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BBC News |
1:29am PST |
Somalis protest over US bombing |
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Summary: Hundreds of women and children march through the Somali town bombed by the US on Monday. |
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BBC News |
1:22am PST |
'Lost' Indian prisoner comes home |
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Summary: An Indian man freed from a Pakistani jail after spending 35 years on death row is re-united with his family. |
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Yahoo News |
1:07am PST |
Clinton, Obama face day of reckoning
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama approached Tuesday's voting in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont as a chance to drive rival Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the Democratic presidential contest for good. Clinton looked at the same contests as a way to end Obama's strea |
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Yahoo News |
1:07am PST |
US commander: Iraq violence down
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says there has been a dramatic decrease of violence in Iraq, but such gains are not irreversible. |
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1:05am PST |
Newsreader Barnes seriously ill |
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Summary: Former News at Ten presenter Carol Barnes is seriously ill in a Brighton hospital after a reported stroke. |
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Yahoo News |
1:03am PST |
Paramedic slain at a Florida Wendy's
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Paramedic Rafael Vazquez left a training course on how to help when several people are hurt at once, and went to lunch at a nearby Wendy's. He became exactly the kind of victim he was being trained to save. |
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Yahoo News |
12:59am PST |
Bombings in Afghanistan kill 5
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar blast left four people — including two NATO soldiers — dead. |
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Yahoo News |
12:56am PST |
Blasts in Pakistan's Lahore leave at least 4 dead
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least four people were killed in a
series of blasts on Tuesday near a naval college in the eastern
Pakistani city of Lahore, police said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52am PST |
China condemns Pentagon's "Cold War thinking"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China on Tuesday condemned the annual
Pentagon report to the U.S. Congress on Chinese military power,
saying it was a distortion of the facts, interfered in the
country's internal affairs and showed "Cold War thinking."
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12:50am PST |
Several blasts rock Pakistan neighborhood |
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12:46am PST |
Iraqi army helicopter reported missing |
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Summary: An Iraqi army helicopter with two officers on board went missing north of Baghdad early Tuesday during bad weather, security officials told CNN.
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12:46am PST |
Seven rescued as boat hits rocks |
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Summary: Seven men on board a fishing boat are winched to safety after their vessel hits rocks in Lough Swilly. |
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12:23am PST |
Winehouse to play at V Festival |
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Summary: Singer Amy Winehouse is to play at this summer's V Festival, alongside headliners The Verve and Muse. |
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ChristianToday |
12:23am PST |
Muslims and Vatican officials to begin talks on Pope meeting |
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Summary: Muslim representatives and Vatican officials to embark on two days of talks to hash out plans for an unprecedented IslamicCatholic meeting to include the Pope later this year |
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BBC News |
12:21am PST |
Army to search Jersey care home |
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Summary: The Army is brought in to help the search at a former children's home in Jersey, where abuse is suspected. |
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Yahoo News |
12:04am PST |
Rice: Mideast talks should resume quick
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice blamed Palestinian Hamas militants she called spoilers for provoking an Israeli military onslaught in the Gaza Strip that derailed U.S.-backed peace talks. |
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Yahoo News |
12:04am PST |
Day of reckoning for Clinton, Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama approached Tuesday's voting in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont as a chance to drive rival Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the Democratic presidential contest for good. Clinton looked at the same contests as a way to end Obama's strea |
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Yahoo News |
12:01am PST |
China says military budget to rise 17.6 percent in 2008
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China announced Tuesday its defence spending would rise 17.6 percent this year but insisted the increase was moderate, after the United States expressed concerns about Beijing's expanding military power. |
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ChristianToday |
12:01am PST |
Latin America seeks to defuse crisis |
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Summary: Latin America scrambled to defuse a threenation crisis that threatens the regions stability after Venezuela and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Colombia and ordered troops to their neighbours border |
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ChristianToday |
12:00am PST |
Rice seeks Egypts help on Gaza |
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Summary: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice her credibility at stake urged Israelis and Palestinians on Tuesday to quickly resume USsponsored peace talks suspended over Israels offensive in Hamasrun Gaza |
