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Yahoo News |
5:16am PST |
Hundreds rally in Okinawa over U.S. rape suspect
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Summary: Reuters - About 300 women gathered on Japan's
southern island of Okinawa on Tuesday to protest the suspected
rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a U.S. Marine, calling for
U.S. troops to leave, media reported. |
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BBC News |
5:14am PST |
Football: Sports claim bet cash |
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Summary: Sporting bodies are to put their case to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee to share profits from betting. |
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BBC News |
5:12am PST |
Another body found in Bridgend |
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Summary: A teenage girl's body is found, ahead of a police briefing on suspected suicides in the Bridgend area. |
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BBC News |
5:10am PST |
Quinn family still wants justice |
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Summary: The father of Paul Quinn says he is convinced his son's murderers will be brought to justice. |
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Cnn.com |
5:10am PST |
Bush: Castro leaving should spark democracy |
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Summary: Cuban leader Fidel Castro's decision to step down should spark "a democratic transition" for the communist island nation, President Bush said Tuesday.
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ChristianToday |
5:00am PST |
Elite China thinktank issues political reform blueprint |
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Summary: China risks dangerous instability unless it embraces democratic reforms to limit the power of the ruling Communist Party foster competitive voting and rein in censors the Partys top thinktank has warned in a new report |
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BBC News |
5:00am PST |
Sex with dead model 'was wrong' |
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Summary: The man accused of murdering a teenage model says he regrets having sex with her body, a court hears. |
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ChristianToday |
4:55am PST |
Oasis launches next generation gap year |
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Summary: Threesixty the new volunteering opportunity from Oasis launches this week and signals the beginning of a new kind of volunteering experience for 1825 year olds |
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BBC News |
4:43am PST |
Tighter rules for TV competitions |
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Summary: New rules to protect viewers who take part in phone votes and contests are introduced after a string of scandals. |
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Yahoo News |
4:43am PST |
Amtrak will screen passengers' bags
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers' carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains. |
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ChristianToday |
4:41am PST |
Russia Patriarch sees no imminent ties with Rome |
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Summary: The leader of Russias powerful Orthodox Church played down hopes of an imminent reconciliation with Rome in an interview on Monday saying Catholic missionary activity in Russia prevented the churches from restoring ties |
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Cnn.com |
4:35am PST |
Who are the superdelegates? |
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Summary: Democrats say they have a "dream team" of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama but they might be looking at a nightmare if superdelegates have to determine which one will be at the top of the ticket.
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Yahoo News |
4:34am PST |
NATO steps in as Serbs torch Kosovo border post
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - NATO peacekeepers in newly independent
Kosovo intervened on Tuesday as Serb mobs opposed to its
secession attacked border posts and police fled. |
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Cnn.com |
4:27am PST |
Stolen art masterpieces recovered |
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Summary: Police in Switzerland have recovered artworks stolen earlier this month in a daring heist at a Zurich museum, Geneva police said Tuesday.
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ChristianToday |
4:23am PST |
EUbacked Chad process dead in the water says CAFOD |
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Summary: Chad political process dead in the water warns leading Catholic aid agency CAFOD |
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BBC News |
4:21am PST |
BBC TV shows put on iTunes |
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Summary: Life on Mars, Spooks and other BBC shows are made available to download from digital store iTunes. |
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BBC News |
4:21am PST |
Homeless man 'lived in airport' |
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Summary: A homeless chef who made Gatwick Airport his home for more than three years is remanded in custody. |
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Yahoo News |
4:21am PST |
Funerals for NIU victims draw crowds
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dozens waited in near-zero temperatures, some clutching flowers and cards, to pay their respects to Dan Parmenter, one of five students killed by a gunman last week at Northern Illinois University. |
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Yahoo News |
4:18am PST |
Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday. |
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BBC News |
4:08am PST |
UK's democracy call after Castro |
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Summary: Cuban leader Fidel Castro's retirement is an opportunity to move towards democracy, Downing Street says. |
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3:51am PST |
Russia warns US over Kosovo move |
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Summary: Russia tells the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence threatens international stability. |
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3:44am PST |
Net news 'threatens court cases' |
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Summary: Articles relating to high-profile court cases should be removed from the net, the former Lord Chancellor says. |
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Cnn.com |
3:44am PST |
Bush tours Rwandan genocide memorial |
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Summary: President Bush walked somberly through a memorial where 250,000 Rwandans killed in the 1994 genocidal slaughter are buried, emerging to call it "a moving place that can't help but shake your emotions to the very foundation."
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BBC News |
3:27am PST |
Credit Suisse traders suspended |
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Summary: Credit Suisse suspends traders suspected of inflating the value of mortgage-backed bond investments. |
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Yahoo News |
3:27am PST |
Car bomb kills one in Afghanistan's Kandahar
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A remote-controlled car
bomb blast on Tuesday shook the southern Afghan city of
Kandahar, still reeling from attacks in the area which have
killed scores of people in the past two days. |
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BBC News |
3:25am PST |
Driver in court on attack charges |
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Summary: A London black cab driver appears in court accused of sex attacks on drugged female passengers. |
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Yahoo News |
3:20am PST |
Bush: Darfur crisis needs to end
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Speaking on soil once stained with the blood of Rwanda's genocide, President Bush called Tuesday on all nations to step up efforts to end "once and for all" the ethnic slaughter still continuing in Sudan's western Darfur region. |
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Yahoo News |
3:19am PST |
U.S. assures Muslim rebels on Philippine exercises
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. ambassador to the Philippines
met the leader of the country's largest Muslim rebel group on
Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions over U.S. soldiers
entering Muslim areas in the south. |
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ChristianToday |
3:19am PST |
Athlete to make appearance in Switchfoot US tour |
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Summary: UK indie band Athlete will make an appearance during Switchfoots upcoming tour of the South and Midwest US |
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BBC News |
3:11am PST |
US race moves to Wisconsin |
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Summary: Poll contests in Wisconsin, Hawaii and Washington state mark the next stage in the White House race. |
