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11:44pm PST |
'Heir to Putin' in economy pledge |
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Summary: The man expected to be Russia's next president, Dmitry Medvedev, wants a reduced state role in the economy. |
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BBC News |
11:35pm PST |
Disease import sheep 'was tested' |
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Summary: The farmer whose imported sheep is the first bluetongue case in Wales said he followed biosecurity rules. |
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BBC News |
11:34pm PST |
Man, 23, killed outside city club |
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Summary: Police launch a murder inquiry after a 23-year-old man is killed outside a nightclub in Belfast city centre. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29pm PST |
Arson suspect says sorry for torching Korean treasure
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A South Korean pensioner on Friday
re-enacted entering a 600-year-old gate designated the
country's top treasure and setting it on fire, saying he was
sorry that the gate was gone, but adding that no one was hurt
by his actions. |
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11:27pm PST |
UN troops begin Eritrea pull-out |
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Summary: UN peacekeepers begin a "temporary" pull-out from Eritrea after it cuts their fuel supplies, the UN confirms. |
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Cnn.com |
11:19pm PST |
Former student kills 5 at university, sparks 'chaos' |
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Summary: A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, before shooting and killing himself. "It was just complete chaos," said one witness. Stu |
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Yahoo News |
11:16pm PST |
Democrats in standoff over Florida
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
battle to be the Democratic presidential nominee, the winner
could be determined by primaries held weeks ago in Florida and
Michigan, even though the party decided to ignore their
results. |
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Yahoo News |
11:15pm PST |
China January trade surplus up 22.7 pct.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China's global trade surplus in January rose 22.7 percent compared with the year-earlier period to $19.5 billion, a state news agency reported Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:53pm PST |
Musharraf warns against poll protests
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Pervez Musharraf warned Thursday that he would not tolerate protests after next week's elections, a remark that drew a sharp reminder from Washington that Pakistanis have the right to demonstrate peacefully. |
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BBC News |
10:51pm PST |
Security tight for Manila rally |
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Summary: Troops are on the streets of the Philippine capital ahead of a rally set to demand President Arroyo's resignation. |
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Yahoo News |
10:44pm PST |
Powerful union expected to endorse Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama is expected to be endorsed Friday by the Service Employees International Union, one of the nation's most powerful, union officials have told The Associated Press. |
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BBC News |
10:43pm PST |
999 staff critical over changes |
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Summary: A leaked survey of Welsh ambulance service staff finds most do not think changes are well handled. |
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Cnn.com |
10:31pm PST |
China's Mao offered U.S. 10 million women |
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Cnn.com |
10:26pm PST |
McCain defends '100 years in Iraq' statement |
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Summary: Republican presidential frontrunner Sen. John McCain on Thursday defended his statement that U.S. troops could spend "maybe 100" years in Iraq -- saying he was referring to a military presence similar to what the nation already has in places like Japan, G |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PST |
Crystal meth use 'rivals crack' |
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Summary: The use of class a drug crystal meth in the UK is increasing, a new report has warned. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03pm PST |
Actress Bai Ling accused of shoplifting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bai Ling's good looks and eccentric outfits have frequently put her picture in celebrity magazines, but that doesn't mean she can take the magazines for free. |
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Yahoo News |
9:56pm PST |
Importer recalls Valentine lollipops
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The importer of a Valentine's Day lollipop said it was voluntarily recalling the treats after metal fragments were found in at least two lollipops sold at central Florida stores. |
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BBC News |
9:38pm PST |
PM proposes poverty 'contracts' |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is to call for a "contract" giving poor families extra benefits in exchange for taking up skills training. |
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Yahoo News |
9:21pm PST |
Ford workers face buyout decisions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The current round of early retirement and buyout offers to most of Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. hourly workers will give them options to move on with their lives, but it also will help the automaker's bottom line, according to Ford executives. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50pm PST |
Man tied to windshield death sentenced
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A motorist accused of hitting two pedestrians while driving drunk and making it home with one of them lodged in his windshield was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. |
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BBC News |
8:48pm PST |
HIV vaccine research 'impasse' |
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Summary: Scientists are no nearer finding a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a top expert says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:44pm PST |
6 dead in N. Illinois U. hall shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A former student dressed in black walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday, killing five students, wounding 16 and setting off a panicked stampede before committing sui |
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BBC News |
8:34pm PST |
Britain 'soft touch' for attacks |
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Summary: Britain's security is at risk because of a loss of self-confidence, says a leading defence think tank. |
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BBC News |
8:21pm PST |
Howe to lead Tory taxation review |
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Summary: Former chancellor Lord Howe is to lead a Conservative Party review of taxation policy. |
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BBC News |
8:15pm PST |
Cuts 'threaten UK intelligence' |
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Summary: Proposed job cuts could undermine the UK's intelligence effort, former top security officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
8:14pm PST |
Six dead, 16 injured in Valentine's Day campus massacre
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A black-clad former student turned a university lecture hall into a Valentine's Day massacre Thursday, killing five people and injuring 16 others before turning a gun on himself, in the fifth US school shooting in a week, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11pm PST |
SEIU expected to endorse Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama is expected to be endorsed Friday by the Service Employees International Union, one of the nation's most powerful, union officials have told The Associated Press. |
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Yahoo News |
7:59pm PST |
Marines charged with rape of Japanese woman
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Four U.S. Marines based in southwest
Japan have been charged with raping a Japanese woman last
October, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday, days after
the arrest of another Marine for suspected rape of a schoolgirl
on the southern isla |
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Yahoo News |
7:56pm PST |
Typo spurs erroneous Bonds drug reports
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A typo in court papers regarding Barry Bonds filed late Thursday by federal prosecutors touched off a brief tempest over the mistaken belief that he failed a drug test in November 2001, one month after breaking the home run record. |
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BBC News |
7:46pm PST |
Army equipment was sent out late |
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Summary: The army admits an error caused delays in getting vital equipment to Afghanistan, arriving after a soldier died. |
