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Yahoo News |
9:07am PDT |
Nadal defeats Federer on clay in Monte Carlo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer 7-5, 7-5 Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for a fourth consecutive year. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Obama says race not an issue in election
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama, struggling to win over
white Democratic voters, said in a Sunday television interview
that race would not be a factor in November's U.S. presidential
election. |
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Cnn.com |
8:43am PDT |
Captive woman 'had 7 children by father' |
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Summary: Austrian police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and had seven children with her, according to police and state-run news reports Sunday.
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BBC News |
8:42am PDT |
Actor Blake loses US court appeal |
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Summary: A Los Angeles court upholds a verdict finding actor Robert Blake liable for his wife's death. |
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Yahoo News |
8:42am PDT |
Abbas downbeat on prospects for Mideast peace
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came
away disappointed from talks in Washington on
Israeli-Palestinian peace and is pessimistic about prospects
for a deal this year, aides said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:34am PDT |
Austrian 'had seven children' by locked-up daughter
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Austrian police on Sunday arrested a 73-year-old man accused accused of locking up his daughter in a basement for 24 years and fathering seven children with her. |
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8:32am PDT |
Iraqi leaders discuss unity govt; 5 die in Baghdad violence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraq's prime minister met Sunday with the Sunni Arab vice president to discuss reintegrating Sunni political parties into the Shiite-dominated government as militants fired a salvo of rockets or motars at the heavily guarded Green Zone. |
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Yahoo News |
8:30am PDT |
Few states allow overseas troops to vote by e-mail
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan can speak to their families by Web camera and fight insurgents using sophisticated electronic warfare. Yet when it comes to voting, most troops are stuck in the past. |
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Yahoo News |
8:29am PDT |
Karzai escapes assassination bid
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped
unhurt on Sunday from an assassination attempt by Taliban
fighters who fired guns and rockets at an official celebration
near the presidential palace in Kabul. |
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BBC News |
8:22am PDT |
Ministers back under-fire Brown |
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Summary: Labour ministers rally behind Gordon Brown following criticism of his leadership style by Tony Blair's ex-fundraiser Lord Levy. |
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Yahoo News |
8:20am PDT |
U.S. air strikes kill 6 in Sadr City despite truce
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. forces said on Sunday they killed
six militants in air strikes overnight in Baghdad's Sadr City
slum, despite a call by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for his fighters
to observe a truce which seems to have reined them in. |
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Female suicide bomber kills 3 in Baghdad |
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Summary: A female suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi security forces' checkpoint in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing three people, military officials said.
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ChristianPost |
8:12am PDT |
40 Injured When Floor Collapses During Christian Rock Concert |
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Summary: The floor of a church filled with about 1,000 people, mostly teens, collapsed during a concert, injuring at least 40 people, one of them seriously, officials ... |
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8:08am PDT |
Quiet defiance |
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Summary: On the picket line with Grangemouth oil workers |
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BBC News |
7:58am PDT |
US moots UN sanctions on Harare |
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Summary: The US's top Africa envoy says UN sanctions should be considered over the post-election crisis in Zimbabwe. |
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Yahoo News |
7:51am PDT |
Russia defeats US, advances to Fed Cup final
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Defending champion Russia advanced to its fourth Fed Cup final in five years after Vera Zvonareva rallied to defeat Vania King 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in singles Sunday. |
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BBC News |
7:47am PDT |
Arrest after bike hits crowd |
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Summary: A teenager is arrested following an incident involving a motor bike in which nine people were injured. |
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BBC News |
7:47am PDT |
Arrest after motorbike hits crowd |
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Summary: A teenager is arrested following an incident involving a motor bike in which nine people were injured. |
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Yahoo News |
7:40am PDT |
Obama says no debates with Clinton between now and Indiana
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Sunday brushed aside a challenge from Hillary Rodham Clinton to debate before the May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. |
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ChristianPost |
7:40am PDT |
N. Korea Freedom Week Kicks Off with Worldwide Protests |
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Summary: North Korea Freedom Week kicked off Saturday with demonstrations at Chinese embassies around the world protesting the repatriation of North Korean ... |
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Yahoo News |
7:38am PDT |
Iraq mass graves yield 100 bodies
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi security forces have found more
than 100 bodies in two mass graves, military officials said on
Sunday. |
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Cnn.com |
7:31am PDT |
Police: Daughter held 24 years in cellar |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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ChristianPost |
7:29am PDT |
Patriarch: Greek Orthodox Church Recovering from Crisis |
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Summary: Secretive real estate deals, hostility to priests, fist fights over Christ's tomb, a power struggle between patriarchs — one of the oldest churches in the Holy Land is struggling to get through a moral and financial crisis, its leader ... |
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Yahoo News |
7:19am PDT |
Ballpark funeral set Sunday for long-missing Ohio soldier
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral of a young Ohio soldier whose remains were found in Iraq last month, four years after he was kidnapped west of Baghdad. |
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BBC News |
7:12am PDT |
Raikkonen cruises to Spanish win |
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Summary: Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen dominates the Spanish Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton struggles to third place. |
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Yahoo News |
7:08am PDT |
Austrian woman says imprisoned, abused for 24 years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An Austrian woman says she was kept
prisoner and abused by her own father for 24 years in a
basement dungeon in eastern Austria, where she bore him seven
children, Austrian police said on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
6:54am PDT |
OFT in new supermarket crackdown |
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Summary: The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) targets supermarkets as part of an investigation into price fixing. |
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Cnn.com |
6:40am PDT |
Karzai survives Taliban attack |
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Summary: Taliban militants opened fire today at a military ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing a lawmaker, a tribal leader and a child. President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt, according to a statement from his office.
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Cnn.com |
6:39am PDT |
Fire moves closer to California homes |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
6:31am PDT |
Austrian 'hid daughter in cellar' |
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Summary: Austrian police arrest a man on suspicion of hiding his daughter for 24 years and fathering children with her. |
