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BBC News |
11:52am PDT |
SA president denies bribe claims |
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Summary: The office of South African President Thabo Mbeki denies reports claiming he was paid millions to approve an arms deal. |
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Yahoo News |
11:45am PDT |
Consumer spending falls as prices surge
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the second biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42am PDT |
Morgan Freeman injured in car wreck
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Oscar-winning U.S. actor
Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition on Monday
after the car he was driving careened off a rural highway and
rolled several times, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:38am PDT |
Obama proposes tapping oil stockpiles
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama put forward a broad energy plan Monday designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years and shore up his standing amid a tightening White House race and high-anxiety over gas prices. |
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BBC News |
11:37am PDT |
Families 'devastated' by killings |
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Summary: The families of a couple shot during their honeymoon in Antigua say they are 'absolutely devastated' by their loss. |
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Yahoo News |
11:34am PDT |
Man calls 911 after Subway left sauce off sandwich
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jacksonville police say Reginald Peterson needs to learn that 911 is not the appropriate place to complain that Subway left the sauce off a spicy Italian sandwich. |
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Yahoo News |
11:30am PDT |
Packers president says team will welcome Favre
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Favre is back. It remains to be seen whether he'll still be the leader of the Pack. |
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Cnn.com |
11:27am PDT |
Morgan Freeman injured in car accident |
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Summary: Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition at a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital after being involved in a car accident Sunday night, according to hospital officials. CNN affilliate WMC-TV of Memphis reports Freeman was in a wreck in Tallahatc |
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Cnn.com |
11:22am PDT |
Intended anthrax target has doubts about probe |
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Summary: An intended recipient of one of the anthrax-laced letters sent in 2001's anthrax scare said Monday he was "very skeptical" of the government's investigation.
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BBC News |
11:21am PDT |
German police fight back with 'bullet-proof bras' |
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Summary: Germany introduces a "bullet-proof" bra to protect thousands of women police officers across the country. |
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Yahoo News |
11:16am PDT |
Changing lug nuts not a war crime, U.S. jury told
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Osama bin
Laden's driver knowingly swore allegiance and gave vital
services to "the world's most dangerous terrorist," a
prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments on Monday in the
first U.S. war crimes trial at Guantanamo. |
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Cnn.com |
11:07am PDT |
Oil takes a big dip |
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Summary: Oil prices fell below $120 a barrel for a time Monday as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico turned to miss oil facilities and amid talk of political compromise on further off-shore drilling.
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Cnn.com |
11:05am PDT |
Edouard landfall expected Tuesday morning |
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Summary: A hurricane watch is in effect from west of Intracoastal City, Louisiana, to Port O'Connor, Texas, as Tropical Storm Edouard picks up speed. Edouard's top sustained winds are 50 mph, and the National Hurricane Center predicts it may be near hurricane stre |
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Yahoo News |
10:56am PDT |
Iran says it won't halt nuclear work, talks to EU
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran and the representative of six world
powers talked by telephone on Monday without resolving a row
over Tehran's sensitive nuclear work, which the Islamic
Republic said would not be stopped. |
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Cnn.com |
10:42am PDT |
Obama calls oil addiction 'urgent threat' |
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Summary: Barack Obama today called for tapping into strategic oil reserves as part of his plan to provide relief from high gas prices. Speaking before a crowd in Lansing, Michigan, the senator from Illinois called the country's addiction to oil "one of the most da |
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BBC News |
10:38am PDT |
Madeleine police files go public |
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Summary: Thousands of pages of evidence gathered by Portuguese police in the Madeleine McCann case are made public. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
Co-defendant in OJ Simpson case pleads guilty
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A fourth co-defendant pleaded guilty Monday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case, agreeing to testify against the Hall of Fame football player and one remaining co-defendant. |
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Cnn.com |
10:35am PDT |
Fake Olympic ticket Web sites targeted |
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Summary: The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee are expected to ask a federal judge Monday to shut down Web sites they allege scam customers trying to buy Olympic tickets, according to court documents.
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Yahoo News |
10:34am PDT |
Oil prices drop about $4 after storm threat eases
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oil prices plunged in a massive sell-off Monday, falling below $120 a barrel for the first time since early May after Tropical Storm Edouard appeared unlikely to threaten oil and natural gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33am PDT |
In a shift, Obama says tap oil reserves
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama proposed on
Monday tapping the strategic oil reserve to help lower gas
prices, a reversal of an earlier stance, and called rival John
McCain a tool of big oil companies as rising energy costs took
center stage in the U.S. presid |
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BBC News |
10:33am PDT |
Dutch climbers airlifted from K2 |
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Summary: Helicopters airlift two climbers stranded on the world's second-highest mountain, K2, in north Pakistan. |
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Yahoo News |
10:32am PDT |
Morgan Freeman badly injured in accident
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Oscar-winning U.S. actor
Morgan Freeman was in serious condition in a Memphis,
Tennessee, hospital on Monday after being injured in a road
accident, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23am PDT |
Tropical Storm Edouard heads for Texas-La. coast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at Texas' Gulf coast at the height of tourist season Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds before a projected landfall a day later. |
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BBC News |
10:17am PDT |
Warning sign call over sand death |
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Summary: Rescuers call for warning signs at dunes where a teenager died after a sand tunnel collapsed around him. |
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Yahoo News |
10:17am PDT |
Bombers kill 16 in west China ahead of Games
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Suspected Muslim separatists with
homemade bombs killed 16 police in western China on Monday,
state media said, reporting one of the worst attacks by
militants on Chinese soil just four days before the Olympics. |
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BBC News |
9:59am PDT |
'Rogue trader' assistant charged |
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Summary: The assistant to Jerome Kerviel, who Societe Generale blames for losing millions of euros, is charged with complicity. |
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BBC News |
9:56am PDT |
Police and eco-protesters clash |
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Summary: Officers in riot gear and protestors clash at the Climate Camp near Kingsnorth power station in Kent. |
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Cnn.com |
9:54am PDT |
Morgan Freeman hospitalized after wreck |
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Summary: Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in serious condition after a car accident in Mississippi, according to hospital officials and associates. Ashley Norris, the manager of a nightclub Freeman owns, said the 71-year-old actor was in an accident Sunday ni |
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Yahoo News |
9:46am PDT |
Actor Morgan Freeman in serious condition after car accident
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident late Sunday night and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn. |
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ChristianPost |
9:45am PDT |
Graham Preaches Rebirth in Christ at North Korean Church |
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Summary: The Rev. Franklin Graham concluded his trip to North Korea on Sunday with a message about rebirth through Jesus Christ at a Protestant church in the capital city of Pyongyang. He shared from the book of John about the conversation between Nicodemus and Je |
