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DJ Chuang |
7:53am PDT |
Links to Live Summit at Saddleback |
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Summary: Here at Saddleback Church for
I’m running my webcam live at http://ustream.tv/channel/djchuang-live
My real-time twitter at www.twitter.com/djchuang
First PD Summit session with Rick Warren will be streamed live at saddlebackfamily.com/mediacente |
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ChristianPost |
7:47am PDT |
Iraq Church Opposes Death Penalty for Archbishop Killer |
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Summary: An archbishop said Monday that the Iraqi Church is opposed to a court’s decision to sentence to death the convicted killer of an archbishop in ... |
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BBC News |
7:46am PDT |
EU moves to reform farm subsidies |
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Summary: The EU announces plans to reform its hugely expensive rural payments system, the Common Agricultural Policy. |
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Cnn.com |
7:40am PDT |
Hilton construction site blast injures 14 |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:40am PDT |
Criticism for 'UK database' plan |
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Summary: Plans for a centralised database of all e-mail and phone calls in the UK are criticised by the IT industry. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
7:36am PDT |
Senate debating amnesty ... again |
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Summary:
There's yet another attempt under way in Congress to grant amnesty to illegal alien guest workers.
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Yahoo News |
7:34am PDT |
13,000 displaced by SAfrica mobs as Mbeki urges calm
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A wave of violence against foreigners in South Africa has forced 13,000 people to flee their homes, the UN said Tuesday, as President Thabo Mbeki pleaded for an end to a "shameful" show of xenophobia. |
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BBC News |
7:16am PDT |
Tough penalty urged in Aziz trial |
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Summary: The prosecutor at the trial of Tariq Aziz calls for a punishment which would 'ease the hearts of widows'. |
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BBC News |
7:08am PDT |
EU shake-up on farming subsidies |
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Summary: The EU announces plans to reform its hugely expensive rural payments system, the Common Agricultural Policy. |
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Yahoo News |
7:06am PDT |
NY Gov. Paterson in hospital with migraine
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New York State Gov. David Paterson
checked himself into hospital on Tuesday with symptoms of a
migraine headache and preliminary test results were normal, the
governor's office said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:03am PDT |
NFL owners vote to opt out of labor agreement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - NFL owners have voted unanimously to shorten their labor agreement, meaning the current contract will end in 2011 instead of 2013. |
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BBC News |
7:03am PDT |
Expert says txt is gr8 4 language |
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Summary: A linguistics professor rejects claims that phone texting harms literacy, and says it enhances language skills. |
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Yahoo News |
7:01am PDT |
Myanmar mourns dead as U.N. reports aid progress
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Flags flew at half-mast across Myanmar
on Tuesday for the victims of Cyclone Nargis as the U.N.'s top
aid envoy pressed the military government to allow foreign
helicopters to fly in supplies to survivors. |
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ChristianPost |
7:00am PDT |
The Divorce Generation |
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Summary: It is a common, oft-repeated statistic: One in two American marriages will end in divorce—even within the Church. It hangs over our nation like a dark cloud. But what is truly sobering is that an entire generation of Americans has grown up in a culture wh |
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BBC News |
6:58am PDT |
7/7 accused had Afghan training |
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Summary: A man accused of assisting the 7 July suicide bombers has admitted undergoing training for jihad in Afghanistan. |
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Cnn.com |
6:56am PDT |
Spaceship flying where none has gone before |
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Summary: Its heat powers the solar system. Its light makes life on Earth possible. Its gravitational pull keeps planets in orbit around it.
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Yahoo News |
6:42am PDT |
China quake toll tops 40,000
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A man who survived China's earthquake by drinking sweetened water through a straw was pulled from the rubble Tuesday after eight days, but hopes faded for others as the death toll topped 40,000. |
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Cnn.com |
6:35am PDT |
Mom forced to live in car with dogs |
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Summary: Barbara Harvey sleeps in her car with her two dogs. The 67-year-old mother of three grown children never thought she'd spend her golden years like this. But she was laid off and then lost her condo. "It went to hell in a handbasket," she said. "This is my |
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OneNewsNowPress |
6:29am PDT |
Pastor bikes for African health |
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Summary:
A New York pastor will be peddling thousands of miles cross-country this summer to raise funds for a hospital his church has built in West Africa.
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BBC News |
6:25am PDT |
Water chief to leave job in weeks |
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Summary: The chief executive of Northern Ireland Water is to leave her post at the end of this month. |
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Yahoo News |
6:19am PDT |
Obama to take big step in Democratic race
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama will take a major step
toward the Democratic presidential nomination when Oregon and
Kentucky vote on Tuesday, but rival Hillary Clinton still hopes
to spoil the party. |
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BBC News |
6:19am PDT |
The deep divide |
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Summary: Feelings running high in Abkhazia and Georgia |
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BBC News |
6:18am PDT |
Russia police raid BP Moscow base |
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Summary: Russian security services search the Moscow HQ of oil giant BP - the second time the firm has been targeted. |
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Yahoo News |
6:18am PDT |
Iraqi army enters Sadr's Baghdad bastion
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraq sent its army deep into Baghdad's
Sadr City, power base of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on
Tuesday to stamp government authority on areas previously
outside its control. |
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Yahoo News |
6:16am PDT |
Wholesale inflation slows in April after March increase
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward. |
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BBC News |
6:13am PDT |
'Dog patient' dentist is jailed |
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Summary: A dentist whose 'phantom patients' included the name of a family pet dog, is jailed for theft. |
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ChristianToday |
6:11am PDT |
Hope UK aims for 1000 voluntary drug educators |
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Summary: Christian drug education charity Hope UK has launched a recruitment drive to bring its total number of voluntary drug educators to 1000 in the hopes of reaching 500000 children and young people a year by the end of 2011 |
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BBC News |
6:02am PDT |
Lebanese talks given one more day |
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Summary: Arab mediators extend a deadline for agreement on two Qatari proposals to end the Lebanese crisis. |
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BBC News |
6:00am PDT |
Football fans heading to Moscow |
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Summary: Thousands of Manchester United and Chelsea fans head to Moscow for the Uefa Champions League final. |
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BBC News |
6:00am PDT |
Police vote for right to strike |
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Summary: Police officers in England and Wales vote by a big majority to lobby the government for the right to strike. |
