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BBC News |
6:51am PDT |
US forces clash with Iraq militia |
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Summary: Twenty people are reported killed in clashes in Baghdad between US forces and a Shia militia. |
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Cnn.com |
6:46am PDT |
UK's Prince Philip leaves hospital |
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Summary: Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was released from the hospital on Sunday where he was admitted last week with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said.
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BBC News |
6:45am PDT |
Clashes mar Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Thirty arrests are made amid scuffles between pro-Tibet protesters and police along the Olympic torch relay in London. |
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BBC News |
6:38am PDT |
Massa wins as Hamilton stumbles |
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Summary: Ferrari's Felipe Massa dominates the Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton fails to score and loses the championship lead. |
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BBC News |
6:38am PDT |
French Muslim war graves defaced |
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Summary: Vandals use a pig's head and anti-Muslim slogans to deface the graves of Muslim soldiers in a French WWI cemetery. |
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Yahoo News |
6:37am PDT |
Clashes kill 22 in Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Twenty-two people were killed and 55
wounded in clashes in Baghdad, police said on Sunday, the worst
eruption of violence in the capital since Shi'ite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr called his fighters off the streets a week ago. |
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Yahoo News |
6:35am PDT |
Mugabe's party demands Zimbabwe recount
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party demanded a vote recount and a further delay in the release of presidential election results, the state Sunday Mail newspaper reported, prompting outrage from the opposition party. |
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Yahoo News |
6:31am PDT |
US, Russia can't agree on missiles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17am PDT |
Protesters disrupt London's Olympic torch relay
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Thousands of anti-China protesters
draped in Tibetan flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay on
Sunday through London, billed as a journey of harmony and
peace. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Brown criticised for torch parade |
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Summary: The Olympic torch is received at Downing Street after pro-Tibet protests. |
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Yahoo News |
6:05am PDT |
Gunmen release 42 students in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraqi police say gunmen have released the 42 college students they kidnapped earlier in the day near the northern city of Mosul. |
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Yahoo News |
5:58am PDT |
Protesters disrupt Olympic torch relay in London
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Anti-China protesters draped in Tibetan
flags disrupted the Olympic torch relay through London on
Sunday, billed as a journey of harmony and peace. |
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BBC News |
5:45am PDT |
How did Doctor Who's TV comeback do in the ratings? |
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Summary: Doctor Who's comeback attracts 8.4 million viewers, despite fears an earlier timeslot would harm the serial. |
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Yahoo News |
5:44am PDT |
Bush, Putin fail to resolve missile differences
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush and
Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last face-to-face meeting
as heads of state on Sunday with warm words for each other but
no solution to their row over missile defense. |
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BBC News |
5:37am PDT |
'Anti-gay views' JP investigated |
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Summary: An inquiry is underway into anti-gay remarks made by a serving magistrate on a BBC Wales documentary. |
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Yahoo News |
5:33am PDT |
US-Russia summit eases tension on missile defence
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made progress on Sunday toward resolving their dispute over a planned US missile defence system in Europe at their swansong summit by the Black Sea. |
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BBC News |
5:33am PDT |
Prince discharged from hospital |
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Summary: The Duke of Edinburgh is discharged from a London hospital after being treated for a chest infection. |
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Cnn.com |
5:24am PDT |
20 dead in Sadr City fighting, ministry says |
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Summary: Gunmen took at least 42 college students hostage in northern Iraq Sunday, according to police in Iraq's Nineveh police province.
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Cnn.com |
5:18am PDT |
Police storm temple at polygamist ranch |
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Summary: Authorities stormed the temple of a Texas ranch that's home to a rogue Mormon sect Saturday, as part of a search for victims of physical and sexual abuse, police said.
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BBC News |
5:16am PDT |
Police attacked at raid arrests |
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Summary: Police are attacked as they arrest two people following an armed robbery in County Armagh. |
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Cnn.com |
5:01am PDT |
London protests disrupt Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Two protesters were arrested for trying to extinguish the Olympic torch with a fire extinguisher on Sunday as demonstrators disrupted the flame's arrival in the British capital ahead of this year's Summer Games in Beijing, China.
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BBC News |
4:44am PDT |
Centrica 'eyeing British Energy' |
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Summary: British Gas parent Centrica talks to European firms about a possible joint bid for British Energy, say reports. |
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BBC News |
4:44am PDT |
Npower suspends 17 staff |
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Summary: Utility firm Npower suspends 17 staff following allegations in a Sunday newspaper over sales tactics. |
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Yahoo News |
4:41am PDT |
Sri Lanka bombing kills 12; dozens hurt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Dozens were wounded. |
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Yahoo News |
4:32am PDT |
Rescuer: Victim fell from helicopter
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A crewman who died at the site of a sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea fell from a rescue basket being pulled into a helicopter, a rescuer has testified. |
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Yahoo News |
4:26am PDT |
Iraq students freed after mass kidnapping
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A group of at least 40 students
kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday near the northern city of Mosul
have been freed by Iraqi security forces, police said. |
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BBC News |
4:25am PDT |
Abducted Iraqi students are freed |
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Summary: A group of 42 university students abducted near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul are released, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
4:20am PDT |
Afghan forces arrest Taliban commander
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Afghan police have arrested a Taliban
commander in the southern province of Kandahar while 15
insurgents have been killed in clashes with Afghan and NATO
troops, the government said on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
4:19am PDT |
Fire prevents residents returning |
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Summary: Residents are not allowed home after a massive blaze destroys a block of flats under construction. |
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BBC News |
4:16am PDT |
Officers attacked during trouble |
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Summary: Police are attacked during a disturbance in Londonderry which involved up to 100 youths. |
