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4:31am PST |
Jordan's nanny fraud case dropped |
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Summary: A former stable hand of the glamour model Jordan has benefit fraud charges against her dropped. |
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BBC News |
4:28am PST |
Renewed threat of Kenyan protests |
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Summary: Kenya's opposition warns it will relaunch mass protests if the political crisis is not resolved within a week. |
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4:19am PST |
Police search for missing girl |
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Summary: Police search for a nine-year-old girl after she failed to return home from school in West Yorkshire. |
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4:18am PST |
Yellow fever crisis hits Paraguay |
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Summary: Thousands of Paraguayans queue for vaccines against yellow fever, after a rare outbreak of the disease. |
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4:18am PST |
Obama hammers Clinton again to stretch unbeaten streak
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama pummeled Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin and Hawaii, results showed early Wednesday, making it 10 wins in a row against his bitter rival in the Democratic White House race. |
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Yahoo News |
4:14am PST |
Al-Sadr threatens to end cease-fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may let a six-month cease-fire expire as soon as Saturday, a move that could send his Shiite militia fighters back out on the streets and jeopardize recent security gains that have led to a sharp decline in violence. |
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4:13am PST |
Shaq expected to make Phoenix debut
(AP)
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Summary: AP - From Jason Kidd's return to Dallas to Kevin Garnett's return to the lineup, it was an eventful day in the NBA. And it was only a warm-up for Wednesday. Shaquille O'Neal is expected to make his Phoenix debut, against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers no less |
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4:04am PST |
Obama surges past Clinton in Democratic race
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary
Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic
presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released
on Wednesday. |
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Cnn.com |
4:01am PST |
Faulty satellite may be shot down today |
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Summary: The U.S. Navy plans to take a shot Wednesday at destroying a faltering spy satellite before it can tumble to earth and -- possibly -- release a cloud of toxic gas.
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3:55am PST |
Quake in Indonesia kills 3, injures 25
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least three people, injuring 25 others, and damaging several buildings, officials said. No tsunami was detected. |
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3:37am PST |
Palestinians' Abbas cool to unilateral independence call
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas ruled out on Wednesday any unilateral declaration of
statehood in the near future, responding to an aide's call to
take the step if peace talks with Israel continued to falter. |
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3:35am PST |
Death knell for 125% mortgages? |
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Summary: Lenders are pulling deals for 100%-plus mortgages, leaving first-time buyers with a financial headache. |
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3:35am PST |
Chelsea boss sent death threats |
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Summary: Anti-Semitic death threats have been sent to the Chelsea manager Avram Grant, the police say. |
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3:33am PST |
Taxpayers 'to get Rock rubbish' |
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Summary: Peers are set to clash over Northern Rock amid claims its best assets have been "hived off" to a private firm. |
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3:24am PST |
Musharraf says he intends to stay |
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Summary: One day after his party was trounced in parliamentary elections, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he intended to remain in office and work with the new government, despite calls by the victorious opposition to step down.
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3:20am PST |
Thong by coed's body a 'taunt' for police? |
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Cnn.com |
3:20am PST |
Underwear by body a 'taunt' for police? |
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BBC News |
3:13am PST |
Football: Blatter faces quota veto |
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Summary: Fifa president Sepp Blatter's plan to introduce a quota on foreign players has been struck a blow by the European Commission. |
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3:01am PST |
Bush says no new U.S. bases in Africa
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Summary: AP - President Bush says the United States is not contemplating building new military bases in Africa. |
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2:57am PST |
Palestinians 'may declare state' |
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Summary: A top official says Palestinians could unilaterally declare statehood, as Kosovo did, if talks with Israel fail. |
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2:41am PST |
Pressure increases over DNA data |
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Summary: Ministers face pressure after a DNA data disc was ignored for a year - leaving 15 serious crime suspects at large. |
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2:41am PST |
Palestinians could declare independence: Abbas aide
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Palestinians should declare
an independent state unilaterally if peace talks with Israel
continue to falter, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:37am PST |
Ghana's Kufuor greets Bush in former slave castle
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ghanaian President John Kufuor greeted
President George W. Bush on Wednesday in a former slave fort
overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, which millions of Africans
crossed in chains on their way to the Americas. |
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2:22am PST |
Suicide plan 'overdue' - charity |
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Summary: A charity says Wales "lags behind" those nations with strategies and where suicide rates have dropped. |
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Yahoo News |
2:20am PST |
Shi'ite cleric Sadr keeps Iraq guessing over truce
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
will decide within days whether to extend or scrap his Mehdi
Army militia ceasefire, a move that will have big repercussions
for security in Iraq. |
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BBC News |
2:18am PST |
Bank voted 8-1 for cut to 5.25% |
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Summary: The Bank of England voted 8-1 to lower interest rates in February to 5.25%, minutes from the meeting show. |
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BBC News |
2:05am PST |
Contract for private space cargo |
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Summary: Nasa is to invest $170m in Orbital Sciences Corporation to develop a resupply ship for the space station. |
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Yahoo News |
1:55am PST |
Pakistan's winners propose anti-Musharraf coalition
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The party of Pakistan's assassinated
former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto began stitching together a
coalition on Wednesday that could topple President Pervez
Musharraf, after winning most seats in a general election. |
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Yahoo News |
1:55am PST |
Obama wins Wis. primary, Hawaii caucus
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages. |
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BBC News |
1:47am PST |
Rare cooperation to save gorillas |
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Summary: Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes. |
