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Man City 3-2 Sporting (agg 3-3)

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
Manchester City go out of the Europa League on away goals despite an impressive second-half fightback against Sporting Lisbon.
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Transport divides would-be mayors

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
The future of the Tube and Heathrow Airport top the agenda when the four main candidates to be London mayor clash at a hustings in the City.
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Annan alarmed at Syria military action

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that the situation in Syria is "bleak" and expressed alarm at reports that government troops are still carrying out military operations in towns where U.N. observers are not present....

Cuba dissidents vow to stay in church

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
HAVANA (AP) -- A group of 13 Cuban dissidents who have occupied a Havana church for two days are no longer demanding an audience with Pope Benedict XVI when he visits this month, but vowed Thursday to continue their protest....

Scots excuses embarrass Jacobsen

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
Prop Allan Jacobsen is "embarrassed" by the explanations he hears for Scotland's losing streak in the Six Nations.
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Schools may flunk 'pink slime' mystery meat

ALBANY, N.Y. — School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground-beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."

Amid a growing social-media storm over so-called "lean, finely textured beef," the Agriculture Department announced Thursday that starting next fall, schools involved in the national school ...

Iran cut off from global financial system

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Dozens of Iranian banks were blocked from doing business with much of the world as the West tightens the financial screws on a country it wants to prevent from developing nuclear weapons....

Iran cut off from global financial system

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Dozens of Iranian banks were blocked from doing business with much of the world as the West tightens the financial screws on a country it wants to prevent from developing nuclear weapons....

Iran cut off from global financial system

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Dozens of Iranian banks were blocked from doing business with much of the world as the West tightens the financial screws on a country it wants to prevent from developing nuclear weapons....

Iran cut off from global financial system

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Dozens of Iranian banks were blocked from doing business with much of the world as the West tightens the financial screws on a country it wants to prevent from developing nuclear weapons....

Some schools planning to drop 'pink slime' meat

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The lunch lady won't be serving up "pink slime" anymore at several school districts around the country....
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In scathing report, portrait of a leaks prosecutor

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A report on misconduct in the Justice Department released Thursday paints a picture of a rudderless and sometimes dysfunctional public corruption unit under the man who has since become the face of President Barack Obama's effort to crack down on officials who leak government secrets....
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VIDEO: Syria's children: Stories of violence and torture

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
A year on from the start of protests in Syria, the south-eastern town of Deraa and its children are enduring symbols of the resistance against the government.
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Ten millionth .uk site registered

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
The group responsible for managing the .uk top-level domain name reveals who landed its "landmark" 10 millionth address.
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Biden: Running company not same as leading country

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the business background that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney touts on the campaign trail doesn't necessarily make him fit to run a country....

Biden: Running company not same as leading country

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the business background that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney touts on the campaign trail doesn't necessarily make him fit to run a country....

Biden's sharp words mark a new phase in campaign

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Make no mistake, the presidential campaign is well under way for the Democrats as well as the Republicans. Vice President Joe Biden called out Mitt Romney and other GOP rivals as being "dead wrong" about the auto bailout, a feisty ramping-up by President Barack Obama's top political surrogate even as the Republicans battle each other through the primaries....

Biden links Romney foreign policy to Bush's views

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says Republican Mitt Romney's views on foreign affairs would return the United States to the policies of former President George W. Bush....

Biden defends Obama's foreign policy record

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has issued a strong defense of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record and suggested that Republican Mitt Romney doesn't understand the role of contemporary commander in chief....

Biden's sharp words mark a new phase in campaign

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-17 16:40
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Make no mistake, the presidential campaign is well under way for the Democrats as well as the Republicans. Vice President Joe Biden called out Mitt Romney and other GOP rivals as being "dead wrong" about the auto bailout, a feisty ramping-up by President Barack Obama's top political surrogate even as the Republicans battle each other through the primaries....
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