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Yahoo News |
9:16am PDT |
Myanmar seizes UN aid supplies, 'not ready' to let in US
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they're not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month. |
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Yahoo News |
9:07am PDT |
Tanks, missiles roll through Red Square on Victory Day
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow's Red Square in the Victory Day parade Friday, the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that they have appeared in the annual event. |
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BBC News |
9:04am PDT |
Second terror suspect wins bail |
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Summary: A tribunal has ruled a second Jordanian counter-terrorism detainee, known only as "OO", should be released. |
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Yahoo News |
9:02am PDT |
UN agency to resume aid flights into Myanmar
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The UN said Friday it would resume aid flights into Myanmar after a suspension triggered by a tussle with the military regime over two planeloads of goods meant for desperate cyclone survivors. |
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Yahoo News |
8:58am PDT |
R. Kelly arrives at Chicago courthouse for pornography trial
(AP)
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Summary: AP - R. Kelly arrived at a Cook County courthouse Friday to face child pornography charges filed after a videotape allegedly showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. |
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BBC News |
8:57am PDT |
Rivals bullish over title decider |
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Summary: Avram Grant believes Chelsea are playing the best football while Sir Alex Ferguson says Bolton will make it hard for the Blues in Sunday's Premier League finale. |
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BBC News |
8:57am PDT |
Chelsea playing the best - Grant |
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Summary: Avram Grant believes Chelsea are playing the best football in England as they prepare for Sunday's Premier League title showdown. |
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BBC News |
8:56am PDT |
UN to resume Burma food flights |
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Summary: The UN's World Food Programme says it will resume aid flights to Burma despite a row over impounded deliveries. |
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BBC News |
8:55am PDT |
R Kelly arrives at porn hearing |
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Summary: Singer R Kelly is in court to face charges of child pornography six years after first being arrested. |
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BBC News |
8:55am PDT |
Blast house 'targeted earlier' |
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Summary: The house at the centre of a fatal explosion was the target of a vandalism attack hours earlier, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
8:53am PDT |
Obama wins praise from former rival John Edwards
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama earned more
support from party leaders and won praise from former rival
John Edwards on Friday as he gathered momentum in his drive to
the U.S. presidential nomination. |
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BBC News |
8:49am PDT |
Wrong postcode? |
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Summary: The turf warfare that claimed the life of a teenage boy |
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BBC News |
8:31am PDT |
French swoop for British Energy |
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Summary: French utility EDF makes an offer for British Energy, although the price has not been disclosed. |
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Yahoo News |
8:26am PDT |
Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child. |
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Yahoo News |
8:20am PDT |
U.N. agency to resume Myanmar aid flights
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. World Food Program said on Friday
it would resume aid flights to cyclone-struck Myanmar, despite
the military government's seizure of deliveries at Yangon
airport. |
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Yahoo News |
8:12am PDT |
Lebanon in turmoil as Hezbollah takes west Beirut
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hezbollah fighters, their guns blazing, seized control of west Beirut on Friday after three days of street battles with pro-government foes pushed Lebanon dangerously close to all-out civil war. |
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BBC News |
8:07am PDT |
Woman who poisoned husband jailed |
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Summary: A woman who gave her husband rat poison as she fleeced her mother-in-law is jailed. |
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Yahoo News |
8:05am PDT |
Myanmar still will not accept US aid workers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar says the junta is not ready to accept American aid workers to help cyclone survivors. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PDT |
Gas jumps above $3.67, oil passes $126 on Venezuela concerns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10. |
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Yahoo News |
7:47am PDT |
Dalai Lama says understands anger over Everest torch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Dalai Lama says he understands why
Tibetan exiles were angry that the Olympic torch reached the
top of Mount Everest but had advised them against protesting. |
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BBC News |
7:46am PDT |
O'Neill furious at Benitez claims |
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Summary: Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neil launches an attack on Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez over the Gareth Barry transfer move. |
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BBC News |
7:39am PDT |
Adebyaor dismisses exit rumours |
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Summary: Emmanuel Adebayor vows to stay at Arsenal, while boss Gunners boss Arsene Wenger says he is mystified at reports that Alexander Hleb is leaving. |
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BBC News |
7:37am PDT |
Widower loses fight to stay in UK |
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Summary: A man whose wife died after an injection mix-up during childbirth loses his fight to stay in the UK. |
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Yahoo News |
7:33am PDT |
Obama picks up 3 superdelegates, union endorsement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The movement of Democratic superdelegates to presidential hopeful Barack Obama gained steam Friday with endorsements from a union president and two congressmen, including one who switched his backing from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton. |
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Cnn.com |
7:28am PDT |
Official 'furious' over Myanmar's food seizure |
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Summary: The United Nations' top World Food Program official says he is "furious" over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow the organization to distribute aid that was flown in for cyclone disaster victims. Future flights have been suspended.
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BBC News |
7:24am PDT |
Dead bikers raced at up to 140mph |
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Summary: Two motorcyclists who died in a crash were probably racing at up to 140mph, a coroner's court hears. |
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BBC News |
7:24am PDT |
Dead bikers 'racing up to 140mph' |
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Summary: Two motorcyclists who died in a crash were probably racing at up to 140mph, a coroner's court hears. |
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BBC News |
7:20am PDT |
UN halts Burma aid in seizure row |
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Summary: The UN's World Food Programme halts aid to Burma after it says the government impounded food deliveries. |
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BBC News |
7:13am PDT |
Be very afraid |
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Summary: Why the US would never have taken to Charley the cat |
