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BBC News |
11:34am PDT |
'Several dead in Iran explosion' |
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Summary: Several people are killed and a number of others wounded by an explosion in Iran, Iranian media reports say. |
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Yahoo News |
11:19am PDT |
Kenyan leaders break deadlock on cabinet: sources
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and
opposition leader Raila Odinga struck a deal on a power-sharing
cabinet on Saturday after secret one-on-one talks to end a
six-week impasse, sources close to the talks said. |
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BBC News |
11:06am PDT |
Haitian senators vote to fire PM |
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Summary: Haiti's Senate votes to dismiss PM Jacques-Edouard Alexis following rioting over the soaring cost of food. |
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BBC News |
11:02am PDT |
Missing beauty queen found safe |
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Summary: Missing teenage beauty queen Kovi Dunbar has been found "safe and well" in the London area, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
10:57am PDT |
Immelman leads wet Masters; Woods 7 back
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After two days of warm, sunny weather, the Masters turned wet Saturday and the third round was briefly halted because of heavy rain that left giant puddles on several greens. |
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Yahoo News |
10:46am PDT |
Zimbabwe summit opens, Mbeki says country not in crisis
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - A summit of southern African leaders called to discuss Zimbabwe's post-election crisis opened Saturday with a plea from its chairman not to ignore their neighbour's plight. |
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Yahoo News |
10:44am PDT |
Haiti Senate fires prime minister over food riots
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Haitian Senate on Saturday
fired the impoverished country's prime minister after a week of
violent food riots and ignored an emergency plan announced by
President Rene Preval to slash the cost of rice. |
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BBC News |
10:42am PDT |
Sadr says US will always be enemy |
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Summary: Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr vows to fight the United States "till the last drop of blood". |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Organ donation |
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Summary: Why a sick mother couldn't be helped by her daughter |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Blues co-owner critical of arrest |
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Summary: The co-owner of Birmingham City FC criticises police for the handling of his arrest over alleged payments to players. |
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Yahoo News |
9:56am PDT |
A 26-year-old secret could free inmate
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other times under his bed. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38am PDT |
Pope Benedict XVI ready to meet America
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Next up for Pope Benedict XVI, a welcoming nation that wants to get to know him. |
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Yahoo News |
9:38am PDT |
Masters turns damp for third round
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After two rounds of warm, sunny weather, the Masters turned damp on Saturday and ubrellas popped up all over the course as play began in a light drizzle. |
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Yahoo News |
9:34am PDT |
Haiti cuts cost of rice to stop food riots
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Haitian government and the
private sector of the impoverished Caribbean country announced
an emergency plan on Saturday to bring down the price of rice
by about 15 percent in a bid to stop food riots. |
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BBC News |
9:29am PDT |
Mother's plea over beauty queen |
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Summary: A concerned mother travels to London to search for her missing daughter, a teenage beauty queen. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PDT |
Obama rues 'bitter' voter remark |
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Summary: US presidential hopeful Barack Obama says his description of "bitter" working-class voters was ill-chosen. |
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Yahoo News |
9:13am PDT |
Online reservations only at NYC hot spot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When one of the hottest chefs in town opened his newest creation, Momofuku Ko, the rich, powerful and influential immediately set about trying to land a reservation the easy way. They appealed to the chef. |
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Yahoo News |
9:04am PDT |
Obama concedes remarks were ill chosen
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending. |
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BBC News |
9:01am PDT |
Davies goal gives Bolton lifeline |
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Summary: Kevin Davies' 100th career goal earns Bolton three precious points in a 1-0 win against West Ham. |
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Yahoo News |
9:01am PDT |
Clinton attacks Obama for remarks, he says he erred
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton kept the
heat on U.S. presidential rival Barack Obama on Saturday for
his comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, as Obama
backtracked, saying he erred in describing their mood. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Southern Africa leaders start Zimbabwe summit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Southern African nations began an
emergency summit on Zimbabwe's election deadlock on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:46am PDT |
Democrat blames weak economy on Iraq war
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq "is not only linked to our economic skid, but is a leading cause of it," a Democratic congressman said Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:45am PDT |
Catholics seek bold papal action on sex abuse
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Catholics angered and demoralized
by the priest sex abuse scandal say one man can help revitalize
the Church with bold action: Pope Benedict. |
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Yahoo News |
8:37am PDT |
Zimbabwe summit opens after Mbeki says there is no crisis
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Regional leaders opened Saturday an emergency summit to discuss Zimbabwe's disputed elections, but hopes of a tough statement dimmed hours earlier when South Africa's president said there was no crisis. |
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BBC News |
8:35am PDT |
Iran pressed to free campaigner |
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Summary: A letter published in Iran calls for the immediate release of women's rights campaigner Khadijeh Moghaddam. |
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BBC News |
8:24am PDT |
Summit bids to end Mugabe impasse |
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Summary: An emergency summit opens in Zambia to tackle Zimbabwe's poll deadlock, but President Mugabe is absent. |
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BBC News |
8:24am PDT |
France raid ship after crew freed |
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Summary: French commandos carry out a raid on Somali pirates soon after they release 30 hostages from a luxury yacht. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22am PDT |
Olympic torch flickers on to 'China-friendly' Africa
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Olympic torch was to emerge from a protest-plagued odyssey through Europe and the Americas Saturday for a low-risk albeit drastically curtailed African leg. |
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Cnn.com |
8:19am PDT |
Experts to counsel children of sect |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:17am PDT |
African leaders meet on Zimbabwe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Southern African leaders held an emergency summit Saturday to find a resolution to Zimbabwe's deepening political crisis, but Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe refused to attend, underlining his growing isolation in the region and the world. |
