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Cnn.com |
7:55am PST |
Military tried killing bomb suspect in Somalia |
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Summary: A U.S. missile strike in southern Somalia on Monday targeted a suspect on the FBI's most-wanted list of terrorists, according to a senior U.S. official.
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Cnn.com |
7:45am PST |
Sobbing widow recalls actor's final moments |
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Cnn.com |
7:43am PST |
GM to make lithium-ion powered hybrid cars |
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BBC News |
7:42am PST |
Abbas calls for Middle East truce |
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Summary: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas calls for an truce before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks can progress. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39am PST |
Stocks fall on bleak corporate forecasts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The stock market fell sharply Tuesday as troubling outlooks for Citigroup Inc. and Intel Corp. raised the anxiety level on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points at times. |
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BBC News |
7:38am PST |
Colombia calls for Chavez charges |
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Summary: Colombia's president calls on the International Criminal Court to bring charges against Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. |
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Yahoo News |
7:34am PST |
Abbas calls for Israeli-Palestinian truce
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Tuesday for a truce with Israel in order to try to achieve a peace agreement by the end of the year. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PST |
MPs to debate 'in or out' EU vote |
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Summary: MPs are to vote on whether there should be a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. |
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BBC News |
7:24am PST |
Child 'threatens two with knife' |
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Summary: Police are investigating allegations that a ten-year-old boy threatened two fellow pupils with a knife on their way to school. |
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Yahoo News |
7:11am PST |
Green Bay Packers Favre to retire
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett
Favre has decided to retire, ESPN reported on Tuesday.
According to Favre's agent Bus Cook, Favre has informed Packers
coach Mike McCarthy of his decision, ESPN said. |
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BBC News |
7:00am PST |
Newsreader Barnes ill with stroke |
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Summary: Former News at Ten presenter Carol Barnes is seriously ill in a Brighton hospital after a stroke. |
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BBC News |
7:00am PST |
Newsreader Barnes suffers stroke |
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Summary: Former ITV News at Ten presenter Carol Barnes is seriously ill in a Brighton hospital after a stroke. |
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Yahoo News |
6:58am PST |
Uribe to denounce Chavez in court in Andes crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on
Tuesday he would denounce Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in
international court in a growing Andean dispute after Venezuela
and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Bogota and ordered troops
to their neighbor's |
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Yahoo News |
6:51am PST |
Rice, Abbas urge resumption of talks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Tuesday that peace is his first choice in the Mideast and visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exhorted Israel to "spare innocent life" in the latest upsurge in fighting in Hamas-ruled Gaza. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50am PST |
Fed chief: Mortgage crisis to continue
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called Tuesday for additional action to prevent more distressed homeowners from falling into foreclosure. |
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Yahoo News |
6:40am PST |
Train derails in Southern California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Union Pacific train has derailed in the Southern California desert town of Mecca, setting two tanker cars ablaze. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39am PST |
United States cuts aid to Bosnian Serb ruling party
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. government has cut
development aid to the political party of Bosnian Serb Prime
Minister Milorad Dodik because of its nationalist policy, the
U.S. embassy in Sarajevo said in a statement on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
6:37am PST |
Deadline looms for science cuts |
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Summary: Scientists are given three weeks to make a case for a series of high-profile projects which face cuts. |
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Yahoo News |
6:30am PST |
Rice urges renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday
to resume suspended peace negotiations and said she believed a
deal was still possible by the end of the year. |
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BBC News |
6:21am PST |
Road charging 'many years away' |
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Summary: Ruth Kelly rules out a national road pricing scheme until concerns about privacy and fairness can be answered. |
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Yahoo News |
6:18am PST |
Russia urges Iran to comply on nuclear program
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Summary: Reuters - Russia urged Iran on Tuesday to comply
with demands by the United Nations Security Council to curb its
nuclear program, but Tehran remained defiant. |
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ChristianPost |
6:17am PST |
Shut Up and Compete |
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Summary: This summer the Olympics will be held in Beijing, a decision fraught with controversy since it was announced back in 2001. China’s human-rights record is abysmal—from forced abortions, to persecuting Christians and other people of faith, to clamping down |
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6:05am PST |
England select Cipriani and Mears |
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Summary: Danny Cipriani and Lee Mears will start for England in their RBS Six Nations clash with Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday. |
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5:57am PST |
Hospital waiting times defended |
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Summary: An attack on the NHS in Wales by a UK health minister is condemned by the assembly government. |
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ChristianPost |
5:50am PST |
Abortion Clinic Avoids Kan. Indictment |
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Summary: A Kansas grand jury that investigated a Planned Parenthood clinic has refused to issue an indictment on allegations that it violated restrictions on the ... |
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5:50am PST |
Sudan troops clash with EU Force |
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Summary: Sudan says its troops have clashed with the EU Force in Chad following a border incursion. |
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Cnn.com |
5:37am PST |
'Idol' contestant's previous life: stripper |
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Cnn.com |
5:32am PST |
Train derails; acid tanker cars burn |
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Cnn.com |
5:32am PST |
Cloud of acid hangs over train derailment |
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BBC News |
5:32am PST |
'Mixed picture' on 24hr drinking |
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Summary: A review of the new licensing laws in England and Wales finds what it calls a "mixed picture" of their impact. |
