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Yahoo News |
3:57am PST |
NATO chief rejects U.S. concern over Afghan combat
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Summary: Reuters - NATO's top official rejected on
Thursday U.S. concern that some member countries were not
pulling their weight in the fighting in Afghanistan. |
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Cnn.com |
3:50am PST |
Ex-ABC reporter McWethy dies in ski accident |
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3:49am PST |
Murder charges for Kenya police |
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Summary: A Kenyan policeman is to be charged with murder over the death of two opposition protesters, police say. |
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3:46am PST |
U.S. bans 10 over violence in Kenya
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States has imposed travel
bans on 10 Kenyans suspected of being behind ethnic violence
that has convulsed the country since President Mwai Kibaki's
disputed re-election, officials said on Thursday. |
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3:42am PST |
Australia releases whaling photos |
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Summary: Australia releases "distressing" pictures of whales harpooned by a Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean. |
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3:39am PST |
Suffolk defendant gives evidence |
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Summary: A man accused of murdering five women in 2006 in Suffolk begins giving evidence at his trial. |
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Cnn.com |
3:33am PST |
Angelina Jolie in Iraq: Refugees need help |
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Summary: Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is visiting Iraq to boost what she sees as lagging efforts to deal with the problems of 2 million "very very vulnerable" internally displaced people in the wartorn country.
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3:32am PST |
Egypt warns Palestinians not to breach Gaza border
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Egypt has warned Palestinians against
trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two
weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led
blockade. |
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BBC News |
3:30am PST |
Prisoners received student grants |
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Summary: Ministers have closed a loophole which allowed inmates to receive student maintenance grants. |
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3:30am PST |
Rice visits former Taliban stronghold
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband flew to the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday for a firsthand look at the front lines of the NATO-led fight against Afghan insurg |
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Cnn.com |
3:26am PST |
Clinton loans $5 million to her campaign |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton dipped into her own finances ahead of this week's Super Tuesday contests, lending her Democratic presidential campaign $5 million in late January, she disclosed Wednesday.
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3:24am PST |
Iraq's Sadr tells militia to keep observing freeze
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has
ordered his Mehdi Army militia to maintain its six-month
ceasefire, Sadr's spokesman said on Thursday, while his
militiamen clashed with Iraqi and U.S. soldiers. |
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3:22am PST |
Rice, Miliband travel to heart of Taliban insurgency
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband travelled to the heart of the Taliban insurgency during a surprise trip to Afghanistan on Thursday. |
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3:18am PST |
Chad to pardon French kidnappers |
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Summary: The release of French aid workers jailed for kidnapping appears imminent after Chad says it will pardon them. |
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3:17am PST |
OSCE to boycott Russian election |
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Summary: Europe's main election watchdog says it will boycott Russia's presidential election on 2 March. |
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3:16am PST |
Fate of rebate checks in limbo |
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3:15am PST |
Chad's Deby urges EU force to take up positions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chad's President Idriss Deby urged the
European Union on Thursday to send a peacekeeping force to his
country as quickly as possible. |
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3:14am PST |
Families die together on night of twisters |
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3:14am PST |
E.On joins rush to raise prices |
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Summary: E.On becomes the latest of the big energy firms to increase prices of gas and electricity. |
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2007 a tough year for Chinese Christians report |
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Summary: The persecution of Christians in China worsened in 2007 according to a new report from China Aid Association |
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3:10am PST |
Armed forces are given pay rise |
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Summary: Pay for members of the armed forces will rise by 2.6% from April, the Defence Secretary has announced. |
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3:09am PST |
Arroyo orders inquiry into Philippine kickbacks row
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo ordered an inquiry on Thursday into allegations of
government kickbacks in a deal with China's ZTE Corp, in which
her husband's name has figured. |
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3:07am PST |
Iraq's returnees crave a future free of bloodshed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - When Abu Mutaz returned to Baghdad
after fleeing Iraq's sectarian violence for Syria, he found it
unrecognizable from the battlefield he had left behind. |
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3:05am PST |
Tories proposing Lottery reforms |
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Summary: The Tories say they want to free the National Lottery from political control and spend £182m more on good causes. |
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2:49am PST |
Secret talks led to Pakistan cease-fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two Pakistani officials said Thursday that their government held secret talks with Taliban fighters and tribal elders near the Afghan border before a cease-fire just announced by the militants. |
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2:49am PST |
Spears' parents: daughter 'at risk'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Why was she released? |
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2:40am PST |
Bhutto wake held amid Pakistan election campaign
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The husband of
murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto used the
climax of a 40-day Muslim mourning period to vow that he would
risk assassination to win a posthumous election victory for his
late wife. |
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2:39am PST |
Pakistani militants 'call truce' |
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Summary: A leading militant group in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan announces a truce, officials say. |
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2:36am PST |
Israel kills seven in new strikes on Gaza gunmen
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Summary: AFP - Six Palestinian fighters and a teacher were killed in Israeli raids on Gaza on Thursday, the latest deadly strikes on the Hamas-run territory since a suicide bombing in Israel earlier this week. |
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2:35am PST |
Southern towns ripped by twisters mourn
(AP)
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Summary: AP - County Mayor Shelvy Linville could only shake his head at the horrific toll left by a deadly series of tornadoes that pounded across the South. |
