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Yahoo News |
12:08pm PDT |
Israeli PM Olmert to make statement
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
convened a late-night news conference at short notice on
Thursday as speculation swirled that a police investigation
into his affairs would increase pressure on him to resign. |
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Yahoo News |
12:05pm PDT |
1.5 million people affected in Myanmar cyclone: U.N.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United Nations estimated 1.5
million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone
that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed
outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid. |
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Yahoo News |
12:01pm PDT |
Congress to pass Iraq war funds by end of May: Pelosi
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Congress will send
President George W. Bush a bill by the end of this month to pay
for the war in Iraq through next year, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi said on Thursday. But first she must heal a rift within
her own Democratic Party ov |
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Yahoo News |
11:48am PDT |
Gas tax battle was a political gift to Obama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The heated presidential campaign
battle over a federal gas tax holiday turned out to be a much
needed gift for Barack Obama -- and he can thank Democratic
rival Hillary Clinton. |
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BBC News |
11:38am PDT |
Bail for Islamic preacher Qatada |
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Summary: Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, whom the UK had hoped to deport to Jordan, is granted bail with a 22-hour curfew. |
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Yahoo News |
11:33am PDT |
Fighting rocks Beirut, five die, Hezbollah defiant
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on
Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the
U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by
targeting its communications network. |
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BBC News |
11:33am PDT |
Top policeman shot dead in Mexico |
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Summary: The Mexican policeman in charge of co-ordinating operations against drugs traffickers is shot dead in Mexico City. |
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Cnn.com |
11:11am PDT |
Facebook OKs anti-predator safeguards |
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BBC News |
11:04am PDT |
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to global warming |
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Summary: Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds. |
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BBC News |
11:04am PDT |
Great tits cope well with warming |
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Summary: Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds. |
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BBC News |
11:03am PDT |
Gunman 'deeply committed' to wife |
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Summary: The wife of a barrister who died in a five-hour armed siege in south-west London says they were "deeply committed to each other". |
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BBC News |
11:01am PDT |
Rijkaard to leave Barcelona post |
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Summary: Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard will step down at the end of the season and will be replaced by the club's reserve team coach Josep Guardiola. |
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Yahoo News |
11:00am PDT |
Cablevision plans wireless broadband network
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cable TV provider Cablevision Systems Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to offer high-speed wireless Internet service across its coverage area, which is principally on New York's Long Island. |
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Cnn.com |
10:59am PDT |
Country music legend Eddy Arnold dies |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
10:58am PDT |
'Respect atheists', says Cardinal |
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Summary: Christians should treat atheists and agnostics with 'deep esteem', says the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales. |
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BBC News |
10:46am PDT |
Basra base attack kills civilians |
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Summary: A rocket attack on the British base at Basra Airport kills two civilians and injures a UK serviceman. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31am PDT |
Myanmar allows first UN aid flights but none from US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Relief supplies from the United Nations began arriving in Myanmar Thursday, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access by the country's isolationist regime five days after a devastating cyclone. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
Clinton presses on, urges supporters to ignore calls to quit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged cheering supporters on Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20am PDT |
North Korea hands over some nuclear documents: U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea has handed over
thousands of pages of nuclear weapons documents to a U.S.
diplomat visiting Pyongyang that will help verify the North's
plutonium holdings, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:17am PDT |
UN 'disappointed' at Burma access |
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Summary: The UN says it is disappointed at Burma's slow progress in allowing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13am PDT |
Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
10:10am PDT |
Fierce clashes resume in Beirut |
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Summary: Armed clashes erupt as the leader of Hezbollah accuses the Lebanese government of a "declaration of war". |
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BBC News |
10:05am PDT |
Islamic preacher Qatada is bailed |
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Summary: Islamic preacher Abu Qatada is granted bail with a 22-hour curfew by an immigration appeals commission. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55am PDT |
U.S. "outraged" by Myanmar's response to cyclone
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United Nations estimates 1.5
million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone
that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed
outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid. |
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Yahoo News |
9:54am PDT |
Fighting rocks Beirut, Hezbollah defiant
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on
Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the
U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by
targeting its communications network. |
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BBC News |
9:46am PDT |
Bruce vows Wigan will give 100% |
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Summary: Steve Bruce insists his Wigan side will give their all in Sunday's decisive Premier League game against Manchester United. |
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BBC News |
9:46am PDT |
Take down peace walls, NY Mayor |
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Summary: A plea for the demolition of Belfast's more than 40 peace-lines comes from the Mayor of New York. |
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BBC News |
9:39am PDT |
Austria father confesses to 'addiction' |
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Summary: Josef Fritzl, the man who held his daughter captive for 24 years, blames an addiction that "got out of control". |
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Cnn.com |
9:29am PDT |
Twister in Tupelo |
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Summary: An tornado swept through parts of Tupelo, Mississippi, on Thursday, damaging trees, power lines and overturning a 18-wheel truck, a law enforcement official told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
9:25am PDT |
Clashes erupt for second day in Lebanon
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shiite supporters of Hezbollah and Sunnis backing Lebanon's U.S.-allied government clashed on the streets of Beirut with automatic rifles and grenades on Thursday. |
