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BBC News |
2:08am PDT |
Moroccan drugs baron recaptured |
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Summary: Spain says it has recaptured a notorious drugs baron, who escaped from a Moroccan jail last December. |
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Yahoo News |
1:47am PDT |
Actor Snipes gets 3 years, apologizes for `costly mistakes'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After haggling with revenue agents, criminal investigators and eventually U.S. prosecutors for almost a decade, Wesley Snipes finally caught them by surprise. |
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Yahoo News |
1:45am PDT |
Analysis: Lawmakers say Korea deal must have guarantees
(AP)
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Summary: AP - From the right and the left, President Bush faces criticism over his approach toward North Korea after the White House belatedly disclosed U.S. intelligence findings that the communist regime was helping build a Syrian nuclear reactor — at the same t |
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Yahoo News |
1:36am PDT |
China to meet with Dalai Lama representative: Xinhua
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Chinese officials will meet soon with a representative of the Dalai Lama, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday, in what would be the first known encounter since last month's deadly unrest. |
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BBC News |
1:35am PDT |
Beijing 'to talk to Dalai aides' |
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Summary: Chinese officials will hold talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives "in coming days", state media says. |
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Yahoo News |
1:30am PDT |
Mothers from polygamous sect separated from young children
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mothers from a polygamous sect described an emotional, rushed scene when they were forced from the shelter where they had been staying with their young children since the state removed them from their homes. |
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Cnn.com |
1:17am PDT |
China to meet with Dalai Lama representatives |
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Summary: China's central government department will meet with a representative of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, according to Xinhua, China's official news agency.
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Yahoo News |
1:10am PDT |
U.N. official to visit Iran again for nuclear talks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top
investigator will arrive in Tehran next week to hold more talks
over Western allegations the country had studied nuclear bomb
designing, a news agency reported on Friday. |
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BBC News |
1:09am PDT |
Ex-Malawi leader wins party poll |
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Summary: Malawi's former President Bakili Muluzi wins his party's nomination for next year's elections despite doubts over his eligibility. |
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BBC News |
1:05am PDT |
Down under |
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Summary: Behind the scenes at the BBC's new Aussie soap |
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BBC News |
12:59am PDT |
£15m payoffs defended by minister |
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Summary: The health minister defends payouts totalling £15m to senior managers in the health service. |
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Cnn.com |
12:56am PDT |
Uncle Sam's greenbacks arriving early |
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Summary: The Treasury Department will start distributing its tax rebate checks on Monday, thanks to a new computer program that updates records daily instead of weekly. Last month, the department said it would begin giving rebates on May 2.
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Yahoo News |
12:56am PDT |
Southern Baptist membership, baptisms decline in 2007
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The number of people baptized in Southern Baptist churches fell for the third straight year in 2007 to the denomination's lowest level since 1987, and membership dipped as well. |
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BBC News |
12:49am PDT |
Mass meeting ahead of oil strike |
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Summary: Grangemouth oil refinery staff are to hold a mass meeting ahead of a planned strike which will close the facility. |
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Yahoo News |
12:48am PDT |
FDA takes closer look at Lasik complaints
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lost in the hoopla of ads promising that laser vision surgery lets you toss your glasses is a stark reality: Not everyone's a good candidate and an unlucky few do suffer life-changing side effects — lost vision, dry eye, night-vision problems. |
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BBC News |
12:46am PDT |
Factory closure causes jobs blow |
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Summary: An electronics plant in the west of Scotland is to close with the loss of 300 jobs, according to a union. |
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BBC News |
12:46am PDT |
Deadliest animal |
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Summary: Malaria mosquito feeds on refugees from conflict |
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Yahoo News |
12:41am PDT |
Police official says bomb kills 3 in northwestern Pakistan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A car bomb killed three people in northwestern Pakistan Friday, despite calls from Taliban leaders asking Islamic militants to refrain from attacks amid efforts by the new government to reach peace deals in the region. |
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Yahoo News |
12:41am PDT |
Olympic torch relay hit by protests in Japan
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Protesters Friday waved the Tibetan flag and denounced China's rulers as the Beijing Olympic torch came to Japan for the latest leg of a worldwide relay marred by demonstrations. |
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BBC News |
12:18am PDT |
Why stargazers are flocking to the darkest place in England |
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Summary: An observatory opens in an area of Northumberland recognised as the darkest place in England. |
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BBC News |
12:15am PDT |
More time sought in murder probe |
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Summary: Police apply to continue questioning a man and a youth on suspicion of the murder of a disabled man. |
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BBC News |
12:09am PDT |
Probe into UK tobacco prices |
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Summary: Supermarkets and cigarette firms have been engaged in unlawful practices linked to retail prices, the OFT alleges. |
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BBC News |
12:08am PDT |
US Senate honours Burma's Suu Kyi |
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Summary: The US Senate approves a bill awarding Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi its highest medal. |
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Yahoo News |
12:08am PDT |
Rice price surge frustrates and puzzles Asians
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - From the airconditioned supermarkets of
Tokyo to the open-air stalls of Manila reactions across Asia to
record leaps in the price of rice vary from fear and
frustration to a nonplussed shrug of the shoulders. |
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BBC News |
12:04am PDT |
Del Toro to direct Hobbit movies |
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Summary: Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is named as the director of the planned Lord of the Rings prequels. |
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Yahoo News |
12:02am PDT |
Israel snubs Hamas offer of six-month truce
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israel dismissed on Friday a proposal
by Hamas to call a conditional six-month truce in the Gaza
Strip, calling it a ruse aimed at allowing the Palestinian
Islamist group to recover from recent fighting. |
