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Yahoo News |
9:27am PDT |
Bobcats fire Sam Vincent as coach after 32-50 season
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sam Vincent was fired by the Charlotte Bobcats on Saturday after one turmoil-filled season as coach. Part-owner Michael Jordan, who has the final say on all basketball decisions, dismissed Vincent less than a year after he gambled by giving him his f |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
German apology for Afghan spying |
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Summary: Germany apologises to Afghanistan for a spying incident which targeted an Afghan minister. |
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ChristianPost |
9:06am PDT |
United Methodists Engage in Transgender Talks |
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Summary: Hundreds of United Methodists have begun looking over some 1,500 petitions that have been proposed by those seeking change in church policies and structures, among other things, during the church's quadrennial ... |
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ChristianPost |
9:06am PDT |
Transgender Talks Begin at United Methodist Meeting |
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Summary: Hundreds of United Methodists have begun looking over some 1,500 petitions that have been proposed by those seeking change in church policies and structures, among other things, during the church's quadrennial ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:01am PDT |
Mugabe party loses Zimbabwe parliament after recount
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has won a historic victory over President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, official results confirmed on Saturday following a partial vote recount. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PDT |
Zuckerman submits $580 million Newsday bid: source
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New York Daily News owner Mortimer
Zuckerman has submitted a $580 million bid for Tribune Co's
Newsday daily newspaper on Long Island, New York, matching a
bid by News Corp (NWSa.N) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch,
according to a source famil |
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Cnn.com |
8:53am PDT |
Bell's fiancee: 'They killed Sean all over again' |
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Summary: A day after three New York police detectives were acquitted on all counts in the case of Sean Bell -- an unarmed man killed in a hail of 50 police gunshots -- his fiancee told supporters that the justice system let her down. "On April 25, 2008, they kille |
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BBC News |
8:50am PDT |
Industry plea to prevent strike |
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Summary: The oil and gas industry urges the Government to intervene in the strike at the Grangemouth refinery. |
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Yahoo News |
8:49am PDT |
US military reports relative lull in Baghdad's Sadr City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military reported a relative lull in fighting Saturday, a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said his threat of an "open war" applied only to American-led foreign troops. |
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Cnn.com |
8:29am PDT |
Conservatives claim Iran election win |
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Summary: Iranian conservatives have said they captured most of the 82 parliamentary seats up for grabs in Friday's runoff election.
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BBC News |
8:25am PDT |
Man sought in double death probe |
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Summary: Police investigating the deaths of a disabled man and his mother want to trace a young man seen pushing an empty wheelchair. |
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BBC News |
8:25am PDT |
Opposition 'holds Zimbabwe gains' |
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Summary: Zimbabwe poll recounts published in state media suggest the opposition MDC is on track to keep its majority. |
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BBC News |
8:25am PDT |
Mourners attend Minghella service |
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Summary: Family, friends and film industry colleagues attend a thanksgiving service for the late director Anthony Minghella. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23am PDT |
Fourteen killed in Mexico drug battle near U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fourteen Mexican drug gang
members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun
battle near the U.S. border on Saturday that was one of the
bloodiest shootouts in Mexico's three-year-long narco-war. |
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Yahoo News |
8:14am PDT |
4.7 quake rocks Reno as area's seismic activity continues
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Another earthquake struck the Reno area, dumping cans off shelves, knocking pictures off walls and sending rocks off hillsides of the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada. |
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ChristianToday |
8:13am PDT |
Zimbabwe churches open buildings for victims of violence torture |
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Summary: In the fourth week since Zimbabwe went to the polls a violent crack down is clearly underway warns Christian humanitarian agency Tearfund |
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Yahoo News |
8:12am PDT |
Police say Florida boy, 7, stole SUV and left path of damage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police say a 7-year-old South Florida boy faces grand theft auto charges after taking his grandmother's Dodge Durango for a joyride. The eight minute trek left a swath of damage in his Palm Beach Gardens neighborhood Friday. The boy smashed mailboxes |
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Cnn.com |
8:09am PDT |
Atheist soldier claims harassment |
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Yahoo News |
8:05am PDT |
Bell's fiancee: Justice system let me down in NYC shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The fiancee of an unarmed man killed by police on his wedding day says "the justice system let me down" after the detectives were acquitted of all charges in his killing. "April 25, 2008: They killed Sean all over again," Nicole Paultre Bell said Sat |
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BBC News |
7:57am PDT |
French train robbers make off with Playboy cushions |
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Summary: French robbers stop a goods train and make off with cushions bearing the Playboy logo. |
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BBC News |
7:50am PDT |
Brown demands outcry on Zimbabwe |
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Summary: The prime minister asks world leaders to speak up against the "climate of fear" in Zimbabwe following the disputed election. |
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BBC News |
7:48am PDT |
Drivers urged against fuel rush |
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Summary: Ministers tell motorists not to panic-buy fuel, as some petrol stations in Scotland report shortages. |
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BBC News |
7:48am PDT |
Drivers urged not to panic-buy fuel |
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Summary: The government is urging motorists not to rush to fill up their tanks ahead of the 48-hour strike at Grangemouth oil refinery. |
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Yahoo News |
7:26am PDT |
Bush prods Congress on student loan bill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Saturday that the credit crunch is threatening the availability of student loans. He said his administration is doing what it can to help with emergency loans but prodded Congress for authority to do more. |
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Cnn.com |
7:24am PDT |
Truck driver questioned in train station accident |
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Yahoo News |
7:20am PDT |
Bush prods Congress on student loan crunch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush pressed
Congress on Saturday to pass legislation to ease a credit
crunch in the $85 billion student loan market that could make
it harder for students to go to college. |
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Yahoo News |
7:17am PDT |
Egypt holds four in suspected Hamas plot
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Egyptian security forces detained four
people and have accused them of plotting to buy fuel for a
pilotless aircraft for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas,
security sources said on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
7:15am PDT |
Uganda journalists held in raid |
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Summary: Three Ugandan journalists including a well-known editor are arrested for publishing seditious material. |
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BBC News |
7:14am PDT |
Boris looks east in mayoral race |
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Summary: Conservative candidate for London Mayor Boris Johnson has been canvassing with wife Marina in the East End. |
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Yahoo News |
7:07am PDT |
Democrats favored in electoral map
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The electoral road to the White House favors Democrats this fall — either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton — and has Republican John McCain playing defense to thwart a presidential power shift. |
