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Yahoo News |
12:40pm PDT |
Dalai Lama aide optimistic over talks with China
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Dalai Lama's government-in-exile expressed optimism about upcoming talks with Chinese officials, but cautioned Saturday not to expect too much from the first meeting between the two sides since violent anti-government protests erupted in Tibet. |
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Cnn.com |
12:36pm PDT |
Obama leads Clinton in Guam caucuses |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. Hillary Clinton in Guam's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday, with votes from the largest of the island's 19 villages still to be counted, according to a Guam election official.
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Williams isn't sure if he can play in Game 7
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hawks forward Marvin Williams isn't sure he'll be able to play Sunday in Game 7 of Atlanta's first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics after spraining his left knee. |
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Buffett and Munger reassure shareholders about succession
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Warren Buffett tried to reassure his shareholders Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway will be fine once he is gone, but the 77-year-old billionaire offered few new details of the company's succession plan. |
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Yahoo News |
12:22pm PDT |
Obama in early lead in Pacific battle
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama was leading
Hillary Clinton in Guam's nominating contest on Sunday after
record numbers of residents voted in the tiny U.S. territory's
primary. |
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Yahoo News |
12:12pm PDT |
Film details Hispanic Marine's acts in WWII
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Armed but alone, Marine Pfc. Guy Gabaldon roamed Saipan's caves and pillboxes, persuading enemy soldiers and civilians to surrender during the hellish World War II battle on the island. |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PDT |
Rice urges Israel not to undercut Palestinian force
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice on Saturday urged Israel not to undercut Palestinian
security forces as they deploy in the West Bank and questioned
if its promises to remove roadblocks had been kept. |
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BBC News |
11:29am PDT |
Fresh Honduran jail riots kill 18 |
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Summary: At least 18 prisoners are killed during a fight at a jail in Honduras - the second such incident in less than a week. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Four British men on missing plane |
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Summary: British citizens were on board a small aircraft which has gone missing in Brazil, according to officials. |
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Yahoo News |
11:26am PDT |
US strike takes out militant holdout in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military fired guided missiles into the heart of Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum on Saturday, leveling a building 55 yards away from a hospital and injuring nearly two dozen people. |
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BBC News |
11:21am PDT |
Mood in Harare |
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Summary: Zimbabweans react cynically to the recount |
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Yahoo News |
11:18am PDT |
Dalai Lama envoys prepare for China talks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Two Dalai Lama envoys will hold talks with Chinese officials Sunday in southern China, a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan leader said, even as Beijing kept up its barrage of criticism against him. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08am PDT |
Rice urges Israel not to "undercut" Jenin forces
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice on Saturday urged Israel not to undercut Palestinian
security forces as they deploy in the West Bank and questioned
if its promises to remove roadblocks had been kept. |
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Yahoo News |
11:07am PDT |
As Putin apprentice takes over, Russians weigh an enigma
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It might be a tale out of a 19th century Russian storybook: A clerkish young lawyer apprenticed to a powerful man rises, through Byzantine political intrigue, to become ruler of Russia. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01am PDT |
US rocket attack damages Baghdad hospital
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A US rocket attack damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital's violent Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, wounding 28 people as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militants in the district. |
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Yahoo News |
10:43am PDT |
Film details Hispanic WWII Marine's acts in WWII
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Armed but alone, Marine Pfc. Guy Gabaldon roamed Saipan's caves and pillboxes, persuading enemy soldiers and civilians to surrender during the hellish World War II battle on the island. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42am PDT |
7 die in severe storms in Ark., raising year's toll to 26
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents of communities across Arkansas on Saturday faced the wreckage of homes torn apart by violent weather that has pushed this year's storm death toll in the state up to at least 26. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28am PDT |
Despite peace, Belfast walls are growing in size and number
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lee Young, 8, and Cein Quinn, 7, live barely 200 yards apart, but they have never met, and maybe never will. |
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BBC News |
10:27am PDT |
Hezbollah in airport spying row |
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Summary: Lebanon Shia group Hezbollah is accused of possible terror motives in secretly filming planes at Beirut airport. |
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ChristianPost |
10:13am PDT |
Stanford Legal Group Defends 'Expelled' Against Lawsuit |
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Summary: The Fair Use Project of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society announced Thursday that it would serve as legal counsel for the producers of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” in their right to use a clip of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” in |
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Yahoo News |
10:11am PDT |
Olympic torch arrives on safer terrain in mainland China
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After a much-protested journey, the Olympic torch reached this southern Chinese seaside resort Saturday night, beginning what organizers and Chinese citizens promised would be a trouble-free national tour. |
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ChristianPost |
10:09am PDT |
Muslim Rebels Expel Over 1,000 Christians from Village |
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Summary: Muslim rebels drove off more than 1,000 Christians from a southern Philippine farming village and took over their land, the guerillas and a mayor said ... |
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Yahoo News |
10:06am PDT |
7 die in severe storms in Ark., raising year's toll to 23
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents of communities across Arkansas on Saturday faced the wreckage of homes torn apart by violent weather that has pushed this year's storm death toll in the state up to 23. |
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BBC News |
10:03am PDT |
Afghan mine blast soldier named |
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Summary: A British soldier killed when his patrol vehicle hit a mine in Afghanistan is named. |
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Yahoo News |
9:45am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition still undecided on run-off
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's main opposition party said on
Saturday it was still undecided on whether its leader, Morgan
Tsvangirai, should take part in a run-off election against
President Robert Mugabe. |
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ChristianPost |
9:39am PDT |
Secularism No Match for Islamic Fundamentalism |
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Summary: If the old adage that "you can't beat something with nothing" is true, then Europe is headed for trouble in its current conflict with Islamic fundamentalism. Western Europe has had an increasing number of conflicts between its ideals of free expression a |
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BBC News |
9:30am PDT |
Industrial drum blast kills man |
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Summary: An investigation is under way after a man dies on Merseyside when a drum he is cutting open explodes. |
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Yahoo News |
9:27am PDT |
U.S. rocket strike in Baghdad wounds 20
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. military fired rockets at a
target near a major hospital in eastern Baghdad on Saturday,
wounding 20 people and damaging a number of ambulances, the
head of the hospital said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:25am PDT |
Part I: Hunting for a miracle, grasping at a chance
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It was only a chair, but it had become his purgatory. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Britons feared on missing plane |
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Summary: British citizens may have been on board a small aircraft which has gone missing in Brazil, according to officials. |
