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Yahoo News |
1:56am PDT |
Paulson says U.S. economy faces a tough quarter
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. economy has taken a sharp turn
for the worse and is facing a tough quarter, U.S. Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
1:55am PDT |
Tanzania targets witchdoctors |
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Summary: Tanzania's president orders a crackdown on witchdoctors who use albino body parts for good luck potions. |
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BBC News |
1:53am PDT |
China's challenges |
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Summary: BBC answers Chinese criticism of its reporting |
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ChristianToday |
1:53am PDT |
Hybrid embryos cross the line say Churches |
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Summary: Churches have expressed their regret over the creation of partanimal parthuman hybrids by researchers at the University of Newcastle this week |
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BBC News |
1:49am PDT |
Climate protest at power station |
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Summary: Protesters block roads to a coal-fired power station in south Wales as part of an environment campaign. |
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BBC News |
1:47am PDT |
France sets date on Nato decision |
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Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will decide by the end of the year on a return to Nato's military command. |
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BBC News |
1:28am PDT |
Symbolic Cyprus crossing reopens |
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Summary: Greek and Turkish Cypriots reopen Ledra Street in the divided capital of Nicosia amid a new push for reunification. |
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BBC News |
1:26am PDT |
Fifty years on |
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Summary: Thalidomide is still a curse for some - a blessing for others |
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Yahoo News |
1:22am PDT |
Mugabe fighting biggest battle after poll defeat
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - There was still no official word on the
result of Zimbabwe's presidential election on Thursday as
Robert Mugabe fought to survive the biggest crisis of his
28-year rule. |
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BBC News |
1:12am PDT |
Opposition wins Zimbabwe assembly |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition MDC wins control of parliament, displacing the ruling Zanu-PF, final official results show. |
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BBC News |
1:11am PDT |
Wenger irked by 'blatant' penalty |
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Summary: Arsene Wenger is angry with the referee for denying Arsenal a penalty against Liverpool but still feels his side can win their Champions League quarter-final. |
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BBC News |
1:08am PDT |
Chemists 'to offer GP services' |
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Summary: High-street pharmacies should play a greater role in providing care for minor ailments to free up GPs, the government says. |
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Yahoo News |
1:07am PDT |
North Korea sells rocket launchers to Myanmar: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea has been selling multiple
rocket launchers to military-ruled Myanmar since the two
countries restored ties last year in violation of U.N.
sanctions, Japan's NHK public broadcaster reported. |
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Yahoo News |
1:05am PDT |
U.S. forces clash with gunmen in Iraq's Hilla
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. forces called in helicopter
strikes during a clash with gunmen on Thursday in the southern
Iraqi city of Hilla, scene of fighting last week between
security forces and Shi'ite militiamen. |
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BBC News |
1:02am PDT |
Air strike levels house in Basra |
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Summary: An air strike in the southern Iraqi city of Basra destroys a house and kill at least one occupant. |
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Cnn.com |
12:55am PDT |
Report: U.S. sailor arrested in killing in Japan |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
12:48am PDT |
China denies pre-Olympic crackdown on dissidents
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China on Thursday denied it was cracking down on dissidents ahead of the Beijing Olympics, after high-profile rights activist Hu Jia was jailed for subversion. "We can't accept the accusation. China is a country with the rule of law. Everyone is equ |
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BBC News |
12:35am PDT |
Mariah breaks Elvis chart record |
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Summary: Mariah Carey is now second only to the Beatles for the most US No 1 singles after scoring her 18th chart-topper. |
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BBC News |
12:31am PDT |
Spat between two Koreas escalates |
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Summary: N Korea reportedly threatens 'countermeasures' against S Korea, in a growing row between the two neighbours. |
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BBC News |
12:27am PDT |
Cannabis 'should remain class C' |
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Summary: The body which advises the government on drugs policy says cannabis should remain class C status, the BBC understands. |
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Cnn.com |
12:23am PDT |
N. Korea says peninsula 'on brink of war' |
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Summary: North Korea accused South Korea on Thursday of driving their relationship to "confrontation and catastrophe," claiming the peninsula was on the brink of another war.
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BBC News |
12:23am PDT |
Nato mulls Georgia, Ukraine links |
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Summary: Nato is to discuss how to maintain links with Georgia and Ukraine after failing to agree on their membership. |
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Yahoo News |
12:21am PDT |
Clinton, Obama seek money in California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In back-to-back stops, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are returning to a popular financial wellhead, raising money in California to help finance a heavy stretch of spending in April. |
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ChristianToday |
12:12am PDT |
Church in Wales rejects women bishops Bill |
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Summary: Proposals to allow women in the Church in Wales to be ordained as bishops have been rejected by the Churchs Governing Body on Wednesday |
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Yahoo News |
12:09am PDT |
NATO divided on Georgia, Ukraine
(AP)
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Summary: AP - France and Germany were poised to thwart a drive by President Bush to place the strategically important Black Sea states of Ukraine and Georgia on track for NATO membership at a tense alliance summit. |
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Yahoo News |
12:09am PDT |
Beer executive could be next first lady
(AP)
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Summary: AP - On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot. |
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Yahoo News |
12:06am PDT |
France's Sarkozy confirms troops for Afghanistan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed
at a NATO summit on Thursday that France will send a battalion
of troops to the east of Afghanistan as part of efforts to
bolster the alliance's peacekeeping force. |
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Cnn.com |
12:04am PDT |
Ex-stripper sentenced in plot to kill former fiance |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
12:01am PDT |
Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing seven people and wounding 12. |
