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Yahoo News |
11:50pm PDT |
Bush orders partial Iraq pull-out, citing 'measure of success'
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush announced Thursday he will pull some 21,500 combat troops from Iraq by mid-2008, but ruled out a full withdrawal and promised an "enduring" US presence there. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46pm PDT |
Parliament set to confirm Putin's PM nominee
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - President Vladimir Putin's candidate for prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, was to be voted into the post by parliament on Friday amid mounting speculation over possible candidates in Russia's upcoming presidential succession. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42pm PDT |
Indonesia: New tsunami warning
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The ground shook so hard Yulinar had to grab a table to steady herself. Minutes later, she heard a warning crackling over the speakers of the neighborhood mosque — a tsunami could crash into her fishing village on Indonesia's Sumatra island at a |
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Yahoo News |
11:26pm PDT |
Indonesia issues tsunami warning after Sumatra quake
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Indonesia's meteorology agency issued a
tsunami warning on Friday after another strong earthquake
struck southern Sumatra island. |
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BBC News |
11:23pm PDT |
Banks watch for Northern fallout |
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Summary: Markets will closely watch banking shares after Northern Rock was forced to take a loan from the Bank of England. |
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BBC News |
11:19pm PDT |
Review of hospital parking fees |
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Summary: A review of NHS hospitals charging for car parking is expected to be announced by the Scottish Government. |
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Yahoo News |
11:18pm PDT |
Iraqi PM orders probe into Sunni sheikh's assassination
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Summary: AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a probe into the slaying of the high-profile Sunni sheikh who fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a statement said Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
11:04pm PDT |
Humberto leaves floods, damage, death |
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Summary: Humberto surprised forecasters early today, quickly becoming a hurricane before making landfall north of Galveston with 85 mph winds.
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Cnn.com |
11:04pm PDT |
Man dies watching Hurricane Humberto |
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Summary: Humberto surprised forecasters early today, quickly becoming a hurricane before making landfall north of Galveston with 85 mph winds.
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10:42pm PDT |
Murder 'rips out family's heart' |
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Summary: Hundreds of people attend a vigil in west Belfast for murdered greengrocer Harry Holland. |
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BBC News |
10:42pm PDT |
Hundreds in vigil for greengrocer |
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Summary: Hundreds of people attend a vigil in west Belfast for murdered greengrocer Harry Holland. |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PDT |
Farm disease restrictions eased |
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Summary: Restrictions are eased on animal movements in Wales and Scotland following the foot-and-mouth outbreak. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18pm PDT |
Suspect in Fla. police shooting killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A gunman opened fire on four Miami-Dade County police officers during a traffic stop Thursday, killing one and injuring the other three. Police killed the suspect hours later, authorities said. |
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10:05pm PDT |
NFL fines Belichick; Patriots lose pick
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bill Belichick should be able to read this signal clearly: Spy on your opponents, and it will cost you. The New England coach was fined the NFL maximum of $500,000 Thursday and the Patriots were ordered to pay $250,000 for stealing an opponent's defe |
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Cnn.com |
10:02pm PDT |
Suspected cop killer dies in shootout |
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Summary: Police shot and killed a man suspected of shooting four officers, one fatally, following a traffic stop hours earlier, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said early Friday. Authorities said a shootout ensued when police tracked down Shawn Sherwin Labeet at a |
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Cnn.com |
9:49pm PDT |
'Come together' on Iraq war, Bush urges |
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Summary: President Bush tonight outlined plans for withdrawing some troops from Iraq. Bush said the challenge remains formidable but conditions are improving. "We are seizing the initiative from the enemy, and the troop surge is working," he said.
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Yahoo News |
9:41pm PDT |
GM becomes UAW's target in labor talks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The United Auto Workers union likely chose General Motors Corp. as the lead company in labor talks with the Detroit Three because GM is considered the healthiest and the UAW wants to prevent the nation's largest automaker from moving more manufacturi |
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BBC News |
9:37pm PDT |
Japan's leadership race hots up |
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Summary: The race to succeed outgoing PM Shinzo Abe hots up, as two key candidates indicate they plan to run. |
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9:20pm PDT |
Peru blood banks face HIV crisis |
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Summary: At least four people contract HIV after blood transfusions in Peru, prompting a national emergency. |
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BBC News |
9:06pm PDT |
EU summit monitors Ukraine gains |
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Summary: A European Union summit with Ukrainian leaders will discuss progress made on democratic reforms, |
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8:59pm PDT |
Violent NHS patients 'could pay' |
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Summary: Patients who are violent to NHS staff could be made to pay for their treatment, under Lib Dem proposals. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32pm PDT |
Japan's lunar "princess" shoots for the moon
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japan launched its first lunar probe on
Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the
latest move in a new race with China, India and the United
States to explore the moon. |
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BBC News |
8:16pm PDT |
Japan launches first lunar probe |
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Summary: Japan's space agency launches its first lunar orbiter for a year-long mission to explore the moon. |
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Yahoo News |
8:06pm PDT |
Indonesians huddle in tents in quake-hit Sumatra
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Frightened residents on
Indonesia's Sumatra island huddled in tents outside their
damaged homes on Friday, traumatized by the latest of nearly 40
aftershocks since a huge earthquake struck two days ago. |
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Yahoo News |
7:54pm PDT |
Shakira rests hips to study at UCLA
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shakira may get high grades in singing and swiveling her hips, but what about ancient Western history? For the past month, the Colombian pop star has attended a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called "Introduction to Western Civil |
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Yahoo News |
7:51pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Ingrid forms in Atlantic
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tropical Storm Ingrid, the ninth
Atlantic storm of the year, formed on Thursday in the Atlantic
Ocean east of the Caribbean islands, the U.S. National
Hurricane Center said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:49pm PDT |
Japan's Fukuda to run for prime minister
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former chief cabinet secretary Yasuo
Fukuda told his party faction on Friday he will run for the
leadership of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and hence
the premiership. |
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Yahoo News |
7:20pm PDT |
Japan's leadership race heats up
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The battle to be Japan's next prime minister intensified Friday with dovish party veteran Yasuo Fukuda emerging as a strong contender to take on outspoken former foreign minister Taro Aso. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15pm PDT |
Under-fire Bush orders partial Iraq pull-out
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush announced Thursday he will pull some 21,500 combat troops from Iraq by mid-2008, but ruled out a full withdrawal and promised an "enduring" US presence there. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50pm PDT |
Support growing for Japan's Fukuda in PM race
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Momentum was building in Japan's ruling
party on Friday to tap 71-year-old lawmaker Yasuo Fukuda, known
for his pro-Asian diplomacy, as successor to Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe after his shock resignation, media and analysts
said. |
