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Cnn.com |
6:02am PDT |
Zimbabwe election hearing delayed |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition party will ask the United Nations to intervene to avoid bloodshed ahead of a hotly contested presidential runoff, a party spokesman has told CNN.
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BBC News |
6:01am PDT |
Animals being rescued from farm |
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Summary: A rescue operation is under way to remove 300 animals kept in squalid conditions in County Down. |
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BBC News |
5:50am PDT |
Zimbabwe vote transparency urged |
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Summary: International monitoring must be allowed in the Zimbabwe presidential election, the Foreign Secretary says. |
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Yahoo News |
5:40am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition appeal postponed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Zimbabwe court postponed a legal bid
by the opposition to force the release of presidential election
results on Saturday, after the electoral commission asked for
more time to prepare its response. |
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BBC News |
5:19am PDT |
Light plane missing in blizzard |
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Summary: Rescue helicopters search for a light aircraft reported missing in bad weather in the Cairngorms. |
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Yahoo News |
5:14am PDT |
Clintons made $109 million since 2000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton made nearly $109 million since they left the White House, capitalizing on the world's interest in the former first couple and lucrative business ventures. |
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Yahoo News |
4:49am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition legal appeal postponed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Zimbabwean opposition's legal bid to
force release of presidential election results was postponed to
Sunday after armed police prevented its lawyers entering the
High Court on Saturday. |
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ChristianToday |
4:49am PDT |
Christian priest gunned down in Baghdad |
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Summary: Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi priest in a driveby attack in central Baghdad on Saturday police said in the latest attack on Christians in the country |
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BBC News |
4:48am PDT |
Thousands march over council cuts |
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Summary: Campaigners march through Aberdeen city centre to protest against council cutbacks. |
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BBC News |
4:47am PDT |
Teacher union leader Sinnott dies |
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Summary: Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the UK's biggest teachers' union, the National Union of Teachers, dies. |
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ChristianPost |
4:26am PDT |
Slavery in the Land of the Free |
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Summary: Children in the US grow up hearing about the slavery that plagued America from its founding until the Civil War. The death blow was struck by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed that "all persons held as slaves" in the rebel states "shal |
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ChristianToday |
4:25am PDT |
Christian mayoral candidate pledges more jobs |
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Summary: Christian London mayoral candidate Alan Craig is promising to tackle inequality by building up a successful business climate in the capital |
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Cnn.com |
4:18am PDT |
Children removed from polygamist ranch |
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Summary: Authorities on Friday removed 52 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, from a West Texas ranch occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs. Eighteen girls have been placed in the temporary custody of the state under a court orde |
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BBC News |
4:16am PDT |
Bush praises Croatian democracy |
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Summary: US President George W Bush pays tribute to Croatia's democracy during a speech in Zagreb. |
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ChristianToday |
4:13am PDT |
Police stop Zimbabwe opposition lodging appeal |
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Summary: Armed police on Saturday prevented Zimbabwe opposition lawyers from entering the High Court to apply for an order forcing the release of presidential election results |
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ChristianToday |
4:13am PDT |
US judge rules for Episcopal Church secessionists |
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Summary: A US court has ruled in favor of 11 conservative congregations that broke away from the US Episcopal Church and want to keep property worth millions of dollars parties in the dispute said on Friday |
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BBC News |
4:13am PDT |
Doctors to assess duke's recovery |
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Summary: The Duke of Edinburgh spends a second night in hospital where he is being treated for a chest infection. |
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ChristianToday |
4:13am PDT |
IOC says Beijing air no danger to athletes |
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Summary: The head of the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday that Beijings poor air quality will not endanger the health of athletes competing in the games in August but it may affect their performance |
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ChristianToday |
4:12am PDT |
Clintons made 55 mln pounds since 2000 |
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Summary: Democrat Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton have made 109 million 55 million pounds since leaving the White House including 51 million in speech income for Bill Clinton according to eight years of tax records released on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
4:11am PDT |
Bush sees NATO future for Macedonia and all Balkans |
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Summary: President George W Bush reassured Macedonia on Saturday that the United States believed it should join NATO as soon as possible |
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ChristianToday |
4:11am PDT |
Three convicted in Argentine dirty war baby case |
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Summary: An Argentine couple and a former army officer were convicted on Friday of charges related to the illegal adoption of a political prisoners baby during the 19761983 military dictatorship |
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ChristianToday |
4:10am PDT |
Tibet vows troublefree torch run |
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Summary: Tibets Communist Party chief vowed a troublefree Olympic torch relay through the region even as security forces struggled to stamp out flaring violence in a nearby part of Tibetan China |
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ChristianToday |
4:10am PDT |
Four killed as Haitians riot over prices |
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Summary: Four people were killed in southern Haiti when demonstrators protesting the high cost of living clashed with security forces a local official said on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
4:09am PDT |
Black Sea summit aims to defuse old tensions |
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Summary: US President George W Bush and Russias Vladimir Putin will try to ease strains over missile defence and NATO expansion and polish their legacies at a farewell summit on the Black Sea starting on Saturday |
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ChristianToday |
4:07am PDT |
Texas agencies probe abuse at polygamist sect |
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Summary: Texas authorities said on Friday that they were investigating a potential childabuse case at a ranch operated by followers of a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs |
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BBC News |
4:05am PDT |
Shopping chaos |
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Summary: Why India's bazaars will survive superstore rivalry |
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ChristianToday |
4:03am PDT |
Vatican seeks to reassure Jews on Good Friday prayer |
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Summary: The Vatican tried to reassure Jews on Friday that a new prayer that some see as a call for their conversion did not indicate a change in the Churchs high regard for Jews or its contempt for antiSemitism |
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ChristianToday |
4:01am PDT |
Two family members held in Shannon probe |
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Summary: Police investigating the kidnapping of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in Yorkshire arrested two members of her stepfathers family on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
4:01am PDT |
Prince Philip hopes to fulfil Monday engagements |
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Summary: Prince Philip 86 who entered hospital on Thursday with a chest infection is hoping to fulfil his diary engagements next week Buckingham Palace said on Saturday |
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Yahoo News |
4:01am PDT |
Bush celebrates NATO's expansion
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush celebrated NATO's expansion into former communist territory on Saturday and urged further enlargement, highlighting differences with Moscow hours before final talks with outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
