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3:22am PST |
Deal-broker Annan leaves Kenya |
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Summary: Former UN chief Kofi Annan leaves Kenya after helping secure a deal between the government and opposition. |
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3:17am PST |
Man is found dead in city street |
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Summary: Police say the death of a man found in a city street in the early hours of the morning is "unexplained". |
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3:15am PST |
Ahmadinejad calls Iraq 'brotherly'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his landmark visit to Iraq opened a new chapter in "brotherly" relations between the two countries, which were once bitter enemies. |
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Cnn.com |
3:10am PST |
Israel PM: Attacks on militants go on |
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Summary: Israel's prime minister brushes off mounting international criticism and vows to continue attacks against Palestinian militants who have been firing rockets into southern Israel from Gaza.
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3:04am PST |
Israeli aircraft target Hamas office
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Israeli aircraft sent missiles slamming into the office of the prime minister of Hamas-ruled Gaza before dawn on Sunday, pressing forward with an offensive that has killed nearly 70 Palestinians in two days of fighting. A 21-month-old girl was among |
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Cnn.com |
3:01am PST |
Iranian president makes landmark visit to Iraq |
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Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed at Baghdad's airport today for his historic two-day trip to Iraq. Ahmadinejad, the first Iranian president to visit Iraq, said his trip would "contribute to regional peace and security" and stressed that the pe |
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2:44am PST |
Landmark Iraq visit opens 'new page' in history: Ahmadinejad
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday at the start of a two-day visit to Iraq that the trip opened a "new page" in relations between the Muslim neighbours and in the region. |
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2:38am PST |
Breyer, court master of the 'what if?'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded "tomato childr |
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2:21am PST |
Football: Board 'backs Keegan' |
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Summary: Newcastle chairman Chris Mort says the board are 100% behind manager Kevin Keegan despite recent poor results. |
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2:21am PST |
Newcastle board 'backs Keegan' |
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Summary: Newcastle chairman Chris Mort says the board are 100% behind manager Kevin Keegan despite recent poor results. |
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2:19am PST |
Boys charged over church murder |
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Summary: Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a man who died in an attack in a Hampshire churchyard. |
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2:07am PST |
Suicide bomb kills 35 in Pakistan |
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Summary: At least 35 people are killed in a suicide attack on a gathering of elders in north-west Pakistan, reports say. |
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1:55am PST |
Olmert defiant over Gaza assault |
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Summary: Israeli PM Ehud Olmert vows to continue operations against Gaza militants despite mounting calls for restraint. |
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1:46am PST |
Ahmadinejad says Iraq visit opens new chapter in ties
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew to
Baghdad on Sunday for the first visit by an Iranian president
since the two neighbors fought a bitter war in the 1980s and
said his trip marked a "new chapter" in relations. |
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1:45am PST |
Israel vows to keep up deadly Gaza assault
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Israel vowed Sunday to keep up its assault on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip which has killed more than 60 Palestinians and has threatened to entomb the recently-revived Middle East peace process. |
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1:18am PST |
Fears for missing elderly couple |
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Summary: Police and the Coastguard continue to search for an elderly couple reported missing on the Antrim coast. |
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1:05am PST |
Eight killed in Armenian opposition protests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Eight people were killed and 33 police
injured in Armenia's capital during overnight protests, which
ended after the government declared a state of emergency and
mobilized the army. |
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1:01am PST |
Suicide bomber kills 30 in Pakistan, scores hurt
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least 30 people were killed and up
to 40 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional
tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials
said. |
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12:54am PST |
Olmert rejects critics of Gaza offensive
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday rejected international criticism of an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and vowed to press forward with the operation. |
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12:52am PST |
8 dead in clashes in Armenia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Eight people died in clashes between police and opposition supporters that led the president to declare a sweeping, 20-day state of emergency, officials said Sunday. |
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12:48am PST |
Suicide bomb kills 20 in Pakistan |
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Summary: More than 20 people are killed in a suicide attack on a gathering of elders in north-west Pakistan, reports say. |
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12:47am PST |
More jobs 'likely' at wings plant |
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Summary: More jobs are expected to be created at the Airbus plant in Flintshire after a £20bn US defence deal. |
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12:44am PST |
Eight killed in Armenia protests |
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Summary: Eight people die in clashes between police and opposition protesters in Armenia's capital Yerevan, police say. |
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12:43am PST |
9 killed in Armenia election protest |
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Summary: The violent clashes between police and protesters over alleged election fraud in Armenia have killed at least nine people and injured 17 police officers, a government official told CNN Sunday.
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12:39am PST |
Israel pledges to press on with Gaza offensive
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israel vowed on Sunday to press on with a
Gaza offensive and curb rocket attacks, threatening even
stronger action despite U.N. condemnation of assaults that have
killed 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians. |
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12:34am PST |
Iran's president begins landmark Iraq trip
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived to a traditional red-carpet welcome in Iraq on Sunday for a two-day visit he has billed as a "major step in deepening brotherly relations" between the Muslim neighbours. |
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12:27am PST |
Bombings hit southern Russian town
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police say two bombings have hit a police convoy in a town in southern Russia on Sunday, leaving an unspecified number of dead and injured. |
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12:25am PST |
New Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza: medics
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - New Israeli strikes killed five Palestinians in the north of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip early on Sunday as the military continued a massive blitz against militants, medics said. |
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12:18am PST |
Eight killed in Armenian protests: police
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Eight people were killed during
Armenia's violent protests overnight and 33 policemen were
injured, police said on Sunday. |
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12:14am PST |
Ahmadinejad makes landmark visit to Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Sunday in Baghdad for the first-ever visit by an Iranian president to Iraq, walking a red carpet past Iraqi troops to meet the president of a once-bitter enemy nation that's now under growing Iranian influence. |
