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Cnn.com |
8:53am PDT |
Israel pledges to remove 50 roadblocks |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Al Qaeda recruiting "western" fighters: CIA boss
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda is training fighters that
"look western" and could easily cross U.S. borders without
attracting attention, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on
Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46am PDT |
Uncertain economy awaits next president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have diagnosed the swooning U.S. economy and have come up with rival plans to revive it. If the downturn lasts as long as some economists predict, one of the three will get a chance to try to sell |
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BBC News |
8:27am PDT |
Private plane crashes into homes in Kent |
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Summary: A private aircraft has crashed into homes in Farnborough, Kent, the Metropolitan Police has said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:14am PDT |
Cheney road trip: Pack the green duffel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - He travels with a green duffel bag stuffed with nonfiction books about military campaigns and political affairs. He has an iPod and noise-canceling earphones to listen to oldies and some country-western. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PDT |
al-Sadr pulls fighters off Iraq streets
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Sunday that he was pulling his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison. |
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Yahoo News |
8:06am PDT |
Tibet tense as Olympic torch heads for Beijing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tibet's capital Lhasa was calm on
Sunday following a brief burst of unrest weeks after a bloody
uprising against Chinese rule, but in Greece and Nepal flurries
of pro-Tibet protest continued. |
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Yahoo News |
7:58am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition claims victory ahead of results
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition claimed victory Sunday in a general election even before first results were announced, as the United States branded President Robert Mugabe a disgrace to the whole of Africa. |
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BBC News |
7:45am PDT |
'Killing Fields' journalist dies |
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Summary: The Cambodian journalist whose 1970s ordeal was the subject of the film, The Killing Fields, dies. |
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Cnn.com |
7:43am PDT |
Plane hits residential area in England |
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Summary: UK police have confirmed to CNN that a private aircraft has crashed into a residential area in the town of Farnborough in Kent, south-east of London.
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BBC News |
7:43am PDT |
T5 baggage system 'working' - BA |
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Summary: BA's chief executive Willie Walsh says efforts are being made to clear the backlog at Heathrow's Terminal 5. |
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Yahoo News |
7:41am PDT |
China awaits Olympic torch amid Tibet tensions
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China on Sunday stepped up security on the eve of the arrival of the Olympic torch from Greece, where protesters angry over Beijing's crackdown in Tibet tried to disrupt the handover of the flame. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22am PDT |
Rice wins concessions from Israel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Israel and the Palestinians agreed Sunday to a series of "concrete steps" aimed at paving the way for a final peace agreement later this year, beginning with Israel's pledge to remove some West Bank roadblocks. |
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Yahoo News |
7:19am PDT |
Search resumes for Peterson's wife
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After a winter hiatus, more than 50 volunteers resumed their ground search Saturday for a suburban Chicago mother who went missing last fall. |
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Yahoo News |
7:17am PDT |
Al-Sadr offers peace; Iraq welcomes move
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Iraqi government has welcomed an order by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to pull his fighters off the streets. |
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Cnn.com |
7:11am PDT |
China: Dalai Lama shutting door on Tibet talks |
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BBC News |
7:08am PDT |
Tanzanian gem miners feared dead |
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Summary: About 65 miners are feared dead after heavy rainfall triggers the collapse of gem mines in Tanzania. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition claims early lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Sunday claimed an early lead in elections, including in some rural strongholds of President Robert Mugabe, in an apparent effort to thwart any attempt to rig the vote count. |
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BBC News |
7:00am PDT |
Cardiff's FA Cup tickets sell out |
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Summary: Fans of FA Cup semi-finalists Cardiff City queue overnight for tickets as the club sell all their 33,000 allocation. |
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BBC News |
6:48am PDT |
Man hunted after wife's car crash |
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Summary: A man at the centre of an investigation into his wife's death 14 years ago, is hunted by police in New Zealand. |
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BBC News |
6:46am PDT |
Greece hands China Olympic torch |
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Summary: The Olympic flame is passed to Chinese officials at an Athens ceremony, amid protests over Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39am PDT |
China takes delivery of Olympic flame, protesters arrested
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Greece handed over the Olympic torch to the organisers of the Beijing Games on Sunday in a tightly-guarded Athens ceremony, after police quickly arrested anti-Chinese protesters shouting "Save Tibet". |
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BBC News |
6:39am PDT |
S&N shareholders in takeover vote |
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Summary: Shareholders of Scottish & Newcastle are due to meet on Monday to call time on the UK's largest brewer. |
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BBC News |
6:39am PDT |
Brewery facing takeover bid |
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Summary: Shareholders of Scottish & Newcastle are due to meet on Monday to call time on the UK's largest brewer. |
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Cnn.com |
6:39am PDT |
Al-Sadr tells followers to end violence |
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Summary: Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his followers to stop fighting and cooperate with Iraqi security forces todeay, as U.S. and Iraqi forces targeted his Mehdi Army in Basra and Baghdad.
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Cnn.com |
6:33am PDT |
Relentless sleuths work to ID nameless bodies |
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BBC News |
6:29am PDT |
Israel to cut W Bank roadblocks |
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Summary: Israel and the Palestinians agree to a series of "concrete steps" to ease lives in the West Bank, the US says. |
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Yahoo News |
6:24am PDT |
'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday, his for |
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Cnn.com |
6:18am PDT |
U.S. officials: Israel to remove 50 roadblocks |
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Cnn.com |
6:11am PDT |
Subject of 'Killing Fields' dies of cancer |
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