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Friday, June 1, 2012 10:36 am
Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 37 runs in the opening Twenty20 international in Hambantota on Friday.
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:33 am
Bangladesh's parliament has passed its first nuclear energy regulatory bill as the country prepares to build an atomic power plant next year using Russian technology, an official said.
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:29 am
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah group, on Friday urged the kidnappers of a group of Lebanese Shi'ites in Syria to release them, saying they were "innocent civilians". "If you have a problem with me, there are many ways we can solve it and on many levels. If you want war we can solve it with war, if you want peace then we can solve it in peace," he said. The group of about a dozen Lebanese men were on a bus that was stopped by gunmen as it crossed into northern Syria from Turkey on its way home from a pilgrimage to Iran. ...
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Incoming Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says he is against stipends for student-athletes, pointing out that there are other places where they can play for money.
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The Pakistan government on Friday unveiled its budget and pledged to narrow the deficit, but the announcement was overshadowed by opposition lawmakers shouting slogans and scuffles broke out.
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:23 am
Police in southern Mexico say assailants have burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, hours after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks against the company.
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The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot weaker.
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:20 am
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney both made the economy the main focus of their respective campaigns. Friday's weak jobs report keeps it there.
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:20 am
One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, will close this weekend after 34 years in malodorous service.
Friday, June 1, 2012 10:19 am
Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against two Sacramento County sheriff's deputies accused of illegally selling dozens of weapons, some of which authorities say fell into the hands of criminals.
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