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Yahoo News |
11:59pm PDT |
Japan orders navy ships home from Afghan mission
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japan ordered its naval ships to withdraw
from a mission backing U.S.-led military operations in
Afghanistan as a deadline to extend the activities was set to
expire on Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
11:54pm PDT |
Noose incidents: Foolish pranks or pure hate? |
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Summary: The media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, Louisiana, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately, spurring anger and a big question. Do all the incidents of hanging nooses belie an ugly truth about U.S. race rela |
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Yahoo News |
11:47pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Noel death toll mounts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two rivers burst their banks and
swept away a Dominican Republic village, taking the death toll
from Tropical Storm Noel's downpours on the Caribbean country
and neighboring Haiti above 90 on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
11:43pm PDT |
Oil price rise continues to $96 |
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Summary: Oil prices continue their unremitting climb, passing $96 a barrel after figures showed a surprise fall in US reserves. |
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Yahoo News |
11:40pm PDT |
Villagers flee as troops surround Taliban
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks Wednesday and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants outside Afghanistan's second-largest city. U.S., Canadian and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded. |
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Yahoo News |
11:36pm PDT |
8 Air Force employees killed in Pakistan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a Pakistan Air Force bus on Thursday, killing at least eight men and wounding about 40, the latest in a wave of attacks against the military, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:32pm PDT |
Troops surround Taliban, villagers flee
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks Wednesday and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants outside Afghanistan's second-largest city. U.S., Canadian and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PDT |
Man found shot dead in bedroom |
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Summary: Police in Merseyside are treating the fatal shooting of a 56-year-old man as murder. |
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Yahoo News |
11:27pm PDT |
Spacewalk canceled, torn wing new focus
(AP)
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Summary: AP - NASA canceled Thursday's spacewalk to inspect a snarled joint for a set of solar panels and instead instructed its orbiting astronauts to go out a day later to try to fix a torn solar wing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:18pm PDT |
Fire charges considered against Ca. boy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors will review the evidence before deciding whether to charge a boy whose play with matches started a blaze that ripped through nearly 60 square miles and destroyed 21 homes, authorities said Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:18pm PDT |
US confident on North Korea nuclear disablement
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United States expects the historic disablement of North Korea's nuclear facilities to go smoothly, a US envoy said Thursday, as inspectors prepared to fly to the Stalinist state to oversee the process. |
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BBC News |
10:27pm PDT |
'Leniency' fury of Madrid victims |
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Summary: Victims of the Madrid train bombs are angry at what they see as the court's lenient treatment of some accused. |
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BBC News |
10:27pm PDT |
Madrid victims attack 'leniency' |
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Summary: Victims of the Madrid train bombs are angry at what they see as the court's lenient treatment of some accused. |
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Yahoo News |
10:21pm PDT |
47 million Americans lack health insurance: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The number of Americans lacking health
insurance rose by nearly 8.6 million to 47 million from 2000 to
2006, with children and workers from every income level losing
coverage, a new report said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:17pm PDT |
Hollywood studios and writers hit stalemate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - With hours to go before their
contract was set to expire, Hollywood screenwriters and studios
deadlocked on Wednesday in talks aimed at averting the first
major strike against the film and TV industry in 20 years. |
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BBC News |
9:32pm PDT |
Inquiry into refinery fire begins |
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Summary: Safety experts will start an investigation into the cause of a blaze at a major oil refinery in Essex. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22pm PDT |
47 mln Americans lack health insurance: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The number of Americans lacking health
insurance rose by nearly 8.6 million to 47 million from 2000 to
2006, with children and workers from every income level losing
coverage, a new report said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:22pm PDT |
Mynanmar monks march again, UN envoy due
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The UN said its envoy to Myanmar will go there for weekend talks with the ruling generals, after monks took to the streets Wednesday for the first time since a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PDT |
Ex-MI6 boss attacks Iraq policy |
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Summary: Government policy was too dependent on intelligence in the run up to war with Iraq, Sir Richard Dearlove says. |
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BBC News |
8:57pm PDT |
Talks fail to end Hollywood row |
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Summary: Talks between Hollywood writers and studios fail to resolve a contract dispute that could lead to a writers' strike. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PDT |
Mavs shut down LeBron to rout Cavaliers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Dallas Mavericks began anew. LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers wish they could start over. Jason Terry scored 24 points, Dirk Nowitzki added 15 and the Mavericks, whose NBA title pursuit last season ended with a stunning first-round exit a |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PDT |
Japan to withdraw ships supporting US-led forces in Afghanistan
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Japan will Thursday order its ships supporting US-led forces in Afghanistan to return home after failing to strike a deal on extending its mission, chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:06pm PDT |
Papers show Churchill's Cabinet battles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Winston Churchill had bitter disputes with his Cabinet during the Cold War about building the hydrogen bomb and conducting private diplomacy with the Soviet Union — even threatening to resign at one point, declassified documents showed Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:05pm PDT |
'Dog' Chapman sorry for using N-word
(AP)
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Summary: AP - TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman on Wednesday apologized for using the N-word repeatedly in a profanity-laced tirade during a private phone conversation with his son that was recorded and posted online. |
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BBC News |
7:48pm PDT |
US anti-gay church to pay £5.5m |
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Summary: A US church which cheered the death of a soldier as retribution for America's sins, must pay $10.9m in damages. |
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Cnn.com |
7:40pm PDT |
Police: Man beaten to death for watering lawn |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
7:34pm PDT |
Japan to order navy ships home from Afghan mission
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japanese ships will be ordered to
withdraw from a mission backing U.S.-led military operations in
Afghanistan, Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday
as a midnight deadline to extend the mission was set to expire. |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Biofuel rush harmful says Oxfam |
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Summary: The rush to cash in on EU biofuel demands could destroy the livelihoods of farmers in developing countries, the charity says. |
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Theophiles |
7:26pm PDT |
Father of slain Marine wins case against funeral protesters |
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Summary: Albert Snyder of York, Pa., the father of a Westminster Marine who was killed in Iraq, today won his case in a Baltimore federal court against members of Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church who protested at his son's funeral last year.
The jury of |
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Yahoo News |
7:19pm PDT |
Tropical storm death toll rises to 81
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 81 on Wednesday and forcing some parents to choose which of their children to save from the surging waters. |
