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ChristianToday |
3:24pm PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition may sign initial talks agreement |
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Summary: Zimbabwes main opposition party could sign an agreement as early as Monday to begin substantive talks with President Robert Mugabes party on ending a political impasse that has worsened the countrys severe economic crisis opposition officials said on Satu |
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BBC News |
3:24pm PDT |
Missing Semtex 'left unguarded' |
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Summary: A lapse in security is blamed for the theft of 28kg (61lb) of plastic explosive and detonators from a site in France. |
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ChristianToday |
3:24pm PDT |
Cleared Pc dies after being found on Snowdon |
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Summary: A police officer who was cleared of wrongdoing after CCTV cameras showed him punching a woman he was trying to arrest has died after being found on a Welsh mountainside |
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ChristianToday |
3:24pm PDT |
Irish party declines Sarkozy invite |
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Summary: Irelands Labour Party has turned down a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy next week to resolve deadlock over the EU reform treaty saying the format proposed was pointless and a trifle arrogant |
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ChristianToday |
3:23pm PDT |
Arab ministers criticize ICC Sudan charges |
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Summary: The Arab League criticised the International Criminal Courts prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudans president on genocide charges saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur |
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ChristianToday |
3:23pm PDT |
Iraqs Sunni Arab bloc rejoins government |
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Summary: Iraqs main Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Shiiteled government on Saturday in a breakthrough for national reconciliation after parliament approved its candidates for several vacant ministerial posts |
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ChristianToday |
3:22pm PDT |
Zuma says Mandela glue holding South Africa together |
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Summary: The leader of South Africas ruling party said former President Nelson Mandela was the glue holding the country together giving voice to longheld fears about the future of the fledgling democracy without him |
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ChristianToday |
3:22pm PDT |
Gunbattle at Palestinian camp in Lebanon kills two |
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Summary: Two people were killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon camp officials said |
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ChristianToday |
3:21pm PDT |
Ten Kurdish rebels killed in clashes in SE Turkey |
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Summary: Ten members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party PKK were killed in clashes with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday security sources said on Saturday |
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ChristianToday |
3:21pm PDT |
Nine Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir explosion |
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Summary: At least nine Indian soldiers were killed and 16 wounded on Saturday when their vehicle detonated a landmine in the biggest attack on Indian soldiers in recent months |
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ChristianToday |
3:19pm PDT |
Clinton vows to fight insulting abortion plan |
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Summary: A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a gratuitous unnecessary insult to women and faces tough opposition Sen Hillary Clinton said on Friday |
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BBC News |
3:16pm PDT |
Arab nations 'agree Sudan action' |
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Summary: Arab League ministers meeting in emergency session say they have agreed a plan to defuse the crisis between Sudan and the ICC. |
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Cnn.com |
3:01pm PDT |
Corpse may be link to mystery newborn |
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Summary: The body of a woman has been found at the apartment of a Pennsylvania woman who arrived at a hospital with a newborn baby earlier this week. Andrea Curry-Demus told police she paid $1,000 for the infant. Evidence in the apartment indicates a recent childb |
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Cnn.com |
3:00pm PDT |
Tropical storm warning issued for Carolinas |
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Summary: Winds in a tropical depression that formed late Friday near the Carolina coast were approaching tropical storm strength Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Yahoo News |
2:55pm PDT |
Tropical storm Cristobal strengthens off U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The third tropical storm of the 2008
Atlantic hurricane season, Cristobal, gained strength just off
the U.S. East Coast on Saturday and gale-force winds and heavy
rains were expected to lash the Carolinas as the storm grazed
the shoreline on |
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Yahoo News |
2:54pm PDT |
Favre sticks to script, declines to address rift
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Favre is sticking to the script, declining to address his public rift with the Green Bay Packers in an appearance at Lambeau Field on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
2:54pm PDT |
Zimbabwe introduces Z$100bn note |
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Summary: The central bank in Zimbabwe is to issue Z$100bn bank-notes, as hyperinflation pushes prices in the country ever-higher. |
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BBC News |
2:54pm PDT |
A bank-note worth Z$100bn... that barely buys a loaf of bread |
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Summary: The central bank in Zimbabwe is to issue Z$100bn bank-notes, as hyperinflation pushes prices in the country ever-higher. |
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Cnn.com |
2:36pm PDT |
Mystery foot was depressed man's, police say |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
2:17pm PDT |
Federal inquiry into crane collapse begins |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
2:14pm PDT |
British hostage death unconfirmed |
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Summary: One of the five British hostages held captive by militants in Iraq has killed himself, a video obtained by a UK newspaper claims. |
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Yahoo News |
2:04pm PDT |
US warns Iran as nuclear talks yield no deal
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - World powers' latest bid to make Iran halt its nuclear programme stalled Saturday as high-level talks involving US and Iranian officials ended without a deal and Washington warned of possible further "confrontation." |
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Cnn.com |
2:03pm PDT |
Iraqi PM reportedly backs Obama's plan |
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Summary: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.
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Yahoo News |
1:58pm PDT |
Dignitaries attend grand party for Mandela's 90th
(AP)
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Summary: AP - QUNU, South Africa — Songs, laughter, teasing and tender words marked Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration Saturday as presidents, village elders and African royalty joined him for a festive luncheon on his rural homestead. |
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Cnn.com |
1:31pm PDT |
Obama meets with troops in Afghanistan |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama made his first visit to Afghanistan today before he embarks on his tour of the Middle East and Europe aimed at bolstering his foreign policy credentials.
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Yahoo News |
1:23pm PDT |
In Afghanistan, Obama visits troops and officials
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Visits with U.S. troops and Afghan officials in a war-weary region marked Barack Obama's first day in Afghanistan, the focal point of his proposed strategy for dealing with threats to the U.S. if elected president. |
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BBC News |
1:12pm PDT |
Brown flies into Israel for talks |
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Summary: Gordon Brown arrives in Tel Aviv for two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, following his trip to Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
12:59pm PDT |
Britain's Brown visits Israel, West Bank
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday flew in to Tel Aviv on a previously unannounced visit to Israel and the West Bank, his first since taking over as premier. |
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Cnn.com |
12:57pm PDT |
$100 billion won't buy loaf of bread in Zimbabwe |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced new $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.
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Yahoo News |
12:55pm PDT |
Al-Qaida may be easing effort in Iraq, Petraeus says
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday. |
