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11:52pm PST |
Taiwan stages new anti-Chen rally |
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Summary: Opponents accusing Taiwan's president of stoking tensions with China stage their second protest in a week. |
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11:51pm PST |
Rumsfeld warns Iraq pullout equals turning Germany back to Nazis
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Summary: AFP - One day after a wave of antiwar protests swept the world, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warns a quick US pullout from Iraq will result in terrorists taking it over -- and insists it would be tantamount to handing Germany back to the Nazis. |
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11:21pm PST |
Georgia College Pushes for iPod Ingenuity
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Summary: AP - The campus of Georgia College & State University boasts traditional college fare — spacious greens, historic architecture and a steady stream of students with the familiar white headphones of iPods dangling from their ears. |
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11:17pm PST |
Iraq offensive yields detentions |
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Summary: As a major offensive continues in Iraq, a roadside bomb damaged a vehicle in a U.S. military convoy during a search for insurgents north of Baghdad, but no one was injured, U.S. authorities said Sunday, The Associated Press reported. |
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10:51pm PST |
Polls open in Belarus presidential election
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Summary: AFP - Polling stations are open in Belarus' presidential election, which is expected to see a landslide victory by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. |
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10:28pm PST |
Killer Nurse May Be Able to Donate Kidney
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Summary: AP - A judge has agreed to allow New Jersey's worst serial killer to donate a kidney, but the donor and his doctors have to meet conditions. |
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10:13pm PST |
Journalist's Alleged Killers Held in Iraq
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Summary: AP - American and Iraqi troops pushing through a desolate area of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland rounded up dozens more suspected insurgents, including alleged killers of a television journalist, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday. |
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10:11pm PST |
Belarus votes amid rigging claims |
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Summary: Voting begins in Belarus' presidential elections, amid opposition claims that the ballot has been rigged. |
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10:10pm PST |
Iraq Leaves Vet in Personal Fog of War
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Summary: AP - His 3-year-old son Nicholas' first steps, the first time Liam, his newborn, smiled — Staff Sgt. Douglas Piper lived to see them. Then his scarred memory erased even those precious moments. |
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10:07pm PST |
Iraq in civil war, says former PM |
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Summary: The problems facing Iraq should not be underplayed, the country's ex-leader Iyad Allawi tells the BBC. |
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9:51pm PST |
Drug safety tests 'insufficient' |
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Summary: Changes to the procedure for testing the type of drug that left six volunteers ill may need to be brought in, a consultant says. |
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9:18pm PST |
Woman savaged by bull terrier |
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Summary: Police try to trace the owner of a dog that attacked a woman in the street, leaving her with serious leg injuries. |
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9:10pm PST |
Riots erupt after French protests |
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Summary: More than 160 people are arrested and 24 injured after rallies against a new French labour law turn violent. |
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9:00pm PST |
Food Industry a Target in Obesity Fight
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Summary: AP - It's tempting to blame big food companies for America's big obesity problem. After all, they're the folks who Supersized our fries, family-portioned our potato chips and Big Gulped our sodas. There's also the billions they've |
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8:54pm PST |
Belarus votes in tense presidential election
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Summary: AFP - Belarus votes in a presidential election marred by accusations of fraud and fears of violence after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko vowed to crush street protests. |
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8:50pm PST |
Home care 'to cut NHS deficits' |
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Summary: Hospital cash deficits could be reduced by treating people with chronic illnesses like heart disease at home. |
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8:23pm PST |
Priory boss to face MPs over loan |
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Summary: A businessman who lent the Labour Party £1.5m says he is happy to appear at a Commons inquiry. |
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7:56pm PST |
Anti-War Rallies Mark Iraq Anniversary
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Summary: AP - Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets around the world Saturday, marking the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with demands that coalition troops leave immediately. |
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7:54pm PST |
Stock exchanges seek mergers to avoid being left out in the cold
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Summary: AFP - European stock markets are being sucked onto a takeover battlefield that is also drawing in market operators in the United States, 12 months after opening gambits involving Euronext, Deutsche Boerse and the London Stock Exchange fell flat. |
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6:57pm PST |
More Corporations Stiffing Gov't on Fines
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Summary: AP - When a gasoline spill and fiery explosion killed three young people in Washington state, officials announced a record penalty against a gas pipeline company: $3 million to send the message that such tragedies "must never happen again." |
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6:53pm PST |
30-year-old Egyptian dies of bird flu |
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6:48pm PST |
French police tackle protesters on the rampage |
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6:44pm PST |
French Police Subdue Riots Over Jobs Law
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Summary: AP - Police loosed water cannons and tear gas on rioting students and activists rampaged through a McDonald's and attacked store fronts in the capital Saturday as demonstrations against a plan to relax job protections spread in a widening arc across |
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6:28pm PST |
End of an era as Serbs lay Milosevic to rest
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Summary: AFP - Serbia looked to turn the page on Slobodan Milosevic after burying the former Yugoslav leader at his family home, closing a bloody personal chapter in European history. |
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6:02pm PST |
Thousands in Europe protest Iraq war, but few in US
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Summary: AFP - Tens of thousands of people in Europe and the Americas protested the war in Iraq on the eve of its third anniversary, with demonstrations in Europe drawing far greater crowds than those in the United States. |
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5:57pm PST |
LSU Nips Texas A&M in Wild Finish
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Summary: AP - With the clock running out on LSU's hopes, Darrel Mitchell stepped up and made the biggest shot of his life. |
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5:49pm PST |
Police chief backed over Menezes |
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Summary: Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair's account of the aftermath of the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man is backed by a senior officer. |
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5:38pm PST |
Colombia in $800m cocaine haul |
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Summary: Colombian authorities seize cocaine with a street value of $800m on board a ship bound for Mexico. |
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5:32pm PST |
Mass protests over French job law turn ugly
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Summary: AFP - Calm returned to Paris after riot police teargassed scores of demonstrators in the wake of a demonstration by an estimated million people who took to the streets of France to protest a widely unpopular new labour law. |
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5:25pm PST |
Poll doubts cloud Belarussia vote |
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Summary: Belarussians prepare to vote in presidential polls amid opposition claims that the ballot has been rigged. |
