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BBC News |
1:32pm PDT |
Baghdad curfew to be extended |
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Summary: Baghdad's military extend a curfew in the city until further notice, as clashes with Shia militias continue elsewhere. |
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Yahoo News |
1:32pm PDT |
Baghdad curfew extended indefinitely
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi authorities on Saturday extended
a curfew in Baghdad indefinitely in an attempt to contain
clashes between Shi'ite militants and Iraqi security forces
that have threatened to spiral out of control. |
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PDT |
UNC moves past Cards to regional finals
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An early onslaught by Louisville star Angel McCoughtry was not enough to derail North Carolina's bid for a third-straight trip to the Final Four. |
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Yahoo News |
1:12pm PDT |
Administration pushes regulatory changes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration is trying to confront the credit crisis that has rattled nerves from Wall Street to Main Street by proposing wholesale changes in how Washington oversees the financial system. |
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Yahoo News |
12:55pm PDT |
Katrina victims may have to repay money
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government provided-trailer that gives off formald |
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Yahoo News |
12:50pm PDT |
Administration pushes regulatory chnages
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration is trying to confront the credit crisis that has rattled nerves from Wall Street to Main Street by proposing wholesale changes in how Washington oversees the financial system. |
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Cnn.com |
12:34pm PDT |
U.S. drops bombs as Basra fighting rages |
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Summary: U.S. forces, backing up Iraqi troops battling Shiite militants, bombed Basra today as about 40 Iraqi police commandos based in Baghdad deserted to join a militia.
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BBC News |
12:10pm PDT |
Leaders Man Utd crush Villa |
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Summary: Man Utd stretch their Premier League lead to six points by thrashing Aston Villa. |
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BBC News |
12:10pm PDT |
Villa crushed by leaders Man Utd |
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Summary: Man Utd stretch their Premier League lead to six points by thrashing Aston Villa. |
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Cnn.com |
12:05pm PDT |
Baseball old-timers swing away at steroids issue |
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Summary: As Major League Baseball opens a new season in the shadow of revelations of drug use by some of its biggest stars, opinions vary among players from what is now called the "clean era" of baseball -- before steroids and human growth hormone entered the game |
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Cnn.com |
12:05pm PDT |
Baseball old-timers take on steroids issue |
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Summary: As Major League Baseball opens a new season in the shadow of revelations of drug use by some of its biggest stars, opinions vary among players from what is now called the "clean era" of baseball -- before steroids and human growth hormone entered the game |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PDT |
Shiite leader al-Sadr defies Iraq gov't
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Anti-American Shiite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers Saturday to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, as U.S. jets struck Shiite extremists near Basra to bolster a faltering Iraqi offensive against gunmen in the cit |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PDT |
Zimbabweans vote, opposition charges fraud
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabweans, many desperate for an end
to their economic misery, voted on Saturday in the most crucial
election since independence in 1980, but the opposition accused
President Robert Mugabe's government of rigging. |
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Cnn.com |
11:59am PDT |
Indonesian quake raises tsunami fears |
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Summary: A magnitude-6.3 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on Sunday could trigger a tsunami on coasts near its epicenter, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
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Yahoo News |
11:56am PDT |
Zimbabwe votes as rigging claims mount up
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabweans voted Saturday in polls which could see President Robert Mugabe turfed out after nearly three decades in power, with opponents accusing him of trying to extend his rule by rigging. |
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Yahoo News |
11:38am PDT |
2 US troops die in rising Iraq violence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. jets widened the bombing of Basra on Saturday, dropping two precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia stronghold north of the city, British officials said. |
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BBC News |
11:21am PDT |
Oxford crew win 154th Boat Race |
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Summary: Oxford beat Cambridge to win the 154th university boat race. |
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BBC News |
11:21am PDT |
E Guinea seeks Thatcher's arrest |
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Summary: Equatorial Guinea issues an arrest warrant for Sir Mark Thatcher over his alleged role in a 2004 failed coup. |
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Yahoo News |
11:16am PDT |
Rice renews focus on Mideast peace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday she wants to see "real concrete progress on the ground" as she began her latest Mideast mission. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08am PDT |
Katrina victims may have to repay $$$
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Imagine that your home was reduced to mold-covered wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government provided-trailer that gives off formald |
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BBC News |
11:08am PDT |
Youths rescued in Tors warm-up |
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Summary: Seventeen people are airlifted from Dartmoor as bad weather strikes a Ten Tors training event. |
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Cnn.com |
10:52am PDT |
U.S. drops bombs in Basra |
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Summary: U.S. forces, backing up Iraqi troops battling Shiite militants, bombed Basra today as about 40 Iraqi police commandos based in Baghdad deserted to join a militia.
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Yahoo News |
10:50am PDT |
Missing NY rev. found at Ohio strip club
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club. |
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Yahoo News |
10:35am PDT |
Voting ends in Zimbabwe election
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in the
most crucial election since independence in 1980, many of them
desperate to end the misery of economic collapse under veteran
President Robert Mugabe. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33am PDT |
'Standing up' Iraq army looks open-ended
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraq's new army is "developing steadily," with "strong Iraqi leaders out front," the chief U.S. trainer assured the American people. That was three-plus years ago, the U.S. Army general was David H. Petraeus, and some of those Iraqi officials at the |
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Cnn.com |
10:28am PDT |
Protests threaten Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:26am PDT |
15,000 bags stranded at Heathrow |
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Summary: Thousands of bags are stranded at Heathrow after a third day of cancellations at Terminal 5. |
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Yahoo News |
10:06am PDT |
Miley Cyrus is Kids Choice front-runner
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It was shaping up as the best of both worlds for pop culture phenomenon Miley Cyrus, who came into Saturday night's 21st annual Kids Choice Awards with nominations for favorite singer and favorite actress. |
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BBC News |
10:01am PDT |
Alexander says 'fightback begins' |
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Summary: Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander tells party workers that the fightback has begun against the SNP. |
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Yahoo News |
9:45am PDT |
Congress readies activist housing agenda
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Congressional leaders are racing to push through an array of election-year housing measures that already have stirred up much political wrangling and the White House is examining its own plan to further help homeowners caught in the mortgage meltdown |
