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ChristianPost |
2:17pm PDT |
So. Calif. Prepares for Strong Dose of Urban Gospel Music |
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Summary: Rising urban Gospel music artists from around the nation will be taking the stage this weekend at an inner city concert that?s drawing believers throughout southern California. |
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ChristianPost |
2:15pm PDT |
Pope Benedict Urges Help for Iraqi Christians |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI urged the world to help Iraqis who have fled their country and called for better protection for Christians inside Iraq during talks Friday with Iraq's prime minister, the Vatican said. |
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Cnn.com |
2:06pm PDT |
At least 4 dead in Lebanon clashes |
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Summary: At least four people were killed in a gunbattle between opposing forces in northern Lebanon Friday, a senior security source told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
1:51pm PDT |
Karadzic expected to appeal to war crimes transfer
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A deadline loomed Friday for Radovan Karadzic to appeal his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal, as more details emerged about his life on the run and his assets came under threat of confiscation. |
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Cnn.com |
1:41pm PDT |
What McCain would do if he caught bin Laden |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain on Friday said as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial.
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Yahoo News |
1:38pm PDT |
Hopes of reaching world trade deal revive at WTO
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ministers hailed an emerging trade deal
on Friday, as compromise proposals revitalized deadlocked talks
at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). |
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Yahoo News |
1:31pm PDT |
Obama in London on final stop of world tour
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in London Friday, the last scheduled stop on a world tour aimed at boosting his foreign policy credentials before elections later this year. |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
FDA: Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The government is narrowing its warning to hot pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalapenos now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak — clearing the U.S. crop. |
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Cnn.com |
1:19pm PDT |
Police kill man at radio station |
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Yahoo News |
1:12pm PDT |
McCain rejects 'audacity of hopelessness' for Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, ridiculing Barack Obama for "the audacity of hopelessness" in his policies on Iraq, said Friday that the entire Middle East could have plunged into war had U.S. troops been withdrawn as his rival advocat |
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Yahoo News |
1:01pm PDT |
Angry man shoots lawn mower for not starting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start. Keith Walendowski, 56, was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52pm PDT |
Poland says no to DNA testing of Chopin's heart
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39. And that's how the Polish government wants to keep it. |
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BBC News |
12:52pm PDT |
Hacker admits online shop thefts |
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Summary: A computer user who exploited flaws in an online shop admits stealing £20k of equipment. |
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BBC News |
12:49pm PDT |
'Four killed' in Gaza explosion |
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Summary: Three suspected Hamas militants and a young girl die in an explosion near a car on Gaza City's beachfront, reports say. |
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Yahoo News |
12:46pm PDT |
McMahon works as pitchman for Kimmel in-show spots
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ed McMahon has a job. The former "Tonight Show" sidekick is reprising his role as pitchman with several comical commercial segments during "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The first of the four spots, which were filmed Thursday evening and feature McMahon and Ji |
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Yahoo News |
12:44pm PDT |
Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults wit |
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ChristianPost |
12:42pm PDT |
Israeli Paper Publishes Obama Western Wall Prayer, Draws Fire |
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Summary: A written prayer that Barack Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, asks God to guide him and guard his family, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday. |
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BBC News |
12:32pm PDT |
Sprinter Powell eases to 100m win |
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Summary: Asafa Powell completes his pre-Olympic preparations with an impressive victory at the London Grand Prix. |
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BBC News |
12:22pm PDT |
Men guilty after mother's tip-off |
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Summary: Two men are found guilty of attempted murder after a 34-year-old man was attacked in a city park. |
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BBC News |
12:21pm PDT |
Obama tour |
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Summary: The BBC follows the Democratic hopeful on his world trip |
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ChristianToday |
12:08pm PDT |
Salvadors Nic Gonzales visits mission outreach sites in Honduras |
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Summary: Salvadors Nic Gonzales visits a school and a tortilla manufacturing facility for single mothers in Honduras just two of the projects supported by The Salvador Foundation |
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BBC News |
12:03pm PDT |
Keeper Robinson joins Blackburn |
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Summary: Tottenham and England goalkeeper Paul Robinson joins Blackburn for £3.5m, signing a five-year contract. |
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ChristianToday |
11:58am PDT |
Pope tells Iraqi leader Christians need protection |
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Summary: Pope Benedict told Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki on Friday that minority Christians in Iraq needed more protection but the Iraqi leader assured him that Christians were not being persecuted |
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Yahoo News |
11:54am PDT |
AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs, focus on ads
(AP)
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Summary: AP - AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities. |
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ChristianPost |
11:41am PDT |
Ukraine Celebrates Its 1,020th Anniversary of Christianity |
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Summary: Ukraine is celebrating the 1,020th anniversary of its adoption of Christianity by holding church services and welcoming foreign Orthodox Church leaders to the capital. Prince Vladimir the Great was the figure who officially brought Christianity to modern- |
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Yahoo News |
11:30am PDT |
Obama thanks Sarkozy for Afghan troops, says US loves France
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama travelled to Paris Friday to tell President Nicolas Sarkozy that Americans have an "enormous fondness" for the French and to thank him for sending more troops to Afghanistan. |
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BBC News |
11:25am PDT |
Carol Vorderman quits Countdown |
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Summary: Presenter Carol Vorderman has announced she is to step down from television game show Countdown. |
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Yahoo News |
11:24am PDT |
McCain steps up criticism of Obama over Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Friday that Barack Obama's policies would have led to defeat in both Iraq and Afghanistan and possibly pushed the entire Middle East into war, stepping up his criticism of his Democratic rival. |
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BBC News |
11:20am PDT |
Karadzic appeal deadline passes |
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Summary: A deadline passes for Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to The Hague on genocide charges. |
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BBC News |
11:13am PDT |
Brown under fire as allies rally |
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Summary: Critics increase the pressure on Gordon Brown after Labour's defeat in the Glasgow East by-election. |
