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Yahoo News |
5:38am PDT |
Clinton, Obama, predict fight stretches to June 3
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton took their fight over gas price relief to the morning talk shows Monday as they braced for the crucial Indiana and North Carolina primaries. |
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Yahoo News |
5:37am PDT |
Mogadishu rocked by food demonstrations
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A young man was shot and killed when
thousands of Somalis protested in Mogadishu on Monday over food
traders' refusal to take old currency notes amid spiraling
inflation, witnesses said. |
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BBC News |
5:27am PDT |
Sick of work |
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Summary: Is stress a health and safety hazard the boss should fix? |
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Yahoo News |
5:25am PDT |
Yahoo shares tumble in premarket trading with Microsoft out
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shares of Yahoo fell 22 percent in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $43.7 billion bid from Microsoft Corp. over the weekend. |
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Cnn.com |
5:22am PDT |
4,000 dead in cyclone |
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Summary: Almost 4,000 people are believed dead and 3,000 are missing after a devastating cyclone hit Myanmar, state media report today. The government had previously put the death toll at 351 before raising it to 3,939.
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BBC News |
5:19am PDT |
Waltzing Matilda 'about love, not politics' |
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Summary: An outback historian claims to have found the true story behind the famous Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda. |
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Yahoo News |
5:18am PDT |
Cyclone death toll nears 4,000 in Myanmar, state radio says
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:14am PDT |
Cyclone kills nearly 4,000 in Myanmar: state TV
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Nearly 4,000 people were killed and
thousands were missing in two of Myanmar's devastated cyclone
regions, state television reported on Monday, a dramatic
increase in the toll from Saturday's storm. |
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Cnn.com |
5:12am PDT |
Thousands in Somalia riot over food |
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Summary: Thousands of people rioted in the streets of the Somali capital on Monday to protest rising food prices and shops' refusal to accept Somali currency.
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Yahoo News |
5:10am PDT |
Obama faces big tests in North Carolina, Indiana
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama faces tests in the North Carolina and Indiana
primaries this week that will help determine whether he has
survived a rough patch and can finally defeat Hillary Clinton. |
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BBC News |
5:02am PDT |
Burma's storm toll 'nears 4,000' |
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Summary: Nearly 4,000 people have been killed by a cyclone that hit Burma on Saturday, state media say. |
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Yahoo News |
4:51am PDT |
Myanmar cyclone death toll reaches 3,969: state television
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead. |
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BBC News |
4:50am PDT |
Govan shipyard crane snaps |
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Summary: BAE Systems confirms that an 80 tonne crane at its Govan shipyard snapped during routine operations. |
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BBC News |
4:49am PDT |
Snow business |
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Summary: Sir Elton John stars on the slopes as ski resorts get rocking |
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BBC News |
4:48am PDT |
Two die in Somali currency riot |
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Summary: Somali troops kill at least two people in the capital as they try to halt riots over rising costs and counterfeit money. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45am PDT |
Lawyer: Austrian suspect Fritzl has mental disorder
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The lawyer for the Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her has said he is preparing an insanity defense. |
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BBC News |
4:44am PDT |
Abbey's medieval mosaic restored |
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Summary: Two years of restoration work begins on Henry III's 13th Century mosaic floor in Westminster Abbey. |
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Yahoo News |
4:37am PDT |
Iran suspends talks with US on security in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iran said Monday it would not hold a new round of talks with the U.S. on security in Iraq until American forces end their current assault against Shiite militias. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35am PDT |
Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. |
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Yahoo News |
4:31am PDT |
Weather service: Arkansas was swept by at least 10 tornadoes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Meteorologists were planning an aerial survey Monday of the destruction caused by at least 10 tornadoes late last week. |
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Cnn.com |
4:26am PDT |
Incest dad to use insanity defense |
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Summary: The Austrian who reportedly admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children with her will plead insanity, his lawyer said.
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BBC News |
4:19am PDT |
Windies paceman lands Sussex deal |
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Summary: Sussex boost their seam attack by signing West Indies Test player Corey Collymore. |
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Yahoo News |
4:18am PDT |
US military says 9 Shiite extremists killed in Baghdad
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A U.S. Air Force gunship strafed Shiite extremists who attacked U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Monday, and the military said it killed at least nine militants in recent clashes in the capital. |
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BBC News |
4:17am PDT |
Woman breaks city marathon record |
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Summary: Women's race winner, Ethopia's Marashet Jumma, breaks the course record in this year's Belfast marathon. |
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Yahoo News |
4:15am PDT |
Iran rules out nuclear halt despite fresh incentives
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran said on Monday it would not
consider any incentives offered by world powers that violated
its right to nuclear technology, ruling out a precondition to
halt atomic work the West believes is aimed at making bombs. |
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Yahoo News |
4:09am PDT |
GOP Gleeful at Obama rocky period
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republicans can hardly contain their glee as they watch Barack Obama battle through a rocky period. And why should they? |
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Cnn.com |
4:05am PDT |
Plea for help from storm-ravaged nation |
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Summary: Myanmar's ruling military junta was expected to issue a request for international emergency assistance Monday as more details emerged of the scale of the humanitarian crisis facing the cyclone-stricken southeast Asian country.
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Harry given Afghan campaign medal |
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Summary: Prince Harry and other soldiers who served in Afghanistan are awarded their campaign medals at a special ceremony in Windsor. |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
Jerusalem diary |
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Summary: Reflecting on Israel's 60th anniversary |
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BBC News |
3:55am PDT |
Babies found in Germany freezer |
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Summary: The bodies of three babies are found in a freezer in Germany and their suspected mother arrested, prosecutors say. |
