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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
New farm disease case confirmed |
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Summary: A fourth case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed in the Egham area of Surrey, officials say. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
UK troops uncover Taleban bunkers |
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Summary: A network of well-established Taleban bunkers is found by a British-led force in southern Afghanistan. |
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BBC News |
11:31pm PDT |
UK troops find Taleban bunkers |
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Summary: A network of well-established Taleban bunkers is found by a British-led force in southern Afghanistan. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PDT |
Iran president will get royal treatment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on his desk, Fidel Castro delivered torturously long rants, Yasser Arafat showed up wearing a holster and Hugo Chavez called President Bush the "devil." |
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BBC News |
11:20pm PDT |
Crisis talks over US gay clergy |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury has held last-ditch talks to end the gay clergy row threatening the worldwide Anglican church. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01pm PDT |
Protest monks call for prayer vigils in Myanmar
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Summary: AFP - A Buddhist group claiming to be aiding monks drive an escalating protest movement in Myanmar called Saturday for nationwide prayer vigils in a bid to turn up the heat on the military regime. |
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Yahoo News |
10:09pm PDT |
Fujimori awaits extradition to Peru
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori awaited Friday to be extradited from Chile to Peru to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule. |
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Cnn.com |
9:52pm PDT |
Feds probe whether Blackwater smuggled weapons into Iraq |
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Summary: Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that employees of Blackwater -- a security firm hired by the State Department to guard U.S. staff in Iraq -- illegally smuggled weapons into Iraq, according to U.S. government sources.
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BBC News |
9:49pm PDT |
Beijing drivers ignore No Car Day |
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Summary: China holds No Car Day to reduce pollution, but impact seems minimal, at least in the capital. |
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BBC News |
9:39pm PDT |
Castro seen in rare TV interview |
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Summary: Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears in his first taped TV interview for more than three months. |
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Yahoo News |
9:34pm PDT |
U.S. investigates Blackwater arms smuggling: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Federal prosecutors are looking into
whether private U.S. security contractor Blackwater USA has
shipped unlicensed automatic weapons and military goods into
Iraq, a newspaper reported on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
Blackwater back on the streets of Baghdad
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Despite opposition from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, US security company Blackwater was back on the streets of Baghdad on Friday, four days after being grounded over a fatal shooting incident. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PDT |
Giants won't bring Bonds back in 2008
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds is finished in San Francisco. The Giants told Bonds they will not bring him back next season, ending a 15-year run in which he set the single-season and all-time home run records and became a lightning rod for the steroids debate in baseb |
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BBC News |
8:20pm PDT |
Brazil vow to spend on indigenous |
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Summary: Brazil's president promises to spend $270m creating new reservations for indigenous groups in the Amazon. |
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BBC News |
8:09pm PDT |
Fujimori prepares for return home |
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Summary: Peruvian ex-President Alberto Fujimori undergoes medical tests as he awaits extradition home from Chile. |
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Yahoo News |
7:53pm PDT |
Televangelist Rex Humbard dies at 88
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Rev. Rex Humbard, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Friday a family spokeswoman said. He was 88. Humbard died of natural causes at a South Florida |
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BBC News |
7:48pm PDT |
HIV rise blamed on belief in cure |
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Summary: A false belief among young patients that the virus can be cured is fuelling a rise in infections, a specialist says. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39pm PDT |
Deal reached on cutting ozone-damaging emissions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Delegates from almost 200 countries
agreed late on Friday to eliminate ozone-depleting substances
faster than originally planned, the United Nations said. |
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Cnn.com |
7:35pm PDT |
Feds probe Blackwater smuggling allegations |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
7:35pm PDT |
Feds target Blackwater in weapons probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization |
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Yahoo News |
7:22pm PDT |
Giants: Bonds won't play for us in 2008
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barry Bonds is finished in San Francisco. The Giants told Bonds they will not bring him back next season, ending a 15-year run in which he set the single-season and all-time home run records and became a lightning rod for the steroids debate in baseb |
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Cnn.com |
7:05pm PDT |
Giants parting company with Bonds |
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Yahoo News |
7:04pm PDT |
'God' gets an attorney in lawsuit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The mystery of one response to a lawsuit against God has been solved. Eric Perkins, an attorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Friday he filed a response to the lawsuit from Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers. "It's kind of a turn on 'What would Jesu |
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BBC News |
6:53pm PDT |
Online exams marking questioned |
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Summary: A head teachers' group believes online marking of papers is contributing to inaccurate exam results. |
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Yahoo News |
6:22pm PDT |
Feds probe Blackwater weapons smuggling
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization |
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Cnn.com |
6:12pm PDT |
Castro on TV appears gaunt but lucid |
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Summary: Looking gaunt -- but appearing lucid -- ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro spoke about a variety of issues in a taped interview that aired on Cuban state television Friday.
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BBC News |
6:11pm PDT |
Journalist murder case charges |
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Summary: A former Chechen politician is charged as an accomplice in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. |
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Yahoo News |
6:06pm PDT |
Powers have "serious" talks on Iran sanctions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Major powers said on Friday they had
"serious and constructive" talks about new U.N. Security
Council sanctions aimed at trying to force Iran to halt its
uranium enrichment activities. |
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BBC News |
5:51pm PDT |
Doubts remain over Darfur force |
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Summary: Talks on Darfur at the UN end with disagreement over the deployment of peacekeepers in the Sudanese region. |
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Cnn.com |
5:26pm PDT |
George Clooney injured in motorcycle accident |
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