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4:06am PDT |
Jimmy Carter defends meeting with Hamas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Jimmy Carter said he feels "quite at ease" about meeting Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel. |
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3:48am PDT |
Legal fight over Zimbabwe recount |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition says it will mount a legal challenge against plans to recount 23 contested poll results. |
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3:43am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition to challenge poll recount
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) will on Tuesday challenge in court a
partial election vote recount, its lawyer said on Sunday. |
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3:41am PDT |
China media slam Dalai Lama as "anti human rights"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese media denounced the Dalai Lama
and his supporters as "anti-human rights," and slammed top U.S.
politician Nancy Pelosi as "the least popular person in China"
for her stance on Tibet, in editorials on Sunday. |
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3:34am PDT |
Two men are killed in city crash |
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Summary: Two men are killed and a third is injured in an accident involving two cars on south Belfast's Lisburn Road. |
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3:20am PDT |
Robinson set to be new DUP leader |
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Summary: Peter Robinson is expected to be elected DUP leader later, leaving the path open for his accession to first minister. |
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3:03am PDT |
Italians decide on Berlusconi's comeback
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Italians voted Sunday in a general election that could bring conservative billionaire Silvio Berlusconi back to power, as the nation grapples with mounting problems that are sure to challenge the winner. |
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2:48am PDT |
Five Britons die in Ecuador crash |
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Summary: Five Britons have been killed and another 12 injured in a bus crash in Ecuador, the Foreign Office has confirmed. |
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2:38am PDT |
Britney Spears in minor car accident
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Britney Spears was involved in a minor traffic accident on a Los Angeles freeway Saturday, authorities said. |
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2:36am PDT |
Memorial service for Billy Fury |
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Summary: A special service is to be held on the 25th anniversary of the death of Liverpool singer Billy Fury. |
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2:32am PDT |
Focus on world food prices, market woes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Finance ministers and central bankers are focusing their spring meetings on ways to deal with the unfolding financial crisis that has roiled economies around the world and led to higher food and energy prices. |
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2:18am PDT |
Kibaki will unveil new Kenyan cabinet
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki will
unveil a long-awaited coalition cabinet on Sunday after secret
discussions with opposition leader Raila Odinga ended a
six-week impasse, Kibaki's office said. |
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2:13am PDT |
Food and finance |
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Summary: IMF meeting tackles credit crisis and food prices |
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2:12am PDT |
Baghdad slum calmer after week of intense battles
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fighting between Shi'ite militiamen and
security forces in Sadr City eased on Sunday after a week of
intense clashes, with hospitals in the Baghdad slum saying they
had received no dead or wounded overnight. |
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2:11am PDT |
Nepal's Maoists extend poll lead |
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Summary: Nepal's Maoist party does far better than expected as election results for a new constituent assembly are declared. |
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2:09am PDT |
Madeleine suspect to sue media |
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Summary: A suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is to sue 12 media outlets over allegedly libellous stories. |
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2:03am PDT |
Missionary, 77, killed in Kenya |
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Summary: A 77-year-old Catholic missionary from England is killed in Kenya in what officials believe was a robbery. |
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2:02am PDT |
Army will not fight Zimbabweans in poll: minister
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's army will not fight
Zimbabweans over election results, the information minister
said on Sunday, responding to opposition charges that President
Robert Mugabe had staged a de facto coup to extend his rule. |
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1:53am PDT |
Clergy 'bullied by parishioners' |
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Summary: Ministers are increasingly being harassed by their own parishioners, a trade union has said. |
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1:24am PDT |
Woman attacked and raped in park |
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Summary: A young female tourist is attacked and raped after taking a walk in a Belfast park on Saturday afternoon. |
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1:07am PDT |
Iran dismisses sabotage in mosque blast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iran's official news agency says that police believe an explosion that ripped through a packed mosque in the city of Shiraz was not intentionally set. |
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12:59am PDT |
Deadly Iran mosque blast not an attack: media
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A blast in a mosque in Iran that killed
at least 10 people was an accident and not an attack, a senior
Interior Ministry official said on Sunday. |
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12:37am PDT |
Iran mosque blast kills 11, wounds almost 200
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Eleven people were killed and at least 191 wounded when an explosion ripped through a mosque in Iran's southern city of Shiraz during evening prayers by a prominent cleric, officials said on Sunday. |
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12:27am PDT |
Brown supports 'Armed Forces Day' |
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Summary: Britain is to dedicate a day to the armed forces to allow the public to pay tribute to them, Gordon Brown suggests. |
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12:21am PDT |
U.S. air strike in Iraq wounds troops, civilians
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A missile fired by U.S. forces at
militants in east Baghdad overshot its target and hit a U.S.
vehicle, wounding two soldiers and three civilians, the U.S.
military said on Sunday. |
