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7:37pm PDT |
North Korea fired short-range missiles off coast: Yonhap
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea fired three short-range
missiles off its west coast on Friday, the South's Yonhap news
agency said on Saturday, citing government officials. |
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Cnn.com |
7:22pm PDT |
McClellan would testify if asked, unsure on election |
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Summary: Former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan -- whose book blasts the administration on issues from Hurricane Katrina to the Iraq war -- declined to say Friday whether he still considers himself a Republican. But he did say he supports parts of Sen. Barack Obama |
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7:17pm PDT |
Blair's faith move |
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Summary: Matthew Price on the ex-PM's new enterprise |
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7:12pm PDT |
Amy in Lisbon |
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Summary: Winehouse plays her first concert for six months |
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Cnn.com |
7:05pm PDT |
Subject of 'Lorenzo's Oil' dies at 30 |
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Cnn.com |
6:58pm PDT |
More woe for Air Force wing in nuke goof |
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6:50pm PDT |
Upbeat CIA assessment on Al-Qaeda challenged
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Summary: AFP - CIA director Michael Hayden came under stiff challenge for portraying Al-Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border. |
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BBC News |
6:46pm PDT |
Protest against Heathrow's growth |
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Summary: Organisers are forecasting thousands of people will join a march against the expansion of Heathrow airport. |
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Yahoo News |
6:43pm PDT |
Obama, McCain bicker over troop levels in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama
squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number
of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the
two likely presidential nominees over the unpopular war. |
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Cnn.com |
6:33pm PDT |
EPA aims to keep rat poison from kids, animals |
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Summary: Ecological and conservation groups are praising a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new restrictions on rat poisons to help reduce the threat of accidental exposure to children and wildlife.
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Yahoo News |
6:31pm PDT |
Gates: Obstructed efforts in Myanmar cost lives
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's obstruction of international efforts to help cyclone victims cost "tens of thousands of lives," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday, reflecting the widespread frustration with the military government there. |
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Cnn.com |
6:19pm PDT |
Decision day looms for FL, MI delegates |
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Summary: Saturday's meeting of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee could mark a pivotal day in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The committee will have to decide what to do with delegates from Florida and Michigan, th |
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Cnn.com |
6:19pm PDT |
DNC in D.C. to deal with delegate dilemma |
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Summary: The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meets Saturday in Washington to consider what to do with delegates for Florida and Michigan, which broke ranks to hold primaries earlier than party rules allowed.
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Yahoo News |
6:13pm PDT |
Nurse accused of giving patients bleach arrested
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A former nurse accused of intentionally injecting two patients with bleach at an East Texas dialysis center was arrested Friday, police said. |
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BBC News |
6:06pm PDT |
Facebook 'violates privacy laws' |
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Summary: Social networking site Facebook is accused of 22 counts of privacy breaches by a Canadian group. |
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Yahoo News |
6:00pm PDT |
Amy Winehouse late for her 1st post-rehab concert
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Amy Winehouse showed up late for her first concert since leaving rehab, giving an underwhelming performance in front of 90,000 people Friday at a Lisbon music festival. |
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5:58pm PDT |
Japanese hopes ride on Discovery |
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Summary: The Discovery shuttle is about to fly the main section of Japan's science lab to International Space Station. |
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5:32pm PDT |
Cigarette sales overhaul planned |
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Summary: Cigarette vending machines and packet logos could be banned in England, under government plans to stop children smoking. |
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5:26pm PDT |
Police hunt for robbers wearing thongs as masks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear. |
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5:18pm PDT |
Snag in deal to return Texas sect kids to parents
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A plan to begin reuniting parents with more than 400 children removed from a polygamist group's ranch has been thrown into doubt because a judge and the families are clashing over proposed restrictions. |
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Cnn.com |
5:13pm PDT |
Judge delays reunions for sect families |
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Summary: A Texas judge today refused to sign an order returning more than 300 children seized from a polygamist community, saying she wanted the mothers involved to sign the order first. Members of the sect decried the decision, which followed a Texas Supreme Cour |
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BBC News |
5:12pm PDT |
Texan sect reunions within days |
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Summary: Children taken into care from a Texan polygamist sect can rejoin their parents from Monday, a court rules. |
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Cnn.com |
4:52pm PDT |
Ex-official: Enron likely a focus in oil probe |
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Summary: Federal regulators investigating possible price manipulation of crude oil are likely looking at what role collapsed energy giant Enron may have played, a former government official said Friday.
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Cnn.com |
4:44pm PDT |
4 dead after airliner overshoots runway |
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4:41pm PDT |
McClellan 'glad' to testify on White House |
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Summary: Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Friday he would be willing to comply with a possible congressional subpoena to discuss the administration's handling of pre-war intelligence, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer he'd be "happy to talk if I am |
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Yahoo News |
4:37pm PDT |
U.S., Libya agree to try to resolve terrorism claims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States and Libya have
agreed to try to resolve compensation claims from the 1988
Lockerbie bombing and other incidents Washington views as acts
of terrorism by Libya, the State Department said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
4:37pm PDT |
Fishing facing a 'stark reality' |
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Summary: Fishermen say some boats could be forced to tie up because of rising fuels costs. |
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4:35pm PDT |
Fatal crash at Honduran airport |
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Summary: Five people die when a Miami-bound airliner landing in fog in Honduras overshoots the runway and hits a road. |
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4:20pm PDT |
Tentative deal on reuniting polygamist families
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than 400 children taken from a
polygamist ranch in Texas will be reunited with their parents
next week under a tentative agreement reached on Friday between
state officials and lawyers for the mothers. |
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BBC News |
4:19pm PDT |
Black-winged stilt chicks successfully hatch in Britain - for the first time in 20 years |
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Summary: A family of black-winged stilt chicks are successfully hatched for the first time in Britain for more than 20 years. |
