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VIDEO: Saving frogs in a shipping container

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
Critically endangered green-eyed frogs from Costa Rica take up residence in a shipping container in Cheshire.
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House was immediately involved in the Agriculture Department's decision to ask USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to resign in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal e-mails released by the administration....
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House was immediately involved in the Agriculture Department's decision to ask USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to resign in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal e-mails released by the administration....

Pat Robertson: pot should be legal like alcohol

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed....
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APNewsBreak: Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend....
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Two die during Nigeria rescue bid

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
A British engineer and his Italian colleague, who were abducted in Nigeria last year, have died in a failed rescue attempt, David Cameron says.
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Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but not as feared

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed landmark legislation to cover the uninsured, a new poll finds his health care overhaul is neither better liked nor better understood....
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Families remember 'hero' soldiers

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
The families of some of the six British soldiers killed by a Taliban bomb in southern Afghanistan pay tribute to their bravery and humour.
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released Obama administration e-mails show the White House was more active than believed in the Agriculture Department's decision in 2010 to seek the resignation of federal employee Shirley Sherrod....
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released Obama administration e-mails show the White House was more active than believed in the Agriculture Department's decision in 2010 to seek the resignation of federal employee Shirley Sherrod....

Carer wins battle of music score

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
A carer who looked after Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer of the music for the Bridge On the River Kwai, wins a High Court battle over his final work.
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French question Breivik's father

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
The father of Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik is questioned by French and Norwegian police investigating the attacks in which 77 people died.
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Prosecution rests in Rutgers webcam spying trial

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of a former Rutgers University student, setting the stage for lawyers to begin their defense of the young man accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man.

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Fender to sell shares in the firm

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
Fender Musical Instruments, the maker of guitars used by music greats from Jimi Hendrix to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, announces plans for an initial share flotation.
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Libyan PM denies training Syrian rebels

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Libya's prime minister on Thursday denied Russian allegations that his government is hosting and supporting a training camp for Syrian rebels but said his country stands with the people of Syria opposed to President Bashar Assad's regime....
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Kenya sacks all striking nurses

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
Kenya's government sacks some 25,000 nurses, striking for better pay and conditions, for failing to return to work, its spokesman says.
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Panel: US should rethink nuke emergency plans

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. should customize emergency plans for each of the nation's 65 nuclear power plants, a change that in some cases could expand the standard 10-mile evacuation zone in place for more than three decades, an expert panel is recommending....
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A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath....

Visa scam probe campus liquidated

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
A London college which was one featured in an expose of visa fraud involving foreign students on University of Wales courses goes into liquidation.
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Two dead as car and lorry crash

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-06-05 01:36
Two men die following a crash involving a car and an articulated lorry on the A82 one mile south of Glencoe.
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