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BBC News |
5:08am PDT |
Salmond rejects 'smug git' jibe |
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Summary: Scotland's first minister laughs off suggestions he is "a smug git" while answering questions in a BBC Scotland webchat. |
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Yahoo News |
5:04am PDT |
Three weeks after polls, Zimbabwe holds recount
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe held a partial recount Saturday of votes from last month's general election as the opposition accused President Robert Mugabe and his party of trying to rig their way back to power. |
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BBC News |
4:56am PDT |
Hundreds gather in Tibet protest |
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Summary: More than 1,000 Chinese students gather in protest at the Western media's portrayal of the Free Tibet movement. |
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Cnn.com |
4:55am PDT |
Ship with arms for Zimbabwe moves on |
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Summary: A Chinese ship loaded with arms and ammunition bound for Zimbabwe has turned away from a South African port after dockworkers refused to handle the cargo, their representative said.
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Yahoo News |
4:53am PDT |
Iraqi troops say control Basra stronghold
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi soldiers swooped on the Basra
stronghold of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday,
saying they had seized control of his militia bastion where
they suffered an embarrassing setback in late March. |
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Cnn.com |
4:45am PDT |
Soyuz capsule misses landing target |
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Summary: The Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-member crew including South Korea's first astronaut landed Saturday in Kazakhstan, about 2420 kilometers from the planned landing area, Russia's Interfax news agency said.
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Yahoo News |
4:15am PDT |
Pope working to clean up priesthood
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Addressing the clergy sex abuse crisis this week, Pope Benedict XVI said that it was more important to have good priests than many priests. |
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BBC News |
4:06am PDT |
Ghosts of 1968 |
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Summary: Forget anarchy, now Paris students want good jobs |
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ChristianToday |
4:06am PDT |
10000 Scottish Christians challenged to transform churchs image |
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Summary: Scotland is a nation of holy discontent and the church has all the answers says one Church of Scotland minister |
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Yahoo News |
3:54am PDT |
Foxy Brown gets out of NYC jail after serving 8 months
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rapper Foxy Brown is out of jail. Family and fans greeted Brown Friday outside Rikers Island as she was released from the jail after serving an eight-month sentence. |
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BBC News |
3:47am PDT |
Meredith family at court hearing |
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Summary: The family of murdered student Meredith Kercher travel to Italy to attend a court hearing. |
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BBC News |
3:38am PDT |
Tube strike set to be called off |
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Summary: Transport union leader Bob Crow is to recommend calling off a planned Tube strike in London. |
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BBC News |
3:30am PDT |
Mosley scandal 'has disgraced F1' |
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Summary: Formula One driver Mark Webber says the Max Mosley scandal has brought the sport into disrepute. |
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BBC News |
3:08am PDT |
Further blasts by Bristol police |
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Summary: Bomb disposal experts in Bristol carry out more controlled
explosions at a terror suspect's home. |
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BBC News |
2:56am PDT |
Pakistan envoy 'held by Taleban' |
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Summary: Pakistan's missing ambassador to Afghanistan appears in a video saying he is being held by militants. |
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Yahoo News |
2:55am PDT |
Russian space capsule lands off target, crew safe
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Russian space capsule landed about 420
kms (260 miles) off course in Kazakhstan on Saturday but the
three-member crew was safe, an official at the mission control
centre told Reuters. |
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Yahoo News |
2:53am PDT |
Thai leg of Olympic torch run begins in Bangkok's Chinatown
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thailand's leg of the Olympic torch run got off to a peaceful start Saturday, with thousands of spectators gathered in Bangkok's Chinatown to deliver a flag-waving welcome to the flame. |
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Yahoo News |
2:36am PDT |
Show of force as Iraqi forces advance in Basra
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi government troops said they
captured a stronghold of fighters loyal to anti-U.S. Shi'ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra on Saturday after a big show of
force by U.S. warplanes and British artillery. |
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ChristianToday |
2:35am PDT |
Pope says unilateral acts undermine United Nations |
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Summary: Countries that act unilaterally on the world stage undermine the authority of the United Nations and weaken the broad consensus needed to confront global problems Pope Benedict said on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
2:25am PDT |
Methodists respond to Zimbabwe food crisis |
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Summary: In the face of growing political instability and desperate food shortages in Zimbabwe The Methodist Relief and Development Fund MRDF is supporting an appeal through ACT International Action by Churches Together that will distribute emergency food supplies |
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Yahoo News |
2:24am PDT |
Three Palestinians killed in Gaza crossing raid
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Three Palestinians were killed and 12 Israeli soldiers wounded on Saturday when Hamas militants, including suicide bombers, stormed a Gaza border crossing with explosives-laden vehicles. |
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BBC News |
2:23am PDT |
Pair charged over river body find |
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Summary: A man and woman are charged with murdering a man whose body was found in the River Severn. |
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Yahoo News |
2:19am PDT |
Obama, Clinton woo coal vote in upcoming primaries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are walking a delicate line as they promise to aggressively tackle global warming while trying to assure voters that they continue to believe in the future of coal. |
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Yahoo News |
2:12am PDT |
North Korea, trade top Bush talks with South Korean leader
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush and South Korea's new President Lee Myung-bak were having fried chicken and potato salad for lunch Saturday, but beef was on the dinner menu when they began two days of talks at the Camp David presidential retreat. |
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Yahoo News |
2:10am PDT |
Chinese protest Tibet independence, slam France
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese people in several cities took
to the streets on Saturday to denounce Tibetan independence and
call for a boycott of French goods following anti-China
protests on the Paris leg of the Olympic torch relay. |
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BBC News |
2:00am PDT |
Wenger to review Gallas captaincy |
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Summary: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is to reconsider William Gallas' captaincy and he gives Mathieu Flamini an ultimatum. |
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BBC News |
2:00am PDT |
Operation targets Basra militants |
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Summary: Iraqi forces in the southern city of Basra launch a fresh operation against militants and illegally held weapons. |
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ChristianToday |
1:54am PDT |
Barnabas Fund requests urgent prayer for Somalias persecuted Christians |
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Summary: Barnabas Fund a ministry supporting the persecuted church worldwide has made an urgent appeal for prayers to support Christians in Somalia in the wake of the murder of four Christian teachers last Sunday |
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Yahoo News |
1:53am PDT |
Scientists say Midwest quakes poorly understood
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scientists say they know far too little about Midwestern seismic zones like the one that rumbled to life under southern Illinois Friday morning, but some of what they do know is unnerving. |
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Yahoo News |
1:49am PDT |
S.Korea's first female astronaut returns to earth
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - South Korea's first female
astronaut returned safely to Earth on Saturday with two other
crew members from the International Space Station, ending her
11-day trip to space. |
