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Yahoo News |
11:48am PDT |
Hamas awaits Israeli response to truce offer: Meshaal
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Summary: AFP - Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on Saturday his movement is awaiting an official Israeli response to a truce offer in the Gaza Strip, even though Israel has already poured cold water on it. |
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Yahoo News |
11:40am PDT |
Obama says voters seek straight talk and honesty
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama argued Saturday that voters are yearning for "straight talk and honesty" as he sought distinctions with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton just nine days before the next round of primaries in the hotly contested race for the president |
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Yahoo News |
11:31am PDT |
Turkish warplanes raid PKK targets in Iraq
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Summary: Reuters - Turkey said its warplanes struck
Kurdish separatist targets inside northern Iraq on Friday and
Saturday in what military sources called the biggest Turkish
air operation in northern Iraq this year. |
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BBC News |
11:20am PDT |
Mexico drug gang clashes kill 15 |
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Summary: Gun battles between rival factions of a Mexican drugs cartel leave at least 15 dead near the US border. |
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Yahoo News |
11:17am PDT |
Conservatives dominate after Iran parliament runoffs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Conservatives consolidated their control of Iran's legislature in runoff elections but moderates within the bloc opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged as a stronger force, according to final results released Saturday. |
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BBC News |
11:09am PDT |
Mugabe's party loses vote recount |
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Summary: President Robert Mugabe's party fails to regain its majority in Zimbabwe's parliament after a partial recount. |
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Yahoo News |
11:04am PDT |
Fifteen killed in Mexico drug battle near U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fifteen Mexican drug gang
members were killed in a gun battle near the U.S. border on
Saturday, their bodies soaked in blood in the road after one of
the deadliest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war. |
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11:02am PDT |
Tegan and Sara make on-stage banter a trademark
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tegan and Sara, the identical twin powerpop duo, are accustomed to writing intimate, emotional songs about heartbreak. But when performing, for every song like "Back in Your Head," there's a balance of silliness. Between nearly every song played by t |
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10:58am PDT |
Many die in Morocco factory fire |
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Summary: Fifty-five people die and 12 more are injured in a mattress factory fire in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. |
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BBC News |
10:57am PDT |
Man Utd players in post-match row |
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Summary: Chelsea say they will examine CCTV footage after Manchester United players are involved in a post-match scuffle with Chelsea staff after their 2-1 defeat. |
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BBC News |
10:56am PDT |
Bitter row sees print job losses |
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Summary: Every worker at a printers in Somerset is told they have been made "redundant with immediate effect". |
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BBC News |
10:56am PDT |
Hundreds of print staff lose jobs |
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Summary: Nearly 300 workers at a Somerset printers are told they have been made redundant.
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Yahoo News |
10:55am PDT |
Protection weighed for bird in West's energy areas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The fate of basic industries across the Intermountain West — grazing, mining, energy — soon could be at least partially tied to that of a bird about the size of a chicken. |
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Yahoo News |
10:50am PDT |
Golfer hits two holes-in-one in the same round
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Luck doesn't even to begin to describe golfer Ted Kemp's round on Monday. Kemp, a 12-handicapper, knocked in holes-in-one on back-to-back par 3s at the Muscatine Municipal Golf Course. |
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Cnn.com |
10:43am PDT |
Pirates free Spanish boat, crew |
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Summary: The crew of a Spanish fishing boat seized by pirates last week off the coast of Somalia has been freed, officials said Saturday, and the boat was being escorted to the Seychelles Islands.
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BBC News |
10:39am PDT |
Pirates free crew of Spanish boat |
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Summary: Pirates release the crew of a Spanish fishing boat captured off the coast of Somalia, the government says. |
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BBC News |
10:27am PDT |
'Weeks' to re-start strike plant |
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Summary: The Grangemouth refinery will take up to three weeks to start up following a workers walk-out, bosses say. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18am PDT |
Fiancee says justice system let her down after NYPD shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The fiancee of an unarmed man shot to death by police on his wedding day said Saturday that "the justice system let me down" when the three detectives were acquitted of all charges in his killing. "April 25, 2008: They killed Sean all over again," Ni |
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BBC News |
10:14am PDT |
Mother and baby contract superbug |
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Summary: A mother and her newborn baby girl contracted the superbug MRSA, a hospital trust confirms. |
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Yahoo News |
10:12am PDT |
Hundreds mourn Ohio soldier captured in Iraq 4 years ago
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The remains of an Ohio soldier missing nearly four years since he was captured in Iraq have returned to his home state. |
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BBC News |
10:10am PDT |
Opposition 'holds Zimbabwe seats' |
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Summary: President Mugabe's party fails to regain its parliamentary majority after a partial recount, unofficial results show. |
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BBC News |
10:01am PDT |
Pirates free Spanish fishing crew |
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Summary: Pirates release the crew of a Spanish fishing boat captured off the coast of Somalia, the government says. |
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Cnn.com |
9:57am PDT |
Hamas leader's child killed in Gaza raid |
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Summary: The daughter of a senior member of Hamas was killed and her two siblings and mother were wounded in an exchange of fire with Israel Defense Forces, who surrounded the house Saturday morning, Palestinian security forces said.
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BBC News |
9:43am PDT |
Windsor welcome |
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Summary: Coldstream Guards return after a tour in Afghanistan |
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ChristianPost |
9:37am PDT |
Christian Broadcaster Reaching Unprecedented Numbers of Iranian Youth |
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Summary: As young people in Iran find themselves trapped between rising political instability, the harsh systems of Islamic Sharia laws that increasingly govern and control their lives, as well as arrests and "public security” crackdowns, a Christian satellite sta |
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Yahoo News |
9:34am PDT |
Democrats focus on the economy in Indiana industrial towns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama argued that voters are yearning for "straight talk and honesty" on the economy as he sought distinctions with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton just nine days before the next round of primaries in the hotly contested race for the pre |
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Cnn.com |
9:33am PDT |
Dozens unaccounted for in apartment fire |
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BBC News |
9:29am PDT |
House blaze treated as suspicious |
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Summary: Gardaí are treating as suspicious the deaths of a family of four in a house fire in County Wexford. |
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BBC News |
9:29am PDT |
'Gun found' in fire tragedy house |
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Summary: Gardaí are treating as suspicious the deaths of a family of four in a house fire in County Wexford. |
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ChristianPost |
9:28am PDT |
Small Town Conservatives: Bitter or Better? |
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Summary: If you happen to be a conservative in a small town, you might be chafing at Senator Barack Obama's recent comments at a fundraiser in San Francisco. Obama described small town blue-collar workers as "bitter", saying that they "cling to guns or religion or |
