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Yahoo News |
7:49pm PST |
Ecuador says catches Colombian rebels
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ecuador announced a rare capture
of Colombian guerrillas on Thursday as Latin American leaders
gathered for a summit that will be dominated by a regional
crisis over a cross-border raid by Colombia. |
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Yahoo News |
7:47pm PST |
'We Did It' letters eyed in NY bombing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Capitol Hill offices received letters Thursday containing a photo of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed and including the claim "We Did It." |
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7:32pm PST |
U.S. Iraq envoy to leave soon after Petraeus: paper
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker
plans to leave Baghdad as early as January, shortly after U.S.
military commander Gen. David Petraeus is expected to rotate
out of Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22pm PST |
Court order sought in e-mail controversy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A private group told a federal court Thursday the Bush administration made apparently false and misleading statements in court about the White House e-mail controversy. |
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7:21pm PST |
'Idol' cuts 4 more, leaving 12 finalists
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The top 12 "American Idol" finalists include an actress, a "Star Search" champion, an Australian, a male stripper and someone who already recorded a debut album. |
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7:00pm PST |
Teenager on brick murder charge |
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Summary: A teenager is charged with the murder of a 16-year-old who died two weeks after being hit with a brick. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50pm PST |
Pro golfer faces charges in hawk killing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - PGA Tour player Tripp Isenhour faces charges for hitting a hawk with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show. |
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6:40pm PST |
NCarolina student president killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The University of North Carolina student body president was found shot to death on a city street in what police said Thursday appeared to be a random crime, stunning the campus community who knew her well. |
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6:18pm PST |
Pentagon curbs Google maps |
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Summary: Google is banned from filming inside US military bases due to the "threat" posed by its online maps. |
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5:38pm PST |
Army: Psychiatrists needed on warfronts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. troops on the battlefield found it harder to get the mental health care they needed last year, when violence rose in Afghanistan and new tactics pushed soldiers in Iraq farther from their operating bases. |
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5:28pm PST |
Russian 'Merchant of Death' held in Thailand
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Thai police arrested perhaps the world's most notorious arms dealer, Viktor Bout, on Thursday after a sting operation in which US agents posed as Colombian rebels seeking an arsenal of modern weapons. |
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Cnn.com |
5:24pm PST |
Times Square bombing claim: 'We did it' |
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Summary: A man on a bicycle is being sought as a possible suspect in today's bombing at a military recruiting station in Times Square. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city is safe and New Yorkers should go on with their lives. New Yorkers, Bloomberg said, "are no |
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5:22pm PST |
Gunman kills 8 in Jerusalem Jewish college
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Palestinian gunman killed eight
people in a Jewish religious college in Jerusalem on Thursday,
most of them students, and wounded about 10 others in the most
lethal attack in Israel in two years. |
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BBC News |
5:05pm PST |
Hope over blood pressure jab |
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Summary: A four-monthly jab could replace the need to regularly take pills to control blood pressure, scientists say. |
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BBC News |
5:05pm PST |
Hope over high blood pressure jab |
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Summary: A four-monthly jab could replace the need to regularly take pills to control blood pressure, scientists say. |
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BBC News |
5:03pm PST |
Faster breast reconstruction call |
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Summary: Only one in ten women with breast cancer has reconstruction with their mastectomy, an audit shows. |
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5:03pm PST |
Prem babies 'need long-term care' |
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Summary: A third of babies born between 29 and 33 weeks need specialist care aged five, a study finds. |
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4:58pm PST |
'We did it' letters eyed in NY bombing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police are investigating letters that arrived Thursday at Capitol Hill offices containing a photo of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed and including the claim "We Did It." |
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Yahoo News |
4:49pm PST |
Tons of food aid rotting in Haiti ports
(AP)
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Summary: AP - While millions of Haitians go hungry, containers full of food are stacking up in the nation's ports because of government red tape — leaving tons of beans, rice and other staples to rot under a sweltering sun or be devoured by vermin. |
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4:46pm PST |
Gallantry medals for Scots troops |
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Summary: A soldier from South Uist is to receive the second highest award for gallantry for his bravery in Afghanistan. |
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4:34pm PST |
Restraints on children 'must end' |
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Summary: There must be an end to the "sanctioned infliction of pain" on young offenders, MPs and peers have said. |
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Yahoo News |
4:14pm PST |
Letters under scrutiny in NY blast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police are investigating letters that arrived Thursday at Capitol Hill offices containing a photo of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed and including the words "We did it." |
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Yahoo News |
4:05pm PST |
Saturn moon Rhea may have rings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - New observations by a spacecraft suggest Saturn's second-largest moon may be surrounded by rings. If confirmed, it would the first time a ring system has been found around a moon. |
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Yahoo News |
4:05pm PST |
Golfer faces charges in hawk killing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - PGA Tour player Tripp Isenhour was charged with killing a hawk on purpose with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PST |
Arms suspect faces charges in US |
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Summary: The US says it aims to extradite a man suspected of being one of the world's top arms dealers from Thailand. |
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Cnn.com |
3:59pm PST |
Gunman kills 8 at Jerusalem seminary |
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Summary: At least eight people were slain today by a terrorist who infiltrated a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, authorities say. The gunman was also killed. The attack comes amid continuing Israeli-Palestinian violence. After the seminar attack, celebratory gunfire |
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Cnn.com |
3:16pm PST |
UNC mourns slain student; killer hunted |
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Summary: Hundreds of students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gathered Thursday to remember student body president, Eve Carson, who was shot and killed early Wednesday morning in a suburban neighborhood near campus.
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3:16pm PST |
Senate OKs tougher overseas toy checks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Responding to record recalls of products that sickened children, the Senate passed legislation Thursday that would toughen inspections of toys and other playthings made outside the U.S. |
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Yahoo News |
3:14pm PST |
Rowland feels 'complete' after surgery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kelly Rowland has gotten a little more bustylicious. Rowland, who sang "Bootylicious" with Beyonce in the group Destiny's Child, tells People magazine in its March 17 issue that she had plastic surgery last October to bring her "from an A-cup to a B- |
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Yahoo News |
3:12pm PST |
Gunman kills 8 at Jerusalem seminary
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A gunman entered the library of a rabbinical seminary and opened fire on a crowded nighttime study session Thursday, killing eight people and wounding nine before he was slain, police and rescue workers said. It was the first major militant attack in |
