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Yahoo News |
4:35am PDT |
Vatican: excommunication for female priests
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Summary: AP - The Vatican is slamming the door on attempts by women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It has strongly reiterated in a decree that anyone involved in ordination ceremonies is automatically excommunicated. |
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Yahoo News |
4:34am PDT |
European fishing fleets strike over fuel prices
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Spanish fishermen launched a national strike Friday, adding the weight of Europe's largest fishing fleet to growing protests over soaring fuel prices, alongside counterparts in Italy and Portugal. |
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BBC News |
4:31am PDT |
Flood crews' 'busiest night ever' |
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Summary: Fire crews tackling flood emergencies in Somerset say it was their "busiest night in living history". |
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Yahoo News |
4:30am PDT |
Democrats push for quick end to nomination battle
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A top Democrat says that party leaders intend to push for a quick end to the grueling presidential nomination battle, as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton planned a rally in Washington in a last-minute effort to save her faltering candidacy. |
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BBC News |
4:26am PDT |
TV presenter Speight's father talks of grief |
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Summary: The father of late children's presenter Mark Speight talks for the first time about his grief for his son. |
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ChristianToday |
4:25am PDT |
Blair to launch Faith Foundation |
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Summary: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will launch a Faith Foundation on Friday that he said aims to improve understanding between different religions and fight global poverty by mobilising people through faith |
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ChristianToday |
4:25am PDT |
Blair launches Faith Foundation |
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Summary: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has launched a Faith Foundation on Friday with the aim of improving understanding between different religions and fighting global poverty by mobilising people through faith |
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BBC News |
4:20am PDT |
Boys held over school rape claims |
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Summary: Two boys, aged 14 and 15, are arrested and bailed over claims a 15-year-old girl was raped at school. |
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ChristianToday |
4:17am PDT |
US military looks into Bible verse on coins in Iraq |
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Summary: The US military is investigating a Marine accused of promoting Christianity in Iraq by giving coins to civilians with a Bible verse written on them in Arabic US officials said on Thursday |
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BBC News |
4:14am PDT |
First glimpse |
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Summary: Pictures give clues to way of life of uncontacted tribe |
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Yahoo News |
4:12am PDT |
China warns evacuation possible with flood threat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than 1 million people may have to evacuate dozens of villages in a Sichuan province valley if an earthquake-spawned lake threatens to burst and flood the region, an emergency official warned Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:10am PDT |
China says will name and shame tardy quake donors
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China will name and shame companies
which promise donations for earthquake relief efforts but then
fail to live up to their pledges, a government official said on
Friday. |
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BBC News |
4:07am PDT |
House prices slowdown confirmed |
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Summary: The slowdown of house prices in England and Wales is confirmed by figures from the Land Registry. |
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Yahoo News |
4:05am PDT |
Japan woman caught living in closet
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing. |
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BBC News |
3:51am PDT |
Eviction notice for Nepalese king |
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Summary: Nepal's government formally tells the deposed monarch to vacate the royal palace within the next two weeks. |
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BBC News |
3:51am PDT |
Nepal king officially told to go |
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Summary: Nepal's government formally tells the deposed monarch to vacate the royal palace within the next two weeks. |
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BBC News |
3:49am PDT |
UK university opens in Australia |
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Summary: University College London is to open an Adelaide campus - the first UK university to open such a base in Australia. |
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Yahoo News |
3:45am PDT |
UN: Myanmar junta forcing storm victims from camps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's military government is removing cyclone victims from refugee camps and dumping them near their devastated villages with virtually no aid supplies, the United Nations said Friday. |
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ChristianToday |
3:43am PDT |
Some Irish Catholics pray for EU treaty No vote |
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Summary: Eamonn Murphy hopes his prayers will help secure a No vote when predominantly Catholic Ireland votes on the European Unions reform treaty next month |
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Cnn.com |
3:36am PDT |
Uncontacted tribe sighted in Amazon, group says |
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Summary: Members of one of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes have been photographed pointing bows into the air, according to the National Indian Foundation. More than 100 uncontacted tribes remain worldwide, and about half live in the remote reaches of the A |
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BBC News |
3:36am PDT |
Apartheid 'not root of SA riots' |
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Summary: South Africa's ex-leader FW De Klerk says the heritage of apartheid cannot be blamed for the xenophobic attacks. |
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BBC News |
3:29am PDT |
Blair insights |
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Summary: Great stories from the Prescott, Cherie and Levy memoirs |
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BBC News |
3:22am PDT |
Turkish gay group will fight ban |
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Summary: A leading Turkish gay rights group says it will fight its court-ordered ban for "violating morality". |
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Yahoo News |
3:22am PDT |
Official: China evacuation order just a drill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An earthquake official says a Chinese state media report that 1.3 million people in Sichuan Province were ordered to evacuate was wrong and that a mass evacuation has not been ordered. |
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BBC News |
3:21am PDT |
Health workers reject pay offer |
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Summary: Thousands of health workers overwhelmingly reject a three-year pay deal, the GMB union says. |
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Yahoo News |
3:20am PDT |
China rushes to clear radioactive materials below quake lake
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a "quake lake" that threatens to burst and send torrents of water into heavily populated areas. |
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BBC News |
3:14am PDT |
'Hello, Gordon here...' Why the PM has been phoning voters at home |
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Summary: Gordon Brown rings voters at home to talk about Labour policy, Downing Street has confirmed. |
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BBC News |
3:07am PDT |
Click, clack, bing! |
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Summary: Why typewriters are king in the age of the computer |
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BBC News |
3:07am PDT |
Reverting to type |
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Summary: Why typewriters are refusing to go away |
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BBC News |
3:06am PDT |
Actor Murray's wife seeks divorce |
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Summary: The wife of Ghostbusters actor Bill Murray files for divorce, alleging he is addicted to drink and drugs. |
