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4:13am PDT |
Excuse me sir |
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Summary: Innocent folk taking photos are being stopped by police |
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ChristianPost |
4:05am PDT |
Virginia Tech Vigil Draws 30,000 |
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Summary: All day, memorial services large and small were held at Virginia Tech, celebrating the 32 lives cut short by a gunman last year. Perhaps the most powerful came after ... |
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BBC News |
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Big drop in hospital wait lists |
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Summary: Hospital waiting lists in Northern Ireland have been cut drastically in the last year, figures show. |
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BBC News |
3:37am PDT |
Many mourners killed by Iraq bomb |
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Summary: At least 30 people are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a crowd of mourners in Baquba, north of Baghdad. |
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BBC News |
3:37am PDT |
Many mourners killed in Iraq bomb |
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Summary: At least 30 people are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a crowd of mourners in Baquba, north of Baghdad. |
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BBC News |
3:30am PDT |
Kidnap silence |
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Summary: Family's anxious wait for news of missing Iraqi father |
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Yahoo News |
3:24am PDT |
45 killed in Iraq suicide bombing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber struck the funeral of two anti-al-Qaida Sunni tribesmen in a town north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, police said. |
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BBC News |
3:21am PDT |
Caldwell and Weir will be banned |
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Summary: Celtic's Gary Caldwell and Rangers' David Weir are to be disciplined after being sent off after Wednesday's derby. |
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Yahoo News |
3:20am PDT |
States' death row injections get OK after high court ruling
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Many states wasted little time trying to get executions back on track following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the use of a three-drug lethal cocktail. |
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Yahoo News |
3:19am PDT |
China hikes tariffs to stem fertilizer exports
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China slapped massive tariffs on
fertilizer exports on Thursday in a bid to control rapidly
rising domestic agricultural costs and inflation, and above all
to ensure it grows enough grain to feed its 1.3 billion people. |
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Cnn.com |
3:19am PDT |
U.S. currency sinks to new low |
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Yahoo News |
3:14am PDT |
AP-Yahoo poll shows McCain winning back unhappy Republicans
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall. |
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Cnn.com |
3:08am PDT |
Kenyan unity government sworn in |
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Summary: Kenya swore in a new Cabinet Thursday, split 50-50 between former bitter enemies from opposing parties.
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Yahoo News |
3:06am PDT |
Spurs wrap up third seed with win over Jazz
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The San Antonio Spurs wrapped up the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference playoffs in dominant fashion, routing the Utah Jazz 109-80 on Wednesday night. |
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Cnn.com |
3:03am PDT |
Suicide blast at funeral kills 15 in Iraq |
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Summary: At least 15 people were killed and 30 wounded on Thursday in a suicide bombing in northern Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said.
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Yahoo News |
3:03am PDT |
Suicide bomber slaughters 45 Iraqi mourners
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, a police officer told AFP. |
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BBC News |
3:02am PDT |
Bombing at funeral in north Iraq |
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Summary: At least 45 people are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq. |
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BBC News |
3:02am PDT |
Tory councils 'offer best value' |
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Summary: Tory leader David Cameron urges people to "vote blue, go green - and save money" in May's elections. |
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BBC News |
3:00am PDT |
Guarded welcome for banks plans |
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Summary: A forthcoming government plan to ease the log-jam in the mortgage market receives a guarded welcome. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00am PDT |
Suicide bomber kills 49 at Iraq funeral
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in
northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 49 mourners in the latest
attack in a region where al Qaeda militants have regrouped,
police said. |
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ChristianToday |
2:53am PDT |
Evangelist to communicate fun side of faith to kids |
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Summary: Open Air Campaigners OAC will be joining Churches Together at the Royal Cornwall Show from 5 to 7June to share the good news of Jesus in a dynamic way |
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Yahoo News |
2:50am PDT |
Japan court says Iraq dispatch unconstitutional
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japan's dispatch of air force troops to
Iraq breaches the country's pacifist constitution, a court said
on Thursday, but the government said the court's comments will
not affect the current dispatch. |
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Yahoo News |
2:47am PDT |
Texas judge holding custody hearing for polygamists' kids
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The 416 children who once led cloistered lives on their church's ranch outside a tiny town in West Texas have spent the past two weeks sleeping on cots, shuffled from shelter to shelter. |
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Yahoo News |
2:46am PDT |
Bush climate plan criticized for lacking urgency
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The world needs tougher action to combat
global warming than a plan by President George W. Bush to halt
a rise in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions only by 2025, delegates
at a climate conference in Paris said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
2:41am PDT |
Richey's tears over cancer battle |
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Summary: Freed Death Row Scot Kenny Richey tells how he wept after being diagnosed with mouth cancer. |
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ChristianToday |
2:41am PDT |
Western policies fuelling persecution in Middle East Archbishop |
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Summary: The military policies of the West in the last few years have firmly cemented in a great deal of the Middle East the notion that Christianity is a foreign aggressive and Western presence the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said on Wednesday nigh |
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BBC News |
2:38am PDT |
Monsoon warning for Bangladeshis |
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Summary: Aid agencies say millions of Bangladeshis are still in dire need of help five months after Cyclone Sidr. |
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Yahoo News |
2:34am PDT |
Indian capital locked down for tense Olympic torch relay
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - More than 2,000 protesters held a rival torch relay in Delhi on Thursday, hours before the Olympic flame was set to be taken on a short and high security jog in the city. |
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Cnn.com |
2:34am PDT |
Military tells methods used on Afghan inmates |
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BBC News |
2:29am PDT |
Delhi braced for torch protests |
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Summary: Heavy security is in place in India's capital, Delhi, to protect the Olympic torch relay from anti-China protesters. |
