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ChristianToday |
4:00am PDT |
Police seize 350 kilos of heroin |
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Summary: Police have made one of the countrys biggest ever heroin seizures with a street value estimated at 15 to 20 million pounds and arrested three men the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Farmers' beef |
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Summary: Dispute reopens old divisions in Argentina |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
New baggage woes at Terminal 5 |
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Summary: Hopes of Heathrow's Terminal 5 operating its first full schedule of flights on Saturday have been dashed by a new baggage glitch. |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Fresh baggage woes at Terminal 5 |
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Summary: Hopes of Heathrow's Terminal 5 operating its first full schedule of flights on Saturday have been dashed by a new baggage glitch. |
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Yahoo News |
3:59am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition barred from court
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A lawyer for Zimbabwe's opposition says armed police have prevented his clients from entering the High Court to pursue an appeal to have presidential election results published. |
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ChristianToday |
3:59am PDT |
Details of MPs expenses revealed |
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Summary: Details of the expenses of six leading members of parliament were revealed on Friday and showed that former prime minister Tony Blair claimed 116 pounds for his TV licence |
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ChristianToday |
3:58am PDT |
Classical festivals struggle to make money |
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Summary: Classical music festivals are booming in the United Kingdom but promoters warn strong ticket demand does not always lead to big profits |
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BBC News |
3:58am PDT |
Zimbabwe's MDC court bid blocked |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's police stop the opposition from filing a petition to get presidential poll results released. |
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ChristianToday |
3:53am PDT |
13 house church leaders detained in Sichuan Province |
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Summary: China Aid Association CAA has learned that thirteen house church leaders were detained at Qu county Sichuan province in China on March 30 |
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BBC News |
3:49am PDT |
Animals to be rescued from farm |
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Summary: A rescue operation is due to take place to remove 300 animals kept in squalid conditions in County Down. |
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Yahoo News |
3:48am PDT |
Police stop Zimbabwe opposition lodging appeal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - 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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ChristianPost |
3:44am PDT |
If King Had Lived, What Now? |
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Summary: Four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fell to an assassin's bullet, colleagues and biographers offer many answers to the question: What if he had ... |
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Yahoo News |
3:40am PDT |
Iran to boost nuclear capacity despite pressure
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran said on Saturday it would press
ahead with plans to expand its nuclear program, after diplomats
in Vienna said Tehran was installing advanced centrifuges in
its key uranium enrichment plant. |
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ChristianToday |
3:39am PDT |
Brown and Mbeki to hold talks over Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will hold talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday during which the postelection crisis in Zimbabwe is likely to be discussed a spokesman for Brown said |
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Cnn.com |
3:36am PDT |
Zimbabwe police bar opposition from court |
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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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Yahoo News |
3:32am PDT |
Sarkozy uses Olympics to pressure China on Tibet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - French President Nicholas Sarkozy stepped up the pressure on China Saturday over its handling of the Tibet crisis by warning he may boycott the Olympic opening, following fresh violence. |
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ChristianToday |
3:30am PDT |
Churches feeding hungry Zimbabweans |
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Summary: Zimbabwes churches are working hard to keep ordinary Zimbabweans from starvation in a country with the worlds highest inflation rate and shortest life expectancy |
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ChristianPost |
3:29am PDT |
UCC Calls for Nationwide Race Discussion |
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Summary: The United Church of Christ, the parent denomination of Barack Obama's church, announced Thursday that it will begin a conversation on racial issues beginning next month in response to sermons by Obama's pastor that were critical of the U.... |
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BBC News |
3:23am PDT |
How much did this 'Penny' Stradivarius violin fetch at auction? |
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Summary: A violin owned by a pioneering female musician sells for $1.2m (£600,000) at a sale in New York. |
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Yahoo News |
3:22am PDT |
Bush sees NATO future for Macedonia and all Balkans
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - 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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BBC News |
3:22am PDT |
No contact with seized yacht crew |
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Summary: France says it has had no contact with the crew of a luxury yacht seized with its crew by Somali pirates. |
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Yahoo News |
3:14am PDT |
UCLA's Walton nearly perfect in '73 game
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kevin Love likes watching videos of classic basketball games nearly as much as the UCLA freshman likes playing in them. He's seen a tape of the 1973 NCAA championship game, when Bill Walton and the Bruins played Memphis and calls it "very special." |
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Yahoo News |
3:11am PDT |
52 girls removed from Texas polygamist sect
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas authorities said on Friday
that they were investigating a potential child-abuse case at a
ranch operated by followers of a breakaway Mormon sect linked
to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. |
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Yahoo News |
3:05am PDT |
Mother Nature can't let go of Arkansas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - How much can one state take? In the past two months, Arkansas has suffered through a tornado outbreak that killed 13, a foot of snow, a foot of rain and near-record flooding. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00am PDT |
Police fire on Tibetan protesters; 8 die
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police fired on hundreds of protesters in a Tibetan area of western China, killing eight people, an overseas activist group said. State media reported one government official was seriously injured in what it called a riot. |
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Yahoo News |
2:59am PDT |
U.S. military charges civilian contractor in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States military announced on
Saturday it had charged a civilian contractor in Iraq under
U.S. military law for the first time. |
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Yahoo News |
2:45am PDT |
52 girls removed from Texas compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Child welfare officials are scrambling to find foster homes for dozens of girls removed from a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a 16-year-old living there complained of physical abuse. |
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Yahoo News |
2:44am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition urges international pressure on Mugabe
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition called Saturday for international pressure to force Robert Mugabe to accept defeat in last weekend's elections, fearing the president was gearing up to exact revenge. |
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BBC News |
2:43am PDT |
Indiana Jones 'opening in Cannes' |
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Summary: The new Indiana Jones movie will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, says star John Hurt. |
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BBC News |
2:31am PDT |
Shop fall girl remains critical |
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Summary: A toddler remains critically ill after falling about 100ft (30m) from an escalator in Liverpool's Primark store. |
