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ChristianToday |
3:19pm PDT |
Dalai Lama blamed for masterminding uprising |
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Summary: Independence protesters burned shops and cars in the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Friday and Chinese police were reported to have shot dead at least two people in the fiercest unrest in the region for two decades |
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ChristianToday |
3:18pm PDT |
Conservatives seen victors in Iran polls |
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Summary: Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election weighted in favour of conservative supporters of the Islamic Republics clerical establishment |
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Cnn.com |
3:17pm PDT |
Autopsy casts doubt on fugitive Marine's story |
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Summary: A 20-year-old Marine whose body was found in another Marine's backyard this year had a superficial wound to her neck that may have occurred after death, according to autopsy results released Friday.
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Yahoo News |
3:17pm PDT |
Bush optimistic on economy, Clinton says in recession
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush, seeking to
bolster faith in the economy amid fears of a recession,
acknowledged on Friday the United States was going through hard
times but said growth would resume over the long run because
economic fundamentals w |
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ChristianToday |
3:16pm PDT |
The Queen opens new Heathrow terminal |
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Summary: The Queen opened a giant luxury terminal at Londons Heathrow airport on Friday despite security breaches by protesters opposed to expanding the worlds busiest international air gateway |
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ChristianToday |
3:15pm PDT |
Revealed what MPs can expense |
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Summary: Members of parliament keen to spruce up their second homes can spend thousands of pounds at taxpayers expense House of Commons documents showed on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
3:14pm PDT |
Man charged over Heathrow security alert |
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Summary: A man who caused a major security alert at Heathrow Airport after getting onto a runway was charged on Friday with aircraft endangerment police said |
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Yahoo News |
2:55pm PDT |
Turmoil in Tibet after deadly violence
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Tibet braced for the worst Saturday after a day of violence in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, where police opened fire to end the biggest anti-Chinese protests in two decades and some deaths were reported, officials and rights groups said. |
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Yahoo News |
2:52pm PDT |
Obama denounces pastor's 9/11 comments
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused its leaders of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism. |
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Yahoo News |
2:45pm PDT |
Pre-Inca temple discovered in Peru
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig. |
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Yahoo News |
2:40pm PDT |
Search for missing S.C. couple broadens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The search for a couple missing for almost two weeks has expanded beyond this resort island, a sheriff said Friday without giving details. |
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Yahoo News |
2:35pm PDT |
U.S. struggles to interest Russia in missile shield
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said on Friday Russia had shown some interest in U.S. ideas on
cooperating on plans to build a missile shield in Europe but
remained fundamentally opposed to the system. |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
Cabrera, Duncan, Gomes suspended
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The shenanigans between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays will leave them short-handed. Yankees first baseman Shelley Duncan and center fielder Melky Cabrera were suspended for three games and Tampa Bay outfielder Jonny Gomes was docked two gam |
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BBC News |
2:23pm PDT |
Elissalde doubts Welsh standard |
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Summary: Jean-Baptiste Elissalde says France have nothing to fear from Wales in Saturday's Six Nations decider. |
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ChristianToday |
2:21pm PDT |
Shannon Matthews found alive |
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Summary: Missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews was found alive on Friday hidden in the base of a bed in a house in West Yorkshire police said |
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ChristianPost |
2:21pm PDT |
Federal Judge Prohibits School Vote on Graduation Prayers |
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Summary: A federal judge has prohibited the Round Rock school district from allowing students to vote on whether to have prayers at ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:10pm PDT |
Great-grandma, 83, foils purse snatcher
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Great-grandmother 1, would-be robber 0. Bernie Garcia at first thought the young man who approached her asking for money while she gassed up her car seemed like a sweet guy. |
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Yahoo News |
2:03pm PDT |
Chavez says US can 'shove' terror list
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of countries accused of supporting terrorism, calling it one more attempt by Washington to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the ter |
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Yahoo News |
2:01pm PDT |
High-level al-Qaida figure captured
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After secret interrogations, the CIA transferred to U.S. military custody a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday. |
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BBC News |
2:00pm PDT |
Fishing boat crewman found in sea |
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Summary: One man has been rescued after a fishing boat gets into difficulties off the coast of County Donegal. |
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BBC News |
2:00pm PDT |
Fishing boat crewmen found in sea |
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Summary: Two fishing boat crewmen are taken to hospital after being pulled from the sea off County Donegal. |
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Yahoo News |
1:58pm PDT |
House approves new eavesdropping rules
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The House on Friday approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. The bill, approved as lawmakers departed for a two-week break, faces a veto threat from Presid |
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Yahoo News |
1:43pm PDT |
Pentagon reports increase in harassment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One-third of women in the military and 6 percent of men said they were sexually harassed, according to the latest Pentagon survey on the issue. |
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Cnn.com |
1:41pm PDT |
Doctors cleared in death of John Ritter |
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Yahoo News |
1:39pm PDT |
Man in month-old Vegas ricin case wakes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man who may have been exposed to toxic ricin in his motel room a month ago has regained consciousness and was being questioned by investigators, authorities said Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:31pm PDT |
Hiker killer hatched '95 murder movie plot |
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Summary: When attorney-turned-movie producer Samuel Rael decided he wanted to make a film about a serial killer in 1995, it was former legal client Gary Michael Hilton who he says came up with the plot.
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PDT |
Risks vs cheap stock price: Will Bear be bought?
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The emergency rescue of Bear
Stearns Co Inc on Friday left observers from all quarters
wondering who would be the last man standing at the Wall Street
bank. |
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Yahoo News |
1:17pm PDT |
Stocks retreat on credit fears
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Friday after a plan to alleviate a liquidity crisis at Bear Stearns Cos. touched off concerns about the severity of credit troubles. Each of the major indexes lost more than 1.5 percent on the day, with the Dow Jones industrial average |
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ChristianPost |
1:08pm PDT |
Christian Right Leaders Respond to Dobson’s Concerns |
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Summary: Words of comfort and assurance flowed forth from two prominent conservative leaders this week when they heard that Dr. James Dobson, one of the founding fathers of the Christian right movement, was concerned about the future of the religious right and its |
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Cnn.com |
1:08pm PDT |
All clear for Richard Gere; kissing warrant lifted |
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