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Yahoo News |
3:47am PDT |
Cleric Hamza loses bid to stop extradition to U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri
lost a legal bid on Wednesday to block his extradition from
Britain to the United States where he is accused of trying to
set up an al Qaeda camp and faces other terrorism charges. |
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Cnn.com |
3:47am PDT |
Texans brace for Hurricane Dolly |
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Summary: Residents on the Texas coast have stacked sandbags at doorways and nailed plywood over windows as they wait for Hurricane Dolly to come ashore. The Category 1 storm is set to hit the coast within hours and could yet strengthen. Forecasters fear Dolly will |
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BBC News |
3:46am PDT |
Sudan president defiant in Darfur |
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Summary: Sudan's president defies accusations from the International Criminal Court during a rare visit to Darfur. |
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BBC News |
3:44am PDT |
Toxic detox |
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Summary: 'Don't drink water unless you are thirsty' |
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Yahoo News |
3:42am PDT |
Karadzic 'to defend himself' in war crimes trial
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb genocide suspect who was captured earlier this week, will defend himself before the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, his lawyer was reported as saying Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
3:38am PDT |
Monkey magic |
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Summary: Sideburns, kung-fu. Why did this series grip a generation? |
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Yahoo News |
3:37am PDT |
US, NKorea meet at nuclear talks amid tough tone
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United States and North Korea sat down Wednesday for their highest level meeting in four years at six-country talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament. |
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BBC News |
3:29am PDT |
Bemused rescue team called out to p-p-pick up plastic penguins |
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Summary: Rescue teams investigating reports of a possible plane crash find two inflatable penguins in the water. |
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BBC News |
3:26am PDT |
Pc killer wins life term appeal |
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Summary: A policeman killer who claimed his "whole life" sentence breached his human rights wins an appeal against the term. |
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Cnn.com |
3:22am PDT |
Gas prices down for 6th day in row |
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Summary: Gasoline prices fell for the 6th straight day Wednesday, according to a nationwide survey.
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Yahoo News |
3:16am PDT |
Karadzic to conduct own defense, asks for shave
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own
defense in the Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be
cleared of the charges of genocide, relatives and associates of
the war crimes suspect said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
3:16am PDT |
Rural disquiet |
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Summary: Affordable housing a big issue - but what can be done? |
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Cnn.com |
3:14am PDT |
Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times |
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Summary: Baron Pikes, 21, was Tasered nine times by a police officer. He was stunned so many times the coroner says it's possible Pikes was already dead during the final two shocks. Now a Louisiana prosecutor must decide whether to seek charges against the officer |
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Yahoo News |
3:01am PDT |
Yankees continue roll after All-Star break
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The way New York has been playing lately, the All-Star game might not be the last marquee event at Yankee Stadium. Bobby Abreu hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth inning and drove in three runs, leading the surging Yankees past the Minnesota Twins 8-2 |
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Yahoo News |
2:58am PDT |
Six-nations talks on NKorea denuclearisation start
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met her North Korean counterpart for the first time Wednesday as talks by foreign ministers from six nations negotiating North Korea's denuclearisation opened. |
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BBC News |
2:57am PDT |
MPs pushing abortion rights in NI |
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Summary: A group of MPs is seeking to give women in Northern Ireland the same abortion rights as in England, Wales and Scotland. |
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Yahoo News |
2:56am PDT |
Rice meets top North Korean diplomat in Singapore
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met North Korea's top diplomat here Wednesday, ending a four-year hiatus in cabinet-level contacts between the Bush administration and the Stalinist state over its nuclear program. |
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BBC News |
2:53am PDT |
Back to wax: Winehouse model unveiled at Madame Tussauds |
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Summary: A waxwork model of Amy Winehouse is unveiled by her parents at Madame Tussauds in London. |
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BBC News |
2:51am PDT |
Rice holds N Korea nuclear talks |
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Summary: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets her North Korean counterpart, the first such talks in four years. |
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Yahoo News |
2:44am PDT |
Hurricane Dolly strengthens near Texas/Mexico coast
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Dolly gathered strength as it
approached southern Texas on Wednesday, but forecasters don't
expect it to pack much punch when it comes ashore near the
U.S.-Mexican border at around midday. |
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BBC News |
2:43am PDT |
Three-way split on rate decision |
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Summary: The majority of Bank of England policymakers voted to keep rates at 5% this month, but one voted for a cut and another for a rise. |
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BBC News |
2:36am PDT |
Abu Hamza to be extradited |
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Summary: Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is to be extradited to the US to face terror charges, after he is refused leave to appeal. |
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Yahoo News |
2:34am PDT |
Obama tours Holocaust memorial in Israel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama toured Israel's Holocaust memorial Wednesday, laying a wreath in memory of the 6 million Jews who died and saying, "Ultimately, this is a place of hope." |
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BBC News |
2:33am PDT |
Mortgage approvals hit fresh low |
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Summary: The number of new mortgages approved by the major banks fell to a new record low in June, and is down 67% on the year. |
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BBC News |
2:32am PDT |
Jailed bomb plotters lose appeal |
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Summary: Five men who were jailed for plotting a massive fertiliser bomb lose their appeal. |
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BBC News |
2:31am PDT |
Doctors facing 'five-year MOTs' |
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Summary: The government has set out more details on how it will be introducing five-year MOTs for doctors. |
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BBC News |
2:27am PDT |
MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme |
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Summary: Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details access to lots of other sites. |
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Yahoo News |
2:14am PDT |
Ahmadinejad says U.S. envoy showed respect towards Iran
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on
Wednesday praised U.S. participation in last week's talks with
Tehran on its disputed nuclear program as "a positive step" and
a sign of respect by its arch foe. |
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BBC News |
2:05am PDT |
Selectors hold talks with Vaughan |
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Summary: England's selectors hold talks with captain Michael Vaughan after his comment that Darren Pattinson's call-up "looked confused". |
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BBC News |
1:57am PDT |
'No let-up' |
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Summary: On the ground as polling day nears in Glasgow East |
