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11:59am PST |
UN hints at Iraq refugee returns |
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Summary: A top UN official hints that security may improve enough soon for 4m displaced Iraqis to begin returning. |
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Yahoo News |
11:57am PST |
Pakistan votes; fears violence, rigging
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Summary: AP - Eight weeks after Benazir Bhutto was slain, Pakistan is holding elections that could shepherd a troubled nation into a new era of civilian rule and gird it against the Islamic extremists suspected of her killing. |
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Yahoo News |
11:43am PST |
In Kosovo, it's 'Independence Eve'
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Summary: AP - Tiny Kosovo — poor, mostly Muslim but feverishly pro-Western — braced itself Saturday for a historic declaration of independence from Serbia, a decade after a war that killed 10,000 people and years of limbo under U.N. rule. |
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BBC News |
11:38am PST |
Machines 'to match man by 2029' |
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Summary: Machines will achieve human level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor predicts. |
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11:13am PST |
The Elite Squad wins Golden Bear |
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Summary: The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police in Brazil, wins the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival. |
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11:11am PST |
FA Cup: Man U thrash Arsenal |
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Summary: Man Utd outclass Arsenal at Old Trafford to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals. |
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ChristianPost |
10:49am PST |
In Africa, Bush Makes Case for US Aid |
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Summary: President Bush is betting Congress will hear him better from the heart of Africa than it does from down the street in ... |
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Yahoo News |
10:36am PST |
Suicide attacks kill 39 as Pakistan vote campaign ends
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Summary: AFP - A suicide car bomber struck a rally by slain Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto's party Saturday, killing 37 people and increasing security fears with just two days to go until elections. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33am PST |
Pakistan fears violence on eve of vote
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Eight weeks after Benazir Bhutto was slain, Pakistan is holding elections that could shepherd a troubled nation into a new era of civilian rule and gird it against the Islamic extremists suspected of her killing. |
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Yahoo News |
10:29am PST |
Barricades ready on Kosovo's flashpoint bridges
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - French troops prepared
concrete and razor-wire barriers on Saturday to separate Serbs
from Albanians in the Kosovo flashpoint of Mitrovica, less than
24 hours before the province proclaims independence. |
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ChristianPost |
10:20am PST |
Chuck Colson: Muslims are 'Better Theologians' than American Christians |
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Summary: Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship, says radical Muslims would make better theologians than most Christians in ... |
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BBC News |
10:15am PST |
Wheelchair-dump officer charged |
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Summary: A US sheriff's deputy who dumped a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair to search him is charged. |
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10:15am PST |
Wheelchair-dump deputy charged |
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Summary: A US sheriff's deputy who dumped a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair to search him is charged. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PST |
Football: Davey's 'fairytale' win |
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Summary: Barnsley boss Simon Davey is jubilant after Brian Howard's last-gasp winner gave his side a famous FA Cup fifth-round victory over Liverpool. |
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10:06am PST |
Power shift brings uncertainty to Russia
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Summary: AP - As Russia prepares for March 2 presidential elections, it enters an era of political uncertainty it hasn't seen since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago. |
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9:48am PST |
Russia says U.S. may use satellite blast as test
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Summary: Reuters - Russia's Defence Ministry said on
Saturday a U.S. plan to shoot down an ailing spy satellite
could be used as a cover to test a new space weapon. |
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Yahoo News |
9:46am PST |
Zednik released, returns to Florida
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik has left the hospital and returned to Florida less than a week after he was slashed in the throat by a teammate's skate. |
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BBC News |
9:41am PST |
Welsh Guards on standby for Kosovo |
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Summary: The UK places 600 Welsh Guards on standby to deploy to Kosovo as a quick reaction force. |
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Yahoo News |
9:39am PST |
In Africa, Bush makes case for US aid
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Summary: AP - President Bush is betting Congress will hear him better from the heart of Africa than it does from down the street in Washington. |
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DJ Chuang |
9:25am PST |
forming a Leadership Community for multi-site churches |
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Summary: The multi-site church revolution continues to flourish all over the country, and parts around the world too. I’m now involved in this too, as I’m working with a great team at Leadership Network to form a new Leadership Community for multi-sit |
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Yahoo News |
9:19am PST |
Obama hits back as Clinton heads to Wisconsin
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama hit back at rival
Hillary Clinton on Saturday before a Wisconsin showdown next
Tuesday in their Democratic presidential battle, as Clinton
headed to the state for the first time. |
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Cnn.com |
9:03am PST |
Space station crew: Fire away at satellite |
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8:56am PST |
Barnsley shatter Reds' Cup dreams |
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Summary: Barnsley send Liverpool crashing out of the FA Cup thanks to Brian Howard's injury-time winner. |
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8:56am PST |
Football: Barnsley KO Reds |
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Summary: Barnsley send Liverpool crashing out of the FA Cup thanks to Brian Howard's injury-time winner. |
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8:54am PST |
Minister may hold C. diff inquiry |
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Summary: Health Minister Michael McGimpsey says he is ready to hold a public inquiry into the C. diff outbreak. |
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BBC News |
8:46am PST |
Athletics: Bekele world record |
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Summary: Kenenisa Bekele eclipses Haile Gebrselassie's two-mile world record at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham. |
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Cnn.com |
8:45am PST |
Street race turns tragic; seven onlookers killed |
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ChristianPost |
8:42am PST |
Ex-Stripper Turned Preacher Film Stirs Controversy |
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Summary: A new documentary on a former stripper turned evangelist is stirring controversy within the Christian community between supporters of the film and those against the ex-stripper’s unorthodox way of ministering to sex ... |
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BBC News |
8:40am PST |
Seven killed at US drag car race |
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Summary: Seven people are killed as a car careens into a crowd at an illegal drag car race in the United States. |
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8:37am PST |
7 killed as car hits Md. drag-race crowd
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Summary: AP - A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring at least four, police said. |
