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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Burma riot police beat back monks |
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Summary: Burmese riot police drive back monks protesting against the government in Rangoon as a new march begins. |
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BBC News |
11:57pm PDT |
Families flee burning cars terror |
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Summary: Families in south Belfast are led to safety after vandals set fire to a number of cars. |
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Yahoo News |
11:48pm PDT |
Monks arrested, tear gassed at Myanmar pagoda: witness
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Myanmar security forces sealed off
Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and
arrested up to 200 monks trying to get into the shrine,
cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20
years. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42pm PDT |
Buddhist monks defy assembly ban
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands of Buddhist monks and pro-democracy activists marched toward the center of Yangon Wednesday in defiance of the military government's ban on public assembly. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39pm PDT |
Episcopal leaders try to avoid schism
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Even the fiercest critics of the Episcopal Church's liberal drift say it's too soon to know whether the bishops' latest pledge to "exercise restraint" in approving another gay bishop will go far enough to help prevent an Anglican schism. |
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BBC News |
11:35pm PDT |
Golf: Woods wins player award |
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Summary: Tiger Woods scoops the PGA player of the year award as he prepares to play in this week's Presidents Cup. |
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Yahoo News |
11:22pm PDT |
GM, UAW deal said near, talks hit overdrive
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Negotiations between the United Auto
Workers and General Motors Corp. shifted back into
overdrive on Wednesday as a marathon bargaining session brought
both sides near a deal that would end a national strike
entering its third day. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
Polygamist leader in Utah convicted
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jurors rejected a defense attorney's argument that the prosecution of a polygamous sect leader was religious persecution, convicting him as an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old follower to marry her 19-year-old cousin. |
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BBC News |
10:41pm PDT |
Education spending 'not enough' |
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Summary: Two-thirds of local authorities in Wales are not spending enough on education, according to a teachers' union. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37pm PDT |
Monks defy junta's ban on gatherings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Buddhist monks defied the ruling junta's ban on public assembly Wednesday as more than 50 gathered at a gate to Yangon's famed Shwedagon Pagoda blocked by armed troops and riot police. |
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BBC News |
10:35pm PDT |
Classroom helpers picket schools |
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Summary: Classroom assistants are getting ready to picket outside schools as their one-day strike action gets under way. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
GM talks shift into overdrive, strike enters 3rd day
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Negotiations between United Auto
Workers and General Motors Corp shifted into overdrive on
Wednesday, with a marathon bargaining session stoking
expectations the two sides are nearing a deal to end a national
strike entering its third day. |
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Cnn.com |
10:26pm PDT |
Photo resembling missing British girl examined |
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Summary: Authorities are examining a photo taken in Morocco showing a child which appears to resemble missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, a spokesman for the girl's family told CNN Wednesday.
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BBC News |
10:07pm PDT |
India team begins victory parade |
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Summary: India's cricketers begin a victory parade in Mumbai after winning the World Twenty20 cricket tournament. |
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Yahoo News |
10:01pm PDT |
Myanmar troops pen protest monks in monasteries
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Troops and riot police took up positions
outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on
Wednesday as Myanmar's junta tried to prevent monks leading new
protest marches against military rule, witnesses said. |
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BBC News |
9:53pm PDT |
Burma troops circle monasteries |
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Summary: Truckloads of soldiers and riot police surround monasteries in Rangoon to prevent more anti-government protests. |
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BBC News |
9:53pm PDT |
Burma troops surround monasteries |
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Summary: Truckloads of soldiers and riot police surround monasteries in Rangoon to prevent more anti-government protests. |
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Yahoo News |
9:44pm PDT |
GM, UAW getting close to agreement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Negotiators bargained until the early hours Wednesday morning and were close to reaching a contract agreement that would end a nationwide strike by 73,000 workers, two people who were briefed on the talks said. |
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BBC News |
9:31pm PDT |
Japan's new leadership sworn in |
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Summary: Japan's new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and his cabinet are formally sworn in by Emperor Akihito. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21pm PDT |
U.S. envoy expects N.Korea action by year-end
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher
Hill said on Wednesday North Korea could move ahead to
"disable" its nuclear arms programs by the end of this year. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Iran says nuclear issue 'closed'; US unveils Myanmar sanctions
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly Tuesday that his nuclear standoff with the West was a "closed" matter, but his French counterpart said a nuclear-armed Iran was "unacceptable." |
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Yahoo News |
8:35pm PDT |
Myanmar clamps down in bid to curb protests
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar's military junta ordered troops and riot police to pagodas and Buddhist monasteries Wednesday to stop the mass protests that have marked the biggest challenge to the regime in 20 years. |
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Yahoo News |
8:34pm PDT |
Myanmar troops pen monks in monasteries
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Troops and riot police took up positions
outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on
Wednesday as Myanmar's junta tried to prevent monks leading new
protest marches against military rule, witnesses said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:22pm PDT |
Experts pick up possible Fossett track |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:15pm PDT |
Extra loans available for banks |
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Summary: Banks will be now able to borrow additional funds from the Bank of England in a move aimed at reducing the "credit squeeze". |
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PDT |
Review doesn't halt Texas executions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said it would review whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual. |
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Yahoo News |
8:02pm PDT |
Fielder becomes youngest to hit 50 HRs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prince Fielder became the youngest major league player ever to hit 50 home runs in a season, connecting twice in the Milwaukee Brewers' 9-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. |
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BBC News |
7:23pm PDT |
Anglicans to halt gay ordinations |
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Summary: Leaders of the US Episcopal Church agree to halt the ordination of gay clergy to prevent a split in the Anglican church. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22pm PDT |
UAW, GM close to reaching contract deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bargainers for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. on Tuesday night were close to reaching a contract agreement that would end a nationwide strike by 73,000 workers, two people who were briefed on the talks said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:16pm PDT |
Nike designs shoe for American Indians
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates. |
