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Yahoo News |
5:40am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition appeal postponed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Zimbabwe court postponed a legal bid
by the opposition to force the release of presidential election
results on Saturday, after the electoral commission asked for
more time to prepare its response. |
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BBC News |
5:19am PDT |
Light plane missing in blizzard |
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Summary: Rescue helicopters search for a light aircraft reported missing in bad weather in the Cairngorms. |
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Yahoo News |
5:14am PDT |
Clintons made $109 million since 2000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton made nearly $109 million since they left the White House, capitalizing on the world's interest in the former first couple and lucrative business ventures. |
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Yahoo News |
4:49am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition legal appeal postponed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Zimbabwean opposition's legal bid to
force release of presidential election results was postponed to
Sunday after armed police prevented its lawyers entering the
High Court on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
4:48am PDT |
Thousands march over council cuts |
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Summary: Campaigners march through Aberdeen city centre to protest against council cutbacks. |
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4:47am PDT |
Teacher union leader Sinnott dies |
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Summary: Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the UK's biggest teachers' union, the National Union of Teachers, dies. |
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Cnn.com |
4:18am PDT |
Children removed from polygamist ranch |
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Summary: Authorities on Friday removed 52 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, from a West Texas ranch occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs. Eighteen girls have been placed in the temporary custody of the state under a court orde |
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4:16am PDT |
Bush praises Croatian democracy |
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Summary: US President George W Bush pays tribute to Croatia's democracy during a speech in Zagreb. |
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4:13am PDT |
Doctors to assess duke's recovery |
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Summary: The Duke of Edinburgh spends a second night in hospital where he is being treated for a chest infection. |
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4:05am PDT |
Shopping chaos |
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Summary: Why India's bazaars will survive superstore rivalry |
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4:01am PDT |
Bush celebrates NATO's expansion
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush celebrated NATO's expansion into former communist territory on Saturday and urged further enlargement, highlighting differences with Moscow hours before final talks with outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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4:00am PDT |
Farmers' beef |
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Summary: Dispute reopens old divisions in Argentina |
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4:00am PDT |
Fresh baggage woes at Terminal 5 |
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Summary: Hopes of Heathrow's Terminal 5 operating its first full schedule of flights on Saturday have been dashed by a new baggage glitch. |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
New baggage woes at Terminal 5 |
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Summary: Hopes of Heathrow's Terminal 5 operating its first full schedule of flights on Saturday have been dashed by a new baggage glitch. |
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3:59am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition barred from court
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A lawyer for Zimbabwe's opposition says armed police have prevented his clients from entering the High Court to pursue an appeal to have presidential election results published. |
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BBC News |
3:58am PDT |
Zimbabwe's MDC court bid blocked |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's police stop the opposition from filing a petition to get presidential poll results released. |
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BBC News |
3:49am PDT |
Animals to be rescued from farm |
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Summary: A rescue operation is due to take place to remove 300 animals kept in squalid conditions in County Down. |
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Yahoo News |
3:48am PDT |
Police stop Zimbabwe opposition lodging appeal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Armed police on Saturday prevented
Zimbabwe opposition lawyers from entering the High Court to
apply for an order forcing the release of presidential election
results. |
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Yahoo News |
3:40am PDT |
Iran to boost nuclear capacity despite pressure
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran said on Saturday it would press
ahead with plans to expand its nuclear program, after diplomats
in Vienna said Tehran was installing advanced centrifuges in
its key uranium enrichment plant. |
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Cnn.com |
3:36am PDT |
Zimbabwe police bar opposition from court |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition party will ask the United Nations to intervene to avoid bloodshed ahead of a hotly contested presidential runoff, a party spokesman has told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
3:32am PDT |
Sarkozy uses Olympics to pressure China on Tibet
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - French President Nicholas Sarkozy stepped up the pressure on China Saturday over its handling of the Tibet crisis by warning he may boycott the Olympic opening, following fresh violence. |
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3:23am PDT |
How much did this 'Penny' Stradivarius violin fetch at auction? |
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Summary: A violin owned by a pioneering female musician sells for $1.2m (£600,000) at a sale in New York. |
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Yahoo News |
3:22am PDT |
Bush sees NATO future for Macedonia and all Balkans
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush reassured
Macedonia on Saturday that the United States believed it should
join NATO as soon as possible. |
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BBC News |
3:22am PDT |
No contact with seized yacht crew |
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Summary: France says it has had no contact with the crew of a luxury yacht seized with its crew by Somali pirates. |
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Yahoo News |
3:14am PDT |
UCLA's Walton nearly perfect in '73 game
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kevin Love likes watching videos of classic basketball games nearly as much as the UCLA freshman likes playing in them. He's seen a tape of the 1973 NCAA championship game, when Bill Walton and the Bruins played Memphis and calls it "very special." |
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Yahoo News |
3:11am PDT |
52 girls removed from Texas polygamist sect
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas authorities said on Friday
that they were investigating a potential child-abuse case at a
ranch operated by followers of a breakaway Mormon sect linked
to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. |
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Yahoo News |
3:05am PDT |
Mother Nature can't let go of Arkansas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - How much can one state take? In the past two months, Arkansas has suffered through a tornado outbreak that killed 13, a foot of snow, a foot of rain and near-record flooding. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00am PDT |
Police fire on Tibetan protesters; 8 die
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police fired on hundreds of protesters in a Tibetan area of western China, killing eight people, an overseas activist group said. State media reported one government official was seriously injured in what it called a riot. |
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Yahoo News |
2:59am PDT |
U.S. military charges civilian contractor in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States military announced on
Saturday it had charged a civilian contractor in Iraq under
U.S. military law for the first time. |
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Yahoo News |
2:45am PDT |
52 girls removed from Texas compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Child welfare officials are scrambling to find foster homes for dozens of girls removed from a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a 16-year-old living there complained of physical abuse. |
