Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AFP - Despite record crude prices, the major oil companies are struggling to access resources that are being jealously guarded by national companies with whom they are forced to establish partnerships.
Read Despite rocketing prices, outlook is bleak for oil majors
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
Reuters - Weary California firefighters
braced on Sunday for another heat wave in the next few days as
they battled to bring two major blazes threatening towns along
the central coast under control.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AP - John Kerry says Republican John McCain doesn't have the judgment to be president.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
Reuters - Tropical Storm Bertha, moving briskly
across open ocean waters, may strengthen into the first
hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season sometime during the
next 48 hours, U.S. weather forecasters said on Sunday.
Read Atlantic storm Bertha may soon turn to hurricane
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AP - Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative.
Read 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AP - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AP - Marty Boyer's carefully maintained sport utility vehicle growled more like a dragster than a 2001 Honda Passport when he turned the key.
Read Theft of car anti-pollution device up across US
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 12:42 pm, Over one day old
AFP - Heatwaves, less rain and increased drought are the likely prospect for Australia, according to a new report on climate change which the agriculture minister said read like a "disaster novel".
Read Australian climate report like 'disaster novel': minister
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Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 12:48 pm, Over one day old
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Read Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
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Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 12:48 pm, Over one day old
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Read Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
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