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Cnn.com |
11:04am PDT |
Results of Zimbabwe election cloudy as ever |
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Summary: There was still no official results Tuesday from weekend's presidential vote in Zimbabwe, but an election monitoring group projected that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was leading President Robert Mugabe.
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Cnn.com |
10:59am PDT |
Congress lays into oil executives |
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Summary: Lawmakers grilled executives from the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies today, criticizing them for taking tax subsidies and not investing in renewable resources amid record prices, CNNMoney.com reports.
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Cnn.com |
10:59am PDT |
Congress lays into oil execs |
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Summary: Lawmakers grilled executives from the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies Tuesday, criticizing them for taking tax subsidies and not investing in renewable resources amid record prices for oil and gasoline.
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Cnn.com |
10:55am PDT |
Trucks keep rolling ... for now |
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Summary: Despite a threatened strike by some independent truck drivers, many trucks were still on the road Tuesday. But for how much longer?
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Yahoo News |
10:39am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition in talks with ruling party: U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition movement is in
talks with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party over whether
he should resign following presidential elections that put the
opposition ahead, said a U.S. State Department official on
Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
Anarchy fears as Zimbabwe awaits poll results
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's elections commission tried to calm growing disquiet Tuesday at the delay in announcing results from the country's presidential election amid warnings the country could lurch into anarchy. |
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BBC News |
10:34am PDT |
Lib Dem blow to referendum |
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Summary: The chances of a referendum on the EU treaty take a blow after Lib Dem peers say they will vote against one. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23am PDT |
Bank news, economic data boost stocks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street began the second quarter with a big rally Tuesday as investors rushed back into stocks amid optimism that the worst of the credit crisis has passed and that the economy is faring better than expected. The Dow Jones industrials surged more |
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BBC News |
10:22am PDT |
Deal 'close' for Mugabe to leave |
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Summary: The outline of a deal is done for Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to step down, opposition sources tell the BBC. |
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BBC News |
10:14am PDT |
Click on Rick |
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Summary: On Rick Astley's renewed fame - and other virals |
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Yahoo News |
10:14am PDT |
Bush backs Ukraine and Georgia for NATO
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush vowed
on Tuesday to press for Ukraine and Georgia to be allowed to
start the process of joining NATO despite resistance from
Russia and skepticism from the alliance's European members. |
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Cnn.com |
10:06am PDT |
No joke: Stocks start April higher |
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Summary: Stocks surged Tuesday, with the Dow jumping nearly 300 points on the first day of the new quarter, as investors hailed signs that the companies hit hardest by the credit market crisis seem to be pulling through and moving forward.
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BBC News |
10:04am PDT |
UK's first hybrid embryos created |
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Summary: Scientists have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK, the BBC can reveal. |
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Yahoo News |
9:58am PDT |
Clinton slams McCain on economy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton slammed
potential White House opponent John McCain's economic approach
on Tuesday, accusing the Republican of turning his back on
struggling workers and middle-class families. |
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Cnn.com |
9:49am PDT |
7-year-old brings loaded guns to school |
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Summary: A 7-year-old first-grader showed up at school Monday with two loaded handguns, Baltimore County, Maryland, police told CNN Tuesday.
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BBC News |
9:48am PDT |
Secret 'dino bugs' revealed |
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Summary: Scientists use X-rays to find a host of animals trapped in 100-million-year-old opaque amber. |
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BBC News |
9:47am PDT |
High stakes |
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Summary: Riot squads flood streets of Rome before Man U clash |
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BBC News |
9:46am PDT |
Shoukri trial judge steps down |
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Summary: A judge steps down from a trial involving six alleged loyalist paramilitary supporters. |
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Yahoo News |
9:36am PDT |
Bush backs NATO bids by Ukraine, Georgia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush is not backing down from a NATO battle over putting ex-Soviet satellites Ukraine and Georgia on the road toward membership in the military alliance. |
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BBC News |
9:32am PDT |
IRA killer given life in prison |
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Summary: An IRA killer, released under the Good Friday Agreement, is sentenced to life in prison at a court in Dublin. |
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Yahoo News |
9:31am PDT |
Stocks surge on bank news, economic data
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street began the second quarter with a big rally Tuesday as investors rushed back into stocks amid optimism that the worst of the credit crisis has passed and that the economy is faring better than expected. The Dow Jones industrials surged more |
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BBC News |
9:30am PDT |
Couple found dead at house |
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Summary: A 35-year-old man is arrested after a man and woman are found dead at a house in south Liverpool. |
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BBC News |
9:25am PDT |
Kashmir police refuse body demand |
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Summary: Police in Indian-administered Kashmir reject a demand to investigate reports of up to 1,000 unidentified bodies. |
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Yahoo News |
9:24am PDT |
Belichick: No new Spygate revelations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bill Belichick insists there are no new revelations to come about Spygate. |
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Cnn.com |
9:23am PDT |
Cops: Hospital gunman targeted wrong person |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
9:23am PDT |
Postal strike threat on pensions |
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Summary: The postal workers union the CWU may start fresh strike action against changes to the Royal Mail pension scheme. |
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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
FBI wants 1,000 new agents |
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Summary: The FBI needs more than 1,000 new agents, intelligence analysts and support staff, bureau director Robert Mueller will tell House members Tuesday.
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Cnn.com |
9:16am PDT |
Mugabe advisers, opposition reportedly in talks |
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Summary: There was still no official results Tuesday from weekend's presidential vote in Zimbabwe, but an election monitoring group projected that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was leading President Robert Mugabe.
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Yahoo News |
9:12am PDT |
Congress grills oil execs on pump prices
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Five U.S. oil company executives
appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to explain why they were
not to blame for record-high gasoline pump prices even as they
reported $123 billion in profits in 2007. |
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BBC News |
9:10am PDT |
Speaker facing expenses inquiry |
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Summary: Parliament's standards chief launches an investigation into Commons Speaker Michael Martin's taxi expenses. |
