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(cnn) the united states and japan started joint military exercises friday, the japanese defense ministry said, as tensions simmered on the korean peninsula about 10,500 us service members are taking part in the drills, officials said the 'keen sword' exercise will continue until december 10 on military sites in okinawa, mainland japan and the waters surrounding it, according to officials 'keen sword will cap the 50th anniversary of the japan us alliance as an 'alliance of equals,'' said maj william vause, chief of operational plans, training and exercises 'it is the largest bilateral exercise between the united states and japan military forces [the exercise] will better enhance both of our countries' readiness to respond to varied crisis situations' the drill is not directed to any nation, officials said 'the goal of keen sword is to increase and improve our bilateral relationship to further enhance the japan and us alliance,' vause said, 'and to provide a realistic training environment that allows japan self defense force and us forces to respond to a wide range of situations' the drill starts days after south korea and the united states wrapped up joint military exercises on the yellow sea
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the 'keen sword' exercise will continue until december 10 . about 10,500 us service members are taking part in the drills
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(cnn) in juanga, india, a village of less than 3,000 inhabitants, the adults typically work as farmers on small plots of land earning less than $2 a day they live in extended families in two or three roomed bamboo thatched mud huts, surviving on rice and dahl unable to see the value of education, the parents typically take their children out of school before they turn 16 to earn money women frequently deny themselves trips to health clinics and they lack knowledge of basic preventative healthcare measures they also lack basics such as drinking water, electricity, food, healthcare and infrastructure, but cell phone towers are often ubiquitous one american non profit organization is using this proliferation of phone masts to bring empowering mobile technology to these destitute villagers mpowering, headquartered in san francisco, has joined forces with citta, a charity working in orissa, one of the poorest states in india, which has a population of 37 million, roughly the same size as california according to unicef, orissa has the most people living below the poverty line of any state in india and one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates of all the states in india many people are from illiterate tribal communities and the region is also frequently hit by droughts, floods and cyclones nearly half the children leave school at 14 years and are not vaccinated against common childhood diseases read related: phone journalism gives a voice to india's rural poor mpowering is exploiting the large number of cell towers, low cost of wifi and gsm connectivity, falling rates of mobile subscriptions and of phones in india to bring generations out of poverty read related: rise of 'nomophobia': more people fear loss of mobile contact citta, a charity registered in the us and uk, built a school in juanga in 2001 and a hospital in 1996 it also runs a women's center which provides pre and postnatal healthcare and gives seminars to mothers on nutrition and hygiene the school began with 140 pupils and now has about 400 the hospital, which has five doctors and 10 nurses, is currently the only hospital in the region, serving a community of approximately 100,000 people within a 15 mile (25km) radius according to mpowering, 46 per cent of people in juanga live below the poverty line and 41 per cent of children suffer from malnutrition read related: in india, more cell phones than toilets mpowering started working with citta in 2010, handing 56 families in juanga a smartphone loaded with culturally customized mobile apps and location analytics (similar to foursquare) built around the concept of rewards and incentives despite some of the villagers having never used a phone, they quickly learned how it worked sharing one smartphone per family, the children earn points for attending school and mothers for attending preventative healthcare classes the families then pool the points and redeem them for food, clothing and medicine each month local indians scan the barcodes on their smartphones when they attend the classes mpowering has provided phone chargers at schools since many families do not have electricity jeff martin, who founded the non profit, spent ten years as a senior executive at apple, six of which he was head of music, entertainment, and marketing, reporting directly to steve jobs he is also the founder and ceo of tribal brands and of tribal technologies and has used the technology from those companies at mpowering he traveled to india extensively during his career at apple, he says 'i chose orissa because it is where the poorest of the poor live the best way to improve lives in rural areas and change centuries' old traditions is using mobile technology and rewarding people,' he said his next plan is to track the art work of the children 'through the art work we will be able to see if they are becoming more optimistic,' he said 'fundamentally we are showing connections we always knew that if kids ate well their grades would improve' but now he is able to prove it donors will be able to see realtime the impact of their donations pictures of the children's art work or their grades could be sent to the donors' mobiles for example read related: how mobile broadband can transform africa a future plan is to give points to mothers when they take their children to health clinics which can be redeemed for medicines he also aims to give out lifestraws (portable water filters) to villagers if they watch videos installed on their smartphones about contamination of water, since most water supplies are polluted by the villagers 'we want more charities to use us,' martin said 'charities don't currently have a way to measure their own results but we believe in measurement no one makes money in silicon valley without measurement i have got various funders behind me and a lot of them feel like i do, that charities need to be measured and mobile analytics is the answer 'i am not a big believer in micro loans as they create a pressure to pay back a loan many people don't want to give money to charities if they don't know how it is being spent we can actually prove we are changing behaviors' 'tribal does the same thing but commercially such as changing the way people buy music on their mobile phones and giving them rewards,' he said the project has had a measurable impact, mpowering says the number of reported diseases in the village has reduced from 119 last year down to 52 there were 125 clinic visits this year compared to 98 last year, according to their figures seventy one per cent of children attend school, compared to 52 per cent last year 'this year every student in the middle school passed the state level exams we were very excited to say the least,' said michael daube, founder and executive director of citta 'we have monitored the progress from the start of the project and find almost a 25 per cent increase in enrolment because of the mpowering initiative,' daube said 'mpowering's mission is the perfect extension to increase more efficient support to any poverty stricken region,' he added
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sydney, australia (cnn) qantas is considering legal action against engine maker rolls royce after one of the manufacturer's engines sparked a fire on a flight last month, the airline said thursday the federal court of australia granted the australian carrier an injunction thursday allowing it to pursue legal action against rolls royce in australia if a commercial settlement is not possible, qantas said qantas said it has already started discussions with rolls royce a sydney, australia bound qantas airbus a380 was forced to turn back to singapore on nov 4 when an oil fire badly damaged one of the plane's four rolls royce trent 900 engines the fire resulted in part of the engine casing falling off in flight the australian transport safety bureau issued a safety recommendation thursday about the trent 900 engines, which are installed on some a380 superjumbos, the world's largest airliner the atsb said it had identified a potential manufacturing defect with the trent 900 on some a380s that could have been a factor in last month's fire on the qantas flight 'the problem relates to the potential for misaligned oil pipe counter boring, which could lead to fatigue cracking, oil leakage, and potential engine failure from an oil fire within the hp/ip bearing buffer space,' the atsb said in a statement rolls royce said checks conducted immediately after the nov 4 incident showed the problem was specific to the trent 900 and that it was confined to a specific component in the turbine area of the engine that in turn caused an oil fire, rolls royce said a rolls royce spokesman said thursday the atsb recommendation was consistent with those findings 'we have instituted a regime of inspection, maintenance, and removal which has assured safe operation,' the spokesman said 'this program has been agreed in collaboration with airbus, our airline customers, and the regulators' qantas grounded its a380 fleet for several weeks while it inspected the problem it said thursday it is doing further one off inspections of the engines for possible tubing defects the atsb plans to hold a media briefing friday when it releases its preliminary report into the mishap cnn's melissa gray contributed to this report
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new: australian court grants qantas permission to pursue legal action . new: qantas says it has already started discussions with rolls royce . officials issue a safety recommendation about the rolls royce engine . the problem could have been a factor in last month's qantas fire
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washington (cnn) sen john mccain, the republican presidential candidate in 2008, took aim sunday at the field of contenders for the 2012 gop nomination, accusing them of 'isolationism' 'we cannot repeat the lessons of the 1930s, when the united states of america stood by while bad things happened in the world,' mccain said in an interview with abc's 'this week' citing what he viewed as the gop presidential hopefuls' positions in general on both libya and afghanistan, mccain said, 'we are the lead nation in the world, and america matters, and we must lead but sometimes that leadership entails sacrifice, sadly' asked about a threat by house speaker john boehner to consider cutting funding for us involvement in the nato led military mission, mccain, r arizona, responded, 'i was more concerned about what the candidates in new hampshire the other night said,' referring to a cnn debate among seven people seeking the republican presidential nomination 'this is isolationism,' mccain said 'there's always been an isolationist strain in the republican party, the pat buchanan wing of our party but now it seems to have moved more center stage, so to speak' if former president ronald reagan had watched the debate, mccain said, he 'would be saying that's not the republican party of the 20th century and now the 21st century that is not the republican party that has been willing to stand up for freedom' for people all over the world a bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers has filed suit against the obama administration, alleging that continuing the us military involvement in libya without congressional approval violates the war powers resolution the obama administration denies any violation mccain said every president has disagreed with the constitutionality of the war powers resolution, 'but they have adhered to it' 'so the congress of the united states should pass a resolution and senator john kerry (d massachusetts) and i have the resolution that's ready to go that would comply with the war powers act,' mccain said libyan leader moammar gadhafi 'was at the gates of benghazi,' mccain said 'he said he was going to go house to house to kill everybody that's a city of 700,000 people what would we be saying now if we had allowed for that to happen?' citing the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 and a 1986 libyan sponsored bombing of a german disco frequented by us soldiers, mccain said gadhafi has americans' blood 'on his hands' 'if gadhafi remains in power, it's clear that you will see him engage in an escalated effort, of course, to harm the united states of america, obviously,' he said mccain was equally adamant that the us mission in afghanistan must continue 'we abandoned afghanistan once, and we paid a very heavy price for it in the attacks of 9/11,' he said 'so that is an important lesson that we must learn' in the cnn debate, former massachusetts gov mitt romney, currently leading the pack of gop hopefuls in polls, said 'it's time for us to bring our troops home as soon as we possibly can, consistent with the word that comes from our generals that we can hand the country over' mccain took issue with that 'i wish that candidate romney and all the others would sit down' with general david petraeus, commander of the war in afghanistan, 'and understand how this counterinsurgency is working and succeeding,' mccain said
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new: mccain: if gadhafi remains in power, he will try to harm the united states . new: the afghanistan campaign is succeeding, mccain tells gop contenders . mccain: 'we cannot repeat the lessons of the 1930s'. reagan would say this is not his republican party, mccain contends
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washington (cnn) rep mike rogers, a former fbi agent and vocal critic of the obama administration's dealing with terrorists, will head the house intelligence committee when republicans take control of the house next year incoming house speaker john boehner announced wednesday his choice of the michigan republican to lead the panel which oversees the secret work and the budgets of the 16 agencies and departments which make up the intelligence community rogers is not one to mince words he has made it clear where he stands on a number of fronts which could be a thorn in the side of the obama administration he doesn't think the guantanamo bay detention facility in cuba should be closed rogers wants terror suspects to be considered enemy combatants who would not be read their miranda rights and would be put on trial before military tribunals held at guantanamo rogers has accused the administration of treating terrorism as 'lawfare' instead of warfare 'we do not need eliot ness on the battlefield; what we need is gen george s patton,' said the lawmaker the five term congressman is a former fbi agent and has been critical of the bureau for its failure to solve its computer problems and its inability to integrate its 2,800 analysts rogers beat out rep william 'mac' thornberry, r texas, for the job in a prepared statement, boehner said, 'mike rogers' experience and expertise has proven invaluable throughout his tenure on the intelligence committee' the outgoing ranking member of the committee called rogers the right man at the right time for the job rep pete hoekstra, r michigan, said 'intelligence is at the tip of the spear in the fight against terrorists and america's foreign adversaries, and mike is a strong leader to conduct oversight of such a critical issue to the us' since the intelligence committee is considered a select committee, the speaker has the sole responsibility of appointing its chairman but boehner did seem to offer thornberry a possible consolation prize the speaker elect said he will recommend to the republican steering committee that thornberry be appointed the vice chairman of the powerful armed services committee
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rep mike rogers, former fbi agent, will head the house intelligence committee next year . michigan republican has been a vocal opponent of obama administration's terror policies . rogers doesn't think guantanamo bay detention facility in cuba should be closed
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(cnn) christopher lloyd picked through the charred remnants of his montecito, california, home monday morning, resigning himself to the fact it cannot be rebuilt the 'back to the future' and 'taxi' star showed abc's 'good morning america' what remained of his $11 million home in the exclusive celebrity neighborhood northwest of los angeles 'boy, look at that,' lloyd said as he approached the rubble 'all this happens in a couple of minutes' lloyd's home was among dozens of homes lost in wildfires in southern california the 'tea fire' which started at the privately owned tea garden estate, about a mile north of santa barbara's westmont college, ripped through an area that oprah winfrey, michael douglas, rob lowe and other celebrities call home lloyd told 'good morning america' that it was 'just sort of sinking in' that his home was gone for good 'it's amazing, its just gone,' lloyd told 'good morning america' 'rebuilding would be it's too much you can't rebuild that' the home's windows were blown out, entire sections demolished, and piles of concrete, ashy trees and shrubbery were scattered across the property 'you watch tv, you see these kinds of incidents happening here and there, but you look with a kind of detachment because it's happening elsewhere,' he told 'good morning america' 'but suddenly to be in the midst of it it's a very different awareness' lloyd joked that he had been planning on organizing and storing memorabilia from the home, but never got around to it 'kind of don't have to worry about that now,' he said
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christopher lloyd's home one of dozens destroyed by california wildfires . lloyd: 'rebuilding would be it's too much you can't rebuild that'. lloyd: having home destroyed brings 'different awareness' than watching on tv
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(cnn) there is one thing people seem to like about flying: southwest in a new survey from zagat, southwest airlines swept several satisfaction categories, including best value among domestic airlines for the third year in a row the airline also got nods for best luggage policy, best check in experience, best consumer on time estimates, and most eco friendly the most top finishes of any airline 'customer service is the core of our business,' said whitney eichinger, a spokesperson at southwest 'bottom line, we have fun southwest takes our business very seriously, but is known for having employees who care about our customers which, in this industry, separates us from our competitors' eichinger added that southwest will continue to offer customers the chance to check their first two bags free, a major draw for the airline since other popular carriers began charging up to $25 to check one bag the survey, conducted on zagatcom, includes 8,000 opinions from frequent fliers and travel professionals, flying an average of 17 times per year it covers 16 domestic airlines and 74 international airlines, as well as 30 airports within the united states continental airlines and jetblue airways topped the survey for premium seating and economy seating, respectively this is continental's third year winning the premium seating category among large domestic airlines singapore airlines was the top rated international airline for both premium seating and economy seating, receiving a survey high score of 28 out of 30 for its premium seats as for airports, portland international topped the overall quality ratings with 2247 out of 30, while new york's laguardia stayed at the bottom with 618 out of 30 this is laguardia's fourth year as america's least favorite airport 'it's very, very crowded they're having trouble keeping up with the traffic,' said tim zagat, co founder, co chair and ceo of zagat survey 'i think a lot of the infrastructure is out of date' in order to move up in the rankings next year, zagat said they should 'knock it down and start over' travelers said that direct routes were the most important factor when choosing a flight, followed by ticket price and past experience with an airline forty five percent of people try to avoid flying airlines that charge for checked luggage 'my bags get better service, but they pay extra,' one survey respondent joked check out the full survey results here
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southwest swept several customer satisfaction categories in a zagat survey . southwest is one of the few airlines that allows customers to check their bags for free . singapore airlines was the top rated international airline for both premium and economy seating . for the forth year in a row, laguardia was voted the worst airport
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ciudad juarez, mexico (cnn) in one of mexico's most violent cities, it was a startling scene: clinics closed, with no doctors to treat patients doctors in ciudad juarez, mexico, said monday that they would stop working for 24 hours to demand that the government do more to deal with the violence ravaging their city 'many of us have been asked to save the lives of burglars, extorters and kidnappers of our own colleagues it's outrageous that we are saving the lives of people that are attacking and killing us, and we are going to look for the legal means to avoid doing that,' said alejandro flores, a member of the citizens' committee of ciudad juarez doctors banners hanging outside hospitals and clinics in ciudad juarez located across the border from el paso, texas read: 'stop impunity we demand justice' 'we know that patients have the right to healthcare, but nonetheless, we the doctors cannot offer our services if we live trapped in our homes for fear of going out to work, if we are kidnapped, or even worse, if we lose our lives, killed with impunity,' a statement from the doctors' organization said the statement noted the recent deaths of three colleagues one who died in a car bomb explosion, and two others who died after being kidnapped the group also issued a list of demands that they asked authorities to meet within seven days, including releasing more information about an investigation into the recent killings of two doctors and bringing more federal agents to the city to investigate unsolved crimes 'the doctors feel that there is no protection there are no guarantees of security from the police or the government,' attorney angel de la torre said journalists arturo chacon and edgar roman contributed to this report
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doctors say they are increasingly the victims of violence . one says they want to deny treatment to criminals . a group demands that more federal agents investigate unsolved crimes . the protest occurs in ciudad juarez, across the border from el paso, texas
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(cnn) the south korean navy began live fire exercises on the seas surrounding the korean peninsula monday in the midst of bristling tensions with the north, south korean state media reported the military exercises are taking place in the waters off all three coasts of the korean peninsula, officials at the south's joint chiefs of staff told the yonhap news agency they are scheduled to last through friday and come on the heels of joint military drills between the united states and south korea that ended last week and nearly two weeks after the north's november 23 shelling of south korea's yeonpyeong island the attack killed four south koreans two civilians and two military personnel and the south returned fire the live fire drills are a routine monthly exercise aimed at securing the safety of ships in the area, the south's joint chiefs of staff told cnn last week but they come amid rising tensions on the divided peninsula north korea's official news agency, kcna, lambasted the planned exercises in an article sunday claiming south korea's government was trying to orchestrate another clash around the border island 'at any cost and ignite a war come what may under this pretext' south korea's new defense minister said friday his country would respond with airstrikes if north korea attacks it again, in some of the strongest rhetoric since the conflict broke out late last month 'we will definitely air raid north korea,' kim kwan jin said at his confirmation hearing when asked how the south would respond if struck again, according to yonhap kim was appointed defense minister last week amid growing tensions on the korean peninsula following an exchange of gunfire between the two sides he took office on saturday his comments reflect a potential shift in south korea's policy toward provocations from the north previously, south korean president lee myung bak warned of severe consequences if the north launched another attack, but declined to name specifics 'if the north commits any additional provocations against the south, we will make sure that it pays a dear price without fail,' he said in a nationally televised address a week ago
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the exercises are scheduled to last until friday . tensions on the korean peninsula are high after an attack on a south korean island . south korea's president says north korea will pay 'a dear price' for future provocations
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london, england (cnn) britain's second largest airport was closed for a second day thursday because of unseasonal wintry weather that was also affecting the european continent all flights into and out of london's gatwick airport were canceled until 6 am (1 am et) friday, the airport said it asked passengers to check with their airlines before heading to the airport planes sat at the gates covered in snow and a spokesman said the snow was falling on the airport's lone runway faster than crews could clear it 'we are doing everything we can to resume operations,'the airport said in a statement 'our teams are working around the clock to make the runway safe for aircraft to use and get our passengers flying again' thursday, airport officials handed out 1,000 blankets along with food and water to stranded passengers who had little to do but sit around and hope for the weather to improve the united kingdom has seen the heaviest and most widespread amount of snow since 1993 and the deepest november snow since 1965, the met office, britain's weather forecaster, said forecasters issued severe weather warnings thursday, predicting heavy snow for many parts of the country including scotland, northeast england, parts of central england, and the entire south from cornwall to london and the southeast edinburgh airport in scotland was closed because of heavy snow, the airport said london's heathrow airport was open, but said some airlines were experiencing delays and cancellations because of snow disruptions at other airports eurostar, which operates trains between london and the continent, said it was operating a 'significantly reduced' timetable on thursday with a number of cancellations, along with delays of as much as 90 minutes it said disruptions were expected through the weekend, and it advised passengers booked to travel through sunday to postpone their journeys if not essential the main reason for the snowfall is the cold polar air sweeping across the north sea, said mari ramos of the cnn world weather center the sea is still relatively warm, at 9 10 degrees celsius (48 50 degrees fahrenheit), so as the water evaporates and is hit by the cold polar air, it turns to snow 'you normally have this change in the wind pattern later in the season, but it won't bring snow because the ocean will be colder,' ramos said snowfall has also been widespread across europe, with unseasonably low temperatures easily 10 degrees below average for this time of year lasting much longer than normal, ramos said snow was expected across france, from the northern part of the country into the southern parts, near switzerland and italy, ramos said as much as six centimeters (24 inches) were expected in some areas meteo france issued an orange weather warning it's second highest across central france, and forecasters predicted icy conditions and heavy snowfall a quarter of flights out of roissy charles de gaulle airport and 10 percent of flights out of orly were canceled thursday, air traffic control said trains were delayed throughout france but were expected to run regularly friday the snow was stretching into northern portugal and central and southern spain, with an unusual snowfall in grenada earlier in the week, she said temperatures were another big concern 'the temperature will be in many cases 8 12 degrees below the average, and that's not factoring in the wind,' ramos said the chilly weather began over the weekend and is scheduled to last for a week, she said cnn's alex felton in london, england, and saskya vandoorne in paris, france, contributed to this report
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new: forecasters issue severe weather warnings . new: edinburgh airport is closed and eurostar experiences delays . all flights are canceled at gatwick airport . snow also snarls roadway, rail traffic
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(cnn) after a rough night spent wrapped in tablecloths and dozing on floors, stranded showboat passengers walked to safety sunday from their disabled vessel via a 30 foot plank, a spokeswoman for the company that owns the boat said by noon sunday, all 567 passengers and 76 crew members had been escorted off the showboat branson belle, according to lisa rau, a spokeswoman for herschend family entertainment marine experts onboard the ship sunday afternoon were focusing on the boat's propulsion system, including its paddle wheel, as a possible reason the ship ran aground the previous day in a remote area of missouri's table rock lake, rau said the grounding left all those trapped and forced to spend the night on a boat without any sleeping accommodations earlier, the arduous task of reaching the boat's remote location involved bulldozing vegetation to create a pathway gusty winds and freezing temperatures made that and the disembarking process difficult, according to rau 'we are moving heaven and earth to get to them,' rau said earlier sunday, the boat left the dock in branson, missouri, at 4 pm saturday and ran aground after the captain had problems with the thruster during the cruise, which was scheduled to last two and a half hours the boat did have heat and electrical power, rau said, and passengers were provided food and beverages 'it's not the best case scenario, but we're doing everything we can to make sure everybody's as comfortable as possible,' rau said earlier jim wellborn, a passenger stranded in the boat, said that they were in the middle of a comedy show when the captain interrupted and told the audience that the boat 's propellers had hit something under water 'we were almost back to the dock, when we heard a couple of loud noises the comedian said something funny and we all laughed,' he said the showboat branson belle is a 750 seat paddle boat with no gambling or alcohol, she said its featured 'showstoppers' performance includes 30 songs, according to the cruise website all those passengers stranded overnight will get annual passes to the silver dollar city theme park in branson that, like the boat, is owned by herschend family entertainment, along with a full refund for the cruise, said rau cnn's paul chambers and adam shivers contributed to this report
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new: all 576 passengers are now off the boat, having left via a 30 foot plank . new: investigators are probing the paddle wheel as a possible cause . the boat ran aground in a remote area of table rock lake on saturday afternoon . gusty winds and freezing temperatures made the disembarking process difficult
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(cnn) the us army corps of engineers offered support monday to state and local officials in western washington battling fast moving floodwaters and rising rivers six teams, including 39 flood fighters, were sent to the olympic peninsula and the chehalis, nooksack, skagit, snohomish and puyallup river basins to monitor areas of concern and provide real time river condition observations to the local and federal emergency operations centers, officials said the corps also supplied two pumps to the city of orting at its request and 15,000 sandbags to snohomish county monday morning, the national weather service was reporting major flooding on the snoqualmie river at carnation and moderate flooding on the snohomish river at snohomish flooding also was occurring or was predicted for areas along the green, nooksack, skagit, skokomish and chehalis rivers, according to the weather service's advanced hydrologic prediction service the stillaguamish river, which sunday evening rose to a record level at arlington, had receded below flood stage monday morning and will continue to drop, the prediction service said the rain that led to the flooding also triggered mudslides that shut down passenger trains north and south of seattle over the weekend about 300 people are staying in shelters after homes flooded in several cities north of seattle, said rob harper an emergency management spokesman for washington he said they evacuated voluntarily 'swift water teams were called out sunday,' harper said 'rescue operations are still being mobilized to be available if needed' rivers in nine counties had crested at or above flood stage by sunday morning, the state emergency operations center reported and a mudslide north of vancouver, washington, just across the state line from portland, oregon, shut down amtrak's cascades train route until tuesday morning, amtrak said 'they have to make sure where the mudslide occurred or anywhere else along that track, that the slope is stable enough to where there will not be any chances of an additional mudslide occurring before they release passenger traffic back onto the track,' said washington department of transportation spokeswoman vickie sheehan mudslides occurred north of seattle as well, shutting down train service that connected the city to canada, sheehan said but shutting down the portland to seattle run has 'a much bigger impact that affects a lot more people,' she said amtrak will provide bus service for all ticketed passengers throughout the weekend and until the rail line reopens, amtrak spokeswoman vernae graham said cnn's antoinette campbell, jessica jordan, shelby lin erdman, leslie tripp and greg morrison contributed to this report
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new: us army corps of engineers sends six flood flight teams to washington state . damage assessments begin monday on flooded homes, an official says . flooding reported on several rivers, with some still rising . nine counties report flooding, washington state says
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(cnn) police said thursday that evidence and a surviving victim tie a man killed while trying to rob an illinois tanning salon to a two state shooting spree earlier this year gary amaya, 48, was killed saturday after he walked into la tan salon in orland park, illinois, brandishing a 38 colt revolver a customer, jason mcdaniel, rushed at amaya and killed him after turning the gun on him, according to surveillance video will county, illinois, sheriff paul kaupas said thursday that the weapon used by amaya in this weekend's botched robbery was similar to the one used in two shootings october 5 along the illinois indiana line one person was killed and three were wounded in those shootings, police have said in addition, amaya's vehicle outside the orland park shooting matched one seen in washington township, illinois, and lowell, indiana, where the october incidents took place, kaupas said the indiana survivor, too, told detectives it was amaya who shot him 'the evidence at this time tells us that the suspect that was killed in the armed robbery at orland park does match the information from the previous homicide slash shooting in lowell, indiana,' kaupas said yet kaupas did not go as far as saying definitively that amaya was behind all three shootings, noting that he was awaiting results of more forensic tests police on thursday did not expand on widespread reports that the gunman in the first two shootings randomly discussed honey bees before shooting his victims leading media to brand him 'the honey bee killer' but kaupas did say amaya previously worked at a hunting lodge in rural grundy county, illinois, where he cared for honey bees authorities also elaborated on saturday's botched robbery and shooting orland park police chief tim mccarthy said mcdaniel, who was in the shop with a worker, offered amaya his money and explained that he had a young child 'the comment by amaya was, 'whatever,'' mccarthy said at the thursday news conference 'at that point, both feared for their life, that this was going to be more than a robbery' video shows mcdaniel, 29, rushing at robber and, during the struggle, amaya being shot mcdaniel told cnn affiliate wgn that he acted after coming to the conclusion that there was something wrong with amaya 'there was no hurry,' mcdaniel said 'he was very calm, like he wanted to hurt somebody like that was his intended goal' this weekend's shooting come more than two months after a gunman killed one construction worker and hurt two in washington township an hour later and about 10 miles away in lowell, indiana, authorities believe the same gunman struck again this time firing on a farmer keith dahl was shot in the left shoulder, arm and elbow, and then was robbed the farmer talked with police detectives after this weekend's incident 'mr dahl has unequivocally identified gary amaya as the person who shot him,' lake county, indiana, sheriff roy dominguez said at thursday's news conference amaya is not the first person arrested in connection with the october shootings lynwood, illinois, police officer brian dorian was charged with first degree murder, but four days later was released from jail after authorities were able to verify his alibi 'i feel horrible that brian dorian went through this,' said will county state's attorney james w glasgow 'at no time did we stop looking for exculpatory evidence'
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gary amaya was shot and killed saturday while trying to rob an illinois tanning salon . police say the gun amaya used matches that in two shootings . in those, a gunman killed one and wounded three near the illinois indiana line . that gunman reportedly asked his victims about bees; police say amaya tended bees
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(cnn) notes left behind by film director tony scott did not provide a motive for why he may have taken a suicidal plunge sunday, a los angeles county coroner's spokesman said friday the notes also did not mention any illnesses, diseases or other health issues, deputy chief coroner ed winter said he would not provide additional details about what was written in the notes his death had led to reports that the british director suffered from inoperable brain cancer his family has disputed such reports scott, best known for the films 'top gun' and 'beverly hills cop ii,' apparently committed suicide by jumping from the vincent thomas bridge in san pedro, california, about 12:30 pm sunday, said lt joe bale of the coroner's office scott, 68, wrote two notes before his death, including a message left in his los angeles office that was apparently for family members, a coroner official said this week the second note, detailing contact information for authorities investigating his death, was found in his toyota prius parked nearby, the official said it will be weeks before the findings of a monday autopsy are made public, the coroner's office said tuesday 'our examination is complete, and we will be working towards a comprehensive document once we close the case,' winter said tuesday an abc report monday suggested the director was scripting his own death after being told by a doctor that he was dying of inoperable brain cancer the network did not name the source of its information 'i did talk to the family and according to his wife, he did not have brain cancer as reported, and (she) does not know who told abc that information, which is absolutely false,' winter said coroner, family dispute cancer report scott's unexplained death shocked the hollywood stars who worked with him on a long list of successful movies over the past three decades denzel washington, who starred in several scott directed thrillers including 2010's 'unstoppable' said it was 'unfathomable to think that he is now gone' 'he had a tremendous passion for life and for the art of filmmaking and was able to share this passion with all of us through his cinematic brilliance,' he said born anthony dl scott in north shields, england, in 1944, the director got his start as a teenager in front of the camera, starring in his older brother ridley scott's film 'boy and bicycle' in 1995, the two joined forces to create the production company scott free productions tony scott became a household name in 1986 as director of the mega hit 'top gun,' starring tom cruise and kelly mcgillis he followed that up with the eddie murphy action movie 'beverly hills cop ii' in 1987 opinion: an unstoppable hollywood force both cruise and murphy released statements mourning the loss of their director 'tony was my dear friend and i will really miss him he was a creative visionary whose mark on film is immeasurable my deepest sorrow and thoughts are with his family at this time,' cruise said murphy described scott as a 'wonderful collaborator' and said he will be missed pepperdine university film professor craig detweiler called scott 'the supreme stylist' who 'operated at the top of his game throughout each decade of his career' 'he was able to make the thinnest of premises into something pulse pounding and exciting, and he's almost a filmmaker as a magician who found drama amidst almost contrived situations,' he said taking his own life by jumping from a bridge is 'a high adrenaline ending, which matches his dramatic style,' detweiler said 'he put denzel washington, will smith and tom cruise in movies where one man overcomes all struggles, triumphs over struggles, and yet it appears he was not able to write that story for himself,' he said tony scott: an appreciation actor michael rapaport, who was directed by scott in 'true romance,' took to twitter to praise the director in one post, he said there hasn't been a day since the movie was released in 1993 that someone doesn't tell him how much they loved the film 'tony scott was a sweet enthusiastic & lovin man,' rapaport wrote scott cemented his reputation for big budget action films with 1990's 'revenge' starring kevin costner and 'days of thunder' with cruise in 1998, he directed 'enemy of the state' with actors smith and gene hackman it was on the set of 'days of thunder' where scott met actress donna wilson, whom he married in 1994 they had twin sons reaction to scott's death poured out monday, with directors, actors and fans mourning the news 'being around you was always the ultimate experience intensity, vitality and celebration pure rock and roll and great cigars your warmth and generosity was palpable to all us you treated everyone with care and respect,' said actor edgar ramirez, who starred in scott's 2005 film 'domino' 'you always focused on the subtleties, taking the best out of us i am proud to be your friend, and although i won't be seeing you for a while, you will live on in the laughter of our memories of you' 'tony scott as a friend and a mentor was irreplaceable tone, wherever you are, i love you man rip,' director and producer joe carnahan said on twitter carnahan recounted how when his movie 'the grey' was finished, scott called to tell him he had seen it he told carnahan it was great and not to allow anybody to change anything in it 'tony always sent personal, handwritten notes & always drew a cartoon caricature of himself, smoking a cigar, with his hat colored in red,' carnahan said in a post scott directed his last film, the train thriller 'unstoppable' starring washington, in 2010 'for me, it was the most challenging movie of my life, and the most dangerous because i'm shooting 90 percent of the movie on a train that is running between 50 and 70 mph,' scott said at the time opinion: tense films for jittery times scott's reputation in hollywood was low key 'he wasn't a showy kind of guy,' longtime entertainment reporter jeanne wolf said scott was often seen sporting a frayed, faded red ball cap on movie sets and at red carpet premieres the ball cap, wolf said, was his trademark while scott's movies garnered box office success, they never received the acclaim that generated academy award nominations in 2002, the scott brothers won an emmy for the television movie 'the gathering storm' scott also was nominated for the emmy as a producer for the cbs drama 'the good wife' 'so very, very sorry to hear of the death of tony scott,' actress martha plimpton, who appeared in 'the good wife,' said via twitter among his last projects was serving as an executive producer on the tv miniseries 'coma,' which is due to air this year cnn's kareen wynter contributed to this report
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(cnn) police have ratcheted up charges against the girlfriend of an alabama father, days after searchers found fragmented remains they say are of the second of the man's young children, tossed along the side of a remote highway mobile, alabama, police spokesman christopher levy said monday that heather keaton would be charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of abuse of a corpse one count each for the deaths of jonathan deblase, 3, and his sister natalie, 4 the children's father, john joseph deblase, 27, was arrested december 3 and is now charged with two counts of murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse john deblase's lawyer, jim sears, said monday that his client maintains 'his innocence in regards to the death of the children' sears added that deblase might consider pleading not guilty by reason of disease or mental defect (equivalent to an insanity plea in other jurisdictions) the investigation kicked off november 18, when keaton told louisville, kentucky, police that she needed protection from deblase, who she claimed was holding her against her will she was arrested in early december and charged, at the time, with two counts of willful abuse and neglect of a child around 1 am monday, keaton arrived from kentucky to face the four additional charges, according levy by early in the afternoon, she had not been questioned by mobile police her arrest followed the discovery saturday morning of remains that authorities believe are those of young natalie deblase searchers had planned to canvas woods abutting a six mile stretch of highway just northwest of citronelle, alabama, about 50 miles north of mobile, based on information provided by john deblase but they found the remains less than half of a young body, including a skull and miscellaneous bones around 9 am, within 30 minutes of starting the search 'we didn't cover hardly any of it, because we found her so quickly,' said levy 'she was where he said she would be' levy said the girl was not buried, but had been laid 'in the woods, not far from the roadway,' just as deblase had told authorities the alabama department of forensic sciences is examining the remains to confirm that they belonged to natalie the girl was last seen in march, when authorities believe she was killed jonathan deblase had not been seen since june, police said investigators believe he was slain around that time remains that police believe are those of the young boy were found last wednesday near vancleave, mississippi the cause of death for both sets of remains has not yet been determined, police said deblase and keaton blame each other for the siblings' deaths, authorities said police, who did not know the children were missing until november 19, contend that deblase allowed keaton to abuse the children by restraining them with tape, putting socks in their mouths and confining them a day earlier, keaton signed a domestic violence petition in louisville that said, 'i feel he may have murdered his children, because he said they were non responsive he would not let me check on them' she said deblase had told her 'choices were made and he had to do what he had to do' according to a police complaint, deblase between march 1 and november 19 allowed keaton to tape natalie's hands and feet, put a sock in her mouth and place her in a suitcase that was put in a closet for 14 hours he also allowed keaton to tape jonathan's hands to the side of his legs, tape a broom handle to his back, place a sock in his mouth and then make the child stand in a corner all night when the couple went to bed, according to the complaint deblase and keaton have one infant daughter together, according to keaton's account in the kentucky police report police said one reason keaton claimed she needed protection from deblase was that she feared for the safety of the infant, who was with her in kentucky hln's natisha lance contributed to this report
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new: john deblase maintains his innocence in his children's deaths, his lawyer says . heather keaton is being charged monday with two counts of abuse of a corpse . alabama police say they believe the remains of both children have been found . the case opened in november, though the children hadn't been seen for months
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austin, texas (cnn) historically, the tech industry has not been especially hospitable to women in 2009, the us department of labor released a list of the 20 leading occupations of employed women none of them was in the technical field that same year, only 3% of the ceos of fortune 500 companies were women, according to the national center for women & information technology from coders to venture capitalists, women remain a small minority in most tech related businesses this issue was a recurring theme at last week's south by southwest interactive festival in austin, texas, where attendees gathered at women's only parties and panels featured such titles as 'sausagefest: getting more women into new media & tech' conversations focused on the unique set of challenges women face as minorities in the tech workplace this isolation, they said, spurs a need to gather and to collectively exchange ideas as a result, an increasing number of groups has formed to help women find mentors and build their confidence tamara hudgins is the executive director of girl start, an nonprofit based in austin the organization provides science, technology, engineering and math (stem) programming for girls outside of the classroom 'less than 12 percent of stem jobs in america are filled by women so for us, making sure that more girls feel that they have access to stem jobs is critical,' she said 'having more women in the field is important for innovation' in interviews with cnn, many female developers said they felt they had to fight for respect or deal with internal issues of self doubt to advance in their career 'as a female, there's kind of that perception that you don't have certain skills or reasoning,' said patty cifra, a software developer for ibm in austin the perception goes, 'you are just not as good at science as males, or else why wouldn't there be more females (in scientific fields)?' women at sxswi also talked about the desire to be respected in the tech workplace, not just liked 'how we have been conditioned to be maybe works fine for being the popular girl in school but at a certain point in our professional life, being the nice one does not get us to the level of respect or responsibility that we want,' said tara sophia mohr, a san francisco based life and leadership coach for women 'we have to be more authoritative and more assertive and be ok with not being liked by everyone,' she added laura kilcrease, sitting in an audience at a panel on women entrepreneurs, jokingly refers to herself as the only female venture capitalist in austin she said a lack of assertiveness can prevent women from properly scaling their new business venture and asking for money 'women generally want less money than they really need, and they don't show me a big business plan,' kilcrease said 'i challenge women to think about scaling their business and asking for enough funds to cover their projected growth' as conferences like sxswi bring together thought leaders from all over the world, women here hope these discussions can help close the gender gap in tech fields business strategist valeria maltoni of philadelphia offered a solution, broken into three parts 'women need to become better at stating clearly what they want,' she said 'we're not very good at stating clearly and consistently what our contribution is going to be and asking for our part in the project 'the second part of that is be better at self promoting as women, as wives, as daughters, as partners, as team members, we tend to be very good at promoting others we tend to really suck at highlighting what we're good at,' she added 'we need to find a way to be ok with the results we bring to the table and being ok with being confident in those results' finally, she stressed the need for women to find mentors, whether those mentors are male or female however, having a female role model can help women visualize their own future, she said the desire to connect other like minded women and build a community led developer garann means to form all girl hack nights in austin attendees come together to exchange ideas and work on projects 'if it was open to men, it would be mostly men the fact that it's exclusive to women helps bring women out,' means said 'it's just a little easier when you know this is for you' 'being the only [female developer], you don't have role models,' cifra said 'then you go into these groups and you see distinguished engineers at ibm that are females, and it encourages you to be like, 'yeah, she did it she went through the same path, and it's something that i can follow' ' 'i think these organizations form because women have certain issues that don't pertain to guys,' agreed cifra 'you're more comfortable voicing these opinions to someone who is sympathetic and understanding of what you are going through' such segregation by gender is not a popular idea to everyone in the industry but hudgins said they are necessary because time and time again, educators see women drop out of nonsegregated programs despite the bleak statistics, there was plenty of optimism in austin with so many people working together to increase opportunities for women in tech, many of the woman cnn interviewed at sxsw said they don't think this conversation will be happening in 10 to 15 years 'development is becoming more social they (men and women) are talking they're not hiding in basements i think that's really good for this industry,' means said cifra also is hopeful about the future of the industry, thanks in part to the rise of social media, which tends to attracts more women, she said 'the social computing aspect brings a lot more people,' she said 'i see more and more women in the technical field'
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conversations at sxsw focus on issues women face as minorities in workplace . less than 12% of (science and tech) jobs in us filled by women, nonprofit director says . women at sxsw hope these discussions could close the gender gap in the industry
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(cnn) a $5 million prize for excellence in african leadership was awarded to former cape verde president pedro verona pires in london on monday pires was recognized for helping transform the government and economy of cape verde, according to the mo ibrahim prize committee 'the prize committee has been greatly impressed by president pedro pires's vision in transforming cape verde into a model of democracy, stability and increased prosperity,' said committee chairman salim ahmed salim under pires' presidency, cape verde became the second african country to graduate from the united nations' list of least developed countries launched in 2007, the mo ibrahim prize for achievement in african leadership is awarded to candidates who demonstrate 'good governance and great leadership' during their time in office, according to a statement from the mo ibrahim foundation democratically elected african presidents and prime ministers who have left office within the last three years are eligible for the prize in the last two years, the london based foundation has decided not to award the prize because the committee could not select a winner the $5 million prize is distributed over 10 years winners also receive an additional $200,000 a year for life the seven member ibrahim prize committee is chaired by salim, the former prime minister of tanzania, and includes global figures such as graca machel, wife of nelson mandela, and mary robinson, former president of ireland and former un high commissioner for human rights previous winners of the award include botswana ex president festus mogae in 2008 and mozambique ex president joaquim chissano in 2007 ibrahim, a sudanese born telecommunications businessman and billionaire, created the foundation bearing his name in 2006 the foundation uses 88 criteria to rate the governing of african countries according to the 2011 index, the top governed african nations are mauritius, cape verde, botswana, seychelles and south africa
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haryana, india (cnn) in a nation of more than a billion people and millions of unresolved court cases, how do you take care of the backlog? long distances over questionable roads stop many indians from making it into courtrooms solution: you take the courts to the people a bell rings a bailiff yells out the name of the accused it's another day in the mobile courtroom of judge sandeep singh his courtroom is a desk plopped down in the middle of a dusty schoolyard in the northern indian village of haryana 'it works like any other regular court,' singh said 'the only difference is that instead of people going to the court, the court comes to the village' the mobile court is bused into rural areas to hear both criminal and civil complaints as part of an effort to dig the nation's court system out from under an enormous backlog of cases with an estimated 300 million unresolved cases languishing in indian courts, one consultant believes, it could take more than 300 years to clear the docket at the current pace there's one main reason for the backlog: inconvenience people often have to travel long distances over questionable roads, using slow modes of transportation 'the witnesses definitely, they don't show up and even the parties they don't show up and they send their advocate,' singh said 'but here, people are closer by, so definitely it makes a difference' with distance no longer a problem, more villagers and their attorneys are coming to hearings compared to the traditional legal system, the mobile court claims to be both fast and efficient singh said he has been able to clear 1,100 cases in just six months time compared to 500 under the traditional court system e mail to a friend
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washington (cnn) president bush's top adviser on homeland security is stepping down after 4½ years on the job, the white house said monday fran townsend served more than four years as homeland security adviser homeland security adviser fran townsend turned in her letter of resignation to president bush on november 6 and will be looking for new opportunities outside government 'i'm going to just take another job doing 20 hour days, but this time in the private sector,' said townsend, who has spent 25 years working in law enforcement and government bush praised townsend's work monday 'fran has always provided wise counsel on how to best protect the american people from the threat of terrorism,' bush said in a statement 'we are safer today because of her leadership' townsend's job, as the president's top adviser on fighting terrorism, involved identifying terrorist groups around the globe and assessing their threat, and finding ways to track and cut off their funding she said that experience should will be useful in the private sector as well townsend the mother of two, ages 6 and 12 said she first will look into public speaking, writing and board work before pursuing opportunities in global risk management for a large multinational corporation or financial institution watch how townsend is planning to use her skills » she said she's been talking with the president about her planned departure for eight months townsend's name had come up during the president's recent search for a new attorney general, but she was not considered she said not getting the job 'had absolutely nothing to do with her decision to leave' she said bush had wanted her to stay on in his administration 'it was a hard decision as i have loved and will cherish my every minute of service,' she said in an e mail 'my family actually advocated that i remain and has always been supportive of my service so this was entirely my decision' townsend is part of the search committee to find a replacement by the beginning of next year the president appoints the senior staff position, and it needs no senate confirmation e mail to a friend cnn's suzanne malveaux contributed to this report
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new york (cnn) chiquita brands international faces a $786 billion lawsuit filed wednesday on behalf of nearly 400 colombian families who say the company should be held responsible for the 'torture and murder' of their loved ones with a map of alleged victims, jonathan reiter makes his case wednesday at a new york news conference attorney jonathan reiter said his clients are seeking 'damages for terrorism, war crimes and wrongful death' the plaintiffs are asking for $10 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages for each of the 393 victims named in the suit earlier this year, chiquita, as part of a plea agreement, admitted that what it called protection payments had been given to autodefensas unidas de colombia, or auc auc was named a terrorist organization by the united states in 2002, making it a crime to give them money the lawsuit alleges chiquita's interaction with the paramilitary group went further than the payments it accuses the company of facilitating shipments of arms to the group 'they conspired with the auc, aided and abetted them in a far reaching conspiracy and plan to control every aspect of banana growing, distribution and sale,' reiter said the attorney said one couple refused to sell their banana farm 'for pennies' and were killed by auc in 2001, and other murder victims had been directed to 'sell their bananas only to chiquita' the families filing the suit will remain anonymous because of fear of reprisals in their home country, he said 'the principle upon which this lawsuit is brought is that when you put money into the hands of terrorists, when you put guns into the hands of terrorists, then you are legally responsible for the atrocities, the murders and the tortures that those terrorists commit,' reiter said responding to the allegations wednesday afternoon, the company said, 'chiquita brands international categorically denies the allegations made by these attorneys we reiterate that chiquita and its employees were victims and that the actions taken by the company were always motivated to protect the lives of our employees and their families' chiquita's director of communications, michael mitchell, went on to say, 'our company had been forced to make protection payments to safeguard our workforce it is absolutely untrue for anyone to suggest that these payments were made for any other purpose' mitchell said the company will fight the allegations 'chiquita has already been the victim of extortion in colombia we will not allow ourselves to become extortion victims in the united states' in the march plea agreement, chiquita brands international agreed to pay a $25 million fine for the payments made by the company's former banana producing subsidiary in colombia during a government investigation, the company admitted to making payments to auc even after outside counsel told the company those payments were illegal and should stop immediately e mail to a friend
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(cnn) before dying, 2 year old riley ann sawyers was beaten with belts, picked up by her hair, thrown across the room and held under water, according to an affidavit from the galveston county sheriff's office police believe 2 year old riley ann sawyers is 'baby grace' the affidavit says the girl's mother, kimberly dawn trenor, described to police how her daughter died and was put in a plastic storage box that trenor and her husband, royce zeigler, later dumped into a galveston waterway trenor told police zeigler tried to commit suicide the weekend before thanksgiving, and wrote a note that said, 'my wife is innocent of the sins that i committed' the body of the then unidentified toddler was found on october 29 a fisherman found riley's body stuffed inside a blue storage container that washed up on an uninhabited island in galveston's west bay a medical examiner said the child's skull was fractured, and a forensic dentist estimated her age at 2 to 3 years police dubbed the child 'baby grace' a police artist's sketch of her was widely circulated in the news media and prompted a call to galveston police from riley's grandmother in ohio, who had not seen the girl in months on saturday, police arrested trenor and zeigler on charges of injuring a child and tampering with physical evidence, the sheriff's department said their bonds were set at $350,000 each the affidavit, obtained by cnn, says when police interviewed trenor on november 23, she 'gave a voluntary statement on video with her attorney present in which she describes her involvement, with royce zeigler, in the physical abuse, death and disposal of the remains of her daughter, riley ann sawyers' trenor's statement said on july 24, she and zeigler both beat the child with leather belts and held her head under water in the bathtub she said zeigler picked the girl up by her hair and also threw her across the room, slamming her head into the tile floor after her daughter died, trenor's statement said, she and zeigler went to a wal mart that night and bought the sterilite container, a shovel, concrete mix, and other supplies the statement said the box containing the child's body was hidden in a storage shed for 'one to two months' then, trenor said, she and zeigler carried it to the galveston causeway and tossed it in, and she saw it drifting away riley ann's father, robert sawyers, on monday tearfully remembered her as a 'fun loving girl with a big imagination' watch riley ann's father describe the little girl » riley was 'very active, very hyper, but also very well behaved,' sawyers told reporters in mentor, ohio she would play 'with a water hose spraying the whole patio soaking wet until she was done with it,' he said, as he sat behind two photographs of his daughter, a toddler with wispy blond curls robert sawyers' mother, sheryl sawyers, said the family was 'devastated' to learn that police believe riley is dead 'it's hard to think that i'll never see her again,' she said, clutching a red elmo doll she had planned to give riley for christmas maj ray tuttoilmondo of the galveston county sheriff's department said monday that authorities are 'fairly confident' that the toddler whose body was found on october 29 is riley ann sawyers dna analysis is still in progress to confirm the identification the results will be available in two to three weeks, tuttoilmondo said tuttoilmondo said riley is originally from mentor, ohio, a cleveland suburb, and that 'she and her mother came down to texas earlier this year' the toddler was last seen in texas 'three or four months ago,' tuttoilmondo said, although he did not know by whom tuttoilmondo said police did investigate whether child protective services had taken riley away, something the mother had reportedly alleged of that report, tuttoilmondo said, 'what we believe is that is not what happened' the affidavit said trenor admitted that after the body was found, zeigler had her type up a fake letter from the ohio department of children's services saying that riley was to be taken away trenor left ohio in late may, after filing an allegation of domestic violence against robert sawyers and reaching a joint voluntary agreement that gave her custody of riley and gave robert sawyers visitation rights, the sawyers' family lawyer said monday 'she disappeared,' laura depledge said monday at the ohio news conference with the sawyers sheryl sawyers said monday that she saw widely distributed police sketches of 'baby grace' and contacted galveston police in november the girl in the police sketches strongly resembles photos of riley 'no, i never did think it would end up like this,' sheryl sawyers said monday, eyes welling 'i guess knowing is better than not knowing' the girl's family in ohio has been 'very helpful' in this case, tuttoilmondo said, adding that the fbi and a galveston county police officer visited the family in ohio on sunday depledge said riley was the product of a 'teenage pregnancy' trenor and robert sawyers were together for two years as a result of the pregnancy, depledge said, during which time they lived with sheryl sawyers depledge said monday that the family, whose grief she described as 'simply overwhelming,' wants riley's body returned to ohio for a memorial service 'what riley needs is to be brought home,' she said 'i think this family needs some closure' tuttoilmondo asked anyone who knew the child or her family to help detectives reconstruct the events of riley's short life the toddler's case has touched even hardened police officers, he said 'any way you look at it, we carry a piece of her with us, and we'll always carry a little piece of her with us,' he said monday he held up a small, pink and white shoe identical to those the child was wearing when she was found 'that says it all a little bitty shoe' e mail to a friend cnn's sean callebs contributed to this report
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(cnn) although the bombs went off miles from her house, the young woman in damascus still felt them in her gut boom! her windows rattled as she ran to her computer 'what happened?!?!?!?' she typed furiously into skype, sending the message to her friends what alexia jade heard was the thunderous clap of two car bombs exploding outside a syrian air force intelligence compound outside damascus monday night the web of tweeters, facebookers and skypers that have helped keep younger syrians informed about the war that's been raging in their country the past year and a half answered her soon enough 'it was a moment of slight shock when i knew that the blast was in the air force intelligence branch,' she told cnn 'i have always heard stories about that place former detainees call it a hellhole 'it is certainly one of the worst detaining centers ever' alexia jade is not her real name the young woman is an activist who has protested against the syrian government, and she insisted on using an alias to protect her against reprisals for talking to reporters air force intelligence, known as the afi, is considered the elite, primary agency of syria's intelligence matrix there are 17 branches of syrian intelligence, according to syrian experts president bashar al assad relies on afi to gather information on rebels fighting to oust him the opposition syrian observatory for human rights raised the possibility that 'hundreds of regime forces' were killed in the attack, but concrete casualty figures were impossible to obtain government opponents also said they feared for the lives of 'hundreds if not thousands of anti government detainees that are being held in the basements of the air force security compound' the strike could hurt al assad because the intelligence agency is such an important branch of the president's security and spying apparatus 'depending on the number of people killed, this could be a severe blow to the regime,' said david lesch, a trinity university middle east history professor who spent a good deal of time with al assad in syria before the uprising, interviewing him and those close to him lesch has written two books about syria and the assads 'a strike at a compound like that could be a major blow symbolically but also practically with all the listening devices and tools perhaps destroyed,' he said the air force intelligence agency runs detention facilities in major cities in one human rights watch report this year, former detainees described being beaten, whipped and electrocuted and burned with hot water and acid in a center run by air force personnel in one account, a detainee said he was forced into a 'flying carpet' position where someone is forced onto their belly as their arms and hands tied are tied behind them some detainees said they were strung up by their hands for hours at a time the use of torture by those who ostensibly answer to the regime has been well documented throughout the syrian war susan ahmad, a 31 year old teacher who lives in a damascus suburb, recalled feeling creeped out every time she walked past the compound 'it was a dirty place, horrifying,' she said 'i know deep in my heart there are innocent people down there being tortured i could smell blood and hear the sounds of screams i feel death is there' she also felt the bombs go off 'it was a very noisy night and hectic,' she said 'there were many explosions around damascus' al assad's army shelled ahmad's neighborhood she figured it was in retaliation for the bombs 'it was clear they were freaking out and just shooting and shelling randomly,' she said 'they are really intimidated and when they get afraid, they just start shooting everywhere at anything that moves in every part of damascus' 'it is the worst feeling in the world,' she continued 'the sound of the mortar when it flies directly above your building sssssssssss through the air you lose your breath for a moment and deep in your heart you know someone was killed 'it's really hard and really painful i would rather be shelled than hear the sound of shelling in other areas' rebels fighting to oust al assad told cnn that they fear many detainees were killed in the blasts opposition forces are not the ones claiming to have targeted the air force intelligence compound 'we fear for the lives of hundreds if not thousands of anti government detainees that are being held in the basements of the air force security compound,' said rami abdulrahman of the opposition syrian observatory for human rights a shadowy jihadist group called al nusra front claimed to have set off the bombs, according to an online statement that appeared on jihadist websites tuesday the organization came to prominence during the syrian uprising, and has claimed several high profile strikes at the heart of the syrian capital in the past several months the group explained that tuesday's attack had three stages: first, a suicide car bomb carrying 9 tons of explosives detonated at the gates of the building; second, 25 minutes later, a suicide bomber drove an ambulance carrying 1 ton of explosives, detonating where air force troops were awaiting treatment; third, a mortar barrage aimed at the site of the blast lesch pointed out that even if an entire building were decimated, many other parts of the intelligence apparatus remain in syria the al assad family established the complex web to ensure that no single group had power, and other groups could step in if one group was undermined the singular importance of the afi goes back to hafez assad, bashar's father, lesch explained hafez assad was a commander in the air force in the 1960s before a coup enabled him to take control of syria in 1970 'the air force intelligence has always been close to the assad family,' he said as the war has dragged on, bashar al assad has repeatedly blamed 'terrorists' for the violence in his country opposition fighters blame his regime for causing most of the bloodshed between these two versions stands what has become increasingly apparent there are likely jihadists and foreign fighters active in syria some of these fighters are with groups linked to al qaeda their presence, many experts say, makes it far less likely that the west would involve itself in the syrian conflict last september, alexia jade said, a syrian air force intelligence officer pointed his gun at her head the air force was trying to break up an anti al assad protest 'there was one thing in his eyes,' she said ''shoot the target' it did not matter that i was a woman' some of the protestors created a diversion near the air force officer, shouting and yelling at him he turned and they all scattered jade and her friends escaped, she said, but four people were killed in the protest that day everyone fears the air force intelligence branch of the syrian military, she said susan ahmad believes the regime has laid down increasing firepower to get back at those it perceives have attacked it she also used an alias, fearing reprisals if she spoke to a reporter using her real name 'they arrest more people, humiliate more people, harass more people,' she said 'maybe it's a way of boosting the soldiers' confidence they let them do what they want and kill who they want' on tuesday morning, ahmad still headed to her teaching job in central damascus she couldn't take public transportation all roads leading to the capital were closed, and men at a checkpoint would not grant entry to most civilians, she said 'the city is closed,' ahmad said 'all cars were forced to turn around, so the roads are empty' businesses are closed read more: who is arming the syrian conflict? the blasts were among a barrage of explosions, gunfire and shelling reported from the damascus area early tuesday, suggesting the civil war may be zeroing in further on the syrian capital 'this is the largest blast i have ever felt since the uprising began,' said omar al khani, an opposition activist 'one of my windows is blown out, and neighbors' plates were knocked down from the table to the ground' less than half an hour later, al khani said, there was another explosion, followed by intermittent gunfire as a thick plume of smoke unfurled across the capital read more: damascus residents attempt 'normal life' in the damascas suburb of harasta, violence continued in the form of shelling, opposition activists said at least one person was killed and several homes destroyed 'due to the heavy and indiscriminate shelling' of the suburb, the local coordination committees of syria said there were also reports of shelling in aleppo and idlib provinces rebel forces took complete control of the town of maaret al numan in idlib province after 48 hours of clashes and shelling from regime forces a highway connecting damascus to aleppo runs through the town omar abo alhoda, a citizen journalist in idlib province, told cnn that over a year ago, syrian troops set up eight military posts in the town, which has a population of about 140,000 people the bases were to protect the highway from opposition attacks, with each post having between 70 and 100 syrian troops, along with tanks, heavy and light weapons among other resources, he said local residents claim troops used the posts as bases to launch attacks on civilian areas on monday afternoon, thousands of rebel troops overran the military posts, using tanks, rocket fire, rocket propelled grenades and gunfire, alhoda said the regime responded with heavy firepower some troops were killed, the journalist said, and others were captured by the opposition twenty nine people were killed in idlib, the lcc said in another damascus suburb, daraya, at least 25 bodies clustered together were found burned, the opposition group said the lcc said 197 people were reported dead across syria on tuesday cnn is unable to independently confirm reports of casualties or violence because the syrian government has restricted access by international journalists
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washington (cnn) new york mayor michael bloomberg, an independent, joins several leading democrats, republicans and other independent political leaders in the launch of a new group that hopes to find non partisan solutions to some of the nation's problems and to impact the next congressional session the organization, known as no labels, kicked off monday in new york with a series of panels discussing some key political problems in america, such as hyper partisanship and electoral reform during the day the group's leaders and speakers explore how it can help find common ground to help solve those and other issues besides bloomberg, among those participating in the kick off: sens evan bayh, d indiana; kirsten gillibrand, d new york; joe manchin, d west virginia; joe lieberman, i connecticut; reps mike castle, r delaware and bob inglis, r south carolina; former republican congressman tom davis and republican florida governor charlie crist, who ran for senate this year as an independent later in the day during the kick off event bloomberg is expected to speak about non partisan redistricting 'parties have a place, but party loyalty, i don't think, should get in the way of doing what you as an elected official believes what's right i think that's what most of the public wants,' bloomberg told nbc's meet the press sunday led by columnist and cnn contributor john avlon, republican political consultant mark mckinnon, democratic consultant kiki mclean, and veteran democratic fundraiser nancy jacobson who conceived the idea, the no labels group aims to look at politics through a new prism and wants to urge political leaders not to abandon their political labels but set them aside in order help find solutions 'no labels will create a space where ideas can be judged on the merits, not their conformity to pre fabricated stereotypes the point is not whether america moves left or right; it's whether we move forward and that's what the majority of americans are yearning for,' the group described as its mission veteran political analyst thomas mann of the brookings institution said it will be difficult for this type of group to change the political dynamics 'they are obviously confronting very strong head winds,' he told cnn but added 'why not throw something into the mix' bloomberg grabbed national headlines and renewed talk he might mount an independent run for the presidency in 2012 with a high profile speech last week saying government needs to chart 'a middle way' to help fix the economy and criticized the partisanship in today's government 'the country is growing more and more frustrated with government's inability to keep america prosperous and fair and more skeptical that the jobs we need are coming soon as families struggle to get by, they have seen little but partisan gridlock, political pandering and legislative influence peddling,' bloomberg said as he outlined steps to tackle unemployment, spur job creation and push growth 'both parties follow the mood of the moment instead of leading from the front they incite anger instead of addressing it for their own partisan interests' bloomberg's participation in the no labels group is helping to stoke the speculation 'you can see why bloomberg is involved,' mann told cnn it helps 'to create a market for an independent candidacy' 'we have seen these efforts before to explore some alternative, a third party candidacy they haven't gone anywhere,' mann added on sunday bloomberg denied any intentions of seeking the presidency 'i'm not going to run for president, the job i have a great job i'm going to finish my 1,100 whatever number of days it is left go to, and i'll leave the politics to the experts,' he told nbc's meet the press when pressed he repeated his stance 'i'm not looking at the possibility of running i've got a great job and i'm going to stay with this' recently there have been some bipartisan initiatives in washington to try to come up with solutions particularly regarding the nation's growing debt, including the presidentially appointed commission however, political experts are doubtful those initiatives will result in any concrete action in the near future 'i am skeptical of any short term agreement between the two parties on the big fiscal questions confronting the country there are real differences' that will have to be argued out in the political process, mann said with the republicans taking control of the house next month, it is unclear whether washington's partisan atmosphere will improve because of necessity or get worse princeton university political science professor fred greenstein pointed to the compromise for the temporary extension of the bush era tax cuts reached by the white house and congressional republicans as a sign compromise is possible as for the new no labels group, greenstein for one said it could help 'if they are trying to join the crowd let's work together rather than sink together, i think they will be widely perceived as doing something useful,' he told cnn 'i think they add to kind of a groundswell of recognition' that government officials should strive for that type of cooperation both mann and greenstein said any effort that could help bring some honesty and clarity to the political debate will help the process group officials say they expect more than 1,000 ordinary citizens from all 50 states to participate in the launch event monday they are aiming to build chapters in all 435 congressional districts polls after the mid term election show americans want political leaders to reach across the political aisle to get things done forty seven percent said it is more important to compromise to get things done than to stick to their beliefs, according to a usa today gallup poll last month according to state registration statistics, about a quarter of americans on average consider themselves as independent in several states the number of people registered as independents tops those affiliated with either political party: alaska, connecticut, iowa, massachusetts, new jersey and rhode island
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(cnn) a group of chilean miners who spent 69 days trapped underground have traveled to britain as the guests of football team manchester united a collapse at the san esteban mine in chile on august 5 left 33 men stranded, but they were rescued amid jubilant scenes as the world's media watched in october twenty three of those miners are visiting england, having been invited to cities around the world after becoming international celebrities they took part in a training session with united manager alex ferguson at the club's carrington headquarters on monday ahead of watching that night's premier league visit by title rivals arsenal 'it's fantastic that they're coming,' the 68 year old told united's website 'these are people who showed real substance and perseverance to make sure they survived there are examples in life which you should always take note of 'i mean, the life of a miner, having to work in the bowels of the earth and not being able to see anything that's a great sacrifice to earn your living i'm sure they'll enjoy themselves on their trip' former united star bobby charlton also met the club's south american guests 'i can't believe these are the same people the whole world dropped everything for,' charlton said 'you took it in your stride and everyone around the world is very proud of you' last month the miners were saluted with a standing ovation at the cnn heroes event in los angeles, california heroes show opens with salute to chilean miners in october manchester united invited them to visit, while spanish football star david villa sent two shirts from his club team barcelona to the families of the men while they were still trapped to show his sympathy former chile defender elias figueroa, who played in three world cups and collected 47 caps for his country, accompanied the miners on their trip
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manchester united have welcomed 23 of the rescued chilean miners to the club . the men spent 69 days trapped underground at the san esteban mine in chile . they were invited by the club to britain in october after emerging from their ordeal
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eminem got sober, arcade fire got spooked, katy perry flashed her hits and kanye sang one for jerk offs everywhere (rollingstonecom) 5 arcade fire, 'we used to wait' 'now our lives are changing fast,' sings win butler, spooked and sleepless but his empathetic croon and his band's orchestral rock wallop make high anxiety sound almost sublime 4 katy perry, 'teenage dream' co written by max martin and dr luke, this buoyant electro pop singalong is 2010's catchiest tune as for that 'teenage dream,' perry doesn't mince words: 'let's go all the way tonight' 3 sade, 'soldier of love' nobody knows where sade disappears to for years at a time between hits, but 'soldier of love' proves she knows how to make a hell of a re entrance she sings about emotional devastation over a beat that mixes quiet storm synths with acid damaged riffs straight out of tv on the radio's playbook it's as close as she's ever come to blowing her cool rolling stone's top five albums of 2010 2 cee lo green, 'f*** you' the title alone would have guaranteed hundreds of thousands of web clicks but cee lo didn't just say 'f*** you' he said it with humor and serious panache despite the bummed out lyrics, the motown style beat is dayglo bright, and cee lo's lovelorn lament doubles as an anthem for lean times: 'if i was richer/i'd still be with ya/ha, now ain't that some shit?' 1 kanye west feat pusha t, 'runaway' it takes a special kind of dark, twisted genius to raise the white flag of surrender while raising a middle finger kanye west is that genius 'runaway' is kanye's musical response to the taylor swift affair, but it's much more than that: a nine minute meditation on romantic failure and public infamy kanye creates a huge, eerie beat out of thunderous drums and plinking piano, and he turns the phrase 'let's have a toast for the douchebags' into a refrain nearly as catchy as 'she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah' in 2010, no other song was so crazily epic or jaw droppingly gorgeous not on the radio, not anywhere now, everyone raise your glasses see the full list at rollingstonecom copyright © 2010 rolling stone
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arcade fire's 'we used to wait' makes high anxiety sound almost sublime . sade sings about emotional devastation in 'soldier of love'. kayne west's 'runaway' was named the number one single of the year by rolling stone
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(cnn) a california county sheriff said on friday that a couple executed what he called a 'cold, calculating plan' to lure a mother to their home, strangle her, then run off with her baby merced county sheriff's deputies wednesday arrested teresa ceja robles, 33, and her husband, jose augustine velarde, 37, and charged them with murdering ana lila diaz deceja inside their planada house the victim's infant boy reunited with his surviving family members, including his father and grandmother, the following night nine days after being abandoned in frigid conditions on a stranger's front stoop sheriff mark pazin told hln's 'nancy grace' that the pair killed the 26 year old woman because they wanted to have her two month old boy, a desire that began after diaz let robles hold the baby in a medical clinic shortly after his birth 'that's when she fell in love with the infant and had to have that baby,' pazin said of robles 'the only word i can use to categorize (their actions) is despicable it's just bizarre' neighbors last saw diaz and her young son together december 2, getting into a blue 2002 chevrolet avalanche in planada, the sheriff's office said pazin said that robles and velarde got diaz to come over to their house, where the mother 'was 'immediately attacked by the husband, savagely strangled and lit on fire to hide the evidence' a charred body, identified using dental records as that of diaz, was found later that day in an almond orchard in snelling, less than a 30 mile drive to the north pazin said friday that the couple had 'an absolute plan (for) every move they made' beyond befriending diaz, the sheriff said that store surveillance video shows robles shopping for baby items on the same day december 2 that she and her husband allegedly kidnapped the boy and killed his mother robles had three children of her own before the incident, and she and her husband even introduced the baby to them but eventually, the couple decided to change course the couple told detectives that they planned to tell robles' children that the infant had gone to a nearby fresno hospital and, in a few days, 'were going to then tell the children that the little infant had died,' according to pazin 'they were compounding what they had already done,' the sheriff said 'and here, they had wanted to raise this little infant' pazin credited 'intense media scrutiny' with turning up the heat on robles and velarde, who eventually dropped the baby off on a doorstep four days after allegedly kidnapping him on thursday, members of diaz's family including her husband and mother gathered for a bittersweet reunion with the baby boy, whom they had not seen in nearly two weeks 'this is really a joyful moment, and we are really happy to have (the baby) here,' the victim's brother rodolfo diaz told cnn affiliate kpge 'but still, we want justice for my sister'
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new: a california sheriff says a couple schemed to kill a mother and steal her baby . merced county's sheriff said the victim was strangled to death, dumped, burned . police say they're working to determine whether the couple tried to sell a baby . the victim's 2 month old son was found alive and reunited with his family
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(cnn) the man who says he was behind the manti te'o girlfriend hoax claims he was in love with the notre dame linebacker, but the athlete knew nothing about the ruse 'he had no idea,' said 22 year old ronaiah tuiasosopo in the first segment of a two part interview that aired thursday on 'dr phil' the second part is scheduled to air friday 'he did not know anything' asked if he was in love with te'o, tuiasosopo told host phil mcgraw: 'i mean, yeah as twisted and confusing as it may be, yeah, i cared for this person i did all that i could to help this person become a better person, even though i wasn't getting nothing out of it of course, it's very shameful and it's very painful to even talk about even now, it's hard to talk about but, you know, the truth of it is that that happened i grew feelings i grew emotions that, sooner or later, i couldn't control any more' asked whether he is gay, he said, 'i would say, yeah, i am gay, but honestly, i am so confused, i'm so lost' bleacher report: twitter erupts as hoaxer tells story to dr phil in the interview, tuiasosopo said the relationship began after he started a facebook page under the name lennay kekua, the first name an elision of his mother's and grandmother's first names and the last name one he had heard 'thrown around in the neighborhood' he said he 'randomly added different people' as facebook friends with the persona he had created 'one of the people i happened to add was his cousin,' he said, referring to te'o's cousin 'shortly after, i got a friend request, and it was from manti' tuiasosopo said he found out, as lennay, that the gridiron star was in a relationship 'i never wanted to become a relationship wrecker or nothing like that,' he said but that did not stop him; the relationship grew they began speaking nightly, and te'o seemed to have been smitten, too, tuiasosopo said 'he really had fallen in love with this, we'll say, character' tuiasosopo said he and his younger sister met manti in november, the night before notre dame's 22 13 victory over rival usc at the team's hotel 'it was really awkward at first,' he said 'i wanted to tell him everything right then and there' but te'o's relatives intruded, and he decided it wasn't the right time, he said tuiasosopo said his motives were pure; he never tried to make money off their relationship 'i just wanted to help him become better,' he said the charade became difficult to maintain, and he tried to end it several times 'there are many times where manti and lennay had broken up but something would bring them back together, whether it was something going on in his life or lennay's life, in this case in my life,' tuiasosopo said he added: 'i wanted to end it because after everything i had gone through i wanted to move on with my life me, ronaiah, i had to just start living and let this go' finally, after learning that te'o had skyped with four women including two of his former girlfriends tuiasosopo said he essentially killed off lennay, having her die of leukemia 'i was just trying to do everything to end it because i knew that, no matter what, you know, it just wasn't right and it was never going to be' a love story unravels thursday's segment is the latest revelation in what began as a story of one of the nation's best college football players leading his team to victory hours after learning his girlfriend had died, a story dismissed as a hoax after it was revealed kekua did not exist te'o: my emotions were real sports website deadspin broke the story this month that the girlfriend whom te'o, this year's heisman trophy runner up, had talked about and had claimed died in september wasn't real te'o rose to national prominence while leading notre dame's fighting irish to an undefeated regular season as he and his team excelled, te'o told interviewers in september and october that his grandmother and girlfriend, whom he described as a 22 year old stanford university student, had died within hours of each other 'i miss 'em, but i know that i'll see them again one day,' he said then an online relationship last week, te'o told talk show host katie couric that tuiasosopo had called him the day the story broke to confess during that interview, te'o said he doubted the voice he knew as kekua was a man's voice tuiasosopo has said he faked his voice to sound feminine in the interview, mcgraw questioned his veracity and repeatedly challenged him to prove it mcgraw said his show had contacted private contractors for the fbi and the secret service, giving them a voice mail message that tuiasosopo said he had left for te'o 'they looked at everything from voice intonation to tonal qualities' and concluded that 'the chance that you are the person on that voice mail is like one in 10 million,' mcgraw said tuiasosopo insisted he was telling the truth but said he would be uncomfortable talking in his feminine voice for the tv host 'i've never done it in front of people,' he said who's who on the internet? who knows tuiasosopo' s state of mind psychotherapist robi ludwig said the behavior described by tuiasosopo to mcgraw is very possible 'we see this with internet dating sometimes people lie,' ludwig told cnn's erin burnett outfront 'it's a place where they can experiment and where they can impersonate the other sex' ludwig said it is possible that tuiasosopo 'actually did have a crush on manti te'o and was confused about his sexuality' 'and the reason why he impersonated this woman was to see what it would feel like to be intimate with manti te'o, to be loved by manti te'o,' she said 'who would say this if it weren't true? i don't get the sense that he's a sociopath i get the sense that he's confused' 'catfishing' masks identities online
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port au prince, haiti (cnn) former alaska gov sarah palin was in haiti on sunday, urging the us government and other americans to do more to help the earthquake ravaged country 'not to get political, but if some of the politicians would come here and see the conditions perhaps they would see the need for, say, a military airlift to bring the supplies that are so needed here,' she said palin spoke at a brief press conference at a warehouse owned by the samaritan's purse organization north of port au prince '(i) don't want americans to forget the need that is here,' she said 'more importantly, for americans and people across the world to know what an individual can do to make a difference, to contribute, to kind of get out of your comfort zone and volunteer to help' palin praised samaritan's purse for 'doing god's work' samaritan's purse describes itself on its website as 'a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world' palin said she would not take questions from reporters 'the reason i won't be answering questions is because we don't need to be getting political here today,' palin said the former republican vice presidential nominee thanked her husband and daughter bristol for joining her on the trip and said she hopes bristol could help raise awareness of haiti's needs among young people as she was whisked off the makeshift stage to her waiting car, palin answered one question from cnn's gary tuchman, who asked what was different from what she expected to find in haiti 'much harsher than i had expected, the conditions are much rougher,' palin replied palin is widely thought to be considering a run for president in 2012 her visit comes as haiti is fighting a massive cholera outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people and sickened nearly 100,000 the country has been struggling to recover from january's massive earthquake that left more than 220,000 dead a disputed presidential election has threatened to plunge the country into further chaos
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palin holds a brief press conference outside port au prince . she declines to take questions from reporters . palin is traveling with samaritan's purse evangelical aid organization . the visit comes as haiti is fighting a massive cholera outbreak
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(cnn) still concerned about some faceless government bureaucrat peeking at your e mails and other online communications? well, you've got a new champion: microsoft the computing giant has announced a set of new privacy features, in a post that specifically calls out 'government snooping' as the reason responding to news reports that the national security agency may be monitoring more online activity than was previously believed, microsoft attorney and executive vice president brad smith wrote that the company is rolling out three new features: expanded encryption across microsoft services reinforced legal protections for customer data enhanced transparency designed to show customers that microsoft products don't have 'back doors' that make government surveillance easier 'like many others, we are especially alarmed by recent allegations in the press of a broader and concerted effort by some governments to circumvent online security measures and in our view, legal processes and protections in order to surreptitiously collect private customer data,' smith wrote in the post published late wednesday ' if true, these efforts threaten to seriously undermine confidence in the security and privacy of online communications indeed, government snooping potentially now constitutes an 'advanced persistent threat,' alongside sophisticated malware and cyber attacks' just over a month ago, a washington post report said the nsa can tap into overseas data links to collect millions of text, video and audio records from tech giants like google and yahoo every day the nsa denied that report nsa spying claims: five things you need to know wednesday's post says microsoft launched 'a comprehensive engineering effort' to enhance encryption on communications via tools like e mail service outlook, productivity suite office 365, skydrive and windows azure data sent between customers and microsoft is now encrypted by default, meaning messages will be garbled during transition so they become useless to anyone who may intercept them between the sender and intended recipient all messages traveling between microsoft servers will be added some changes went into effect immediately, and all will be active by the end of 2014, smith wrote 'while we have no direct evidence that customer data has been breached by unauthorized government access, we don't want to take any chances and are addressing this issue head on,' the post said in recent months, some of tech's biggest players have been pushing back against perceived government intrusions in september, ceos mark zuckerberg of facebook and marissa mayer of yahoo took to the stage at the techcrunch disrupt conference to condemn government surveillance of private citizens online microsoft's move follows google and yahoo, both of which have stepped up encryption of users' data in light of reports about the nsa in a blog post last month announcing the new protections, mayer wrote that 'yahoo has never given access to our data centers to the nsa or any other government agency ever'
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microsoft rolls out new encryption protections for customers' data . blog post cited the possibility of 'government snooping'. yahoo and google have made similar moves to block nsa from accessing info . encryption makes intercepted messages harder to understand
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(cnn) if recent trends are any indication, cartoon self caricatures are becoming more popular than the clichéd photo in the mirror headshot cartoon avatars, both classic and new, are hot right now the cartoon spawning series 'mad men' is back the critically and commercially successful amc show about 1960s ad execs has revived its popular 'mad men yourself' campaign, which lets you create an animated doppelganger that smokes like a train and wouldn't be out of place in a film noir since 'mad men yourself' launched a year ago, thousands of people adorned their facebook profiles with the retro caricatures the trend was not unlike the personalized knockoffs of shepard fairley's striking obama hope design during the 2008 presidential election the wall street journal, which is mentioned in the 'mad men' season opener, created an iconic 'hedcut' of the show's lead character, don draper in other words, the wsj made a real hedcut of a fake person on a tv show, just as 'mad men yourself' encouraged real people to make fake versions of themselves one artist, david lanham, uses apple's iphone 4 video chat capabilities to create user avatars for $50, lanham will do a cartoon portrait of you after chatting with you for about 20 minutes via the phone's facetime app lanham is not basing the portraits on photos but on videos although he will snap a screen shot of you for reference if he needs it will this cartoon avatar trend last? probably not for long, as people may get sick of looking the same as all their facebook friends but it may return with the next easily modifiable cartoon portrait app in the meantime, feel free to pre emptively block the return of the bathroom mirror self portrait there's a facebook group for it
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the amc show 'mad men' has revived its popular 'mad men yourself' campaign . the wall street journal created an iconic 'hedcut' of character don draper . many facebook profiles have been taken over by caricatures . one artist is enabling the portrait trend by using iphone 4 video chats to create user avatars
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london, england (cnn) news of britain's next royal wedding was on the front page of every british paper wednesday, but so were mentions of the late princess diana the day after prince william announced he had proposed to his longtime girlfriend, kate middleton, tabloids carried full page pictures of the couple and broadsheets ran large, above the fold headlines 'we got there in the end, darling!' was the headline on the daily mail '(and it's sealed with diana's ring!)' 'something borrowed, something blue,' wrote the times, referring to the large sapphire and diamond ring william used to propose to middleton last month 'with this ring, di thee wed,' wrote the daily mirror william said in the couple's first joint interview tuesday that he chose to use the ring because he wanted his mother to 'be with us at such a happy time' diana died in a paris, france, car crash in 1997, when william was 15 attention on the ring and the link to princess diana showed how much her memory is already hovering over the upcoming wedding 'the presence of diana, it has always been there throughout william and harry's life, and it will now become even greater, because kate is going to be compared at every turn,' said mark saunders, the author of several books on the royals, also making reference to william's brother and diana's youngest son his remarks were made on cnn's 'the situation room' 'we're supposed to call her catherine now catherine will be compared to diana constantly it will never go away' richard fitzwilliams, a public relations consultant and royal commentator, said the comparisons with diana can only go so far 'i assure you that kate middleton is not being looked at as another princess diana,' he told cnn 'i think prince william was emphasizing in the interview it's time to move on' british prime minister david cameron passed on the congratulations of the whole house of commons during his weekly question time on wednesday 'this is wonderful news,' he said 'we look forward to the wedding itself with excitement and anticipation' that same sentiment will also draw huge numbers of tourists to britain over the next few years and boost the british economy by 620 million pounds ($985 million), a retail research firm said wednesday wedding related merchandise sales alone could top 26 million pounds ($413 million), according to neil saunders, a consulting director at verdict food and grocery retailers could also benefit as people buy extra food, treats, champagne, and wine to celebrate the occasion, he said tourism and travel could bring in an additional 216 million pounds ($343 million), he said 'although times have changed since the last big royal engagement of prince charles and lady diana, many people will still be keen to buy some form or keepsake or memento and retailers will rush to capitalize on the merchandising opportunities,' saunders said
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the engagement news is on the front page of every british newspaper . many also mention that prince william proposed with diana's ring . royal author says the comparisons 'will never go away'
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washington (cnn) leaders around the world tuesday mourned the death of the diplomat who spearheaded the end of the bosnian war on the 15th anniversary of the peace deal he helped design richard c holbrooke, 69, died monday after doctors performed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta he most recently served as the obama administration's point man in the volatile afghan pakistani war zone 'you've got to stop this war in afghanistan,' he told a pakistani surgeon at george washington university hospital as he was being sedated for surgery, according to a senior administration official that was one of his final comments, the official said holbrooke was perhaps best known for his role as the chief architect of the dayton peace accords signed december 14, 1995 which ended the deadly ethnic conflict that erupted during the breakup of yugoslavia 'i had the honor and privilege of working with richard through many international crises over several decades, most particularly the wars in bosnia and kosovo,' former us secretary of state madeleine albright said 'he could always be counted on for his imagination, dedication and forcefulness' after president barack obama took office in 2008, holbrooke took one of the toughest diplomatic assignments us special representative for afghanistan and pakistan, the region obama regards as critical to the fight against terrorism holbrooke's assertive style worked in the balkans, but it brought perils for diplomats in afghanistan and pakistan, where long stretches of chatting and tea drinking are the norm he was frank in his assessments about the region and officials in both countries regarded him as abrasive, including afghan president hamid karzai in april 2009, there were reports of a heated argument between holbrooke and karzai after charges of fraud surfaced in the afghan presidential election karzai's office issued a brief statement tuesday, describing holbrooke as 'a veteran and seasoned diplomat who had served greatly to the government and the people of the united states' 'achieving peace and stabilization of a country with complex realities on the ground, as well as in the region, is not an overnight task, but there was no doubt that he was pursuing his mission not only objectively, professionally and patriotically as an american, but at the same time as a friend of afghanistan,' said dr abdullah abdullah, afghanistan's former foreign minister 'that was what we admired most' in an interview with cnn, pakistani president asif ali zardari called holbrooke an 'extremely hard working man' who can 'get things done which would otherwise take weeks to get through' one of the world's most recognizable diplomats, holbrooke's career spanned from the vietnam war era to the war against the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan, coinciding with presidencies of the past five decades, from john f kennedy to barack obama he also worked as a journalist and an investment banker but as a diplomat, he was plain speaking, accessible, and known for his tough mindedness obama called holbrooke 'a true giant of american foreign policy who has made america stronger, safer, and more respected' secretary of state hillary clinton said the nation had lost 'one of its fiercest champions and most dedicated public servants' 'he was the consummate diplomat, able to stare down dictators and stand up for america's interests and values even under the most difficult circumstances,' clinton's statement said 'few people have ever left a larger mark on the state department or our country' a statement appearing on numerous radical islamist websites used holbrooke's death to condemn the us military presence in afghanistan 'people cannot turn a blind eye to the presence of (us and allied) troops and cannot be fooled by (gen david) petraeus, holbrooke and others who should know that their fate is a scandal, madness, fainting, or worse than that,' the statement read shortly after taking office, obama appointed holbrooke to the special representative job and holbrooke dove in headfirst to tackle the challenges in an october interview with cnn, holbrooke cautioned patience in the struggle against the militants and for democracy in the so called afpak region, a mission that he said was of the 'most vital importance to our national security interests' 'we are determined to see it through,' he said, and he made reference to the vietnam war and the dayton accords in his insights he noted that dealing with so many foes on both sides of the afghanistan pakistan border made the process difficult 'a peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies,' he said holbrooke mentioned a range of militant groups, such as the afghan taliban, the pakistani taliban, the haqqani network, and lashkar e tayyiba, and noted that 'an expert could add another 30' 'there's no ho chi minh there's no slobodan milosevic there's no palestinian authority there is a widely dispersed group of of people that we roughly call the enemy there's al qaeda, with which there's no possibility of any discussion at all' 'there is no clear single address that you go to,' holbrooke said cnn's jill dougherty, nic robertson, joe sterling and elise labott contributed to this report
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president obama calls holbrooke a true giant of us foreign policy . albright praises his 'imagination, dedication and forcefulness'. holbrooke was known as the 'chief architect' of the accords that ended the war in the balkans . the diplomat ruffled feathers in a career that ranged from vietnam to afghanistan
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london (cnn) it's confirmed: monty python isn't quite dead yet unlike the norwegian blue parrot featured in a famous sketch the british comedy troupe will perform live at london's o2 arena on july 1 the five surviving stars' first show on stage together since appearing at the hollywood bowl in september 1980, the group announced thursday tickets will go on sale on monday, priced between â£27 ($43) and â£90 ($145), with further details expected to be announced on the troupe's website montyphythonlivecom member john cleese said at a news conference thursday that the show will have some new material, but it will have many old bits some featured in perhaps new ways that fans will expect 'i remember going to the royal albert hall and seeing neil diamond where he got booed in the second half for singing new numbers people really do want to see the old hits, but we don't want to do them exactly in a predictable way, so it's going to be a mix up, i think,' cleese said opinion: will python humor still fly in 2013? cleese, michael palin, terry gilliam, terry jones, eric idle and the late graham chapman became comedic legends with the creation of monty python's flying circus in october 1969 they produced 45 tv episodes for the bbc and five feature films together before going their separate ways in 1983 the shows mostly consisted of a string of barely coherent sketches, often lacking conventional punch lines and loosely tied together by gilliam's stream of consciousness animations although the tv show ran for only four seasons, it proved a massive cult hit when it was shown in the united states beginning in 1974 just as the show was winding up on the other side of the atlantic the five survivors have a combined age of 357, meaning that some of the more slapstick sketches, such as the 'ministry of silly walks' could prove difficult for their aging bodies but there may be more shows, 'depending on how long eric and mike live for' jones paid tribute to chapman, who died in 1989, saying, 'we'll miss him a lot although he will be appearing with us on stage in films' 'we've told (chapman) that he'll be on if there's a god, he'll turn up,' idle added cnn's susannah cullinane, peter and david wilkinson contributed to this report
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surviving monty python stars to reunite for a show in london next july . tickets will go on sale on monday, priced from â£27 . john cleese says show will have some new material, but many old bits . monty python troups produced 45 tv episodes and five feature films
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(cnn) president obama said that police in cambridge, massachusetts, 'acted stupidly' in arresting a prominent black harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home harvard university professor henry louis gates jr talks wednesday about his ordeal with cambridge police 'i don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played,' obama said wednesday night while taking questions after a white house news conference cambridge authorities dropped disorderly conduct charges against henry louis gates jr on tuesday obama defended gates on wednesday night, while admitting that he may be 'a little biased,' because gates is a friend 'but i think it's fair to say, no 1, any of us would be pretty angry; no 2, that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, no 3 that there's a long history in this country of african americans and latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately' the incident, obama said, shows 'how race remains a factor in this society' watch the president address the incident » the mayor of cambridge said she is going to meet with the city's police chief to make sure the scenario that caused gates' arrest does not happen again 'this suggests that something happened that should not have happened,' mayor e denise simmons said on cnn's 'american morning' 'the situation is certainly unfortunate this can't happen again in cambridge' watch how the mayor plans to handle the situation » gates said simmons called him to apologize he told cnn on wednesday that although charges had been dropped, he will keep the issue alive 'this is not about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in america,' gates told cnn's soledad o'brien have race relations improved since obama's election? gates said he'd be prepared to forgive the arresting officer 'if he told the truth' about what the director of harvard's web du bois institute for african and african american research said were 'fabrications' in the police report the officer, sgt james crowley, told cnn affiliate wcvb earlier wednesday that he will not apologize 'there are not many certainties in life, but it is for certain that sgt crowley will not be apologizing,' he said gates said the mayor of cambridge, massachusetts, called him to apologize about the incident, in which he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct watch gates talk about his arrest » cnn could not confirm wednesday night that an apology was made cambridge mayor e denise simmons did not respond to requests by cnn for comment crowley wrote in the cambridge police report that gates refused to step outside to speak with him, the police report said, and when crowley told gates that he was investigating a possible break in, gates opened the front door and exclaimed, 'why, because i'm a black man in america?' the report said was the professor profiled? » the report said gates initially refused to show the officer identification, but eventually produced a harvard identification card, prompting crowley to radio for harvard university police 'while i was led to believe that gates was lawfully in the residence, i was quite surprised and confused with the behavior he exhibited toward me,' crowley said, according to the report gates was arrested for 'loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space' and was released from police custody after spending four hours at the police station he said wednesday that he and his lawyers were considering further actions, not excluding a lawsuit gates said that although the ordeal had upset him, 'i would do the same thing exactly again' earlier this week, a prosecutor dropped the charge against gates and the city's police department recommended that the matter not be pursued
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(cnn) stargazers crossed their fingers thursday as nasa attempted to revive the planet hunting kepler probe, idled since a piece of critical equipment gave out in orbit two months ago kepler has been sidelined since mid may, when a reaction wheel that helps aim the spacecraft's telescope failed controllers launched a series of tests that will determine whether that device can be restarted, or whether another reaction wheel that quit in july 2012 can be reactivated controllers have remained in communication with the craft, which is about 45 million miles from earth it takes about four minutes for a radio signal to traverse that gap in the first round of tests, telemetry from the craft indicated the wheel that shut down in may spun counterclockwise, but didn't respond to commands to turn clockwise, nasa reported controllers will go ahead with tests scheduled for next week on the other wheel while they study the results of thursday's effort kepler project manager roger hunter called thursday's findings 'an interesting development' 'while this is a positive start, it is very early in the multi stepped process to characterize the performance of the reaction wheels and to determine if one could return to operation,' hunter said in a written statement 'the team will remain focused on the upcoming tests and report the cumulative test results at the end of the month' the 15 foot, 2,300 pound spacecraft was launched in 2009 to search for earth size planets circling stars like our sun the roughly $600 million mission has so far confirmed 134 planets and identified nearly 3,300 possible planets beyond our solar system kepler was built with four reaction wheels and needs three to keep the spacecraft aimed precisely at its targets one to fine tune the spacecraft's position on each axis after may's failure, only two remained in service and the probe went into a low powered state to preserve fuel 'we're kind of hoping for the best, but planning for the worst,' said sara seager, an astrophysicist at the massachusetts institute of technology kepler's observations have focused on a sliver of the cosmos around the northern hemisphere constellations cygnus and lyra they have led scientists to believe that most stars in our galaxy have planets circling them the craft's light recording photometer has shown that the intensities of as many as two thirds of stars are more variable than our sun and in april, researchers reported that they had identified three planets that could potentially host life two of those kepler 62e and 62f, located about 1,200 light years away are considered the best candidates so far 'we really want kepler to be able to return to be able to operation in the same way that it was before the wheel failed,' said seager, a former member of the kepler science team 'that's the ultimate hope' but the probe has already surpassed its three and a half year minimum expected lifespan, and it has collected enough data to keep scientists busy for up to two years and even if kepler can't regain the kind of steady precision required for its observations to date, nasa may be able to use the spacecraft for other purposes, seager said
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new: first round of tests yields mixed but 'interesting' results, nasa says . kepler has identified 134 planets beyond our solar system . space telescope has been idled since a key control failed in may . nasa hopes to get the probe back into operation in the coming weeks
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(cnn) when it comes to rebooting marvel's tale of an adolescent web crawler, sony seems more than happy to sing the same old song with today's release of 'the amazing spider man' only 10 years have passed since tobey maguire started swinging through the urban jungle in 'spider man,' and now andrew garfield is stepping into his flight path in what often feels like a straight up remake considering how important the idea of evolution is to this story, is it unreasonable to expect something more inventive than the same origin tale? note to sony: the entire planet saw sam raimi's 'spider man,' and you guys know this better than anyone! copping iconic scenes from 'superman,' 'batman' and 'king kong' only makes matters worse yes, there are variations; 'amazing' isn't a carbon copy and, to some extent, there are improvements the biggest plus point has to be garfield, the anglo american actor who played mark zuckerberg's former friend and ally in 'the social network' at 28, garfield's slightly older than maguire was when he played peter parker in 2002, but his combination of fresh faced innocence, nervous agitation and wry humor is immediately appealing garfield's peter is still very much a boy the prologue introduces him as a child, searching for the father he's about to lose he's a good hearted, curious kid who isn't prepared for the hormonal surges that sweep his body shortly after he's been bitten by a genetically modified spider in the research laboratory of one dr curt connors (rhys ifans) the next thing peter knows, he's climbing the walls he's stronger, stickier and getting a good deal further than he ever thought possible with gwen stacy (emma stone) not surprisingly, director marc webb whose last film was the sleeper rom com '(500) days of summer' employs a deft hand with the relationship scenes, and garfield and stone have a nice, frisky rapport the dialogue scenes are light and 'on point' but none of this can dispel the whiff of déjà vu at least we get a new bad guy when the semi sympathetic dr connors rashly doses himself into a poor man's godzilla a middle aged mutant ninja lizard webb dutifully strings together three or four wham bang set pieces, including a novel interlude in the sewers, where spidey spins his own advance warning system, a welcome breath of presumably foul air after all his usual zip lining antics the action is mostly coherent and the cgi is a notch or four up from the first sam raimi movie, but not a significant advance on the last of them unless you're crazy for 3 d (a couple of dizzying subjective close ups do make the case for it but they're the exceptions) this is yet another blockbuster sprinkled with numerous continuity errors, ridiculous coincidences, contrivances and gaping lapses in logic to take just one minor example: an 8 foot reptile rampages across the williamsburg bridge during rush hour, and no one gets a photograph? and just because it runs two and a quarter hours doesn't mean you should expect the filmmakers to tie up loose ends the sinister billionaire who is bankrolling connors' work, some chap by the name of osborne, remains ominously off screen, and we never do find out what happened to peter's parents but i suppose that's not carelessness as much as it's confidence 'the amazing spider man' is slick and entertaining and artfully packaged, and andrew garfield is utterly engaging, so yes, you can count on seeing more of the same prepare to be unamazed
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(cnn) a us border patrol agent believed killed in a friendly fire shooting near the arizona mexico border died of a gunshot wound to the head, an autopsy report revealed the report released wednesday by the pima county medical examiner's office determined nicholas j ivie, 30, of provo, utah, died from what was described as a 'penetrating gunshot wound of the head involving the brain' ivie was killed and another agent was wounded on october 2 in a shootout near naco, arizona, after responding to a sensor that had gone off near the border, according to us customs and border enforcement the fbi has said there are strong indications in its preliminary investigation that ivie was killed as a result of an accidental shooting that involved only border patrol agents at the time, a law enforcement official said investigators at the scene found only shell casings believed to have been fired by the border patrol agents ivie was killed near a border station recently named for brian terry, whose 2010 death led to the public disclosure of the botched fast and furious gun smuggling sting ivie was the 14th agent killed in the line of duty since 2008, including three this year
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(cnn) the bodies of a man and a girl were found inside a vehicle belonging to a suspect in an amber alert case, authorities said authorities believe 2 year old madeline samaan fay was abducted by her father, mourad 'moni' samaan an amber alert was issued friday for madeline, who was last seen a week ago in sacramento in a written statement, the fbi in sacramento, california, said the bodies were found in samaan's vehicle saturday night but did not identify the bodies, saying more information would be released later the green toyota 4runner was found in a remote area of el dorado county, near placerville, california, the fbi said 'the amber alert system has been put in place so that we can hopefully locate and safely take people back into custody and put the child back, if that's the case,' el dorado county sheriff's office spokesman lt bryan golmitz told cnn affiliate kcra 'when you end up with cases like this, it's tough' calls made sunday afternoon to the fbi and sheriff's office, inquiring about the identity of the two bodies were not immediately returned in an earlier news release, the fbi described the father as a 49 year old egyptian born us citizen the federal agency called the circumstances of the abduction 'particularly concerning,' adding that officials have reason to believe that the child's life may be in danger the girl, madeline, has brown hair and brown eyes, weighs about 28 pounds and stands 2 feet, 8 inches tall, according to the amber alert the fbi was working on the case along with members of the sacramento police department, the sacramento county sheriff, the california highway patrol and the california department of justice
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new: a sheriff's spokesman says 'when you end up with cases like this, it's tough'. authorities are not yet identifying the bodies in the vehicle . the vehicle belongs to mourad 'moni' samaan . samaan has been suspected of abducting his 2 year old daughter
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london, england (cnn) a chronology of bombings and attempted bomb attacks in the mainland uk since the 1970s: police close off streets around haymarket, in london's busy theater district june 29, 2007: police defuse a bomb consisting of 200 liters of fuel, gas cylinders and nails found in an abandoned car in haymarket, central london a second car packed with gas and nails was later found to have been parked just a few hundred yards from the first, before it was towed away by traffic wardens in the early hours of friday for violating parking restrictions police say two vehicles clearly linked july 21, 2005: two weeks after the deadly 7/7 bombings, four men are alleged to have attempted to carry out a second wave of attacks against london's transport network at three london underground stations and aboard a bus but their alleged rucksack bombs fail to explode july 7, 2005: four suicide bombers detonate themselves aboard three underground trains and a bus in a morning rush hour attack against london's transport network, killing 52 people and injuring around 700 more al qaeda claims responsibility in a video statement august 2004: anti terrorist police disrupt a plot by islamic militants to blow up targets including the ministry of sound nightclub and the bluewater shopping center in southeast england using explosives packed into limousines and large vehicles seven men are convicted in may 2007 and sentenced to up to 26 years in prison march 2001: a car bomb explodes outside the bbc's london headquarters, wounding one man police blame the real ira, a republican splinter group opposed to the ira's cease fire april 1999: three people die when a nail bomb explodes in the admiral duncan pub in london's gay district the third in a spate of series of nail bomb attacks also targeting immigrant areas of the city that left dozens injured a 23 year old self declared 'nazi', david copeland, is sentenced to six life terms june 1996: a massive ira bomb explodes in a shopping center in central manchester, injuring more than 200 people february 1996: two people die as ira terrorists detonate a bomb in london's docklands area, causing damage estimated at around $170m and ending the group's 17 month cease fire april 1993: an ira truck bomb devastates part of london's financial district, killing one and wounding 44 march 1993: two boys aged three and 12 are killed and dozens are injured by two bombs left in litter bins in warrington, northern england the ira admits planting the bombs april 1992: a huge ira car bomb in london's financial district kills three people and wounds 91 february 1991: ira terrorists launch a mortar attack at prime minister john major's downing street offices no one is injured september 1989: eleven people die and 22 are wounded when an ira bomb explodes at a royal marine music school in deal, southern england december 1988: a pan am airliner explodes over the scottish town of lockerbie, killing 259 aboard and 11 people on the ground libyan agent abdel basset al megrahi, convicted of the attack in 2001, was this week granted the right to mount a fresh appeal (read about lockerbie bomber) october 1984: five people die in an ira bomb attack on a hotel in brighton, southern england, where prime minister margaret thatcher and her cabinet are staying for the conservative party's annual conference december 1983: an ira bomb at london's harrods department store kills six people july 1982: two ira bomb attacks on soldiers in london's parks kill 11 people and wound 50 october november 1974: a wave of ira bombs in british pubs in birmingham and guildford kill 28 people and wound more than 200 february 1974: a coach carrying soldiers and families in northern england is bombed by the ira, killing 12 and wounding 14 e mail to a friend
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(ewcom) the following is a round up of some of the latest casting news: • jennifer lawrence is attached to play one half of a most unusual union in 'ends of the earth,' a biopic about lydie marland and her uncle/adoptive father/husband, oil magnate and eventual governor of oklahoma ernest marland yes, you read that right: lydie's biological parents gave her up for adoption to her wealthy aunt and uncle, which her uncle later annulled so he and lydie could marry and that man became governor chris terrio (argo) penned the script, but no director is yet attached [variety] • speaking of lawrence, patrick st esprit ('sons of anarchy') will join her in 'the hunger games: catching fire,' playing the small supporting role of romulus thread, the ruthless new head peacekeeper for district 12 francis lawrence ('i am legend') is directing [variety] • mickey rourke is negotiating to star opposite gerard butler in 'motor city', a drama about a man seeking retribution against the person whose double cross landed him in jail (albert hughes is directing) if that isn't hard scrabble noir enough for you, rourke is also aiming to reprise his role of marv in 'sin city 2,' even though the character was electrocuted in robert rodriguez and frank miller's first film [deadline] • next up on the '80s star double feature circuit, kevin costner has been offered the role of the mentor to jack ryan (chris pine) in the upcoming prequel/reboot of the tom clancy/cia analyst franchise (kenneth branagh is directing and starring as the main villain) costner has also been offered the lead in 'three days to kill,' about an assassin with a fatal illness going off on one last job in france, to be produced by luc besson's europacorp, the same company behind the 'taken' films neither deal is close to done, however [deadline] ewcom: 'the hunger games' • joe manganiello ('magic mike') is in talks to join the growing cast of 'breacher,' about 10 crooked dea agents who begin dying one by one after they use an official operation to mask a robbery arnold schwarzenegger, sam worthington, terrence howard, and dawn olivieri (house of lies) will costar david ayer ('harsh times') is directing [thr] • catherine keener and toni collette have signed up for the new, untitled comedy from writer director nicole holofcener ('please give,' 'friends with money') keener will star as a new friend to a divorcée julia louis dreyfuss, who ends up falling for keener's ex husband (james gandolfini) collette will play keener's therapist, who is also louis dreyfuss' friend got all that? [variety] • lindsay lohan is in talks for an unspecified role in 'scary movie 5,' to be directed by malcolm d lee (soul men) yeah, that seems about right [e! online] see the full story at ewcom click here to try 2 risk free issues of entertainment weekly © 2011 entertainment weekly and time inc all rights reserved
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jennifer lawrence is attached to play one half of an unusual union in 'ends of the earth'. patrick st esprit will join 'the hunger games: catching fire' as romulus thread . mickey rourke is negotiating to star opposite gerard butler in 'motor city'
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(cnn) england's lee westwood showed no signs of buckling under the pressure of his new status as golf's world number one, hitting a round of 70 to sit one shot behind leader francesco molinari after day two of the hsbc champions challenge in shanghai, china the italian led the field on friday, after a two round score of nine under par gave him a one shot lead over westwood, with the man who was displaced at the top of world rankings, tiger woods, five shots off the lead south african ernie els was the day's big mover, his round of 65 put him within two shots of the lead on seven under par, alongside compatriot jaco van zyl and richard ramsay of scotland the english pair of luke donald and ross fisher are currently on six under and five under respectively, with westwood's rivals for number one status, martin kaymer, and defending champion phil mickelson, both six shots off the lead on three under westwood had no complaints over his form, and was pleased with his performance given his recent lack of competitive action and injury problems 'it's a good performance the first two rounds to come back to,' westwood told the pga tour's official website 'i didn't know what to expect, and i'm pleasantly surprised with how well i've played' woods was in philosophical mood when discussing his round, admitting his score could have gone either way 'my score could have been worse, but it also could have been a lot better,' said woods
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(cnn) on my last day on a visit to beirut, lebanon, i participated in a long conversation with a hamas political leader i agreed that the conversation would be off the record, but without direct quotation, i can summarize what was said the peace process between israel and the palestinian authority is dead, in the view of hamas likewise, economic growth in the west bank is illusory, a product only of western aid the palestinians are divided, and the international community has lost interest in us that might sound like a negative assessment yet my hamas interlocutor insisted that today's desperate outlook would soon yield to tomorrow's glorious victory with the peace process dead, the palestinian authority would break apart west bank palestinians would realign themselves with hamas those who refused would be eliminated as collaborators the hamas man did tacitly acknowledge that palestinian attacks on israel have failed in the past he declined to agree that the 2000 2003 intifada was a failure or that hamas had been defeated in the december 2008 gaza war but he did not argue that these wars were successes either but next time, things would be different, the 'resistance' would be global: hamas, he suggested, would call muslims around the world to join the fight against israel, just as muslims worldwide joined together in afghanistan in the 1980s to fight the soviet union this next fight he said would force israel to rethink its continued existence he said that just as his generation was more radical than his father's, so the next generation would be more radical than his own the hamas man asked with sinister humor: 'if you americans care so much about the israelis, why don't you give them california?' the tone was defiant, belligerent, confident yet through it all, i also heard a despairing undertone the hamas man lamented that nobody understands hamas those who try to talk to them like us president jimmy carter end up paying a heavy political price he veered from boasting that they would never negotiate with the israelis to complaining that israel had ignored their offer of a truce in 2004 he claimed the flotilla organizers who tried to bring aid to hamas controlled gaza had achieved a great success then later complained that nothing had changed, that israel controlled the flow of goods into gaza as tightly as ever the plan seemed to be: for hamas and the radical palestinians to suffer defeat after defeat until finally israel collapsed that does not sound like a very good plan earlier on the trip, another hamas representative had explained this point of view very succinctly: 'to emerge from the fight with your steadfastness undiminished: that is victory' but actually no it's not victory fighting and losing, followed by more fighting and more losing is a formula for prolonging the pain of defeat hamas promises its supporters a far off day of apocalyptic retribution and redemption if my source is right, there will be another outburst of violence soon almost certainly it will end the way the previous rounds of violence have ended israel will be left standing more strong and secure and prosperous than ever and its attackers will be more frozen in their refusal to do the thing most necessary to end this conflict: recognize israel, reject war, and make the best deal they can get based on today's realities the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of david frum
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david frum: hamas political leader expects peace process to fail . frum says hamas expects next conflict with israel will attract broader support . hamas' policy is self defeating, won't change mideast reality, says frum . he says palestinians should recognize israel, make best deal they can
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(cnn) chinese president hu jintao has topped the list of forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful people, besting us president barack obama who slipped to the second spot the magazine said it used four criteria to define power whether the person has influence over a lot of people; whether they have significant wealth compared to their peers; whether they are powerful in more than one sphere and whether they actively wield power in that respect, said the magazine, the editors picked hu as the most powerful man in the world the annual list was released wednesday evening as the leader of china, hu presides over 13 billion people one fifth of the world's population, and over the world's largest army under him, china has become the world's second largest economy and, says forbes, 'unlike western counterparts, hu can divert rivers, build cities, jail dissidents and censor internet without meddling from pesky bureaucrats, courts' julian assange, the editor of wikileaks, makes the list (no 68), as does facebook founder mark zuckerberg (no 40) in addition, several accused criminals do too, including al qaeda leader osama bin laden (no 57) the top 10 most powerful people, according to the magazine: 1 hu jintao, president of china 2 barack obama, president of the united states 3 abdullah bin abdul aziz al saud, the king of saudi arabia 4 vladimir putin, the prime minister of russia 5 pope benedict xvi 6 angela merkel, the chancellor of germany 7 david cameron, prime minister of the united kingdom 8 ben bernanke, chairman of the federal reserve 9 sonia gandhi, president of the indian national congress 10 bill gates, founder of microsoft and co chair of the bill and melinda gates foundation
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the magazine uses four criteria to define power . hu presides over one fifth of the world's population . osama bin laden also makes the list
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(cnn) the liberian president dismissed all but one of her cabinet ministers this week in a move she says will help give her administration a fresh start president ellen johnson sirleaf announced thursday that she has asked her cabinet to 'take administrative leave effective immediately' she made the announcement during an emergency meeting the night before the administration is entering a critical stretch and this provides an opportunity to start with a fresh slate, she said in a news release johnson sirleaf currently the only elected female head of state in africa is up for re election next year the mandate will not create a power vacuum, she said designated deputies will take over until cabinet leaders are asked to return or their successors appointed, according to the statement 'cabinet restructuring will be made in the shortest possible time and several ministers could be reappointed,' she said the president urged commitment from those who will make it to the next phase 'i want this administration to be the most effective going forward,' she said ministers who are overseas on assignment will not be affected by the directive until they complete their missions one minister retained his position amid the shakeup edward mcclain, the minister of state for presidential affairs, will work with vice president joseph boakai while the president is out of the country other government agencies may also undergo a shakeup, according to the president the harvard educated economist and grandmother of eight took the helm in 2006 after a bloody civil war that left her country in shambles liberia faced 14 years of civil war and strife under the charles taylor regime that ended in 2003 johnson sirleaf has said she is rallying world support to get the nation back on its feet the president's political resilience and tough reputation have earned her the nickname 'iron lady' the tiny west african nation has a population of about 34 million
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(cnn) courthouses and other government buildings in 30 tennessee counties received bomb threats tuesday, a state official said, making it the fifth state this month to see a similar round of false alarms no explosive devices had been found in any of the counties where threats were called in, said dalya qualls, a spokeswoman for the state's department of homeland security qualls said county courthouses, as well as federal and state buildings, received threats on tuesday tennessee's bomb scares came eight days after similar threats were made to 28 courthouses and a state office building in oregon and within a month of similar incidents around nebraska and washington, according to oregon state police qualls said tennessee highway patrol officers are assisting local authorities as needed, but the threats were still being investigated at the local level tuesday evening cnn's joe sutton and jennifer hauser contributed to this report
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(cnn) ecuadorian president rafael correa on saturday defended his country's decision to grant wikileaks' founder julian assange asylum, slamming great britain's behavior toward ecuador as 'intolerable' and 'unacceptable' assange is currently holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london ecuador offered him asylum this week, but british authorities have said they are committed to extraditing him to sweden, where assange is wanted to face questioning over claims of rape and sexual molestation the situation remains at a standoff assange demands us end wikileaks 'witch hunt' 'who do they think they're dealing with?' correa asked rhetorically of great britain during his weekly address 'they don't realize latin america is free and sovereign we won't tolerate interference, colonialism of any kind' the president said ecuador had sought but did not receive guarantees that assange would not be extradited to a third country assange, an australian national, and his supporters claim a us grand jury has been empaneled to consider charges against him they fear if he is extradited to sweden, he could be sent next to the united states assange was arrested in britain in 2010 because swedish authorities wanted to question him about the allegations two women accused him of sexually assaulting them during an august 2010 visit to sweden in connection with a wikileaks release of internal us military documents assange denies the allegations and argues they are in retribution for his organization's disclosure of american secrets publicly silent since last march, assange is expected to speak at 2 pm sunday two months to the day since he sought asylum according to wikileaks' official twitter feed also sunday, foreign ministers from member states of the union of south american nations will convene in guayaquil, ecuador, to discuss the asylum situation assange sought refuge at the embassy five days after the supreme court in britain dismissed his bid to reopen his appeal of the decision to send him to sweden, his last option in british courts he is subject to arrest for breaking the terms of his bail, which required that he spend his nights at the home of a supporter outside london, police said the day after he entered the embassy assange and diplomatic asylum: a primer standoff at embassy, after ecuador grants asylum opinion: assange's stubborn grip hurt wikileaks why assange needs ecuador and why ecuador needs assange
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ecuadorian president rafael correa says great britain's behavior is 'unacceptable'. 'they don't realize latin america is free and sovereign,' he says . julian assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london since june . ecuador granted asylum to assange, but the uk does not recognize it
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(cnn) david frum's recent op ed on cnncom exemplifies why americans are becoming deaf to the critics of pot legalization their hyperbolic claims about the dangers of pot along with the realistic ones are being dismissed by a justifiably cynical public anti marijuana propaganda isn't stopping the march toward national legalization, but the opposition is losing its voice as it screams about the falling sky a majority of americans favor full legalization, and they understand that recreational cannabis is not now and will never be legal for minors they know better than to believe frum's prediction that 'half the states may soon allow the sale of marijuana to almost anybody determined to buy it' an assertion so broad as to imply that even children would be permitted to buy pot legally this is simply not so americans are also informed enough to realize that medical marijuana is not a 'laughable fiction' this week, i saw a longstanding patient with a rare, ultimately fatal neurological disorder that causes chronic, painful muscle spasms for years, this patient has smoked marijuana to counteract this terrible symptom, and it works with medicinal marijuana now legal in new jersey, this patient is not convinced that she will be safe from federal prosecution if she goes through the state's one operational dispensary, so she continues to purchase illegal, untaxed and potentially adulterated cannabis while she is technically a criminal, she is neither laughable nor fictional those opposed to marijuana do raise important concerns that are often neglected in the movement toward legalization cannabis is indeed associated with low motivation and poor performance in minors it may have subtle but long term negative effects on young users and worsen the condition of some individuals vulnerable to psychosis smoking marijuana may be harmful to users' lungs, although vaporizers have long been available as a safer alternative cannabis is habit forming in a small percentage of users marijuana intoxication impairs driving, though the risk is similar to that of drivers with a blood alcohol level of 005%, which is well below the federally mandated legal limit of 008% so why can't the opposition discuss these problems realistically? it's simple: because the only rational conclusion is that the dangers of pot are not sufficient to warrant its prohibition yet those who have an ideological opposition to legalization appear immune to reason interestingly, frum is a moderate in the opposition camp, in that he favors reducing the penalties for marijuana use through decriminalization but by maintaining pot's nominal illegality, decriminalization denies our government the power to regulate and tax cannabis while removing obstacles to its consumption those who would limit the cannabis trade must make a choice between two americas one that crushes the marijuana trade by any means necessary (as nothing less has worked) or one that regulates and taxes a 'soft' drug that millions of consenting american adults already consume medicinally as well as recreationally frum warns of the coming of 'big marijuana,' a term he quoted from legalization opponent kevin sabet frum and sabet compare this hypothetical leviathan to the alcohol and tobacco industries, both of which have been accused of marketing to minors and encouraging destructive consumption of their products by adults i share this concern, which is why several of the 15 steps i proposed for the federal regulation of cannabis are designed to limit the power of the cannabis industry frum predicts that big marijuana will target 'young people and racial minorities' because 'secure and contented people don't tend to be heavy consumers of psychoactive substances' setting aside the odd assumptions about who are insecure and discontent, minors and minorities could both benefit from legalization it is our government, not big marijuana, that disproportionately targets racial minorities for prosecution of marijuana crimes, causing much more harm to those communities than cannabis itself ever could and our prosecution of healthy adults for their relatively benign use of marijuana prevents the justice system from focusing on the diversion of pot to the young people we all want to protect but in reality, we already have 'big marijuana' in the form of violent mexican drug cartels and an underground economy in the 48 states where pot remains illegal we currently live in a nation that does not regulate the ubiquitous, thriving cannabis trade i want to raise my children in an america that does the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of david nathan
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baghdad, iraq (cnn) iraq has signed its first major oil deal with a foreign company since the fall of saddam hussein's regime, a spokesman for the iraqi oil ministry said saturday iraq's oil fields currently produce about 25 million barrels a day it was the first time in more than 35 years that iraq has allowed foreign oil companies to do business inside its borders the contract with the china national petroleum corporation could be worth up to $3 billion it would allow the cnpc to develop an oil field in southern iraq's wasit province for about 20 years, oil ministry spokesman assim jihad said iraq's cabinet must still approve the contract, but jihad said that would happen soon and work could start within a few months the chinese company will provide technical advisers, oil workers and equipment to develop al ahdab oil field, providing fuel for al zubaidiya power plant in wasit, southeast of baghdad, bordering iran, jihad said once development begins, the field is expected to start producing a preliminary amount of 25,000 barrels of oil a day and an estimated constant daily amount of 125,000 barrels after three years, he said iraq currently produces about 25 million barrels a day, 2 million of which are exported daily, jihad said that is close to its status before the us led war that toppled saddam in 2003, but below its levels prior to the persian gulf war in 1991 iraqi oil minister hussein shahrastani said in july that he is confident iraq will be able to double its production in the next five years as it did with other international companies, the saddam regime had a partnership contract with cnpc signed at the end of the 1990s that entitled the company to share profits the current contract, however, will be only a 'service contract' under which cnpc is simply paid for its services, jihad said he said iraq has provided 'security guarantees' for cnpc, as it would for any other foreign company that will work in iraq's oil fields jihad called it a major and significant move for iraq iraq sparked a scramble for lucrative oil contracts in june, when shahrastani opened bidding to 35 international companies for long term contracts to redevelop six oil fields the oil ministry continues to negotiate short term, no bid contracts with several us and european oil companies, including exxon mobil corp, royal dutch shell, total sa, chevron corp and bp iraq has among the largest oil reserves in the world, with an estimated 115 billion barrels, tying iran for the no 2 status behind saudi arabia's 264 billion barrels, according to estimates from the energy information administration cnn's jomana karadsheh contributed to this report
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iraq signs $3 billion oil deal with chinese national oil company . deal is first major contract with foreign company since fall of saddam hussein . china national petroleum corporation to develop oil field in southern wasit province . oil field expected to produce 125,000 barrels a day within three years
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(cnn) with her doe eyes, razor sharp cheek bones, flowing jet black locks and the most talked about rump in the business, it's no wonder she's on the cover of arguably the world's most prestigious fashion magazine but in an unusual twist, the beguiling female bearing all on the front of this month's vogue isn't a model, actress, or musician she's not even human instead, the beautiful creature gracing the landmark australian edition of the magazine is a six year old horse called black caviar not just any horse, but perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, unbeaten in a staggering 22 consecutive competitions across the globe and worth more than $7 million in prize money vogue australia has featured oscar winning actresses, princesses and supermodels on its front covers, but now for the first time in the magazine's 53 year history it will be a four legged beauty looking out from the publication's most important page 'she's beautiful and vogue is about celebrating the beautiful,' vogue australia editor, edwina mccann, told cnn 'what goes on vogue's cover can create news in itself it wasn't just that black caviar was on the cover of any women's magazine the endorsement of the vogue brand is a very big statement' since demolishing the field in her first win in the 2009 danehill stakes, an air of mystique has followed the world champion sprinter her unblemished 22 win record is the second highest of all time, only trailing behind hungarian horse kincsem, which apparently took 54 races in the late 1800s queen elizabeth personally congratulated the magnificent mare after her nailbiting win at the prestigious diamond jubilee stakes in july it was later revealed the thoroughbred had won the esteemed title with a leg injury only adding to her mythical invincibility unsurprisingly, horse racing mad australians have taken the champion thoroughbred to their hearts, with diehard black caviar fans even traveling to the other side of the world to cheer her on at britain's royal ascot 'her allegiance level is phenomenal,' colin madden, one of black caviar's eight owners, said 'she's a powerful horse who just fronts up every time and people really like that consistency' 'i don't know if she'll replace phar lap the gelding who dominated the australian racing scene during the great depression of the 1930s but in the pantheon of equine greats she will stand very tall' vogue had wanted to 'celebrate all things australian' for their december issue, believing black caviar vividly embodied the country's unique 'fighting spirit' 'australians are passionate about horse racing we're the only country in the world that literally stops for a horse race the melbourne cup,' mccann said 'we love a champion and black caviar strives to win even when the chips are down those principles are very dear to us' the photo shoot took place in a secret location in the dandenong ranges, just outside of melbourne australian photographer benny horne captured the thoroughbred alongside compatriot model julia nobis in a purpose built outdoor studio 'black caviar definitely realizes when the camera is on her her ears go up, she sticks her head out, it's almost like she's posing,' mccann said 'she's such a magnificent looking animal her coat is this extraordinary pitch black, almost like velvet, with this handsomely structured face and that awesome rump that propels her so fast' black caviar's owners have gone to great lengths to ensure her persona is aligned with sophistication and style everything from her name, to her salmon colored silks and even her own line of grooming products are modeled on classy femininity 'vogue is synonymous with style, glamor, celebrity and exclusivity that a horse has appeared on the front cover says something about both horse racing and the horse itself,' simon chadwick, professor of sport business strategy and marketing at coventry university, said 'i think the sports market has now gone beyond simple endorsement,' he added 'it's now more a form of strategic collaboration where brands with convergent interests associate themselves with one another' it is a momentous cover for the magazine which has largely steered cleared of controversial models among its more historic front pages was the september 1993 issue featuring elaine george, the magazine's first aboriginal model however, 'this is definitely our most unusual cover,' said mccann for many aspiring models, gracing the cover of vogue would be the ultimate elevation to 'it girl' status galling then, that black caviar seems to have beaten them to the post yet again
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vogue australia features horse on front cover for first time . champion thoroughbred black caviar arguably greatest race horse . winning streak and beautiful physique capture nation's imagination . photoshoot in secret location to protect horse worth almost $7m
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(timecom) with tuesday's unveiling of the ipad mini and a fourth generation full sized ipad, this has been a major week for the ipad on friday, windows 8 went on sale — making it an even bigger week for windows pcs but this newsiest of tech news weeks also turns out to be a reasonably significant one for the mac much of apple's tuesday event was devoted to new models, including a substantial overhaul of the 13″ macbook pro with a retina display, two absurdly thin new imacs and an updated mac mini the profusion of new models was good news for mac fans who have been known to fret that the mac is being neglected as the iphone and ipad become ever more important to apple's bottom line and future as usual, apple teed off its announcements with happy recent stats i was aware that the mac has outpaced the rest of the pc industry in sales growth for years, but i didn't know that the macbook is the best selling notebook line in the us, and the imac is the best selling desktop those achievements are more evidence that apple's mac strategy — build premium machines, sell them profitably and don't obsess over market share — doesn't mean that it can't end up with impressive market share anyhow after the tuesday presentation, i sat down with apple senior vp of worldwide marketing phil schiller, who did the presenting of new models on tuesday, and chatted with him about today's macs, and how they got that way i began by asking him about the streamlining of mac hardware that's been going on for years now apple has put its computers into unibody cases, sealed in the batteries, removed the optical drives, dumped hard disks when possible and either shrunk or eliminated many once standard connectors rather than adding new features with abandon, as tech companies usually do, it's whittled the mac down to its elegant essence many of these changes have been controversial, at least briefly, at least among some observers but they don't seem to have hurt mac sales what was the overarching strategy, i asked? 'this is what apple has always been about, and the mac has been about, from the first mac and first imac,' schiller said 'it's always been about making the best mac we know how among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features this high level of integration is part of delivering on that' schiller pointed out some of the downsides of the technologies it's removed or downplayed: rotating hard disks, for instance, use more power and are more likely to have reliability issues than solid state storage 'these old technologies are holding us back,' he said 'they're anchors on where we want to go' 'we find the things that have outlived their useful purpose our competitors are afraid to remove them we try to find better solutions — our customers have given us a lot of trust' apple began removing dvd burners from portable computers, where weight and thinness are paramount — at least to apple — years ago but the new imacs are the first ones without optical drives i asked schiller if that was a more difficult decision 'it actually comes from similar thinking as with the portables,' schiller said 'in general, it's a good idea to remove these rotating medias from our computers and other devices they have inherent issues — they're mechanical and sometimes break, they use power and are large we can create products that are smaller, lighter and consume less power' schiller pointed out that one major application for optical drives, software distribution, has gone largely digital as for video, he said that 'blu ray has come with issues unrelated to the actual quality of the movie that make [it] a complex and not great technologyso for a whole plethora of reasons, it makes a lot of sense to get rid of optical discs in desktops and notebooks' his preferred blu ray alternative? itunes, of course, which lets you buy a movie and then watch it on all your apple devices once upon a time, people assumed that macs' lack of blu ray was a delay, not a permanent decision to fast forward past it i told schiller that i imagined folks don't ask about it much these days 'correct,' he said i noted that for years, pundits thought apple would, or at least should, start making much cheaper macs i said that drumbeat seems to have come and gone, and asked schiller if everyone finally understood that apple was content with its strategy of sticking with the high end of the market 'our approach at apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves,' he told me 'we wouldn't make something cheap or low quality when the economy is difficult, people care a great deal about the things they spend their money on customers have come to understand that apple's products aren't priced high — they're priced on the value of what we build into them' 'there's something that happened in the industrythat made that topic meaningless there were these products being created called netbooks people said they were the future we rejected them because we thought they were poor even if the market was going there, we weren't going to chase everybody downhill' netbooks eventually turned out to be a fad and of course, apple was working on a lower cost computing device 'the ipad became our answer to the $500 computer time has proved us right on that point and now 100 million people agree that the ipad is a great computer' oh yeah: i wouldn't be an inquiring reporter if i hadn't asked schiller for his take on windows 8 and microsoft's strategy of building one operating system for both conventional pcs and tablets he politely declined comment: 'primarily, we think about what we're doing, not what others do' at least i tried © 2012 time, inc time is a registered trademark of time inc used with permission
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apple's phil schiller talks about new enhancements to the mac computer line . rather than adding new features, apple has whittled the mac down to its essence . schiller: 'old technologies are holding us back they're anchors on where we want to go'
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(cnn) a beijing court has sentenced a wheelchair bound man, who set off a homemade explosive inside beijing capital international airport in july, to six years in prison ji zhongxing, 34, from shandong province, was found guilty of setting off an explosive device in a public place, according to a statement released by beijing chaoyang district people's court it said that an investigation had found that ji, who claimed he had been paralyzed after being beaten by security guards, was dissatisfied with how he had been treated by authorities the court said the explosive device was contained inside a green canvas bag with the chinese characters for revenge written on it and ji hid the device inside his pants to evade airport security checks at around 6pm local time on july 20, ji handed out leaflets detailing his grievances outside the exit of terminal 3, the statement said he then passed the explosive from hand to hand while police officers tried to persuade him not to detonate the device ji's arm was seriously injured during the explosion and a policeman also sustained injuries on his personal blog in 2006, ji had said he had been attacked and beaten by security guards outside a police station in 2005 after carrying a passenger on his motorcycle he was paralyzed after the incident and petitioned for official compensation the attack took place while ji was working in dongguan, a factory town in the southern chinese province of guangdong guangdong provincial authorities said in july that they would look into the alleged unjust treatment, the china daily reported however, the newspaper also reported that dongguan police said ji was not attacked and was instead injured when he fell off his motorcycle police in ji's home county said dongguan authorities gave him 100,000 yuan (us$16,290) in compensation in 2010 in china, people often petition local and national authorities about their grievances cnn's feng ke reported from beijing, katie hunt wrote from hong kong
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beijing court has sentenced a wheelchair bound man to six years in prison . he was found guilty of setting off an explosive device in a public place . man claimed he had been paralyzed after being beaten by security guards . court said he was unsatisfied with how he had been treated by authorities
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new york (cnn) topps meat co on saturday expanded a recall of ground beef from about 300,000 pounds to 217 million pounds, one of the largest meat recalls in us history the recalled products are all ground beef patties with various brand names in a statement, the elizabeth, new jersey, company said the hamburger patties may be contaminated with e coli o157:h7, a bacterium that can cause severe diarrhea and cramps, as well as other complications a statement from the us department of agriculture said 25 illnesses are under investigation in connecticut, florida, indiana, maine, new jersey, new york, ohio and pennsylvania the ground beef products being recalled have a 'sell by date' or a 'best if used by date' between september 25, 2007, and september 25, 2008, topps' statement said watch the latest on the beef recall » the packages also have the marking 'est 9748' inside the usda mark of inspection tuesday, the company announced a recall of about 331,000 pounds of hamburger meat, according to the usda 'because the health and safety of our consumers is our top priority, we are taking these expansive measures,' said vice president of operations geoffrey livermore in the statement 'topps is continuing to work with the usda, state departments of health, retailers and distributors to ensure the safety of our consumers additionally, we have augmented our internal quality control procedures with microbiologists and food safety experts we sincerely regret any inconvenience and concerns this may cause our consumers,' livermore said this is the company's first recall in its 65 years of business, the statement said consumers who find the products at home are asked to cut off the upc code and return it to topps for a full refund, then dispose of the product immediately, topps spokeswoman michelle williams said the company said to avoid e coli, consumers should wash hands thoroughly after handling the beef topps set up a toll free recall help line at (888) 734 0451 williams said because the products may have been produced up to a year ago, many of them have already been safely consumed production in the ground beef area of the company's plant in elizabeth has been shut down until all the investigations are complete, williams said in a phone interview 'we're working with the usda and the cdc [centers for disease control and prevention] and conducting our own investigation,' she added the products, all ground beef patties and hamburgers with various brand names, were distributed mainly in the northeastern united states, but went to retailers in many other areas of the country as well, williams said while the sheer size of the recall is large, two other companies have been involved in larger recalls in 2002, pilgrim's pride recalled more than 27 million pounds of poultry, and hudson foods recalled 25 million pounds of ground beef in 1997 e mail to a friend
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(cnn) it's all tied up in texas sens hillary clinton and barack obama are running a tight race in texas a new cnn/opinion research corp poll suggests the battle for the democratic presidential nomination between sens hillary clinton of new york and barack obama of illinois is a statistical dead heat in texas, which holds primaries march 4 in the survey, out monday, 50 percent of likely democratic primary voters support clinton as their choice for the party's nominee, with 48 percent backing obama but taking into account the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 4½ percentage points for democratic respondents, the race is a virtual tie watch democrats target texas » two recent polls by other organizations also show the race statistically even map: national and state polling 'one reason the race appears to be tight is that texas democrats are having a hard time choosing between two attractive options,' says cnn polling director keating holland 'likely democratic primary voters would be equally happy if either candidate won the nomination, and they don't see a lot of difference between them on several top issues 'roughly a quarter of likely voters say they could change their minds in the next two weeks and not surprisingly, those people are splitting roughly equally between clinton and obama' many political strategists and analysts consider texas and ohio which also holds a march 4 primary must win states for clinton obama has won the past eight contests and is now ahead in the overall battle for delegates, 193 of which are at stake in texas the new survey indicates arizona sen john mccain is the clear favorite for the republican presidential nomination among republicans, 55 percent of likely texas gop primary voters support mccain as their choice for nominee thirty two percent back former arkansas gov mike huckabee and 11 percent support home state congressman and former libertarian standard bearer ron paul the poll's sampling error for republican respondents is 4 percentage points the cnn/opinion research corp poll was conducted by telephone from friday through sunday pollsters talked to 1,506 adults in texas, including 553 likely republican primary voters and 529 likely democratic primary voters mccain is the overwhelming front runner in the fight for the republican presidential nomination and party leaders have rallied around the candidate in an attempt for party unity the poll was released on the same day the only living former republican president george herbert walker bush, the current president's father endorsed mccain at an event in houston watch mccain get a big boost » but mccain has had trouble winning conservative voters just last week, mccain lost the conservative vote to huckabee in the virginia primary, according to exit polls the new survey, though, suggests mccain may have better luck in texas 'it looks like mccain has made some inroads with conservative republicans,' holland said 'mccain is picking up a bare majority among conservative likely voters in the gop primary the mccain campaign probably wishes that number were higher, but it does mean that a mccain victory in texas would not be based on the votes of moderates and independents, as has happened in several states in the past few weeks' texas democrats and republicans may not see eye to eye on the issues, but the poll suggests they do agree on what's the most important issue thirty five percent of democrats and an equal number of republicans said the economy was the most important issue in their choice for president the second most important issue for democrats was health care, at 23 percent, followed by the war in iraq at 22 percent, illegal immigration at 10 percent and terrorism at 7 percent nineteen percent of republicans said illegal immigration was their most important issue, putting it in second place, followed by the war in iraq and terrorism at 17 percent and health care at 8 percent sixty percent of republicans say they'll definitely support the candidate they are now backing that number climbs to 76 percent for democrats likely democratic primary voters view clinton and obama on roughly equal terms seventy nine percent say they would be satisfied if clinton were the nominee; an equal number feel the same way about obama seventy nine percent say it's likely clinton can win the nomination; 82 percent say the same about obama the two candidates are essentially tied on immigration, iraq and the economy, but clinton has an advantage on health care and abortion e mail to a friend
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(cnn) the message sent by the military council that rules egypt was simple: 'don't mess with egypt's armed forces' the message received by the activists who flooded tahrir square 18 months ago: 'egypt's revolution, which began with a bang, is ending with a whimper' with several decrees, the supreme council of the armed forces a body of 20 generals moved to neuter civilian authority and give itself unprecedented powers it got some help from the supreme constitutional court the timing was hardly coincidental the candidate of the muslim brotherhood was running strongly in the final round of the presidential election against a former egyptian air force general [read more about the candidates] what many observers are calling a 'constitutional coup' has serious implications not only for the prospect of democracy in egypt, but also for the future of the arab world and for the close relationship between washington and cairo conflicting reports about whether mubarak has died the drama began thursday, when the court ruled to expel one third of the parliament entrusted with drafting a new constitution the court held that the entire parliament, in which the muslim brotherhood and allies have a majority, had to be disbanded the court's ruling was 'absurd, destructive and essentially voids egypt's last year of politics of meaning,' marc lynch wrote in foreign policy the director of the institute for middle east studies said the country was going through the 'stupidest transition in history' 'with egypt looking ahead to no parliament, no constitution and a deeply divisive new president, it's fair to say the experiment in military led transition has come to its disappointing end,' lynch wrote while egypt dealt with upheaval, its justice ministry (part of the government appointed by the ruling military council) extended the powers of military police and intelligence agents, allowing them to arrest civilians for a wide range of offenses, including protesting late sunday, egyptians had still gone ahead and voted in the presidential election the united states embassy in cairo tweeted monday: 'we congratulate egypt on this presidential race it's a historic event 4 democracy in egypt' hours later, the view from the us state department seemed different 'we are particularly concerned by decisions that appear to prolong the military's hold on power,' said spokeswoman victoria nuland meanwhile, the supreme council announced that an appointed assembly would draft the constitution, replacing the assembly chosen by the elected parliament the supreme council also announced it would 'decide all matters related to military affairs,' including the country's defense budget there would be no civilian oversight, they said egyptians already appeared to be losing faith in politics, with a low turnout in voting between the muslim brotherhood's candidate, mohammed al morsi, and ahmed shafik, who was mubarak's last prime minister now, whoever wins could discover the office of the president has much lesser authority than it did before nobel laureate mohamed elbaradei, himself once a presidential contender, tweeted: 'electing president in the absence of constitution and parliament is electing an 'emperor' with more powers than deposed dictator a travesty' elbaradei was once considered a sell out by disappointed leaderless revolutionaries for not participating in this year's presidential race whatever their ultimate goal, egypt's traditional institutions are reasserting themselves in the face of an unpredictable political landscape the supreme constitutional court is afraid the muslim brotherhood plans to reform the judicial system, said steve cook, a senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations nathan brown, a political science professor at george washington university, agrees 'the supreme council of the armed forces and the court have a similar outlook, regarding themselves as guardians of the egyptian state with responsibilities above politics,' he said 'both felt threatened by the prospect of a muslim brotherhood dominated system the egyptian military has now become a state within a state, with oversight of the political system and the constitutional process,' brown said all four egyptian presidents over the past 60 years have been former military men the military and retired generals, like their counterparts in pakistan, run important state enterprises, overseeing everything from food manufacturing to running hotel resorts but what's new and unusual in egypt is that the military had put itself beyond civilian control it is 'the locus of power, authority and legitimacy in the system, without having to run the country on a day to day basis,' cook said debate rages over whether this power grab was the military's plan all along, or whether it has reacted to events michael hanna, an analyst at the century foundation, thinks it was the latter 'over the past several months, they saw that the political climate had shifted in their favor and consequently regained their confidence,' he said 'they knew the revolutionaries had lost support on the streets and were viewed negatively, so they seized the opportunity' many egyptians still feel the military is something to be proud of, a sentiment shared especially among the poor who are more concerned that egypt becomes stable and they can provide for their families in the upper egyptian rural governorate of asyut, home to many young people who have served in the military, factory worker mohammed nour, 23, praised the military 'the military and the people are still one hand,' he said 'the military alone can save egypt and make us one of the greatest countries in the world' meanwhile, secular pro democracy activists who took to tahrir square last year are wringing their hands the very democratic structure they dreamed of appears to have withered in part because they developed no unifying ideology they appeared to have no plan for a post mubarak egypt they failed to get solidly behind a single presidential candidate, not least because several possible contenders were disqualified mahmoud salem, a popular blogger who has journaled the revolution and goes by the name sandmonkey, said the pro democracy movement has itself to blame 'you successfully dethrone a tyrant, and you have neither plan nor vision on what to do afterwards, and no real understanding of the regime itself,' he posted but he also criticized reformers who voted for the muslim brotherhood's presidential candidate simply because he was not the 'counter revolutionary' 'our revolution called for a civil state: nonreligious, nonmilitary, and this guy will try to form a religious military state,' salem wrote about morsi cook said he believes that the supreme council of the armed forces won't be swayed by reaction from the united states the united states gives $13 billion in annual aid to egypt, an amount second only to aid the united states provides to israel 'the question is, does anyone in cairo care?' he said 'the answer is yes and no it is clear that the [top military commander and de facto leader of egypt] field marshal [mohamad ] tantawi and his colleagues are giving far more weight to their domestic interests than the potential consequences with the united states' but a note from us defense secretary leon panetta to tantawi to 'ensure a full and peaceful transition to democracy' appears to have fallen on deaf ears cook wrote the recent book, 'the struggle for egypt: from nasser to tahrir square,' chronicling the influence of the military in egyptian national politics cook said the level of aid has been static since the early 1980s 'historically, the military aid program was intended to help secure peace between egypt and israel, establish an ally that could be an asset for military contingencies in the gulf and be a partner to prevent soviet penetration of the region,' he said 'now, we are basically paying for access to airspace and transit through the suez canal' 'now isn't the time to publicly threaten to end us aid, in the midst of an extremely volatile and fluid situation,' lynch said 'but it is the time to forcefully convey to the scaf privately that the transfer to civilian rule really does matter to the us' shadi hamid, research director at the brookings doha center, disagreed 'the us has to show that it's on the side of egyptian democracy and willing to stand up for it publicly,' he said 'frankly it has to undo damage obama's policy toward the arab spring has been completely reactive we wait until something disastrous happens when we should have anticipated it months ago' the political chaos and an ever worsening economy appears to have induced a sense of resignation among egyptians the turnout in sunday's run off vote and the prospect of the muslim brotherhood joining forces with secular activists in defense of democracy seems remote some secularists even take solace from the dissolution of the parliament, thinking they may do better in fresh elections but that shouldn't be confused with stability, warns lynch if shafik is declared the victor, 'he will preside over a country in economic collapse, with little prospect of restoring investor confidence any time soon' mahmoud salem, aka sandmoney, said the pro democracy movement must start over 'do something except running around from demonstration to march to sit in,' he wrote 'real street work means that the street you live in knows you and trusts you, and will move with you, because you help them and care for them, not because you want to achieve some lofty notions you read about in a book' but with a people more exhausted than incensed by 18 months of uncertainty, finding the determination for another uprising won't come easily fast facts on the life of hosni mubarak cnn's ashley fantz contributed to this report
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tokyo (cnn) prime minister yoshihiko noda of japan dissolved the lower house of the country's parliament on friday, setting the stage for a general election next month that is expected to bring losses to his party the decision, made under pressure from the main opposition liberal democrat party (ldp), is likely to prove unpopular with some members of noda's own party, the democratic party, which has been in power for a little over three years and it may cost him his job in office since september 2011, noda is a the latest in a string of politically fragile japanese leaders he is the sixth prime minister in the six years since the departure of junichiro koizumi, who was in power for more than five years approval ratings for noda and his cabinet have sagged deeply in the polls, as japan has failed to haul itself out of the economic morass in which it has stagnated for the past two decades many members of his party fear losing their seats in an election but with the japanese government heading toward a financial crunch, noda agreed earlier this week to dissolve the lower house of parliament if the ldp gave its support to key legislation, including a vital bill that enables the government to keep financing itself that bill was passed friday by the upper house, where the opposition holds sway in cabinet revamp, japan's noda brings in woman with china ties noda followed through on his side of the deal later friday by dissolving the lower house of parliament and thus setting in motion the election process lawmakers called out 'banzai, banzai,' an expression of enthusiasm, as the speaker of the house, takahiro yokomichi, read out the letter of dissolution according to the japanese constitution, the election must be held within 40 days of the dissolution noda's office said that leaders of the democratic party have agreed to push for an election date of december 16, which will be set by a steering committee based on current forecasts in japan, neither of the two main parties is likely to secure enough votes in the election to form a majority government the ldp is led by shinzo abe, a former prime minister who stepped down citing health reasons in 2007 after only a year in office despite the bleak election prospects for his party, noda was left with little choice this week other than to strike a deal with abe failure to get the crucial financial bill through the ldp controlled upper house would have left the government in danger of running out of cash members of the upper house are elected according to a different schedule from the lower house japan: get ready for a rightward shift the potential stalemate between the two main parties at the lower house election next month raises the prospect of a period of deal making with smaller parties in the legislature to form a coalition independent parties have proliferated in japan recently, with the former democratic party leader ichiro ozawa leading a breakaway in july that weakened noda's majority and the outspoken nationalist shintaro ishihara resigned as governor of tokyo last month in order to form his own party and run for parliament the big question is whether the government that emerges from the election will have the unity and vision to enact measures to get the country out of its economic woes data released this week showed the japanese economy contracted at an annual rate of 35% in the latest quarter, suggesting it risks slipping back into recession a bitter territorial dispute with china has infected trade relations between the two asian economic giants chinese consumers have been shunning japanese goods because of the spat, sharply dragging down sales in the country for car makers like toyota and nissan more broadly, the country is wrestling with a huge debt burden and an increasingly aging population, challenges that analysts say will require bold reforms to tackle cnn's junko ogura in tokyo, and jethro mullen in hong kong contributed to this report
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(cnn) mangled metal, puffs of smoke, chunks of concrete, blood and a crowd of people walking around dazed, shocked and crying that was the scene on a damascus street friday after a car bomb exploded and killed several people some of the dead were reported to be children the blast seemed to mock the truce that the syrian government and rebels agreed to abide by earlier this week the truce, negotiated by the united nations' special envoy to syria, was supposed to last during eid al adha, the four day muslim holiday that celebrates the end of the hajj a syrian purportedly at the scene captured a video and posted it on youtube cnn cannot verify that the footage is authentic, just like so many amateur videos shot during a war that foreign journalists have been blocked from covering rebels said the blast went off near a playground this kind of violence isn't normal in a neighborhood such as zouhr, a government held stronghold zouhr has been generally quiet; there are still pockets in the capital city that have avoided chaos that explains why parents might believe that they could safely bring their kids to a playground to celebrate eid there's a mosque nearby, and it's customary to gather with family and pray to mark the holiday about 15 minutes after the blast, syria security forces showed up and shot directly at someone filming the scene, a source who cnn has spoken with before inside syria recounted cnn is not naming her to protect her safety 'the people were mad with grief, with rage,' she said a small demonstration formed, as syrians chanted against the assad regime, she said they immediately blamed president bashar al assad's forces for the bomb 'the whole neighborhood came down to the street,' she said 'it is really outrageous we are enraged! kids! in a playground! the families were trying to take them out of the environment of death and blood for one day,' she said 'for one day they were trying to make them forgot the bombs and the bullets that are surrounding us' it's unclear who was behind the bombing syrian state media blamed the blast on 'terrorists,' a line the government has used since the beginning of the movement against al assad began in march 2011 officials have constantly argued that the government has a right to respond to 'terrorist' attacks, including bombings, as well as 'terrorists' trying to reinforce their positions in almost two years, more than 32,000 people have died in battles involving rebels and al assad's forces there are also jihadist elements operating in syria, cnn has reported a woman speaking for anti government rebels blamed syrian forces, and told cnn that most of the dead were children syrian state media reported that five people were killed and 32 wounded rebels said 10 were dead because syria has restricted the access of international journalists in the country, cnn can't confirm reports of violence rebels said the blast occurred in a public square where families were celebrating eid their spokeswoman was not at the scene but said she was receiving reports from those who were the car bomb was perhaps the worst of the reported violence, but there were other incidents at least 103 people were killed around the nation friday, according to opposition groups both sides accused the other of violating the cease fire 'we are, again, calling on both sides not just to talk the talk, but to walk the walk, and we have seen some violations on both sides,' said us state department spokeswoman victoria nuland earlier in the capital, snipers fired from buildings soldiers shot protesters elsewhere in the country video on youtube purportedly shows men walking down a street in damascus carrying guns constant gunfire can be heard as well as a man repeatedly saying 'allahu akbar,' or god is great cnn is unable to authenticate the footage the idea of a cease fire was met with skepticism immediately after it was floated on wednesday diplomats, experts in the region and rebels predicted that the agreement would fail they said wednesday and thursday that the effort would just be a repeat of a cease fire failure in april by sunrise friday, thousands of people poured into the streets across syria to protest against al assad why region fears al assad's 'blackmail' in beirut rebel groups reported these additional bouts of violence across the country: at least three people were killed in tank and sniper fire in a damascus suburb where government forces have been battling rebel forces on and off for control fierce fighting broke out between government forces and the al qaeda linked al nusra front, which had said earlier it would not abide by the terms of the temporary truce the al nusra fighters laid siege to a military encampment east of the city of maaret al numan government forces shelled a neighborhood in the flashpoint city of homs where the opposition alleged six rockets fell, wounding two people and damaging a number of buildings video of the alleged destruction appeared on youtube at least three people suffered gunshot wounds when syrian forces fired shots in the air in an attempt to disperse protesters in the town of inkhil in dara province on the rebel side, a top free syrian army general said thursday his fighters had agreed to halt military operations if the syrian government were to do so as well but he said he doubted that the truce would hold syria's rebel opposition is fractured, and gen mustafa al sheikh said that some rebel groups have not agreed to halt operations the government, meanwhile, touted its several goodwill efforts thursday leading to its announcement that it will stop fighting state run tv aired footage of men walking out of a prison part of a government amnesty program, a commentator said the release came a week after rebel fighters told al jazeera news agency that they would agree to a proposed cease fire only if the government were to release detainees, end a siege in the city of homs and halt aerial attacks cnn's chelsea j carter and hamdi alkhshali contributed to this report
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(cnn) 'rethinking grid dependence in new climate reality' that was my sole tweet in the aftermath of sandy, sent after four long nights with my wife and daughter in our cold, dark living room, cut off from the infrastructure and the people that normally keep us going indeed, in a reality where charging a cell phone requires finding a friend who not only admits to having power but also agrees to let you come over and plug into it, the relationship of self sufficiency to community resources takes on a whole new meaning and it reflects not only the core themes of the election, but also the main conceptual challenges facing our society at the dawn of the digital age: do i depend on the collective, or do i go it alone? 'insane,' 'inspiring' new york polling places in sandy's wake in the hard hit areas of lower manhattan, queens, jersey and the unlucky suburbs, people who had their own generators, supplies, and wood stoves fared better than those of us depending on downed wires, closed supermarkets, and electrically ignited furnaces for power, food, and heat at least for a while some offered extension cords from their homes, or even a spot on the floor to sleep others nodded in acknowledgment when they heard of our misfortune, but offered no help as if they didn't understand that we were suffering from more than the inconvenience of no cable tv their quizzical looks seemed to say, why should their own success but for the grace of god, in many cases obligate them to help others? lz: obama still fighting for those who are hurting this all changed soon enough, when they lost the ability to find gasoline to power those generators, ice to keep the food cool, or dry firewood to burn then they were out scavenging for resources like the rest of us in my little world of media and technology, self sufficiency had more to do with having chosen to keep copies of all of my work files, computer programs, and entertainment right on my own devices rather than depending entirely on the miracle of cloud computing this meant that when my family finally evacuated our frigid home (turns out fireplaces don't make much heat), we could bring my book drafts and my daughter's american girl movies along with us i'm no doomsday prepper, but i have always had reservations about relegating my files to the servers of others when we finally arrived at the closest open hotel room to our home in new york's suburbs it was downtown philadelphia we didn't bother with any of our technology, anyway my daughter was excited to see and play with other kids families relocated by fema from devastated parts of new jersey, arriving at the hotel with dogs, hotel vouchers, and printed google maps now that i was in a hotel lounge with working wifi, i really didn't care anymore about whether my work was getting done, or whether i could dazzle my twitter followers with any insights or witticisms about this whole mess i didn't care about the election or about the new york marathon, or least of all about e mails about work anthony bourdain says help nyc restaurants: eat out, tip big instead, i sat in a hotel lounge with working wifi, and along with a half dozen dads my age, watched our childhood rock 'n' roll heroes springsteen, aerosmith, and billy joel perform at a telethon over images that may as well have been our own neighborhoods: fallen trees, crushed homes, families wading through the floods sting came on and did a strange, acoustic version of message in a bottle there with my fellow displaced sandy victims, i realized that i, for the first time, was on the other side of the telethon i was the one 'sending out an sos' although i had fared a lot better than the poor denizens of breezy point or the rockaways and i wasn't going to be seeking a fema reimbursement or need help rebuilding my home, i was still on the victim's end of the equation i was the person looking to be shared with rather than looking how to share (or hoard) what i had with found time to rethink my approach to life and its inevitable disasters, zombie apocalypse scenarios playing out in my head, it became clear to me that the ideological divide america seems to be facing is a false one those of us needing help weren't lazy or weak, and those in a position to provide it were able to do so only by virtue of collective resources opinion: jersey shore, i'll miss you the only home generators that worked all week, for example, irrespective of the long lines at the pump, were the ones that used natural gas, itself the product of the energy grid the men getting in fights over the few available gasoline generators being sold out of the back of trucks at the local home depot (as a 125 pound intellectual, i didn't stand a chance) may have proven their muscle, but ended up with at best three hours of heat before they went in search of nonexistent fuel see, what we used to call the commons the resources and technologies used by everyone are what make individual success even possible a shared resource like the internet may allow great entrepreneurs to break from the pack to achieve wild success, but they need to continue to invest in the commons, not as a form of charity or penance but as a self interested strategy for their own sustainability or, put another way, the family that shares its electricity and living room with less fortunate storm victims will have more friends collecting firewood when the lights go out the next day those of us who got hit hard will remember who was there with an open hand, and who wasn't as the checkout lady at the a&p said to me this morning, 'it takes something like this for people to show their true colors' then she added, with a smile, 'at least now you know' new jersey lets sandy victims vote via e mail people who managed to succeed in the crisis employed mixed strategies they did make wise personal preparations such as wood stoves instead of ineffectual fireplaces, natural gas generators instead of gasoline ones, a good supply of stored food and water but they also employed ones that showed an awareness of the need for infrastructure, the importance of longer term thinking, and the strength of community our political parties make it out to be an irreconcilable distinction, as if america had to choose between one path or the other: greed or compassion, liberty or communism but there is no choice we do not choose between our personal success and our collective welfare we don't get one without the other the storm that broke records and hearts the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of douglas rushkoff
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toulouse, france (cnn) the suspect in a deadly shooting spree at a jewish school in france knows he is being hunted and might carry out another attack, paris chief prosecutor francois molins warned tuesday he said the killer is 'very determined' and has committed premeditated murders, targeting victims based on their race or religion 'the criminal is anti semitic or terrorist,' molins said 'one does not exclude the other' the shooting on monday was the third fatal attack on minorities in southwest france in eight days the region remains on scarlet alert, the highest level in france, after a teacher and three children two of them his own young sons were gunned down monday at ozar hatorah, a jewish school in toulouse the other victim, the daughter of the school's director, was killed in front of her father in monday's incident, a man wearing a motorcycle helmet and driving a motor scooter pulled up in front of the jewish school just before 8 am and started shooting, authorities said he shot his victims in the head, local journalist gil bousquet said the gunman then fled, interior ministry spokesman pierre henry brandet said the same method was used in the earlier soldiers' shootings one of the guns used monday was also used in the killings of french soldiers of north african and caribbean origin on march 11 and march 15, said elisabeth allannic, a spokeswoman for judicial authorities in paris the first victim was a 39 year old man, shot in toulouse, while the other two were 24 and 26, according to french authorities a court in paris has opened an investigation into the three killings, under anti terrorism powers it is the first time a scarlet alert has been declared, french media reports say the status means the state can implement sweeping security measures to guard against an imminent threat of major terrorist attacks measures include increased security at schools, heightened surveillance of jewish and muslim sites, restrictions on traffic and access to public buildings, additional police on duty and extra scrutiny of passengers and baggage on public transport, the local haute garonne authorities said monday in an online statement france, with one of the largest jewish populations in europe, had 389 reported acts of anti semitism in 2011, according to the representative council of jewish institutions in france, known by the french acronym crif the group issued a statement saying that while it is too early to determine definitively the motive for the crime, it appears to be a case of anti semitism it called for increased security at places of worship and study as the investigation continues exceptional measures have been put in place to find the suspect as soon as possible, molins told reporters in paris investigators must verify witness accounts and analyze some 7,800 hours of surveillance footage, he said the witness accounts indicate that the criminal is slim and around 175 meters tall (5 foot, 9 inches), he said all the victims were shot in the head at point blank range, he added interior minister claude gueant said authorities are investigating the possibility that neo nazis may have been behind the attacks the gunman wore a camera on his chest during the attack, gueant told europe 1 on tuesday the minister said a witness told authorities about the device, but it was not clear whether it recorded the crime, gueant said france observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims on tuesday morning, with president nicolas sarkozy marking it at a school in paris 'this happened in toulouse, in a religious school, to children from jewish families, but it could have happened here,' he told the students 'it could have been the same assassin these children are exactly like you' fear, confusion on streets of toulouse the bodies of the four victims arrived at paris charles de gaulle airport, said an official with the consistory of paris, a group representing jewish communities sarkzoy and joel mergui, the president of the consistory of paris, were present to receive them the bodies were to be flown late tuesday to israel and buried wednesday morning in jerusalem sarkozy wrote monday to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to express his condolences for the loss of the victims, three of whom the teacher and his sons held dual israeli french citizenship the teacher was born and raised in bordeaux, in southwestern france, but pursued his religious studies in israel he married and had children before returning to teach at the toulouse school, the consistory said the decision to send the bodies to israel was made because of their faith rather than their nationality, the consistory said as practicing jews, their burial in the birthplace of judaism ensures that their remains will not be tampered with, it added forty percent of french practicing jews are buried in israel, the consistory said sarkozy, who is running for re election, suspended his campaign in light of the wave of violence against minorities france has a complex history with the far right there has been steady if minority support for the national front party founded by jean marie le pen and now led by his daughter, marine the senior le pen came in second in the 2002 presidential elections, and his daughter is a candidate this year sarkozy himself said in an interview earlier this month that france has too many immigrants 'our system of integration is working worse and worse, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school,' he told france 2 tv on march 6 historian and author patrick weil told cnn it is likely that public shock over the attacks will calm the campaign rhetoric directed at minorities security heightened in us synagogues police in new york, washington and san francisco increased patrols of synagogues and jewish institutions, with new york police commissioner ray kelly citing fears someone might stage a 'copy cat' attack but he and the city's mayor stressed there was no 'specific' intelligence indicating an active threat cnn's anna pritchard, bharati naik, jim bittermann and dheepthi namasivayam contributed to this report
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witnesses describe the gunman as slim, 5 foot 9, prosecutor francois molins says . all the victims were shot in the head from point blank range, the prosecutor says . interior minister claude gueant says authorities looking at possible neo nazi involvement . the gunman who killed 4 at a jewish school was wearing a camera, the minister says
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sydney, australia (cnn) a design issue rather than poor maintenance is likely to blame for the mid flight failure of a qantas airliner's engine, the ceo of the australian carrier said friday one of the four engines on the qantas airbus a380 shut down six minutes after takeoff thursday from singapore's changi airport, forcing it to return and make an emergency landing the plane with 440 passengers and 26 crew members was headed to sydney, australia but while above the western indonesian island of batam, part of the engine's covering, or cowling, tore off 'this issue does not relate to maintenance; this is an engine issue,' ceo alan joyce told reporters friday 'and the engines have been maintained by rolls royce since they've been installed on the aircraft' 'so we believe that this is probably most likely a material failure or some sort of design issue that we're tracking and trying to understand,' he added 'we don't believe this is related to maintenance in any way' on friday, airbus announced that it had asked all operators of a380s with rolls royce engines to inspect them as a precaution following the qantas ceo's comments, a rolls royce spokesman referred back to his company's earlier news statement, which said: 'since qantas qf32 suffered an engine failure and returned safely to singapore changi airport, we have been working closely with our customer and the authorities in situations like these, rolls royce has well established processes to collect and understand information relating to the event and to determine suitable actions' after the incident, qantas australia's national airline grounded its airbus a380 fleet the airline said flights of the twin deck planes the world's largest airliners will remain suspended until an investigation is complete on friday, joyce said qantas hopes to resume a380 flights within 48 hours, after completing engine safety checks 'we believe over the next 24 to 48 hours, those checks will be complete on all of the a380s, and if we don't find any adverse findings out of the checks, the aircraft will resume operations,' he said qantas has six a380s in its fleet of 191 planes airbus will at some point deliver 14 more, the airline said passengers on the detoured qantas flight spent the night in singapore, then flew to australia on friday 'passengers left on a special qantas flight at 10:30 am local back to sydney,' said airline representative ashley edwards knapp cnn's zain verjee and ben brumfield contributed to this report
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washington (cnn) president barack obama and his opponent former massachusetts gov mitt romney have touted their records of hiring women while in office—but both candidates have a mixed record on equal hiring and closing the gender pay gap under the obama administration, the median salary for female federal employees is nearly 93% of what men make, according to the us merit systems protection board, an agency that works to protect the rights of federal employees that figure while up from just over 83% in 1991 does not represent complete pay parity the obama white house had women holding just under 40% of jobs paying $75,000 or more in 2011 according to a university of massachusetts center for women in politics and public policy study, when romney was sworn in as governor in 2003, 42% of his administration's senior level appointments were women that figure dropped to 25% during the last two years of his tenure opinion: does romney 'get' women who work? the political gender wars erupted anew during tuesday night's presidential debate when each candidate accused the other of not doing enough to help women some of the most heated exchanges between the candidates in their second debate were over so called 'women's issues' obama pointed to the fact that the first bill he signed as president, the lilly ledbetter fair pay act, eases the way for women to sue if they aren't being paid equitably 'so we fixed that,' mr obama said 'and that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need because women are increasingly the breadwinners in the family' romney had not stated a public position on lilly ledbetter before tuesday's debate when he said he would not seek to repeal it his running mate, rep paul ryan, voted against the bill 'binders,' cooking and equal pay: did romney undo gains with women voters? romney attempted to appeal to women's pocketbooks saying that women have been especially hard hit by the economic downturn — a problem he said he would solve if elected president 'there are three and a half million more women living in poverty today than when the president took office,' romney said 'we don't have to live like this we can get this economy going again' ryan focused on how women fared under the obama administration at a campaign rally in central florida thursday 'over 5 million women have just left the work force fewer women are working today than when he took office and so of the people who have been hit the hardest, it's women' women are back on the job '[w]e've got to champion small businesses which are the kinds of companies that have flexible job schedules that women can get easily back in to the work force,' continued ryan 'and of all the things we can do to get women back into the workforce, get them the skills they need, get an economy, and help those small businesses bring them back into the work force so they can provide for themselves and their families' nationally, women earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to the bureau of labor statistics behind the war of words is the reality that both candidates must make significant inroads with female voters — a group that makes up the majority of the electorate—in order to win the election poll: what are the most important women's issues? the candidates are statistically even among women voters in swing states, according to a new usa today/gallup poll with obama at 49% and romney at 48% these numbers track with similar polling data following romney's strong performance in the first presidential debate 'the race among women was much tighter in swing states,' said andra gillespie, an associate professor of political science at emory university in atlanta 'from now on, i would expect that president obama will tout his record on pay equity and support for contraception to shore up support among women still, i would expect that obama's performance will be stronger among single than married women the question will be whether he can get single women to turn out in high rates this time around' poll: in swing states, likely women voters are split both candidates have used their records of hiring women to illustrate to potential voters that they understand women's issues the white house points to highly placed women in the administration as an example of what it sees as its strong record of gender equality those positions include supreme court justices sonia sotomayor and elena kagan as well as secretary of state hillary clinton, homeland security secretary janet napolitano, health secretary kathleen sebelius, labor secretary hilda solis and un ambassador susan rice the white house also says that more than half of the staff is made up of women, who fulfill key senior leadership roles romney, who worked in business before serving as governor of massachusetts, said he 'learned a great deal' about the inequalities between men and women in the workplace when leading his state the highest ranking woman in his administration was lt gov kerry healey beth myers has long held senior positions in romney's political campaign cnn fact check: candidates positions on contraception? when he and his staff ran into problems finding qualified female applicants to fill cabinet posts, romney said he 'went to a number of women's groups and said, 'can you help us find folks?' and they brought us whole binders full of women' obama was quick to use the 'binders' line against romney on the campaign trail on wednesday 'we don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now,' obama told supporters in mount vernon, iowa undecided women voters who were watching the debate and participating in a focus group in ohio, reacted positively to romney's anecdote during dial testing for cnn the responses from the women jumped sharply on screen when romney spoke about workplace flexibility three of romney's former female cabinet members talk about their experience working for romney when he was governor in an ad put out by the campaign on thursday ellen roy herzfelder, who served as romney's former secretary of environmental affairs; jane edmonds, romney's former secretary of workforce; and beth lindstrom, former director of consumer affairs and business regulation, all appear in the ad 'he totally gets working women,' herzfelder said in the ad cnn fact check: romney, women and jobs cnn's tom cohen and shawna shepherd contributed to this report
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(cnn) 'we all dream of a team of carraghers' is a tribute to liverpool fc's former player and cult hero, jamie carragher, which dares to imagine a first 11 made up entirely of the club's legendary defender it seems italy's mario balotelli's mind is set on something else the striker posted a photo on his facebook page featuring a panini sticker book featuring the entire italy squad made up entirely of his own stickers it shows some real application on the part of balo, as he is affectionately known it wouldn't have been that easy to get so many copies of his own sticker the italian is a divisive figure and has had more than his fair share of off field headlines the ac milan striker, who broke english hearts in manaus over the weekend by scoring the winning goal in their group d match, is well known for not only his on field prowess but also a series of ill judged pranks, including one which culminated in his setting his house on fire with fireworks while at manchester city that got him plenty of column inches, which he lapped up, acknowledging the fascination with his hijinks by wearing a t shirt on field which read, 'why always me?' now, it seems he's answered his own question with his vision for the perfect italian lineup why not only him?
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(cnn) the steep, picturesque canyons that wind through colorado's northern front range have been a draw for tourists, day trippers and homebuyers for more than a century but when record setting rainfall began to hit last week, those picturesque canyons became funnels that poured hundreds of tons of water per second into towns like boulder, longmont and lyons and left hundreds stranded in the mountains above 'this flood was a direct result of the large amount of rainfall that occurred in a widespread area, essentially from denver north to almost the wyoming state line, and for a long duration for about a 48 hour period last week,' said robert kimbrough, a hydrologist with the us geological survey in denver coloradans are still digging out from those floods, which have been up to 1,000 year events in some communities a stream of unusually humid air that was sweeping over the area early last week helped fuel the storms high pressure east of the mountains bumped up against a low pressure system to the west, triggering several days of storms as moist air flowed up the peaks of the rockies, where cold air wrung the water out of it the rain began september 10, with an inch recorded in boulder nearly two inches fell the next day then on september 12, boulder recorded 908 inches of rain nearly double the city's previous one day record, and almost half its 205 inch yearly average a forecaster in the national weather service office there called it 'biblical' more than 4 more inches of rain fell by the week's end, bringing the september total to more than 17 inches so far that's boosted the yearly precipitation figure, measured from october through september, to more than 30 inches to date the most in 120 years of record keeping the biggest rainfall amounts occurred over the foothills of the rockies, kimbrough said that water poured down the mountainsides into the major tributaries of the south platte river boulder creek and the st vrain, big thompson and cache la poudre rivers how to help 'it really originated in the streams that drain off the east side of the continental divide into the front range of colorado, but it all happened fairly quickly,' kimbrough said 'even though the leading edge was in the foothills, we did see it very quickly on the 12th in communities like boulder and lyons and longmont' the result was six dead and about 200 who remained unaccounted for, though most of those are believed to be alive and well boulder county reduced its count from 109 people to four still unaccounted for on wednesday, while in larimer county, to the north, the number remained at 197 nearly 18,000 homes have been damaged statewide now the runoff is coursing down the south platte into neighboring nebraska, where forecasters are warning of flooding into the weekend 'we're in the grand island area anxiously waiting to see how the platte river responds and to see how much of the water reaches us here,' mary harner told cnn affiliate khas many in colorado returned home to heartbreaking scenes in lyons, on the st vrain river 15 miles north of boulder, high water pushed entire houses around like furniture streets were dotted with snapped utility poles stories of grief, generosity and gratitude the extensive damage may present long term problems for communities even as workers scramble to make repairs, larimer county sheriff justin smith said tuesday questions of how to provide emergency services to areas where roads have been washed out or protect properties where the owners have been evacuated are still being worked out, he said 'we have a new normal in larimer county for months, if not a few years,' smith said cnn's kyung lah, faith karimi and sean morris contributed to this report
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boulder county says only 4 still unaccounted for . boulder saw nearly half its annual rainfall in a single day . 'it all happened fairly quickly,' a scientist says . nebraska warily watches the rising south platte
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(cnn) the first time an assassin's bullet tried to find her, maria santos gorrostieta escaped, but her husband was killed that was in 2009, when she was mayor of tiquicheo, a small town in the mexican state of michoacan, which has seen some of the most brutal drug related violence president elect: more than drugs define mexico the bullets found her in january of 2010, but again, she survived she remained defiant, lifting her shirt at one point to show reporters her bullet wounds and scars after the second attack gorrostieta finished her term as mayor in 2011 and remarried but the forces who wanted her dead prevailed this month, kidnapping her while she drove her daughter to school gorrostieta's body was found last week, her hands bound no bullets this time investigators said there was evidence of a blow to the back of the head it was a shocking end to a public servant who vowed to put her small town's interests first while she held a position that many try to influence 'i will rise up again as many times as god allows me to so that i can keep on seeking, fighting for, and working out plans, projects and actions for the benefit of the people, especially those most in need,' gorrostieta, who was also a medical doctor, said after one of the unsuccessful attacks against her michoacan is the scene of a turf war between rival drug cartels, and smaller organized crime groups operate there as well in 2009, she spoke about the importance of entrusting the mayor's office to a woman 'the most important thing is not to be afraid,' she said then, gaining a reputation for civic mindedness stories of heroes and villains constantly emerge from mexico, where acts of bravery and savagery coexist in the midst of a plague of drug violence mexican beauty queen killed in shootout mexican president elect: not just drugs gorrostieta's story appears to fall easily within the heroic category, though a report published tuesday in the leading newspaper el universal is a reminder that the most accurate tales often include shades of gray even though a majority of mexico is safe from drug violence, the newspaper described gorrostieta's city of tiquicheo as one where the local drug trade called the shots and, citing unnamed sources, may have factored in its politics investigators are not ruling out any possible motives political, personal or criminal in her killing, the state's deputy attorney general, marco aguilera, told cnn the investigation is focusing on reconstructing the 11 months of gorrostieta's life since leaving office and whether there is anything that indicates impending danger the former mayor did not reach out to authorities to seek protection or to report threats at any time, aguilera said the deputy attorney general said that her first husband, jose sanchez, had been the target of a failed assassination attempt before the first attack against his wife, in which sanchez died between them, the couple was targeted a total of four times, and a motive for the attacks was never established, aguilera said
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maria santos gorrostieta was fearless in the face of assassination attempts . she was hailed for her bravery, but was found dead last week . a report says the local drug trade called the shots in her town of tiquicheo . investigators aren't ruling out any possible motives political, personal or criminal
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joliet, illinois (cnn) the trial of former chicago area police sgt drew peterson, accused of killing his ex wife, focused wednesday on an incident in which he allegedly had threatened to kill her with a knife defense attorneys sought to discredit kathleen savio's account of the july 2002 incident, in which she had said peterson pushed her down the stairs of her home, upset about their divorce proceedings, and told her to turn her head so he could kill her peterson, 58, is on trial, charged with the murder of savio, his third wife, who was found dead in her dry, clean bathtub march 1, 2004 a classic case of domestic violence? the case did not arise until after peterson's fourth wife, stacy, went missing in october 2007 it was during the search for stacy peterson, who has never been found, that investigators said they would look again at savio's death, which was initially ruled a drowning savio's death was ruled a homicide in february 2008, and peterson was later arrested and indicted on first degree murder the court heard wednesday afternoon from the forensic pathologist who conducted the second autopsy that led to the homicide ruling peterson has been called a suspect in stacy peterson's disappearance, though he has never been charged in that case wednesday morning's testimony began with the cross examination of bolingbrook, illinois, police lt teresa kernc, who took a police report from savio about the alleged knife incident in 2002 prosecutors examined kernc on tuesday savio had written in the police report that peterson pushed her down the stairs and told her not to get up, then told her how 'awful and bitchy' she was and that she should stop being so terrible to him savio had written that she grew tired of his rant, so she told him, ''go ahead, just kill me' he said, 'where do you want it?' and i said, 'in the head' he said, 'ok, then turn your head,' and i did it and then he said that he would never be able to hurt me and then he left' kernc testified that savio told her verbally that peterson threatened her with a knife, but that she didn't include it when she wrote her statement 'i told her to put in the report what happened i said, 'the knife part isn't in here you need to put in here what actually happened,'' kernc testified 'then she wrote it in there, and a short time later she crossed the knife part out she expressed concern about him being arrested and losing his job' defense attorney steve greenberg noted the incident is alleged to have happened july 5, 2002, but that savio didn't call kernc to make the report until july 18 he also pointed out that peterson had served savio with a criminal complaint just '10 or 15 minutes' before she filed the police report, but that she never mentioned that to kernc is the defense team too confident? savio had told kernc that after peterson left she immediately called several people, including friend and neighbor mary pontarelli, and told them about the knife incident but according to greenberg, pontarelli said savio described only a 'nice conversation' with her husband that description was 'consistent' with what peterson told kernc when she interviewed him about the incident, greenberg said kernc ended her testimony by saying she wasn't sure whether savio was telling the truth about peterson wielding a knife 'you had some concerns about whether that actually happened?' greenberg asked 'yes,' kernc replied 'and that was based on your complete investigation?' he asked 'yes,' kernc said the afternoon session of the trial was expected to include testimony by the doctor who performed savio's second autopsy, and by scott rossetto, stacy peterson's friend in the afternoon, the court heard from dr larry blum, who performed the autopsy on salvio's body after she was exhumed in 2007 blum testified that savio suffered a laceration to the back of her scalp, which led to dried blood on her face and around the drain when she was found he said it would have been 'impossible' for the blood to have dried like that had there been water in the tub he also testified that salvio had a number of fresh bruises less than an hour old on the front of her body, including to her hip bones, thigh, shins, and hands blum said he also found a fresh abrasion on her buttocks that 'would not be consistent with someone's slip and fall' he did not testify about why the first autopsy would have ruled her death accidental the peterson trial began july 31 and is expected to last about four weeks repeated missteps by the prosecution are angering judge edward burmila and the defense at least four times since the trial began, prosecutors have allowed witnesses to testify to details burmila has told them not to go into such as whether savio had a protective order against her husband or allowing blum to demonstrate climbing into the bathtub in some cases the defense has sought a mistrial and in others they have asked the judge to strike entire testimony burmila has instead ordered the jury to disregard elements of the testimony that went against his orders 'the disrespect to the court is shocking,' burmila told the prosecution wednesday peterson was married to savio in 2001 when he had an affair with then 17 year old stacy cales, whom he would later marry savio and peterson filed for divorce in october 2001 and their relationship remained contentious for the next several years bolingbrook police records indicate officers were called to savio's home 18 times to intervene in domestic fights from 2002 to 2004 peterson had savio arrested twice for domestic violence, though she was found not guilty in both cases savio's order of protection on february 27, 2004, peterson picked up his two sons from savio's home, spending the next two days with them prosecutors believe that he entered her home again early on february 29 and killed savio at the time of her death, which authorities initially treated as an accident, a court was mulling how the couple's marital assets would be divided, and savio was set to receive part of peterson's pension and other support the defense contends savio fell accidentally, hit her head, and drowned in session's michael christian contributed to this report
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(cnn) throughout history, the greatest artists have relied on their muses to inspire, enchant and satisfy them pablo picasso immortalized mistress dora maar in his 1937 painting weeping woman, andy warhol catapulted model edie sedgwick to 'it girl' status in his 1960s avant garde films, while leonardo da vinci made the woman behind his 'mona lisa' perhaps the most famous muse of all time but the elusive figure of the muse doesn't always have to be that of a beautiful woman the dark beauty with flowing locks and sinewy limbs depicted in artist michael kirkbride's latest painting isn't a luscious lady it's a horse not just any horse, but arguably the greatest race horse of all time since demolishing the field in his first major win at the royal lodge stakes in 2010, an air of mystique has followed world champion thoroughbred frankel the superstar colt, who even has its own twitter handle, has not just won all 14 of his races he has won them by staggering margins, destroying world class fields,becoming by a distance the top rated race horse on the planet in his last race, the thoroughbred won the champion stakes at ascot, with a sell out crowd of 32,000 catching a final glimpse of the now celebrity horse as as he powered to a dramatic victory writer blaine ward's personal 'frankel moment' came earlier in the horse's stellar career, an experience which later paved the way for artist kirkbride to paint his unusual surrealist work 'i had been watching last year's 2000 guineas race on tv when frankel just pounded the other horses into the ground,' said ward 'he easily won by a good six lengths none of the others even came close 'in my mind's eye i saw frankel smashing through the screen into my living room; this powerful, beautiful, almost mythical beast' a 51 year old former solicitor from sunderland in north east england, blaine was so moved by frankel's win he wrote a poem about the centaur like creature bursting into his suburban home in a blaze of glory it read in part: 'then a smell of burnt air mixed with horse flesh when the telly exploded in his face as the frankel centaur burst in green and pink silk, fluid powerful grace' it was a special sporting moment and had a profound effect on ward, who described frankel's win as akin to watching boxer muhammad ali or footballer lionel messi in action 'it was one of those rare times when you get a sense you've just witnessed somebody or something at the very pinnacle of sporting prowess,' he said 'mere words are never good enough to do it justice' and so ward enlisted kirkbride, a lecturer at the royal academy of dramatic art in london (rada) to paint the champion horse powering into a suburban living room, knocking ward and his wife from their chairs and spilling their afternoon gin and tonics to the floor 'the result is a surreal cocktail of his words and my interpretation in art form,' kirkbride said 'the modern domestic scene is shattered by the magisterial beast that is frankel' kirkbride painted the work, called 'armchair ride,' in egg tempura; a mixture of colored pigment and egg yolk which dates back to the 1st century the method, which gives a luminous quality, was later superseded by oil painting around the 15th century 'it has a kind of stained glass quality to it, like shining a light from behind,' said kirkbride 'the pinks and blues of frankel's silks are quite strong and i thought they really lent themselves to the medium' kirkbride is perhaps best known for his paintings of english football scenes, such as 'chech mates,' which captures the unusual tradition of chelsea fans throwing celery, or 'bar kick,' which portrays sporting revelry in a pub after saturday though, and kirkbride will be painting fabulous frankel smashing not just a tv screen, but the record books all over again
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from picasso's dora maar to andy warhol's edie sedgwick, muses inspire great artists . but muses aren't always beautiful women sometimes they're a horse . champion thoroughbred frankel inspires poem and painting ahead of last race . arguably world's greatest race horse secured 14th win at ascot's champions stakes
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(cnn) with construction cranes and steel skyscrapers dominating the skyline of luanda, the capital of angola, it is hard to overlook how far the southwestern african country has come since the end of its brutal civil war in 2002 over the last decade, the oil rich nation has emerged from the wreckage of a 27 year vicious conflict to become today one of the major economic players in the continent as the country, sub saharan africa's third largest economy, heads to the polls friday for its second peacetime elections, a new generation of post war youth, many of whom have no direct memories of conflict, will cast their ballots for the first time 'there's a new generation coming, emerging in the scene,' says markus weimer, coordinator of the angola forum at chatham house 'new generation, new ideas and new demands on the government which is very interesting and that is one of the reasons why these elections are so important' new constitution friday's elections will only be angola's third poll since the lusophone country gained independence from portugal in 1975 elections in 1992 were abandoned midway and led to an outbreak of further violence, while the 2008 parliamentary vote was won by the ruling mpla party with a landslide 82% under the terms of a new constitution approved in 2010, the leader of the party that wins friday's parliamentary vote will automatically become angola's president 'this is the first time since 1992 that the president will have a democratic mandate,' says weimer watch: angola's growth nine political parties and coalitions, including mpla's civil war enemy unita, are running on friday's elections, when more than nine million voters will go to the polls to elect the 220 members of the national assembly analysts expect mpla to win again with a sizeable majority, allowing incumbent president jose eduardo dos santos, who's been in power since 1979, to have five more years in office opinion: is oil rich angola a development success? they note, however, that the ruling party's margin of victory will be smaller than in 2008 'i think that the last elections where mpla won the 82% of the vote is unlikely to be repeated,' says weimer 'that was a 'freak' sort of result that had many historical and social reasons the war, demographics, etc but i think this is now going to drop' electoral process in 2008, unita accused mpla of rigging the elections after gaining 10% of the vote the opposition party has also been complaining about irregularities since the start of the current election campaign, arguing that the mpla controls the state media and undermines the electoral process while both the southern african development community and the african union have sent a team of election observers in angola, the european union has decided not to deploy a mission in the country in contrast to the 2008 poll 'that could be a serious deficit,' says weimer, adding that 'legitimacy is the most crucial issue' of friday's vote he notes that the ruling party has the most to lose if the poll is seen as illegitimate, both within the country and abroad 'if these elections are fine and everything goes smoothly, then it will send a signal to the world that angola is not just a country that is run by one person, but actually institutions than can provide stability,' says weimer economic boom the long serving dos santos, who turned 70 on tuesday, has maintained peace and political stability in the country since 2002, presiding over angola's post war economic growth and rebuilding efforts greased by growing oil revenues and china's credit lines of billions of dollars, angola's economy rocketed by an average annual growth of 17% from 2004 to 2008 before falling to single digit figures after the 2008 crisis watch: angola's economic potential angola is the second biggest oil producer in africa, turning out more than 19 million barrels per day, and boasts an expanding investment portfolio in its former colonial master, portugal, and other parts of africa tasked with rebuilding the country after decades of fighting, the government has pumped vast sums in recent years to repair a shattered infrastructure as well as build hospitals, universities and sports centers currently, it also allocates over 30% of its budget to social spending sharing the oil wealth? but despite the heady financial data and the progress made since 2002, angola still remains one of the most unequal societies in the world the country, which has a population of some 18 million people, ranks 148th out of 187 countries in the un's human development index this year the economy is expected to expand by 82% but critics say the billions of dollars from oil revenues have failed to close the stark gap between a tiny wealthy elite and the millions of poor living without access to electricity, water supply and sanitation next to the sleek skyscrapers and luxury apartments in luanda, which was last year named as the world's most expensive city for expats, ramshackle shantytowns and crowded slums spread for miles toward every direction, housing millions of people living on less than $2 a day 'the mpla and this government has not developed the country it's made lots of projects and has pulled in a lot of investments but nothing has actually trickled down,' says paula cristina roque, an angola expert at oxford university 'we haven't seen peace dividends of the nature that we need to see to actually cut back the poverty levels in the country,' she adds corruption further exacerbates discontent among the population, with angola ranked 168th out of 183 countries on transparency international's 2011 corruption perceptions index calls for economy diversification last year, angola's mining sector, dominated by oil, accounted for nearly half of the country's gdp but, with the petroleum sector providing jobs for 1% of the population, many have long been calling for the country to take more bold steps to diversify its economy to create jobs and help people lift out of poverty unemployment has been averaging an estimated 26% in the last five years 'whatever the angolan economy does, it needs to create jobs, it needs to sustain itself beyond oil,' says roque 'they absolutely need to diversify and very quickly' new generation amid such a background, a number of small but consistent demonstrations have taken place in angola since last year, revealing a growing frustration over the economic hardship still experienced by many in the country over the last few months, civil war veterans have taken to the streets to demand overdue subsidy payments while parts of disgruntled youth and civil rights activists have also staged rallies to voice their concerns over the lack of jobs and opportunities roque says the injection of a dynamic post war youth into angolan politics could shape the country's politics on friday and beyond 'people are no longer willing to give them [the government] a blind mandate,' she says 'they're actually now wanting more accountability and we've started seeing that in every waythe fear barrier has been lifted in angola'
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angola is heading to the polls friday for its second peacetime elections . a new generation of post war youth will vote for the first time . incumbent president jose eduardo dos santos is expected to win . the oil rich country's economy is booming but inequality remains
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(cnn) at least 200 people were evacuated from their homes, including 84 residents of an apartment building for the elderly, after a tanker truck carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline erupted early wednesday in a northern boston suburb firefighters battle a blaze wednesday north of boston after a tanker overturned carrying 9,000 gallons of gas no serious injuries were reported in the everett, massachusetts, blast, but witnesses recounted close calls to a local television station one man said he narrowly escaped from his car before it exploded 'in consideration of everything that firefighters had to deal with, i think it's a miracle that we haven't seen some serious injuries,' everett fire chief david butler said the tanker overturned and caught fire at a traffic circle in the town of about 37,000 outside boston officials are investigating whether the driver was speeding, butler said 'our major concerns right now are we still have an ongoing fire operation in the family dwellings, and we are still heavily engaged in those operations, and we have some concerns environmentally,' butler said watch residents of an elderly housing complex describe their shock » flames from the truck engulfed at least 40 cars and three buildings, two of them houses, fire officials said the truck was destroyed, but the driver was not seriously injured, the officials said wcvb tv in boston identified the driver as chad lafrance of dover, new hampshire seven hours after the truck caught fire, firefighters were still battling a blaze in one of the homes, according to the television station evacuees were taken to an armory converted into a shelter, red cross official amelia aubourg told cnn local streets were closed temporarily, and a nearby school was shut down for the day, wcvb reported one evacuee who fled a high rise building told the television station he saw at least 15 cars burning 'and popping, they were popping i don't know if it was tires that were blowing, but they were completely gone, the cars,' dan savage told wcvb nearby resident chris barrow awoke to the sound of a 'big bang,' he told wcvb at first, he thought it was a car accident, but when he went outside to investigate the noise, he saw fire 'just coming down the hill toward the houses as fast as you could think' barrow tried to escape in his car, but fire quickly surrounded the vehicle, he told the tv station 'i rode over the fire and my car caught fire,' he told wcvb 'i got out just in time, and i ran a couple feet just before it blew up' e mail to a friend cnn's michelle cumbo and saundra booker contributed to this report
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(cnn) despite the obvious claims of younger rivals cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi, few can really argue with the 96 football journalists who voted ricardo izecson dos santos leite as the 2007 world footballer of the year brazilian genius kaka fully deserves winning the 2007 world footballer of the year award the prestigious ballon d'or award is widely regarded as the most prestigious individual prize in football and kaka's inclusion on its coveted roll of honor is a testament to the 25 year old brazilian's current standing in world football when ac milan defeated liverpool in the champions league final in athens, avenging their heartbreaking loss to the same team in istanbul two years previously, it enabled kaka to fulfill his dream of holding aloft europe's premier trophy a winner's medal he fully deserved after a sublime 90 minute performance kaka's stock for both club and country has risen steadily since his move to the san siro from sao paulo for a fee of just $85 million in the summer of 2003 unlike many a brazilian sporting genius, kaka did not hone his skills on the beach or the streets of a favela shanty town he was born into a comfortable middle class brasilia family, where football was not the only hope of a bright future however, it soon became clear that this particular boy had a very special skill and he was signed by sao paulo, after his family had moved there, at just eight years of age making his first team debut as an 18 year old kaka's progress was soon picked up by his national team coach and felipe scolari named the graceful midfielder in his 23 man squad for the 2002 world cup finals, earning him a winners' medal despite playing only 19 minutes of the tournament in a group match against costa rica a year later, and kaka was on his way to milan within a month he had made the starting line up and his 10 goals helped the rossoneri lift the scudetto and the european super cup throughout his career, kaka has always possessed the innate ability to score goals his record for both club and country sees him average roughly a goal every three games yet to describe kaka merely as a goalscoring midfielder would be doing him a massive injustice tall, elegant and blessed with astonishing skill, milan and brazil utilize kaka's ability superbly milan coach carlo ancelotti soon recognized kaka's genius, changing his team's system to a 4 4 1 1, playing the brazilian behind a main target man with andrea pirlo and gennaro gattuso holding the central midfield area, kaka has a license to roam in behind the lone striker, be it filippo inzaghi, ronaldo or alberto gilardino and kaka does this with devastating effect, running at the opposition with pace and power, finding defense splitting passes or shooting from range with deadly accuracy be it from a dead ball situation or open play the fly in the ointment for milan comes in the shape of their poor form this season although they have already reached the last 16 of the champions league, the club are floundering in serie a and face the unthinkable prospect of not qualifying for next season's competition unless they win the trophy real madrid have coveted kaka for the last two years expect the world transfer record to be smashed if milan don't secure a place among europe's elite e mail to a friend
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kaka deservedly named world player of the year for the first time in his career . the brazilian beats cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi in the journalists' vote . the 25 year old averages one goal in three games for both ac milan and brazil
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paris, france (cnn) interpol on monday took the unprecendented step of making a global appeal for help to identify a man from digitally reconstructed photos taken from the internet that it said showed him sexually abusing underage boys this moving image shows how police used software to unscramble the image (source: interpol) the man's face was disguised by digital alteration, but the images were capable of being restored, according to a bulletin from interpol the international police agency based in lyon, france interpol secretary general ronald k noble said the pictures have been on the the internet for several years, but investigators have been unable to determine the man's identity or nationality 'we have tried all other means to identify and to bring him to justice, but we are now convinced that without the public's help this sexual predator could continue to rape and sexually abuse young children whose ages appear to range from six to early teens,' noble said he said there is 'very good reason to believe that he travels the world in order to sexually abuse and exploit vulnerable children' interpol has determined the photos were taken in vietnam and cambodia 'the decision to make public this man's picture was not one which was taken lightly,' said kristin kvigne, assistant director of interpol's trafficking in human beings unit the suspect's photo and more information can be seen online at interpol's web site e mail to a friend
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man posted photos on the internet of himself sexually abusing underage boys . computer experts managed to undo digital masking to reveal the man . man abused 12 boys in vietnam and cambodia
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(cnn) dozens of defense department personnel are actively engaged in fighting the wildfires raging in southern california, pentagon officials said tuesday, and thousands more national guard and active duty military personnel are available to help the rice fire, east of camp pendleton, caused the evacuation of the fallbrook community paul mchale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, said that 12 defense department firefighting teams, with 12 engines, are already working the blazes and more than 17,000 national guardsmen are potentially available if needed in addition, he said, 550 marines from camp pendleton are preparing to deploy to the fire area 'all of the aid that we provide is the result of a request from the state,' mchale said 'however, we have been very proactive in independently preparing those capabilities for the possibility of such requests, and we have reached out early to state officials' california gov arnold schwarzenegger has already called up 1,500 national guard troops, including more than 200 taken from border duty to help with supplies and security at san diego's qualcomm stadium and delmar fairgrounds and racetrack, where thousands of evacuated residents are taking shelter schwarzenegger also requested and received from the federal government six 'modular airborne fire fighting systems' units which are c 130s that drop water and fire suppressant on the blazes watch california gov arnold schwarzenegger talk about the crisis » the pentagon provided 11 helicopters equipped with water buckets to fight the fires, mchale said aerial attacks on the fires, however, have been minimal because of high santa ana winds with gusts approaching 70 mph in an effort to make room for more civilians who have had to evacuate their homes, sailors stationed in southern california are abandoning their barracks 'orders have been given to all sailors ashore in barracks to move to shipboard billeting to provide room for evacuees,' said a tuesday statement released by the us military only essential personnel are requested to report to duty at naval base san diego, naval amphibious base in coronado, and naval air station in el centro those bases have also set up cots and tents for evacuees also, the navy has offered an aegis cruiser, a guided missile destroyer, and two fast frigates to support evacuation efforts meanwhile, the pentagon designated march air reserve base as the primary staging area for medical and relief supplies coordinated by the federal emergency management agency, mchale said and some 100 california national guard medical personnel are helping alleviate 'critical staffing shortfalls' at the san diego veterans center, whose hospital staff are under voluntary and mandatory evacuation orders the fires are also having a direct effect on military personnel mchale said 1,400 navy personnel and their families have been forced to evacuate, and camp pendleton ordered 3,000 marines to evacuate because of the fire, the pentagon announced tuesday evening in all, the military has about video 20 facilities around the san diego area e mail to a friend
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new: fires at camp pendleton cause evacuation of 3,000 marines . military lending direct and indirect assistance to firefighting efforts . as firefighting efforts go on, base officials poised to evacuate . navy and marine corps have more than 20 facilities in san diego area
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(cnn) tom cruise expounds on his beliefs in scientology in a 2004 video that made its way onto the internet this week tom cruise appears with his wife, katie holmes, at a movie premiere earlier this month 'i think it's a privilege to call yourself a scientologist, and it's something you have to earn,' cruise says at the beginning of the video cruise says he's 'driven by the opportunity to really help, for the first time, change people's lives i'm absolutely, uncompromisingly dedicated to that' the video was shown at a 2004 scientology ceremony honoring cruise for his humanitarian work church of scientology officials said it can be viewed at any of its churches, but it created a stir this week when what the church calls a pirated and edited version appeared on youtube the video has since been taken off youtube, but an interview portion remained available on the celebrity web site gawkercom on thursday watch snippets of cruise video » 'the cruise indoctrination video scientology tried to suppress' is the title of gawkercom's presentation 'you have to watch this video,' the site says 'it shows tom cruise, with all the wide eyed fervor that he brings to the promotion of a movie, making the argument for scientology,' which it calls 'the bizarre 20th century religion watch 'showbiz tonight' discussion of cruise video » cruise talks over a repetitive guitar riff soundtrack, and appears to be answering questions, though an interviewer is not seen or heard a second part of the video, made available to cnn by the publisher of a new unauthorized biography of cruise, shows cruise accepting scientology's freedom medal of valor award and exchanging military like salutes with scientology chairman david miscavige to audience applause the publisher denies leaking other parts of the video to the web in the video by the publisher, cruise also salutes a portrait of l ron hubbard, cited on the church's web site as the founder of 'the only major religion founded in the 20th century' hubbard's biography cites his accomplishments as everything from mariner and horticulturalist to author and humanitarian in the video, cruise puts emphasis on the latter role a scientologist 'has the ability to create new realities and improve conditions,' cruise says on its web site, the church of scientology highlights its humanitarian work, from anti drug campaigns in places from minnesota to taiwan to teacher training in india the web site defines scientology as 'the study of truth' cruise embraces that in the video 'if you're a scientologist, you see things the way they are,' cruise says he also says he finds peace in the religion 'the more you know as a scientologist, you don't become overwhelmed by it,' according to cruise the unauthorized biography of cruise is by author andrew morton a cruise spokesperson and the church of scientology have disputed the book, saying morton did not seek their comment 'accuracy and truth were not on morton's agenda,' according to a church statement morton denies that and says cruise, who he calls 'a towering figure on the international scene,' and his faith are worthy of scrutiny 'tom cruise has done remarkable work for his faith over the past few years,' morton said 'if it wasn't for him the church of scientology would be a shadow of what it is today' e mail to a friend cnn's brad lendon, david mattingly and don lemon contributed to this report
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(cnn) the swedish security police have launched an investigation into 'unlawful intelligence activities' conducted by the us embassy in stockholm, according to a statement released saturday the investigation was opened one day after the us embassy there told authorities its employees had been conducting surveillance activities, similar to what was recently discovered in norway, according to the security police statement the work was primarily aimed at protecting the american embassy, the security police said the scale of surveillance is not known, but according to the statement, operations have been ongoing since 2000 they were conducted without the knowledge of the foreign affairs office, the justice department, the security or the local police in sweden, the statement said 'i think it's regrettable they have conducted these activities without informing swedish authorities,' sweden's justice minister beatrice ask told reporters saturday, as reported by cnn affiliate tv4 'i think it is very serious if these activities have been carried out in breach of swedish law,' she added the us embassy in stockholm released a statement saturday that recognized the existence of a program to detect suspicious activities around us facilities, and pointed to past terrorist attacks as evidence for why such a program is necessary 'it is not a secret program, nor is it an intelligence program,' the embassy said 'the united states fully respects swedish law, and welcomes justice minister ask's remarks at her press conference the us stands ready to answer any questions the government of sweden might ask us on this program' anders thornberg, head of the security measures department at the security police, said it is too soon to say whether the work was a breach of swedish law or not 'we have contacted the head prosecutor and are now working on gathering more information to see if the activities have been a breach of swedish law, and if so, whether we need to open a formal criminal investigation,' thornberg said also saturday, officials from the swedish foreign ministry met with the us ambassador to sweden to discuss the operations, teo zetterman, a spokesman for the foreign ministry told cnn 'i don't want to go into any details of what was discussed, but it was regarding their surveillance activities,' he said 'sweden has good ties with the united states and it is still too early to say whether this will affect our relationship,' he added 'we will continue to talk with the americans about this' earlier in the week, authorities in norway launched an investigation into whether the united states engaged in illegal surveillance in the nordic country the investigation there followed a report by norway's tv2, which claimed the us embassy in oslo has been conducting an 'illegal systematic surveillance of norwegian citizens' the channel reported the embassy hired former police officers and defense staff to take pictures and register people who behave in a suspicious way in order to stop attacks on american targets in norway without specifically mentioning tv2, the us embassy in stockholm said it was disappointed by the story's impact 'we regret that inflammatory and inaccurate press reporting which began in norway about this program has caused unease and concern among some of our friends,' the embassy said in its statement earlier in the week, us state department spokesman philip j crowley had said norwegian authorities were fully informed of the program a similar kind of surveillance has been reported by media organizations in denmark and germany danish tv2 has said the same kind of group operating in oslo has also been working for a number of years at the american embassy in copenhagen frankfurter rundschau, a german newspaper, reported american and german security experts have monitored activities around the american embassy in berlin
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new york (cnn) rapper ja rule will face two years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon on monday, according to a manhattan district attorney statement the 34 year old hip hop star, whose real name is jeff atkins, faced a single second degree weapons charge after police found a loaded semi automatic firearm with the serial number scratched off hidden in the backseat of his luxury maybach sedan, the statement said the incident occurred on new york's upper west side in july 2007, it said atkins, who was nominated for a grammy award in 2001, will be registered as a gun offender, according to the statement 'despite having some of the strongest anti gun laws in the nation, gun violence continues to plague this city,' district attorney cyrus r vance jr said 'gun crimes are serious offenses, and today's guilty plea should send a serious message to anyone thinking of illegally bringing a gun into new york city' atkins' attorney, stacey richman, called the deliberations 'unreasonable' after the rapper 'stepped up and took responsibility' for the violation monday's ruling comes less than a week after a months long police sting led to the arrest of a 20 year old accused of dealing cocaine and guns; he was charged with selling 25 illegal firearms to an undercover detective, prosecutors said shootings, and homicides by way of shootings, increased slightly in manhattan this year, while nearly a quarter of the 240 defendants indicted on gun possession charges in 2010 were identified as 18 years old or younger, according to the district attorney's office 'these are kids that should be headed to school, not a prison cell or an early grave,' vance said 'so we have a full court press on those who possess loaded firearms in manhattan, or who those sell loaded firearms'
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ja rule will face two years in prison after pleading guilty to gun charges . 34 year old faced one second degree weapons charge . former grammy nominee will be registered as a gun offender
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(cnn) it's been more than a year since nba legend shaquille o'neal retired from the court, and he says he doesn't miss it the basketball champ has his eye on a new target: diabetes 'it's alarming,' says o'neal 'we need to come together to try to help prevent the disease and stay healthy' nearly 26 million americans have diabetes, and another 79 million americans are considered pre diabetic, according to the american diabetes association approximately two thirds of diabetics eventually die from heart disease or a stroke for o'neal, the fight against diabetes is personal he was drawn to finding a solution after watching close family members struggle to manage the disease he's now focusing his energy on preventing people from developing diabetes in the first place waist size signals diabetes risk 'childhood obesity is getting worse,' he says 'people need to know the problem isn't going to go away unless we take control now' o'neal spent years taking flak about his fluctuating weight throughout his 19 year nba career but the self proclaimed 'freak of nature' says there's always been a method to his madness '[critics] would automatically say, 'he's out of shape,' but i wanted to just relax during the summer, hang out with the family, and then work my way into basketball playing shape,' says o'neal 'i've never been obese even now my body fat is only 13%' makers of diabetes drug will pay $90 million today, the 7 foot tall o'neal says his current weight stays around 350, 'plus 10,' but admits it's not easy to stay at a healthy weight and reduce his risk of developing diabetes o'neal says he limits the amount of carbohydrates in his diet, eats a salad for lunch everyday and only indulges in an occasional brownie, his vice he also clocks one hour of cardiovascular activity each day diabetes diagnoses increasing at alarming rate 'it's a different world we live in now,' says o'neal 'i always urge people to eat healthy and ask them to try to help your kids get exercise i stress the importance of keeping them in shape it's not about the physical appearance but for their health' in addition to raising awareness on how to prevent diabetes through a healthy lifestyle, o'neal says he also wants to help diabetics better manage their disease he recently invested in a product called glucose quick sticks, which he describes as a healthier alternative for diabetics when their blood sugar is low
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ashkelon, israel (cnn) the rockets come mostly in the morning, the men say, but many of the people of the town of ashkelon are always afraid 'we can't go on like this,' mayor benny vaknin said 'we have 131,000 people here and 26,000 children they are constantly under threat' rafel moshe, who was playing backgammon at a pizza place downtown, echoed the mayor's thoughts 'they don't want peace,' said moshe, speaking of the people in gaza 'how would you feel if your children were constantly scared?' ashkelon, about 15 kilometers from gaza, has suffered nearly two dozen rocket attacks since the back and forth firing of missiles and rockets between the israeli military and militants in gaza began wednesday fear, celebration in gaza city vaknin said 20 rockets were launched at ashkelon in the past 24 hours the city has an air defense system, the iron dome, which is designed to shoot down incoming rockets at porto pizza, the backgammon players said the worst attacks were in the morning, but as a cnn crew found, the rockets could come at any time just before 1 am the air raid sirens went off and then there was a noise just a few kilometers away that sounded like an impact from a rocket no injuries were reported the city's residents have experience dealing with how to quickly move to air raid shelters and some, like moshe, have a 'red alert' app for their smart phones that tracks rocket attacks israeli warplanes could be heard in the sky and, farther in the distance, the sound of shelling it was unclear if it was outgoing rockets from gaza or bombs being dropped another group of four jets flew over the city a few hours later as the crew was filing a report what's behind the conflict 'we don't want war but there are people all the time shooting at israel and we are quiet we stay quiet and the world doesn't see the truth,' moshe said
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israeli town 9 miles from gaza has had 20 rockets aimed at it . resident: gazans don't want peace . rocket attacks occur more often in the morning, men at pizza shop say
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(cnn) mother earth, it's shower time the planet won't be awash in water early saturday, but rather meteors it's part of an annual astronomical event known as the leonid meteor shower, falling in mid november as the earth passes through debris from comet tempel tuttle 'we're predicting a normal year of 15 to 20 meteors per hour,' said bill cooke of nasa's meteoroid environment office, according to a story on the space agency's website the fun begins friday night, with the peak activity expected around 4:30 am et the next morning, according to nasa for those wishing to wish on a shooting star, cooke recommends bundling up, getting away from the city lights and lying on your back (assuming you are able to still stay awake in doing so) one thing that stargazers have working to their advantage, assuming clouds don't muddle the festivities, is the fact the moon is in a crescent setting, meaning its light is less likely to obscure the show thankfully, there's no chance the earth will crash into comet tempel tuttle this year it was last in the solar system's inner orbit and closest to our planet in early 1998, nasa explains, and it won't be back for another 33 years but it left 'a stream of dusty debris,' known as leonid meteors, when it moved on through some of these remnants have drifted into the earth's orbital path and when our planet passes by, the meteors seem to be falling from the area of the constellation leo, the lion the relatively small bits of rock will enter the planet's atmosphere though they won't get far, burning up before they can hit the earth, according to stardate magazine, which is a product of the university of texas' mcdonald observatory
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the leonid meteor shower occurs every year in mid november . it happens as the earth passes a comet's debris that's now in its orbital path . a nasa expert predicts 15 to 20 meteors per hour this year
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(cnn) us health officials expressed concern friday that a swine flu virus that has infected eight people in the united states matches samples of a virus that has killed at least 68 people in mexico swine flu is usually diagnosed only in pigs or people in regular contact with them us health experts also are concerned because more than 1,000 people have fallen ill in mexico city in a short period of time 'this situation has been developing quickly,' said acting cdc director richard besser 'this is something we are worried about' new york health officials announced friday they are testing about 75 students at a queens school for swine flu after the students exhibited flu like symptoms this week a team of state health department doctors and staff went to the st francis preparatory school in queens on thursday after the students reported cough, fever, sore throat, aches and pains there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu there the tests results are expected as early as saturday of the 14 mexican samples tested by the centers for disease control and prevention, seven were identical to the swine flu virus found in texas and southern california, besser said at a news conference an eighth us case was reported friday all of the eight us patients have recovered, besser said watch for more on the us cases » as a precaution to avoid further contamination, schools and universities in mexico city and the state of mexico were closed friday, said the national health secretary, jose angel cordova villalobos he said the schools may remain closed for a while sixty eight people have died in mexico city, cordova said at a news conference more than 1,000 other people have gotten sick, he said mexican president felipe calderon canceled a trip friday to northern mexico so he could remain in mexico city to monitor the situation, the state run notimex news agency reported calderon met with his cabinet on thursday night to discuss the outbreak six of the us cases were found in california, and two in texas, near san antonio, cdc officials said the public health agency of canada issued a respiratory alert for mexico on wednesday, recommending that health providers 'actively look for cases' in canada, particularly in people who've returned from mexico within the last two weeks an alert issued friday by the international sos medical and consulting company said more than 130 cases of a severe respiratory illness have been detected in south and central mexico, some of which are due to influenza 'public health officials in mexico began actively looking for cases of respiratory illness upon noticing that the seasonal peak of influenza extended into april, when cases usually decline in number,' the medical alert said 'they found two outbreaks of illness one centered around distrito federal (mexico city), involving about 120 cases with 13 deaths the other is in san luis potosi, with 14 cases and four deaths' authorities also detected one death in oaxaca, in the south, and two in baja california norte, near san diego, california there was no indication why the international sos tallies did not match the mexican health secretary's figures the majority of cases are occurring in adults between 25 and 44 years of age the cdc first reported tuesday that two california children in the san diego area were infected with a virus called swine influenza a h1n1, whose combination of genes had not been seen before in flu viruses in humans or pigs the first two cases were picked up through an influenza monitoring program, with stations in san diego and el paso, texas the program monitors strains and tries to detect new ones before they spread, the cdc said other cases emerged through routine and expanded surveillance the human influenza vaccine's ability to protect against the new swine flu strain is unknown, and studies are ongoing, schuchat said there is no danger of contracting the virus from eating pork products, she said the new virus has genes from north american swine and avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza normally found in asia and europe, said nancy cox, chief of the cdc's influenza division the new strain of swine flu has resisted some antiviral drugs the cdc is working with health officials in california and texas and expects to find more cases, schuchat said a pandemic is defined as: a new virus to which everybody is susceptible; the ability to readily spread from person to person; and the capability of causing significant disease in humans, said dr jay steinberg, an infectious disease specialist at emory university hospital midtown in atlanta the new strain of swine flu meets only one of the criteria: novelty history indicates that flu pandemics tend to occur once every 20 years or so, so we're due for one, steinberg said 'i can say with 100 percent confidence that a pandemic of a new flu strain will spread in humans,' he said 'what i can't say is when it will occur' cnn's elizabeth landau contributed to this report
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(cnn) 'jamaica, we have a bobsled team,' cried the hollywood film that immortalized an unlikely quartet of winter olympians who became the story of the 1988 games the novelty of four jamaicans swapping their tropical caribbean homeland for the freezing slopes of canada to become the first team from their country to compete in the bobsleigh was a story that resonated around the world it also planted a seed in the brain of another jamaican who, 22 years later, began his quest to ski at the 2014 winter olympics in sochi now 42, michael williams is hoping he'll be the next pioneer from the great antilles to blaze a trail in sport though perhaps not quite to the same extent as the world's fastest man usain bolt 'i actually watched 'cool runnings' and the bobsleigh team from 1988 and was inspired,' williams, who refers to himself as 'the dream chaser,' told cnn's alpine edge show 'i just thought it was the coolest thing jamaica in the winter olympics and they did well 'i watched a lot of skiing during those olympics, alberto tomba (italian who won two golds in calgary) was the king of the games and i thought, 'wow, it's incredible what these guys can do' 'i thought i'd love to combine the two, represent jamaica and ski for jamaica some time in my life jamaica is really proud there's another guy trying to do what the bobsleigh guys did in 1988' but it wasn't until the 2010 installment of the games in vancouver that williams, who was born and raised by his west indian mother in canada, was spurred on to transform his pipe dream into a reality, as another pair of underdogs took on the establishment kwame nkrumah acheampong, known as the 'snow leopard,' was the first person from ghana to qualify for the winter olympics he skied in the slalom and made quite an impression with his eccentric outfits jamaican errol kerr also made an impact, securing ninth place in the skicross event the highest finish ever by a caribbean athlete at the winter games williams was now a man on a mission 'i saw a report on cnn with the snow leopard who qualified from ghana for the winter olympics in 2010,' he explained 'i was on my couch and when i saw that, that just put a click in my head and i said, 'if this guy can do it, i can do it' 'i knew we had a jamaican ski federation because i heard about errol kerr, but the snow leopard really inspired me to get off my butt and call them' there was just one problem: williams had no idea how to ski he drove straight to an indoor ski slope near his home in frankfurt, germany, and threw himself at the mercy of its resident coach, who quickly realized the scale of his task 'i met one of my instructors, andre, and he took me skiing a couple of times in the indoor hall and said 'you can't ski at all, but i like your attitude and i'll definitely work with you' 'i actually picked up the phone and called errol kerr's mum and said, 'listen, i know your son skis for jamaica, how did he get in the team?' she gave me some tips and the rest is history' the task facing williams is a tough one he needs to bring his points average down to 140 by january 2014 to have a shot at qualifying for sochi it is currently 763 his best finish this season is 43rd out of 45 finishers at an event in schladming in austria back in february in the actual world championships event the following day he was 63rd, but did not qualify for the final race williams has had many obstacles to overcome, not just in sporting terms, but also with the image of him held by the seasoned professionals on the skiing circuit, who offered him a somewhat frosty reception to begin with 'in the beginning i went to a race, my first race, in a blue ski jacket, black pants, a helmet that wasn't regulation, i borrowed the boots from the actual hill where we had the race i just wanted to try it and i looked like a vacationer going skiing!' he said 'these guys were just looking at me at the top of the hill going 'what are you doing here?' but i didn't care, i just sort of went about my ways, closed my eyes and air planed down the hill and managed to make it' williams has dedicated his life to fulfilling his dream, training for eight hours a day four on the slopes and the rest taken up with work on technique and conditioning his mum beams with pride whenever he competes on the international stage under the jamaican flag, so what would it be like if he realized his dream and made it to sochi? 'it would be incredible,' he said 'i think the moment you walk into the stadium with all the other athletes and you're holding up your flag to me, it's incredible 'i've played a lot of sports in my life i've played professional american football, and i know what it's like to achieve something in sports, but i think the olympics, summer or winter, is the pinnacle of any sporting achievement 'i'd be really proud, it would be awesome'
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(cnn) a leading anti racism group has applauded uefa's decision to appeal against sanctions handed out to the serbian football association for 'improper conduct' following allegations of racist chanting the european governing body has confirmed it will appeal against all punishments following the under 21 qualifying game between serbia and england in krusevac on october 16 while uefa president michel platini had hinted at seeking tougher sanctions, the news of an appeal came following a statement in which 'the uefa disciplinary inspector felt it necessary to immediately confirm his intention to appeal on uefa's behalf' fare a network of anti discrimination and inclusion groups which tackles racism, xenophobia and homophobia across european football, says the latest developments are hugely encouraging 'uefa's decision to appeal is very welcome,' executive director piara powar told the english press association 'we had been lobbying for it and like a lot of other people within uefa felt this was the right thing to do' serbia was ordered to play one under 21 match behind closed doors was fined $105,000 the team's assistant coach predrag katic and fitness coach andreja milunovic were also banned from football for two years in addition, four serbia players were suspended with goran causic banned for four games, ognjen mudrinski and filip malbasic for three and nikola ninkovic for two uefa will also challenge the decision to hand england duo steven caulker and tom ince two and one match bans the pair were caught up in a brawl during the playoff game, which was sparked following allegations of racist abuse directed at england's danny rose uefa's serbia fine heavily criticized critics of uefa have accused accusing the organization of failing to find a suitable punishment during the 2012 european championship finals, denmark's nicklas bendtner was fined $125,800 for exposing boxer shorts with the logo of an online betting company earlier this year, manchester city officials were infuriated after the club was fined $40,000 by uefa for taking to the pitch late for a europa league game which was $13,000 more than fc porto's sanction for fans' racist abuse during a game against the english team powar added: 'uefa now have an opportunity to send out a message and it takes a lot of honesty and self reflection to admit that one arm of the organisation got it wrong 'it's a good lead for other national associations to follow if they issue a sanction that on reflection doesn't get the right message across, such as the (english) fa in a certain case earlier this year' racism row shines light on serbian football tottenham's rose, who is currently on loan at sunderland, was shown a red card after the final whistle for kicking the ball away in anger after complaining he had been subjected to monkey chants throughout the contest 'as per the uefa disciplinary regulations, the uefa disciplinary inspector has the right to open disciplinary investigations and to lodge appeals against decisions taken by the control and disciplinary body,' read a statement on uefa's website 'having reviewed the motivated decisions for the sanctions imposed in this specific case, which have also been provided to all parties, the uefa disciplinary inspector felt it necessary to immediately confirm his intention to appeal on uefa's behalf'
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uefa has appealed against decision of its own disciplinary body . serbia was ordered to pay $105,000 after being found guilty of 'improper conduct'. 'uefa's decision to appeal is very welcome,' says piara powar, executive director of fare
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kabul, afghanistan (cnn) australia's new prime minister assured afghan president hamid karzai on saturday that his country's troops intend to be in afghanistan 'for the long haul' french president nicolas sarkozy, left, shakes hands with afghan president hamid karzai in kabul kevin rudd and french president nicolas sarkozy flew into the afghan capital, kabul, on saturday to meet with karzai and visit their respective country's troops participating in the nato led international security assistance force in a morning meeting, sarkozy 'assured president karzai of his government's long term political and military support with the people of afghanistan,' according to a statement from the afghan president's office rudd, who was elected in a landslide victory nov 24, appeared with karzai at a news conference, where he repeatedly said that the australian commitment to afghanistan is strong 'we will be, as i said before, in this country, afghanistan, for the long haul it's important for us to be here in partnership with nato countries,' rudd said 'on the question of the broader security policy challenges faced within afghanistan, of course they are significant, they are real but we are confident that in partnership with our friends in the afghan government and with our other allies, particularly in nato, that we can continue to achieve real progress in the long term security of this country,' he added australia's new defense minister, however, warned us and nato allies recently that they risk losing the war in afghanistan without a sharp shift in military and reconstruction efforts there joel fitzgibbon, who took office with rudd allies during a conference in scotland earlier this month, said that more work needs to be done to win the 'hearts and minds' of the people of afghanistan in the 6 year old war against the country's former taliban rulers and their al qaeda allies karzai wished those at the news conference a merry christmas, then thanked australia, france and other countries for their help and support more than 1,900 french troops are in afghanistan, serving both the isaf and the us led operation enduring freedom australia is the largest non nato contributor to the war in afghanistan, with nearly 1,000 troops stationed mostly in the southern province of oruzgan sarkozy, elected to lead france last may, told the us congress during a visit last month that france would stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with the united states on the war in afghanistan 'let me tell you solemnly today: france will remain engaged in afghanistan as long as it takes, because what's at stake in that country is the future of our values and that of the atlantic alliance,' he said rudd made a surprise visit friday to iraq, where he promised continued australian aid, despite a decision to withdraw all 550 australian troops in iraq by mid 2008 an effort his predecessor, john howard, staunchly opposed rudd had said he would start a phased withdrawal of australian forces from iraq if his labor party won the vote e mail to a friend journalist farhad peikar in kabul contributed to this report
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(cnn) michael vick turned himself in to authorities on monday to get a head start on serving his sentence for running a dogfighting ring, the us marshals service said michael vick leaves court in richmond, virginia, in august after pleading guilty to dogfighting charges the atlanta falcons quarterback is scheduled to be sentenced on december 10 on a federal conspiracy charge of bankrolling the dogfighting operation vick, 27, voluntarily turned himself in around noon, said kevin trevillan of the marshals service, and is being held at northern neck regional jail in warsaw, virginia, until the sentencing hearing the quarterback, who has been suspended indefinitely by nfl commissioner roger goodell, faces 12 to 18 months in prison on the charge vick pleaded guilty in august after three associates admitted their own roles in the operation and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors 'from the beginning, mr vick has accepted responsibility for his actions and his self surrender further demonstrates that acceptance,' vick's attorney, billy martin, said in a statement 'michael wants to again apologize to everyone who has been hurt in this matter and he thanks all of the people who have offered him and his family prayers and support during this time,' martin's statement said cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin speculated that vick started his sentence early 'to get it out of the way' watch toobin explain why vick would surrender early » on september 25, a virginia grand jury indicted vick and the three co defendants purnell peace, 35, of virginia beach, virginia; quanis phillips, 28, of atlanta, georgia; and tony taylor, 34, of hampton, virginia on state charges of running a dogfighting ring at vick's home outside newport news the surry county grand jury brought two charges against the four men: one count of unlawfully torturing and killing dogs and one of promoting dogfights each is a felony charge that could result in a five year prison term in addition, taylor faces three additional counts of unlawful torture and killing of dogs a hearing in that case is set for november 27, but vick does not have to be in court at that time in september, vick was put under tight restrictions by the federal court after he tested positive for marijuana use vick tested positive for the drug on september 13, a court document from the eastern district of virginia shows as a result, us district judge henry e hudson ordered vick to 'submit to any method of testing required by the pretrial services officer or the supervising officer for determining whether the defendant is using a prohibited substance' those methods could include random drug testing, a remote alcohol testing system 'and/or any form of prohibited substance screening or testing,' the order said vick was also ordered to stay home between 10 pm and 6 am, 'or as directed by the pretrial services officer or supervising officer,' the order said he was to be electronically monitored during that time vick must participate in substance abuse therapy and mental health counseling 'if deemed advisable by the pretrial services officer or supervising officer' at his own expense, the order said e mail to a friend
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(cnn student news) april 16, 2010 download pdf maps related to today's show: • blacksburg, virginia • iceland • kyrgyzstan transcript this is a rush transcript this copy may not be in its final form and may be updated carl azuz, cnn student news anchor: some fast facts to get us going today: i'm carl azuz this is cnn student news fridays are awesome! today's show is out of this world, or at least, that's where it starts first up: space strategy azuz: space what parts of it are we going to explore? how much money are we going to spend to get there? president obama has a new strategy that answers those questions he talked about it in a speech at the kennedy space center yesterday the president says he is 100 percent committed to nasa and its mission he's proposing that the agency get an additional $6 billion over the next 5 years, with a goal of sending humans to mars by the 2030s but under this plan, what you won't see is this: people walking on the moon president obama's strategy would cancel plans to send astronauts back there he says, 'we've been there before there's a lot more of space to explore' buzz aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon, agrees with the president but aldrin's nasa crewmate, neil armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, disagrees he's part of a group of astronauts that have criticized the president's plan other nasa officials argue that the proposal could cost thousands of people their jobs the president believes it's a way to move forward us president barack obama: this is the next chapter that we can write together here at nasa we will partner with industry, we will invest in cutting edge research and technology we will set far reaching milestones and provide the resources to reach those milestones and step by step, we will push the boundaries, not only of where we can go, but what we can do mine safety azuz: the president's also ordering a review of mines that have bad safety records this comes after last week's tragedy at the upper big branch mine in west virginia president obama has criticized the company that owns the mine, specifically because of its safety record the company called that criticism 'regrettable' and said the president may be misinformed about the mine's safety record meantime, the governor of west virginia has asked all of the state's miners to show up for work today but instead of producing coal, he wants them to spend the day re evaluating safety procedures gov joe manchin, (d) west virginia: what better honor can we give those fallen miners than to say we're gonna dedicate this day, re evaluate, have seminars, re inspect and those that have repeated violations will be heavily inspected that's all we can do in honor of those miners, so that we never have another family or miner go through this tea party rally azuz: switching over to politics, the tea party movement is getting ready for the midterm elections coming up in november the group has released a list of 'heroes and targets' the 'heroes' on the list are candidates that the tea party plans to support in the elections the 'targets' are anyone that the group would like to see voted out of office of course, lists are not the only way that the tea party gets its message out rallies are the group's bread and butter this one in washington, dc yesterday was wrapping up a three week tour across the us the timing: no coincidence yesterday, of course, was tax day, and the group is opposed to what it sees as government overspending va tech remembrance azuz: in blacksburg, virginia and all over the us, people are taking time today to honor the victims of a deadly shooting it happened on the campus of virginia tech university three years ago today police say a student at the school went on a shooting spree, killing 32 people before killing himself today, virginia tech and the local community are holding memorial ceremonies like this remembrance run from last year candlelight vigils and a community arts project are also scheduled to mark the day word to the wise tomeka jones, cnn student news: a word to the wise dormant (adjective) temporarily inactive, or in a state of no external activity source: wwwm wcom iceland volcano azuz: a volcano in iceland had been dormant for more than 180 years but then a few weeks ago, this started the volcano is erupting, and some scientists say it could last for more than a year that's about how long it went the last time this happened that was back in the 1820s this time, the impact is being felt all across europe here, you see london's heathrow airport, planes on the ground where you don't see them is in the sky the uk is not alone in this more than half a dozen countries canceled flights yesterday; up to 6,000 total across the european continent the problem is ash when the volcano erupted, it sent this huge cloud of smoke and ash high up into the air if a jet were to fly through that, it could cause the plane's engines to shut down so, that's why there are so many cancellations rob marciano looks at how weather and winds are playing a part in all of this rob marciano, cnn weather anchor: the way the weather pattern is set up right now and iceland, obviously, to the north but we've got this funky upper air pattern about 30,000 feet, which is where that ash went to, up where the jets fly and it's scooting around towards scandinavia, back through parts of the uk and also into other parts of western europe here is the, here it is on the infrared satellite picture you see it right there kind of heading this way that's the cloud itself kyrgyzstan unrest azuz: major political change in kyrgyzstan the president of the central asian country has resigned kurmanbek bakiev left for neighboring kazakhstan yesterday after he was forced out of power last week this was all part of a deal between bakiev and kyrgyzstan's new government russia, the united states and several international groups helped in the negotiations kyrgyzstan's temporary government told the us state department that it plans to hold elections in six months the us says it hopes that kyrgyzstan will become a model for democracy in the region the country is important to the us because there's a military base there and that base supports nato operations in afghanistan shoutout matt cherry, cnn student news: as we wrap up national library week, today's shoutout goes out to all the librarians out there! where would you find the largest library in the world? is it in: a) athens, b) london, c) washington, dc or d) cairo? you've got three seconds go! washington, dc is home to the us library of congress, the largest library in the world that's your answer and that's your shoutout! escape to charity azuz: mackenzie bearup's collection isn't quite that large, but she has rounded up more than 30,000 books and just like a library, her goal is to share them with other people who she shares them with, and why, are what make mackenzie a cnn hero (begin video) mackenzie bearup, cnn hero: i was in the fifth grade when i hurt my knee unidentified male: ready? bearup: yeah, i'm ready the doctor diagnosed me with reflex sympathetic dystrophy when something touches it, it's like a bomb goes off in my knee even though i've tried many different treatments, the only thing able to get my mind off the pain was reading do you guys like to read? my pediatrician told me about a home for abused children any child being in horrible pain like this, they need something, and something that i knew that helped me was books ok this is called 'screaming millie' but the people in these shelters are just like you and me they need things to get their mind off of whatever they're going through i put flyers in mailboxes and i set up a web site thank you so much for donating my original goal was to get 300 books before i knew it, i had 3,000 books my total right now is 38,000 books and i've delivered books to libraries and reading rooms in 27 different shelters in six states and take as many books as you want if one child finds a love of reading through books i've given them, then that will help them in school and just turn their life around entirely i really think that reading can do that for someone (end video) promo azuz: unless you're a librarian, there is one and only one way to get a shoutout on our show teachers, you head to our home page, cnnstudentnewscom, it's whatyou are looking at right now now, in the spotlight section, which you see, click on that ireport link and once you get there, hit the 'share your story' button to upload a picture of your school that's it! that's all you gotta do so start today at cnnstudentnewscom, and be on the lookout for your shoutout before we go azuz: before we go, we are bringing you the ultimate in extreme sports get ready to shred with your fingers? well, why not no helmets, no pads, no problem, right? it's called fingerboarding; it's kind of like skateboarding maybe not like skateboarding everything's scaled down to size but these guys are trying to land jumps and kick flips, just like those of you who skateboard it may look a little strange; maybe it's just the next generation of boarding goodbye azuz: i mean, after all, it seems like the perfect sport for the digital age we're sure they won't get board with it i don't know we won't have any more puns; we're just sitting here, spinning our wheels hope you have a great weekend we'll see you next monday for cnn student news, i'm carl azuz
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(cnn) football should be used to teach young people moral lessons, pope benedict xvi said during an audience with representatives from the italian football league and lower division clubs pope benedict xvi is presented with a football by ancona club officials italian football has been tarnished in recent seasons by corruption, match fixing scandals and crowd trouble, but the pope insisted the sport celebrated positive virtues as well 'the sport of football can be a vehicle of education for the values of honesty, solidarity and fraternity, especially for the younger generation,' the pope said, according to italy's gazzetta dello sport newspaper the comments are not the first foray by the bavarian born pope reputedly a bayern munich supporter into italian football in october, he was presented with a no 16 shirt by officials of the lower league club ancona after the vatican endorsed its campaign to turn itself into a 'beacon of morality' by adopting an 'innovative, ethical model of practising football,' reuters reported the code committed ancona to promoting fair play in a family atmosphere the club is currently second in serie c1/b, italian football's third tier league 'football should increasingly become a tool for the teaching of life's ethical and spiritual values,' the pope said pope benedict xvi's predecessor, pope john paul ii, was also a keen football fan, reportedly playing in goal during his youth in poland all italian football matches were cancelled on the weekend following his death in 2005 e mail to a friend
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pope says football can teach values of 'honesty, solidarity and fraternity'. sport should be used as a vehicle of education for young people, he says . vatican has endorsed lower league club ancona's adoption of ethical code . german born pope is reputed to be a bayern munich fan
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(cnn) pakistan has released nine members of the taliban from prison in hopes they will help negotiate peace in afghanistan, a senior afghan peace negotiator said they are to receive safe passage back to afghanistan, salahuddin rabbani, chairman of afghanistan high peace council, told reporters in kabul saturday a senior pakistani intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the release, indicating that many of the prisoners were old guard taliban, ranking members from generations past two were once ministers in the former taliban government before the us invaded the country in 2001, he said the rest were either former government officials or low to mid evel commanders the peace council has attempted to forge peace between the taliban, the afghan government and western powers it supports kabul's call to the taliban to cut its links to al qaeda the prisoner release coincided with a recent three day visit by an afghan delegation led by rabbani to islamabad, which sat down with pakistan's president asif ali zardari, prime minister raja pervaiz ashraf and religious leaders to solicit their support for the peace process in afghanistan the afghans have requested the discharge of more taliban, who rabbani said have agreed to support peace negotiations, and hope that this first release was the just the beginning the senior pakistani intelligence official believes more releases are likely, but he is skeptical the released taliban prisoners will be effective in peace negotiations due to generational conflicts 'i doubt very much that the current afghan taliban will listen to these has beens,' he said a former second in command taliban leader, mullah abdul ghani baradar, was rumored to have been considered for release but was not among those set free rabbani is the son of former afghan president burhanuddin rabbani, who led the peace council until his assassination in his home at the hand of suicide bombers posing as taliban peace negotiators in 2011 cnn's masoud popalzai reported from kabul and cnn's shaan khan reported from islamabad
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washington (cnn) the senate approved a controversial $858 billion tax cut package wednesday, overwhelmingly voting to extend the bush era tax reductions despite a series of objections from both the left and the right the measure passed 81 19 to advance to the house of representatives, which will take it up on thursday, according to majority leader steny hoyer, d maryland the package includes a two year extension of the bush era tax cuts set to expire december 31 it also would extend unemployment benefits for 13 months, cut the payroll tax by 2 percentage points for a year, restore the estate tax at a lower level and continue a series of other tax breaks president barack obama praised the vote and urged the house of representatives to quickly approve the bill, which the white house negotiated with senate gop leaders the senate vote is 'a win for american families, american businesses, and our economic recovery,' obama said in a written statement 'as this bill moves to the house i hope that members from both parties can come together in a spirit of common purpose to protect american families and our economy as a whole by passing this essential economic package' house democrats, however, have repeatedly warned that they may change the measure, particularly a provision dealing with the estate tax currently, the estate tax is scheduled to exempt inheritances up to $1 million and tax amounts above that at a rate of 55% under the tax package, it would be reduced to a rate of 35% on amounts above a $5 million individual exemption conservatives argue that a full return of the estate tax would, among other things, make it nearly impossible for many family owned small businesses to be passed down from one generation to the next liberals contend that a lower or nonexistent estate tax would merely benefit the wealthy while doing little to aid the economy a number of house democrats, including speaker nancy pelosi, d california, want to change the estate tax to levels previously approved in a separate house bill that would exempt inheritances up to $35 million and tax amounts above that at a 45% rate pelosi said wednesday the change would bring in an additional $25 billion instead of providing tax protection to only 6,600 more families through the lower rate and higher exemption in the negotiated tax deal however, more than two dozen moderate house democrats submitted a letter to their house leadership tuesday, calling for the tax package to be passed unchanged so it can go directly to obama to be signed into law 'this bipartisan compromise is by design a temporary measure and, with its passage, we must acknowledge that our work is not done,' said the letter signed by 27 house democrats as of tuesday evening 'we must continue to work together in a bipartisan fashion with a sense of shared responsibility toward solutions that address our economic and fiscal challenges it is time for us to put aside the partisan talking points and accomplish what the american people sent us here to do'
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(cnn) two top croatian commanders previously convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the balkan wars were acquitted friday the international criminal court for the former yugoslavia ordered the release of ante gotovina and mladen markac and reversed all of their convictions read more: genocide count dropped in karadzic trial gotovina and markac participated in an ethnic cleansing operation in croatia's krajina region between july and september 1995, the court ruled last year gotovina, a general who commanded croatia's split military district during the mid 1990s war that led to the disintegration of yugoslavia, had been sentenced to 24 years in prison markac, who headed the interior ministry's special police, received an 18 year prison term read more: ratko mladic: brutal villain to many, hero to others but the court's appeals chamber found errors in the ruling, including the failure to find 'the existence of a joint criminal enterprise' intent on permanently and forcibly removing serb civilians from the krajina region serbian president tomislav nikolic's office issued a statement criticizing the development 'the tribunal has made a political decision and not a legal ruling this will continue to destabilize the situation in the region and it will open old wounds,' the statement said cnn's per nyberg and joe sterling contributed to this report
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washington (cnn) a north carolina man was arrested wednesday and accused of threatening to kill president barack obama in a series of twitter messages, including one saying, 'the secret service is gonna be defenseless once i aim the assault rifle at barack's forehead' donte jamar sims, 21, had an initial court appearance in charlotte on thursday and remains in custody according to a criminal complaint, sims sent five twitter messages monday morning threatening the president 'ima hit president obama with that lee harvey oswald swag,' said one tweet 'well ima assassinate president obama this evening, ' said another message president obama did not arrive in town until two days later protester jailed, denies he's a terrorist charlotte is the city hosting the democratic national convention president obama arrived there wednesday afternoon in advance of his thursday night acceptance speech the court document states a secret service intelligence research specialist saw the messages on twitter, which led to an agent going to sims' home to interview him on wednesday in the affidavit, the secret service agent who interviewed sims said the suspect admitted to having the twitter account associated with the messages and wrote that sims smiled when the threatening statements were read aloud to him 'sims stated that he published the statements because he hated president obama,' the agent wrote in the affidavit 'sims asserted that he was high on marijuana when he made the threats but that he understood what he was doing and that it was wrong' according to the court document, the agent then arrested sims on several outstanding warrants the officer said sims later waived his miranda rights and said his demeanor changed 'he asserted that he was sorry he sent the messages threatening to kill the president of the united states and provided me with a written apology,' wrote the agent the court document makes no mention of sims having any weapons in his possession it also does not provide details on the previous arrest warrants for sims kevin tate, a federal public defender representing sims, would not comment on the case in advance of a detention hearing scheduled for september 11 if convicted of threatening the president, sims faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine anarchists target political conventions
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donte jamar sims lives in charlotte, site of democratic convention . officials say sims sent five tweets threatening to kill the president . 'sims asserted that he was high on marijuana when he made the threats,' affidavit says
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washington (cnn) at one time, susan rice seemed to be on a trajectory that would take her to the secretary of state's office in president barack obama's second term but that trajectory changed thursday when the us ambassador to the united nations withdrew her name from consideration to succeed current secretary of state hillary clinton in a letter to the president, rice explained her decision to pull herself out of the running 'i am highly honored to be considered by you for appointment as secretary of state,' the letter read 'however, if nominated, i am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities that trade off is simply not worth it to our country therefore, i respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time' a former administration official with knowledge of rice's decision said this was rice's decision; the white house did not ask her to stand down obama said that while he regretted rice's decision to withdraw he would continue to rely on her advice rice's path began decades ago with the help of family friend madeleine albright, the woman who became the first female secretary of state benghazi talking points omitted link to al qaeda albright, while serving under president bill clinton, recommended that he tap rice for a high level state department post on african affairs in the late 1990s albright had previously served with rice's mother, lois rice, on a school board in washington and watched rice grow up with her own daughters 'if i were to characterize her, whether it's playing basketball or anything else, she's fearless,' albright said about rice in a washington post interview during her time as the top us diplomat rice, 48, was born in washington to parents with distinguished careers her mother, who currently serves as a guest lecturer at the brookings institution and is an expert on financing of higher education, served on the board of directors of 11 major us corporations her father, emmett rice, died in 2011 he was a professor of economics at cornell university, was a member of the federal reserve board of governors and flew with the tuskegee airmen in world war ii susan rice told the washington post after her father's death that he instilled in her 'a strong sense of personal and social responsibility' that guided her career decisions 'he believed mightily in the power of the individual to determine his or her own destiny,' she said and by all accounts, rice determined her own destiny and amassed a slew of notable accomplishments stanford, oxford, white house job one of rice's former teachers at the national cathedral school noted her accomplishments in a letter to the editor after the washington post's dana milbank published a november 18 column questioning her readiness to become secretary of state rice, who was valedictorian of her class and a star point guard on the basketball team, exhibited 'superior leadership skills' and 'left behind a remarkable legacy' that included a revised honor code still used at the school, john wood wrote intelligence on benghazi shifted after obama administration described attack as 'spontaneous' rice earned phi beta kappa honors at stanford university, where she earned her bachelors degree in history and won a rhodes scholarship to study international relations at oxford university in 1986 rice's work at oxford, where she earned her masters and later a doctorate in international relations, earned the chatham house british international studies association prize for the top doctoral dissertation in the united kingdom in international relations after graduation, rice headed to mckinsey & company in toronto, where she worked as an international management consultant in 1992, she married ian cameron, a producer for the canadian broadcasting corporation, whom she had met at stanford in 1993, rice returned to washington to take a position with the national security council as director of international organizations and peacekeeping a year later, she toured war torn rwanda after the genocide campaign there killed more than 800,000 people in 100 days she told journalist samantha power that if she ever faced such a crisis again she would come down on the side of taking action, unlike the course the clinton administration and the rest of the world took at the time rice was promoted in 1995 to become special assistant to the president and senior director of african affairs at the white house national security council clinton stands by rice after calls to step down she became a senior fellow in 2002 at brookings, where she specialized in the study of us foreign relations, and was national security and foreign relations adviser for obama's 2008 campaign in nominating her to the ambassador's post, obama called rice 'a close and trusted adviser' and said she 'shares my belief that the un is an indispensable and imperfect forum' at the same time, she has drawn some attention for the way she operates insiders say rice is ambitious and aggressive colum lynch of the washington post and foreign policy told cnn that one of her nicknames at the un security council is 'the bulldozer' 'i think that everyone has complicated feelings about her,' lynch said he characterized her as 'very personable, likeable, charming, smart, funny, down to earth' but also someone with sharp elbows 'you don't want to get in the way of her, and whether that's a point to her advantage or a point against her, well, i guess it depends on who you are asking,' lynch said benghazi controversy in the days following the september 11 attacks on the benghazi consulate that killed ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans, rice became the administration's point person on the matter in multiple tv appearances after that attack, rice cited a hateful video that fueled a spontaneous mob attack as the reason for the deaths senior us officials have said that rice's comments were based on an intelligence assessment that was later updated to reflect a preliminary view that demonstrators were not the culprits lawmakers say meeting with rice left them with more questions the most strident republicans suggested the characterization of the attack as a mob gone awry might have been the basis for a cover up during a ferocious political campaign criticism intensified as the explanation of events slowly shifted, with the administration eventually raising the possibility that the attack was planned by al qaeda some leading senate republicans said they could not support rice if obama nominated her to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state while obama has not indicated whom he might appoint, white house sources have said that rice was a top candidate rice did little to quell criticism of her when she visited the hill to meet with her toughest critics over benghanzi republican sens john mccain of arizona, lindsey graham of south carolina and kelly ayotte of new hampshire the session, called by rice to answer questions about her comments, ended up with the lawmakers saying they were 'significantly troubled' by many of her answers graham said rice's comments amounted to a 'statement disconnected from reality' and that his concerns about rice were 'greater today than they were before' mccain said the 'information that she gave the american people was incorrect' in a statement following the meeting, which also included acting cia director michael morrell, rice said the two stressed that 'neither i nor anyone else in the administration intended to mislead the american people at any stage in this process, and the administration updated congress and the american people as our assessments evolved' after rice had withdrawn, an administration official voiced frustration that rice had been unfairly targeted over benghazi 'it's absolutely a fact that she had nothing to do with the security presence in benghazi and the intelligence collection or assessment all she did was some interviews using cleared talking points that reflected our best understanding of the situation as we knew it at that time, the official said 'the fact that four people died in libya is a tragedy, but susan rice had nothing to do with that tragedy the fact that they focused on her talking points is a disservice to everyone who cares about this issue' following rice's decision, graham released a statement saying, 'i respect ambassador rice's decision,' graham said' president obama has many talented people to choose from to serve as our next secretary of state' graham added that he would continue to try to get the bottom of benghazi obama, had fiercely defended rice since republicans first began to question her nomination first in the second presidential debate and later in his first news conference after his re election he continued his support in a statement responding to rice's decision 'i have every confidence that susan has limitless capability to serve our country now and in the years to come, and know that i will continue to rely on her as an advisor and friend,' the president said 'while i deeply regret the unfair and misleading attacks on susan rice in recent weeks, her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first' cnn's jim acosta, elise labott, richard roth jessica yellin contributed to this report
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islamabad, pakistan (cnn) the pakistan taliban said wednesday it will not extend a cease fire with the pakistani government, six days after a weeks long pause in hostilities officially ended in a statement released to the news media, the tehrik e taliban pakistan, or ttp, alleged the pakistani government hadn't responded positively to the cease fire, which began as a monthlong observance on march 1 and eventually was extended to april 10 one of the militant group's leaders, umer khalid khurrsani, said wednesday that the government wasn't serious about peace and that the only way to implement sharia, islamic law, was jihad the group made a series of demands this month, including the release of detained noncombatants pakistan's government has not yet issued a response to the announcement, interior ministry spokesman danial gillani said wednesday the ttp has waged an insurgency against the pakistani government, fighting for its austere version of sharia across pakistan and rejecting the country's constitution pakistan announced a peace initiative, and a cease fire was reached to pave the way for talks, but discussions broke down in march after taliban attacks pakistani government representatives did meet the taliban for talks on march 26, the first direct contact between the two sides the taliban had made demands, including the release of noncombatants, in early april at least 19 taliban noncombatants were released earlier as a good will gesture to promote peace talks, said shaukatullah khan, governor of khyber pakhtunkhwa province the release came at the directive of pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif, khan said since taking office last year, sharif faced mounting pressure to bring the violence under control
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the cease fire was agreed upon march 1 and officially was in effect until april 10 . pakistani government officials met with the taliban last week to promote peace . the militant group had demanded the release of noncombatants
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(cnn) the bullets that killed colorado prison chief tom clements came from the gun found with a former inmate who died in a shootout with texas police two days later, investigators confirmed monday the news came as colorado held a public memorial service for clements, the executive director of the state department of corrections the el paso county, colorado, sheriff's department said it was still trying to determine whether the suspect in clements' slaying, evan ebel, acted alone or what his motive may have been 'tom clements was a remarkable person,' colorado gov john hickenlooper said 'he oversaw all of the coldest, darkest of worlds with the warmest and, you know, and most tender of hearts' fbi seeks links in texas, colorado killings clements was shot to death tuesday night at his home outside colorado springs ebel was killed thursday in northern texas after a gunbattle with authorities that left a sheriff's deputy wounded the 28 year old was a former white supremacist gang member and the son of a longtime friend of hickenlooper police also said there is a 'strong connection' between the killings of clements and the killing of nathan collin leon, a denver pizza delivery driver who was found dead in suburban golden investigators said they have been looking into whether ebel might have conspired with other inmates to kill clements the corrections chief earned widespread recognition not only for prison reforms but also for a crackdown on prison gangs, including the white supremacist 211s, who once counted ebel among their ranks ebel got out of prison in late january after serving seven years three for felony menacing, robbery and assault, another four for assaulting a guard he spent five years of that time in solitary confinement it was his second stretch in prison, after doing one year of a three year term for armed robbery ebel's father, attorney and former oil executive jack ebel, 'was one of my first friends in colorado,' hickenlooper said but the governor said evan ebel 'had an anger and a cruelty' from an early age 'he had a bad streak, and they tried everything,' hickenlooper said 'one of the things tom fought for was we have too many people in solitary confinement with mental disorders like evan ebel, and we release them we won't release them in prison, we release them into the general public,' hickenlooper said it was a 'quiet crusade' for clements to identify and treat mental illness among prisoners, he said the governor said clements' death was 'incomprehensible, but i don't think it is part of a larger conspiracy' the texas rangers said ebel opened fire on sheriff's deputies northwest of dallas on thursday he slammed the black cadillac he was driving into a tractor trailer, then crawled out and fired more shots at deputies before being shot in the head the 9mm pistol and a domino's pizza uniform jacket and box carrier were found with the cadillac witnesses had reported a similar vehicle, a black, boxy car with colorado license plates near clements' home in monument the day he was killed investigators had already said the brand and caliber of the shells found with the weapon were the same as those found at clements' home cnn's brooke baldwin and janet digiacomo contributed to this report
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suspect 'had an anger and a cruelty' early on, hickenlooper says . ballistics tests match colorado prison chief's killing with texas shootout . colorado holds memorial for slain official . clements oversaw the 'darkest of worlds' with the 'warmest of hearts,' governor says
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(cnn) us journalist austin tice, who went missing while working in syria two weeks ago, has been captured and is being held in syrian government custody, the washington post reported thursday, citing a senior diplomat and others familiar with the matter the post is one of several news outlets for which tice, 31, filed stories since he began reporting from syria in may he also reported for mcclatchy newspapers and al jazeera english tice's family immediately called for his release, saying in a statement, 'austin is our precious son, and we beseech the syrian government to treat him well and return him safely to us as soon as possible' the executive editor of the post, marcus brauchli, also urged authorities to release tice, as did anders gyllenhaal, mcclatchy's vice president for news 'we welcome the news that austin tice is likely being held by the syrian government, although this has still not been confirmed by government authorities,' gyllenhaal said in a statement 'if this is indeed the case, it means we move to a new stage of waiting for his release 'there's no basis for detaining a journalist austin is a respected and very dedicated reporter and we would expect his immediate release' tice's last public post was august 11 on twitter, where he said he spent the day with members of the rebel free syrian army at a pool party with music the us state department has been working through the czech embassy in damascus to learn details of tice's whereabouts the post and the committee to protect journalists, an advocacy group, both reported it was the czech ambassador to syria who first revealed the news about tice on thursday reporters without borders, another advocacy group, says syria is one of the most dangerous places for journalists ten have been killed since the start of the conflict early last year, it says
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the washington post says austin tice is being held in damascus . tice, 31, hasn't been heard from in two weeks . he reported for the post, mcclatchy newspapers, and others . his family is pleading for his release
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(cnn) if you think television is like junk food, then binging on it is not for you but there are many people not like you who love pixelated brain candy and think binge viewing is the only way to devour a season (or more) of tv programming properly and networks are slowly beginning to take note more and more viewers are turning on to elaborately scripted shows, tuning in via digitized devices and not dropping out: they're watching marathons of their own making instead of watching live each week by 'appointment,' viewers are taking a full day (or weekend or even week) to watch a show's entire season or a series from beginning to end this may sound gluttonous and monotonous, but bingers see it differently a richer and more contemplative form of tv watching in which every nuance is savored and analyzed providers are adapting to this craving for deeper, heartier, 22 course meals netflix recently premiered, all at once, the entire first season of its new political thriller 'house of cards,' and the tv streaming apps hbogo and huluplus have salad bar layouts that make it easier than ever for viewers to immerse themselves fully in an entire series the commercial reasons that once encouraged channels to sacrifice narrative quality for episodic quantity are fading, especially as many viewers turn away from monthly subscriptions in favor of the per episode (or per season) prix fixe to be found, say, at amazoncom, which dabbles both in online streaming and dvd sales my friends who binge watch don't collapse into their couches, they commit to them, and this makes them demand a little more from programmers shows such as 'mad men,' 'game of thrones' and 'arrested development' are richer in lengthy doses: the more time spent in those worlds, the deeper your appreciation for the changing times in the offices of sterling cooper draper pryce, the intricate history and tenuous alliances between the baratheons and starks, and the subtle, recurring jokes of the bluth family watching, reading or listening to anything creative requires a suspension of disbelief, an investment of our reality in theirs every commercial break erodes that thin and personal connection a little; weeklong gaps between episodes stretch us closer and closer to the point at which our attention snaps and moves elsewhere viewership declines, sometimes before a show has an opportunity to catch on, as with the often discussed 'firefly' or the more recent 'last resort,' which struggled to find the hook that would keep audiences coming back the pacing of some shows hardly even works on an individual level: though he wouldn't dare to tell you how to watch it, creator david simon would probably agree that binging on the entirety of 'the wire' at once, letting the bigger picture wash over you, would bring you closer to his vision for the show binge watching can make for good tv the actors on any number of indistinguishable cop shows are entertaining, affable, gruff or quirky, but i'd turn to 'the good wife's' long term development any day and the only reason i got hooked on it is because i spent a flu ridden week catching up on the first two seasons and that's just network television: several of the friends whom i introduced to 'breaking bad' chose not to watch the first half of the final season, preferring to get it later in one high intensity dose these friends picked up on subtle cues i hadn't noticed late in that fourth season, were better able to get inside walter white's head, and became more a part of the series than i ever had: they'd fully fallen down that serialized rabbit hole, and now i was the one who seemed like the dilettante, merely putting in an hour each week, scraping the icing off the top of the seven layered cake more critically, when another friend recently took a one week safari through 'lost,' he could clearly distinguish its shark jumping moment, whereas those of us who had watched live were suckered in, fond memories of the past overshadowing the tainted present the more we change our viewing habits, the more the networks will adapt to fit them, and the higher the level of long term programming networks will have to provide, no longer spider webbing up plots on the fly in an attempt to deceptively tangle us into tuning in next week the shift from casual couch surfing to brisk binging also encourages television to be bolder in its storytelling, to develop characters and settings as opposed to just plots: the difference between literature and pulp, not that you can't have both producing for the binger might also ease the stress of syndication, in which characters so often reset to the status quo that they might as well be contortionists on 'the simpsons' and wouldn't advertising targeted at the people who would raptly sit through 10 hours of 'battlestar galactica' be more effective than scatter shot rounds of the generic stuff? appointment television is dying, supplanted by on demand features that allow viewers to set the schedules as each generation grows older and decides it is not writing the great american novel, perhaps we'll choose to watch the great american television show, and realize it's better when we don't have to break the illusion and set down the book for a week after every chapter the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of aaron riccio
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london (cnn) a court in central london this week found itself in the world's spotlight, as a small army of celebrities staked their reputations by turning up to offer support and bail money to wikileaks founder julian assange the 39 year old australian, who handed himself over to british police last week to answer a european arrest warrant over alleged sex crimes in sweden, remains in custody pending an appeal by swedish authorities against a judge's decision to grant him bail assange has vowed to fight attempts to extradite him, arguing that the charges against him are politically motivated and designed to deflect attention from the sensitive material exposed by his whistle blowing website sweden to appeal bail decision thursday this stance has won him some high profile backing, as was shown during the hearing tuesday when some notable faces trooped into westminster magistrates court determined to demonstrate their solidarity, even if it meant staking part of the £200,000 ($315,000) bail or a spare room in your country mansion despite having never personally met assange, ken loach, the veteran british director of movies including 'kes' and 'sweet sixteen,' said he had offered £20,000 ($31,444) towards his bail 'i think the work he has done has been a public service,' he told reporters, in quotes carried by britain's guardian newspaper 'i think we are entitled to know the dealings of those that govern us' jemima khan, british socialite and ex wife of former pakistani cricketer imran khan, offered a similar amount before releasing the following statement: 'i make no judgment of julian assange as an individual as i have never met him i am offering my support to him as i believe in the universal right to freedom of information and our right to be told the truth' the daughter of the late financier and politician, james goldsmith, khan has also been active on twitter, and tweeted: 'what happened to innocent until proven guilty? he hasn't even been charged, let alone convicted' assange also found prominent support from across the atlantic, as controversial us filmmaker michael moore pledged $20,000 from 'his own pocket' the director of thought provoking documentaries such as 'bowling for columbine,' which looked at us gun control in the wake of 1999 columbine high school massacre, wrote on his website that he would be offering the assistance of his website, servers, domain names and 'anything else i can do to keep wikileaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars' he added: 'we were taken to war in iraq on a lie hundreds of thousands are now dead just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a wikileaks to deal with they might not have been able to pull it off' meanwhile, vaughan smith, the founder of london's frontline club which claims to 'champion independent journalism,' offered to accommodate assange, who has no british address, at his sprawling family home in order to meet another of the bail conditions issued by the court tuesday assange would also be electronically tagged and required to report daily to a police station close by in a statement on his website he explained that his support was being offered 'on a point of principle' he added: 'in the face of a concerted attempt to shut him down and after a decade since 9/11 that has been characterized by manipulation of the media by the authorities, the information released by wikileaks is a refreshing glimpse into an increasingly opaque world 'i am suspicious of the personal charges that have been made against mr assange and hope that this will be properly resolved by the courts certainly no credible charges have been brought regarding the leaking of the information itself' other prominent supporters at the hearing included award winning australian journalist and documentary maker john pilger, british gay rights activist peter tatchell, and human rights activist bianca jagger pilger, a long time critic of us foreign policy, has been particularly vocal in his support for assange and the work of wikileaks however he questioned why assange had reportedly been held in solitary confinement in london's largest prison 'he called me from wandsworth prison at the weekend and his state of mind seemed pretty good,' he told reporters, in quotes carried by britain's press association 'he is in solitary confinement he is in what is known as a punishment block and we are not quite sure why he is an innocent man who has not been charged with anything, sitting in solitary confinement what is going on?' tatchell, meanwhile, also appeared outside the court on tuesday to express his support for the work of wikileaks he told reporters: 'it's quite clear that the us government and other governments have kept secrets hidden from us and we the people have a right to know these revelations are in the public interest it's shocking that it's taken a whistleblower to bring them to our attention' when asked about the allegations against him he replied: 'no one can know but he is innocent until proven guilty' however in a post on his twitter page the previous week, he wrote: 'julian assange might be guilty of sex crimes but the charges look like a fix to silence & discredit him the us is out to destroy him' in another post he claimed the us government tried to discredit vietnam war whistleblower daniel ellsberg in the 1970s ellsberg, a former military analyst, famously leaked the 'pentagon papers' in 1971, a classified study into us decision making during the conflict bianca jagger, human rights advocate and former wife of rolling stones singer mick, also gave her support to assange, telling reporters in central london that she was concerned that the case had become politicized 'if the police have any accusations they should let him answer for them,' she said, adding that he should be treated fairly
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(cnn) manchester city captain carlos tevez has revealed that he wanted to leave the english premier league club in the previous transfer window the argentina forward handed in a transfer request at the weekend, which was rejected by the club who claimed his representatives had been seeking to renegotiate the 26 year old's lucrative contract, which expires in 2014 british media have widely speculated that tevez, whose family live in south america, will leave eastlands when the transfer window reopens in january 'i wanted to leave in the summer, but was convinced to return to the club,' tevez said in a statement 'sadly, my feelings have not changed 'i hugely resent the management's suggestions that i have been unduly influenced by others i am disappointed that the management should now see fit to try to portray the situation in another light' manchester city reject tevez transfer request manchester city released a statement on sunday to confirm that tevez's transfer request had been rejected 'the written transfer request is in stark contrast to carlos' stated position in both public and club contexts,' it said 'significantly, over recent months, the club has also received numerous requests from carlos' representative to renegotiate and improve his playing contract, as well as more recently a request to extend that contract by another year' the former manchester united player, who has scored 10 league goals this season, made his announcement on saturday, hours after his team's 3 1 win over west ham lifted city to second place in the table toure on target for man city he missed that match due to suspension, and had appeared to clash with manager roberto mancini after being substituted against bolton earlier this month tevez said he had no problems with mancini, but wanted to leave because his relationship with 'certain executives and individuals at the club' had broken down 'beyond repair' since september 2008, the club has been owned by sheikh mansour bin zayed al nahyan, an abu dhabi billionaire who has financed many high profile player acquisitions including spain midfielder david silva and ivory coast's yaya toure tevez has been in sensational form since his arrival from united, scoring 39 goals in 59 appearances for the citizens his move across manchester in mid 2009 angered his former manager alex ferguson, as tevez turned down the offer of a new contract to join the club's fierce rivals
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carlos tevez says he wanted to leave english club manchester city in pre season . city captain denies claims his transfer request was initiated by his representatives . the argentina striker handed in a transfer request after city's win over west ham on saturday . he has been a key figure at city since joining from rivals manchester united
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(cnn) the new york jets on monday suspended a strength and conditioning coach through the 2010 season's playoffs for intentionally tripping a miami dolphins player during sunday's jets dolphins game, the jets said on their website the jets said they suspended sal alosi without pay and fined him $25,000 for tripping dolphins rookie cornerback nolan carroll on the jets' sideline as carroll was covering a punt in the third quarter of miami's 10 6 victory 'after reviewing the facts and consulting with the league office, we determined that this was the most appropriate discipline,' jets general manager mike tannenbaum said on the jets' site 'i have spoken with sal he understands the severity of his actions and has apologized to all parties involved in the incident' alosi, who will be barred from the jets' practice facility until the end of the season, said in a statement that he accepts responsibility for his actions and respects the team's decision carroll, covered by two jets players, was running along the sideline toward the jets' punt returner when the incident happened at the new meadowlands stadium in new jersey video shows carroll was out of bounds and trying to run back in the field of play when alosi standing with his hands in his pockets leaned his left knee forward the knee caught carroll, who tumbled to the ground carroll was shaken up but eventually walked to his sideline on his own power he returned to the game in the fourth quarter before the suspension was announced, alosi told reporters monday that he was sorry for the incident, and that he wasn't thinking during the play 'if i could go back and do it again, i sure as heck would take a step back it was just a situation where i wasn't thinking,' alosi said during a news conference monday afternoon at the jets' facility in florham park, new jersey he said he apologized after the game sunday to carroll, dolphins head coach tony sparano and jets owner woody johnson, among others he said he hadn't offered to resign but would accept whatever disciplinary action he received 'i let everybody down yesterday with my actions my actions were inexcusable and irresponsible i'm extremely thankful that my actions yesterday didn't result in any significant injury to nolan or any other player,' he said noting that the dolphins had been penalized earlier in the game for running out of bounds, a reporter asked alosi whether someone had instructed him and other jets personnel to stand close to the sidelines to prevent such moves 'no, that wasn't anything that was instructed,' alosi said 'our inactive players guys that don't play we try to keep those guys focused on the game, root those players on we wanted to cheer on our guys' meeting with reporters before the suspension was announced, jets head coach rex ryan said the jets and the nfl were working together on alosi's punishment ryan said he wanted to apologize to carroll and the dolphins 'that's a thing that has no business in this league or anywhere else sal made a huge mistake he knows that he's apologized for it,' ryan said sparano, before he had a chance to review the tape, told reporters after the game sunday that his coaches upstairs were telling him that carroll had been tripped 'i talked to the referee at that point [and] i told him at that point that it was on tape and that the people upstairs are telling me that that's what they see,' sparano said carroll told south florida's sun sentinel newspaper that he wasn't angry but some of his teammates were 'come on, man that's dirty! there's no place for that in football,' dolphins linebacker karlos dansby said sunday, according to the sun sentinel 'hopefully they'll be fined for it i'll leave it up to the league' alosi, who played linebacker at hofstra, joined the jets as an intern in 2002 before serving as their assistant strength and conditioning coach from 2003 to 2005 he worked one year with the atlanta falcons before returning to the jets as their head strength and conditioning coach in 2007
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jets suspend strength and conditioning coach sal alosi without pay, fine him $25,000 . alosi tripped dolphins rookie cornerback nolan carroll on jets' sideline on sunday . in statement, alosi says he accepts responsibility for his actions, respects decision . jets head coach: 'that's a thing that has no business in this league or anywhere else'
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(cnn) two tractor trailer trucks crashed and burst into flames thursday on a bridge between the united states and mexico, shutting a key border crossing and killing four people, police said police look at the aftermath of a fiery crash on a bridge linking reynosa, mexico, and pharr, texas the collision on the pharr reynosa international bridge in texas triggered a chain reaction accident with three other vehicles, said lt lupe salinas with the pharr police department a pickup flipped off the bridge, killing three people another person died in a vehicle that struck one of the tractor trailers six others were injured pharr emergency management coordinator elsa sanchez told the associated press the pickup truck had texas license plates, and the two 18 wheelers and a minivan involved in the wreck appeared to have mexican plates watch aftermath of fiery crash » the accident happened around 7:30 pm (8:30 pm et) the bridge was closed for the rest of the evening the bridge reopened on friday morning after texas department of trnasportation engineers inspected it, according to cnn affiliate krgv the bridge is normally open from 6 am until midnight and is closed overnight the 32 mile long bridge connects us 281 in pharr, texas, to the city of reynosa in the mexican state of tamaulipas, according to the city of pharr's web site on an average day, the site says, 5,800 vehicles cross it e mail to a friend cnn's ed payne and jessica jordan contributed to this story copyright 2008 cnn all rights reservedthis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed associated press contributed to this report
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bangkok, thailand (cnn) the wife of ousted prime minister thaksin shinawatra arrived in thailand tuesday morning to face corruption charges, promising to fight the accusations, her attorney said pojamarn shinawatra with her husband thaksin shinawatra according to pichit chuenban, pojamarn shinawatra was presented with an arrest warrant shortly after arriving at bangkok's suvarnabhumi international airport and was escorted by authorities to the supreme court 'she intends to fight all charges through judicial system,' pichit said greeted by about 50 well wishers, pojamarn arrived at court accompanied by her three children she faces charges stemming from a bangkok land deal and a stock concealment plan that could put her in jail for up to eight years, according to the thai news agency the court released her on 5 million baht (about $168,000) bail and ordered her not to leave the country on monday, thaksin's attorney noppadon pattama said the former prime minister would return from exile in mid april to answer to the same charges his wife faces he was deposed by a military junta in sept 2006 and fled to london he plans to return after thailand's new government is in place in december's parliamentary elections, supporters of thaksin, the people power party, won nearly half the seats in the lower house and will lead the ruling coalition ppp leader samak sundaravej said a new parliament controlled by his party would pass an amnesty law to allow thaksin's return and amend the constitution to let thaksin get back into politics thaksin said he would not re enter politics when he returned to thailand he said that he and his family had 'suffered enough' but that he wanted to face the charges against him and prove his innocence thaksin is a 58 year old telecommunications tycoon who owns the english premier league manchester city football club thaksin's party won two landslide victories before he was deposed e mail to a friend
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thaksin shinawatra's wife handed arrest warrant after she returns to thailand . pojamarn shinawatra faces corruption charges that could imprison her for 20 years . the case involves pojamarn's 2003 purchase of some prime bangkok real estate
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(cnn) the mayor of springfield, illinois, was found dead in his home tuesday morning, the day he had been ordered to present an accounting of his cousin's estate to a judge illinois state police say they are looking into the death of mayor tim davlin, and no cause of death was disclosed tuesday frank kunz, a springfield alderman who serves as mayor pro tem, said investigators 'didn't say much of anything' at a news conference held shortly after davlin was found dead in his home 'basically, what they confirmed was, it was the mayor, and he's dead,' kunz said 'they actually didn't say much of anything' the 53 year old, two term democrat was scheduled to appear before a judge tuesday morning and account for the balance of his cousin's $845,000 estate, for which he served as executor margaret ettelbrick, who died in 2003, had willed the remainder of her estate to springfield catholic charities after leaving $635,000 to other beneficiaries, court documents show in may, catholic charities told the court it had received only a partial payment of $25,000 the same month, the internal revenue service filed a lien against davlin's home, seeking nearly $90,000 in back taxes from 2003, 2005 and 2006, according to property records in september, davlin's lawyer quit, telling the court that the mayor had not provided him with the needed paperwork to account for the balance of the estate davlin told the judge last week that he had hired a new attorney, and he was ordered to report back to court tuesday in november, davlin announced that he would not seek a third term in 2011 kunz said the city of about 115,000 was 'stunned' by news of his death 'even when they had a press conference, they weren't sure all the relatives had been notified,' he said 'but he was the mayor, so they had to do something' kunz said city council members would name a new mayor at some point, but officials were still examining the laws governing mayoral succession the city's administrative staff remains intact, and 'if they had to sign anything, i can sign it,' he said davlin was divorced and had four children police were called to his home about 8:50 am and found the mayor 'unresponsive,' springfield police chief robert williams said he was declared dead soon afterward, and the investigation was turned over to state police, he said 'it's very early,' illinois state police capt james wolf said 'and as information develops and we are in a position to provide the media with more information, we will do so' cnn's kara devlin contributed to this report
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the mayor was found dead in his home tuesday morning . alderman says springfield was 'stunned' by the news . davlin had been ordered into court in an estate lawsuit . the irs had also placed a lien on his home for unpaid taxes
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new delhi (cnn) bal thackeray, a staunch advocate of hindu nationalism in india and the leader of a political party that dominated the country's financial capital, died saturday, his spokesman said the 86 year old thackeray was a charismatic founder and head of shiv sena, the nationalist movement most powerful in the city of mumbai and the maharashtra state spokesman rahul narvekar said thackeray died of cardiac arrest and his cremation will be held on sunday thackeray emerged in the 1960s as a populist leader for the marathi people, who dominated mumbai and the maharashtra state once a newspaper cartoonist, he rose to fame for defending marathi interests as migrants from other communities streamed into the city, known at the time as bombay the movement has immense political power in mumbai, india's financial center and site of the legendary bollywood film industry its symbol is an orange flag, seen planted across mumbai thackeray was instrumental in having the name of bombay changed to mumbai, a marathi name and thackeray had developed a reputation among many indians as a bit of a godfather, revered by his followers but feared by others over the years, the shiv sena movement grew in popularity across india as a hindu nationalist movement shiv sena and prime minister manmohan singh appealed for calm after his death was announced, and authorities have deployed police officers across mumbai in the wake of his death in a series of twitter messages, indian prime minister manmohan singh said thackeray's leadership helped build shiv sena into a 'formidable force' in maharahstra 'he was a consummate communicator whose stature in the politics of maharashtra was unique,' singh said 'for him the interests of maharashtra were particularly important and he always strived to inculcate a sense of pride in its people' people we've lost in 2012: the lives they lived cnn's joe sterling contributed to this report
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paris, france (cnn) the paris suburbs were again rocked by riots after a second night of lawlessness monday caused widespread destruction and left scores of police injured, according to french authorities and media reports firefighters in a paris suburb battle to control a blaze started after youths rioted sunday night an angry mob repeatedly clashed with riot police and torched cars and buildings in the town of villiers le bel, north of paris, after two teens on a motorcycle were killed following a collision with a police car sunday night rioters bombarded police with baseball bats, molotov cocktail bombs and bottles filled with acid as the violence spread to the nearby towns of longjumeau and grigby monday night the 15 and 16 year old boys, both sons of african immigrants, according to police, died when their motorbike hit a patrol car in villiers le bel some residents, populated largely by immigrants and their french born children, accused police of fleeing the crash scene however, three eyewitnesses, interviewed on tv, said the police stayed and tried to revive the two boys with mouth to mouth resuscitation watch why a repeat of past rioting is feared » more than 60 police officers were injured in monday night's confrontation, with five kept in hospital in a serious condition, according to reports in a number of french newspapers a spokesman for the police authorities in the val d'oise prefecture refused to confirm the numbers of police injuries, telling cnn that police feared the information could further enflame the already tense situation the police spokesman said 60 cars, a library and car dealer's showroom had been set on fire in villiers le bel he said a police station had also been damaged and 15 garbage cans torched security was tightened tuesday, with helicopters deployed to patrol over the town, the spokesman said villiers le bel was not among the districts hit by the weeks of nationwide rioting in november 2005, when disaffected youths nationwide set thousands of cars ablaze to protest against unemployment and discrimination those riots were also sparked by fatalities, namely the deaths of two men of north african descent who were electrocuted while hiding from police in an electrical substation french president nicolas sarkozy, then serving as the interior minister, provoked controversy at the time by referring to the rioters as 'scum' sarkozy, currently on a state visit to china, had urged residents monday to 'cool down and let the justice system determine who is responsible for what' a spokesman for the president's office told cnn tuesday they were continuing to monitor the situation the prosecutor's office in the nearby town of pontoise has already begun an inquiry into the deaths police said the teens drove through a red light without wearing helmets and on an unregistered bike but omar sehhouli, the brother of one of the victims, told french media the police involved should be arrested 'everyone knew the two boys here,' he told french radio 'what happened, that's not violence, it's rage' according to the initial findings from the french police watchdog, reported tuesday in the daily newspaper, le figaro, the boy's motorbike was driving 'at very high speed' and had failed to give priority to the police patrol vehicle the police car was driving normally at around 40 kilometers an hour, the newspaper reported the watchdog had found e mail to a friend cnn's jim bittermann contributed to this report
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riots in french suburb for second night after two teens killed in police crash . violence spreads from villiers le bel, north of paris, to two nearby towns . more than 60 police injured, bombarded with molotov cocktails and bottles of acid . parallels drawn with unrest in 2005, when president sarkozy was interior minister
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