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Yahoo News |
10:16am PDT |
House speaker asks Bush to stop stockpiling oil
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Speaker of the House of
Representatives on Thursday called on the White House to
temporarily stop sending crude oil into the nation's emergency
stockpile. |
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Yahoo News |
10:15am PDT |
House Dem leaders may add unemployment benefits to war bill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - House Democratic leaders plan to add extended unemployment benefits and new education funding for veterans to President Bush's war funding bill while dropping lots of other party priorities. |
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BBC News |
10:00am PDT |
Marching body could be replaced |
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Summary: A review of how the Parades Commission operates is to recommend it is replaced, the BBC understands. |
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BBC News |
9:56am PDT |
Wind star pulls out over illness |
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Summary: Gone With the Wind star Jill Paice pulls out of three performances of the West End show due to ill-health. |
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BBC News |
9:52am PDT |
Stuntman hurt in Bond car crash |
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Summary: A second stuntman is injured after another car involved in the new James Bond film crashes. |
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Cnn.com |
9:51am PDT |
Sam's Club, Costco limit bulk rice purchases |
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BBC News |
9:48am PDT |
Mugabe rival 'clear victor' - US |
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Summary: Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was the "clear victor" of last month's election, a top US envoy says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:39am PDT |
Wall Street could see over 36,000 layoffs: economist
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Wall Street, the lifeblood of New York
City's economy, could lose over 36,000 jobs because the
financial credit crisis has rocked markets and stunned the U.S.
economy, estimated James Brown, a labor market analyst with New
York state's labor |
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Yahoo News |
9:29am PDT |
Clinton raises $10 million, helped by 80,000 new donors
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $10 million in the 24 hours after winning the Pennsylvania primary, aided by contributions from 80,000 new donors, her campaign said Thursday. |
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ChristianPost |
9:25am PDT |
Eritrea Forcing Christian Ministers into Military Camps |
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Summary: The Eritrean government is reportedly sending some leaders of the Eritrean Orthodox Church to military training camps, a persecution watchdog group ... |
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BBC News |
9:19am PDT |
Twenty20 'to conquer world sport' |
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Summary: Billionaire Allen Stanford says Twenty20 cricket could replace football as the world's biggest sport. |
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Yahoo News |
9:18am PDT |
House member: Alleged Syria nuke reactor is proliferation issue
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A top member of the House intelligence committee says an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor built with North Korean help and destroyed last year by Israeli jets threatened to spread nuclear weapons technology. |
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Cnn.com |
9:17am PDT |
Humans nearly went extinct, study finds |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Fuel crisis halts Gaza food aid |
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Summary: The UN says it has had to suspend food distribution in Gaza because it has ran out of fuel. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
UN suspends aid to Gaza for lack of fuel
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United Nations stopped distributing aid to the Gaza Strip on Thursday after running out of fuel as the Israeli terminal that supplies the besieged Palestinian territory remained shut. |
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BBC News |
9:11am PDT |
More than 100 MPs employ family |
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Summary: More than 100 MPs declare that they employ relatives using their taxpayer-funded expenses. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09am PDT |
White House rejects call to suspend SPR shipments
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The White House on Thursday rejected
a call by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to
suspend temporarily crude oil shipments to the U.S. emergency
stockpile. |
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ChristianPost |
9:09am PDT |
Theologians: Why Does God Allow Suffering? |
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Summary: Two highly respected theologians recently began a debate on why God would allow so much suffering in the world if He is good and ... |
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Cnn.com |
9:09am PDT |
9/11 mastermind's lawyer fears trial 'insanity' |
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Summary: Prescott Prince's client is the man accused of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks. Now, this Navy reservist must defend the al Qaeda loyalist at a military commission. He's most disturbed that evidence gained through waterboarding may be allowed |
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Cnn.com |
9:09am PDT |
Alleged 9/11 architect's lawyer fears trial 'insanity' |
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Summary: Prescott Prince's client is the man accused of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks. Now, this Navy reservist must defend the al Qaeda loyalist at a military commission. He's most disturbed that evidence gained through waterboarding may be allowed |
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BBC News |
9:03am PDT |
NHS 'chaos' over surgical tools |
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Summary: Operating theatres are in chaos and operations cancelled because of broken or dirty surgical instruments, surgeons say. |
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BBC News |
9:01am PDT |
Bomber's farewell video shown |
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Summary: A video of 7/7 bomber Mohammad Siddique Khan saying goodbye to his baby is released after being shown in a trial. |
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BBC News |
8:52am PDT |
Mugabe rival 'clear' winner - US |
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Summary: Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was the "clear" victor of last month's election, a top US envoy says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Tsvangirai won clear victory in Zimbabwe: top US envoy
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai won a clear victory over President Robert Mugabe in last month's disputed elections in Zimbabwe, the top US envoy to Africa said on Thursday. |
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ChristianPost |
8:49am PDT |
Anglican Leader Pleads for Prayers Ahead of Major Meeting |
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Summary: Dr. Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, made a plea to bishops to strengthen relationships at an upcoming decennial conference rather than focus on solving problems that have conflicted the body toward the brink of ... |
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BBC News |
8:48am PDT |
Teachers out |
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Summary: Thousands march over demands for a better pay deal. |
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ChristianToday |
8:47am PDT |
Refinery strike may halve UK NSea oil output |
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Summary: A strike planned this weekend at a major Scottish refinery would force the closure of the key Forties North Sea pipeline its owner BP said on Thursday halving Britains crude oil output
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ChristianToday |
8:46am PDT |
Hamas offers Gaza truce with Israel |
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Summary: Hamas leaders handed over on Thursday proposals for a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip with a timetable for extending it to the West Bank at a meeting of the Palestinian Islamist group with Egyptian mediators
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BBC News |
8:46am PDT |
OAP compost heroin dealer jailed |
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Summary: A 70-year-old man who dealt heroin from his back garden in Swansea is jailed for two years. |
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ChristianToday |
8:45am PDT |
Syria denies US accusation over nuclear reactor |
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Summary: Syria on Thursday dismissed US accusations that North Korea was helping it build a nuclear reactor that could produce plutonium
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