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BBC News |
10:22am PDT |
90 pupils are tested for E.coli |
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Summary: About 90 children and staff at three primary schools are to be tested for E.coli after another case. |
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BBC News |
10:22am PDT |
Farm closes over E.coli concerns |
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Summary: About 90 children and staff at three Belfast primary schools who visited an open farm are being tested for E.coli. |
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Yahoo News |
10:16am PDT |
Carter meets Hamas chief over Israeli, US objections
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Carter met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and the militant group's deputy chief, men the U.S. government has labeled as global terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding suicide bombings and kidnappings. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
EU tightens anti-terrorism laws |
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Summary: European Union justice ministers agree that inciting terrorism through the internet should be a crime. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
Brown urges new US-Europe links |
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Summary: Gordon Brown urges the US to seize the chance for a "new dawn" in cooperation between Europe and America. |
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BBC News |
10:10am PDT |
Police to hold terror suspect |
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Summary: Police in Bristol are given a further seven days to question a 19-year-old man under the Terrorism Act. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07am PDT |
McCain reports $405,409 in earnings for 2007
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain earned a total of $405,409 last year and donated a quarter of it to charity, according to tax returns that provide only a partial picture of his family's enormous wealth. |
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BBC News |
10:00am PDT |
More pay for wider-ranging heads |
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Summary: The government agrees to review the pay of head teachers as more take on complex roles. |
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Cnn.com |
9:54am PDT |
Smoke chokes Argentina's capital |
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Summary: Smoke blanketed the Argentine capital on Friday as brush fires apparently set deliberately consumed thousands of acres in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Entre Ríos.
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Cnn.com |
9:48am PDT |
Judge tightens reins at FLDS hearing |
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Summary: A child protection supervisor took the stand for a second day Friday as part of a hearing to determine who gets custody of more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's Texas ranch earlier this month.
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Yahoo News |
9:40am PDT |
Bush names SBA's Preston as housing secretary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
nominated the head of the Small Business Administration, Steve
Preston, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban
Development as the administration tries to salvage the sagging
housing market. |
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Cnn.com |
9:35am PDT |
Al Qaeda planning Baghdad attacks, says U.S. |
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Summary: Al Qaeda in Iraq is planning suicide attacks against Iraqis in Baghdad "in the near future," the U.S. military warned Friday.
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Yahoo News |
9:33am PDT |
Pope champions human rights, multilateralism in UN speech
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pope Benedict XVI Friday launched a spirited defense of human rights and multilateralism, and called for greater dialogue between cultures in a landmark address to the UN General Assembly. |
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BBC News |
9:32am PDT |
Something foul in the air? Hundreds report strange pong dubbed 'Euro-whiff' |
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Summary: The Met Office says the whiffy air over parts of England and Wales is likely to be agricultural or industrial smells drifting across the Channel. |
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ChristianToday |
9:30am PDT |
Pope in dramatic move comforts sex abuse victims |
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Summary: Pope Benedict in a dramatic surprise held an emotional meeting on Thursday with victims of sexual abuse by priests consoling them and promising them his prayers |
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ChristianToday |
9:30am PDT |
Pope turns to world issues in United Nations speech |
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Summary: Pope Benedict turns to world issues on Friday when he addresses the United Nations in New York after three days in Washington overshadowed by the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by US Catholic priests |
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ChristianToday |
9:29am PDT |
US urges Russia to repeal decree on Georgia |
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Summary: The United States urged Russia on Friday to repeal a presidential decree designed to strengthen ties with separatist regions of Georgia |
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ChristianToday |
9:29am PDT |
Perus army gives food to poor as Garcia struggles |
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Summary: Peruvian troops banged on the doors of the poor in nighttime operations this week to hand out groceries and ease a crisis of rising food prices that has sunk President Alan Garcias popularity |
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ChristianToday |
9:28am PDT |
Shannon mothers expartner denies porn charges |
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Summary: The former partner of Shannon Matthews mother denied possessing child pornography at a court appearance on Friday |
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Cnn.com |
9:26am PDT |
Pope promotes human rights at U.N. |
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Summary: After a dramatic three days in which he put the country's clergy sexual abuse scandal front and center, Pope Benedict XVI turned his attention Friday to the original purpose of his first U.S. visit as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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BBC News |
9:22am PDT |
Labour tax revolt gathering pace |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is under pressure as three more ministerial aides protest at the abolition of the 10p tax rate. |
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BBC News |
9:16am PDT |
Pope urges global unity on crises |
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Summary: Pope Benedict tells the UN in New York that member states should unite to solve the world's crises together. |
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BBC News |
9:16am PDT |
Woman raped during 13-hour siege |
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Summary: A sex offender subjected a woman to a sexual attack at knifepoint during a 13-hour siege, a court hears. |
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Yahoo News |
9:15am PDT |
Citigroup lops off $14 billion in investments during 1Q
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Citigroup Inc. said Friday it will eliminate about 9,000 more jobs, after poor bets on defaulting loans and the tumultuous credit markets lopped $14 billion in value from its investments during the first quarter. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
Bush nominates SBA chief to be housing secretary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
nominated the head of the Small Business Administration, Steve
Preston, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and efforts to shore up the sagging housing market. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09am PDT |
Despite myth, old age is the happiest time, research says
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Newsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn't go downhill as we age — the golden years really are golden. |
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Yahoo News |
9:07am PDT |
Carter meets Hamas supremo in Damascus
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter met exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in the Syrian capital on Friday despite strong opposition from Israel and the White House. |
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ChristianToday |
9:03am PDT |
US climate talks advance but split on 2050 goals |
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Summary: Major economies made progress in defining the building blocks of a new UN deal to fight climate change in talks in Paris on Friday but with splits about whether to set a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 |
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ChristianToday |
9:02am PDT |
Mugabe denounces Britain in postpoll speech |
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Summary: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe bitterly attacked former colonial ruler Britain on Friday in his first major speech since disputed elections saying London was paying the population to turn against him |
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ChristianToday |
9:01am PDT |
Pressure Zimbabwe on poll campaigner tells Africa |
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Summary: The delay in the results from Zimbabwes election is a joke and African leaders should press President Robert Mugabes government to release them at once a prominent African good governance campaigner said on Friday |
