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Yahoo News |
6:08am PDT |
Berlusconi win in Italy boosts right-wing ally
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Silvio Berlusconi's victory in Italy's elections marked a breakthrough for his Northern League ally, prompting fears Tuesday that the small anti-immigration party will unduly influence his agenda. |
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Yahoo News |
6:08am PDT |
Car bombs kill more than 50 in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Car bombs ripped through crowded areas in Baghdad and former insurgent strongholds to the north and west of the capital on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people and breaking a recent lull in violence in predominantly Sunni areas. |
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ChristianToday |
6:06am PDT |
Barclays sees UK mortgage opportunity amid crunch |
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Summary: British bank Barclays sees tougher market conditions as a growth opportunity for its UK mortgage business and retail arm thanks to growing deposits and lower costs senior executives told analysts on Tuesday |
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BBC News |
6:03am PDT |
Pair 'tried to blackmail Royal' |
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Summary: Two men tried to blackmail a member of the Royal Family with recordings containing gay sex claims, a court hears. |
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Yahoo News |
6:02am PDT |
Zimbabwe general strike flops
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Zimbabwe opposition's campaign to force the release of results from last month's presidential election suffered a fresh blow on Tuesday when a call for a general strike went largely unheeded. |
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Cnn.com |
6:00am PDT |
Glenn Beck: Tax relief for all...corporations |
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Summary: Ah, tax day. The day that we all get together to give our money to an organization that none of us believe actually deserves it.
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Cnn.com |
6:00am PDT |
Glenn Beck: Give corporations a tax break |
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Summary: Ah, tax day. The day that we all get together to give our money to an organization that none of us believe actually deserves it.
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Cnn.com |
6:00am PDT |
Glenn Beck: Tax relief for all ... corporations |
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Summary: Ah, tax day. The day that we all get together to give our money to an organization that none of us believe actually deserves it.
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Yahoo News |
5:59am PDT |
Pope vows to bar pedophiles becoming priests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict said on
Tuesday he was "deeply ashamed" over sexual abuse of children
by priests and vowed to do everything possible to stop
pedophiles entering the priesthood in future. |
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ChristianToday |
5:59am PDT |
Mission to Seafarers floating centre marks first anniversary |
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Summary: The Flying Angel the worlds first floating seafarers centre owned and operated by The Mission to Seafarers has welcomed over 3000 seafarers onboard since entering fulltime service in the port of Fujairah Dubai on April 15 2007 |
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BBC News |
5:57am PDT |
Brides for sale |
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Summary: Afghan families forced to sell their children for food |
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Yahoo News |
5:53am PDT |
China says seizes explosives in Tibetan monasteries
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese police in the northwestern
province of Gansu have seized explosives, knives and one gun
from six monasteries in an ethnically Tibetan part of the
region, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:50am PDT |
Pope: 'Ashamed' of clergy abuse scandal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sexual abuse scandal that stained the Catholic church and will work to make sure pedophiles don't become priests. |
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Yahoo News |
5:49am PDT |
Car bombs kill more than 50 in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Two car bombs killed more than 50
people in Sunni Arab areas of Iraq on Tuesday, a sudden spasm
of violence in places which had been comparatively quiet while
battles raged in the Shi'ite south. |
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ChristianToday |
5:49am PDT |
Pope leaves Rome on visit to United States |
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Summary: Pope Benedict left Rome on Tuesday on a sixday trip to the United States during which he will pray at Ground Zero in New York address the United Nations and try to heal wounds from a sexual abuse scandal |
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Yahoo News |
5:47am PDT |
Wholesale prices soared in March
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Inflation at the wholesale level soared in March at nearly triple the rate that had been expected as the costs of energy and food both climbed rapidly. |
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Cnn.com |
5:36am PDT |
Bombings kill at least 60 in Iraq |
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Summary: At least 34 people have died in the suicide car bombing that rocked a restive Iraqi provincial capital on Tuesday, a medical source told CNN.
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BBC News |
5:31am PDT |
England stars IPL bound - Vaughan |
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Summary: Michael Vaughan says it is inevitable that England players will compete in the Indian Premier League. |
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ChristianPost |
5:29am PDT |
Benedict XVI Ready to Meet America |
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Summary: Benedict's first trip to the United States as pope begins Tuesday — a five-day visit to Washington and New York, including a speech at the United ... |
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Yahoo News |
5:20am PDT |
Women of polygamist retreat speak out
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mothers separated from their children as part of a wide-ranging abuse investigation within a polygamist retreat accuse state officials of misleading them before taking their offspring into custody. |
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Cnn.com |
5:20am PDT |
iReport: Jimi Hendrix gets shuffled |
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Summary: Some call him "the Post-it Note Boy," after the 10-foot tall Ray Charles mosaic he made out of those sticky colored squares last summer.
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BBC News |
5:14am PDT |
Pair 'tried to blackmail royal' |
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Summary: Two men tried to blackmail a member of the Royal Family with recordings containing gay sex claims, a court hears. |
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BBC News |
5:13am PDT |
Berlusconi plans Naples clean-up |
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Summary: Silvio Berlusconi sees the Naples rubbish crisis and Alitalia's woes as priorities for his government. |
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Yahoo News |
5:12am PDT |
Berlusconi to target immigrant crime in Italy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Italy's Silvio Berlusconi pledged on
Tuesday to use his big election win to push through economic
reforms, and vowed to close the border to illegal immigrants in
a crackdown on criminals he called "the army of evil." |
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BBC News |
5:12am PDT |
Dozens dead as Iraq cities bombed |
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Summary: More than 50 people are killed in car bomb explosions in the Iraqi cities of Baquba and Ramadi, police say. |
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BBC News |
5:10am PDT |
Ferdinand agrees new Man Utd deal |
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Summary: Rio Ferdinand agrees a five-year contract with Manchester United, according to the player's agent. |
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ChristianPost |
5:01am PDT |
Obama's Ex-Pastor Speaks at Va. Church |
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Summary: Barack Obama's retired pastor, making his first public speaking appearance since the beginning of the furor over his remarks criticizing the United States, delivered a sermon Sunday at a Virginia ... |
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Yahoo News |
5:00am PDT |
France may outlaw inciting thinness
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness. |
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ChristianPost |
4:56am PDT |
Pope Will Find Diverse Church in U.S. |
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Summary: In his visit this month to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI will find an American flock wrestling with what it means to be Roman ... |
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BBC News |
4:56am PDT |
Brown 'standing firm' on economy |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says he will not be diverted from taking "unpopular" decisions to help the UK economy. |
