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BBC News |
10:44am PDT |
Inquiry into business CO2 output |
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Summary: An inquiry is launched into how to lower carbon dioxide emissions from Britain's offices, shops and factories. |
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Yahoo News |
10:29am PDT |
Carter meets Hamas leaders from Gaza in Egypt
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met
leaders from the Islamist movement Hamas from the besieged Gaza
Strip at a Cairo hotel on Thursday, his second meeting with
Hamas members in three days. |
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Yahoo News |
10:25am PDT |
Economy sends signals of more weakness to come
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Higher unemployment claims and weak readings from two economic indexes reinforced recession worries Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PDT |
Suicide bomber hits funeral north of Baghdad, killing 50
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber struck the funeral of two anti-al-Qaida Sunni tribesmen in a town north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens, police said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:15am PDT |
U.S. could drop North Korea sanctions before verification
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said on Thursday that verifying any North Korean nuclear
declaration would take time and suggested Washington may drop
some sanctions on Pyongyang before this is complete. |
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Cnn.com |
10:14am PDT |
Snow helps Colorado firefighting effort |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
Brown 'confident' over US links |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says he is "confident" of working with any of the three runners for US president, after talks. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07am PDT |
CDC: Flu season worst in 4 years; vaccine didn't work well
(AP)
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Summary: AP - This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Britons fear race violence - poll |
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Summary: Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor that tensions are likely to spill over into violence, a BBC poll finds. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05am PDT |
Rice says Arabs must shield Iraq from Iran's sway
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said on Thursday she would press Iraq's Arab neighbors hard
next week to do more to support Baghdad's government and shield
it from Iran's "nefarious influences." |
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BBC News |
10:05am PDT |
MP 'to quit government over tax' |
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Summary: A ministerial aide tells colleagues she is going to resign in protest at the abolition of the 10p tax rate. |
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BBC News |
9:54am PDT |
Russian wakes up after drinking binge to find knife in back |
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Summary: A Russian man trying to sleep off a night's drinking fails to notice a six-inch knife in his back. |
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Yahoo News |
9:45am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition says Mbeki must lose mediator role
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader called for South Africa's president to stop mediating in the crisis-torn country Thursday and said a war crimes tribunal may be the only way to halt spiralling violence. |
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BBC News |
9:42am PDT |
Schools facing gang challenge |
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Summary: Teachers are witnessing an increase in gang-related activity in schools, according to research. |
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BBC News |
9:42am PDT |
Schools facing gang challenge |
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Summary: Teachers are witnessing an increase in gang-related activity in schools, according to research. |
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Cnn.com |
9:39am PDT |
Polygamy teen turned to topless dancing, rescues |
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Summary: Flora Jessop used cocaine to escape long after she fled the confines of a polygamist community in Colorado City, Arizona. Her story strikes a common theme among those who have fled the fundamentalist Mormon sect that still embraces polygamy as a pathway t |
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Cnn.com |
9:39am PDT |
Ex-sect members escape polygamy, but not pain |
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Summary: Flora Jessop used cocaine to escape long after she fled the confines of a polygamist community in Colorado City, Arizona. Her story strikes a common theme among those who have fled the fundamentalist Mormon sect that still embraces polygamy as a pathway t |
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Yahoo News |
9:28am PDT |
Sexual abuse caused "indescribable pain": Pope
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict, celebrating a stadium
Mass for 45,000 people, acknowledged on Thursday that the U.S.
pedophile priests scandal caused "indescribable pain and harm"
to victims but asked Catholics to love their pastors. |
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Cnn.com |
9:28am PDT |
Congress exams credit card reform |
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Summary: A pair of lawmakers on Thursday urged Congress to move forward with legislation aimed at remedying what they view as questionable practices of the credit card industry which keep many consumers mired in debt.
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Yahoo News |
9:28am PDT |
Israel thwarts Palestinian attack from Gaza
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Palestinian militants attacked a crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting off a clash with Israeli troops that thwarted the third such assault this week, the army said. |
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Yahoo News |
9:24am PDT |
Hearing for children at polygamist retreat grinds to a halt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A court hearing to decide the fates of hundreds of children seized from a polygamist retreat ground to a halt almost as soon as it began Thursday as hundreds of lawyers demanded to study the first piece of evidence before it could be introduced. |
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BBC News |
9:19am PDT |
7/7 accused 'trained for jihad' |
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Summary: A convicted al-Qaeda terrorist has told a court how one of the men accused of helping the 7 July bombers had trained for jihad. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition leader calls on Mbeki to quit as mediator
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader on Thursday called for South African President Thabo Mbeki to be "relieved of his duties" as mediator in Zimbabwe after last month's elections. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PDT |
CDC: Flu season worst in 3 years; vaccine didn't work well
(AP)
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Summary: AP - This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in three years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Games 'magnet' for prostitution |
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Summary: Glasgow is warned that hosting the Commonwealth Games could make it a "magnet" for prostitution. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
Pair guilty of harassing dolphin |
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Summary: Two men who swam in the sea off Kent with a dolphin after a night out are found guilty of harassing the animal. |
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BBC News |
9:14am PDT |
UN warns Pakistan on refugee plan |
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Summary: A UN official says Pakistan should revise a plan to return 2.4m refugees to Afghanistan by the end of 2009. |
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Yahoo News |
9:14am PDT |
Hundreds arrested as Olympic torch makes Indian passage
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hundreds of Tibetan demonstrators were arrested in India and neighbouring Nepal Thursday as thousands of police and soldiers defended the Beijing Olympic torch on a suffocating run through New Delhi. |
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BBC News |
9:00am PDT |
Thousands attend Pope's US Mass |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air Mass in Washington in front of more than 40,000 people. |
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BBC News |
9:00am PDT |
Thousands celebrate US papal Mass |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an open-air Mass in Washington in front of more than 40,000 people. |
