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Cnn.com |
7:08am PDT |
Pilot dies during wildfire; state hopes for snow |
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Yahoo News |
7:08am PDT |
AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military released Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein on Wednesday after holding him for more than two years without filing formal charges. |
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BBC News |
7:03am PDT |
White House ready to greet Pope |
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Summary: Thousands of guests gather at the White House where President Bush will meet visiting Pope Benedict. |
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BBC News |
7:03am PDT |
Brown in Zimbabwe talks at UN |
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Summary: Gordon Brown is in talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as he begins a three-day visit to the United States. |
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Cnn.com |
7:02am PDT |
Killings won't define Va. Tech, freshman pens |
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Summary: The killer's bullets found Derek O'Dell and Katelyn Carney while they were in class at Virginia Tech, but getting shot didn't make their lives worse. Derek's family connection deepened. "I appreciate things a lot more, looking back and seeing how close to |
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Cnn.com |
7:02am PDT |
Slaughter will not define Va. Tech, freshman pens |
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Summary: The killer's bullets found Derek O'Dell and Katelyn Carney while they were in class at Virginia Tech, but getting shot didn't make their lives worse. Derek's family connection deepened. "I appreciate things a lot more, looking back and seeing how close to |
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Cnn.com |
7:02am PDT |
Va. Tech student reports on life after tragedy |
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Summary: On the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, students at the school are remembering those lost in the violence and looking ahead to their futures. Freshman Caleb Fleming interviewed his peers and found that through the tragedy, Virginia Tech student |
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Yahoo News |
6:59am PDT |
Zimbabwe doctors say 157 beaten in post-election violence
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Summary: AFP - A coalition of Zimbabwean doctors said Wednesday its members had seen and treated more than 150 patients who had been beaten and tortured since the elections at the end of March. |
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Yahoo News |
6:59am PDT |
Bush to urge halting CO2 emission growth by 2025
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush plans
on Wednesday to call for halting the growth of greenhouse gas
emissions by 2025, an administration official said, but he will
offer few ideas on how to do so before his term ends early next
year. |
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Yahoo News |
6:56am PDT |
U.S. military frees AP photographer in Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
working for the Associated Press in Iraq was freed from U.S.
military custody on Wednesday after being held for two years,
the news agency said. |
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Cnn.com |
6:56am PDT |
'E'- word won't stick on Obama, author says |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama is saddled with a potentially toxic image problem -- that he has an elitist attitude.
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BBC News |
6:43am PDT |
Basra security leaders removed |
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Summary: Iraq's government replaces the heads of the army and police forces in Basra after a failed assault on militias. |
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BBC News |
6:29am PDT |
Ofcom ponders future of fast net |
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Summary: Water and electricity pipes could be utilised to deliver superfast broadband, says Ofcom. |
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Yahoo News |
6:23am PDT |
Olympic torch run has sparse Pakistani crowd, tight security
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Summary: AP - Runners carried the Olympic flame around the outside of a sports stadium Wednesday — an invitation-only event in front of an elite, sparse crowd with heavy security to deter any anti-China protesters or terrorist attacks. |
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Cnn.com |
6:22am PDT |
Sources: Hamas reps en route to Jimmy Carter |
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Summary: Two senior Hamas leaders based in Gaza arrived in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday in hopes of meeting with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Hamas political sources told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
6:16am PDT |
Iran nuclear talks end in China without resolution
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Six-nation talks about Iran's nuclear
program on Wednesday failed to secure full agreement on a new
package aimed a restarting negotiations with Tehran, but the
Iranian president said the country was open for discussions. |
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Yahoo News |
6:11am PDT |
March consumer prices up despite big drop in clothing costs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumer prices pushed higher last month as increases in energy, food and airline tickets overwhelmed the biggest drop in clothing prices in nearly a decade. |
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BBC News |
6:10am PDT |
Redknapp taking police to court |
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Summary: Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp starts a legal action against police for arresting him in a corruption inquiry. |
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BBC News |
5:47am PDT |
Increase in unqualified teachers |
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Summary: The number of people teaching in state schools without qualified teacher status has risen five-fold in 10 years, figures suggest. |
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Yahoo News |
5:45am PDT |
Torch ceremony under way in Pakistan
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Summary: AP - Pakistan's leg of the Olympic torch relay got under way Wednesday for the country's elite as tight security resulted in an invitation-only event. |
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Yahoo News |
5:41am PDT |
U.S. and North Korea envoys think key row cleared: sources
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Negotiators from the United States and
North Korea believe they have settled a thorny dispute over
Washington's allegations that Pyongyang had a program to enrich
uranium for weapons and proliferated nuclear technology to
Syria, diplomatic s |
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BBC News |
5:31am PDT |
Quelle horreur! How can the French Eurovision song be in English? |
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Summary: France's decision to enter a song with English lyrics into the Eurovision song contest sparks a row |
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Yahoo News |
5:24am PDT |
Hamas says Carter will meet two of its leaders
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hamas said on Wednesday former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter would meet two of its leaders from Gaza
in Egypt, in further defiance of Israeli leaders, who have
shunned him over his contacts with the Islamist group. |
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Cnn.com |
5:23am PDT |
Note on goggles honors dead Va. Tech lab partner |
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Summary: "Mike may you rest in peace," reads the note. It's scribbled on eye gear stored away after last year's slaughter at Virginia Tech. A letter from President Bush is in the same archive. But it's the scrawled notes from children and painted eggs that make th |
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Cnn.com |
5:23am PDT |
Teddy bears, letters remember Virginia Tech |
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Summary: Erin Sheehan played dead in her German class last year at Virginia Tech. A madman meticulously went through the room killing nearly everybody. "I still understand I could have been killed so easy, and there is no explanation why I wasn't," she says. Sheeh |
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Yahoo News |
5:17am PDT |
Torch tours Pakistan amid tight security
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Thousands of Pakistani police and
paramilitary soldiers were deployed in Islamabad on Wednesday
for the Olympic torch relay, as Australia braced for clashes
between pro-Tibet supporters and Chinese students. |
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Yahoo News |
5:15am PDT |
Va. Tech begins day of mourning a year after mass shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A white candle lit at the stroke of midnight began a day of mourning Wednesday on Virginia Tech's campus, exactly one year after the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history left 32 people and the gunman dead. |
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BBC News |
5:13am PDT |
TV star Speight left suicide note |
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Summary: A suicide note was found on the body of children's TV presenter Mark Speight, a coroner's court hears. |
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BBC News |
5:04am PDT |
Virginia Tech remembers shootings |
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Summary: Students and staff at Virginia Tech begin a day of mourning a year since 32 people died in a campus massacre. |
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BBC News |
5:03am PDT |
Bald teacher loses disability claim |
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Summary: A retired teacher loses his claim that he was a victim of disability discrimination because he is bald. |
