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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Troops' electrocution deaths probed |
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BBC News |
8:39am PDT |
Bin Laden tape voice 'authentic' |
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Summary: US intelligence agents believe the voice on a tape purportedly from Osama Bin Laden was authentic, the CIA says. |
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BBC News |
8:37am PDT |
Brothers face Russia spy charges |
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Summary: Russia charges two men with British links with industrial spying, threatening to further worsen the countries' ties. |
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ChristianPost |
8:34am PDT |
Presbyterian Church to Break from National Body on Good Friday |
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Summary: The majority of a large southwest Florida church will officially leave the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Good Friday, following a decision by the regional presbytery to allow their ... |
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BBC News |
8:29am PDT |
Summer Wine star Brian Wilde dies |
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Summary: Actor Brian Wilde, who played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barraclough in Porridge, passes away. |
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Cnn.com |
8:27am PDT |
Rising waters threaten more floods |
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BBC News |
8:27am PDT |
Bank bosses meet governor King |
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Summary: The bosses of major UK banks are meeting Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to seek reassurances over funding. |
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BBC News |
8:19am PDT |
Palestinian talks in Yemen 'fail' |
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Summary: Talks between Fatah and Hamas, have collapsed, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11am PDT |
U.N. council extends Afghanistan mandate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. Security Council
unanimously agreed on Thursday to extend the U.N. mandate in
Afghanistan where NATO-led forces are struggling to overcome a
surprisingly fierce Taliban insurgency. |
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ChristianPost |
8:08am PDT |
Christian Groups: 'Liquid Gold' Essential for Life |
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Summary: It is abundant and often free in the United States, but for more than a billion people around the globe it is a rare and precious commodity on which life ... |
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BBC News |
7:43am PDT |
Russia spying charge for brothers |
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Summary: Russia charges two men with British links with industrial spying, after raids on petroleum giant BP. |
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Yahoo News |
7:40am PDT |
Stocks rebound after Wednesday's drop
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks rebounded Thursday after the previous session's big drop, with investors eager to take advantage of bargains and cheered by a milder-than-expected drop in manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia region. The Dow Jones industrial average rose |
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BBC News |
7:39am PDT |
Summer Wine star Wilde dies |
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Summary: Actor Brian Wilde, who played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barraclough in Porridge, passes away. |
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ChristianPost |
7:36am PDT |
French Woman Who Sought Euthanasia Dies |
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Summary: A woman who suffered from a painful facial tumor and had drawn headlines across France with her quest for doctor-assisted suicide was found dead Wednesday, an official ... |
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Cnn.com |
7:31am PDT |
Scooter Libby gets disbarred |
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Summary: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was disbarred from practicing law in the nation's capital on Thursday.
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BBC News |
7:31am PDT |
Fish key to reef climate survival |
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Summary: As climate change and pollution threaten coral reefs, fish may be vital to their survival, scientists say. |
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ChristianPost |
7:30am PDT |
Religious Right Sends Letter Urging Senate to Reject Climate Bill |
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Summary: A group of leading evangelical and conservative leaders have sent a letter urging senators to reject a climate bill that they say will cost jobs, raise energy costs and lead to higher food ... |
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BBC News |
7:27am PDT |
Acting world mourns Scofield |
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Summary: Paul Scofield, one of Britain's greatest Shakespearean actors and an Oscar winner, dies at the age of 86. |
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BBC News |
7:21am PDT |
Iraq leader sombre five years on |
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Summary: President Jalal Talabani says violence and corruption are Iraq's main problems on the invasion's fifth anniversary. |
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Yahoo News |
7:19am PDT |
Iraq begins sixth year of chaos, bloodshed
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The US-led war on Iraq that toppled the brutal regime of dictator Saddam Hussein entered its sixth year on Thursday with millions of Iraqis still battling daily chaos and rampant bloodshed. |
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BBC News |
7:13am PDT |
Zimbabwe poll U-turn challenged |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition lodges a legal challenge after President Mugabe allows police into polling stations. |
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Cnn.com |
7:11am PDT |
Great Web sites when aging parents need help |
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Summary: There are a lot of Marys in Mary Jane McGill's extended family, so each one gets a special name. Mary who lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts, is "Mary Rozy." Mary from Everett, Massachusetts, is called "Mary Everett." And McGill? She's "Mary Google."
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Yahoo News |
7:07am PDT |
China sends more troops to restive areas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China sent additional troops into restive areas and made more arrests in the Tibetan capital Lhasa in an effort to suppress anti-government protests even as the Dalai Lama offered face-to-face negotiations with Chinese leaders. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04am PDT |
Bin Laden: Pope helps anti-Islam Crusade
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Osama bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Islam and warned of a "severe" reaction to European publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that insulted many Muslims. |
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BBC News |
7:01am PDT |
N Korea's food crisis 'worsening' |
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Summary: An aid agency with experience of working inside North Korea says the state's food crisis is chronic, and getting worse. |
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Cnn.com |
6:50am PDT |
Disfigured woman who wanted euthanasia dies |
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Summary: A Frenchwoman severely disfigured by facial tumors has been been found dead just two days after a court rejected her request for an assisted suicide. Chantal Sebire suffered from a rare and incurable form of cancer for eight years, developing tumors in he |
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BBC News |
6:43am PDT |
Man faces cash laundering charges |
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Summary: A man is charged with money laundering related to the Northern Bank robbery in 2004. |
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Yahoo News |
6:42am PDT |
Obama eyes active role in oil markets
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama would take an
active role in U.S. oil markets as president, tackling concerns
about the dominance of large oil companies and eyeing the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a potential weapon to combat
high prices, his top en |
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Yahoo News |
6:37am PDT |
McCain lauds UK troops in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday hailed the bravery of British and U.S. soldiers yet refrained from calling publicly for Britain to slow the pace of its troop withdrawal from southern Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
6:33am PDT |
Storms swamp Midwest, roads closed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise Thursday from heavy storms that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths. |
