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BBC News |
11:48pm PST |
Man in custody over double shooting |
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Summary: Armed police arrest a 41-year-old man in connection with a pub shooting in which two men died. |
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BBC News |
11:43pm PST |
Tories seek OK to reveal lenders |
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Summary: The Tories seek permission to publish names of people who have lent them money, amid the secret party loans row. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42pm PST |
Iran Urged to Clear Up Nuclear Suspicions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.N. Security Council gave Iran 30 days to clear up suspicions that it wants to become a nuclear power and key members are already discussing further action if Tehran refuses to suspend uranium enrichment and allow more intrusive inspections. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PST |
Iraq unrest drives out thousands |
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Summary: More than 30,000 Iraqis are displaced as a result of sectarian violence since the bombing of a Shia shrine. |
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BBC News |
11:36pm PST |
Iraq unrest displaces thousands |
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Summary: More than 30,000 Iraqis are displaced as a result of sectarian violence since the bombing of a Shia shrine. |
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BBC News |
11:26pm PST |
Taylor trial 'many months away' |
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Summary: Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor, facing war crimes charges in Sierra Leone, may not be tried for months. |
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BBC News |
11:24pm PST |
Boy held over superstore rape |
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Summary: A boy of 15 is arrested in connection with the rape of an 11-year-old girl in a Warwickshire supermarket toilet. |
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Yahoo News |
11:22pm PST |
Prosecutors Say Moussaoui Killed With Lies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors said al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui killed Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, by lying to federal agents weeks earlier to keep the plot secret. Defense attorneys called him an "al-Qaida hanger-on" who only dreamed he had a ro |
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BBC News |
11:12pm PST |
Nasdaq withdraws LSE takeover bid |
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Summary: The US Nasdaq Stock Market backs down from its proposed £2.4bn bid for the London Stock Exchange. |
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Crosswalk |
11:10pm PST |
Halfway Pregnant |
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Summary: How thirty years of illegal immigration forces Mom and Pop America to grudgingly carry this child to term...plus latest info on the GLBT Day of Silence... |
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Yahoo News |
11:09pm PST |
Jury deliberates in Moussaoui death penalty trial
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A US jury launched deliberations in Zacarias Moussaoui's death penalty trial, after prosecutors charged September 11 victims died because of his lies, and the defense mocked him as a "nuisance" rejected by Al-Qaeda. |
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Yahoo News |
11:09pm PST |
World powers meet in Berlin to discuss Iran crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Six world powers gather in Berlin on
Thursday to discuss the next steps in dealing with Iran's
nuclear program, with Russia and China looking for assurances
that there are no plans to use force against Tehran. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01pm PST |
Top powers to display united front on Iran after UN breakthrough
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Foreign ministers of the world's most powerful countries were gathered in Berlin to demonstrate a united front over Iran's disputed nuclear program after a breakthrough deal at the UN. |
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BBC News |
10:57pm PST |
Woman dies after fire at hospital |
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Summary: A police investigation is under way after a patient died following a suspicious fire in a hospital ward. |
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BBC News |
10:36pm PST |
Football: Fifa call over diving |
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Summary: The Football Association is in talks with Fifa over using video evidence to punish players who dive. |
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BBC News |
10:24pm PST |
Ottakar's deal gets green light |
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Summary: The Competition Commission gives provisional backing to the takeover of bookshop chain Ottakar's by HMV. |
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BBC News |
10:19pm PST |
First Brazilian goes into space |
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Summary: Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space after a successful launch aboard a Russian rocket. |
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Cnn.com |
9:49pm PST |
U.N. gives Iran 30 days |
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Summary: The U.N. Security Council has unanimously called on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment activities within 30 days and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Iran's U.N. envoy responded that Iran had an "inalienabl |
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Yahoo News |
9:29pm PST |
Americans at "tipping point" about energy-poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Americans are nearly as worried
about their country's dependence on foreign energy sources as
they are about the war in Iraq, a poll released by the magazine
Foreign Affairs showed on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:27pm PST |
Mitchell May Head Steroids Investigation
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Major League Baseball will investigate alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds and other players, and plans to hire former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to lead the effort. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21pm PST |
Bush to earn Mexican backing in immigration fight
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Facing a tough battle to push
immigration reform through U.S. Congress, President George W.
Bush was likely to win support from President Vicente Fox at
talks on Mexico's Caribbean coast on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
8:57pm PST |
Crunch talks on Iran nuclear plan |
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Summary: Condoleezza Rice will join five other key foreign ministers in Berlin to discuss a strategy on Iran's nuclear plans. |
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Crosswalk |
8:40pm PST |
HOW MUCH DO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COST? THE BILLION $$ QUESTION |
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Summary: Did you see this anywhere? I still haven't - outside the MuscleHead Revolution that is. Long story short, they did the math in Colorado and for the calendar year of 2006 the cost to supply all related state services to the illegal population in that state |
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Crosswalk |
8:40pm PST |
LAZY MINDS PRODUCE FOUL MOUTHS |
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Summary: My grandfather always used to tell me that the only reason people used profanity was because a lack of their own vocabulary. If he was right - then we are a nation that knows very few words - and most of them I can't put here... |
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Crosswalk |
8:40pm PST |
When bad friends happen to good people |
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Summary: Yesterday I passed along some tips on how to be a good buddy when a friend is going through a deep trial. Steve is a committed reader of these ramblings (and for that perhaps he should be committed). He complimented me on being a quick study on this issue |
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Crosswalk |
8:40pm PST |
HILLARYWATCH 2006 |
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Summary: Where she went, who she saw, and what she did... |
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Crosswalk |
8:40pm PST |
POLLS: PUBLIC CONCERNED TO VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ILLEGALS |
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Summary: Three different polls all out confirming what I knew to be the case all along. Americans are worried about the security of our borders and the riots from last weekend didn't do much to ease their worries. |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PST |
Sri Lanka votes in local polls |
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Summary: Polling begins in local elections in Sri Lanka observers say will have a bearing on the peace process. |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PST |
Sri Lanka votes in local polls |
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Summary: Polling begins in local elections in Sri Lanka observers say will have a bearing on the peace process. |
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BBC News |
8:27pm PST |
Tories seek lenders' permission |
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Summary: The Tories seek permission to publish names of people who have lent them money, amid the secret party loans row. |
