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Yahoo News |
4:10am PDT |
London summit to tackle food price 'tsunami'
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The UN food agency said the world faced a "silent tsunami" of soaring food prices ahead of a summit here Tuesday aimed at developing a plan to tackle a potential hunger crisis. |
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BBC News |
4:09am PDT |
UN food chief urges crisis action |
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Summary: The head of the UN World Food Programme says urgent action is needed to help the poor cope with soaring prices. |
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BBC News |
4:08am PDT |
Professor dies from anorexia |
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Summary: A senior academic at Bournemouth University died from an eating disorder, an inquest hears. |
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Yahoo News |
4:07am PDT |
Counting begins in disputed Sudan census
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Counting started on Tuesday in a
census seen as a vital step towards holding democratic
elections in Sudan after a landmark 2005 north-south peace
deal. |
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Yahoo News |
4:00am PDT |
Zimbabwe church leaders say people are being tortured
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Zimbabwe church leaders say people are being tortured, abducted and some murdered in a campaign of political retribution. |
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Yahoo News |
3:59am PDT |
Rice says Carter was warned against meeting with Hamas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group |
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Cnn.com |
3:58am PDT |
Priest who floated off on balloons goes missing |
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Yahoo News |
3:56am PDT |
Hawking: Unintelligent life is likely on other planets
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says. |
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3:52am PDT |
Writers push for laws to maintain Internet freedom
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Writers are pushing for legislation to guarantee the Internet's status as an open forum for communication. Partic Verrone, the president of the Writers Guild of America, West, is scheduled to appear today before the Senate Commerce, Science and Trans |
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3:48am PDT |
Streisand pulls out of Israel 60th anniversary bash
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Israel says Barbra Streisand has pulled out of a celebration of the country's 60th anniversary next month. |
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ChristianToday |
3:47am PDT |
Honarary doctorate for Free Church College principal |
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Summary: Professor Donald Macleod Principal of the Free Church College in Edinburgh is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia USA The degree will be awarded at the seminarys graduation ceremony on 22 |
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3:45am PDT |
Japanese man gets death after youth crime debate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A man was sentenced to death by a
Japanese court on Tuesday for killing a woman and her baby
daughter when he was 18, a ruling that follows intense public
debate in Japan over how severely young offenders should be
punished. |
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BBC News |
3:45am PDT |
Priest missing on balloon flight |
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Summary: A Catholic priest who used 1,000 helium balloons to try to break a flying record in Brazil goes missing over the sea. |
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3:44am PDT |
Buddy wins 'beautiful bulldog' contest in Des Moines
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Buddy the bulldog is a sleeping beauty. The reddish brown male can usually be found sleeping on his back, his large tongue lolling out as he snores loudly. But the 3-year-old from Ankeny, Iowa, was wide-awake Monday while being crowned winner of the |
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3:42am PDT |
Branching out |
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Summary: What key life lessons are gained by climbing trees? |
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3:40am PDT |
Carey Price's shutout advances Canadiens to Eastern semis
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Carey Price got his second shutout and Andrei Kostitsyn scored twice to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-0 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday night in the deciding game of their first-round playoff series. |
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BBC News |
3:33am PDT |
China may recall Zimbabwe weapons |
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Summary: The ship carrying weapons to Zimbabwe may return to China after being blocked in South Africa, an official says. |
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Yahoo News |
3:28am PDT |
China condemns Paris honor to Dalai Lama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China condemned on Tuesday Paris's
decision to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen, warning
that the gesture had damaged ties with France just as both
nations were seeking to ease bad blood over protests. |
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Yahoo News |
3:15am PDT |
Texas officials seek DNA samples of polygamist sect members
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Using cotton swabs and cameras, lab technicians began taking DNA samples Monday from hundreds of children and mothers — wearing long, pioneer-style dresses — in hopes of sorting out the tangled family relationships within the West Texas polygamist se |
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Yahoo News |
3:12am PDT |
Al-Qaida No. 2 says group still targeting the West
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Osama bin Laden's chief deputy warns that al-Qaida still has plans to target Western countries involved in the Iraq war in a new audiotape released Tuesday to answer questions posed by followers. |
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BBC News |
3:08am PDT |
Torch weathers Indonesia protest |
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Summary: The Olympic torch relay passes through Indonesia, in front of an all-ticket crowd under tight security. |
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Cnn.com |
3:06am PDT |
Avalanche buries street in Austria |
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Cnn.com |
3:05am PDT |
Spy plane shot down; U.N. called in |
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Summary: Georgia has asked the U.N. Security Council to discuss Russia's "military aggression" after saying a Russian jet shot down one of its unmanned spy planes.
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2:55am PDT |
Greece challenges asylum critics |
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Summary: The Greek government fights back after a UN report sharply criticised its treatment of asylum seekers. |
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BBC News |
2:48am PDT |
US military recruits more ex-cons |
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Summary: The US Army and Marine Corps are recruiting more people with criminal records, official figures show. |
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ChristianToday |
2:35am PDT |
Appeal to worlds Christians pray for Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Desperate appeal rings out from Diocese of Harare for world prayer to rescue Zimbabwe |
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BBC News |
2:34am PDT |
A dog for a day |
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Summary: Want a pet but not the hassle? Animal rental is here |
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BBC News |
2:31am PDT |
Plane bursts tyre on city runway |
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Summary: A small private plane bursts a tyre shortly after landing at George Best City Airport in Belfast. |
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2:19am PDT |
McGregor fine after cancer scare |
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Summary: Actor Ewan McGregor reveals he has the all clear after doctors diagnosed the star with skin cancer. |
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2:18am PDT |
U.S. officials enter North Korea for nuclear talks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A team of U.S. officials led by a State
Department nuclear envoy entered North Korea on Tuesday to
discuss Pyongyang's declaration of its nuclear activities under
a six-country disarmament deal and how to verify the
disclosure. |
