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Yahoo News |
9:42am PDT |
China says will resume talks with Dalai Lama envoy
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China said Friday it would soon open fresh talks with aides to the Dalai Lama in a response to fierce pressure from world leaders less than four months before Beijing hosts the Olympic Games. |
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BBC News |
9:40am PDT |
Mission to prove Europe's sat-nav |
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Summary: Europe's quest to build its own version of GPS is about to take an important step forward with the launch of a test spacecraft, Giove-B. |
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BBC News |
9:30am PDT |
UN condemns Turkey border deaths |
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Summary: The UN blames Turkish police for the deaths of four men forced to cross a fast-flowing river on the Iraqi border. |
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ChristianPost |
9:29am PDT |
Experts' Insight on Changes in U.S. Politics, Religion |
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Summary: A high-power panel of left-wing experts on religion and politics assembled Thursday afternoon to discuss the impact of the religious voice, including that of the religious right, on the presidential ... |
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BBC News |
9:28am PDT |
Home Office reports torch guards |
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Summary: Complaints about Chinese guards on the Olympic torch relay are being passed to Games organisers. |
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BBC News |
9:22am PDT |
Trucker jailed over woman's death |
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Summary: A sleep-deprived lorry driver is jailed over a fatal crash after he had been on the road almost non-stop for 19 hours. |
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Cnn.com |
9:18am PDT |
U.S.-contracted ship fires warning shots in Gulf |
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Summary: A U.S.-contracted cargo ship fired warning shots in the Persian Gulf at two small patrol boats believed to be from Iran, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
Ship hired by U.S. military fires warning shots in Gulf
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A cargo ship hired by the U.S.
military fired warning shots at boats suspected to be Iranian,
the U.S. Navy said on Friday, underscoring tension in the Gulf
as the Pentagon sharpened its warnings to Tehran. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
Snipes gets 3 years, apologizes for `costly mistakes'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After haggling with revenue agents, criminal investigators and eventually U.S. prosecutors for almost a decade, Wesley Snipes finally caught them by surprise. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04am PDT |
US-contracted ship fires warning shots in Gulf
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. Navy says a Defense Department contractor's ship fired flares and warning shots at two small boats approaching it in the Persian Gulf. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01am PDT |
Bush: Economy in slowdown, checks on the way
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Friday the U.S. economy is in a slowdown but tax rebates that
will start hitting consumers' bank accounts next week should
help. |
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BBC News |
8:56am PDT |
A police force carries out a risk assessment - of its staff winning the lottery |
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Summary: A police force carries out a risk assessment in case a syndicate of its workers wins the National Lottery. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48am PDT |
Obama presses on gas prices, Clinton hits on debates
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama on Friday blamed high gasoline prices on Washington and a political establishment that he says hasn't stood up to oil companies, his two rivals for the presidency included. |
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Cnn.com |
8:45am PDT |
Gun seller talks 2nd amendment at Va Tech |
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Summary: The owner of an online firearms store that sold one of the guns used by Seung-Hui Cho in the massacre at Virginia Tech spoke there Thursday in support of carrying concealed weapons on campus.
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Cnn.com |
8:42am PDT |
First the man cave, then cross-dressing |
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Summary: CNN.com and iReport.com got an overwhelming response when we asked readers to send in photos and stories of their man caves: spaces that foster men's hobbies, decorating skills and technological needs. Rob Klein's man cave, however, was the only one to co |
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Leadership |
8:42am PDT |
Can't Love My Neighbor |
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Summary:
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Leadership |
8:42am PDT |
Monsters on the Loose |
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Summary:
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Leadership |
8:42am PDT |
This Is It |
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Summary: What kind of groundwork leads to real community?
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Leadership |
8:42am PDT |
Ministry Team Diagnostics |
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Summary: How to avoid the 5 most common dysfunctions of a ministry team.
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CTI News |
8:42am PDT |
Poll: Have you made any lifestyle changes to protect the environment? |
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Summary: Poll: Have you made any lifestyle changes to protect the environment?
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CTI News |
8:42am PDT |
Commentary: A Flawed History |
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Summary: James Carroll's controversial book, 'Constantine's Sword,' comes to the big screen in the form of a documentary that, like its source material, can't get the facts straight.
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CTI News |
8:42am PDT |
Review: 'Standard Operating Procedure' |
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Summary: The scandal at Abu Ghraib is too fresh for Errol Morris to explore it with his usual sense of perspective, but he still digs up some surprising, and troubling, facts.
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CTI News |
8:42am PDT |
Review: 'Baby Mama' |
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Summary: In this comedy, a single thirty-something organic foods executive can't sustain a pregnancy, so she hires a ditzy surrogate to carry her baby to term.
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CTI News |
8:42am PDT |
He Qi's Chinese Biblical Art |
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Summary: Artist He Qi, born again in China's Cultural Revolution, is painting a new peaceful identity for the Chinese church.
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CTI News |
8:42am PDT |
Slideshow: Old Testament Meets Beijing Opera |
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Summary: The Old Testament meets Beijing Opera in He Qi's art.
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BBC News |
8:40am PDT |
Tories keep heat on 10p tax row |
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Summary: Voters should "punish" Labour for scrapping the 10p tax band, says Tory leader David Cameron. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31am PDT |
IAEA to probe Syria atomic plant report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog pledged on
Friday to investigate whether Syria secretly built an atomic
reactor with North Korean help but criticized the United States
for delaying intelligence information. |
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BBC News |
8:29am PDT |
Disabled man death pair released |
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Summary: Two people arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 22-year-old disabled man are released without charge. |
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BBC News |
8:18am PDT |
Many dead in Sri Lanka bus blast |
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Summary: At least 23 people are killed by a blast on a bus near Sri Lanka's capital, which officials blame on Tamil Tiger rebels. |
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BBC News |
8:17am PDT |
Police stripogram's truncheon not an offensive weapon, judges rule |
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Summary: A police stripogram's truncheon was not an offensive weapon, judges have ruled. |
