muslim revenge theory after campus carnage |
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4:44pm PST |
Obesity 'raises crash death risk' |
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Summary: Male drivers who are involved in a car crash are more likely to die if they are obese, a US study suggests. |
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Linda Smith: God, the biggest joke of all |
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Summary: From The Independent:
Caroline Black, the BHA celebrant who will conduct the comedian's funeral and who visited her last week, says: "She didn't have time for authority-figures. Her ideas were driven by being self-determining and being responsible for yo |
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3:35pm PST |
Army to Launch Probe Into Tillman Death
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Summary: AP - The Army said Saturday it will launch a criminal investigation into the April 2004 death of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player who was shot to death by fellow soldiers in Afghanistan in what previous Army reviews had concluded was a |
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3:34pm PST |
Hamas meets Muslim, business leaders in 'breakthrough' Russia visit
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Summary: AFP - A Hamas senior official said the radical Palestinian group will only announce its policy towards Israel if it recognizes a fully independent Palestinian state, following the second day of the movement's landmark first visit to a major world pow |
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BBC News |
3:32pm PST |
Boy, 14, charged with Joe murder |
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Summary: A schoolboy is charged with the murder of 11-year-old Joe Geeling, whose body was found in a park. |
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3:00pm PST |
Williams Helps UConn Nip Louisville
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Summary: AP - Rashad Anderson took Connecticut's latest trophy on a quick road trip. |
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Cnn.com |
2:51pm PST |
Al Qaeda video praises Hamas win |
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Summary: In a videotape released Saturday, Osama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, complimented the Islamic militant group Hamas on its Palestinian election victory and spoke against published Prophet Mohammed cartoons that have sparked violence throughout the |
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2:31pm PST |
Big Studios to Sit on Sidelines at Oscars
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Summary: AP - No matter who wins Sunday, Hollywood can both brag about an unusually daring crop of Academy Awards films and hang its head in embarrassment that hardly any came from the studios that dominate the movie business. |
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2:31pm PST |
Guantanamo papers paint profiles of detainees
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Summary: AFP - A portrait of the Islamist ferment that attracted youths from across the Muslim world to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan five years ago emerges from the trove of documents on the "war on terror" detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
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BBC News |
2:19pm PST |
Dozens killed in Pakistan clashes |
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Summary: Pakistani troops kill dozens of pro-Taleban militants near the border with Afghanistan, officials say. |
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2:06pm PST |
Army opening criminal probe into Tillman's death |
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Summary: The Army will open a criminal investigation to determine whether former NFL player Pat Tillman's death in a 2004 friendly fire incident in Afghanistan was the result of negligent homicide, CNN learned Saturday. Tillman gave up a $3.6 million contract with |
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Cnn.com |
2:00pm PST |
Bush gets war on terror assurances |
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Summary: President Bush ended his visit to Islamabad today after gaining reassurances from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that Pakistan is doing everything it can in the war against terror. "He [Musharraf] understands the need to make sure our strategy is ab |
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Yahoo News |
1:44pm PST |
Fate of Volkswagen chief to be decided April 20: report
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Summary: AFP - Volkswagen Chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder, under attack from workers and the car maker's supervisory board over an unpopular restructuring plan, will learn his fate on April 20, German media reported. |
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1:16pm PST |
Bush says Pakistan committed to terror war but more work needed
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush wound up his maiden tour of South Asia with praise for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's commitment to the "war on terror" but warned that more work was needed to defeat Al-Qaeda. |
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1:14pm PST |
U.N. Faces Severe Food Shortage in Kenya
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Summary: AP - The U.N. food agency will soon run out of food needed to feed some 3.5 million Kenyans facing prolonged drought because it has received a fraction of the required funding, officials said Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:59pm PST |
At Least 14 People Killed Across Iraq
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Summary: AP - Iraq's president said Saturday that he had been assured that American troops will stay in his country as long as needed, while at least 14 people were killed in explosions and gunfire nationwide as vehicle restrictions were lifted in Baghdad. |
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BBC News |
12:58pm PST |
Dance track wins Eurovision vote |
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Summary: Daz Sampson's rap dance track wins a live public vote to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest. |
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Yahoo News |
12:36pm PST |
AP: Many Defendants' Cases Kept Secret
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Summary: AP - Despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years. |
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12:27pm PST |
Bush, Musharraf Renew Anti-Terror Alliance
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Summary: AP - President Bush praised Pakistan's fight against terrorism as unfaltering Saturday but turned down an appeal for the same civilian nuclear help the United States intends to give India, this country's archrival. |
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Cnn.com |
11:10am PST |
'Cowboys' party at Sydney's gay Mardi Gras |
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BBC News |
9:52am PST |
Spitfire maiden flight celebrated |
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Summary: A celebration year to mark the historic role of the Spitfire takes off at Duxford's Imperial War Museum on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:41am PST |
Soda Targeted in Fight Against Obesity
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Summary: AP - Low-fat, low-cal, low-carb. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone. Food fads may be distracting attention from something more insidiously piling on pounds: beverages. |
