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ChristianToday |
11:50pm PST |
Humanitarian Crisis Looms in Gaza warns UN |
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Summary: The Gaza Strip faces a humanitarian crisis as border crossing disputes continue to prevent to efficient flow |
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BBC News |
11:49pm PST |
Football: Fulham 'influenced ref' |
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Summary: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho accuses the referee of caving in to pressure from Fulham players at Craven Cottage. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PST |
Aviva sets out Pru offer details |
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Summary: Aviva sets out the terms of its £17bn bid for Prudential, but will not go ahead without backing from the board. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PST |
Amitabh Bachchan back to work |
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Summary: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan returns to work after a four-month break to recover from surgery. |
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BBC News |
11:44pm PST |
Bollywood legend returns to work |
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Summary: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan returns to work after a four-month break to recover from surgery. |
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BBC News |
11:43pm PST |
Trial drug affected monkeys |
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Summary: Two monkeys suffered swollen glands in earlier trials of the drug which made six men seriously ill, the firm which developed it says. |
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BBC News |
11:32pm PST |
Attack on Indonesia mining camp |
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Summary: The world's largest gold producer suspends exploration operations at a site in Indonesia after a workers' camp is razed. |
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Yahoo News |
11:21pm PST |
Bush heads to Midwest to defend Iraq strategy
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush planned to head to Cleveland, Ohio, as part of his public relations campaign to defend his Iraq strategy as opinion polls showed approval of the three-year-old war at a new low. |
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Yahoo News |
11:19pm PST |
Security talks put China-US tension back in focus
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China's military build-up has come
under renewed U.S. criticism, raising tensions before Chinese
President Hu Jintao's inaugural trip to Washington next month. |
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Yahoo News |
11:14pm PST |
Bush Urges U.S. to See Progress in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After three years of war in Iraq, President Bush is trying to get Americans to look beyond the unrelenting violence that dominates news reports and see progress. |
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Yahoo News |
11:11pm PST |
Tropical cyclone hits northeastern Australia
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A powerful cyclone ripped roofs of
houses and uprooted trees near the tropical city of Cairns in
Australia's far northeast on Monday, with winds of up to 290
kph (180 mph) devastating local communities and crops. |
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Cnn.com |
11:02pm PST |
Three years on, debate over Iraq strong as ever |
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Summary: On the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, officials from the war-torn nation and the United States differed on whether there is all-out civil war there. |
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Cnn.com |
11:02pm PST |
Debate over Iraq rages on |
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Summary: As the war in Iraq enters a fourth year, officials from the conflict-torn nation and the United States differ on whether there is all-out civil war there. The Bush administration says Iraq is not in a civil war, but former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says |
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Cnn.com |
11:02pm PST |
3 years after invasion, war and debate on war rage on |
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Summary: Three years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, bodies of civilians turn up daily; at least 2,314 U.S. military personnel have died; elections have been held, but a government hasn't been formed; and officials from Iraq and the United States are debatin |
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BBC News |
10:54pm PST |
Dogs shot after attacking woman |
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Summary: Police shoot two pit-bull terriers after they attack a woman and her dog in west Belfast. |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PST |
Total Welsh NHS debt 'tops £70m' |
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Summary: As ministers promise to crack down on Welsh NHS "deficit culture," total debt is put at £71m. |
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Cnn.com |
10:49pm PST |
Massive cyclone hits Australia |
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Summary: Tropical Cyclone Larry slammed into the northeastern coast of Australia today, causing widespread power outages and injuring around a dozen people. The cyclone roared ashore as a Category Five storm -- the strongest rating possible. Top sustained winds at |
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Yahoo News |
10:42pm PST |
Testimony in Moussaoui's Trial to Resume
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After an extraordinary week in which confessed al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's death-penalty trial was sidetracked to plumb the depths of a government lawyer's misdeeds, the jury is returning to hear evidence by the FBI agent who ar |
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Yahoo News |
10:34pm PST |
Raging cyclone brings fear to Australian coast
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The howling winds, pounding seas and lashing rain made even Australia's legendary tough men quake as Cyclone Larry hit the coast in the country's tropical northeast. |
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Yahoo News |
10:30pm PST |
Iraq risks civil war three years after invasion
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iraq marks the third anniversary of the US-led invasion Monday deadlocked over its next national government, plagued by rampant lawlessness and faced with the threat of civil war. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28pm PST |
New Hamas cabinet, Belarus poll to top EU agenda
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - European foreign ministers were due to hold talks dominated by concern over the new Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet and President Alexander Lukashenko's sweeping return to power in Belarus. |
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Theophiles |
10:25pm PST |
Did Pope John Paul cure nun of Parkinson's? |
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Summary: From cnn.com:Last year, Monsignor Slawomir Oder opened one of the many letters he receives from people who think Pope John Paul should be declared a saint. He felt a strange sensation. This letter was different. In it, a French nun said she had been suf |
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Cnn.com |
10:09pm PST |
Opposition protests Belarus vote |
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Summary: Opposition supporters filled the central square of Belarus' capital Minsk late Sunday after election results showed longtime President Alexander Lukashenko winning re-election by an overwhelming margin. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03pm PST |
Crunch time for opposition as Belarus leader cruises to victory
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko cruised to a crushing election victory as opponents vowed to continue protests against a vote they said had been rigged and the West prepared to give its own critical assessment. |
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BBC News |
10:00pm PST |
Secret party loans to be banned |
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Summary: The Lord Chancellor is planning to make it illegal for political parties to keep loans undisclosed, the BBC learns. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49pm PST |
Super cyclone hits northeastern Australia
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A super cyclone smashed into tropical northeastern Australia, with winds of up to 290 kilometres an hour (180 mph) causing casualties and ripping homes apart, officials said. |
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BBC News |
9:26pm PST |
Teaching of reading to be revised |
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Summary: Ministers are to change the national curriculum to alter the way children in England's schools are taught to read. |
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Yahoo News |
9:25pm PST |
Church Fire Suspects Decline to Post Bond
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Three college students accused in a string of rural Alabama church fires will not seek release on bond on the federal charges, their attorneys said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:23pm PST |
Tropical Cyclone Hits Northeast Australia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A powerful tropical cyclone ripped the roofs off buildings and uprooted trees in northeastern Australia, tearing across the region on Monday with devastating winds that pinned emergency workers inside despite pleas from terrified residents. |
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Yahoo News |
9:20pm PST |
Thousands Around Globe Call for End of War
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The third anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq drew tens of thousands of protesters around the globe, from Portland to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana to Australia, with chants of "Stop the War" and calls for the withdrawal of troops. |
