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3:51pm PDT |
Purported bin Laden message slams Europe |
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Summary: Fugitive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is expected to issue a message to his followers "shortly," a radical Islamist Web site reported Wednesday.
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3:49pm PDT |
Mexico gang had 'James Bond' car |
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Summary: One gang in Mexico has customised a vehicle with James Bond-style, anti-pursuit gadgets, police say. |
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3:42pm PDT |
New 'bin Laden tape' threatens EU |
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Summary: A new audio message purportedly from Osama bin Laden threatens the EU over cartoons offensive to Muslims. |
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3:34pm PDT |
War protesters halt traffic, recall dead
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Summary: AP - Protesters blocked traffic and government buildings in Washington, acted out a Baghdad street scene in Syracuse, N.Y., and banged drums in a parade through San Francisco on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. |
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3:32pm PDT |
Post vote slashes Labour majority |
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Summary: The government's majority is cut to 19 after the Tories lose a bid to halt the closure of 2,500 sub-post offices. |
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3:32pm PDT |
Bin Laden slams EU over prophet cartoons
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the "wise men" of the European Union in a new audio message late Wednesday, slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and vowing a strong reaction. |
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3:26pm PDT |
TV anchor's cop husband charged with rape |
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3:25pm PDT |
Floods rage from Ohio to Texas; 13 dead |
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3:16pm PDT |
Bush defiantly defends war in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war Wednesday as U.S. troops began a sixth year of combat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency. Bush conceded the war has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insi |
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3:07pm PDT |
Grannies and pro-war activists clash in Times Square
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Grannies holding a knit-in to protest
the war in Iraq clashed in a shouting match with pro-war
activists in Times Square on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary
of the start of the conflict. |
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3:06pm PDT |
Football: Spurs hold Chelsea |
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Summary: Robbie Keane's late strike earns Spurs a point against Chelsea in a thrilling clash at White Hart Lane. |
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3:06pm PDT |
Spurs and Chelsea in 4-4 thriller |
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Summary: Robbie Keane's late strike earns Spurs a point against Chelsea in a thrilling clash at White Hart Lane. |
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3:05pm PDT |
First lady records show Clinton promoted NAFTA
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton now argues that the North American Free Trade
Agreement needs to be renegotiated, but newly released records
showed on Wednesday she promoted its passage. |
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2:57pm PDT |
Bodies of toddlers, dad found in Georgia |
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Summary: Investigators have found the bodies of three small children and the father who allegedly abducted them from their home in Columbus, Georgia, two weeks ago, the FBI said Wednesday.
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2:55pm PDT |
Football: Man Utd beat Bolton |
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Summary: Stand-in skipper Cristiano Ronaldo scores twice as Man Utd move three points clear of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League. |
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2:49pm PDT |
Removed Ghana cancer woman dies |
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Summary: A Ghanaian woman who was removed from a UK hospital and flown home after her visa expired, has died. |
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2:36pm PDT |
Warren Buffett drawn back to soap opera intrigue
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Billionaire investor Warren
Buffett, recently ranked as the world's richest man, will be
drawn into a fictional insider-trading scandal in an upcoming
appearance on the TV soap opera "All My Children." |
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2:30pm PDT |
Man, 20, charged over city murder |
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Summary: A man is charged with the murder of Francis McGreevy who died after being beaten at his home in west Belfast. |
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2:18pm PDT |
13 dead, 3 missing in central US storm
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 13 deaths had been linked to the weather, and three peop |
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2:06pm PDT |
Study details effects of prostate cancer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One of the first large quality-of-life studies on today's prostate cancer treatments suggests that for some men, it's a matter of picking your poison and facing potential sexual, urinary or other problems. |
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1:55pm PDT |
Clinton calls on Obama to back primaries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly challenged Barack Obama to agree to new primaries in Michigan and Florida on Wednesday and said it was "wrong, and frankly un-American" not to have the two delegations seated at the Democratic National Convention. |
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1:47pm PDT |
Anchor's cop husband charged with rape |
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1:37pm PDT |
11 dead, 3 missing in central US storm
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation's midsection. At least 11 deaths had been linked to the weather, and four peopl |
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1:26pm PDT |
4 die in Calif. wrecking yard shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police alleged Wednesday that a son of an auto wrecking yard owner shot four people to death at the business, including at least one relative and two employees. |
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1:23pm PDT |
Tibet adds pressure for Olympic sponsors
(AP)
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Summary: AP - McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens of millions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Now they're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur and other issues, without angering China. |
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1:22pm PDT |
First lady Clinton and the intern crisis
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House the day her husband had an infamous sexual encounter just outside the Oval Office with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton's schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers fr |
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1:18pm PDT |
Sisters: eBay pulled corn flake auction
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two sisters from Virginia who are selling a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois on eBay say the online auction Web site canceled their listing. |
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1:16pm PDT |
Obama and McCain in crossfire over Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John
McCain on Wednesday for misidentifying Iraqi extremists, saying
he fails to understand the war has emboldened U.S. enemies. |
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Cnn.com |
1:11pm PDT |
Bodies of toddlers, father found in Georgia |
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Summary: Investigators have found the bodies of three small children and the father who allegedly abducted them from their home in Columbus, Georgia, two weeks ago, the FBI said Wednesday.
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1:10pm PDT |
Poll: Bush approval at new low |
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Summary: Just 31 percent of Americans approve of how President Bush is handling his job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
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