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BBC News |
12:49pm PDT |
Untested drugs for terminally ill |
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Summary: Cancer drugs untested on humans are to be given to terminally ill patients by the NHS. |
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Yahoo News |
12:47pm PDT |
Russia to supply Abbas with armored vehicles, no guns
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - After months of delay, Russia agreed
to Israeli conditions regarding the delivery of armored
vehicles to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security
forces, Israeli officials said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
12:26pm PDT |
Labour MPs may rebel on embryos |
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Summary: Many Labour MPs may defy the government over embryo laws if Gordon Brown does not allow a free vote, an MP says. |
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BBC News |
12:26pm PDT |
Labour MPs may rebel over embryos |
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Summary: Many Labour MPs may defy the government over embryo laws if Gordon Brown does not allow a free vote, an MP says. |
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Yahoo News |
12:25pm PDT |
Pregnant mother, tortured, dies in Ill.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor. |
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Yahoo News |
12:06pm PDT |
Curry leads Davidson past Gonzaga
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It took 39 years, but Davidson is back as a player in the NCAA tournament, thanks to a dynamic guard with a magic touch that none of the big schools wanted. |
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Yahoo News |
12:03pm PDT |
McCain praises Sarkozy over Iran sanctions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential candidate John McCain said
on Friday Paris could play a leading role over international
sanctions to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. |
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Cnn.com |
11:54am PDT |
Prez candidates' passport files breached |
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Summary: The passport files of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have been breached, the State Department said today. A spokesman said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had apologized to Clinton and Obama and would soon speak |
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BBC News |
11:43am PDT |
US lawmaker wants Tibet inquiry |
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Summary: A senior US lawmaker calls for a probe into China's claims that the Dalai Lama instigated violence in Tibet. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39am PDT |
Obama wants Congress in passport probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama says Congress should investigate the State Department's snooping into presidential candidates' passport files. |
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Yahoo News |
11:35am PDT |
Richardson backs Obama in blow to Clinton
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Sen. Barack Obama won a
coveted endorsement from fellow Democrat Bill Richardson on
Friday as the State Department apologized for snooping into his
passport files and those of his two main White House rivals. |
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Yahoo News |
11:29am PDT |
State media says 19 died in Lhasa riots
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China's official news agency says the casualty toll from anti-Chinese riots in Tibet has risen to 19 dead and 623 injured. |
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BBC News |
11:17am PDT |
Hunt continues for boy's family |
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Summary: Police are continuing to appeal for information about a nine-year-old boy left at a bus stop in London. |
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Cnn.com |
11:15am PDT |
Martin: Race, faith and politics |
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Summary: The revelation of controversial comments made by the longtime pastor of Sen. Barack Obama, and the equally hot aftermath from the general public that led to the junior senator from Illinois delivering a strong speech/sermon on race in America, has opened |
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BBC News |
10:44am PDT |
Rail boss promises no over-run |
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Summary: Network Rail promises work which has disrupted journeys over the Easter weekend will be finished by Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:42am PDT |
Lawsuit claims Oprah audience got rough
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman claims in a lawsuit that she was injured in a dash for seats at Oprah Winfrey's talk show in Chicago. |
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BBC News |
10:33am PDT |
US candidates' records breached |
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Summary: Passport files of the three main US presidential hopefuls have been improperly accessed, officials confirm. |
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Yahoo News |
10:28am PDT |
Midwest rivers rise; snow hits Chicago
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Flood-weary Midwesterners fought Friday to save their homes and businesses from rivers spilling over their banks after rainstorms blamed for at least 16 deaths moved through the region. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27am PDT |
China issues Most Wanted list of rioters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China issued a "Most Wanted" list of 21 rioters Friday — shown in grainy photos waving knives and fighting during last week's violence over Chinese rule in Tibet. Thousands of troops continued to push into western China to contain unrest. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20am PDT |
Floods sweep central U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Swollen rivers flooded parts of the
central United States on Friday and threatened to engulf a
major interstate highway in Missouri, after violent rainstorms
caused at least 16 deaths, according to reports on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PDT |
NM Gov. Bill Richardson endorses Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, threw his support behind Barack Obama for president Friday, delivering one of the most coveted and tightly held endorsements in the race for the Democratic nomination. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07am PDT |
Davidson eyes return to Driesell magic
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lefty Driesell put little Davidson on the basketball map 40 years ago. The retired coach thinks the Wildcats' star sophomore can return the school to glory. |
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Cnn.com |
10:06am PDT |
Gov. Richardson endorses Obama |
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Summary: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama in the Democratic race for president today, an Obama campaign spokesperson told CNN. In an e-mail to supporters, Richardson said Obama will be a "historic and a great President, who can br |
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Yahoo News |
10:04am PDT |
3 candidates' passport files breached
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The passport files of the three presidential candidates — Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain — have been breached, the State Department said Friday. |
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BBC News |
10:03am PDT |
US election rivals files breached |
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Summary: Passport files of the three main US presidential hopefuls have been improperly accessed, officials confirm. |
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BBC News |
10:03am PDT |
Central US braced for more floods |
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Summary: Flood waters continue to rise in the central US, after at least 16 people died in storms earlier in the week. |
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Yahoo News |
9:53am PDT |
Afghans chant death to Danish, Dutch in protest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Some 5,000 Afghans chanted "death to
Denmark" and "death to the Netherlands" in Kabul on Friday,
protesting against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet
Mohammad in Danish newspapers and a Dutch film on the Koran. |
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Yahoo News |
9:52am PDT |
US House Speaker slams Chinese 'oppression' in Tibet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Chinese "oppression" in Tibet on Friday as thousands of Tibetan exiles cheered her arrival in this Indian hill town to meet the Dalai Lama. |
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BBC News |
9:52am PDT |
Leaping stingray kills US woman |
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Summary: A woman on a boat off the Florida coast dies after being hit in the face by a jumping stingray. |
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Yahoo News |
9:47am PDT |
ETA bombs police barracks in northern Spain: authorities
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A car bomb exploded Friday at a police barracks in Spain's northern Rioja region following a warning from the banned Basque separatist organisation ETA, authorities said. |
