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BBC News |
2:02pm PDT |
UN urged to act on Zimbabwe election |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition urges the United Nations and African Union to help resolve the election crisis, the UN says. |
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BBC News |
2:02pm PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition turns to UN |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition urges the United Nations and African Union to help resolve the election crisis, the UN says. |
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Yahoo News |
2:00pm PDT |
Arts institutions feeling impact of ailing economy
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles was seeking to finance the purchase of art works, it did what cultural institutions often do to raise money: It issued bonds. |
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Yahoo News |
1:49pm PDT |
'Fear' row rocks Clinton-Obama tussle
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama's camp accused Hillary Clinton Monday of trying to scare voters on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, as she rocked their White House race with a dark campaign ad featuring Osama bin Laden. |
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BBC News |
1:19pm PDT |
Players are backing Grant - Terry |
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Summary: John Terry insists Chelsea's players are 100% behind boss Avram Grant ahead of Tuesday's Champions League semi-final at Liverpool. |
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BBC News |
1:12pm PDT |
Smugglers banned from selling oil |
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Summary: Three men and a woman who made £1.2m through smuggled fuel get the Uk's first crime prevention orders. |
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Yahoo News |
1:06pm PDT |
Pentagon chief urges Air Force to embrace change
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In unusually blunt terms, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday challenged the Air Force, whose leaders are under fire on several fronts, to contribute more to immediate wartime needs and to promote new thinking. |
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Yahoo News |
1:06pm PDT |
NJ court requires subpoena for Internet subscriber records
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Internet service providers must not release personal information about users in New Jersey without a valid subpoena, even to police, the state's highest court ruled Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
12:57pm PDT |
Wanted: Single women voters in key state |
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Summary: Maria Wing is a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's 28 years old, single and in debt.
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Yahoo News |
12:20pm PDT |
North American summit overshadowed by election
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - With the U.S. election looming over
their annual summit, North American leaders gathered on Monday
for largely symbolic meetings likely to be dominated by
questions about free trade. |
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Yahoo News |
12:15pm PDT |
Texas begins DNA tests on polygamist sect children
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - State authorities on Monday began
running DNA tests on over 400 children removed from a
polygamist compound in west Texas to determine if some were
born to underage mothers. |
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Yahoo News |
11:43am PDT |
Clinton reaches for Pa. win; Obama says he'll be close
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked Pearl Harbor, the Berlin Wall and Osama bin Laden as she reached for a victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary to recharge her comeback effort. Barack Obama said she would probably win but he hoped to |
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BBC News |
11:36am PDT |
Protection HQ |
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Summary: The centre targeting internet paedophiles |
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Yahoo News |
11:33am PDT |
Clinton touts toughness before Pennsylvania vote
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pushing for a strong win
to keep her White House hopes alive, Democratic presidential
contender Hillary Clinton touted her toughness on Monday ahead
of a showdown with rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Russia 'shot down Georgia drone' |
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Summary: Georgia accuses Russia of downing one of its unmanned spy planes over the Abkhazia region at the weekend. |
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BBC News |
11:19am PDT |
Hamas rejects Israeli recognition |
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Summary: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal rules out recognition of Israel, after meeting former US President Jimmy Carter. |
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BBC News |
11:19am PDT |
'Blackmail' tape played in secret |
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Summary: Tapes at the centre of a royal gay sex blackmail trial are played to a jury in a restricted court hearing. |
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BBC News |
11:06am PDT |
British soldier killed in blast |
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Summary: A British soldier has been killed in a suspected minestrike in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms. |
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BBC News |
10:43am PDT |
Brown acts to head off tax revolt |
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Summary: Gordon Brown meets Labour MPs to outline plans to help those worst hit by the abolition of the 10p tax rate. |
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BBC News |
10:35am PDT |
MP's war of words with Al Fayed |
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Summary: A Tory MP is branded "cowardly" by Mohamed Al Fayed after he used Parliamentary privilege to call the tycoon a "thief, a crook and liar". |
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Yahoo News |
10:30am PDT |
Vocal problems force Jordin Sparks to miss Keys tour start
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Vocal problems have forced Jordin Sparks to temporarily withdraw from Alicia Keys' tour and cancel all performances for the rest of the month, a representative for the "American Idol" champ said Monday. |
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BBC News |
10:21am PDT |
Wilkinson out of New Zealand tour |
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Summary: Jonny Wilkinson is to undergo shoulder surgery at the end of the season, ruling him out of England's tour to New Zealand in June. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PDT |
U.N. official presses Iran for nuclear answers
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. atomic watchdog's top
investigator began talks with Iranian officials on Monday to
press them to explain Western intelligence which suggested Iran
had covertly studied how to design nuclear bombs. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
Cuts 'on hold' at protest school |
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Summary: Plans to make teachers redundant at a school where pupils protested are withdrawn while talks go on. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08am PDT |
U.S. relaxes bid to halt atom enrichment tech sales
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States has given up a bid to
ban uranium-enrichment technology sales to non-nuclear states,
instead proposing criteria for such transactions to win over
critics in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, diplomats say. |
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Cnn.com |
10:05am PDT |
32 shot, 6 killed, in violent Chicago weekend |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
10:01am PDT |
Hamas leader offers truce if Israel withdraws from 1967 lands
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The leader of Hamas says his Palestinian militant group is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 war. |
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Yahoo News |
9:58am PDT |
Cheruiyot wins Boston Marathon; Dire Tune wins women's race
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Robert Cheruiyot won his fourth Boston Marathon on Monday, and Dire Tune outkicked Alevtina Biktimirova by 2 seconds in the closest finish in the history of the women's race. |
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BBC News |
9:56am PDT |
Icy frontier |
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Summary: Why are Russians so inspired by feats in the Arctic? |
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Yahoo News |
9:56am PDT |
Video surfaces of man stuck in elevator for 41 hours
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade. |
