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Yahoo News |
11:59pm PDT |
Rumsfeld urges Iraq to meet constitution deadline (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made
an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Wednesday, urging Iraqis to
finish their draft constitution before an Aug. 15 deadline. |
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Cnn.com |
11:53pm PDT |
Forecast: Still hot, really hot |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
11:53pm PDT |
Heat wave continues to bake Eastern U.S. |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
11:48pm PDT |
Mood upbeat on day two of N.Korea crisis talks (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The six countries trying to settle the
North Korean nuclear crisis set out their positions on
Wednesday, the second day of talks marked so far by unusually
frequent direct contacts between North Korean and U.S. envoys. |
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BBC News |
11:43pm PDT |
Rumsfeld makes surprise Iraq stop |
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Summary: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Baghdad on a surprise visit to Iraqi leaders and US commanders. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PDT |
Airbus sales double EADS profits |
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Summary: First-half profits at EADS, the majority-owner of Airbus, more than double as it increases deliveries of its planes. |
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BBC News |
11:30pm PDT |
S Africa presses farm land reform |
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Summary: South Africa aims to speed up redistribution of farm land from whites to blacks - who hold just 20% of it. |
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Yahoo News |
11:30pm PDT |
British police arrest four men over London bombs (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Four men were arrested on Wednesday in
the central English city of Birmingham in connection with the
attempted London bomb attacks on July 21, police said. |
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Cnn.com |
11:23pm PDT |
Police arrest 4 in London bomb probe |
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Summary: Four men have been arrested in Birmingham, England, in connection with last week's attempted bombings in London, Metropolitan Police said today. The four were arrested at two separate residences. One of the suspects was subdued with a stun gun, authoritie |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Anti-terror police hold four men |
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Summary: Anti-terror police investigating the attempted London bombings on 21 July arrest four men in Birmingham. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Renewed 1993 farm murders appeal |
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Summary: Police reinvestigating the murders of a couple at a farmhouse exactly 12 years ago, appeal for information for closure to a "tragic story". |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Poster appeal on Tooze killings |
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Summary: Police make a fresh appeal for information on a 1993 double murder in which a couple were shot dead. |
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BBC News |
10:44pm PDT |
Family escape gun attack on home |
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Summary: Two adults and two children escape injury in a gun attack on their home in County Antrim. |
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BBC News |
10:35pm PDT |
Cherie warns on anti-terror moves |
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Summary: The UK must not fight terrorism in a way which cheapens its right to be called civilised, says the prime minister's wife. |
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BBC News |
10:10pm PDT |
Bombings police step up manhunt |
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Summary: Hundreds of police officers and MI5 agents are continuing the hunt for the four London bombing suspects. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Too Close to 100 for Comfort, and Far From Relief (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Irene Karulis, 86, sat in her darkened, airless living room yesterday, trying to recall the maddening moment when her home in Northwest Washington lost electrical power for the second time in a matter of days. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
In Britain, a Divide Over Racial Profiling (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - LONDON, July 26 -- Seven bullets fired into a young Brazilian man's head by an undercover policeman who mistook him for a suicide bomber have set off an impassioned debate over the rights and wrongs of anti-terrorism tactics and racia |
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BBC News |
9:53pm PDT |
Tiny PC maker could face collapse |
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Summary: There is uncertainty over the future of Granville, the firm behind Tiny and Time computers, as it closes its 78 stores. |
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BBC News |
9:53pm PDT |
Computer firm's future in doubt |
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Summary: There is uncertainty over the future of Granville, the firm behind Tiny and Time computers, as it closes its 78 stores. |
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BBC News |
9:35pm PDT |
Football: Shevchenko rumours |
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Summary: Chelsea dismiss reports linking them with AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko. |
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BBC News |
9:28pm PDT |
Aid flight to set off for Niger |
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Summary: The first aid flight fully funded by the UK government is bound for drought-hit Niger with 41 tons of emergency aid. |
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Cnn.com |
9:02pm PDT |
NASA examines video of shuttle debris |
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Summary: NASA engineers are poring over pictures of the successful launch of the space shuttle Discovery that appear to show debris falling from the craft. It is too early to say whether it poses any safety threat to the first shuttle mission since the Columbia di |
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BBC News |
9:01pm PDT |
New allegations in Brazil scandal |
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Summary: Brazilian MPs are told the president's former chief-of-staff knew of illegal loans to the ruling party. |
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Cnn.com |
8:38pm PDT |
Aruba pond drained in search for Natalee Holloway |
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Summary: Investigators searching for missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway plan to drain a pond, two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told CNN on Tuesday. |
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Cnn.com |
8:38pm PDT |
Aruba pond being drained in search for Holloway |
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Summary: Investigators searching for missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway plan to drain a pond, two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told CNN on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
8:25pm PDT |
France awaits child sex verdicts |
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Summary: Verdicts are due in the biggest child sex abuse case in French legal history with 65 men and women accused. |
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BBC News |
7:49pm PDT |
First Olympics lottery on way |
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Summary: The first lottery game to raise funds for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is being launched later. |
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Cnn.com |
7:34pm PDT |
NASA examining video of shuttle debris |
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Summary: NASA engineers are poring over pictures of today's successful launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery that appear to show debris falling from the craft. It is too early to say whether it poses any safety threat to the first shuttle mission since the Columbi |
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Yahoo News |
7:21pm PDT |
U.S. renews Mexico travel warning as killings mount (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The United States renewed a travel
warning on Tuesday for U.S. citizens crossing the border into
Mexico, noting more than 100 murders had occurred in the border
region since June. |
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Yahoo News |
7:19pm PDT |
OJ Simpson Told to Pay DirecTV $25G, Fees (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A federal judge has ordered former football star O.J. Simpson to pay $25,000 in damages for pirating satellite television signals from DirecTV. |
