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Cnn.com |
7:35am PDT |
Congress gears up for final summer push |
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BBC News |
7:21am PDT |
Man released over student deaths |
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Summary: A man who was arrested over the deaths of two French students in a London flat has been released with no further action. |
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7:21am PDT |
Ten police dead in Pakistan blast |
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Summary: At least 10 policemen have been killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. |
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7:20am PDT |
Blast kills 11 Pakistani policemen
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Summary: AFP - At least 11 policemen were killed in an apparent suicide bombing that targetted police deployed at a rally near Pakistan's Red Mosque, a security official said Sunday. |
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BBC News |
7:19am PDT |
BMA urges tougher tobacco rules |
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Summary: The British Medical Association's annual conference hears calls for a range of tough measures to rid the UK of smoking. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15am PDT |
U.S. and Czechs to sign radar deal despite opposition
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Czech Republic and the United States
will sign a treaty on Tuesday to build a missile defense radar
on Czech soil despite opposition at home and in Russia. |
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BBC News |
7:09am PDT |
At least 20 dead in Afghan strike |
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Summary: At least 20 people are reported to have died in a missile strike by coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan. |
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BBC News |
7:03am PDT |
UAE waives billions of Iraqi debt |
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Summary: The UAE says it is cancelling the entire debt owed to it by Iraq, a sum of almost $7bn (£3.5) including interest. |
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BBC News |
6:46am PDT |
De Niro speaks out against strike |
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Summary: Film star Robert De Niro warns Hollywood actors against taking industrial action as their wrangle with producers continues. |
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6:45am PDT |
G8 urged to act over oil prices |
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Summary: Japan and the US vow to call for "swift action" on oil and food prices at next week's G8 summit. |
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BBC News |
6:45am PDT |
Hamilton surges to British GP win |
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Summary: Briton Lewis Hamilton brilliantly handles the wet conditions at Silverstone to win his first British Grand Prix. |
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6:44am PDT |
OPEC's Khelil rules out oil price decline: APS
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - OPEC President Chakib Khelil ruled out
on Sunday an eventual oil price fall in view of strong Chinese
and Indian demand, adding geopolitics and a weak dollar were
behind the current spike, Algeria's APS news agency reported. |
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BBC News |
6:43am PDT |
Centre court shots |
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Summary: Photos from epic Wimbledon final |
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Cnn.com |
6:34am PDT |
UAE to cancel all of Iraq's $7B debt |
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Summary: The president of the United Arab Emirates has agreed to cancel all of Iraq's debts to the country, an official government source said.
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Yahoo News |
6:29am PDT |
The buck doesn't stop here; it just keeps falling
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Summary: AP - Things in the U.S. sure are tough. Brother, can you spare a euro? Signs saying "We accept euros" are cropping up in the windows of some Manhattan retailers. A Belgium company is trying to gobble up St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the nation's largest |
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6:12am PDT |
Man out-spits father, claims pit-spitting title
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brian "Young Gun" Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. |
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Yahoo News |
6:05am PDT |
Congress ready to take up pared-down summer agenda
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Summary: AP - Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down summer agenda in Congress. Lawmakers want to try to save homeowners from foreclosure, avert Medicare cuts and give the governm |
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Cnn.com |
6:02am PDT |
Weak dollar driving up prices |
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5:45am PDT |
Jesus 'would feel Anglican pain' |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury says Jesus would feel the pain on both sides of the current divide in the Church of England. |
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BBC News |
5:43am PDT |
Lock down |
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Summary: Police replace tourists for G8 on Japanese island |
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Yahoo News |
5:37am PDT |
Bush defends decision to attend Olympics opening
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Summary: AP - President Bush spoke out Sunday on the Beijing Olympics and North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens, two sensitive issues in Asia, before turning attention to global talks on the Earth's rising temperature and oil prices. |
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Cnn.com |
5:35am PDT |
'Young Gun' out-spits dad to take title |
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5:29am PDT |
Mugabe crisis 'infecting' Africa |
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Summary: David Miliband says the situation in Zimbabwe is now a "crisis infecting the whole of southern Africa". |
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BBC News |
5:21am PDT |
Mandelson raps Sarkozy over trade |
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Summary: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson warns France's president not to put world trade talks at risk. |
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4:44am PDT |
Five held over teenager's death |
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Summary: Five people are arrested in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Shakilus Townsend, who was stabbed to death in south London. |
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4:20am PDT |
Bush says backs Japan on North Korea abduction issue
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush pledged
on Sunday that Japan's concerns about North Korean abductions
of its citizens would not be ignored as Washington moved to
ease sanctions against the communist country. |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Osborne denies breaking fee rules |
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Summary: Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has dismissed a story that he broke his own party's rules by accepting up to £10,000 for speaking at a conference. |
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BBC News |
3:56am PDT |
Doctor Who finale watched by 9.4m |
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Summary: The climax to the latest series of Doctor Who in which David Tennant does not regenerate gains an audience of 9.4m. |
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BBC News |
3:53am PDT |
Constitutional row in S Africa |
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Summary: South African judicial authorities consider an alleged bid to sway judges over corruption charges against ANC head Jacob Zuma. |
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BBC News |
3:52am PDT |
Abba will 'never' perform again |
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Summary: Two members of Swedish pop group Abba say there is "no motivation" to make a return to the stage. |
