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BBC News |
2:16pm PDT |
Canberra braced for torch relay |
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Summary: Security is tight in the Australian capital amid tight security for the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay. |
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Yahoo News |
2:10pm PDT |
China must stop cursing the Dalai Lama and talk: U.S
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States on Wednesday urged
China to stop vilifying the Dalai Lama and instead talk to the
exiled Tibetan spiritual leader in order to achieve peace and
stability in troubled, Chinese-ruled Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
2:07pm PDT |
Petraeus promotion locks officers in place for successor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush is promoting his top Iraq commander, Army Gen. David Petraeus, and replacing him with the general's recent deputy, keeping the U.S. on its war course and handing the next president a pair of combat-tested commanders who have relentless |
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Yahoo News |
1:54pm PDT |
Superdelegates on the spot after Clinton's Pennsylvania triumph
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hillary Clinton heaped pressure on top Democratic Party officials who hold the key to her gripping White House feud with Barack Obama, as she savored a campaign-saving Pennsylvania primary win. |
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Yahoo News |
1:53pm PDT |
Portait of a grim Tony Blair put up in halls of Parliament
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A somber Tony Blair is back in Parliament — in a portrait capturing an indelible image of the embattled politician in his final months in office. |
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Cnn.com |
1:52pm PDT |
Teen-repelling noisemaker protested |
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Cnn.com |
1:52pm PDT |
Teen-repelling noisemaker draws protests |
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ChristianPost |
1:44pm PDT |
Hopegivers International Gives Hope to New Graduates |
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Summary: Over 1,000 recent graduates from the Hopegivers Bible College program in India will head out in the world with a mission to spread the Gospel wherever the Lord ... |
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BBC News |
1:41pm PDT |
Man Utd rue Ronaldo penalty miss |
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Summary: Cristiano Ronaldo misses a penalty as Manchester United draw 0-0 with Barcelona in a cagey Champions League semi-final at the Nou Camp. |
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Yahoo News |
1:35pm PDT |
Delta, Northwest lose combined $10.5B on high fuel, charges
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Delta and Northwest, seeking to combine to create the world's largest airline, posted losses Wednesday totaling $10.5 billion for the first three months of the year due to exorbitant fuel prices and write-downs of their companies' value. |
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ChristianPost |
1:32pm PDT |
World Vision Cuts Back Food Aid, Sounds Alarm |
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Summary: It's one of the largest and most trusted humanitarian organizations in the world that leverages compassion and generosity to help the most needy. Yet on Tuesday, World Vision announced a cutback on the number of people it can feed this year as it feels th |
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BBC News |
1:30pm PDT |
Israel 'ready to return Golan' |
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Summary: Israel is ready to withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for peace, according to a Syrian government minister. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
Bull market in gold means big bucks for old dental work
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dazzled by the bull market in gold, people are digging through drawers for old dental caps, fillings and bridgework they saved years ago and selling them at prices that would make the tooth fairy blush. |
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BBC News |
1:07pm PDT |
Refinery strike talks break down |
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Summary: Talks aimed at resolving a dispute which could shut down Grangemouth oil refinery break up without agreement. |
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BBC News |
12:59pm PDT |
Man killed in motorcycle accident |
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Summary: A man dies following a collision between a motorcycle and a car on a road in County Down, police say. |
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BBC News |
12:54pm PDT |
A card sent by Anne Frank turns up in a Dutch antique shop |
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Summary: A greetings card signed by the young Jewish diarist, Anne Frank, has been found in an antique shop near Amsterdam. |
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Cnn.com |
12:46pm PDT |
FBI: Contractor offers Navy info to fake spy |
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Summary: A U.S. Navy civilian contractor has been charged with trying to sell personal information about thousands of military personnel and reservists to a person he thought was a foreign spy, the FBI said.
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ChristianPost |
12:43pm PDT |
Desmond Tutu Backs Millennium Congregation Initiative |
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Summary: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, endorsed an interfaith initiative to partner congregations in the United States with African villages in the fight against ... |
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BBC News |
12:41pm PDT |
Wal-Mart restricts rice purchases |
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Summary: Retail giant Wal-Mart rations sales of rice at its Sam's Club stores, the latest sign of a global shortage. |
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Yahoo News |
12:31pm PDT |
U.S. urges China stop cursing the Dalai Lama and talk
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States on Wednesday urged
China to stop vilifying the Dalai Lama and instead talk to the
exiled Tibetan spiritual leader in order to achieve peace and
stability in troubled, Chinese-ruled Tibet. |
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Cnn.com |
12:23pm PDT |
Spacecraft's perilous re-entry probed |
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BBC News |
12:19pm PDT |
Georgia-Russia spat worries US |
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Summary: The US says it is "very concerned" by Russian moves which Georgia insists are a threat to its sovereignty. |
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BBC News |
12:19pm PDT |
US reassures Georgia over Russia |
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Summary: The US says it is "very concerned" by Russian moves which Georgia insists are a threat to its sovereignty. |
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BBC News |
12:19pm PDT |
Three on detective murder charges |
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Summary: Three men are charged with the murder of a private detective found with an axe in his head in a London car park in 1987. |
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BBC News |
12:18pm PDT |
Artist captures 'tired' Blair in final months as prime minister |
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Summary: A portrait of Tony Blair, painted in his last few months as prime minister, has been unveiled in Westminster. |
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Yahoo News |
12:10pm PDT |
Clinton says she can win White House for Democrats
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
entered the final phase of an increasingly nasty U.S.
presidential fight on Wednesday, and Clinton said her decisive
Pennsylvania win proved she was the best candidate to lead the
Democrats back to the White |
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Cnn.com |
12:05pm PDT |
Obama: Keep loss 'in perspective' |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton Wednesday said her much-needed victory in Pennsylvania raises fresh questions about Sen. Barack Obama's electability.
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ChristianPost |
11:59am PDT |
McCain Asks NC GOP Not to Run Wright-Obama Ad |
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Summary: Republican John McCain asked the North Carolina GOP not to run a television ad that brings up the controversial former pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack ... |
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BBC News |
11:46am PDT |
Ethiopian troops 'took children' |
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Summary: Amnesty International accuses Ethiopian troops of capturing 40 Somali children during a raid on a mosque. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39am PDT |
Mom's diet may play role in whether baby is boy or girl
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas? |
