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Yahoo News |
12:56am PDT |
Bush vows to support Israel against 'terror and evil'
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush took a tough stance against Israel's armed foes on Thursday, a day after a rocket fired by Gaza militants wounded 14 people and triggered warnings of retaliation. |
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12:47am PDT |
Four arrests over car bomb attack |
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Summary: Four men are arrested over the attempted murder of an off-duty policeman near Castlederg on Monday. |
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12:47am PDT |
House to boost GI Bill as it passes war funding
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush wants more money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. House Democrats are making him pay for a price — increased education benefits for veterans of those conflicts — to pass his long-stalled request. |
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12:44am PDT |
China intensifies quake rescue as hopes dim
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fresh aid reached China's
earthquake-devastated areas on Thursday but the sheer magnitude
of caring for tens of thousands of homeless, grieving survivors
threatened to overwhelm relief efforts. |
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12:42am PDT |
McCain envisions how first term will go
(AP)
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Summary: AP - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen. |
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12:39am PDT |
Celtic legend Burns dies after cancer battle |
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Summary: Celtic first-team coach, and former Scotland international, Tommy Burns has died of cancer at the age of 51. |
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12:39am PDT |
Celtic's Burns loses cancer fight |
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Summary: Celtic first-team coach, and former Scotland international, Tommy Burns has died of cancer at the age of 51. |
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Yahoo News |
12:34am PDT |
Myanmar approves new constitution while it reels
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's junta announced Thursday that a pro-military constitution has won overwhelming support in a referendum, which was held despite widespread criticism and in the midst of a national tragedy — a devastating cyclone that the Red Cross says may h |
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12:25am PDT |
Brown targets economic troubles |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says national and international action is needed to get the UK through economic difficulties. |
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12:25am PDT |
Bush tours Israel's ancient fortress of Masada
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush toured
the Roman-era desert fortress of Masada on Thursday, a national
symbol in Israel of Jewish fighting spirit and self-sacrifice
against powerful enemies and overwhelming odds. |
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Yahoo News |
12:22am PDT |
Bush visits Masada, will speak to Knesset
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Something about Israel brings out the tourist in President Bush. On Thursday, the president used a big chunk of his two-day stay in Israel to tour Masada, the ancient fortress on a plateau in the desert overlooking the Dead Sea. It is said to be the |
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12:21am PDT |
Bush vows 'unbreakable' support for Israel against militants
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush vowed on Thursday that Israel had "unbreakable" US support in confronting "terror and evil". |
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Yahoo News |
12:10am PDT |
Obama welcomes Edwards endorsement, even if tardy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It would have meant more in February or March, but John Edwards' endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination was welcomed nonetheless by a politician eager to turn the page. |
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12:07am PDT |
Letting Iran have nuclear arms "unforgivable": Bush
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush will tell
Israel's parliament on Thursday that letting Iran acquire
nuclear weapons would be an "unforgivable betrayal of future
generations." |
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BBC News |
12:03am PDT |
China airdrop for quake survivors |
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Summary: China ramps up relief efforts with more troops and helicopters as the search for earthquake survivors goes on. |
