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Yahoo News |
1:55am PDT |
Big chunk of Antarctic ice shelf falling apart
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun disintegrating under the effects of global warming, satellite images by the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center showed. |
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Yahoo News |
1:52am PDT |
Britain targets Muslim women to fight extremists
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - In a school in south London, women in
headscarves are learning English, childcare skills and
citizenship, to smooth their integration into British life. |
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Yahoo News |
1:48am PDT |
Russia bombers get NATO escort near Alaska: reports
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - NATO forces sent jets to escort two
Russian long-range air force bombers patrolling neutral skies
near Alaska on Wednesday, Russian news agencies quoted the
defense ministry as saying. |
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Yahoo News |
1:46am PDT |
Foreign journalists arrive in Tibet
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The first group of foreign journalists allowed into Tibet in the wake of deadly anti-Chinese-government riots has arrived in the regional capital of Lhasa. |
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BBC News |
1:44am PDT |
FSA 'failed' in Rock supervision |
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Summary: The FSA admits that it failed to adequately regulate Northern Rock in a review of the troubled bank's collapse. |
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ChristianToday |
1:40am PDT |
Popes baptism of Muslim not a hostile act Vatican |
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Summary: Popes baptism of Italian Muslim convert not a hostile act says Vaticans newspaper |
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Yahoo News |
1:34am PDT |
Australia's Rudd vows more activist foreign policy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Australia will play a more activist
role in world affairs as it seeks too boost its middle-power
influence, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday ahead of
a major overseas trip. |
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BBC News |
1:34am PDT |
450 Housing Executive jobs to go |
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Summary: The Housing Executive says 450 jobs will go over the next three years in a bid to save money. |
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BBC News |
1:31am PDT |
Britney's cameo boosts US sitcom |
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Summary: An appearance by singer Britney Spears in US TV show How I Met My Mother draws almost 3m extra viewers. |
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Cnn.com |
1:29am PDT |
Antarctic ice 'hanging by thread' |
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Summary: A piece of Antarctic ice measuring 220 square miles has collapsed, and an ice shelf about seven times the size of Manhattan is "hanging by a thread" because of global warming, the British Antarctic Survey said today. "We are in for a lot more events like |
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Yahoo News |
1:18am PDT |
Officials: 55 dead in Basra, Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At least 55 people have died in two days of fighting between Shiite militias and U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, officials said Wednesday. Some 300 people were reported wounded in the clashes, which present the gravest ch |
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Cnn.com |
1:14am PDT |
Crane falls on house, kills 2 |
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Summary: Two people were killed and four injured -- one seriously -- in a crane accident in downtown Miami, Florida, Tuesday, said Miami Fire Rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll.
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Cnn.com |
1:14am PDT |
Crane falls, kills 2 |
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Summary: Two people were killed and four injured -- one seriously -- in a crane accident in downtown Miami, Florida, Tuesday, said Miami Fire Rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll.
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Cnn.com |
1:12am PDT |
Dubai blast leaves 1 dead as fire rages |
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Summary: An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Dubai sparked a massive fire Wednesday that may burn for more than 24 hours, authorities said.
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1:08am PDT |
Laser treatment deregulation fear |
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Summary: Plastic surgeons denounce plans to make it easier for private clinics to offer laser treatments. |
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1:02am PDT |
Sainsbury's agrees property deal |
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Summary: Sainsbury's teams up with British Land to create a £1.2bn joint venture to run 39 superstores across the UK. |
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ChristianToday |
1:02am PDT |
Brown allows partial free vote on embryology Bill |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says Labour MPs will be allowed a free vote on three areas of proposed legislation into the creation of hybrid embryos |
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Yahoo News |
1:01am PDT |
Republicans issue new Clemens report
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Roger Clemens got some new Republican support in his dispute with Brian McNamee. |
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ChristianToday |
12:58am PDT |
Iraq forces and militants clash in Basra |
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Summary: Militants loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr clashed with Iraqi security forces throughout Iraqs southern oil hub of Basra for a second day on Wednesday |
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BBC News |
12:54am PDT |
Call to expand UK's nuclear power |
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Summary: Britain's nuclear industry should be expanded to provide more energy and more jobs, says the business secretary. |
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ChristianToday |
12:52am PDT |
Aid agencies warn of Somalia crisis |
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Summary: Forty aid agencies urged the world on Wednesday to focus attention on Somalias catastrophic humanitarian crisis where hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from war drought and food shortages |
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ChristianToday |
12:51am PDT |
China scholars vow patriotic education in Tibet |
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Summary: Chinese scholars vowed on Wednesday to press ahead with patriotic education in Tibets monasteries accusing monks there of being duped by the Dalai Lama into supporting separatism |
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ChristianToday |
12:50am PDT |
Six missing after Norway building collapses |
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Summary: Six people were missing after an apartment building in Norways western coastal town of Aalesund collapsed on Wednesday police said |
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ChristianToday |
12:49am PDT |
Uganda and rebels likely to sign peace deal |
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Summary: Uganda and the rebel Lords Resistance Army are expected to sign a final peace deal to end one of Africas longest conflicts on April 5 about a week later than a Kampala deadline officials said on Wednesday |
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ChristianToday |
12:49am PDT |
Two bodies found in wreck off Hong Kong |
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Summary: The bodies of two out of 18 missing Ukrainian sailors trapped in a shipwreck in Hong Kong waters were recovered on Wednesday after divers entered the vessel for the first time since it sank over the weekend |
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Yahoo News |
12:38am PDT |
Pakistan PM calls for political solution to terror fight
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pakistan's new premier told US President George W. Bush that a broader approach to the "war on terror" is necessary, including political solutions and development programmes, a statement said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:38am PDT |
Iraq forces and militants clash in oil city
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Militants loyal to Shi'ite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with Iraqi security forces throughout
Iraq's southern oil hub of Basra for a second day on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
12:36am PDT |
'Many surrender' over Tibet riots |
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Summary: More than 660 protesters surrender after recent unrest in and around Tibet, Chinese state media reports. |
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Cnn.com |
12:32am PDT |
Cousins? Obama related to Pitt, Clinton to Jolie |
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Summary: Perhaps, now the candidates will play nice.
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ChristianToday |
12:32am PDT |
Brown and Sarkozy set for UK meeting |
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Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will build on a new spirit of AngloFrench cooperation this week by calling for action to halt financial turmoil and by urging UN reform |
