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BBC News |
11:32pm PDT |
New Orleanians told to flee storm |
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Summary: New Orleans' mayor orders a mandatory evacuation ahead of Hurricane Gustav, as Cuba is hit by the category four storm. |
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BBC News |
11:32pm PDT |
New Orleaners told to flee Gustav |
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Summary: New Orleans' mayor orders a mandatory evacuation ahead of Hurricane Gustav, as Cuba is hit by the category four storm. |
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BBC News |
11:24pm PDT |
RSC launches £1m theatre appeal |
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Summary: The Royal Shakespeare Company launches a public appeal to raise £1m to help rebuild its main theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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Yahoo News |
11:13pm PDT |
Thai PM turns to parliament to defuse protest siege
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej on Sunday reassured the nation that he would not impose emergency rule, ahead of a parliament session he hopes will defuse the siege of his Bangkok offices. |
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Yahoo News |
10:59pm PDT |
Government supporters mass in front of Thai parliament
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than 500 government supporters
gathered outside Thailand's parliament on Sunday, police said,
ahead of a special debate on street protests that have
threatened to bring down Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. |
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Yahoo News |
10:33pm PDT |
Oil companies shutting down Gulf installations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Royal Dutch Shell, BP and other oil companies wrapped up evacuations and shut down production Saturday as an intensifying Hurricane Gustav churned toward the petroleum-rich waters of the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26pm PDT |
AAA: Labor Day travel expected to decline
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Falling gas prices might not be enough to entice people to travel this Labor Day weekend, with some keeping a wary eye on dangerous Hurricane Gustav, which is threatening the Gulf Coast. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23pm PDT |
Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest killings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country Saturday to demand government action against a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts. |
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Yahoo News |
10:17pm PDT |
Gustav slams Cuba as powerful Category 4 hurricane
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gustav slammed into Cuba's tobacco-growing western tip as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane Saturday while both Cubans and Americans scrambled to flee the storm as it roared toward the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans. |
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Cnn.com |
10:09pm PDT |
2 ERs placed on lockdown after chemical scare |
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Summary: The emergency rooms at two hospitals in Missouri were placed on lockdown Saturday after patients arrived complaining they had been exposed to a chemical.
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Cnn.com |
10:02pm PDT |
Some NOLA residents can't, won't leave |
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Summary: On a cigarette break from washing dishes in the French Quarter, Michael Kennedy swung open the door of Café Maspero, and the briny smell of raw shrimp followed him outside.
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Search of arson house to continue |
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Summary: Police are to continue searching a wealthy family's burnt-out Shropshire home where two bodies have been found. |
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BBC News |
9:30pm PDT |
Thai PM seeks parliament debate |
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Summary: Thailand's parliament will hold a special session to discuss ongoing anti-government protests in Bangkok. |
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Yahoo News |
9:25pm PDT |
McCain and Palin team up as Gustav looms
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - White House hopeful John McCain and
running mate Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail as a team on
Saturday, seeking to build on the momentum of her surprise
addition to the Republican ticket even as Hurricane Gustav
threatened to overshadow n |
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BBC News |
9:11pm PDT |
'The Big Dry' |
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Summary: Australian farmers helpless against drought |
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BBC News |
8:55pm PDT |
New flood relief efforts in Indian state |
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Summary: Rescue efforts increase in Bihar, India, where 2.5m people have been displaced by flooding and at least 70 people have died. |
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BBC News |
8:55pm PDT |
New flood relief efforts in Bihar |
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Summary: Rescue efforts increase in Bihar, India, where 2.5m people have been displaced by flooding and at least 70 people have died. |
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Yahoo News |
8:41pm PDT |
Gustav enters Gulf of Mexico after slamming Cuba
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ferocious Hurricane Gustav moved
into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico on Saturday where it was
expected to strengthen and threaten New Orleans after its 150
mile per hour (240 kph) winds cut a swath of destruction
through western Cuba. |
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Yahoo News |
8:41pm PDT |
Iraq "surge" followed sharp internal debate: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush's decision to
mount a troop "surge" in Iraq last year was taken against the
initial recommendations of his top advisers, including his
field commander, The New York Times reported in Sunday
editions. |
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BBC News |
8:23pm PDT |
Campaigning sheep to march over London Bridge |
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Summary: A woman plans to drive sheep across London Bridge to highlight two causes, including a bid to save Canterbury Cathedral. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PDT |
New Orleans ordered evacuated ahead of Gustav
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered
the city's more than 239,000 residents to evacuate on Sunday in
the face of powerful Hurricane Gustav, which he called "the
mother of all storms." |
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Yahoo News |
7:58pm PDT |
Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest crime
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country Saturday to demand government action against a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts. |
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Cnn.com |
7:55pm PDT |
22 killed in China earthquake |
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Summary: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit southwest China Saturday, killing 22 people, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
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BBC News |
7:46pm PDT |
SNP suspends firearm councillor |
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Summary: The SNP suspends a councillor for two months after he appeared on video firing a Kalashnikov rifle. |
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Yahoo News |
7:36pm PDT |
Over 150,000 march in Mexico against crime
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed
in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings
and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe
Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime. |
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Yahoo News |
7:36pm PDT |
Dust storm causes some to leave Burning Man early
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A dust storm chased away some participants from the counterculture Burning Man festival before its traditional climax Saturday night on the northern Nevada desert, authorities said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:35pm PDT |
6.1 magnitude quake kills 22 in southwest China
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province Saturday, killing 22 people and injuring more than 100, state media said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:33pm PDT |
Hurricane Gustav enters Gulf after slamming Cuba
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A ferociously powerful Hurricane Gustav
roared across western Cuba with 150-mile-per-hour (240 km per
hour) winds on Saturday, smashing buildings and flattening
fields as it surged toward the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico
and New Orleans |
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Yahoo News |
7:17pm PDT |
Cuba blasted by wrath of deadly Hurricane Gustav
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hurricane Gustav tore into western Cuba plunging the region into darkness, tearing off roofs, flattening buildings and washing out roads as it raged on a deadly path toward the US Gulf Coast. |
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Yahoo News |
7:10pm PDT |
Fireworks factory explosion in China kills 13
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An explosion at a fireworks factory in
northern China's Inner Mongolia region has killed 13 people and
injured six, according to state media. |
