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ChristianToday |
11:58pm PDT |
Now is time for healthy church in China says Langham leader |
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Summary: Now is the time to work towards a healthy church in China says one Christian leader as the country shows off its new found confidence with the Beijing Olympics |
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Yahoo News |
11:52pm PDT |
Eight killed in attack on police in China's Muslim northwest
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The death toll from a bombing and the aftermath in China's northwestern Xinjiang province on Sunday rose to eight, with four injured, state media said. |
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BBC News |
11:43pm PDT |
Philippines rebels under attack |
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Summary: The Philippine military launches an attack on Muslim fighters who defied a deadline to pull out of Christian villages in the south. |
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Cnn.com |
11:33pm PDT |
Pentagon Papers figure Anthony Russo dies |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
11:33pm PDT |
Georgia withdraws troops from S.Ossetia
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Georgia has withdrawn its
forces from breakaway South Ossetia, where they had been
fighting Russian troops for control, the Georgian interior
ministry said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
Blasts and clash kill 5 in China's tense far west
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Suspected Muslim separatists armed with
homemade grenades drove a taxi into a government office complex
in farwest China on Sunday and police killed five in renewed
violence two days into the Olympics. |
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Yahoo News |
11:03pm PDT |
Bush juggles sports, strife on Olympic whirlwind
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush juggled sports, strife and diplomacy Sunday on his whirlwind Olympic adventure, a trip marred by an attack on an American couple and their tour guide. |
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Yahoo News |
10:59pm PDT |
Georgia: In 'state of war' with Russia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Russia expanded its bombing blitz Sunday against neighboring U.S.-allied Georgia, targeting the country's capital for the first time as Russian and Georgian troops continued battling for the contested province of South Ossetia. |
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ChristianToday |
10:55pm PDT |
Hybels Love God as you have never loved Him before |
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Summary: Church leaders joining in the Willow Creek Leadership Summit were left with a sobering reminder of the worlds woes and the difficult task they have at hand in carrying Gods calling |
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Yahoo News |
10:27pm PDT |
Police attacked in China's Muslim northwest
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Security forces killed five attackers who bombed a police station in China's mainly Muslim far northwest on Sunday, state media said, in the latest violence there to coincide with the Olympics. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14pm PDT |
Anthony Russo, Pentagon Papers figure, dies at 71
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police in Virginia say Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, has died. He was 71. |
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Yahoo News |
10:12pm PDT |
Russia bombs Georgia airfield, fears of new front
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia bombed a military airport
outside the Georgian capital early on Sunday and Tbilisi said
Moscow was massing troops in a second breakaway region of
Georgia as fighting raged for control of South Ossetia. |
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BBC News |
10:04pm PDT |
Georgia 'pulls out of S Ossetia' |
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Summary: Georgia withdraws its troops from South Ossetia, an official says, as Russian warplanes bomb a military airfield close to Tbilisi. |
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Cnn.com |
9:41pm PDT |
Russian forces bomb airfield near Tbilisi airport |
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Summary: Russian forces launched an airstrike against a military airfield near the Tbilisi International Airport early Sunday, despite international calls for Russia to stand down from the escalating conflict, Georgian officials told CNN.
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Cnn.com |
9:19pm PDT |
Phelps sets world record, wins gold |
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Yahoo News |
9:06pm PDT |
Russia, Georgia exchange fire as conflict escalates
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russia and Georgia were locked Sunday in an escalating battle over South Ossetia with Tbilisi accusing Moscow of pursuing a policy of "annihilation" as it bombed cities across the country. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54pm PDT |
1 down, 7 to go for Phelps in Beijing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michael Phelps got one of his toughest races out of the way, and it couldn't have been any easier. |
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Yahoo News |
8:41pm PDT |
McCain slams Obama again for defeatism over Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate John
McCain on Saturday again accused his opponent Barack Obama of
defeatism and said the Democratic senator from Illinois did not
have what it took to be the country's commander in chief. |
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BBC News |
8:25pm PDT |
Church considers £1.2m shortfall |
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Summary: A £1.2m deficit in the budget for the Lambeth Conference will be discussed by the committee that manages the Church of England's assets. |
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Yahoo News |
8:10pm PDT |
Russia bombs Georgian military airfield
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Loud explosions rocked Georgia's
capital early on Sunday, and a senior official said Russia had
bombed a military airfield near Tbilisi's international
airport. |
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Yahoo News |
8:10pm PDT |
Phelps lights up Games with "cool" first gold
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Swimmer Michael Phelps smashed his own
world record to take a first gold on Sunday in the quest for an
unprecedented eight wins, but violence in the far west again
marred the Beijing Olympics party. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07pm PDT |
New deadly bomb attacks rock China's Muslim west
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Bombings in a northwestern Chinese town on Sunday targetted a police station and commercial buildings, state run press reported, adding two policemen were injured and five attackers killed. |
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BBC News |
7:41pm PDT |
Russia 'bombs Georgian airport' |
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Summary: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accuses Georgia of genocide as fighting in the South Ossetian region intensifies. |
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BBC News |
7:38pm PDT |
Call to adopt UK Bill of Rights |
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Summary: The government is urged by a cross-party committee of MPs and peers to adopt a Bill of Rights for the UK. |
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Yahoo News |
7:32pm PDT |
Phelps wins gold, sets record: 1 down, 7 to go
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michael Phelps got one of his toughest races out of the way, and it couldn't have been any easier. With President Bush cheering him on, Phelps dominated his first event of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday morning, crushing his own world record and all |
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Yahoo News |
7:29pm PDT |
Russia bombs military airfield near Tbilisi: Georgian official
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russian planes on Sunday attacked the runway of a military airfield near Tbilisi international airport, a senior Georgian official told AFP. |
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Yahoo News |
7:23pm PDT |
Phelps breaks world record to take first gold
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Michael Phelps smashed the world record
to take his first gold on Sunday in the quest for an
unprecedented eight wins in the pool, but violence again
spoiled the Beijing Olympics party with blasts in the restive
west. |
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Cnn.com |
7:20pm PDT |
Bush attends approved church in Beijing |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:13pm PDT |
Phelps claims first Beijing gold |
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Summary: Michael Phelps claims the first of eight gold medals he has targeted after winning the 400m individual medley in world record time. |
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Yahoo News |
7:08pm PDT |
Blasts kill two in China's tense far west
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A series of blasts killed at least two
people in China's restive far west Xinjiang on Sunday,
underscoring volatile tensions there two days into the Olympics
and less than a week after an explosion killed 16 police. |
