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Cnn.com |
11:52pm PDT |
GOP backs away from felony immigration provision |
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Summary: The top Republicans in both the House and Senate indicate that they don't support language in an immigration reform bill that would make entering the country illegally a felony -- a proposal that has sparked a wave of pro-immigrant rallies. |
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Cnn.com |
11:52pm PDT |
GOP may drop felony immigration provision |
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Summary: The top Republicans in both the House and Senate indicate that they don't support language in an immigration reform bill that would make entering the country illegally a felony -- a proposal that has sparked a wave of pro-immigrant rallies. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
NI firm begins collapse inquiry |
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Summary: A County Tyrone firm begins an inquiry into how scaffolding collapsed at one of its building sites in England. |
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BBC News |
11:47pm PDT |
Eurotunnel warns over its future |
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Summary: Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel warns that its future survival is dependent upon restructuring its debts. |
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BBC News |
11:42pm PDT |
Prostate cancer cholesterol link |
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Summary: Scientists have produced evidence linking high cholesterol levels to a raised risk of prostate cancer. |
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Cnn.com |
11:41pm PDT |
U.S. hits Iran's nuclear 'defiance' |
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Summary: The United States has condemned Iran's announcement it has successfully enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, saying "once again they have chosen the pathway of defiance." |
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Yahoo News |
11:37pm PDT |
Skilling Denies Leading Enron Conspiracy
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Summary: AP - Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling says partnerships once run by the company's finance chief were helpful risk management tools that benefited shareholders rather than sinister devices to manipulate earnings. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
Howard faces Iraq probe grilling |
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Summary: Australian PM John Howard is summoned to testify in person at an inquiry into alleged corruption over Iraq. |
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BBC News |
11:14pm PDT |
Blair seeking to calm NHS fears |
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Summary: Tony Blair will meet local health bosses to discuss the growing unrest in the NHS amid spiralling job cuts. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12pm PDT |
Fire, pain, loss at September 11 death trial
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Prosecutors laid out gruesome evidence and tales of heartbreak, as they metaphorically led jurors into the skin-melting flames of the Pentagon, and aboard a hijacked jet on September 11, 2001. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01pm PDT |
Iran Insists Energy Program Is Peaceful
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iran's hard-line president said Tuesday that the country "has joined the club of nuclear countries" by successfully enriching uranium for the first time — a key process in what Iran maintains is a peaceful energy program. |
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Yahoo News |
10:57pm PDT |
Saddam trial to resume as process inches forward
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity resumes with the sometimes chaotic process at a crucial juncture as it starts to move forward. |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PDT |
Auditor's warning on NHS finances |
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Summary: The NHS in Wales is facing mounting financial problems, according to a report by the auditor general. |
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BBC News |
10:45pm PDT |
Jury back to consider murder case |
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Summary: The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering a Strabane woman is to return to try to reach a verdict. |
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Yahoo News |
10:41pm PDT |
US shelved evidence discounting Iraq's WMD: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Bush administration publicly
asserted that two trailers captured by U.S. troops in Iraq in
May 2003 were mobile "biological laboratories" even after U.S.
intelligence officials had evidence that it was not true, The
Washington |
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BBC News |
10:33pm PDT |
Pakistan probes 'double' bombing |
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Summary: Police in Pakistan investigate a suspected double suicide blast that killed at least 57 people at a religious festival. |
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BBC News |
10:33pm PDT |
Pakistan probes deadly bombings |
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Summary: Police in Pakistan investigate a suspected double suicide blast that killed at least 57 people at a religious festival. |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PDT |
China makes US trade concessions |
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Summary: China makes a number of trade concessions to the US ahead of President Hu Jintao's visit next week. |
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BBC News |
10:00pm PDT |
Blair seeking to calm NHS crisis |
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Summary: Tony Blair will meet local health bosses to discuss the growing financial crisis in the NHS amid spiralling job cuts. |
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BBC News |
9:46pm PDT |
Mexicans seize huge cocaine haul |
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Summary: Mexican officials seize five-and-a-half tonnes of cocaine from an aircraft, with a street value of $100m. |
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BBC News |
9:41pm PDT |
Harry to pass out from Sandhurst |
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Summary: Prince Harry is graduating from Sandhurst as a commissioned officer in the Army. |
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9:16pm PDT |
Missing Briton's body found in NZ |
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Summary: The body of a missing British hiker is discovered in the New Zealand bush by a search team. |
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8:58pm PDT |
Karachi tense as blast toll rises
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The death toll from a suicide bomb
attack on a Sunni Muslim prayer meeting rose on Wednesday to 57
in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, where officials said
they were on high alert for more violence. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48pm PDT |
Top officer defends Rumsfeld
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The top U.S. military officer on
Tuesday defended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld against
three retired generals demanding his ouster, and denied that
the United States invaded Iraq without sufficiently weighing
its plan. |
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BBC News |
8:46pm PDT |
Ministers quizzed on RAF flights |
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Summary: Ministers are urged to explain why they took hundreds of journeys on
the Queen's Flight. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PDT |
Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 57
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two suicide attackers detonated a bomb during an outdoor Sunni Muslim prayer service Tuesday, killing at least 55 people and wounding dozens. In the mayhem that followed, angry mobs torched cars and hurled rocks at police, who fired warning shots in |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PDT |
Inquiry into scaffold collapse |
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Summary: Three workers are in hospital, two with serious injuries, after scaffolding collapses at a hotel construction site. |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PDT |
Inquiry into scaffolding collapse |
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Summary: Three workers are in hospital, two with serious injuries, after scaffolding collapses at a hotel construction site. |
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BBC News |
8:33pm PDT |
Venezuela marks coup anniversary |
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Summary: Venezuelans commemorate the fourth anniversary of a failed military coup against President Hugo Chavez. |
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Cnn.com |
8:25pm PDT |
Felony immigration provision loses Republican support |
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Summary: The top Republicans in both the House and Senate indicated Tuesday they don't support language in an immigration reform bill that would make entering the country illegally a felony -- a proposal that has drawn the ire of pro-immigrant groups that have sta |
