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11:56pm PDT |
Britain challenges Snoop Dogg decision
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Britain is appealing a court's decision to allow Snoop Dogg into the country, the Border Agency said Friday. He was barred from Britain after he was arrested on charges of violent disorder at London's Heathrow Airport in 2006. But the hip-hop heavywe |
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11:47pm PDT |
Bush and Putin in Russian talks |
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Summary: US President George W Bush is to fly to Russia for a last round of talks with President Putin. |
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11:39pm PDT |
Four killed as Haitians riot over prices
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Four people were killed in
southern Haiti when demonstrators protesting the high cost of
living clashed with security forces, a local official said on
Friday. |
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11:09pm PDT |
AP: Gov't plans to cut Army war tours
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration plans to announce next week that U.S. soldiers' combat tours will be reduced from 15 months to 12 months in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning later this summer, The Associated Press has learned. |
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10:59pm PDT |
Bruins beat Sens; both make playoffs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tim Thomas came within 8:14 of recording his third straight shutout against Ottawa and Zdeno Chara scored against his former team, leading the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Senators as both teams clinched playoff berths Friday night. |
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10:24pm PDT |
IOC head: Beijing air no danger to athletes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The head of the International Olympic
Committee said on Saturday that Beijing's poor air quality will
not endanger the health of athletes competing in the games in
August, but it may affect their performance. |
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10:18pm PDT |
China to step up 're-education' of Tibetans
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - China warned on Saturday it would step up a controversial "re-education" campaign for Tibetans after a fresh protest showed a huge security crackdown had failed to extinguish nearly one month of unrest. |
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9:10pm PDT |
Brown warns on global cash crisis |
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Summary: The world faces "the first truly global financial crisis", the prime minister tells a meeting of leaders. |
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9:09pm PDT |
'Political war' |
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Summary: Break your rival's legs - on the Maoist campaign trail |
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8:18pm PDT |
Custody for Comoran rebel |
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Summary: Ousted Comoran rebel leader Mohammed Bacar is remanded in custody on the French island of Reunion. |
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8:18pm PDT |
Comoran rebel remanded in custody |
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Summary: Ousted Comoran rebel leader Mohammed Bacar is remanded in custody on the French island of Reunion. |
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8:04pm PDT |
Haitians riot over prices, four killed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Four people were killed in
southern Haiti when demonstrators protesting the high cost of
living clashed with security forces, a local official said on
Friday. |
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7:53pm PDT |
'He is innocent' |
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Summary: Daughter fights to save Chinese 'spy' from death |
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7:45pm PDT |
Sex, money linked in men's brains, study finds |
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7:41pm PDT |
Bid to end Zimbabwe poll silence |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's main opposition is to go to court in a bid to force officials to release the result of the presidential vote. |
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7:27pm PDT |
Pena homers as Rays rough up Yanks 13-4
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pinch-hitter Shawn Riggans hit a three-run double, Carlos Pena a three-run homer in a seven-run eighth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays roughed up Yankees youngster Ian Kennedy for six runs in a 13-4 win over New York on Friday night. |
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7:17pm PDT |
Families in meltdown, judge says |
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Summary: An "epidemic" of family failures is causing a breakdown in society, a leading family court judge will say later. |
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7:10pm PDT |
Feds now probing Va. Tech copycat case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included AK-47s was arrested Friday in South Florida on federal charges of threatening to re-enact the Virginia Tech massacre, the U.S. attorney's office said. |
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Cnn.com |
7:08pm PDT |
Third airline this week shuts down |
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Summary: Skybus Airlines announced Friday it is shutting down its passenger flights -- becoming the third airline this week to cease operations.
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Cnn.com |
6:47pm PDT |
Nicolas Cage settles libel suit against Turner |
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Cnn.com |
6:47pm PDT |
Nicholas Cage settles libel suit against Turner |
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6:25pm PDT |
Week on from polls, Zimbabwe sweats on outcome
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe was facing Saturday a protracted battle between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ruling party over the outcome of elections, with results still awaited a week on from the vote. |
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6:16pm PDT |
Women face bias worldwide - UN |
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Summary: Women are discriminated against in almost every country worldwide, a UN-commissioned report says. |
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Cnn.com |
6:02pm PDT |
Blackwater Iraq contract to be renewed |
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Summary: The State Department will renew its contract with Blackwater to provide security in Iraq, Greg Starr, acting assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, said Friday.
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5:59pm PDT |
Cyclist Tammy Thomas guilty of perjury
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former cyclist Tammy Thomas was convicted Friday of lying to a grand jury investigating a steroid distribution ring that has implicated some of the biggest stars in baseball, football and track. |
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5:57pm PDT |
Clintons made $109 million since 2000
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton and her
husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made $109 million
since leaving the White House, including $51 million in speech
income for Bill Clinton, according to eight years of tax
records released on Frida |
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5:49pm PDT |
UK citizenship tests 'being abused' |
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Summary: Foreign nationals are being offered ways to ensure they pass UK citizenship tests, a BBC investigation finds. |
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5:26pm PDT |
Men charged over £20m heroin |
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Summary: Three men are charged after police in Kent seize heroin with a street value of up to £20m. |
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5:26pm PDT |
Men charged over £20m heroin haul |
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Summary: Three men are charged after police seized heroin with a street value of up to £20m. |
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Yahoo News |
5:19pm PDT |
UK challenges Snoop Dogg decision
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Britain is appealing a court's decision to allow Snoop Dogg into the country, the Border Agency said Friday. He was barred from Britain after he was arrested on charges of violent disorder at London's Heathrow Airport in 2006. But the hip-hop heavywe |
