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Yahoo News |
1:38am PDT |
Iran rejects French warning of Israeli strike risk
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran dismissed on Saturday a warning by
France's president that the Islamic Republic was taking a
dangerous gamble over its nuclear program because one day its
arch-foe Israel could strike. |
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Yahoo News |
1:26am PDT |
Myers, Phillies beat Mets in key NL East tilt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Myers and Derek Lowe kicked off two big weekend series in the National League with dominant pitching performances. |
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BBC News |
1:26am PDT |
Wrestle mania |
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Summary: Mickey Rourke wows Venice with latest movie |
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Yahoo News |
1:25am PDT |
Serena Williams, Jankovic reach US Open final
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Her place in the final secure, Serena Williams briskly walked off center court and headed toward the locker room. In a hallway, she was intercepted by three of her fans who wanted a picture. |
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BBC News |
1:23am PDT |
Women rescued from burning houses |
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Summary: Two women escape injury after they are rescued by firefighters in separate house fires in Dungiven and Lisburn. |
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Yahoo News |
1:21am PDT |
Analysis: Obama's pitch ... Fire GOP, hire me
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With two months left, the presidential election seems likely to turn on whether Barack Obama can make himself sufficiently acceptable to millions of disgruntled Americans eager to toss Republicans from the White House if they see a safe, competent al |
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Yahoo News |
1:17am PDT |
Tropical Storm Hanna makes U.S. landfall
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tropical Storm Hanna
sloshed ashore along the U.S. Atlantic Coast between the border
of South and North Carolina early on Saturday, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center said. |
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BBC News |
1:04am PDT |
Delay-hit Angola election resumes |
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Summary: Angola's opposition calls for fresh elections, as voting is to continue for a second day. |
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Yahoo News |
12:57am PDT |
Hanna roars ashore near North-South Carolina line
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Forecasters say the center of Tropical Storm Hanna has hit the tourist beaches near the line between North and South Carolina. |
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Cnn.com |
12:55am PDT |
U.S. envoy tackles North Korea nuclear deadlock |
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Yahoo News |
12:45am PDT |
Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Receding waters in the starving Haitian city of Gonaives revealed the bodies of more victims in floods from Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of people. |
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BBC News |
12:38am PDT |
Rock goes east |
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Summary: Wembley plays host to Poland's hottest music acts |
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BBC News |
12:33am PDT |
Teenager dies in flooding crash |
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Summary: A 17-year-old dies when a vehicle overturns in a flooded river after one of the wettest 48 hours on record. |
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Yahoo News |
12:31am PDT |
Boeing machinists strike as talks fail
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Boeing Co's
27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday
after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer
after two days of emergency talks. |
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Yahoo News |
12:30am PDT |
Pakistani lawmakers start voting on next president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lawmakers were casting their votes Saturday in Pakistan's presidential election, a race where the favorite by far is the scandal-tainted pro-U.S. widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. |
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BBC News |
12:28am PDT |
Envoys hold talks on North Korea |
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Summary: Senior officials from the US and China discuss initial moves by North Korea to reverse promised nuclear disarmament. |
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Yahoo News |
12:25am PDT |
Woman locked in cabin for nine years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 58-year-old man suspected of
keeping a woman locked up in a tiny cabin in southern Sweden
for nine years has been ordered by a court to be held in
custody, local media reported. |
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Yahoo News |
12:25am PDT |
Rice meets Gaddafi on Libya visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- once reviled as a "mad dog" by
a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she
said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies. |
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Yahoo News |
12:24am PDT |
N.Korea urged to make next move
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States remains willing to
remove North Korea from a list of terror-sponsoring states as
soon as the North agrees rules to check its nuclear
disclosures, Washington's envoy in disarmament talks said on
Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:20am PDT |
Hanna nears Carolinas before run up East Coast
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tropical Storm Hanna
charged closer to the Carolinas early on Saturday, lashing the
coast with heavy rains before striking land and running up the
U.S. East Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. |
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BBC News |
12:09am PDT |
Madeleine search cost £1m |
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Summary: Kate and Gerry McCann reveal they have spent more than £1m trying to find their daughter Madeleine. |
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Cnn.com |
12:05am PDT |
Hanna makes landfall in Carolinas |
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Summary: The eye of Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall at around 3:20 a.m. ET Saturday near Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border, according to CNN meteorologists. Forecasters said Hanna should weaken before quickly traveling up the mid-At |
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Cnn.com |
12:05am PDT |
Hanna nears landfall in Carolinas |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Hanna's winds and sea surge battered the Carolina coast early Saturday, while flash floods and tornadoes threatened inland. Forecasters said Hanna would weaken after landfall and quickly travel up the mid-Atlantic coast and into New England |
