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(cnn) andrea pirlo has ended speculation that he will join chelsea by announcing that he has been taken off the transfer market by ac milan and hopes to stay with the serie a side for the rest of his career andrea pirlo hopes to help ac milan overcome the loss of paolo maldini and kaka this season the italy midfielder has been linked with a move to the big spending english premier league club since coach carlo ancelotti quit milan at the end of may and agreed to take over from guus hiddink at stamford bridge the 30 year old revealed on the milan web site that new team boss leonardo was happy to keep him at the san siro 'today is a great day, i'm very happy to be able to end my career here,' pirlo said on thursday 'this is thanks to president silvio berlusconi, adriano galliani and leonardo who have given me the possibility to end my career here by taking me off the market 'when they communicated this news to me, we were all happy finally this story ends and i can continue my adventure with the rossoneri 'there was a possibility of changing teams, but in the end the club and i agreed to continue together and we're all happier it was an eventful summer with many doubts, but in the end my family are happy to stay in milan' pirlo, who joined milan from city rivals inter in 2001, said that as a senior player he felt responsibility for maintaining the club's momentum following the retirement of legendary defender paolo maldini and the sale of star player kaka to real madrid 'milan's history must continue to be winning us older players must take more responsibility and give everyone great satisfactions the president has talked to us and he wants the story to continue, so we restart with great enthusiasm,' he said 'leonardo is a very good person and he will show in time he is a great coach thanks to everyone's help because he deserves it and we will certainly reap the benefits'
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italy midfielder andrea pirlo ends speculation that he will join chelsea . the 30 year old says that ac milan have taken him off the transfer market . pirlo has been linked with chelsea since coach carlo ancelotti left milan . he says he now wants to end his career at the san siro
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washington (cnn) the senate voted wednesday to move forward on a bill meant to crack down on oil speculators democrats say speculation in oil futures is a significant reason why oil prices have risen this year but republicans vowed to block the senate from taking up any other measure until the democratic leadership agrees to vote on other energy related issues republicans want to offer up to 28 amendments to the bill on a wide range of energy topics, including increasing domestic oil production the democrats want to limit them to two amendments 'this is not some arcane subject; this is the biggest issue in the country,' said senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, r kentucky 'it's on the floor now we say, let's deal with it we're not afraid to vote on their amendments, they shouldn't be afraid to vote on ours let the senate work its will on the no 1 issue in the country' the republicans said they would not prevent the senate from taking up the housing bill passed earlier in the day by the house, although a final vote on that bill is not expected before the end of the week democrats oppose republican measures to lift bans on offshore drilling and oil exploration in the arctic national wildlife reserve see how gas prices have risen across the country » republicans say the process would not be fair unless they can offer all of their amendments sen robert menendez, a new jersey democrat, accused the republicans of wanting to score political points rather than pass legislation 'the problem with our republican colleagues is that they want to debate, not act even when they are offered what they want, they say no' menendez suggested there was bipartisan support for measures meant to limit speculation, encourage conservation and provide tax credits for renewable energy 'why would you not move forward on the items that you have consensus?' he asked the disagreement between republicans and democrats could result in congress leaving washington for its monthlong recess in august without passing any measures to lower gas prices, which are averaging above $4 a gallon at the pump experts have said lifting bans on drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge and offshore would not affect the oil market for several years, but republicans have argued that the psychological effect of opening more areas for oil exploration would bring prices down sen byron dorgan, d north dakota, one of the main sponsors of the bill, pleaded for republicans to help 'wring excessive speculation' from the oil markets he says speculation is responsible for 71 percent of the increase in a price of a barrel of oil this year some analysts say speculation has added between $40 to $60 dollars to a barrel of oil but other experts have questioned the extent to which speculators rather than basic market principles of supply and demand have driven up the price of oil wednesday morning, a barrel of light, sweet crude was priced around $128 on the new york mercantile exchange, down from the $147 a barrel record set july 11 and the lowest price since june 5 dorgan said ending speculation in the oil market would be a sensible first step toward lowering gas prices that both sides of the aisle could agree to republicans 'have come up with a hundred excuses why they don't want to do that,' he said but republicans say they want the opportunity to offer 'real' solutions that will lower energy prices, which includes more drilling to expand domestic production see what factors are driving up the price of oil » 'the republicans know that american people want us to do something real, something big, something important about the price of gasoline,' said sen pete dominici, r new mexico 'and the only thing that we can do that is important is to release large quantities of crude oil and natural gas that are owned by american people and that have been locked up for 27 years in moratoria' dorgan, however, said the republicans are trying to suggest democrats are against additional domestic oil production, noting that there are millions of acres of federally controlled land and off shore drilling sites that are open to exploration but have not been used by oil companies 'it's a false choice that the minority side says we should drill and that the majority side doesn't,' dorgan said the bill in the senate would provide more resources and authority to the commodities futures trading commission to detect and punish speculation it would help stop speculators from using foreign markets to manipulate the price of oil in the united states, require more transparency in oil markets and limit the trading of market players who do not intend to receive the oil they purchase cnn's ted barrett, debra krajnak and scott anderson contributed to this report
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(cnn) if you are a survivor of sexual abuse who has not yet reported, you may be attending closely to the trial of former penn state football coach jerry sandusky to see what happens to those who do the news is both good and bad you see some courageous men being taken seriously by prosecutors and journalists but you see a degree of potential exposure that few victims would want to face, and that we could do a better job of preventing first, the better news: we all know that sexual abuse is still a crime that is mostly unrevealed but progress has been made comparisons of recent surveys to those from the 1980s show far more victims today say they reported or that someone in authority found out yet boys are still disproportionately less likely to report, for some of the reasons showcased in this trial: the fear that others will not believe they are really victims, and the fear that they will be stigmatized as wimpy and/or homosexual so a case such as this with male victims coming forward, explaining how conflicted they felt, why it took them so long, what it did to their lives, but nonetheless giving convincing testimony that has clearly been believed by the prosecutors and much of the press, this certainly must give other boys and men some sense of possibility indeed, that this case is being prosecuted at all shows how much has changed people in law enforcement and the public at large now know that boys do indeed get abused thousands of professionals have gotten specialized training in how to identify victims, how talk with them and how not to exacerbate the harm when interviewing specialized child advocacy centers exist in more than 600 communities to make the process more child friendly these trained police and prosecutors do understand why it is so hard to report, why the testimony sometimes changes and how the fact of participating in the sexual activity doesn't signify enjoyment or lack of harm growing numbers of women in law enforcement have certainly helped but we still have a long way to go jerry sandusky trial: all you need to know about allegations, how case unraveled the possibility of your abuse ending up fodder for a national media frenzy that rivals the super bowl would hardly seem comforting to most potential disclosers the possibility of having your lifelong identity become 'that kid who was molested by that coach' would be terrifying in that light, perhaps the most discouraging news for survivors in the trial so far was the refusal of the judge to allow the victims to testify anonymously this ruling would seem callous lots of other countries have built in legal protections that prevent the media and other court participants from learning the names of child victims of sexual assault even in the united states we have protections against the disclosure of the names of juvenile offenders the notion behind that is that young people can be permanently stigmatized by such notoriety why not victims, too? true, many news outlets have policies to avoid reporting the names of sexual assault victims but it is an entirely voluntary policy, proudly flouted by some outlets studies have shown that information that could readily identify victims appears in 37% of news articles that report on child sexual victimization so far, the names of the sandusky accusers have not gotten widespread circulation but they could what was the judge's rationale for denying what would seem like such a reasonable request? 'secrecy is thought to be inconsistent with the openness required to assure the public that the law is being administered fairly and applied faithfully,' judge john cleland wrote in his order dismissing the request 'consequently, there must be justifications of public policy that are very deep and well rooted to support any measure which interferes with the public's ability to observe a trial and to make their own judgments about the legitimacy of their legal system and the fairness of its results' but there are an enormous quantity of research shows sex crimes against children to be particularly traumatic, and aspects of the court experience to be a contributor to the trauma allowing victims to testify anonymously would not truly undermine the openness crucial to make a judgment about the fairness of the system the victims still have to testify publicly, still have to be confronted by the defense, still have their credibility tested in the eyes of the jury and the media perhaps the judge was afraid of creating a basis for the appeal of a guilty verdict but that only illustrates how the protection of victim identities needs to be better enshrined in law and practice so it is not seen as a risky anomaly opinion: tell toddlers what's private about their bodies however the rest of the trial goes, we we must continue to commit ourselves to building a justice system that takes into account the reasonable needs of child victims for privacy and protection it is one of the biggest things we can do to help victims come forward and stop abusers after the first rather than the 10th victim the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of david finkelhor
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(cnn) a noted tech journalist and early adopter of google's glass headset is declaring the technology 'doomed,' at least for 2014 there's a tongue in cheek nature to robert scoble's pronouncement, which he shared with the 47 million people who follow him on google+ his strong language, he said, was a send up of the tech press's sometimes over the top approach to news but scoble, who got his glass headset in april on the second day the devices became available to some journalists and early testers, predicts the connected eyewear will flop with consumers when it goes on sale to the general public, presumably this year scoble said he thinks the price will be too high and there won't be enough apps or useful functions to make the wearable tech worth the cost he has a sunnier view of glass's long term prospects, though 'by 2020 i'm quite convinced this will be a big deal and there will be lots of competitors by then,' he wrote 'so, if you make it about 2020, then it isn't doomed if it's about beating the apple iwatch in 2014? yes, totally doomed' apple has not rolled out a smartwatch yet but is widely rumored to be doing so soon, marking the tech giant's entree into the emerging wearable tech field google did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment for this article glass is a headset with a camera and small screen situated above the wearer's right eye the wearer can access the internet and snap images and video by using voice commands a blogger and author, scoble works as a new tech 'evangelist' for it company rackspace but his influence in the tech community is broader and his writing helps shape opinion in some quarters scoble has 374,000 followers on twitter and has been one of the most visible google glass users a photo of him wearing the headset in the shower went viral last year scoble noted that glass, which has sold for $1,500 to a limited number of beta testers, is likely to be released at a cost of more than $500 he says that's too much for the public at large 'price is gonna matter a lot but i'm hearing they won't be able to get under $500 in 2014, so that means it's doomed in 2014,' scoble wrote 'when they get under $300 and have another revision or two? that's when the market really will show up 2016, i say' he said the headset will need to be custom fitted to its wearer, and that customers will need to receive an hour or two of training before using it which will inflate its price scoble also believes that battery life, at least on the current glass models, won't be enough for some people he said a lack of apps could also hurt 'that will start getting fixed after a few months of release, but early users are gonna continually ask 'where's the uber app?'' or 'where's the foursquare app?' or 'why does the facebook app suck?' he wrote scoble criticized the lack of a quality facebook app in particular 'sorry google, but google+ still isn't used by my family, friends, or those i speak with ,' he wrote 'google+ isn't nearly as ubiquitous or as nice, truth be told, particularly for mobile users this lack of facebook support is the #1 thing that pisses me off about glass' all of that said, scoble holds out hope he said he still loves his glass and that it's unfair to judge a test version of the still new device as if it's a finished product 'so, what would i do if i were google? reset expectations,' he wrote 'say 'this is really a product for 2020 that we're gonna build with you' first release is in 2014, but let's be honest, if it's $600 and dorky looking, it'll be doomed as long as expectations are so high' while still in limited release, google glass has already stirred up some controversy some restaurants and other businesses have banned google glass over concerns about the headset's ability to take photos and record video and users have already been ticketed for wearing them while driving, as lawmakers in several states consider laws to ban them behind the wheel and then there's their appearance glass's part futuristic, part dorky look has been mocked in such spots as the blog, white men wearing google glass
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top tech blogger says google glass won't do well when it hits the market . robert scoble has used glass since april 2013 . price, lack of apps likely will hurt its early sales, he says . but by 2020, he thinks the headset will be a hit
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(cnn) for one private collector, it's the beginning of a beautiful friendship a buyer has purchased the piano used in one of the most beloved scenes in all of film: the playing of 'as time goes by' in 'casablanca' the 1942 classic movie starring humphrey bogart and ingrid bergman sotheby's new york auctioned the piano for $602,500 on friday, a sale price lower than expected the estimated price for the piano had been $800,000 to $12 million the 58 key piano is a memorable part of the romantic flashback sequence in paris at la belle aurore, where rick (bogart) and ilsa (bergman) listen to sam (dooley wilson) sing and play 'as time goes by' the piano is distinctive for its diminutive size and distinct hue 'seeing the piano in real life you end up with a couple of things,' said david redden, vice chairman at sotheby's 'it's quite colorful, green and distressed yellow and you don't realize how small it is, so small in fact bogart and bergman sort of tower over it' redden is no stranger to this famous hollywood prop he first auctioned it off back in 1988 'it was sold to a japanese man and now it's come back to us,' redden told cnn 'he paid $154,000 for it' on friday, a pianist played 'as time goes by' in the sotheby's salesroom 'before the piano was spun around on the turnstile to an awaiting audience and bought by a private collector,' the auction house said the sale was greeted by applause, sotheby's said the instrument had no significant value in the golden age of moviemaking, redden added 'it would be re used again and again,' he said many critics and movie lovers regard 'casablanca' as one of the greatest films ever made directed by michael curtiz, it won three oscars, and is replete with memorable lines and scenes 'the piano is a star of the film,' redden said 'the music is so emotive, so moving and the piano really becomes a symbol of the love story between bogart and bergman' wilson, the actor who portrayed sam, was a trumpeter, not a pianist, according to redden 'he is sort of miming the fingering but someone else is playing nearby and he was following the real player,' redden said now, the unknown new owner just a 'citizen of the world,' like the character rick gets to tickle the ivories as time goes by
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paris (cnn) france and germany have just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the elysée treaty in berlin even british prime minister david cameron had to respect this most symbolic date and wait another 24 hours before delivering his long awaited speech on europe in 2003, for the elysée treaty's 40th anniversary, jacques chirac had lavishly received chancellor gerhard schröder, and the whole of the bundestag to versailles in his speech, the french president had invoked goethe, hugo and of course charles de gaulle and adenauer, the founders of the franco german rapprochement in 1963 this year, berlin was hosting the celebrations with a bundestag bursting at the seams, having had to add 577 extra seats to accommodate the whole of the french national assembly german chancellor angela merkel and french president françois hollande gave a common press conference, met with students, answered their questions and went for lunch some in the press corps, like ian traynor, the guardian's brussels correspondent, complained about the food and tweeted a picture of the menu: beetroot, red cabbage and red berries, prompting the all too predictable comment: 'why didn't they let the french do the cooking?' opinion: why hollande must show clearer leadership there was pomp, emotion and comedy as hollande made its way into a packed reichstag for his speech, he missed a step a broken leg would have sent the wrong message luckily, the president didn't fall a few moments later, when the first notes of the marseillaise started filling the reichstag for the first time in the building's dramatic history, even french mps held their breath and eyes got misty for the elysée treaty has no comparison in contemporary history: it still, to this day, offers a unique model of reconciliation between two states france and germany enjoy joint cabinet meetings and political partnerships at all levels both countries have gone from hereditary hatred, to hereditary friendship and this is no small accomplishment in light of the three wars france and germany waged against each other from 1870 to 1945 as thomas klau from think tank ecfr (european council of foreign relations) put it: 'the elysée treaty is to france and germany what the bible is to the church, even if people don't read it every day' with a combined total of 40% of the eurozone gdp, 33% of the entire eu's population and 31% of its budget, france and germany are the locomotive of the european union and remain so even when their respective heads of state are at odds it always takes a french president and a german chancellor a couple of years to get along well mitterrand kohl, chirac schröder, sarkozy merkel, even when they both belonged to the same political family, took time to work together but when there is a spark and personal chemistry between the two leaders, this means progress for the whole continent during intermediary phases when they are getting to know each other like today, with a social democrat hollande and a conservative merkel progress is slow nowhere better than in brussels is this more obvious and it is especially damaging in time of a crisis such as the one we're living this is why france and germany have no choice but to find a compromise or there could be consequences for the european project france thinks financial solidarity should precede political integration, germany suggest the opposite no doubt the markets and their 25 european partners in the union will soon remind them to come up with a common view at this time more than ever in the week that cameron has promised britain a referendum on its eu membership europe's future depends on franco german unity of purpose and action the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of agnes poirier
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washington (cnn) when congress decided to bury the nation's nuclear waste in yucca mountain, nevada, the federal government moved at the pace of a glacier but when the political winds changed and the government decided to shut down the project, it acted with unusual speed, according to a report released tuesday the department of energy reduced its staff and transferred excess property in the blink of an eye, bureaucratically speaking 'several doe officials told us that they had never seen such a large program with so much pressure to close down so quickly,' the government accountability office said in the report the shutdown of the yucca project, in fact, moved with such haste that it could hinder efforts to resurrect the plan if so desired by the nuclear regulatory commission or the courts, the gao said yucca mountain 100 miles northwest of las vegas, nevada was to be the solution to the nuclear waste problem: a final destination for the tons of hazardous nuclear waste accumulating at commercial reactors in 33 states in 1987, congress directed the doe to dispose of waste in the mountain beginning in 1998 but political opposition to the plan has been relentless, and the doe was unable to meet the deadline in 2008, the doe submitted a license application to the nrc seeking to construct a nuclear waste repository at yucca mountain, with a goal of opening it in 2017, a date later delayed until 2020 in march of 2009, following the election of president obama, the secretary of energy announced plans to terminate the yucca mountain project and set up a blue ribbon commission to study alternatives the commission is scheduled to issue an interim report in july and a final report by january the doe's decision to terminate the yucca mountain program 'was made for policy reasons, not technical or safety reasons,' the gao report says doe officials believe 'there are better solutions that can achieve a broader national consensus to the nation's spent fuel and nuclear waste storage needs than yucca mountain,' the gao said the gao said that while it is unclear whether the nrc or the courts will resurrect the project, the doe 'undertook an ambitious set of steps to dismantle' the program starting in february 2010, the doe redirected funds to be used on closeout activities, setting a september 30, 2010, deadline that was largely met, the gao said according to the doe general counsel, the september 30 deadline did not allow time for formal planning, although officials stated they believe necessary plan did occur the doe undertook 'extensive efforts to preserve data related to its licensing efforts, as well as other scientific information relevant to the storage and disposal of high level waste and spent nuclear fuel,' the gao said in contrast, efforts to retain project staff were 'minimal,' the gao said the 180 federal staffers began leaving as soon as they found new jobs, placing increasing stress on the remaining staff to have an orderly shutdown the department of energy used expedited procedures to transfer a large volume of office furniture and equipment, declaring it 'abandoned' and moving it to other agencies, arguing that it would cost $680 per day to store the equipment more routine procedures were used 'the loss of staff with experience at yucca mountain could hinder the license review if the process is resumed,' the gao said 'reconstituting this expertise and teamwork could be difficult should the licensing process be resumed' in a letter to the gao, the doe said it 'strongly disagrees' with many of the reports conclusions concerning the shutdown, it said the department 'was committed to closing down the yucca mountain project in a responsible manner, and it successfully did so' it said the gao was inaccurate in stating it did not follow federal policy and guidance for planning
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yucca mountain, nevada, was to be the site of nuclear waste storage . the obama administration terminated the project . a government report says the shutdown moved quickly . so quickly, the report says, it could hinder efforts if the project is ever resurrected
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los angeles, california (cnn) singer chris brown pleaded not guilty to both charges in the felony assault case against him monday afternoon singer chris brown, right, appeared in court monday on charges of assaulting singer rihanna singer rihanna, the girlfriend brown is accused of attacking, wants the case resolved without a trial, her lawyer said the only words heard from brown, 19, during his brief appearance before judge patricia schnegg were 'not guilty,' which he said twice as schnegg asked for his plea on the two counts brown is charged with felony counts of assault and making criminal threats if he is convicted, the sentence could range from probation to four years and eight months in prison, the los angeles county district attorney's office has said the alleged attacked happened during an argument in february that began when 21 year old rihanna, who had been dating brown, found a text message from another woman on his cell phone, according to a sworn police statement watch chris brown enter his plea » rihanna's lawyer, donald etra, told reporters after monday's hearing that his client 'would prefer that the matter be resolved expeditiously and fairly' 'she believes that the quicker this case is over, the more quickly she can get back to her life and her career, which is exactly what she'd like to do,' etra said rihanna, who is in her home country, barbados, 'is in fine spirits, she's doing fine,' he said 'she would be pleased if this were over quickly,' etra said he said there were 'efforts on behalf of all of the parties to try to resolve the case expeditiously and fairly' the goal is 'to see if it can be resolved prior to the preliminary hearing and prior to trial,' etra said 'i think that would benefit everybody' when asked if rihanna would cooperate with prosecutors, etra gave the same response he's given previously 'if asked to testify, she will do so,' he said he said it was 'premature to speculate' what rihanna might consider a fair plea deal for brown when brown appeared for his first hearing a month ago, rihanna's lawyer asked the judge not to prohibit brown from having contact with her while he faces felony charges of assaulting her watch brown at his march court appearance » the judge granted rihanna's request, only warning brown 'not to annoy, harass, molest, threaten or use force or violence against anyone' court documents released last month revealed details about the case against brown, including a police statement that the incident began when rihanna, whose full name is robyn rihanna fenty, found a text message on brown's cell phone from 'a woman who brown had a previous sexual relationship with' brown issued a public apology for the incident in february 'words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened i am over what transpired,' he said in a statement released by his spokesman 'i am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and i am committed, with god's help, to emerging a better person' brown has not commented publicly since issuing that statement the next court hearing in the case is set for april 29 cnn's kj matthews and denise quan contributed to this report
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new: chris brown's girlfriend, singer rihanna, doesn't want a trial, lawyer says . brown arraigned monday afternoon in los angeles, california . brown accused of assaulting rihanna in february . police say brown and rihanna had argument that became violent
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(cnn) didier drogba muscled his way through for a late winner to put chelsea into the fa cup final with a 2 1 victory over arsenal at wembley on saturday a bare chested drogba is congratulated by salomon kalou after scoring the winner at wembley the all london clash rarely hit the heights on a difficult pitch, but drogba's 84th minute strike gave guus hiddink's men a deserved victory and leaves them in contention for three trophies dutchman hiddink, who took temporary charge of the blues in february and has lost only one match, said drogba had proved his worth again 'he is proving already he is so dangerous, very strong and physically fit,' he told press association 'we respect each other very much but also challenge each other without thinking this is a big name' arsenal went ahead in the 18th minute as theo walcott's volley deflected past petr cech, but florent malouda equalized for chelsea just after the half hour mark chelsea looked the stronger against an arsenal team missing key defenders and goalkeeper manuel almunia and it came as no surprise when ivory coast star drogba scored a typical winner he latched on to frank lampard's hopeful volleyed through ball, shrugged off mikael silvestre before rounding lukasz fabianksi to roll the ball into an empty net ivory coast international drogba scored the winning goal against manchester united in the 2007 fa cup final and may get the chance to repeat the trick quintuple chasing united play everton in the second semifinal, also at wembley, on sunday chelsea, who are a still challenging third in the premier league and semifinals of the champions league, showed their character after falling behind to walcott's strike the england international winger connected with a chipped cross from kieran gibbs and his effort took a cruel deflection off ashley cole's arm to beat cech arsenal had made a fine start, but without injured central defender william gallas and with fabianski showing a lack of authority in goal, chelsea came back strongly into the game malouda went close with a cross shot which eluded fabianski, but he was not be denied soon afterwards as picked out by lampard he cut inside emmanuel eboue and beat fabianski at his near post more slack defending from denilson allowed nicolas anelka time to shoot and his shot hit the post with fabianski beaten walcott looked occasionally dangerous on the flank and twice sent in crosses which might have been converted, but chelsea looked the more threatening and the teams were spared extra time when drogba powered through to score arsenal manager arsene wenger was left to rue their defensive errors and the performance of his 20 year old polish goalkeeper 'he's a great goalkeeper but it was not his greatest day,' wenger said 'inexperience, yes it was a game when any mistake could be costly'
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(cnn) a 19 year old girl whose hospitalization exposed a shocking austrian incest case has woken from her coma, a development that could shed new light on what occurred in the basement were she was held captive for decades fritzl initially confessed to raping his daughter and having seven children with her doctors placed kerstin fritzl in an artificial coma in april after she emerged for the first time from the cellar where she was held captive from birth by her father josef kerstin, along with six other children, was born from josef fritzl's incestuous relationship with his daughter elisabeth, now 43, whom he raped repeatedly during the 24 years she was imprisoned beneath his home police say fritzl, 73, has confessed to holding his elisabeth captive and fathering seven children, six of whom survived kerstin was admitted to hospital in amstetten, west of vienna, in an unconscious state after elisabeth persuaded fritzl that she needed medical attention suspicious medics alerted police, who opened an investigation detectives began investigating the case after hospital officials started inquiring about the girl's family history kerstin and two of her brothers, aged 18 and 5, had spent their entire lives trapped in the cellar with their mother, never seeing daylight, a television their only contact with the outside world another three children fritzl fathered with elisabeth were taken to live above ground with fritzl and his wife, who says she had no idea that her daughter was being held captive a seventh child died shortly after birth elisabeth and her children have been treated at a secure medical unit since their release officials at hospital in amstetten, austria, did not release any more information about kerstin fritzl's condition a news conference on the case is scheduled for wednesday
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baghdad, iraq (cnn) iraqi representatives will meet with the international olympic committee on monday to try to reach an agreement that would allow now banned iraq to participate in next month's games, an official said friday iraq fans cheer during an olympic qualifying soccer match against australia in november jassim m jaffer, iraq's minister of youth and sports, told cnn he is 'optimistic that we will participate' iraqi government spokesman ali al dabbagh and the ministry's adviser, basil abdul mahdi, are on their way to lausanne, switzerland, to meet with ioc officials, jaffer said the ioc barred iraq from participating in the olympic summer games in beijing, china, citing what it said was government interference with iraq's olympic movement the ioc's charter does not allow political interference the ban stems from the iraqi government decision in may to suspend the country's existing olympic committee and form a new entity watch an official explain the decision » but even as government representatives traveled to switzerland, jaffer said iraq was considering legal action against the ioc 'we will revert to international courts with a complaint against the ioc to get iraq's rights and the rights of the athletes,' jaffer said on friday, another iraqi government official said the country was doing what it could to reverse the ban, but acknowledged that 'chances are slim' for a change basam ridha al husseini, an adviser to prime minister nuri al maliki, told cnn the government has been in 'heavy negotiations' with ioc officials through the asian olympic committee 'the iraqi government will not give up on our participation, which is still needed by our people,' he said in a phone interview from dubai 'we are doing our best to stop the ban the chances of that are slim, but we will persevere and hope it will happen' repeated attempts by cnn to reach the ioc press office in switzerland for comment were unsuccessful but on thursday, ioc spokeswoman emmanuelle moreau said the ioc in june suspended iraq's national olympic committee after the government removed elected officials and put in people not recognized by the ioc she said the ioc had proposed to the iraqi government that officials come to the ioc headquarters in lausanne, switzerland, 'to discuss possible solutions' 'we're extremely disappointed with the situation,' moreau said 'the athletes have been ill served by the government in iraq' iraq missed a wednesday deadline for the entry of athletes to compete in archery, judo, rowing and weightlifting, moreau said she said there is a chance that track and field athletes could compete if the original committee is reinstated the deadline for the track team to register is at the end of the month jaffer, iraq's sports minister, told cnn on friday that the ioc's decision was 'unjust' because it did not take into consideration the iraqi government's reasons for the may suspension the minister called on the ioc to come to iraq and talk to the sports federation to investigate the political interference accusations, and then act accordingly 'looking at this from far away, without going into the details, not reading the iraqi government's reports, not hearing iraq's side of the story and accusing iraq of many things is really unfortunate,' he said several iraqi athletes were to travel to china for the games' start in august iraqi sprinter dana hussain cried for hours after hearing the news of the ban on thursday, which arrived in the form of a letter to iraqi officials 'she hasn't stopped it's like finding out that a close relative has died,' said her coach, yousif abdul rahman abdul rahman attempted to console hussain by assuring her that she could compete in the 2012 olympics watch hussain react to the news » 'in this horrible situation,' she said, 'who can say i'll even be alive in 2012?' al husseini said iraq had the right as a sovereign nation to suspend the olympic committee, which he accused of documented corruption it was not clear where the committee's funds were going and they 'could be ending up in the hands of terrorists,' he said 'we are satisfied with the decision stand by it and we are not going to change an order by [prime minister] al maliki and the cabinet never,' he said he was asked whether iraq would consider doing what yugoslavia did in the 1992 winter olympics when it was banned sending individual athletes and not raising the national flag al husseini said that would be an option, but al maliki rejected it al husseini said that iraq had been banned from taking part in the 1990 olympics during the saddam hussein era because of the invasion of kuwait the 1990 ban, enacted by the olympic council of asia, actually was a ban on participation in the asian games, a regional olympics related event iraq participated in the 1992 olympics in barcelona, the first games held after the kuwait invasion cnn's jomana karadsheh and morgan neill contributed to this report
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iraqi officials head to switzerland to make case to international olympic committee . ioc said thursday iraq was banned from summer games, which start next month . ioc charged political interference, cited iraq's suspension of its olympic committee . iraqi official says he's 'optimistic' iraq will be allowed to take part in games
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(cnn) two teenage girls from great britain will fly home thursday after spending a year behind bars in ghana for drug smuggling, the british high commission in the west african country said the girls were stopped by customs officials at accra trying to smuggle drugs back to britain ghanaian police arrested the teenagers, identified as yasemin vatansever and yatunde diya, in july 2007 as they prepared to board a british airways flight to london when officials searched their laptop bags as part of departure formalities, they found about 13 lbs (6 kg) of cocaine the girls, now 17, were 16 at the time of their arrest they faced a maximum sentence of three years uk media have named the girls as yatunde diya and yasemin vatansever of north london in january, a juvenile court in ghana sentenced the pair to nine months in jail for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country at the time, a british foreign office spokesman said the teens would not have to serve the full sentence because they had already spent more than six months in custody but soon afterward, ghanaian authorities changed their minds the girls were housed in a correctional home for girls in the country's capital, accra fair trials international, a uk based group that provided legal assistance to the pair, called the girls 'pawns in a larger operation' authorities in ghana had said a man paid the girls £6,000 (about $11,700) to fly to ghana to retrieve the laptop bags containing the drugs from two of his associates, according to the country's national news agency those men have not been caught 'the girls have served their full sentences, but the men who groomed them and lured them to ghana remain free to target other vulnerable young women,' said catherine wolthuizen, fair trials' chief executive, in a statement this week ghana and other west african countries have become a transit point for drugs headed to europe the girls were arrested in a joint britain ghana drug detection operation, the uk's customs agency said wednesday cnn's laura maestro contributed to this report
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british teens jailed in ghana on drugs charges, due to fly home to uk thursday . pair, both 16 at time of arrest last july, sentenced to nine months in prison . uk legal aid group says girls had been targeted, were 'pawns in a larger operation'
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phnom penh, cambodia (cnn) cambodia has sent a letter to the united nations security council to call attention to its continuing standoff with thailand over an ancient border temple on disputed land cambodian soldiers stand guard near preah vihear temple, close to the thai border the country is not asking for un intervention, said information minister kheu kanharith rather, the letter that cambodia's permanent mission in new york submitted to the chairmen of the security council and the general assembly is meant to draw attention to a crisis that entered its sixth day sunday the two countries agreed to meet monday to defuse tensions even as each side continued to amass more troops to the site of the preah vihear temple both cambodia and thailand lay claim to the 11th century temple, which sits atop a cliff on cambodian soil but has its most accessible entrance on the thai side the international court of justice awarded the temple to cambodia in 1962 thailand claims, however, that the 18 square mile (46 sq km) area around it was never fully demarcated thailand further says that the dispute arose from the fact that the cambodian government used a map drawn during the french occupation of cambodia that places both the temple and the surrounding area in that country's territory earlier this month, the united nations approved cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a world heritage site places the un says have outstanding universal value the decision re ignited tensions, with some in thailand fearing it will make it difficult for their country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple opposition parties in thailand used the issue to attack the government, which initially backed the heritage listing a thai court overturned the pact, prompting the resignation of thailand's foreign minister, noppadon pattama he had endorsed the application cambodia, meanwhile, is preparing for general elections on july 27 and prime minister hun sen, who has been in power since the mid 1980s, has portrayed the un recognition as a national triumph the current flare up began tuesday, when cambodian guards briefly detained three thais who crossed into the area once they were let go, the three refused to leave the territory cambodia claims thailand sent troops to retrieve the trio and gradually built up their numbers thailand denies the charge, saying its troops are deployed in thai territory each side has asked its troops to withhold fire unless they are fired upon so far, the only casualty has been a thai soldier who was injured tuesday by a landmine possibly left over from the time the khmer rouge occupied the area the khmer rouge, a radical communist movement that ruled cambodia from 1975 to 1979, won power through a guerrilla war it is remembered for the deaths of as many as 15 million cambodians journalist soeum yin contributed to this report
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cambodia: letter to security council meant to 'draw attention to crisis'. the two countries agreed to meet monday to defuse tensions . both cambodia and thailand lay claim to 11th century preah vihear temple . the international court of justice awarded the temple to cambodia in 1962
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(cnn) the inclusion of mount fuji in the unesco world heritage list recently has spurred a huge reaction among international travelers and agencies this monday, as normal, hundreds of hikers flocked to mt fuji for the beginning of the summer climbing season climbers started to ascend the 3,776 meter peak as early as 3 am to watch the sunrise from the summit they lit torches and walked in long winding queues along the path that leads up the mountain so numerous were the climbers in their colorful outfits it looked a little like a busy morning in a tokyo subway station worshiped for centuries the cone shaped mountain has been worshiped in japan for centuries it is considered the symbol of this island country home to a reported 118 volcanoes while mt fuji was already popular among tourists, the unesco world heritage status will spark a new wave of interest, say local officials according to the japan times, japan travel bureau corp announced monday a series of day trips for foreigners, accompanied by english speaking tour guides east japan railway co also offered a 50% discount on tickets for people who use the chuo line to visit the mountain risk of erosion environmentalists warn the extra tourists pose potential environmental problems, such as erosion or littering it was reported that yamanashi and shizuoka prefectures, where mt fuji is located, will collect entrance fees to the site on a trial basis this summer to help pay for its preservation mt fuji attracts around 300,000 trekkers each year
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(cnn) 'the dark knight' opened early friday to huge crowds and rave reviews colorado teen christina perez says she painted her face like the joker as a tribute to heath ledger much of the praise has gone to heath ledger's dark and disturbing portrayal of the joker ledger died of an accidental drug overdose before the movie was finished ireporter chelsea itson, a 23 year old student, went to the 12:15 am showing in perrysburg, ohio, and couldn't sleep afterward 'it still has me kind of jittery,' she told cnn itson saw the first 'batman' movie, but wasn't a big fan of the series, or heath ledger, but said her friend wanted to go ireporter hasn't been to sleep since seeing film » 'it was completely different from jack nicholson [as the joker],' she said after the movie, she said, the audience was silent 'i've never left a movie shaking before,' she said christina perez, of colorado springs, colorado, and her friends went to the theater four hours early to make sure they got a good seat 'there was already a line going along the side of the theater, but we managed to get good seats anyway,' she said the 17 year old says she's more of a heath ledger fan than a batman fan, and she wore joker make up as a tribute to him 'i thought he was amazing i felt really sad that he died while filming this, his role was so amazing,' she said jessica lang, 15, of mankato, minnesota, said she wasn't expecting much from the movie and pretty much went only because her brother and some friends wanted to go 'it was amazing, there were no words for it, it was so good, it was probably the best movie i've ever seen,' she said jenni smith went to the 3 am showing in las vegas, nevada, even though she had to be at work that day she and her friends went straight to bed after work thursday, then got up at 1 am 'i'm a big comic book fan, and i've been reading comic books since i was 5 and i'm also a big movie fan, and we tend to go to a lot of movie openings' her friend mario carrillo also dressed up as the joker, and she made a custom shirt for the event 'one of the things i just really love is the energy of the crowd on opening day i find that people are more willing to laugh out loud and cheer it's worth staying up for,' the 32 year old publications manager said below is a sampling of ireporters' impressions of 'the dark knight' some have been edited for length or clarity: sanjeeva7 of alpharetta, georgia: believe the hype the dark knight lived up to the hype, especially heath ledger's role as the joker i really felt he was crazy one of the best villain portrayals of all time and well deserving of an oscar nomination geno walker of charlotte, north carolina: 'unless you hate yourself, you should go see this movie immediately stop reading this right now and go to the nearest movie theater it doesn't even matter if the show has already started buy a ticket, walk in halfway through, sit down and wait for the next showing to start see it soon and see it often you'll love yourself more if you do' mrrg: 'a haunting experiment into the human psyche is the only way i can describe the unequivocal depth that ledger was able to reach with this portrayal of one the most evil characters ever brought to the screen it was definitely bale's story, but the late heath ledger's movie sonnyjc9: wife and i watched this yesterday 17 july here in bangkok, thailand heath ledger is awesome as the joker 154 minutes of pure entertainment, and you will be giggling to yourself from heath's performance it is sad to think he will never reprise this role, but what a farewell must see zandz: we went to the premiere of this movie last night and thought the movie was only good however, heath ledger did an excellent job portraying the the joker the way heath ledger plays the joker is different than how jack nicholson plays the character both have their unique styles nicholson's joker was more comical, but ledger's was more dark (while trying to be funny) the makeup artists also did a great job on this joker's face
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ireporters got up early, stayed up late to see 'the dark night'. christina perez got to the theater four hours early . 'best movie i've ever seen,' jessica lang said . send your review: share photos and videos
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(ewcom) 'star trek into darkness' opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in mid eruption, traps first officer spock (zachary quinto) over a boiling ocean of lava naturally, the vulcan stays cool as a cucumber, ready to die to save his crew an impeccably logical decision that also happens to be the compassionate one but capt james t kirk (chris pine), commander of the uss enterprise, has other ideas he'll rescue spock, even if that means violating a federation rule that says the enterprise can't be exposed to the planet's uncivilized hordes kirk, who never met a regulation he couldn't trash, guides the starship up into the air and over to where his comrade is about to perish, and the white mud caked warriors stare at the ship as if it were a god it's a sensation that the movie transmits to the audience, since the enterprise, emitting an awesome thrummm, never looked quite so massive or looming will crowd funding a 'friday night lights' movie work? four years ago, director jj abrams rebooted the 'star trek' franchise with great swagger by treating the launch film as a unique pop culture origin story the movie was all about how the enterprise crew first came together, but really it was about how chris pine and zachary quinto rose up to become those superheroes of yore, kirk and spock, by echoing the looks, voices, and personalities of william shatner and leonard nimoy just enough, while still making the roles their own the two actors now really have a chance to get their kirk and spock on pine, with ice blue eyes and lips that dance on the edge of a smirk, does something marvelously clever: he evokes shatner's hamminess by underplaying it and quinto makes the glowering, dagger browed spock almost fiercely withholding 'into darkness' provides room for these actors to deepen their interplay the movie has an often sinister grandeur, but the images never overpower the human (or vulcan) factor like abrams' first 'trek' movie, this one is positioned as a prequel to the original tv series and subsequent films, though it also lifts (and twists) elements from that sacred text, 1982's 'star trek ii: the wrath of khan' kirk and spock, each following his own nature (one's a hothead, the other a detached brainiac), are usually at loggerheads even when they wind up coming to the same conclusion they can't stop arguing about how they got there, and that's part of the movie's texture of cocky one upmanship 'the bling ring': cannes review the whole enterprise crew has become a collection of colliding egos zoë saldana's uhura, who's in the middle of a lovers' quarrel with spock; john cho as the so stoic he's cool sulu; simon pegg's frantically funny and resourceful scotty — these characters pop out at us with a new dynamism and they all confront a villain who has been brilliantly retrofitted to throw everyone, including the audience, off guard this dastardly dude is a boyish looking terrorist named john harrison, who starts off by striking a note of urban chaos but it's not long before he's revealed to be — how can i say this? — a foe familiar to trekkies, with a concealed agenda and 70 of his comrades cryogenically frozen in photon torpedo capsules he's played by rising british star benedict cumberbatch in a totally original way, with the physicality of a dancer and an eager, puckish sincerity that ingeniously disguises his vengeful mission once harrison's been captured and placed in a cell, kirk has to listen to his own hunches about who this man is and what he wants that's the real ''darkness'' the film's title is referring to: the place where you're no longer certain of the right thing and that's a place of genuine excitement intergalactic fashion finds 'into darkness' is a sleek, thrilling epic that's also a triumphantly witty popcorn morality play it's everything you could want in a 'star trek' movie grade: 'a' see the original 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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jj abrams rebooted the 'star trek' franchise with swagger in 2009 . the sequel 'into darkness' gives the actors more room to dig deep into their roles . the movie has an often sinister grandeur, but that never overpowers the human factor
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(cnn) the australian radio station which made a prank call to a uk hospital that apparently resulted in the death of a nurse said tuesday that it would donate at least 500,000 australian dollars (us$524,000) to a fund for the nurse's family jacintha saldanha apparently committed suicide after being duped by the prank call from two djs seeking information on prince william's pregnant wife, catherine read more: radio personalities apologize for prank call the sydney based 2dayfm radio station has come under heavy fire over the hoax call the media group which owns 2dayfm said it would resume advertising on the station halted in the wake of the tragedy beginning thursday, with all profits until the end of the year going to 'an appropriate fund' that would directly benefit saldanha's family and a minimum contribution of 500,000 australian dollars 'we are very sorry for what has happened,' said rhys holleran, chief executive of southern cross austereo 'we hope that by contributing to a memorial fund we can help to provide the saldanha family with the support they need at this very difficult time' saldanha put through a call from the djs to a nurse on the ward at king edward vii's hospital, where the duchess of cambridge was being treated for acute morning sickness early last tuesday opinion: 'the great' vs the powerless the 46 year old nurse was found dead three days later in living quarters in central london provided by her workplace she left a husband and two children an autopsy will be carried out tuesday in westminster, london's metropolitan police said the hospital has said that it is also collecting donations from the public for the family and asked that checks be made out to king edward vii's hospital jacintha saldanha memorial fund and mailed to finance, king edward vii's hospital, 10 beaumont street, london w1g 6aa 'she was an outstanding nurse whose loss has shocked and saddened everyone at the hospital,' said chairman lord glenarthur 'following discussions with her family, we have now established the jacintha saldanha memorial fund in her memory' many donations have already been made from around the world, he said, and the hospital would 'certainly welcome' a contribution from southern cross austereo there has been a fierce public backlash against the radio station, both within australia and worldwide, since its decision to broadcast the pre recorded prank call the two djs, who impersonated queen elizabeth ii and prince charles in the call, made tearful apologies on monday for what had happened mel greig and michael christian, both crying at times, told two australian television shows that their thoughts were with saldanha's family 'i'm very sorry and saddened for the family, and i can't imagine what they've been going through,' greig said on the program 'today tonight' christian described himself as 'gutted, shattered and heartbroken' read more: nurse death sparks outrage, casts glare on 'shock jocks' 'for the part we played, we're incredibly sorry,' christian said on 'today tonight' both have said that they never expected the call to go through they also stressed monday that while they made the call to the hospital, they did not have a say on whether it went to air the call was recorded and then went through a vetting process at their network before it was broadcast, they said share prices for southern cross media group dropped by as much as 8% monday following the controversy, according to australian media reports a number of big advertisers pulled their spots from 2dayfm before it took the decision temporarily not to run ads profits for the media group as a whole were 95 million australian dollars in the year to june 2012, up from 641 million a year earlier, according to the company's 2012 annual report it was the first full year earnings report since southern cross media and austereo group merged in may 2011 holleran last week said he was 'deeply saddened' by the nurse's death but defended the legality of the station's action, saying he was 'very confident that we haven't done anything illegal' the australian communications and media authority, the country's media regulator, has said it will be 'engaging with' the network 'around the facts and issues surrounding the prank call' london's metropolitan police have contacted australian authorities in relation to the call, but 'are not discussing about what or with who' they're talking, a spokesman told cnn a spokeswoman for new south wales police in australia told cnn: 'as the investigation into the death of london nurse jacintha saldhana continues, new south wales police will be providing london's metropolitan police with whatever assistance they require' aussie dj scandal: does radio share the blame? cnn's laura perez maestro and per nyberg contributed to this report
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tunis, tunisia (cnn) tunisian opposition leaders joined the current ruling party monday in a new government to replace the country's ousted president, while un secretary general ban ki moon called for a return to stability 'as soon as possible' the government will be led by current prime minister mohamed ghannouchi, who took charge of the north african country when longtime president zine el abidine ben ali fled last week ghannouchi's 19 member cabinet will include three opposition leaders and 10 independents, he announced monday the new government will be tasked with leading tunisia toward new elections, he said street clashes continued in tunis on monday, three days after ben ali's departure, with police firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators in tunis ban called on the new government to restore stability and the rule of law 'as soon as possible' ben ali fled to saudi arabia on friday after ruling the country for 23 years his ouster followed weeks of protest over what tunisians said were poor living conditions, high unemployment, government corruption and repression fouad mebazaa, a former parliament speaker, was named acting president saturday he promised to restore stability and respect the constitution of the north african country speaking in abu dhabi, ban told reporters the new government should protect human rights and guarantee freedom of speech and association but he said he remained 'extremely concerned' about the ongoing clashes in the streets 'this is a moment for the tunisian people to strengthen the country's longstanding culture of political moderation and its attachment to peace,' he said 'i call on the government and all stakeholders to ensure a prompt restoration of the rule of law, and to respect and accommodate the aspirations of the people tunisia must regain its stability as soon as possible, to pursue the path of development and prosperity' the new government includes opposition leaders mustafa ben jaafar, who will serve as health minister; ahmad ibrahim, education minister; and ahmad najib al shabi, minister of local development among the holdovers is ahmad friaa, the interior minister friaa, speaking later on state tv, said 78 people have died in the clashes across several weeks and 94 have been injured, among them many police officers he urged people to stop riots and to work with police he vowed that those who should be held responsible for mistakes of the past will be punished and friaa ended his speech saying, 'yes for democracy, yes freedom, no for chaos' friaa also said the cost of the turmoil of recent weeks is 3 billion tunisian dinars (about 16 billion euros, about $2 billion us) the announcements came a day after the country's army clashed with armed gangs and remnants of ben ali's personal guard police have arrested looters and as many as two dozen of the ousted president's relatives since friday public protests continued monday, as about two thousand people packed into a major road in tunis as the demonstrators tried to work their way toward the headquarters of the ruling party, police opened fire with tear gas opposition officials told cnn there were other peaceful demonstrations in towns in central and southern tunisia tunisia's unrest was triggered by the december suicide of an unemployed college graduate, who set himself ablaze after police confiscated the fruit cart that was his source of income recent diplomatic cables from the us embassy in tunisia, disclosed by the wikileaks website, revealed growing discontent with what tunisians believed was widespread corruption and nepotism within ben ali's government experts say the kinds of protests seen in tunisia could inspire similar actions, particularly by unemployed young people, in other arab nations in the weekend's chaos, a group of swedish hunters visiting tunisia said monday they were stopped on the streets near kasserine and beaten some of the men's eyes were swollen and blood filled one man had apparently been beaten on the back another man had a head injury 'to be fair, when we look back, we can understand that our guns scared them,' said one of the men, ove oberg, who met with cnn monday morning the men said by the time the army came and understood the hunters were tourists, they had been badly beaten 'if the army didn't find us, we would have been dead,' magnus josefsson said mohamed guiga, a witness to sunday's clash between government troops and ben ali's loyalists, said most tunisians have rallied to each other's aid since the uprising 'we are proud of those people simple people, young people, normal people who take care of each other,' guiga said cnn's rima maktabi, ben wedeman, per nyberg, matt smith and neil curry contributed to this report
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(cnn) it's time to stop being surprised by pope francis since he became pontiff, he's made a lot of news his tweets echo around the world he embodies principles of humility and piety he eschews the fancy trappings of office favored by his predecessor, from the popemobile to the red shoes he washed the feet of prisoners, including a muslim woman, on holy thursday he telephones ordinary people who write to him in rome, he called for 'revolutionaries' to leave the comforts of their home and bring the word into the streets in rio, he told the gathered youth to 'make a mess' in the dioceses as they help the church shake off clericalism he has sought to create a 'culture of encounter' in which atheists and catholics might come together 'do good,' he said memorably 'we will meet each other there' when he announced that he would canonize pope john xxiii, the great reformer, on the same day as john paul ii, he emphasized continuity among all catholics, even those of different factions when asked about gay priests, he replied, 'who am i to judge?' most recently, he gave a long interview in which he articulated a new vision of the church that does seem revolutionary in the west, reaction has focused on his statements about hot button social issues for example, he said, 'the teaching of the church (on abortion, gay marriage, and contraception), for that matter, is clear (but) it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time' given the constant drumbeat of the american church hierarchy on exactly those issues, the line comes off as a surprising rebuke deeper critiques lie within the interview as well when he spoke about doubt and dialogue, he said, 'if the christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing' at the very least, francis has found a message that resonates with catholics and non catholics alike but as repeatedly stated by commentators and church officials, he has not changed anything he has called for no new doctrines his reorganization of the vatican goes slowly the problems besetting the church before his election remain traditionalists, who wish to preserve gains won under the past two popes, and reformers, who are frustrated by the pace of change, agree on this one thing to this point, francis' impact emerges from his behavior and his words, not his executive power as pope and yet, he has this power to surprise every time he demonstrates his humility or his empathy, his words resonate with catholics and non catholics alike they bring both pleasure and surprise that such a seemingly honest, humble and holy person really could be pope don't be surprised at what francis is doing; instead, wonder if the rest of the church hierarchy is going to catch up francis' revolution emerges out of the core of catholicism he emphasizes humility, poverty, social justice, non judgment, peace and especially mercy that he can seem so transformative without changing any theological principles is a testament to the depth and power of his reform, not its limitations such a reform has historical precedent more than 800 years ago, another francis, the son of a cloth merchant in assisi, came to rome to see the pope the church of the 13th century relied heavily on formula this reliance distanced the priests from their parishioners and was a growing problem in an era of societal change francis and his disciples, who attempted to live in perfect poverty and humility, had dedicated themselves to preaching and outreach to the people they tried to pattern their lives by the principles of christ the pope, innocent iii, gave francis his approval and supported the new franciscan order he hoped that the charismatic humility of francis might help address some of the problems the church was facing eight hundred years later, archbishop jorge bergoglio became the first pope to take francis' name as his own st francis' revolutionary message focused on a return to first principles, as he saw them while pope francis has ascended to the throne of st peter and st francis never chose to be ordained, one can locate certain parallels unfolding between the two men and their efforts at reform this pope is also turning to the first principles as he perceives them pope francis makes the argument that everything he needs to transform the church already exists within the core teachings and if this is the core, how can anyone choose not to follow? what would it look like for the rest of the hierarchy to go where francis is leading? for one thing, they might find lots of their lay parishioners and the women and men in holy order already there, working but while the hierarchy clearly elected francis to reform the workings of the vatican, it's not clear that they expected his personal piety to put such pressure on them traditionalist response to francis has concentrated on his personal charisma while emphasizing the orthodoxy of his doctrinal positions such responses seem to indicate a resistance to the idea that they might need to change anything in a recent interview with the new catholic reporter, cardinal timothy dolan of new york talked about the new pope he said that in the wake of francis, he found himself 'examining my own conscience on style, on simplicity, on lots of things' the cardinal wondered whether his living arrangements, in the historical residence of the archbishops of new york, were appropriate but the cardinal wasn't quite sure what to do about it, given that he can't sell the building st francis would have agreed he carefully never argued for the church to sell of its property or divest itself of income of course, he was outside the church hierarchy and relied on papal protection for his safety pope francis, on the other hand, might have a plan for an empty archbishop's residence if cardinal dolan wanted to downsize after all, he did recently suggest that empty church property should be used to house refugees the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of david perry
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(ewcom) fox chose an auspicious moment to greenlight a batman prequel show the same day the network announced 'gotham,' eternal rival marvel saw its multi punctuated 'avengers' spin off 'agents of shield' deliver a dominant series premiere ratings performance 'shield's' success is proof of concept for a new superhero adjacent genre: a show set in a familiar super universe that focuses on the less super (and decidedly cheaper) heroes 'gotham' is superficially similar like 'shield,' it transforms a supporting character into the lead: the show will apparently constitute an origin story for commissioner gordon, the chief lawman and friend of batman played by gary oldman in the 'dark knight' trilogy but it also appears that 'gotham' will prominently feature other characters from the comic book mythos fox has indicated that iconic villains will also appear, in some kind of fetal prequel form expect to learn more about the show in tantalizing tidbits dropped with regular, internet imploding news releases over the next few months in the meantime, here are five talking points about gotham: 1 it will probably have a strong narrative foundation from 'batman: year one' although less famous than frank miller's other grim and gritty '80s caped crusader adventure, the dark knight returns, miller's four part origin story collaboration with artist david mazzucchelli has arguably been more influential year one provided the structural backbone for batman begins and strongly influenced the grounded portrayal of gotham city through christopher nolan's trilogy the new series might be batman free, but year one is just as much an origin story for jim gordon a younger gordon arrives in gotham as a chicago transplant with a pregnant wife and discovers the gotham police department is filled with corruption he becomes a kind of elliot ness figure, a hero cop who refuses to take money; meanwhile, his personal life falls into shambles since gotham is on network tv, the rampant corruption will probably be toned down, but don't be surprised if gordon becomes a great at his job/bad at his life procedural protagonist 2 it will hopefully have characters inspired by/taken directly from gotham central this greg rucka/ed brubaker/michael lark monthly comic was short lived but absolutely fantastic essentially homicide: life on the street where the criminals are all costumed lunatics, gotham central focused on the nitty gritty police work performed by its gigantic cast of detectives at one point, a gotham central tv series was actually in development (it was a long time ago; the network developing it was the wb) while central focused on the whole department, the new gotham will probably zero in on a squad of badasses — but if we're lucky, some of those badasses will have names like renee montoya, crispus allen, and maggie sawyer 3 it will almost certainly be a procedural at least at first the new hot concept for a broadcast drama is a mission of the week drama set in a larger world that might eventually transform into something more ambitious agents of shield and sleepy hollow both had pilots that simultaneously set up long running story arcs while promising hour long monsters of the week fox's own upcoming almost human could be a model for gotham: set in a fantastical world, but with weekly cases that mix the fantastical with viewer grabbing cop work gotham executive producer bruno heller created the mentalist, one of the more durable procedural concepts of recent years i wonder if the first season will gradually build up through a series of cases that point to an ultimate villain, à la red john 4 but the show's ambitions could grow, as it explores the history of gotham batman's hometown has probably the most substantive history of any superhero city over the years, various writers and projects have used gotham's dark side of america persona as a chance to explore just about every bleak thing that has ever happened in the history of the american city will gotham feature anything about the history of the wayne family? or the tangled families of the gotham underworld? could we ever get a trip to wonder city, a prototype utopia fallen into disarray that appeared in arkham city? could season 5 of gotham just be a long batman free retelling of the incredible earthquake apocalypse story arc of 'no man's land'? remember: heller also produced rome, hbo's proto game of thrones, which constantly set its characters' struggles against the history of their society 5 clearly, the riddler should be the big bad has any batman villain had a rougher go of it in the modern era? he's the most famous bat baddie to not get a nolanized reinterpretation — which means that his most prominent appearance in the last two decades of pop culture was jim carrey's green tights performance in batman forever but the riddler could make for a great antagonist in a procedural: his whole existence is based around coming up with ever more elaborate mysteries also, if the creators of gotham want to slowly back up into the crazier aspects of the batman mythology — no mr freeze, no clayface — the riddler is a real ish psychotic they could even play around with the riddler's iconography: maybe, in this retelling, he's gordon's main nemesis or maybe he's initially working with the gotham pd in some kind of expert capacity, like hannibal in hannibal come on guys, the riddler! he makes riddles! what do you want to see from gotham, fellow bat people? and who should play jim gordon? patrick wilson? garrett hedlund? casey affleck? see the original 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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(cnn) two heavyweights dominate the high capacity commercial aviation industry boeing and airbus now the world's third largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft is touting an apparently lighter and quieter plane that it hopes will cut into the giants' market share for narrow body, medium range commercial jets the virgin test flight of the bombardier cs100 from the first new family of commercial passenger jets in decades took place at mirabel airport, in quebec, monday the 110 seat, single aisle aircraft (a 135 seat version in the cseries is also in the works, and a maximum capacity of 149 has been reported) is in the same class as boeing's 737 series and airbus 318 and 319 aircraft bombardier is a canadian multinational company headquartered in montreal more: jet sales boost china's rivalry with boeing, airbus apart from a minor alert going off midair, the two and a half hour flight was a success, the age reports 'the performance of the cseries aircraft was very impressive,' said the new jet's test pilot, chuck ellis 'we couldn't have wished for a better maiden flight' quiet, lightweight expected to enter service in 2015, the bombardier plane has two advantages over its rivals, its makers says made of lightweight composite materials, the cs100 beats airbus and boeing for fuel performance, most industry experts reportedly agree more: us company unveils new, cheap attack jet bombardier says its cseries planes will also be quieter than any existing commercial jet that's probably not because the company has heard the cries of long suffering residents near heavily trafficked airports around the world, but because regulation increasingly demands controls on airplane noise orders in the cs100 has already won orders from carriers such as latvia's airbaltic, which is buying 10 of the planes 'you could hardly hear the takeoff,' martin gauss, ceo of airbaltic, said after watching the test flight in quebec 'this was one of the reasons we bought it, along with the cost savings from lower fuel burn' there's a good reason why new commercial jet series come along so rarely the astronomical cost involved in developing them the cs100 had already cost $500 million more than its official estimate of $35 billion, bombardier said
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test flight for bombardier cs100 takes place in quebec . first new jet family in decades aims to be lighter, quieter than rivals . plane already has more than 150 orders but that's only half the goal . budget has overshot $34 billion estimate by $500 million
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(cnn) the justice department is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by the tampa, florida, socialite whose complaints about threatening and anonymous e mails set off a chain of events resulting in the resignation of cia director david petraeus jill kelley and her husband dr scott kelley filed suit in june against the fbi, pentagon and unnamed federal agents for allegedly violating her privacy and accessing private e mails against their wishes the kelleys claim government officials wrongfully disclosed jill kelley's name to the news media late tuesday, the government asked that the lawsuit be dismissed because it failed to present any facts to show the fbi, defense department and others had violated jill kelley's rights kelley defends reputation after scandal former gen john allen, commander of us central command, was the first to receive an e mail in june 2012 from a mysterious sender which referenced kelley's social activities the kelleys later received similiar e mails, which investigators determined were sent by petraeus' biographer, paula broadwell petraeus resigned in november 2012 after having admitted to carrying out an extramarital affair with someone who was later revealed to be broadwell during the scandal, it also came to light that kelley and allen engaged in e mail conversations, which anonymous officials suggested were inappropriate opinion: kelley caught in the crossfire the kelleys said jill kelley and allen were friends and not romantically involved and claimed such suggestions exposed her to ridicule a pentagon investigation cleared allen of wrongdoing; he retired from the military in february alan raul, an attorney representing the kelleys, said they will continue to press their case 'so that justice can be done, and that other citizens may feel safe in coming forward to the government with evidence of crimes' raul said the justice department's filing didn't refute the claim that government sources leaked kelley's name and the reputations of kelley and her husband were damaged us gen john allen to retire cnn's jake tapper contributed to this report
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socialite, husband sued, claiming her privacy was violated . justice department asks dismissal of jill kelley's suit . scandal led to resignation of cia chief petraeus
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(cnn) a student found dead in her dormitory at a south carolina college bled to death because of complications from childbirth, medical examiners reported thursday officials at benedict college, a private, historically black institution in columbia, identified the student as 19 year old ayaanah gibson she was about 32 weeks pregnant when she delivered a stillborn fetus late saturday or early sunday, the richland county coroner's office said gibson's body was found tuesday there was no indication of foul play in her death, the coroner's office said 'the benedict college family is deeply saddened this evening about the unexpected loss of one of its students,' the school said in a written statement 'please join the benedict college family in praying for our fallen tiger and her family' mom gives birth in bar bathroom
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the student died of complications from childbirth, medical examiners say . ayaanah gibson was 32 weeks pregnant; her fetus was stillborn . she was a student at benedict college in columbia, south carolina
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los angeles (cnn) two former coaches have sued major league soccer team chivas usa, claiming they were fired this year because they are not latino daniel calichman and theothoros chronopoulos, who worked in the team's 'academy,' or player development, program, accused team owner jorge vergara madrigal of mexico of enacting a latino only employment policy, according to a lawsuit filed in a los angeles county court calichman and chronopoulos, who are both white, also accused vergara of implementing a discriminatory practice that was carried over from chivas de guadalajara, a pro team in mexico owned by vergara that allegedly has hired only mexican soccer players since 1908 the two men, both former pros and members of the us national team, are seeking unspecified damages for discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination, their attorneys said in a statement wednesday the team fired the two coaches 'as part of an ethnocentric policy and practice of discriminating against and terminating non mexican and non latino employees,' the suit alleged in an interview in his attorney's office, calichman recalled a team staff meeting last november vergara 'asked everyone who speaks spanish raise your hand, and there was a group that could not speak spanish,' calichman said 'the work environment changed, and coaches that could not speak spanish on the field were wondering, 'hey, will we be fired because i can't speak spanish and is it possible?' 'it feels horrible,' he said of the alleged discrimination the los angeles area based chivas team, which shares a stadium in carson with the los angeles galaxy, declined to comment 'we are not commenting because it's a legal matter,' said christina maillo belda, spokeswoman for chivas usa a co defendant in the civil suit, the human resources firm insperity inc of kingwood, texas, also declined comment on tuesday's filing 'insperity has not yet been served with this lawsuit or even had the opportunity to review it,' said spokeswoman suzanne haugen 'however, insperity does not comment on pending litigation' the two former coaches experienced retaliation for opposing the allegedly unlawful employment practices, the lawsuit alleged the two men filed complaints with the team's human resources manager and later with the california department of fair employment and housing the team terminated their employment on march 7 and sent a letter accusing the two men of unprofessional conduct that created an unsafe work environment, the lawsuit said the two former coaches dispute that accusation by the team chronopoulos was a chivas usa coach and the director of the team's academy program, which identifies and develops players age 18 and under for the pro team calichman reported to chronopoulos and coached 17 and 18 year old players in the academy program he also helped the pro team as needed, the lawsuit stated both coaches joined chivas usa in august 2011 a year later, vergara acquired 50% ownership of the team and, with wife angelica fuentes, became the team's sole owner, the suit said he 'undertook a systemic effort to reverse what he perceived as the 'americanization' of chivas usa and to implement a discriminatory employment practice similar to the ethnocentric 'mexican only' policy that exists at chivas de guadalajara,' the lawsuit alleged court documents cited vergara's comments to the press, in which he is quoted as saying the plan called for chivas usa to be 'the son of chivas of guadalajara' but 'it got away from that and the clubs suffered a divorce in philosophy and structure' in the suit, the two coaches accused vergara of 'replacing players and staff who had no mexican or latino heritage with those who did have mexican or latino heritage or who, at a minimum, had some connection to mexico (for example, being married to a mexican spouse)' in december 2012, chronopoulos was directed by the team president to collect ethnic and national origin data on all academy players and their parents, the lawsuit claims many parents were offended and refused to respond, the suit said since vergara took control of chivas usa, about seven non latino academy employees, including the two former coaches, have been terminated, the lawsuit said 'in contrast, no latino employees have been terminated,' the suit said also, 'the organization has culled virtually all non latino players' from the team and 'has, almost uniformly, replaced them with latino players,' the suit said, referring to a los angeles times account on the player changes among those players released or traded are james riley, ben zemanski, casey townsend and eight time major league soccer all star shalrie joseph, the suit said the team acquired eric avila from the colorado rapids in exchange for nick labrocca the team also acquired three players from chivas de guadalajara, edgar 'el chore' mejia, defender mario de luna and forward giovani casillas, the suit said on wednesday, chivas usa was last in the western conference with a 3 7 2 record
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(cnn) for the serious contenders at grand slams, it's all about trying to advance with minimal fuss in the first week that way they have plenty of energy left for when the competition picks up in the second week serena williams certainly isn't messing around in the early stages of this year's us open after crushing taylor townsend a potentially tricky opponent in the first round in 55 minutes, williams routed another fellow american, vania king, 6 1 6 0 in 56 minutes thursday to reach the third round men's no 1 novak djokovic made quick work of his opponent, too, dispatching paul henri mathieu 6 1 6 3 6 0 this grand slam is big for williams even though she has won 17 majors, none have come in 2014 and she didn't progress to the quarterfinals at the australian open, french open and wimbledon but new york could once again bring williams joy she is the two time defending champion the top seed's only problems against king came in her first service game, when williams hit three double faults in windy conditions williams' path to the final got a little easier when ana ivanovic was upset by big serving czech karolina pliskova 7 5 6 4 and samantha stosur who defeated williams in the 2011 final blew match points and lost to estonia's kaia kanepi in a third set tiebreak ivanovic and stosur were in williams' quarter just how potent is pliskova's serve? she trailed only williams in aces heading into the tournament still, it marks more grand slam disappointment for ivanovic, the eighth seed and a former no 1 despite occupying the final spot in the race for the year end championships, ivanovic crashed out early at roland garros, wimbledon and now the us open 'i do put a lot of expectations on myself,' ivanovic told reporters 'i tried to overanalyze and overthink instead of just playing the game 'it's a work in process but i think i have potential to do well' at grand slams 'and that's something i want to change for next year' almost forgotten this year is victoria azarenka, since she's missed most of 2014 with a foot injury and this month dealt with a knee complaint the two time finalist, however, rallied from a break down in the first set and then cruised past christina mchale 6 3 6 2 'it's always going to take time to rebuild,' azarenka told reporters 'i feel like i'm improving day to day 'i play much better than i played a month ago so that's important'
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serena williams crushes vania king at the us open on thursday . williams loses just one game in the 56 minute second round rout in new york . the us open is williams' last opportunity to win a major this year . her chances improved after ana ivanovic was upset in straight sets
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washington (cnn) the united states needs a new law requiring that the president consult with congress before going to war, a blue ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said tuesday james baker, left, and warren christopher led a panel that recommended a new war powers act the current war powers resolution is 'ineffective, and it should be repealed and it should be replaced,' james baker said in a joint appearance with warren christopher, announcing the results of the study they led the recommendation follows failed efforts by democrats in congress to put a stop to the war in iraq or to put conditions on president bush's conduct of it congress passed a joint resolution to authorize armed force against iraq in 2002, but some bush opponents say it should not have been interpreted as a blank check for the united states to invade and occupy the persian gulf nation baker, who served in george hw bush's administration, and christopher, who served under president bill clinton, said their project was not prompted by any specific war, with christopher adding that the commission had 'tried very hard not to call balls and strikes on past history here' 'we didn't direct this report at any particular conflict,' baker added the existing law, the war powers resolution of 1973, has been regarded as unconstitutional by every president since it was passed as a response to the vietnam war, baker and christopher said it requires presidents to report regularly to congress about ongoing conflicts, but the provision has been flouted 'no president has ever made a submission to congress pursuant to the war powers resolution since 1973,' former sen slade gorton, a republican member of the committee, said tuesday the panel, formally called the national war powers commission, said a new law should be created requiring the president to consult with key members of congress before sending troops into combat expected to last more than a week, or within three days of doing so in the case of operations that need to be kept secret it should also make clear exactly who the president needed to consult the panel suggests that the president talk to 'a joint congressional committee made up of the leaders of the house and the senate as well as the chairmen and ranking members of key committees' the new committee would have a permanent professional staff with access to intelligence information, baker and christopher said congress, in turn, would have to declare war or vote on a 'resolution of approval' within 30 days, they said if a resolution of approval failed, any member of congress could introduce a 'resolution of disapproval,' but it was not clear that such an act would stop a war in progress christopher was unable to say in the news conference what practical effect congressional disapproval would have baker said the commission had been in touch with the presidential campaigns of democrat barack obama and republican john mccain, as well as leaders of congress he declined to reveal what they thought of the proposal, but said: 'we haven't gotten a negative reaction' congress has not officially declared war since 1942, when the united states entered formal hostilities with the axis powers in world war ii but since then, presidents have sent troops into countries including korea, vietnam, grenada and iraq the constitution makes the president the commander in chief of the armed forces, but gives congress the power to declare war and approve military budgets baker and christopher's group included both republicans and democrats and held seven meetings over 14 months
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hong kong (cnn) a man accused of planning to attack prince charles and camilla, duchess of cornwall during their week long trip to new zealand was released on bail tuesday sam bracanov pleaded not guilty at a hearing at the auckland district court and was ordered to re appear on november 27, said brian reid, the court's criminal case flow manager the 74 year old man, a known anti royalist, was arrested in auckland on monday at one of the venues charles and camilla were due to visit during their tour, according to a statement from the new zealand police neither of the british royal family members were in the vicinity at the time, the statement added bracanov was charged with preparing to commit a crime, namely assault, against the royal couple, according to police bracanov had planned to throw a bucket of horse manure at prince charles, the new zealand herald reported as part of the bail conditions, the court ordered him to stay more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) away from the royal couple, according to the paper bracanov said he had been in jail seven times for incidents involving members of the royal family and was not bothered by the order to stay away from them 'i won't do it [again this week], i've done it once i was not successful but there's always next time,'' he was quoted as saying the royals are on a two week tour of australia and new zealand as part of celebrations to celebrate queen elizabeth ii's 60 year reign
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beijing, china (cnn) china on tuesday continued its diatribe against japan over the arrest of a chinese fishing captain and demanded his immediate release 'japan provoked this situation and japan should take all responsibilities,' said ministry of foreign affairs spokeswoman jiang yu 'we urge the japanese to stop so called legal procedures and let him return safely and immediately' the captain's fishing trawler crashed into two japanese patrol boats last week off the disputed diaoyu islands, in the east china sea he remains in custody, accused of obstructing japanese public officers while they performed duties on monday, his 14 crew members returned to china the japanese coast guard freed the crew members after completing an investigation, a coast guard official told cnn their detention angered beijing, which repeatedly summoned the japanese ambassador, demanding their release beijing says the diaoyu islands and most of the south china sea belong to china, disputing neighboring countries' claims the clash over territorial waters and islands and the natural resources that go with them is a flashpoint in the asia pacific region 'chinese people have expressed strong indignation to this, and this fully embodies the chinese people's resolve to defend national sovereignty,' yu said 'the islands has sovereign rights, and no one can change that fact' 'if you read history documents, chinese first discovered the island and put it in effective administration,' yu added word of the fishermen's arrest has led to irate reactions from some of the chinese public, as seen in online posts on sunday, a japanese school in northeastern china was fired on with small bbs, presumably in connection with the fishermen's arrest the japanese embassy in china said: 'we have received report from japanese school of tianjin the japanese embassy contacted relevant departments of chinese government, requiring relevant departments to strengthen security at the school, to guarantee the safety of the students at japanese school, as well as all the japanese in tianjin' 'so far, we haven't heard that anyone is injured, and we haven't got any result of the investigation,' the embassy added
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(cnn) former world number one venus williams came through an injury scare to defeat sandra zahlavova 6 7 6 0 6 4, in the second round of the australian open on wednesday the fourth seed williams had not lost a set to the czech in any of their four previous meetings, but zahlavova remedied that when she claimed the first thanks to a tie break after falling behind, the 30 year old williams required treatment in the locker room after picking up a groin injury and returned with the area heavily strapped to win the final two sets of the match williams, who is playing in only her second tournament since the 2010 wimbledon championships after struggling with a knee injury, recorded her win in three hours and one minute 'i wasn't very happy, to say the least,' the american said of her injury on the tournament's website 'i mean, with an injury like that, you just don't know what to expect i think what keeps me going is knowing that when i'm healthy i play really, really well and knowing that i have so much good tennis in my body keeps me motivated' the seven time grand slam winner who wowed the crowds with another head turning outfit will face germany's andrea petkovic in the third round after the 30th seed also came from behind to defeat britain's anne keothavong 2 6 7 5 6 0 the fashion verve of venus williams top seed caroline wozniacki and 2004 champion justine henin had less complicated second rounds, with both winning in straight sets world number one wozniacki dispatched america's vania king in under an hour with a 6 1 6 0 win 'i was playing aggressively,' the dane told the wta tour's website 'i took the balls early and made her run, and had a couple of good net approaches in general i played solid' wozniacki will next play dominika cibulkova, the slovakian who beat her in sydney last week cibulkova eliminated alberta brianti of italy 6 1 4 6 6 2 belgian henin, seeded 11th, beat british number one elena baltacha 6 1 6 3 at the rod laver arena the 28 year old henin has won seven majors and overcame baltacha in 61 minutes, despite being troubled by an elbow injury the australian open should be in february! henin's next opponent will be former french and us open champion svetlana kuznetsova of russia kuznetsova, 25, ended the hopes of dutch qualifier arantxa rus with a 6 1 6 4 win on show court two russia's maria sharapova is into the next round after a hard fought 7 6 (7 3), 6 3 success over virginie razzano sharapova, a champion at melbourne park in 2008, lost the opening three games of the match to her french opponent but bounced back to seal victory in little over two hours 'looking back, obviously you want to play faster matches with an easier score line,' sharapova, 23, said 'that would be great, but it's also good to play these types of matches where you're put in a situation where you have to find a way to win, especially when your opponent is playing really well' the 14th seed will meet 22 year old julia goerges in the last 32 after the german eliminated 20th seed kaia kanepi 6 4 3 6 6 4
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venus williams recovers from one set down to beat sandra zahlavova in australia . caroline wozniacki is also through after a straight sets win at australian open . justine henin beats british number one elena baltacha in 61 minutes
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(cnn) music producer and promoter don kirshner, who found songs for the monkees to sing and whose live tv rock show helped wean 1970s audiences off lip synched programming, died monday in boca raton, florida, his publicist confirmed tuesday kirshner, 76, died of heart failure, according to sharon ellman of the public relations firm dash media a renowned song publisher and rock producer, kirshner is best known for managing the songwriting talent behind the successful pop music television series 'the monkees,' and for his signature tv program, 'don kirshner's rock concert' he achieved his first major success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as co owner with al nevin of the influential new york based publishing company aldon music the firm had under contract several of the most important songwriters of the so called brill building, including carole king, neil sedaka, howard greenfield, cynthia weil and barry mann as a producer promoter, kirshner was influential in igniting the careers of artists such as bobby darin, neil diamond and tony orlando, as well as discovering rock acts such as kansas as a publisher, kirshner was behind hits such as 'you've lost that loving feeling' and 'where the boys are' barbra streisand, elvis presley and frank sinatra were among the many performers who recorded kirshner produced songs in 1966, kirshner, who had supervised the music for the sitcoms 'i dream of jeannie' and 'bewitched,' was hired by the producers of 'the monkees' to provide hit worthy songs to accompany the tv program within a demanding time frame, he quickly corralled songwriting talent to craft catchy tunes for the show, which became a smash hit among teen audiences in september 1973, kirshner created, produced, and eventually hosted his own syndicated, weekly rock concert program, 'don kirshner's rock concert' the show's long form, live performances distinguished it from the often lip synched fare typical among tv music performances up to that time the show aired until 1981 and featured performances from many of the big name acts of that era, including the rolling stones, gladys knight and the pips, fleetwood mac, the bee gees, the police, stevie wonder and david bowie kirshner was inducted into the songwriters' hall of fame in 2007 he is survived by his wife of 50 years, sheila, two children and five grandchildren
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'don kirshner's rock concert' set the standard for live tv performances . kirshner corralled the songwriting talent for the hit '60s tv show 'the monkees'. he was influential in making stars of bobby darin, neil diamond and tony orlando
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(cnn) more countries pledged aid to taiwan on friday, days after typhoon morakot battered the island and left dozens of villages deluged with floodwaters, killing 116 people this image from an ireporter emphasizes the damage inflicted by typhoon morakot officials from hong kong said they would recommend sending hk$50 million (us$645 million) in aid the aid request needed to get final authorization once that happens hong kong will join a growing group of countries and territories that have rushed to help typhoon battered taiwan more than 30 countries have offered money, helicopters, medication or other supplies 'they have presented the goodwill to help,' said benjamin chi, a government spokesman taiwanese president ma ying jeou toured the jiadong and linbian townships in pingtung county thursday, then visited kaohsiung county, where a wall of mud had cut off the village of shiaolin watch why public anger's building » meanwhile, nearly 1,700 people were rescued from areas devastated by the storm, and a government spokeswoman said she believed 'the situation is getting better' janet chang said 1,692 people were rescued thursday, mostly from the two mountainous counties that bore the brunt of the storm kaohsiung and pingtung however, a funeral director in coastal kaohsiung county, where a makeshift morgue was set up, told cnn that about 200 bodies had arrived there many from neighboring villages relief workers cleaned and photographed the bodies, preparing them for identification by loved ones chang said that based on official figures, 45 people were injured in the storm and 59 remain missing she could not say how many more people needed to be rescued watch a grandmother describe her escape » since the typhoon made landfall over the weekend, nearly 15,700 people have been rescued from villages hit by mudslides and floodwaters, according to official government figures most of the missing were in kaohsiung county, the national disaster prevention and protection commission reported watch a makeshift morgue and funeral » torrential downpours, dense fog, rugged terrain and raging rivers have made rescues difficult washed out roads and bridges rendered ground rescue operations virtually impossible in the central and southern regions of the island rescuers were forced to search by helicopter, inflatable boats and zip line mechanisms that suspended them over the muddy waters raging below in some cases food drops have been conducted over isolated villages tucked amid the rugged terrain, as villagers sought higher ground to stay dry the central weather bureau in taiwan said that over a one day period after the typhoon hit, pingtung county received a record 55 inches of rain (1,403 mm) elsewhere on the island, rainfall amounts were as high as 83 inches (2,108 mm) seattle, washington, one of the wettest us cities, has an average annual rainfall of 37 inches per year (940 mm) the storm primarily targeted southern taiwan isolated scattered showers and thunderstorms were forecast for taiwan overnight thursday into friday, mostly in the north, where the capital is located, said cnn international meteorologist brandon miller 'as a whole, the weather actually is pretty good,' he said it was 90 degrees (31c) late thursday miller said taipei had had 'significant rainfall' of 5 or 6 inches (150 mm) over the past two days the red cross is helping the government dispense food, water and other necessities from a central command center, where helicopters pick up the supplies for their humanitarian missions, said organization spokesman christian li on wednesday economic losses due to morakot have been estimated at us $274 million after hitting taiwan, morakot roared on to mainland china on sunday, killing at least six people and displacing 14 million, authorities said cnn's pauline chiou contributed to this report
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new: death toll rises . new: hong kong officials say they will recommending sending us$645m (hk$50m). more than 30 countries offer money, helicopters, medication, other supplies official: nearly 15,700 people pulled from flooded villages
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(cnn) bayern munich eliminated fellow european powerhouses juventus from this season's champions league with a superb 4 1 win in turin on tuesday night david trezeguet put juventus in front after just 19 minutes, but bayern goalkeeper hans jorg butt equalized with an impudent penalty just before halftime with croatian ivica olic scoring the second on 51 minutes mario gomez and substitute anatoliy tymoshchuk rounded off a brilliant display from louis van gaal's men with two late clinching goals the victory sees the german giants qualify in group a behind bordeaux, who beat maccabi haifa 1 0 in the night's other match with brazilian forward jussie scoring the only goal of the game juventus went into the game at the stade communale with a point advantage over bayern and looked set for the last 16 as french international trezeguet ut them ahead with a volleyed goal but butt, who is proviing an expert from the spot, sent gianluigi buffon the wrong way after martin caceres fouled olic the second half saw bayern continue to make the better chances and olic gave them a deserved lead as olic fired home from close range the late goals were the icing on the cake and defeat piles the pressure on juve coach ciro ferrara in group b, a makeshift manchester united, who were playing with only one recognized defender, clinched top spot with a 3 1 win at vfl wolsburg as michael owen grabbed an opportunist hat trick owen put united ahead just before halftime with a glancing header from a nani cross after a fine team move wolfsburg were more threatening after the break with the prolific edin dzeko equalizing with a fine strike to enhance his growing reputation ahead of the january transfer window but owen showed his predatory instincts with an 83rd minute second after a brilliant run and cross by substitute gabriel obertan wolfsburg defender sascha riether missed a cast iron chance to equalize and put his side into the knockout stage, but united broke away and owen completed his hat trick 'my scoring a hat trick will probably make the headllines, but it was a great team display,' owen told sky sports after enhancing his claims for an england recall with clinical finishing cska moscow took second in the group behind united with a 2 1 win against besiktas in istanbul as yevgeny aldonin scored the winning goal in the fifth minute of injury time but the russians are facing a uefa disciplinary investigation after two of their players, defenders aleksei berezutski and sergei ignashevich, failed a doping test for a banned stimulant after the 3 3 draw with manchester united in an earlier group game uefa said on its official web site that it would rule on the situation on december 17, but could take action against cska because more than one player was involved, giving wolfsburg hope they could yet go through
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bayern munich beat juventus 4 1 in turin to qualify in second from group a behind bordeaux . juventus went into tuesday's game in second place in the group but are eliminated . manchester united top group b as michael owen scores hat trick in 3 1 win at wolfsburg . cska second in the group but facing uefa ban after positive dope test on two players
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jakarta, indonesia (cnn) demeaning, exploitative, degrading beauty pageants have been called lots of things and it's also the line coming from islamic hardliners, who are protesting this year's miss world contest, which is held in the most populous muslim nation in the world protesters in indonesia denounce the contest where women sashay in swimsuits and form fitting evening wear, calling it insulting to muslims and triggering threats of violence islamic groups urged the government to shut the contest down hardliners burned signs featuring the image of last year's winner wenxia yu of china that read 'reject miss world' they also presented what they deemed as appropriate attire for beauty contestants long dresses and full head scarves 'it's only beauty, beauty and beauty, but also body, body and body, so that's why we consider it as a contest that exploits women physically,' said ismail yusanto, spokesman of indonesia's hizbut tahrir, a conservative islamic group in an attempt to appease religious concerns, the pageant has scrapped the swimsuit competition and replaced it with less revealing beachwear attire also, the finals were originally to be held on the outskirts of jakarta, but angry protestors forced the event to relocate to the hindu resort island of bali members of the group, islamic defenders front (fpi) tried to travel to bali by sea from east java, but were stopped by police hary tanoesoedibjo, the ceo of mnc group who organized the pageant locally, disputed the government's decision to move the contest to bali he said no laws have been violated by the pageant and that 'everything has been adjusted to the local culture we all know that, so no bikini' even before the three week contest began on september 8, protesters slammed it as 'pornography' and held signs reading: 'miss world is whore contest' 'our demand is still the same,' yusanto said 'don't continue this contest' miss world's 127 contestants competed in beach fashion, fitness, world fashion, talent and 'beauty with a purpose' meant to honor charitable work the top 10 models from ukraine, south sudan, brazil, philippines, france, cameroon, cyprus, england, italy and the united states were announced earlier this week a winner will be crowned in bali on saturday security forces will have 700 police officers for the final event there has been criticism of how the indonesian government handled the miss world controversy, that it sent a message of capitulation in favor of a vocal minority indonesia is a secular country with moderate muslims, but 'a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years,' according to the jakarta post 'we are a complex country, so we have to balance domestic concerns with our ability to host international events,' said mari elka pangestu, the tourism and creative economy minister of indonesia 'but in general, indonesia is very open' but not all such women's contests are so vehemently opposed a week ago, the world muslimah 2013 competition was held in jakarta, to crown a woman who applies 'islamic values in everyday life,' which includes the ability to recite from the quran contestants dressed in head scarves and floor length dresses obabiyi aishah aijbola from nigeria was named world muslimah 2013 photo gallery: see world muslimah 2013 eka shanty, founder of world muslimah says the difference between miss world and world muslimah is that the latter is not a pageant 'this is an international award event to appreciate young and talented muslim women' in addition to decrying the miss world contest, the conservative islamic group hizbut tahrir does not support the world muslimah competition cnn's kathy quiano reported from jakarta and madison park wrote from hong kong
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(cnn) a man authorities believe was the last person to see a missing texas cheerleader is the focus of the investigation and his attorney said he has offered all the information he knows shawn adkins, the live in boyfriend of hailey dunn's mother, is the only named person of interest in the girl's december disappearance, authorities said wednesday adkins' attorney, sidney lyle of odessa, told cnn affiliate ktab in abilene he has advised his client not to speak further with the media and he told affiliate ktxs that adkins has cooperated with law enforcement lyle did not respond to cnn's attempts to talk to him there have been no arrests in the disappearance of the colorado city girl, 13, but police consider the case a criminal investigation two volunteer organizations have recently joined the search city manager pete kampfer, who serves as spokesman for the police, told cnn wednesday there are other persons of interest but 'there are more things that relate' to adkins he would not provide specifics adkins has not spoken with police since getting a lawyer, he said affidavits in the case indicate hailey's mother, billie dunn, and adkins failed polygraph exams on hailey's whereabouts according to the affidavits, adkins ended two polygraph exams by walking out on the third try, he failed the initial part of the test, but he then 'made a positive indication' that the girl could be found in scurry county, texas dunn said adkins was on anxiety medication at the time of the first test dunn was under the influence of narcotics on her first polygraph examination, and she failed the second, according to a law enforcement affidavit posted on the website of ktab adkins was the last person to see the eighth grader on december 27 at dunn's home, according to local reports colorado city a rural central texas town with about 5,000 residents is about 70 miles west of abilene, texas hailey was reported missing by her mother december 28 the colorado city police department responded to a domestic dispute in february 2010 after adkins allegedly threatened billie and hailey dunn, the released documents show adkins confirmed he did make the threats, according to documents ktab on wednesday posted three 911 calls on its website from the february incident the calls referred to threats made against billie dunn and her estranged husband, clint, but not against hailey, the station said in one 911 call, billie dunn said, 'i broke up with this guy a couple days ago and he's a little 'mhmr' he's telling me that he's going to kill me and my ex husband and it's going to be remembered for a long time' mhmr can refer to 'mental health and mental retardation' asked about the 911 calls and affidavits, kampfer said, 'they add to the case against shawn' billie dunn told hln's 'nancy grace' wednesday night that she did not report that adkins had threatened to kill hailey marc klaas, founder of klaaskids foundation, a child safety advocacy group that is assisting in the search for hailey, appeared on 'nancy grace' with billie dunn he indicated someone not identified in the case might have come into the town and abducted the girl klaas created the foundation in 1994 after the kidnapping and murder of his daughter, polly investigators have found evidence both in colorado city and in other locations, said kampfer, a former special agent with the fbi dunn has said she has no idea what happened to her daughter 'somebody knows where she is,' she told hln last week the mother told hln's 'nancy grace' tuesday that investigators took bedsheets belonging to hailey kampfer would not confirm that, but did say dunn was given an inventory list of items taken by police from the home meanwhile, ktxs said that hailey dunn's older brother has been taken into temporary custody of child protective services kampfer said it is common practice to remove a child when a situation like this occurs, the station said billie dunn met adkins on the myspace social networking site more than two years ago, and he moved in with her several months ago kampfer described the family situation as unstable hailey is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds she has hazel eyes and brown hair with blond streaks when she disappeared, she was wearing navy blue sweatpants, a light colored short sleeve t shirt and pink and white tennis shoes investigators, meanwhile, continue to work through leads 'it's a smaller circle,' kampfer said of the evidence 'we are growingly concerned about her status,' he said of hailey cnn's phil gast contributed to this report watch nancy grace monday through sunday starting at 8 pm et on hln for the latest from nancy grace click here
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polly klaas' father joins search for teen . hailey dunn, 13, has been missing since december . her mother's boyfriend is the focus of the investigation . both mother, boyfriend have failed polygraph tests
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(cnn) their bodies were missing for decades after they disappeared behind enemy lines now the remains of two us army air force troops who died during world war ii are set to be buried in arlington national cemetery next week after search crews found them in the mountains of papua new guinea, the us defense department pow/missing personnel office said thursday the a 20g havoc bomber in which us army air force 2nd lt valorie l pollard and sgt dominick j licari were flying crashed after attacking enemy targets on march 13, 1944, the defense department said their remains were recovered when the crash site was excavated last year more than 400,000 us troops were killed during world war ii, and the remains of more than 73,000 were never recovered or identified, the defense department says papua new guinea, an island country in the western pacific, is north of australia and just south of the equator much of the nation is covered in rugged terrain and rain forests
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a search found the remains of two world war ii veterans who had been mia . the airmen were found in an excavation in the mountains of papua new guinea . the bomber they were flying crashed behind enemy lines on march 13, 1944
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(cnn) a second half goal from nilmar gave brazil to a 1 0 victory over an understrength england in a prestige friendly international in doha on saturday the slender margin of defeat flattered england, with luis fabiano missing a penalty shortly after the breakthrough goal and brazil captain lucio crashing a shot against the post in uncomfortable heat in the qatar capital, brazil always had the edge against and england team missing john terry, his defensive partners rio ferdinand and ashley cole and midfield stars frank lampard and steven gerrard wayne rooney was handed the captaincy armband by fabio capello and gave a wholehearted performance, nearly giving his side the lead in the opening moments as he just failed to get a touch on an inviting cross by shaun wright phillips but there were few other attacking moments for england in the first half and their goal was twice threatened as stand in central defender matthew upson twice lost possession in dangerous positions a shot screwed wide by felipe melo and nilmar's failure to find a teammate with his cross left his mistakes unpunished england goalkeeper ben foster was also forced to make saves from michel bastos and the influential kaka capello would have been happy to see his makeshift men go into the break still level but the effort was undone in the 46th minute as elano's clever cross underlined poor marking and nilmar stepped in to head past foster england should have fallen two behind after wes brown's mistake left fabiano clear and he was brought down by his manchester united teammate foster he was lucky to escape a red card but then watched as fabiano made a woeful hash of the penalty james milner had a half chance at the far post from another wright phillips before lucio found space to thump a shot which beat foster and crashed against the post england at least pressed in the closing stages but could not forge a clear chance against the five time world cup winners capello attempted to put a brave face on a lackluster display by his men 'i think we played against a brazil team who have the best xi in the world,' he told itv sport 'my first xi will be better than this one but i found a lot of things positive' european champions spain beat diego maradona's argentina 2 1 in an action packed friendly at the vicente calderon stadium in madrid real madrid midfielder xabi alonso scored two goals including an 86th minute penalty to secure a home victory spain took the lead in the 16th minute after argentina goalkeeper sergio romero saved david silva's angled shot only for alonso to capitalize on the rebound lionel messi equalized with a penalty just after the hour mark after raul albiol had been fouled but martin demichelis handled in his own penalty area with four minutes left and alonso netted the winner another prestige friendly saw world cup title holders italy and the netherlands draw 0 0 in pescara in a game of few chances home goalkeeper gianluigi buffon became the fourth player to win 100 caps for italy as he kept a clean sheet
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brazil beat england 1 0 in friendly international in doha on saturday . villarreal striker nilmar scores only goal of the match in 46th minute . xabi alonso scores twice as spain beat argentina 2 1 in madrid . netherlands and italy play to goalless draw in pescara
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washington (cnn) the us supreme court on monday dismissed a pending appeal from oklahoma officials who were defending a state law limiting abortions performed with medicine instead of surgery the law would have regulated the ability of doctors to prescribe a medication regime using ru 486 pills to terminate early pregnancies, and make it a crime to deviate from the federal government approved dosage and time limits on the drugs but many physicians backed by abortion rights supporters say they routinely induce medical abortions through a combination of drugs they determine is simpler, safer, and less expensive than the current federal protocols on the use of abortion drugs the high court months ago had tentatively added this case to its docket, but put things on hold while it sought detailed answers from oklahoma supreme court those state justices again affirmed the law's unconstitutionality, and now the nation's highest court tossed out oklahoma's appeal 'as improvidently granted' this was the first of several restrictive abortion laws nationwide to get review by the us justices a federal appeals court last week allowed a similar law from texas to go into effect but a coalition of abortion rights groups said monday they would ask the us supreme court for an emergency injunction to block that law's enforcement the current case is cline v oklahoma coalition for reproductive justice (12 1094) what's on the supreme court docket
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the supreme court opts not to review a ruling striking down an oklahoma abortion law . the law would have regulated the ability of doctors to prescribe medicine to abort a pregnancy . the high court reverses an earlier decision to consider the appeal
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damascus, syria (cnn) as western powers try to verify claims that the syrian government used chemical weapons this week in a northeastern suburb of damascus, the syrian government is accusing rebel forces of doing the same state run television reported saturday that syrian armed forces had surrounded jobar, the opposition held district on the edge of damascus that saw some of the 1,300 reported dead in wednesday's early morning attack several of the soldiers were 'suffocating' from exposure to gases as they entered the city, according to state tv 'it is believed that the terrorists have used chemical weapons in the area,' syrian tv reporting, citing anonymous source the government uses the term 'terrorists' to describe rebel forces it showed video of a room containing gas masks and gas canisters that the army said were discovered in a storage facility in jobar cnn could not independently confirm the veracity of the claims or the authenticity of the video opposition leaders deny involvement in the attack, which they say killed hundreds near the capital the competing claims surfaced as a white house official told cnn that president barack obama was meeting with his national security team to discuss the alleged chemical weapons attack 'once we ascertain the facts, the president will make an informed decision about how to respond,' the official said on condition of anonymity 'we have a range of options available, and we are going to act very deliberately so that we're making decisions consistent with our national interest as well as our assessment of what can advance our objectives in syria' in an exclusive interview with cnn that aired friday, obama said the united states and united nations inspectors were gathering information on the attack, but that preliminary signs pointed to a 'big event of grave concern' 'it is very troublesome,' he said 'that starts getting to some core national interests that the united states has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region' the syrian government has steadfastly denied its forces used chemical weapons outside damascus or elsewhere 'we said it from the first moment and, here, we assure again that we have never used chemical weapons (around jobar) or any other region in any form whatsoever liquid, gas or whatever,' information minister omran al zoubi said saturday in an interview with a private lebanese channel al zoubi went on to say that, on the contrary, his government is 'quite certain that (the rebels) are the ones using chemical weapons' the opposition, though, has a rebel different view syrian national coalition secretary general badr jamous said friday that rockets some with chemical warheads and others conventional weapons had been fired into a heavily populated civilian area most of the more than 1,300 reported dead were killed by chemical weapons, said khaled al saleh, a spokesman for the umbrella opposition group al saleh said that medical teams in the affected area had administered 25,000 shots of atropine a medication used to treat people exposed to the nerve gas sarin after the attack video showed rows of bodies without apparent injury, as well as people suffering convulsions or apparently struggling to breathe cnn could not verify where or when the videos were recorded, and could not confirm the number of casualties adding weight to the assertions that chemical weapons were used was a statement saturday by medecins sans frontieres, also known as doctors without borders three hospitals all supported by the international organization in syria's damascus governorate reported having received some 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms last wednesday morning, the statement said of them, 355 reportedly died, it said 'medical staff working in these facilities provided detailed information to msf doctors regarding large numbers of patients arriving with symptoms including convulsions, excess saliva, pinpoint pupils, blurred vision and respiratory distress,' said dr bart janssens, msf director of operations patients were treated using atropine 'msf can neither scientifically confirm the cause of these symptoms nor establish who is responsible for the attack,' said janssens 'however, the reported symptoms of the patients, in addition to the epidemiological pattern of the events characterized by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent' how will the world respond? on saturday, world leaders weighed their options a downing street spokesperson said uk prime minister david cameron who also talked with his canadian counterpart stephen harper spoke saturday to obama 'they reiterated that significant use of chemical weapons would merit a serious response from the international community and both have tasked officials to examine all the options,' the spokesperson said the white house issued a statement on the same conversation, saying the two leaders agreed to 'consult closely regarding this incident, as well as possible responses by the international community to the use of chemical weapons' if the claims that syria used chemical weapons prove true, a speedy response will be needed to prevent another such attack, us defense secretary chuck hagel said hagel's comments friday came after a senior defense department official told cnn that military planners have updated syrian target lists and it was disclosed that a fourth us ship armed with cruise missiles has arrived in the eastern mediterranean sea hagel addressed the issue aboard a military plane headed to malaysia 'we will determine at some point here very shortly what did happen,' he said, according to a transcript posted on the defense department's website 'if, in fact, this was a deliberate use and attack by the syrian government on its own people using chemical weapons, there may be another attack coming,' hagel said 'a very quick assessment of what happened and whatever appropriate response should be made' hagel said the american military provided obama 'with options for all contingencies, and that requires positioning our forces, positioning our assets to be able to carry out different options, whatever options the president might choose' he did not specify what those options might include hagel predicted other nations would lend their support if the investigation finds that the syrian government used chemical weapons against its people 'this is an international community issue; it violates every standard of international behavior,' he said 'that said, the united states has never given up its own sovereign right to protect its own interests' the president has said he does not anticipate using ground forces in syria other military options could include airstrikes by fighter jets or cruise missiles the navy destroyer uss ramage has arrived in the region, a defense official said late friday it was intended to replace the uss mahan, but the mahan will remain temporarily along with the uss gravelly and uss barry all four are equipped with cruise missiles the president has authorized a limited amount of military hardware for the rebels in addition to logistical and humanitarian assistance a senior defense department official told cnn that options for direct military action include targeting al assad's capability to deliver chemical weapons target lists could include government buildings and military installations, the official said, but the military must have flexible plans to target forces and equipment which 'continue to move' sen john mccain, r arizona, an advocate for a more forceful us response to the syrian conflict, has suggested that american air power could take out runways and planes used by al assad's forces that he said are 'dominating the battlefields and the towns and the cities' mccain also has advocated giving rebels anti aircraft and anti missile weapons to establish a no fly zone but administration officials have cautioned that some syrian rebel factions have ties to al qaeda terrorists joint chiefs chairman gen martin dempsey said this week in a letter to a member of congress that arming rebels requires 'choosing one among many sides' 'it is my belief that the side we choose must be ready to promote their interests and ours when the balance shifts in their favor,' dempsey wrote 'today, they are not' also saturday, a top un official arrived in damascus to press the government to cooperate in the investigation into its alleged use of chemical weapons angela kane, the united nations high representative for disarmament affairs, has been instructed by un secretary general ban ki moon to push the government to cooperate with the un team already on the ground un inspectors want to reach the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack quickly in order to gather evidence while it is still fresh opposition leaders say the reported attack killed more than 1,300 people in a damascus suburb french foreign minister laurent fabius said saturday the inspectors should be granted immediate access to the site 'if the syrian regime has nothing to hide' 'all the information available to us converge to say that there has been a chemical massacre in syria, near damascus, and to indicate that it is the regime of bashar al assad who is at the origin,' fabius told reporters after meeting with palestinian officials in the west bank city of ramallah earlier, british foreign secretary william hague suggested the delay in granting access was suspicious 'this is not something that a humane or civilized world can ignore,' hague said our priority is to make sure the world knows the facts of what has happened, and that means the un team that is in damascus, only 20 minutes away, being able to get there and to investigate' rapid access is critical, since any evidence would deteriorate 'over a matter of days,' hague said the syrian government has denied using chemical weapons cnn's frederik pleitgen reported from damascus, and cnn's david simpson wrote from atlanta cnn's hamdi alkhshali, greg botelho, saad abedine and pierre meilhan contributed to this story
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new: syrian minister denies government forces used chemical weapons . some 1,300 were reported killed in the early wednesday attack in damascus' outskirts . the opposition says that syrian forces used the nerve gas sarin as a weapon . uk prime minister talks with canadian leader, us president about 'all the options'
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(cnn) american taxpayers have forked over around half a trillion dollars to us intelligence services since the 9/11 attacks, yet nearly a decade after al qaeda assaults on new york and washington, the american intelligence community still cannot answer the most basic of questions: where is osama bin laden? where is his top deputy, ayman al zawahiri? and where is taliban leader mullah omar? as reported by cnn on monday, nato officials believe al qaeda's leaders are hiding somewhere in northwestern pakistan, while mullah omar is thought to orbit between quetta in western pakistan and the southern port city of karachi as pakistan is roughly twice as large as california and karachi is a city of 18 million, these are not particularly precise locations for the world's most wanted men if the cia and other us intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management and their stock would be trading at values near zero instead, the budgets for the us intelligence agencies continue to spiral upward, while almost a million americans possess top secret clearances what does a top secret clearance gain you? not much, judging by the content of the tens of thousands of secret documents about the afghan war made public by wikileaks in july the one surprising thing about this massive classified data dump was how little of it was in any way surprising it contained the kind of material that the casual reader of news articles have long known: elements of pakistan's military intelligence service may be supporting the taliban! the dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway bin laden declared war on the united states on cnn in 1997 and then again on abc news a year later, and he soon made good on those threats with al qaeda's attacks on two us embassies in africa and the bombing of the uss cole in yemen in the summer of 2001, bin laden and his top commanders gave an interview to the middle east broadcasting corp, in which they dropped broad hints that they were planning a large scale, anti american assault, which turned out to be the 9/11 attacks when president george w bush was briefed by the cia a month before 9/11 that bin laden intended to attack the united states, it was merely to state the blindingly obvious similarly today, al qaeda and allied groups such as the taliban constantly release videotapes and print products in which they lay out their doctrines and strategies and document their attacks and tactics, all of which are widely available on the internet the conflict with al qaeda and its allies is effectively the first open source war, which is the opposite of how the highly secretive kremlin conducted the cold war yet us intelligence agencies remain largely configured as if they are doing battle with a superpower, rather than a network of jihadist networks as a result, the cia today more resembles an accounting firm than the swashbuckling, action oriented spy agency of popular imagination this is not an accident hiring by the cia and other agencies in the intelligence community is predicated on passing a background check that has become more onerous since 9/11 and is a legacy of the cold war notion that a superpower adversary with billions of dollars at its disposal is trying to recruit spies and informants but al qaeda has no capacity to buy spies inside america's intelligence community, and, more broadly, al qaeda and its allies have shown no ability to recruit inside the us government yet applicants to the american intelligence agencies today are likely to encounter real problems with their background checks if they have relatives in the arab world or have spent time in countries such as pakistan, precisely the sort of life experiences necessary for effective spies by contrast, the office of strategic services, the precursor of the cia, recruited bilingual agents deeply familiar with european culture who took great risks to undertake highly effective operations in nazi occupied europe in today's cia, those brave men and women wouldn't have made it past the background check much of the work that has been done to reform the intelligence community since 9/11 has been directed at fussing with the wiring diagram of its bureaucracy: should the director of national intelligence control cia station chiefs, or is that the purview of the cia director? this kind of jockeying, of course, does nothing to solve the real question american taxpayers want answered: where is bin laden? that question is likely only to be resolved by good old fashioned espionage emblematic of what ails the intelligence community today was its reaction to the failed attempt by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula (aqap) to blow up a northwest passenger jet landing in detroit, michigan, with a bomb made of plastic explosives on christmas day 2009 to do the job, aqap recruited in yemen a nigerian graduate of the elite university college london his name was umar farouk abdulmutallab there was a great deal of subsequent hand wringing by obama administration officials about how improved information sharing protocols might have worked better to assemble the shards of information known to the government about abdulmutallab, which might have prevented him from boarding the northwest flight their solution: hire more analysts but this was to misdiagnose the problem the intelligence community is awash in analysts while the precise number is classified, it is reasonable to assume that there are tens of thousands what is needed is not more analysts but better on the ground intelligence if the cia had had a spy on the fringes of aqap, the appearance of an educated nigerian from london in the remote desert areas of yemen where al qaeda members hide out would have been something that the spy would have flagged to his handlers as remarkable there does not appear to have been such an agent what can be done? the house and senate intelligence committees that oversee the intelligence community should hold the cia to real account using a simple metric: how many jihadist groups including al qaeda have been penetrated by its agents? this is less onerous a demand then one might imagine after just a few months of hanging out in pakistan, bryant neal vinas, an unemployed hispanic american convert to militant islam from long island, managed to waltz into an al qaeda training camp where he was trained how to attack american bases in afghanistan and that was seven years after 9/11 budgets should be cut if the cia can't provide proof that it is penetrating al qaeda and its affiliates; at the end of the day, this is the most likely way that we will ever find bin laden, who is not going to be voluntarily given up by the few who know his location today president obama should appoint someone in the us government whose job it is to find bin laden and who can coordinate that effort across the 16 agencies that make up the us intelligence community finally, the background check for spies should be reformed so that men and women with the regional expertise and linguistic abilities to penetrate and recruit inside jihadist terrorist groups are hired to go outside the wire and get the job done the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of peter bergen
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us spends billions on an enormous intelligence bureaucracy, says peter bergen . he says nearly a decade after 9/11, us can't locate osama bin laden . american intelligence agencies aren't positioned to infiltrate militant groups, he says . bergen: 'budgets should be cut if the cia can't provide proof that it is penetrating al qaeda'
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mexico city (cnn) miguel de la madrid, mexico's president as the country struggled through an economic crisis in the 1980s, died sunday he was 77 family members told cnn that the former president died sunday morning in mexico city he had been hospitalized to treat complications of pulmonary emphysema without offering details, his office said the cause of death was a 'long illness' de la madrid inherited an economic crisis when he took office in 1982 during his six year term, he implemented an 'anti crisis plan' that focused on austerity he was in office when a massive earthquake struck central mexico in 1985 and became a focal point of national and international criticism of the government's response to the disaster, which killed thousands of people and devastated the country's capital de la madrid 'faced harsh adversities during his tenure,' mexican president felipe calderon said in a statement expressing his condolences sunday, describing the former president as 'a mexican with a deep commitment to the country' cnn's rene hernandez and cnnmexicocom's mauricio torres and tania l montalvo contributed to this report
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miguel de la madrid died in mexico city, family members say . he was mexico's president from 1982 to 1988 . as president, he faced an economic crisis and a devastating earthquake
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miami, florida, (cnn) the dalai lama would like to retire 'i'm also a human being retirement is also my right,' the exiled spiritual leader of tibet told cnn's hala gorani in miami, florida, this week without saying exactly when, he said, 'sooner or later, i have to go i'm over 75, so next 10 years, next 20 years, one day i will go' the dalai lama also said he supports recent protests in tibet, where students marched in opposition to government plans to teach university classes in mandarin chinese, instead of the traditional tibetan language 'my real boss is the tibetan people inside tibet so now, whenever they carry some sort of movement, i have to support,' he said he added that as long as protests are nonviolent, they should be considered lawful and reasonable he sees signs of change in tibet and remains 'optimistic' about the region's future, he said also in the interview, the dalai lama reiterated his support for recent nobel peace prize winner, liu xiaobo, imprisoned in china he said he joined a group of nobel laureates, including south africa's archbishop desmond tutu, who have called on chinese authorities to release liu the dalai lama said he is not bothered if world leaders do not want to meet with him so as not to anger china 'it doesn't matter,' he said 'if they find it a little bit inconvenient, then of course, it's absolutely ok' he said his main concern is meeting with the public to promote human values and religious harmony monk: how to practice compassion meditation the internet and social media are 'extremely useful' in engaging what he called a 'closed society' like china, he said the dalai lama is an active voice on the social media website twitter, although he admits, 'as far as technology itself is concerned, i'm completely ignorant' he said his staff tweets his thoughts for his almost 1 million followers online the dalai lama is wrapping up a speaking tour of north america
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the dalai lama says in interview he would like to retire . dalai lama: 'i'm over 75, so next 10 years, next 20 years, one day i will go'. the dalai lama said he supports recent protests in tibet . dalai lama reiterated his support for nobel peace prize winner, liu xiaobo
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(cnn) did mars rover opportunity order a jelly doughnut? not quite, but scientists are baffled by a white rock with a dark red low spot in the middle that 'just plain appeared at that spot' on the planet where the rover is situated, says steve squyres, lead scientist of the mars exploration rover mission in recent weeks, opportunity took photos of the same spot on mars, 12 days apart the rover's panoramic camera showed only barren bedrock on mission day 3528 (in mars time), but on day 3540, a photo of the same scene revealed the mysterious, doughnut shaped rock squyres showed photos of this ghostly geological dessert at a recent nasa event celebrating 10 years since the spirit and opportunity rovers landed on mars spirit's mission ended in 2010 after losing the use of two wheels, and ceasing to communicate but opportunity is still chugging along and finding new surprises, such as this rock 'one of the things i like to say is that mars keeps throwing new things at us,' squyres said at the event, gesturing toward the rock photo and laughing nasa: watch the presentation the photos of the outcrop showing the absence, and then presence, of the pastry sized rock were taken 12 days apart the rover had not driven over that spot, squyres said there are two leading theories about where the rock, called 'pinnacle island,' came from neither of them include the possibility of an intergalactic dunkin' donuts the most likely scenario is that opportunity flicked the rock with one of its wheels 'we had driven a meter or two away from here, and somehow maybe one of the wheels, kind of, managed to spit it out of the ground, and have it slide to this position,' squyres said alternatively, there could be a smoking hole in the ground nearby and the rock could be a piece of crater ejecta, or piece of matter spewn from the impact of a meteorite squyres doesn't think this is as likely as the idea that the rover displaced the rock, however opportunity is now studying the mystery rock more extensively, making measurements and taking pictures its instruments have shown scientists that the 'jelly' part is 'like nothing we've ever seen before,' squyres said it's very high in sulfur and magnesium, and it has twice as much manganese as has ever been seen in anything on mars no one knows what that means 'we're completely confused, we're having a wonderful time, everyone on the team is arguing and fighting,' squyres said spirit landed on january 4, 2004, followed by opportunity on january 25, 2004 their primary missions were designated for a mere 90 days, but both far outlasted that target squyres said he used to think that no matter how long the rovers lasted, at some point there would be a point in the mission where the team could say 'we're finished' that they had learned everything could about mars with those particular vehicles but the red planet isn't like that 'there will be something tantalizing, something wonderful just beyond our reach that we didn't quite get to, and that's the nature of exploration,' he said opportunity has otherwise encountered scientifically important phenomena during its decade of investigation at endeavor crater, where it is today, the rover found clay minerals that form in watery conditions, and indicate that water with a neutral ph could have once been there, which would be conducive to microbial life if there had been any endeavor has also unveiled veins of a mineral that appears to be gypsum, which is deposited by water opportunity is not the only robot roaming mars nasa's 2 ton curiosity rover, which landed in 2012, has an even more powerful suite of scientific instruments because of curiosity's findings, nasa announced for the first time last year that life could have existed on mars nasa is planning another rover mission in 2020 and that future robot could, possibly, collect samples that would later return to earth for further study such sophisticated technologies will help us see what other mysterious 'sweets' the planet can deliver follow elizabeth landau on twitter at @lizlandau
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washington (cnn) an e mail discussion about talking points the obama administration used to describe the deadly attack on the us compound in benghazi, libya, show the white house and state department were more involved than they first said in the decision to remove an initial cia assessment that a group with ties to al qaeda was involved, according to cnn sources with knowledge of the e mails after hearing, republicans say there's more to story doomed ambassador: 'we're under attack' the unclassified talking points have become a political flashpoint in a long running battle between the administration and republicans, who say that officials knew the attack last september 11 was a planned terror operation while they were telling the public it was an act of violence that grew out of a demonstration over a video produced in the united states that insulted islam john king: benghazi investigation both legitimate and partisan that was the story that us ambassador to the united nations susan rice told five days later when she made the rounds of all five sunday morning television talk shows obama administration officials have long said that rice was using official talking points that were edited almost exclusively by the intelligence community the attack also occurred two months before the november election, in which president barack obama's campaign often pointed out that it had 'decimated' al qaeda chaffetz: obama has explaining to do on benghazi white house spokesman jay carney on friday called the controversy a 'distraction' from the facts and said the administration had raised the possibility of extremist involvement from the start he told reporters the administration was careful with information on benghazi and was open with the public once facts were established an interagency discussion over the talking points to describe the attack just days previous that killed ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans included the white house, state department, cia, fbi and justice department officials a senior administration official told cnn that the e mails were made available to congress earlier this year and nothing contradicts what it has said 'the white house made stylistic edits to the talking points to emphasize that the investigation was ongoing as to who was responsible' and to simplify certain phrasing, the official said carney added that the only edit made by the white house or the state department was to change the description of the targeted facility to a diplomatic post from consulate the e mail exchange and alterations to the talking points were first reported by abc and the weekly standard and confirmed by cnn appear to contradict that assertion a source familiar with the matter said then state department spokeswoman victoria nuland raised concerns over the cia's first version of the talking points, saying that they went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her briefings and that she believed the cia was attempting to exonerate itself at the state department's expense by suggesting cia warnings about the security situation were ignored carney said on friday there was a 'deliberative process' around the talking points involving several agencies he said the talking points reflected the best assessment of the intelligence community at the time of what occurred in benghazi, and said there has been an effort since to politicize the tragedy 'this is an effort to accuse the administration of hiding something we did not hide,' he said the cia had no comment on the matter according to a congressional source with knowledge of the e mails, the cia's first draft of the talking points was sent to other agencies on the afternoon of friday, september 14 they were requested by rep dutch ruppersberger during a classified briefing by then cia director david petraeus and were intended to be used by members of congress and administration officials according to abc news and the weekly standard, the first draft included a line that said 'islamic extremists with ties to al qa'ida participated in the attack' the first version also includes a reference to the terrorist organization ansar al sharia an al qaeda affiliated group that operates in libya that took credit for the attack on facebook but later denied any involvement also in the initial talking points was an acknowledgement that the cia had produced 'numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al qa'ida in benghazi and eastern libya' the reference also mentioned that 'at least five other attacks against foreign interests' had been made since april 2012, according to the news organizations in response to the initial assessment, nuland on friday e mails a group involved in an interagency process of reviewing the talking points and brought up a number of concerns, according to congressional source 'now i understand that these are for members of congress i have serious concerns about all the parts highlighted below,' she wrote 'why are we arming members of congress to start making the assertion to the media that we ourselves are not making because we don't want to prejudice the investigation why do we want the hill to be fingering ansar al sharia when we aren't doing that ourselves' she continued, 'the penultimate point' information about the cia receiving numerous threats from extremists groups could be abused by members to beat the state department for not paying attention to state department warnings so why do we want to cede that either' an nsc staffer replied that the 'fbi did not have major concern with the points and only offered a couple of minor points' after nuland weighed in, the reference to ansar al sharia was scrubbed from the account nuland responds at 9:24 pm on friday, writing, 'these don't resolve all of my issues or those of my building's leadership' just a minute after nuland's e mail, jake sullivan, then a policy adviser for then secretary of state hillary clinton, writes the group 'i spoke with tommy,' sullivan writes, referring to then national security council spokesman tommy vietor 'we'll work this through in the morning get comments back' republican spotlight shifts from obama to clinton opinion: hearing's aim was to undermine clinton less than 10 minutes later, deputy national security council adviser ben rhodes e mailed the group stating that he didn't want anything in the talking points that would undermine the investigation and directs the matter to a saturday meeting at the white house according to multiple sources, the interagency group met saturday morning, and according to a congressional source, the paragraph acknowledging that the cia had warned about 'the threat of extremists linked to al qaeda and benghazi' in preceding months was removed from the talking points after that meeting after the saturday meeting, a separate e mail was directed to rice, telling her that the first draft of the talking points seemed unsuitable based on the discussion at the white house meeting, the unknown author of the e mail wrote, 'because they implied the cia warned about a specific attack' the e mail continues: 'i spoke with jake immediately after the (the white house meeting) and noted that you are doing the sunday morning shows and need to be aware of the final posture that these points took' what the obama administration has said about the benghazi attack by the numbers: us diplomatic presence a us intelligence official would not discuss the specific changes that were made in the talking points, but reiterated the previous reasons given for why they were made 'there were several valid intelligence and investigatory reasons why they were changed: the information about individuals linked to al qaeda was derived from classified sources, and could not be corroborated at the unclassified level; the links were tenuous and therefore it made sense to be cautious before naming perpetrators; finally, no one wanted to prejudice a criminal investigation in its earliest stages' a senior us intelligence official would also not comment on what the state department may have recommended as part of the interagency review process, but did say it would be a 'significant stretch' to suggest 'the state department made a comment therefore the talking points changed' the official also maintained nothing has changed since last november when shawn turner, the spokesman for the office of the director of national intelligence said 'there were no substantive changes made to the talking points after they left the intelligence community' cnn's jake tapper and pam benson contributed to this report
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spokesman says white house has been open with public since events were known . talking points used to underpin early explanation of events surrounding attack . references to cia security warnings, possible al qaeda involvement removed . attack last september 11 killed ambassador to libya, three other americans
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(cnn) the outlook for the underequipped members of the syrian opposition appeared to brighten thursday on the eve of a friends of syria meeting in tunisia diplomatic sources told cnn that a number of arab nations are supplying arms to the syrian opposition the sources wouldn't identify which countries in london, us secretary of state hillary clinton predicted the opposition will find willing sources to supply them with munitions to counter the syrian government onslaught blamed for thousands of deaths since last march 'there will be increasingly capable opposition forces,' she said thursday 'they will find somewhere, somehow the means to defend themselves, as well as begin offensive measures and the pressure will build on russia and china world opinion is not going to stand idly by' russia and china both vetoed a un security council resolution that would have condemned the syrian government for attacking its people also thursday, us officials told cnn they are considering providing the opposition with nonlethal aid such as secure radio communications and training that is a step beyond what the obama administration was saying tuesday, when it was still clinging to the hope that political solutions would end the bloodshed 'we don't believe that it makes sense to contribute now to the further militarization of syria, what we don't want to see is the spiral of violence increase,' state department spokeswoman victoria nuland said 'that said, if we can't get assad to yield to the pressure that we are all bringing to bear, we may have to consider additional measures' turkish foreign minister ahmet davutoglu has recently suggested that, beyond humanitarian aid and diplomatic solutions, 'we need to think about contingencies as well' both the us military and intelligence community have expressed concern about providing arms to an opposition whose composition is unclear the 70 plus countries and international organizations gathering friday in tunis are expected to unveil a plan for delivering emergency aid to the syrian people and issue a stern warning to president bashar al assad they want him to agree to an immediate cease fire and provide access to humanitarian groups to deliver the aid or face a yet to be mentioned response from the world community a draft of the document, shared with cnn, calls on 'the syrian government to implement an immediate cease fire and to allow free and unimpeded access by the united nations and humanitarian agencies to carry out a full assessment of needs in homs and other areas' diplomats cautioned the draft was subject to change what's more, the communiquã© will recognize the opposition syrian national council, members of which will be at the session, as a credible representative of the syrian people the united states insists it will not provide weapons to the syrian opposition, and will leave it to others who have expressed an interest in doing so nobody told washington they armed the libyans and officials said they expect the same nod wink in syria neither russia, which is a soviet era ally and arms dealer to syria, nor china is participating preparations for the tunis meeting coincided with the release thursday of a un report that identifies syrian commanders and high ranking officials who may be responsible for 'widespread, systematic and gross human rights violations' and apparent crimes against humanity the violations have been conducted with the 'apparent knowledge and consent' of the country's 'highest levels,' the independent international commission of inquiry on the syrian arab republic says thousands have died in syria since mid march of 2011, when the government launched a crackdown against protesters at least 101 deaths were reported thursday, including 14 children and a soldier killed when he refused to open fire on people, the opposition local coordination committees of syria said seventeen unidentified corpses were found in a military prison in the zawiya mountain area of idlib province, the group said residents told the lcc they believe it's likely most of these unidentified bodies were of soldiers who had defected opposition forces reported more shelling of homs, the 20th consecutive day of attacks on the besieged city at the center of resistance on thursday, the united nations announced the appointment of former secretary general kofi annan as joint special envoy of the united nations and arab league on the syrian crisis annan will be tackling an environment described by the un commission report as one in which most of the citizenry is 'in a state of disarray' 'the government has manifestly failed in its responsibility to protect the population,' the report says 'anti government armed groups have also committed abuses, although not comparable in scale and organization with those carried out by the state' meanwhile, britain and france demanded syrian president bashar al assad cease attacks against homs so three journalists can receive medical care, even as reports emerged thursday of renewed shelling in the flashpoint city the journalists were in homs to document attacks by al assad's forces when they were wounded in shelling, which also killed american reporter marie colvin and french photographer remi ochlik al assad has denied targeting civilians, saying his forces are after 'terrorists' and foreign fighters bent on destabilizing syria evidence that civilians are being killed by government forces has been documented by citizen journalists who post their work on social media websites and youtube the opposition reports the death toll exceeds 9,000 cnn and other media outlets often cannot independently verify opposition or government reports because the syrian regime has severely limited access to the country by foreign journalists the syrian foreign ministry denied syria was responsible for the deaths on wednesday of two journalists 'who infiltrated its territory on their own,' according to a banner on syrian state tv the british foreign office summoned sami khiyami, the syrian ambassador to the united kingdom, and political director sir geoffrey adams said syria was expected to facilitate the return of the bodies of the two journalists and to provide medical treatment to british photographer paul conroy conroy and french reporter edith bouvier of le figaro were wounded in the shelling in the homs neighborhood of baba amr bouvier said in a youtube video that she needed immediate medical treatment 'my leg is broken, the length of my femur i need to be operated on as quickly as possible, the doctors have treated me as best as they can except they cannot perform any surgical operations, so i need as quickly as possible, during a cease fire, a car with medical equipment or at least in good condition to take me to lebanon to be treated as quickly as possible,' she said dr mohammed al mohammed, who has been treating the wounded journalists in baba amr, said bouvier was in critical condition and conroy had been moved to a 'safe house,' which the physician said was a misnomer 'the problem is that we don't have a safe place, anywhere secure, in baba amr,' al mohammed told cnn thursday in an telephone interview he bemoaned the lack of medical supplies 'we just have the basics,' he said 'i have to admit, all very primitive' cnn's elise labott, hamdi alkhshali, brian walker, arwa damon, hala gorani, tom watkins and joe sterling contributed to this report
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(cnn) turkish police have swooped to detain 46 people as part of a widespread investigation into match fixing in european football former turkey international players arif erdem and fatih akyel were among those held, along with bosnia goalkeeper kenan hasagic, turkey's hurriyet daily news reported on wednesday erdem is assistant coach of the istanbul municipality team, whose 3 1 victory in a turkish super league match against genclerbirligi in may 2009 is under investigation by the turkish football federation the game had also come under suspicion from german prosecutors who launched a probe into match fixing last year goalkeeper recep ozturk, who then played for genclerbirligi but is now at konyaspor, has also been detained after being accused of betting €30,000 ($40,000) against his own team, hurriyet erdem played 60 times for his country and had a long career at leading club galatasaray before retiring in 2005, and along with akyel helped turkey finish third at the 2002 world cup hasagic has played for bosnia herzegovina in 29 international matches the turkish federation said its investigation was separate to the bochum probe, which has targeted more than 200 matches in 11 countries 'the federation filed a complaint to the sariyer prosecutor's office on august 4, 2009, regarding information it has on match fixing doubts in three games,' it said on its official web site 'the investigation by the bochum prosecutors was made public in november, and the information and documents obtained from bochum prosecutors and the uefa have been shared with the sariyer prosecutor's office' turkish police said the raids took place all across the country, according to the state run anatolia news agency 'as part of the investigation, 46 people have been detained from 26 different provinces we are targeting 53 suspects,' istanbul police chief huseyin capkin said the arrests came just three days after swiss club sion told prosecutors that last week's 2 0 defeat by grasshoppers zurich appeared to have been targeted by match fixers the club said on its web site that information in betting shops before the game indicated that the result would be manipulated european football's governing body uefa announced last week that ukrainian referee oleh orekhov had been banned for life based on information from german police's investigations into match fixing and corruption in china, which has also been trying to stamp out match fixing, police arrested three referees this month one of them, lu jun, officiated in two world cup matches in 2002 but has been accused of accepting bribes before his retirement in 2005 two clubs in china's top league have been relegated in relation to the investigations, which also saw the country's football head nan yong lose his job
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turkish police hold 46 people as part of investigation into match fixing in european football . former turkey international players arif erdem and fatih akyel among those detained . former genclerbirligi goalkeeper accused of betting $40,000 against his own team . match also under suspicion from german prosecutors investigating corruption
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dubai, united arab emirates (cnn) dubai has forgiven the nearly $7 billion baghdad owes it, iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki announced sunday uae president sheikh khalifa bin zayed al nahyan has promised to appoint an ambassador to iraq uae president sheikh khalifa bin zayed al nahyan promised to 'put out these debts,' appoint an ambassador to baghdad, and 'help iraq building the holy shrines that were targeted by the terrorists,' al maliki said in a written statement al maliki and the sheikh met sunday, the first day of a two day official visit al maliki was accompanied by the iraqi ministers of interior, commerce and industry 'our biggest challenge is now the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the economic situation and to provide services to our citizens,' al maliki said debt relief is a major issue for iraq, and the united states has urged other nations to forgive iraqi debt, most of which is held by arab states, us deputy treasury secretary robert kimmitt said in late may also, the uae cabinet on sunday nominated abdullah ibrahim al shehhi to be the country's ambassador to iraq al shehhi, who previously served as the emirates' ambassador to india, is to travel to iraq after his nomination is confirmed an official government source said the uae intends to reopen its embassy in baghdad by the end of the year the united states and other nations have urged arab countries to post ambassadors to iraq, reopen embassies and forge closer relationships with iraq's government the uae mission in iraq hasn't been active since a uae diplomat was kidnapped and released two years ago the year before that, two iraqis working for that mission were killed no ambassador from an arab country has been stationed permanently in iraq since july 2005, when egypt's ambassador, dr ihab al sherif, was abducted from a baghdad street and slain al qaeda claimed responsibility for the assassination, saying it had killed al sherif because of egypt's foreign policies and its alliances with the united states and israel the uae's announcement sunday came a month after its foreign minister, sheikh abdullah bin zayed al nahyan, visited baghdad during that visit, al nahyan extended the official invitation that brought al maliki to dubai iraq's government said that al nahyan's one day visit was the first to iraq by a gulf cooperation council foreign minister since the 2003 us led invasion that toppled the regime of president saddam hussein the gulf cooperation council also includes bahrain, kuwait, oman, qatar and saudi arabia prior to al nahyan's visit, only syria and jordan had sent foreign ministers to iraq in the post saddam hussein era the arab league's secretary general has also visited war and the sunni shiite rivalry in iraq and the muslim world have slowed the arab world's re establishment of diplomatic relations with iraq iraq's mixed population is mostly arab with some kurds and turkmens, and mostly shiite muslim, with a sunni muslim minority most arab countries including the uae are sunni ruled iraq's government is shiite dominated and it is forging a close relationship with its neighbor, the non arab shiite nation of iran a development that concerns arab nations wary of iran's islamic republic government al maliki's government is seeking to develop close ties to all countries of the region cnn's caroline faraj in dubai and mohammed tawfeeq in baghdad contributed to this report
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tokyo (cnn) a 64 magnitude earthquake struck sunday morning off the east coast of honshu, japan, the us geological survey said the earthquake was centered 27 miles (435 kilometers) beneath the surface about 114 miles (184 kilometers) northeast of tokyo, the agency said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage the country's nuclear and industrial safety agency said there were no reports of problems at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant as a result of the earthquake, according to japanese broadcaster nhk the plant was crippled by a much more powerful earthquake on march 11 japan has been struck by hundreds of aftershocks off the coast of honshu since that quake
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new: fukushima plant not damaged by saturday quake, broadcaster nhk reports . 64 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of honshu, japan . there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage
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(cnn) madonna will hear friday whether she will be allowed to adopt a child from malawi, a spokeswoman for the african nation's attorney general told cnn monday madonna holds her adopted malawian son, david banda, in 2007 the singer was in court in malawi, one of the poorest nations in the world, on monday for a hearing in the case, said zione ntaba, press officer for the country's attorney general's office the judge read documents and questioned the parties, the spokeswoman said madonna should appear in person friday to hear the judge's decision, ntaba said the child madonna is seeking to adopt is named chifundo james, she confirmed 'chifundo' means 'mercy,' the name earlier reports have cited for the girl, ntaba added an uncle of the girl was scheduled to sign adoption papers monday, according to martin geissler, a reporter for the itn television network who is in malawi, but he does not appear to have been in the court the child's family will have to give their permission for the adoption to proceed, geissler said, but need not be physically present in the court to do so madonna arrived at the court monday morning in a convoy of four suvs with black out windows, geissler said from the capital lilongwe eight security guards prevented journalists and the press from getting too close to the 50 year old singer 'she's keeping very tight lipped,' geissler said chifundo james is reported to be 4 years old she has two uncles and a grandfather, who were not in court monday, geissler said an international charity has criticized madonna's plan to adopt the child 'the best place for a child is in his or her family in their home community,' spokesman dominic nutt of save the children said in a statement 'most children in orphanages have one parent still living, or have an extended family that can care for them in the absence of their parents' the charity argued that foreign adoptions should happen only if a child does not have any relatives, and all other options have been considered under malawian law, foreign adopters would have to spend a year or more living in the african country with the children they want to adopt, geissler said the rules were put in place to prevent child trafficking the purpose of the law, ntaba explained, is for the authorities to observe the prospective parent to make sure the relationship is not abusive 'that the parent will behave well around the child,' she said she said that american or british social services may also provide the monitoring and in the case of david banda, the first malawian child madonna adopted, malawi social services officers traveled to the united kingdom to visit the child in madonna's home the judge has the discretion to allow madonna to take the child home with her immediately, geissler said she is scheduled to leave saturday, he said madonna adopted david banda from malawi in 2006 she has two other children press reports say chifundo james's teenaged mother died days after giving birth to her, geissler said she lives in an orphanage 'madonna first came into contact with her a few years ago and fell in love with her,' he added 'she has always had in mind that this is the girl she was going to come back and adopt' madonna has been involved with malawi for several years she made a documentary, 'i am because we are,' which highlighted poverty, aids and other diseases devastating malawi's children she also helps run a nonprofit, raising malawi, which implements initiatives to help the needy in the southeastern africa nation on sunday, madonna arrived in malawi and toured the village of chinkhota, assessing plans to build a school there and other possible raising malawi investments do you think madonna should be allowed to adopt another child? cnn's ben brumfield contributed to this report
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madonna will learn friday if she can adopt another malawian child . she reportedly wants to adopt a young girl named chifundo james . save the children spokesman says madonna should reconsider the move
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(cnn) two nasa rovers are about 5,200 miles apart on the surface of mars and will likely never meet but though they roam alone, curiosity and opportunity continue to reveal details about the red planet's former habitable conditions new studies in the journal science describe insights from each of those rovers about ancient environments where microorganisms could have once lived 'these results demonstrate that early mars was habitable, but this does not mean that mars was inhabited,' writes john grotzinger, lead scientist on the curiosity mission, in an introduction to the studies in the journal science we've been hearing a lot about how the two ton, car sized curiosity rover has been finding evidence that mars may have hosted life at some point last year nasa came out and said that yes, mars was once habitable the new research reinforces that statement from curiosity's vantage point, and adds the perspective of the opportunity rover, which has found a different ancient habitable environment on another part of the planet opportunity is smaller weighing 384 pounds, and about 5 feet in both length and height and older, having landed january 25, 2004, at a place called meridiani planum it has driven just under 25 miles in a decade, and is currently situated in a place called endeavour crater what opportunity has found opportunity does not have the tools required to detect carbon or nitrogen chemicals required for life directly but it has been able to find smectite clay minerals which form in the presence of water in rocks on the rim of endeavour crater, with supporting evidence from the mars reconnaissance orbiter orbiting above mystery rock spotted on mars scientists directed opportunity to a place on the crater rim where the orbiter suggested these clays could be found there, opportunity uncovered evidence of rocks that preexisted the formation of the crater scientists believe the crater's rim formed more than 37 billion years ago 'these are rocks that were happy on the surface, and along comes the asteroid or the comet that formed endeavour, and the rocks were uplifted on the rim, and then the ejecta was plopped right on top of them,' said raymond arvidson, lead study author and planetary scientist with the rover missions the ancient rocks are called the matijevic formation they are fine grained, layered rocks with dark veneers that are carrying iron clays that suggest water with a neutral to only slightly acidic ph was once in the area opportunity showed scientists fractures across these ancient rocks they wanted to explore the rover's rock abrasion tool allowed scientists to uncover an aluminous clay that could be formed in only mildly acidic, and non oxidizing waters 'whether or not life got started and evolved in that particular niche, in this groundwater percolating through the fractures, remains to be seen,' arvidson said but in a younger rock formation called the burns formation, which largely filled in the crater, the rover found evidence of a more acidic and very oxidizing environment this suggests that the environment was less hospitable after the formation of endeavour crater curious findings curiosity, on the other hand, landed in gale crater, and helped scientists determine that an area called yellowknife bay was habitable in ancient times here, from the rim of the crater came stream waters that formed 'a lake stream groundwater system that might have existed for millions of years,' grotzinger wrote his other car is on mars smectite clay minerals there indicate there was a moderate to neutral ph, and the lack of sulfate minerals suggest also that there was not an acidic environment, grotzinger wrote this ancient habitable environment seems completely different from what opportunity found at the matijevic formation on endeavour crater, arvidson said yellowknife bay is probably younger, and definitely a sedimentary environment all this suggests three distinct periods in martian history, arvidson said in the first, in the early days, lots of water flowed on the surface, with lakes and groundwater flowing through, as represented by the matijevic formation that opportunity found and the mudstone in yellowknife bay that curiosity found one theory is that these warm, wet surface conditions took place in early times, when the planet's iron nickel core was still at least partially molten, arvidson said the molten core provided a magnetic field around it that shielded the atmosphere, scientists believe the burns formation, as examined by opportunity, represents a later period likely, a drying out of mars with more acidic, oxidizing waters volcanic activity was probably dying down, and the magnetic field waning lake beds were turned into sand dunes 'then the whole system shut off,' arvidson said the planet became what we see today: cold and dry curiosity is equipped to find organic molecules, but finding them may be difficult assuming such molecules were enriched, and not destroyed when sediment turned into rock, they would have also needed to survive ionizing radiation another new study in science describes the radiation environment on mars, and suggests that, in theory, organics could have been preserved from millions of years ago but the indication of them might be much weaker now what's next for the rovers the curiosity rover, representing a $25 billion mission, is now on its way to mount sharp, a sedimentary formation that will allow the rover to explore mars' history by driving up the peak's slope and exploring rock chemical composition layer by layer nasa is planning to launch another curiosity sized rover in 2020, which could collect samples that later missions might return to earth opportunity will continue exploring endeavour crater, moving southward to see if there are more of these ancient rocks from a more livable time but opportunity's twin, spirit, isn't going anywhere spirit also landed in january 2004, on the opposite side of the planet, and got stuck in the soft soil of a place called troy that location turned out to be a scientific gold mine spirit showed evidence that water, possibly in the form of snow melt, had trickled into the subsurface relatively recently, and continuously spirit has been defunct since it stopped communicating in 2010 the other rovers are too far away from it to pay their respects objective of 2020 mission to mars: signs of life, nasa says follow elizabeth landau on twitter at @lizlandau
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the twin spirit and opportunity rovers landed on mars in january 2004 . spirit lost communication with earth in 2010, but opportunity is still sending data . studies describe insights about past life supporting environments . the curiosity rover followed in august 2012
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clay, alabama (cnn) alabama gov robert bentley on tuesday toured communities hit by a tornado that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes and killed two people 'i do not understand, except by god's grace, that people can survive some of the damage that i see in some of the residential areas,' bentley said the national weather service confirmed at least three tornadoes touched down in alabama early monday two were detected in north central tuscaloosa county, while the third hit near the town of clay in jefferson county, packing winds estimated at 150 miles per hour the storm destroyed at least 211 homes and seriously damaged another 218 in jefferson county alone, according to the alabama red cross the severe weather obliterated the three story home of darrell heichelbech, his wife and two children daughter christina heichelbech, 16, was one of two killed in the storm 'she had just such spirit, such life she was the kind of kid you wanted to have,' her father told cnn, barely able to speak through tears 'all her plans were coming into play, and now they're gone i don't know what to do' the girl's family found her about 40 feet from the house, he told the birmingham news she was still on her mattress 'she just looked like she was sleeping like a baby,' the newspaper quoted the father as saying 'but she wasn't sleeping she was gone' heichelbech said the storm woke him up, and he called for his family to get downstairs, according to the newspaper but he said the storm hit as soon as his 13 year old son emerged from his room 'i grabbed a hold of his legs and held on as hard as i could,' the newspaper quoted him as saying 'i felt wind, but no movement it was a blink of an eye there's no question in my mind we took a direct hit' authorities said the storm also killed bobby sims, 83, a resident of oak grove, a community west of birmingham at least seven alabama counties reported damage from the storm, with the majority in jefferson and chilton counties, the governor's office said bentley pledged 'whatever resources we have available' to take care of victims in jefferson county, five schools remained closed tuesday, including one that will have to be torn down center point elementary was 80% destroyed, district spokeswoman nez calhoun said 'it's like mother nature has a mean way of doing things,' calhoun said 'this building was only six or seven years old we added 22 classrooms for growth' the storm comes less than nine months after a tornado outbreak killed 243 people across alabama, including 61 in birmingham and tuscaloosa 'the one thing that we can say is thank goodness we're not looking at what happened in this state last year in april,' art faulkner, director of the alabama emergency management agency, said monday cnn's reynolds wolf and rick martin contributed to this report
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washington (cnn) drivers and passengers in the 21st century have heeded the call to 'buckle up' that famous admonition became a widely used catchphrase in the second half of the 1900s when seat belts became mandatory in cars then came the national campaign to 'click it or ticket' now the overwhelming majority of people are using the safety straps in record numbers seat belt use in 2012 reached a high of 86%, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier that's encouraging news for the projected 391 million people who will be traveling this thanksgiving holiday on the nation's highways according to the national highway traffic safety administration's annual survey, seat belt use has steadily increased since 1994, coinciding with a decline in the percentage of unrestrained daytime passenger vehicle fatalities some of the most significant improvements occurred in the south, where seat belt use rose from 80% in 2011 to 85% this year the west has the highest percentage of users with 94% seat belt use continues to be higher in states that have primary belt laws that allow law enforcement officers to issue citations to motorists, the safety agency said it points out that 32 states and the district of columbia have passed primary laws requiring seat belt use another 17 states have weaker 'secondary' laws, under which motorists can be cited for seat belt use only if they have been pulled over for another violation 'new hampshire is the only state that has not enacted either a primary or secondary seat belt law, though the state's primary child passenger safety law applies to all drivers and passengers under the age of 18,' according to the safety agency 'when it comes to driving safely, one of the most effective ways to protect yourself and your family is to use a seat belt,' transportation secretary ray lahood said in a statement released along with the annual report 'this thanksgiving holiday, we're urging everyone on our roadways to buckle up every trip, every time' as part of the survey's complex statistical methodology, observers look for seat belt use on randomly selected roads observations are made either while standing at the roadside or, in the case of expressways, while riding in a vehicle in traffic
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seat belt use in 2012 reached a high of 86%, the government's annual survey shows . that's an increase of 2 percentage points from a year earlier . the west has the highest percentage of users with 94%
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jakarta, indonesia (cnn) fourteen people were killed and another 60 were injured in indonesia over a four day period as a result of cyclone iggy, according to the country's national disaster management agency most of those who died were struck by falling trees or debris from strong winds, said agency spokesman sutopo purwo nugroho more than 2,000 homes were also damaged in 35 towns or cities in java and bali between wednesday and sunday, he said the government has provided food and aid to the areas affected, the agency said as of sunday, iggy was off the northwestern coast of australia, said tom sater, meteorologist for cnn international the australian bureau of meteorology issued a cyclone warning for the coastal area from onslow to coral bay, including exmouth iggy is currently classified as a category 1 cyclone and is near stationary, according to the warning iggy is forecast to stay offshore and avoid the coast of western australia, said sater the effects of iggy, however, may create high sea conditions, he said in anticipation of the storm, australia has shut down some of its coastal oil operations, according to sater iggy is 'expected to continue to move very slowly overnight before taking a more southwesterly track during monday,' the australian bureau of meteorology said in a sunday advisory cnn's kathy quiano contributed to this report
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60 people have been injured, indonesia's disaster management agency says . more than 2,000 homes are damaged in java and bali . a cyclone warning is issued for australia's western coast
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(cnn) cathay pacific's flight attendants union voted in favor of taking industrial action monday after salary negotiations with the hong kong based airline stalled the union is considering action that would result in flight delays or reduced onboard services, although its members will not go on an all out strike over the christmas period, said its general secretary, tsang kwok fung tsang said members are considering work to rule action, which means strictly following all rules and procedures to the letter to delay flights it may also resort to a 'safety first limited service,' which means fulfilling only the most basic duties required by the civil aviation department 'the basic role of a flight attendant is to take care of safety measures on flights and to take passengers from one point to another point safely,' tsang said, adding that serving food and beverages were extra services required by the airline under this scenario, tsang said flight attendants would likely provide water to passengers, but refrain from non essential items such as nuts and alcohol they would also refuse to provide service with a smile the fau would not consider launching a strike until january 1, tsang said on thursday the dispute was sparked by the 2% salary increase for 2013 announced by the airline on november 30 the union had requested an increase of 5%, the same rate they had settled for in 2012 in a press statement, the company said the 2% increase 'took into account a number of factors including a loss of more than hk$900 million in the first half of this year and the extremely difficult operating environment we are in' but tsang said the 2% offered for 2013 was unreasonable, adding that it was the same rate offered during severe external crises, such as sars and the worldwide financial crisis the airline said it was willing to meet with the union if it withdrew its threat of industrial action it has 'comprehensive contingency plans' for any industrial actions the union might take, cathay pacific spokesperson elin wong confirmed, but she declined to provide details the union has 6,000 members, representing two thirds of the airline's cabin crew it last launched a strike for 17 days in 1993 over chinese new year
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cathay pacific's flight attendants union voted to take industrial action after failed salary negotiations . union currently considering work to rule action or reduced onboard services . cathay pacific said it has contingency plans to deal with any industrial actions . new: union said it will not go on strike over christmas travel period, but possibly during new year
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(cnn) last weekend's setback is looking like a mere blip for juventus denied a 50th successive league match undefeated, the italian champions bounced back with a 4 0 romp against nordsjaelland in european competition and on saturday crushed pescara 6 1 to move four points clear in serie a inter milan had closed the gap to one with that 3 1 win seven days ago, but the pressure is back on for sunday's trip to mid table atalanta juve striker fabio quagliarella followed up his midweek goal against the danish side with a hat trick, while sebastian giovinco was also again on target arturo vidal, who scored against both inter and nordsjaelland, opened proceedings to score for his fourth successive match while kwadwo asamoah netted an overhead kick in a first half that featured six goals one of them to pescara's emmanuel cascione in saturday's other serie a match, catania moved up to seventh after a 0 0 draw at 10th placed cagliari bayern munich stayed seven points clear in the german bundesliga following saturday's 2 0 win at home to third placed eintracht frankfurt france star franck ribery netted the opener just before halftime and austria midfielder david alaba added a penalty as the bavarian side followed up the midweek champions league thrashing of lille schalke stayed second after a 2 1 win over werder bremen, while two time defending champions borussia dortmund won 3 1 at augsburg to remain fourth as poland striker robert lewandowski netted twice in spain, malaga missed the chance to move above third placed real madrid, losing 2 1 at home to real sociedad the andalucian side qualified for the last 16 of the champions league in midweek, but twice went behind against a team that had been hovering above the relegation zone before saturday's game real zaragoza beat deportivo la coruna 5 3, sealed by two late goals from portugal forward helder postiga, to leave the visitors third from bottom celta vigo remained above deportivo on goal difference alone after a 3 2 defeat at rayo vallecano that pushed the home side up to seventh osasuna stayed at the foot of the table despite winning 3 0 at second bottom espanyol spanish leaders barcelona travel to mallorca on sunday, while real madrid visit levante and second placed city rivals atletico host getafe
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(cnn) 'beauty' seemed somehow insufficient a description for the sounds that came from ravi shankar's sitar in a concert hall it was as if nature itself were being replicated on the stage, whether it was gentle summer rain or late autumn wind having its way with the landscape there would be intense engagement between shankar and his ensemble as they summoned into being tempests of interlocking phrases that seemed to coil and unravel at will the audience would be enraptured, transported, energized into enthusiastic applause and this was before the actual performance started 'if you enjoyed the tuning up that much, i hope you enjoy the music even more,' shankar can be heard saying on the recording of the 1971 concert for bangladesh addressing the appreciative, if nonplussed crowd at madison square garden it wasn't the first, or last time he gently (at times, not so gently) reproved audiences who, even with the benefit of his warnings, took the preliminaries for the actual recitals some learned, some never did and then there were those who really did enjoy the tuning up as much as what followed whatever his audience's reaction, shankar, who died tuesday at age 92 after undergoing heart surgery, seemed to accept it all with benign imperiousness and regal warmth as emissary for a classical tradition of indian music, shankar was winning over global audiences for that music in greater numbers than could have been imagined when he started learning the music of raga almost 70 years ago he was already close to legendary stature in india by the 1950s as sitar virtuoso, composer, conductor and director of all india radio in new delhi he had also written scores for several indian films, notably satyajit ray's 'apu trilogy' (1955 1959) whose international acclaim was a huge factor in increasing shankar's worldwide profile by the late 1950s, shankar was making cross genre connections with the likes of violinist yehudi menuhin and jazz saxophonist john coltrane, whose seminal 1961 recording of 'my favorite things' was infused with modal inventions that carried the incantatory fervor of classic raga music (coltrane would name his son ravi after shankar this year, by the way, ravi coltrane, who like his father plays tenor and soprano saxophone, released his finest album to date, 'spirit fiction' on blue note records) as all this indicates, shankar was already well known before the beatles got involved in fact, they weren't even the first rock group to get hip to shankar that honor belonged to the byrds, who recorded in the same world pacific records studios as shankar did for producer richard bock they in turn got george harrison hooked on raga and harrison began plucking the sitar on his own (dial up 'norwegian wood' from the beatles' 1965 album 'rubber soul' and you'll hear that instrument poking out the theme) harrison and shankar met the next year and the 'quiet beatle' went to india to study sitar with the master back then, whatever the beatles were interested in, the rest of the world was interested in, too brian jones picked up the sitar on the rolling stones' 1966 hit 'paint it black' and the byrds appropriated a sitar sound (and a coltrane riff) that same year for 'eight miles high' 'raga rock' lasted just long enough to make the sitar part of the shorthand soundtrack of what's often derisively labeled 'the hippie era' shankar was at best ambivalent about such associations but his reputation, as with his music, transcended fashion to become its own singular, lasting presence in the world's cultural firmament anyone who can make a sound check sound like genius packs substantial weight with the rest of the immortals the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of gene seymour
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gene seymour: ravi shankar brought classical indian music to a global audience . he says he was legendary in india when he made cross genre connections . the byrds hip to shankar before beatles, but sitar could soon be heard on their records . seymour: his sound transcended pop associations to carve out singular spot in music
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(cnn) the space shuttle endeavour landed thursday at edwards air force base in california, the latest stage in its transcontinental voyage to retirement the orbiter's final destination is the california science center in los angeles, but it still has some sightseeing to do before it goes on display on friday, endeavour, atop a modified jumbo jet, will do several flyovers in sacramento, san francisco and los angeles weather permitting upon arrival at los angeles international airport, the orbiter will be removed from its perch aboard the boeing 747 it has piggybacked for three days nasa said the shuttle will be moved over roads on october 12 13 to its final spot at the science museum on thursday, it flew low over tuscon, arizona, where mark kelly, who was the commander on the last endeavour mission, watched with his wife, former congresswoman gabby giffords kelly, who was in space when giffords was shot and six others were killed in january 2011, said it was emotional to see the orbiter again 'the space shuttle is really a testament to american engineering and ingenuity,' he told cnn affiliate kold 'it is the most amazing spacecraft ever built, by far' his wife had watched the launch of his mission but missed the landing, so it was great for her to see the shuttle in the air, he added endeavour, along with discovery, enterprise and atlantis, became a museum piece after nasa ended its 30 year shuttle program in july 2011 two other shuttles challenger and columbia were destroyed in accidents that killed all aboard challenger exploded shortly after launch in 1986, and columbia broke apart upon re entry into earth's atmosphere in 2003 watch: trees removed to make way for endeavour endeavour's three day piggyback flight was divided into three legs that could be described as scenic routes to showcase the shuttle to the public 'social media users are encouraged to share their endeavour sightings using the hashtags #spottheshuttle and #ov105, endeavour's orbiter vehicle designation,' nasa said wednesday's leg took endeavour to houston, with flyovers along florida's space coast, stennis space center in mississippi and the michoud assembly facility in new orleans as endeavour bid farewell to kennedy space center, it elicited strong emotions from people such as cnn ireporter randy lathrop of cocoa, florida who have lived with the shuttle program nearby for decades 'it's the last time that she'll ever be at her home base again it strikes a chord of nostalgia in you because she's done so many flights from the space center this is her home,' lathrop said a short history of endeavour named for the first ship commanded by british explorer james cook, endeavour rolled off the assembly plant in palmdale, california, in 1991 at a cost of $17 billion it was the baby of the shuttle fleet, built as a replacement for challenger over the next 20 years, endeavour flew some of the most high profile shuttle missions, covering 25 flights and nearly 123 million miles it flew a spacelab mission and numerous international space station assembly missions and rendezvoused with russia's mir space station read more space and science news on cnn's light years blog cnn's ben brumfield and ric ward contributed to this report
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new: former shuttle commander mark kelly, gabby giffords watch flyover . orbiter endeavour, atop 747, lands at edwards air force base . nasa plans some low altitude flyovers so people can get a good look friday . the retired shuttle is headed towards a museum in los angeles
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(cnn student news) october 4, 2013 as a partial government shutdown stretches on, cnn student news examines another potential battle looming in washington over the us debt ceiling we also explain a possible schedule shift for the 2022 world cup, and we report on a jellyfish invasion at a nuclear power plant in sweden plus, watch how a disabled student shocked his classmates by taking a stand for school spirit on this page you will find today's show transcript, the daily curriculum, maps pertaining to today's show, and a place for you to leave feedback transcript click here to access the transcript of today's cnn student news program please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and when the transcript is published daily curriculum click here for a printable version of the daily curriculum (pdf) media literacy question of the day: can media coverage of a partial government shutdown influence viewers' opinions of the federal government? if so, how? if not, why not? weekly newsquiz: the following questions relate to events that were covered this week on cnn student news write your answers in the space provided 1 what us president delivered the 'gettysburg address'? 2 what country is scheduled to host soccer's world cup in 2022? 3 what is the name of the storm that is currently threatening the us gulf coast? 4 what united nations group unanimously approved a resolution concerning chemical weapons in syria? 5 in what part of the body would you find the gastrocnemius muscle: arm, leg, or neck? 6 what empire, which began in 27 bc, once covered parts of three continents? 7 what technology company is now the most valuable brand in the world? 8 what language is the origin of the english word 'alligator'? 9 what kind of animal recently caused a shutdown in a swedish nuclear power plant? 10 what us state has the highest number of residents under age 18? cnn student news is created by a team of journalists and educators who consider the common core state standards, national standards in different subject areas, and state standards when producing the show and curriculum we hope you use our free daily materials along with the program, and we welcome your feedback on them maps download pdf maps related to today's show: north america gulf of mexico asia qatar europe sweden feedback we're looking for your feedback about cnn student news please use this page to leave us comments about today's program, including what you think about our stories and our resources also, feel free to tell us how you use them in your classroom the educators on our staff will monitor this page and may respond to your comments as well thank you for using cnn student news! click here to submit your roll call request
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new york (cnn) a rare lincoln manuscript sold for $34 million on thursday at sotheby's auction house the 1864 letter in which abraham lincoln replies to the abolitionist pleas of 195 young boys and girls was bought by a private american collector over the phone the sale of the letter, from the dr robert small trust, set a record for a lincoln manuscript, a presidential manuscript and any american manuscript ever auctioned, sotheby's spokeswoman susan ollinick said the 'little people's petition' had asked lincoln 'to free all the little slave children of this country' lincoln wrote, 'please tell these little people i am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy and that, while i have not the power to grant all they ask, i trust they will remember that god has, and that, as it seems, he wills to do it' although lincoln's emancipation proclamation had declared freedom for all slaves held in areas 'in rebellion' against the united states as of january 1, 1863, full abolition of slavery was not accomplished until adoption of the 13th amendment to the constitution late in 1865 the letter had been expected to sell for $3 million to $5 million about 20 lincoln documents were among the 111 items for sale from the small trust also included were other documents from us presidents, including pages from george washington's diary and correspondence from thomas jefferson and john adams; a rare document signed by both meriwether lewis and william clark; about 10 documents from robert e lee; and documents from john brown, samuel clemens, orville wright and others e mail to a friend
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letter is president's reply to children asking him to free slaves . it was expected to sell for $3 million to $5 million . private american collector purchased letter over the phone
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(cnn) the last month has seen a blizzard of new sex abuse accusations against the catholic church from across the united states almost all of them and the intense media attention they've garnered can be traced to one man: a minnesota lawyer named jeff anderson last week, an alleged victim of priest abuse in wisconsin announced a lawsuit against the vatican itself anderson is representing the alleged victim a couple of days earlier, a mexican man who alleged abuse by a priest years ago filed suit against mexico's top catholic cleric in a us court the plaintiff is another anderson client and throughout april, new documents have come to light suggesting that the current pope may have played down warnings about abusive priests in the united states those documents came from anderson's st paul, minnesota, office for decades, anderson has won settlements from catholic archdioceses across the country for abuse victims and, more than any other attorney in the country, has driven american media coverage of the church abuse scandal now, with the church abuse crisis embroiling europe for the first time and raising questions about whether the pope himself did enough to respond to church abuse, anderson is employing novel legal tactics in an attempt to take his campaign all the way to the vatican 'i'm getting far more aggressive because all roads are leading to rome,' anderson, 62, said last thursday, after filing suit against the vatican on behalf of the alleged wisconsin abuse victim 'i'm pessimistic that the vatican is capable of changing itself but i'm optimistic that external pressure will,' anderson said 'we're at a tipping point' anderson's last sex abuse suit against the vatican, filed in 2002, has wound its way through the courts, with the us supreme court now considering whether to hear the case but anderson's critics say that last week's suit against the vatican, along with much of his other work, is aimed more at attracting publicity than getting justice 'anderson has sued the vatican many times, and has never won,' said bill donohue, president of the catholic league for religious and civil rights 'he knows he will lose again this time, but that means nothing to him what this is all about is grandstanding: getting more pr for himself and throwing more mud at the catholic church' anderson's firm jeff anderson & associates, which employs four other lawyers has filed hundreds of sex abuse suits against the church though he won't disclose how much he has won in settlements, anderson is thought to be responsible for a good chunk of the roughly $25 billion that, according to the us conference of catholic bishops, the us catholic church has paid to sex abuse victims to date he was among the lawyers representing abuse victims in the $600 million settlement with the archdiocese of los angeles in 2007, the church's largest payout ever the settlements started out much smaller when anderson filed his first church lawsuit on behalf of a minnesota plaintiff who in 1983 alleged priest sexual abuse, he was one of the only lawyers in the country taking on such cases he says the abuse suit which targeted the archdiocese of saint paul and minneapolis and the diocese of winona, minnesota was the first against an american catholic diocese anderson says he won a $1 million plus settlement for his client but his proudest moment in the case was convincing his client to resist signing a confidentially agreement so that he could go public with his story 'as a result, dozens of other kids abused by that priest broke their silence,' anderson said that knack for getting clients to publicize their stories of priestly abuse largely through the news media and spurring other victims to break their silence has been an anderson trademark ever since in the early 1990s, anderson represented victims of abuse by rev james r porter, a massachusetts priest whose taped comments about having molested 'from 50 to 100 (children),' made him one of the first abusive priests to earn national headlines the media attention brought anderson more business 'i remember reading a newspaper story about a priest that had molested a bunch of kids and it was the first written statement i'd seen about being sexually abused by a priest,' said bob schwiderski, a former client of anderson's 'it was an a ha moment i said, 'my god i'm not the only one' and the article mentioned jeff's firm' by that time, anderson had shifted from his initial focus on civil rights and poverty law to take on abuse cases full time 'that's what sustains me the connection with the survivors and their families,' he said 'initially it's their pain, and then it's their strength they're giving me a lot more than i'm giving them' even some of anderson's opponents see him more as a true believer than a church obsessed variation of a lawyerly ambulance chaser 'jeff is not just after money,' said jeffrey lena, a us based lawyer for the vatican 'he has enough to buy his own island if he wants (but) what he is doing in these cases is part of his conception of himself people figure out in life that there was something they really want to do, and i think he believes he has figured that out' anderson raised three children in the roman catholic tradition of his first wife, but his work representing abuse victims in the 1980s turned him off to organized religion he became an atheist but says he regained his faith 13 years ago, when he began confronting his alcoholism at aa meetings 'i had to look at myself and turn things over to a higher spiritual power,' said anderson, who doesn't identify with a religious tradition and describes his faith as 'eclectic' in 2002, revelations of church abuse and cover up in boston set off a wave of priest abuse allegations that turned church lawsuits into a national industry 'until that time, it was a solo journey,' anderson said 'that set me on another trajectory entirely, with an intensity that hasn't slowed much if it all' while the boston scandal was still breaking, anderson filed his first suit against the vatican, on behalf of a portland, oregon, man who said he'd been abused by a priest as a teenager anderson argued that the holy see, as the priest's employer, is ultimately responsible for the abuse the supreme court is deciding whether to hear the case a lower court has rejected the vatican's argument that it is protected by the foreign sovereign immunity act the lawsuit anderson filed last week against the vatican goes much further, naming the holy see, pope benedict xvi and the vatican's current and former secretaries of state as defendants the suit alleges that the vatican had received a 1995 letter from a deaf american claiming that he'd been abused by a wisconsin priest named rev lawrence murphy but that the holy see allowed the priest to retain his position the suit, filed by an unnamed plaintiff, seeks to force the vatican to open its files on other abusive priests the vatican says the suit will fail because individual archdioceses, not the pope, are responsible for responding to abuse allegations 'anderson's mantra is that all roads lead to rome,' says lena, the vatican lawyer 'i have a different message that jeff wishes to ignore: this church is administratively decentralized and decision making takes place largely on the local level mine is a more complex message, but it has the virtue of being right' but that doesn't mean that the vatican will stop paying close attention to anderson 'jeff is such a media mover and shaker that when i go on an airplane, i'll call him and say 'i'm going to be on the plane for six or seven hours, so don't do anything i won't have a chance to respond!'' said lena 'he is half media man and half lawyer and has been successful at both' for anderson, both halves would likely be taken as a compliment
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anderson has driven american media coverage of the church abuse scandal . in 1983, he was one of the only lawyers in the country taking on such cases . he has been a key figure in bulk of settlements us catholic church has paid out . critics: anderson's work is aimed more at attracting publicity than getting justice
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nairobi, kenya (cnn) inside a gated community in a tranquil kenyan suburb, a group of builders are putting the final touches to the exterior of a lavish, red tiled villa nestled in the middle of a landscape garden within the spacious property, no luxury is spared: hardwood floors, venetian finishes, designer furniture and five en suite bathrooms ensure that all the modern conveniences are in place for the future tenants welcome to miotoni ridge, a 14 mansion development in one of the kenyan capital's most prestigious locations houses here are designed for the highest end of the luxury market asking prices are running at more than $1 million but that has not deterred any potential buyers: 60% of these properties are already sold out in fact, a study earlier this year by estate agents knight frank and citi private wealth found that nairobi was the best performing prime residential market in the world values in the city grew up by 25% in 2011, leaving luxury hotspots such as london, miami and hong kong behind read more: africans shun crisis hit west for jobs back home ben woodhams, managing director of knight frank kenya, says the findings of the survey surprised even the agency's research department 'we were higher than miami and it was like 'how dare you,'' he says 'so we had to justify our figures and say 'yes, this really is what is happening here' but it is about growth, it is not about value' although this growth comes from a base of relatively low prices, woodhams says there's a number of factors that has made investing in kenya's luxury housing market attractive 'regionally kenya is a safe haven,' he says 'people are seeing relatively good returns in kenya specifically, but [also] in africa as a whole particularly with the problems we are seeing in the rest of the world' woodhams says it's mostly kenyan or kenyan linked investors that drove the country's prime housing market to the top spot 'a lot of kenyans in the diaspora in the [united] states and europe send a lot of money back to kenya and a lot of that gets invested in the property market,' he says 'so that is another big driver for us' yet, nairobi is not the only location in kenya experiencing great growth in luxury real estate coastal hotspots such as mombasa, malindi and lamu occupied the second spot in the wealth report 2012, recording a 20% price growth in luxury residential properties lamu, a tiny island located off kenya's north coast, is the second home for many tycoons, attracting local and international investors who flock in to get a unique combination of sun and culture andrew mcghie, a lamu based estate agent, says that kenya's coast tugs at people's heart strings, not just their wallets 'lamu attracts a fairly adventurous romantic type person who wants to come to somewhere that is completely different to their everyday lives,' he says 'while the old town has changed a little bit in the last five years, it hasn't changed much in the last 500 years' read more: using the web to fight corruption although kenya's prime real estate might be booming, analysts say that international investors have been slow to dive into the country's market, partly due to security reasons lawlessness in neighboring somalia recently spilled over the border while kidnappings of tourists in the area prompted several countries to put out travel warnings kenyan forces have moved to occupy southern somalia and beefed up security on the coast the warnings were lifted but the chilling effect remains 'international investors are keen in getting into countries where they know that their property rights are protected where the rule of law is respected,' says james muratha, regional director at stanbic investments 'and where there is a perception where the justice system is not up to par, then they prefer to stay away and that is why you see more local investors investing in these markets as opposed to international investors,' he adds analysts also say that uncertainty about upcoming elections and high interest rates may also hamper growth in the market but agents believe it will only be temporary woodhams says the country's market can offer top returns to individual and institutional investors 'it is not just because of the direct relationship between rent and capital value,' he says 'we are talking about year on year growth as well and i think that's the key 'the levels of growth we have seen in kenya have made the returns for corporate institutional investors very good indeed' ultimately, they hope the deals will just be too good to miss
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kenya's prime housing market saw the biggest price increase globally last year, a report has found . the country's market offers top returns to investors, estate agents say . but international buyers have been slow to dive into the market, partly due to security reasons . analysts say uncertainty about elections and high interest rates may also hamper growth
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(cnn) real madrid forward cristiano ronaldo has been included on the shortlist for the fifa world player of the year award the 2008 winner is one of five contenders for the honor alongside real madrid team mate kaka and barcelona trio andres iniesta, lionel messi and xavi ronaldo transferred from manchester united to the bernabeu for a world record fee in the region of $130 million in july, while brazil playmaker kaka joined from ac milan in the summer argentina's messi and spain midfield duo iniesta and xavi were at the forefront of barcelona's treble winning success, which saw the catalan club claim the champions league, the primera division title and the copa del rey messi is favorite to land the gong after recently winning the ballon d'or award for the european player of the year the nominees were confirmed following a poll of national teams' captains and coaches from a list drawn up of fifa football committee experts the winnerswill be announced at the fifa world player gala on december 21 in zurich, switzerland also at the gala the best 11 players of the year, as chosen by over 50,000 professional players from all over the world, will be honored in the fifa/fifpro world xi while the fifa puskas award will be presented to the player who has scored the 'most beautiful goal' during the past year
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hong kong (cnn) the leading contenders in japan's upcoming national election kicked off their 12 day campaign tuesday near the seaside prefecture that was at the heart of last year's nuclear disaster — and is now a powerful symbol of japan's deepening economic woes the man polls suggest will become the country's next leader appealed for votes in fukushima city, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the site of last year's nuclear meltdown at the fukushima daiichi power plant shinzo abe, leader of the opposition liberal democrat party (ldp), has said that, if elected, he'll decide within three years whether to restart the nuclear plants that were shut down after an earthquake and tsunami triggered nuclear devastation in march 2011 he's a former prime minister who stepped down in 2007 after just one year in power citing health reasons in his first official campaign speech tuesday, abe focused on economic arguments, saying he will act to counter deflation, weaken the yen and promote economic stability 'we'll regain economic power in japan,' he said nearly two years after the nuclear meltdown, hundreds of thousands of people remain in temporary homes as the government, led by the democratic party of japan (dpj), sees its support slip away the economy is weakening, and policymakers are under enormous pressure to restore communities affected by the disaster since assuming power in september 2011, current prime minister yoshihiko noda has faced fierce resistance to his plan to raise government revenue by doubling the 5% sales tax by october 2015 he's dealing with an economy that's contracting by 35% between july and september after years of economic malaise if gdp continues to shrink this quarter, the country will officially enter another recession 'any prime minister who has seriously taken up the cause of instituting or increasing an existing consumption tax rate if they succeeded or failed has lost power, so in that sense you have to give noda his dues,' said keith henry, founder of consultancy asia strategy last month, noda agreed to dissolve the lower house of parliament, clearing the way for an election on december 16, as part of a deal to secure support for a crucial financial bill from the ldp it was a risky move, and one that a poll released on monday suggested would lead to noda's removal from power, just one year after assuming office the poll, conducted by asahi shimbun last weekend, suggests the ldp retained a 5% lead over the dpj twenty percent of respondents said they'd vote for the ldp if the lower house election was held now, compared to 15% who'd vote for noda's dpj noda also launched his re election campaign in fukushima prefecture, at the iwaki station, where he told supporters they faced a clear choice 'the question in this lower house election is whether we can move forward with what we should do or whether we turn back to the old politics,' he said he has promised to phase out nuclear power by 2040, seizing on a popular backlash against the energy source since last year's nuclear disaster it's a policy pledged by other smaller parties vying for votes in an election that's expected to see 1,500 candidates compete for 480 lower house seats according to the polls, neither party is expected to win a majority, although asia strategy says a survey of polls shows that the ldp is on track for a coalition win, with its traditional ally the new komeito party amid flagging support for the major players, smaller parties have proliferated including the japan restoration party, led by shintaro ishihara the controversial former governor of tokyo is perhaps best known outside the country for triggering a diplomatic spat with china over his move to buy disputed islands in the east china sea earlier this year, he urged residents to donate cash to fund the purchase of the islands japan calls senkaku and china refers to as diaoyu the japanese government eventually stepped in to buy the islands from private owners, provoking a sharp rebuke from beijing and anti japanese protests across china in the asahi poll, 9% of respondents said they'd vote for ishihara's jrp, the same proportion who said they'd give him their vote last week, indicating that his rising popularity may have stalled henry said that it's unlikely that this election will give marginal parties enough votes to influence the parliament 'i'm convinced that these minor parties are going to remain minor parties,' he said 'they grab the attention of the media, they're old style curmudgeons but they won't gain any political influence' whether the combined leadership of the ldp and the new komeito party is able to introduce policies to contend with japan's major structural challenges` remains to be seen, henry said if it can't, more political waves could be made when the upper house votes in an scheduled election next year, he said cnn's junko ogura contributed to this report
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moscow (cnn) bolshoi ballet star soloist pavel dmitrichenko pleaded not guilty tuesday to masterminding an acid attack on the theater's artistic director, sergei filin, a court spokesman told cnn alleged accomplice yuri zarutsky pleaded guilty to carrying out the attack, but he said he had acted alone a third defendant in the case, andrei lipatov, denied the charges he's accused of aiding zarutsky by acting as his driver filin was walking up to his moscow apartment in january when a masked assailant tossed sulfuric acid onto his face, leaving him severely burned and nearly blinded proceedings were adjourned to thursday after the three men heard and responded to the charges a fight at the ballet: the power struggle tearing apart the bolshoi filin has spent much of the past year in germany, where doctors have been working to save his sight he has undergone multiple surgeries and has regained 80% of his vision in one eye, the state run ria novosti news agency said his other eye, in which he was completely blind after the attack, has not recovered to the same extent, but he can now pick out large objects, it said filin recently returned to moscow, but he still needs further treatment there's still a question mark over whether he will be able to return to his role at the bolshoi ballet, one of russia's iconic cultural institutions the case has sparked great public interest in russia, where tales of intrigue and bitter rivalries have swirled around the ballet's dancers and management curtain falls on russian ballet director after tumultuous year
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soloist pavel dmitrichenko denies organizing an acid attack on the bolshoi's artistic director . his alleged accomplice, yuri zarutsky, pleads guilty and says he acted alone . zarutsky's alleged driver in the attack, andrei lipatov, pleads not guilty . sergei filin has recovered some of his sight after multiple surgeries in germany
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(cnn) three kenyan police officers have been suspended, authorities said friday, after photos allegedly showed them shooting three unarmed men on a busy street in central nairobi kenya's largest newspaper, the daily nation, published the photos thursday it said they were taken by a motorist at the scene of the shooting in the capital the first photo shows a man described by the paper as an undercover officer pointing a gun at two men lying face down on the highway another one shows the two men riddled with bullets lying in the middle of the road a third shooting apparently took place, the paper said a police spokesman confirmed that three men were killed, and three officers have been suspended pending an investigation 'they (officers) are very much innocent until declared guilty, let's not forget that,' eric kiraithe said by phone from nairobi 'we are conducting an investigation and will have the results soon' kiraithe said the victims have criminal records, and one injured a police officer in a shooting last week 'that said, they have their rights as human beings, of course, so it does not justify their deaths,' he said the killings sparked condemnation nationwide, with human rights groups renewing calls for reform in the kenyan police the trio was compliant and had already surrendered, amnesty international said in a news release a 2009 un report accused kenyan police of misusing its power, and called for the removal of the nation's police commissioner at the time 'killings by the police in kenya are systematic, widespread and carefully planned they are committed at will and with utter impunity,' un special rapporteur philip alston said in a statement the kenyan government said it rejected the findings
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new delhi (cnn) anticipation hung heavier than the sultry air outside the massive court complex friday afternoon here and all across india, people awaited the decision from courtroom no 304 inside the wood paneled room lighted by the glare of harsh white lights, the four men found guilty of gang raping a delhi woman would learn whether they would die for their crime three exchanged their t shirts for collared shirts on this day, one of the most important of their lives life or death? the people clamored for the latter a curious crowd gathered outside the courtroom as the clock neared 2:30 pm, when judge yogesh khanna was set to convene his court some traveled great distances to be present when the sentences were read it was almost as though this were judgment day for all of india there are no cameras allowed inside the courthouse, but everyone had a cell phone one woman stood on a bench, held her dated samsung high in the air and pressed the video button she wanted to capture every moment opinion: rape sentence is just the start of india's fight for equality mounted police as well as a water cannon truck were the most obvious signs of the combustive atmosphere authorities blocked off the road in front of the saket district court complex in hopes of preventing angry clashes dozens of journalists set up roadside mini studios to file what felt to many like the biggest story of the year prosecutors argued that the men vinay sharma, akshay thakur, pawan gupta and mukesh singh deserved to die for an 'extreme act of brutality' the woman's family members have said the same to them and many others gathered here, nothing less could deliver justice nothing else could be an appropriate ending to a case that has gripped india people here had waited for this day for nine long months, since december 16, when the woman, a 23 year old physiotherapy student, went to see 'the life of pi' with a male friend the movie theater is in an upscale mall just a short walk from this court complex the woman indian law forbids naming rape victims and her friend boarded a private bus to make their way home from south delhi to the suburbs the driver and at least five other men, said police, were drunk that night and looking for a joyride they dragged the woman to the back of the bus and beat up her friend, authorities claim; then they took turns raping her, using an iron rod to violate her as the bus drove around the city for almost an hour when they had finished, they dumped their victims on the side of the road the woman's internal injuries were so severe that some organs had to be removed two weeks later, at a hospital in singapore, she died the horrific nature of the crime got to people it was like a bomb had exploded inside the collective indian psyche opinion: where have india's females gone? the nation erupted in outrage crowds poured into the streets of major cities and openly questioned the civility of their own society how could the world's most populous democracy, a nation that had finally made its stand on the global stage, allow such a heinous act to take place? as india waited to hear the fate of the men responsible for casting such a dark shadow over their nation, a national discussion blossomed on the treatment of women it included a call for tougher punishment for sexual assault for some at the courthouse, friday's sentence would be a test, of sorts, of whether the message had been heeded the trial lasted seven months this week, the court convicted the four men of murder, rape and kidnapping the parents of the victim cried as they listened to the judge read the verdict there were two others accused in the case the bus driver, ram singh, was found dead in his jail cell in march authorities said he had hanged himself, though his family says he was murdered a teenage boy he was 17 at the time of the rape was convicted august 31 for his part in the gang rape a juvenile court sentenced him to three years in a special juvenile correctional facility, the maximum allowed under the court's rules many indians, including the victim's family, expressed dissatisfaction with the boy's sentencing friday, they hoped the court would not fail them the crowds began to swell outside the courtroom as the appointed time approached people lined the balconies along the courtyard, three levels up from the courtroom 'oh, god,' someone remarked 'they have to get rid of this crowd' but the police, some attired in riot gear, did little to keep people out inside the courtroom, the four men sat teary eyed perhaps they knew of the enormous pressure on khanna, the judge, to condemn them as khanna announced the sentence, one of the men, sharma, let out loud cries of anguish he and the other three will be executed that was the judge's decision the prosecutors congratulated one another they had done their job court sentences 4 to death in gang rape case the victim's father said, 'justice has been delivered' few journalists were allowed into the courtroom, but the news traveled fast just after 2:30 pm, cries of 'fansi! fansi! (hang them!)' rang out through the halls of the court building 'death for all four,' shouted one man the news was welcomed on the streets but soon, anger filled the crowd's chants people turned their ire on the teenager who will be a free man in three years 'don't let him reach adulthood!' some shouted smita sinha, who works for a women's aid organization, said there was no closure for her friday 'we are here for justice,' she said 'we are happy, but it is a half happiness that juvenile should be hanged why does he go free? he will rape again this is only half justice' sinha said she's been on the streets protesting for nine months and will continue to do so she said she believed many indians were hungry for death because capital punishment sends an effective message to would be rapists india, she said, needs to send that kind of message while the laws punishing sexual assault are on the books, they aren't always enforced, sinha said 'in india, a fear of death means something,' she said defense lawyers had urged the judge to show leniency and sentence the men to life in prison, saying the death penalty should be the exception, not the rule 'yes, it is a basic right for every human being to live,' sinha said 'but why should (the accused) live when they created circumstances that made a woman fight for her life for 15 days?' indian courts have issued death sentences, but executions have been rarely carried out in the past decade in this case, the judge said the harshest penalty was necessary 'there cannot be any tolerance,' khanna said 'this crime in every way falls within the rarest of rare category warranting a death sentence' the people called for the boy's death they called for revolution one man, tabrej alam, sat with his oil paints and a canvas he'd traveled all the way from the eastern state of bihar to be at the court friday as the afternoon unfolded, a painting emerged it showed a young man with the likeness of the evil, a hangman's noose around his neck friday's judgment, he said, was one way to cleanse india of evil holy man castrates self after india guru charged with rape of 16 year old girl cnn's jethro mullen contributed to this story
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four men convicted of gang rape face sentencing in new delhi . crowd comes from near and far to hear decision in case that gripped india for nine months . many at the scene feel death is the only justice . anger erupts over lighter sentence for juvenile
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(cnn) the federal aviation administration on thursday proposed fining airtran airways for allegedly operating an airplane not in compliance with regulations, the agency said the faa wants to fine airtran airways of orlando, florida, $250,000 for allegedly operating a boeing 737 on four passenger flights without testing the sensor that indicates potential loss of lift on the aircraft the angle of attack sensor was damaged by lightning during a march 20, 2009 flight, said the statement airtran is also accused of misusing the minimum equipment list when it decided to continue flights without addressing the needed repair, the statement said the mel is a list of what systems must be working to fly a plane legally and what can be deferred for later repairs repairing a damaged aoa sensor cannot be deferred, said the statement airtran has 30 days to respond or challenge the agency's enforcement letter
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faa proposes fine for airtran's alleged disregard for regulations . airtran allegedly used an airplane in need of required repairs . airtran has 30 days to settle or challenge the claim
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washington (cnn) the chinese military continues to increase spending on efforts to break into us military computer systems, expand its navy, and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites, according to the latest us report on china's military power chinese military officers after a meeting about the people's liberation army in 2007 the annual report from the pentagon to congress says china's total military spending in 2007 was between $97 billion and $139 billion, but it is hard to tell exactly how much was spent and on what in comparison, the us military budget request for 2008 is $4814 billion, not including war requests pentagon officials said a chunk of china's spending went to cyberwarfare, because 2007 saw several 'intrusions' believed to be from the peoples liberation army in the incidents, unclassified us military computer systems were broken into and information was taken, according to pentagon officials while the information taken was not classified, pentagon officials said the worry is the chinese hacking required many of the skills and capabilities that would also be required for a computer network attack last summer, a cyber attack on department of defense computer systems took down the e mail capability of hundreds of staffers for weeks, but the pentagon still will not comment on who initiated the attack it is widely believed among the military to have been the peoples liberation army china is also investing heavily in and fielding improved nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles and antisatellite missiles, according to the report the united states expressed its concern last year after china fired a missile at one of its old satellites and destroyed it, sending thousands of dangerous pieces of space debris into orbit the united states conducted a similar strike last month on a broken us spy satellite before it re entered the earth's atmosphere us officials said the satellite was hit and broke into thousands of small pieces that burned up as they re entered earth's atmosphere the united states is also concerned about the purchase of more submarines by the chinese navy as well as plans for more aircraft carriers the chinese once had a small navy now the united states is keeping an eye on the growing service amid concerns over taiwan the concerns include 'china's near term focus on preparing for contingencies in the taiwan strait, including the possibility of us intervention, which is an important driver of its modernization,' the report says additionally, the chinese have placed about 100 more short range missiles on the shore opposite taiwan in the past year, it says pentagon officials worry the continued increase in chinese military spending is slowly tipping the balance of power between china and taiwan in china's favor the united states has said it would help defend taiwan if china invaded the report also says the peoples liberation army is 'pursuing comprehensive transformation from a mass army designed for protracted wars of attrition on its territory to one capable of fighting and winning short duration, high intensity conflicts along its periphery against high tech adversaries' such an army, the report says, would have 'the greatest potential to compete militarily with the united states and field disruptive military technologies that could, over time, offset traditional us military advantages' the united states says the lack of transparency by the chinese on its spending poses 'risks to stability by increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation,' and that china has yet to explain to the international community the purpose of its military expansion, pentagon officials said e mail to a friend
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pentagon: chinese military expanding its navy, investing in weapons . officials worry china is trying to hack into us military computers . 'intrusions' have already happened, officials say, though info was not classified . pentagon: china's lack of transparency makes it hard to know the extent of activity
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(cnn) it was billed as the battle of the heavyweights in the red corner radamel falcao one of the most coveted strikers in world football and one of the most lethal finishers around only last week, falcao hit five in his side's demolition of deportivo to add to his already burgeoning reputation in the blue corner lionel messi perhaps the greatest to have ever played the game the man with 88 goals to his name in 2012 the magical and mesmerizing feet of messi going up against the pace and predatory instincts of falcao it had all the ingredients of a classic between them they have run la liga and european defenses ragged, scoring goals at will and leaving defenders trailing in their wake going into the clash, messi had plundered 23 league goals to falcao's 16 it was time for the two to go head to head for barcelona, victory over atletico would place it nine points clear of its closest title rival and surely allow the catalan club to wrestle the title away from defending champion real madrid a win for atletico would finally confirm that diego simeone's men could be taken seriously as a championship challenger magic messi extends record streak atletico and falcao the pretenders to barcelona and messi's crown and pretenders they will remain in the end, the chasm could scarcely have been greater as simeone's men were put in their place without any sign of mercy from tito vilanova's side barca has now won 15 of its opening 16 league games, taking an astonishing 46 points from a possible 48 with real madrid only managing to draw with espanyol earlier sunday, barca moved 13 points clear of its great rival it was messi who stole the show once again as the little magician emerged out of the shadows to crush atletico two second half strikes took his total to 90 for the calendar year and 25 league goals for the season as barca came from behind to win 4 1 messi map: how argentine maestro conquered the world and yet for the opening 30 minutes it appeared that the messi's evening might have not been so enjoyable instead it was falcao who took center stage, bullying barcelona's defenders at every opportunity it was the colombia star who had the first opportunity of the contest, heading against the post after just nine minutes as atletico signaled its intentions falcao then went close again after firing narrowly wide when well placed, while messi seemed to vanish as atletico took control of the contest barcelona was finally undone just after the half hour mark when falcao produced an exquisite finish to silence the majorityof those packed inside the camp nou messi fit to resume bid for goal record after taking the ball in his stride, falcao burst past barcelona's central defenders before lifting the ball over the stranded victor valdes to net his 17th league goal of the season it was no less than atletico deserved, but that strike only served to awaken barca from its slumber no less than five minutes had elapsed before barca drew level in spectacular style thanks to adriano's stunning curling effort the right back turned onto his left foot, before unleashing a wonderful rasping effort into the top corner to bring his side level and with just seconds of the first half remaining, busquets lashed home from close range after atletico had failed to clear from dominating the game, atletico had been rumbled in the blink of an eye messi makes case as world's greatest ever player worse was to follow as messi began to find time and space as atletico started to lose its way just 12 minutes of the second half had passed before the argentine finally grabbed his trademark goal, firing home his 89th of the year with a neat curling effort he reached 90 late on, taking advantage of a horrific defensive mistake to slot home his 25th league goal of the season incredibly, messi has scored 58 out of barcelona's 116 league goals in 2012 mourinho: 'no story' in real madrid exit rumors meanwhile, the pressure continues to build on real madrid boss jose mourinho after he all but conceded defeat in the race for the title real fell further off the pace after being held to a 2 2 draw at home by lowly espanyol and are 13 points off the lead espanyol had taken a shock lead through sergio garcia after 31 minutes before strikes from cristiano ronaldo and fabio coentrao put the home side in control but with just two minutes remaining, juan albin popped up to steal a precious point for relegation threatened espanyol and leave real reeling 'the league is now impossible,' mourinho told reporters 'it is the first time that i have been in a situation like this where my team are a long way off their objectives 'but i don't want to make a drama out of it, i will treat it as another stage of my life' elsewhere in la liga, valencia was beaten 1 0 at home by rayo vallecano, while levante claimed a 1 0 victory at real zaragoza
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lionel messi took his tally to 90 for the calendar year with two goals against atletico madrid . messi's double and further goals from adriano and sergio busquets gives barca 4 1 win . real madrid held to a 2 2 draw by lowly espanyol . real boss jose mourinho: 'the league is now impossible'
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(cnn) a man suspected of conspiring with a terrorist network responsible for the deaths of five us soldiers in iraq was arrested wednesday in canada, according to a statement from the us attorney's office for the eastern district of new york faruq khalil muhammad, 38, is charged with conspiring to kill americans abroad and providing material support to a terrorist network that conducted suicide bombings in iraq, the statement said he was arrested by authorities after a us warrant was issued for his arrest the five us soldiers were killed on april 10, 2009, when a tunisian man drove a truck filled with explosives to the gate of a us forward operating base in mosul, iraq the trucks' detonation destroyed a vehicle in a nearby us convoy, killing sgt gary l woods, 24; sgt 1st class bryan e hall, 32; sgt edward w forrest jr, 25; cpl jason g pautsch, 20; and pvt bryce e gaultier, 22, the statement said muhammed is suspected of providing material support for that attack and allegedly sought to conduct attacks himself and become a suicide bomber, the statement said 'there is no safe harbor for terrorists, including those who endeavor to spread violence from halfway across the world,' said us attorney loretta e lynch in the statement 'today's arrest demonstrates that we have not forgotten that sacrifice (of us soldiers) and will continue to use every available means to bring to justice all those who are responsible' it was not immediately clear whether muhammed had obtained legal representation the justice department said it would seek to have muhammed extradited to the united states for trial if convicted, muhammed faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, the statement said
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faruq khalil muhammad was arrested in canada . he is suspected of conspiring to kill us soldiers in iraq . he was arrested by authorities after a us warrant was issued for his arrest . if convicted, he could face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment
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(cnn) for many vermonters, the devastating floods in colorado are a stark reminder of the disaster vermont experienced just two years ago as a result of tropical storm irene i remember being in shock as i made my way across our battered state, seeing so many of our most treasured features our covered bridges, fertile farmland, historic downtowns, and winding rural roads destroyed by the tremendous force of floodwater the storm's 60 mph winds and up to 11 inches of rain damaged 3,500 homes and businesses, 500 miles of state roads and 200 bridges and tragically, six lives were lost, including those of a father and son, city employees who were checking on the community's wastewater treatment facility colorado floods: stories of grief, generosity and gratitude in the days, weeks and months that followed irene, vermont state government joined together with our local and federal government, nonprofits, and legions of volunteers to get people and communities back on their feet as quickly as possible at the agency of natural resources, we responded to spills of hazardous waste, gasoline and oil we helped communities repair drinking water and sewage treatment systems we supported our transportation agency and our cities and towns as they quickly rebuilt roads and bridges we responded to calls to address the large accumulations of gravel, tree trunks, cars, refrigerators, propane tanks and endless amounts of debris that threatened to cause further damage to bridges, roads and homes, or presented a risk of harm to public health and safety how to help from that emergency response, we learned a few critical lessons that i offer for our counterparts in colorado: sleep and eat this flood emergency response will continue for many weeks it is a marathon, not a sprint, and you and your staff can only be helpful if you take care of your own basic needs ask for help many folks want to help, including experts who are prepared to pitch in at a moment's notice take some time to think carefully about where you could use the extra boots on the ground and ask for assistance communicate the first casualty of a crisis is information make sure you have the facts before you act talk to the folks in the field share relevant information with the emergency response directors let the public know what you know through updates and guidance from your experts you cannot communicate too much build back with resilience in mind two years after irene, we are still recovering communities are still rebuilding roads and bridges some destroyed houses can still be seen, too damaged to repair perhaps as a consequence of global climate disruption we are seeing significant increases in the frequency and intensity of storms in vermont so that even as we rebuild, many of our communities have faced additional flooding since irene from these facts, we have learned that it is important to look ahead and rebuild with future resilience to flooding in mind once the water goes down, everyone will have the same initial instinct to quickly replace everything and restore communities to the way they were before the flood sometimes that instinct is correct putting a road or bridge back as soon as possible may be critical to a community's ability to ensure that its citizens can get emergency services and food but other times, the desire to put everything back just the way it was before is misplaced we discovered in vermont that much of the damage we experienced after irene mirrored damage from flooding in 1927 and again in the 1970s, because we rebuilt in the same way and in the same places we are trying not to repeat that mistake so when we rebuild our roads, culverts, bridges and wastewater and drinking water systems, we are taking into account the more intense weather events we can expect in the future, and we are building this infrastructure to withstand future flooding we are also taking advantage of our natural assets to make us more flood resilient by giving our rivers room to move and by protecting our natural systems such as floodplains, wetlands and vegetation along river corridors this will provide critical flood protections for our communities for the moment, however, we in vermont know well that the first priority in colorado must be to rescue those whose lives are at risk, to reconnect communities and families that have been cut off by the disaster, and to ensure that every person has a place to stay and food to eat we also know that this first emergency response will be just the first step on what will be a long and challenging journey for all of these reasons, our hearts and prayers are with all coloradans the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of deb markowitz
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deb markowitz: vermonters' hearts and prayers are with flood victims in colorado . she says vermont learned lessons from the epic floods from tropical storm irene . markowitz: one lesson is to resist temptation to build back in the same form as before
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london (cnn) palace officials slammed the decision of the irish daily star newspaper saturday to print pictures of prince william's wife catherine sunbathing topless on vacation as driven only by greed the irish daily star's move comes a day after the royal couple launched legal action against the french magazine closer over the images, and as italian magazine chi says it will publish the photos on monday 'there can be no motivation for this action other than greed,' a st james's palace spokeswoman said of the irish tabloid's decision but editor mike o'kane told the bbc that outrage over the images was only felt in britain and that readers in the republic of ireland wanted to know what all the 'kerfuffle' was about he was 'a little taken aback by the reaction in the uk,' he said, saying the newspaper was treating catherine no differently to any other celebrity 'she's not the future queen of ireland so really the only place this is causing fury seems to be in the uk,' he said, suggesting that the british press were behaving with some hypocrisy o'kane said the irish daily star was reproducing the images as published in closer on friday rather than buying them itself directly the pictures are not being published in the northern ireland edition pacific welcome awaits william and kate the publication of the photos in the french closer magazine, owned by the same parent company as chi, the mondadori group, sparked an angry response from the royal couple and palace officials william and catherine were said to be 'hugely saddened' by what palace officials called a 'grotesque' invasion of privacy while they were on a private vacation the latest controversy comes only three weeks after the british royal family was caught up in a media furor over images of william's younger brother, prince harry, partying naked in his las vegas hotel room with a group of girls in a sign of how divisive the issue of royal privacy has become, a co owner of the irish daily star, media group northern & shell, said it in no way backed the newspaper's decision to run the pictures of catherine in a statement, the company which runs the irish daily star in a joint venture with independent news & media, but does not exert editorial control over it said it was 'profoundly dismayed' by the move 'we abhor the decision of the irish daily star to publish these intrusive pictures of the duke and duchess of cambridge, which we, like st james's palace, believe to be a grotesque invasion of their privacy,' northern & shell's communications director mimi turner said northern & shell also owns the daily express and the daily star, among other british publications, which have not run the pictures of catherine, nor of prince harry william, who is second in line to the throne, and his wife are on an official tour of southeast asian nations they were in borneo saturday, where they escaped from the outside world on a rainforest trek they will travel on to the solomon islands sunday on the next leg of a tour that has been overshadowed by the furor over the photographs catherine was 'upset' with closer magazine, a palace source told cnn mondadori told cnn it plans to run 26 pages of photographs of william and kate on vacation in an 'extraordinary' special edition to go on sale in italy on monday chi's front cover will also feature three revealing pictures of catherine, according to a copy of the page and statement sent by mondadori spokeswoman carmen mugione via e mail 'it is a story worth publishing in an extraordinary edition because it shows in a natural light the everyday life of a very famous contemporary young couple in love,' chi's editor in chief, alfonso signorini, is quoted as saying in the statement 'the fact that they happen to be the future king and queen of england certainly makes it more interesting and current, and in line with today's concept of monarchy' a st james's palace spokeswoman said: 'we will not be commenting on potential legal action concerning the alleged intended publication of the photos in italy save to say that all proportionate responses will be kept under review 'any such publication would serve no purpose other than to cause further, entirely unjustifiable upset to the duke and duchess of cambridge, who were enjoying time alone together in the privacy of a relative's home' the palace confirmed friday that legal proceedings for breach of privacy had been launched in france by the couple against the publishers of closer in france opinion: british privacy should start with british press according to mondadori's website, closer has an average weekly circulation of about 414,000, while chi sells more than 340,000 copies a week marina berlusconi, daughter of former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi, has been chairwoman of the media group since 2003 legal analysts suggest the company hopes to recoup any legal costs and fines it may incur by increasing sales, thanks to the revealing pictures the grainy pictures published by closer in france appear to have been taken with a long camera lens while the couple was staying at a private chateau belonging to william's uncle in provence, in southern france the new privacy controversies have dredged up the royal family's often rocky relationship with the press and put a spotlight on how the palace deals with the media after the tragic death of william's mother, diana, as she fled photographers in paris 15 years ago william and catherine were 'hugely saddened to learn that a french publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner,' a st james's palace spokesman said friday 'the incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of diana, princess of wales, and all the more upsetting to the duke and duchess for being so,' the palace spokesman said 'their royal highnesses had every expectation of privacy in the remote house it is unthinkable that anyone should take such photographs, let alone publish them' laurence pieau, editor in chief of closer in france, defended the decision to publish the images in an interview with cnn affiliate bfm tv, saying: 'we were just doing our job' pieau said that there had been no debate at the magazine over whether to publish the photos, and that they show the royals 'are just like any other couple in love' the website of closer on friday showed the front cover of the magazine with blurry images of william and kate, along with the headline 'oh my god!' but did not link to the four page spread uk tabloid prints naked prince harry pictures but by saturday that was replaced by a statement from the management of closer, which said the photos it chose to publish 'are in no case degrading' 'they show a young couple on vacation, beautiful, in love and modern, in their normal life the article recounts the time the couple recently spent in southern france,' it said it also made clear the magazine is not linked with the uk publication of the same name william and his wife were in malaysia when the news broke, part way through a nine day southeast asian tour of commonwealth nations, which started in singapore and will conclude with a stop in tuvalu the asia tour forms part of diamond jubilee celebrations for the queen, william's grandmother british lawyer charlotte harris said friday that closer's decision to publish was a clear breach of french legal codes and was out of line with current views on people's right to privacy 'the perception of the french was that they are less aggressive, that they have a culturally different opinion of where privacy laws should lie here they appear to have gone right over the other way,' she said french law provides for 'draconian sanctions' to protect against this kind of behavior, she said, including orders to take magazines off shelves and the imposition of serious fines but even if distribution of the images is contained to a degree, harris said, the damage is done to the extent that very private information about the duchess has now become public knowledge no uk newspaper has so far published the photographs of catherine in the case of prince harry, the photographs were widely circulated online but were published in only one uk tabloid, the sun, after palace officials asked uk media not to run them the sun has made clear that it won't publish the pictures of catherine, however editor dominic mohan tweeted: 'the sun has no intention of breaching the royal couple's privacy the circumstances are very different to those relating to the photos of prince harry in las vegas' the press complaints commission, the uk press watchdog, received about 3,800 complaints from the public over the prince harry photos but said it was inappropriate for it to take any action in the absence of a formal complaint from the palace royal officials appear to be taking publication of the photographs of william and catherine much more seriously the british media is currently under close scrutiny after revelations of phone hacking and other abuses the conclusions of an independent judge led inquiry, which may recommend greater restrictions on media freedoms, are expected by the end of the year after diana: how can intimate royal photos be published in france? cnn's hada messia contributed to this report
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new: owners of the irish daily star 'profoundly dismayed' by its publication of images . palace: 'there can be no motivation for this action other than greed'. editor of the irish daily star says catherine is no different to any other celebrity . italy's chi magazine will run a 26 page special with the topless photos, publisher says
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(cnn) r sargent shriver, a brother in law to former president john f kennedy who was the first head of the peace corps, has been hospitalized in maryland, a hospital spokeswoman said monday ronna borenstein levy of suburban hospital in bethesda, a suburb of washington, dc, provided no further details on shriver, who is 95 and has alzheimer's disease shriver had roles in many top government initiatives of the 1960s, including head start and the peace corps he also worked with his wife, the late eunice kennedy shriver, on the special olympics mrs shriver died in 2009 in addition, shriver was democrat george mcgovern's running mate in the 1972 presidential election won by richard nixon shriver is the father of maria shriver, the wife of former california gov arnold schwarzenegger
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the 95 year old shriver was the first head of the peace corps . he was married to eunice kennedy shriver, who died in 2009
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(cnn) the sun may be setting on mark webber's formula one career, but the veteran australian driver lit up abu dhabi on saturday by snatching pole position from all conquering red bull teammate sebastian vettel webber has been outshined by the german for most of this season, but he has given himself a chance of ending the four time world champion's run of six consecutive victories in sunday's race that would be sweet for the 37 year old, who will drive in endurance racing for porsche next season after a frustrating time in vettel's shadow as light segued to dark in qualifying for f1's only day/night event, webber posted the fastest time of 1:39:957 at yas marina for his second pole this season the other was two races ago in japan, where he finished second to vettel he now has three races in which to add to his nine career wins 'it's not the easiest venue, because of the changing temperatures,' webber, who is fifth in the overall standings, told reporters 'we run in the afternoon and then at night, so you have to be on top of the changing conditions as a driver and also from an engineering perspective interactive: explore 'fab u' dhabi's f1 circuit 'it wasn't the most electric start to q1 or q2, but we made changes to the car as the session went on and i got more comfortable i knew i had to work on certain sections of the track which sebastian had already been doing a good job on, so i had to try and match him as well as continuing to keep the areas where i was doing a good job too, so overall i'm happy with the pole 'we're really looking forward to the race tomorrow' vettel, who last weekend became only the third driver in f1 history to win four successive championships, appeared happy to share the limelight with a man who he denied victory in malaysia after ignoring team orders 'it was a great result for the team at the start of qualifying i think mercedes looked very strong; mark and myself weren't hanging about, but they were very quick,' the 26 year old said 'in q3 we seemed to be able to find a little bit of extra time mark did a very good lap, so congratulations to him i should have done a little bit better, but i don't know if it would have been enough, mark deserves to be on pole today; it was a good lap with no mistakes' second placed mercedes' bid to stay ahead of ferrari in the constructors' standings was boosted when nico rosberg and lewis hamilton locked up the second row of the grid, despite the latter suffering mechanical problems 'fourth place feels pretty good this evening considering the time was set on my first q3 lap,' said 2008 world champion hamilton 'unfortunately on my second lap it looks like something gave way at the back of the car as i got on the power at the chicane and it just snapped out, which forced me into a spin 'it was a great lap and might just have been enough to get us onto the front row as i was fourth tenths up on my first effort, but these things happen 'the car felt really strong today so we'll hope for a good start and then challenge to make up some positions in the race tomorrow the good thing is that we are ahead of ferrari and that's where we need to stay' ferrari's focus, despite all statements to the contrary, seems to be on next season already, with fernando alonso second in the championship failing to make q3 for the first time this year the spaniard qualified 11th, though he will have a choice of tires, while teammate felipe massa was eighth after sneaking into q3 in 10th kimi raikkonen, who will replace the brazilian at ferrari next year, shrugged off his pay dispute with lotus by claiming fifth place in qualifying, while teammate romain grosjean seeking a fourth consecutive podium finish was seventh however, raikkonen was later excluded after his car failed a technical test, meaning the finn will start at the back of the grid and every other driver who qualified below him will be bumped up one place it was a similar problem with the floor of the vehicle that affected grosjean in hungary, but this time fourth placed lotus' explanation was not accepted by the race stewards alonso remained upbeat about sunday's race, despite his lowly position 'the problem that we are facing is that we are not very competitive,' the 2005 06 world champion said 'but we weren't competitive in july, we were not competitive in august or in september, but we still have five podiums and three consecutive second places 'so this masks a little bit the problems we were having now we are back to reality but it will not stop us fighting we will score more than the others, i have no doubt' sauber's nico hulkenberg, a contender to join lotus, was sixth in qualifying to continue his impressive run while mclaren's sergio perez was ninth daniel ricciardo, who will replace his compatriot webber next season, rounded out the top 10 for toro rosso mclaren's 2009 world champion jenson button was 13th
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mark webber claims his second pole position this season in abu dhabi on saturday . australian driver heads off red bull teammate sebastian vettel in qualifying . mercedes' nico rosberg and lewis hamilton will be on second row for sunday's race . ferrari's fernando alonso misses out on q3 for the first time this season
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(cnn) david petraeus had another love affair long before the one that cost him his job running the cia it was with the press the retired general's skillful courtship of journalists brought him a career's worth of favorable headlines and has, to a remarkable degree, softened the coverage of his fall from grace petraeus accomplished this in part by granting reporters access though none quite as extraordinary as that accorded his biographer, paula broadwell, who several news organizations have identified as the other woman in the extramarital affair he has acknowledged watch: are the media unfairly trashing paula broadwell in petraeus scandal? consider, for instance, the way nbc's andrea mitchell, who broke the story of petraeus' resignation on friday, described her scoop 'i don't take any pleasure in this in the sense that this is really a personal tragedy,' mitchell said on msnbc 'having covered gen petraeus myself here and overseas, i am absolutely convinced from all the communications i have had from people directly involved that this was a matter of honor' watch: why are the media obsessing on hillary clinton and 2016? as nbc's longtime defense correspondent fred francis told me on cnn's 'reliable sources,' petraeus would call him and other reporters regularly to chat off the record or on background little surprise, then, that the tone of the coverage could be summed up as 'huh?' did petraeus really have to quit over a garden variety affair? was this some sort of ploy to avoid testifying this week on the fatal attack at the us consulate in benghazi? turns out fbi investigators stumbled upon the affair while looking into petraeus' e mail account watch: karl rove rejects reality on fox news his earlier relationships with journalists yielded benefits for both sides during the iraq invasion in 2003, petraeus, then commanding the 101st airborne, allowed washington post reporter rick atkinson to shadow him, including on a black hawk helicopter here is just one passage from what atkinson, a stellar military reporter, later turned into a book: king: petraeus' resignation doesn't preclude testimony 'we stood 15 feet beyond the tent flap i blinked at the swirling dust, and felt grit between my molars when petraeus turned to face me, i was alarmed to see how troubled his blue eyes were 'this thing is turning [bad],' he said 'the 3 id' the 3rd infantry division, fighting just ahead of the 101st around najaf 'is in danger of running out of food and water they lost two abrams and a bradley last night, although they got the crews out the corps commander sounds tired' petraeus famously turned to atkinson and said: 'tell me how this ends' watch: why barack and michelle photo went viral now that kind of access isn't just smoke and mirrors; petraeus ran the risk that the mission might have been a disaster but he trusted journalists, took them into his confidence, and in return was portrayed as a swashbuckling general, military intellectual and, eventually, potential presidential candidate newsweek even ran a feature on petraeus' 'rules for living' (the author? paula broadwell) this is not to say the plaudits weren't deserved petraeus literally wrote the manual on counterinsurgency, made important gains while leading george w bush's surge in iraq, and adjusted strategy when president barack obama asked him to oversee the war in afghanistan but since obama sent petraeus to langley last year, he has kept an unusually low profile as questions swirled about the cia's role in the benghazi tragedy, he said nothing publicly a cia director without the deep media relationships that petraeus enjoyed would have faced a torrent of stories about why he was missing in action and whether he had bungled the job of diplomatic security instead, the press gave petraeus a pass what's your reaction to petraeus' resignation? sound off with cnn ireport maybe that's true on his career ending episode as well but that has hardly been the case with broadwell, whose e mails triggered an fbi investigation (in hindsight, it might not have been the height of discretion to do a television tour about your book 'all in,' talking about how awesome your subject is) author tom ricks, who portrayed petraeus favorably in his iraq war book 'fiasco,' writes on foreign policy's website: 'petraeus took the samurai route and insisted that he had done a dishonorable thing and now had to try to balance it by doing the honorable thing and stepping down as cia director but why? petraeus is retired from the military if the affair happened back when he was on active duty, it is part of the past and there is nothing illegal about civilians having affairs' maybe that's the right tone but contrast it with the way that politicians and business executives routinely get pummeled for fooling around though it's different, and should be, if subordinates are involved (or an intern, in bill clinton's case, or a housekeeper, as in arnold schwarzenegger's) news flash: even top officials are human they succumb to temptation and they get a lot more sympathy in times of trouble from journalists they have befriended king: petraeus story 'doesn't add up' house majority leader knew of petraeus affair in october petraeus letter: 'i showed extremely poor judgment' opinion: how petraeus changed the us military the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of howard kurtz
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howard kurtz: david petraeus long had a good relationship with the media . he says the general's courtship of journalists brought him favorable headlines . kurtz: in coverage of scandal that led to resignation, media have given him benefit of doubt . he says the press has given petraeus a pass on question about security in benghazi
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los angeles (cnn) kanye west's 'yeezus tour' is on hold because of a truck crash that destroyed his huge video screen, his spokesman said thursday a custom made video truss and 60 foot circular led screen were damaged 'beyond repair' when a tour truck wrecked on the road from los angeles to vancouver, british columbia, where west was scheduled to perform thursday night, gabe tesoriero saidâ 'this gear is central to the staging of 'the yeezus tour' and central to the creative vision put forth by kanye west and his design team at donda,' tesoriero said it is 'impossible' for west to perform 'until these essential pieces can be re engineered and refabricated,' he said 'kanye west will not compromise on bringing the show, as it was originally envisioned and designed, to his fans'â thursday night's vancouver performance, sunday's concert in denver and tuesday's stop in minneapolis are the only dates officially postponed for now the next show on the schedule is thursday, november 7, at chicago's united center a decision will be 'announced shortly' about that one and future dates, the spokesman said cnn's denise quan contributed to this report
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(cnn) werder bremen snatched top spot in the german bundesliga after crushing freiburg 6 0 on saturday, as young playmaker mesut ozil stole the show the 21 year old germany international set up four goals and scored one himself as the home side moved ahead of previous leaders bayer leverkusen on goal difference, with both teams on 26 points unbeaten leverkusen can regain their lead in sunday's trip to ailing former champions bayern munich, while hamburg can move up to 26 points with victory at home to bochum but bremen ensured bragging rights for at least 24 hours with a demolition job that left freiburg just two points above the bottom three daniel jansen and ozil both hit the woodwork before the latter crossed for striker hugo almeida to head home the 33rd minute opener marko marin doubled the lead 10 minutes after halftime with a freekick, then ozil teed up almeida's second soon after before making it 4 0 on 67 as he collected a long ball and rounded goalkeeper simon pouplin ozil was fouled in the box by mohamadou idrissou to allow naldo to score from the spot six minutes later, and his cross from the left was converted by markus rosenberg on 82 schalke moved up to third place with a 2 0 win at home to hannover, who were mourning the suicide of germany goalkeeper robert enke there was a minute's silence before the game to commemorating his death, but it was schalke who took the lead in the 69th minute as jefferson farfan headed home rafinha's corner jan moravek sealed victory in the second minute of time added on after enke's deputy florian fromlowitz blocked a shot by lukas schmitz, meaning schalke ended a three game winless run and extended their unbeaten run to seven to move onto 25 points defending champions wolfsburg lost 3 2 at home to nuremberg, who moved out of the bottom three thanks to peer kluge's last gasp winner three minutes into stoppage time ten man stuttgart had to come from behind to earn a 1 1 draw at home to bottom club hertha berlin, as zdravko kuzmanovic's 82nd minute effort canceled out the 49th minute opener by adrian ramos however, the serbian was sent off three minutes later for a second booking, but struggling stuttgart held on hoffenheim crushed cologne 4 0 to move above hamburg on goal difference, while borussia monchengladbach moved away from the relegation zone with a 2 1 victory at eintracht frankfurt borussia dortmund hosted mainz in the late match
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werder bremen snatch top spot in bundesliga on goal difference after crushing freiburg 6 0 . young germany international mesut ozil sets up four goals and scores one himself . schalke move into third place after 2 0 win over hannover, who are mourning robert enke . bayer leverkusen can reclaim top spot with a point from sunday's trip to bayern munich
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(cnn) china has stepped up its engagement with africa in recent years, scouring the resource rich continent in its bid to access natural resources and forge new trade routes but the asian powerhouse is also emerging as an attractive business destination for africans china's booming economy has been luring an increasing number of africans to its shores in recent years, most of them eager to export goods from the world's second largest economy back into their continent 'i found out there are a lot of opportunities of doing business,' says nigerian shop owner cj cajetan, who moved to guangzhou two years ago as a student but decided to stay in china and try his luck as a clothes seller cajetan is one of the tens of thousands of africans who've gone to live and work in guangzhou, a manufacturing city located on the pearl river in southern china this strong new trading community builds on a growing business engagement between the two sides already africa's largest trade partner, china's economic cooperation with the continent has shot up in recent times two way trade between the two surged to a record $1148 billion in 2010, according to chinese authorities linking aid, trade and investment, beijing's business model in africa involves building extensive infrastructure projects in the continent and granting loans in exchange for access to natural resources, trade opportunities and expansion into new markets read more: why asian giants scent opportunity in africa but the burgeoning relationship between the two has also seen a number of african companies trying to get a foothold in the chinese market, hoping to tap the country's growth and expanding middle class south african drinks giant sabmiller has been working for years with a local chinese brewer and now produces china's biggest selling beer such success can be achieved by more african companies as their nations gain a firmer footing, according to consultant kobus van der wath 'china is very open for business for us,' says van der wath, founder of beijing axis, a china focused international advisory firm 'china's repositioning itself continuously for the new africa that's emerging we're very well received we don't come with baggage,' he adds but despite the growing opportunities, many africans in china still feel the overall relationship is far from a two way street in guangzhou, some africans complain of discrimination, restrictions on religious practices and visa issues residents like shipper festus mbisiogu who has been working in china for six years say they have trouble getting documents allowing their families to join them, making it harder for them to settle down 'our children are not allowed to reside in china and our joy is not fully complete, we are not living with our children,' says mbisiogu, of blue diamond logistics 'to make the money is not the problem but what about your family?' read more: doing business in china: five tips for success others say that navigating potential pitfalls, like protecting intellectual property, can also be a challenge in china 'if people bring things into china to get them manufactured here, i think keeping that technology secret, as it were, will be very, very difficult,' says graham hughes, a south african factory manager based near beijing the chinese government says it's fighting to protect intellectual property rights it also says it welcomes foreigners to work and live in china and says its visa policies have been applauded beijing has also been sponsoring programs at chinese universities to encourage young africans to come to the country to study see also: is the west losing out to china in africa? one such student is susanne nambatya, from uganda 'i believe the social problems affecting china, they are the same problems affecting uganda,' says nambatya she takes part in a masters program in beijing, where she learns economic models that she hopes can spur her country to a sweeping transformation of its own 'i keep asking my question, what is china doing that uganda can't do?' she adds fellow african student martin larbi says his china experience has also been enlightening 'coming to china i have seen the other side of industrialization,' he says 'i believe industrialization promotes the development of the economy, but the other side i've seen is the pollution of the environment it's hard for me to see the blue skies i used to see in my country' but back in guangzhou, cajetan has adapted to his new environment like the students in beijing, he wants to help modernize his home country one day by drawing on his experience in china 'my plan is to establish a factory because i like to live in lagos,' he says 'i like to help people i want to employ people to work at my factory'
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(cnn) below is a list of murder victims whom authorities linked to a string of killings in the atlanta, georgia, area from 1979 to 1981 a jury found wayne williams guilty of murdering: nathaniel cater, 28 jimmy ray payne, 21 police attributed these deaths to williams (closed cases): alfred evans, 13 yusef bell, 9 eric middlebrooks, 14 christopher richardson, 12 aaron wyche, 10 anthony carter, 9 earl terrell, 11 clifford jones, 13 charles stephens, 12 aaron jackson, 9 patrick rogers, 16 lubie geter, 14 terry pue, 15 patrick baltazar, 11 curtis walker, 13 jo jo bell, 15 timothy hill, 13 eddie duncan, 21 larry rogers, 20 michael mcintosh, 23 john porter, 28 william barrett, 17 these cases remain open: edward smith, 14 milton harvey, 14 jefferey mathis, 10 missing person whose body was never found: darron glass, 10 deaths were initially part of the official investigation, but police found insufficient evidence to link to a serial killer or anyone else: angel lanier, 12 latonya wilson, 7 source: homicide task force return to interactive map
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srinagar, indian controlled kashmir (cnn) senior pakistani and indian military officials met tuesday to discuss a border clash in kashmir, the first major skirmish between south asia's nuclear rivals since a 2003 cease fire indian army soldiers on the outskirts of kashmir's summer capital srinagar pakistan's army spokesman maj gen athar abbas told cnn that pakistan 'made our point clear' regarding the firefight, which he said began after indian soldiers crossed the line of control that separates kashmir between india and pakistan but an indian military spokeswoman, capt neha goyal, told cnn pakistani troops crossed the line of control and 'started firing on our patrol,' killing an indian soldier 'our troops also retaliated and the pakistan army troopers ran back,' she said abbas said 'further action should be taken' following tuesday's 'flag meeting,' but did not elaborate the meeting took place along the line of control reports in india's media said four pakistani soldiers were killed, but pakistan's military 'strongly denied the report of any (casualties) on the pakistani side' pakistan's military also denied its forces crossed the line of control, saying the skirmish started when indian soldiers tried to establish a forward post on pakistan's side of the line 'on pakistan's' objection, indian troops opened indiscriminate and unprovoked fire,' a pakistan military news release, posted on monday, stated 'the indian fire was immediately responded to the firing continued intermittently during the whole night' pakistan said the indian soldiers 'were forced to flee from the area leaving behind their weapons' after the firefight indian and pakistani forces have exchanged periodic gunfire since may, but monday's clashes appear to be a serious setback to the ongoing peace process between the two nations india and pakistan had announced a bilateral cease fire all along their borders in november 2003 and the cease fire had been holding on the borders until recently kashmir has been at the root of two wars between india and pakistan, both of which tested nuclear weapons in 1998 an 18 year separatist campaign in the indian controlled portion of the largely muslim territory has claimed more than 43,000 lives, according to government officials, although human rights groups and nongovernmental organizations put the toll at twice that number india has long accused pakistan of supporting the separatists in kashmir, a charge pakistan denies india blamed militants from pakistan for a suicide car bombing outside its embassy in afghanistan that killed 58 people on july 7 a december 2001 attack on india's parliament that india blamed on the militants brought the two nations to the brink of another war, but they have expanded economic and cultural ties since the november 2003 cease fire agreement cnn's aliza kassim in atlanta and mukhtar ahmad in srinagar contributed to this report
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(cnn) 'mad men' and 'damages' found themselves on top when the nominations for the 60th annual primetime emmys came out thursday morning but, again, there was no love for hbo's 'the wire' emmy nominee jon hamm stars as ad exec don draper in 'mad men,' which earned 16 nominations amc's 'mad men' and fx's 'damages' made emmy history thursday as the first basic cable series to be nominated for best drama the pair, which had made the 10 series emmy shortlist, have been widely hailed by critics and have received good ratings for basic cable series though 'damages' star glenn close said she hopes the emmys help boost the show's audience 'we need all the help we can get,' she told the associated press on the other hand, hbo's 'the wire' which concluded its fifth and final season this year once again came up empty in the best drama nominations it did receive one nod, for writing the series, though much praised and dissected by a hard core group of fans, has received little recognition from the emmys, with just one previous nomination also for writing in 2005 check out some of the top emmy nods this year » indeed, hbo has struggled to find a drama to take the place of the much lauded 'the sopranos,' which won best drama last year after a storied run 'mad men,' which has made amc into a player, was allegedly turned down by the cable giant, and shows such as the quickly canceled 'john from cincinnati' and 'rome' haven't had the same impact on the other hand, 'in treatment' received a nomination for gabriel byrne's performance as a therapist, and the network's comedies, particularly 'entourage,' have performed strongly moreover, the network's short form programming, such as the miniseries 'john adams' and the tv movie 'recount,' dominated their emmy categories: 'john adams' led all nominees with 23 nominations, and 'recount,' about the 2000 presidential election battle, received 11 'the network has made up for [its lack of drama series success] in other forms,' variety tv editor michael schneider told cnn 'it's still the most nominated network and has the most nominated program' hbo led all networks with 85 nominations among broadcast networks, abc led with 76 nominations among regularly scheduled tv series, '30 rock' earned 17 nominations and 'mad men' received 16 the 17 nominations for '30 rock' were a record number in a single year for a comedy series newcomer 'pushing daisies,' the whimsical series on abc, received 12 nominations given that the show only aired nine episodes and hasn't been on the air in months due to the writers strike its recognition was a surprise, schneider said 'it was nice that voters still remembered it,' he said along with 'damages' and 'mad men,' nominees for best drama include 'boston legal,' 'dexter,' 'house' and 'lost' comedy series nominees are 'curb your enthusiasm,' 'entourage,' 'the office,' '30 rock' and 'two and a half men' cable series dominated the dramatic acting nominations, with four of the six actors and three of the five actresses appearing on basic or pay cable best actor in a drama nominees are byrne ('in treatment'), bryan cranston ('breaking bad'), michael c hall ('dexter'), jon hamm ('mad men'), hugh laurie ('house') and james spader ('boston legal') 'dexter,' which originated on showtime, earned a short run on cbs following the writers strike the nominees for best actress in a drama are close ('damages'), sally field ('brothers and sisters'), mariska hargitay ('law & order: special victims unit'), holly hunter ('saving grace') and kyra sedgwick ('the closer') a number of familiar names were included among nominees for comedies the nominees for best actor in a comedy are alec baldwin ('30 rock'), steve carell ('the office'), lee pace ('pushing daisies'), tony shalhoub ('monk') and charlie sheen ('two and a half men') only pace is a newcomer the nominees for best actress in a comedy are christina applegate ('samantha who?'), america ferrera ('ugly betty'), tina fey ('30 rock'), julia louis dreyfus ('the new adventures of old christine') and mary louise parker ('weeds') sarah silverman earned three nominations, all for different programs: one for a guest shot on 'monk,' another for contributing to 'jimmy kimmel live' and a third for producing her own 'the sarah silverman program' kristin chenoweth, neil patrick harris and tv academy chairman john shaffner announced the nominations thursday chenoweth was particularly bubbly, throwing in a non sequitur about once dating 'survivor' host jeff probst and declining to sing 'happy birthday' because 'the emmys can't afford me to sing that song' due to licensing arrangements both chenoweth ('pushing daisies') and harris ('how i met your mother') were nominated in supporting actor categories two highly rated shows, 'grey's anatomy' and 'desperate housewives,' were snubbed 'grey's,' a regular nominee for best drama, was left off that list, though star sandra oh was nominated for best supporting actress 'housewives,' which won six emmys its debut season, was ignored in both best comedy series and best actress in a comedy series categories two guest stars did receive nominations stephen colbert, nominated for individual performance in a variety or musical program, put everything in perspective 'what an honor, unless i don't win,' he told the ap the emmy awards ceremony will be held september 21 and broadcast on abc 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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'mad men' and 'damages' earn best drama nominations . hbo miniseries 'john adams' receives 23 nominations . emmys snub 'the wire,' 'grey's anatomy,' 'desperate housewives'. ceremony will be broadcast on abc on september 21
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(cnn) a virginia judge on tuesday approved an $11 million settlement from the state to the families of victims killed or injured in last year's virginia tech shootings parents of wounded virginia tech students comfort each other on tuesday the 24 victims included in the settlement were among the 32 killed by seung hui cho's april 16, 2007, shooting rampage the settlement also compensates 18 people injured 'the commonwealth has endeavored to meet the needs and concerns of the victims, including family members, through both monetary and non monetary provisions,' said chief deputy attorney general william c mims of the remaining eight deceased victims, families of two chose not to file claims and two other claims are unresolved the other four will be brought forward at a later date, mims said the settlement also includes provisions that allow the families to occasionally meet with the governor and virginia tech officials to review legislation and improvements made at the campus in response to the tragedy the families had pursued wrongful death and personal injury claims against the state after an august 2007 report by an independent panel concluded that more timely and more specific information from university officials might have saved lives university officials were criticized for not immediately warning students and staff after two students were found dead in a dormitory at 7 am on the day of the killings police said they initially believed the two had been involved in a romantic dispute, but later determined they were cho's first victims it was almost 9:30 am before authorities sent an e mail to students and staff notifying them of the shootings and warning them to be cautious about 9:50 am, cho, 23, began shooting people in norris hall, an engineering and classroom building while criticizing the university response, the panel which included former homeland security secretary tom ridge also said quicker action by school officials may not have made a difference the report also noted that campus and state agencies might have taken a different approach to cho had his middle and high school records followed him to virginia tech problems with cho reportedly began to surface well before the shootings the records detailed his mental health issues, including a tendency to react to depression with violence
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24 victims included in settlement were among 32 seung hui cho killed in april 2007 . of the other 8 victims, families of two chose not to file claims; two are unresolved . agreement allows families to be updated on campus security improvements
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(cnn) authorities are searching for a female soldier, missing after a fire at her apartment near fort bragg in north carolina fayetteville, north carolina, police released this undated photo of 2nd lt holley wimunc investigators thursday morning found evidence of arson at the fayetteville apartment of 2nd lt holley wimunc, 24 a neighbor, roland petty, told cnn affiliate wral tv that he saw a man running from the area on wednesday night and smelled smoke, although he didn't associate it with the building at the time in a court filing for a protective order, wimunc said that in may her husband had knocked her down, held a loaded gun to her head and then threatened to commit suicide, wral reported watch police at work at wimunc's complex » the court documents indicate that john wimunc is a marine stationed at camp lejeune, the station reported a camp lejeune spokesman told wral that police had spoken to john wimunc on thursday about his wife's disappearance 'i haven't seen any violence i know [wimunc's husband] was not living here anymore, but that's all i know,' a neighbor told wtvd tv, another cnn affiliate both stations reported that holley wimunc's car was still in the parking lot at the apartment her disappearance is considered a missing person case holley wimunc's family, from dubuque, iowa, released a statement friday saying they are 'still trying to absorb the impact of this week's stunning events' 'first and foremost, our concern is for our daughter, holley that she will be found and restored to us,' the james family wrote 'when you read about or watch television news reports of incidents like this, you can hardly believe that it could happen to you but it has we are so grateful for the thoughts, support and prayers of friends today something we're leaning on heavily right now' the family said they would not be making any further comments, citing the investigation no one was inside the apartment at the time of the fire, police said wimunc is assigned to charlie company, womack army hospital at fort bragg, police said a statement from fort bragg said wimunc is a nurse from lafayette, louisiana, who works at the hospital's mother and baby ward 'womack army medical center staff is very concerned about our soldier and her safety,' col terry walters, commander of wamc, said in the statement 'the staff and members of her unit are being supported by the command and with counseling available through our unit chaplains' the blaze comes nearly three weeks after the body of a pregnant soldier was found in a hotel near fort bragg spc megan lynn touma , 23, was seven months pregnant at the time of her death, authorities said investigators say they are treating touma's death as a homicide
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(cnn) the us army's official history of the iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict iraqis watch as a statue of saddam hussein is toppled in baghdad in 2003 failures to recognize the chaos engulfing the country and to send in enough troops to restore order after the 2003 invasion have long been highlighted by critics, but a new report shows the army assessing itself frank opinions from officers serving in the 18 months from the start of war to iraqi elections in january 2005 reveal there were concerns at the time, not just about assumptions made by planners but at decisions taken once us led coalition forces had control of iraq 'i flipped,' gen jack keane, then the army's deputy chief of staff, told the historians of his reaction to a june 2003 decision to transfer control of all coalition troops away from the land forces command that had been preparing for the mission he recounted a conversation with gen john abizaid, who succeeded the invasion's architect, gen tommy franks 'i said, 'jesus christ, john, this is a recipe for disaster we invested in that headquarters we have the experience and judgment in that headquarters' keane said it took the us command between six and eight months to get the new headquarters up and running during that time, troops in the field saw the mood of ordinary iraqis turn against americans and watched the insurgency take root 'by the time we got a plan together to resource everything, the insurgents had closed that window of opportunity quickly,' col david perkins, a brigade commander in the army's 3rd infantry division, told the historians 'what we started doing in september was probably a good idea to have done in april 2003' franks, who would soon retire and be awarded the presidential medal of freedom, said he ordered the transition to force the pentagon to get leaders into the field to work with civilian occupation officials 'that is a task that john abizaid and i very simply laid on washington and said, 'figure it out do it fast get me a joint headquarters in here we have a lot of work to do and [civilian administrator of iraq] jerry bremer has a lot of responsibility and he needs help,' ' he recalled the 720 page report compiled by the combat studies institute at fort leavenworth, kansas, details the effects of having too few coalition troops on the ground when the reality after the fall of baghdad was 'severely out of line' with the anticipated conditions previous experience 'should have indicated that many more troops would be needed for the post saddam era in iraq,' historians wrote in the report, 'on point ii: transition to a new campaign' 'the coalition's inability to prevent looting, to secure iraq's borders and to guard the vast number of munitions dumps in the early months after saddam's overthrow are indicative of the shortage,' the study found about 150,000 us and allied troops were in iraq after the invasion, at a time when war planners were assuming that iraq's government would remain functional after hussein's ouster and that there would be no mass insurgency 'these factors were in line with prewar planning for a quick turnover of power to iraqis and a quick withdrawal of us forces, leaving iraqis to determine their own political future options that proved impossible to execute,' the historians wrote in the report released over the weekend 'we had the wrong assumptions, and therefore, we had the wrong plan to put into play,' gen william wallace, who commanded the army's v corps during the invasion, told the authors but some of the most critical decisions were made between may and august 2003, which some participants called a 'window of opportunity that could have been exploited to produce the conditions for the quick creation of a new iraq' among those decisions were the frequently criticized dissolution of the iraqi army and the order that barred former members of hussein's baath party from public life as well as the change in plan over the joint headquarters
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army history of iraq war's first two years says us was unprepared for chaos . us led coalition didn't have enough troops after saddam hussein's fall, report says . 'this is a recipe for disaster,' one general recalls saying of one decision
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washington (cnn) the inspector general of the house of representatives will investigate recent allegations of sexual misconduct among congressional pages, the democratic and republican leaders of the chamber announced the house page program came under scrutiny after the mark foley scandal last year two pages usually high school juniors who serve congress as messengers have been dismissed for allegedly having oral sex in public areas of their capitol hill dormitory 'it wasn't kissing and hugging let me put it that way,' said rep ginny brown waite, r florida, last week 'it did go beyond that there were not only a young male and female involved, but there were also observers and other page participants who were, let's say, enablers' to protest what they called lax oversight, brown waite has resigned from the house page board, along with republican rep shelley moore capito of west virginia watch more on alleged page misconduct » brown waite said her resignation was meant 'to send a loud and clear message' to house speaker nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders pelosi, a california democrat, and republican minority leader john boehner of ohio issued a joint statement on the matter wednesday 'we expect the inspector general to gather the facts and recommend the appropriate and necessary corrective actions to be taken by the house,' it said in 2006, florida gop rep mark foley was forced to resign after his sexually suggestive e mails to male pages were made public the house ethics committee later found that some people who knew about foley's questionable communications chose to 'remain willfully ignorant' rather than confront the matter then house speaker dennis hastert, r illinois, promised an overhaul of the program, which pelosi pledged to pursue after democrats gained control of the house of representatives in the 2006 elections 'apparently democrats didn't learn from the mark foley incident that pages need better supervision,' brown waite said 'apparently they haven't learned anything' no members of congress are involved in the current controversy, and house clerk lorraine miller, who administers the programs, said the students involved were dismissed e mail to a friend
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two pages fired for alleged oral sex in public areas of capitol hill dorm . male, female involved as were pages who were 'enablers,' says lawmaker . two gop lawmakers quit house page board in protest . inspector general tasked with investigation, recommending 'corrective actions'
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(cnn) starbucks is closing more than two thirds of its stores in australia, days after announcing that hundreds of its american coffee outlets are also being shuttered starbucks announced plans to close 600 stores in the us last week the seattle based global coffee franchise said tuesday that it will close 61 of its 84 locations in australia by the weekend the closures will mean that only 23 cafes will remain open in and around three major cities: brisbane, melbourne and sydney, the company said in a statement tuesday earlier this month, the company announced it would close 600 company owned stores in the united states starbucks, named after the first mate in herman melville's 'moby dick,' was founded in 1971 it has more than 8,000 company operated stores and another 6,800 licensed cafes in 44 countries starbucks has seen rising competition from privately held dunkin' donuts and mcdonalds recently, and welcomed founder schultz back as ceo in january after a lackluster performance by the company in the latter half of 2007
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more than 60 starbucks cafes to close by august 3 . closures follow news of more than 600 outlets to shut in us. move by seattle company will end 685 jobs in australia, reports say
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(cnn) the first question for many relatives of the victims of mh17, as for us after lockerbie, will be whether their loved ones suffered explosive decompression of an aircraft fuselage at 35,000 feet will cause almost instantaneous loss of consciousness explosive decompression is a terribly apt phrase if it turns out to be true that mh17 was hit by a buk soviet era sa missile, their warheads contain about 140 times the explosive in the pa 103 bomb it seems impossible therefore that anyone aboard could have remained aware to suffer in the aftermath the essence of the tragedy of mh17 is the suffering of the relatives some will need to view the bodies of those they lost surely they deserve security to say their last farewells they should have that option bodies need to be treated with respect and precision of identification i believe that in the case of mh17 the united nations should also oversee immediate sending of an international team of investigators, covered by force if necessary, to ensure that relatives' needs, the bodies themselves and the evidence field are protected it is already very late, but not too late there has already been looting, abhorrent to relatives, there is something particularly unsavory about the thought of unauthorised interference with bodies, or indeed personal effects of the dead there will now be some uncertainty about the evidential material on site maybe the un should in future have a standby arrangement for immediate deployment of such an international 'sterilizing force' even in the case of lockerbie, evidence emerged in court of improper interference with potentially evidential material on the crash site within scotland in the uk we found that a relatives' group predicated on the concept of allowing everyone to grieve in their own way, but always there to support its members, helped the humanist, highly caring, relative co ordinating our group cannot know how many of us she has helped through her dedication and skills one of the most difficult yet most rewarding aspects of christ's philosophy was to extend love to others even when they seem to be your enemy we have witnessed the bitterness and personal destruction that can spring from rampant lust for revenge lust for revenge is natural, but self defeating, for the consequence of revenge is so often further revenge nor does it even bring peace of mind to the avenger of course we condemn the actions of perpetrators and would rightly have them punished for what they have done, but we don't have to hate the perpetrators themselves imprisoned, they may emerge one day to do good the late nelson mandela and archbishop desmond tutu helped to create the truth and reconciliation commission that concept can only work if truth precedes the attempts at reconciliation truth may become a fickle wraith for families to pursue through the labyrinth of international politics it was mandela too who publicly warned, long before the trial of those accused by the us and uk of responsibility for lockerbie, that: 'no one country should be complainant, prosecutor and judge' the west ignored this warning it is perhaps significant that the netherlands, which lost far more citizens in mh17 than any other country, finds herself already the home of the international criminal court powerful governments have powerful means of controlling what we know and believe international courts should be immune to that perversely it was the evidence produced at the lockerbie trial in zeist, holland, which confirmed for some that moammar gaddafi's libya was responsible but for other close watchers, there were doubts there which have now greatly increased and led 25 uk lockerbie relatives, together with members of the family of the one libyan found guilty, recently to lodge a request for a third appeal against the zeist verdict with scotland's criminal case review commission nowadays we have a better route, through the international criminal court, and what those of us who are not mh17 relatives should do is to monitor and encourage all efforts to pass the whole known truth to the mh17 relatives and to discover and detain those responsible it is no coincidence that holland already hosts the icc, for that nation's record in support of international justice is outstanding mh17 relatives may also find help from the small uk charity disaster action this cannot deal with so huge a tragedy directly but carries within it wisdom distilled from lockerbie and other tragedies opinion: don't blame malaysia airlines
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(cnn) the united states might be in a tricky economic situation, but it won't stop americans from buying vampire fangs or princess tiaras us consumers spent more than $25 billion on costumes this year, according to the national retailers federation the average household has shelled out $2105 in halloween candy alone when the economy is down, halloween spending soars, according to ellen davis of the national retail federation 'people love, in an economy like this one, to just get out, let loose, have a little bit of fun,' davis said and if the ghosts and goblins aren't scary enough, the health effects from all that candy might be the average child collects an estimated 3,500 and 7,000 calories on halloween night, according to dr donna arnett, chair of the department of epidemiology in the university of alabama at birmingham's school of public health the estimate was based on nutrition facts of popular halloween candies a 100 pound child who eats 7,000 calories worth of candy would have to walk for almost 44 hours or play full court basketball for 145 hours to burn those calories, according to arnett but halloween's not just about costumes and candy, of course it's also about giant orange fruits with scary faces marc evan and chris soria are professional artists for most of the year until september, when they become the maniac pumpkin carvers each halloween season they spend all their time in a brooklyn basement carving pumpkins, each with an intricate design, which sell from $150 to $400 a piece the united states produced more than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins last year, according to the us department of agriculture cnn's deborah brunswick, candy crowley and john fricke contributed to this report
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london, england (cnn) they are the tales of two very different people director danny boyle's film 'slumdog millionaire' shines a stark light on poverty in india one an amoral businessman pouring out his life story to the chinese premier, the other a lovelorn teenager appearing on 'kaun banega crorepati,' the indian version of 'who wants to be a millionaire?' but if their protagonists are polar opposites, both stories one as told in aravind adiga's best selling novel 'the white tiger,' the other in 'slumdog millionaire,' the new movie from 'trainspotting' director danny boyle have much in common both are based in modern day india, both feature characters who succeed against all the odds, and both have garnered considerable critical acclaim, with 'slumdog millionaire' recently awarded the three top prizes at the british independent film awards 'slumdog,' which is set in mumbai, has also assumed a particularly poignant resonance in light of the recent terror attacks that left 174 people dead above all, both narratives shine a stark light on poverty an aspect of indian society that has increasingly been pushed into the background by a decade and more of upbeat headlines about the country's dramatic economic growth 'the growth aspect has tended to receive much more attention than the darker side of the indian story,' professor babu mathew, country director of action aid india, told cnn, 'more and more the poverty goes unnoticed, and there is less and less of a voice for the excluded peoples' the breadth of the divide between what aravind adiga calls the 'india of light,' and the 'india of darkness,' is both dramatic and shocking since 1991 when 'neo liberal' market reforms were introduced, india's economy has ballooned from 1991 to 2004, the world's largest democracy grew at 65 percent annually, a figure which increased to over 9 percent between 2005 and 2007 the result has been a massive explosion of wealth creation among the middle and upper echelons of indian society, with indian billionaires now occupying four of the top eight slots on the annual forbes rich list while growth has benefited one section of society, it has left a vast swathe of the population lagging far behind 'people in urban areas, the rich, the middle classes, the educated all of these have benefited from economic growth,' dr arun kumar of development alternatives group, a sustainable development organization based in delhi, told cnn, 'those who have not benefited are the small farmers, the rural poor, the artisans for these their situation has worsened' nisha agrawal, ceo of oxfam india, agrees 'economic growth has been primarily focused on manufacturing and services and largely in urban areas,' she told cnn, 'rural agriculture has not received the kind of attention it deserves and since the bulk of poor people derive their incomes from agriculture, that has left us with two indias, one rich, one impoverished' even a cursory glance at the statistics reveals a problem on a huge scale according to world bank estimates, 456 million people just over 40 percent of india's population of 12 billion now live on less than $125 per day, a sum recognized as the international poverty line almost half of india's children are malnourished; 1000 die every day from diarrhea; hundreds of millions have no access to proper sanitation these figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country's major cities how to narrow this gulf between the haves and the have nots is a fiendishly complex issue and one that has no quick or easy solutions more investment in basic infrastructure is seen as crucial, as is a reform of international trade agreements 'import and energy prices have increased for farmers, but global markets are not opening up for indian agricultural products,' agrawal told cnn, 'that needs to change' greater access to institutional finance, the creation of new jobs and economic opportunities, and the spread of information technology all have a major role to play 'we already have small pockets of improvement,' says arun kumar, 'but these involve limited numbers in limited geographies 'we need to scale everything up it is a huge challenge' the global economic problems have not bypassed india inflation is now running close to 12 percent and the mumbai stock exchange has almost halved in value from a peak in january 2008 sensex the bombay stock exchange sensitive index has not registered any significant drop as a result of the recent mumbai attacks, and it remains to be seen what the longer term effect will be on the indian economy nonetheless, these difficult and uncertain times may make the challenge of poverty reduction an even harder one will india be able to successfully reduce the gap between rich and poor? leave your comments in the soundoff box below both kumar and agrawal remain hopeful that change is coming to india, albeit slowly 'we are eternal optimists,' says kumar, 'i do believe things are changing' 'the government recognizes that people don't just want a high level of growth,' adds agrawal, 'but also growth that is more equalizing we need to bring the two indias together, and i believe we can do it' despite their optimism, the problems remain vast, and the darkness intense for the foreseeable future it seems likely the question most on the minds of india's 456 million poor will be less 'who wants to be a millionaire?' than 'will i be able to feed myself and my family today?'
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danny boyle's 'slumdog millionaire' shines a light on slum dwellers in india . huge growth means four of top eight billionaires on forbes rich list are indian . but the new wealth has bypassed india's 456 million poor . nisha agrawal of oxfam says there are: 'two indias, one rich, one impoverished'
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los angeles, california (cnn) walt disney studios has reached a distribution deal with steven spielberg's dreamworks studios, the companies announced monday disney will market at least six dreamworks live action movies each year produced through dreamworks' agreement with india's reliance big entertainment, a major producer of bollywood film, they said the disney deal replaces an agreement dreamworks announced last year with universal that fell apart in recent weeks the announcement did not reveal terms, but industry media reports said the universal deal collapsed when dreamworks asked for cash to help finance the movies to be made under the reliance contract dreamworks found itself short of financing because of the global economic crunch, according to michael cerenzie, a film financier and producer the studio could not borrow the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to produce films, partly because much of its archives and intellectual property which would have served as collateral for loans was left behind at paramount studios, whose parent company bought dreamworks in 2006 paramount still distributes dreamworks' animation features reliance will handle distribution of the movies in india the first movie to be distributed under the deal is expected to reach theaters next year, the companies said 'disney is the birthplace of imagination and has always been as close to the worldwide audience as any company ever has,' spielberg said ironically, dreamworks was born in 1994 after disney excutive jeffrey katzenberg was passed over for promotion to president of disney katzenberg resigned and then formed dreamworks with steven spielberg and david geffen the dreamworks reliance disney agreement is a major step in bringing india's huge 'bollywood' industry together to hollywood studios big pictures has development arrangements with several production companies, including those affiliated with performers nicolas cage, jim carrey, george clooney and tom hanks
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disney will distribute dreamworks live action films . dreamworks has agreement with india's reliance big entertainment . plan will help bring india's bollywood productions together with hollywood studios
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london, england (cnn) for europe's biggest leagues the football season has ended, the boring business of kicking a ball about is over, and now the real fun can begin as the transfer window opens cristiano ronaldo has left manchester united to join real madrid for a world record fee of $130 million what is the transfer window? the transfer window is a set period of time when football clubs are allowed to buy new players although players can't be bought outside the transfer window it doesn't stop clubs negotiating transfers before the window opens, with players signing on the dotted line once it does there are two transfer windows per year, one pre season, and one mid season, which is open throughout january the english premier league pre season transfer window opened at midnight on the last day of the season (may 24) and will close on august 31, while in the other big european football nations (including france, germany italy and spain) the transfer window opens on july 1 and closes at the end of august other countries operate pre season transfer windows to fit the calendar of their own football seasons see our choice of the top 20 transfer targets » why does it matter? the transfer window can see some of football's biggest stars switch club and it is a period that can determine how a team will fare during the season ahead it is a chance for coaches to rebuild and reinforce their squads, and a time when clubs can see their key players depart for greener pastures and bigger wage packets when a club is active in the transfer window, making big name buys, it can be taken as a statement of intent for the following season just watch spanish club real madrid bring in star players in an attempt to make up the distance between them and arch rivals barcelona the global economic downturn means many clubs may not spend as much money this summer as they have in recent years, or that they may be more willing to trade or part exchange players if they are unable to meet a player's price tag the final day of the transfer window, known as deadline day, often brings a frenzy of activity as teams try to finalize deals before the window slams shut, drawing the curtains until january 1, when the transfer fun begins again keep up with the latest transfer gossip with our transfer blog movers and shakers this summer's transfer window is likely to be dominated by one club real madrid their newly elected club president, billionaire construction magnate florentino perez, previously headed the club between 2000 and 2006, when his policy was to bring football's biggest names to real madrid the 'galacticos' brought to real by perez included the likes of luís figo, zinedine zidane, the brazilian ronaldo and david beckham now perez is back in charge and seems intent on reviving his 'galacticos' policy, rsigning former world player of the year kaka before smashing the world transfer record to spay $130 million for manchester united's cristiano ronaldo madrid have also been linked with bayern munich's french winger frank ribery, liverpool midfielder xabi alonso and valencia winger david silva but real won't have it all their own way, facing competition from the likes of chelsea new manager carlo ancelotti is bound to have brought a shopping list with him and the club's russian billionaire owner roman abramovich will want to show that he still has the financial muscle to compete on the transfer money go round then there is manchester city, funded by the vast oil wealth of the abu dhabi united group the owners have so far struggled to attract big names to the club and will be keen to show that city are genuine champions league material at the other end of the spectrum spanish club valencia are in all kinds of financial difficulty and may be forced to sell their biggest assets, with david silva and striker david villa the most prized of all
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(cnn) i grew up in florida in wartime where the bombs were 7,691 miles away my childhood was an afghan american suburban dream punctuated by weekend sleepovers, saturday soccer games, fistfights with racist children of the confederate south and religio nationalist driven demonstrations chanting 'down with brezhnev!'; 'long live islam!'; 'down with communism!'; and 'long live afghanistan!' before i even knew what that meant it is what i was fed growing up, in between southern fried chicken and garlic mashed potatoes, cumin scented meat and basmati rice that's why i've referred to myself as 'afghan by blood, redneck by the grace of god' watch aman mojadidi's ted talk now as an artist in a world that is simultaneously in the process of globalizing and fracturing, the work i do explores what i have come to call the 'geography of self,' a concept that revolves around a positioning of oneself in the world not just physically, but emotionally, mentally and, perhaps even for those who believe, spiritually this position is ambiguous, temporary and very often debated it is constructed by multiple voices and rendered through a prism of different, sometimes even contradictory, perspectives the body of work i create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards and resistance against modernization my work travels through mental and physical landscapes it intentionally blurs and merges the lines between them, as well as those between fact and fiction, documentation and imagination i looked into corruption in afghanistan through a work called 'payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the kabul police department i spent a day in the life of a jihadi gangster who wears his jihad against the communists like pop star bling and uses armed religious intimidation and political corruption to make himself rich and where else can the jihadi gangster go, but run for parliament and do a public installation campaign with the slogan: 'vote for me! i've done jihad, and i'm rich' tedcom: what i saw in the war what i engage in through my art is, in fact, storytelling but through these stories, there is a clear attempt to disrupt and reinterpret historical narratives, both real and imagined, in order to create an entirely new narrative that challenges the dominating histories' stories that shape our experience and understanding of the world we live in it's not about activism, but about being engaged with our world and humanity in a way that goes beyond the superficial, instead looking deeper into historical constructions of our present state and the basic principles of human responsibility art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent i see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations tedcom: my photographs bear witness this is not to say that i think my art provides answers in fact, it may simply produce more questions but in asking those questions, history and our role in how it constructs the present can be better understood by using historical facts, documentation, oral history and imagination, i create forms of resistance against the imposition of certain historical interpretations upon us it provides a way for us to rethink history, disturb identity, challenge authority, dissect politics, shake up society and understand ourselves in the end, i hope we learn to question what we know of the past, what we understand of the present and what we can imagine for the future perhaps this is too ambitious a project; perhaps art should simply be aesthetically appealing and keep itself out of the realm of politics, history and self awareness perhaps this is too arrogant a philosophy, to think that what i have to say about the world and our role in it has any bearing at all on how others should think about their environment and themselves tedcom: dreams from endangered cultures perhaps this is too futile a goal and art is not enough of an action to be an actual catalyst for change but this is the burden of creating this kind of work, a burden that perhaps comes from the dualistic life i have lived as an american citizen growing up in the comfort of suburbia while family members in afghanistan fought, died and, yes, killed in their battle against an invading army knowing these opposing experiences could be simultaneously shared within the collective subconscious of my family drove me towards trying to better understand history, politics, perspectives and the human condition this is my burden and so i must ask: 'what's yours?' the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of aman mojadidi
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aman mojadidi, an american of afghan descent, is an artist who has worked in kabul . he has chosen provocative themes, using humor to examine life in afghanistan . his work intentionally blurs fact and fiction, reality and imagination . he imitated a 'jihadi gangster' and did a reverse impersonation of a corrupt police officer
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(cnn) the unexpected resignation of david petraeus as head of the cia must have come as a shock to many americans, especially given his impeccable record as a distinguished military commander but like the greatest heroes from shakespeare, it would appear that he was not exempt from the time honored temptations of human folly and self destruction and now the plot is thickening, as details emerge that gen john allen, the commander of us and nato troops in afghanistan, is involved somehow in the scandal as americans are coming to terms with the revelation of petraeus' adultery, on the other side of the atlantic, the feeling among the french can be summed up by a blasã© shrug every time a steamy sexual intrigue is laid bare near the corridors of washington power, the french don't see what all the fuss is about it's only sex, after all it's impossible to imagine a french political leader resigning because of an extramarital indiscretion if this rule were observed, the french parliament would be nearly vacant the petraeus affair: a lot more than sex the past five french presidents are known to have had at least one and in some cases, many more mistresses throughout their political career the current resident of the elysã©e palace, francois hollande, has been caught in the middle of an embarrassing dispute between his previous and current female companions the french, long used to regarding their leaders with cynical detachment, have been following this tormented domestic feud with interest and maybe some contempt the details of petraeus' sexual dalliance with his own biographer, paula broadwell, are unquestionably fascinating still, the french like to consider themselves blithely indifferent to bedroom antics, even when those involved are married to other people opinion: how petraeus courted the press le monde, the intellectually self important leftist newspaper, noted that the petraeus affair quickly jumped from the pages of the respectable new york times to those of the gossipy tabloid new york post in other words, while the petraeus scandal may indeed be a legitimate affair of state because of the sensitivity of his position at the summit of the cia, what really interests americans are the juicy details of the four star army general's sexual conquest french bafflement at american prurience has a history from bill clinton's anteroom encounters with white house intern monica lewinsky to the more recent misadventures of eliot spitzer and anthony weiner all have ended with abject confessions the french usually attribute this american ritual of guilt and contrition to 'puritanism' this is meant as a put down and a mark of french cultural superiority the french, by contrast, are mature and sophisticated, never shocked and titillated by the rich complexity of life's temptations france is a catholic society devoid of the puritanical guilt that is deeply embedded in the anglo american psyche the french draw a line between private and public vice, whereas in america and britain, the distinction is blurred if not merged entirely in france, a politician can betray his wife without being suspected of screwing voters moreover, french journalists are not driven by the same 'fourth estate' ethos that animates american media culture french society in general has an ambiguous relationship with the truth, and french journalists are frequently indifferent to the exposure of hard facts when the subject is the sexual indiscretion of politicians in high office, media indifference can be counted on because press and political circles in paris are often intimated linked professionally, socially and sexually hence the famous media 'omerta' about the private lives of french politicians this convenient arrangement reached a high point of hypocritical disregard for the truth during the presidency of francois mitterrand, when the french media kept the secret of his double life including an illegitimate daughter living in an official residence at taxpayers' expense for nearly two decades everyone knew about it, nobody wrote about it opinion: how petraeus changed the us military the shocking conduct of dominique strauss kahn shattered this longstanding media omerta but french journalists are still reluctant to probe too aggressively into the private lives of politicians they have good reason in france, there are strict laws that make privacy invasion illegal and punishable only last month, strauss kahn, though disgraced and banished from french politics, sued a magazine for publishing a photo of him and his new girlfriend and he won damages in court as the eye popping details of petraeus' complex personal life emerge in the american media, don't expect the french to respond with disbelief they will claim they don't really want to know no wonder when it happens in france, they are often never told the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of matthew fraser
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(cnn) a north carolina man charged with killing a pregnant fort bragg soldier was the father of her unborn child, authorities said wednesday sgt edgar patino faces first degree murder charges in the slaying of megan touma army sgt edgar patino is linked to two anonymous 'confession' letters sent in what police believe was an attempt to derail the investigation into megan touma's death, police said patino, 27, was arrested at his hope mills, north carolina, home tuesday night without incident patino, who is stationed at fort bragg's jfk special warfare training center, faces first degree murder charges in the slaying of touma, 23, who was seven months pregnant touma's decomposing body was found in the bathtub of a hotel room near fort bragg on june 21 authorities said wednesday that they believe she died late june 13 or early june 14 although her death has been ruled a homicide, authorities said wednesday that the state medical examiner has not made a final determination of how she died watch officials discuss the case » patino has admitted being in touma's hotel room june 13, and investigators found that the room's electronic key card was last used on that day, police said wednesday however, patino has not admitted killing touma patino wore red jail coveralls in his initial court appearance wednesday afternoon he spoke only to answer the judge's questions, acknowledging that he understood he was charged with first degree murder and that the charge carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison without parole he also requested that an attorney be appointed for him fayetteville, north carolina, police chief tom bergamine said wednesday that patino, who is married, was the father of touma's fetus police also said evidence links patino to a letter received june 25 by the fayetteville observer newspaper in it, the writer claimed to have killed touma and said more killings were planned the letter was signed with a circular symbol similar to one used by the zodiac killer in california in the late 1960s at the request of police, the newspaper withheld information regarding the letters and delayed publishing a story for several days to allow police to conduct an investigation, bergamine said police also received a similar letter fayetteville police sgt chris corcione said both letters were postmarked june 24 and sent from fayetteville patino purchased a typewriter the day before the letters were sent, corcione said that typewriter is now in police custody police, however, stopped short of saying patino wrote the letters, saying only that evidence links him to them two of touma's friends, who are also female soldiers and asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said touma and patino had been stationed together in germany and had dated they said patino had proposed to touma in germany, but when the two returned to north carolina, she discovered that he was married police said wednesday that patino was a person of interest from the early days of their investigation corcione said his initial interview with authorities could be described as 'deceptive,' and officials had little other contact with him until his arrest police have found no criminal record for him 'we felt like from the beginning, there was no major concerns of a serial killer being out there,' bergamine said patino was being held without bail at the cumberland county detention center, bergamine said asked what police believe the motive to be, fayetteville police detective joshua carter said, 'right now, the motive is going to be held close there's still several months of investigation left to be conducted' 'i think one of the things that folks need to understand is that scientific evidence, things that have to go to the lab, they're going to take time,' bergamine said 'this is not the world of television and 'csi' things don't get settled within a hour' touma, a five year army veteran, had served with the us army dental activity clinic in bamberg, germany, and in fort drum, new york, before her stint at fort bragg she is the second female soldier from fort bragg to die under suspicious circumstances since june army 2nd lt holley wimunc was killed in early july her fayetteville apartment was torched july 10, and her charred body was found nearby a few days later her husband, marine cpl john wimunc, was charged with arson and first degree murder in connection with the death another marine, lance cpl kyle alden, was charged with arson and felony accessory after the fact to first degree murder camp lejeune, north carolina, also had a homicide case involving a female service member this year the charred body of marine lance cpl maria lauterbach, 20, was found in the backyard of another marine stationed at the base, cpl cesar laurean lauterbach was eight months pregnant when she died laurean, who has been charged with first degree murder, was arrested in mexico in april, but because he holds citizenship in the united states and mexico, he cannot be immediately deported and must go through an extradition process authorities have said that if he chooses to fight extradition, it could take two years to return him to north carolina cnn's marylynn ryan contributed to this report
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(cnn) canada announced wednesday that it will dispatch a warship to somalia's coast to protect un aid ships from pirate attacks the canadian frigate hmcs ville de quebec will escort ships carrying food aid to somalia 'canada is stepping up to the plate by tasking ville de quebec with the role of escorting world food programme ships to ensure their safe arrival at designated ports,' canadian defense minister peter mackay said in a government news release the united nations hunger program praised canada for answering its call for help, and said it hoped other governments would step forward to take over from canada once it completes its mission in a few weeks the hmcs ville de quebec is a 440 foot frigate armed with torpedoes, surface to air missiles and other weapons, and carries a twin engine sea king anti submarine helicopter ville de quebec, which can travel at speeds greater than 27 knots, will be dispatched after somalia's transitional government formally authorizes the mission, the government's news release said wfp asked the world's naval powers in mid june to help its ships reach the more than 2 million people in need of aid it put out the request weeks before french, danish and dutch warships ended their escort missions, which began in november pirate attacks on unescorted ships have been a growing problem in somalia three european freighters were hijacked off the horn of africa in june, adding to the 27 other reported attacks this year, according to the international maritime bureau, which tracks piracy wfp delivers 80 percent of its aid to somalia by sea, and wfp spokesman peter smerdon said that if there are no warships to escort the food supply, the program will have to rely on ground or air travel to deliver the food but both are dangerous and expensive the agency said that if there is no assistance from naval powers, piracy will increase, and so will death and malnutrition smerdon said that although somalia's food crisis hasn't yet reached the devastation of the early 1990s, 'we're worried it will be'
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canada to send 440 foot frigate to help aid reach ports safely . mission must be authorized by somalia's transitional government . 80 percent of un's food aid to somalia sent by ship . heavily armed pirates frequently hijack cargo ships off horn of africa
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copenhagen, denamrk (cnn) what makes someone decide to become an actor? it sometimes seems as if the average hollywood star is motivated mainly by the promise of a fat pay check connie nielsen shot to fame playing lucilla in 'gladiator' or perhaps they're drawn to the celebrity lifestyle maybe they crave the love of an adoring public, or perhaps they see the movies as a way to leave their mark on the world, to be immortalized on celluloid for danish actress connie nielsen it was something quite different for her, being an actor means being an outsider 'as an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider if you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say,' she told cnn so connie nielsen is not your typical movie star as a 5 foot 10 inch blonde scandinavian beauty she has the looks of a classic silver screen siren, but she has steadfastly resisted a career as hollywood eye candy and rejected the lifestyle that goes with it 'i absolutely refuse the fame part of my business,' she says 'i refuse even the money side of my business i try to do as good work as i can do, i try to grow in my art and reach for truth,' she says raised in elling, a small coastal village in denmark, she is fluent in seven languages and studied acting in france and italy, making her screen debut in french comedy 'par où t'es rentré? on t'a pas vu sortir' (us title 'how did you get in? we didn't see you leave') in 1984 she appeared in more french and italian movies before landing a role opposite al pacino and keanu reeves in 'the devil's advocate' in 1997 but it wasn't until 2000, when she was cast in ridley scott's oscar winning 'gladiator', that nielsen landed a role that really let her show her acting ability as lucilla, the sister of the villainous emperor commodus, nielsen brought some much needed subtlety to the swords and sandals epic and held her own sharing the screen with joaquin phoenix and russell crowe the movie made nielsen an international star and she scored other successes with 'one hour photo' in 2002, and 'the hunted' in 2003 but while the success of 'gladiator' opened doors for her, it also meant she had to fight the kind of typecasting that would try to limit her to playing 'the love interest' to a male lead who got all the good lines nielsen has in the past been critical of hollywood for its lack of female roles, saying 'you think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work so to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad it's unjust' but nielsen has refused to be pigeonholed, seemingly drawn to difficult roles in controversial movies she appeared in french movie 'demonlover', which dealt with pornography, violence and corporate amorality, while more recent films have taken on the wars in afghanistan and iraq danish drama 'brødre' (us title 'brothers') is about a soldier who returns from afghanistan a broken man, unable to communicate his experiences from the conflict playing his wife, nielsen put in a powerful performance that won her awards and served to highlight how hollywood had underused her talents 'the situation' in 2006 was billed as the first film to be made about the iraq war and told the story of ordinary iraqis caught up in the conflict, while 'battle of seattle' examined how peaceful protests erupted into riots when the world trade organization met in seattle in 1999 of her choice of subject matter, nielsen says that rather than making a political point she is trying to show the human aspects of the conflicts but nielsen makes it clear that her career is not the focus of her life and she stresses the importance of making time outside the movies she is passionate about literature and art and she is currently dating lars ulrich, drummer of rock group metallica she had a son with him in 2007 and has another son from a previous relationship 'i will always find something that i want to try and become better at i always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family i always want to read more books,' she says perhaps her commitment to her art, her interest in social issues and her disavowal of fame simply reflect her danish upbringing, but there's no doubt that compared to many other hollywood stars connie nielsen is a breath of fresh air
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connie nielsen made her name playing lucilla in ridley scott's 'gladiator'. she has appeared in movies dealing with the wars in afghanistan and iraq . nielsen speaks seven languages and is passionate about art and literature
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washington (cnn) big tech firms and private prisons represent two industries vigorously lobbying to influence the scope of legislation aimed at overhauling us immigration policy, a political priority in washington microsoft, facebook, and intel want lawmakers to support increasing the number of visas available to highly skilled workers, according to an analysis by the center for responsive politics, which tracks the influence of money in politics others, like corrections corporation of america, which builds detention facilities to house illegal immigrants, have contributed heavily to the campaigns of lawmakers who take tough stances on the issue in all, 359 lobbying clients pressed their positions on immigration reform to officials at nearly every level of government, including the white house, congress and the homeland security department, according to the analysis for 2012 the figure is up from the 317 clients lobbying on immigration from the previous year it is difficult to track exactly how much each spends on lobbying an issue, campaign finance experts say however, tracking the number of times something specific is mentioned on disclosure reports indicates its importance to a company or industry 'they're not spending this money just willy nilly they have a goal and they're trying to achieve that goal legislatively,' said steve ellis, vice president of taxpayers for common sense, a watchdog group 'you have to be sure they're writing the legislation for the right reasons and not just trying to benefit one particular company,' ellis said president barack obama underscored the need for comprehensive immigration reform earlier this year stressing the need to better enforce related laws, provide a path to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented workers already in the country and reform the legal immigration system the so called 'gang of eight' in the senate and a similar bipartisan group in the house are working on crafting a reform framework leading up to what could be one of the year's biggest legislative showdowns what's in senate immigration plan? 'the reason immigration is on the table now is the outcome of the last election,' said judith gans, manager of the immigration policy program at the university of arizona 'no political party likes to lose and the republican party realized that their unfriendly stance toward immigrants was creating a coalition in the democratic party' the upcoming legislative battle will create winners and losers, and businesses are doing everything they can to ensure they can influence the outcome 'we will see congress make it easier for that high skilled, cutting edged talent to come to the us but if they don't address the channels for low skilled workers to come to the us, illegal immigration will continue,' gans said the nation's tech sector, which has come to rely strongly on highly trained and science savvy foreign workers, has long had a vested interest in immigration policy when congress failed to take action on the issue, big business and their lobbyists turned their attention to agencies and lawmakers for support in increasing the number of h 1b visas those are used by companies to temporarily employ foreign workers with special skills but h 1b visas are capped at 65,000 annually for those with undergraduate or professional degrees another 20,000 are reserved for candidates with graduate level credentials the competition is fierce for slots and available caps are often exhausted quickly microsoft spent $8 million last year in broader lobbying efforts and filed 33 disclosure reports dealing with immigration — twice the number of lobbying reports of companies like intel microsoft, which contributed $814,645 to president barack obama's re election campaign, submitted four reports showing that some of its lobbying efforts were directed at the executive office of the president the company also lobbied congress and 22 other federal agencies and offices on issues like corporate tax reform and antitrust law but the second highest number of lobbying reports filed by the company dealt with immigration other tech companies also lobbied heavily intel spent $37 million in overall lobbying and filed 16 reports facebook spent $39 million in overall lobbying and filed eight reports, including those for lobbying the executive office of the president and the white house 'the reality is that in the united states, we are creating unfilled jobs faster than we are creating new filled positions,' brad smith, microsoft's executive vice president and general counsel, said during a speech at the nonpartisan brookings institution last year about his industry's need for more highly skilled workers tech companies say they look for qualified us workers first, but are having a tough time finding college graduates with the needed skills to work in science and technology fields a significant portion of these corporate workforces are comprised of well educated, highly skilled foreign nationals who are highly sought after and can only go to work for an american company if they are extended an h1 b visa intel says it is encouraged by legislative changes in the works several proposals to expand the available number of visas are working their way through congress these include a bipartisan measure sponsored in part by republican florida sen marco rubio, considered a potential 2016 presidential candidate the lawmaker is also part of the 'gang of eight' working on comprehensive immigration reform, which both parties view as a priority for capturing support from hispanics, whose influence politically is growing politicians also are weighing the impact on business and how attracting the best workers helps innovation, product development and productivity 'immigration reform is critical issue for intel,' said company spokeswoman, lisa malloy 'in the last year, we have seen growing bipartisan support for high skilled, employment based visa reform this is very encouraging to intel' another 'gang of eight' member, sen john mccain has changed his views on immigration over the years for instance, the arizona republican first supported and later opposed a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants he is also the fourth highest recipient of campaign donations from corrections corporation of america house appropriations committee chairman hal rogers and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, both kentucky republicans, are other notable recipients of that company's campaign donations, according to center for responsive politics data 'the private prison industry is responsible for 16% of federal prisoners in the us and makes a substantial portion of its profits from detention centers for illegal immigrants,' the group said 'illegal immigration creates a pool of potential prisoners and there's some incentive to them wanting to have input on those policies,' gans said in one case last year, lobbyists representing cca were paid $60,000 to monitor 'issues pertaining to the construction and management of private prisons and detention facilities,' according a federal lobbying disclosure report corrections corporation of america spent $970,000 last year to lobby congress and the us marshals service on a variety of issues it says it supports a bipartisan group of lawmakers who support or are 'open minded to the merits of public private partnership and the related services we provide' the company says its lobbying effort has been aimed at ensuring it understands reforms related to new civil detention facilities being pursued by immigration and customs enforcement 'not a single firm hired by cca lobbies on our behalf for or against immigration enforcement or detention policies every firm we engage with is contractually bound to adhering to this strict policy the primary focus of our lobbying efforts is education on the merits and benefits of public private partnership in corrections and detention generally, and the relevant services cca provides,' said company spokesman steven owen construction, agricultural, leisure and hospitality were among other industries also lobbying congress and federal agencies heavily last year on such issues as changing the nation's guest worker program whether spending on immigration lobbying will have any impact remains to be seen, policy and lobbying experts say 'lobbying on immigration reform is like lobbying on any complicated legislation in dc: messy and unpredictable just as with tax reform and health care reform, every affected constituency in the immigration debate is pushing their own agenda,' said stephen yale loehr, a veteran immigration attorney 'sometimes the stars align and a bill gets passed,' yale loehr said 'often, however, the effort fails, despite or because of everyone's efforts'
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(cnn) stomach for the fight, matched by a stomach for waffles and hash browns bubba watson, the american golfer who has just become a multiple golf winner, showed he had the appetite for both as he secured his second masters win, adding another green jacket to the one he won in 2012 as he walked down the 18th fairway, watson was able to soak up the atmosphere and prepare for a celebratory trip to the waffle house a far cry from his nerve shredding playoff win over louis oosthuizen at augusta national two years ago 'i wanted to start celebrating but my caddie was in my ear saying, 'not yet, not yet wait until we putt out and then celebrate all you want,'' the 35 year old told cnn before a winner's dinner of waffles and hash browns 'it's a different feeling when you know you can four putt the last hole and still win, it only took me two it's a lot better feeling, the stomach feels a lot better this way than it did in the playoff!' watson finished eight under par for the tournament after a three under final round of 69 saw him stretch three strokes clear of compatriot jordan spieth and sweden's jonas blixt, the masters debutantes who tied for second place 'i see myself as a guy who loves the game of golf and tries to get better at it,' beamed the new world no 4 the bedrock of watson's success is his thumping drive, his ability to hammer the ball over 350 yards perfectly suited to the augusta course when watson won the first major of his 11 year pro career in 2012, it coincided with him and his wife adopting a baby boy, caleb his son was one of the first people to embrace watson on the 18th green 'that was a big deal,' said watson 'for us, being adopted parents, our story, trying to explain to him how much we love him and we care for him 'if he loves golf it's going to be great for him because he'll see that he was at augusta for him growing up, it will be great for our family to be able to explain all of this to him' if watson's latest triumph is proof that he is no one hit wonder, he showed no sign of getting carried away by his success 'i see myself as a blessed man who gets to play on the pga tour, gets to play at augusta national in the masters 'i see myself as a golfer, just an average guy who loves to play the game of golf and try to get better at it' interactive: explore augusta national
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bubba watson toasts second masters success with trip to waffle house . the american secures a three shot victory over jordan spieth and jonas blixt . watson wins at augusta national for the second time after his triumph in 2012 . 'i see myself as a blessed man,' watson told cnn
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(cnn) democrats spend so much time defending president obama, it is easy to forget that even the most beloved presidents make mistakes and missteps his new budget, which proposes a method of calculating inflation that will reduce increases in social security payments, is a doozy reps keith ellison and raul grijalva, co chairs of the progressive caucus, have been raising the alarm for months reps alan grayson and mark takano circulated a letter firmly pledging to vote against any social safety net cuts as of this moment, 33 representatives have signed now, obama is also getting pushback from outside congress opposition runs the political gamut from the afl cio to nonpartisan aarp to anti tax activist grover norquist a coalition of grass roots organizations has organized to stop the cuts it includes the progressive change campaign committee, moveonorg, democracy for america, social security works, credo action, my organization rebuild the dream and more many of these groups supported the president in 2012 on tuesday, they presented the signatures of more than 2 million americans opposed to cutting social security, medicare or medicaid benefits some may call this a knee jerk response from liberals who would oppose any adjustments to new deal programs they are wrong progressives must be willing to reform programs such as social security, precisely because they are so important the question is how? there are better solutions that the president could champion for example, we could shore up social security for decades by raising the cap on taxable income so that it is not just poor and middle class folks whose entire paychecks are taxed but obama's plan leaves that cap in place protecting the wealthiest americans instead of asking more from the rich to shore up social security, his proposed budget would take more from the middle class and poor don't let all the dc jargon fool you some in washington would have us believe that obama's 'chained cpi' proposal is a mere tweak that more accurately reflects costs not true by changing the fine print on cost of living adjustments, obama's plan would ensure that benefits rise more slowly than inflation that would have devastating impacts on ordinary people immediately upon passage, hurt more tomorrow and get worse each year under his plan, as food and medicine gets more expensive, your social security check would grow only a tiny bit this approach may help the government's balance sheet, but it would hurt your pocketbook and your family it is not cost savings; it is cost shifting to people who paid into the program for their entire lives, it is a cut plain and simple prices are rising even faster than inflation on things such as health care, which the elderly consume at a greater rate the most accurate adjustment for inflation would actually give senior citizens more not less, which is what they would get under obama's proposal our leaders should be trying to make life easier for middle class families, not harder second, we are told that we cannot balance the budget without cutting the social safety net but we didn't get into a budgetary hole because we spent too much money helping grandma we have a budget imbalance because of the bush wars and bush tax cuts, combined with the economic downturn yet the obama budget eliminates the recent automatic cuts to the pentagon budget, even as it cuts social security and increases medicare premiums for middle class seniors it doesn't make any sense the administration says these cuts would come about only in the context of a so called 'balanced' compromise but the numbers tell a different story economist dean baker notes that these cuts would hit the average retiree three times as hard as the recent tax increases hit the top 1% budgets are a vision for the country expressed in dollars obama's budget is far better than the republican alternative but it is time to start expecting more from the man elected twice to speak for the middle class bad ideas from a great president are still bad ideas everyone who pulled the lever for obama in november should call the white house today, and say simply: mr president, this is not change we can believe in note: an earlier version of this article incorrectly said that president obama was the first democratic president to propose changes to reduce future social security benefits the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of van jones
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van jones: obama's budget proposed changes that will hurt social security recipients . he says opposition to new formula for calculating inflation increases is strong . jones: don't reduce benefits, raise cap on social security taxes so wealthy pay more . even a great president can make mistakes, and obama made one here, he says
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london (cnn) secretary of state john kerry on friday told an international summit on ending sexual violence in conflict that it was time for the world to banish the crime 'to the history books where it belongs' 'it's time for us in an age where we see enough of chaos, failed and failing states, to write a new norm, one that protects women, girls, men, boys, protects them from these unspeakable crimes,' he said kerry's words came on the final day of the global summit to end sexual violence in conflict, hosted this week in london by uk foreign secretary william hague and hollywood star and un special envoy angelina jolie kerry called on governments to end a culture of impunity for war zone rape, for perpetrators to be held accountable and for victims to be supported, not ostracized by their communities representatives of more than 100 countries attended the summit, as well as hundreds of experts, survivors, faith leaders, and staffers from ngos and international organizations 'this conference, the largest of its kind in history, is about forcing the world to stop looking away,' said kerry 'there is a real and critical role for governments to play in this fight' kerry also had a message for those who say that sexual violence in war is too ingrained to be wiped out: look at what has already been done by the 'civilized world' when its conscience is stirred he cited efforts to stamp out the use of chemical weapons and nuclear weapons as examples of the world's ability to shift course after realizing the horror of mankind's actions 'so when people ask if we can actually outlaw sexual violence in warfare, the answer is a resounding yes; yes we can achieve this goal' the summit organizers have established four goals: ending the culture of impunity by agreeing on an international protocol for documenting and investigating sexual violence in conflict zones; taking practical steps to protect women, including by training soldiers and peacekeepers; increasing support for survivors and human rights activists; and achieving a 'seismic shift' in attitudes so that the problem is recognized and tackled globally jolie, who was joined at the summit by fiance brad pitt, gave opening remarks tuesday 'it is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict,' she said there's nothing inevitable about it it is a weapon of war aimed at civilians it has nothing to do with sex, everything to do with power'
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secretary of state john kerry says world must 'write a new norm' on sexual violence in war . 'there is a real and critical role for governments to play in this fight,' kerry says . his words come on a the final day of the largest ever summit on sexual violence in conflict . its organizers want to end culture of impunity for perpetrators, boost support for victims
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(cnn) darrell royal, the football coach who led the university of texas to at least a share of three national championships in the 1960s and 1970s, died wednesday in austin after a battle with alzheimer's disease he was 88 royal is the winningest coach at texas, one of college football's biggest programs he compiled a 167 45 5 record at texas from 1957 to 1976 and helped offensive coordinator emory bellard introduce the wishbone option offense to the longhorns and to college football in the late 1960s he was also texas' athletic director from 1962 to 1980 before being inducted in the college football hall of fame in 1983 'no words are adequate to describe the impact darrell royal had on this state, the university, ut athletics and texas football,' texas athletics director deloss dodds said wednesday 'he was simply the foundation, the beginning anywhere you look today, on this campus, you see his fingerprints' royal, who played quarterback for oklahoma from 1946 to 1949, began his collegiate head coaching career as a 30 year old at mississippi state in 1954 he also coached washington in 1956 but he made his biggest mark at texas, where he inherited a 1 9 team and turned in a 6 3 1 record in his first season in 1957, guiding the longhorns to the first of 16 bowl appearances they'd make over the next 20 years his longhorns topped the national polls in 1963 and 1969 with 11 0 records in 1970, the 10 1 texas squad claimed a share of the national title he never had a losing record in 23 seasons as a head college football coach, with a three college record of 184 60 5 the wishbone formation, the three running back set that bellard debuted on a collegiate level at texas under royal's guidance in 1968, helped the longhorns go on a 30 game winning streak and spread to other colleges dodds said wednesday that the current texas team would honor royal during saturday's home game against iowa state at his namesake darrell k royal texas memorial stadium 'i think [head coach] mack brown has said this, but our first play from scrimmage on saturday will be out of the wishbone,' dodds said brown said he lost 'a wonderful friend, a mentor, a confidant and my hero' 'college football lost maybe its best ever, and the world lost a great man,' brown said, according to a university release ' his impact on the game, the coaches and players, the community and the millions of lives he touched, is insurmountable' royal is survived by his wife, edith, the university said people we've lost in 2012: the lives they lived cnn's jason hanna contributed to this report
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royal won three national championships as head coach at university of texas . he helped introduce the wishbone formation to college football . royal is the winningest coach at texas, one of college football's biggest programs
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