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BBC News |
1:04pm PDT |
Police summon Goa girl's mother |
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Summary: The mother of a British teenager murdered in Goa is issued with a summons to appear before police. |
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BBC News |
1:00pm PDT |
Move to ban ruling Turkish party |
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Summary: A Turkish state prosecutor asks the country's top court to ban the ruling AK Party for anti-secular activities. |
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ChristianPost |
12:32pm PDT |
Obama Tries to Allay Jewish Concerns |
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Summary: Barack Obama has a solid Senate record in support of Israel. He sings the praises, too, of Jewish civil rights workers who fought for blacks' rights in the U.S. And he says he wants to patch up "a historically powerful bond between the African-American an |
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Cnn.com |
12:27pm PDT |
CIA sends Bin Laden associate to Gitmo |
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Summary: The U.S. military has put a close associate of Osama bin Laden in prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Friday.
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Yahoo News |
12:27pm PDT |
Senior al Qaeda suspect sent to Guantanamo prison
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suspected high-level al Qaeda
member who helped Osama bin Laden elude U.S. forces in
Afghanistan has been captured and sent to the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
12:08pm PDT |
Fresh banking fears knock shares |
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Summary: US shares fall sharply on renewed fears about the impact of bad mortgage debt and the wider credit squeeze. |
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Cnn.com |
12:00pm PDT |
Doctors cleared in death of actor John Ritter |
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Theophiles |
11:58am PDT |
'Dilbert' Strips Featuring a Character Named Jesus Cause Stir |
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Summary: From Editor and Publisher:
Many e-mailers praised or criticized this week's "Dilbert" sequence featuring an office worker named Jesus (pronounced Hay-Soos).
The series "caused quite a stir," cartoonist Scott Adams wrote in his blog today. "I drew those |
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Yahoo News |
11:55am PDT |
Stocks tumble after Bear Stearns bailout
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Friday as 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 2 percent; the Dow Jones industrial average gave up about 300 po |
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Yahoo News |
11:53am PDT |
House seeks debt limit increase to $10.2 trillion
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The government's debt limit would be
raised to $10.2 trillion under a budget plan for next year
approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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Cnn.com |
11:52am PDT |
Fed-up Tibetans setting fires in capital |
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Summary: Protesters set fire to vehicles and shops in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on Friday, as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out, a witness told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
11:51am PDT |
2 doctors cleared in John Ritter's death
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A California jury has cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of actor John Ritter. |
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Cnn.com |
11:49am PDT |
Theft of FBI spy truck blamed on budget cuts |
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Summary: A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country -- including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck -- is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal grounds.
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Yahoo News |
11:48am PDT |
House passes new surveillance bill
(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. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46am PDT |
Democratic rivals agree to play nicer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - On this presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can agree: They sometimes disagree with their trash-talking supporters and will try to cool it. |
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BBC News |
11:44am PDT |
Ex-pop star jailed for child sex |
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Summary: A member of the band which had a hit with 'Build Me Up Buttercup' is jailed for child sex offences. |
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Yahoo News |
11:32am PDT |
Bush urges patience on economy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush preached optimism and Republican orthodoxy of minimalist government intervention Friday as the best approach to an increasingly troubled economy. |
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BBC News |
11:23am PDT |
US detains 'top al-Qaeda figure' |
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Summary: A top al-Qaeda figure who the Pentagon says has close ties to Osama Bin Laden is taken to Guantanamo Bay. |
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Yahoo News |
11:22am PDT |
Deaths reported in Tibet as China blames Dalai Lama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - 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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Yahoo News |
11:15am PDT |
House passes spy bill and rejects phone immunity
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Democratic-led U.S. House of
Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and
passed an anti-terrorism spy bill that permits lawsuits against
phone companies. |
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Cnn.com |
11:13am PDT |
House defies Bush on spy bill |
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Summary: The House of Representatives is expected to vote Friday on Democratic-sponsored revisions to federal surveillance laws after discussing the proposals in a secret session.
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BBC News |
11:12am PDT |
Goa girl's mother faces hearing |
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Summary: The mother of a British teenager murdered in Goa has been issued with a summons to appear before Indian police. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12am PDT |
CIA transfers al Qaeda suspect to Guantanamo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The CIA this week transferred a
suspected high-level al Qaeda member with close ties to Osama
bin Laden to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, the
Pentagon said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
11:07am PDT |
Funeral Mass for Iraqi archbishop |
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Summary: Iraqi Christians attend the funeral of an archbishop whose body was found two weeks after his kidnap. |
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Yahoo News |
11:05am PDT |
High-level al-Qaida figure is captured
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Pentagon says authorities have captured a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01am PDT |
Deaths reported in Tibet, China blames Dalai Lama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - 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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Yahoo News |
11:01am PDT |
CIA transfers Qaeda suspect to Guantanamo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The CIA this week transferred a
suspected al Qaeda member with close ties to Osama bin Laden to
the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said on
Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55am PDT |
Hilton to select new BFF on reality show
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Paris Hilton is looking for a new best friend. Hilton will choose from 20 potential confidantes on an MTV reality series, tentatively titled "Paris Hilton's My New BFF," premiering later this year, the network announced Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:48am PDT |
Saturn moon 'once had ocean' |
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Summary: The Saturnian moon Tethys may once have harboured a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface, scientists tell a planetary conference. |
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ChristianPost |
10:48am PDT |
Beloved Archbishop Buried in Iraq |
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Summary: A Chaldean Catholic archbishop found dead after a kidnapping was remembered Friday as a man of peace beloved by all Iraqis. Mourners carrying flowers and olive branches wept and wailed as Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho's coffin was carried down the streets |
