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8:45am PST |
Speaker denies causing harm |
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Summary: Speaker Michael Martin is cheered as he returns to the Commons and denies damaging Parliament's image. |
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BBC News |
8:45am PST |
Speaker denies harming Parliament |
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Summary: Speaker Michael Martin is cheered as he returns to the Commons and denies damaging Parliament's image. |
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Yahoo News |
8:41am PST |
Obama gains ground on Clinton in Ohio
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful
Barack Obama gained ground against rival Hillary Clinton in the
battleground U.S. state of Ohio on Monday as their race took a
negative turn. |
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Yahoo News |
8:39am PST |
Protesters in north Kosovo burn EU flag
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Up to 2,000 Serb protesters rallied against Kosovo's independence in the new nation's tense north on Monday, a few setting fire to EU flags in what has become a daily challenge to the country's secession from Serbia. |
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Cnn.com |
8:36am PST |
North Korea lifts nuclear veil for CNN |
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Summary: The distinctive bell-shaped cooling tower of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear plant is now just a shell, the inner guts of the system cut out. Heavy metal pipes, chopped up and laid on the ground, litter parts of the plant. CNN's Christiane Amanpour takes y |
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8:32am PST |
Elephant count up 250%; nation OKs killing some |
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Cnn.com |
8:32am PST |
South Africa to sanction killing of elephants |
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8:28am PST |
Search reveals 'sensitive papers' |
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Summary: Bundles of government documents, some sensitive, are found in outbuildings in County Tyrone, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
8:19am PST |
South Africa allows killing of elephants
(AP)
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Summary: AP - South Africa announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists. |
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PST |
Clinton, Obama put trade at center of Ohio fight |
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Summary: Ohio's lost nearly a fourth of its manufacturing work since 2000, and both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama blame flawed trade agreements. But Obama's going farther, saying Clinton supported the pacts that took a chunk of Ohio's jobs. And since Clin |
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Yahoo News |
8:15am PST |
Bomb kills 3 Iraq pilgrims and wounds 15: police
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A roadside bomb killed three
pilgrims walking to a major Shi'ite religious event south of
Baghdad on Monday, a day after a suspected al Qaeda suicide
bomber killed 63 people also heading there. |
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8:13am PST |
US to set 'binding' climate goals |
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Summary: The US will accept "binding international obligations" on climate if other nations do the same, say officials. |
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8:02am PST |
UN warns over food aid rationing |
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Summary: The World Food Programme may have to ration aid to the world's poorest because of rising prices and lack of funds. |
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Cnn.com |
8:00am PST |
Pentagon: Satellite shootdown worked |
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8:00am PST |
Credit card debt up 315% and few pay on time |
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Summary: Americans are drowning in debt.
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7:54am PST |
Visa IPO could be largest in US history
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Summary: AP - Visa Inc. said Monday its initial public offering could raise up to $19 billion — making it the largest in U.S. history — even though the credit card processor is entering the market at a difficult time. |
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7:40am PST |
Pentagon: Satellite hit a success
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Pentagon said Monday it has a "high degree of confidence" that the missile fired at a dead U.S. spy satellite in space destroyed the satellite's fuel tank as planned. |
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BBC News |
7:35am PST |
Kenya peace talks reach impasse |
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Summary: Negotiators trying to reach a power-sharing deal in Kenya are unable to agree, forcing a pause in talks. |
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Yahoo News |
7:34am PST |
Existing home sales hit 9-year low
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sales of existing homes fell to the lowest level in nearly a decade in January while the median price for a home dropped for the fifth straight month. |
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7:25am PST |
Classes resume after NIU shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Northern Illinois University students began arriving on campus early Monday, ready to get on with their semesters even as the deadly shootage rampage of 10 days ago weighed heavily on their minds. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13am PST |
Kosovo: Protesters in north burn EU flag
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Up to 2,000 Serb protesters rallied against Kosovo's independence in the new nation's tense north on Monday, a few setting fire to EU flags in what has become a daily challenge following the country's secession from Serbia. |
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Cnn.com |
7:00am PST |
Dead animals, wheelchairs used for Iraqi bombs |
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Summary: A disabled, wheelchair-bound man blew himself up on Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing a top police official and wounding six police officers, police told CNN.
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6:58am PST |
Turkey 'launches new Iraq raids' |
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Summary: Turkish forces launch further attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, security officials there say. |
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Cnn.com |
6:55am PST |
YouTube blocked for non-Islamic content |
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Summary: Pakistan has become the latest country to block access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube on the grounds that one or more videos on the site offends Islam, authorities said today. The Pakistani government is also asking YouTube to remove "objectionable |
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6:50am PST |
Famous mass death sites pull in the curious |
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Summary: On a blustery January day, a few tourists gather at the spot where the World Trade Center once stood in New York City. In pictures, words and a roll call of the dead, an area of kiosks and signs near the eastern edge of the site recounts the events of Sep |
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Yahoo News |
6:48am PST |
Roadside bomb kills 3 Iraq pilgrims and wounds 15
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Three pilgrims walking to a Shi'ite
festival south of Baghdad were killed by a roadside bomb on
Monday, a day after a suspected al Qaeda suicide bomber killed
63 people also heading for the important religious event. |
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6:46am PST |
Men deny shooting murder charge |
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Summary: Two men go on trial accused of murdering a 21-year-old man and attempting to murder two others. |
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6:33am PST |
Coen brothers movie wins 4 Oscars
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Summary: AP - They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a Depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney's face. |
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6:32am PST |
Fake child porn pics challenge prosecutors |
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6:24am PST |
Bus stalker guilty of student murders |
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Summary: A man is found guilty of the murders of students Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell in London. |
