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ChristianToday |
11:58pm PDT |
WTO talks limp into 9th day |
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Summary: Talks to rescue a world trade deal will continue on Tuesday with players trying to avert a collapse over measures intended to help poor countries protect their farmers against import surges ministers said |
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ChristianToday |
11:58pm PDT |
Unexploded bomb found in western Indian city |
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Summary: Police found an unexploded bomb in the western Indian city of Surat one of the worlds biggest diamondpolishing centres on Tuesday three days after a series of bombs in the same state killed 45 people |
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ChristianToday |
11:57pm PDT |
UN admits significant Myanmar exchange rate loss |
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Summary: The top UN humanitarian affairs official said on Monday the world body had suffered significant losses while delivering cyclone aid to Myanmar due to a distorted official exchange rate |
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ChristianToday |
11:56pm PDT |
UN council split on Sudan genocide indictment |
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Summary: The UN Security Council was split on Monday over an effort by Libya and South Africa to have the council prevent the International Criminal Court from indicting Sudans president for genocide |
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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Plan to revive mortgage lending |
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Summary: The government may have to guarantee billions of pounds of mortgage bonds in order to revive the market, a report says. |
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BBC News |
11:49pm PDT |
Russians begin record-breaking dive in Lake Baikal in Siberia |
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Summary: Russian scientists aim to dive to the bottom of the world's deepest body of fresh water - Lake Baikal in Siberia. |
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ChristianToday |
11:46pm PDT |
Fraud said soaring and set to worsen |
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Summary: Fraud in the UK jumped 50 percent in the first half of the year compared with the previous six months and is likely to worsen as the effects of the credit crunch spread throughout the economy a report said |
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ChristianToday |
11:45pm PDT |
London still calling through credit rout clamour |
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Summary: London is struggling to hold its ground in the global credit rout yet powerful forces still support its emergence as the worlds undisputed financial hub |
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ChristianToday |
11:42pm PDT |
Mobiles used more for nonphone calls |
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Summary: Mobiles are no longer used just to make phone calls on the hop but to send more text messages take pictures and check the Internet new figures released on Tuesday showed |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Higher oil price boosts BP profit |
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Summary: Oil giant BP announces a 6% rise in profits for the second quarter of 2008, largely thanks to a sharp rise in the price of oil. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PDT |
Russia ventures into deepest lake |
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Summary: Russian scientists aim to dive to the bottom of the world's deepest body of fresh water - Lake Baikal in Siberia. |
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Yahoo News |
11:06pm PDT |
Favre a no-show as Rodgers takes over for Packers
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Summary: AP - With the Brett Favre standoff still simmering, Aaron Rodgers took his place Monday as the Packers' new starting quarterback. Rodgers is trying to ignore what has become a daily soap opera involving the three-time MVP. |
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BBC News |
10:52pm PDT |
Closure plan for 52 post offices |
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Summary: Politicians say proposals to shut 52 post offices in north Wales will hit the elderly and vulnerable worst. |
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Cnn.com |
10:42pm PDT |
U.S. ribs, steaks back in South Korea |
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Summary: Thousands and thousands of South Koreans have protested the return of U.S. beef to their country. Mad cow fears led the Asian nation to ban cattle products imported from the states in 2003. But that prohibition ended earlier this year, and the first shipm |
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Cnn.com |
10:42pm PDT |
U.S. ribs, steaks return; South Koreans angry |
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Summary: Thousands and thousands of South Koreans have protested the return of U.S. beef to their country. Mad cow fears led the Asian nation to ban cattle products imported from the states in 2003. But that prohibition ended earlier this year, and the first shipm |
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Cnn.com |
10:35pm PDT |
New Mexico floods leave 1 dead, hundreds stuck |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:29pm PDT |
New murder law |
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Summary: Danny Shaw analyses planned legal changes |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PDT |
'Tidying the mess' |
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Summary: Plans to overhaul the murder laws in England and Wales |
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Yahoo News |
10:11pm PDT |
Qantas says no danger after plane aborts flight
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Summary: AFP - Passengers aboard a Qantas jet that was forced to abort a domestic flight after a landing gear door failed to retract were never in any danger, the airline said Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07pm PDT |
Obama win not to supplant civil rights campaign
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - If Barack Obama wins November's
election and becomes the first black president in U.S. history,
will an older generation of civil rights leaders go out of
business? |
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Cnn.com |
10:04pm PDT |
Carlin gets last laugh on death |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
9:47pm PDT |
S Korea resumes US beef imports |
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Summary: US beef arrives in South Korea for the first time in nearly five years under a new import deal which sparked huge protests. |
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BBC News |
9:41pm PDT |
3,000 passports and visas stolen |
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Summary: About 3,000 blank British passports and visas are stolen while being taken from Manchester to London in a van. |
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BBC News |
9:40pm PDT |
Pakistan officials die in attack |
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Summary: Three Pakistani security officials are killed by suspected militants in a north-western district. |
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Yahoo News |
9:39pm PDT |
Lee's RBI double in 9th leads Cubs past Brewers
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Summary: AP - Derrek Lee doubled with one out in the ninth to score Alfonso Soriano and the Chicago Cubs rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-4 on Monday night to take a two-game lead in the NL Central. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38pm PDT |
Study proposes revamping US security system
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a report aimed at the next president, security specialists are proposing a vast overhaul of the U.S. security system, declaring it problem-plagued. |
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Yahoo News |
9:32pm PDT |
Study questions US strategy against al-Qaida
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on force and more on policing and intelligence to root out the terror group's leaders, a new study contends. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PDT |
Tories to outline anti-gang plans |
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Summary: The Conservatives will set out their ideas for tackling gang culture and unemployment in the UK's cities. |
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Yahoo News |
9:02pm PDT |
Study questions strategy against al-Qaida
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on force and more on policing and intelligence to root out the terror group's leaders, a new study contends. |
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Yahoo News |
8:17pm PDT |
Pakistan seeks confirmation of top Al-Qaeda death
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Summary: AFP - Security officials in Pakistan were seeking confirmation Tuesday that a top Al-Qaeda expert on chemical and biological weapons had been killed in a suspected US missile strike. |
