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Yahoo News |
7:05am PDT |
Obama proposes $1,000 energy rebates for consumers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for a $1,000 "emergency" rebate to consumers to offset soaring energy costs. |
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BBC News |
6:51am PDT |
George not guilty of Dando murder |
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Summary: Barry George has been found not guilty at an Old Bailey retrial of killing BBC TV presenter Jill Dando in 1999. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50am PDT |
Obama calls for tax rebates to fight energy costs
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama called on Friday for a package of new
measures to fight rising energy costs, including a $1,000 tax
rebate for low- and middle-income workers. |
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BBC News |
6:49am PDT |
Jury dismissed in 7/7 plot trial |
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Summary: The jury in the trial of three men accused of helping the 7 July London suicide attackers fails to agree a verdict. |
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BBC News |
6:46am PDT |
US anthrax 'suspect' found dead |
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Summary: A US scientist suspected of 2001 anthrax attacks has apparently killed himself as he faced charges, a newspaper says. |
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Cnn.com |
6:42am PDT |
At least 13 girls killed in dorm collapse |
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Summary: A girls' dormitory collapsed in the south-central Turkish city of Balcilar early Friday, killing at least 13 girls and injuring 22 others, the governor of the region said.
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BBC News |
6:40am PDT |
Plane diverts after smoke alert |
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Summary: A flight from Manchester to the George Best Belfast City Airport makes an emergency landing on the Isle of Man. |
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ChristianToday |
6:36am PDT |
Muslim protesters force Christian students out of Indonesian Bible school |
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Summary: Students at the Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology in East Jakarta Indonesia are being forced to sleep in the lobby of the Indonesian parliament after demonstrations against the school by local Muslims on 25 July
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ChristianToday |
6:36am PDT |
Indonesia Christian students forced out of Bible school by Muslim protesters |
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Summary: Students at the Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology in East Jakarta Indonesia are being forced to sleep in the lobby of the Indonesian parliament after demonstrations against the school by local Muslims on 25 July
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ChristianToday |
6:33am PDT |
Local vicar opposes overturning of Life of Brian ban |
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Summary: A local vicar is opposing plans by the mayor of Aberystwyth to end a ban on the Monty Python film Life of Brian
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ChristianToday |
6:31am PDT |
Southern Baptists use plants to fight malaria in Africa |
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Summary: The Baptist Global Response BGR has spent the last year using plants to bring treatment to some of the most malaria stricken parts of the Horn of Africa |
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Yahoo News |
6:30am PDT |
At least 32 dead after train catches fire in India
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A government press statement says at least 32 people have died after several coaches of a train caught fire in southern India. |
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ChristianPost |
6:24am PDT |
Award-Winning 'Hip-Hop' Pastor to Become Bishop |
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Summary: Brooklyn?s ?hip-hop pastor? will become a hip-hop bishop this Sunday when thousands gather from around the country for a ceremony at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. |
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BBC News |
6:18am PDT |
US jobless rate at four-year high |
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Summary: The US unemployment rate climbed to 5.7% in July, its highest in more than four years, official data shows. |
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BBC News |
6:17am PDT |
Fukuda's rival rises in reshuffle |
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Summary: Japanese PM Yasuo Fukuda promotes a key rival and replaces other ministers in a bid to shore up his government. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Karadzic denounces 'witch hunt' |
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Summary: Radovan Karadzic claims a "media witch hunt" means he will not receive a fair trial at a UN war crimes tribunal. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Karadzic denounces 'witch-hunt' |
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Summary: Radovan Karadzic claims a "media witch-hunt" means he will not receive a fair trial at a UN war crimes tribunal. |
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Yahoo News |
6:14am PDT |
17 students dead in Turkey girls dorm collapse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A three-story girls dormitory collapsed in central Turkey on Friday, killing at least 17 students and setting off a search for a half dozen people believed to be under the rubble, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
6:10am PDT |
Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percent
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The nation's unemployment rate climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 percent in July as employers cut 51,000 jobs, dashing the hopes of an influx of young people looking for summer work. |
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BBC News |
6:09am PDT |
Gun 'Killa', 18, jailed for life |
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Summary: A teenager is jailed for life for the motiveless murder of a south London student with a converted sub-machine gun. |
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ChristianPost |
6:08am PDT |
Opponents Forsee Massachusetts as 'Las Vegas of Gay Marriage' |
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Summary: Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill Thursday that repealed a 1913 law that had blocked gay couples from outside Massachusetts from marrying here. Opponents say Massachusetts now could become the "Las Vegas of gay marriage." |
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Cnn.com |
6:03am PDT |
Zakaria: Turkey court ruling teaches lesson |
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Summary: Turkey's top court has narrowly rejected calls for the party and its leaders, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul, to be banned from politics.
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Yahoo News |
6:02am PDT |
Jobless rate highest in 4 years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. unemployment rate hit its
highest level in four years during July as employers cut
non-farm jobs for a seventh straight month, though less
severely than predicted, a Labor Department report on Friday
showed. |
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ChristianPost |
6:00am PDT |
African Bishop Accuses Anglican Head of 'Betrayal' |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Uganda, the Most Rev. Henry Orombi, has accused the head of the Anglican Communion of betraying biblically faithful churches by inviting bishops involved in the consecration of an openly gay bishop to their global conference. |
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Cnn.com |
5:44am PDT |
Hamas arrests more Fatah members |
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Summary: Hamas security forces arrested 10 to 20 Fatah members in Gaza Thursday night and early Friday, adding to hundreds detained in the past week, Palestinian security sources said.
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BBC News |
5:42am PDT |
Three bid for Scottish Labour top job |
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Summary: Three candidates will battle to become the next Scottish Labour leader at Holyrood, it is confirmed. |
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BBC News |
5:40am PDT |
Yukos figure 'guilty of murders' |
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Summary: A former top figure in the Russian oil company Yukos is found guilty of masterminding several murders. |
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Yahoo News |
5:40am PDT |
US wants me dead, says Karadzic
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Friday the United States wanted him dead and accused it of reneging on a deal to shield him from trial by the UN war crimes court. |
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Yahoo News |
5:37am PDT |
17 students dead in Turkey female dorm collapse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A three-story dormitory housing female students collapsed in central Turkey on Friday, killing at least 17 students and setting off a search for a half dozen people believed to be under the rubble, authorities said. |
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Cnn.com |
5:31am PDT |
Report: FBI closer; anthrax suspect kills self |
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Summary: A government anthrax researcher apparently committed suicide this week as the Justice Department was considering criminal charges against him in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Authorities were investigating Bruce Ivins, a former researcher at the Army's biowea |
