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Cnn.com |
4:57am PDT |
World will cook before leaders act, critics say |
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Summary: A call from the world's most powerful nations to establish the goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2050, was criticized by environmentalists Tuesday.
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Yahoo News |
4:57am PDT |
Siemens to cut 16,750 jobs amid economic downturn
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - German industrial conglomerate
Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE) plans to cut around 4 percent of its
workforce as part of an overhaul and as a result of the global
economic downturn, Siemens said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
4:56am PDT |
300 job losses at home loan firm |
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Summary: Banking giant Barclays cuts 300 jobs at its home loans division Firstplus in Cardiff because of slowing demand. |
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BBC News |
4:46am PDT |
Siemens plans to cut 16,750 jobs |
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Summary: Germany's Siemens plans to cut 16,750 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, as the global economy slows. |
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Yahoo News |
4:42am PDT |
Obama to propose overhauling bankruptcy laws
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama will propose overhauling U.S. bankruptcy laws on
Tuesday to ease their impact on people unable to pay their
bills because of medical expenses or military service. |
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BBC News |
4:42am PDT |
Brown hails G8 emissions progress |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says "major progress" has been made at the G8 after leaders agree to halve carbon emissions by 2050. |
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Yahoo News |
4:37am PDT |
Hurricane Bertha may weaken within a few days
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha could begin to weaken within the next couple of days. As of 5 a.m. EDT Tuesday, the center of the storm was about 675 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and about 1,035 miles southeast of Bermuda. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35am PDT |
Panel calls for new war powers legislation
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher say the next time the president goes to war, Congress should be required to say whether it agrees. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PDT |
NASA sets date for final shuttle mission in 2010
(AP)
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Summary: AP - NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires. |
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Yahoo News |
4:33am PDT |
Bon Jovi helps bring down a house in Detroit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jon Bon Jovi is giving some people who are living on a prayer something a bit more substantial. The Grammy winner was in a neighborhood on Detroit's East Side Monday to announce the building of five new homes as part of a partnership among his Philad |
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Yahoo News |
4:32am PDT |
Rice in Prague to sign radar deal, Poland wary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
talks with Poland on a European missile shield remained
unresolved, hours before she was to sign a treaty in the Czech
Republic on Prague's part of the accord. |
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Yahoo News |
4:30am PDT |
Siemens cutting 16,750 jobs worldwide to cut costs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Tuesday it would cut 16,750 jobs, or 4.2 percent of its global work force, to streamline operations and cut nearly $2 billion in costs in the face of a slowing economy. |
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BBC News |
4:25am PDT |
West Bank official unhurt by bomb |
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Summary: A small bomb explodes in the boot of the Palestinian attorney-general's car as he set off to work in Ramallah. |
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BBC News |
4:21am PDT |
Sex attacker tried a second time |
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Summary: The man who tried to rape a teenager in Coleraine on Sunday attempted to attack another girl, the PSNI say. |
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BBC News |
4:20am PDT |
Police admit 'wrong' armed arrest |
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Summary: A rail passenger was ordered by armed police to lie face-down on a platform in Dorset in a case of mistaken identity, police admit. |
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Cnn.com |
4:16am PDT |
Magnitude 6 quake rattles Peru |
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Summary: An earthquake hit southern Peru early Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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BBC News |
4:15am PDT |
Frozen embryos 'better for IVF' |
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Summary: Frozen is better than fresh when it comes to transplanting embryos in IVF treatment, a study shows. |
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BBC News |
4:14am PDT |
US set to sign Czech radar deal |
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Summary: The US secretary of state is set to sign a deal to base part of Washington's missile defence system in the Czech Republic. |
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BBC News |
4:12am PDT |
Minister resigns over Kenya hotel |
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Summary: Kenya's finance minister steps down to "facilitate" an investigation into the sale of a luxury hotel. |
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Cnn.com |
4:06am PDT |
Hurricane Bertha shifts direction |
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Summary: Hurricane Bertha -- the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season -- began a shift in direction Tuesday morning, a day after growing to Category 3 status, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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Cnn.com |
4:06am PDT |
Iran's military warns U.S., Israel against attack |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
4:05am PDT |
Litvinenko's widow praises Brown |
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Summary: Alexander Litvinenko's widow welcomes continued UK calls for the extradition of a man over her husband's death. |
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BBC News |
4:04am PDT |
Nasa reveals final shuttle dates |
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Summary: The US space agency fixes the dates of its last shuttle missions - with Endeavour making the final flight in May 2010. |
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ChristianToday |
4:00am PDT |
Westminster Cathedral to host gun knife crime prayer vigil |
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Summary: A London gun and knife crime prayer vigil is to take place at Westminster Cathedral on Friday 18 July |
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Yahoo News |
3:58am PDT |
Afghan official suggests Pakistan linked to bomb
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The spokesman for Afghanistan's president suggested that Pakistan's intelligence agency is being behind the bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul. |
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Yahoo News |
3:50am PDT |
US exports to Iran rose in Bush years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. exports to Iran grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. America sent more cigarettes to Iran — at least $158 million worth under Bush — than any other pr |
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ChristianToday |
3:38am PDT |
Vandals target gravestones in Wolverhampton church |
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Summary: Gravestones and memorials in a Wolverhampton churchyard have suffered considerable damage after a series of attacks by vandals over the past month |
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BBC News |
3:35am PDT |
Brown faces climate change revolt |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is facing the prospect of another significant backbench rebellion - this time over climate change. |
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BBC News |
3:34am PDT |
Police stop and search figures up |
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Summary: The number of people police stop and search rises by 9%, with black people seven times more likely to be stopped. |
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BBC News |
3:28am PDT |
MEPs back contested telecoms plan |
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Summary: European politicians vote in favour of changes to a telecoms law which campaigners say could hit online privacy. |
