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BBC News |
9:35am PDT |
Brown pledge to tackle stabbings |
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Summary: Measures to tackle knife crime will be revealed next week after stabbings in London and the Midlands, says Gordon Brown. |
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Yahoo News |
9:29am PDT |
ICC prosecutor to seek arrest of Sudan's Beshir
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - International Criminal Court prosecutors will seek the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes in Darfur, it emerged Friday, prompting Khartoum to threaten peace efforts in the region. |
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Yahoo News |
9:27am PDT |
Bush urges Congress to open new areas to oil drilling
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush urged
Congress on Friday to act before its August break to open new
areas for oil exploration as part of an effort to help ease
record high oil prices. |
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BBC News |
9:20am PDT |
Religious blurs |
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Summary: Following the tenets of both Islam and Hinduism |
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Cnn.com |
9:14am PDT |
Two mortgage giants in danger |
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Summary: The anxiety over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants that support $5 trillion in home loans, reached fever pitch today. CNNMoney.com reports the two firms play a central role in the U.S. housing market, funding banks and other home lenders.
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BBC News |
9:12am PDT |
FTSE 100 ends day in bear market |
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Summary: London's index of key shares, ends in "bear market" territory after another tough day for stocks. |
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BBC News |
9:06am PDT |
ECB chief cool on rival Twenty20 |
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Summary: England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke plays down the possibility of a new Twenty20 event to rival the Indian Premier League. |
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ChristianPost |
8:57am PDT |
Ga. High School Senior Wins Nat'l Right to Life Contest |
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Summary: A high school senior from Georgia won the National Right to Life oratory competition this past weekend, emphasizing in his speech how abortion ?is but a branch to the Post Modernist root.? |
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Cnn.com |
8:56am PDT |
Bertha causes high surf on Bermuda beaches |
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Summary: Hurricane Bertha, a Category 1 storm, was causing large swells and high surf on Bermuda beaches Friday morning as it crept toward the Atlantic island.
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Yahoo News |
8:53am PDT |
Lebanon names unity cabinet to end political crisis
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Lebanon announced a 30-member national unity government on Friday tasked with resolving the country's worst political crisis since a 1975-1990 civil war. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Obama states backing for Indo-U.S. nuclear deal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama supports a civilian nuclear trade deal between India and
the United States and would not push for changes to it, an
Indian news magazine quoted him as saying. |
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
Charles Wheeler |
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Summary: And the far-fetched tale that turned out to be true |
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Yahoo News |
8:46am PDT |
Bodies of missing U.S. soldiers identified in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. military has identified the
remains of two soldiers who were kidnapped in Iraq in May 2007
after their patrol came under attack south of Baghdad, the
Pentagon said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
8:41am PDT |
'In limbo' |
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Summary: Zimbabweans in exile rally for the right to work |
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ChristianToday |
8:37am PDT |
Four more stabbed to death in a single day |
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Summary: The number of fatal stabbings in London this year has risen to over 50 with four more cases in a single day but Scotland Yard said on Friday the city is not suffering an epidemic of knife crime |
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BBC News |
8:37am PDT |
Youth guilty of schoolboy murder |
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Summary: A 16-year-old youth has been found guilty of murdering 14-year-old stab victim Martin Dinnegan. |
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ChristianToday |
8:36am PDT |
Indictments sought in Kercher murder |
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Summary: Italian prosecutors have requested the indictment of three suspects for the murder of 21yearold exchange student Meredith Kercher judicial sources said on Friday |
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ChristianToday |
8:35am PDT |
July 21 bomb plot fiance jailed |
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Summary: A woman engaged to one of the failed July 21 London suicide bombers was jailed for three years on Friday for helping him escape the capital dressed in her mothers burqa |
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Cnn.com |
8:35am PDT |
Mortgage mess slams Wall Street |
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Summary: Stocks tumbled near midday Friday amid surging oil prices and growing fears that the government will have to take over beleaguered mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Cnn.com |
8:28am PDT |
Obama and NASCAR? |
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Summary: SI.com has learned that for the first time in history, a major presidential candidate may sponsor a race car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. According to sources, Barack Obama's campaign is in talks to become the primary sponsor of BAM Racing's No. 49 ca |
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Cnn.com |
8:24am PDT |
Burned boy smiling again, learning English |
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Summary: Youssif is in his bright orange Spiderman shirt -- and he's speaking in English. "Look I can jump, it's very scary," he says.
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BBC News |
8:24am PDT |
Donors pledge funds for Kosovo |
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Summary: International donors raise a total of 1.2bn euros towards rebuilding Kosovo during an international conference in Brussels. |
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Yahoo News |
8:20am PDT |
Olympic swimmer Shanteau has testicular cancer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau is heading to Beijing with a devastating diagnosis: He has cancer. |
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Cnn.com |
8:19am PDT |
Problems reported with new iPhones |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
8:15am PDT |
Fannie and Freddie on the brink |
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Summary: The anxiety over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants that support $5 trillion in home loans, reached fever pitch today. CNNMoney.com reports the two firms play a central role in the U.S. housing market, funding banks and other home lenders.
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Yahoo News |
8:13am PDT |
Calmer weather slows fires in Calif., Wash.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Firefighters battling a raging wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California caught a break early Friday when strong winds they expected did not immediately materialize. Residents in Washington state's Spokane Valley fled a fire that destroye |
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ChristianPost |
8:10am PDT |
Gays Should Understand the Religious, and Vice Versa |
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Summary: The issue of same-sex ?marriage? provokes strong emotions and actions on both sides of the debate with little common ground seemingly to be found. But on Thursday the beginning of an unlikely understanding appeared to emerge at a panel discussion that in |
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ChristianToday |
8:10am PDT |
Cross Pollinate Fundraising with a heart |
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Summary: A novel new Christian initiative is hoping to take fundraising from the awkward and impersonal to intimate and involved |
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
Hezbollah gets veto power in Lebanese government
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lebanon's prime minister has formed a national unity Cabinet in which Hezbollah and its allies have veto power over government decisions. |
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Yahoo News |
8:01am PDT |
Paulson shoots down Fannie, Freddie bailout
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Alarm swelled on Friday that Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac might run short of capital,
placing the fragile U.S. economy at even greater risk, as the
Bush administration offered no hint of a government bailout of
the largest U.S. providers of |
