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8:40pm PST |
Ecuador: Raid ended hope of captives' release |
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Summary: Ecuador's president said Monday that a deal to release political prisoners -- including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before a Colombian raid into his country Saturday.
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Cnn.com |
8:40pm PST |
Ecuador: Raid ended hope of prisoners' release |
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Summary: Ecuador's president said Monday that a deal to release political prisoners -- including former Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt -- was nearly complete before a Colombian raid into his country Saturday.
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8:33pm PST |
TV 'is important to blind people' |
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Summary: Television plays a pivotal role for millions of people with sight problems, according to the RNIB charity. |
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8:25pm PST |
China's military budget up 17.6 percent in 2008: spokesman
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Summary: AFP - China's defence budget will rise 17.6 percent this year, a parliament spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the United States expressed concerns over the Asian nation's expanding military power. |
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8:02pm PST |
Bai Ling charged with petty theft
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Summary: AP - Maybe Bai Ling can plead a broken heart. The Chinese actress was charged Monday with petty theft for allegedly shoplifting a pack of batteries and two Star magazines at Los Angeles International Airport. |
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7:44pm PST |
Neighbours cut ties with Colombia |
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Summary: Venezuela and Ecuador take new diplomatic measures in response to a Colombian cross-border raid. |
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7:09pm PST |
6 dead, including 2 children, in Memphis
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Summary: AP - Authorities say the bodies of six people, including two children, were found at a Memphis home. |
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6:50pm PST |
Pentagon concern at China's rising military muscle
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Summary: AFP - An annual Pentagon report on China on Monday said Beijing's lack of transparency posed risks to stability, voicing concern over how it would use its expanding military power. |
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6:48pm PST |
Opera's di Stefano dies aged 86 |
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Summary: One of the greatest tenors of the 20th Century, Giuseppe di Stefano, dies at his home near Milan. |
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Cnn.com |
6:43pm PST |
Six shot dead in Memphis |
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Summary: Six people were killed, including two children, and another three children wounded in a shooting today in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said. Firefighters responding to a 911 call at a home at 6:11 p.m. found the bodies and the wounded children, authori |
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6:42pm PST |
One in five 'has mortgage fears' |
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Summary: A survey finds 19% of people fear missing mortgage repayments, prompting a £2m advertising campaign. |
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6:42pm PST |
One in five 'have mortgage fears' |
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Summary: A survey finds 19% of people fear missing mortgage repayments, prompting a £2m advertising campaign. |
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Yahoo News |
6:41pm PST |
UK enlisted astrologer to fight Hitler
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Summary: AP - Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler's unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, documents declassified Tuesday show. They soon regretted it. |
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6:39pm PST |
Spacecraft photographs Mars avalanche
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Summary: AP - A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
6:30pm PST |
Passenger: 'Jubilant moment' after close call |
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Summary: Battling blustery weather, a Lufthansa Airlines flight scraped its wing on the ground during a landing attempt in Hamburg, Germany over the weekend, an airline spokesman said Monday.
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Cnn.com |
6:18pm PST |
Police: Teens plotted killings for month |
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6:18pm PST |
Pig farmers rally in London |
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Summary: Hundreds of farmers are to hold a demonstration at Westminster to protest at the falling price of pork. |
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Cnn.com |
6:16pm PST |
Delegate game solves Dem 'what ifs' |
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6:14pm PST |
Rice urges Mid-East talks renewal |
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Summary: The US secretary of state calls on Palestinians to resume peace talks with Israel as she begins a Mid-East tour. |
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6:11pm PST |
Snowboarder falls 80ft to death |
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Summary: A snowboarder from Leeds dies when he falls 80ft down a crevasse in the French Alps, the Foreign Office says. |
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5:58pm PST |
Photo shows avalanche on Mars |
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5:45pm PST |
Newsreader Barnes in hospital |
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Summary: Former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes, who used to present the News at Ten bulletin, is seriously ill in hospital. |
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5:34pm PST |
Warnings over child snatch bids |
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Summary: Police warn parents and children in Birmingham after a man abducted a girl and tried to snatch another. |
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5:17pm PST |
Spacecraft spies avalanche on Mars
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:12pm PST |
Texas, Ohio could decide Dem nomination
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton reached for the finish line of contentious Ohio and Texas primary campaigns on Monday as senior Democrats expressed concern the party could suffer this fall if their struggle goes much longer. |
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5:09pm PST |
Rice says Mideast talks should resume
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Palestinians on Monday to quickly resume peace talks with Israel, suspended in protest over an Israeli military offensive that killed more than 100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. |
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Yahoo News |
5:05pm PST |
Venezuela, Ecuador break Colombia ties over raid
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Summary: Reuters - Leftist allies Venezuela and Ecuador
escalated a crisis with Colombia on Monday, cutting diplomatic
ties after their neighbor raided inside Ecuador in an attack
that sparked troop deployments and warnings of war. |
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4:31pm PST |
Ecuador cuts ties with Colombia |
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Summary: Ecuador severs diplomatic relations with Colombia in a deepening crisis over a cross-border raid. |
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BBC News |
4:28pm PST |
Bid to stop blame theory on rape |
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Summary: A campaign is to be launched to combat the perception that women are sometimes partly to blame if they are raped. |
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4:27pm PST |
South America gripped by Colombia-Ecuador crisis
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Summary: AFP - Colombia on Monday accused Ecuador and Venezuela of colluding with its FARC rebel foes in an escalating regional crisis sparked by a cross-border strike that raised the specter of a military confrontation. |
