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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
Petraeus halts troop withdrawals from Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq told
Congress on Tuesday he plans to stop U.S. troop withdrawals in
July due to fragile security gains in a progress report with
repercussions on the U.S. presidential campaign. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
2nd arrest at Texas polygamy compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A second member of a polygamist sect has been arrested in connection with a search of a Texas compound. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24am PDT |
WaMu gets $7 billion infusion, cuts jobs, sees loss
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Washington Mutual Inc , battered
by mortgage delinquencies and defaults, said Tuesday it
obtained a $7 billion capital injection from private equity
firm TPG Inc and other investors, but projected a $1.1 billion
quarterly loss and set plans |
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Yahoo News |
10:16am PDT |
Iran reveals new atomic work, draws Western rebuke
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran has begun installing 6,000 new
centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, defying the West which fears
Tehran is trying to build nuclear bombs. |
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ChristianPost |
10:05am PDT |
Catholic Church Gets Hip for Pope's Youth Rally |
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Summary: Hip, young and fun are usually not words that come immediately to mind when describing the Catholic Church. But this is the mood the world's second largest religious institution is looking to create for the Pope's stop at a Youth Rally in New York next .. |
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Yahoo News |
10:04am PDT |
Petraeus calls for troop withdrawal halt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. general commanding the Iraq war called Tuesday for an open-ended suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals this summer, reflecting concern about a recent flare-up in violence and leaving open the possibility that few, if any, additional troops wi |
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Cnn.com |
9:53am PDT |
Olympic flame gets 'head of state' secrecy |
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Summary: The Olympic flame, glowing in a small lamp, arrived in San Francisco early Tuesday to continue an international torch relay that has been plagued by passionate protests.
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Cnn.com |
9:51am PDT |
Deadly critters that might save your life |
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Summary: Sure, you know these five creatures as stinging, biting merchants of death. But isn't it time we put aside our differences and embraced the positive?
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ChristianToday |
9:43am PDT |
OlympicsMost Americans say China wrong choice for Gamespoll |
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Summary: Seventy percent of US voters think it was wrong to let China host the Olympics but equal numbers say a Beijing Games boycott would fail to change Chinas human rights policies a Zogby poll showed on Tuesday |
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BBC News |
9:39am PDT |
Clooney drops into Downing Street for pictures and talks on Darfur |
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Summary: Hollywood actor George Clooney visits Gordon Brown to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. |
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ChristianToday |
9:37am PDT |
UK bomb plot accused had flight timetablespolice |
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Summary: One of eight British men accused of planning to bomb airliners had a notebook listing liquids and a computer memory stick with timetables for flights to the United States and Canada the mens trial was told on Tuesday |
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ChristianToday |
9:34am PDT |
UK rocker Pete Doherty jailed for 14 weeks |
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Summary: British rock star Pete Doherty was jailed on Tuesday for 14 weeks for breaching terms of his probation his record label said |
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BBC News |
9:33am PDT |
EU warns Bulgaria after killings |
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Summary: The EU calls on Bulgaria to take "urgent action" to fight organised crime after two high-profile killings. |
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Cnn.com |
9:33am PDT |
Raid lifts veil on secretive polygamist sect |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
9:31am PDT |
Top general reports 'fragile' progress in Iraq |
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Summary: Iraq is making "fragile but reversible" progress on security, but it's too early to set dates to pull out all U.S. troops, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, told Congress today.
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ChristianToday |
9:29am PDT |
Iraqs Sadr threatens to scrap ceasefire |
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Summary: Shiite cleric Moqtada alSadr threatened on Tuesday to end a truce he imposed on his militia last year raising the prospect of worsening violence just hours before top US officials testified on Iraq in Washington |
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BBC News |
9:28am PDT |
Brown seeks to calm housing fears |
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Summary: Gordon Brown plays down talk of a 1990s-style property crash, saying recent price falls are "containable". |
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BBC News |
9:27am PDT |
Five guilty of Kodjo gang murder |
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Summary: Five youths are found guilty of killing 16-year-old schoolboy Kodjo Yenga in Hammersmith, west London. |
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BBC News |
9:24am PDT |
Good Samaritan stabbed by robbers |
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Summary: A woman stabbed by a man who claimed his car had broken down says she is too afraid to leave her house. |
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ChristianToday |
9:21am PDT |
UK house prices drop Brown says rates can be cut |
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Summary: UK house prices fell sharply in March hardening expectations of an interest rate cut this week and prompting unusually blunt remarks on rate policy from Prime Minister Gordon Brown whose popularity has slumped |
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Yahoo News |
9:20am PDT |
Rice leaves door ajar for vice presidential chance
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice left slightly open the chance on Tuesday that she might be
interested in running as vice president on Republican White
House contender John McCain's ticket. |
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BBC News |
9:16am PDT |
Singer Doherty is sent to prison |
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Summary: Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty is jailed for 14 weeks for violating the terms of his probation. |
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BBC News |
8:58am PDT |
Security fears for torch's US leg |
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Summary: The Olympic flame relay arrives in California amid heightened security, as it faces further protests. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition slams 'deafening silence' of Africa
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition slammed the "deafening silence" Tuesday of Africa in the aftermath of the country's elections, warning of blood on the streets unless pressure is brought to bear on Robert Mugabe. |
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Yahoo News |
8:51am PDT |
Weak retail sales may spur more warnings
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - If there was any question of how much
an early Easter would hurt sales at already-struggling U.S.
retailers, J.C. Penney Co Inc gave a resounding answer
last month with a quarterly profit warning. |
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Cnn.com |
8:43am PDT |
Flying tips for cranky passengers |
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Summary: Disgruntled airline passengers are nothing new, and the latest snapshot of the airline industry indicates plenty of cause for frustration.
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Yahoo News |
8:38am PDT |
Iraqi cleric threatens to end cease-fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Tuesday to lift a seven-month freeze on his Mahdi Army militia if the Iraqi government does not halt attacks on his followers or set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal. |
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CTI News |
8:28am PDT |
'A Poorer Story, but a Better Movie' |
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Summary: So says Douglas Gresham, C. S. Lewis's stepson and producer of the upcoming 'Prince Caspian,' in comparing it to 'The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.'
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CTI News |
8:27am PDT |
Review: Colson the Catechist |
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Summary: A culture warrior sets out to explain Christianity's essential doctrines.
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CTI News |
8:27am PDT |
Speaking Out: Hardships in Jordan |
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Summary: The president of Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary on maintaining fruitful relationships with our neighbors.
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