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BBC News |
11:01am PDT |
Rijkaard to leave Barcelona post |
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Summary: Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard will step down at the end of the season and will be replaced by the club's reserve team coach Josep Guardiola. |
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Yahoo News |
11:00am PDT |
Cablevision plans wireless broadband network
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cable TV provider Cablevision Systems Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to offer high-speed wireless Internet service across its coverage area, which is principally on New York's Long Island. |
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Cnn.com |
10:59am PDT |
Country music legend Eddy Arnold dies |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:58am PDT |
'Respect atheists', says Cardinal |
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Summary: Christians should treat atheists and agnostics with 'deep esteem', says the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales. |
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BBC News |
10:46am PDT |
Basra base attack kills civilians |
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Summary: A rocket attack on the British base at Basra Airport kills two civilians and injures a UK serviceman. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31am PDT |
Myanmar allows first UN aid flights but none from US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country's isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
Clinton presses on, urges supporters to ignore calls to quit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged cheering supporters on Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20am PDT |
North Korea hands over some nuclear documents: U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea has handed over
thousands of pages of nuclear weapons documents to a U.S.
diplomat visiting Pyongyang that will help verify the North's
plutonium holdings, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:17am PDT |
UN 'disappointed' at Burma access |
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Summary: The UN says it is disappointed at Burma's slow progress in allowing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13am PDT |
Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:10am PDT |
Fierce clashes resume in Beirut |
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Summary: Armed clashes erupt as the leader of Hezbollah accuses the Lebanese government of a "declaration of war". |
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BBC News |
10:05am PDT |
Islamic preacher Qatada is bailed |
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Summary: Islamic preacher Abu Qatada is granted bail with a 22-hour curfew by an immigration appeals commission. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55am PDT |
U.S. "outraged" by Myanmar's response to cyclone
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United Nations estimates 1.5
million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone
that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed
outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid. |
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Yahoo News |
9:54am PDT |
Fighting rocks Beirut, Hezbollah defiant
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on
Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the
U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by
targeting its communications network. |
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BBC News |
9:46am PDT |
Bruce vows Wigan will give 100% |
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Summary: Steve Bruce insists his Wigan side will give their all in Sunday's decisive Premier League game against Manchester United. |
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BBC News |
9:46am PDT |
Take down peace walls, NY Mayor |
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Summary: A plea for the demolition of Belfast's more than 40 peace-lines comes from the Mayor of New York. |
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BBC News |
9:39am PDT |
Austria father confesses to 'addiction' |
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Summary: Josef Fritzl, the man who held his daughter captive for 24 years, blames an addiction that "got out of control". |
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Cnn.com |
9:29am PDT |
Twister in Tupelo |
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Summary: An tornado swept through parts of Tupelo, Mississippi, on Thursday, damaging trees, power lines and overturning a 18-wheel truck, a law enforcement official told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
9:25am PDT |
Clashes erupt for second day in Lebanon
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shiite supporters of Hezbollah and Sunnis backing Lebanon's U.S.-allied government clashed on the streets of Beirut with automatic rifles and grenades on Thursday. |
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AgapePress |
9:23am PDT |
Manifesto miscue |
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Summary:
Influential Christian political activist Tony Perkins says, although well-intentioned, the new document titled "An Evangelical Manifesto" misses the mark.
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Yahoo News |
9:23am PDT |
Hezbollah says Lebanese govt declares war
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group
Hezbollah said on Thursday the U.S.-supported Beirut government
had declared war by targeting its communications network,
pushing the country closer to civil war. |
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AgapePress |
9:22am PDT |
Punished for views on homosexuality |
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Summary:
The University of Toledo has taken action against an administrator that has aroused concern over free-speech violations.
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Yahoo News |
9:18am PDT |
House OKs $15B to buy and fix up foreclosed properties
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The House has approved sending states $15 billion to buy and fix up foreclosed properties. The vote Thursday was 239-188 to approve the bill, which most Republicans opposed. It would provide loans and grants to areas hit hardest by the housing crisis |
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BBC News |
9:17am PDT |
Militants warn Lebanon of 'war' |
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Summary: The Hezbollah leader accuses Lebanon's pro-Western government of declaring war against the militant group. |
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Yahoo News |
9:15am PDT |
Country music superstar Eddy Arnold dies at 89
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
Detained Reuters photographer released in Zimbabwe
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Reuters photographer detained
for three days in Zimbabwe for allegedly using a satellite
phone to send pictures was released on bail on Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
9:04am PDT |
'War has started,' Hezbollah leader says |
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Summary: Gunfire broke out in downtown Beirut today after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open war." The sound of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades could be heard throughout a CNN reporter's live rep |
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BBC News |
9:04am PDT |
Berlusconi is sworn into office |
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Summary: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his 21-member cabinet are officially sworn into office. |
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BBC News |
9:01am PDT |
Damning criticism |
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Summary: ITV facing censure for its failures over viewers' phone-ins |
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BBC News |
9:00am PDT |
Farm-workers flee Zimbabwe homes |
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Summary: Some 40,000 farm workers and their families have fled their homes in Zimbabwe poll violence, a union says. |
