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11:50pm PST |
Third night of searches for girl |
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Summary: Police and neighbours spend a third night scouring a town's streets for a missing schoolgirl. |
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Yahoo News |
11:37pm PST |
Rescuers scour Venezuelan Andes for missing plane
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Working on foot in cold conditions,
search teams scoured the rugged Venezuelan Andes on Friday for
a missing passenger plane thought to have crashed with 46
passengers on board in the high mountain region. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PST |
Iraq's Sadr expected to extend ceasefire
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr is widely expected to extend a ceasefire by his Mehdi
Army militia on Friday, a decision Washington says is important
to maintain security gains. |
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11:31pm PST |
Football: Bolton's police complaint |
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Summary: Bolton Wanderers make an official complaint to Uefa about the treatment of their supporters by Spanish police. |
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11:19pm PST |
Chinese trial over fake receipts |
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Summary: Five men go on trial in southwest China accused of forging more than one million fake receipts. |
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Cnn.com |
11:14pm PST |
Schneider: What didn't happen is key |
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Summary: It was one of Hillary Clinton's last chances to knock rival Barack Obama -- seemingly on a path to the Democratic nomination -- off course.
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11:11pm PST |
Loopholes stalling victims work |
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Summary: One of the four appointed victims' commissioners says legal loopholes are holding them back. |
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10:44pm PST |
Cancer patient 'denied funding' |
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Summary: A leukaemia patient is told doctors cannot have funding for a bone marrow transplant from Australia. |
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10:42pm PST |
Gates due in Australia for talks |
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Summary: The US defence chief heads to Australia for talks, the first since Kevin Rudd's government took office. |
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10:34pm PST |
Airliner with 46 aboard crashes in Venezuela: local official
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A Venezuelan airliner that went missing with 46 people on board apparently crashed in the Venezuelan Andes, a regional civil defense official told AFP, citing witnesses in the area. |
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10:10pm PST |
Rice seeks North Korea solution before window closes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice visits South Korea, China and Japan next week to seek ways
to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear programs before
the window closes on the Bush administration. |
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10:08pm PST |
Bolton complain over Spain police |
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Summary: Bolton Wanderers make an official complaint to Uefa about the treatment of their supporters by Spanish police. |
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9:57pm PST |
Double murder police criticised |
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Summary: An inquiry into the murder of a couple by a criminal gang criticises the police's offer of protection to them. |
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Yahoo News |
9:36pm PST |
Plane carrying 46 believed crashed in Venezuela
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Venezuelan passenger plane with 46
people aboard went missing and likely crashed in a remote
mountain region soon after taking off from an Andean city just
before dusk on Thursday, authorities said. |
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9:35pm PST |
Africa meeting to block migrants |
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Summary: Politicians and experts from Africa and Europe meet to discuss how to stem illegal migration. |
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9:31pm PST |
Straw urges more non-jail terms |
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Summary: Justice Secretary Jack Straw asks magistrates to consider non-custodial sentences to ease prison overcrowding. |
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9:31pm PST |
Straw talks up non-prison terms |
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Summary: Justice Secretary Jack Straw asks magistrates to consider non-custodial sentences to ease prison overcrowding. |
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BBC News |
9:12pm PST |
Wildlife challenge to development |
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Summary: A charity makes a High Court challenge to plans to build a Royal Mail delivery warehouse on an important wildlife site. |
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9:06pm PST |
Proposal for arts apprenticeships |
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Summary: Plans for 5,000 apprenticeships in arts and media organisations will be unveiled by Culture Secretary Andy Burnham. |
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8:55pm PST |
Twenty dead in Philippine floods |
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Summary: Relief work is under way in the Philippines after bad weather kills 20 and displaces tens of thousands more. |
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BBC News |
8:50pm PST |
Storm over Serbia embassy attacks |
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Summary: Attacks by Serbian protesters against the US and other embassies in Belgrade draw international condemnation. |
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BBC News |
8:39pm PST |
Clinton and Obama spar in Texas |
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Summary: Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton accuses Barack Obama of plagiarising during a live TV debate in Texas. |
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8:32pm PST |
Clinton tries to raise doubts about Obama at debate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton tried to raise doubts about surging
rival Barack Obama on Thursday but said in an emotional debate
finale that "whatever happens, we're going to be fine." |
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Cnn.com |
8:31pm PST |
Jetliner crashes in Venezuela mountains |
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Summary: Venezuelan authorities were searching Thursday night for a plane with 46 people aboard that went missing while flying from Merida to Maiquetia, near Caracas, an official said.
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Yahoo News |
8:09pm PST |
Clinton: Obama 'change you can Xerox'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Barack Obama of political plagiarism Thursday night, but drew boos from a Democratic debate audience when she ridiculed him as the candidate of "change you can Xerox." |
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Yahoo News |
7:59pm PST |
Gates "hopes" to pull more troops from Iraq after pause
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Defense
Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday he hopes to pull more
troops out of Iraq after a brief pause in withdrawals in July
or August meant to assess the impact of lower troop levels on
security in the war zone. |
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Yahoo News |
7:57pm PST |
Big move for Cavs on deadline day
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Cleveland Cavaliers gave LeBron James the help he wants — maybe enough to compete for the ring he craves. The Cavaliers took part in the biggest trade of deadline day, landing center Ben Wallace and swingman Wally Szczerbiak on Thursday in a thre |
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BBC News |
7:52pm PST |
PM faces agency work rebellion |
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Summary: Gordon Brown could face his biggest backbench rebellion since becoming prime minister over a bill to give agency workers more rights. |
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BBC News |
7:46pm PST |
Killer Wright due to be sentenced |
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Summary: Serial killer Steve Wright is to be sentenced later for the murders of five women in Suffolk in 2006. |
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Yahoo News |
7:42pm PST |
U.S. seeks Australian commitment to defense ties
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States
expects continuity from Australia's new government and a
renewed commitment to their security alliance despite
Canberra's plans for a partial withdrawal from Iraq, U.S.
officials said. |
