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Cnn.com |
11:42pm PDT |
'Extremely dangerous' Ike pounds Turks and Caicos |
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Summary: Hurricane Ike struck the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Category 4 storm late Saturday night with winds near 135 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The powerful storm's path was expected to take it by the southeastern Bahama |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PDT |
Cheney blasts Russian 'brutality', Moscow demands respect
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney accused Russia of using "brutality" and seeking Soviet-style dominance through the Georgia conflict but Russia's leader insisted that the war has changed the world map. |
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Yahoo News |
11:30pm PDT |
Iran to hold three-day war games: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran's armed forces will begin three
days of war games on Monday involving anti-aircraft defense
systems, Iranian media said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:25pm PDT |
Pakistan's Zardari urged to get new image and focus
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali
Zardari, must dispel the perception he is an artful politician
and urgently address a deteriorating economy and worsening
militant violence, newspapers said on Sunday. |
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BBC News |
10:29pm PDT |
MPLA look set for Angola poll win |
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Summary: Preliminary results show the governing MPLA heading for a landslide win in Angola's parliamentary elections. |
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BBC News |
9:39pm PDT |
Caribbean lashed by Hurricane Ike |
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Summary: Hurricane Ike brings driving winds and rain to the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos, as it steams towards the Bahamas. |
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BBC News |
9:39pm PDT |
Hurricane hits Caribbean islands |
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Summary: Powerful Hurricane Ike bears down on the Turks and Caicos islands as the rest of the Caribbean braces for impact. |
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Yahoo News |
9:37pm PDT |
New England braces for Hanna's drenching rains
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Southern New England is bracing for drenching rain and gusts near 50 mph as Tropical Storm Hanna runs up the Eastern Seaboard. |
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Yahoo News |
9:17pm PDT |
Ferocious Hurricane Ike threatens Cuba and Gulf
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav. |
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Cnn.com |
8:51pm PDT |
Caribbean, Florida, Gulf on edge over Ike |
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Summary: Visitors to the Florida Keys were told to pack up and leave Saturday because of the threat from Hurricane Ike, which has grown to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm in the Caribbean. The storm, currently near the Turks and Caicos Islands, may reach |
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Yahoo News |
8:46pm PDT |
High-resolution satellite launched in California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32pm PDT |
Gators snap 6-game losing streak to Miami, 26-3
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was good early and even better late, enough to help No. 5 Florida snap a six-game losing streak against rival Miami. Tebow threw two touchdown passes, speedster Percy Harvin ran for a score and the Gators used a swarmi |
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Yahoo News |
8:23pm PDT |
President-elect Zardari prepares to be sworn in
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Asif Ali Zardari is expected to be sworn in as Pakistan's president Monday, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago, an official said. |
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BBC News |
8:17pm PDT |
Hurricane Ike threatens islands |
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Summary: The Caribbean braces for Hurricane Ike, just days after Tropical Storm Hanna left 500 dead in Haiti. |
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Yahoo News |
7:55pm PDT |
Obama and McCain spar over Social Security
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama warned the elderly on Saturday that
Republican rival John McCain would put their retirement income
in danger. |
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Cnn.com |
7:54pm PDT |
JetBlue flight diverted after fight breaks out |
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Summary: A JetBlue flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was diverted Saturday when a fight broke out after someone was smoking in the bathroom, federal officials said.
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Yahoo News |
7:41pm PDT |
US holds off on civilian nuclear pact with Russia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. |
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BBC News |
7:39pm PDT |
Minister's apology to female aide |
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Summary: Junior health minister Ivan Lewis apologises to a civil servant who said she was unhappy with the nature of their relationship. |
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Yahoo News |
7:31pm PDT |
Venezuela to host Russia navy exercise in Caribbean
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Several Russian ships and 1,000
soldiers will take part in joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela
in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to
increase diplomatic tensions with Washington, a pro-government
newspaper reported on Sa |
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Yahoo News |
7:31pm PDT |
Federer a win away from 5th straight US Open title
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him this season underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something Saturday he hadn't in quite a while. He was playing exactly like that guy named Roger Federer. |
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Yahoo News |
7:29pm PDT |
Another upset: East Carolina stuns No. 8 WVU 24-3
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Skip Holtz followed his biggest coaching victory at East Carolina with an even more impressive one. Jonathan Williams had two short touchdown runs, quarterback Patrick Pinkney was nearly perfect and the Pirates routed No. 8 West Virginia 24-3 on Satu |
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BBC News |
7:28pm PDT |
A taxing matter |
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Summary: Should Britain's super-rich pay more to the state |
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Yahoo News |
7:20pm PDT |
Turkey, Armenia vow to end traditional enmity after Gul's visit
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Armenia and Turkey pledged to overcome decades of enmity over the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces after Turkish President Abdullah Gul's pathbreaking visit to Yerevan for a football match. |
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Yahoo News |
7:16pm PDT |
Mexicans protest crime at soccer match
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tens of thousands of Mexican soccer
fans dressed in white at an international game in the Azteca
Stadium on Saturday to protest rising crime and a brutal drug
war that has killed more than 2,700 people this year. |
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BBC News |
7:10pm PDT |
Shun meat, says UN climate chief |
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Summary: People should consider eating less meat as a way to tackle global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist. |
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Cnn.com |
6:49pm PDT |
Fannie-Freddie takeover expected |
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Summary: It took two months, but the bond market called Henry Paulson's bluff. Now the Treasury Secretary is expected Sunday to announce a plan to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under government control.
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BBC News |
6:39pm PDT |
Hong Kong legislative polls open |
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Summary: Voters in Hong Kong will choose between pro-government and more pro-democracy candidates in a hotly contested poll for the Legislative Council. |
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BBC News |
6:22pm PDT |
Church obsessed with gays - Tutu |
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Summary: Archbishop Desmond Tutu accuses the Church of England of putting the row about homosexuality before world poverty. |
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Yahoo News |
6:10pm PDT |
Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. Food was distributed to famished residents, including to emaciated |
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Yahoo News |
6:08pm PDT |
Powerful storm raises fears from Caribbean to Gulf
(AP)
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Summary: AP - "Extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it roared on an uncertain path that forced millions from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico, to nervously wonder where it would eventually strike. |
