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3:00am PDT |
Guarded welcome for banks plans |
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Summary: A forthcoming government plan to ease the log-jam in the mortgage market receives a guarded welcome. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00am PDT |
Suicide bomber kills 49 at Iraq funeral
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in
northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 49 mourners in the latest
attack in a region where al Qaeda militants have regrouped,
police said. |
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Yahoo News |
2:50am PDT |
Japan court says Iraq dispatch unconstitutional
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japan's dispatch of air force troops to
Iraq breaches the country's pacifist constitution, a court said
on Thursday, but the government said the court's comments will
not affect the current dispatch. |
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Yahoo News |
2:47am PDT |
Texas judge holding custody hearing for polygamists' kids
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The 416 children who once led cloistered lives on their church's ranch outside a tiny town in West Texas have spent the past two weeks sleeping on cots, shuffled from shelter to shelter. |
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Yahoo News |
2:46am PDT |
Bush climate plan criticized for lacking urgency
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The world needs tougher action to combat
global warming than a plan by President George W. Bush to halt
a rise in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions only by 2025, delegates
at a climate conference in Paris said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
2:41am PDT |
Richey's tears over cancer battle |
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Summary: Freed Death Row Scot Kenny Richey tells how he wept after being diagnosed with mouth cancer. |
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BBC News |
2:38am PDT |
Monsoon warning for Bangladeshis |
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Summary: Aid agencies say millions of Bangladeshis are still in dire need of help five months after Cyclone Sidr. |
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Yahoo News |
2:34am PDT |
Indian capital locked down for tense Olympic torch relay
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - More than 2,000 protesters held a rival torch relay in Delhi on Thursday, hours before the Olympic flame was set to be taken on a short and high security jog in the city. |
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Cnn.com |
2:34am PDT |
Military tells methods used on Afghan inmates |
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BBC News |
2:29am PDT |
Delhi braced for torch protests |
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Summary: Heavy security is in place in India's capital, Delhi, to protect the Olympic torch relay from anti-China protesters. |
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Yahoo News |
2:25am PDT |
Reuters cameraman's funeral draws thousands in Gaza
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands of Palestinians are marching in Gaza in a funeral procession for a Reuters cameraman killed while covering fighting between militants and Israeli troops. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22am PDT |
Kenya's new coalition cabinet sworn in
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga took oath Thursday at the head of a new coalition government after the east African nation's worst political crisis since independence which claimed hundreds of lives. |
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2:13am PDT |
'Bad habits' link to Alzheimer's |
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Summary: Heavy smoking and drinking leads to early onset of Alzheimer's disease, say US researchers. |
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2:05am PDT |
Parry unfazed by Hicks outburst |
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Summary: Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry says it is up to the board to decide his future after co-owner Tom Hicks again calls for him to quit. |
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1:59am PDT |
Two killed during West Bank raid |
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Summary: Two Palestinians are killed in an Israeli raid targeting militants in the West Bank. |
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1:56am PDT |
India seals capital's streets ahead of torch run
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Authorities sealed off streets and advised workers to keep a low profile Thursday as about 15,000 police officers spread through India's capital to try to keep protesters from disrupting the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay. |
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Cnn.com |
1:54am PDT |
Custody hearing to begin in polygamist case |
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Summary: A custody hearing scheduled to begin Thursday morning will decide the fate of more than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch in west Texas amid allegations of abuse.
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Yahoo News |
1:50am PDT |
Israeli shell killed Reuters cameraman: Gaza doctors
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A medical examination showed on Thursday
that metal darts from an Israeli tank shell that explodes in
the air caused the death of a Reuters cameraman killed a day
earlier in the Gaza Strip, doctors said. |
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Yahoo News |
1:49am PDT |
New abuse detailed at slaughterhouse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When an animal with untrimmed horns got stuck in a chute at a California cattle slaughterhouse, employees electrically prodded it repeatedly to get it to move, according to a congressional report on a case that led to the largest beef recall in U.S. |
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1:47am PDT |
Zimbabwe government accuses Tsvangirai of treason
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's government on Thursday
accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of treason and of
working with former colonial power Britain to topple President
Robert Mugabe in recent elections. |
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BBC News |
1:46am PDT |
Prize fight |
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Summary: No clear winner in Pennsylvania debate |
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Yahoo News |
1:44am PDT |
Clinton changes course on Obama's electability
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton said emphatically Wednesday night that Barack Obama can win the White House this fall, undercutting her efforts to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination by suggesting he would lead the party to defeat. |
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BBC News |
1:42am PDT |
Odinga sworn in as Kenyan premier |
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Summary: Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga officially becomes prime minister as a new coalition cabinet takes office. |
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BBC News |
1:25am PDT |
Brown to meet presidential rivals |
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Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet the three US presidential candidates and hold talks with President Bush. |
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BBC News |
1:10am PDT |
Ex-MP arrested in assault claim |
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Summary: Former Welsh Office minister Rod Richards is arrested after claims of an assault on a Tory party worker. |
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1:04am PDT |
Harare witness |
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Summary: Rights worker sees victims of torture and beatings |
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Cnn.com |
12:55am PDT |
Tibetans protest as torch arrives in India |
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Summary: The Olympic torch arrived Thursday morning in India, the heart of the world's largest Tibetan exile community, sparking the first of what officials fear may be a string of protests during the torch's relay of the country.
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12:52am PDT |
First-time buyer? |
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Summary: Find out how the market's changed in your area |
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BBC News |
12:42am PDT |
Drugs officers raid wrong house |
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Summary: Police officers smashed their way into the wrong house during a series of dawn raids targeting drug dealers. |
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Yahoo News |
12:40am PDT |
S.Korea culls 3 million birds as bird flu spreads fast
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - South Korea said on Thursday it had
culled three million farmed birds and was probing seven fresh
cases of suspected bird flu, as the country grapples with its
worst avian influenza outbreak in four years. |
