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Cnn.com |
10:23pm PDT |
Ex-assistant ID's R. Kelly on sex tape |
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10:02pm PDT |
World 'failing on human rights' |
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Summary: World leaders are failing to tackle human rights abuses around the globe, Amnesty International says. |
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9:56pm PDT |
Sharon Stone: Was China quake 'bad karma?'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sharon Stone's "karma" comment is having an instant effect on her movie-star status in China. |
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BBC News |
9:51pm PDT |
Expats welcome |
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Summary: Syrians abroad are being wooed by their homeland |
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Cnn.com |
9:42pm PDT |
Pagan tomb under St. Peter's Basilica reopened |
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9:34pm PDT |
Bush was not "forthright" on Iraq: ex-spokesman
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan says in a new book that President George W.
Bush "veered terribly off course" and was not "open and
forthright on Iraq," Politico.com reported on Tuesday. |
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9:17pm PDT |
Nepal is set to become republic |
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Summary: Nepal prepares to become a republic and end 240 years of royal rule as its new assembly meets in Kathmandu. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04pm PDT |
China focuses on 'quake lake' amid aftershock trauma
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China pressed on Wednesday with frantic efforts to drain water from a huge "quake lake" threatening millions of people, as survivors of this month's devastating tremor braced for more aftershocks. |
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9:04pm PDT |
No new evidence of al Qaeda threat despite report: U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - There is no evidence of a direct
threat from al Qaeda or that the group has obtained weapons of
mass destruction, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday,
despite reports that al Qaeda will release a new video urging
jihadists to use suc |
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9:04pm PDT |
Bryant leads Lakers to Game 4 win
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kobe Bryant had 28 points and 10 rebounds and the Los Angeles Lakers held on for a 93-91 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference finals. |
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8:51pm PDT |
S Africa to set up refugee camps |
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Summary: South Africa is to set up seven refugee camps for foreigners who have fled anti-immigrant violence. |
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Yahoo News |
8:49pm PDT |
CIA watching for al-Qaida `succession crisis'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. is making "a big and continual push" to capture or kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but his demise won't end the organization's menace, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview. The CIA is equally intere |
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8:48pm PDT |
Skydiver's balloon takes off without him
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A French skydiver's latest attempt to set a new free-fall record ended Tuesday when his ride to the sky left without him. |
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BBC News |
8:45pm PDT |
Brown to meet oil industry chiefs |
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Summary: Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are set to meet oil industry leaders amid controversy over soaring fuel prices. |
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8:45pm PDT |
Brown set to meet oil producers |
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Summary: Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are set to meet oil industry leaders amid controversy over soaring fuel prices. |
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Yahoo News |
8:28pm PDT |
West dismayed over Suu Kyi detention
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Western governments lashed out at the
extension of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest,
but the outrage at Myanmar's military rulers was tempered by
concern over disrupting aid flows to desperate cyclone victims. |
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8:26pm PDT |
Japan vows to double Africa aid |
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Summary: The Japanese prime minister promises to double aid to Africa, at a leaders' conference in Yokohama. |
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8:12pm PDT |
New Zealand apologizes to Vietnam War veterans
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New Zealand formally apologized on
Wednesday to its Vietnam War veterans for unfair and harsh
treatment they received on their return. |
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Cnn.com |
8:07pm PDT |
Bush used 'spin' to push war, ex-spokesman says |
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Summary: The spokesman who defended President Bush's policies through Hurricane Katrina and the early years of the Iraq war is now blasting his former employers, saying the Bush administration became mired in propaganda and political spin and at times played loose |
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Yahoo News |
7:57pm PDT |
European leaders struggle to defuse oil price anger
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - European leaders are struggling to defuse growing anger over soaring fuel prices, as fisherman and truck drivers staged protests in several countries, with more strikes planned in coming days. |
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Yahoo News |
7:35pm PDT |
China "quake lake" fears prompt new evacuation
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China has evacuated more than
150,000 people living below an swollen lake formed by this
month's devastating earthquake amid fears it could burst and
trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday. |
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Cnn.com |
7:30pm PDT |
Dell deceived customers, judge says |
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Summary: Dell Inc. deceived customers in a massive "bait and switch" scheme to increase sales of its computer and electronic products, a New York state judge ruled Tuesday.
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Cnn.com |
7:23pm PDT |
Al Sadr: Let Iraqis decide on U.S. troops |
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Summary: An agreement between the United States and Iraq to allow U.S. troops to remain operating in Iraq past 2008 should be put to a popular referendum, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged in an online message to his followers.
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Yahoo News |
7:20pm PDT |
Sharon Stone: Was China quake `bad karma?'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sharon Stone's "karma" is having an instant effect on her movie-star status in China. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13pm PDT |
UN chief sees Myanmar cooperation on survivors
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that some foreign aid workers have gone into Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged delta without problems, reflecting a "new spirit of cooperation" by the ruling junta. |
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BBC News |
6:48pm PDT |
Nepal ready to abolish monarchy |
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Summary: Nepal swears in its newly-elected assembly, which will formally abolish the monarchy of King Gyanendra. |
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Yahoo News |
6:36pm PDT |
New al Qaeda video to urge WMDs against West: FBI
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Groups that monitor Islamic militant
Web sites say al Qaeda will post a new video in the next 24
hours urging jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear
weapons to attack the West, the FBI said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
6:16pm PDT |
Shop owner's attempt to halt crime given the boot by US police |
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Summary: A US shopowner with an innovative way of giving thieves the boot is told his method could land him in jail. |
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BBC News |
6:16pm PDT |
Shopowner's attempt to halt crime is given the boot by US police |
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Summary: A US shopowner with an innovative way of giving thieves the boot is told his method could land him in jail. |
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Yahoo News |
6:16pm PDT |
Desperate Housewives star dishes up Frostys, fries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Eva Longoria Parker took time to dish out Frostys and french fries at a Wendy's on Tuesday. The "Desperate Housewives" star worked the drive-thru at the restaurant to help kick off the Father's Day Frosty Weekend, an event that donates 50 cents for e |
