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Yahoo News |
3:21am PDT |
Rice meets with top Mideast negotiators
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Monday before heading for a final session with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan as she wraps up a three-day mission intended to reinvogorate Mideast |
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BBC News |
3:20am PDT |
Flight disruption continues at T5 |
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Summary: Disruption at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 continues, with 54 flights grounded and a backlog of 15,000 bags. |
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Yahoo News |
3:19am PDT |
Coroner says 'no evidence' of Diana murder plot
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The coroner in the inquest into the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed said Monday there was no evidence she was murdered by British secret services, as claimed by Fayed's father. |
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3:16am PDT |
Match victim 'was in wrong place' |
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Summary: A man beaten and stabbed after a football match "was in the wrong place at the wrong time," says his father-in-law. |
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Yahoo News |
3:16am PDT |
Cubans allowed to stay at tourist hotels
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Cuba has lifted a ban on its nationals
staying at hotels reserved for foreign tourists, hotel
employees said on Monday, the latest step lifting restrictions
in the communist-run state under new President Raul Castro. |
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BBC News |
3:14am PDT |
Hercules crash inquest to resume |
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Summary: An inquest into the deaths of 10 servicemen killed when their Hercules aircraft crashed in Iraq is due to open. |
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Cnn.com |
3:06am PDT |
Gas prices hit record high again |
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Summary: Average gasoline prices hit an all-time high Monday, according to a survey conducted for motorist organization AAA.
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BBC News |
3:05am PDT |
Chambers secures Castleford trial |
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Summary: Dwain Chambers is unveiled by Super League strugglers Castleford at the start of a one-month trial. |
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BBC News |
3:03am PDT |
Beijing welcomes Olympic torch |
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Summary: A lavish ceremony is held to welcome the Olympic torch to China, amid tight security over fears of pro-Tibet protests. |
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BBC News |
2:59am PDT |
Fatal crash pair on shopping trip |
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Summary: Two teenagers killed when their car crashed in the rain were on a shopping trip in a new car. |
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BBC News |
2:58am PDT |
Philip 'did not order' Diana death |
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Summary: Neither Prince Philip nor MI6 ordered Princess Diana's death, the coroner at her inquest says as he sums up. |
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BBC News |
2:57am PDT |
Silicon dreams |
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Summary: Intel boss wants to answer your questions |
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BBC News |
2:56am PDT |
Words of history |
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Summary: Rare Abraham Lincoln letter set to be sold in US |
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Yahoo News |
2:55am PDT |
Israeli construction in settlements unabated: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Construction is continuing unabated
in 101 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israel's
Peace Now group said on Monday in a report released during a
visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. |
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BBC News |
2:50am PDT |
US plans finance system overhaul |
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Summary: The US Treasury is set to reveal its blueprint for overhauling the regulation of the financial sector. |
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Yahoo News |
2:48am PDT |
Mugabe minister loses seat in Zimbabwe election
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's justice minister lost his
seat on Monday and first election results showed the opposition
level with President Robert Mugabe's party, but delays to most
results fuelled opposition suspicions of rigging. |
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BBC News |
2:47am PDT |
No room to pray? |
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Summary: Black majority churches complain of planning snags |
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BBC News |
2:46am PDT |
Pairs of rooks can team up to get to tasty nibbles |
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Summary: Pairs of rooks can team up to get to tasty nibbles |
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BBC News |
2:45am PDT |
Cameron backs Johnson mayor bid |
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Summary: David Cameron joins Boris Johnson as he launches his official campaign to become London's mayor. |
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Cnn.com |
2:30am PDT |
Careers vanish in subprime 'free fall' |
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Summary: Kent and Mysti Cope met and fell in love working for one of the nation's top subprime lenders. Now, their life has been turned upside down after the sudden implosion of the subprime mortgage industry.
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Yahoo News |
2:29am PDT |
Musharraf swears in 24 members of Pakistan cabinet
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
swore in 24 members of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's
cabinet on Monday, six weeks after opposition parties won a
general election. |
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Yahoo News |
2:16am PDT |
"Kyoto II" climate talks open in Bangkok
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The first formal talks in the long
process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate
change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a
common human purpose to defeat global warming. |
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ChristianToday |
1:56am PDT |
Church body denounces Dutch antiKoran film |
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Summary: Global ecumenical body the World Council of Churches WCC has condemned a provocative new film released by a Dutch parliamentarian in which he accuses the Koran of inciting violence |
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Yahoo News |
1:53am PDT |
Baghdad Green Zone hit by mortars: police
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A mortar barrage hit Baghdad's heavily
fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's government and the
U.S. embassy, police said, a day after Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr ordered his fighters to stand down. |
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Yahoo News |
1:51am PDT |
Sadr fighters disappear from Iraq's streets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Gun-toting fighters of hardline cleric Moqtada al-Sadr melted from the streets on Monday after days of fierce clashes with security forces as a curfew in Baghdad was lifted and eased in Basra. |
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Yahoo News |
1:48am PDT |
Basra returning to normal after Sadr truce
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Life appeared to be returning to
normal in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday after
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers off the
streets, but clashes continued in Baghdad. |
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Cnn.com |
1:45am PDT |
Ex-racing champs among 5 killed in plane crash |
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Summary: Two former racing drivers are reported to have been killed when the executive jet on which they and three others were traveling crashed into a house southeast of London.
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Yahoo News |
1:12am PDT |
McCain touts military heritage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican Sen. John McCain is opening a new chapter in his presidential campaign, casting himself as an "imperfect servant of my country" who was born into a family of American warriors devoted to honor, courage and duty. |
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Yahoo News |
1:08am PDT |
Bush seeks to boost trans-Atlantic ties
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush is promoting NATO expansion and trying to shore up ties with allies as he heads to Europe for a week. But many world leaders have begun looking beyond him as his second White House term winds down. |
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Cnn.com |
1:06am PDT |
Delay raises vote-rigging fears in Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's electoral commission has started to release results of elections after a delay that has raised fears of vote-rigging and brought security forces onto the streets.
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