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Yahoo News |
9:33am PDT |
Lights go out across globe to mark Earth Hour
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - People switched off lights across
the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants
and bars to show concern at global warming. |
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Yahoo News |
9:26am PDT |
Amateur sleuths name anonymous dead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Four days a week Todd Matthews earns $11.50 an hour working for an automotive parts supplier. He punches in at 4:15 a.m., punches out nearly 11 hours later, then drives half a mile to his little beige house on a hill where, in the distance, he can gl |
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9:25am PDT |
British Army joins Basra fighting |
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Summary: British forces join the fighting in Basra between Iraqi government forces and members of the Mehdi Army. |
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Yahoo News |
9:24am PDT |
Report: Protests at Tibet monasteries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - New protests broke out Saturday at two monasteries in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, activists and the region's government-in-exile said, as China tried to blunt criticism of its crackdown. |
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9:13am PDT |
US warplanes widen airstrikes in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. jets widened the bombing of Basra on Saturday, dropping two precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia stronghold north of the city, British officials said. |
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BBC News |
9:10am PDT |
Fatal shelling at Somali market |
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Summary: At least 10 people die and many are hurt as Ethiopian forces shell a Mogadishu market, witnesses say. |
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8:53am PDT |
Alexander says 'fight back is on' |
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Summary: Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander tells party workers that the fight back has begun against the SNP. |
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Yahoo News |
8:47am PDT |
Chinese security forces seal off Tibet capital
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese security forces sealed off
parts of Lhasa on Saturday and Tibet's government-in-exile said
it was investigating reports of fresh protests, weeks after the
city was shaken by an anti-government riot. |
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Yahoo News |
8:35am PDT |
Syria, Saudi Arabia conciliatory on Lebanon
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Syria promised Arab leaders at an
annual summit on Saturday to cooperate in ending a political
crisis in Lebanon, and regional power Saudi Arabia said it saw
Damascus as part of the solution. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32am PDT |
Troops shell Somali market, killing 11: witnesses
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - At least 11 people were killed in
Mogadishu on Saturday when troops at the Villa Somalia
presidential palace returned fire against Islamist insurgents
who attacked it with mortar bombs, witnesses said. |
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BBC News |
8:23am PDT |
Brazil teen 'killer' investigated |
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Summary: Police in southern Brazil investigate a 16-year-old boy's claims that he has murdered 12 people. |
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8:19am PDT |
Football boss sent bullet in post |
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Summary: A police investigation is under way after a bullet is sent in the post to Cliftonville football club manager Eddie Patterson. |
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8:18am PDT |
Drunken man awakes inside garbage truck
(AP)
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Summary: AP - William M. Bowen woke up after a night of drinking with friends and realized he was inside a commercial trash-collection truck full of waste. |
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8:04am PDT |
Zimbabweans vote for president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Zimbabweans lined up for hours Saturday to vote in elections that present President Robert Mugabe with his toughest political challenge in 28 years in power. |
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BBC News |
7:57am PDT |
Turkey hits rebel targets in Iraq |
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Summary: Turkey uses shelling and air raids to target rebel positions in Iraq, killing at least 15, the Turkish military says. |
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7:54am PDT |
'Groping' civil servant resigns |
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Summary: A senior civil servant who sexually harassed a Welsh Assembly Government colleague has quit. |
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7:52am PDT |
Third day of flight misery at T5 |
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Summary: Heathrow's Terminal 5 faces continued disruption with one-fifth of Saturday's flights cancelled. |
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7:51am PDT |
Cycling: Hoy extends GB haul |
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Summary: Chris Hoy wins the men's keirin race at the Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester to extend the GB medal count to nine golds |
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7:51am PDT |
Hoy extends GB gold haul to nine |
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Summary: Chris Hoy wins the men's keirin race at the Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester to extend the GB medal count to nine golds |
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7:51am PDT |
GB pair take medal tally to eight |
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Summary: Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish win the men's madison race to take Britain's gold medal total to eight at the Track Worlds in Manchester |
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7:51am PDT |
Cycling: Pendleton sprints to gold |
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Summary: Victoria Pendleton takes Britain's medal haul to seven as she wins the women's sprint final at the Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester. |
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Cnn.com |
7:50am PDT |
75 feared dead in Tanzanian mine floods |
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7:41am PDT |
Bush begins long farewell on world stage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Winding down his presidency, George W. Bush is beginning his farewell tour on the world stage trailed by questions about how much clout he still wields. |
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BBC News |
7:39am PDT |
US makes new Mid-East peace bid |
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Summary: The US secretary of state is due in the Middle East in a bid to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. |
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Yahoo News |
7:21am PDT |
Bush may expand help for struggling homeowners
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Saturday he is looking to expand U.S. efforts to help
struggling homeowners reduce their mortgage payments, as
Democrats pressed for a more substantial federal role. |
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Cnn.com |
7:15am PDT |
Opposition cries foul as Zimbabwe votes |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's main opposition party alleged widespread irregularities today as large numbers of voters turned out for elections that will decide the future of longtime President Robert Mugabe.
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Yahoo News |
7:02am PDT |
Maliki says Sadrist foes "worse than al Qaeda"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
raised the stakes in his five-day-old crackdown on Shi'ite
militants on Saturday, describing his foes as "worse than al
Qaeda." |
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Yahoo News |
7:00am PDT |
Turkish army says kills 15 PKK in N Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Turkey's army killed 15 members of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on
Thursday using long-range land weapons, it said on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:55am PDT |
Party fears tight Obama-Clinton finish
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For all their delight in soaring voter registration and strong poll numbers, some Democrats fear the contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton might have a nightmarish end, which could wreck a promising election year. |
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Yahoo News |
6:37am PDT |
Washington, Wall St. tangle on oversight
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One of the casualties of the ongoing credit crisis is a long-held notion on Wall Street — that the investment banking community can take care of its own problems. |
