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Yahoo News |
8:04am PDT |
CORRECTED: Barrages hit Green Zone, gunmen kill seven
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green
Zone" came under heavy rocket or mortar attack on Sunday, and
police said up to eight people had been killed by rockets
falling short outside the government and diplomatic compound. |
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Yahoo News |
7:59am PDT |
18 Ukrainian sailors trapped in HK
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were trapped underwater Sunday in their capsized tugboat after it collided with a cargo ship in Hong Kong waters, a marine official said. |
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BBC News |
7:55am PDT |
Store manager killed cashing up |
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Summary: A shop manager is stabbed to death during a suspected robbery in an east London shopping centre. |
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Yahoo News |
7:49am PDT |
China attacks Pelosi over Tibet remarks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday for her recent meeting with the Dalai Lama, accusing her and other "human rights police" of double standards and ignoring the truth about the unrest in Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
7:46am PDT |
Greeks test Beijing torch lighting, fear Tibet protests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Organizers of the
Beijing 2008 Olympics torch lighting ceremony staged a dress
rehearsal on Sunday, lighting the torch from a back-up flame as
concerns over possible Tibet protests grew. |
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ChristianPost |
7:43am PDT |
Easter Messages Touch on Pressing World Concerns |
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Summary: Easters messages this year touched on pressing world issues, ranging from the war in Iraq to ... |
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BBC News |
7:38am PDT |
Two die in Turkey Kurdish clashes |
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Summary: New clashes between Turkish police and Kurdish protesters marking the Newroz spring festival kill two. |
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Cnn.com |
7:34am PDT |
Pope denounces 'scourges of humanity' |
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Yahoo News |
7:33am PDT |
Cheney calls for painful concessions for Mideast peace
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney
said on Sunday that achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace would
require painful concessions from both sides. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PDT |
Scarlett mother fears for safety |
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Summary: The mother of a 15-year-old British girl killed in Goa says she fears for her own safety after speaking out. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PDT |
Scarlett's mother fears for her safety |
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Summary: The mother of a 15-year-old British girl killed in Goa says she fears for her own safety after speaking out. |
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Cnn.com |
7:24am PDT |
U.S.: Troops kill 12 members of suicide cell |
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Summary: U.S. troops raided a suspected suicide bombing network Sunday, killing a dozen militants, half of whom had shaved their bodies -- which the U.S. military says indicates they were in the final stage of preparation for a suicide attack.
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BBC News |
7:24am PDT |
Call for Mid-East concessions |
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Summary: US Vice-President Dick Cheney says peace in the Middle East will require painful concessions on both sides. |
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BBC News |
7:17am PDT |
Embryology bill compromise sought |
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Summary: The government looks for a way to satisfy Labour MPs opposed to parts of a controversial embryo bill. |
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ChristianPost |
7:17am PDT |
Divided Anglicans See Hope for Transformation |
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Summary: As bleak as the situation may look for Anglicans divided over Scripture and traditional Anglicanism, a breakaway bishop says it's not the end of the story, particularly as they celebrate ... |
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BBC News |
7:13am PDT |
Man questioned about town murder |
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Summary: A 21-year-old man is arrested by police investigating the murder of a man in Dungannon. |
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ChristianPost |
7:10am PDT |
The Centrality of the Resurrection |
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Summary: This Sunday Christians around the world will celebrate Easter as a memorial of Christ's resurrection. If Christians are correct about what happened on the first Easter morning, then the resurrection is the single most important event in human history. I |
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ChristianPost |
7:01am PDT |
Pope Baptizes Prominent Italian Muslim |
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Summary: Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter ... |
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BBC News |
6:59am PDT |
Anger at EastEnders coffin scene |
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Summary: A scene in BBC One soap EastEnders which showed a character being buried alive prompts 167 complaints. |
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Yahoo News |
6:49am PDT |
Cheney warns Palestinians of violence against Israel
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney warned Palestinians Sunday that anti-Israeli violence was killing hopes for their long overdue state as he kept up his Easter weekend bid to revive peace talks. |
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Cnn.com |
6:38am PDT |
18 sailors trapped in sunken ship |
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Cnn.com |
6:35am PDT |
Pope calls for peace in Iraq, Holy Land, Tibet |
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Cnn.com |
6:35am PDT |
Pope calls for peace |
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Yahoo News |
6:33am PDT |
Cheney: `Painful concessions' for peace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Mideast peace agreement will require "painful concessions" by Israelis and Palestinians who must work together to defeat those "committed to violence," Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. |
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BBC News |
6:30am PDT |
Dutch Islam film website 'shut' |
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Summary: A website expected to be used for the publication of a controversial Dutch film critical of Islam is suspended. |
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Yahoo News |
6:25am PDT |
47 killed in Iraq bloodshed
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A wave of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 47 people, while insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers. |
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BBC News |
6:09am PDT |
Trafficking link to abandoned boy |
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Summary: Police say they are inquiring whether a nine-year-old boy left at a London bus stop could be a victim of "child trafficking". |
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BBC News |
5:54am PDT |
US-Afghan forces kill insurgents |
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Summary: More than a dozen insurgents are killed in a joint US-Afghan operation in southern Afghanistan, officials say. |
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BBC News |
5:42am PDT |
Motorists warned as snow arrives |
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Summary: Drivers are warned to stay out of their cars because of Easter snow showers in Scotland and England. |
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BBC News |
5:32am PDT |
Archbishop warns 'greedy' nations |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury warns against nations' greed for oil, power and territory in his Easter sermon. |
