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Pacific nation may buy Fiji land as climate refuge

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji....

Ennis takes silver in pentathlon

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Jessica Ennis must settle for silver as Ukraine's Nataliya Dobrynska wins the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships.
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Polish PM denies Hollande boycott

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk denies snubbing French Socialist election candidate Francois Hollande in favour of Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Barclays chief 'not top earner'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Barclays boss Bob Diamond was not the bank's top earner in 2011, while RBS and Lloyds also reveal how much their highest-paid employees have made.
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Annan Syria comments spark anger

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Syrian opposition activists angrily reject calls by Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League envoy to Syria, for dialogue with the government.
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Raspberry Pi buyers face delay

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
A manufacturing 'hiccup' looks set to delay the delivery of the first batch of the Raspberry Pi computer to buyers.
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DNA blunder rape case is dropped

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Greater Manchester Police reopen a rape case after a DNA error led to a man being wrongly accused of rape.
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UK police quiz man over abortion website attack

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
LONDON (AP) -- Police have arrested a man suspected of hacking into the website of a major British abortion provider, vandalizing it and stealing sensitive data, officials said Friday....

Seven children die in Russia fire

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Russian prosecutors launch a murder inquiry after a fire in a flat near the Urals city of Perm kills seven young children and their parents.
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VIDEO: 'I lost friend but fight must go on'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Soldiers from the Third Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, which lost five servicemen in Afghanistan this week, are about to begin another tour of duty there.
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Pilley prosecution evidence ends

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
The Suzanne Pilley murder trial in Edinburgh finishes hearing evidence for the prosecution.
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Annan set to meet with Syrian leader

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Special envoy Kofi Annan will meet Saturday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus "to seek an urgent end to all violence," his spokesman said.
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VIDEO: Oprah interviews Houston's family

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Whitney Houston's sister-in-law and manager has told Oprah Winfrey about the concerns she had for the singer before she died last month.
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Post Office to get £1.3bn revamp

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
More than 6,000 branches of the Post Office are to be revamped by the UK government in the next three years.
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Publish NHS risks, ministers told

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Ministers have been ordered to publish a risk assessment of its NHS shake-up under Freedom of Information laws.
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ITV 'readying talent show clash'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
The sixth series of Britain's Got Talent is to be pitted against the BBC's brand new flagship show The Voice UK on Saturday nights, according to Alesha Dixon.
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Japanese whalers cut season short

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Japan ends its whaling season after catching less than a third of its annual target, blaming activists' sabotage and the weather.
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Greece: where are we now?

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
Should Greece default have happened sooner?
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No motive known for Pitt psych clinic shooting

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Gregory Brant found himself barricaded in a first-floor waiting room at a University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic, hoping he wouldn't be shot. For 15 minutes, it was fear and pandemonium....
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Poland pulls food suspected of having road salt

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 19:10
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Polish health authorities have ordered the withdrawal from the market of more than 200,000 kilograms (440,000 pounds) of food suspected of containing industrial salt, the latest development in a scandal raising fears about food safety....
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