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BBC News |
11:52pm PDT |
Pakistan army strikes tribal area |
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Summary: Pakistani troops and helicopter gunships attack a militant hideout in North Waziristan, the army says. |
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BBC News |
11:41pm PDT |
Rain dampens retail sales |
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Summary: The weather hit retail sales last month, figures show, with monthly growth at its lowest level for eight months. |
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BBC News |
11:37pm PDT |
South Asia flood death toll rises |
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Summary: The death toll from South Asia's floods rises to more than 360, as aid workers battle to help the millions stranded. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PDT |
Bonds homerless in Giants win over Nats
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Randy Winn hit a bases-loaded single with one out in the 11th inning Monday to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Nationals on a night Barry Bonds failed to hit his record 756th home run. |
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Yahoo News |
11:27pm PDT |
Iraqi political crisis worsens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings — leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions. |
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Cnn.com |
11:27pm PDT |
Georgia: Russia dropped bomb on village |
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BBC News |
11:23pm PDT |
Microsoft $1.5bn fine dropped |
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Summary: A US court overturns a decision ordering Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn for patent infringements. |
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Yahoo News |
11:23pm PDT |
Georgia says jets from Russia mount missile attack
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Georgia said on Tuesday
that jets flown from Russia fired a missile on its territory,
narrowly missing hitting a village, but Russia's military
denied any involvement. |
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BBC News |
10:52pm PDT |
Georgia in Russian attack claim |
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Summary: Georgia accuses Russia of an "act of aggression", after Tbilisi claims a missile was fired at its territory. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Aer Lingus flights boost for NI |
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Summary: Aer Lingus is to fly to at least eight European cities from its new hub at Belfast International Airport. |
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Yahoo News |
10:43pm PDT |
Bonds stays put at 755
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds had the perfect stage. Only one thing was missing Monday night: the home run he needed to break Hank Aaron's record. |
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BBC News |
10:41pm PDT |
999 modernisation 'needs backing' |
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Summary: Politicians and staff are urged to continue to support change in the Welsh Ambulance Service. |
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Yahoo News |
10:25pm PDT |
SKorea pushes on hostages as Bush, Karzai rule out deal
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - South Korea pressed Tuesday for its own direct talks with the Taliban extremists holding 21 aid workers in Afghanistan, even as the US and Afghan presidents insisted there must be no kind of deal. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24pm PDT |
U.S. border cop charged with murdering Mexican
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. Border Patrol agent must
stand trial for murder in the shooting of a Mexican man trying
to enter the United States, an Arizona judge ruled Monday in a
case that drew criticism from Mexico. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03pm PDT |
Clinton extending lead over Obama: poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
has significantly widened her lead over Illinois Sen. Barack
Obama in the Democratic presidential contest after a dispute
over foreign policy, a new poll showed on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:50pm PDT |
Georgia says it was bombed by Russian jets
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Jets flown from Russia
fired an air-to-surface missile at Georgian territory in an
"act of aggression," Georgian Interior Minister Vano
Merabishvili told Reuters on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:46pm PDT |
CORRECTED: Six coal miners trapped in Utah mine collapse
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Six miners were trapped in the
collapse of a coal mine in central Utah on Monday and experts
said initial reports of an earthquake might have been the
rumbling from the mine's cave-in. |
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BBC News |
9:29pm PDT |
Foot-and-mouth test results due |
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Summary: Test results are due to establish if there has been a second case of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey. |
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BBC News |
8:50pm PDT |
Battle for S Asian flood victims |
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Summary: Aid agencies battle to supply food and water to the millions affected by South Asia's deadly flooding. |
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BBC News |
8:29pm PDT |
Donor condemns Tory leader |
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Summary: Sir Tom Cowie, a major donor to the Tories, accuses David Cameron of being an "arrogant, old Etonian". |
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Theophiles |
8:26pm PDT |
Moral communities help prevent teen sex |
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Summary: From the Detroit News:One gleeful headline on an Internet site recently read: "Evangelical Girls Are Easy." That is not the way I remember it.When the statistics on teen sexuality are controlled for social and economic factors, conservative Protestant tee |
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BBC News |
8:19pm PDT |
'Blood clue' in Madeleine inquiry |
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Summary: Tests are being carried out on suspected traces of blood found in Madeleine McCann's apartment, the BBC learns. |
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BBC News |
8:11pm PDT |
Japan chooses upper house leader |
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Summary: A opposition party lawmaker becomes president of Japan's upper house of parliament for the first time ever. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08pm PDT |
Police: 2 shot during Ky. bank robbery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two young men held up a bank Monday just after it opened and shot two employees before fleeing, police said. |
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BBC News |
8:03pm PDT |
Ivory Coast leader promises poll |
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Summary: Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo says twice postponed elections can be held by the end of this year. |
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Yahoo News |
7:31pm PDT |
Efforts to reach 6 Utah miners failing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of rescuers struggled with falling rock and debris Monday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in so powerful authorities initially thought it was an earthquake. |
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Cnn.com |
7:25pm PDT |
Flight attendant accused of drinking |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:15pm PDT |
'Gaps' in arms exports controls |
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Summary: Laws controlling arms exports are not being enforced strictly enough, says a committee of MPs. |
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Cnn.com |
7:11pm PDT |
Democratic candidates clash on lobbyist cash |
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Summary: Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton is being taken to task by her two closest rivals for accepting $400,000 in campaign contributions from Washington lobbyists.
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Cnn.com |
7:11pm PDT |
Dem candidates clash on lobbyist cash |
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Summary: Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton is being taken to task by her two closest rivals for accepting $400,000 in campaign contributions from Washington lobbyists.
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