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BBC News |
9:00am PDT |
'Thousands displaced' in Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Some 40,000 farm-workers and their families have fled their homes in Zimbabwe election violence, a union says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57am PDT |
Beirut gunbattles as Hezbollah says govt 'declares war'
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Fierce gunbattles erupted in Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah charged that a Lebanese government crackdown on his group's activities was tantamount to a "declaration of war." |
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Cnn.com |
8:56am PDT |
Martin: Dems need more than work-class whites |
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Summary: Excuse me if a look of bewilderment crosses my face when a surrogate of Sen. Hillary Clinton's starts off on the "we need hard-working white workers to win in November" mantra.
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Cnn.com |
8:56am PDT |
Martin: Democrats need coalition-builder |
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Summary: Excuse me if a look of bewilderment crosses my face when a surrogate of Sen. Hillary Clinton's starts off on the "we need hard-working white workers to win in November" mantra.
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Cnn.com |
8:56am PDT |
Martin: Dems need more than blue-collar whites |
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Summary: Excuse me if a look of bewilderment crosses my face when a surrogate of Sen. Hillary Clinton's starts off on the "we need hard-working white workers to win in November" mantra.
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Cnn.com |
8:42am PDT |
Myanmar misery deepens |
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Summary: Myanmar's cyclone survivors do not have enough fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the country's military junta continues to drag its feet over access for aid groups.
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Cnn.com |
8:41am PDT |
Interpol says suspected pedophile found |
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Summary: A suspected pedophile who became the subject of an international manhunt earlier this week after an appeal from Interpol has been detained in the United States, a spokesman for the global police agency told CNN Thursday.
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Yahoo News |
8:35am PDT |
Country music legend Eddy Arnold dead at 89
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Eddy Arnold, country
music's "Tennessee Plowboy" whose rendition of "Make the World
Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died on
Thursday at age 89 in Nashville after a lengthy illness. |
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ChristianToday |
8:34am PDT |
Christian leaders mark Israels anniversary with just peace call |
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Summary: Over 140 Christian leaders have made a unified call for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel Their declaration is published today in The Independent newspaper |
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Yahoo News |
8:15am PDT |
Myanmar backtracks on aid flight, U.S. says
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Desperate survivors cried out for aid on
Thursday nearly a week after 100,000 people were feared killed
by Cyclone Nargis, as pressure piled up on Myanmar to throw its
doors open to an international relief operation. |
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BBC News |
8:13am PDT |
Men are guilty of student killing |
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Summary: A jury finds two men guilty of manslaughter after a student died following an assault during a night out. |
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BBC News |
8:07am PDT |
UK interest rates unchanged at 5% |
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Summary: UK interest rates are held at 5% by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, as inflation concerns persist. |
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Cnn.com |
8:00am PDT |
Storms slam Mississippi |
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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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BBC News |
7:49am PDT |
RAF Nimrods 'had fuel problems' |
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Summary: A Nimrod plane which exploded mid-air killing 14 servicemen had a fuel leakage problem, an inquest into their deaths hears. |
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ChristianToday |
7:48am PDT |
China says Beijing Olympics basically carbon neutral |
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Summary: This summers Beijing Olympics will be basically carbon neutral thanks to a series of energy saving measures such as the use of solar power and an afforestation programme a senior official said on Thursday
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ChristianToday |
7:47am PDT |
China reports two more deaths from child virus |
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Summary: China reported two more deaths on Thursday from a severe strain of hand foot and mouth disease bringing its toll from the outbreak to 30 all of them young children Xinhua news agency reported
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ChristianToday |
7:46am PDT |
Aid officials urge relief for Baghdad slum |
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Summary: Civilians caught up in fighting between security forces and Shiite militiamen in a Baghdad slum are running out of food water and medicines and relief agencies are unable to bring in supplies officials said on Thursday
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ChristianToday |
7:45am PDT |
Iran blames West for mosque blast |
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Summary: Iran has arrested members of a terrorist group with links to Britain and the United States who were behind a blast at a mosque last month that killed 14 and wounded 200 in the southern city of Shiraz a news agency said
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ChristianToday |
7:44am PDT |
Smith says police should harass young thugs |
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Summary: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Thursday police should turn the tables on young thugs who terrorise neighbourhoods by filming and harassing them at home
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ChristianToday |
7:44am PDT |
US says Burma backtracks on aid flight |
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Summary: Desperate survivors cried out for aid on Thursday nearly a week after Cyclone Nargis killed up to 100000 people as pressure piled up on Burma to throw its doors open to an international relief operation
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CTI News |
7:41am PDT |
Q&A: Richard Mouw on Pope Benedict |
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Summary: Mouw is president of Fuller Theological Seminary and a supporter of Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
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CTI News |
7:41am PDT |
Emergent's New Christians and the Young, Restless Reformed, Part 4 |
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Summary: Tony Jones and Collin Hansen find connections as they discuss each other's books and movements.
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CTI News |
7:41am PDT |
Jeremiah Wright, Evangelicals' Brother in Christ |
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Summary: Go ahead and disagree with Obama's pastor. But remember: He's family.
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CTI News |
7:41am PDT |
Reflections: Parenting |
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Summary: Quotations to stir heart and mind.
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CTI News |
7:41am PDT |
Editorial: Blessed Be 'the Name' of the Lord |
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Summary: Why 'Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier' is somewhere between heresy and idolatry.
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ChristianToday |
7:41am PDT |
Were throwing away a fortune in food |
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Summary: The amount of good food Britons throw away unnecessarily is at record levels according to a study on Thursday costing the economy 10 billion pounds a year
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ChristianToday |
7:41am PDT |
Climate tsar says flight rationing unwelcome |
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Summary: Britains growing hunger for flights abroad should not be rationed in the fight against climate change the chief of the governments new climate change committee said
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BBC News |
7:40am PDT |
PMs arrive for investment event |
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Summary: The British and Irish PMs arrive in Belfast in a bid to drive forward foreign investment in Northern Ireland. |
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ChristianToday |
7:40am PDT |
No crime checks for airside foreign workers |
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Summary: The government insisted on Thursday there is no threat to security from foreign employees working airside at UK airports without having had their backgrounds checked for criminal convictions
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ChristianToday |
7:40am PDT |
No crime checks for |
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Summary: The government insisted on Thursday there is no threat to security from foreign employees working airside at UK airports without having had their backgrounds checked for criminal convictions
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