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"(CNN) -- England's Luke Donald beat new world number one Martin Kaymer by 3&2 to win the snow-hit WGC-Accenture Match Play in Arizona Sunday.",
"Freezing overnight conditions and the unexpected snowfall struck the Dove Mountain course ahead of the 18-hole final, but once it begun it was Donald who warmed to his task from the start.",
"He pulled three clear by the fifth, play briefly held up by a hailstorm which left the players sheltering for cover, and was never headed.",
"But Germany's Kaymer hit back when Donald three-putted the short sixth and a birdie on the par-5 eighth saw the gap cut to just one hole.",
"PGA champion Kaymer drew level as Donald made a hash of the ninth, finding the desert rough with his second, but that was as close as he got to victory.",
"Donald took the lead again with a birdie on the long 11th, extended it at the next as Kaymer bogeyed and went three-up with a further birdie on the 15th.",
"He closed out the biggest victory of his career on the short 16th and the $1.4 million check.",
"It was his third win on the PGA Tour, but first since 2006, taking him to a career-high number three in the new rankings Monday behind Kaymer and compatriot Lee Westwood.",
"\"It couldn't have gone any better -- not to get to the 18th hole in any match this week and pretty much go through reasonably stress-free,\" Donald told the official PGA Tour website.",
"\"I played solid this week.",
"It's nice to get the victory.\"",
"Donald had never trailed throughout his six matches and needed just 73 holes to reach the final, beating Tiger Woods' record of 77.",
"Kaymer will console himself with taking over as No.1 from Westwood, but called Donald a \"very tough opponent\" as he could never get to grips with his Ryder Cup teammate in the cold conditions.",
"In the all-American third place play-off, Matt Kuchar beat Bubba Watson 2&1 in a scrappy match."
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"Luke Donald wins WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona .",
"Donald beats Germany's Martin Kaymer 3&2 in Sunday's final .",
"Unexpected snowfall hits Dove Mountain course overnight .",
"Matt Kuchar beats Bubba Watson in third place playoff ."
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"(CNN) -- More than 1 million cell phones in China have been struck by the \"Zombie\" virus, according to Chinese state media, CCTV and Xinhua.",
"It's called the \"Zombie\" virus because it transmits from phone to phone, just as in the movies, zombie bites turn people into the living dead.",
"The virus binds with a security application, which then transmits the user's SIM card details to a central server controlled by a small group of hackers.",
"The hackers then will send messages or make phone calls that contain virus-ridden links for games and software, said CCTV.",
"Receivers who follow the link will find their phones infected, too, while at the same time providing a \"click through\" for the link itself, which typically translates into a payment for a party publicizing the links.",
"CCTV said that the blame is likely to lay with intermediary distributors instead of the actual game or software developers that show up in the ads.",
"Zhou Yonglin, an official with the National Computer Network Emergency Coordination Center, told CCTV that \"in the first week of September, nearly 1 million cell phones in the country were infected with the virus.\"",
"And although telecom providers are said to have taken steps to reduce the number of infected messages, Zou Shihong, a telecom expert at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, told CCTV that an updated virus might start sending fewer messages, making it harder for cell users to notice any suspicious activity.",
"Chendu Qimiao, the company behind the original infected security application, told CCTV that is has nothing to do with the virus, adding that it's difficult for users to tell which applications are infected and which are safe."
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"The \"Zombie\" virus is transmitted from cell phone to cell phone .",
"The virus binds with a security ap, which transmits SIM card data to a central server .",
"Hackers at other end send back virus-ridden links for games and software, CCTV says .",
"Nearly 1 million phones in China were infected in the first week of September, official says ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Jorge Munoz is a bus driver in New York City who started feeding the hungry in Queens five years ago, using food that would otherwise have been thrown away.",
"And that's how he discovered a secret -- the power of sharing.",
"\"People are telling me, 'Jorge, you have no money, you do all this and get nothing back.'",
"And I say I have a checking account full of smiles.\"",
"Munoz has been recognized as a Top Ten CNN Hero in 2009 and received the U.S. Citizens Award from President Obama.",
"His website is AnAngelinQueens.org.",
"Munoz spoke Wednesday with CNN's Elizabeth Belanger.",
"Here is an edited transcript.",
"CNN: What is it that made you decide to do what you do every day?",
"Jorge Munoz: In the beginning it was to try to avoid wasting food in the garbage.",
"But then I realized it was like a mission from God for my family.",
"That's how we see it. I was working in a summer camp on Long Island and I was waiting for the kids on the bus, and across the street was a food processing plant.",
"I saw a couple come out with a lot of food, and it was good food.",
"I asked them about it and they said they had to throw it out every Friday.",
"But it was good food and I asked them about it, if they could give it to me because I knew someone would want it.",
"So in Jackson Heights I saw people waiting on the corner, and I asked them what they were doing and they said they had no money for food.",
"So I called my mom and I said I had people to give the food to.",
"At first we brought food for eight guys.",
"And a few days later I saw a few of them on the corner and I asked them about it and they said they sleep under the bridge.",
"That's when I decided to bring them food [every day].",
"And the first week it was eight guys, and the next week 24 and so on.",
"Take the iReport challenge: Be an everyday hero .",
"CNN: Are you out there every day?",
"What do you provide for people?",
"Munoz: In these 6 ½ years we've been doing it, I've missed one day because of a snowstorm.",
"And we've distributed 121,000 meals over the years, might be more.",
"But every day we make 120 to 140 meals.",
"For the last few months, every piece of bread I get I bring in the morning with soda or water that I buy.",
"Besides meals, we provide hot coffee, tea, a piece of cake and sometimes my mom makes chicken soup.",
"And when I have money I provide fruit.",
"When I have a budget, when winter is here, I provide caps, underwear, winter hats, scarves, boots.",
"And this time of the year, on the website, I ask for coat donations.",
"I need about 100 coats because these guys sleep on the street.",
"CNN: Why is what you do important today?",
"Munoz: Because I have a family at my house and I have a second family out there.",
"And that's about 130 to 140 guys.",
"And there's always a line out there.",
"And the economy is not good right now, and those who have a place to stay have to choose between a place to live and food.",
"And when we're there they have something to eat.",
"At least we provide a little something, and the only thing we ask in return is a smile.",
"If you hand a meal to someone who hasn't eaten anything in the last 20 hours and they smile, you know you did something good.",
"CNN: How much food do you cook in the space of a week?",
"Munoz: In a week it's hard to say, but for example, tomorrow we're going to cook 22 pounds of rice, 15 pounds of pasta, 10 pounds of frozen vegetables, 10 pounds of onions, 8 to 10 pounds of peppers, 60 pounds of chicken, we do that through the oven.",
"My mom, she's the one who creates the menu and every day we change the menu.",
"CNN: What was it like to become a CNN Hero and what has your life been like since?",
"Munoz: To become a CNN Hero, being nominated, it's a great honor for me, for my family and for my country [Colombia].",
"So they know -- I had the chance to be there for almost a month and when I went into a neighborhood and people knew, or even here in New York, people recognize me.",
"And it helped me around the world.",
"One example, there was a teacher in Afghanistan and she e-mailed me saying she wanted to start a small meal program in their town because of my story.",
"And there was a little girl in Texas, I think she's 8, after CNN Heroes, she saw the show and the next weekend she went out with her friends and family and sold brownies and lemonade and made $25 and sent it to me with a note saying she was touched by my efforts.",
"CNN: Are you planning on expanding your efforts beyond Queens?",
"Munoz: Yeah, we already did.",
"Right now, about a month ago, three volunteers they're doing breakfast in Brentwood and two small towns in Long Island.",
"And in Elizabeth, New Jersey, they're starting a meal program and they're opening one in Miami with sandwiches and water.",
"I'm with them and they're helping me out. CNN: You received the U.S. Citizen's Award from President Obama this year -- what was that like and what did that mean to you?",
"Munoz: That was a great honor.",
"A great honor.",
"Why, because not that many people have a chance to go to the White House invited by the president of the United States.",
"And he told me I did a great job and to continue doing what I'm doing.",
"Today President Barack Obama wants to shake your hand and tell you not to give up your mission.",
"CNN: Who is your biggest inspiration?",
"Munoz: My mom. I always say my mom is my hero.",
"Because she taught me how to share.",
"She told me if you share you're OK with God.",
"CNN: What would you say to people who are trying to figure out a way that they can give back to their community?",
"Munoz: If you share, share anything you have you're not using like clothes, toys, share it to make other people happy.",
"People in this country cook more than they need and two days later it goes from the refrigerator to the garbage.",
"If you see someone standing on the corner and have $2, buy them a cup of coffee and a piece of bread.",
"I'm doing it seven days a week, but just do it once in a while and you'll feel what I feel.",
"And when that person is smiling at you you'll know you're doing something good.",
"Do it from the inside. Share. Sharing is a beautiful thing.",
"Think of me, I'm a regular union worker, bus driver and I'm trying to change the lives of the hungry.",
"And imagine if everyone around the world got together to change the lives of the hungry.",
"Imagine if they helped once in a while, you'd see a lot of change.",
"So share, it's a beautiful thing."
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"Jorge Munoz is a bus driver who started delivering surplus food to the homeless .",
"He saves lots of food that would otherwise go to waste .",
"Munoz has been recognized as a CNN Hero, given award by President Obama .",
"Munoz: Smiles of those he helps make it worthwhile ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea's attempt to make FA Cup history came to a halt on Saturday when the holders were eliminated from England's top knockout competition in a penalty shootout by Premier League rivals Everton.",
"The London club, seeking to become the first to win the trophy three years in a row, were held 1-1 at home in the fourth-round replay despite going ahead in extra-time through England midfielder Frank Lampard.",
"Leighton Baines forced the spot-kick showdown with a superb left-footed set-piece a minute from the end, but the defender looked to have handed Chelsea the advantage when Petr Cech saved his penalty.",
"However, American goalkeeper Tim Howard kept out an effort by French striker Nicolas Anelka and then England defender Ashley Cole blazed his attempt over the crossbar, giving captain Phil Neville the chance to make it 4-3 and seal a last-16 clash with division two Reading on March 1.",
"It was a big blow for Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti ahead of Tuesday's Champions League first-leg, last-16 tie away to Denmark's Copenhagen.",
"\"We deserved to win.",
"Obviously we are not happy, but we have to look forward, to use these days, the next days, to recover well, to recover energy and to prepare well,\" the Italian told reporters after his side's first home defeat against Everton since 1994.",
"A historic first victory in Europe's top club competition seems like Chelsea's only real hopes of winning a trophy this season, with the Blues languishing in fifth place in their Premier League defense.",
"Cup magic shared by cross-channel minnows .",
"League leaders Manchester United were made to battle against non-league part-timers Crawley Town before reaching the last eight with a 1-0 home victory on Saturday.",
"Wes Brown scored the only goal in the 28th minute, his first since 2008, as he headed home a well-worked short corner by Darron Gibson.",
"The defender also made a vital late block on an attempted overhead kick by Matthew Tubbs as Crawley kept fighting for an equalizer and an unexpected replay, with striker Richard Brodie heading against the United bar in time added on.",
"United boss Alex Ferguson started the match with several non-regulars, but brought star striker Wayne Rooney off the bench in the second half.",
"Earlier, Premier League teams Stoke and Birmingham moved into the quarterfinals with 3-0 victories over third division Brighton and Sheffield Wednesday respectively.",
"Stoke went through with first-half goals from strikers John Carew and Jon Walters and defender Ryan Shawcross.",
"Chile winger Jean Beausejour and Obafemi Martins netted inside 20 minutes for Birmingham, the latter his first for the club since the Nigeria striker joined on loan last month, while defender David Murphy wrapped it up eight minutes after halftime.",
"On Sunday, Manchester City host Notts County in a fourth-round replay, while in fifth-round matches Arsenal travel to another division three team Leyton Orient and Fulham take on Premier League rivals Bolton."
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"Two-time defending champions Chelsea knocked out of FA Cup in fourth-round replay .",
"Everton claim last-16 place after winning the penalty shootout 4-3 on Saturday .",
"Manchester United reach quarterfinals with 1-0 win over non-league side Crawley .",
"Premier League Birmingham and Stoke also progress, beating third-division opposition ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- An Iraqi judge sentenced a British contractor to life in prison Monday, sparing him the death penalty.",
"Daniel Fitzsimons, 30, was charged with murder in the 2009 shooting deaths of two colleagues in Baghdad, in the first trial of a Westerner in Iraq since the Iraq War started in 2003.",
"He pleaded not guilty, telling a three-judge panel that he shot the two men in self-defense.",
"The judge who sentenced him said he didn't give him the death penalty \"because you're still young and because of the circumstances of the crime,\" he said.",
"Fitzsimons smiled and thanked the judge when he heard the verdict Monday.",
"The victims were Paul McGuigan, a British national, and Darren Hoare, an Australian.",
"Fitzsimons was also accused of the attempted murder of a guard.",
"The Iraqi guard, Arkan Mahdi, was wounded.",
"He has the right to claim compensation in civil court, the judge ruled.",
"Iraqi judges are not named for security reasons.",
"Fitzsimons's Iraqi lawyer, Tariq Harb, said he was \"very happy with the court decision.\"",
"But Salam Abdulkarim, who represents the families of the victims, said Fitzsimons had committed an ugly crime and according to Iraqi law, he should get the most extreme punishment.",
"A spokesman with the British Embassy in Baghdad said it was a matter for Iraqi law.",
"\"This was a decision made by the Iraqi court.",
"We respect the independence of the Iraqi judicial system, the court verdict and the sentence,\" the spokesman said.",
"Fitzsimons complained during the trial that the court would not let him talk about his post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"The court issued two delays in order to get a health committee report on PTSD.",
"Fitzsimons had previously been diagnosed with the disorder in Britain, but his lawyer had argued that the disorder was new to Iraq.",
"The trial comes after security contractors lost their immunity following the U.S.-Iraq security agreement that went into effect in January 2009.",
"Before that, Iraqis had complained that private security contractors were operating in a state of lawlessness, never held accountable by Iraqi authorities for incidents in which Iraqis were killed.",
"According to Fitzsimons' testimony, after a night of drinking, he got into a fight with McGuigan that lasted on and off for more than an hour.",
"He then left, but was later attacked by McGuigan and Hoare, and he shot them in self-defense, he told the court.",
"At one point, one of the judges told him that his version didn't match some of the evidence.",
"Under Iraqi law, murder is punishable by hanging."
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"NEW: The judge is lenient because of the youth of the killer and the circumstances .",
"Daniel Fitzsimons, 30, is the first Westerner to be tried in Iraq since the war began in 2003 .",
"Fitzsimons admitted shooting two colleagues, Paul McGuigan and Darren Hoare .",
"But he pleaded not guilty to murder, saying he shot the men in self-defense ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Four members of a group of 31 North Koreans who accidentally crossed over into South Korean waters on a fishing boat, have decided to defect to the South, despite Pyongyang's demands that they all be repatriated to the North, the South Korean Red Cross said.",
"The defection of the four North Koreans could spark tensions on the peninsula, where joint U.S.-South Korea military drills have kicked off this week.",
"North Korea had threatened to engulf Seoul in a \"sea of flames,\" a day before the opening of the exercise.",
"The South will return the remaining 27 members of the group through Panmunjom, a truce village on the ground border between the two sides, and send the fishing boat back through the waters in the West Sea on Friday, the Red Cross said.",
"South Korea's intelligence agency questioned the North Koreans for almost a month since they crossed over in February before deciding to release the group, the aid agency said.",
"There are currently more than 20,000 North Korean defectors in South Korea, according to the South's Unification Ministry.",
"The number of annual defectors has risen dramatically since the turn of the century and continues to climb.",
"Defectors who are forcefully repatriated to the North after attempting to cross over into third countries such as China, Mongolia or Southeast Asia are commonly sent to prison camps as a punishment.",
"Many defectors who live in South Korea fear for the lives of their family or relatives who remain in the North."
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"A boat with a crew of 31 crosses into South Korean waters, the Red Cross says .",
"Four of the fishermen decide to stay in the South .",
"The number of defections has risen dramatically in the past decade ."
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"(CNN) -- Top seed Francesca Schiavone suffered a shock first-round exit at the Malaysian Open on Monday, losing 2-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 to Australia's Jelena Dokic.",
"Former world No.",
"4 Dokic had not beaten an opponent ranked in the world's top five since a victory over Belgium's Kim Clijsters in 2003.",
"But the 27-year-old, currently ranked 91st, now has a 100% record in three career meetings with French Open champion Schiavone.",
"The Italian looked on course to end that run after comfortably claiming the opening set in Kuala Lumpur.",
"But 2002 Wimbledon semifinalist Dokic fought back to win a second-set tie break, which saw Schiavone require medical assistance after a fall, and eventually seal the match after one hour and 59 minutes.",
"\"Sometimes when you see your opponent get injured you have to be a lot more focused so you don't drop your level,\" Dokic told the WTA website.",
"\"You can't think that she will not play well.",
"She went for some risky shots early in the rally, so I had to be ready for that.",
"But I think I served really well in the third set.",
"\"I already had a good tournament this year in Paris, I beat top-20 and top-25 players there.",
"I had tough draws in Dubai and Doha and again here, so this is a big win for me.\"",
"Dokic will now face the winner of the clash between Japan's Kurumi Nara and Elena Bovina of Russia.",
"Tuesday sees two more high-profile stars take to the court, as French second seed Marion Bartoli takes on Maria Elena Camerin.",
"Also in action is three-time grand-slam finalist Dinara Safina, who faces Xinyun Han of China.",
"Russia's former No.",
"1 has lost in the first round of all three tournaments she has played this year, most recently at the Australian Open in January, and has dropped to 113th in the rankings.",
"Elsewhere, Juan Martin del Potro claimed his first title since winning the 2009 U.S. Open when he defeated Janko Tipsarevic in the final of the Delray Beach International Championships in Florida on Sunday.",
"Del Potro, now 89th in the world, dropped as low as 485 in the rankings after suffering a serious wrist injury in 2010.",
"His 6-4 6-4 win over the sixth-seeded Serbian capped a fine month, coming on the back of successive semifinal appearances in San Jose and Memphis."
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"It is the first time Dokic has beaten a top-five ranked player since Kim Clijsters in 2003 .",
"Top seed Schiavone has now lost to Dokic in all three of their encounters .",
"Juan Martin del Potro beat Janko Tipsarevic to claim the Delray Beach Championships ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities in Virginia are searching for a young pregnant woman, missing since the end of January.",
"\"Bethany Anne Decker, 21, was last seen on January 29, 2011, according to witnesses in the case, including family,\" a statement from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said.",
"She is believed to be about five months pregnant and is married to Emile Decker, a member of the U.S. Army National Guard, who is currently serving in Afghanistan.",
"The couple also has a 17-month-old son.",
"\"The family is concerned and so are we,\" said Vince DiBenedetto, a sheriff's spokesman.",
"\"We are in a race against the clock and playing catch-up on a lot of this.\"",
"She was last seen January 29 and was reported missing by her family about three weeks later on February 19 \"after repeated attempts to make contact with her.\"",
"Decker's last known address was in Ashburn, about 25 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.",
"Her car was found at an apartment complex where she lived and was in the process of moving from.",
"DiBenedetto said the vehicle offered no clues to her whereabouts.",
"When her husband, Emile, was home on leave in January, the couple went to Hawaii to visit her father and then stayed with her grandparents in Maryland after they returned, DiBenedetto said.",
"Emile Decker returned to Afghanistan the first week of February and some members of her family saw him off at the airport.",
"Bethany Decker was not there, according to DiBenedetto.",
"Authorities have talked with Emile Decker from Afghanistan via phone and are trying to arrange a video conference with him, DiBenedetto said."
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"Her car was found at an apartment she was moving out of .",
"Her husband Emile Decker is serving in Afghanistan ."
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"(CNN) -- Wisconsin protesters geared up for a third week of demonstrations on Monday as Democratic lawmakers were again missing from the state capitol, protesting a bill that would curb collective bargaining rights for most public workers.",
"The state's 14 Democratic senators have fled to neighboring Illinois to prevent a quorum of 20 votes needed for a budget repair bill that would require public employees -- with the exception of police and firefighters -- to cover more of their retirement plans and health care premiums.",
"Collective bargaining would be limited to wages, though any pay increases beyond the inflation rate would be subject to voter approval.",
"\"There are plenty of states that do not have collective bargaining,\" Republican Gov.",
"Scott Walker said Monday.",
"\"We have a right to do this with the statutes and that's what we're doing.\"",
"Union leaders have agreed to pay more for benefits, but oppose restricting bargaining rights that the governor argues is needed for meaningful fiscal reforms.",
"Wisconsin is \"broke,\" and unions use their power to block necessary cost-saving measures, Walker said Sunday on NBC's \"Meet the Press.\"",
"\"It's about time somebody stood up and told the truth in this state, and said, 'Here's our problem, here's the solution,' and acted on it,\" he said.",
"\"Because if we don't, we fail to make a commitment to the future.\"",
"Moments later on the program, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka assailed Walker.",
"\"This isn't about the budget crisis,\" he said, adding that Walker's arguments have \"migrated\" as his justifications have been refuted.",
"\"Governors that are willing to sit down and work with their employees can work out problems,\" Trumka said.",
"\"We can solve them. But that's not what Governor Walker is doing.",
"He says, 'I won't talk to you.' \" Wisconsin is confronted with a $137 million budget shortfall by June 30.",
"The embattled governor has defended his budget repair bill, saying the measures are needed to head off a $3.6 billion budget gap by 2013 that could result in thousands of layoffs.",
"The state had faced a suggested Friday deadline to balance the budget, but the crucial date is March 16, officials said.",
"Meanwhile, some of the hundreds of demonstrators who had filled the Capitol building -- gathering inside the rotunda in daily protest of the proposed legislation -- had left the building by Monday at the request of state police, said Department of Administration spokeswoman Jodi Jensen.",
"\"Of those who remained, all but a few have voluntarily complied with the request of law enforcement to remain in a designed area of the building,\" Jensen said.",
"\"No additional protesters will be allowed into the building until this situation is resolved.\"",
"Hundreds gathered outside the Capitol building later on Monday, chanting, \"Let us in!\"",
"Their yells were met by a group of protesters who remained inside, chanting, \"Let them in!\"",
"Representative Peter Barca, the Democratic leader in Wisconsin's state assembly, called the lock-down unacceptable.",
"\"Politicians may not always enjoy hearing what the citizens of this state have to say, but it is wrong to block elected officials from their constituents,\" Barca said.",
"\"There are a number of scheduled meetings in the building today and the public has a right to attend them and visit their legislators.\"",
"A pro-union political action committee called \"Defending Wisconsin\" filed a lawsuit Monday in a U.S. District Court against the state of Wisconsin for not letting people to enter the capitol building, said the group's director Jeremy J. Ryan.",
"Authorities had initially given demonstrators until late Sunday afternoon to leave the building, saying it needed to be cleaned after roughly two weeks of protests.",
"\"We're going through an extensive cleaning process tonight,\" Wisconsin Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs said late Sunday.",
"\"We're hoping to get through that.\"",
"And while many people left, others defied the order and remained inside.",
"Some said they were willing to risk arrest in a conflict that has become a flash point in the nation's debate around labor unions.",
"The budget bill was passed by assembly lawmakers early Friday and must now clear the Senate, where absent Democrats have stalled the legislative process while awaiting a compromise outside state borders.",
"Walker has called on the lawmakers to \"come back and do their job,\" sending state patrol officers to Democrat homes in an effort to pressure their return.",
"\"If we fail to pass this bill by Tuesday, we lose $165 million worth of savings.",
"If we continue down that path we start seeing layoffs,\" he warned.",
"Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers told CNN Sunday that workers in Wisconsin have sent a message to Walker that \"'we understand and we will do our fair share.'\"",
"But Walker is sending a different message, Weingarten said: \"'I'm just taking away your voice at work.'\"",
"In the long term, that message \"is ridiculous because collective bargaining is the way to increase quality,\" she said.",
"President Barack Obama also weighed in on Monday, appearing to allude to the growing controversy by telling a group of governors that while \"everybody should be prepared to give up something\" in the face of new budget realities, \"I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are vilified\" or their rights are infringed upon.",
"While the president has publicly expressed support for those fighting to keep collective bargaining in Wisconsin, he has not joined them at protests.",
"Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, quickly responded, calling the president's comments a \"misunderstanding.\"",
"\"I'm sure the President knows that the average federal worker pays twice as much for health insurance as what we are asking for in Wisconsin,\" Werwie said in a written statement.",
"Trumka of the AFL-CIO insisted that Obama, who faces federal budget challenges, is \"doing it the right way.\"",
"\"He's not taking on workers like Scott Walker is and trying to take away their ability to come together and negotiate a middle-class way of life,\" Trumka said.",
"Walker is expected to give the state's annual budget address to a joint session of the state legislature Tuesday at 4 p.m. (5 p.m.ET).",
"But the showdown over budgets and bargaining rights is not limited to the Badger State.",
"In Indiana, Democratic lawmakers -- much like those from Wisconsin -- remained in Illinois on Monday, extending the .",
"stalemate over a Republican-backed proposal they say will restrict workers' rights.",
"Republican house members claim they have scrapped a \"right-to-work\" bill that would have prevented private-sector unions from requiring workers to pay dues for representation.",
"But Indiana Democrats are skeptical.",
"\"You'll forgive us if we don't take them at their word,\" said party spokesman John Schorg.",
"\"We were out (of the state) today and chances are we will be out tomorrow.\"",
"Schorg said negotiations between Republicans and Democrats had come to a virtual stand-still Monday.",
"The state's Republican governor, Mitch Daniels -- who ended collective bargaining with public unions soon after his election in 2005 -- has defended the bill as necessary cost-cutting measure.",
"The former budget director under George W. Bush, Daniels -- who is often described as a potential 2012 presidential candidate -- may now be facing a more difficult task in scaling back the negotiating rights of private unions.",
"The state assembly met on Monday, but lacked the two-thirds quorum needed to pass legislation.",
"Lawmakers face a April 29 deadline to balance the state budget, officials said.",
"In Ohio, a budget bill supported by another GOP governor, John Kasich, prompted thousands of labor-backed demonstrators to descend on Columbus to protest a proposal that would curtail union bargaining rights.",
"Senate Republicans, who command a 23-10 majority -- currently lack enough votes to pass another controversial budget bill affecting public workers.",
"The proposal, known as Senate Bill 5, would prevent employees from negotiating health care, pensions and automatic pay raises based on seniority.",
"The measure would also ban strikes for all public workers -- rather than just those involved in public safety -- but was recently amended to allow state employees to negotiate salaries, according to state Sen. Shannon Jones.",
"\"We can't sustain the contracts that have clogged up the arteries of government for the last 30 years,\" said Jason Mauk, a spokesman for the Ohio Senate Majority Caucus.",
"\"We're allowing unions to negotiate terms that should be the employers' decision.\"",
"Mauk said Republican lawmakers view the measure as \"long-term reform to restructure state government.\"",
"He says its an effort to \"trim around the edges to make government leaner and more efficient.\"",
"But opposition groups say the bill is anti-union.",
"Crowds of union supporters -- who last week surrounded the state capitol chanting, \"Kill the Bill\" -- are expected to again board Columbus-bound buses in protest of the measure on Tuesday.",
"Democrats had refused to put forth a single amendment after lawmakers described the proposal as \"fatally flawed.\"",
"The next senate hearing on the measure is set to begin Tuesday at 1p.m.",
"(2p.m.ET). CNN's Deborah Feyerick, Ted Rowlands and Eric Fiegel contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Indiana Democratic legislators stay out of state in protest of budget bill .",
"NEW: Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats are at a virtual stand-still .",
"NEW: In Ohio, a senate hearing on collective bargaining and budget cuts is set for Tuesday .",
"NEW: Wisconsin governor's aide says Obama remarks are a \"misunderstanding\""
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"(CNN) -- World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki came through her opener against Nadia Petrova at the WTA Qatar Open after a string of seeded players crashed out Wednesday.",
"Wozniacki, fresh from her triumph in Dubai, had little trouble against 2006 champion Petrova, running out a 6-3 6-2 winner in their second round match.",
"\"It's great to start off with a win and continue with my good form after Dubai,\" the Dane told the official WTA website.",
"She secured a single break in the opener to move ahead and three breaks of service in the second.",
"Her victory sets up a quarterfinal clash against Italian Flavia Pennetta at the Khalifa Tennis and Squash Complex.",
"Penetta's compatriot and third seed Francesca Schiavone became the biggest casualty yet as she was beaten 7-5 6-3 by China's Peng Shuai.",
"Schiavone, the reigning French Open champion, complained of tiredness after her defeat.",
"Fourth-seeded Li Na, the Australian Open finalist, crashed to a 6-2 6-1 loss to Czech Klara Zakopalova, while eighth seed Shahar Peer of Israel was thrashed 6-1 6-0 by France's Marion Bartoli.",
"\"She gave me no chance,\" said Peer, who had beaten two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round.",
"\"I have won seven out of nine times against her in the past, but today she was simply too good.\"",
"Second seed and World No.3 Vera Zvonareva also avoided an upset as she swept aside Dominika Cibulkova 6-1 6-2 in the final match of the day.",
"Russian Zvonareva showed no signs of a recent niggling shoulder injury to stay on course for a final clash with Wozniacki."
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"Caroline Wozniacki continues winning streak by beating Nadia Petrova in Qatar .",
"Dane comes to Doha off the back of her Dubai Open success .",
"Third seed and French Open champion Francesca Schiavone loses to Peng Shuai .",
"Second seed Vera Zvonareva reaches quarterfinals by beating Dominika Cibulkova ."
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"(CNN) -- Caroline Wozniacki claimed her first title of the season on Sunday with a straight-sets win over Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova at the WTA Dubai Tennis Championships.",
"Denmark's Wozniacki -- who will leapfrog Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters to become world No.",
"1 for a second time on Monday -- took just 75 minutes to dismiss double grand slam winner Kuznetsova 6-1 6-3.",
"The 20-year-old broke her 23rd-ranked opponent's serve in the second game to take a 2-0 lead, and went on to break twice more to seal a one-sided first set in just over 30 minutes.",
"Former world No.",
"4 Kuznetsova threatened a comeback as top-seeded Wozniacki served for the match at 5-2 but it was too little too late for the one-time U.S. and French Open champion.",
"Quiz world No.",
"3 tennis player Vera Zvonareva .",
"Wozniacki briefly lost the number one ranking, which she had held since October 2010, after losing in the last four of the Australian Open in January.",
"However, the 2009 U.S. Open runner-up said that she believes her triumph in the United Arab Emirates, where she did not drop a set all week, can spur her on to greater things this year.",
"\"It's great to have this as my first tournament back and to see me smiling again,\" she told reporters after winning her 13th title on the women's tour.",
"\"I knew that if I just keep working hard, and I take my chances, my time will come.",
"And I'm back here playing well.\"",
"Elsewhere in France, world No.",
"4 and double French Open finalist Robin Soderling came from a set down against Croatia's Marin Cilic to win the ATP Marseille Open to continue his impressive start to the season.",
"The Swedish world no.",
"4, who won in Rotterdam last week and also took the Brisbane crown in January, battled to a 6-7(8) 6-3 6-3 victory over the former world No.",
"9 to claim his ninth singles title."
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"Caroline Wozniacki defeats Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova to win Dubai title .",
"Dane will become world No.",
"1 for a second time when new rankings come out on Monday .",
"World No.",
"4 Robin Soderling beats Croatia's Marin Cilic to win Marseille Open ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- China rejected American criticism of its treatment of journalists Tuesday, two days after several foreign reporters, including CNN staff, were manhandled by Chinese security forces.",
"\"As far as I understand, journalists did not follow relevant procedures in advance of Sunday.",
"Police were there to provide reasonable guidance,\" Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.",
"\"China protects foreign journalists' lawful rights within the law,\" she said, adding that the ministry hopes \"journalists understand that it takes two sides -- both the government and the journalists -- to understand each other, and patiently handle the situation.\"",
"The U.S. ambassador to China said Monday that American and other foreign journalists were \"illegally detained or harassed as they attempted to do their jobs\" while covering protests in downtown Beijing over the weekend.",
"Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. said in a statement that one reporter was \"severely beaten and detained for many hours.\"",
"\"I call on the Chinese government to hold the perpetrators accountable for harassing and assaulting innocent individuals and ask that they respect the rights of foreign journalists to report in China,\" he said.",
"Journalists including CNN's Eunice Yoon and Jo Ling Kent were physically harassed by Chinese security Sunday as they planned to cover a protest -- which never took place, perhaps because of heavy police presence.",
"They were shoved, dragged and at times carried away from the scene.",
"Their cameras were confiscated and footage was deleted, and a press card was taken away from Yoon, who wrested it back from an officer who refused to give his name.",
"\"We found out many other journalists were treated the same and, in some cases, much worse,\" Yoon wrote.",
"\"A former colleague and friend of mine, Steve Engle of Bloomberg News, had been dragged into an alley by several police who beat him up.",
"He ended up at the hospital.\"",
"The heavy security was a response to a second weekend in a row of anonymous calls by organizers for a pro-democracy demonstration in Beijing.",
"Hundreds of Chinese police officers along with more than 120 vehicles flooded Beijing's central pedestrian shopping area, Wangfujing, on Sunday, around the site of a second attempted \"jasmine\" rally inspired by pro-democracy protests in Tunisia.",
"There was no sign of protest as the police deployed unusual tactics to prevent demonstrations."
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"Journalists and the government must see each others' point of view, the foreign ministry says .",
"Reporters including CNN's Eunice Yoon and Jo Ling Kent were roughed up on Sunday .",
"They were trying to cover a planned anti-government protest .",
"Heavy police presence dissuaded demonstrators ."
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"(CNN) -- Talking to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan may help bring peace to the country, according to a former Pakistan spy chief once referred to as the \"father of the Taliban.\"",
"Retired Gen. Hamid Gul, a former head of the ISI spy agency, worked with the CIA through the 1980s to fund and train the Afghan Jihad against the Soviets.",
"Many of the Mujahedeen went on to govern Afghanistan as the Taliban, who are led by Mullah Omar.",
"\"The best situation would be to talk to Mullah Omar,\" Gul said.",
"\"But then, put up your own conditions where I would say it is legitimate ...",
"I think they will accept.",
"I know their psychology.\"",
"Face-to-face talks would work best, Gul added.",
"\"You have to engage him. You have to talk to him,\" Gul said.",
"\"There is no one else, for heaven sake, why beat around the bush?\"",
"Last year, Gul said Omar was the only person who can improve U.S. interests in Afghanistan.",
"\"Mullah Omar, nobody else,\" Gul said.",
"He insisted that President Barack Obama's administration can access Omar through the Pakistan military.",
"But the Pakistani Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) denied that the Pakistani military is in contact with Omar and that it can bring him and other commanders to the negotiating table.",
"In his latest interview, Gul decried the terrorist label on the Taliban, saying former President George W. Bush was wrong to call them that.",
"\"This is wrong, by any definition,\" he said.",
"\"No shred of evidence is available that they were involved in any terrorist activity.\"",
"Last year, Gul said a stated Taliban condition to any discussions -- the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan first -- was not a fixed demand.",
"With concessions from Washington, it could be softened and make way for negotiations to begin, he said.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will pursue talks with the Taliban as part of a reconciliation and reintegration plan.",
"Karzai has said he plans to buy off low-level Taliban foot soldiers with cash and make peace with some Taliban leaders by offering them government positions.",
"While Washington supports the plan, it rejects a dialogue involving Omar.",
"The Taliban has said Omar is not interested in a peace deal.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"Face-to-face talks would work best, says former head of the ISI spy agency .",
"Last year Gul said Omar was only person who can improve U.S. interests in Afghanistan .",
"He insisted U.S. can access Omar through Pakistan military .",
"Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations deny military in contact with Omar ."
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"(CNN) -- Texas firefighters were making significant progress Tuesday against wildfires that have consumed at least 78 homes and, at their peak, were burning the length of a football field every minute.",
"Sustained winds of 40 mph, gusting to 60, combined with 2% relative humidity in some areas to cause the grass fire conflagration Sunday, said Mark Stanford, chief of fire operations for the Texas Forest Service.",
"On Tuesday, however, firefighters had all 21 remaining fires at least 50 percent contained, Stanford told CNN Radio.",
"Crews want to have them fully contained by Thursday, he said.",
"\"Friday will be another bad day for us,\" Stanford said.",
"\"Not as bad as Sunday, but it will be a very high fire danger day across that region.",
"So we want to make sure that we've freed up all of our fire resources so that they can respond to new starts we may have.\"",
"As of Tuesday, 78 homes had been reported destroyed, and that number is expected to increase as teams fan out to inspect damages, Stanford said.",
"None of the fires were threatening communities.",
"Smoke from one fire caused an accident that killed a 5-year-old child Sunday on Interstate 20.",
"Officials believe many of the fires were started by power lines that fell from high winds.",
"Officials are urging citizens to be very cautious with their outdoor activities on fire danger days.",
"One fire was caused by an individual grinding on metal pipe, Stanford said.",
"A blaze in Midland was caused when a vehicle tire blew and the tire rim created sparks.",
"Since Sunday, forestry officials, who were called in to assist local fire departments, have responded to 71 fires covering 136,699 acres, the Texas Forest Service said on its website.",
"Most of the fires were across the Texas Panhandle.",
"The fires occurred in an area of about 45,000 square miles, the size of Kentucky, Stanford said.",
"Two of the biggest active fires were in Randall County, where 26 homes were lost, and Potter County, where 29 homes were lost.",
"Those fires were 80% and 25% contained, respectively.",
"Both were expected to be completely contained by day's end, Stanford said.",
"Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said a 61,000-acre fire in his county was ignited when a man cut pipe with a metal grinder in high wind Sunday.",
"Austin Lynn Stephens, 52, was arrested and charged with criminal trespass because he was on private property when he was using the grinder.",
"Firefighters battled blazes in a dozen other counties, including a 35,000-acre fire in Matador West in Motley County, and a 21,000-acre fire in Andrews County, officials said Monday.",
"They also fought fires in the counties of Haskell, Tom Green, Randall, Howard, Midland, Scurry, Motley, Crockett, Mitchell and Eastland.",
"One wildfire destroyed a dog kennel near Amarillo, Capt.",
"Wes Hall of the Amarillo Fire Department said.",
"Authorities were trying to account Monday for the animals missing or dead after the fire tore through the Willow Creek Kennel.",
"Firefighters were able to open cages to free at least some of the dogs before the flames overtook the facility.",
"As many as 27 homes were destroyed in the area and \"the fire was on the kennel in a matter of minutes,\" employee Chance Smith said, adding he did not have an exact number of dogs lost.",
"In the community of Matador, north of Lubbock, families could do nothing but watch as their homes burned to the ground.",
"Juan and Rosemary Segovia hadn't been gone 20 minutes when they returned to a panic-stricken neighborhood and found they had lost everything they owned.",
"\"To know everything you worked so hard for, it's all gone,\" a tearful Juan Segovia told CNN affiliate KCBD.",
"He and his wife stared in disbelief at the blaze.",
"The family of seven is without a home, but grateful for what was not lost.",
"\"I'm glad our family wasn't home when it happened,\" Rosemary Segovia said before falling into her husband's arms.",
"\"That's all I care about is I have my family.\"",
"CNN's Dave Alsup, Mariano Castillo and Antoinette Campbell and CNN Radio's Barbara Hall contributed to this report."
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"NEW: All 21 wildfires are at least 50% contained, Mark Stanford says .",
"NEW: A fire in Midland is blamed on a vehicle tire that blew, he says .",
"More than 136,000 acres have burned in 71 fires in Texas, the state forest service says .",
"78 homes have been reported destroyed ."
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"(CNN) -- The United Nations on Monday accused Belarus of defying an arms embargo against Ivory Coast by delivering three attack helicopters to the disputed president of the West African nation.",
"A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the helicopters and other related materiel \"are reportedly being delivered at Yamoussoukro,\" the nation's capital, for Laurent Gbagbo's forces.",
"Ban is pushing for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the matter, the spokesman said.",
"\"The first delivery arrived reportedly on a flight which landed this (Sunday) evening and additional flights are scheduled for Monday,\" the spokesman said in a statement.",
"U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Monday afternoon that U.N. officials on the ground in Ivory Coast were unable to confirm whether the delivery was made, saying they were forced to withdraw from the airport before they were able to verify the report.",
"U.N. officials later said that the team sent to investigate the possible breach of sanctions was fired upon Monday by local security forces in the Ivory Coast.",
"Gbagbo, the nation's incumbent leader, is clinging to the presidency despite an international call for him to step down after an electoral commission declared challenger Alassane Ouattara the winner of a November election.",
"The deliveries violate an arms embargo that has been in place since 2004, Ban's spokesman said.",
"Andrei Savinykh, a spokesman for the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, vehemently denied the allegation, calling it part of a campaign of \"lies and slander\" against Belarus.",
"A \"destructive information attack is being carried out\" against Belarus, said Savinykh, according to the Belarus state-run Belta news agency.",
"Violence in Ivory Coast escalated sharply over the past week, after four African heads of state left Abidjan.",
"They had been given a mandate by the African Union to find a \"binding solution\" to the post-election crisis in Ivory Coast.",
"Gbagbo and Ouattara supporters have clashed in the central cities, Yamoussoukro and Daoukro, in addition to ongoing fighting in Abidjan.",
"Ouattara is holed up in the Golf hotel in Abidjan under the protection of U.N. peacekeepers.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko and Joe Vaccarello contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: A U.N. team sent to investigate the possible breach of sanctions is fired upon .",
"A spokesman for the government of Belarus denies breaking the embargo .",
"The secretary-general is pushing for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council .",
"A spokesman for Ban Ki-moon says the first helicopter reportedly arrived Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities imposed curfews and limited access to city centers across Iraq as thousands of protesters demanded economic progress and an end to corruption, police said.",
"Demonstrators were reported to be gathering in Baghdad, Basra, Nineveh, Anbar and Salaheddin.",
"The developments follow weeks of demonstrations across the country by protesters angry about unemployment, poor basic services, corruption and a lack of freedom.",
"At least 13 people died in protests on February 25.",
"\"Liar, liar, Nuri al-Maliki,\" some protesters were heard shouting in Baghdad.",
"\"Al-Maliki has become like Saddam,\" others said, referring to former leader Saddam Hussein.",
"\"We have elected you to protect us and not to kill us,\" one banner said.",
"After an emergency cabinet meeting on Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave government ministers 100 days to deliver results and eliminate corruption or be fired.",
"\"We live in a country rich with oil, yet we don't have jobs,\" demonstrators said.",
"\"The oil for the people and not for thieves.\"",
"In Baghdad, police imposed a ban on the movement of vehicles across the city, forcing protesters to walk several kilometers to Tahrir Square.",
"Still several thousands gathered there after Friday prayers."
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"Authorities impose curfews to limit access to city centers .",
"At least 13 people died in protests a week ago ."
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"(CNN) -- Wisconsin Gov.",
"Scott Walker on Thursday warned 14 absent lawmakers trying to stall his controversial budget bill to return to the state Capitol immediately to vote on the measure, or layoff notices will be sent to 1,500 public employees before the weekend.",
"\"Unfortunately, if we don't have action by tomorrow we have a legal and moral obligation to start forewarning people,\" Walker said a Thursday night press conference.",
"The layoffs would take effect April 1, the governor said.",
"Walker's threat to start laying off workers capped the third week of a high-stakes drama playing out in Wisconsin.",
"Meanwhile, a Dane County judge on Thursday issued an order barring demonstrators from the state Capitol after business hours.",
"During protests, some demonstrators have been sleeping inside the building.",
"The order from Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge John Albert gave the state Department of Administration the authority to forcibly remove anyone who refuses.",
"Most of the protesters remaining at the Capitol Thursday evening appeared to abide by the judge's order.",
"Some initially balked at the demand they leave the Capitol by the building's regular 6 p.m. closing time.",
"However, a long line of demonstrators later filed out of the building chanting slogans, carrying bedrolls and banging homemade plastic drums.",
"Concerns about safety risks arising from the nonstop presence of demonstrators at the Capitol were heightened Thursday with the discovery of 41 rounds of hollow-point rifle ammunition found outside the building.",
"Police continued their search for more ammunition, and the person to which it belongs, amid a contentious budget showdown over a measure that would -- among other things -- curb the collective bargaining rights of most state workers.",
"Walker has repeatedly said the collective bargaining provisions of his bill are not negotiable.",
"The governor showed little sign of backing down from that stance Thursday night.",
"Instead, Walker repeatedly said he was \"frustrated\" by the intransigence of the 14 Democratic senators trying to stymie the bill by not showing up to vote.",
"He blamed a core group of \"extreme\" dissenters for standing in the way of compromise.",
"\"What's probably the most frustrating is I keep getting the sense that many of these responsible senators are seeking a pathway home, however some of the more extreme members of that caucus are putting up a barrier to them,\" Walker said.",
"Walker refused to name any of the senators he believes are blocking negotiations.",
"The governor said he and Republican House Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald have been trying to negotiate with some Democrats.",
"Walker refused to talk about what \"specifics are on the table.\"",
"Weeks of demonstrations in protest of Gov.",
"Scott Walker's proposal have drawn massive crowds to the state legislature since mid-February, contributing to $6.5 million in damages and other costs, state Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said during a hearing Thursday.",
"The hearing examined the question of public access to the building.",
"Meanwhile, the state Senate approved a resolution that would hold absentee Democratic lawmakers \"in contempt of the Senate\" should they not return to the Capitol by late afternoon.",
"The missing lawmakers -- who left February 17 -- had still not returned by Thursday night.",
"The contempt measure allows state law enforcement to detain and return the 14 Senate Democrats to Wisconsin, according to Senate Majority Leader spokesman Andrew Welhouse.",
"Walker said he would prefer that the absent senators return of their own accord.",
"\"I personally am going to ... try and compel these senators to come back in terms of making an offer,\" Walker said.",
"The lawmakers fled to Illinois to prevent a quorum for voting on the state's budget repair bill, which would limit collective bargaining to wages and require public workers, with the exception of police and firefighters, to cover more of their retirement plans and health care premiums.",
"But whether the contempt measure is constitutional remains unclear.",
"The state Constitution prohibits the arrest of lawmakers while the legislature is in session, except for \"treason, felony and breach of the peace.\"",
"Whether Wisconsin law enforcement would be permitted jurisdiction in Illinois to detain the missing Democrats is also unclear.",
"The stalemate has proven increasingly contentious in recent days as Senate lawmakers adopted a resolution on Wednesday that would fine absentee lawmakers $100 every day they remain missing.",
"A similar resolution passed a day later in Indiana, where House Republicans imposed a $250-a-day fine against AWOL Democrats who -- like their Wisconsin counterparts -- fled to Illinois in protest of a labor bill.",
"In Wisconsin, Republicans need a single Democrat to cross party lines and rejoin the 33-member legislature to meet the quorum of 20 lawmakers required in a vote on state fiscal matters.",
"Only 17 lawmakers are required for most other issues.",
"Union leaders have agreed to pay more for benefits, but view restricting bargaining rights as an assault on workers' rights.",
"Gov. Walker took to the airwaves Wednesday in support of his belt-tightening measure.",
"\"Every day we fail to act on this just adds more and more to the cost,\" he told reporters, defending the curtailing of collective bargaining as an integral part of fiscal reform.",
"Wisconsin is confronted with a looming $137 million shortfall at the end of the fiscal year, June 30.",
"The state faces a $3.6 billion budget gap by 2013.",
"CNN's Katherine Wojtecki contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Wisconsin governor threatens to lay off 1,500 workers if senators don't return home .",
"NEW: Judge rules that demonstrators can no longer sleep inside Capitol building .",
"At least 41 rounds of .22-caliber ammunition have been found outside the Capitol .",
"The state Senate approves a resolution allowing police to detain missing Democrats ."
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"(CNN) -- More than 20% of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator -- a high-tech device that produces electrical impulses to regulate heartbeats and prevent life-threatening arrhythmias -- in recent years were not good candidates to receive the device, a new study suggests.",
"Researchers at Duke University looked at more than 111,000 patients who received ICD implants between 2006 and 2009.",
"More than 25,000 of those patients did not meet evidence-based criteria for receiving the device, according to the study.",
"The risk of dying in the hospital was significantly higher for patients who received the ICD but did not meet the criteria, and 1 out of 121 patients in this category experienced complications following the implant, the study found.",
"According to Dr. Sana Al-Khatib, lead researcher of the study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ICDs often are recommended as a primary prevention tactic for patients who are at high risk for a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia, but who have not yet suffered from these symptoms.",
"However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has issued a \"decision memo\" stating that only people having certain serious heart conditions or cardiac histories are suitable candidates for ICDs.",
"The memo further states that patients must meet numerous other qualifications relating to clinical trials and not have certain serious diseases or conditions that would lower the implant's efficacy or the patient's likelihood of long-term survival.",
"Dr. Ralph Brindis, president of the American College of Cardiology, said in a statement that the Duke University findings will have \"major implications.\"",
"\"The study indicates that there are substantial variations among hospital ICD implantation strategies,\" Brindis said.",
"\"This variation clearly demonstrates an opportunity for improvement in care.\"",
"Dr. Robert Michler, chairman of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center, said the data should act as a \"wake-up call\" for physicians, surgeons and patients.",
"\"Doctors are well-intentioned, but not all doctors should be determining the use of what is a very sophisticated therapy,\" Michler says.",
"He says that in this case electophysiologists should be making the final determination if the patient needs the device.",
"Even with the current guidelines, Al-Khatib said, some patients may fall into a gray zone and that each physician needs to use clinical judgment to make recommendations.",
"\"Deviating from the guideline are acceptable in various circumstances,\" she said.",
"\"But 20% is a significant amount of deviation.\"",
"Al-Khatib found that many patients who were being implanted with the ICDs had recently experienced arrhythmias or cardiac arrests.",
"She said the time factor might explain the study's finding of an increase in deaths among implant patients who did not meet CMS criteria.",
"\"These patients were sicker to begin with.",
"They were in a period where they were more prone to complications,\" Al-Khatib said.",
"\"The physicians haven't had the time to optimize the patients' medical therapy before subjecting them to this surgery.\"",
"Another possible explanation for the higher incidence of death might have been be whether the cardiologists who performed the implant were electrophysiologists.",
"These specialists have additional training in the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms and were less likely to implant an ICD in a patient who did not meet evidence-based criteria, the study found."
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"A federal health agency has a set of guidelines for evaluating implant candidates .",
"Duke University study: More than 20% of implant recipients weren't good candidates .",
"Among those patients, the risk of dying in the hospital was significantly higher .",
"Findings will have \"major implications,\" the president of a cardiologists' group says ."
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"(CNN) -- An Indiana infant who was denied a life-saving transplant surgery by Medicaid will now have his operation paid for.",
"MDwise, Inc. and AmeriHealth Mercy of Indiana announced Friday that they will cover six-month-old Seth Petreikis' thymus tissue transplant after Medicaid denied his parents original claim.",
"Two appeals to the state's Family and Social Service Administration had also been denied.",
"This decision comes after media reports of Seth's plight.",
"After having an open heart surgery at about 2 ½ weeks, doctors diagnosed Seth with Complete DiGeorge Syndrome, a rare disease that leaves him with no immune system.",
"Dr. M. Louise Market pioneered the surgery at Duke Hospital in North Carolina -- the only doctor at the only hospital in the United States that performs the surgery.",
"Duke Hospital has done 60 thymus transplants in patients with DiGeorge Syndrome, and approximately 75% of them survived.",
"Without this transplant, Seth would face serious infections that would surely end his life.",
"Tim and Becky Petreikis from Dyer, Indiana, were told the cost of the surgery would be $350,000 to $500,000 -- a cost they told CNN they could not afford.",
"Seth's health care is covered by Indiana Medicaid, but this treatment was originally denied because the surgery was considered experimental.",
"Investigational treatments are not covered by Medicaid.",
"\"Based on Seth's unique and compelling story, we believe making a compassionate allowance in this case is appropriate,\" said Caroline Carney Doebbeling, the MDwise chief medical officer, in a press release.",
"MDwise chief marketing officer Jamie Bruce told CNN in a telephone interview that instance likes this don't happen often.",
"\"It is a rare thing.",
"We have not had a case this unique before.",
"This is the first instance in the state of Indiana that someone has had this condition,\" Bruce said.",
"Bruce said that MDwise came to a decision to cover Seth's transplant mid-day Friday.",
"Seth's father said that MDWise called his wife Becky directly Friday afternoon and told her that their son's surgery would be covered.",
"Petreikis said she was so happy she just started crying.",
"\"I am so, so, so grateful,\" he said, adding that he is beyond excited.",
"\"The thing that makes America great is we pull together when others are in need,\" the father said.",
"The family set up a website and bank account asking for donations to help them afford Seth's surgery.",
"After only two days, $150,000 was raised.",
"The Petreikises told CNN that because Seth's surgery is covered in full now, all of the money will be going to a foundation to get the procedure deemed non-experimental so that other families and children can be helped.",
"They added that they are overwhelmed with gratitude and thankful to the state of Indiana.",
"Seth's father said that Seth will have heart surgery in February to have a shunt replaced.",
"After recovering, he will go to North Carolina where he will hopefully have his thymus transplant by April."
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"Medicaid denied coverage for Seth Petreikis' surgery .",
"Infant will go to Duke in North Carolina next year .",
"\"I am so, so, so grateful,\" father says ."
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"(CNN) -- German car manufacturer Mercedes completed a takeover of the rebranded Brawn GP Formula One team on Monday, after its parent company Deimler acquired all remaining shares from team principal Ross Brawn and his management partners.",
"In collaboration with its largest shareholder Aabar, Deimler purchased the remaining 24.9% of the team, which is now known as Mercedes GP.",
"German corporation Deimler initially bought a 45.1% share of the team when it was called Brawn GP in November 2009, and that stake has now risen to 60%.",
"Aabar, a global investment company owned by the Abu Dhabi government, now owns 40% of Mercedes GP.",
"\"Daimler and Aabar's acquisition of the remaining 24.9% stake will be a further step in the consolidation and strengthening of our team for the future,\" Brawn told the official F1 website.",
"\"I remain fully committed to our team for the long-term, along with the management team and all of our employees.",
"We all look forward to the challenge of making our team successful, and proudly representing Mercedes-Benz.\"",
"The Brawn GP team competed in the elite motorsport for only one season, after the completion of a management buyout of the Honda Racing team in February 2009.",
"The 2009 season was a huge success for the British-based team, as they clinched the constructors' title as well as the drivers' championship through British racer Jenson Button.",
"The team was renamed Mercedes GP for the 2010 campaign, and achieved a fourth-place finish in the constructors' standings.",
"The German duo of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher and 25-year-old Nico Rosberg will once again race for the team in 2011.",
"Elsewhere, last year's double world champions Red Bull have announced a sponsorship deal with luxury carmaker Infiniti.",
"The Japanese manufacturer, which is parented by Nissan, has a marketing agreement with the British-based marque which will cover the 2011 and 2012 seasons.",
"Infiniti's logo will now be present on Red Bull's new RB7 car and their drivers' overalls.",
"Team principal Christian Horner hailed the new deal and said the agreement will have both commercial and technical benefits for Red Bull.",
"\"The technical wealth and resources that Infiniti have at their disposal through Nissan is quite phenomenal,\" Horner told CNN.",
"\"As an independent team, it was the one piece that Red Bull previously didn't have compared to the likes of Ferrari and Mercedes.",
"So for us, it's important as a technology partner and a commercial partner.\"",
"German driver Sebastian Vettel became the youngest-ever winner of the drivers' championship for Red Bull in 2010, and the 23-year-old will begin the defense of his crown at the Australian Grand Prix on March 27."
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"Mercedes have completed their takeover of the F1 team formerly known as Brawn GP .",
"Mercedes returned to the sport after it purchased part of Brawn GP in late 2009 .",
"World champions Red Bull have announced a sponsorship deal with Infiniti .",
"The Japanese carmaker's logo will be displayed on Red Bull's car next season ."
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"Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- One week after being shot through the head, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is off the ventilator and breathing on her own through a tracheotomy tube, the University Medical Center of Tucson, Arizona, said Saturday.",
"Giffords, who authorities say was the target of a mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner that left six dead and another 13 wounded, remains in critical condition.",
"Still, in a statement, the southern Arizona hospital said that her recovery \"continues as planned.\"",
"Another person wounded in the incident, 58-year-old James Tucker, was released from the hospital Saturday, according to the medical center.",
"Two other victims are in good condition at the hospital, while others wounded had been treated and released earlier this week.",
"The Giffords' development is the latest milestone for a woman who was critically wounded after a bullet went into her skull, through her brain and then back out her skull.",
"Doctors on Saturday morning replaced the breathing tube that ran down her throat with a tracheotomy tube in her windpipe.",
"That procedure protects Giffords' airway and allows her to breath independently for the first time since her first surgery after the shooting, the medical center said.",
"A feeding tube was also inserted earlier Saturday into Giffords, to make it easier for her to get needed nutrients.",
"The hospital said that such procedures are \"not uncommon\" among intensive care patients suffering serious brain injuries.",
"Police say that a gunman -- who they claim is Loughner, a 22-year-old Tucson resident -- killed several others in a Safeway parking lot in Tucson while trying to assassinate Giffords, who was then holding a constituent meeting.",
"A law enforcement source said Saturday that Loughner had photographed himself posing with a 9mm handgun while wearing a red G-string.",
"It's not clear when the photo was taken, but it was among those on a roll of 35 mm film that Loughner dropped off at a Walgreen's store in the hours before the shooting rampage.",
"The Safeway where the shooting ocurred reopened Saturday morning for the first time since the incident.",
"Store officials made a public address announcement inviting those who were in the store to step outside for the observation shortly after 10 a.m. MT (12 p.m. ...",
"Some in the crowd approached flower-bedecked barricades marking the scene and placed flowers.",
"One woman, comforted by another in a green Safeway store apron, sobbed as she attempted to place a lighted candle and a handmade card reading, \"God Loves You.\"",
"A wreath was placed at the site to honor the victims, Safeway spokeswoman Susan Houghton said.",
"Damage to the store has been completely repaired, she said.",
"Dr. Michael Lemole, the hospital's chief of neurosurgery, said Friday that Giffords is \"beginning to carry out a more complex sequence\" of activity.",
"\"We're confident (Giffords) is making progress now,\" he said.",
"\"We couldn't have hoped for anything better given the severity of (her) injury.\"",
"In a Friday Twitter post, Giffords' husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, thanked his \"great followers\" for their support.",
"\"GG has been improving each day,\" he said.",
"Those killed in last Saturday's attack included a 9-year-old girl, Christina Green; Arizona's chief federal judge, John Roll; and Gabe Zimmerman, a Giffords staffer.",
"Meanwhile, the investigation into the attack continued as authorities on Friday released a detailed timeline of Loughner's activity in the hours before the shooting.",
"A day earlier, they found a bag that is believed to belong to Loughner and contains the same kind of ammunition as was used in the massacre.",
"DNA testing on the bag, which contained seven boxes of 9mm ammunition, could take up to 10 days before the results are determined, according to Pima County Sheriff's Department Capt.",
"Chris Nanos.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Bill Mears, Ted Barrett, Steve Dolce, Susan Candiotti, Greg Morrison and Greg Botelho contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Giffords is off the ventilator and breathing on her own, the hospital says .",
"NEW: Three people injured in shooting are still hospitalized, after the release of James Tucker .",
"The grocery store outside of which the shooting occurred reopened on Saturday ."
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"(CNN) -- Espanyol suffered a setback in their quest for European Champions League football on Monday as they surrendered a one-goal lead to lose 2-1 at home to Mallorca.",
"The Barcelona-based team currently occupy fifth position in Spain's La Liga and they took the lead against their tenth placed opponents when striker Alvaro Vasquez converted Jose Callejon's pass.",
"The match was level after 63 minutes when Cameroon forward Pierre Webo finished from a Sergio Tejera cross.",
"Michael Laudrup's Mallorca ensured they would move up to tenth place in the table when 23-year-old Emilio Nsue grabbed his fourth goal of the season with just seven minutes remaining.",
"The result means Mauricio Pochettino's Espanyol stay fifth, seven points behind Villarreal in the fourth and final Champions League place.",
"Sevilla closed within two points of Espanyol after a comfortable 3-0 home win over Sporting Gijon.",
"Goals from Luis Fabiano, Diego Perotti and Alvaro Negredo edged them into seventh, level on points with Athletic Bilbao.",
"In Germany, MSV Duisburg booked their place in the DFB Pokal Cup competition after beating Energie Cottbus 2-1 thanks to goals from Stefan Maierhofer and Srdjan Baljak.",
"Duisburg will face either Bayern Munich or Schalke in the final.",
"They play on Wednesday.",
"In the French Cup, Nice booked their place in the semifinals with a 3-2 away win over second division outfit Stade de Reims."
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"Espanyol lose 2-1 at home to Mallorca in Spain's La Liga .",
"Sevilla thrash Sporting Gijon 3-0 with Luis Fabiano among the goals .",
"MSV Duisburg reach the German Cup final after beating Energie Cottbus 2-1 .",
"Nice beat Stade de Reims 3-2 to reach French Cup semifinal ."
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"(CNN) -- The number of people missing after flash floods swept cars off roads in the eastern Australian city of Toowoomba rose to more than 70 on Monday, with eight people confirmed dead, police in the state of Queensland reported.",
"The latest flooding hit Toowoomba, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) west of the state capital Brisbane and considerably south of other areas hit by recent floods.",
"The Queensland Police Service confirmed that 72 people are now missing in the areas of Toowoomba and Lockyer Creek, and Chantelle Rule-Murphy, spokesperson for Emergency Management Queensland, said eight people have now been confirmed dead.",
"iReport: Are you there? Share your photos, video .",
"Toowoomba is the biggest inland city in Queensland, a region that was already reeling from one of the worst floods in its history.",
"Authorities there are conducting several search-and-rescue operations, and Australia's military has committed four helicopters to those efforts, Rule-Murphy said.",
"\"A lot of places are in high alert and we still expect a good deal of rain, so we are still not out of the woods yet,\" Queensland police spokesman Ben Tracy said.",
"Since November 30, the seasonal flooding in Queensland has caused rivers to spill over their banks and reach record levels.",
"At least 200,000 people have been affected, and heavy rains are expected to continue moving into Tuesday.",
"CNN's John Raedler contributed to this report."
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"NEW: 72 people are now missing in latest Australia flooding .",
"Eight people have been confirmed dead and 11 injured, police say .",
"Prolonged flooding in northeast Australia has affected at least 200,000 people .",
"Toowoomba is Queensland's biggest inland city ."
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"(CNN) -- Lasith Malinga became the first bowler to claim a hat-trick of dismissals in two Cricket World Cups as his devastating spell of bowling helped Sri Lanka dismantle Kenya.",
"Malinga took six wickets for just 38 runs including three in three balls as he became the second bowler in as many days to record a hat-trick at the tournament after West Indies' paceman Kemar Roach's feat against Netherlands on Monday.",
"Minnows Kenya had no answer to his fierce spell of bowling, capitulating to 142 all out in Colombo before the hosts lost only one batsman as they recorded a nine wicket victory in just 18 overs.",
"Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande won the toss and elected to bat but openers Maurice Ouma and Seren Waters fell before eight runs were on the board.",
"Brothers Collins and David Obuya steadied the ship and despite riding their luck both recorded half centuries as Kenya edged to 102-2.",
"Collins reached 52 before he was bowled by Malinga and brother David soon followed, caught by Thilan Samaraweera off the bowling of Muttiah Muralitharan for 51.",
"That was the end of Kenya's resistance as they lost their last five wickets for just 15 runs with Malinga their chief tormentor.",
"The first victim of his hat-trick was Tanmay Mishra, trapped LBW by a dipping yorker before Peter Ongondo's middle stump was removed by a similar delivery, traveling at 144 km per hour.",
"Malinga secured his second World Cup treble with another vicious yorker that clattered into Shem Ngoche's stumps.",
"Just a few balls later Malinga claimed his sixth victim as he bowled Elijah Otieno to end Kenya's innings on 142.",
"Sri Lanka wasted no time recording victory as Upul Tharanga smashed an unbeaten 67 and put on 72 with Tilkeratne Dilshan, before he was caught by Maurice Ouma off the bowling of Otieno.",
"Captain Kumar Sangakkara hit a quick 27 not out off just 24 balls to seal a comprehensive victory for Sri Lanka, who bounced back in style after their defeat by Pakistan.",
"But the co-hosts will undoubtedly face a much stiffer test in their next match when they face defending champions Australia on Saturday."
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"Lasith Malinga takes a hat-trick against Kenya at Cricket World Cup .",
"Malinga is the first bowler in history to take two World Cup hat-tricks .",
"Sri Lanka crush Kenya after bowling opponents out for 142 .",
"Hosts reach their target in 18 over to win by nine wickets ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The United States is weighing a possible military role to help the Libyan revolt against leader Moammar Gadhafi, but top U.S. officials warn that the issue is controversial.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Senate panel Wednesday that \"there may well be a role for military assets to get equipment and supplies into areas that have a need for them\" and in areas where the United States is welcome.",
"But she noted the Arab League statement issued Wednesday that rejected \"any foreign interference within Libya on behalf of the opposition, even though they have called for Gadhafi to leave.\"",
"\"The tough issues about how and whether there would be any intervention to assist those who are opposing Libya is very controversial within Libya and within the Arab community,\" Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.",
"\"So we are working closely with our partners and allies to try to see what we can do and we are engaged in very active consideration of all the different options that are available.\"",
"Two senior officials in the Arab League said the group's members have agreed not to accept any foreign intervention in Libya; they also agreed that they will consult with other Arab League members in order to protect Libyans' security.",
"But the league cannot ignore the suffering of civilians and would consider the imposition of a no-fly zone in coordination with the African Union if fighting were to continue, said Hisham Yousef, chief of staff of the Arab League.",
"Senator John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, called for the United States to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.",
"While he noted that the Libyan people weren't asking for foreign troops, he said they \"do need the tools to prevent the slaughter of innocents on Libyan streets.\"",
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking to a House committee, said creating a no-fly zone would have to begin with an attack on Libya.",
"\"If it's ordered, we can do it, but ... there's a lot of, frankly, loose talk about some of these military options, and let's just call a spade a spade.",
"A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses.",
"That's the way you do a no-fly zone, and then you can fly planes around the country and not worry about our guys being shot down,\" he told a House Appropriations hearing.",
"\"But that's the way it starts.\"",
"The administration is far from arming any opposition power, primarily because U.S. officials still don't know who the opposition is and what they are trying to achieve, senior U.S. officials said.",
"The United States is trying to contact a variety of Libyans in an attempt to figure out who the opposition is, but officials said no single group or individual has emerged in a leadership role.",
"Instead, the rebels appears to be composed of a wide and diverse group of Libyans, including civilians formerly allied with Gadhafi government, former military officers, longtime opponents of the regime and tribal leaders, the officials said.",
"These various factions have divergent goals and perspectives: Some are focused on their individual neighborhoods, others take a more regional or national approach.",
"The sole unifying factor is they all oppose Gadhafi, the officials said.",
"The lack of a readily identifiable opposition leadership group can be traced to the fact that, during his nearly 42 years of iron rule, Gadhafi has not allowed an opposition center of power to form, the officials said.",
"Though opposition members all want to replace Gadhafi, they may not all be committed to a future democratic Libya, the officials said.",
"\"We are working to understand who is legitimate, who is not, but it is premature in our opinion to recognize one group or another,\" Clinton said Wednesday.",
"\"We have to keep our focus at this point on helping the Libyan people.",
"And I think it's important to recognize that there is a great deal of uncertainty about the motives, the opportunism, if you will, of people who are claiming to be leaders right now.\"",
"But pressure for international military intervention appears to be growing as the carnage mounts.",
"Some protesters have charged that troops loyal to Gadhafi have fired on demonstrators, and military planes have bombed several sites held by the opposition.",
"Libya's ambassador to the United States estimated Monday that as many as 2,000 people may have been killed.",
"\"I believe the global community cannot be on the sidelines while airplanes are allowed to bomb and strafe,\" said Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations committee.",
"\"A no-fly zone is not a long-term proposition, assuming the outcome is what all desire, and I believe that we ought to be ready to implement it as necessary.\"",
"Gates said taking such action would also require the United States to put more air assets near Libya, because enforcing a no-fly zone would require a great deal of equipment.",
"\"It also requires more airplanes than you would find on a single aircraft carrier.",
"So it is a big operation in a big country,\" Gates said.",
"The U.S. military could speed up deployment of a second aircraft carrier if necessary to support a no-fly zone over Libya or other operations, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.",
"The USS George H. W. Bush is scheduled to deploy from Norfolk, Virginia, later this spring, Roughead told reporters Wednesday, though it could leave earlier.",
"\"That ship is ready,\" he said.",
"He emphasized that it was not his decision to accelerate the deployment.",
"\"That's not my call. I get the forces ready to go and, so you know, that is an available asset,\" Roughead said.",
"He also would not comment on whether a no-fly operation could be enforced over Libya from a single aircraft carrier.",
"The carrier USS Enterprise is believed to be nearby in the Red Sea.",
"\"That would depend on the tasking,\" Roughead said.",
"Two amphibious ships moved into the Suez Canal Tuesday with humanitarian response supplies such as water treatment equipment and temporary shelter, Roughead said.",
"Kerry also said he was working on an aid package for the Mideast, saying that a \"significant financial commitment by the U.S.\" will be critical to help what he called a \"monumental and uplifting transformation\" in the region.",
"Clinton's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was originally slated as a defense of President Barack Obama's budget for 2012.",
"She told lawmakers that it is important to continue counterterrorism programs in North Africa, noting that some members of al Qaeda had come from Libya.",
"Clinton warned that one of the biggest U.S. concerns is that \"Libya could become a giant Somalia\" if the United States is not active in the region.",
"CNN's Charley Keyes, Adam Levine and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report ."
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"No single group or person has emerged in a leadership role .",
"Some have called for a no-fly zone over Libya .",
"Imposing a no-fly zone has to begin with an attack on Libya, Gates says .",
"The Arab League rejects any foreign interference in Libya ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Abdullah al-Kidd -- a U.S. citizen -- was held in jail by the U.S. government for 16 days as a \"material witness\" in an ongoing terror investigation.",
"He was never charged, and never called to testify.",
"Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the Kansas native can hold former Bush administration officials -- especially onetime Attorney General John Ashcroft -- personally liable for wrongful arrest and detention.",
"In oral arguments Wednesday, the justices appeared split along conservative-liberal lines about both the immunity question and the larger issue of when the government can hold in custody citizens it is unable to charge, for fear they may commit future crimes, including terrorism.",
"Chief Justice John Roberts said allowing such a lawsuit to proceed would impose a \"heavy burden\" on government officials and police as they do their jobs, for fear \"if they guess wrong, it comes out of their pocket.\"",
"But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called al-Kidd's experience \"obvious mistreatment\" that perhaps should leave someone accountable.",
"The case -- with its issue of the limits of \"preventive\" detention, especially in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks -- is the only national security case the high court will address this term.",
"Material witness laws allow officials to detain those who may have knowledge of crimes committed by others to ensure they would testify in criminal proceedings, including before a grand jury and at trial.",
"American Civil Liberties Union lawyers representing al-Kidd say the government has warped the law to allow open-ended arrests and confinement of citizens, without being later held accountable for those wrongfully held.",
"Al-Kidd was a college football player at the University of Idaho when he converted to Islam, changing his name from Lavoni Kidd.",
"He eventually began volunteering at an Islamic charity led by a person being investigated for possible terrorism ties.",
"He was never implicated in wrongdoing, but was interviewed repeatedly and voluntarily by the FBI.",
"He was never told his testimony would be needed in any prosecution, nor was he forbidden to leave the country.",
"Six months later, in March 2003, al-Kidd was about to board a plane at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, headed for Saudi Arabia study region for his doctorate.",
"But he was arrested by government agents armed with a material warrant.",
"An affidavit submitted to a federal magistrate said al-Kidd had a one-way first class plane ticket, and that he was \"crucial\" to the prosecution of Sami Omar al-Hussayen.",
"It was later revealed the ticket was two-way -- indicating he planned to return to the United States -- and he would fly coach class.",
"In his lawsuit, al-Kidd says he was held in three prisons in Virginia, Oklahoma, and Idaho, under high security with convicted criminals.",
"He says he was routinely shackled, strip-searched, and left naked in a freezing cell while male and female guards watched.",
"He was freed after more than two weeks, but only after agreeing to surrender his passport and confine his travel, among other conditions.",
"He now teaches in Saudi Arabia and did not attend oral arguments at the high court.",
"Al-Hussayen, meanwhile, was charged with visa fraud and making false statements.",
"He was acquitted one some of the charges but the jury deadlocked on others.",
"He agreed to be deported to avoid a retrial.",
"Al-Kidd later sued corrections officials; that suit was settled out of court.",
"But it is his separate suit against Ashcroft, holding him personally accountable as head of the Justice Department, that is the heart of the current legal fight.",
"A federal appeals court had allowed his civil lawsuit to continue, but Ashcroft argues officials under his supervision obeyed the letter and spirit of the material witness law.",
"An arrest warrant was properly obtained under the law they said, and even if there were improper motives behind this particular detention, Ashcroft would still enjoy \"absolute\" immunity.",
"Previous lawsuits by a variety of civil liberty and human rights groups naming Ashcroft and other top Bush officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and FBI Director Robert Mueller -- have almost unanimously been tossed out by federal courts on immunity grounds.",
"In oral arguments, the justices debated the immediate intent of al-Kidd's detention: Was it to ensure his assistance in an ongoing prosecution, or was it aimed at unlimited detention and investigation?",
"Al-Kidd claims investigators held him in a desperate attempt to implicate him in the investigation of his friend.",
"Some members of the bench were clearly uncomfortable with the idea of blanket immunity for the highest government officials, whatever their reasons.",
"\"Prosecutors can out of spite, out of pure investigative reasoning, out of whatever motive they have, just lock people up,\" said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, while clarifying that may not be what happened in al-Kidd's case.",
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more blunt, calling some of the allegations \"very disturbing.\"",
"\"We are talking about the attorney general and the attorney general's immunity,\" she told the Justice Department lawyer arguing the case.",
"\"But there are allegations here that this man was kept awake, the lights shining in his cell for 24 hours, kept without clothes.",
"Now that doesn't sound like the way one would treat someone whose testimony you want.",
"Is there a remedy that he has for that obvious mistreatment?\"",
"On the other side, Roberts warned making it easier to sue for violations of the law would open the floodgates to endless lawsuits.",
"\"The allegation can so readily be made in every case under the material witness statute ... that this is one of those 'bad intent' cases, and the case has to proceed so that we can prove that.\"",
"Roberts wondered what an officer faced with deciding whether to proceed with a terror investigation or similarly serious matter would think.",
"\"If I'm the officer in that situation, I say, 'Well, I'm just not going to run the risk of having to sell the house'\" because his decision could be overturned someday by a court.",
"Justice Elena Kagan is not participating in the case because she helped brief the case for the government last year as solicitor general, just before joining the high court.",
"That leaves the possibility of a 4-4 tie, which would give victory to al-Kidd, allowing his lawsuit to proceed.",
"Ashcroft has the support of the Obama administration, which argued the case in the high court, as well as several former attorneys general.",
"\"We think the way that one vindicates one's rights is to use the process that is available to those that are arrested to seek their release,\" said Richard Samp of the Washington Legal Foundation, who filed the supporting brief.",
"\"And in fact, Mr. al-Kidd did exactly that.",
"He had a lawyer appointed for him.",
"He went into court on several occasions and within 15 days after the time of his arrest he was released.\"",
"But about 30 former federal prosecutors are backing al-Kidd.",
"Lee Gelernt, the ACLU attorney, told CNN the government should not be allowed to do an \"end run\" around the law.",
"\"Our client would like vindication for his own rights.",
"He would like to see his reputation cleared.",
"But I think, perhaps most of all in his mind, he would like to see the court say that this cannot be done anymore and so it doesn't happen to people in the future.\"",
"The case is Ashcroft v. al-Kidd (10-98).",
"A ruling is due by late June."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- An Indian court has handed down death sentences to 11 people for their role in the 2002 burning of a train carrying Hindu activists in the western state of Gujarat.",
"Twenty other people convicted of the same arson attack were sentenced to life in prison, public prosecutor J.M.",
"Panchal said Tuesday.",
"A life sentence in India runs for 20 years, and a prisoner can apeal after he has served 14, Panchal said.",
"The 20 who were sentenced to life have spent nine years in jail that will count toward their sentence, he said.",
"A suspected Muslim mob attacked the Sabarmati Express near the town of Godhra on 27 February, 2002, killing more than 50 people, most of whom were Hindu pilgrims.",
"The Hindu pilgrims were returning from the north Indian town of Ayodhya where they had been demanding that the government build a temple on the ruins of a 16th century mosque.",
"The train fire sparked days of rioting in which more than a thousand people, mostly Muslims, were killed.",
"Defense attorney I.M.",
"Munshi said he would appeal the convictions.",
"\"I am not able to swallow it,\" Munshi said.",
"\"This is not the final verdict.",
"It's always appealable,\" he said, referring to the rights of the convicts to challenge the sentencing in higher courts.",
"Death-row prisoners in India can file appeals in the Supreme Court in New Delhi if their petitions are turned down by lower courts.",
"A mercy petition to the Indian president is the ultimate option they have if the top court too dismisses their pleas.",
"Police had charged 94 men for setting fire to the train.",
"Sixty-three of the accused, including one of the main conspirators, were acquitted Tuesday due to lack of evidence, prosecutors said."
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"63 others are acquitted because of lack of evidence .",
"The torching of the train killed more than 50, mostly Hindu pilgrims .",
"It sparked days of rioting in which mostly Muslims were killed ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Despite stopping production on the sitcom \"Two and a Half Men,\" Warner Bros. Television said Tuesday it will pay the show's crew for the four episodes initially set to begin production this week.",
"Warner Bros. spokesman Paul McGuire confirmed the payments will be made.",
"According to TMZ, the payments will amount to about $2 million for the 200 core crew members.",
"CBS halted production of the show, starring Charlie Sheen, after Sheen's call to a radio show last week.",
"On Monday, Sheen in interviews threatened to sue CBS over the action.",
"He also told NBC he wanted $3 million per episode instead of the $2 million he was previously making, but later backed off that assertion, telling CNN's Piers Morgan that his only hard-and-fast demand was that he and the crew get paid for another eight weeks of work.",
"Sheen said he could \"sort of understand why\" show executives felt they had to intervene after a series of high-profile incidents he has been involved in, but reiterated to CNN that he felt his private life was his own business.",
"He has also lashed out at the show's co-creator, Chuck Lorre.",
"CBS and Warner Bros. Television said in a joint statement last week that \"Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros. Television have decided to discontinue production of 'Two and a Half Men' for the remainder of the season.\"",
"Warner Bros. Television is owned by Time Warner Inc., the parent company of CNN.",
"CBS previously placed the sitcom on \"production hiatus\" after the actor began rehab treatments.",
"The show had been scheduled to resume taping on four more episodes this week.",
"It's not clear if \"Two and Half Men\" will return for a ninth season.",
"Meanwhile, Sheen has reportedly demanded an apology from the Anti-Defamation League for comments the group's director made last week.",
"Sheen on Monday denied any anti-Semitic intent behind his earlier comments on Lorre, in which he said Lorre's real name was Chaim Levine.",
"\"I've never had that in my past,\" he said.",
"\"You can look as deep and as far as you want.\"",
"But ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement last week, \"By invoking television producer Chuck Lorre's Jewish name in the context of an angry tirade against him, Charlie Sheen left the impression that another reason for his dislike of Mr. Lorre is his Jewishness.",
"This fact has no relevance to Mr. Sheen's complaint or disagreement, and his words are at best bizarre, and at worst, borderline anti-Semitism.\"",
"TMZ reported Tuesday that Sheen's attorney sent the ADL a letter demanding a retraction because Sheen's only intent was \"to address the man rather than his television persona.\"",
"ADL spokesman Todd Gutnick told CNN that \"since Charlie Sheen has made this a legal issue with the Anti-Defamation League, we will refrain from making any further comment at this time.\"",
"And a source close to Sheen's ex-wife, Denise Richards, sought Tuesday to emphasize the couple's two daughters, Sam and Lola, are with Richards, not with Sheen.",
"The source asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.",
"On Monday during an interview at his home with TMZ, Sheen introduced the reporter to his two girlfriends, whom he called \"goddesses.\"",
"\"Charlie's so-called 'goddesses' have never met the girls and they will not see them,\" said the source.",
"\"Any impression that may be out there that the girls are running around Charlie's house is inaccurate.\""
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"CBS halted production on the show last week .",
"Star Charlie Sheen has said he will sue over the action ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Toyota on Wednesday announced recalls involving more than 1.5 million vehicles worldwide for issues that could result in fuel leakage, the company said.",
"One recall involves about 1.2 million units of 16 models -- including the Noah and other models -- within Japan and 140,000 Avensis and Tourer models overseas because of faulty fuel pipes that could cause fuel leakage, according to the company.",
"A separate recall involves 245,000 2006 through 2007 Lexus GS300/350 vehicles, 2006 through early 2009 Lexus IS250 vehicles and 2006 through early 2008 Lexus IS350 vehicles sold in the United States to inspect the fuel pressure sensor installation, according to a company statement.",
"\"Due to insufficient tightening of the fuel pressure sensor connected to certain engine fuel delivery pipes ... there is a possibility that the pressure sensor could loosen over time,\" the statement said.",
"\"Lexus dealers will inspect the vehicle for fuel leakage and if no leakage is found, will tighten the fuel pressure sensor with the proper torque.",
"If a fuel leak is confirmed, the gasket between the sensor and the delivery pipe will be replaced and the sensor will be tightened with the proper torque.\"",
"The inspection and possible gasket replacement will be conducted at no charge to the vehicle owner, according to the company statement.",
"Toyota said no accidents have been reported in relation to the recalls.",
"CNN's Junko Ogura contributed to this report."
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"More than 1.3 million vehicles are recalled because of potentially faulty fuel pipes .",
"An additional 245,000 Lexus cars in the U.S. are recalled for fuel pressure sensor inspection .",
"Toyota says no accidents have been reported in relation to the recalls ."
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"London (CNN) -- A British Airways employee was found guilty Monday of four terror-related charges, including plotting to blow up an airplane, a court in London said.",
"Rajib Karim, 31, worked as a software engineer for British Airways in the northern English city of Newcastle.",
"He used his position to pass on information to al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, including to U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, jurors in the four-week-long trial in London were told.",
"Karim, who was arrested last year, admitted offering himself for terrorist operations, making a jihadi recruitment video and fundraising for terrorism, but denied knowing that information he gave al-Awlaki would be used for terrorism.",
"Prosecutors said he passed on information that would have been useful for terrorists plotting to blow up a plane and also information that could have been used to help plan a \"disruptive\" cyber attack on British Airways.",
"Al-Awlaki is thought to be hiding out in Yemen, and was recently described by U.S. President Barack Obama's counterterror chief, Michael Leiter, as posing a bigger threat to the U.S. homeland than Osama bin Laden.",
"A key part of the prosecution case was a series of heavily encrypted messages between al-Awlaki and Karim, in which al-Awlaki pressed for information about Karim's job and his knowledge of airport security.",
"\"I pray that Allah may grant us a breakthrough through you ... can you please specify your role in the airline industry, how much access do you have to airports, what information do you have on the limitations and cracks in present airport security systems?\"",
"Karim replied: \"The kuffar (a derogatory term for non-Muslims) are planning to install full body scanners across UK airports.",
"This allows them to see things under clothes.\"",
"But he warned al-Awlaki to be realistic: \"You are probably hoping that I work at the airport, but the fact is I don't.",
"I personally know two brothers, one who works in baggage handling at Heathrow and another who works in airport security.",
"Both are good practising brothers and sympathize towards the cause of the mujahedeen.\"",
"Replying, al-Awlaki got straight to the point: .",
"\"Our highest priority is the U.S.",
"Anything there, even on a smaller scale compared to what we may do in the UK, would be our choice.",
"So the question is: with the people you have is it possible to get a package or person with a package on board a flight heading to the U.S.?\"",
"Karim, who was born in Bangladesh and is now a British citizen, had been in the UK three years at that point, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said.",
"CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said this communication confirmed what U.S. intelligence officials had been saying for some time: \"This trial has presented Awlaki not only as the charismatic driving force behind al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but also a key operational figure in the group, a guy who is orchestrating plots against the West.\"",
"The exchange of messages took place in January 2010 and February 2010, just weeks after AQAP was blamed for a failed bomb attack on a Delta Airlines transatlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.",
"Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man, had trained with AQAP in Yemen before attempting to detonate explosives sewn into his underpants, according to U.S. officials.",
"AQAP has also been widely blamed by western intelligence officials for twin foiled attacks on cargo aircraft last October.",
"One device, hidden in a printer cartridge and described as \"viable\" by British officials, was uncovered on a UPS plane after it landed at East Midlands airport in the United Kingdom.",
"The other -- also hidden in a printer cartridge - was found on a FedEx plane at Dubai airport.",
"British investigators say they have no evidence that links Karim to either of these plots.",
"They describe him as \"dedicated to the terrorist cause,\" though they say there was no imminent danger of him launching an attack himself.",
"Police have also refused to say where the original tip-off about Karim came from, saying only, \"We had some information that made him of interest to us.\"",
"Karim is due to be sentenced March 18."
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"Rajib Karim gave information to radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a court finds .",
"Al-Awlaki was seeking to blow up a plane in the United States, decrypted e-mails show .",
"Karim admitted to other terror-related charges .",
"He will be sentenced March 18 ."
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"(CNN) -- English club Arsenal will be without Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott for their Champions League last-16 second leg with Spanish champions Barcelona, but it is \"possible\" captain Cesc Fabregas could play.",
"Van Persie injured his knee scoring in Sunday's League Cup final defeat against Birmingham while Walcott sprained his ankle during the Premier League victory over Stoke City.",
"But Fabregas, who played a key part in Arsenal's thrilling 2-1 victory over Barcelona during the first leg in London, has an outside chance to make the second leg on March 8.",
"He limped off after just 14 minutes against Stoke with a hamstring strain but could be fit to face the club he left as a 16-year-old.",
"\"Cesc is looking possible [for that game],\" Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told the club's official website on Tuesday.",
"\"He is making quick and good progress.",
"It is possible.\" The news is more bleak on Dutch striker Van Persie, who is facing three weeks on the sidelines, meaning he will definitely be absent for Arsenal's trip to Spain.",
"Wenger added: \"Unfortunately, we had bad news on the scan and he will be out for the next three weeks for sure.",
"\"It could be longer.",
"The shortest delay we can imagine is three weeks [so] he is definitely out for Barcelona.\"",
"England winger Walcott will also be absent, with Wenger confirming: \"He is out.",
"We said from the day he got the injury against Stoke you could count three weeks.\"",
"The clash with Barcelona has taken on added significance after Arsenal failed to end their six-year trophy drought thanks to a last-minute Carling Cup defeat against Birmingham at Wembley on Sunday.",
"Arsenal are looking to avenge last year's 6-3 aggregate defeat by Barcelona at the quarterfinal stage of Europe's premier club competition."
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"Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas could be fit to face Barcelona in the Champions League .",
"Fabregas is currently sidelined with a hamstring injury .",
"Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott definitely out of Arsenal's trip to Spain .",
"English club lead 2-1 from the first leg in London with the return leg on March 8 ."
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"(CNN) -- America's bid to spread basketball's popularity will continue in the next two years, with Britain to stage men's NBA and women's WNBA pre-season matches along with Olympic build-up games for the U.S. international teams.",
"London has hosted NBA teams for the past few years, with this week's double-header between New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors the first during a regular season.",
"However, the focus will soon move north of the UK capital to Manchester.",
"The WNBA's Atlanta Dream will launch the series of matches later this year, when they face an as-yet-unknown opposition in an exhibition contest on May 29.",
"It will be only the second match outside of the U.S. in the WNBA's history, coming seven years after the first in Monterrey, Mexico.",
"The U.S. squads will head into the London 2012 Games as gold medallists after both men's and women's teams emerged victorious from the 2008 tournament in Beijing, China.",
"The opposition for next year's preparation matches, which could see basketball superstars such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James play at the 18,100-capacity Manchester Evening News Arena, have not yet been decided.",
"\"It is a real 'who's who' of the basketball world.",
"It will be fantastic preparation,\" NBA Europe senior vice president Sophie Goldschmidt told the UK Press Association on Monday.",
"\"It will really tip off their 2012 campaign.",
"Hopefully the people will really embrace them and support the team.\"",
"In 2013, Manchester will then become only the second British city to host an NBA pre-season match.",
"Atlanta Dream head coach Marynell Meadors, whose team reached the play-offs the last two seasons, is looking forward to the new experience.",
"\"It will be terrific for us.",
"This will be our second pre-season game and five days later we open our campaign,\" she said.",
"\"It will prepare us for travel.",
"It will prepare us for playing someone different.",
"We will learn something from it.\"",
"Goldschmidt said the matches would help boost basketball in one of its developing countries.",
"\"It is great to showcase our events, but it is about the legacy we will leave behind.",
"With every event we bring there will be an integrated plan giving more young kids the chance to get involved in basketball,\" she said.",
"\"We feel very positive about the future of the sport in Manchester and throughout the UK.\""
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"Manchester will host the U.S. men's and women's Olympic basketball teams .",
"The city will also stage NBA and WNBA pre-season matches in the coming years .",
"U.S. basketball bosses hoping to boost sport's popularity in the UK .",
"Toronto Raptors and New Jersey Nets to play first regular-season NBA match in London ."
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"(CNN) -- Venezuela's president has spoken with embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi about a proposal to bring an international mediation team to Libya, Venezuela's information minister confirmed Wednesday.",
"The two leaders conversed Tuesday, Minister Andrez Izarra said in a post on his Twitter account.",
"\"All the contacts that Venezuela is making with the Arab world and the entire world is for peace in Libya.",
"Tomorrow new developments,\" the tweet read.",
"Earlier this week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the United States' criticisms of Gadhafi had a clear aim: military invasion.",
"\"Let's not get carried away by the drums of war, because the United States, I am sure that they are exaggerating and distorting things to justify an invasion,\" Chavez said Monday, according to Venezuelan state media.",
"The United States has said all options are on the table.",
"Speaking in Caracas Monday, Chavez proposed sending an international committee to Libya to mediate and help develop a peaceful solution to unrest in the North African country.",
"\"Instead of sending marines and tanks and planes, why don't we send a goodwill commission to try to help so that they do not continue killing in Libya?",
"They are our brothers,\" he said in a speech televised on the government-run network.",
"Chavez and Gadhafi have a close relationship, having bonded partly over shared opposition to U.S. global influence.",
"At a lavish Tripoli celebration commemorating 40 years of Gadhafi's leadership in 2009, the two leaders sat side-by-side during a two-hour military parade.",
"That same year, a new football stadium in Benghazi was named after the Venezuelan leader.",
"As rumors swirled about Gadhafi and his whereabouts last week, some suggested that he may be en route to Venezuela.",
"Those reports proved to be false; the Libyan leader later spoke publicly in his country's capital.",
"But the close ties between the two leaders remain strong.",
"On Monday, Chavez said Gadhafi \"has been my friend and our friend for a long time\" in remarks broadcast on Venezuelan state television.",
"\"We must be cautious.",
"We know what our policy is: we do not support invasions, or massacres, or anything, no matter who does it.",
"But there is no doubt that, regarding Libya, a campaign of lies is being woven -- the same that has been woven about Venezuela for a long time,\" he said.",
"The U.N. Security Council over the weekend voted for tough restrictions and possible war crimes charges against the Libyan regime.",
"CNN's Nelson Quinones and journalist Osmary Hernandez Sosa contributed to this report."
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"The Venezuelan leader proposes sending a goodwill commission to mediate in Libya .",
"\"Let's not get carried away by the drums of war,\" Chavez says .",
"Gadhafi and Chavez have a close relationship .",
"Chavez claims \"a campaign of lies is being woven\" about Libya ."
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"(CNN) -- A late Frank Lampard penalty handed Chelsea a vital 2-1 win over English Premier League leaders Manchester United to breath new life into the title race.",
"Alex Ferguson's side had taken the lead in the first half thanks to a thunderous strike from England forward Wayne Rooney but Brazil defender David Luiz drew Chelsea level.",
"Then Russia international Yuri Zhirkov drew a foul from Chris Smalling in the 79th minute and Lampard blasted his spot kick high into the net to hand the defending champions a crucial win.",
"United's misery was compounded in injury time as Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic was sent off after earning a second yellow card and will now miss the trip to Liverpool on Sunday.",
"The real victors were second-placed Arsenal who can close the gap on United at the top of the table to just one point if they win their game in hand.",
"The Gunners still have to play United at home.",
"Chelsea's victory keeps alive their faint title hopes and moves them into the Champions League places in fourth but they still trail United by 12 points.",
"After the game Ferguson took aim at referee Martin Atkinson telling Sky Sports: \"It was a bad one to concede the first goal but the penalty kick is so soft, deary me.",
"We played well but we didn't deserve that.",
"That's three years in a row referee's decisions have changed the game.\"",
"Ferguson also thought Luiz should have been sent off after he blocked Rooney off the ball when he was already on a yellow card: \"It's incredible, he'd done Chicarito [Javier Hernandez] off the ball, late, nothing done, ref's in front of it.",
"He does Rooney clear as day and the ref doesn't do anything.",
"That changes the game.\"",
"Carlo Ancelotti admitted Luiz may have been \"lucky\" but said United were still \"too far ahead\" for Chelsea to have any realistic chance of retaining their title.",
"Ancelotti again chose to start $80.5 million striker Fernando Torres ahead of Didier Drogba, who began on the substitutes bench.",
"Chelsea had the first chance as Florent Malouda connected with Ramires' cross but his effort was right at United's veteran Dutch keeper Edwin Van der Sar.",
"Just before the half hour mark United broke the deadlock after Rooney found space outside the area and lashed a low shot into the bottom corner of the net.",
"Chelsea nearly hit back before halftime as Lampard's free kick was parried by Van der Sar but Branislav Ivanovic couldn't convert the rebound.",
"Eight minutes after the interval Chelsea were level as new signing Luiz popped up at the back post to fire a volley inside the post.",
"After half chances at both ends the game was settled from the spot after substitute Zhirkov knocked the ball through Smalling's legs and was tripped.",
"Lampard hammered the ball into the roof of the net emphatically.",
"Two minutes later Zhirkov almost made the game safe as he crashed a volley towards the bottom corner but Vidic managed to divert the ball onto the post and away for a corner.",
"Fabio almost rescued United with a late run into the box but he couldn't reach the ball to apply a finish and Chelsea held out for a confidence-boosting win.",
"Elsewhere, Reading, who play in the second tier of English football, knocked Premier League Everton out of the FA Cup.",
"Matt Mills struck the only goal as he pounced on a rebound to slam a volley into the net on 26 minutes.",
"Reading were thankful to a stunning late save from Alex McCarthy who denied Leon Osman and ensured his side booked a quarterfinal clash with either Manchester City or Aston Villa, who play their fifth round replay on Wednesday."
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"Chelsea beat Manchester United 2-1 in the English Premier League .",
"Frank Lampard's 79th minute penalty settles a pulsating match .",
"Wayne Rooney had given United the lead before David Luiz equalized .",
"Vidic sent off as United fail to pull away from second-placed Arsenal ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. government stepped up its humanitarian relief effort for Libya on Friday, sending two C-130 military transport planes loaded with supplies to neighboring Tunisia.",
"Each aircraft carried three pallets of aid supplies, including 2,000 blankets, 40 rolls of plastic sheeting and 9,600 10-liter water cans, according to a statement from the U.S. Agency for International Development.",
"The supplies, meant to help up to 2,000 people, will be handed off to Tunisia's Red Crescent organization for distribution, the statement noted.",
"The relief operation -- designed to help those who have fled the Libyan violence -- is named Odyssey Dawn, Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said.",
"American authorities are considering multiple ways to assist in the crisis, but are currently focused primarily on humanitarian efforts, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters.",
"The Obama administration remains deeply \"concerned with the ongoing violence ... initiated and perpetrated\" by the government of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, she said.",
"Clinton noted, however, that there is currently \"a lot of confusion on the ground\" in Libya that makes it tough to understand exactly what is happening there.",
"Addressing reporters on Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reiterated the administration's position that Gadhafi needs to step aside.",
"\"Col. Gadhafi has no legitimacy and should step down and should cease all violence,\" Carney said.",
"\"We believe that that would result in a more peaceful Libya.\"",
"The violence in Libya escalated Friday as pro-government forces took control of Zawiya, a city near Tripoli, according to state TV.",
"One source reported the deaths of 15 people and injuries to at least 200 others.",
"A doctor at a hospital in Zawiya told CNN \"there is a river of blood\" where the wounded were being treated.",
"He described the situation as \"very bad,\" with the facility running out of medical supplies.",
"Forces loyal to Gadhafi also clashed Friday with opponents of the regime in the eastern city of Ras Lanuf, opposition fighters and commanders said.",
"Roughly 200,000 people have fled the intensifying violence in Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration.",
"The number of people trying to leave, however, has declined heavily as armed government forces have intensified their presence on the Tunisian border and on roads leading up to it, the United Nations refugee agency has noted.",
"A number of key congressional leaders have been pressuring the White House to establish a no-fly zone over parts of Libya to aid Gadhafi's opponents and ease the humanitarian crisis.",
"Gadhafi's \"air defense systems are certainly old and it (should not be) a major challenge ... to impose a no-fly zone,\" Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, asserted Friday.",
"While the administration has shifted additional military resources closer to Libya, it has refused to commit to such a course of action so far.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib and Barbara Starr contributed to this report ."
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"The U.S. government has sent two C-130 cargo planes to Tunisia .",
"The airplanes have supplies meant to help with the humanitarian crisis in Libya .",
"U.S. authorities are considering multiple ways to help, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says .",
"Sen. John McCain is among those pushing to create a no-fly zone in Libya ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Pop singer and actress Christina Aguilera was detained early Tuesday \"to ensure her safety\" after her rumored boyfriend was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said.",
"Aguilera, 30, was a passenger in a car that was stopped about 2:45 a.m. (5:45 a.m.",
"ET) in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.",
"\"The driver, Matthew Rutler, was determined to be driving while under the influence of alcohol and arrested,\" the release said.",
"Aguilera was determined to be intoxicated, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.",
"\"She was not capable of taking care of herself,\" he told reporters, but said she was \"very cooperative, not belligerent in any way.\"",
"She was technically arrested on a public intoxication charge, Whitmore said, but \"there was never the intent to prosecute.\"",
"Such actions are routine in such instances -- when a driver is arrested and a passenger is determined to be intoxicated.",
"Since Aguilera was not able to care for herself \"and no one was available to ensure her safety, Aguilera was taken into custody,\" the statement said.",
"The department \"stressed that she was not involved in any criminal activity.\"",
"Aguilera will have a record of the misdemeanor arrest, Whitmore said, and was booked, fingerprinted, put in a jail cell and monitored.",
"However, she will not face charges, he said.",
"\"The law specifically allows for no desire to prosecute.\"",
"Aguilera was released about 7:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m.",
"ET) after passing a sobriety test, he said.",
"Rutler's bail was set at $5,000, he said, not the $30,000 reported on the sheriff's website.",
"He said Rutler was in the process of bailing out of jail Tuesday morning.",
"The car was pulled over after authorities noticed it \"driving erratically,\" he said.",
"Aguilera divorced Jordan Bratman earlier this year."
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"NEW: Aguilera was arrested, but authorities won't prosecute, spokesman says .",
"NEW: She was put in a jail cell to sober up overnight .",
"Aguilera's rumored boyfriend was arrested on suspicion of DUI ."
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"(CNN) -- Tregg Duerson, his face drawn and his eyes exhausted, expressed confusion and dismay about many of the details surrounding his father's suicide last week.",
"But he is sure about one thing.",
"\"I wish I knew more answers.",
"All I can do is trust what he's told me ... what he asked me to do with his brain,\" Duerson said.",
"Last week, David Duerson, a 50-year-old former player for the NFL's Chicago Bears, committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest.",
"The details remain hazy, but family members believe that Duerson avoided injuring his brain so that it could be tested for disease.",
"In the coming months, a group of scientists at the Boston University School of Medicine will scour his brain tissue for evidence of an insidious disease among footballers called chronic traumatic encephalopathy.",
"\"That has to take a lot of strength and a lot of courage to do that,\" said Otis Wilson, Duerson's best friend and former Bears teammate.",
"\"To donate your brain and the way that things went down.",
"He's always been a strong person on and off the field, and even at the end, he's trying to help someone.\"",
"Warner: Playing through concussion 'part of the game' Although Duerson did not say explicitly that he suspected chronic traumatic encephalopathy, his ex-wife said he knew that \"something was not right.\"",
"Recently, his vision had been failing him; so had his ability to form coherent sentences and spell.",
"And there was piercing pain on the left side of his brain.",
"\"He felt the left side of his brain was the cause of many of his problems that he was experiencing,\" said Duerson's ex-wife, Alicia Duerson.",
"The disease is associated with depression, cognitive problems and suicidal thoughts -- all of which Duerson seemed to suffer before his death.",
"Dr. Robert Stern, a co-director of the Boston University School of Medicine Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, stressed that as of now, \"We have no idea whether he had a disease.\"",
"It will be months before scientists can confirm whether Duerson's cognitive and emotional problems were related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy.",
"Once a brain is donated, Stern gets to work, quizzing the donors' family members to get an accurate picture of the person's health, behavior changes and the amount of brain trauma he or she suffered.",
"At the same time, Dr. Ann McKee, a neurologist and co-director of the center, examines thin slivers of the donor's brain and spinal cord tissue under a powerful microscope.",
"\"(McKee) does her determination of brain tissue without knowing much about the individual history and symptoms,\" Stern said.",
"\"So it doesn't bias her interpretation of the brain exam findings.\"",
"What McKee has found in most of the brains she has examined is a central nervous system riddled with brown tangles -- damage characteristic of chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- in athletes with evidence of repeated brain trauma.",
"Of more than 40 brains studied at Boston University, more than three-quarters have shown evidence of the disease.",
"\"It is quite striking to see case after case, especially the ones who took many years of brain trauma, to find this in nearly every one,\" said Chris Nowinski, co-director of the Boston University center.",
"Alicia Duerson said her ex-husband suffered countless concussions on the field.",
"\"Sometimes he would come home (from football games) with extreme headaches,\" she said.",
"\"We would meet after the game, and he would want me to drive because he felt dizziness or he just didn't feel stable.\"",
"Concussions, and traumatic brain injuries generally, have been implicated as a prime factor in chronic traumatic encephalopathy.",
"It is a fact that has dogged the National Football League, which, for its part, has implemented more rigorous testing of players and rules changes to combat the trend.",
"NFL head hits may mean sideline exams .",
"The NFL has also expressed an interest in sharing donated brain tissue, in cases such as Duerson's, so that it can perform analysis of brain tissue in conjunction with institutions like Boston University.",
"The league is seeking collaboration among experts studying the disease and is partnering with the National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania for more eyes, so to speak, on the issue.",
"\"More people looking at this might give us a better answer,\" said Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, co-chairman of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Medical Committee.",
"\"We are taking this very seriously, and accelerating research on (the disease) will help get us more insight.\"",
"For Duerson's family, the first clue that something was wrong came by way of a cryptic text: \"a bizarre text message that he sent to my mother saying that he loved her and he loved my family and to please get his brain to the NFL brain bank,\" Tregg Duerson said.",
"If the text at first seemed mysterious, the same wish echoed by Duerson in a suicide note seemed to cement his resolve.",
"It contained a simple, haunting final request: \"Please, see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank.\"",
"Despite the chilling details of Duerson's suicide last week -- and the questions still looming -- his family and friends cling to the hope that something good will come of their pain.",
"\"It gives us a lot of comfort knowing that something positive and something great is going to come out of this for future players, for little leaguers, for everyone,\" Alicia Duerson said of her ex-husband's suicide.",
"\"I think that is what we're holding on to as a family.",
"... We're just so proud of him at this very moment.\"",
"As difficult as it is to think about his friend's demise, Wilson said he hopes that it will all make sense someday and that something substantive will happen as a result of Duerson's donation.",
"\"And once they find out what the cause is ... that the NFL takes a stand and says, 'OK, we're going to try to alleviate this problem, because if you don't, then all this was for nothing,\" Wilson said."
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"Duerson requested that his brain be donated to test for disease .",
"NFL has joined fight against chronic traumatic encephalopathy .",
"Scientists at Boston University will study his brain tissue ."
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"(CNN) -- It's not often that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate gets fired, but the Bangladeshi government said Wednesday it did just that in dismissing Muhammad Yunus from a top post in the pioneering bank he founded.",
"Grameen Bank's general manager, however, disputed the government's claim.",
"K.M. Abdul Waddod, the general manager of the Bangladesh Central Bank's regulation and policy department, said his bank, the regulatory authority in the South Asian nation, had sent for a second time a letter to the Grameen Bank chairman, urging the ouster of Yunus from his post of managing director because he was past retirement age.",
"The government, which has a 25% stake in Grameen, said that by the bank's own rules, Yunus, now 70, was required to end his service when he turned 60.",
"\"He did not inform us he is over that age,\" Waddod said.",
"\"The bank did let him go.\"",
"Muzammel Huq, the new government-appointed Grameen chairman, told CNN that he had received the letter of the central bank.",
"\"The central bank has removed Professor Yunus as managing director of the bank and I'll act accordingly under the bank's law,\" Huq said.",
"He said the deputy managing director of the bank will take over until Yunus' post can be filled.",
"But a Grameen Bank statement said Yunus had not been fired.",
"\"This is a legal issue,\" said the statement signed by Jannat-E-Quanine, Grameen's general manager.",
"\"Grameen Bank has been duly complying with all applicable laws.",
"It has also complied with the law in respect of appointment of the managing director.",
"According to the bank's legal advisers, the founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, is accordingly continuing in his office.\"",
"Yunus pioneered microcredit financing and founded Grameen Bank nearly three decades ago in an effort to alleviate poverty by lending to the poor, who could not otherwise qualify for bank loans.",
"Throughout this battle with the government, he has refused to resign from the bank that won him a Nobel prize in 2006.",
"Yunus' supporters say the effort to remove him has little to do with age and much to do with the larger issue of microcredit and its primary vehicle in Bangladesh -- Grameen Bank.",
"A recent television documentary alleged that Yunus illegally diverted Grameen money.",
"Grameen denied the charges and investigators in Norway, a key bank donor, found no evidence of wrongdoing.",
"But critics of microcredit have charged that lenders were making big money off of small loans.",
"Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina minced no words when she compared Grameen's operations to \"sucking the blood from the poor in the name of alleviating poverty.\"",
"Yunus' supporters also say that he is under fire for criticizing politicians and trying to form his own political party four years ago during an interim, unelected military-backed government.",
"That party was later abandoned.",
"The government, however, denies that the Grameen actions are politically motivated.",
"CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh and Moni Basu and journalist Farid Ahmed contributed to this report."
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"The government says Muhammad Yunus was removed as general manager .",
"But Grameen Bank says he was not fired .",
"Yunus pioneered microcredit and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 .",
"His supporters say the government is out to get him ."
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"LONDON, England -- The British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been asked to intervene after Iraqi international Nashat Akram was refused a work permit.",
"Nashat Akram was hoping to become the first Iraqi footballer to play in England.",
"Akram starred in Iraq's Asian Cup-winning team last year and was set to play for Premier League Manchester City.",
"But the 24-year-old cannot come to the United Kingdom because a technicality in immigration rules for footballers.",
"To gain a work permit, the player's national side must be in the top 70 of the FIFA world rankings and Iraq has a highest ranking of 71.",
"Akram's supporters say this is because Iraq cannot play matches at home because of the security situation and are calling for the decision to be reversed.",
"Keith Vaz, a member of the ruling Labour party, said: \"I shall be calling on the home secretary to review this decision.",
"\"Here we have someone who wants to come and work legitimately, a role model for his country, whose presence here can heal divisions in Iraq.",
"\"Parliament has given ministers the right to exercise their discretion and they should use it.",
"\"This case sends out all the wrong messages.\"",
"City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson told the club's Web site: \"This is a big blow and a great disappointment to us.",
"I have huge sympathy for Nashat.",
"He is a very good footballer with an excellent international pedigree.",
"\"He has now returned to the Middle East and we will keep in touch with him.",
"He is somebody who we will maintain an interest in for the long term.\"",
"City have already lost an appeal to the Home Office ruling, but the Iraqi government has now taken up the cause.",
"Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told the Associated Press a letter has been sent to the British Ambassador in Iraq.",
"Midfielder Akram, who was born in Hilla, currently plays for Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates.",
"He came to international prominence with his performances in the Asian Cup and became a symbol of hope at home with posters featuring a smiling Akram plastered on walls around Baghdad with the slogan \"The dream came true because of our determination and zeal.\"",
"Earlier this month, Watford midfielder Al Bangura, from Sierra Leone, was granted a work permit after a decision to deport him was overturned following a well-supported campaign by football fans and a local member of parliament, Claire Ward.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Nashat was poised to sign for Sven-Goran Eriksson's Manchester City side .",
"British home secretary Jacqui Smith is being asked to intervene in the case ."
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"(CNN) -- Harvard University moved Thursday to allow ROTC programs to set up on campus, after years of restricting the U.S. military's access because of its \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy.",
"The Cambridge, Massachusetts, school barred Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs from being based on its campus 40 years ago, at the height of the Vietnam War.",
"For more than a decade, university leaders -- among them, former law school dean and current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan -- have cited the military's policy prohibiting gays and lesbians from serving openly as the chief rationale for continuing the ban.",
"Harvard President Drew Faust cited the recent decision to overturn that policy as the genesis for the university's new tact.",
"She will sign an agreement Friday with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to re-establish a home for ROTC on campus, the school announced in a press release.",
"\"Our renewed relationship affirms the vital role that the members of our armed forces play in serving the nation and securing our freedoms, while also affirming inclusion and opportunity as powerful American ideals,\" Faust said in the statement.",
"The full, formal recognition will take effect once repeal of the so-called \"don't ask, don't tell\" law, which had made it against military policy for homosexuals to serve openly, is complete this summer, according to the release.",
"Harvard will appoint a director for the Navy ROTC program and take over direct financial responsibility for the cost of students to participate in the program.",
"Congress voted to repeal the policy in December, setting off a three-part process.",
"Last month, for instance, all four branches of the U.S. military began training required as part of the repeal.",
"The university is setting up a committee, to be chaired by professor Kevin \"Kit\" Parker, a U.S. Army Reserve captain who served three tours in Afghanistan, to look into a host of issues, including bringing other military branches back onto campus.",
"Harvard was one of the first six educational institutions, in 1926, to host Naval ROTC programs, the Navy noted in a release.",
"Once the change goes into effect, active-duty Navy and Marines personnel will meet on campus with students participating in the ROTC program.",
"\"(Navy) ROTC's return to Harvard is good for the university, good for the military, and good for the country,\" said Mabus, in a statement from the Navy.",
"\"With exposure comes understanding, and through understanding comes strength.\"",
"Harvard's own policy regarding ROTC on campus was the subject of national attention eight months ago, when Kagan -- who was then a nominee for the high court -- came under criticism by Republican senators who complained that she actively tried to block military recruiters from Harvard Law School when she was dean.",
"Kagan and the White House strongly defended her actions, saying that while she opposed the military's policy, Kagan never kept recruiters off the university.",
"Four months after taking the job as Harvard's dean, in October 2003, Kagan sent a campus-wide email to students saying that to give recruiters equal access to the campus \"causes me deep distress.",
"I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy.\"",
"She called the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy \"a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order.\"",
"CNN's Greg Botelho contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The Navy secretary calls the move \"good for the university, good for the military\"\nHarvard's president and the Navy secretary will sign a deal to return ROTC to campus .",
"The school had banned ROTC, in part due to opposition to the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy .",
"Change will take effect this summer, once the repeal is implemented by the military ."
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"Djerba, Tunisia (CNN) -- Four more U.S. military flights were headed to Cairo from Tunisia on Sunday, evacuating Egyptians fleeing the Libyan conflict, a U.S. official said.",
"One flight left early Sunday and three others will do so by Sunday afternoon, said Adam Lefringhouse, a defense attache at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis.",
"On Saturday, U.S. military planes carried out similar evacuations, returning passengers to Egypt.",
"There are a few thousand Egyptians left in Tunisia awaiting evacuation after more than 40,000 were taken home, said Firas Kayal, a spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency, on Saturday.",
"Many countries, such as India and China, put in place well-organized evacuation operations for their citizens.",
"But others, including Egyptians and Bangladeshis, have been left to fend for themselves.",
"Kayal said Saturday more than 10,000 Bangladeshis are awaiting transport in Tunisia.",
"Many of them have had to walk to the border because their money was stolen by soldiers and they could not pay for transportation costs.",
"One man suffered a heart attack and died, aid officials confirmed.",
"On Sunday, the British government said it will provide emergency evacuation flights to repatriate 500 stranded Bangladeshis.",
"Three commercial charter planes will take the Bangladeshis home from Djerba airport later Sunday, the British government said.",
"\"I have seen for myself the scale of the humanitarian situation on the Libyan border with Tunisia,\" said Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary.",
"\"I vowed that we would do everything possible to give those stranded shelter and get them back home as quickly as possible.\"",
"Meanwhile, three people died and 14 were missing when they tried to get off a ship headed from Libya's capital, Tripoli, to Crete, the Greek Ministry for the Protection of Civilians said Sunday.",
"The ship was carrying about 1,280 passengers, mostly Bangladeshis.",
"\"From the evidence gathered so far, it appears the passengers were trying to disembark the 'Ionian King' (Cypriot flag) using a rope,\" the ministry said in a statement.",
"The violence in Libya has generated an exodus out of the North African nation.",
"Almost 200,000 people, a majority of them foreign workers, have fled Libya -- nearly 100,000 to Tunisia and a similar number to Egypt -- according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.",
"The numbers of people entering Tunisia daily from Libya dropped to 1,800 Thursday and Friday and stood at 3,000 Saturday.",
"Previously, they averaged 10,000 to 15,000 people.",
"Hovig Etyemezian, a field officer for the U.N. refugee agency, attributed the drop in part to fear and the manipulation of the flow of refugees by Libyan authorities.",
"\"A lot of them were scared from leaving because of the fighting so they were staying in their houses,\" he said Saturday.",
"\"We fear the regime might be blocking refugees from the border.\"",
"The U.S. State Department said Saturday it would donate $3 million to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as part of a joint U.S.-IOM partnership to help get home thousands of Egyptians and other nationals from Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report ."
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"Many countries have well-organized evacuation operations .",
"But some nationals, such as Bangladeshis, have been forced to fend for themselves .",
"The British government says it will repatriate 500 Bangladeshis .",
"Ministry: Three people die and 14 are missing from a ship headed to Crete from Tripoli ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- A Beijing official blamed attempts to spark protests in China on people \"harboring illusions,\" saying citizens will not take to the streets because they want stability.",
"\"Certain people at home and abroad are using the internet to instigate illegal gatherings in China and play the so-called street politics,\" said Wang Hui, director of the Information Office in Beijing.",
"\"But sober-minded people can see that they have chosen the wrong place.",
"It will never happen in Beijing.\"",
"In recent weeks, there have been anonymous calls online for people to gather in public places in Beijing and a dozen other Chinese cities in what would be akin to the \"Jasmine Revolution\" that has hit parts of the Middle East.",
"There have been no visible signs of street protests, but Chinese authorities have taken measure to avert them.",
"Authorities have deployed heavy security in major streets, especially in Wangfujing, a busy shopping street in downtown Beijing.",
"Wangfujing is one of the places designated for street protests.",
"China has also tightened rules on foreign reporters, explicitly warning them that they risk detention, suspension of press cards and expulsion if they show up at proposed protest sites.",
"\"The people want stability.",
"Those who wish to bring chaos here are harboring illusions,\" Wang said at a news conference in the Chinese capital.",
"\"They are doomed to fail.\"",
"Last Sunday, some reporters were reportedly man-handled and detained in Wangfujing.",
"Among them was a Bloomberg journalist who was reportedly beaten up by anonymous men.",
"Wang said authorities are investigating the incident, but declined to comment further.",
"\"The city government puts great attention to this case,\" Wang said.",
"\"We do not wish such incidents to happen.\"",
"Beijing officials distributed reprinted copies of reporting regulations in China, but said the rules have not changed.",
"\"The important matter is that reporters must obtain prior consent from individuals, institutions and work units that you wish to interview,\" said Li Hongliang, deputy director of the city's foreign affairs office.",
"\"We welcome foreign correspondents to report in Beijing and present the international community a true image of China.\"",
"Authorities now require foreign journalists to first submit formal applications before reporting in downtown Beijing.",
"Li urged journalists to abide by Chinese regulations."
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"Calls for protests fail ; China tightens rules on foreign reporters ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- A judge convicted 13 members of the Mexican military of crimes connected with trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine while on duty, the country's defense secretary said in a statement.",
"Three officers and 10 troops were convicted of drug and organized crime charges for their involvement in the transport of 928 kilograms of methamphetamine and 30 kilograms of cocaine, the statement said.",
"That amount of drugs is worth more than $120 million, according to average price estimates in the United Nations 2010 World Drug Report.",
"The defense secretary's statement did not provide sentencing details.",
"It called for the law to be applied \"to the full extent,\" adding that violations of laws and military rules would not be tolerated.",
"Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed about 50,000 troops to the nation's trouble spots since he began a crackdown on drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.",
"CNN's Krupskaia Alis contributed to this report."
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"Defense ministry: 3 officers and 10 troops were charged with drug crimes .",
"The drugs transported are worth more than $120 million, according to U.N. price estimates .",
"Mexico's president has deployed thousands of troops to combat drug cartels ."
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"(CNN) -- A U.S. Navy ship came to the rescue of an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean on Saturday after four suspected pirates climbed aboard.",
"The Japanese-owned MV Guanabara reported it was under attack Friday afternoon 328 nautical miles southeast of Oman, the Navy said.",
"The Guanabara had 24 crew members aboard.",
"The warship USS Bulkeley, assigned to the Combined Maritime Forces' CTF-151 counter-piracy mission, was directed to intercept the Guanabara, supported by the Turkish warship TCG Giresun of NATO's counter-piracy task force.",
"After Guanabara's master confirmed to the Bulkeley that his crew had taken refuge in the ship's citadel room, or secure compartment, the Bulkeley's specialist boarding team climbed aboard Saturday, detained the four men and secured the vessel, the Navy said.",
"There was no exchange of fire at any time during the operation, and an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter supported the boarding team from the air, the Navy added.",
"Officials said they are still deciding what to do with the suspected pirates.",
"The U.S. Navy did not disclose the nationalities of those detained or where they were being taken.",
"\"Through our mutual cooperation and shared coordination, CTF-151 and our partner organizations has prevented the kidnapping of legitimate mariners who sought only to go peacefully about their business,\" said CMF's counter-piracy commander, Commodore Abdul Alheem.",
"\"Today, there will be a merchant ship sailing freely that would not be doing so were it not for the efforts of CTF-151.\"",
"The Combined Maritime Forces is a naval partnership of 25 member nations including the United States that works to disrupt piracy and armed robbery and improve security in international waters off the Middle East."
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"A team from the USS Bulkeley detained the four suspected pirates .",
"There was no exchange of fire .",
"Officials have not decided what to do with suspects ."
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"Harf Sofyan, Yemen (CNN) -- Security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in northern Yemen on Friday morning, killing two people and injuring nine others, witnesses said.",
"The forces fired into the protesters in Harf Sufyan city to try and disperse them, witnesses said.",
"Three army planes flying over the crowd also attacked the protesters, witnesses said.",
"The vast majority of the protesters were Houthi rebels, according to Mohammed Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the group .",
"Since 2004, the Houthis have waged a separatist revolt over who which religious sect will control the area.",
"The Houthis are Shiite Muslims and followers of slain Shiite cleric Hussein al-Houthi.",
"The majority of Yemenis are Sunnis.",
"Elsewhere in Yemen on Friday, thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Sana'a called for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down as they continued to hold a sit-in demonstration outside Sanaa University.",
"The crowd included students, women, tribesmen and members of the opposition In Aden Province.",
"Thousands also continued to demonstrate against Saleh's regime in the provinces of Taiz, Mareb and Jawf.",
"Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report."
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"Three army planes also attack the protesters, witnesses say .",
"The majority of the protesters are Houthi rebels .",
"The Houthis are Shiite Muslims and followers of slain cleric Hussein al-Houthi ."
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"(CNN) -- Davis Cup champions Serbia will be without world No.",
"3 Novak Djokovic as they begin the defense of their title in the men's team competition against India this weekend.",
"The Australian Open champion led Serbia to an historic victory over France in front of a home crowd in Belgrade in the 2010 final, but has chosen to focus on his preparations for the U.S. hard-court season rather than join his teammates for the March 4-6 first-round world group tie.",
"However, the 23-year-old insisted that his teammates -- world No.",
"18 Viktor Troicki, 45th-ranked Janko Tipsarevic and double's specialists Ilija Bozoljac and Nenad Zimonjic -- remain favorites to secure victory on indoor courts in Serbia's second city Novi Sad.",
"\"Unfortunately, this time I won't be part of the Davis Cup team.",
"Together with my teammates and captain, I decided to rest this time but I am confident that they will win this tie and they have my full support,\" Djokovic said in a statement on his official website.",
"'100 percent' fit Nadal returns to the fray in Davis Cup tie .",
"\"I feel physically well, fit, and mentally motivated to do even more coming up to tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami where I haven't done well in the last years.",
"So I really want to work hard and get some good results in the US,\" he added.",
"The Indian team will be made up world No.",
"93 Somdev Devverman, Rohan Bopanna and doubles specialists Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes -- fresh from their final appearance in Melbourne.",
"In other top tier Davis Cup ties beginning on Friday, world No.",
"1 Rafael Nadal is set to make a return to action for the first time since the Australian Open when 2009 champions Spain travel to underdogs Belgium.",
"World No. 8 Andy Roddick will also make his first appearance in the Davis Cup since 2009 to lead the United States team against Chile, while defending champions France travel to Austria to play in the tournament's most unusual venue -- an airport hangar on the outskirts of Vienna.",
"Elsewhere, at the WTA Malaysia Open, former world no.",
"1 Dinara Safina suffered another setback in her bid to get back to the top of the women's game on Thursday as she lost a tight three setter to fifth-seed Lucie Safarova.",
"The Russian, who has dropped to 113 in the world rankings, took the second set off the Czech world No.",
"35 before eventually losing 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the second round of the hard court tournament.",
"Second seed and former Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoil -- the highest ranked player left in the draw following the shock first round exit of world no.",
"6 Francesca Schiavone -- progressed to the third round with a 6-2 6-1 win over Ekaterina Ivanova.",
"There was also a win for fourth seed Jarmila Groth of Australia who defeated Japan's Miskai Doi 7-6 6-3 but third seed Alisa Kleybanova was knocked out by world No.",
"150 Michaella Krajicek 3-6 6-4 6-3."
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama defended his proposed education spending increases Friday, telling an audience of students and teachers in Florida that such investments are necessary to spur future economic growth.",
"\"If we want more good news on the jobs front, then we need to make more investments in education,\" Obama said.",
"\"I am not willing to give up on any child in America. ...",
"I do not accept failure.\"",
"Obama's proposed budget for fiscal year 2012 includes an 11% hike in federal education spending, to more than $77 billion.",
"Republican congressional leaders are seeking to reduce federal spending on education, with many arguing it should be primarily a state and local concern.",
"Among other things, the administration has made a pledge to prepare an additional 100,000 science, technology, math and engineering teachers by the end of the decade.",
"The White House also is pushing to make permanent the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which is worth up to $10,000 for four years of college.",
"Seeking a political middle ground, Obama has also stressed the need for reform and, more specifically, the need to remove poorly performing teachers and school administrators.",
"He continued to do so Friday, calling the status quo \"unacceptable.\"",
"At the same time, however, the president also appeared to criticize at Republicans such as Wisconsin Gov.",
"Scott Walker, who is trying to strip teachers and other public sector workers of the bulk of their collective bargaining rights.",
"Teachers are \"feeling beat up\" right now, Obama said.",
"\"I want to be very clear here.",
"We are proud of what (teachers) do each and every day.",
"We need to honor teachers.\"",
"The president appeared with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov.",
"Jeb Bush, a Republican, at Miami Central Senior High School -- a previously underperforming school which has improved in recent years.",
"The turnaround, Obama stressed, was done by implementing a reform plan in cooperation with the local teachers union.",
"White House officials noted that the school was awarded nearly $785,000 in federal School Improvement Grant funds to help finance its turnaround plan.",
"Obama has asked Congress for $900 million for a new round in the Race to the Top competition, which rewards states and localities that meet the administration's standards for educational innovation and outcomes."
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"Obama says more education spending is needed to spur future economic growth .",
"Obama reiterates his call for reform, but also praises teachers .",
"The president appeared with former Florida Gov.",
"Jeb Bush at a high school in Miami ."
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"(CNN) -- An opposition plan calling for an investigation into violence against protesters in Yemen and the departure of the president was being reviewed by the ruling party, a government official said, and was \"being received positively\" so far.",
"The government official, who asked not to be named, told CNN late Wednesday the plan was being \"reviewed by the GPC (Ruling Party) leadership committee.\"",
"The official's comments came as the ruling party claimed that it is continuing a dialogue with the opposition -- but the opposition denied it.",
"\"We will not have any dialogue with the ruling party.",
"Our only demand is that this regime leaves and then we can talk about dialogue,\" said opposition bloc spokesman Mohammed Al-Qubati.",
"The two sides both said that the opposition delivered a list of five points to the ruling party via a committee of Islamic scholars, but did not agree on whether it was a \"plan,\" as the government says, or \"advice for the ruling party,\" as the opposition says.",
"Opponents of Yemen's long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh have been demonstrating against him since the beginning of the year, part of the wave of popular protests that has been crashing over the Arab world.",
"Saleh's party says the opposition \"points\" include a demand for an investigation into who was responsible for violence against protesters, and prosecutions, plus compensation for the victims' families.",
"They also want Saleh to step down and transfer power peacefully by the end of the year, according to the official.",
"Saleh caused a stir Tuesday when he said in a public address that \"there is a control room working for the media and you know where it is -- in Tel Aviv.",
"These events are managed by the White House.\"",
"The comments referring to Washington were later edited out of a rebroadcast of his speech.",
"Saleh called the White House on Wednesday \"to convey his regret for misunderstandings related to his public remarks that Israel and the United States have engaged in destabilizing activities in Arab countries,\" a White House statement said.",
"In the call to John Brennan, U.S. President Barack Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, Saleh also said that he is \"firmly committed to meaningful political reform in Yemen and that he is reaching out to opposition elements in an effort to achieve reform through a democratic, inclusive, and peaceful process.\"",
"U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley rejected Saleh's remarks before the Yemeni leader retracted them.",
"\"The protests in Yemen are not the product of external conspiracies,\" Crowley said on Twitter.",
"\"President Saleh knows better.",
"His people deserve a better response.\"",
"Saleh's stinging comments came as a powerful cleric -- labeled a terrorist by the United States -- joined the ranks of the Yemeni protesters Tuesday, leading them in prayer and telling them to stick to their demands.",
"It marked the first time a radical Islamic voice had joined those calling for democracy.",
"Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Zindani, a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard, was accused by Washington in 2004 of supplying weapons to al Qaeda.",
"Last year, al-Zindani made a public plea to recruit millions of young men to fight jihad against Israel.",
"But in Yemen, al-Zindani is a free and influential man and his support of the demonstrations could prove key.",
"Saleh also fired the governors of five of the nation's provinces, where anti-government protests have been raging for several weeks.",
"All five were appointed to other positions, according to a decree released Tuesday.",
"The protests continued Tuesday as thousands gathered outside Sanaa University in the capital.",
"Even members of Saleh's powerful tribal group were among the protesters calling for an end to the president's rule.",
"In a counterdemonstration, thousands of government loyalists descended on Sanaa's Tahrir Square.",
"Opposition to Saleh has solidified in the wake of violent confrontations between security forces and protesters Friday in Sanaa, Aden and elsewhere.",
"Four people were killed and 26 were wounded in the clashes, according to medical officials.",
"Amnesty International said it had reports that 11 people died in Friday's protests, bringing the overall death toll since protests began to 27.",
"Saleh, in power since 1978, has already said he will not seek re-election but his attempts to form a unity government have run into roadblocks.",
"The country's main opposition bloc rejected Saleh's call for calm until elections to replace him are held.",
"The bloc said its goal is simply \"the fall of the regime.\"",
"The nation has been battling al Qaeda as well as a Shiite uprising and secessionist movement.",
"High unemployment, lack of political freedoms and government corruption have also stoked Yemeni anger.",
"CNN's Gena Somra and journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report."
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"The opposition denies it .",
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"(CNN) -- Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure has been suspended by his club Manchester City after testing positive for a banned substance.",
"The 29-year-old, who joined City from English Premier League rivals Arsenal in 2009, learned of his failed drugs test from the English Football Association (FA) on Thursday.",
"\"Manchester City confirm that the FA has informed Kolo Toure that an 'A-sample' provided by him has tested positive for a specified substance,\" a statement published on the club's official website read.",
"It continued: \"As result of this, he has been suspended from participating in all first team and non-first team matches pending the outcome of the legal process.",
"\"There will be no further comment from the football club at this stage.\"",
"According to the World Anti-Doping Agency a specified substance is one which could have \"a credible, non-doping explanation.\"",
"Punishments for a positive test range from a warning to a two-year ban from sport.",
"Toure has made more than 50 appearances for City and was captain of the side last season.",
"He is contracted at the club -- where his younger brother Yaya also plays -- until 2013.",
"Elsewhere in the Premier League, leaders Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has been charged with improper conduct by the FA over comments he made about referee Martin Atkinson on Tuesday .",
"Following United's 2-1 league defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge Ferguson told MUTV: \"I must say, when I saw who the referee was I feared it.",
"I feared the worst.",
"He added: \"You want a fair referee, or a strong referee anyway -- and we didn't get that.\"",
"The Scot criticized Atkinson for not sending off Chelsea goalscorer David Luiz for fouls on Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez, as well as for awarding what proved to be a decisive penalty late in the match.",
"Ferguson already has a suspended two-game touchline ban hanging over him from 2009 when he said that Alan Wiley was not physically fit enough to referee in the Premier League.",
"A statement on the FA website stated that Ferguson has until next Tuesday to respond to the charge."
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"Ivorian international could receive a warning or face up to a two-year ban from football .",
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"(CNN) -- The Ohio state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would curb the collective bargaining rights of public workers and strip away their power to strike.",
"Lawmakers approved the measure by a count of 17 to 16, with six Republicans voting in opposition.",
"The bill, known as Senate Bill 5, is supported by Republican Governor John Kasich.",
"It would curb a 1983 Ohio state law that affords collective bargaining rights to public employees.",
"\"No surprise,\" said Senate President Tom Niehaus.",
"\"I've been saying for weeks that we have the votes to pass this bill.",
"It reflects the diverse interests that our members have around the state of Ohio,\" he said.",
"The near-500-page proposal was modified Tuesday with Republican-supported amendments cobbled into a single omnibus package.",
"Modifications include new measures to settle workplace arbitration, limits on worker vacation and an end to their ability to negotiate health care and automatic pay raises based on seniority.",
"The amended legislation would also restore collective bargaining rights on wages but ban strikes by all public-sector workers, imposing fines and terminating employment contracts for those who defy the ban.",
"Democratic lawmakers described the proposal as union-busting.",
"Their GOP counterparts argued that it's needed to tackle an overreach of union influence they regard as an impediment to fiscal reform.",
"\"It passed by the most narrowest of margin,\" said Democratic State Senator Joe Schiavoni.",
"\"That really shows how much public outcry on this bill.",
"That they can change a 27-year-old law in three weeks is scary.\"",
"Meanwhile, protesting crowds gathered in Columbus, Ohio, chanting slogans like \"Shame on you!\"",
"following the Senate vote.",
"Earlier Wednesday the measure sailed through a Senate Labor Committee following a last-minute GOP shuffle that resulted in the replacement of Republican Senator Bill Seitz.",
"Seitz said he mostly supported the bill, and the need for collective bargaining reform, but disagreed with a provision that would allow employer management to \"impose its will on the final terms of the contract when fact-finding and mediation fail.\"",
"\"That violates the fundamental principle that one cannot be simultaneously a judge and an advocate in his own cause,\" he said, calling for an \"elected, independent, neutral\" party to adjudicate those cases involving state workers.",
"The bill now moves onto the Republican-controlled House where lawmakers are expected to take up the measure on March 10.",
"Ohio, often considered a battleground for presidential politics, faces an $8 billion shortfall in the next two-year budget.",
"CNN's Julian Cummings contributed to this report ."
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"Legislation would also strip public workers' power to strike ."
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"(CNN) -- The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has called for an end to the \"madness\" of Old Firm matches after a fractious clash between Glasgow rivals Rangers and Celtic.",
"The Scottish Cup clash at Celtic Park on Wednesday was marred by three red cards for Rangers players and a series of running battles on the touchline.",
"Celtic won the game 1-0 but manager Neil Lennon clashed with Rangers striker El-Hadji Diouf during the match and Rangers assistant manager Ally McCoist after the final whistle.",
"Strathclyde Police said there were 34 arrests in the ground for sectarian offences, racial abuse and breach of the peace.",
"The derby between the two old foes is especially incendiary due to the historical religious divide between the two clubs -- Celtic supporters are largely Catholic while Rangers supporters are usually of Protestant background.",
"The trouble on Wednesday night led the head of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) to say he was \"saddened and deeply embarrassed\" by the scenes while SPF chairman Les Gray said police were struggling to cope.",
"Mr Gray told CNN: \"We simply don't have the money and resources to do this.",
"Everyone involved needs to sit down and look at this.",
"Something has to give.",
"This madness cannot go on.",
"\"What happens on the pitch is reproduced throughout Scotland, on the streets, in pubs, in homes.",
"You cannot justify it. It can't keep on going.\"",
"Scotland's Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill was quoted by the UK Press Association as saying: \"There is a deep-rooted and unacceptable social issue involved -- which has a great deal to do with Scotland's damaging relationship with alcohol, and little to do with football.",
"\"The issue is far wider than clubs and the game.",
"It is about a culture of violence fueled by alcohol.\"",
"The SFA confirmed they had launched an investigation with chief executive Stewart Regan criticizing \"inflammatory and irresponsible behavior\" during the match.",
"In a statement on the SFA's website he said: \"As chief executive of this organization, I was both saddened and deeply embarrassed to witness the scenes that unfolded during what is supposed to be Scottish football's flagship fixture: these images were broadcast around the world and shows our game in a poor light.",
"\"I acknowledge the pressures of expectation on both clubs but last night's behavior crossed the boundaries of acceptable conduct at a football match.",
"\"The unedifying sight of two of the country's most recognizable and respected coaches engaged in an angry confrontation was not only unsavoury but exacerbated an already incendiary atmosphere inside the stadium and throughout the West of Scotland.\""
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"Scottish Police Federation call for an end to the \"madness\" of fractious Old Firm matches .",
"Glasgow derby between Celtic and Rangers on Wednesday marred by violent scenes .",
"Celtic manager Neil Lennon pulled apart from Rangers player and assistant manager .",
"Scottish FA launch an investigation calling the scenes 'embarrassing'"
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"Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A Massachusetts court added $81 million in punitive damages Thursday to $71 million in compensatory damages it had already awarded to the family of a woman who died of lung cancer.",
"Suffolk Superior Court ruled earlier this week that Lorillard Tobacco Company lured black children into smoking by providing them free cigarettes.",
"The plaintiff, Willie Evans, said the company handed out Newport cigarettes to children like his mother, Marie Evans, during the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Orchard Park neighborhood of Boston.",
"\"It's certainly bittersweet,\" Evans said.",
"\"If I had my choice, I would have preferred the tobacco company not to have given my mother cigarettes as a 9-year-old child.\"",
"Marie Evans died at age 54 after suffering from small cell lung cancer, according to the criminal complaint.",
"Her family said that Lorillard \"developed techniques to manipulate and control the nicotine delivery of its cigarettes so as to create and sustain addiction in smokers, including Marie Evans.\"",
"according to the complaint.",
"Lorillard says those claims are unfounded.",
"The company is the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States, according to a company statement.",
"It said it plans to appeal.",
"\"Lorillard respectfully disagrees with the jury's verdict and denies the plaintiff's claim that the company sampled to children or adults at Orchard Park in the early 1960s,\" said spokesman Gregg Perry.",
"Jurors listened to a video deposition from Evans recorded three weeks before her death in 2002 in which she described receiving cigarettes from Lorillard when she was a child.",
"\"Hopefully this does allow other people to come forward, and gives them confidence to move their cases forward,\" Evans said after tearfully embracing his attorney when the verdict was read.",
"But Lorillard contends that Evans' \"50-year-old memories were persuasively contradicted by testimony from several witnesses,\" Perry said.",
"The jury had deliberated for approximately two hours on Thursday, after listening to expert financial and forensic testimony."
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"NEW: Jurors listened to a video deposition from Evans recorded three weeks before her death .",
"A Massachusetts court adds $81 million in punitive damages .",
"The court ruled that Lorillard lured children into smoking by providing free cigarettes .",
"Marie Evans died at age 54 after suffering from small cell lung cancer ."
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"(CNN) -- Kim Byung-ki has just seen his sister for the first time in 59 years, a sibling he thought was dead until last year.",
"They reunited over the weekend for the first time since the Korean War tore apart their family.",
"Kim, his sister and Kim's son started crying immediately on seeing one another, said Kim's son, Kim Jong-hwa.",
"They couldn't stop. The family took part in family reunions that began October 30 and will end Friday at Mount Kumgang, the two Koreas' joint mountain resort in the North.",
"Many burst into tears at the reunions, which involve 100 people from each side.",
"Elderly men in suits and women in traditional Korean silk hanbok dresses sat at numbered tables in a large restaurant.",
"Some sat, spoke and exchanged photographs; others simply looked bewildered as they clutched hands and stared into faces unseen for six decades.",
"The relatives have been separated from since the 1950-53 Korean War.",
"\"After a while, my father said they need to stop crying and smile, so the memories of the meeting could be better.",
"He said they should say goodbye smiling, not crying.",
"It was hard to see that,\" Kim Jong-hwa said.",
"Kim's father wasn't immediately available for comment.",
"\"We were very happy to meet her and learn about how she had lived,\" Kim Jong-hwa said of his aunt.",
"\"I felt relieved to hear she had worked as a nurse and later became a doctor, that probably means she had a better life\" than many North Koreans.",
"\"Still, it broke my hear to see her and think of the difficulties she might have gone through,\" Kim said.",
"\"She told us that when the North and South Korean family meetings started, she was upset that no one in her family had looked for her,\" he said.",
"\"It was a shock for us to hear she felt that way,\" Kim said.",
"\"We did our best to explain to her we thought she had died during the war and that we would have tried to look for her, had we known she was still out there.",
"When she left, she said she understood, but I wondered what she really thought and how she really felt.\"",
"The elder Kim had not seen his sister since 1951, when she was 15 years old.",
"He was a police officer during the war and often was away from home.",
"When he returned one day, \"She was gone.",
"I asked where she was and she had been kidnapped [by North Korean soldiers].",
"After that, we didn't know where she was,\" Kim said.",
"\"My mother was just waiting for her to get back.",
"She was old. She couldn't go out to look for her. Even if she wanted, she didn't even know where she could search,\" Kim added.",
"\"It was a vague hope.",
"She wondered, will it be today?",
"Will it be tomorrow? She just waited.\" Kim's wife, Kwon Bong-sook, shared her memories of those traumatic years: .",
"\"All the family was alive then.",
"Three generations lived at the house and people waited for her to come back.\"",
"\"But time passed, we weren't able to think.",
"There were shootings, bombs, the men went to the army. ...",
"I didn't even know if my husband was alive.\"",
"\"Life was hard then. That was how we lived then. My brother and my father were also gone.",
"Everything was taken from us.",
"We didn't have food.\" \"There were bombs. It was not a proper life.",
"We just tried to survive.",
"After this, we thought she died.",
"We could have never imagined she survived.\"",
"Last year, the South Korean Kim got word through government channels that his sister was alive, in North Korea.",
"No mail, telephone or e-mail exchanges exist between ordinary citizens across the Korean border, so the siblings pinned their hopes on the government-sanctioned reunions.",
"Millions of Koreans were divided by the war.",
"It ended in a truce, but without a formal peace treaty.",
"The prickly relationship between the countries has since had periodic conciliatory moves and flare-ups.",
"Some 80,000 South Koreans have registered with their government to join one of the infrequent reunions, but 40,000 people are thought to have passed away or given up hope, according to the South's Ministry of Unification.",
"Numbers are unknown in the secretive North.",
"The first family reunions took place following a landmark summit between the two Koreas in 2000.",
"Since then, 17,100 people representing 3,500 families have been reunited on 17 separate occasions.",
"Journalist Manisha Tank contributed to this report."
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"Until last year, Kim Byung-ki thought his sister was dead .",
"He had not seen her since she disappeared at age 15 .",
"The siblings were divided by the Korean War .",
"The South Korean man reunited with his sibling over the weekend ."
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"(CNN) -- With violence approaching their doorstep, 10-year-old Beverly Dempsey and her father had eight hours to gather their belongings into one suitcase apiece and evacuate Egypt during last month's uprising.",
"Her mother, a U.S. State Department employee, had to stay behind while they were relocated to temporary housing in Falls Church, Virginia, with other displaced diplomatic families.",
"Jim Dempsey tries to make life as normal as possible for his daughter, who is attending school for the first time in the United States, having lived abroad since she was 2.",
"But her heart remains in Egypt, the place she's come to regard as home.",
"\"I really like it here, but it would have made me feel better if we were in Egypt because that's where I want to be right now,\" she says.",
"\"I want to go back really badly, but that doesn't mean I don't like it here.",
"I just want to be able to say goodbye.\"",
"The Dempseys are among the many diplomatic families wait in limbo for word on when they can return to Egypt.",
"Jim Dempsey, an economic development consultant, says he is grateful to the U.S. government for making the transition as smooth as possible in a community that has been welcoming and supportive.",
"But it's been more than a month since they left Egypt and he's anxious to resume the life he left behind.",
"\"We've been living in Egypt for four years.",
"It's our home. This is place is fine, but everything is there.",
"We have a set of friends, we have a way of living, and all of that is disrupted.",
"We have to adjust and do well, wherever you go, but you want to be at home.\"",
"The two speak daily with Jim's wife, a USAID employee on essential work in Cairo.",
"She has told them things are still tense in the Egyptian capital -- there's still the occasional gunfire; roadblocks are still up; people are hesitant to go far from their homes.",
"But life is slowly returning to normal, with 70 percent of schools up and running, including Beverly's school, Cairo American College, Dempsey says.",
"Beverly's room contains her most cherished mementos of the life she left behind: some stuffed animals, medals from her accomplishments as a swimmer, photos with her parents from their adventures in India and Ethiopia -- where they lived prior to Egypt.",
"She also brought along a small statue of Ramses, the Egyptian pharaoh.",
"\"I don't have a lot of statues of things, and it was small but it also reminded me of the Great Pharaohs and how they lived through a lot of hard things, so I sort of related to them,\" she says.",
"She misses her friends, her teachers, and \"all these amazing sights that most people aren't able to see.\"",
"But most of all, she says, she misses her mother.",
"\"It would have been easier for us all to adjust with my mom here because she sort of is the one who does a lot of things.",
"She helps us shop, she helps us decorate ... and so cook.",
"My dad's not a very good cook.\"",
"Jim Dempsey says that, given the situation in Egypt, he hopes to return sometime in the next month.",
"\"We're kind of waiting, trying to figure out what to do in the meantime.",
"My job is to work as a single parent and take my care of my daughter.\"",
"CNN's Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report."
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"Jim Dempsey and daughter, Beverly, were forced to leave Egypt last month amid uprising .",
"His wife, a USAID employee, had to stay behind .",
"They've been temporarily relocated to Virgina but now consider Egypt home .",
"\"I want to go back really badly, but that doesn't mean I don't like it here,\" says Beverly, 10 ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed a hat-trick as Real Madrid crushed Malaga 7-0 to close the gap on Spanish league leaders Barcelona.",
"The Portuguese striker ended his four-match goal drought in style as Jose Mourinho's side reduced Barca's advantage at the top of La Liga to seven points.",
"Second-bottom Malaga had no answer to a powerful attacking display and finished the game with nine men after defender Manolo was sent off and Cala limped off injured after they had made all their permitted substitutions.",
"Malaga coach Manuel Pelligrini, who was replaced at Real Madrid by Mourinho, chose to rest some of his best players and the decision came back to haunt him at the Bernabeu.",
"France international Karim Benzema began the rout after 27 minutes when he diverted Xabi Alonso's free kick into the net.",
"Angel Di Maria added a second nine minutes later after capitalizing on a missed interception to slot the ball into the bottom corner.",
"Just before the break Marcelo slammed Di Maria's pass into the corner of the net to make it 3-0.",
"There was no let up after the interval as Ronaldo rounded off a flowing move to register a fourth before Benzema got his second with a header from Marcelo's cross.",
"Manolo handled in the area to give Real a penalty and was shown a second yellow card by the referee.",
"Ronaldo made no mistake from the spot.",
"And the striker completed his hat-trick by converting Sergio Canales' cross at the near post with 13 minutes remaining before asking to be substituted."
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"Real Madrid beat Malaga 7-0 in Spain's La Liga .",
"Cristiano Ronaldo scores a hat-trick as Real close gap on leaders Barcelona .",
"Karim Benzema scores twice as Real move to within seven points of Barca ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli police arrested two suspects Saturday in connection to a deadly wildfire raging in the country's north, though a police spokesman said it appears the fires started out of negligence.",
"The fires have killed 41 and injured 17 others.",
"Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the suspects are being questioned at a local police station but police now believe the fires were due to negligence rather than arson.",
"As the police probe unfolded, firefighters continued to battle three major blazes fueled by shifting winds.",
"The fire, the worst in Israel's history, is still not under control, Rosenfeld said.",
"The flames spread over 10,000 acres around Haifa, Israel's third largest city, threatening businesses, tourism and one of Israel's greenest regions, Mount Carmel.",
"\"If you look over the hills at Haifa, you can see smoke billowing over the sea,\" said Rosenfeld, adding that the winds have forced authorities to close down roads to the coastal area.",
"About 17,000 people have been evacuated, but residential areas are not under threat, he said.",
"On Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to the help Israel received from other nations, including Egypt, Turkey and Jordan, as \"heartwarming,\" the Jerusalem Post reported.",
"\"One thing is clear, the Israeli people are standing together and many, many countries are together with Israel.",
"This is no small thing,\" Netanyahu said during a press conference.",
"\"This is surely a point of light in this our festival of lights Hanukkah,\" he said.",
"Israeli's military noted in a statement Saturday that firefighters from Bulgaria and Greece had joined Israeli personnel on the blaze's frontlines.",
"Netanyahu's office said that so far, several nations have committed 10 airplanes and three helicopters to help Israel fight the raging fire, including four from Greece, one from Cyprus, two from Turkey, two from Russia and one from France.",
"These are in addition to several Israel Defense Forces aircraft, including two to four charged with surveying the region from above.",
"British Prime Minister David Cameron instructed the Royal Air Force to deploy two helicopters from Cyprus to help put out the fire, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Friday.",
"Netanyahu spoke Saturday morning with the president of Switzerland to recruit additional air support, his office said.",
"Five U.S. Defense Department aircraft will leave for Israel this weekend to help fight the fire.",
"They include three C-130 firefighting aircraft from the U.S. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard and two C-130s from the U.S. European Command, which will depart Ramstein Air Base in Germany carrying 20 tons of fire retardant, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.",
"The agency said it has already chartered commercial aircraft to deliver 45 tons of fire retardant and 12,000 liters of foam to suppress the flames.",
"A team of experts from the U.S. Forest Service's Disaster Assistance Support Program is also heading to Israel, the agency said.",
"Hague expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and to the thousands who have had to be evacuated because of the blaze.",
"\"This tragedy is all the more sad as it comes as the Jewish community around the world celebrates Hanukkah, a time of hope and joy,\" Hague said.",
"\"The UK will continue to do whatever it can to help.\"",
"Two funerals took place Saturday after another eight were held Friday for those killed, Rosenfeld said.",
"Most of the 41 victims were cadets in Israel's prison service who arrived Thursday to help evacuate 500 inmates from the Damon prison near Haifa.",
"Among the dead, 40 were apparently burned alive when their bus, traveling along a narrow mountain road, was engulfed by the fast-moving blaze, the Jerusalem Post reported.",
"In an interview with the newspaper, a firefighter spokesman said the bus was gone in less than three minutes.",
"\"The bus had no chance.",
"They tried to escape but were burned alive,\" the spokesman said.",
"\"It was a horrific scene.\"",
"The IDF said the victims will be buried with full honors in military ceremonies.",
"Israeli firefighter spokesman Yoram Levy said shifting 29 kph (18 mph) winds made the inferno harder to control as flames neared a neighborhood in Haifa, a major tourist destination on the northern coast.",
"Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel about 50 miles north of Tel Aviv, Haifa's metropolitan area is also host to historical sites that date to Biblical times.",
"The fire has also threatened a sensitive ecological area near the Hai Bar nature reserve.",
"Known as Mount Carmel's \"Little Switzerland,\" the reserve is home to a wildlife preservation project that seeks to bring back native species mentioned in the Old Testament.",
"Though Israel is known for its military might, it has been criticized for failing to properly handle the blazes.",
"CNN's Paul Colsey contributed to this report."
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"Fires, fueled by shifting winds, are still not under control .",
"Two suspects have been arrested .",
"The fire has killed 41 people and injured 17 ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- The French finance ministry came under a large-scale cyber attack in December that targeted G20 documents, France's Budget Minister Francois Baroin told French radio on Monday.",
"Baroin told Europe 1 an investigation was underway and that there were unconfirmed leads.",
"\"It seems what was targeted was the organization of the G20 (conference),\" Baroin said.",
"Paris Match magazine reported earlier Monday that the finance ministry had come under an unprecedented cyber attack and that 100 computers were affected.",
"The G20 met in Paris last month.",
"The Group of 20 was established in 1999 to bring together industrialized and developing economies to promote global economic stability."
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"The ministry faced a large-scale attack in December, a minister says .",
"G20 documents seem to have been the target .",
"Paris hosted a G20 summit last month ."
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"(CNN) -- Colombia's soccer officials announced Wednesday they will suspend a defender for the Deportivo Pereira for two games and fine him $560 for kicking an owl on the Junior Barranquilla home field on Sunday.",
"The bird, a mascot for the Junior Barranquilla team, had landed on the field during a game shortly before Luis Moreno trotted over to it and launched it aloft with his foot.",
"It landed a few yards away.",
"Monday, it died.",
"\"The animal was practically a symbol for the Barranquillera fan and, given that the aggression occurred in their own stadium and in direct view of all the assistants, such an attitude can validly be interpreted as being within the range of public provocation that is regulated by the disciplinary code of the Colombian Football Federation,\" soccer officials said in a statement.",
"Newspaper reports quoted Moreno as apologizing for the act."
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"Colombia's Luis Moreno also fined $560 after kicking an owl .",
"Bird was \"practically a symbol for the Barranquillera fan,\" soccer officials said .",
"Owl, which landed on field during game, died a day after incident ."
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"Miami (CNN) -- State investigators concluded there were \"no safety threats\" at the home of a 10-year-old girl two days before she was found dead in her adoptive father's pick-up truck near her seriously ill twin brother, according to a report released Monday by Florida child welfare authorities.",
"Both of the twins' adoptive parents -- mother Carmen Barahona and father Jorge Barahona -- are charged with first-degree murder in the girl's death.",
"They also each face seven counts of aggravated child abuse and seven counts of child neglect, with the mother being so charged Saturday and the father charged on all the counts Monday.",
"James Loftus, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, told reporters Monday that the girl died and the boy was found only after an extended period of \"systemic long-term abuse.\"",
"\"This is, in my experience, one of the saddest commentaries on the human condition that I've ever seen,\" Loftus said, calling the parents' alleged behavior \"subhuman.\"",
"\"It's depressing, it's sickening.\"",
"Jorge Barahona earlier pleaded not guilty on charges of attempted first-degree murder with a weapon and aggravated child abuse with a weapon in the case.",
"Days before the twins were found, the Florida Department of Children and Families received tips alleging poor treatment of children at the Barahona household in Miami-Dade County.",
"Records indicate a 7-year-old also lived in the home.",
"One caller on February 10 claimed that the 10-year-old girl and another child had been \"tied by their hands and feet with tape, and made to stay in the bathtub all day and night as a form of punishment,\" with the tape removed only so they could eat, according to a copy of the report released Monday.",
"Then, on February 12, authorities began looking into another claim that one of the Barahonas' children needed stitches after being hurt on the face and lip.",
"Carmen Barahona applied a bandage but didn't take the child to the hospital.",
"The mother said the child fell -- though the report notes that \"the injury is not consistent with the story.\"",
"Investigators went to the home and late that night filed a report, in which they did not find any reasons for concern for the children's well-being.",
"\"There is no reason to believe that the family is about to flee or refuse access to the children,\" investigator Bridget Moore said in the \"initial in home safety assessment\" report.",
"\"The home was observed, and there were no hazardous conditions.\"",
"The report concluded with an assessment that the risk to the children was \"moderate,\" with no risk of abuse.",
"\"There are no concerns for the safety of the children while in the care of the parents,\" the investigator writes.",
"Two days later, on February 14, authorities say Jorge Barahona parked his pest-control truck alongside I-95.",
"A roadside ranger said he found Barahona beside the truck and his adopted son ill inside the vehicle, which was filled with toxic chemicals.",
"The boy was taken to a hospital to be treated for severe burns.",
"The body of the Barahonas' adopted daughter, Nubia -- who was the boy's twin sister -- was later discovered in the back of the truck in a plastic bag.",
"The Florida Department of Children and Families held its fourth of five scheduled meetings Monday afternoon to examine how authorities had handled the case.",
"In one instance, a caller told Florida authorities that he knew the Barahonas, and he was worried about the couple's twins.",
"The contents of that phone call, which was made two days before the twins were found, was released last week by the department.",
"The caller said he was worried that something sinister had happened to the 10-year-old girl because the Barahonas could not explain where the girl was.",
"\"(Jorge Barahona) doesn't come out with a straight answer, which is worrying me so much that something might have happened to that little girl,\" said the caller, who was not named.",
"During Monday's press conference, Katherine Fernandez Rundle -- the state attorney for Miami-Dade -- said the surviving children in the Barahonas' home \"clearly are key witnesses\" in the case, describing their cooperation with investigators thus far as \"very courageous.\"",
"Rundle said a decision hasn't been made yet on whether prosecutors would seek a death sentence in this case, though she signalled that this scenario appeared likely.",
"\"If there ever was a case that the death penalty would apply, it would seem to apply to this one,\" she said."
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"NEW: A police director calls the behavior \"subhuman,\" pointing to \"long-term abuse\"\nA state investigator found no reason for concern in the household .",
"A 10-year-old girl was found dead in plastic bag, her twin brother was burned ."
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"(CNN) -- Formula One legend Jackie Stewart is recovering in hospital after falling ill whilst flying back from attending the Geneva Motor Show.",
"The 71-year-old Scot-- who won the world drivers' title in 1969, 1971 and 1973 -- was given medical assistance by cabin crew after passing out on the flight, before being taken by ambulance to Hillingdon Hospital in west London.",
"Stewart's son Paul told the BBC: \"I've just spoken to him in hospital.",
"He seemed absolutely fine but obviously something happened and we need to establish what.",
"\"I should think he'll just be checked over and hopefully it will be nothing more sinister than that.\"",
"Confirming Stewart's arrival, a hospital spokeswoman told reporters: \"Jackie Stewart was taken unwell on a flight to Heathrow.",
"At the moment he is undergoing check-ups and his condition is stable.\"",
"Meanwhile, Stewart's private secretary, Oliver Anderson, added: \"Jackie is fully conscious and having precautionary medical checks.",
"We are expecting a full recovery from him.\"",
"As well as his three world titles, Stewart won 27 races during a Formula One career between 1965 and 1973.",
"He also ran his own Stewart team from 1997-1999, winning one race."
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"Formula One legend Jackie Stewart is recovering in hospital after falling ill .",
"The 71-year-old was flying back from attending the Geneva Motor Show .",
"Stewart won the world drivers' title in 1969, 1971 and 1973 and 27 races in total ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korea will attempt a second time to send a group of North Koreans back to the communist North on Monday, according to the Red Cross.",
"The effort comes three days after North Korea refused accept the same group.",
"The North rejected the first attempt by the South to repatriate 27 of the North Koreans over four defectors, who decided remain behind in South Korea.",
"The North has demanded the return of the whole group of 31 -- including the defectors, according to South Korea's official news agency Yonhap.",
"The North Koreans accidentally crossed over into South Korean waters on a fishing boat in early February.",
"The defections have become a new point of tension between the Koreas.",
"Defection is a crime in North Korea that carries the death penalty, according to Yonhap.",
"North Korea on Monday proposed working-level Red Cross talks regarding repatriation, according to a South Korean Red Cross news release.",
"South Korea has accepted the proposal for talks but rejected a key demand by the North.",
"The North Korean Red Cross plans to bring three family members of the four North Korean defectors to the meeting, according to the news release, and demand that the South Koreans bring the four defectors to the meeting with them.",
"The South Korean government reaffirmed its intention Monday not to repatriate the four North Korean defectors, Yonhap reported.",
"\"There is no change in our basic position that a decision made based on the free will of a person must be respected,\" said South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung in the Yonhap report.",
"South Korea's intelligence agency questioned the North Koreans for about a month since they crossed over in early February before deciding to release the group, the Korean Red Cross said.",
"There are currently more than 20,000 North Korean defectors in South Korea, according to the South's Unification Ministry.",
"The number of annual defectors has risen dramatically since the turn of the century and continues to climb.",
"Defectors who are forcefully repatriated to the North after attempting to cross over into third countries such as China, Mongolia or Southeast Asia are commonly sent to prison camps as a punishment.",
"Many defectors who live in South Korea fear for the lives of their family or relatives who remain in the North.",
"CNN's Jiyeon Lee contributed to this report ."
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"Four members of a group of 31 North Koreans have defected to the South .",
"North Korea is demanding the return of the whole group, including the defectors .",
"The South Korean government firmly refuses to return the four defectors ."
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"(CNN) -- At one time, teens Carlos Gonzalez, 16, and Juan Carlos Echeverri, 15, were classmates at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas.",
"Like many who live along the border, both boys had strong ties to El Paso, and especially to neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.",
"That's where they found themselves on Saturday, where they were gunned down at a car dealership by unknown assailants.",
"Gonzalez and Echeverri were both U.S. citizens, the Cathedral principal told CNN.",
"A third youth, 16-year-old Cesar Miramontes of Juarez was also killed in the incident.",
"\"Like many kids involved in this border reality of straddling two cultures, he had a lot of stress about what's going on in Juarez,\" the high school principal, Brother Nick Gonzalez, said of Gonzalez.",
"The two are not related.",
"The young Gonzalez, the principal said, was \"mischievous, but a good kid.\"",
"His family, which had lived in Juarez, had recently started renting an apartment in El Paso for safety reasons.",
"Juarez is a flashpoint in the drug cartel turf wars that have left thousands dead over the past four years.",
"There were more than 3,000 killings recorded in Juarez alone in 2010.",
"Moving to the United States, for any child, is a cultural shift, and \"I think he struggled with that,\" the principal said.",
"Echeverri went to school with Gonzalez at Cathedral their freshman year, before he returned to Juarez to attend school there, the principal said.",
"The shooting happened at 4:22 p.m. Saturday at a car dealership, where the teens were looking at cars, said Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.",
"Police recovered at least 18 bullet casings at the scene from an AK-47, an automatic weapon commonly used by drug traffickers in the city.",
"\"We believe (Echeverri) and the two others had been friends for a long time.",
"He was here in the city to visit them,\" Sandoval said.",
"Virginia Staab, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said Monday that U.S. authorities are actively looking into the incident and had not yet confirmed the citizenship of any of the victims.",
"Even though the killings happened in Juarez, they re-open wounds for the students and the community of El Paso, Nick Gonzalez, the principal, said.",
"Seemingly everyone knows someone who has been killed, extorted, kidnapped or robbed, he said.",
"Just because the violence is on the Mexican side of the border, doesn't make it a Mexican problem, he said.",
"\"It is not a 'them' problem, it is an 'us' problem.",
"We need to find out how to help kids cope,\" he said.",
"\"Just because there is a border doesn't mean that the emotions and pain don't cross over.\"",
"Monday's killings marked the first time that a current student at Cathedral High School was killed in the Juarez violence.",
"But alumni have been killed before, and, just before Christmas, the father of a student -- a successful orthopedic surgeon in Juarez -- was kidnapped and killed.",
"The fatal shootings come on the heels of numerous similar violent incidents in recent months in Juarez.",
"In one 48-hour span last week, for instance, at least 14 people were killed -- including a municipal police officer and a newspaper vendor who police believe was targeted due to her job, according to Juarez Police spokesman Adrian Sanchez."
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"Three teens killed Saturday at a car dealership in Ciudad Juarez .",
"Two of the victims were U.S. citizens, a school principal says .",
"Ciudad Juarez has been beset by severe violence in recent months ."
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"(CNN) -- In 2000, I moved to Senegal for the third and last time with my five grandchildren and husband, jazz musician Sam Sanders.",
"Their mother had passed on five years before from a heart attack and their father was still distraught.",
"We decided to give our grandchildren an international multilingual and multicultural education.",
"I had spent 30 years in and out of many African countries, designing health, education and nutrition programs, and had lived in many places and discovered many cultures.",
"We decided on Kaolack, a town in the western part of Senegal.",
"The local religious leaders are very tolerant of all religions, creeds, and nationalities.",
"After we arrived, our grandchildren started to become accustomed to the varied lifestyle.",
"Then, my husband, who was my best friend, died.",
"I retired from life.",
"I spent my days in prayer, reflection and education of the grandchildren.",
"My mourning period had began, and I assumed it would continue all my remaining life.",
"In late spring 2001, Mame Gueda Agne, a 9-year-old playmate of my granddaughter, came and asked to join the grandkids home-schooled classes.",
"She stated simply that she had failed the third grade the year before, was failing this year, and afraid that she would be thrown out of school.",
"In Senegal, if a child fails two successive years in public school he or she is expelled.",
"Only if parents can afford private school education will the child be able to continue.",
"I explained to her that she was in the Senegalese school system and the grandkids' classes were not the same.",
"In fact, the last thing I wanted was for an outside child to interrupt my mourning rituals.",
"But, Mame Gueda continued to come and ask.",
"Finally, I took Mame Gueda to speak with her mother to stop her asking.",
"Her mother explained that the girl was not intelligent and would probably fail.",
"She stated that she would let her finish this school year, then keep her home to teach her how to be a good wife and mother.",
"I could not accept that fate for a little girl who only wanted me to assist her.",
"I asked her mother to allow me to work with her.",
"Even though I had not mastered the Senegalese educational system, I thought that with my local contacts I could find someone to help Mame Gueda.",
"The next day Mame Gueda arrived for schooling.",
"But she did not come alone.",
"She came with three other girls.",
"In two weeks, I had 20 little 9-year-old girls.",
"My mourning period was over.",
"I researched the whys and wherefores of the little girls' educational failures.",
"I found that of every 60,000 girls who enter first grade, only 4,500 finish primary school in the region of Kaolack.",
"Of those 4,500 students entering middle school, only 1,500 will enter high school.",
"Five hundred will graduate with a high school diploma, 150 will enter university, and 15 will receive their university degree.",
"I discovered that many girls do not have books and school supplies, or the time or a place to study after school.",
"I began haunting all the public and private development agencies, local and national government institutions, asking for assistance to support our little girls.",
"I was refused. We were not part of an established program or in the wrong area, or we were turned down for innumerable other reasons.",
"We started teaching ourselves.",
"There is always someone who knows something that another does not.",
"We made sure that everyone knew the basics: read, write, cipher.",
"I drew upon competency based educational techniques I had learned at Columbia University Teacher's College.",
"We had to rely on ourselves. In the fall of 2001 the girls wanted me to continue the program.",
"I informed them that I hadn't been able to find the money.",
"They said they could raise their own money.",
"They had seen American girls on television selling cookies and would imitate them.",
"So I began \"cookie classes.\"",
"The girls sold cookies and fruit punch.",
"They raised enough to buy their school books and supplies.",
"The little girls brought in older siblings and relatives who had already failed and been expelled from school.",
"The older girls did the cooking and selling.",
"They became our financial support and grew into our entrepreneurs.",
"The little girls returned to school.",
"I knew that in order for them not to fail again, they had to keep learning.",
"We involved our girls' parents to make sure they allowed them the time to study after school by reducing household chores.",
"We involved the community by getting it to allocate public spaces and buildings to hold our afterschool classes and programs.",
"Eventually we got public and private financial and technical support to expand the number of girls that we teach each year.",
"We now have 3,383 girls and want to increase our numbers to 5,000 this year.",
"We export five blended hibiscus teas, dolls and household products to pay for the schooling.",
"We have decided to become green, with an aggressive environmental education and agricultural development entrepreneurial program.",
"We have 20 girls in university.",
"We do not recruit. They find us. They come. All failing, all willing to teach and learn.",
"And now: All succeeding. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Viola Vaughn."
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"Viola Vaughn left retirement to take on challenge of educating girls in Senegal .",
"She says the vast majority of schooling is devoted to boys .",
"Girls who are expelled from school for failing tests face very limited choices .",
"Vaughn's education program now serves more than 3,000 girls ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan recovered from having a player sent off to snatch a last-gasp 3-2 win over Asian Cup hosts Qatar in Doha and reach the semifinals on Friday.",
"Masahiko Inoha's late goal ended Qatar's hopes of qualifying for the last four of the competition for the first time, and maintained Japan's dream of earning a record fourth title.",
"Albert Zaccheroni's team will next face either Group D winners Iran or Group C runners-up South Korea, who face off on Saturday.",
"\"After we lost a man we still had more possession,\" the Italian coach told the Asian Cup website.",
"\"It was a great comeback and I could see the good mentality from our players.",
"\"Even though we were a man down, normally teams think about defense, but we didn't -- we had the bravery to keep attacking.\"",
"Qatar, ranked 105th in the world, had reached the knockout stage for just the second time in seven appearances and looked capable of going one better than 2000's last-eight showing when substitute Fabio Cesar made it 2-1 straight after Maya Yoshida's 62nd-minute dismissal.",
"Exiled Iran coach aims for historic goal .",
"But Japan battled back as Shinji Kagawa equalized with 20 minutes to play, and the striker was also involved when Inoha scored at the death.",
"Qatar took the lead in the 12th minute when Uruguay-born striker Sebastian Soria beat the offside trap, cut inside past defender Inoha and fired past goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima.",
"Japan, the second-highest ranked team at the 16-team tournament behind fellow 2010 World Cup qualifiers Australia, leveled in the 28th minute through Kagawa.",
"The 21-year-old, who plays for German league leaders Borussia Dortmund, headed home a cross by Shinji Okazaki as the teams went to the break on equal terms.",
"But that balance of power was disrupted 17 minutes after halftime when Yoshida fouled Yusef Ahmed on the edge of the penalty area and Cesar curled in a low effort from the resulting freekick.",
"However, Kagawa claimed his second as he went past Mesaad Ali and beat goalkeeper Qasem Burhan, then his late burst into the box resulted in the ball running free to fullback Inoha for the goal that put Japan through.",
"Qatar coach Bruno Metsu said he would let his players recharge before the beginning of qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in June.",
"\"We will use the time to let the players rest and raise their morale, because they were disappointed to lose.",
"We can be proud of how we played,\" the Frenchman said.",
"\"We frightened them and we were very skilful.",
"We have shown the whole world that Qatar is a strong team.",
"We showed that we can play good football, although we still made mistakes and we conceded goals because of these mistakes.\"",
"Group A winners Uzbekistan beat Group B runners-up Jordan 2-1 in Friday's second quarterfinal in front of 16,000 fans at Doha's 40,000-capacity Khalifa Stadium.",
"Uzbekistan will next face either Australia or defending champions Iraq after reaching the semis for the first time, having made it to the last eight in 2004 and 2007.",
"After a goalless first half, the \"White Wolves\" scored twice in two minutes after the break as striker Ulugbek Bakaev netted on 47 and 49.",
"The 32-year-old, who played for Russain club CSKA Moscow earlier in his career, broke the deadlock with a header from captain Server Djeparov's free-kick and then stole in at the near post to convert a low cross.",
"Jordan, also seeking to reach the semifinals for the first time, hit back through Bashar Bani Yaseen in the 57th minute when the defender pounced on a loose ball to score from close range."
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"Japan defender Masahiko Inoha scores last-minute goal to settle quarterfinal clash .",
"\"Blue Samurai\" will next face either three-time winners Iran or South Korea .",
"Hosts Qatar had twice led but Japan striker Shinji Kagawa responded with two goals .",
"Group A winners Uzbekistan beat Group B runners-up Jordan 2-1 in second quarterfinal ."
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"(Mother Nature Network) -- Cobblestone streets, sidewalk cafes and public art have helped Quebec City earn the moniker, \"Paris without the jetlag.\"",
"The thriving urban agriculture scene, local boutiques and restaurants, electric buses and green hotels should inspire a new nickname: \"Europe without the carbon footprint.\"",
"Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America.",
"Situated on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, it was founded in 1608 as one of the first significant settlements in Canada.",
"The Historic District of Old Quebec -- an area of cobblestone streets, picturesque churches and upscale shops -- was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.",
"Once dubbed \"The Most Sustainable City in Canada,\" Quebec City has undertaken numerous green initiatives, including a citywide composting program to reduce waste that was launched in 2010.",
"The city's two major festivals -- Festival d'été de Québec (Summer Festival) and Carnaval de Québec (winter carnival) have made commitments to the environment that include onsite recycling and composting, reusing construction material from past installations and choosing sites that are accessible by bicycle and public transportation.",
"These efforts have helped put the French-speaking city on the map as a historic and eco-friendly destination.",
"Experience 'la ville verte' (the green city) Quebec City is a walkable destination and it's possible to explore most of the major tourist sites on foot.",
"For longer distances -- or to avoid the steep steps between Upper Town and Lower Town -- hop on one of the electric minibuses.",
"Introduced in 2008, the minibuses are smaller than conventional buses, making it easier to navigate the narrow roads in the historic districts.",
"Rent a bike at Cyclo Services and use pedal power to see the city.",
"There are almost 250 miles of bike baths winding through the city.",
"Outdoor fun on Lake Superior's North Shore .",
"Sleep green .",
"The Chateau Frontenac sits on the cliff of Cap-aux-Diamants overlooking the St. Lawrence River.",
"Its castle-like appearance has earned the 618-room hotel a Guinness World Record for \"Most Photographed Hotel in the World.\"",
"The Chateau Frontenac has also earned accolades for its commitment to the environment.",
"The Hotel Association of Canada awarded the hotel a four Green Key rating for green initiatives that include recycling kitchen grease and donating used household goods to local charities.",
"Overnight guests driving hybrid vehicles can take advantage of free parking at the hotel.",
"Not a guest? The hotel is still worth a visit.",
"Sign up for a historic guided tour.",
"Led by costumed interpreters, the tours offer a glimpse into the history and majesty of the historic property.",
"Tree hotels: A youthful escape, revisited .",
"A former Holiday Inn, Hotel Pur has been transformed into a modern boutique hotel complete with green cleaning products, comprehensive recycling and composting programs, furnishings made from recycled materials and restaurant/room service meals made with ingredients from local producers.",
"For the best views, request a room overlooking the neo-Gothic St. Roch church.",
"In honor of its commitment to the environment, L'Hôtel du Vieux Quebec became the first hotel in the province to earn the Award of Excellence for Energy and Environment from the Hotel Association of Canada.",
"The 45-room hotel was built in 1774 and has served as a convent, tavern and apartment building before becoming the only carbon neutral hotel in Quebec City.",
"Catalina Island: A world away from L.A. See green .",
"Quebec City boasts an impressive number of parks and green spaces.",
"The largest is the Plains of Abraham, a 235-acre park that's home to an arboretum, formal garden, hiking/biking trails and exhibits that highlight the park's history.",
"The Museum of Civilization offers a series of rotating exhibits that explore environmental issues.",
"The permanent exhibit, Earth Unveiled, is an interactive look at the planet.",
"The museum also has a green roof that's open to the public.",
"Buy green . Quebec is proud of its heritage and nowhere is this more apparent than in the boutiques along Le Petit Champlain Quarter, a pedestrian street in Old Quebec that's reputed to be the oldest commercial district in North America.",
"The district is operated as a co-op with merchants and artists owning most of the buildings.",
"The shops that line the narrow cobblestone streets are the best places to find goods produced in Quebec, from oil paintings and woodcarvings to jewelry and pottery.",
"Even the liquor store -- called Société des alcools du Québec or SAQ -- has jumped on the \"buy local\" bandwagon.",
"The location adjacent to the Chateau Frontenac stocks more than 250 local brands from iced apple cider and maple syrup liqueur to caribou, a potent mix of brandy, vodka and sherry.",
"7 tips for lighter luggage .",
"Eat and drink green .",
"Quebec City is known for poutine, a combination of French fries, gravy and cheese curds.",
"The local fast food chain, Chez AshTon, is a great place to indulge in the artery-clogging dish.",
"AshTon uses locally made cheese curds and potatoes grown on Isle d'Orleans, giving their poutine local flair.",
"At Panache, the menu changes with the seasons.",
"Chef François Blais creates upscale French-Canadian cuisine using local ingredients such as bison, rabbit, quail and clams that led to Panache being named Best New Restaurant.",
"The restaurant is located in a former maritime warehouse that boasts exposed beams and stone walls that were original to the building in the 1800s.",
"Across the St. Lawrence River and less than 20 minutes from Quebec City, Ile d'Orléans is an agri-tourism haven.",
"Nicknamed the \"Garden of Quebec,\" the island is just 20 miles long and boasts a dizzying array of food producers.",
"Stop at Cidrerie Verger Bilodeau to sip iced cider, a regional favorite made from the juices of frozen apples; see how maple syrup is made at Cabane à sucre l'En-Tailleur; and taste the artisanal cheeses at Les Fromages de l'isle d'Orléans, which are made using techniques that date back to the 17th century.",
"Jodi Helmer is the author of \"The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference.\"",
"© Copyright 2010 Mother Nature Network ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A prosecutor in the involuntary manslaughter case against Dr. Conrad Murray asked the judge Thursday to delay the trial, which is set to begin in a month.",
"Murray, who is charged in the death of pop star Michael Jackson, invoked his right to a speedy trial within 60 days of his arraignment, but the prosecution complained the defense has not met its duty to share information about potential witnesses.",
"\"I do not take notes when talking to a witness,\" defense lawyer Michael Flanigan told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor during a hearing Thursday.",
"Judge Pastor scolded Flanagan and his co-cousel Ed Chernoff for not providing more details to the prosecution about the testimony they expect from the 93 people listed as potential defense witnesses.",
"\"There are sanctions, including monetary and continuances, and also including preclusion of a witness,\" the judge warned.",
"Judge Pastor appeared caught by surprise at Murray's arraignment last month when defense lawyers invoked his right to hava a trial within 60 days.",
"Flanagan, outside of court Thursday, said the defense will be ready when jury selection is scheduled to start on March 24.",
"\"The defendant has a right to go to trial within 60 days,\" he said.",
"\"I don't think there's any obligation for him to be completely ready 30 days before he's set to go to trial, if that were the true then what would we do the last 30 days?\"",
"Judge Pastor ordered Murray's lawyers to create written summaries of what they've been told by witnesses in interviews.",
"\"I guess we'll have to go out and take some more statements and tell the prosecution a little buit more about where we're coming from,\" Flanagan said.",
"Judge Pastor set a hearing for Monday morning to consider the prosecution request for a delay.",
"The judge also delayed making a decision until next week on allowing a new lawyer to join Murray's defense team until he can determine if there is a conflict of interest.",
"The lawyer, Nareg Gourjian, had worked on Michael Jackson's child molestation defense.",
"Murray wants Gourjian to replace Joseph Low, who left the defense team earlier this month.",
"Gourjian's former law firm, headed by lawyer Mark Geragos, raised the possible conflict of interest because the firm represented Jackson for two years starting in 2003, when he was charged with child molestation.",
"Geragos, and Michael Jackson estate's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, appeared in court Thursday to discuss the matter.",
"But Judge Pastor asked them to return next week to meet privately because it involves \"very sensitive material.\"",
"Gourjian told the judge last week that he was \"in no way involved\" in the Jackson case because he was \"a brand-new lawyer\" busy working on the a murder case at the time.",
"Jackson died on June 25, 2009 from what the coroner ruled was an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol."
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"Prosecutors complain the defense has not shared witness notes .",
"Murray's lawyers say they don't take notes .",
"The judge will consider delaying the trial next week .",
"The trial is set to start March 24 ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid reduced Barcelona's Spanish league lead to two points with a comfortable 2-0 victory at home to lowly Levante on Saturday, reaching a remarkable milestone for coach Jose Mourinho.",
"First-half goals from Karim Benzema and Ricardo Carvalho were enough to give Mourinho's team a 19th victory in 24 La Liga games this season.",
"The victory extended Real's unbeaten home La Liga run under Mourinho to 12 matches -- now 148 in total since his only career home league defeat when in charge of Porto on February 23, 2002.",
"Mourinho has carried his incredible record through spells with English club Chelsea and European champions Inter Milan into his first season at the Santiago Bernabeu.",
"Spanish titleholders Barcelona will seek to bounce back from Tuesday's Champions League defeat by Arsenal and last weekend's surprise draw with Sporting Gijon when Athletic Bilbao visit the Camp Nou on Sunday.",
"Benzema, meanwhile, staked his claim for a starting place against his former club Lyon this coming Tuesday, when Real travel to France seeking revenge for last season's last-16 defeat in Europe's top club competition.",
"Lyon warm up for Real clash with win .",
"The 23-year-old has been vying for a place with loan signing Emmanuel Adebayor in the absence of the injured Gonzalo Higuain, and he scored his third league goal this season from close range after a superb run down the right by winger Angel Di Maria.",
"Real dominated after that sixth-minute opener, and the second goal came four minutes before halftime when veteran Portugal defender Carvalho diverted in a vicious Cristiano Ronaldo free-kick for his third La Liga goal since leaving Chelsea in August.",
"Second-half substitute Adebayor thought he had made it 3-0 in time added on, but Ronaldo was ruled to have been offside as he sought to pounce on a blocked shot from another replacement, Mesut Ozil.",
"\"I liked that my team played a serious match.",
"These games ahead of Champions League matches can be complicated because players may focus more on the European competition,\" Mourinho told reporters.",
"\"The team played well and was very focused.",
"We knew Levante would make it tough.",
"They were organized in defense, but we scored early and had things under control.",
"Winning and resting players is what mattered.\"",
"The defeat left Levante two points above the bottom three, with the Valencia-based team hoping to avoid an immediate return to the second division.",
"Third-placed Valencia lost ground on Madrid following a 0-0 draw at home to Sporting Gijon, who ended the day above 16th-placed Levante on goal difference.",
"That result means fellow Champions League hopefuls Villarreal can draw level on 48 points with a win at home to bottom club Malaga on Sunday.",
"Fifth-placed Atletico Madrid won 1-0 at Real Zaragoza in Saturday's late match, thanks to Sergio Aguero's second-half winner.",
"The Argentine striker broke the deadlock with a flash of brilliance in the 65th minute as he received Diego Forlan's pass, burst into the penalty box and fired a low shot across the keeper and into the far corner.",
"Zaragoza could have snatched a point, but Nigerian striker Ikechukwu Uche and on-loan Argentine midfielder Nicolas Bertolo both saw late efforts rebound off the Madrid crossbar.",
"Zaragoza remained a point above third-bottom Osasuna, who host sixth-placed Espanyol on Sunday."
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"Karim Benzema and Ricardo Carvalho score in the first half at Santiago Bernabeu .",
"Valencia lose ground on top two teams after being held 0-0 by Sporting Gijon .",
"Fifth-placed Atletico Madrid win 1-0 at Real Zaragoza in Saturday's late match ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's supreme leader praised the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia Friday and said they echo his country's revolution more than three decades ago, state media reported.",
"\"Today, developments in North Africa, (including) Egypt, Tunisia and some other countries have a special meaning for the Iranian nation,\" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a Friday prayer sermon, according to Press TV.",
"\"This is what was always referred to as the Islamic awakening created by the victory of the great revolution of the Iranian nation.\"",
"Iran's revolution in 1979 toppled the shah of Iran and ushered in an Islamic republic.",
"But the ferment in North Africa has been fueled by secular concerns.",
"Protests against corruption and poor living conditions in Tunisia forced the ouster of the country's president.",
"Demonstrations in Egypt have called for the departure of President Hosni Mubarak.",
"Khamenei said Tunisia's former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had been dependent on the United States and the Central Intelligence Agency.",
"He called the Mubarak regime, which has diplomatic relations with Israel, a \"lackey of the Zionist regime.\"",
"He referred to Egyptians' fight for \"dignity and honor\" and said that Mubarak's biggest transgression was to make Egypt an American tool.",
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has been adversaries with Israel and the United States since the Iranian revolution occurred.",
"Khamenei said Iran's enemies have been launching a psychological war against it for the past 32 years, and he said the country's enemies have been trying to undermine the Islamic revolution since the 2009 presidential election.",
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a second term in what was regarded by many Iranians as a rigged election.",
"That poll that stoked popular protests in Iran."
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"(CNN) -- More than 170,000 homes are without power in Queensland after a massive cyclone slammed into the already flood-ravaged northern Australian state, according to the emergency services minister.",
"Some areas could be without power for weeks.",
"Neil Roberts told CNN that said that no serious injuries have been reported since Tropical Cyclone Yasi roared ashore, but emergency crews are still working their way across the affected region.",
"So far, the worst-hit towns seem to be in an area roughly 90 miles (150 kilometers) south of Cairns, he said.",
"Cyclone was 'absolutely terrifying' Queensland Premier Anna Bligh described conditions for local TV networks, and said that many coastal cities are enduring power outages.",
"In Cairns, only 34% of homes had electricity.",
"Townsville, south of Cairns, only has power in about 15% of homes.",
"Farther down the Queensland coast, electricity is out in half of Mackay and Proserpine, and the entire town of Ingham was without power.",
"Bligh said the tens of thousands of power outages were caused by downed lines and a transmission break.",
"Electrical supply lines running into coastal communities have been cut south of the town of Innisfail.",
"\"It is not clear yet why it has been cut and we won't know until we are able to get into the air and check all along that system,\" Bligh said.",
"\"I should say that requires checking 400 kilometers (248 miles) of line and 500 transmission towers.\"",
"It could take weeks to repair the problems, Bligh said, an assessment affirmed by Queensland's emergency services minister.",
"Tropical Cyclone Yasi is now a Category 2 storm, significantly diminished but still able to bring strong winds and heavy rain into interior areas of the country, according to CNN meteorologist Jenny Harrison.",
"Yasi is moving toward the west.",
"Wind speeds could reach up to 77 miles per hour (125 kilometers per hour) and very heavy rains could cause localized flooding Thursday and in days to come, she said.",
"Joe Vella, a resident of Cairns, said that wind gusts when Yasi came ashore sounded like a sledgehammer hitting his house -- and that it went on for four hours.",
"\"Our hearts were in our throats thinking what was going to happen,\" he told CNN.",
"Tropical Cyclone Yasi made landfall late on Wednesday night, local time, as powerful Category 5 storm, the highest designation on Australia's classification system.",
"Thousands of people left their homes ahead of the storm, which forecasters warned was one of the worst the country has ever seen.",
"Earlier, Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, warned residents they may have to cope alone for several days.",
"\"I can't sugarcoat this for people.",
"It's going to be a tough 24 hours.",
"For some it's going to be a tough couple of days,\" she said at a news conference.",
"\"They need to prepare for the worst-case scenario, and that might mean they have to be self-sufficient for a couple of days.",
"Carl Butcher, another Cairns resident, said before the storm, \"I have all my rations ready to go, batteries, candles.",
"The authorities have been very proactive in informing us about this system.",
"We have known about it for a week.",
"That is more than enough time to prepare for it.\"",
"CNN Meteorologist Jennifer Delgado said heavy rain in Queensland could continue until Friday.",
"There are serious concerns for six adults in Port Hinchinbrook, who apparently ignored advice to evacuate the storm surge zone before calling to request help from the emergency services.",
"Police, who are in contact with them via telephone, said the group are currently hunkered down on the second floor of an apartment block, but the tidal surge is expected to reach the top of the first floor.",
"The state's premier, Anna Bligh, had urged residents in the threatened areas to take sensible precautions and to stay inside once the storm hit.",
"\"It will be a display of the awesome power of nature, but it is not something you want to go outside and watch,\" she said.",
"The cyclone threatens more devastation for Queensland, where 20 people died and thousands of homes were wrecked in severe flooding in January, which affected 3.1 million people.",
"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a one-off tax aimed at helping to for pay the estimated AUS $5.6 billion (US $5.58 billion) in damage caused by that flood.",
"CNN's Pauline Chiou, Hilary Whiteman and Bryony Jones contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Australian officials say it could take weeks for power to be restored in some areas .",
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"(CNN) -- Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Providence, Rhode Island, Wednesday to demand that Mayor Angel Taveras take back the termination letters he sent to every educator in the city last week.",
"The protesters carried placards and chanted \"We'll never be defeated,\" in support of the Providence Teachers Union.",
"In a 4-3 decision, the Providence City School Board, voted last week to adopt Taveras' plan to fire 2,000 teachers and staff to give budget writers more flexibility to make cuts.",
"A final decision on how many of them will end up losing their jobs won't be made until the board and the mayor decide specifically how to fill a multimillion-dollar budget gap.",
"The move has outraged veteran teachers and union leaders.",
"Taveras \"has done more to demoralize and disrespect teachers in 30 days than I think anyone could possibly do in the history of teaching,\" union President Steve Smith told CNN affiliate WPRI.",
"Taveras, however, said his mind is made up.",
"\"People will have their voices heard -- however my resolve has not changed,\" Taveras told WPRI.",
"Taveras has insisted that he values the city's \"gifted teachers,\" but felt compelled to give notice to municipal employees of \"potential changes to their employment status\" prior to a March 1 deadline.",
"The mayor cites budgetary problems for the layoffs, not quality of the teachers.",
"The U.S. Department of Education, has twice singled out Providence for its educational reform initiatives, according to Smith."
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"Hundred of Providence teachers union supporters demonstrate against terminations .",
"Providence mayor sent termination letters to 2,000 teachers and staff last week .",
"Actual layoffs won't be known until mayor and city council decide how to balance budget .",
"Union leader: Mayor demoralized and disrespected teachers ."
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"Rome (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called into a television talk show Monday night during an episode discussing claims that he had paid prostitutes for sex, lashing out at the program's host for running a \"television brothel.\"",
"The heated exchange with host Gad Lerner on the program, called \"L'Infedele\" (\"Unfaithful\"), ended with Berlusconi hanging up after a nearly two-minute tirade.",
"\"I'm watching a disgusting show,\" Berlusconi said after being introduced, going on to call the program despicable, foul and repulsive before being interrupted by Lerner.",
"\"Then, you've already insulted us enough,\" the host retorted.",
"After more cross-talk during which Berlusconi appeared to ask Iva Zanicchi, a member of the European Parliament, to get up and leave the show, Lerner again asked Berlusconi to calm down.",
"\"I beg you to moderate the tone of your voice,\" he said.",
"Berlusconi then apparently hangs up.",
"Find out what Italian women think of the scandal .",
"Prosecutors are investigating claims that Berlusconi paid for sex with an underage girl and say three of his associates -- Nicole Minetti, Emilio Fede and Lele Mora -- helped arrange liaisons for him.",
"Milan prosecutors started the investigation in December after Berlusconi called police and urged them to release the girl from jail, where she was being held on charges of theft.",
"The girl, identified as nightclub dancer Karima El Mahrough, was 17 at the time of the alleged activity, from February until May.",
"Both she and Berlusconi have denied they ever had sex.",
"El Mahrough said she did not know Berlusconi well, but that she did receive 7,000 euros (about $9,300) from him the first time they met, on Valentine's Day 2010, because a friend told Berlusconi she needed help.",
"The prime minister has characterized the allegations against him as political mud-slinging.",
"Berlusconi's attorneys have called the investigation \"absurd and groundless\" and a \"grave interference\" in Berlusconi's private life."
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"Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lashes out at a TV talk show in call-in .",
"He calls the program a \"television brothel\"\nBerlusconi is being investigated over claims he paid for sex with an underage girl ."
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"(CNN) -- Two sailors were killed and a third injured during a training exercise at California's Camp Pendleton on Monday morning, according to a spokesman.",
"The accident occurred at 8 a.m. when the 7-ton bulk water tanker the sailors were driving rolled over, said Cmdr.",
"Greg Hicks, a U.S. Navy 3rd Fleet spokesman.",
"Hicks said the names of the victims are being withheld until their families can be notified.",
"Meanwhile, the injured sailor was taken to a nearby hospital where he is listed in stable condition, Hicks said.",
"The U.S. Marine Corps will conduct the investigation because it happened on their base, he said.",
"A Marine Corps instructor was killed during a January 14 training exercise at Camp Pendleton when the amphibious assault vehicle he was riding in capsized and sank."
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"Vehicle rolls over during a training exercise at California's Camp Pendleton .",
"Marine Corps will investigate because accident happened on its base .",
"In January, a Marine Corps instructor died when his assault vehicle sank ."
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"Algiers, Algeria (CNN) -- Baton-wielding Algerian security forces clashed Saturday with protesters who defied a ban and took to the streets of the capital demanding political reform.",
"Eleven individuals and eight policemen were injured, two seriously, the official Algerie Presse Service reported.",
"Police arrested nine protesters, the news service said.",
"Algeria's largest opposition party, Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), last week called the demonstration to demand the release of detainees, the lifting of a state of emergency that has been in place for almost two decades, and the restoration of individual and collective freedoms.",
"\"We asked to do a march, in a legal way, but they told us: 'You are the opposition and you don't have any rights in your country,'\" said Said Saadi, head of the RCD.",
"Saadi said the government wants Algerians to \"kneel in front of them.",
"But we don't kneel.\" The government called the demonstration \"small\" with about 250 people and said it was \"unauthorized.\"",
"Security forces prevented journalists from photographing the demonstration or interviewing organizers.",
"Anti-government protests erupted in Algeria in early January after weeks of similar demonstrations in neighboring Tunisia that eventually ended 23 years of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's rule.",
"In Algeria, the protests broke out over spiraling food costs.",
"The opposition blames the government of failing to use the north African nation's energy wealth to better the lives of ordinary people.",
"A law adopted in 2001 indefinitely bans all demonstrations in Algiers, according to the monitoring group Human Rights Watch.",
"A nationwide state of emergency in effect for nearly two decades allows the government to ban any event that is \"likely to disturb public order and tranquility.\""
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"NEW: 11 individuals, 8 police injured, Algeria's official news agency reports .",
"Security forces clashed with demonstrators in Algiers .",
"Protesters are demanding the government lift restrictions .",
"A state of emergency in place for almost two decades bans such protests ."
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"(CNN) -- Pakistan were indebted to an inspired bowling performance from their captain to survive a major scare from minnows Canada and maintain their 100 per cent record at the Cricket World Cup.",
"Shahid Afridi took five wickets in a devastating spell as Canada were bowled out for 138 chasing a modest Pakistan total of 184.",
"At 104-4 Canada looked to be on target to match Ireland's stunning win over England on Wednesday before Afridi decimated their middle and lower order, adding a superb run out to his five wickets.",
"Canada lost their final six wickets for just 36 runs as Pakistan surged to the top of Group A with three wins from three matches.",
"But it could have been a very different story had Afridi not rescued his side after they toiled against Canada's bowling attack.. Pakistan lost wickets at regular intervals in their innings with their top three batsman failing to make more than 16.",
"Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Akmal put together a partnership of 73 before the latter fell for 48 to the bowling of Balaji Rao.",
"Afridi added 20 off 17 balls before he was dismissed by Rizwan Cheema.",
"Harvir Baidwan was the pick of Canada's bowlers, recording figures of 3-35.",
"Balaji Rao, Rizwan Cheema and Jimmy Hansra took two wickets each.",
"Canada were reduced to 16-2 in their reply but recovered to 104-4 with Hansra well set.",
"But Afridi changed the game with a ruthless display of spin bowling.",
"He accounted for Ashish Bagai, Hansra, Cheema, Tyson Gordon and Baidwan before removing Balaji Rao with a direct hit as the batsmen attempted a single.",
"Wahab Riaz polished off the match by bowling Henry Osinde.",
"Earlier, South Africa thrashed the Netherlands by 231 runs as they recorded their second victory in the competition to top Group B. Hashim Amla and AB De Villiers both hit centuries as South Africa raced to an impressive 351-5 off their 50 overs.",
"In reply the Netherlands were bowled out for just 120 as spinner Imran Tahir took three wickets.",
"Robin Peterson and Jacques Kallis took two apiece."
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"Pakistan survive a scare from Canada at the Cricket World Cup .",
"Canada bowled out for just 138 chasing Pakistan total of 184 .",
"Shahid Afridi takes five wickets to make it three wins from three for Pakistan .",
"South Africa thrash the Netherlands winning by 231 runs to top Group B ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Nine Ohio veterans have tested positive for hepatitis after undergoing routine dental work at a Dayton clinic, according to Ohio Veterans Affairs Communications Officer Todd Sledge.",
"After a dentist at the Dayton VA Medical Center admitted to not washing his hands or changing gloves between patients during an 18-year period, 375 veterans were tested for hepatitis and HIV.",
"Seven of the 375 have since tested positive for Hepatitis C and two for Hepatitis B, according to Sledge.",
"Test results are not complete.",
"The clinic had said all necessary care and treatment will be provided free to a veteran, should they test positive.",
"Sledge had said the clinic is taking full accountability.",
"Dentist Dwight Pemberton voluntarily retired on February 11.",
"No additional information on other employees involved in the case has been released, according to Sledge.",
"With Pemberton's retirement, he no longer faces administrative action by the clinic, Sledge said.",
"Last year the clinic closed for a month for \"re-education on infection control standards\" for the staff.",
"Veterans could still receive care at other facilities found through the medical center, Sledge said.",
"The center is taking an \"ongoing in-depth look at a lot of aspects surrounding the allegations,\" Sledge said.",
"\"When someone brings those things to your attention, you need to review what practices are happening.\"",
"More information and a list of labs in contractual agreement with the Dayton center is available by calling the VA's hotline at 1-877-424-8214.",
"CNN's Tina Burnside contributed to this report ."
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"VA dentist voluntarily retires .",
"Dentist admitted to not washing hands or changing gloves between patients during 18-year period ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Some 200 houses were damaged in a southwestern province of Pakistan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Wednesday, officials said.",
"The mud-walled houses were damaged in districts close to the epicenter, said Ahmed Kamal, spokesman for the country's National Disaster Management Authority.",
"Hundreds of tents, blankets and ready-to-eat meals were sent to the affected area, he said.",
"The earthquake occurred at 1:23 a.m. Wednesday (3:23 p.m. Tuesday ET) at a depth of 84 kilometers (52 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"It was centered 45 kilometers (30 miles) west of Dalbandin, and 1,035 kilometers (640 miles) west-southwest of Islamabad, the USGS said on its website.",
"There were no reports of injuries or deaths, Kamal said.",
"The United States, China and Australia had offered aid to Pakistan, but it had not been initially accepted, Kamal said.",
"\"The offer was appreciated but not accepted because its not required yet,\" he said.",
"Arif Mahmood, director of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, put the epicenter at 320 kilometers (about 200 miles) southwest of Quetta near Kharan, Balochistan, and said it had been felt in Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan, as well as parts of Iran and India.",
"Mahmood predicted major aftershocks.",
"\"Earthquakes with such magnitudes in the past have brought on aftershocks,\" he told CNN from Islamabad.",
"An official at Quetta's Civil Hospital said a female cardiac patient suffered a fatal heart attack during the earthquake.",
"He said two residents raced to the hospital but they proved not to have been injured, just scared.",
"Malik Muhammad Iqbal, the police chief of Balochistan province, said he was aware of no injuries.",
"\"Things in the headquarters started shaking and books fell off the desks,\" Balochistan Police Inspector Sultan Mehmood told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"We left the headquarters running into the streets -- scared for our lives.\"",
"In Karachi, Faraz Leghari, director general police, said he had heard no immediate reports of casualties or building damage.",
"USGS initially reported the quake at 7.4.",
"Quakes of 7.0 to 7.9 are classified as major; anything over 8.0 is classified as great.",
"In Dubai, about 500 miles southwest of the epicenter, a reporter said he felt a moderate shaking that lasted for about 30 seconds.",
"Usman Zahid, a night manager at Serina Hotel in Quetta, Pakistan, felt the quake.",
"He said it was \"frightening\" and estimated that it lasted about 20 seconds.",
"It left \"broken glass in the kitchen\" and made a chandelier swing, but caused no major damage, he said.",
"People with Twitter accounts in New Delhi, Jaipur and Dehradun -- all in India -- felt the quake.",
"People with Twitter accounts in Bahrain said they felt the quake.",
"In Dubai, \"I was just getting ready to go to bed,\" said Leone Lakhani.",
"She said she texted her friends in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.",
"\"It's not uncommon for this region to have earthquakes,\" said Kurt Frankel of the Georgia Institute of Technology.",
"It is where two tectonic plates come together, he said.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim, Reza Sayah and Journalist Nasir Habib in Islamabad contributed to this story."
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"Mud-walled houses near epicenter were damaged .",
"USGS cites a magnitude of 7.2 .",
"The quake occurred 640 miles west-southwest of Islamabad .",
"It caused glass to break in a hotel in Quetta ."
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"Frankfurt, Germany (CNN) -- The man suspected of shooting and killing two U.S. Air Force servicemen in Germany was seeking revenge because of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, according to a warrant issued on Friday for the suspect.",
"The suspect, Arid Uka, is a recently radicalized Muslim who seems to have been influenced by local radical Islamist websites, according to German authorities.",
"Prosecutors say Uka shot and killed two U.S. servicemen and wounded two others in the attack Wednesday on a U.S. military bus at Frankfurt Airport.",
"The arrest warrant for Uka lists two accusations of murder, three allegations of attempted murder and two accusations of causing severe bodily harm.",
"The 21-year-old man said he was motivated to carry out the attack after seeing a video on the internet the day before, which he claimed showed U.S. soldiers raping Muslim women, according to a German intelligence official who viewed a record of the suspect's interrogation.",
"The suspect confessed to the shooting, and said that he acted alone with no helpers, the German intelligence official said Thursday.",
"He was friends on Facebook with several pro-al Qaeda extremists from a group based in Bonn, Germany, that is known to German intelligence officials, according to the official.",
"He also had links to an Islamist preacher named Pierre Vogel and someone named Nessery, who was arrested about two months ago in Afghanistan, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the investigation.",
"The gunman was a postal worker at the airport, but worked outside the secure area.",
"The U.S. official said Uka didn't appear to punch into work Wednesday -- having apparently canvassed the area beforehand, helping him get around the extensive uniformed and plain-clothes security that typically patrol the Frankfurt airport.",
"Another U.S. official on Thursday said that Uka was \"not on the radar screen\" of American authorities prior to the attack.",
"The suspect is from Mitrovica, a town in northern Kosovo, that country's interior minister, Bajram Rexhepi, told CNN.",
"He cited the U.S. Embassy in Pristina as his source.",
"The U.S. official with knowledge of the probe said Uka was a 1-year-old toddler when he moved to Germany, and that authorities believe Uka's relatives had suffered in the 1990s during the Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians.",
"He has passports from both Germany and Yugoslavia, the latter of which was issued prior to Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, Rexhepi said.",
"Uka told interrogators that he lived with his family in high-rise public housing in a poor area of Frankfurt, the German intelligence official said.",
"He said he did not have a friendly relationship with people in the neighborhood and did not interact with others there.",
"He said his father was very strict and harsh with him, according to the official.",
"On Wednesday, he allegedly approached a bus, which was parked outside Terminal 2 and was clearly marked as a U.S. military vehicle, German police said after the shooting.",
"According to the warrant, Uka asked a recruit where he was being deployed.",
"The airman replied that he and his comrades were headed to Afghanistan.",
"Uka then shot him in the back of the head with a handgun.",
"The suspect then entered the bus, screamed \"Alahu Akbar,\" and opened fire, killing the driver, the warrant says.",
"Uka then shot two other passengers, wounding one in the head and the other in the chest, the warrant says.",
"The suspect tried to shoot another serviceman but his gun jammed, it says.",
"The suspect fled then fled into the terminal, where he was taken into custody by German federal police, according to the warrant.",
"The suspect used a 9 mm handgun that was illegally purchased, Rhein said.",
"One of the dead airmen was a vehicle operator at Ramstein, and the second was part of a security forces team based in the U.K., an Air Force spokesman said.",
"The bus was occupied by 15 members of a security forces team that was on its way to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany before deploying to Afghanistan, the spokesman said.",
"Zachary Cuddeback was one of those killed, his grandfather, Daniel Cuddeback, told CNN.",
"It's not clear if he was the vehicle operator or the member of the security forces team.",
"A statement from his family described Cuddeback as a hockey player and \"Army brat\" with especially strong roots in Missouri in Virginia who joined the Air Force in 2009 after a year at Old Dominion University.",
"The U.S. Defense Department on Thursday identified the other victim as Senior Airman Nicholas J. Alden, 25, of Williamston, South Carolina.",
"He had been assigned to the 48th Security Forces Squadron based out of the Lakenheath air base in Great Britain.",
"The two wounded airmen were in a Frankfurt hospital, one in critical condition and the other in serious condition, an Air Force spokesman said.",
"President Barack Obama told reporters Wednesday he was \"saddened and outraged\" by the attack.",
"\"We will spare no effort in learning how this outrageous attack took place,\" he said.",
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel said how upset she was by the incident, expressed her condolences to the troops' families and stressed that Germany will \"do everything we can to try and find out quickly what happened.\"",
"FBI agents were on the scene shortly after the shooting occurred, said Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director and CNN contributor.",
"The FBI's main office in Germany is in the capital Berlin, he said, but it has a sub-office in Frankfurt.",
"The offense is a federal crime both in the United States and in Germany, he said, and could be prosecuted in either location, although that will be determined later.",
"However, the investigation will meet U.S. constitutional standards, he said.",
"Authorities will be investigating the suspect's background and associates, likely subpoenaing telephone and e-mail records, Fuentes said.",
"CNN's Ashley Hayes, Barbara Starr, Aaron Cooper and CNN investigative journalist Paul Cruickshank contributed to this report."
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"Nicholas Alden, 25, a senior airman from South Carolina, was killed, the military says .",
"The suspect, Arid Uka, left Kosovo at age 1 and was an ethnic Albania, a U.S. official says .",
"Uka allegedly confessed and says he acted alone, a German intelligence official says ."
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"Djerba, Tunisia (CNN) -- U.S. military planes headed for Cairo took off from Tunisia Saturday, evacuating Egyptians fleeing the Libyan conflict, a deadly war spurring a massive refugee flight.",
"Two Marine planes left the airport in the Tunisian island of Djerba with a total of 132 Egyptians on board, the U.S. State Department said.",
"Two additional Air Force C-130s are en route to Djerba and will take another group of Egyptians home.",
"All four U.S. planes are expected to arrive in Cairo by Saturday night, U.S. officials said.",
"Two Italian military cargo planes landed at the Djerba airport delivering humanitarian aid.",
"There are at least 10 other evacuation flights scheduled for Saturday -- six British, three Spanish and one Italian -- said Firas Kayal, a spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency.",
"Nine of the flights are to evacuate Egyptians and the other is for Malians.",
"There are a few thousand Egyptians left in Tunisia awaiting evacuation after more than 40,000 were taken home.",
"Kayal said there are also three ships preparing to evacuate people.",
"The violence in Libya has generated an exodus out of the North African nation.",
"Almost 200,000 people, a majority of them foreign workers, have fled Libya -- nearly 100,000 to Tunisia and a similar number to Egypt -- according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.",
"The numbers of people entering Tunisia daily from Libya dropped to 1,800 Thursday and Friday and stood at 3,000 Saturday.",
"Previously, they averaged 10,000 to 15,000 people.",
"Hovig Etyemezian, a field officer for the U.N. refugee agency, attributed the drop in part to fear and the manipulation of the flow of refugees by Libyan authorities.",
"\"A lot of them were scared from leaving because of the fighting so they were staying in their houses,\" he said Saturday.",
"\"We fear the regime might be blocking refugees from the border.\"",
"A Sudanese man who crossed into Tunisia said Libyans had been confiscating phones and SIM cards of people fleeing.",
"He said people are afraid to make the journey because of the fighting and the cost for bus or taxi transport to the border has spiked.",
"However, he said, Libyans are not stopping traffic toward border.",
"Raoul Gernali, a Filipino engineer who had been working on a Libyan water project, said Libyan soldiers at the Tunisian border stole his laptop, money and mobile phone.",
"Because of complications with his group's flight home, he and his Filipino colleagues have had to spend three days at the airport.",
"Many countries, such as India and China, put in place well-organized evacuation operations for their citizens.",
"But others, including Egyptians and Bangladeshis, have been left to fend for themselves.",
"The U.S. State Department said Saturday it would donate $3 million to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as part of a joint U.S.-IOM partnership to help get home thousands of Egyptians and other nationals from Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.",
"Kayal said more than 10,000 Bangladeshis are awaiting transport in Tunisia.",
"Many Bangladeshis have had to walk to the border because their money was stolen by soldiers and they could not pay for transportation costs.",
"One man suffered a heart attack and died, aid officials confirmed."
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"NEW: A total of 132 Egyptians are on board .",
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"(CNN) -- English Premier League leaders Manchester United crashed to their second defeat in a week as Dirk Kuyt's first-ever Liverpool hat-trick earned them a comfortable 3-1 victory at Anfield.",
"United had lost just once this season prior to last Tuesday's visit to Chelsea, but a 2-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge followed by Sunday's reversal, means they now lead Arsenal by three points at the top -- although the Gunners have a vital game in hand.",
"United were missing their first choice central defensive pairing of Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, and their absence showed as the home side deservedly took a two-goal half-time lead.",
"Dutchman Kuyt broke the deadlock in the 34th minute after some superb play from Luis Suarez.",
"The Uruguayan striker twisted and turned in the area, skipping around three challenges before getting to the by-line and knocking the ball across the area for Kuyt to apply the simplist of finishes from in front of goal.",
"And, just five minutes later, Liverpool doubled their advantage when United winger Nani inexplicably headed Suarez's cross from the right back towards goal -- and an unmarked Kuyt was on hand to nod home his second from close range.",
"United went close to pulling a goal back in the second half when Dimitar Berbatov's close-range header hit the chest of Raul Meireles on the goal-line.",
"And they were made to pay for that miss when Kuyt completed his hat-trick, again from close range, converting a 65th-minute rebound after goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar had parried Suarez's free-kick into his path.",
"United pulled one back in the final minute when substitute Javier Hernandez nodded home Ryan Giggs' right-wing cross from close range, but the goal had no impact on the final outcome and Liverpool were able to give a second-half debut to record signing Andy Carroll -- the most expensive English player in history following his $55m deadline day transfer from Newcastle.",
"The result lifts Liverpool back up to sixth place in the table, six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea although they have played two matches more.",
"Meanwhile, United's poor away form, they have won just four matches on their travels, continues to hinder their title chances.",
"The late afternoon game saw struggling Wolverhampton draw 3-3 at home to Tottenham in a thrilling see-saw encounter.",
"The home side took the lead when Kevin Doyle flicked home a close-range header but England striker Jermain Defoe scored two superb goals from outside the area to give Tottenham the lead.",
"Remarkably they were Defoe's first Premier League goals of a season disrupted by injuries.",
"However, Wolves were level before half-time after Doyle added his second from the penalty spot after Alan Hutton had tugged back Nenad Milijas.",
"In an end-to-end match, another fine strike -- this time from Roman Pavlyuchenko -- looked to have given Spurs the three points that would have seen them move above Chelsea into fourth place.",
"But a superb back post header from substitute Steven Fletcher with just three minutes remaining ensured the honors finished even, although a draw helps neither side at opposite ends of the table.",
"Wolves remain second bottom of the table with 29 points, although only nine points separate ninth place Newcastle with bottom team Wigan Athletic.",
"Meanwhile, Tottenham remain fifth, level on points with Chelsea although they have played a game more than their London rivals."
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"United lead the Premier League table by three points but Arsenal have a game in hand .",
"The defeat is United's second in a week following their 2-1 reverse at Chelsea .",
"Wolverhampton score a late equalizer to draw a thrilling game with Tottenham 3-3 ."
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"(CNN) -- Egyptian women called for a Million Woman March on Tuesday, International Women's Day, demanding \"fair and equal opportunity for all Egyptian citizens -- beyond gender, religion or class.\"",
"\"We are not after minority rights.",
"We are not after symbolic political representation,\" they said in a statement on Facebook.",
"Women were very visible among demonstrators who toppled Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak last month, which feminists called a breakthrough for Egyptian society."
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"(CareerBuilder.com) -- Charlie Sheen's latest controversy shows that one of the easiest ways to damage your career or end your job is to say bad things about your boss.",
"Over the past 10 years, he's faced accusations of violence and threats against ex-wife Denise Richards and currently estranged wife Brooke Mueller.",
"And most recently, the dicey details of his alleged drug and alcohol fueled binges have become a fixture in the national media.",
"Watch: Sheen denies hitting women .",
"By and large, his employers have tended to ignore his private life.",
"But even Charlie Sheen can't badmouth his boss and get away with it.",
"On February 24, Sheen called into syndicated radio program \"The Alex Jones Show,\" during which he went on an angry rant about -- among other things -- \"Two and a Half Men\" creator Chuck Lorre.",
"Sheen called Lorre a \"turd\" and a \"clown.\"",
"A day after the outburst, production of \"Men,\" which was in the middle of filming its eighth season, was immediately stopped.",
"After all of his antics, Sheen lost his job apparently for calling his boss names.",
"You don't have to announce your hatred for your manager on a syndicated radio program to get fired.",
"Comments on Facebook, Twitter or even at the water cooler can cost you your job.",
"Here are six examples of why it's never a good idea to bad mouth the boss, and an expert's advice on how you can better handle your frustrations.",
"1. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was forced to resign from his post as the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan last summer, after his off-color comments about both Vice President Joe Biden and the Obama administration in general were published in an article for Rolling Stone.",
"2. A British newspaper reported a U.K. woman was fired after posting on her Facebook page, \"OMG I HATE MY JOB!!",
"My boss is a total pervvy (sic) w**ker, always making me do s**t stuff just to p**s me off!!",
"W**ker!\" The women had apparently forgotten that she was friends with her boss on Facebook.",
"A few hours after she posted her rant, her boss replied with a comment of his own, which ended, \"And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have two weeks left on your six-month trial period.",
"Don't bother coming in tomorrow.",
"I'll pop your P45 in the post and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here.",
"And yes, I'm serious.\"",
"3. In June 2010, Andrew Kurtz, a 24-year old Pittsburgh Pirates' mascot, was fired after posting a comment to his Facebook page about team president Frank Coonelly's decision to extend the contracts of two of the Pirates' managers.",
"Within hours of Kurtz posting the comment -- \"Coonelly extended the contracts of Russell and Huntington through the 2011 season.",
"That means a 19-straight losing streak.",
"Way to go Pirates\" -- Kurtz was fire, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.",
"4. Four women who worked for the town of Hooksett, New Hampshire, lost their jobs in 2007, after they were caught discussing a rumor that their boss, town administrator David Jodoin, was having an affair with another female employee.",
"Two of the women subsequently made an appeal to get their jobs back, claiming they had been wrongfully fired, but the appeal was denied.",
"5. In a bit of a twist, Brazilian football team Palmeiras fired its manager after he made a comment on Twitter that he hoped one of his players -- who'd skipped practice with no explanation -- would be traded to a rival team.",
"6. Dawnmarie Souza, a Connecticut employee of American Medical Response, was fired after badmouthing her boss on her Facebook page.",
"Among other insults, Souza implied that her boss should have been a psychiatric patient.",
"Souza's firing prompted the National Labor Relations Board to file a case against AMR in October 2010, on the grounds that AMR's policy against workers discussing the company negatively on the Internet was in violation of NLRB guidelines.",
"The case was settled in early February, and AMR agreed to amend its policies.",
"The lesson to be learned from all of these outbursts is one of communication, says Kerry Patterson, co-author of the New York Times best-seller \"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High.\"",
"CareerBuilder.com: Jobs before they were president .",
"\"Employees typically badmouth their boss when they are angry and don't know how to confront their boss about the issue,\" he says.",
"\"One of the problems with badmouthing is you typically communicate emotions harsher than you actually feel and will most likely regret your words later.\"",
"A better approach, Patterson says, is to directly address the issue you're having.",
"\"Regain your composure and choose to problem solve, rather than badmouth.",
"With the right set of skills, you can respectfully confront your boss before you act out in ways that could eventually cost you your job.\"",
"The following are Patterson's guidelines for constructive confrontation.",
"• Don't address the matter when you're irritated: \"This is ineffective because at that point our goal is no longer to be constructive, it's to punish.",
"Before opening your mouth, ask yourself, 'What do I really want?'\"",
"• Establish respect: \"Begin by clarifying your respect and your intent.",
"Help your boss understand that your intent is to provide a different viewpoint you feel will help achieve your mutual goal.\"",
"• Remain objective: \"Describe your concerns with facts first.",
"Don't lead with your judgments or conclusions.",
"Start by describing in non-judgmental and objective terms the behaviors that are creating problems.",
"If your boss becomes defensive, pause for a moment and check in.",
"Reassure them of your positive intentions and allow them to express any concerns they have.\"",
"• Give your boss a turn: \"Finally, having shared your concerns, encourage your boss to share their perspective.",
"Invite dialogue.",
"The result of your openness will be a greater openness on your boss's part as well.\"",
"© CareerBuilder.com 2010.",
"All rights reserved.",
"The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority."
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"Confront your boss before you act out in ways that could cost you your job .",
"Begin the conversation by clarifying your respect and your intent .",
"After you've voiced your concerns, encourage your boss to share his perspective ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- \"Indescribable\" violence rippled through the Libyan city of Zawiya on Friday, according to a witness who said pro-government forces gunned down peaceful protesters there.",
"The witness said battalions of forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi attacked protesters with mortars and machine guns as they were demonstrating in the city's Martyrs Square, and they assaulted an ambulance, killing its occupants.",
"\"We buried nine people so far,\" the witness said.",
"\"The attack was indescribable.",
"Direct gunfire was opened on people.\"",
"It was unclear who controlled the city.",
"People in Zawiya, west of Tripoli, and \"their public leadership have secured and took control over the city from the armed terrorist elements,\" state TV reported.",
"Libyan government spokesman Majid al- Dursi told CNN that \"Zawiya has been captured, Zawiya has been liberated.\"",
"However, the witness said protesters retained some control inside the city, which security forces were surrounding.",
"\"They (Gadhafi's forces) haven't been in control and they never were in control,\" said one rebel fighter, who said his forces lost seven men in fighting in Zawiya on Friday, versus what he said were some 20 casualties among government fighters.",
"Referring to Gadhafi, he said, \"All the man has left is his lies.\"",
"By late Friday, the situation was quiet, he said.",
"\"However, we're surrounded by three areas -- the east, the west and the south.\"",
"At least 15 people died and 200 others were wounded in the city, according to one doctor, who said there was \"a river of blood\" at the hospital where the wounded were being treated.",
"\"The situation is very bad,\" he said, adding that the facility was short of medical supplies.",
"It was not clear if the casualties at the hospital were wounded during the Martyrs Square confrontation.",
"The doctor said the wounded started arriving at the hospital Friday morning, and most of the wounds were from gunshots.",
"In the capital city of Tripoli, security forces aboard flatbed trucks shot tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds of protesters who had formed after Friday prayers in the Tajura neighborhood, witnesses said.",
"Government officials would not allow CNN into Tajura, whose outskirts were patrolled by a heavy security presence.",
"Security forces were searching cars along the Corniche, a main street in the city.",
"Protesters had said they were hoping to march from the Corniche to the center of the city but were unable to do so.",
"Witnesses said anti-government protesters hid journalists in abandoned buildings and helped move them from location to location so that they could report firsthand in safety.",
"Near Green Square, in the center of the city, anti-government protesters emerged from a mosque to find pro-government supporters outside.",
"Police intervened and fired shots in the air to head off a confrontation, ushering the anti-government protesters back into the mosque for their safety.",
"In the eastern city of Ras Lanuf, meanwhile, forces loyal to Gadhafi fought with opposition members Friday, opposition fighters and commanders said.",
"Thuds could be heard in the distance, indicating heavy fighting around the city itself.",
"\"It's a war,\" said CNN's Ben Wedeman, in Ras Lanuf.",
"\"The protests are now over.\" He described seeing truckloads of people \"organizing themselves in a rather haphazard way\" and headed toward the front with no command-and-control structure.",
"\"It's complete chaos, really,\" Wedeman said.",
"Such clashes have spurred throngs of people to flee the country.",
"The number of people trying to leave the country has declined in recent days, however, as heavily armed government forces have intensified their presence at the Tunisian border and on roads leading up to it, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday.",
"\"We are concerned that the presence of the forces and the large drop in evacuees could mean that people are being prevented from leaving,\" said Sybella Wilkes, a spokeswoman for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.",
"Roughly 15,000 people had been crossing the border every day, but that number plunged to fewer than 2,000 per day on Thursday and Friday.",
"In all, 200,000 people have fled Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration, which has been working with the U.N. refugee agency on mass evacuations.",
"Meanwhile, a doctor on the northwestern town of Misrata said it was attacked by forces loyal to Gadhafi.",
"The assailants fired at doctors and ambulances, the doctor said.",
"\"We are holding our city, we are trying to protect our city,\" the doctor told CNN Friday morning.",
"\"We are doing our job in the hospital and trying to treat everybody.",
"This morning, they shot at our ambulances.",
"One of them exploded ... they shot at our doctors.\"",
"At least 40 people were killed in the city and 300 wounded, the doctor said.",
"While CNN has staff in some cities, the network cannot independently confirm reports for many areas in Libya.",
"CNN has gathered information through telephone interviews with witnesses.",
"Musa Ibrahim, a spokesman for Gadhafi's regime, has denied reports of attacks on peaceful protesters and military installations.",
"In an interview late Friday, Gadhafi's son Saif Gadhafi told CNN that reforms will not begin until \"militias\" in the east have been defeated.",
"He called international efforts to persuade his father to give up power \"a big mistake,\" and said his father remains a popular figure in the country.",
"\"Even if we were to hold tomorrow an election, my father would win with a big majority,\" he said.",
"Gadhafi's aerial attacks have prompted the West to step up discussions about imposing a no-fly zone over the country.",
"U.S. military and diplomatic officials have said enacting a no-fly zone would be complicated and risky, and international support is not strong.",
"\"If it's ordered, we can do it,\" Defense Secretary Robert Gates said earlier this week, but imposing a no-fly zone \"begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the air defenses.\"",
"The United States is exploring a \"full range\" of options, Obama said Thursday.",
"Analysts said the Iraq war has prompted nations to be more cautious.",
"\"We went into Iraq with a very dubious understanding of the situation on the ground,\" Christopher Hill, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told CNN.",
"\"So I think there is some concern about whether refugee reports are entirely accurate in a sort of macro sense.\"",
"He added, \"I think what the president is trying to do is to try to build diplomatic support and see where we can go with this.",
"And I think it would be highly problematic if he just jumped into something.\"",
"The Arab League has rejected international intervention, saying Libya is facing \"an internal affair that is decided by the people and their governments.\"",
"But the league cannot ignore the suffering of civilians and would consider the imposition of a no-fly zone in coordination with the African Union if fighting were to continue, said Hisham Yousef, chief of staff of the Arab League.",
"The protests have left more than 1,000 people dead and many more injured, according to the United Nations.",
"Libya's ambassador to the United States has estimated that the death toll was about 2,000.",
"The United Nations has proved to be a sore point for the Libyan government.",
"On Friday, . the United Nations said it was studying Libya's request to install a more loyal diplomat as its ambassador.",
"A letter from Libya's government asked that former Foreign Minister Ali Abdussalam Treki be approved as its envoy.",
"Treki would replace Mohamed Shalgham as ambassador in New York.",
"Shalgham and his deputy, Ibrahim Dabbashi, have denounced Gadhafi and requested that he stop leading Libya.",
"A separate letter from Libya to the United Nations demanded that Shalgham and Dabbashi be denied the right to speak for Libya.",
"In emotional scenes last week, the New York-based ambassadors were hugged by fellow ambassadors after the Libyans criticized Gadhafi and pleaded in the Security Council chamber for international assistance to the country.",
"U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said the situation \"is complicated\" and that the world body's legal office was looking into the dueling diplomats' situation.",
"The International Criminal Court said Thursday that Gadhafi and some of his sons and advisers are under investigation for alleged crimes against humanity.",
"Venezuela's president has said Gadhafi is receptive to the idea of an international commission coming to the country.",
"The two heads of state spoke this week.",
"\"I consulted with him. I asked him if he was willing to accept a commission of countries,\" Hugo Chavez said on state-run VTV Thursday night.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson, Ben Wedeman, Jill Dougherty, Catherine E. Shoichet and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report ."
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"A doctor reports casualties in Zawiya; \"indescribable\" violence, a witness says .",
"Tear gas and rubber bullets are used in Tripoli, witnesses say .",
"Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi clash with fighters in eastern Libya ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- American citizens who want to leave Egypt on a U.S. government flight should report to the airport as soon as the nightly curfew ends, according to official Twitter messages from the Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs.",
"Tweets warning Americans to leave began appearing just before 10 p.m.",
"ET, cautioning that further delay was not advisable.",
"More than 1,900 U.S. citizens and their family members have left Egypt since an evacuation operation began Monday, according to a statement from the U.S. State Department.",
"Evacuation flights had been scheduled to run through Thursday.",
"The State Department said late Wednesday that additional government flights after Thursday are unlikely.",
"Americans who want to leave should should not wait for a call from the U.S. Embassy, according to the Bureau of Consular Affairs' website.",
"They should go to Cairo International Airport and report to the HAJ Terminal 1, Hall 4 as soon as possible.",
"Chartered planes organized by the U.S began flying out nonemergency American personnel and their relatives on Monday.",
"The State Department also has been providing passage for any U.S. citizen wishing to leave Egypt.",
"The department had said Americans should arrive at Cairo International Airport during non-curfew hours.",
"A media note from the State Department warned U.S. citizens to move carefully in the streets and to avoid demonstrations along the way.",
"The U.S. Embassy had been assisting in the evacuation of citizens with expired passports.",
"Any American with out-of-date paperwork could go directly to the airport, as long as the passport in question had expired within the past 10 years, according to the State Department.",
"Americans with passports that expired more than 10 years ago were advised to go to an embassy to get a replacement.",
"The State Department said Wednesday that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo would remain open during non-curfew hours.",
"Americans flying out of Cairo were part of a wave of foreigners who scrambled to leave Egypt on Wednesday, as the demonstrations that gripped Egypt for more than a week turned violent.",
"British carrier BMI said it has organized an extra flight to help British nationals get back to the UK.",
"The British Foreign Office said it was sending a charter flight to Cairo on Wednesday to fly back British citizens with no other way to get home.",
"Greece has sent military aircraft to evacuate 215 Greeks from Egypt, the official Athens News Agency said.",
"Other countries, including China, Canada, India, Thailand and Australia were attempting to get stranded citizens out of Egypt.",
"A plane carrying 212 Chinese citizens stranded in Egypt arrived in the country Tuesday night, said China's state media.",
"Two hours earlier, a plane carrying 268 Chinese nationals had arrived in Beijing from Egypt, Xinhua news agency said.",
"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said her government would provide an emergency flight that will depart from Cairo on Wednesday, a statement from her office said.",
"The flights are part of a broadening effort by governments worldwide to transport their citizens out of the country.",
"About 52,000 Americans are believed to be in Egypt -- more than 2,600 of whom have asked to be evacuated, the State Department said.",
"They'll be asked to sign documents promising they will reimburse the government for the flights.",
"Exact costs hadn't been determined, but a State Department official said it should be comparable to a one-way commercial flight from Egypt to the evacuation points."
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"NEW: The department says U.S. citizens wanting to leave Egypt should go to airport after curfew .",
"1,900 Americans and their families have been evacuated, the department says .",
"The U.S. Embassy in Cairo remains open to help Americans who want to evacuate ."
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"(CNN) -- More than two dozen children were among the hundreds raped by armed rebels in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said.",
"Twenty-seven minors, including one boy, were among the victims, the U.N. said Friday.",
"One attempted rape was also reported.",
"The children were among 240 people raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels who raided villages in North Kivu province between July 30 and August 3, aid groups said.",
"Attackers blocked roads and prevented villagers from reaching outside communications.",
"Many homes were also looted.",
"Many of the victims were raped by two to six men, according to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).",
"MONUSCO, the United Nations peacekeeping force in the country, raised the number of victims after earlier reports put it at 156.",
"Since the rapes were first publicly reported on August 22, more victims have come forward, the force said.",
"The United Nations has said it did not learn about the attacks until August 12, when it was alerted by International Medical Corps.",
"International Medical Corps said it first told the United Nations about the rapes on August 6.",
"A July 30 internal U.N. e-mail that was relayed to relief agencies working in the area warned that the rebels had taken over the villages, and had already committed one instance of rape.",
"The town of Mpofi, 52 kilometers from Walikale, had just fallen into the hands of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, a rebel group.",
"\"A woman was raped there,\" the e-mail said in French.",
"\"Humanitarian workers are said not to go there.\"",
"On August 10, the United Nations posted an online bulletin saying that 25 women had been raped in the villages, contradicting statements made by U.N. military spokesman Madnoje Mounoubai and special representative Roger Meece.",
"Asked to explain the discrepancy, deputy U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters this week: \"We are aware of the existence of a number of e-mails and we are trying to trace exactly how those e-mails were responded to.\"",
"He said that about 80 peacekeepers were conducting patrols in an area about four times the size of Manhattan.",
"\"The question is -- how much area could they cover, and were they able to get into the areas where they needed to be, where the relevant information was?\"",
"U.N. officials have said they will toughen efforts to stop rapes in the region.",
"\"The recent mass rapes underscores the need for an end to impunity for perpetrators of such crimes,\" said Margot Wallstrom, a U.N. special representative for sexual violence in conflict.",
"These attacks reinforce that \"you cannot have a policy of zero tolerance backed by zero consequences,\" she said."
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"The children were among 240 people raped by rebels who raided villages .",
"The Rwandan and Congolese rebels attacked residents between July 30 and August 3 ."
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal were held to a frustrating goalless home draw by Sunderland in the English Premier League Saturday as they missed the chance to close to within a point of leaders Manchester United.",
"Gunners manager Arsene Wenger was left fuming after late decisions went against his title-chasing team at the Emirates.",
"Andrey Arshavin had the ball in the net, but it was ruled out for offside as TV replays showed the opposite.",
"The Russian international was also pulled down by Titus Bramble as he closed on goal, but strong penalty appeals were turned away.",
"\"It's really disappointing and it's very difficult to take a decision like that in a game of this importance,\" Wenger told Sky Sports.",
"\"We have to take it on the chin and continue to fight.",
"But it's absolutely disappointing and unacceptable,\" added Wenger.",
"Arsenal, who were surprisingly beaten in the English League Cup final Sunday, now face a testing trip to Barcelona for their Champions League second leg tie.",
"They will be missing Theo Walcott and Robin van Persie and waiting on the fitness of captain Cesc Fabregas after their 2-1 win in the first leg.",
"Young midfielder Jack Wilshere was also injured in the Sunderland draw and could also miss out on the trip to the Nou Camp.",
"Manchester United, who still lead Arsenal by three points at the top, go to arch-rivals Liverpool Sunday.",
"In the evening kickoff, Manchester City consolidated third spot, seven points behind United, with an unimpressive 1-0 home win over Wigan.",
"David Silva scored the only goal just before halftime as his shot was fumbled by Wigan goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi.",
"Wigan are bottom, four points from safety after only one win since Boxing Day.",
"In other action Saturday, Birmingham came down to earth with a bump after their cup heroics as they were beaten 3-1 at home by fellow strugglers West Bromwich Albion and slip into the bottom three.",
"Bolton came from behind twice and saw visitors Aston Villa miss a penalty before claiming a dramatic 3-2 win.",
"Gary Cahill scored twice for Bolton with substitute Ivan Klasnic grabbing the winner.",
"There was another five-goal thriller at Craven Cottage where Fulham beat Blackburn 3-2 after a late controversial penalty from Bobby Zamora.",
"Everton beat Newcastle 2-1 at St James Park while West Ham's revival continued with a 3-0 win over Stoke, their scoring rounded off by German international Thomas Hitzlsperger, who has been a big influence since returning from long-term injury.",
"The victory lifts the Hammers out of the bottom three in a congested relegation battle."
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"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger fumes at refereeing decisions .",
"Birmingham beaten 3-1 at home by fellow strugglers West Bromwich Albion .",
"West Ham pull out of relegation zone with 3-0 win over Stoke ."
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"(CNN) -- Utility companies will return Sunday to restore power in parts of Rayne, Louisiana, after a tornado pummelled the region, killing at least one person.",
"A Louisiana mother who died sheltering her child during the tornado was identified early Sunday as Jalisa Granger, a sheriff's office official said.",
"The 21-year-old's body was found by \"a family member who lived nearby\" who went to check on her, said Maxine Trahan, a spokeswoman for the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office in Rayne, Louisiana, adding that the \"child was OK.\" Granger was killed when a tree fell on her house in the storm.",
"Eleven people were injured, she said.",
"\"There's a lot of damage out there,\" Trahan said.",
"\"Most residents were evacuated, leaving for other relatives' homes.",
"About 20 (who were) evacuated didn't have somewhere to go, but were taken to the local fire department.\"",
"Utility companies will be returning to the area Sunday morning to help restore power, she said.",
"The storm that killed Granger was one of at least two twisters tied to a weather system that has caused major damage in the state and wreaked havoc on Mardi Gras festivities.",
"The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes hit the city of Rayne, about 80 miles west of Baton Rouge, and the nearby city of Crowley on Saturday morning.",
"Packing winds between 111 and 135 mph, the tornado was 300 yards wide and produced damage over a 5-mile stretch, according to the weather service.",
"The northwest section of Rayne was especially hard hit, with video from CNN affiliate KATC showing several buildings leveled, lots reduced to rubble and large trees knocked down.",
"Petijean said the city's electricity infrastructure was badly damaged, with power going out for all its 10,000 residents soon after the tornado came through.",
"In addition, several houses were knocked off their foundations and there were reports of gas leaks, which led to mandatory evacuations of about 1,500 residents in the city's northwest, Petijean said.",
"The mayor said a curfew was imposed in part of the city, with people asked to stay indoors until 6 a.m. Sunday while authorities check to ensure all is safe.",
"Some of those evacuated are being cared for by the Red Cross.",
"The impact zone is an area about one to two square miles, said Rayne police dispatcher Whitney Thibodaux.",
"Among the buildings affected were a public housing units and Rayne High School, with damage to the computer room, library and gym.",
"Three people, meanwhile, suffered injuries when the twister hit Crowley, according to the National Weather Service.",
"Debris was reported along a 2-mile-long damage path on Interstate 10, and there was damage to a Waffle House, car wash and several residences.",
"About 150 miles to the east, meanwhile, revelers and residents of New Orleans were soaked much of Saturday as steady rains fell on the city.",
"This weekend -- the last one before Ash Wednesday -- is traditionally one of the busiest in The Big Easy, with people partying and enjoying Mardi Gras festivities.",
"The weather forced several changes to the Mardi Gras schedule, including the delay of the Krewe of Endymion parade from Saturday to Sunday, according to a release from the New Orleans Police Department.",
"Other parade-related festivities were pushed up to start earlier Saturday, given the rain-soaked forecast for Saturday afternoon and beyond.",
"The rain stopped later Saturday in New Orleans and the weather service's forecast called for sunny conditions Sunday, with high temperatures in the lower 60s.",
"A flood advisory remains in effect through Monday morning for numerous communities along the Mississippi River, including parts of Chicot and Desha counties in Arkansas; Adams, Bolivar, Isaquena, Washington, Madison and Wilkinson counties in Mississippi; and Claiborne, East Caroll, Jefferson, Tensas and Warren parishes in Louisiana.",
"There were also flood warnings in effect for the Atchafalaya River at Morgan City, Louisiana, through Sunday afternoon; the Tchefuncte River in Covington, Louisiana, through Monday at noon; and the Bogue Falaya River at Camp Covington, Louisiana, through Tuesday morning.",
"CNN's Rick Martin, Craig Bell, Tina Burnside and Jacqui Jeras contributed to this report."
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"After steady rain Saturday, sun and warmth are forecast Sunday in New Orleans .",
"Flood warnings are in effect for towns along several rivers, including the Mississippi .",
"The tornado had winds as strong as 135 mph and damaged a 5-mile stretch ."
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"Sydney, Australia (CNN) -- Rising floodwaters cut off the last ground route into the eastern Australian city of Rockhampton on Monday, as police pegged the number of people affected by prolonged flooding at 200,000.",
"Flooding also put increasing pressure on the southern Queensland cities of St. George and Surat, even as floodwaters receded in the communities farther to the north, including Emerald.",
"Police said ten people have died as a result of flooding since November 30.",
"The latest fatality involved an occupant of a car that tried to cross flooded ground between Muttaburra and Aramac in western Queensland, according to police.",
"Police have not recovered the man's body, but they presume he drowned after the car was swept away by swift waters Sunday.",
"Two other people in the car were rescued unharmed.",
"Police, emergency services and military crews continued working to resupply Rockhampton and other communities with supplies, even after the last road leading into the town succumbed to flooding, acting Assistant Police Commissioner Alistair Dawson said.",
"Although the regional airport is flooded, helicopters ferrying supplies are landing on a dry portion of runway.",
"Resupplying the city of 75,000 is crucial, he said.",
"\"We think that Rockhampton could be isolated probably for anywhere along about a week or so,\" he said.",
"The airport, which closed Sunday, is expected to remain closed for weeks, according to Emergency Management Queensland.",
"The seasonal flooding afflicting Queensland intensified about a week ago after monsoon rains caused rivers to spill their banks and reach record levels.",
"Forecasters said it could be days before conditions improve.",
"Water levels were expected to crest at 9.4 meters (31 feet) in Rockhampton on Wednesday, CNN meteorologist Ivan Cabrera said.",
"In Emerald, north and west of the current flooding threat, waters have begun to recede even though thousands of homes still have floodwater nearby, Dawson said.",
"\"It's a slow journey for these people, and it's a heartbreaking journey,\" Dawson said.",
"Dawson warned residents who have been allowed to return to their homes about placing valuables outside to dry, saying some people could be tempted to take such items.",
"He also warned would-be thieves against such acts, noting additional police have been deployed to affected communities.",
"Dawson also warned people not to drive through flooded communities, saying that could produce waves that could push water into homes that have so far escaped interior damage.",
"Emergency officials said they are working with their counterparts in other Australian states to bring in crews to assist with the flooding and relieve Queensland employees and volunteers fatigued by days of working the floods.",
"Prime Minister Julia Gillard urged residents to stay away from floodwaters.",
"On Friday she toured the devastation and said the flooding in Queensland will cost \"hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.\"",
"Journalists Sarah Wiley and Michael Best contributed to this report."
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"Police: City of 75,000 now cut off by floodwaters .",
"Forecasters expect water levels will crest on Wednesday .",
"Australian prime minister says damages could cost \"hundreds of millions of dollars\""
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"Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico (CNN) -- Authorities on Friday denied published reports that Marisol Valles Garcia -- the 20-year-old criminology student who made headlines when she became the police chief in the town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico -- had left the country for the United States and was seeking asylum.",
"Valles Garcia grabbed international attention last year when she took over the top job in a police force whose officers have been abducted and killed.",
"Praxedis Mayor Jose Luis Guerrero told CNN that Valles Garcia is on personal leave because her 8-month-old baby is sick.",
"He said she is expected back at work Monday.",
"\"Marisol, in fact, still works here and she's still getting paid.",
"She comes back on Monday,\" said the mayor.",
"Praxedis is one of the most violent municipalities in the border state of Chihuahua.",
"It is located about 35 miles southeast of Ciudad Juarez, one of the bloodiest cities in world.",
"Andres Morales, town secretary in Praxedis, also said reports that Valles Garcia has fled were false.",
"He told CNN she is on leave taking care of her son, who he said is suffering from bronchitis.",
"He called stories about her seeking asylum \"unfortunate rumors.\"",
"Mexico's El Diario newspaper reported early Friday that Valles Garcia had received death threats and fled to the the United States.",
"It cited Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas, the attorney general for the northern district of Chihuahua, as its source for the report.",
"The newspaper said that she was seeking asylum, attributing that to anonymous sources.",
"Meanwhile, the news service Agence France-Presse also reported that Valles Garcia had fled to the United States and was seeking asylum.",
"The agency cited an anonymous relative as the source of its report.",
"A spokesman for the attorney general, Arturo Sandoval, said the El Diario story citing his boss was wrong.",
"\"He did not give a press conference,\" Sandoval told CNN.",
"\"We deny reports that Nicolas said she fled to the United States.\"",
"The spokesman said he did not know whether Valles Garcia has left Mexico or not.",
"Still, some questions linger.",
"Guerrero, the mayor in Praxedis, said Valles Garcia is not answering her phone and several of her neighbors told CNN it is an open secret she has fled to the United States.",
"Many said they were afraid to give their names to a reporter, as violence related to drug cartels is rampant in the region.",
"Last year, Valles Garcia was the only person who accepted the top police job.",
"There was good reason for the fear.",
"Around the time she took the post, a 59-year-old local mayor, Rito Grado Serrano, and his 37-year-old son, Rigoberto Grado Villa, were killed in a house in which they were hiding in nearby Ciudad Juarez.",
"Another area mayor was killed in June.",
"Nationwide, the Mexican government says there have been more than 34,600 drug-related deaths since President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on cartels in December 2006.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"Marisol Valles Garcia is police chief in a violent Mexican municipality .",
"A newspaper and a news service say she has fled to the U.S., seeking asylum .",
"Mexican authorities deny the reports and say she is on personal leave .",
"Valles Garcia was just 20 years old when she accepted the police chief's position ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan will review blasphemy laws to prevent them from targeting innocent people, a government official said.",
"The government will form a committee of scholars to revisit the law, said Shahbaz Bhatti, the federal minister for minority affairs.",
"It will submit its suggestions and procedures, which will be implemented to stop the law's misuse, the minister said Thursday.",
"\"After the formation of the committee we will .... find the way that whether through the legislation or some other procedural way we can stop the blasphemy law,\" Bhatti said.",
"On pardoning of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy of Islam, Bhatti said the president will wait for the judicial proceedings.",
"Bibi's lawyer has said that the proceedings might take years because the case is still in high court and may later go to the Supreme court.",
"Religious parties are planning protests after Friday prayers.",
"The parties have been upset since the governor of Punjab province helped file a mercy petition with President Asif Ali Zardari's office requesting a pardon for Bibi.",
"Parties including the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal ur Rehman (JUI-F) party will hold the rallies on Christmas Eve, said Moulana Amjad Khan, party spokesman.",
"A Pakistani court in November found the 45-year-old woman guilty of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during a 2009 argument with Muslim fellow field workers.",
"The offense is punishable by death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.",
"But an investigation by a Pakistani government ministry found the charges stemmed from \"religious and personal enmity\" and recommended Bibi's release.",
"Zardari has said he would pardon Bibi, but a court has ruled that the president can't act until the sentence is confirmed by a higher court -- a process her lawyer says could take two to three years.",
"About 2 million Christians live in Pakistan.",
"The Islamic nation has a population of about 170 million, according to government statistics .",
"as religious parties plan Friday rallies to protest possible changes."
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"Religious parties are planning rallies on Christmas Eve .",
"A Pakistani court found a 45-year-old woman guilty of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed ."
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"(CNN) -- Are we alone in the universe?",
"Findings by NASA's Kepler space telescope are making that seem less likely.",
"NASA scientists have announced Kepler has spotted five planets about the size of Earth, orbiting stars in our galaxy.",
"These planets are orbiting in what is known as the habitable zone, which puts them at a distance from their suns where liquid water could exist.",
"Liquid water is a key ingredient for life to form.",
"\"In a generation we have gone from extraterrestrial planets being a mainstay of science fiction, to the present, where Kepler has helped turn science fiction into today's reality,\" said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.",
"The Kepler science team also announced the telescope found six planets, all larger than Earth, orbiting a single sun-like star.",
"That star is some 2,000 light years from Earth.",
"To date, the telescope has detected more than 1,200 planet candidates.",
"The fact that so many planets have been found in the Milky Way galaxy \"suggests there are countless planets orbiting sun-like stars in our galaxy,\" said William Borucki, Kepler's principal investigator.",
"Kepler does not actually see the planets themselves.",
"The telescope sees tiny decreases in light from the stars as planets transit across their suns.",
"The five Earth-sized planets are orbiting stars cooler and smaller than our sun, and further analysis is still necessary to officially confirm they are planets."
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"NASA's Kepler space telescope has spotted Earth-sized planets in our galaxy .",
"There are five plants in distances from their suns where liquid water could exist .",
"Liquid water is a key ingredient for life to form ."
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"(CNN) -- Veteran director Barry Levinson has been tapped to direct a \"political thriller\" based on the 1995 bombing of a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City.",
"Sources with knowledge of the project say the tentative title of the film is \"O.K.C.\"",
"The script is being written by Clay Wold and is based on the story of his brother, who was a young legal clerk on the defense team for Timothy McVeigh.",
"Among Levinson's directing credits are \"Good Morning, Vietnam,\" \"The Young Sherlock Holmes\" and \"The Natural.\"",
"Oklahoma City was the site of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil before September 11, 2001.",
"The 1995 bombing of the state capital's federal building left 168 dead.",
"McVeigh, a white supremacist anti-government activist and former U.S. soldier, was executed for the attack in 2001.",
"CNN's Douglas Hyde contributed to this report ."
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"Oklahoma City is the site of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil before September 11, 2001 .",
"The 1995 bombing of the state capital's federal building left 168 dead .",
"The tentative title of the film is \"O.K.C.,\" sources with knowledge of the project say ."
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"(Health.com) -- Donna Landrigan had been acting strangely for almost a month.",
"Weeks of pounding, wall-to-wall headaches had left the normally calm and confident 35-year-old mother of three feeling confused, anxious, and doubting.",
"\"She couldn't function,\" recalls Dan Landrigan, Donna's husband.",
"\"She couldn't do anything, and she had these really intense levels of paranoia.\"",
"Over-the-counter medications did nothing to relieve her headaches, and visits to the doctor and a local emergency room were similarly fruitless.",
"Donna's state of mind continued to deteriorate.",
"The breaking point finally came on a December night in 2008, when she stood in the middle of the kitchen floor and screeched at the top of her lungs.",
"\"It was a bloodcurdling scream,\" Dan recalls.",
"Later that night, Dan found his wife slumped on the concrete floor of the garage, moaning.",
"That chilling evening marked the beginning of a medical odyssey that would ultimately involve four hospitals, experts in three states, and 10 months of guessing, testing, doubting, and hoping.",
"Something was attacking Donna's brain.",
"She'd spend five months in a drug-induced coma before doctors knew what it was.",
"Health.com: Your life-saving guide to bad headaches .",
"Buying time .",
"An ambulance rushed Donna to the ER after she collapsed, but she was quickly transferred to the intensive-care unit (ICU) at nearby Highland Hospital, in Rochester, New York.",
"Neurologist Nick Johnson, M.D., was there when she arrived.",
"\"She was psychotic and required restraints, both physical and emotional,\" Johnson says, referring to tranquilizers.",
"\"She was trying to hurt herself and the people around her.\"",
"Johnson was perplexed.",
"After hearing her symptoms, he at first suspected encephalitis, a swelling of the brain usually related to an infection.",
"He tested Donna for more than a hundred viruses and bacteria that can cause the condition, but everything came back negative.",
"In no state to return home, Donna was admitted to the hospital for tests and observation.",
"Two weeks later, Johnson and his team had a breakthrough when an electroencephalogram, or EEG, revealed recurring seizures in Donna's brain that were unaccompanied by physical symptoms -- a serious condition, known as nonconvulsive status epilepticus, that kills 56 percent of the people it affects.",
"But their relief at having finally arrived at a diagnosis was short-lived; the seizures failed to respond as expected to a slew of drugs.",
"Health.com: 20 medical mysteries and miracles .",
"Shortly thereafter, Dan walked into the hospital to visit his wife and found her bed empty.",
"Unbeknownst to him, doctors had used a powerful anesthetic to put Donna in a coma and had transferred her to an ICU on another floor.",
"\"The doctors explained to me that if they continued to let her brain seize like that, it would eventually wear out and start shutting down,\" Dan says.",
"\"They induced the coma.",
"That was the only way they could buy more time to seek and find out what was wrong.\"",
"As Dan remembers it, the scene that greeted him when he saw Donna in a coma for the first time was like something out of \"ER\" or \"Grey's Anatomy, \"not real life.",
"\"It was kind of freaky,\" he says.",
"\"You don't expect to see that with a loved one.",
"Everything just comes slamming right at you.",
"It's very overwhelming to walk in and witness it alone.\"",
"Health.com: TV doctors bring unethical behavior to prime time .",
"An elusive tumor .",
"By mid-January, Donna's condition hadn't improved, and she was transferred to a larger facility in Rochester.",
"The doctors at Strong Memorial Hospital decided to take a more aggressive approach, deepening her coma with the drug pentobarbital.",
"But after six weeks Donna was even worse.",
"Her blood pressure had plummeted and she had developed hypothermia -- common complications of lying in the ICU for so long.",
"\"I still have the image of walking into the room and seeing despair on the nurses' faces,\" says Dan, who visited Donna on all but four days during the ordeal.",
"\"I got terrified that maybe we were taking a turn for the worse.\"",
"In reality, the doctors were getting warmer.",
"They began to speculate that an antibody produced by Donna's own immune system -- a protein that usually fights disease -- was damaging her brain.",
"To confirm their hunch, they sent samples of Donna's cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota.",
"The test results provided a glimmer of hope: Pathologists had found an antibody -- they just didn't know what it was.",
"Health.com: 'Indescribable, crazy pain': I survived dengue fever .",
"Experts at the University of Pennsylvania eventually identified the mysterious antibody as a type that targets receptors in the central nervous system that are involved in memory and neuron function.",
"(The antibody can also attack nerve cells in the brain, which would explain Donna's seizures.)",
"These so-called anti-NMDA receptor antibodies usually arise in response to a type of tumor called a teratoma.",
"Teratomas tend to appear in ovaries and testes and can contain cells and tissues of all kinds, even embryonic body parts such as hair and teeth.",
"Once again, the doctors' optimism waned quickly as they struggled to locate the tumor.",
"Meanwhile, chemotherapy had no apparent effect.",
"Even though they couldn't find a tumor, the doctors decided that the only remaining option to save Donna's life was to remove her ovaries and hope for the best.",
"A few days after Donna underwent surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes, Dan got a call on his cell phone from one of Donna's doctors.",
"\"We found a tumor,\" she told him, sounding choked up.",
"It was indeed a teratoma, a benign but messy jumble of hair cells, nerve tissue, and teeth.",
"The antibodies created by Donna's body to fight the nerve tissue in the teratoma were inadvertently attacking healthy tissue in her brain.",
"With that, Donna became one of about 100 people in the world to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.",
"In many ways her case is typical.",
"The vast majority of patients who develop this rare condition are women, and most experience psychiatric symptoms, memory problems, and seizures.",
"Ovarian teratomas are the culprit in most cases, but not all.",
"But no one has experienced seizures for as long as Donna did and survived, according to Johnson.",
"A slow recovery .",
"Once the tumor was removed, Donna's doctors started the slow, painstaking process of tapering off the drugs and bringing her out of her five-month coma.",
"On Memorial Day 2009, Donna awoke briefly and smiled when she heard the nurses in her room mention French fries.",
"\"Donna, do you like French fries?\"",
"they asked her. She mouthed the word \"yes.\"",
"Donna took about four weeks to become fully alert and conversant.",
"Her first memory upon waking, she says, was hearing that Michael Jackson was dead.",
"(Ironically, Jackson suffered cardiac arrest after overdosing on propofol, the drug that Donna's doctors used to induce her coma.)",
"It was June 2009, and she remembered nothing since October of the previous year.",
"Health.com: Michael Jackson's death: why cardiac arrest is deadlier than heart attack .",
"The seizures have stopped, but Donna, now 36, is still struggling with the aftereffects of the coma.",
"Now, more than a year after waking up, she is at home but in a wheelchair, suffering from nerve damage and muscle spasms.",
"She had hoped that she would be walking by now.",
"\"I like to believe it's temporary,\" she says.",
"Three-quarters of the people who have contracted anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis have recovered fully or with minor neurological problems.",
"Johnson, who took care of Donna for the duration of her illness, is grateful that she seems well on her way to joining that group.",
"\"This was a very unusual outcome, especially for someone with seizures that long,\" he says.",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2010 ."
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"Donna Landrigan spent five months in a drug-induced coma .",
"Doctors found a teratoma tumor, a benign jumble of hair cells, nerve tissue, and teeth .",
"Most patients who develop this rare condition experience psychiatric symptoms ."
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"Anchorage, Alaska (CNN) -- Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race officially gets under way Sunday after a ceremonial start to a 1,000-mile competition that takes mushers through some of the harshest conditions imaginable.",
"Sixty-two teams are competing this year and will travel more than 1,150 miles across the Arctic for a chance at $50,400 and a new truck.",
"They sped through Anchorage Saturday to the sounds of racing paws and cheering crowds.",
"An official \"restart\" of the race is set to take place Sunday in Willow, Alaska, about 70 miles north of Anchorage.",
"The competition will end in Nome.",
"\"You know, some people were put on earth to be lawyers, construction, you know whatever.",
"I was put on earth to race, train and promote sled dog racing,\" said Lance Mackey, 40, who is gunning for his fifth consecutive win.",
"He won the 2010 race in eight days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 9 seconds.",
"Mackey's stepson, Cain Carter, is competing in the Iditarod for the first time this year.",
"The teams face strong winds and temperatures well below zero that will test the strength of the dogs and the stamina of their owners.",
"The Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome first ran in 1973.",
"\"This is my job. It is my hobby; it is my passion; it is everything that I love,\" Mackey said."
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"At stake is $50,400 and a new truck .",
"The competition will end in Nome ."
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"(CNN) -- Davis Cup champions Serbia have progressed to the quarterfinals of the men's team tournament after a comfortable 4-1 win over India in Novi Sad.",
"World No. 18 Viktor Troicki sealed victory for the Serbs in front of their partisan home supporters with a 6-4 6-2 7-5 success over India's highest-ranked singles player Somdev Devvarman.",
"And Janko Tipsarevic added the icing on the cake by thrashing Karan Rastogi 6-0 6-1 in the final singles rubber.",
"Serbia led 2-1 going into the deciding day, following Troicki's five-set win over U.S. Open doubles finalist Rohan Bopanna on Friday and Saturday's doubles victory for Ilija Bozoljac and Nenad Zimonjic.",
"India's only triumph came courtesy of world No.",
"93 Devverman who beat 45th-ranked Tipsarevic in straight sets on day one of their first-round world group tie.",
"Both teams were missing their best players for the tie, with world No.",
"3 Novak Djokovic -- who led Serbia to victory over France in the 2010 final -- and Indian doubles pairing Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi having opted out.",
"Next up for Serbia will be Sweden, after the Scandanavians built up an unassailable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five match tie over Russia on Saturday.",
"Russians Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Andreev won both Sunday's reverse singles rubbers over Simon Aspelin and Joachim Johansson respectively in Boras, but it was too late for them to progress any further in the event.",
"Philipp Petzschner was the hero for Germany after the world No.",
"67 defeated big-serving Ivo Karlovic of Croatia 6-4 7-6 7-6 in their tie's deciding rubber in Zagreb.",
"Marin Cilic had delighted the home crowd by defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2 6-3 7-6 in Sunday's opening rubber, but Petzschner kept his nerve to see Germany through.",
"Germany will now face France, who battled past Austria 3-2 in Vienna as Jeremy Chardy scored the decisive point with a 2-6 7-6 6-3 6-3 win over Martin Fischer.",
"Earlier, world No.10 Jurgen Melzer beat Gilles Simon 7-6 3-6 1-6 6-4 6-0 to level the tie at 2-2 ahead of the deciding rubber.",
"World No. 8 Andy Roddick, playing in the Davis Cup for the first time since 2009, secured the United States their quarterfinal berth with a 3-6 7-6 6-3 6-3 win over Paul Capdeville of Chile to put the Americans 3-1 ahead.",
"John Isner completed the job in Santiago, beating Guillermo Rivera 6-3 6-7 7-5 to give the visitors a 4-1 overall victory.",
"The U.S. team will now face 2008 and 2009 champions Spain in the last eight, after the team lead by world No.",
"1 Rafael Nadal and comprising of two other top-10 players David Ferrer and Fernando Verdasco, booked their place in the final after racing to a 3-0 lead over Belgium in Charleroi on Saturday.",
"Nadal made it 4-0 with a 6-4 6-2 victory over Olivier Rochus, although the home side claimed a point on the board by winning the final singles rubber.",
"Argentina had already secured their place in the last eight after going 3-0 up against Romania in Buenos Aires on Saturday.",
"The teams shared the reverse singles rubbers to give the home side a 4-1 win and they now play Kazakhstan, who provided the biggest upset of the weekend in their first appearance in the World Group, beating the Czech Republic 3-2 in Ostrava just hours after finding out their hotel rooms had been burgled.",
"Andrey Golubev, ranked 43, shocked Tomas Berdych 7-5 5-7 6-4 6-2 in the day's first reverse singles, before world No.63 Mikhail Kukushkin defeated Jan Hajek 6-4 6-7 7-6 6-0 to seal the decisive point for the visitors.",
"Meanwhile at the WTA Malaysia Open, Australia's Jelena Dokic won her first title on the women's tour since 2002 when she beat world No.",
"31 Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic.",
"Former world No.",
"4 Dokic showed glimpses of the greatness that saw her reach the Australain open quarterfinals in 2009 to defeat her fifth-seeded opponent 2-6 7-6 6-4 in Sunday's final, winning her sixth career singles title in the process."
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"Reigning Davis Cup champions Serbia progress to the quarterfinals of the competition .",
"Serbia complete a 4-1 victory over India by winning both reverse singles in Novi Sad .",
"Croatia, USA, Germany, Spain and Argentina are also through to the last eight .",
"Kazakhstan provide the shock of the first round with a 3-2 win over the Czech Republic ."
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"(CNN) -- One in 50 children is homeless in the United States every year, according to a report released Tuesday.",
"The National Center on Family Homelessness estimates more than 1.5 million children are without a home.",
"The report, by the National Center on Family Homelessness, analyzed data from 2005-06 and found that more than 1.5 million children were without a home.",
"\"These numbers will grow as home foreclosures continue to rise,\" Ellen Bassuk, president of the center, said in a statement.",
"The study ranked states on their performance in four areas: the extent of child homelessness, the risk for it, child well-being and the state's policy and planning efforts.",
"The states that fared the poorest were Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana.",
"Connecticut, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island and North Dakota performed the best.",
"Homeless children have poor health, emotional problems and low graduation rates, the study found.",
"\"The consequences to our society will play out for decades,\" Bassuk said.",
"\"As we bail out the rest of our nation, it is also time to come to their aid.\"",
"The report offers recommendations such as improved support to ensure that children's schooling is not interrupted when they lose their homes, and services to address the trauma of homelessness.",
"Other highlights in the report, \"America's Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness:\" • 42 percent of homeless children are younger than 6.",
"• African-American and Native American children are disproportionately represented.",
"• More than 1 in 7 homeless children have moderate to severe health conditions, such as asthma.",
"• Approximately 1.16 million of homeless children today will not graduate from high school."
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"The National Center on Family Homelessness analyzed data from 2005-06 .",
"Study says 42 percent of homeless children are younger than 6 .",
"States that fared poorly were Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Rapper T.I.",
"begins serving an 11-month sentence in an Arkansas federal prison Monday, while the drug case against his wife is set for a hearing in a Beverly Hills, California courtroom.",
"T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, was on his way from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Federal Correctional Center in Forrest City, Arkansas, Monday morning, according to his lawyer's office.",
"It's the same prison where the rapper served seven months last year on a federal weapons conviction.",
"\"Tiny\" Tameka Cottle's name was on Monday's court calendar for arraignment on a drug charge, according to the judge's clerk, but it was unclear if she would travel from Atlanta to California to attend.",
"The couple's latest legal troubles began when a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy stopped them on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood two months ago for a traffic violation.",
"They were arrested after suspected illegal drugs were found.",
"The district attorney decided last week not to prosecute Harris, 29, but Cottle, 35, was charged with misdemeanor drug offense.",
"She is accused of possessing MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, according to the court filing.",
"The rapper's arrest and a failed drug test the next day convinced a federal judge last month to send Harris back to prison for violating his probation on a federal weapons conviction.",
"Harris was given until Monday, November 1, to begin serving his 11-month sentence."
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"Arraignment for the rapper's wife, \"Tiny\" Cottle, is also Monday .",
"The couple's latest legal woes stem from a West Hollywood traffic stop ."
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"(Wired) -- Maybe Apple approved Skyfire, an iPhone web browser that plays Flash videos, to prove a point: Flash is losing relevance.",
"Despite widespread excitement over the first app to work with Adobe's plug-in, it turns out that Skyfire isn't very useful.",
"My hands-on time with the app, which came out Wednesday (and quickly \"sold out,\" according to the developer's press release), was an eye-opening experience.",
"The app's primary function is to take websites that use embedded Flash video and automatically transcode that video into HTML5 so that it's viewable on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.",
"CNNMoney: iPhone Flash app pulled from Apple .",
"To test it, I had to find a popular website loaded with Flash video.",
"The search was difficult.",
"I looked at several video-heavy websites, only to realize they were already HTML5-ready.",
"Examples include The Onion, DailyMotion, ESPN, CollegeHumor and CNET.",
"The biggest video websites -- YouTube and Vimeo -- have moved to HTML5, too.",
"I also found a report showing 54 percent of web video is now HTML5 compatible.",
"(Note that Skyfire only displays Flash video -- not games, animations, ads, etc.)",
"Eventually a Twitter follower pointed me to a website where Skyfire really came in handy: CWTV.",
"When Skyfire detected I was trying to play a Flash video, a play button popped up at the bottom of the browser, and the app did its job: Within 5 seconds I was streaming an episode of \"Smallville.\"",
"(Hurray, I guess.)",
"There are some other Flash-dependent websites that work well on Skyfire, like the \"Daily Show\" and \"Colbert Report.\"",
"But the browser didn't play all Flash videos.",
"I loaded the TED Talks website, which is a gallery of Flash videos, and Skyfire didn't transcode the videos.",
"I tried playing a Flash video on CNN.com, and Skyfire didn't transcode it, either.",
"But it doesn't matter so much in those cases, because there are already iOS apps for both TED Talks and CNN, which are capable of playing their videos.",
"Another major exception is Hulu, whose videos are encoded in Flash.",
"But it's not Skyfire's fault that you can't view Hulu videos.",
"Because of licensing terms, the company doesn't allow mobile devices to stream Hulu videos for free, as you could with a computer by visiting Hulu.com.",
"Instead, the company wants you to pay a monthly subscription fee through the Hulu iOS app.",
"If you try visiting Hulu.com through Skyfire, you get a message saying it's not supported.",
"Frankly I had a tough time finding reasons to use Skyfire.",
"My hands-on testing of the app made me feel that Flash doesn't matter anymore (not nearly as much as it used to before the iPad hit stores in April).",
"But Skyfire was a hot seller when it launched Wednesday -- so hot that the developers pulled it from the store because of traffic overload, then labeled it \"sold out.\"",
"All this leads me to conclude that the underlying reason is the one big chunk of the web that's still not available on the iPhone or iPad: free porn.",
"Indeed, many porn-streaming websites still rely on Flash.",
"That makes me believe that the tipping point for Flash to become irrelevant is when the most-popular porn sites shift to HTML5.",
"My \"research\" tells me that day isn't far away.",
"In the meantime, Skyfire may have only limited utility for most of the web, but it makes a fine porn browser.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"(CNN) -- Guatemalan authorities must act to stop the high numbers of women being killed in their country and ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice, Amnesty International said.",
"The human rights organization Monday urged Guatemala to shore up its fight against impunity and address the more than 685 killings of women reported in 2010 alone.",
"Amnesty International's call comes ahead of International Women's Day on Tuesday.",
"\"Women in Guatemala are dying as a consequence of the state's failure to protect them,\" Sebastian Elgueta, Guatemala researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement.",
"\"High levels of violence and a lack of political will, along with a track record of impunity, mean authorities are both unable to pursue perpetrators, or just don't care.",
"Perpetrators know they will not be punished.\"",
"The Central American country's culture of impunity is a legacy of its 36-year civil war that ended in 1996, the organization said.",
"There were hundreds of thousands human rights violations that were never accounted for, Amnesty said.",
"In a speech last year, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said his country has made strides in protecting women.",
"\"Today we have tribunals specialized in femicide, we have offices for attention (to women's rights), we have centers, but once again, this will won't be enough until we finally defeat the social scourge of women's murders, regardless of the reason, justification or other type of cheap excuse,\" Colom said.",
"Passing laws is not enough, Elgueta said.",
"\"The government must initiate effective investigations into killings, improve police training and ensure prosecutions are effective,\" he said.",
"The special tribunals have not been effective, Amnesty said.",
"\"The gender of the woman is often a determining factor in the motive of the crime, the way in which the authorities respond to the case and the way women are killed,\" the organization said.",
"Rosa Franco has been fighting for justice after her 15-year-old daughter, Maria Isabel Franco, was raped and killed in December 2001.",
"But no one has been arrested in the case, Amnesty said.",
"Franco has received death threats and harassment because of her search for justice, the organization said.",
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights took Maria Isabel Franco's case on the grounds that it was being unjustifiably delayed by authorities.",
"\"If the police had started the investigation early, maybe they would've found Maria Isabel alive,\" Rosa Franco told Amnesty.",
"\"Their attitude, not only in the case of my daughter, but in the cases of thousands of women who have been killed, has been terrible.\"",
"On Tuesday, some 60 organizations will march down the principal streets of Guatemala City to commemorate International Women's Day, the state-run AGN news agency reported.",
"The march will start in front of the supreme court.",
"\"With this activity, Guatemalan women will demand the respect and the meeting of their needs and urge plans to solve the problems of poverty, discrimination, lack of opportunities, among others,\" activist Sandra Moran told AGN.",
"Professor Ana Silvia Monzon told the news agency that university students will join the march in memory of Emilia Quan, a young sociologist who was killed in November."
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"Amnesty International is calling on the government to act .",
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"(CNN) -- Add R&B star Usher to the list of entertainers giving up the paychecks they earned performing for members of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's family.",
"\"I am sincerely troubled to learn about the circumstances surrounding the Nikki Beach St. Bart's event that took place on New Year's Eve 2009, \" Usher said in a statement Monday.",
"\"I will be donating all of my personal proceeds from that event to various human rights organizations.\"",
"According to U.S. diplomatic cables posted by WikiLeaks, the Caribbean island was the site for a New Year's Eve party thrown by Mutassim Gadhafi, Libya's national security advisor and one of the dictator's sons.",
"Usher, along with Beyonce, were the entertainment in what the cables called a $1 million personal concert.",
"Beyonce said through a representative last week that she had donated the money she received to earthquake relief in Haiti.",
"The same Gadhafi son on the same island a year earlier paid $1 million to hear Mariah Carey sing on New Year's Eve 2008, the cables said.",
"She sang four songs.",
"In a statement released last week, Carey said she was \"naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for.",
"I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess.\"",
"Carey added in her statement that she plans to donate proceeds from a new song, \"Save the Day,\" to human rights organizations.",
"\"Going forward, this is a lesson for all artists to learn from,\" she said.",
"\"We need to be more aware and take more responsibility regardless of who books our shows.",
"Ultimately we as artists are to be held accountable.\"",
"Between the cables posted on WikiLeaks and artists' own admissions, no less than five performers have entertained the Gadhafis at a host of international locales.",
"Last week, Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado acknowledged on her Twitter account that she performed for members of the Gadhafi clan.",
"\"In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Qaddafi clan to perform a 45 min.",
"Show for guests at a hotel in Italy,\" read a tweet on Furtado's official account Monday.",
"\"I am going to donate the $.\"",
"In 2006, the Gadhafis brought pop star Lionel Richie to Libya to perform.",
"The concert marked the 20th anniversary of a U.S. raid on the North African country.",
"U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered the attack after Libya was implicated in the fatal bombing at a West Berlin nightclub that left one American service member dead.",
"CNN reached out to representatives of Richie for comment, but received no response.",
"CNN's Douglas Hyde contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea's British record-signing Fernando Torres said on Friday he left Liverpool because the Merseyside club are not yet ready to match his ambitions.",
"The $80 million striker arrived at Liverpool in 2007 but despite scoring 81 goals for the Reds he was unable to fire the team to a major trophy during his three-and-a-half years at Anfield.",
"\"I think they have great ambition and they are doing the right things to get back,\" the 26-year-old said of his former club at a press conference.",
"\"But it will take time. I didn't have that time. When I was an Atletico Madrid fan growing up, I couldn't understand it when a big player left.",
"But with time I could understand they did the best for themselves, their families and their careers.\"",
"The Spanish international is expecting a hostile reception from the away fans when he makes his Chelsea bow against his former team at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, but he hopes they will be able to remember what he did for Liverpool.",
"\"I'm not asking them to understand me but I'm sure over time they will see what I did there.",
"I understand they will be angry and will not understand my decision.",
"Maybe in a few days or weeks I will explain all the reasons.",
"\"Football is like this.",
"From one day to the other, people can love you or hate you.\"",
"The former Atletico Madrid captain also revealed he would not celebrate if he was to net a debut goal for the English Premier League champions against his former employers.",
"\"First I have to play, and then I have to score but I have big respect for Liverpool fans so I don't think I will.\"",
"Torres became the most expensive Spanish player in the sport's history with his transfer-deadline day move to London, but he insists his large price tag will not be a burden.",
"\"I have been in this situation before when I signed for Liverpool.",
"Big money means big expectation.",
"I'm more than ready for the challenge.",
"I'm excited about a new life and new era.\"",
"Meanwhile, Rafael Benitez, the man who brought Torres to Liverpool for $32 million in 2007, has revealed the World Cup winner was valued at $122 million when he was in charge of the club.",
"\"I think last year we were talking about $122 million,\" Benitez, who recently left European champions Inter Milan, told the BBC.",
"\"People were talking about maybe you receive an offer from another club.",
"They were talking about $122 million.\"",
"Benitez, who left Liverpool by mutual consent in June 2010, said his former charge can recapture his top form for Chelsea.",
"\"He was not playing at the same level the last time, but he is still a very good player.",
"It is big money but could (have been) even better.\""
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"Chelsea's record-signing hopes the Liverpool fans will understand his decision .",
"Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez believes the striker was worth $122 million ."
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