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"Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense announced Tuesday that capital charges have been refiled against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged co-conspirators in the September 11, 2001, conspiracy to allow prosecution before a military commission at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base.",
"The move comes after the Obama administration dropped plans to prosecute the suspects in federal court in New York.",
"Besides Mohammed, the other suspects accused of participating in the 9/11 plot are Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.",
"All five are at Guantanamo.",
"A Pentagon statement said the charges \"allege that the five accused were responsible for the planning and execution\" of the 9/11 attacks, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.",
"Charges against all five accused include conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking aircraft and terrorism, the statement said.",
"The filing of capital charges means the defendants could face death sentences if convicted.",
"The final decision about whether the death penalty can be pursued is in the hands of retired Vice Adm. Bruce McDonald.",
"In military terminology he is the convening authority of the military commissions, the equivalent of a civilian criminal court.",
"The last military execution was in 1961, involving a U.S. Army private who had been convicted of rape and attempted murder of an Austrian girl.",
"Mohammed was first charged in May 2008 before a military commission in Guantanamo, but the charges were suspended in early 2009 when the Obama administration took over and sought a fresh review of all detainees at the overseas prison.",
"Later that year, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Mohammed and several other key terror suspects would face prosecution in the military justice system.",
"The Obama administration had considered transferring some terror suspects to the United States for prosecution in either special military or civilian courts.",
"But after widespread opposition across the political platform, the president announced earlier this year all prosecutions would be in military courts in Guantanamo.",
"Obama also had pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year of becoming president.",
"However, it remains open due to legal complexities involving the status of some detainees and congressional opposition to holding trials for high-profile suspects in U.S. criminal courts.",
"CNN's Bill Mears contributed to this story."
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"Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) -- Hidden between tomato stalks, the Mexican army found what officials describe as the largest marijuana plantation in the nation, a top military official announced Thursday.",
"Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mugica said the plantation six hours south of Tijuana is 168 times larger than the soccer field in Mexico City's Azteca Stadium.",
"It spans for 120 hectares (about 300 acres), he said.",
"Tomatoes growing there hid marijuana plants that were up to 2.5 meters (8.2. feet) tall, Duarte said.",
"Authorities detained six people this week during the operation to seize the field, which is located in the area of Ensenada, Baja California.",
"The takeover means drug traffickers will not receive 1.8 billion pesos ($153 million), he said, apparently referring to an estimated sales value of the crop.",
"Duarte said 250 soldiers will destroy the drugs seized within the next week.",
"Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon's administration began in December 2006, officials have destroyed more than 83,251 hectares (206,000 acres) of marijuana, according to a report from the country's defense department.",
"Journalist Jose Israel Ibarra of CNNMexico.com contributed to this report."
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"The plantation is 168 times the size of the field in Mexico City's soccer stadium .",
"It is located about six hours south of Tijuana, Mexico, the military says .",
"Gen. Alfonos Duarte Mugica says soldiers will destroy the seized drugs ."
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"(EW.com) -- James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales' followup to their excellent 2002 \"Saturday Night Live\" book, \"Live From New York,\" is an oral history of ESPN, and its contents have been a closely guarded secret (GQ recently posted some of the book's juiciest Olbermann sections).",
"Until today, that is. Publisher Little, Brown just lifted their embargo, meaning that we can now reveal some details of the much-anticipated project.",
"So what's the big secret?",
"The book is enormous -- 700-plus pages of interviews with big names like Keith Olbermann, Chris Berman, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Eisner, Erin Andrews, and many, many more.",
"The authors talked to more than 550 people and cover an amazing amount of ground.",
"It's a serious, impressive piece of work, if a little too long and padded out with less-interesting material.",
"The book offers a nuanced look at ESPN, does some top-notch TV-biz reporting on the early days of the cable industry, and offers compelling behind-the-scenes stories about a number of big events (ESPN's botched takeover of Monday Night Football, the creation of the X Games, the Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb blowup).",
"But what everyone will probably want to talk about, at least for now, is the dirt.",
"And there's a bunch of it: the book is packed with huge egos and bad behavior.",
"Here are just a few highlights: . -- \"The company would have Christmas parties up at some horrible place in Bristol [Connecticut, where ESPN is based],\" says former general counsel Andy Brilliant.",
"\"A couple of them were drunken orgies....",
"It became like a big frat party.",
"There were a lot of drugs being done in the bathroom.",
"There was quite a bit of screwing going on afterward, a lot of it extramarital.",
"But everybody went back to business the next workday.\"",
"-- \"There was screwing in the hallways,\" says onetime reporter Sal Marchiano of ESPN's early days.",
"\"Okay, maybe not in the hallways, but there were a couple of stairwell stories....",
"There were drugs in the building, that I knew.",
"There was one guy who dealt pot.\"",
"-- At one point in the '80s ESPN kept an apartment in New York City.",
"\"I remember [an ESPN exec] coming in and saying, 'We gotta get rid of this apartment...because the mail boys got a couple of our secretaries hooking over there,'\" says former ESPN CEO Bill Grimes.",
"\"Hooking! That's what he said.... 'They're making money after work when no one's there.",
"It's getting out of control.'\"",
"-- Sexual harassment was an ongoing issue.",
"In the late '80s the problem got so bad that anchor Karie Ross actually stood up in front of 200 or so people in the cafeteria and demanded that it stop.",
"Her plea didn't have much impact.",
"\"No fewer than fifty cases of sexual harassment were reported by women on the staff to ESPN management in the first half of the 1990s,\" the authors write.",
"-- Keith Olbermann is hardly the network's only cranky anchor.",
"\"I was introduced to [Chris Berman], and my title was mentioned,\" recalls marketing senior VP Lee Ann Daly.",
"\"He was like, 'Oh, goddammit, do we need another vice president?'",
"And I just said, 'Nice to meet you, too, Mr.",
"Berman.' ....there was really no need to be a jerk.",
"But that kind of stuck with me.",
"I noticed that Chris Berman was rarely happy.",
"He was always very difficult to please.\"",
"-- The biggest villain in the book?",
"Quite possibly the town of Bristol, Connecticut, which is apparently so isolated and dull that it drives ESPN execs who work there to all sorts of boorish behavior.",
"\"I think part of the sexual harassment stuff was location,\" says former ESPN chairman Steve Bornstein.",
"\"It's one hundred miles from real civilization, and you got the kind of testosterone, jock mentality, frat house approach that's pretty much a recipe for stupid decisions being made.\"",
"Or as another exec, Bill Creasy, puts it, \"What a s---hole.",
"I mean, what were they thinking [locating ESPN HQ there]?\"",
"That's just a small sampling of what's in this huge book, which hits stores on May 24.",
"So are you excited to read when it hits stores on Tuesday?",
"What are you most looking forward to finding out?",
"See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Bristol, Connecticut, apparently drives ESPN execs to all sorts of boorish behavior .",
"The authors talked to more than 550 people and cover an amazing amount of ground .",
"The book offers some top-notch TV-biz reporting on the early days of the cable industry ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods has split from the management company which has helped him become one of the world's wealthiest sportsmen since he joined it at the start of his professional golf career back in 1996.",
"The former top-ranked player announced on Monday that he will be staying with his longtime agent Mark Steinberg, who has left IMG after his contract expired.",
"\"Staying with Mark Steinberg.",
"Total confidence in him,\" Woods wrote on social networking website Twitter.",
"\"Excited about the next stage in my professional life.",
"Fond memories of Mark McCormack.\"",
"McCormack founded IMG, one of the world's leading sports management companies, but died in 2003.",
"Sliding Tiger drops out of golf's top ten .",
"Woods' endorsements have been handled by Steinberg since 1998, but the golfer's declining fortunes have reportedly led to his agent's departure from IMG.",
"Woods has not won a tournament since the end of 2009, and the scandal about his marital infidelities that broke after that resulted in the loss of some lucrative sponsorship deals.",
"The 35-year-old has dropped to 15th in the rankings, struggling this year with injuries, but he still earned $70 million in 2010 from his existing deals according to Golf Digest.",
"Harmon expresses fears for Woods' career .",
"Sports Business Journal and the New York Times both reported that Woods' reduced earnings meant that IMG could no longer afford Steinberg's salary.",
"IMG has instead promoted Guy Kinnings and Robbie Henchman, its senior vice-presidents in Europe and Asia Pacific respectively, to be co-heads of its golf division.",
"Woods is battling to be fit for this month's U.S. Open, a major tournament he has won three times, due to ongoing leg problems he suffered at the Masters in April.",
"He had to pull out of last month's Players Championship after only nine holes when he aggravated his injuries -- his only on-course action since finishing fourth at Augusta.",
"Meanwhile, Steve Stricker won his 10th PGA Tour title on Sunday as he finished a shot clear at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.",
"The 44-year-old triumphed for the first time this season as he saved par from bunkers at 16 and 17 then bogeyed the last hole to head off fellow Americans Brandt Jobe and Matt Kuchar, who finished strongly with seven-under-par 65s.",
"It was his first top-10 finish in 11 visits to the event at Muirfield, hosted by golf legend Jack Nicklaus, as he held his nerve despite a two-hour weather delay.",
"Former world No.",
"1 Vijay Singh, who tied for 37th as he also closed with 65, may miss the June 16-19 U.S. Open at Congressional after the veteran Fijian failed to show at a qualifying event.",
"The 48-year-old, a three-time major champion, has played the past 67 of golf's four main tournaments."
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"American golfer Tiger Woods decides to stay with his agent Mark Steinberg .",
"Steinberg, former head of golf at IMG, does not renew contract at management company .",
"Woods had been with IMG since he turned professional in 1996 .",
"Former world No.",
"1 battling to be fit for this month's U.S. Open at Congressional ."
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"(CNN) -- Ongoing sectarian violence has left 52 people dead in a southern Pakistani city in the last few days, police said Thursday.",
"Unknown gunmen opened fire Thursday evening on two buses in the city of Karachi, killing 10 people and wounding 20, said Muhammad Aslam, a Karachi police official.",
"In a separate incident Thursday evening in Karachi's Orangi Town neighborhood, three people were killed by shooting on a residential colony, Aslam said.",
"Another 11 people were killed Thursday, 18 on Wednesday and 10 on Tuesday, during clashes in several neighborhoods in Karachi, said Arslan Umar, a police official in the city.",
"The clashes have been blamed on a bitter rivalry between the political parties of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP).",
"The MQM mostly represents Urdu-speaking people, who migrated to Pakistan from India during partition in 1947, while the Awami National Party, represents Pashto speakers -- more of whom are moving to Karachi from northwest Pakistan in search of jobs.",
"Violence between supporters of the two parties and other turf wars in Karachi have killed hundreds in recent years.",
"From CNN's Reza Sayah and journalist Nasir Habib."
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"NEW: 10 dead in shooting aboard a bus in Karachi .",
"The violence began Tuesday, police say .",
"The clashes involve Urdu-speaking and Pashto-speaking political parties .",
"Violence between supporters of the two parties has caused many deaths in recent years ."
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"London (CNN) -- Media baron Rupert Murdoch broke his silence on a scandal swirling around his flagship British tabloid newspaper Wednesday, calling allegations that journalists illegally hacked into the voice mails of murder and terrorism victims \"deplorable and unacceptable.\"",
"The head of News Corp. issued the statement after the father of a bombing victim said his phone may have been hacked.",
"allegations that Prime Minister David Cameron called \"absolutely disgusting.\"",
"Graham Foulkes, whose son was killed in a 2005 London terrorist attack, said Wednesday his phone number and home address were found in the files of a private investigator working for the News of the World, a Sunday tabloid.",
"The accusation came after allegations that journalists also hacked into the phone messages of missing teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found to have been murdered.",
"Police launched a special investigation this year into accusations that News of the World engaged in widespread phone hacking targeting politicians and celebrities.",
"Actor Hugh Grant told CNN Wednesday that police had visited him as part of their investigation.",
"Hugh Grant on UK tabloid scandal: 'Vote with your wallets' Now, following allegations this week that the paper also illegally eavesdropped on murder victims and the families of people killed in terrorist bombings, Cameron said an independent inquiry was needed.",
"\"We are no longer talking about politicians and celebrities but murder victims, potentially terrorist victims.",
"It's absolutely disgusting what has taken place,\" Cameron said in the House of Commons.",
"\"I think everyone in this house and country will be revolted by what they've heard and seen on their TV screens.\"",
"But Cameron said the inquiry could not begin until after the police investigation was done, for fear of interfering with it.",
"News Corp. subsidiary News International, which owns News of the World, said it welcomed \"calls for a broad public inquiry into standards and practices in the industry.\"",
"Hacking scandal exposes secrets at Murdoch's tabloid .",
"The list of possible victims widened further Wednesday, when the British Press Association reported that relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have been victims of the hacking scheme.",
"\"The Ministry of Defence was seeking clarification from Scotland Yard as sources said families of dead servicemen were being contacted by detectives over the scandal,\" the report said.",
"A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense told CNN: \"This is a matter for the Metropolitan Police who are investigating these allegations.",
"It would be inappropriate for us to comment whilst this investigation is ongoing.\"",
"The British Press Association said News International had told it that it would be \"absolutely appalled and horrified\" if the allegations proved true.",
"A News International spokesman told the association: \"News International's record as a friend of the armed services and of our servicemen and servicewomen, is impeccable.\"",
"Separately, London's Metropolitan Police said Wednesday they were opening an investigation into the possible bribery of police officers by people working for the News International media group.",
"Papers given to the Metropolitan Police by News International lawyers \"include information relating to alleged inappropriate payments to a small number of... officers,\" Commissioner Paul Stephenson said in a statement Wednesday.",
"News International confirmed it had given police paperwork related to the possible bribery, calling the handover evidence of its \"determination as a company to deal responsibly and correctly with the issues.\"",
"The company also said Wednesday it was \"shocked and appalled at any serious allegations with regards to victims of crime.\"",
"\"Our company must fully and proactively cooperate with the police in all investigations, and that is exactly what News International has been doing and will continue to do under (CEO) Rebekah Brooks' leadership,\" Murdoch said in his separate statement.",
"A senior police officer involved in the phone hacking investigation called Graham Foulkes Tuesday to say his details were in the files of a private investigator working for the News of the World, the victim's father said Wednesday.",
"Foulkes' son David was among the 52 people killed on July 7, 2005, when suicide bombers struck three London Underground trains and a bus.",
"Foulkes said police did not tell him whether his phone had been hacked, but the possibility horrified him, he said.",
"London's Metropolitan Police refused to comment Wednesday.",
"\"We'd obviously been having very intimate and detailed personal conversations, so to think now that these people may have been listening in to that at such an important time, such a dark and difficult time, is quite unbelievable,\" Foulkes said.",
"He and his wife had just been talking about \"how horrendous it must have been\" for the Dowler family \"to be told that someone had been listening in to them,\" when he learned that he, too, might have been a victim of hacking, he told CNN affiliate ITV.",
"If the allegations of hacking are true, he said, the perpetrators \"need to be punished, and punished severely.\"",
"He called on News International to be truthful and honest about what happened and \"put their hands up and say, 'We're sorry.'\"",
"Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said Brooks should resign in the face of what he called \"the biggest press scandal in modern times.\"",
"Cameron refused to back Miliband's call, saying it would be fairer to let the investigation run its course.",
"Murdoch's statement suggests he is standing by Brooks.",
"Phone hacking involves calling a phone from two other phones at the same time, sending one caller to voice mail.",
"That caller then enters the code number to retrieve voice mail remotely.",
"Hackers depend on the fact that many people never change the default PIN for voice mail retrieval.",
"Initial complaints about hacking came from politicians and celebrities, but the story took a new turn Tuesday with the accusation that the paper hacked into the voice mails of the murdered girl.",
"\"The family are completely horrified.",
"They thought this was all over\" after the disappearance of Milly Dowler in 2002 and the conviction of a man for her murder this year, Dowler family lawyer Mark Lewis said Tuesday.",
"But in April, police told the Dowlers that journalists had hacked into their phones and those of their daughter, he said.",
"Journalists deleted some of Milly Dowler's messages to make space for more, thus giving her parents hope she was still alive when she was dead, Lewis said.",
"The paper has apologized for hacking into the voice mails of celebrities and politicians, paying compensation to actress Sienna Miller and offering money to others.",
"But the Dowler case marks the first time the newspaper is accused of interfering with a police investigation.",
"Police have declined to say whether Milly Dowler was among the victims of phone hacking.",
"Brooks told staff Tuesday that it was \"almost too horrific to believe that a professional journalist or even a freelance inquiry agent working on behalf of a member of the News of the World staff could behave in this way.\"",
"Brooks, who was editor of the paper at the time of the alleged Dowler hacking, told staff she was \"sickened that these events are alleged to have happened.\"",
"CNN obtained a copy of the e-mail Brooks sent to staff on Tuesday.",
"News International confirmed it was genuine.",
"Brooks acknowledges in the message that there is speculation she might resign, but said she was \"determined to lead the company to ensure we do the right thing and resolve these serious issues.\"",
"At least five people have been arrested in connection with phone hacking investigations this year since a new investigation, Operation Weeting, was launched in January.",
"Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and a journalist working for the News of the World were sent to prison in 2007 for hacking into the voice mails of royal staff in an earlier investigation.",
"Police launched the new investigation this year in response to widespread complaints from politicians, celebrities and other high-profile figures who fear they may have been targets.",
"News International has apologized for unspecified cases of hacking.",
"They say they have been cooperating with police since the new investigation was launched in January.",
"The tabloid in April offered compensation and \"apologized unreservedly\" for the \"unacceptable\" acts.",
"It did not name the victims.",
"In addition to owning News of the World, News International owns the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times in Britain.",
"Murdoch's News Corp. also encompasses Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Harper Collins publishers.",
"CNN's Carol Jordan, Antonia Mortensen, Jonathan Wald, Dan Rivers, J.P. Landry and Peter Wilkinson contributed to this report."
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"Rupert Murdoch speaks out on accusations his paper hacked a murder victim's phone .",
"Prime Minister David Cameron says a inquiry is needed -- but not yet .",
"The hackers \"need to be ... punished severely,\" a bombing victim's father says ."
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"(CNN) -- One of the worst wildfires in Arizona history grew by 40,000 acres Monday, forcing the evacuation of thousands as crews battled heavy winds in trying to prevent the 30-mile line from advancing further, officials said.",
"The \"Wallow Fire,\" as the blaze is known, has scorched 233,522 acres as of Monday evening -- up more than 21% from the 192,746 acres reported that morning -- said Terri Wildermuth, a spokeswoman for the Incident Management Team that is overseeing firefighting efforts.",
"\"We had a hard day today,\" Joe Reinarz, an incident commander, told those attending a town hall meeting in Greer, Arizona, on Monday evening.",
"\"I don't know exactly where that fire is at this moment, because it is moving so fast.\"",
"The eastern Arizona wildfire, which began May 29, has forced the closure of the Apache National Forest and prompted the evacuation of about 3,000 people, said Mark Weldon of the Arizona Red Cross.",
"Some 2,000 of those are in Alpine, about 700 are in Greer, 200 to 300 are in Nutrioso, and fewer than 100 are in Sunrise.",
"The National Weather Service instituted a \"red flag warning,\" which means weather conditions are ripe for wildfires, for much of the northern half of the state.",
"In eastern Arizona, southwest winds blew 25 to 28 mph through the region Monday with nighttime gusts forecast to blow as strong as 40 mph.",
"Wind speeds are expected to slow somewhat but still be strong in the coming days, the weather service said, with daytime temperatures in the most affected regions forecast in the mid-60s.",
"\"Tomorrow, (the wind) is supposed to pick back up all through Thursday,\" said Reinarz.",
"\"We've got two or three days ahead ... that will try all of us.\"",
"The U.S. Forest Service said the fire is the fourth largest in Arizona's history, but Brad Pitassi of the incident management team said it is the third largest.",
"While there have been no significant injuries so far, officials and area residents complained of heavy smoke that has blanketed the area like fog.",
"\"To me, it feels like I'm suffocating,\" Deanna Davis told CNN affiliate KTVK.",
"\"Smoke just sits in this valley and it sucks the air right out of you.\"",
"Davis, who manages Davis True Value Hardware store in Springerville, Arizona, said the fire and resulting smoke had forced a run on her store from customers looking to buy face masks.",
"Among the evacuees was Jessie Walker, who along with his wife, Holly, abandoned the house he built in Nutrioso with his own hands to escape the approaching fire, according to Phoenix-based CNN affiliate KNXV.",
"\"What a person don't realize is is how hard it is to face something like that,\" Walker told KNXV.",
"\"You think you're prepared for it, you think you're mentally prepared for it, physically prepared for it.",
"You're not. \"It's hard,\" Walker said, fighting back tears.",
"The Walkers took as many of their possessions as they could even though there wasn't enough time to pack.",
"Those belongings are now stored in a trailer out of harm's way.",
"Walker said he has a brother who stayed behind.",
"\"He wants to fight for what's his and I don't blame him,\" Walker said.",
"The fire has bedeviled fire crews with its unpredictable path, thanks to wind gusts that have carried burning embers up to three miles.",
"Apache County Deputy Chief Sheriff Brannon Eagar on Monday evening urged people in the area, even if they haven't been ordered to evacuate yet, to get ready to leave.",
"\"They can't predict how fast it's going to go,\" Eagar said at the town hall event in Greer.",
"\"So make sure, please, you get ready.",
"\"If I can convince anybody, please go.",
"It'll make your life so much easier,\" he added.",
"\"This thing is huge.\"",
"CNN's Ben Smith, Chelsea J. Carter, Phil Gast and Dana Ford contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A fire official says the next 2 to 3 days will likely continue to be difficult .",
"NEW: A deputy sheriff urges people in the area to prepare to evacuate .",
"The fire has scorched more than 233,522 acres in eastern Arizona .",
"About 3,000 people in eastern Arizona have been told to evacuate ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Explosions at three government facilities in eastern China Thursday left two people dead, including the alleged perpetrator, the country's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.",
"At least six people were injured in the blasts, which occured within a half hour of each other, local officials told CNN.",
"\"A car bomb went off at 9:18 a.m. in the parking lot of the Fuzhou city prosecutor's office, followed by a blast at 9:20 a.m. at the Linchuan district government building and another car bomb at 9:45 a.m. near the local drug administration building,\" said Zhang Baoyun, a spokesman for the government of Jiangxi province, where Fuzhou is located.",
"One body was found in the district government building and another person died in the hospital, Zhang added.",
"Xinhua, citing police sources, reported that one of the people who died in the blast was the man suspected of setting off the explosives.",
"The man was identified as Qian Mingqi, 52, an unemployed resident of the area.",
"Earlier, Xinhua said a disgruntled local peasant farmer had set off the bombs because of an ongoing lawsuit.",
"On the Weibo page allegedly belonging to Qian, the bio line reads: \"I am physically and mentally normal, and have no criminal record or history of illegal petitions.",
"When my new house was illegally torn down, it caused me huge financial loss.",
"After a futile ten years of appealing for justice, I am forced to take a path I don't want to.\"",
"Weibo, the country's most popular microblogging service, is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.",
"Photos from the scene show large crowds gathering near one of the blast sites with a thick plume of black smoke in the air.",
"State-run Xinhua news agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying glass windows were shattered at the eight-story prosecutor's office building, while ambulances rushed in and out of the district government compound.",
"Authorities are still investigating the explosions, while the injured -- including three in serious condition -- are at local hospitals, Zhang said.",
"Fuzhou is a city of nearly 4 million residents some 1,600 kilometers (975 miles) south of Beijing.",
"Last September, clashes between residents and officials in Yihuang, a county in Fuzhou, gained national attention.",
"Three residents doused themselves with gasoline and burned themselves to protest the forced demolition of their homes by the local government.",
"One died in the hospital, prompting widespread outrage that eventually forced provincial authorities to sack several local officials.",
"CNN's Helena Hong and Shao Tian contributed to this report."
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"One body was found at a government building and another person dies in the hospital .",
"Officials did not confirm reports that the bombings were caused by an angry farmer .",
"The blasts shattered windows at an eight-story office, Xinhua says ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan's cabinet on Friday approved a $49 billion budget to help in the reconstruction of areas decimated by last month's earthquake and tsunami.",
"The Disaster Relief Fund will pay for removal of rubble and debris, temporary housing, rebuilding of roads, farms, airports and schools, and loans to small- and medium-sized businesses.",
"Seeking to turn the nation's focus to the arduous task of rebuilding, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan last week invoked the imagery of his country's recovery from World War II.",
"\"We must renew the determination that we had in the post-World War II reconstruction period, and we must tackle the task of reconstruction after this earthquake,\" he said.",
"The devastation left behind by the March 11 earthquake is an opportunity to build \"a new, better future than before,\" said the prime minister, who was born in 1946 -- a year after the end of the war.",
"Kan said the Japanese people \"stood up bravely and achieved a reconstruction that amazed the world.\"",
"The fund is only expected to cover a fraction of the total cost of recovery.",
"The double disaster could cost Japan's government in excess of $305 billion, Deputy Finance Minister Mitsuru Sakurai told reporters last month.",
"The monster 9.0-magnitude quake that rocked the country also spawned a tsunami, leaving nearly 28,000 people dead or missing.",
"CNN's Steven Jiang contributed to this report."
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"Last month's monster quake spawned a tsunami and left nearly 28,000 people dead or missing .",
"Prime Minister: Japan must renew the determination of post-World War II reconstruction .",
"The Disaster Relief Fund will pay for rebuilding, cleanup and debris removal .",
"Japan is budgeting $49 billion for reconstruction ."
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"Dadaab, Kenya (CNN) -- When I was in the third grade, a classmate of mine died of leukemia.",
"None of us knew he was sick, only that his mother hadn't let him attend school in a while.",
"More than 30 years later, I still remember the awful day my mom told me my friend had passed away.",
"I made a card for his mother, and walked to their house to deliver it.",
"She was too overcome to take any visitors, but thanked me and took the card.",
"I can recall her broken up face when she shut the door.",
"Over time we lost touch, but during the holidays a couple of years ago, I stopped by her home to pay a visit.",
"She recognized me right away, smiled and invited me in for a cup of coffee.",
"And then, while hanging my jacket, she began to tremble and cry.",
"So many years later, the sorrow was just under the surface.",
"The experience left an indelible impression on me, one that I better understood after becoming a parent myself.",
"It violates a natural order of life to bury your own child, and I am not sure the grief ever goes away.",
"Impact Your World: How you can help .",
"That's the position 30,000 Somali parents found themselves in this summer.",
"And, 600,000 more children may be buried before the end of the year.",
"In just about any other place on Earth, those numbers would scream out from international headlines, but not here in East Africa.",
"Inside the Dadaab Refugee Camp, a mass burial site sits within walking distance of the close cluster of tents.",
"Amin Hassan took me to see the tiny burial site of her 1-month old daughter, Addison.",
"It was nearly lost among all the other shallow, hastily dug graves.",
"Small sticks mark these raised plots of dirt with nothing else except bits of colored plastic trash stuck in the ground and blowing in the wind.",
"There are no nameplates, no flowers and no reminders of their lives.",
"People here just vanish.",
"Misery in world's largest refugee camp .",
"\"She was perfectly healthy when she arrived,\" Amin told me.",
"They had left Somalia in search of food and water, and felt relief when they finally reached the camp.",
"It may have been contaminated water that caused little Addison's intractable diarrhea and vomiting or an overwhelming infection.",
"Pertussis or whooping cough is something they see quite often here.",
"\"And measles,\" one of the doctors told me.",
"Many of these infections are wildly contagious, especially among the hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated kids in these camps.",
"Saving Ahmed from starvation .",
"As I stood and spoke to Hassan, with all those tiny burial sites around us, I couldn't help but think of my friend and his mother.",
"I thought of that unnatural order of parents burying their children.",
"I thought about Hassan's lifelong grief.",
"Amin Hassan dug the grave for her daughter by herself.",
"Watch Sanjay Gupta MD Saturday and Sunday at 7:30am ET.",
"For the latest from Sanjay Gupta MD click here."
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"Gupta's visit with Somalian refugees brings disturbing memories .",
"He recalls the grieving mother of a boyhood friend who died .",
"Thousands of Somalian parents have buried their children this summer ."
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"(CNN) -- Sunday has long been a day for reflection in Joplin, Missouri, with residents flocking to churches and other places of worship for guidance, understanding and a sense of community.",
"Now, several of those churches are gone, as are scores who might otherwise be going to them, thanks to a horrific tornado that ripped through the southwest Missouri city one week ago.",
"That makes this Sunday especially significant, not to mention the subsequent days, as religious leaders try to offer meaning after such a senseless disaster.",
"\"You could see ... the challenge they are going to face, as they preach funerals in the weeks to come,\" Missouri Gov.",
"Jay Nixon said after meeting faith-based leaders this week.",
"\"It's enormous.\" Nixon, along with President Barack Obama, will be among those attending a special memorial service at Missouri Southern State University for the 142 killed (as of Saturday evening) and thousands more affected by the tornado.",
"Obama to view Joplin tornado damage .",
"Then at 5:41 p.m. -- exactly one week after an EF-5 tornado, with winds over 200 mph, first touched down -- the city will go silent.",
"That moment will be a stark contrast to the fury the Rev.",
"Justin Monaghan experienced as the twister barrelled toward St. Mary's Catholic Church.",
"The 70-year-old pastor got in a bathtub at the church, put his face down and prayed.",
"When the winds ceased, Monaghan found himself trapped in the rubble -- where he remained until some of his parishioners rescued him, unscathed.",
"While he's still coming to grips with what happened, Monaghan said he believes that good will come out of this tragedy and in fact already has.",
"\"God allows things to happen that we don't know why,\" the pastor said earlier this week.",
"\"But when we look back, we always hear the good things that happen as a result.\"",
"That positive energy was on display Saturday on the church grounds.",
"There, parishioners and volunteers picked through the debris looking for items to salvage, Monaghan said.",
"One found the pastor's Bible, and another was able to save his golf clubs.",
"Two tornado-wracked towns unite through tragedy, charity .",
"\"The enthusiasm was unbelievable, even as people were shedding tears,\" Monaghan said.",
"\"It's just wonderful to see.\"",
"On Sunday, Monaghan said he will celebrate Mass at St. Peter's, another Catholic church in Joplin.",
"And if and when his church is rebuilt -- something that he expects will happen, with the parish council's support -- the pastor said a 6-foot cross that somehow braved the storm will be a part of it, behind the altar.",
"\"We wouldn't dream of not using that,\" he said.",
"The Bridge Ministries, a nondenominational Christian youth organization, has opened its doors to schools, relief agencies and churches in need of space.",
"They include members of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, which will hold their Sunday services at the ministries' center after their own facility was severely damaged in the storm.",
"Dan Mitchell, the organization's president, said he has been impressed that so many people, from near and far, offered help.",
"Food, water and clothing have come in everything from car trunks to tractor-trailers, he said, and the center's parking lot has transformed into a distribution point for supplies.",
"Meanwhile, Mitchell said that locals directly affected have seen their faith strengthened in the past week.",
"\"Faithful Christians who understand that God creates order from chaos have stood up and done what it takes,\" he said.",
"\"They have given up their lives.",
"If they come up against roadblocks, they get around them and they get it done.\"",
"CNN's Jacqui Jeras and Mike Pearson contributed to this report."
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"Sunday marks the one-week anniversary of the EF-5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri .",
"A memorial service is being planned, and a moment of silence will be held at 5:41 p.m.\nA Catholic priest, whose church was destroyed, lauds the enthusiasm and goodwill .",
"A local Christian official says the twister has strengthened many people's faith ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The perjury trial of ex-baseball all-star Roger Clemens ended in a mistrial Thursday after jurors heard statements in a prosecution video that the judge had ruled inadmissible until later in the case.",
"U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said prosecutors should have modified a video that showed a congressman talking about a deposition from the wife of Clemens' old teammate, former New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, during a 2008 congressional hearing.",
"Walton had decided earlier that prosecutors couldn't include references to Laura Pettitte's testimony unless it was brought up on rebuttal.",
"\"I can't in good faith leave this case in a situation where a man's liberty is at risk when the government should have taken steps to ensure that we were not in this situation,'' Walton said after Clemens' lawyers asked for a mistrial.",
"\"I don't see how I can unring the bell.''",
"The decision came on the second day of testimony in the trial.",
"Walton set a September 2 hearing on whether to retry the case.",
"Clemens left the courthouse without comment after the ruling, telling reporters, \"I'd appreciate it if y'all would let me walk home now.\"",
"Clemens, nicknamed \"Rocket,\" is accused of perjury, obstruction of Congress and making false statements about his alleged use of steroids and human growth hormone.",
"During an appearance before a House committee in 2008, he testified that he never used illegal performance-enhancing substances during his career -- a statement prosecutors say is contradicted by witnesses and physical evidence.",
"He faced a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine on the counts against him.",
"Clemens was one of the most feared pitchers in all of baseball during 24 seasons playing for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and New York Yankees.",
"He retired in 2007 with 4,672 strikeouts, seven Cy Young awards and two World Series titles.",
"But that December, he was among the players named in an investigative report by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell on the use of performance-enhancing drugs.",
"The following February, he told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that steroid use was \"totally incompatible with who I am and what I stand for.\"",
"\"I cannot in good conscience admit to doing something that I did not do, even if it would be easier to do so,\" he told the committee under oath.",
"But in Wednesday's opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Durham said prosecutors have needles and used cotton swabs that hold the former player's DNA, as well as residue from anabolic steroids.",
"Those items came from Brian McNamee, a former strength and conditioning coach who claims to have injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone.",
"Prosecutors said McNamee held on to the physical evidence for one simple reason: \"He never completely trusted this man,\" Durham said.",
"But Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, told jurors McNamee has no credibility.",
"\"Brian McNamee is a liar.",
"He was a liar before this started.",
"He's still lying to the government,\" Hardin said."
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"NEW: \"I'd appreciate it if y'all would let me walk home now,\" Clemens tells reporters .",
"References to previous testimony by an ex-teammate's wife had been barred .",
"Video played for the jury included comments about that testimony .",
"\"I don't see how I can unring the bell,\" judge says ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayern Munich have confirmed that Turkish international Hamit Altintop is one of three players who will leave the club after Saturday's final Bundesliga match of the season against Stuttgart.",
"Former Schalke midfielder Altintop, defensive midfielder Andreas Ottl and reserve goalkeeper Thomas Kraft are the trio who will be moving on during the close season, with the club marking their farewell with a bouquet of flowers after the game.",
"Altintop, 28, joined Bayern in 2007 and was a member of the domestic double winning sides of 2008 and 2010, also featuring in the 2010 Champions League final defeat by Inter Milan.",
"However, his time at the club was restricted by injuries, restricting him to just 63 Bundesliga appearances in four seasons.",
"\"This season, Hamit only played three games from the start.",
"He feels that's not enough, and we understand and respect his decision,\" Bayern chairman Karl- Heinz Rummenigge told the club's official website.",
"It is unclear where Altintop will play his football next season, although there have been reports linking Real Madrid with a move for the player.",
"Meanwhile, Ottl leaves Bayern after joining the club in 1996 aged just 11.",
"The 26-year-old never fully established himself in the senior side, making 91 appearances and scoring five goals during his time with the Bavarian giants.",
"A valuable squad member, Ottl has won three Bundesliga titles and three German Cups during his time with Bayern.",
"Meanwhile, Kraft has decided to leave Bayern in search of regular first team football, and has agreed a deal to join Bundesliga newcomers Hertha Berlin for next season.",
"Director of sport Christian Nerlinger said of the 21-year-old: \"I can understand that Thomas Kraft's aim is to be a first-choice goalkeeper, but we could not give him that guarantee.\""
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"Hamit Altintop is one of three players who will leave Bayern Munich after Saturday .",
"Midfielders Altintop and Andreas Ottl and goalkeeper Thomas Kraft all leaving club .",
"Kraft has already signed a contract to join Bundesliga newcomers Hertha Berlin ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on Thursday.",
"The final tally was 293 against the motion and 152 for it.",
"The opposition Liberal Democratic Party filed the no-confidence motion Wednesday, and needed a simple majority for it to pass in parliament, and fell far short of that number.",
"It cited his handling of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis as a reason for the motion.",
"Had the motion passed, Kan would have been required to step down within 10 days or dissolve the lower house of parliament and force a snap election.",
"A devastating tsunami struck Japan's Pacific coast after the massive earthquake in March, triggering the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl as the cores of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant overheated and spewed radioactive chemicals.",
"Kan, who was unpopular before the disaster, has come under fire as the nation battles to contain the nuclear and economic woes.",
"Adding on to the problems, ratings agency Moody's Investors Service placed the country's local and foreign currency bond ratings on review for possible downgrade.",
"Political in-fighting remains a problem in Japan, which has seen six prime ministers in the past five years.",
"Last year, after only a few months in office, his main political opponent within his own party attempted to take control of the Democratic Party of Japan, effectively taking over the premiership.",
"Kan managed to hold onto the title of party leader.",
"Kan's one-year anniversary in office is June 8.",
"CNN's Junko Ogura and Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report."
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"The motion needed 240 votes to pass .",
"Kan has been in office nearly a year ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Tuesday that any future NATO airstrikes that kill civilians will be considered attacks against the Afghan people.",
"The statement came three days after an airstrike killed 14 civilians in southern Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials.",
"\"This is my last warning to the NATO forces: No more attacks on the homes of Afghans will be allowed,\" Karzai told reporters.",
"\"If they continue such operations to kill civilians, international forces will change to a force who is not fighting against terrorists but fighting against Afghan people.\"",
"Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of NATO-led troops in Afghanistan, joined two other generals in offering \"sincere apologies\" Monday for the airstrike that killed nine civilians in Helmand province.",
"There was no immediate explanation for the disparity between this figure and Karzai's account of 14 killed: 10 children, two women and two men.",
"Maj. Gen. John Toolan, head of NATO's International Security Assistance Force command in southwest Afghanistan, pleaded with Afghans to not only forgive, but to also work with coalition forces in hopes of bolstering their security.",
"\"I offer our heartfelt apologies to the families and friends of those killed,\" Toolan said in a statement.",
"\"I ask that the Afghan people continue to trust and assist their security forces, so that together we can stop the senseless killing brought upon us by an enemy who wants to exploit the Afghan people through fear and violence.\"",
"Karzai said Tuesday that the international community has turned the war against terrorism into political objectives.",
"\"They seek their own interest and played politics,\" Karzai said. ...",
"If they were fighting against terrorism as the Afghans were honestly advising them, if they were focusing (on) the terrorism sanctuaries ... this war would have been more successful.\""
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"Hamid Karzai says attacks by international forces on Afghan houses will not be tolerated .",
"Afghan officials say a Saturday attack in Helmand province killed 14 civilians .",
"A NATO military leader apologizes for the attack, which he says killed nine civilians ."
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"(CNN) -- Public attitudes about HIV and AIDS have changed dramatically since the first AIDS cases were reported 30 years ago.",
"But in many parts of the world, the stigma is still powerful.",
"CNN Hero Patricia Sawo, a pastor and AIDS activist in Kitale, Kenya, recently spoke with CNN's Kathleen Toner about how much has changed since she was diagnosed with HIV -- and how much work remains to be done.",
"Kathleen Toner: What was the stigma like when you tested positive for HIV in 1999?",
"Patricia Sawo: It was hard in those days.",
"No one wanted to take care of people with AIDS.",
"So for me, that was the worst part of it.",
"I was going to die, and die alone.",
"And I was worried not only for myself, but for my children.",
"I was afraid. The stigma was the painful part of it.",
"After I went public, within one week, I lost my job, my husband lost his job ... the landlord wanted us out of his house.",
"If I'd died in those days, I was not going to die of AIDS.",
"I was dying of the stigma.",
"Toner: You mentioned your children.",
"Did the stigma impact them?",
"Sawo: My kids went through it because people knew I was HIV-positive.",
"I remember one day I visited my children in school, and they were crying because their friends wouldn't play with them.",
"Their parents had told them not to, because they said they might get infected.",
"I was testing my children so they would know their own HIV status.",
"So I told them (to tell the other children) that your parents are better than their parents, because at least they know their status and you know your status.",
"Their parents probably don't even know their status, so they are the ones who are at risk.",
"It caused a big problem in the school.",
"But I had decided to educate the community.",
"Toner: Tell me some of the other ways you're trying to change people's attitudes in your work as an AIDS activist.",
"Sawo: I do a lot of work in the church.",
"Before I tested HIV-positive, I personally believed that HIV was a disease for sinners.",
"So for me, HIV was about people outside the church.",
"I believed it, I preached it, and I thought if they changed their lives -- even if they are HIV-positive -- God would heal them.",
"In 2002, I realized my attitude was wrong.",
"HIV is not a moral issue.",
"It is a virus which, with the correct information and knowledge, can be taken care of.",
"So the church must change its attitude.",
"The church leaders must change their way of preaching.",
"Today, I do pastors workshops and train church leaders.",
"I take them through HIV information and lead them to be able to begin congregational responses on HIV and AIDS.",
"As church leaders, we need to shepherd and take care of the people, and that's why we need all information of all kinds.",
"I'm also a trained HIV counselor and peer educator.",
"There are also young people that I've mentored.",
"I've taken them through accepting their status (as HIV-positive).",
"And there are many young people that now go out in schools.",
"They are teachers that I've helped who even speak about their HIV status in schools.",
"Toner: You're doing so much work.",
"Has the situation improved?",
"Sawo: Things have gotten better where stigma has been reduced, because there, people have accurate information.",
"But there are areas where people don't have the knowledge and look at it as a punishment or curse, or maybe as a traditional illness or taboo.",
"... We have to educate. Toner: What is your hope for the future?",
"Sawo: My dream is that finally we will have an AIDS-free world.",
"With the information that we have now, HIV is something we can deal with.",
"People don't have to die of AIDS.",
"HIV is something that can end with the people who have it.",
"With the right information, attitude change and access to treatment, HIV can end with us.",
"There's still a lot of work to do, especially in Africa.",
"But HIV is something that we can overcome.",
"See the full story on CNN Hero Patricia Sawo: Church leader reverses stance on HIV, reaches out to those affected ."
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"She said she and her family were treated like outcasts -- even her children .",
"Sawo is trying to educate people that HIV \"is not a moral issue\""
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"(CNN) -- While the eyes of golfing world were on rising star Rory McIlroy on Thursday, two surprise names claimed the first-round lead at the British Open.",
"A tearful Thomas Bjorn overcame the recent death of his father to shoot a superb five-under-par 65 despite difficult early conditions -- then late in the day 20-year-old amateur Tom Lewis shocked everyone by joining him at the top of the leaderboard with a record-breaking effort.",
"The duo share a coach, but apart from that their stories could not be more different.",
"The 40-year-old Bjorn was able to tee off at Royal St. George's -- where he blew his best chance of winning a major title in 2003 after squandering a four-shot lead on the last day -- only after several players pulled out, including Tiger Woods and lastly Vijay Singh on Monday.",
"Ugly and unforgiving: Why Britain offers golf's toughest test .",
"The Dane, 11 times a winner on the European Tour, has made the halfway cut just twice since his father passed away in May following a long illness, but at the windswept English links course he rediscovered the form that earned him two winning Ryder Cup appearances.",
"\"Dad meant a lot to me,\" the world No.",
"80 told reporters before wiping tears from his eyes.",
"\"He would have been very proud of what I did today.",
"That's all I've really got to say about that.",
"\"Today was a massive step in the right direction for me.",
"I have been finding golf extremely difficult but I did a lot of work with (coach) Pete (Cowen) yesterday and some things just started to make a bit of sense.",
"\"I don't know if I can keep this up for the rest of the week.",
"The start-all-over process has taken a lot longer than I wanted to, but I suppose that's part of the process.",
"Let's just say I have realized this year there's more important things in life than golf.\"",
"Lewis has already tasted success at Royal St. George's, having won the British boys' amateur title there in 2009.",
"His father Brian, a former tour professional, named him after five-time British Open champion Tom Watson -- who was one of the Englishman's playing partners, with the 61-year-old American ending the day equal 71st after a 72.",
"Showing no nerves in such illustrious company, Lewis carded the lowest round by an amateur at golf's oldest tournament, surpassing the 66 shot by Frank Stranahan in 1950, Tiger Woods (1996) and Justin Rose (1998).",
"He also became the first non-professional to lead the tournament after the opening round since 1968.",
"\"It was really great out there today,\" Lewis told reporters.",
"\"When we started, I heard a lot of shouts like, 'Come on Tom' but I suspect they might have been for the other Tom, not me.",
"But in the end I thought maybe there were a few for me, -- it would be nice to think so anyway.\"",
"Lewis birdied four of his last five holes to catch Bjorn as they took a one-shot advantage into Friday's second round from Spanish veteran Miguel Angel Jimenez and Americans Lucas Glover and Webb Simpson.",
"Glover, who won the 2009 U.S. Open, finished with three successive birdies while Simpson -- still seeking his first professional title -- picked up shots at the last two.",
"They were two shots ahead of a group of 12 players tied for sixth place, including U.S. PGA champion Martin Kaymer of Germany, 2010 U.S. Open winner Graeme McDowell and former European Ryder Cup star Darren Clarke.",
"Among that cluster was American debutant Kyle Stanley, a 23-year-old who qualified for the 140th staging of the tournament when he finished second at the PGA Tour's John Deere Classic last weekend.",
"McIlroy, playing for the first time since winning his breakthrough major at the U.S. Open three weeks ago, battled back from a bad start to card a one-over 71 for a share of 51st.",
"The 22-year-old bogeyed two of his first three holes, but responded with birdies at the eighth, 13th and 17th holes to match the score of world No.",
"1 Luke Donald, second-ranked Lee Westwood, U.S. Open runner-up Jason Day of Australia and South Africa's Masters champion Charl Schwartzel.",
"The Northern Irishman, seeking to be the youngest winner since 1893, led last year at St Andrew's after a first-round 63, but crashed with 80 in the second.",
"\"I struggled a bit with my speed all day on the greens, but it was a day where you just needed to grind out a score, and anywhere around even par was a good start,\" McIlroy said.",
"\"On a day like this you can shoot a high number and put yourself out of the golf tournament, so it was nice to go out and shoot a decent score.",
"I feel like if you keep it around level par this week you're going to have a good chance.\"",
"Donald, who like Westwood has never won a major, is one of the favorites following his victory at last weekend's weather-shortened Scottish Open.",
"The Englishman carded two birdies and a bogey in his front nine, but dropped three shots between 11 and 15 before pulling one back at 17.",
"They were a shot better off than American Phil Mickelson, who was in another sizeable group tied for 36th on 70 that also included Spain's Sergio Garcia, after carding two birdies and two bogeys.",
"Mickelson's compatriot John Daly, the 1995 winner, was tied for 71st on 72 along with South Africa's 2002 champion Ernie Els and reigning titleholder Louis Oosthuizen."
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"Danish golfer, whose father died in May, cards five-under-par 65 in Sandwich .",
"He is joined at the top by 20-year-old English amateur Tom Lewis as they lead by one .",
"U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy battles back from bad start to card 71 ."
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"(CNN) -- Hours after the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan, a bomb blast rocked the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, a government spokesman said.",
"Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed that there are several casualties, though he did not give a specific number.",
"\"Most victims were moved to hospitals and dead bodies were evacuated,\" he said.",
"The emergency management agency has been mobilized \"to contain the situation,\" Shuaib added.",
"Another explosion rattled a beer hall in Zuba, on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital of Abuja.",
"Shuaib said there were no serious injuries in that blast, with three victims taking themselves to a nearby hospital.",
"In recent weeks, the African nation has been rocked by a series of bombings thought to be engineered by Boko Haram, an Islamic group that has challenged Nigeria's government.",
"Explosions in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno killed a few and wounded dozens in late April in the days leading up to national governorship elections in attacks that police described as attempts to intimidate voters who had picked Jonathan.",
"Northern Muslims in some areas charged that the presidential election was rigged.",
"Armed protesters in the region took to the streets chanting the name of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition front-runner.",
"This is Jonathan's first full term.",
"As vice president, he took over the presidency in May 2010 upon the death of then-President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had suffered from a heart condition."
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"NEW: 3 hurt in a blast at a beer hall near Abuja, a government official says .",
"A more serious explosion occurs in Bauchi, when a bomb detonates .",
"There are casualties, though no definitive number has been released .",
"The blasts came hours after Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration as president ."
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"(CNN) -- A single hair that shows evidence of decomposition was similar to that of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, an FBI evidence analyst testified at the Orlando, Florida, woman's trial Saturday.",
"Investigators found the hair in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.",
"Prosecutors are trying to link the hair to Caylee as evidence that her body was in the car.",
"But defense attorney Jose Baez attacked FBI trace evidence examiner Karen Lowe's findings as little more than unreliable opinion in a morning of fitful testimony that produced frequent objections and huddles among the attorneys out of earshot of the jury.",
"A crime scene investigator, the operator of a towing company and members of Anthony's family all have testified they smelled a bad odor coming from Anthony's car after it was found abandoned in a parking lot on June 27, 2008, then towed four days later.",
"Caylee was last reported seen by her family on June 16, 2008, but no one alerted police until July 15, 2008 -- after the girl's grandmother tracked Anthony down and demanded answers.",
"Caylee's skeletal remains were found in December 2008.",
"Anthony, 25, is charged with seven counts in Caylee's death, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading police.",
"If convicted, she could face the death penalty.",
"Prosecutors say she used chloroform on her daughter and then put duct tape on her nose and mouth to suffocate her.",
"She has pleaded not guilty and has denied having anything to do with the girl's disappearance or death.",
"The Orlando woman's attorneys argue Caylee drowned in the family pool on June 16, 2008.",
"They say Anthony and her father panicked and covered up the death.",
"George Anthony denied the claim during his testimony last week.",
"Testimony about the hair marks a departure from the dramatic testimony and evidence of the last nine days, in which friends and acquaintances contradicted Anthony's claims that she was frantically searching for her daughter during the month she was missing.",
"Instead, according to evidence and testimony in the case, she was spending time with her boyfriend, shopping and going to nightclubs.",
"In dry, scientific terms, FBI trace evidence analyst Karen Lowe testified Saturday how a 9-inch piece of hair sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, appeared similar to a piece of hair recovered from a brush belonging to the girl.",
"But she said hair analysis is not as precise as DNA analysis, so she could not say with absolute certainty that the hair belonged to the girl.",
"The hair had a dark band that Lowe testified has only been seen in hairs remaining in the scalp of a decomposing body.",
"A crime scene investigator, Gerardo Bloise, testified Friday that he recovered a human hair from the trunk of Anthony's car, and also that the car smelled of decomposition.",
"In cross-examination, Baez questioned the validity of Lowe's testimony, first asking if there was any way to prove how the hair got into the trunk.",
"\"I couldn't say how the hair got there,\" Lowe said.",
"\"It's consistent with transfer or contact of some sort, but I don't know from whom.\"",
"She also testified under questioning from Baez that while the hair is clearly not Casey Anthony's, it could belong to any other light-haired relative on her mother's side of the family.",
"The kind of DNA testing authorities were able to perform on the sample reveals DNA passed down only through maternal lines.",
"Lowe also testified there are no standards for identifying the bands and that such decisions are based on her opinion and that of a fellow investigator.",
"Baez also questioned Lowe's experience, saying she had failed a 2000 proficiency test and that she has never before testified on hair banding.",
"He also questioned the entire premise of hair analysis, citing a 2009 National Academies of Science report that broadly questioned the use of microscopic hair analysis and other forensic science results in criminal cases.",
"Lowe said she agreed with the report's findings -- that hair can't uniquely identify an individual and that it's important to send samples for DNA analysis, which she said she did in the Anthony case.",
"Lowe, who is not a DNA expert, has not testified about the findings of the those tests.",
"The hair in question was recovered after Anthony's car was picked up from her family's home, after it had been abandoned in a parking lot, towed to an impound lot and then driven back to the family home two weeks later by Anthony's father.",
"According to testimony, Anthony asked her boyfriend to pick her up from the parking lot on June 27, saying the car had run out of gas.",
"She also told a friend that she believed an animal carcass was lodged in her car's frame.",
"The car was towed to an impound lot on June 30, 2008, where a manager said he also smelled the odor of decomposition.",
"An analysis of the car after the Orange County Sheriff's Office took possession of it did not show any such evidence, Bloise testified.",
"Also on Saturday, Orange County crime scene investigator Mike Vincent told jurors about collecting air samples from inside Anthony's car.",
"A scientist later found evidence of chloroform and gases associated with decomposition in those samples.",
"Baez questioned whether the air inside the trunk on August 29, 2008, when it was tested, was the same as that in the car when it was recovered in July.",
"He also sought to raise a question whether a trash bag found in the car when it was recovered might have been the source of the smell.",
"Vincent also sampled air from the inside of that bag.",
"The contents of the bag were dry when Vincent tested the air inside, he testified.",
"The trash might have smelled different when, and if, it was wet, Vincent said under questioning from Baez.",
"Before prosecutors began presenting scientific evidence in the case on Friday, jurors watched recordings of jailhouse visits between Anthony and her parents.",
"In one conversation played Friday, Anthony scoffed at a media report her mother brought up speculating that Caylee had drowned in the family swimming pool.",
"\"Surprise, surprise,\" Anthony said of the rumor, which is now the primary defense theory in her capital murder trial in Orlando.",
"In recordings of visits played for the jury, Anthony frequently accused the media of failing to accurately report on the case.",
"A videotaped exchange, during which Anthony became agitated with her parents as they pressed her for details of Caylee's whereabouts, was one in a series shown to jurors the past two days.",
"\"We need to have something to go on,\" Cindy Anthony pleaded during the visit.",
"\"Mom, I'm sorry. I don't have anything,\" Casey Anthony angrily replied.",
"\"I've been here a month. Do you understand how I feel?\"",
"Some legal experts say these taped conversations could hurt Anthony in the eyes of jurors.",
"\"These tapes are so devastating to the defense,\" defense attorney Richard Herman told HLN's Nancy Grace.",
"\"Now at this point, there is no way Casey Anthony can take the stand in the case.",
"They cannot get an acquittal.\"",
"Prosecutors allege Anthony was not looking for her daughter during the month she was missing.",
"Instead, she was staying with her boyfriend, spending time in Orlando with numerous friends, attending parties, going shopping and hitting nightclubs, including participating in a \"hot body\" contest, according to evidence in the case.",
"Her former boyfriend, friends and acquaintances have all testified that she did not mention her daughter being missing during that time and that they noticed nothing different about her demeanor.",
"Anthony's defense team explains her behavior in the weeks following Caylee's death by saying she had been sexually abused by her father and had been taught to conceal her pain.",
"George Anthony has denied abusing his daughter.",
"The trial will resume Monday morning.",
"Prosecutors expect their case will take two more weeks, after which Baez will begin to mount the defense case.",
"Overall, the trial is likely to last another four to six weeks, based on initial projections.",
"Watch Nancy Grace Monday through Sunday starting at 8 p.m.",
"ET on HLN. For the latest from Nancy Grace click here."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he invited Democratic and Republican leaders from both chambers of Congress to the White House for a meeting Thursday to discuss deficit reduction and the need to raise the federal debt ceiling.",
"Obama said he wanted the meeting to \"build on the work that's already been done and drive toward a final agreement\" that would address expanding federal deficits and bring congressional approval for increasing how much money the government can borrow.",
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who earlier invited Obama to come to Congress to discuss the issue, will attend the White House meeting, his office announced.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also plans to attend, and House Speaker John Boehner indicated that he will take part but warned that Congress will not accept tax increases sought by Obama and Democrats.",
"\"I'm happy to discuss these issues at the White House, but such discussions will be fruitless until the president recognizes economic and legislative reality,\" Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement.",
"He added, \"I'm pleased the president stated today that we need to address the big, long-term challenges facing our country.\"",
"According to Obama, who made an unscheduled appearance in the White House briefing room, talks on deficit reduction over the Fourth of July weekend with congressional leaders from both parties made progress, but \"we still have to work through some real differences.\"",
"Both parties need to come out of their \"comfort zone,\" Obama said.",
"But \"this should not come down to the last second.\"",
"White House spokesman Jay Carney later said Obama believes that everyone knows the issues involved in forging a comprehensive agreement to reduce federal deficits by as much as $4 trillion in the coming decade.",
"Now it is time make hard decisions, with both sides compromising in order to reach an agreement that benefits the nation as a whole, Carney said.",
"\"The ideal will never become law, whether you're a conservative House Republican or a liberal Democrat or the president of the United States,\" Carney said.",
"\"You're never going to get everything you want, because our system doesn't work like that.\"",
"The Senate returned to work Tuesday, cutting short the planned weeklong Fourth of July recess, with its leaders resuming their tough talk on negotiations to cut federal deficits amid a looming deadline to raise the government's debt ceiling.",
"The three-day Fourth of July weekend did little to change the rhetoric of recent weeks over deficit reduction talks and the need for Congress to increase the amount of money the government can borrow.",
"In his opening remarks after the Senate reconvened, Reid, D-Nevada, accused Republicans of putting the nation's economic recovery at risk by threatening to oppose an increase in how much money the government can borrow.",
"McConnell, R-Kentucky, followed Reid by accusing Democrats of wanting to increase spending to solve a deficit problem.",
"Before Obama's invitation, McConnell repeated an invitation for Obama to come to Congress and hear from Republicans why they won't support any agreement that includes tax increases.",
"Reid said his side was willing to compromise but would not allow Republicans to put the needs of \"a few millionaires and billionaires\" ahead of the rest of the country.",
"With House members scheduled to return Wednesday, congressional leaders remain at sharp odds over what sort of conditions should be attached to a hike in the current $14.3 trillion ceiling.",
"Republicans are refusing to go along with any increase unless it includes deep spending cuts and avoids any tax increases.",
"Democrats are trying to minimize the impact of cuts to social services and are calling for the elimination to certain tax breaks and loopholes benefiting wealthier Americans.",
"Treasury Department officials and leading economists have warned of potentially catastrophic consequences if the ceiling is not raised by August 2, at which point the country could default on its debt obligations.",
"Among other things, the country could face skyrocketing interest rates and a plummeting dollar.",
"Increasing the debt ceiling will allow the government to borrow more money in order to pay for spending already accrued.",
"Given the short time frame, Congress and the White House may be forced to agree to a relatively small increase in the debt ceiling covering only a few months.",
"Such a compromise -- including cuts already agreed to on both sides of the aisle -- would give leaders more time to negotiate serious budget reforms, including possible changes to popular entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.",
"However, Obama said he's opposed to a short-term increase in the debt ceiling.",
"\"I don't think the American people sent us here to avoid tough problems,\" Obama said.",
"The debt ceiling dispute is a \"'unique opportunity to do something big\" and put the \"economy on a stronger footing for the future.\"",
"Over the weekend, top Democrats and Republicans gave no public indication that a potential compromise is in the offing.",
"Talks led by Vice President Joe Biden recently collapsed over the tax dispute.",
"\"The principle of not raising taxes is something that we campaigned on last November, and the results of the election was the American people don't want their taxes raised and they wanted us to cut spending,\" Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Sunday on CNN's \"State of the Union.\"",
"\"They don't want compromise.\"",
"Various frameworks for a possible deal have been floated.",
"Conservatives demand deep spending cuts, caps on future spending and a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution in return for their support to raise the debt ceiling.",
"Both the House and Senate are planning votes on a balanced budget amendment in coming weeks.",
"However, with such an amendment requiring approval from a two-thirds majority in both chambers and then ratification by at least 38 states, eventual approval is unclear in a process that can take years.",
"For his part, Obama has chided congressional Republicans for refusing to make \"tough decisions\" at odds with their conservative base.",
"He calls for what he characterizes as a balanced approach to deficit reduction that includes more revenue for education, infrastructure and clean energy, areas he considers critical to long-term economic growth.",
"The Democratic position includes spending cuts elsewhere, including the military, as well as reforms to popular entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, the government-run health care programs for senior citizens, the disabled and the indigent.",
"Republicans seek more sweeping entitlement reforms that Democrats contend would eliminate the safety net the programs were intended to provide.",
"CNN's Tom Cohen, Alan Silverleib, Kate Bolduan and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.",
"Watch State of the Union with Candy Crowley Sundays at 9am ET.",
"For the latest from State of the Union click here."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday that Japan underestimated the hazard posed by tsunamis to nuclear plants but praised the country's response to the Fukushima Daiichi crisis as \"exemplary.\"",
"The International Atomic Energy Agency announced a preliminary summary of safety issues related to the crippled power plant.",
"The plant was damaged after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan and killed more than 14,000 people and left another 10,000 people missing.",
"An international team of nuclear experts from 12 countries participated in a fact-finding mission and completed its preliminary assessment Wednesday, the agency said.",
"The team said nuclear designers and operators should \"evaluate and provide protection against the risks of all natural hazards.\".",
"\"These tsunami waves overwhelmed the defenses of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi facility, which were only designed to withstand tsunami waves of a maximum of 5.7 meters (18.7 feet) high.",
"The larger waves that impacted this facility on that day were estimated to be larger than 14 meters (46 feet) high,\" the report said, referring to the plant's owners, Tokyo Electric Power Co. \"The tsunami waves reached areas deep within units causing the loss of all power sources except for one emergency diesel generator ... with no other significant power source available on or off the site, and little hope of outside assistance.\"",
"The team also said despite the \"brave and sometimes novel\" efforts by operational staff to control and cool reactors and spent fuel, the fuel was severely damaged and a series of explosions occurred.",
"\"The operators were faced with a catastrophic, unprecedented emergency scenario with no power, reactor control or instrumentation,\" the summary said.",
"\"They had to work in darkness with almost no instrumentation and control systems to secure the safety of six reactors, six associated fuel pools, a common fuel pool, and dry cask storage facilities.\"",
"Team leader Mike Weightman, the UK's chief inspector of nuclear installations, said the team was humbled by massive damage caused by the tsunami.",
"\"We are also profoundly impressed by the dedication of Japanese workers working to resolve this unprecedented nuclear accident,\" Weightman said in an agency statement.",
"The team also praised Japan's \"long-term\" response, including the \"impressive and well organized\" evacuation of the area around the stricken reactors.",
"\"A suitable and timely follow-up program on public and worker exposures and health monitoring would be beneficial,\" the team said.",
"The draft report summary was delivered to Japanese authorities Wednesday, the agency said.",
"A final report will be delivered to the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety at the agency's headquarters in Vienna in late June."
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"The nuclear power plant was crippled after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami .",
"Tsunami waves were 14 meters high, but the plant was only able to handle 5.7-meter waves .",
"The team of experts praise \"brave and sometimes novel efforts\" by the plant's staff ."
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"Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- At least one demonstrator died and a bodyguard protecting Turkey's prime minister was hospitalized after clashes erupted around a campaign rally Tuesday, less than two weeks before Turks go to the polls to vote in parliamentary elections.",
"The violence erupted in the Black Sea town of Hopa, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to address a rally.",
"Turkish television showed protesters hurling stones and climbing police barricades, as security forces fired tear gas and water cannons to break up the demonstration.",
"An emergency room doctor confirmed to CNN that a demonstrator named Metin Lokumcu died of a heart attack after being brought to the emergency room of Hopa State Hospital.",
"But in a statement released on the website of the opposition Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP), the party's deputy chairman Onder Isleyen accused Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of killing the protester.",
"\"As a result of the AKP's murderous attack, our brother and friend Metin Lokumcu died,\" Isleyen wrote.",
"\"The AKP is attacking the public everywhere using tear gas and batons.\"",
"Two officials with Erdogan's entourage, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that a demonstrator died in Hopa on Wednesday, though one of the officials told CNN the man died as the result of a heart attack.",
"Later in the day, a small group of demonstrators hurled stones at Erdogan's campaign bus as it was leaving the scene.",
"\"One of the stones hit a bodyguard on the head and he fell off the bus, and when he fell he also hit his head on the ground,\" said one of the officials with Erdogan's campaign, again speaking on condition of anonymity.",
"Turkish television news filmed dramatic footage of the bodyguard tumbling from the bus, apparently unconscious as it sped down the street.",
"The bodyguard was later hospitalized with head-wounds.",
"At a subsequent campaign rally in the Black Sea port of Trabzon, Erdogan lashed out at the protesters, calling them \"bandits.\"",
"\"Bandits with stones in their hands came to Hopa and unfortunately, of course, they attacked our vehicles with stones,\" Erdogan said.",
"Hours later, several hundred flag-waving demonstrators from leftist and secularist political parties hurled bottles and debris at riot police in Istanbul and chanted \"murderers\" as they ripped down a giant campaign poster of Erdogan.",
"Polls predict Erdogan's party will win another term in office in parliamentary elections scheduled for June 12.",
"The party has been in power since it swept to an initial electoral victory 2002."
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"(CNN Student News) -- May 27, 2011 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Bosnia • France • Joplin, Missouri .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's Friday -- awesome!",
"-- and I'm Carl Azuz. First up today, a headline that some people have waited 15 years to hear.",
"First Up: Ratko Mladic Captured .",
"AZUZ: Ratko Mladic, the former commander of Serbian forces in Bosnia, has been arrested.",
"This conflict in Bosnia happened back in the 1990s.",
"It was the deadliest war fought in Europe since World War II.",
"And Mladic was the highest ranking war crimes suspect who hadn't been caught.",
"Bosnia was part of the former country of Yugoslavia.",
"The war there lasted from 1992 to 1995.",
"Serbians, Croats and Muslims fought against each other for control of territory.",
"Serbian leaders, like Mladic, are accused of genocide, attempting to wipe out the other groups.",
"Mladic was the leader of Bosnian Serb forces who allegedly attacked the city of Srebrenica and killed thousands of Muslims.",
"Only one other top Serb leader is currently held and awaiting trial.",
"And with Mladic now in custody, Hala Gorani looks back at some of the reaction to what could be the end of this dark chapter in history.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: After almost 16 years on the run, one of the world's most wanted alleged war criminals is finally captured.",
"Serbian authorities arrested Ratko Mladic Thursday.",
"They reportedly caught up with him in Lazarevo, a village near the northern town of Zrenjanin.",
"Mladic was a Bosnian Serb general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and the highest-ranking Yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large.",
"He's wanted for genocide, extermination and murder, and is accused of masterminding the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica.",
"LORD DAVID OWEN, FORMER EU ENVOY TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: General Mladic has a very heavy responsibility for what was a tragedy in Bosnia-Herzegovina for many years, but particularly for the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim males, which has already been judged to be a genocide.",
"GORANI: The capture was praised internationally as a victory for the rule of law in Serbia.",
"ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, NATO SECRETARY GENERAL: The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a very important step towards full integration of the entire region in our Euro-Atlantic community.",
"GORANI: Mladic now faces extradition to the Netherlands and will eventually be tried by an international criminal tribunal.",
"JAMES RUBIN, FORMER U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE: When I was the State Department spokesman back in the late '90s, journalists every day would often ask what's happening with Mladic, what's happening with Karadzic, and all I could say at the time was his day will come.",
"And his day has finally come.",
"OWEN: I expect to see him in the Hague very soon, and I think that justice will then be done.",
"GORANI: Hala Gorani, reporting.",
"(END VIDEO) Shoutout .",
"SHELBY ERDMAN, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Ms. Hendrich's social studies classes at Elton Gregory Middle School in Redmond, Oregon!",
"Nicolas Sarkozy is the president of what country?",
"You know what to do! Is it: A) Russia, B) France, C) Canada or D) Greece?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Mr. Sarkozy has been the president of France for four years.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"G8 Meeting in France .",
"AZUZ: Right now, President Sarkozy is welcoming other world leaders as France hosts the annual meeting of the G8, or Group of Eight.",
"Along with France, the G8 includes the U.S., Britain, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia.",
"These are the world's biggest economic powers.",
"They meet every year to discuss major issues happening around the globe.",
"The group got together yesterday in France.",
"And in addition to big topics -- like the global economy, the environment, terrorism -- the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami also came up.",
"Japan's prime minister thanked President Obama for America's help in recovering from that disaster.",
"Immigration Law .",
"AZUZ: The U.S. Supreme Court is ruling on whether state or federal laws take priority when it comes to immigration reform.",
"A majority of the court ruled in favor of an Arizona law.",
"It punishes businesses that don't use a federal system to check a potential employee's immigration status.",
"Other groups had argued that the system is supposed to be voluntary.",
"There are several cases involving this \"state versus federal\" question, so we could hear more on this very soon.",
"Why So Many Tornadoes?",
"AZUZ: Officials in Missouri have released a list of more than 230 people missing since a tornado hit the city of Joplin on Sunday.",
"They're asking anyone with information to call in and help.",
"The tornado in Joplin was just one of the storms that has torn across the U.S.",
"Rob Marciano is here to explain the science behind how these twisters form.",
"Rob? ROB MARCIANO, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: The set-up across the U.S. is different from any other place in the world, where you have cold Canadian air that comes down from, obviously Canada.",
"And this time of year in May and April, we still have cold air at the upper levels of the atmosphere, because it's not quite totally warmed up.",
"And we have warm humid air coming in from the south, and then also dry air coming in from Mexico.",
"It makes this year a little bit different.",
"At least earlier on, we have this La Nina that we've talked about, and what that does it really starts to kink up the jet stream a little bit more than usual, and that gives it more energy.",
"That allows more cold air to drop down, and that allows the battleground to light up a little bit more.",
"Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: On our blog at CNNStudentNews.com, you'll see a list of this school year's top stories.",
"Severe weather is definitely one of them.",
"We want to include your thoughts in our year-end wrap-up.",
"Go to the blog, leave your comments on these stories.",
"You might see them in our show next Friday.",
"Don't Fry Day . AZUZ: Today, obviously, is Friday.",
"But some organizations have dubbed today \"Don't Fry Day.\"",
"Hmm? Brooke Baldwin is going to shine a light on what this is about.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: The National Sun Safety Day, also known as \"Don't Fry Day,\" is a campaign by the EPA and members of the National Council on Skin Cancer Awareness.",
"Now in its third year, Don't Fry Day is aimed at educating the public about skin protection in the sun.",
"It's held just before Memorial Day weekend.",
"DRUSILLA HUFFORD, EPA: Our hope in holding it on the Friday before Memorial Day really has been to peg to the expectation in most American families that that is the gateway to summer.",
"As of now, 1 in 5 Americans is expected to be diagnosed with skin cancer over a lifetime.",
"So, EPA and the National Council are asking folks to remember to slip, slop, slap and wrap.",
"First, slip on some protective clothing.",
"Secondly, wear sunscreen.",
"Next, slap on a hat.",
"Finally, wrap on some sunglasses.",
"BALDWN: Dermatologist Rutledge Forney says sunscreen is key.",
"DR. RUTLEDGE FORNEY, DERMATOLOGIST: The first thing they ought to look for is a large number.",
"We really believe that 30 or higher is very important.",
"The second thing is that they need to have a broad spectrum, that is UVA and UVB coverage.",
"(END VIDEO) Is This Legit?",
"ERDMAN, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Is this legit?",
"Memorial Day used to be known as Decoration Day.",
"This is true! And the holiday always falls on the last Monday in May.",
"Honoring the Fallen .",
"AZUZ: The holiday that Americans observe on Monday goes back almost 150 years.",
"It was named Decoration Day because the first people who observed it would decorate -- put flowers -- on the graves of troops killed in the U.S. Civil War.",
"So why late May? Well, it's believed this time of year was chosen because flowers are in bloom all across the nation.",
"This is Arlington National Cemetery.",
"It's where the first major Decoration Day observance was held in 1868, though smaller observances were made throughout the country before that.",
"Instead of flowers, today's military usually places small American flags beside more than 250,000 graves at Arlington.",
"The flags will stay there through Memorial Day.",
"But Decoration Day, Memorial Day, how did we get from one name to the other?",
"The Great War, the war to end all wars; what's known today as World War I.",
"It not only changed the world, it changed how the U.S. remembers its fallen troops.",
"After this brutal event, Decoration Day became Memorial Day to memorialize Americans killed in any of the nation's wars.",
"This is what distinguishes this holiday from Veterans Day, which honors anyone who's served in the U.S. Armed Forces.",
"And while Memorial Day's traditions have changed over the years, its significance remains.",
"At 3:00 p.m., wherever you are on Memorial Day, there's a National Moment of Remembrance.",
"It encourages you to pause for one minute in honor of those who've died fighting for the country.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Well, before we go today, we have proof for you that one person really can make a difference.",
"The flag flying over the pier in Oceanside, California was pretty torn up.",
"So, Luke Smith decided to do something about it.",
"He wrote a letter to the mayor.",
"The eight-year-old said that flying a torn flag was disrespectful to the country and its troops.",
"He asked the mayor to replace it.",
"Done! New flag flying, all thanks to one person's determination.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Time for us to wave goodbye.",
"No show on Monday due to Memorial Day.",
"Enjoy the long weekend.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Specialist military divers have arrived at the site where a Russian cruise ship sank over the weekend, killing more than 100 people, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.",
"The highly trained divers, who specialize in rescue operations and lifting sunken ships, have orders to present a plan to raise the \"Bulgaria\" from the Volga River as soon as possible, the ministry said in a press release.",
"Some of the divers participated in lifting the Russian nuclear submarine \"Kursk,\" which exploded and sank in the Barents Sea in August 2000, the Defense Ministry said.",
"The bodies of two more children were recovered Wednesday from the ship, Russian authorities told CNN, bringing the number of bodies recovered to 102.",
"There are still 20 people missing of the more than 200 people believed to have been on the vessel, officials said.",
"At least 85 of the victims have been identified, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.",
"Four people face charges over the sinking of the ship Sunday, which Russian media are calling the most devastating river accident in the country's history.",
"The vessel went down in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.",
"Svetlana Inyakina, general director of Argorechtur, the company that rented the cruise boat \"Bulgaria,\" and Yakov Ivashov, a manager at the Kama River Register, have been detained, Russia's Investigative Committee said.",
"They are charged with providing services that do not meet safety standards which resulted in multiple deaths, and if convicted could be jailed for up to 10 years.",
"Criminal charges are also being brought against the captains of two ships that are accused of passing the sinking boat without stopping to help the people in the water, the committee said.",
"They could face heavy fines or up to three years in prison.",
"Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin, who is also head of the special government commission investigating the accident, said divers will search around the clock until all of the victims are found.",
"Recovery efforts will also include small planes conducting reconnaissance flights as far as 80 miles downstream, the minister said.",
"There were 175 scuba divers working on the scene, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Russian state TV said they were working underwater in low visibility and against a heavy current that is moving the boat, which is lying at the bottom of the river.",
"Russia observed a day of mourning Tuesday with church services all across the country, flags flying at half-staff and national television canceling all entertainment programming.",
"Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the federal government would pay 1 million rubles ($35,500) to the families of each of the dead.",
"He also promised 400,000 rubles ($14,250) to those who suffered major and moderately severe injuries, and half that sum to people with minor injuries.",
"Among the bodies to have been recovered are those of the ship's captain Alexander Ostrovsky and his wife, local officials in Tatarstan told Russian media at the site of the accident.",
"At least 79 people were rescued, some of whom have been released from hospitals after receiving medical treatment, according to government agencies.",
"The ship did not have a license to transport passengers, was overloaded, and was last repaired more than 30 years ago, the Russian Prosecutor's Office said Monday.",
"Prosecutors also established that the left engine of the ship was damaged, they said on their website.",
"Russian state TV reported the vessel had an operational limit of about 150 passengers, citing a top government official on site.",
"State TV also reported, citing law enforcement officials, that there were life vests on board for only 156 people.",
"Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier there were 208 people aboard the ship, of whom 25 passengers were not officially registered and didn't have tickets.",
"The state news agency RIA Novosti reported that 205 people were on board.",
"The ferry was built in 1955 in Czechoslovakia, according to Russian law enforcement officials.",
"The double-deck cruise ship went down near the village of Syukeyevo in Tatarstan, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the city of Kazan.",
"Kazan is about 724 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow.",
"CNN's Arkady Irshenko contributed to this report."
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"More than 20 people are still missing .",
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"(CNN) -- Six members of Pakistan's paramilitary forces accused of killing an unarmed teenager last week have been turned over to police and will be tried under the country's terrorism act, a police official said Monday.",
"The Supreme Court has sent the case to an anti-terrorist court, which was ordered to conclude proceedings within a month, said Ahtisham Ali, a senior Karachi police official.",
"Anti-Terrorist Courts in Pakistan are special courts where hearings are expedited and decisions come more quickly than in the regular court system.",
"The accused -- members of the Sindh Rangers -- can be seen opening fire on 17-year-old Sarfraz Shah in a chilling video captured by a local television cameraman and broadcast across Pakistan's networks last week.",
"Before being shot twice, Shah pleads with the men carrying automatic rifles.",
"\"I am helpless,\" he cries.",
"\"Please do not fire.\"",
"Shah begs to be taken to a hospital before bleeding to death.",
"The incident was the latest in a series of human rights incidents that has horrified the south Asian nation and deeply eroded public confidence in security agencies.",
"\"This kind of anger among the public and even politicians hasn't been seen before,\" said Zohra Yusuf, chairwoman of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission.",
"\"It was the way the young man was brutally shot dead in close quarters,\" she said.",
"\"And the footage showed very clearly that he was not armed.",
"The footage itself is so crystal clear.",
"It tells the whole story.\"",
"Shah tried to rob people at a park named in honor of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.",
"Karachi police official Rafiq Gulsaid Shah pointed a pistol and wanted to steal cash and cell phones.",
"He was handed over to park security and then to the Rangers.",
"Shah apparently tried to snatch the Rangers' guns, Gul said.",
"That's when the soldiers opened fire.",
"The video shows Shah reaching for their weapons before backing away.",
"Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered Friday transfers for the heads of the Sindh Rangers and the provincial police force, according to Ikram Chaudhry, a senior Supreme Court lawyer.",
"Interior Minister Rehman Malik vowed justice but tempered his comments about Shah.",
"\"There should be no doubt that this video shows an unjust action,\" he said.",
"\"Action will be taken against the soldiers, but no one should forget he [the victim] is a criminal.",
"He pointed a pistol at two women and then he tried to rob them.",
"\"There are two things -- one, his criminal record, and another, an unjust killing,\" Malik said.",
"\"I assure the relatives of the victim the investigation will be transparent and neutral and the results will be made public.",
"These are the criminals that create problems for the public, but it does not justify killing like this.\"",
"Shah's family insisted that the Rangers had killed an innocent man.",
"\"My son was innocent,\" his mother said.",
"\"They killed him.\" CNN's Phil Black and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The Bolivian government expelled an Iranian minister to avoid a diplomatic rift with Argentina, the country's foreign minister said.",
"Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi is wanted in Argentina for his alleged role in planning the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 85 people.",
"Interpol has issued a \"red notice\" for Vahidi, which seeks other governments' help in detaining him for possible extradition.",
"An Argentine umbrella organization for the Jewish community, DAIA, demanded that the Bolivians arrest Vahidi once they learned of his official visit.",
"Bolivia opted to ask him to immediately leave the country instead.",
"In a letter to his Argentine counterpart, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said that Bolivia was \"unfortunately unaware\" of Vahidi's history.",
"Bolivia values its relations with Argentina, and acted for that reason, he wrote.",
"Bolivia asked Vahidi \"to immediately abandon Bolivian territory and in this way demonstrate with clarity that Bolivia does not wish to interfere with any legal proceedings that could exist.\"",
"The letter didn't address the Interpol notice and why the country had not acted upon it and arrested Vahidi.",
"Vahidi was in Bolivia at the invitation of the country's defense ministry to attend the inauguration of a military academy for members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas, or ALBA.",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his allies founded the group a few years ago in an attempt, they said, to counterbalance United States influence in Latin America.",
"Bolivian President Evo Morales also was present at the event.",
"In remarks during his visit to Bolivia, Vahidi said that Iran is prepared to \"deliver a firm response\" to any provocations from the United States, the state-run Press TV reported."
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"Argentina has an arrest warrant for him .",
"He is wanted in connection with a bombing that killed 85 people ."
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"(Mashable) -- What would you do after Cisco killed your beloved product?",
"For Jonathan Kaplan, the inventor of the Flip video camera, the answer was simple: start a venture-backed nationwide chain of grilled cheese sandwich joints.",
"That may sound like Kaplan has lost his marbles, but bear with us.",
"Kaplan's genius, as shown in the highly popular Flip, is creating super-easy, mass-produced technology.",
"With his new business, The Melt, he's done that twice over.",
"Buy a grilled cheese on your smartphone, and you get a QR code to swipe in store when you arrive.",
"The back-end software ensures that you get a piping hot grilled cheese in your hands within 60 seconds of checking in.",
"Kaplan has also invested a lot of effort on making his grilled cheese hardware easy and effective.",
"He tapped European appliance giant Electrolux to create a brand-new grill with a built-in microwave.",
"It nukes the cheese for 15 seconds, then toasts the bread for another 30 seconds.",
"We can confirm that the resulting sandwiches, doing the rounds here at the D9 conference, were uniformly tasty.",
"Win or lose, you can't deny that Kaplan has put a lot of thought into this scheme.",
"He found a breadmaker in Chicago whose bread was kneaded in such a way that it created air bubbles for the cheese to fill.",
"He's pairing different kinds of bread with different kinds of cheese, as well as simple but tasty soups (The Melt's only other sale item, apart from Crackerjacks).",
"Sandwiches will go for $5 apiece, or $8 with soup.",
"\"We're selling nostalgia and happiness,\" Kaplan told Mashable.",
"\"Grilled cheese makes people happy.\"",
"Evidently, his backers at Sequoia Capital agreed.",
"Kaplan won't say how much funding he received, but he plans to start more than 500 Melt locations in the next four years.",
"Each store will cost between $500,000 and $1 million.",
"You do the math. Famed VC Michael Moritz is sitting on the board, as is Apple retail head Ron Johnson, and the first handful of stores will open in San Francisco in August.",
"Some will stay open as late as 2 a.m., a big deal in a town that largely shuts down at 10 p.m. Another reason the whole Melt concept might work out better than expected?",
"One word: calories.",
"Put a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of soup next to just about any other fast food option, and it's going to look like a plate of greens.",
"Chipotle may be able to offer you online ordering (and Chipotle, by the way, is a $9 billion business), but good luck working off the 500-odd extra calories a burrito is going to give you compared to the Melt's offerings.",
"Are you buying it? Is America ready for high-tech grilled cheese?",
"Let us know in the comments.",
"See the original article on Mashable.com .",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Jonathan Kaplan, inventor of the Flip video camera, launche new business The Melt .",
"Buy a grilled cheese on your smartphone, and you get a QR code to swipe in store .",
"Kaplan tapped Electrolux to create a brand-new grill with a built-in microwave ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli and Lebanese forces traded fire Monday, with each blaming the other for the exchange.",
"No one was hurt. Israel said its soldiers were fired upon while on routine patrol along Lebanon's border.",
"The soldiers then returned fire, the military said.",
"Lebanon's national news agency said a southern Lebanese army post came under fire from Israeli forces, prompting Lebanese soldiers to fire back.",
"Fifteen Israeli soldiers advanced 50 meters inside Lebanese territories, security sources told the news agency.",
"The National News Agency of Lebanon said the gunfire lasted 15 minutes and that Israel bolstered its presence in the area with 10 personnel carriers, three tanks and 100 soldiers.",
"\"We will implement the Israeli sovereignty and ensure the safety of our citizens,\" the Israeli military said in a message to the United Nations Interim Fore in Lebanon (UNIFIL).",
"UNIFIL troops are deployed along the Blue Line separating Lebanon and Israel to reduce tensions between the two sides.",
"In an unrelated incident in the West Bank, five Israeli soldiers were lightly injured overnight when they were pelted with rocks during an arrest at the Kalandia refugee camp, a military spokesman said Monday.",
"Israel said it received a report about injuries to two Palestinians during the incident and was investigating, while hospital officials in Ramallah said two men were killed and one injured.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed and Kevin Flower contributed to this report."
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"No one is hurt .",
"Israel: Soldiers on routine patrol are fired upon .",
"Lebanon: An army post comes under fire .",
"Injuries, deaths reported in West Bank incident ."
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"(CNN) -- The longtime companion of notorious fugitive James \"Whitey\" Bulger pleaded not guilty in Boston Thursday to charges she harbored and concealed him, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.",
"Catherine E. Greig, 60, who is being held without bail, allegedly assisted Bulger from January 1995 until June, when the pair was arrested in California, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement last week.",
"\"It is alleged that Greig conspired to take steps to prevent Bulger's discovery and arrest, after knowledge of the fact that a warrant had been issued for his apprehension,\" the office said.",
"Greig's attorney, Kevin Reddington, did not immediately return calls for comment Thursday.",
"According to the indictment, Greig and Bulger posed as a married couple under different false identities and claimed to be from states other than Massachusetts.",
"She would shop and handle bills so that Bulger would \"minimize his time in public,\" it asserts.",
"Government prosecutors last month released a series of photographs showing cash, weapons and even a grenade recovered from the Santa Monica, California, apartment where Bulger and Greig apparently lived for 15 years while he was being hunted by the FBI.",
"If convicted of the charges against her, Greig could be sentenced to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.",
"Bulger has pleaded not guilty to all counts against him, including his alleged role in 19 murders.",
"Prosecutors say Bulger was the head of a South Boston Irish gang before he fled an impending racketeering indictment in 1995.",
"CNN's Katie Silver contributed to this report ."
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"Greig allegedly helped hide Bulger for 15 years .",
"The couple was arrested in California in June .",
"Bulger is accused in 19 murders ."
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"Havana (CNN) -- The founders of Cuba's biggest independent music festival accused the government of \"kidnapping\" their festival on Wednesday, saying the Culture Ministry had taken over organization of this year's event and barred them from meetings.",
"\"They're kidnapping, stealing our festival,\" said founder and until-now executive director Michel Matos.",
"\"It's not a simple case of censorship, of them shutting it down.",
"It's an abduction,\" he said during a small press conference in his living room.",
"\"On the one hand, they're taking it away from us and on the other hand, they are organizing it themselves through official institutions.\"",
"The government was not immediately available for comment.",
"The Rotilla Festival, a hugely popular three-day rave on a beach outside Havana, was launched in 1998 by Matos and a handful of friends.",
"Last year, it attracted some 20,000 people.",
"\"Up until now, we were tolerated,\" Matos said.",
"Often referred to as \"Cuba's Woodstock,\" the festival's focus has traditionally been on apolitical electronic music and DJs, although last year the main attraction was the polemic hip-hop group Los Aldeanos.",
"Matos said they collaborated with government officials on logistics and security and sometimes faced pressure.",
"\"Traditionally, there was a dialogue with authorities, where they pressured us so that certain groups wouldn't participate and we cooperated so that the festival would be permitted,\" he said.",
"\"It hasn't always been comfortable.\"",
"Less well-known outside Cuba than some of the smaller, more political, rap festivals, Rotilla has long been a popular musical event for young people on the island.",
"The festival was financially independent, receiving funding from the Serbian electronic music festival EXIT and the Dutch and Spanish embassies.",
"The bands and DJs played for free.",
"Matos said the Cuban government had taken over the festival without any warning or explanation.",
"When organizers came to a meeting on logistics and security with local authorities, they were met in the parking lot and told they were no longer the organizers, he said.",
"They have since been barred from meetings at the Culture Ministry, where he said plans are underway to stage a \"Rotilla Festival\" organized by the government on the same dates, but with a different lineup.",
"The bands are being offered $1,000, he said."
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"Co-founder charges Cuba has barred organizers from meetings .",
"Festival was financially independent .",
"Government does not comment ."
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"(CNN) -- Holders Brazil needed a last-gasp equalizer from Fred to salvage a 2-2 draw against Paraguay in their Copa America Group B match Saturday in Cordoba.",
"It was another lackluster performance from the five-time world champions after being held to a goalless draw by Venezuela in the opening match of their title defense.",
"They took a first half lead through Jadson, but trailed 2-1 with only a minute left when substitute Fred spared their blushes.",
"Jadson replaced Robinho in the starting line up as Brazil coach Mano Menezes rung the changes after the disappointing performance against Venezuela.",
"The Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder repaid that confidence with a fine strike six minutes before halftime in the Mario Kempes stadium.",
"But Paraguay, themselves held by Ecuador in their opener, leveled 11 minutes into the second half through Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz.",
"Paraguay then took a shock lead with Dani Alvez losing the ball to Santa Cruz, who found Haedo Valdez.",
"He scored with a deflected shot and a real upset looked on the cards.",
"But Menezes replaced Neymar with Fred and he struck at the death to grab a point for the favorites.",
"The start of the 12-team tournament has been marked by sub-par displays from hosts Argentina and Brazil, with both still looking for a victory after two games apiece.",
"The top two teams from each of three groups of four qualify for the quarterfinals with the two third-placed teams with the best record.",
"Venezuela beat Ecuador 1-0 in the Group B match Saturday night."
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"Both Brazil and Argentina still to win in Copa after two games apiece ."
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"(CNN) -- Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country's public security ministry said Tuesday.",
"The hostages were found Monday inside a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.",
"The operation followed the rescue of 68 hostages the previous week, also in Reynosa.",
"The city is about 90 miles north of the town of San Fernando, where authorities recently uncovered 177 bodies from mass graves.",
"Many of the bodies are believed to be those of bus passengers who were kidnapped.",
"San Fernando is also where the bodies of 72 migrants were found last year.",
"Among the rescued people this week, police identified 27 Mexicans, 14 Guatemalans, two Hondurans, two Salvadorans and six Chinese.",
"Two people were arrested in connection with the earlier rescue, but no one was taken into custody for Monday's discovery.",
"The state of Tamaulipas, where Reynosa and San Fernando are located, is the site of a bloody battle between rival drug cartels.",
"The Gulf cartel and Zetas cartel used to work together, but split more than a year ago and are now fighting for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the United States."
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"They rescued another 68 hostages last week .",
"The area is the site of a war between rival drug cartels ."
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"(CNN) -- A hacker publicly posted Wednesday the home addresses and other information of all 102 police officers with San Francisco's Bay Area Transit system, the second hacking incident against one of its websites since Sunday, a spokesman said.",
"The website for the BART Police Officers Association was broken into Wednesday morning, and the names and phone numbers of its entire membership were also posted publicly on the Internet, BART spokesman James K. Allison said.",
"The officers association, or union, took down their website after the hacking incident, Allison said.",
"It wasn't clear Wednesday who was to blame for the latest hacking incident.",
"In the prior hacking incident on Sunday, members of the well-known hacking group Anonymous took credit in online messages for breaking into a link off BART's website, and information from BART's internal network was posted, including phone numbers of hundreds of people.",
"BART has been at the center of controversy about shootings by its officers, the latest being last month that resulted in the death of Charles Hill, 45.",
"BART officials denounced Wednesday's hacking.",
"\"We condemn this latest attack on the working men and women of BART,\" interim general manager Sherwood Wakeman said in a statement.",
"\"We are deeply concerned about the safety and security of our employees and their families.",
"We stand behind them and our customers who were the subject of an earlier attack.",
"We are deeply troubled by these actions.\"",
"Meanwhile, protestors are planning to hold demonstrations next Monday at BART's Civic Center subway station, and transit system officials are planning to beef up security, Allison said.",
"\"We're getting prepared to keep our customers safe as always,\" Allison told CNN.",
"Last Thursday, protestors tried to organize a public demonstration, but BART officials cut off cell phone signals at some subway stations \"as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform,\" officials said.",
"But the decision to cut cell service was criticized by civil liberty organizations, the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial page and others.",
"The August 11 protests never materialized.",
"After the transit system's shut down cell phone signals, Anonymous threatened in a news release and related Twitter pages that it would make a cyberattack Sunday on the BART website.",
"Then, on Monday night, BART officials temporarily opened and closed downtown subway stations to stem the threat of spreading protests, with police officers in riot gear standing at the Civic Center station.",
"Only small groups of protestors gathered on the streets to criticize BART and its officers' shooting incidents."
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"A hacker posts personal info of all 102 BART police officers .",
"It's unclear who's to blame for Wednesday's hacking .",
"Another BART website was hacked into Sunday .",
"BART is at the center of controversy over shootings, cutting cell service ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time Cincinnati champion Andy Roddick is out of the Western and Southern Open after a 6-7 (7-5) 7-5 6-1 first-round defeat to Philipp Kohlschreiber.",
"Roddick, seeded ninth for the hard court tournament, was one set and a break of serve up on his German opponent, but double faults from the American at decisive moments handed momentum to world number 47 Kohlschreiber.",
"It got worse for 2003 U.S. Open winner Roddick in the final set, when he was handed a point penalty for hitting the ball into the stands at the Lindner Family Tennis Center having previously smashed his racquet.",
"\"For two sets tonight I actually hit the ball well considering,\" Roddick, 28, told the ATP Tour's official web site.",
"\"I hit the ball a lot better than I thought I would, if I'm being totally candid.",
"\"I probably will wake up tomorrow morning feeling a little bit better about where I'm at than I did when I woke up this morning.\"",
"Kohlschreiber will face Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in the next round, after the 29-year-old defeated his compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero 4-6 6-3 6-4.",
"American wildcard Ryan Harrison set up a clash with world number one Novak Djokovic, who is top seed for the tournament and received a bye in the first round, by beating Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela 6-3 6-3.",
"Also due to enter the competition in second round are world number two Rafael Nadal, 16-time grand slam winner Roger Federer, American number one Mardy Fish and Britain's Andy Murray.",
"In the women's draw, Wimbledon semifinalist Sabine Lisicki was knocked out in the first round by Israeli Shahar Peer.",
"The 24-year-old Peer was rewarded for her 6-4 7-6 (7-4) success with a match against third seed Victoria Azarenka.",
"Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova is also safely through after a 6-3 6-4 win over American veteran Jill Craybas.",
"German ninth seed Andrea Petkovic was one set down and 2-0 behind to Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia before registering a 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 victory.",
"Former world number one Ana Ivanovic is also into the second round, the Serb defeated American qualifier Alexa Glatch 6-0 6-2."
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"Andy Roddick is out of the ATP Tour event in Cincinnati after defeat to Philipp Kohlschreiber .",
"The 2003 U.S. Open champion Roddick is a two-time winner of the tournament .",
"Sabine Lisicki is out of the women's competition after losing to Israel's Shahar Peer ."
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"(Mashable) -- Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept their $65 million settlement from Facebook and move on.",
"A U.S. appeals court ruled Monday that the settlement -- which was featured in the movie \"The Social Network\" -- still stands, despite the Winklevosses' claim that Facebook did not disclose an accurate valuation.",
"The suit stems from the Winklevosses' claim that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social-networking site.",
"Zuckerberg and Facebook deny the allegations, but agreed to settle in 2008.",
"Since then, the Winklevoss twins have attempted to secure a higher settlement by claiming that Facebook is guilty of securities fraud.",
"\"The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace,\" Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in today's ruling.",
"\"And the courts might have obliged, had the Winklevosses not settled their dispute and signed a release of all claims against Facebook.\"",
"With both the district court and appeals court in agreement, it seems this may be the end of the Winklevosses' claim to any additional shares of Facebook.",
"\"For whatever reason, they (the Winklevosses) now want to back out.",
"Like the district court, we see no basis for allowing them to do so,\" Kozinski wrote.",
"\"At some point, litigation must come to an end.",
"That point has now been reached.\"",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept their $65 million settlement from Facebook .",
"Suit stems from claim that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for social-networking site .",
"Zuckerberg and Facebook deny the allegations, but agreed to settle in 2008 ."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Some of the tens of thousands of refugees who fled to China to escape fighting in Myanmar are beginning to return home as tensions have eased, police said.",
"Refugees from Myanmar sit with their possessions at a camp in Zhenkang, in southwest China, on Sunday.",
"An estimated 37,000 people were displaced by the fighting, Meng Sutie, police chief in southern China's Yunnan Province, told China's state-run Xinhua news agency Sunday.",
"The exodus of residents along the border grew to a flood last week as Myanmar government troops battled ethnic minority groups and their armies in the country's northeast.",
"The region has an estimated population of 150,000.",
"There were casualties on both sides of the border, according to Meng.",
"Shells fired into Chinese territory killed one person and injured two others, while fighting in Myanmar killed a Chinese and wounded 13 more.",
"In a rare criticism of Myanmar's ruling military junta, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Friday that China hoped Myanmar could properly solve its domestic issues and safeguard the stability of its border with China, Xinhua reported.",
"China has been providing emergency shelter, food and medical care for the refugees."
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"Some refugees from Myanmar returning home from China's Yunnan province .",
"Estimated 37,000 fled Myanmar from violence, China official said .",
"Refugees fled what exiles said were rebels fighting Myanmar government troops ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's embattled president has been huddling with members of his ruling party in neighboring Saudi Arabia as world and regional powers press for an end to the political crisis in his country and a smooth transition of political power.",
"Ali Abdullah Saleh met on Wednesday with officials and leaders of his ruling General People's Congress party, the state-run news agency SABA and a high-level party official said .",
"This comes amid \"Immense pressure from the international community\" to accept an agreement for a transition of power, the official told CNN.",
"The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, a group of Gulf Arab states, has come up with a plan to ease Saleh out of office, a move that would placate widespread anti-government sentiment in the impoverished Arab nation.",
"The official said Salehwants to make sure he consults senior party officials before he would sign a power transfer deal.",
"Saleh and other top Yemeni officials were badly injured in June during an assassination attempt on the presidential palace amid a tribal revolt against his 32-year rule.",
"Saleh was taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment.",
"SABA reported on Thursday that the party officials congratulated Saleh and others for their recovery and on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan.",
"The president and the others reviewed conditions in Saudi Arabia and touched on the Security Council statement, SABA reported.",
"Saleh underscored the GPC's commitment for ways to solve disagreements with the opposition.",
"\"He underlined the significance of keeping on the positive dealing with the Gulf initiative and to look for the appropriate mechanism to be carried out and to ensure peaceful and smooth transfer of power in accordance with the constitution,\" SABA said.",
"Yemen has endured months of protests and militant violence.",
"Protests against Saleh began in January after the successful uprising in Tunisia triggered regionwide reform movements.",
"The protests led to open street battles after Saleh balked at the political transition deal.",
"At the same time, the government has also faced off with Islamic militants, including the al Qaeda wing in Yemen, regarded by analysts as a potent and dangerous group.",
"Saleh had been discharged from a military hospital, but it was not clear when he would return to Yemen.",
"Saleh's vice president, Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has been running the government since then."
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"Saleh met with party officials in Saudi Arabia, where he was treated for wounds .",
"The president is under \"immense pressure\" to accept transition, a party official said .",
"Saleh is amenable to working on a \"peaceful and smooth\" transfer, news agency said ."
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"(CNN) -- The radio was going on about the space shuttle's last mission.",
"I've never been a space person, but there was still something sad about it.",
"America losing its step.",
"No more space for us. Shuttle launches were like America's homeroom.",
"The whole country checked in.",
"The whole business left me feeling wistful as my friend and I hurtled along in our own white craft drawing a line across the desert from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.",
"A quarter of the way there: Tyvek flapping like flags in the wind.",
"Half-built houses mark the edge of L.A. Metro.",
"The high-water mark of the building boom.",
"Halfway there: We stop in Barstow for cheeseburgers and Cokes.",
"And then it was back into the Mojave Desert.",
"Mountains the color of cocoa sticking up from the earth.",
"The sun a French fry lamp on the side of my face.",
"Guilt from leaving work early tugged on me like the air conditioner dragged on the car engine.",
"Escape to Las Vegas.",
"\"Lost Wages\" my father used to call it.",
"A pun pointed at the town's gambling industry that now just as easily applies to its entire economy.",
"The great recession walloped Vegas harder than most places.",
"It was a subprime boomtown that is now the foreclosure capital of America.",
"What's Vegas like in a down economy?",
"Are there a few more sips left in the champagne bottle?",
"Yes. But it's flat. When we arrived on the Las Vegas Strip, storm clouds were gathered around the Statue of Liberty replica.",
"A double take confirmed that they were real.",
"Rain in the desert, what were the odds?",
"A rhetorical question in any city but this one.",
"The Strip. America's Id.",
"Visiting there is like stepping into mainstream television: common-denominator vulgarity that you can't keep your eyes off of.",
"\"Pleasure\" pumped into elephantine proportions.",
"Like a basket containing the world's largest gourd held by a woman with the world's largest breasts.",
"Don't get me wrong, I like sex, gambling and tippling, but its hyper-commercialization brings me down.",
"Like how passing a blown-up picture of a chili dog on a semi ruins your appetite instead of whetting it.",
"In the belly of the MGM Grand parking lot we unload our bags.",
"Parents walk by holding children.",
"Slightly older children walk by holding suitcases of beer.",
"Everyone tingles with anticipation.",
"There is an optimism inherent in a clean hotel room at the beginning of a weekend.",
"This will be my headquarters. I will hang my clothes here.",
"This will be my desk. Las Vegas hotel stays carry an additional air of mischief.",
"We'll drink here before we go out. I will close the curtains so the sun doesn't come in tomorrow.",
"I'll choose this bed because it's closer to the door and God knows when I'm coming back.",
"We decided to walk over to the recently renovated Tropicana hotel and casino.",
"In the postmodern Epcot Center that is Las Vegas, the Tropicana is Miami's South Beach.",
"The building's handsome white gleam and jaunty retro sign held the promise of an excellent martini, and soon I was behind one the size of an office trash can.",
"We were the only people at the bar; 7 p.m. is a dead zone in summertime Vegas.",
"All day long people attend pool parties.",
"And then late at night they attend clubs.",
"From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. is reserved for showers, TV and energy drinks.",
"Our booby prize was a video screen behind the bar showing an endlessly looping video of, well, boobs, and other body parts wrapped up in bathing suits and gyrating to music.",
"Like songs that tell you how to dance, the decorations in Las Vegas are constantly showing you how you are supposed to behave.",
"Later, while eating hamburgers at Hubert Keller's \"Burger Bar,\" we are surrounded by picture of hamburgers -- hamburgers that look much juicier and more appetizing than the ones we were eating.",
"Hours of blackjack.",
"In my back pocket I had a set of tips my father sent me.",
"Don't hit if the dealer has 3-6 and you have a bustable hand.",
"If you're dealt two aces always split them and then pray for tens, etc.",
"I withdrew $300 from the ATM and watched my pile go up and down for hours.",
"Up. Down. Up. Down. I toggled from scotch to seltzer.",
"Scotch. Seltzer. The dealers rotated.",
"The fast one who prefers the ladies.",
"The deliberate one who wordlessly guides the players.",
"The efficient, emotionless machine who just deals, deals, deals.",
"And then there was the ever-changing cast of players.",
"The fat drunk tanktopper smoking a cigarette filter.",
"Two Irish kids with gelled sea anemone hair.",
"The chubby secretary who would scratch the table with her pink-painted fingernail every time she wanted a hit.",
"And at one point in the night, superstar singer Michael Buble and his Argentine underwear-model wife sidle up to the table and do well until a crowd of squealing girls forms and he is forced to cash out.",
"It's 3:30. Walk back to the room.",
"A fight breaks out behind me.",
"A girl lies legs-splayed on a flower planter in the lobby.",
"A couple ruts next to the soda machine.",
"A man lies face down in his own vomit.",
"Prostitutes roam the floor looking for drunk prey.",
"A topless guy smokes a cigarette in my elevator.",
"As the door shuts and the elevator lifts, I can still hear the bingbinging clamor of America spending its energy-drink money on Texas hold 'em.",
"In the morning it's dim sum on Spring Mountain Road, Vegas' version of Chinatown.",
"Yes, the city has the skyline of New York and Paris, the canals of Venice and the pools of South Beach, but the real spin around the world happens in the neighborhoods that surround the Strip.",
"About 22% of Las Vegans are immigrants who were attracted by the low cost of living and the abundance of service jobs that don't require a higher education.",
"The city's strip malls are an international food court.",
"Eritrean and Chinese food.",
"Mexican and Thai.",
"We meet cabbies from Burma, Ethiopia, and the Philippines.",
"This global village aspect of Vegas is one of the most exhilarating parts of the area and could be a draw unto itself.",
"They could call it \"American Census 2050.\"",
"From Vegas' future to its past: Downtown.",
"The city's soul. Iconic Vegas.",
"Neon and $9 prime rib specials.",
"The home of old guard Vegas -- Binion's, the Gold Spike and the Golden Nugget.",
"There are $5 blackjack tables here and strawberry daiquiris with whipped cream.",
"To draw some of the action back from the Strip, businesses chipped in and created the Fremont Street Experience, a barrel vault canopy 90 feet high and four blocks long.",
"It shelters folks from the sun in the day and turns into a light show at night.",
"People rappel under the canopy.",
"Buskers perform there.",
"Concerts play.",
"It's livened up the area, but it's what hasn't been done to the neighborhood that's going to save it: The old gambling houses in this neighborhood just feel right.",
"An old piece of America that has hung on.",
"A symbol that there is life after a bubble.",
"The next day we leave the greatest example of American excess and visit the greatest example of American restraint: Hoover Dam.",
"There are only 3,485 days and counting of water left in Las Vegas, literally.",
"The canyon surrounding Hoover Dam is the evidence.",
"Its walls are chalk white where the water line used to be.",
"You have to move your head forward toward your belly to see where the water line is now.",
"I piss in one of the magnificent marble art deco restrooms that sit on top of the dam.",
"The windows there provide a dramatic view of this modern wonder of the world.",
"Nowhere in America today is a bathroom being built like this, nor will one be built in the near future.",
"Unless, maybe, someone decides to open up a resort on the strip called \"America Then.\"",
"They could buy a mothballed space shuttle and hang it in the lobby."
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"Brendan Francis Newnam takes road trip to \"Lost Wages\"\nNewnam: Vegas was a subprime boomtown that is now the foreclosure capital of America .",
"He samples Vegas' hyper-commercial present, ethnic-tapestry future and iconic past .",
"Vegas: the image of American excess; Hoover Dam: the image of American restraint ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In some countries, the written word brings more than just readers to those bold enough to publish.",
"Local journalists who attach their names to scrutinizing articles in Afghanistan are often subject to threats of kidnapping, acid attacks and death -- especially if the writer is a woman.",
"That's the daily reality for Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad, who says she's been threatened by extremist groups warning her against publishing articles that cast a critical lens on local customs and national politics.",
"\"You have to fight everyday,\" said the former managing editor of the Pajhwok News Agency, the country's largest local provider of independent news.",
"\"You have to accept the risk, and that's why we face such challenges.\"",
"The once fledgling news agency began as a small project in 2003, and later flourished into a nation-wide network of correspondents with eight bureaus and an average output of three dozen stories per day, according to its website.",
"Nekzad began as a journalist there, also having worked as a radio reporter.",
"Earning her stripes covering the local effects of the U.S.-led war and her country in transition, she took over as managing editor and began training a corps of budding young journalists.",
"Many of them were women.",
"\"Everyone needs information, particularly women need to know and have information for their awareness,\" she told CNN.",
"\"I think one of the ways we can do something is by starting with this profession.\"",
"But after years of receiving threatening e-mails and phone calls, the prospect of violence became reality when a bomb detonated on the driveway of her home.",
"\"I was displaced from my home for nine to about 10 months,\" forced to leave because her neighbors complained.",
"They said \"you have to leave your building,\" according to Nekzad.",
"Leaving Pajhwok in 2009 in an effort to lower her profile, the longtime journalist says she sought to avoid the limelight that had brought extremists to her door.",
"\"The threats and warnings scared me,\" said Nekzad, who at the time was pregnant with her daughter, Muska.",
"But she had also laid the ground-work for what would become her next venture, working alongside her husband to set up a separate news agency called \"Wakht,\" meaning \"Time.\"",
"Today, Nekzad is the agency's director, overseeing a staff of more than two dozen journalists who cover Afghanistan's forbidding terrain in an effort to root out stories in all of its 34 provinces.",
"And again, many of her reporters are women.",
"\"She typifies the double jeopardy under which women journalists in Afghanistan are forced to operate,\" said Bob Dietz, Committee to Protect Journalists Asia Program Coordinator.",
"\"Reporting and editing and running a news operation is tough enough there, but doing it as a woman makes it much more of a challenge.\"",
"Even after the ouster of the Taliban from Kabul in 2001, social and cultural restrictions against women in Afghanistan have remained heavy-handed.",
"Despite the adoption of a constitution that greatly expands women's legal rights, most women are never taught to read.",
"About 14% of Afghan women are currently literate, according to a statement from the Ministry of Education.",
"They \"are uneducated and away from education,\" said Nekzad.",
"\"Women need for women to share their experiences, share their problems and share their challenges of how they suffer.\"",
"But with Internet access restricted and its penetration especially low in rural areas, online news agencies -- like Wakht -- struggle to deliver information beyond the country's few metropolitan areas.",
"Still, there are signs afoot of a quietly developing women's rights movement.",
"Last week, a handful of women -- mostly Kabul residents -- marched in the capital streets, carrying placards in protest of male harassment.",
"And yet with NATO in the process of a drawn-down, handing over the first seven designated areas to Afghan Security Forces, many fear the effects of a resurgent Taliban or a negotiated settlement that allows militants to come back.",
"\"This is really a very critical question,\" said Nekzad.",
"\"The biggest problem is that there is no guarantee (for women's safety).\"",
"The veteran journalist said that while she supports negotiations that could lead to peace, she questioned \"who will guarantee that the Taliban...will agree that women should be a part of the activity and a part of the society to work?\"",
"Although the troubles of Afghan women were there prior to the Taliban's arrival in the mid-90s, the hard-line group has traditionally taken a tough stance against them.",
"\"When the Taliban first entered Kabul, the religious police beat men and women in public for not having long enough beards or not wearing the burka properly,\" wrote Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid in his widely-acclaimed book \"Taliban.\"",
"Still, the costs of the near decade-long conflict seems to appeal less and less to the war-weary public of Europe and the United States, whose electorates are still reeling from the aftermath of recession.",
"Last month, nearly three-quarters of Americans polled said they support the United States pulling out some or all of its forces out of the country.",
"How those factors will affect international resolve to promote local institutions and bring about lasting security in Afghanistan is still unclear."
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"Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad says she's been threatened by extremist groups .",
"A bomb once exploded outside her home .",
"She is a director and cofounder of an independent news agency in Afghanistan .",
"She trains journalists, and many of them are women ."
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"(CNN) -- Syrian tanks stormed the flashpoint city of Hama Sunday in one of several clashes that rights groups said left more than 70 people dead and more than 100 injured nationwide.",
"The Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported that at least 71 people were killed across the country, with at least 50 killed in Hama.",
"Other human rights organizations offered different assessments of the situation, with some reporting that more than 100 people died in the city of Hama alone.",
"A doctor in Hama said that more than 100 people were killed in the city and its surrounding areas.",
"\"I feel terrible.",
"I am exhausted, psychologically exhausted, the pain.",
"I can't imagine a brother is killing his brother.",
"And what for? For the president? It's terrible here. We see a lot of this blood and things -- 115 dead -- it's too much for one day,\" he said.",
"CNN was unable to independently confirm the death tolls.",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said security forces were responding to \"armed groups\" in Hama who blocked streets with barricades and terrorized citizens by firing from the rooftops of buildings, while human rights groups described the arrival of tanks as a raid on the city.",
"Three members of security forces were killed in clashes in Hama and three members of the military were killed in Deir Ezzour, SANA said.",
"The government-run agency said \"armed terrorist groups\" had taken to the streets in Deir Ezzour, attacking police headquarters and stealing weapons.",
"The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an affiliation of groups that reports on protests in the nation, reported at least 11 people were killed in Deir Ezzour.",
"In Hama, throngs of residents took to the streets in an attempt to block the tanks, a local activist said.",
"More than 100 were injured in the city, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria.",
"One Hama resident told CNN he was awakened at 4 a.m. by the sounds of bombs, machine guns and yelling.",
"He said hospitals have begun calling people to come donate blood, but security forces have blocked the roads so people cannot reach the hospital.",
"\"Security forces and army tanks, whenever they see a car moving, they start shooting at the car,\" he said.",
"\"I'm talking to you from the streets.",
"I have my knife,\" he said.",
"The man said he and his neighbors are trying to protect the neighborhood, using only sticks, swords and knives.",
"\"People are not scared here any more,\" he said.",
"\"What's the worst? The army and security people are already killing people.",
"We are not scared of death at all.",
"We are willing to pay anything -- our souls, anything -- just to get our freedom.\"",
"Tanks rolling near the border met fierce resistance from residents, said Omar al Habbal, a member of the committees.",
"\"Hama will be very harsh to them,\" said al Habbal, who lives in the city.",
"\"The whole city has decided to resist with stones, not weapons.",
"The army will either join the demonstrators or leave our city.\"",
"Gunfire rang through the air for hours, and thick black smoke covered areas where residents reported shelling and civilian casualties, al Habbal said.",
"\"Mosques have been broadcasting repeated chants of 'Allah Akbar' all morning, and everybody is in the street chanting, 'The people and the army are one hand,' \" al Habbal said.",
"Local residents reported negotiating with the troops, with protesters standing up on the tanks and cheering, \"Syria is united!\"",
"CNN could not independently verify the accuracy of the reports.",
"The raid marks the latest violence as anti-government protesters in the nation have called for a new regime since mid-March.",
"Activists blame the deaths of civilians in demonstrations on security forces, but the government has consistently attributed the violence to \"armed groups.\"",
"President Bashar al-Assad has drawn criticism at home and abroad for his tough crackdown on the protesters calling for his ouster.",
"A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday the United Nations chief was \"deeply concerned\" about reports of hundreds of protesters killed and injured.",
"\"He strongly condemns the use of force against the civilian population and calls on the government of Syria to halt this violent offensive at once,\" the spokesman said in a statement, referring to Ban.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama said he was \"appalled\" and pledged that U.S. officials will increase pressure on the Syrian regime, \"isolate the Assad government and stand with the Syrian people.\"",
"\"The reports out of Hama are horrifying and demonstrate the true character of the Syrian regime,\" Obama said in a statement.",
"British Foreign Secretary William Hague also condemned the reported attacks.",
"\"The attack appears to be part of a coordinated effort across a number of towns in Syria to deter the Syrian people from protesting in advance of Ramadan.",
"The attacks are all the more shocking on the eve of the Muslim holy month,\" he said in a statement.",
"\"President Bashar is mistaken if he believes that oppression and military force will end the crisis in his country.",
"He should stop this assault on his own people now.\"",
"Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch said government forces targeted the city.",
"\"Hama is the latest city to fall victim to President Bashar al-Assad's security forces despite his promises that his government would tolerate peaceful protests,\" said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.",
"\"Security forces have responded to protests with the brutality that's become familiar over the past several months.\"",
"The humanitarian watchdog said earlier this month that the forces raided homes, opened fire and set up checkpoints in and around the restive city, the site of a deadly military clampdown nearly 30 years ago.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, Rima Maktabi and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report."
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"\"People here are not scared any more,\" one resident says .",
"U.S. President Barack Obama calls the situation in Hama \"horrifying\"\nState media reports that \"armed groups\" are terrorizing citizens ."
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"Dolo, Somalia (CNN) -- The World Bank has pledged more than $500 million for famine victims in Somalia as the United Nations met in emergency session Monday to address the aid response in Somalia, the hardest-hit nation in the region.",
"\"Immediate relief and recovery is the first priority, and it is important to act fast to reduce human suffering,\" World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said in a news release.",
"Also Monday, representatives of 191 member countries of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization met in Rome to devise a plan to head off the imminent food crisis, which the UN has said is affecting more than 12 million people.",
"Two regions in southern Somalia are suffering famine.",
"\"World leaders have no excuses for not generously responding,\" Oxfam Chief Executive Barbara Stocking said in a statement.",
"\"This should not be happening. It is a colossal outrage that the warnings went unheeded, that the lessons of previous famines have been ignored.",
"Yes, we need to save lives today, but we also need to ensure that people have a future.",
"Above all, we need to build a global food system that allows everyone enough to eat.\"",
"But such efforts will take time to translate into aid on the ground for the many people in Somalia whose needs are immediate.",
"In Dolo, across the border from Ethiopia, World Food Program workers were registering women and children Monday in a rocky square in this dusty town dotted with thorn bushes.",
"In a visit Monday by CNN, no one appeared to be receiving aid, and no one was receiving medical help -- they were just getting registered.",
"Aid officials said they hoped to get food to areas in need in the coming days.",
"They said that some people who had fled across the border into neighboring Ethiopia or Kenya were returning after hearing that distribution was set to begin soon.",
"At a second registration point nearby, neat lines of women, their children and grandchildren also waited to get registered.",
"Mixed with the town's residents were people who had fled from other parts of the country in search of aid.",
"Children were drinking water from an oil drum perched atop a donkey.",
"CNN's journalists reached the town by driving in a convoy protected by armed militia members aligned with the government.",
"The militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab, which has sworn allegiance to al Qaeda and is designated a terrorist group by the United States, is less than 50 miles away and could easily move into this area if they wished, according to UN security officials on the scene.",
"Al-Shabaab has reversed a pledge to allow foreign aid agencies to operate in famine-struck regions in the nation.",
"The group originally banned the aid agencies from areas under its control in 2009, describing them as Western spies and Christian crusaders.",
"\"We are building up in Mogadishu, where we are reaching up to 300,000 people,\" Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, said about the violence-ravaged capital.",
"\"But the World Food Program has lost 14 people since 2008, just trying to get kids food.",
"It's dangerous, and it's risky, and we are committed to going to where the people need the most.\"",
"The World Food Program has airlifted supplies to Dolo, which borders Ethiopia.",
"\"One thing that is important is to get the supplementary nutritional foods to these children, because children get very weak quickly on these treks,\" Sheeran said.",
"The International Committee of the Red Cross said operating in the nation is a challenge.",
"\"We have teams deployed throughout the country,\" said Yves van Loo, a spokesman for the Red Cross.",
"\"Logistically, it is very complex to operate in Somalia.\"",
"More funds are needed to expand aid, the spokesman said.",
"\"We are covering most of the most vulnerable people in the areas we reach, but more needs to be done,\" he said.",
"\"If we can get more money, we can do it.\" He said the ICRC was continuing to operate throughout Somalia, as it has for the past 20 years, without encountering problems with Al-Shabaab.",
"\"We are deployed in all provinces, while most of the organizations have just a few spots,\" he said.",
"The World Bank announced Monday that it is providing more than $500 million to assist drought victims and $12 million in immediate aid to the hardest-hit areas.",
"The drought has led to starvation and the loss of crops and livestock.",
"Food prices have nearly tripled in some areas since last year, worsening the crisis.",
"The funds will go toward battling the worst drought in 60 years in Horn of African nations, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti, the World Bank said.",
"The pledge comes as international aid groups warned that most Somalis have no access to food, and failure to reach them puts children most at risk as their parents trek for days in search of help.",
"\"Women have been telling us throughout the area that they've had to leave children along the road who can't make it, who are too weak to make it and have died along the way,\" Sheeran said.",
"As the crisis escalates, relief agencies are scrambling to find ways to deliver supplements to areas that are hardest-hit.",
"About 60% of the Somali population is not getting aid, Sheeran said.",
"Aid groups are hoping to reach Somalis in the country before they flee to overcrowded camps in Kenya and Ethiopia for help.",
"\"When children have to move long distances, their bodies deteriorate very quickly,\" Sheeran said.",
"\"For children under 5 years old, their bodies and brains can't grow normally.\"",
"CNN's Tom Watkins contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- For 45 years, Jerry Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Labor Day fundraiser have been synonymous, so much so that it's now known as the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, in honor of the comic's tireless efforts.",
"But this September, the 85-year-old star will don his tuxedo to entertain the masses and help \"Jerry's Kids\" for the last time, the charity announced Monday.",
"\"As a labor of love, I've hosted the annual telethon since 1966,\" Lewis said in news release issued by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.",
"\"And I'll be making my final appearance on the show this year, by performing my signature song, 'You'll Never Walk Alone.'",
"\" Lewis hit it big at age 20 in 1946, teaming up with Dean Martin to become one of the most popular comedy partnerships in history.",
"Together, they headlined thousands of sold-out performances, 16 hit movies and two dozen top-rated television shows.",
"After the break-up of the Martin and Lewis team, Lewis made a successful solo career.",
"In 1959, he signed a seven-year, $10 million contract with Paramount -- at the time, the largest contract ever between a studio and performer.",
"His solo film career included classics such as \"The Nutty Professor,\" \"The Bellboy\" and \"The Geisha Boy.\"",
"Still, for several generations since, Lewis has been known as much as a philanthropist as a movie star.",
"That's because of his work with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a nonprofit dedicated to curing that disease, ALS and related ailments as well as providing support, education and other services.",
"Lewis joined the cause in the early 1950s, and he gave it star power in 1966 when he became the host of what would be the charity's first of many telethons over Labor Day weekends.",
"In between occasional songs, comic bits and passionate pitches for people to donate, his biggest challenge was keeping the variety show lively and engaging for as long as 21.5 hours straight.",
"Scores of television stations across the country picked up the program, while volunteers stood by to take calls from people pledging donations.",
"The 2010 edition, for instanced, raised $58,919,838 after performances by the likes of acrobatic dancers from Cirque du Soleil, \"American Idol's\" David Archuleta and a host of comedic performers.",
"Still, throughout the plethora of acts, the one constant over 900 hours of programming has remained Lewis.",
"This year's event, on September 4, will be shorter than many of years past at six hours.",
"Still Lewis promised that it \"will be spectacular, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.\"",
"Even as he steps down as host, Lewis said he will continue to serve as national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.",
"The group's president, Gerald Weinberg, thanked the comic for remaining committed to the cause, as well as for his efforts over the years.",
"\"All of us who've been privileged to work beside him, and the hundreds of thousands throughout the world affected by the myriad of muscle diseases MDA battles, will acknowledge in our hearts forever the unrivaled role Jerry has played in our lives and the lives of all Americans,\" Weinberg said in the news release."
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"Jerry Lewis has co-hosted the MDA's annual telethon since 1966 .",
"He rose to fame as a comic and movie star in the 1940s .",
"Many now know him best as the face of the Labor Day telethon .",
"This year will be Lewis' last such event, though he'll remain the charity's national chairman ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic has told CNN he expects Chelsea and Manchester City to challenge for English Premier League honors.",
"Vidic, 29, led Alex Ferguson's team to a record 19th English league title last season, and the Serbia defender is confident United can keep the Premier League trophy at Old Trafford if they make a strong start to the campaign.",
"\"I would say Chelsea is always there because of experience,\" said Vidic when asked who the Red Devils' main rivals would be.",
"\"They have players who have been playing a few years together, and they know each other very well.",
"And they will be hungry to win the title yet again.",
"Big kick-off: Who will win Europe's top leagues?",
"\"City, they have a made few signings, I think they will be even stronger this year, especially because they play one year together.",
"I think they will be our bigger rivals.\"",
"Vidic has won a host of honors since arriving in Manchester from Spartak Moscow in 2006, including four English titles and the European Champions League in 2008.",
"Despite this success, the former Red Star Belgrade center-back said he is still hungry to win and he is eyeing an FA Cup triumph to complete his collection of English winner's medals.",
"\"If you want to play for Manchester United you have to win everything,\" he said.",
"\"You have to be successful, otherwise, new players come and you have to fight for your place.",
"I still have hunger to play, hunger to win the trophies, and I'm really happy.",
"\"I would really like to win the FA Cup as well.",
"I haven't won the FA Cup yet, this is the trophy I really want to win.\"",
"Since signing for United, Vidic has been under the guidance of the club's long-serving manager Alex Ferguson.",
"The veteran Scot has forged a reputation as one of the game's top coaches during his 25 years with the club, winning 12-top flight championships, five FA Cups and twice leading United to Champions League glory.",
"\"I have to say what he brings to the club is stability,\" Vidic said of Ferguson.",
"\"He builds a road which all players follow.",
"\"This is a great thing.",
"At other clubs you have the problems in terms of the change of the coaches; they are changing new players and coaches.",
"Sometimes they really have the problem, to build the team.\"",
"Vidic will lead his United teammates out for their first Premier League match of the season against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Sunday."
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"The Serbia defender says the presence of Alex Ferguson gives United continuity .",
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"(CNN) -- Alaska election officials will begin counting write-in ballots Wednesday despite a federal court challenge by the campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, state director Gail Fenumiai said.",
"The complaint filed in federal court Tuesday afternoon asks Fenumiai's office to \"adhere\" to state law in the counting of write-in ballots, limiting what the suit called \"subjective\" voter intent rules that were issued this week.",
"Miller's campaign has blasted the Division of Elections' standards as \"extraordinarily ambiguous.\"",
"The suit requests a court hearing Wednesday over the rules and asks for an injunction.",
"The guidelines say poll workers must consider the voter's intent when determining whether to count a ballot for a write-in candidate.",
"The Miller suit says, according to state election law, that a write-in vote can't be accepted if the voter did not correctly write either the full name or last name of a candidate; the voter wrote a candidate's name incorrectly, or misspelled it; or the name written on the ballot is not the name used on the candidate's certificate of candidacy.",
"\"The Miller Campaign has consistently maintained that every valid, lawful vote should be counted,\" campaign attorney Ton Van Flein said in a statement.",
"\"We have further held to the expectation that the state laws, as written, should be followed, and that they should not be changed now, after the votes have been cast.",
"\"Yesterday, the state issued a new policy -- after the votes have been cast -- imposing a new election standard for write-in ballots,\" he continued.",
"\"We believe this action to be unconstitutional and contrary to express legislative mandates.\"",
"Miller is believed to be locked in a tight race with incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who ran as a write-in candidate.",
"In last week's election, Miller received 34 percent of the vote, Democrat Scott McAdams, who conceded, collected 24 percent and 41 percent of ballots were for write-in candidates.",
"Based on pre-election polling, the vast majority of write-in votes are expected to go to Murkowski, who lost to Miller in the Republican primary.",
"Murkowski, however, was one of 161 eligible write-in candidates, giving Miller hope that he might still win.",
"He currently has about 13,000 fewer votes than the write-in total.",
"\"It is clear the Miller campaign wants to exclude as many votes from being counted as possible,\" Murkowski campaign manager Kevin Sweeney said early Wednesday.",
"Murkowski said she intends to caucus with the Republicans should she return to the Senate.",
"\"I'm not my party's nominee, but I am a Republican,\" she said.",
"With a victory, Murkowski would avenge her August primary loss to Miller in the latest chapter of a feud with his main backers and her long-standing tension with former Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin, who backed Miller.",
"Murkowski was first appointed to her post by her father, then-Gov.",
"Frank Murkowski, in 2002.",
"Palin defeated him in the 2006 GOP gubernatorial primary.",
"CNN's Steve Brusk and Kristi Keck contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- An Arkansas court has called a short-notice hearing Friday for three men convicted of killing three West Memphis boys in 1993, with authorities tight-lipped about the nature of the proceeding in a closely watched case.",
"All three of the men -- Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin, dubbed the \"West Memphis Three\" -- are expected to attend the session in Jonesboro.",
"The state attorney general's office said it could not comment on the matter, citing a gag order on participants in the case.",
"Stephanie Harris, a spokeswoman for the state court system, said the convicts would appear before a judge in chambers before the public hearing is held.",
"Echols was sentenced to death and Misskelley and Baldwin were given life sentences in the May 1993 slayings of second-graders Steven Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers.",
"The boys' bodies were mutilated and left in a ditch, hogtied with their own shoelaces.",
"Prosecutors argued that Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin, then teenagers, were driven by satanic ritual and that Echols had been the ringleader.",
"But DNA testing that was not available at the time failed to link any of the men to the crime, and the state Supreme Court ruled in November that all three could present new evidence to the trial court in an effort to clear them.",
"The case has drawn national attention, with actor Johnny Depp and singer Eddie Vedder trying to rally support for the men's release.",
"CNN's Nick Valencia and Joe Sutton contributed to this report."
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"New York (CNN) -- A day after state lawmakers were due to head home, a pair of controversial issues seem to stubbornly postpone their summer recess.",
"The first is something that many call a quintessential New York battle: Whether to enact the first statewide cap on property taxes.",
"The cap is linked to the extension of rent control laws that apply to roughly 1 million apartments, most of them in New York City.",
"The second is the subject of national debate: Should New York become the sixth state in the union to adopt same-sex marriage laws?",
"Monday was technically the last official day of the legislative session, but the votes are still pending.",
"On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said lawmakers had reached a \"framework for an agreement\" on the rent and tax issues, but acknowledged that same-same sex marriage was not a part of those deliberations.",
"The Senate has struggled to bring to the floor a bill that would legalize the unions, but separate talks continued Tuesday, according to a spokesman for Skelos.",
"A vote on the measure, which the state Assembly passed Wednesday night, has been stalled in part by Republican concerns over protections for religious institutions against the potential for litigation in the wake of the proposed law.",
"Republicans, led by Skelos, have expressed concerns over the \"unintended consequences\" of a bill that redefines the legal parameters of marriage.",
"On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators filled the state Capitol in Albany in anticipation of the vote, chanting slogans and wielding signs for and against the controversial measure.",
"At last public count, 31 senators, including two Republicans, were in favor of the bill.",
"Its backers need one more GOP member to vote in favor for it to pass.",
"Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who proposed the bill, says it would grant same-sex couples equal rights to marry \"as well as hundreds of rights, benefits and protections that are currently limited to married couples of the opposite sex.\"",
"The first-term governor has lobbied opposition and undecided senators in an effort to secure the lone vote needed for the bill's passage.",
"Meanwhile, Greg Ball -- one of several Republican senators who are considered on the fence over the pending vote -- reiterated his party's concerns about the legislation's potential impact on religious institutions.",
"\"I'm not going to vote for a bill where Catholic adoption agencies or religious organizations are shut down or are opened up to lawsuits,\" he said Friday, noting that adoption agencies were closed after same-sex marriage laws were adopted in other states.",
"He declined to elaborate.",
"Democrat Tom Duane, an openly gay member of the state Senate, countered Friday that there are \"already laws on the books in New York state which protect people of faith.\"",
"\"Marriage is a civil right.",
"People get married, and it is recognized in government,\" he said.",
"\"We're talking about the government recognizing same-sex equality.\"",
"But the passage of same-sex marriage laws faces a daunting history in the New York state legislature.",
"The Senate rejected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in 2009 and has blocked the last three attempts by the state's lower house to get the proposed legislation signed into law.",
"Although New York currently does not grant same-sex marriages, a 2008 appellate court ruling upheld the right of couples to have their same-sex marriages recognized if they are performed elsewhere.",
"The current measure would amend the state's Domestic Relations Law to say, among other changes, that \"no application for a marriage license shall be denied on the ground that the parties are of the same or a different sex.\"",
"Five states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire -- and the District of Columbia currently grant same-sex marriage licenses.",
"CNN's Dana Garrett contributed to this report."
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"Senate leader says lawmakers reach \"framework for ... agreement\" on rent, tax issues .",
"Republicans have concerns over \"unintended consequences\" of same-sex marriage bill .",
"Backers need one more GOP Senate vote for same-sex bill to pass ."
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"(CNN) -- Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, was closed Thursday night, stranding hundreds of passengers, after being struck by two violent storms packing high winds and massive hail, the airport director said.",
"Omaha Airport Authority Executive Director Steve Coufal said that the airfield had been closed for several hours, with at least one reported injury: a pilot who was taken to a local hospital after being struck by hail.",
"Southwest Airlines spokesperson Ashley Dillon said two of the airline's planes were on the ground -- one of them Flight 751 to Chicago, which was being boarded -- when the first storm hit.",
"The decision was made to deplane the 137 passengers from the Boeing 737, and a male pilot was struck by hail while standing in the jetway.",
"Dillon said he was conscious when he was transported to the hospital.",
"Southwest discontinued its flights for the remainder of the night.",
"Dillon said 13 flights were affected: eight arrivals and five departures.",
"The first storms came through Omaha at about 5:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ...",
"The airport was subsequently shut down so that airport officials could evaluate damage done to equipment.",
"After about an hour-and-a-half, the airport was reopened, but was closed again minutes later when the second storm came through, packing very strong winds and heavy rains, Coufal said.",
"CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said hailstones were reportedly up 2.75 inches in diameter, or approximately baseball-sized.",
"Video footage from local CNN affiliate KPTM seemed to confirm that estimate, as the windshields of several cars in the airport parking lot were either shattered or bore large holes and craters.",
"The airport director said winds of about 100 mph were reported, and visibility was 5-10 feet.",
"Airport officials were inspecting damage and meeting with transportation officials Thursday night to address passengers' needs.",
"Coufal said seven commercial planes received some degree of damage, and parked surface vehicles had extensive damage.",
"Also, the roof, some windows and signage were damaged at the facility.",
"One jet bridge was blown into an aircraft by the winds, according to Coufal.",
"CNN's Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report."
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"Injured pilot was conscious when taken to the hospital, airline official says .",
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"Southwest Airlines discontinues all flights for the rest of the evening ."
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"New York (CNN) -- If \"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark\" can rise above devastating reviews and headline-grabbing injuries, much of the credit will go to director Philip William McKinley.",
"McKinley was hired four months ago to salvage the troubled show, which officially opens Tuesday evening.",
"\"Well, they say I'm either the bravest or stupidest man in New York,\" McKinley said.",
"As stuntmen flew overhead before an afternoon matinee preview, McKinley says he took the job in large part because of the commitment of the show's team.",
"\"From what the cast had gone through, I knew they had the dedication, the creativity, the formidability to do it.",
"And that meant a great deal to me,\" he said.",
"McKinley, a Broadway veteran, has the creative experience for the job.",
"When \"Spider-Man 2.0,\" the nickname for the retooled version, opens, it will have gone through millions of dollars in development costs, six delayed openings and a record-setting 180 preview performances.",
"The original concept for \"Spider-Man\" was the vision of Julie Taymor, the Tony Award-winning director of the stage version of The Lion King.",
"She was pushed aside by producers in March, although she reportedly retains some involvement in the show.",
"Musical collaborators are U2 bandmates Bono and the Edge, who wrote the show's music and lyrics, stayed on and added several new songs while rewriting a few others.",
"Also added to the revamped show are an additional five flying sequences and expanded roles for Aunt May, Uncle Ben and love-interest Mary Jane Watson.",
"But despite the changes, many fear the worst for the show financially.",
"Foxwoods Theatre is one of the largest on Broadway.",
"If \"Spider-Man\" is going to be successful, the show will have to fill the seats in the house for years to come.",
"\"The weekly running costs just to pay the actors, the stagehands and all that stuff is $1.3 million,\" said NY Post Theater Critic Michael Riedel.",
"\"Now the show is grossing, according to Variety, over a million dollars a week.",
"But that's just breaking even.",
"They haven't even begun to chip away at the $80 million production costs.\"",
"Still, McKinley says audiences seem to love the show.",
"And from the very first preview since the big revamp, the cast has been pumped, he said.",
"\"The magical moment was when the curtain went down, the cast completely lost all their composure, began jumping up and down, began high-fiving each other like at a baseball game or a football game,\" he said.",
"\"They were just cheering. \" \"The song in the show, 'Rise Above,' that's kind of become our motto and kind of become the anthem.\""
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"Musical collaborators are U2 bandmates Bono and the Edge .",
"They have added several new songs, while rewriting a few others .",
"The show must gross more than $1 million a week to meet costs ."
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"(CNN) -- Sergio Aguero scored twice on his Manchester City debut as Roberto Mancini's men thrashed Swansea 4-0 in their English Premier League opener Monday.",
"The Argentina international had just come on as a second half substitute when he struck the second for City.",
"Causing havoc in the Swansea defense, Aguero then cleverly set up David Silva for the third.",
"A thumping shot for the fourth rounded off a spectacular first match for Aguero and completed a miserable night for promoted Swansea.",
"Edin Dzeko opened the scoring for the home side just before the hour mark after a goalless first half.",
"The victory takes City joint top with Bolton in the early standings as they attempt to wrest the Premier League title from city rivals Manchester United.",
"Mancini was delighted by Aguero's performance, but warned he will improve.",
"\"I think he needs to recover as he only finished the Copa America three weeks ago,\" he told Sky Sports.",
"\"He needs another two to three weeks to be 100%, maybe.",
"For me he`s a fantastic striker, young, and he`s going to be a fantastic player for us.\"",
"The result was a little harsh on Brendan Rogers' Swansea, who played neat and containing football in the first half, but their goalkeeper Michel Vorm was kept busy and Gareth Barry was denied by the woodwork as the home side pressed.",
"In other English Premier League news Monday, Tottenham striker Robbie Keane is to join David Beckham at Los Angeles Galaxy on a two-year deal.",
"Keane, who is the the 10th-leading goal scorer in the history of the Premier League, has been capped 110 times by the Republic of Ireland.",
"He has fallen out of favor at Tottenham and spent the end of last season on loan at relegated West Ham.",
"\"I am delighted, honored and very excited to be joining the LA Galaxy,\" Keane told their official web site.",
"\"I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it's the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.\""
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"Sergio Aguero scores twice on his debut for Manchester City in 4-0 win over Swansea .",
"Argentina striker Aguero came on as second half substitute at Eastlands .",
"Edin Dzeko and David Silva get other goals for the home side .",
"Robbie Keane to join Los Angeles Galaxy from Tottenham Hotspur ."
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"(CNN) -- They recline in their bras and panties, some wearing pearls and Brigitte Bardot-inspired bouffants, shooting smiles at the camera.",
"The images are just like many a lingerie ad designed to entice, but these are images of young girls -- those who aren't even old enough to need bras.",
"French company Jours Après Lunes has designed a line of \"loungerie\" -- a compromise between loungewear and lingerie -- for children between the ages of 4 and 12.",
"A line for teenagers and infants is seemingly age appropriate, but the designs for children are drawing fire.",
"The company's mission is to be \"the first designer brand dedicated to 'loungerie' for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside.\"",
"Fashionista.com first broke the story, stating \"What's disturbing about Jours Après Lunes is not just the fact that it's lingerie for people who probably shouldn't be old enough to even know what lingerie is, but the photographs on their website.\"",
"In the comments, readers went back and forth over the appropriateness of the lingerie, asking if these girls were old enough to make decisions about how they want to look and, even more hotly contested, if the styling of the photos sexualizes the lingerie, rather than the designs themselves.",
"In an interview with the Lingerie Trade website, Jours Après Lunes creator Sophie Morin defended her brand and the photographs included in the ad campaign.",
"\"There is no vulgar connotation,\" she said.",
"\"The materials are totally opaque, there is no transparency, no lace.",
"The triangles -- there are only two in the collection -- are used in swimwear for the smallest children and as a first support for young girls, even by young women who are not looking for proper support since the tops I design do not offer any.",
"There is no bra in my collection.",
"\"The children are not wearing heels, nor nail polish, nor lipstick,\" Morin added.",
"\"Their hairstyles are exaggerated, just as are games and the child's universe.",
"These models are professional models and not 'Lolitas' who have stolen women's clothing.\"",
"Comments on the Fashionista story show that many who have viewed the ads don't take away the innocent \"child's universe\" that Morin was hoping to convey.",
"The makeup on the models, although it may not include lipstick, was another upsetting factor for viewers, and while Morin says there are no bras in the collection, it was assumed that the \"swimwear tops\" were lingerie-esque in appearance.",
"Morin also said that the loungerie is not distributed in the U.S. or the UK.",
"The criticism of the French clothing line is not unlike when Abercrombie and Fitch released its \"Ashley\" push-up bra, originally designed for 7-year-olds but later marketed to 12-year-old girls after a public outcry.",
"Previously on CNN.com/opinion: Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps .",
"In 2007, the American Psychological Association developed a task force of psychologists to tackle the issue of sexualization of girls in every form of media.",
"Dr. Tomi-Ann Roberts was a part of that task force and continues to address female body image and sexuality.",
"Dr. Roberts and her colleagues on the task force say that sexually objectifying women at a progressively younger age has been occurring for the last 20 years in advertising.",
"The photo spread by Jours Après Lunes came as no surprise to her, although she still considers these ad campaigns to be \"nauseating and sick.\"",
"In a society that continues to value younger women, we've reached an ultimate low, Roberts said.",
"This campaign, with its prominently featured stuffed animals, is eerily similar to a recent Victoria's Secret fashion show, where scantily-clad models \"dragged teddy bears down the catwalk,\" she said.",
"And as for the girls involved in the photo shoot, Roberts believes they know how to portray a sexualized look.",
"\"I think the advertising world is trying to convince all of us that youth is the only good time of life,\" Dr. Roberts said.",
"\"Now it's like, we've been obsessed with youth, so we might as well have them be 6 years old.",
"Today's girls equate pretty with 'trumped-up sexy.'",
"\"We have now said, as a society, that attractiveness today is constituted by a pornographied, voyeuristic look-at-me kind of sexuality.",
"Girls know it very well.",
"If I say 'Look pretty' to a young girl, she lowers her chin, slants her eyes and turns to the side.",
"That's everywhere around them.",
"\"What we have taught them by posing them this way that there's something about their bodies that is publicly consumable.\"",
"Discussion: Would you buy this kind of lingerie for your young daughter?",
"Tell us in the comments section below."
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"French company Jours Après Lunes has designed a line of \"loungerie\" for girls ages 4-12 .",
"Public outcry claims that the ads and lingerie are sexualizing young girls .",
"People question whether it is the ad or the lingerie that is inappropriate ."
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"(CNN) -- The Yankee soldier, who had meager possessions, must have been proud of his ring and its distinctive diamond-shaped centerpiece.",
"Somehow, the size-11 ring was lost, discarded or left behind, only to be swallowed by the earth on a rise near Millen, Georgia.",
"Untouched by human hands for nearly 150 years, the ring recently was discovered by archaeology students who have unearthed more artifacts at the site of Camp Lawton, a Civil War stockade and prison.",
"The Georgia Southern University team is finding personal items that will help tell the desperate story of Union soldiers who tried to stay alive while food was scarce and disease rampant.",
"\"The camp is as rich in information as we thought it was,\" said Kevin Chapman, a graduate student who last spring found the first of what promises to be an astounding yield of artifacts.",
"The university in Statesboro Thursday unveiled more than a dozen of the 60 to 70 items uncovered last month.",
"The school's museum also has acquired what's believed to be the only surviving letter from a prisoner at the short-lived camp.",
"The recent finds include a pocketknife, buckle, a Michigan-made token used for trading and a couple of keys.",
"The man's ring and a uniform or cap badge were found within 10 feet of each other, according to Chapman.",
"The badge also includes a diamond feature.",
"The Georgia Southern team believes the diamonds may represent the Union's III Corps, which saw action in numerous battles, including Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, before a reorganization in March 1864 saw it merged with other units.",
"The corps used a diamond on its flags and insignia.",
"\"They were so proud of their service they wore badges long after it disbanded,\" Chapman said of the III Corps veterans.",
"Chapman says if that portion of the camp is shown to have housed veterans of the III Corps, descendants may one day be able to gaze at the precise spot where an ancestor lived.",
"\"You can touch that ground and connect to 150 years before,\" he told CNN.",
"Chapman found the precise location of the slave-built stockade last year and, in the soil beneath tall pine trees, the first of nearly 300 artifacts recovered at the site of the Confederacy's largest prison.",
"The first find was detailed this time last year by the U.S.",
"Fish and Wildlife Service, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Georgia Southern University.",
"The prisoner artifacts were located on federal property -- the Bo Ginn National Fish Hatchery.",
"The camp's location also extends into state property, the adjoining Magnolia Springs State Park, where the Confederate commissary, hospital and commander quarters existed.",
"Only archaeologists and other officials are allowed on the fenced-in dig site on the hatchery grounds.",
"This discovery of so many Civil War-era items -- including a smoking pipe, uniform buttons, a picture frame, coins, utensils, bullets and objects fashioned by Union prisoners -- is unparalleled for many reasons, archaeologists said.",
"Civil War prisoner's letter: 'Hopeing the scene may soon change' With the exception of a farmer's plow 100 years ago, the 42 acres about 80 miles northwest of Savannah have been largely untouched.",
"That includes being missed by relic hunters and looters who, federal officials say, \"are both thieves of time.\"",
"Over the years, people have picked clean known Civil War sites, including the notorious Andersonville prison site in west-central Georgia.",
"Camp Lawton was built to help ease Andersonville's overcrowding.",
"The site's remote location and maps describing it as brushy and overgrown likely saved it from relic hunters, archaeologists said.",
"Some of the artifacts are on display at the Georgia Southern University Museum in Statesboro, about 40 miles south of the camp.",
"The university museum recently purchased a letter written by Cpl.",
"Charles H. Knox to his wife in Schroon Lake, New York.",
"Knox, a member of the 1st Connecticut Cavalry, wrote it only eight days before the camp was evacuated when Union forces approached.",
"Knox expresses hope that he will be part of a prisoner exchange between Union and Confederate forces and advises his wife, Frances, to consider selling the family cow to raise money.",
"\"I am here & shall get out some time & hope that will be soon, but don't know,\" Knox wrote.",
"The horseman was shipped back to Andersonville and not paroled until late February 1865, near war's end.",
"Using modern technology along with shovels, prisoner drawings and topographic maps, Chapman pinpointed the prisoner site and found a U.S. cent of a type that was last manufactured in 1858, six years before Camp Lawton opened.",
"Nails and other items showed that the sloped camp was the living area for nearly 10,000 men who built shelters and lean-tos near Magnolia Springs.",
"Having just survived the scorching 1864 summer, they dug into the earth to shelter them from a cold winter, which included a November snowfall.",
"Then, suddenly, in late November 1864, the camp was abandoned.",
"The prisoners were taken to other camps, including back to Andersonville, as the Yankees approached during the famous March to the Sea.",
"Archaeologists think that prisoners may have been taken to the depot in Millen in the middle of the night, and were forced to leave behind their camp belongings and thousands of keepsakes from their homes up north.",
"Between 725 and 1,330 men died at the prison camp in the six weeks it existed.",
"Officials said they know the \"general vicinity\" of soldier graves, but have no plans to disturb them.",
"Conditions in Northern POW camps often weren't much better.",
"About 3,000 imprisoned Confederates, for example, died in Elmira, New York.",
"\"Some of the saddest part of our history was the handling of prisoners on both sides,\" John Derden, professor emeritus of history at East Georgia College in Swainsboro, told CNN last year.",
"There are no known photos of Camp Lawton and few details of the stockade, but a Union mapmaker painted watercolors of the prison.",
"He also kept a 5,000-page journal that included descriptions of the misery at the camp.",
"\"The weather has been rainy and cold at nights,\" Pvt.",
"Robert Knox Sneden, who was previously imprisoned at Andersonville, wrote in his diary on November 1.",
"\"Many prisoners have died from exposure, as not more than half of us have any shelter but a blanket propped upon sticks.",
"... Our rations have grown smaller in bulk too, and we have the same hunger as of old.\"",
"The land slipped into obscurity for about 70 years, when some of it became part of Magnolia Springs State Park.",
"Until last year, a few entrenchments were the only signs of Camp Lawton.",
"That began to change in late June 2010, when federal officials erected a locked and guarded fence to safeguard the artifacts found at its hatchery.",
"They are working with their Georgia counterparts to ensure the site is not touch by unauthorized individuals.",
"Some coins, tokens and other objects that have been found were made in Europe, and indicate Union regiments made up of soldiers with Irish and German ancestry, Chapman, 37, said last year.",
"Chapman said the team wants to learn about daily life for Union prisoners and their Confederate keepers.",
"\"Right now we are estimating the limits of the encampment and the prisoner occupation area,\" he said Wednesday.",
"\"We are going to continue exploring the Confederate side.\"",
"He estimated less than 1% of the site occupied by prisoners has been surveyed.",
"\"We are just getting our feet in the door,\" said Chapman. \"This is once in a lifetime.\""
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"The site is unusual in that it has not been picked over by relic hunters .",
"Some of the items are on display at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro ."
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"(CNN) -- On the afternoon of August 3, a graying, slightly paunchy, well-dressed man in a mask and carrying a baseball bat strolled into the bedroom of an 18-year-old Australian woman studying for a school exam.",
"He strapped something that seemed to be a bomb to her neck and told her not to move.",
"Then he left. With that, a man police now identify as Paul Douglas Peters, 50, touched off a baffling international investigation that eventually reached 9,317 miles across the ocean to Buckner, Kentucky, where an FBI team arrested Peters on Monday.",
"Authorities say Peters attempted to extort money from Madeleine Pulver's family in suburban Sydney by fastening a black box around her neck that he said in a note contained \"powerful new technology plastic explosives\" that would go off if she did not follow his instructions, according to a complaint for provisional arrest filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Louisville.",
"Those instructions included orders to write to an e-mail address and wait for details on handing over an unspecified amount of money.",
"Pulver spent nearly 10 agonizing hours in her bedroom as authorities tested the box to make sure it would not explode before removing it from her neck.",
"At the same time, authorities allege, Peters was stopping off in his four-wheel-drive Range Rover at a library and video store to check the e-mail account he'd given Pulver and whiling away at least part of the time at a liquor store browsing for wine, a Sauvignon Blanc to be precise.",
"Peters' attorney, Scott Cox, said the investment banker and attorney will contest the charges.",
"\"It is my understanding that he has no criminal history whatsoever,\" Cox added.",
"\"We are enormously relieved that an arrest has been made,\" father Bill Pulver said.",
"\"These past two weeks have been a very difficult time for us.\"",
"On Wednesday, Madeleine Pulver told reporters the incident was \"all very surreal.\"",
"\"I'm glad it's all over,\" she told CNN affiliate Seven Network in Australia.",
"Investigators in Australia and the United States say they were able to link Peters to the e-mail address using video surveillance and access logs, and found credit card records showing that he had purchased a thumb drive, lanyard and baseball bat identical to those used in the extortion attempt, according to the complaint.",
"A magistrate in Kentucky ordered Peters, an Australian national, held without bail until at least October 14, when he may be allowed to apply for bail.",
"That's also when Australia will be required to request Peters' extradition.",
"Cox told CNN Radio that the proceedings may include a probable cause hearing.",
"Australian police plan to seek charges against him including kidnapping, aggravated breaking and entering with intent to commit a serious indictable offense, and demanding property by force with intent to steal, according to the complaint.",
"Peters is not accused of any U.S. offenses.",
"Assistant Commissioner David Hudson of the New South Wales Police Department said Peters was not yet a suspect when he flew to Louisville on August 8, arriving the next day.",
"But \"a fairly detailed chain of circumstantial evidence\" -- including Pulver's detailed description of the \"heavily disguised\" assailant -- ultimately led them to the United States and the arrest.",
"According to the complaint, a man wearing a business shirt, slacks and a blue, yellow and white mask that covered everything but his mouth and a pair of \"saggy and wrinkly\" eyes sauntered into Pulver's room, carrying a backpack and a black aluminum baseball bat.",
"He said he wasn't going to hurt her, forced a black box around her neck using something like a bike chain and locked it.",
"To this he added a lanyard with a green thumb drive and a plastic document sleeve containing a note.",
"\"Count to 200,\" the man said, according to the complaint.",
"\"I'll be back.\" Pulver waited a few minutes, called out to the man but got no response.",
"She contacted her parents and asked for police, and after a tense nine or 10 hours, tests concluded that the device was not a bomb.",
"Australian and U.S. authorities say the e-mail account listed in the note was created May 30 at a computer using an Internet address assigned to the Chicago airport, where travel documents indicate Peters was on that day.",
"Investigators say video surveillance linked him to the only three logins to the account, all in the hours after the break-in at the Pulver home.",
"Surveillance cameras at a library in Kincumber, Australia, showed him pulling up in a silver Range Rover and leaving moments after the first login.",
"The next two came at a video store in Avoca Beach, Australia.",
"Surveillance cameras from a liquor store next to the video shop showed a man resembling Peters entering the store on two separate occasions that evening, each shortly before the e-mail account was accessed.",
"Peters apparently spent part of this afternoon waiting for a response by shopping for Phillip Shore Sauvignon Blanc wine, according to a liquor store employee who police said remembered talking to Peters.",
"The man, the store clerk said, appeared to be just \"wasting time,\" according to the complaint.",
"Investigators say credit card receipts indicated that Peters bought the thumb drive, lanyard and baseball bat used in the incident in the weeks leading up to it, as well as a deleted file on the thumb drive that forensic analysis showed was created on a computer called \"Paul P.\" Authorities in Australia alerted their U.S. counterparts to Peters after finding travel records showing that he had flown to Louisville on August 8 and had previously wired money to a woman living in Buckner, Kentucky, who turns out to be his former wife.",
"The FBI sent an agent to check out the house two days later and spotted Peters in the backyard.",
"\"I don't think he resisted in any respect,\" Scott said.",
"Authorities do not believe his ex-wife was involved in or aware of the plot.",
"The couple divorced in 2007, according to Cox.",
"Peters is a globe-trotting investment banker who went to primary school in Hong Kong, attended college in Sydney, ran investments in Malaysia and spent quite a bit of time in the United States, where his ex-wife and three school-age children live, according to authorities and his attorney.",
"A woman who identified herself as his hairdresser was quoted by the Daily Telegraph newspaper in Australia as saying he was a \"happy-go-lucky chap.\"",
"\"I was actually really shocked, you know, I couldn't believe it because he was such a nice fella,\" the newspaper quoted Tammy Schreiber as saying.",
"How he ended up in the wealthy Sydney suburb of Mosman, where many athletes and celebrities live, allegedly attempting to extort money from the Pulvers remains something of a mystery.",
"An Australian police official who accompanied FBI agents on the raid in Bucker said the Pulvers didn't know Peters.",
"But it appears he was formerly employed by a company with which the Pulvers have links, according to the complaint filed in federal court.",
"The complaint didn't elaborate, and the nature of the specific link wasn't immediately clear Tuesday.",
"A LinkedIn profile that appears to be Peters' lists his job as managing director at Douglas Corp., formerly Allco Finance Group Malaysia.",
"No Web listing for such a company could be immediately located.",
"Peters was formerly the U.S. managing director at Connell Finance Co., according to the profile.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"Police say Paul Peters broke into the family home of an 18-year-old Australian girl .",
"They say he attached a fake bomb to the victim and left a note demanding money ."
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"(CNN) -- World number three Roger Federer avenged his loss in the 2009 U.S. Open final as he defeated Juan Martin del Potro 6-3 7-5 in the second round of the Western and Southern Open on Tuesday.",
"Federer, a 16-time grand slam winner, managed to avoid a third-straight defeat to the 22-year-old, having previously lost to Del Potro at the 2009 ATP World Tour Finals.",
"The Swiss broke Del Potro, ranked 19 in the world, once in each set and sealed victory in one hour and 32 minutes.",
"\"I expected a tough match with Juan Martin for obvious reasons, and it went better than I thought,\" Federer, who is looking to win the Cincinnati event for a record fifth time, told the ATP Tour's official web site.",
"Can anybody stop Novak and Serena?",
"\"I thought I played a wonderful first set and a very good second set, too.",
"That was obviously enough tonight.",
"I don't think I really allowed Juan Martin to be able to play the game he usually plays.\"",
"Del Potro will now focus his attention on the U.S. Open, which gets underway on August 29, where he will return for the first time since his triumph two years ago.",
"Federer will face wildcard James Blake in the third round, after the American defeated Italy's Fabio Fognini 6-4 6-2.",
"Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych also sealed victory on Tuesday as he picked up his fifth-career win over Del Potro's compatriot Juan Monaco.",
"In the remaining first round matches that were played, Wimbledon semifinalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Croat Marin Cilic 6-3 6-4.",
"The 15th seed will play American qualifier Alex Bogomolov Jr., who emerged from a clash with his wild card compatriot Robby Ginepri with a 6-4 6-3 success.",
"In an all-Spanish encounter, ninth seed Nicolas Almagro advanced at the expense of Albert Montanes with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 triumph.",
"Serbia's world number 20 Viktor Troicki is through after a 6-0 3-6 7-6 (7-5) victory over French qualifier Edouard Roger-Vasselin in a marathon match which lasted two hours and 29 minutes."
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"Roger Federer has beaten Juan Martin del Potro at the Western and Southern Open .",
"Wimbledon semifinalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Croat Marin Cilic .",
"There were also wins for Nicolas Almagro and Viktor Troicki ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday placed the United States squarely on the side of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa, declaring in a major policy speech that the wave of change sweeping the region \"cannot be denied.\"",
"Addressing a global audience, Obama condemned the use of force against Arab Spring protesters by longtime allies and adversaries alike.",
"He also said the eruption of demands for greater opportunity in Arab nations could be used to kick-start stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.",
"At the same time, Obama applied his own pressure by declaring as policy the long-held idea that a future Palestinian state should be based on borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war.",
"In the past, the United States has unofficially supported a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict based on the borders in place prior to the war 44 years ago in which Israel seized the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula.",
"Obama became the first president to formally endorse the policy, but he acknowledged the need for modifications through the negotiating process due to conditions on the ground.",
"Obama also dismissed the notion of al Qaeda-style extremism appealing to future generations of Muslims, asserting that the organization was \"losing its struggle for relevance\" long before the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2.",
"The president's speech -- the subject of intense speculation in recent days -- was a long-promised overview of America's changing Middle East policy in the wake of the Arab Spring that started unfolding in Tunisia last December.",
"In recent months, Washington has often appeared to struggle to keep up with the pace of events not only in Tunisia, but also in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and elsewhere.",
"Administration officials have also wrestled with an Arab suspicion of U.S. motives fueled by decades of American support for the region's autocratic regimes.",
"\"Shouts of human dignity are being heard across the region,\" Obama declared, speaking in front of a group of diplomatic and military officials at the State Department.",
"\"We support political and economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa that can meet the legitimate aspirations of ordinary people throughout the region.\"",
"The president acknowledged that \"there will be times\" when America's \"short-term interests do not align perfectly with our long-term vision.\"",
"\"But we can -- and will -- speak out for a set of core principles\" including freedom of religion and expression, and equality under the law, he promised.",
"\"It will be years before this story reaches its end,\" Obama said.",
"But \"the events of the past six months show us that strategies of oppression and strategies of diversion will not work anymore.\"",
"Among other things, Obama accused Iran of hypocrisy for publicly supporting protests in parts of the Arab world after violently cracking down on protests at home.",
"He blasted the Syrian regime for reacting to dissent by choosing \"the path of murder and the mass arrests.\"",
"\"The Syrian people have shown their courage in demanding a transition to democracy,\" Obama said.",
"President Bashar al-Assad \"now has a choice: he can lead that transition, or get out of the way.\"",
"On Wednesday, Obama imposed new sanctions against al-Assad and other top officials in Damascus.",
"Obama also criticized the crackdown against Shiite protesters in Bahrain -- a key Persian Gulf ally and home of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.",
"The president made no mention of struggles for greater rights in neighboring Saudi Arabia, another close ally.",
"A large portion of the president's speech was devoted to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.",
"The administration's strategy for a comprehensive settlement has been seemingly derailed in recent months.",
"Former Sen. George Mitchell unexpectedly submitted his resignation as the president's Mideast envoy Friday, and deadly clashes broke out Sunday between pro-Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces.",
"Ongoing Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and Palestinian steps toward a unilateral declaration of statehood have driven the two sides further apart since Obama took office.",
"Additional doubts about the viability of the stalled peace process were raised this month in the wake of a formal reconciliation agreement between the two largest Palestinian factions: President Mahmoud Abbas' party, the West Bank-based Fatah; and the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza.",
"Both Israel and the United States consider Hamas a terrorist organization and have voiced strong opposition to the inclusion of the group in any unity government, demanding that it first renounce violence, recognize the state of Israel and abide by all previous agreements.",
"Nevertheless, the president renewed his push for a two-state solution Thursday, declaring that the borders of Israel and a future Palestinian state should be based on pre-1967 lines \"with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.\"",
"\"The full and phased withdrawal\" of Israeli security forces from the West Bank has to be accompanied by evidence of a Palestinian state that can help secure the peace and prevent attacks against Israel, he said.",
"But a continued Israeli presence in the West Bank is inconsistent with long-term dreams of a secure Jewish and democratic state, Obama said.",
"\"The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state,\" the president said.",
"Neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis offered a warm response to Obama's speech.",
"Hamas called Obama's remarks \"empty of concrete significance\" and promised not to recognize \"the Israeli occupation.\"",
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office stated that Washington should stand by previous U.S. commitments relating \"to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines, which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers ... beyond those lines.\"",
"On a broader regional level, Obama stressed the importance of economic development to accompany political reforms.",
"Toward that end, he announced $1 billion in debt forgiveness for Egypt, as well as another $1 billion in loan guarantees for Cairo.",
"He also promised a new \"comprehensive\" trade and investment partnership initiative with the Middle East and North Africa.",
"Europe will play a key role in moving the initiative forward, he said.",
"Obama also defended U.S. and NATO intervention in Libya, arguing the move was necessary to prevent an imminent massacre.",
"\"Time is working against (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi,\" he asserted.",
"When Gadhafi goes, \"decades of provocation will come to an end\" and a democratic transition can begin, he said.",
"Thursday's speech came nearly two years after Obama delivered an address in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, that called for \"a new beginning\" between the United States and the Muslim world.",
"Today, many in the Middle East and North Africa consider the Cairo speech a collection of lofty ideals that lacked sufficient follow-through, and they have been looking for Obama to signal substantive and concrete policies that support the aspirations of the region's people.",
"Marwan Muasher, a former Jordanian foreign minister and longtime advocate of Arab reform, said Wednesday that the Middle East is a new environment now, where young men and women are laying their lives on the line for democracy throughout the region.",
"They need to be told their cause is just and how the United States will support them.",
"If Thursday's address is viewed as just \"another Cairo speech, forget it,\" said Muasher, now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"\"It was great two years ago, and even then the feedback was mixed, because people wanted to see what he would do.",
"If he doesn't have much to add this time, people will not be fooled by it.\"",
"Gigi Ibrahim, a 24-year-old Egyptian activist and blogger, predicted Obama's words will have little impact in her country.",
"\"At this point, whatever President Obama will address will really be irrelevant to what the situation is now because we're really building democracy from the bottom up,\" Ibrahim told CNN, adding that \"America is not the model of democracy that we are striving for.\"",
"She called U.S. policy on the Middle East \"hypocritical\" because, she said, the United States \"will support a dictatorship if it's aligned with its interests.\"",
"That attitude is still rife throughout the Middle East and North Africa, noted CNN senior political analyst David Gergen.",
"With Egypt facing economic crisis, the Libyan conflict at a stalemate, an ongoing harsh crackdown on demonstrators in Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at a standstill, there is little belief in the region that Obama or the United States can do much to help, Gergen said.",
"\"I think it's going to be very difficult in the near term to generate excitement about his policies in the Middle East,\" Gergen said.",
"Obama's speech came in a week when the White House is strongly focused on Middle East issues.",
"He met Tuesday with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House, and will meet Friday with Netanyahu.",
"CNN's Elise Labott and Matt Smith contributed to this story."
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"Events show oppression will not work in the Middle East anymore, Obama says .",
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"He announces a trade plan for the region .",
"A two-state Arab-Israeli solution should be based on 1967 borders, Obama says ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Rebels marched toward Tripoli Wednesday, capturing a town southwest of the capital from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces, a rebel fighter told CNN.",
"Fighting also engulfed Misrata, east of Tripoli, where 14 rebels were killed and 42 others wounded, according to Mohamed Ibrahim, a rebel spokesman in the city.",
"Three civilians also died in rocket attacks launched by Gadhafi's men, Ibrahim said.",
"CNN could not verify the information.",
"Just west of Misrata, in Dafniya, 14 rebel fighters were killed and 42 were wounded Wednesday during a firefight with Gadhafi forces, said Ibrahim.",
"The rebels ran over Al-Qawalish, a town of about 4,000 residents 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Tripoli, a stronghold for Gadhafi since the start of the uprising in February.",
"Their attacks got under way around 7 a.m. from the north, the west and the south.",
"On the western front, journalist David Adams said rebels were using Grad launchers, two Russian tanks and a number of other vehicles, rockets and guns.",
"The rebels captured the town around 2:30 p.m., entering from all three fronts, some having captured vehicles belonging to Gadhafi forces.",
"Some rebel fighters could be seen breaking windows, shooting doors of houses and rummaging through families' belongings.",
"Some said they were looking for weapons, but they appeared to be looting.",
"After they had lost control of the town, Gadhafi forces began shelling its periphery with Grad rockets.",
"At least 12 government soldiers died, six were wounded and seven were captured, said Adams.",
"Rebels, whose casualties included at least seven dead and 15 wounded, said their next target would be Al Assabiah, said Adams.",
"Hassan Al-Jiwali, a rebel fighter from the Nafusa Mountains, said 50 of Gadhafi's men were killed and 15 were captured in the offensive.",
"Fighting has erupted in the western mountains in recent weeks as more than four months of battles have failed to yield a decisive victory for either side.",
"The first United Nations joint mission to reach the devastated mountain region found many people in dire need of food.",
"A World Food Programme statement said markets were not functioning due to limited fuel and cash, and basic services such as electricity and water were lacking in some areas.",
"The rebels said they were moving northward, closer to the capital on the Mediterranean Sea.",
"They intended to march to the city of Garyan, which sits on the main highway to Tripoli.",
"Also Wednesday, NATO said its air forces targeted military re-fueling equipment in the Brega area southwest of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.",
"\"These precision strikes will limit the ability of pro-Gadhafi forces to threaten Libyan civilians and significantly degrade logistical support for Gadhafi's campaign in eastern Libya,\" said Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, commander of Operation Unified Protector, in a news release.",
"France has acknowledged arming the rebels, saying the weapons were for self-defense.",
"However, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said Tuesday the weapons were no longer necessary because the rebels were becoming \"more autonomous.\"",
"But debate continued over France's decisions.",
"In a contentious closed-door U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday, Russia argued that, by sending weapons, France had violated the council's resolution that authorized the use of NATO force in Libya.",
"CNN's Kareem Khadder and Kathryn Tancos contributed to this report."
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"NEW: NATO warplanes targeted military refueling equipment near Brega .",
"14 rebels die in Misrata fighting .",
"Rebels capture Al-Qawalish, according to a rebel fighter .",
"The town is about 30 miles southwest of Tripoli ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. official in charge of investigating fraud in Iraq said Monday he is carrying out a third audit to see if it might determine what happened to $6.7 billion in cash that was flown into Iraq eight years ago and is now missing.",
"\"It has not been properly accounted for,\" said Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.",
"The money -- which belonged to Iraq -- was part of a sum of $20 billion that was shipped into war-torn Baghdad in bricks of hundred-dollar bills.",
"They were shrink-wrapped and stored in the Central Bank of Iraq to pay for reconstruction.",
"\"Our job as auditors is to find out how that was used, whether it was wasted or fraudulently misused, as we fulfill our mandate to get to a conclusory answer,\" he said.",
"Bowen blamed the system that existed then.",
"\"The system was too loose and unregulated in 2003 and 2004,\" he said.",
"\"Billions of dollars being flown into, effectively, a war zone; an insurgency exploding into a civil war; and fairly continuous turnover in government ministers and ministry personnel presented an atmosphere that some have described as Wild West-like and I think that's a fair description.\"",
"Bowen said he did not want to speculate on who the potential criminals might be, then added, \"But this money was delivered to Iraqi control, and we have in the past had a number of cases reported to us about interim ministers who did steal.\"",
"During 2003 and 2004, he said, the money was under the aegis of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the entity created by the United States to govern Iraq after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein.",
"Afterward, Bowen said, the Pentagon and the fledgling Iraqi government shared responsibility for safeguarding some of the money; it was the Pentagon that asked him to investigate the whereabouts of the cash.",
"A Pentagon spokesman contacted by CNN said the investigation found that \"all of these funds remained under the control of the government of Iraq at all times.\"",
"The money came from the sale of Iraqi oil, and was diverted by international sanctions and stored at a Federal Reserve facility in the United States before being shipped to Iraq.",
"Though it was never U.S. taxpayer money, Americans may still be on the hook for some of it.",
"Iraqi officials have told Bowen they may sue to reclaim the lost money, and they may have a case, said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, the former chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.",
"\"The truth of the matter is, the U.N. said to the United States, 'You are now entrusted with this money; you have a fiduciary responsibility for the Iraqi people to use it for their benefit,'\" Waxman said.",
"\"And now we can't account for $6.7 billion.\"",
"The Iraqi Embassy in Washington did not respond to suggestions that Iraqi officials may have stolen some of the money, but a high-ranking Iraqi official said the inspector general's report has shown that \"the United States failed to put in place accountable and transparent financial controls to safeguard Iraqi funds.\"",
"Already, fraud and abuse have been uncovered and a number of convictions obtained, Bowen said.",
"He predicted that, before the matter is closed, there will be more prosecutions."
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"Stuart Bowen's job is to try to find out what happened to $6.7 billion in missing funds .",
"The money belonged to Iraq, but U.S. taxpayers might be on the hook .",
"\"The system was too loose and unregulated in 2003 and 2004,\" Bowen says ."
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"(CNN) -- Ivory Coast international Emmanuel Eboue has completed his move from Arsenal to Turkish side Galatasaray, just one day after former Gunners captain Cesc Fabregas left the club to join European champions Barcelona.",
"Eboue, 28, has cost the Istanbul-based team $5 million and has signed a four-year contract at the Turk Telekom Arena.",
"The right-back joined Arsenal from Belgian side Beveren in 2005 and made 214 appearances for Arsene Wenger's side.",
"Fabregas signs five-year Barcelona contract .",
"\"Arsenal have agreed terms with Turkish side Galatasaray for the transfer of Emmanuel Eboue,\" read a statement on Arsenal's official web site.",
"\"Everyone at Arsenal thanks Emmanuel for his contribution towards the club and wishes him the best of luck for the future.\"",
"Eboue was a member of the Arsenal side beaten in the 2006 Champions League final by Barcelona -- and has played for the Ivory Coast at the last two World Cups -- Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010.",
"Another player leaving the Emirates Stadium is Mexican striker Carlos Vela, who has joined Spanish side Real Sociedad on loan.",
"What now for Arsenal and Fabregas?",
"Vela spent the second half of last season on loan at West Bromwich Albion, where he scored two goals in 12 appearances.",
"In the wake of Fabregas' departure on Monday, Arsenal have announced Dutch international striker Robin van Persie will take over as club captain.",
"Van Persie, 28, joined Arsenal from Feyernoord in 2004 and was their top scorer last season with 18 league goals.",
"Another club busy in the transfer market on Tuesday were 2010 Europa League winners Porto, who have agreed a deal with Belgian side Standard Liege for midfielder Steven Defour and defender Eliaquim Mangala.",
"Defour, 23, has 30 caps for the Belgian national side and was part of the Standard squad which claimed back-to-back league titles in 2008 and 2009.",
"French under-21 defender Mangala made his Standard debut in 2008 and was also part of the 10-time Belgian champions' victorious squad in 2009."
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"Emmanuel Eboue has joined Turkish side Galatasaray from Arsenal .",
"Eboue's departure comes just one day after Cesc Fabregas joined Barcelona .",
"Robin van Persie will take over from Fabregas as Arsenal captain .",
"Porto agree to sign Steven Defour and Eliaquim Mangala from Standard Liege ."
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"Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq's rugged mountains for a second consecutive night Thursday after an ambush on a southeastern Turkey highway killed eight soldiers and a government-employed guard, the semi-official Anatolian News Agency reported.",
"In the second operation, F-16s took off Thursday night from Diyarbakir and bombed targets in northern Iraq, returning three hours later, the agency said, citing ministry sources.",
"Earlier Thursday, the military had said in a statement that Turkish artillery pounded more than 100 targets in the border region.",
"\"Similar activities of the Turkish Armed Forces, both domestic and abroad, will continue with determination until the separatist terrorist organization that uses northern Iraq as a safe haven and an attack base against Turkey is eliminated,\" the military said.",
"The Kurdish Firat News agency, which is sympathetic to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, confirmed Wednesday night's air and artillery attacks in the rugged mountains of northern Iraq, where the rebels have long operated.",
"Firat quoted an unnamed rebel commander saying that the air raid was expected.",
"\"It wasn't a surprise for us.",
"We had measures. Air raids happen almost every year.",
"We are a 30-year guerrilla movement.",
"Therefore, they didn't achieve any results from yesterday's attack,\" the rebel commander said.",
"Turkish war planes were once again spotted flying over the Qandil mountains of northern Iraq on Thursday, Firat reported.",
"Ankara said fighters from the PKK carried out Wednesday's deadly ambush.",
"Thursday, military helicopters carried the flag-draped coffins of the eight soldiers to a funeral ceremony in the eastern border city of Van.",
"\"Our pain is very big. Our sorrow is like the mountains,\" Brig.",
"Gen. Levent Kose, a senior Turkish military commander, announced at the ceremony.",
"He then issued a bellicose warning to the PKK.",
"\"They won't win, they won't achieve anything.",
"They will melt in their own darkness.",
"They will dry in their own quicksand.",
"They will choke on their own blood.\"",
"Meanwhile, Turkey's president, prime minister and top military commanders gathered for a meeting of the country's national security council in Ankara Thursday.",
"The officials were expected to discuss policy challenges, including the conflict with the PKK and official Turkish frustration with another neighbor, Syria, where the regime has violently cracked down on anti-government protesters.",
"The latest round of fighting with the PKK could present a major test for the Turkish armed forces.",
"Long one of the most powerful political institutions in Turkey, the military has been shaken after scores of generals and admirals were arrested and put on trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.",
"In an unprecedented move last month, the country's four most senior military commanders all resigned simultaneously.",
"Kurdish fighters have been locked in a bloody conflict with the government since the 1980s.",
"More than 30,000 people have been killed in the fighting, many of them ethnic Kurds.",
"The Kurds are Turkey's largest ethnic minority.",
"For decades, Ankara imposed oppressive policies, which banned Kurdish names and their language, and sometimes referred to the community as \"mountain Turks.\"",
"Erdogan's government has attempted to improve relations with Turkey's Kurds in recent years by launching a Kurdish channel on state television and acknowledging \"mistakes were made\" in the way Ankara treated the minorities.",
"But tensions have escalated between the government and the main Kurdish nationalist political party in recent months.",
"After winning a larger number of seats in June parliamentary elections, the main Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) boycotted the swearing-in ceremony for new lawmakers.",
"Kurdish lawmakers are protesting a decision by Turkey's electoral board, which disqualified a prominent Kurdish candidate from participating in the June election.",
"Politician Hatip Dicle was barred from running due to a 20-month prison sentence he received for \"making propaganda for a terrorist organization,\" a Turkish reference to the PKK.",
"Meanwhile, PKK fighters have claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks, including a Saturday ambush near the southeastern province of Sirnak that killed at least three soldiers.",
"In a statement e-mailed to CNN, the PKK also claimed responsibility for last week's sabotage of a natural gas pipeline between Turkey and its eastern neighbor, Iran.",
"The rebel strikes, as well as a battle last month that left at least 13 Turkish soldiers dead, have raised fears of an escalation in the long-simmering war between the Turkish state and Kurdish separatists."
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"NEW: F-16s strike suspected PKK camps for second consecutive night .",
"Turkish government holds national security council meeting .",
"The ambush killed at least eight soldiers and a government-employed guard .",
"Military: Turkish artillery also pounds more than 100 targets in the border region ."
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"(CNN) -- Four more people have died in Germany, health officials said Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths from an E. coli outbreak to 35.",
"All but one of the deaths were in Germany, with the other occurring in Sweden, according to the World Health Organization and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.",
"The number of people infected with E. coli as of Sunday was 3,256, according to the European center (ECDC).",
"Of those, 812 have the severe form of the intestinal illness.",
"All but five people had traveled to or lived in Germany during the incubation period for infection, typically three to four days after exposure, the WHO said.",
"German authorities have indicated that food items including bean sprouts and other vegetables originating from a producer in Lower Saxony, Germany, are the most likely source of the infection.",
"German health authorities have declared that all food products originating from the producer be pulled from the market, according to the ECDC.",
"The agricultural ministry in Lower Saxony said Sunday that it is still not clear how sprouts from a farm in the state became contaminated with the bacteria.",
"\"It is not clear whether an employee brought the bacteria into the company or whether it was brought in with seeds which then contaminated the worker,\" the ministry said in a statement.",
"\"Finding this out is important, however, so that we can create early warning systems to prevent such outbreaks in the future,\" the statement said.",
"Investigators found bean sprouts were the cause of the outbreak when 17 people became ill after eating at the same restaurant, said Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, which is responsible for disease control and prevention in Germany.",
"Only those who ate food containing the sprouts became ill, he said.",
"Farmers in Spain, France, the Netherlands and Belgium have been seeking compensation for their losses.",
"The European Commission has proposed that the European Union pay about $300 million, but Spain alone claims about $600 million in losses.",
"In Spain, the produce exporter Frunet filed suit last week over the Hamburg state government's initial claims that Spanish produce was to blame for the outbreak.",
"The company, based in Spain's southern Malaga province, expects to file another suit against the government seeking 1 million euros, or $1.4 million, in losses from fresh produce it had to destroy, Frunet owner Antonio Lavao told CNN.",
"Health officials first blamed Frunet's organic cucumbers for the outbreak.",
"CNN's Al Goodman and Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report."
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"Health officials say the cause of contamination is still unclear .",
"All but one of the deaths are in Germany .",
"The number of cases is at 3,256 .",
"The infection has been traced to a Lower Saxony producer ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- For 53 hours this weekend and early Monday, a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405 will be closed in western Los Angeles for a bridge demolition.",
"You would think the world is coming to an end.",
"The project -- dubbed \"Carmageddon\" -- has brought countdown clocks, traffic apps, detour maps and warnings to stay away or enjoy the weekend on the couch.",
"Amtrak and JetBlue are offering specials to get away from it all.",
"The good news? With the aim of eventually reducing traffic congestion, the northbound section of the freeway between U.S. 101 and Interstate 10 will be closed Saturday and Sunday for the demolition of the Mulholland Drive Bridge.",
"The weekend work will clear the way for the widening of the freeway through the Sepulveda Pass.",
"A northbound high-occupancy vehicle lane also will be added.",
"The bad news? With historic traffic backups expected, the northbound section of the freeway between U.S. 101 and Interstate 10 will be closed Saturday and Sunday for the demolition of the Mulholland Drive Bridge.",
"\"Severe traffic conditions are anticipated in local and regional areas during the weekend of the full freeway closure,\" Metro warns on its website.",
"The 405 freeway, which hosts about 500,000 cars a day, stretches from the San Fernando Valley south into many of the city's posh neighborhoods, including Beverly Hills and Bel Air, and on to Irvine.",
"A four-mile southbound section will be closed between U.S. 101 and Getty Center Drive ramps.",
"Los Angeles International Airport is urging travelers to get there by public transit, especially rail, or to stay at nearby hotels for early morning flights.",
"The Los Angeles Fire Department is adding 200 firefighters so they can quickly respond to 911 calls around the areas affected by the closure, CNN L.A. affiliate KABC reported.",
"Of course, it may not be all bad.",
"Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Facebook page links to \"405 Things to Do,\" brought to you by the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau.",
"\"The 405 closure is the perfect opportunity to discover ... and rediscover ... the great activities, restaurants, shops and sites close to home in the many unique neighborhoods of Los Angeles County,\" the page touts.",
"\"Over the next few days leading up to the 405 closure, we will be adding 50 suggestions per day.\"",
"JetBlue is offering $4 fares each way from Burbank to Long Beach on Saturday and Sunday.",
"Amtrak California offers coach passengers a 50% discount on trains traveling between Los Angeles Union Station and Burbank Bob Hope Airport.",
"There is an app, or several, for \"Carmageddon.\"",
"KABC has partnered with Waze to help navigate the traffic.",
"\"The app provides free turn-by-turn GPS navigation based on the live conditions of the road,\" the station said.",
"Twitter titan and actor Ashton Kutcher has gotten into the act: \"LAPD askd me 2tweet: 405fwy btwn 10 & 101 will b closed July16-17.",
"In xchange I would like a free pass on that stoplight tickt IT WAS YELLOW.\"",
"For those venturing out, it's all about the proper attitude.",
"The Automobile Club of Southern California, while urging motorists to stay away from the construction zone, has provided tips for those driving Southern California roadways this weekend.",
"It suggested leaving home early, listening to calming music and news updates or stopping at a restaurant or park for a break, if necessary.",
"\"Avoid directing anger at other drivers, even if they are discourteous or distracted,\" AAA said.",
"\"Concentrate on your own driving.\""
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"Major freeway project this weekend in Los Angeles .",
"Interstate 405 work will cause backups throughout the region .",
"People are being warned to plan, avoid the area or stay home ."
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"Beijing, China (CNN) -- Starbucks has not only helped popularize coffee in China, it's also aiming to bring Chinese coffee to the world.",
"\"Starbucks, for the first time in our 40-year history, is going to start growing coffee,\" CEO Howard Schultz said while on a trip to Beijing.",
"\"We're going to actually plant trees and grow coffee in China, in the Yunnan Province.\"",
"The U.S.-based chain is making what Schultz calls \"a comprehensive strategic commitment to doing business in China, in a way that's locally relevant.\"",
"Yunnan coffee is already known as some of the best in Asia, owing to the southern province's fertile soil, weather and water.",
"Starbucks is working with Yunnan's provincial government \"to share our coffee knowledge, to help Yunnan continue to develop into a top-quality coffee-growing region and bring the distinctive Yunnan coffee taste to our customers around the world,\" Schultz said.",
"The chain will help develop and operate a farm and processing facilities in Yunnan, the company says, and will also work with area farmers to boost their crop's yield and quality.",
"\"We've discovered a part of the area there that can produce the world's best coffee,\" the CEO said.",
"\"And in three to four years, we will bring coffee from Yunnan to the world.\"",
"In a country full of tea drinkers, Starbucks is making good progress, Schultz said.",
"\"We've been here for 12 years now, with 400 stores in the mainland, 800 stores in greater China,\" he said.",
"As far as what's driving business in China, Schultz said, \"Obviously, there's a tremendous size, in terms of the aspirational middle class, the numbers of people who have access to disposable income.",
"And also they're quite familiar with western brands.",
"One of the things that surprised us the most is how aware they were of Starbucks before we got here.",
"\"And how fast they embrace change is another thing that has really surprised us.",
"People were drinking black coffee when we got here.",
"Now they are drinking cafe latte and cappuccinos and Frappuccinos,\" Schultz said.",
"\"China is going to be the fastest-growing, biggest market for the future of Starbucks, outside of North America,\" he added."
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"Starbucks expects to start exporting Yunnan beans in three or four years .",
"Yunnan coffee is already known as some of the best in Asia .",
"The region can produce the world's best coffee, Starbucks' CEO says .",
"The chain has 800 stores in greater China ."
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"(CNN) -- Wimbledon champion Serena Williams recovered from an awful start to beat Tsvetana Pironkova in the opening round at the Eastbourne grass-court event, her first match since victory at the All England Club last year.",
"The American lost the opening five games to her Bulgarian opponent, but gradually found her form to secure a 1-6 6-3 6-4 victory in just over two hours.",
"The 13-time grand slam champion, who has been off the court for nearly a year because of a long-standing foot injury, before developing a blood clot in her lungs, will now face top seed Vera Zvonareva in a repeat of last year's Wimbledon final.",
"Serena: 'I came back from death bed' Williams told reporters: \"It wasn't an easy match but more than anything, I wanted to win.",
"\"She's an unbelievable player and beat Venus at Wimbledon last year.",
"When I saw the draw I thought 'Oh my god.'",
"I'm a little rusty but I enjoy being back on the grass.\"",
"Russian Zvonareva secured her place in the second round with a 6-3 6-3 victory over Briton Heather Watson.",
"Serena's win followed on from older sister Venus knocking out eighth seed Andrea Petkovic in her comeback match on Monday.",
"Fourth seed and former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone is also through after a 7-6 6-1 win over Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, while another former Roland Garros winner, Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, saw off up-and-coming German Julia Goerges 6-4 6-3.",
"Ivanovic told reporters that she is starting to find her form again after a dismal last couple of years.",
"\"In the last few weeks I'm starting to gain more confidence again and there are things that I have to work on during matches,\" she added.",
"British number one Elena Baltacha, who is now up to 61st in the world, gave the home crowd some cheer with a 6-2 6-1 thumping of Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai, while holder Ekaterina Makarova of Russia struggled past Croatian qualifier Mirjana Lucic 6-1 3-6 6-4.",
"In the men's section, South African sixth seed Kevin Anderson defeated British qualifier Alexander Slabinsky 7-5 6-3, but fifth seed Sergiy Stakhovsky suffered a shock 6-3 6-2 defeat at the hands of former Wimbledon semifinalist Rainer Schuettler.",
"Later in the afternoon, Queen's Club runner-up and top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga enjoyed a comfortable 6-2 7-5 victory over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.",
"Meanwhile, there was a major shock in the UNICEF Open in s'Hertogenbosch with top seed Kim Clijsters crashing out in the second round.",
"Clijsters, the reigning U.S. Open and Australian Open champion, was beaten 7-6 6-3 by Swiss-born Italian qualifier Romina Oprandi, ranked 82nd in the world.",
"Clijsters later told reporters she would undergo more tests on the right ankle that she hurt while dancing at a cousin's wedding earlier this year.",
"\"I'm going to have some more tests and then I'll be able to give a more specific answer about the situation,\" said Clijsters.",
"\"I feel like I was hitting the ball very well in practice.",
"I was moving well.",
"I wasn't really worried too much,\" she added.",
"Oprandi will next face Kimiko Date-Krumm after the Japanese veteran beat Lourdes Dominguez-Lino 7-6 6-0."
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"Wimbledon champion Serena Williams through to the second round at Eastbourne .",
"The American recovers from losing the opening set to defeat Tsvetana Pironkova .",
"There are also victories on Tuesday for Francesca Schiavione and Ana Ivanovic ."
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"(CNN) -- Wildlife officials in Colorado say they have killed a bear believed to have been involved in an attack on a teenage boy Friday morning.",
"Park officials used 10 tracking dogs to hunt for the brazen black bear, which wandered into a heavily-populated campsite overnight.",
"They established a scent trail by late afternoon, said spokesman Randy Hampton of Colorado Parks and Wildlife.",
"At the end of the trail, they discovered a 200-pound bear that matched the description of the one involved in the early morning attack.",
"It was shot and killed.",
"Officials had said earlier they would have to kill the bear, pointing to the bold and aggressive behavior it exhibited when it wandered into the site with so many campers.",
"The incident occurred in an encampment filled with hundreds of people participating in a bow-hunting event, Hampton said.",
"\"We manage wild bears for a healthy and thriving population,\" said Dan Prenzlow, regional manager for wildlife with Colorado Parks and Wildlife.",
"\"But when an individual bear enters a tent and attacks a sleeping person, we manage that animal to protect the public safety.\"",
"The bear entered a tent occupied by a teenage boy and at least one other person early Friday.",
"It bit the boy on the leg, but the teen fought it off.",
"The bear was then chased away by the teen and other campers at the site.",
"Wildlife officials who responded to the scene determined that the black bear had been poking around the campsite before it attacked the teenage boy.",
"Investigators said they found a ransacked cooler and evidence that food had been eaten before the bear entered the tent.",
"The teenager was taken to a hospital in nearby Leadville, Colorado, Hampton said.",
"He was treated for deep lacerations on one of his legs and released.",
"He is expected to recover but will receive followup treatment.",
"Hampton estimated that there are around 12,000 black bears on Colorado's 23 million acres of public land.",
"There are no known brown bears or grizzlies in the state.",
"Earlier this month, a man was killed in a grizzly bear attack in Wyoming's Yellowstone Park.",
"But park officials said the man, who was hiking with his wife, surprised the female grizzly while she was with her cubs.",
"They determined that she was acting defensively and decided not to put the bear down.",
"CNN's Nigel Walwyn contributed to this report."
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"Black bear enters a tent and bites a teenage boy in the leg .",
"The boy fights off the bear, a Colorado parks spokesman says .",
"Wildlife officials kill the bear due to its apparent aggressiveness .",
"Tracking dogs are used to help find the bear ."
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"(CNN) -- Goalkeeper Hope Solo tells CNN the current United States women's team want to emulate the achievements of the 1999 World Cup-winning squad.",
"Pia Sundhage's U.S. face Japan in the 2011 World Cup final in Frankfurt on Sunday, 12 years after a team containing stars such as Mia Hamm and Michelle Akers defeated China on penalties to claim the sport's biggest prize.",
"Solo was 17 when the U.S. clinched their second World Cup triumph on home soil at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and, now 29, the magicJack goalkeeper wants the class of 2011 to create their own piece of sporting history.",
"\"Of course they [the 1999 team] inspired me,\" said Solo, \"Michelle Akers being the true inspiration.",
"Soccer inspires post-quake Japan .",
"\"Not only me but many members of this team.",
"She was a true, true winner and we hope she's back there watching.",
"The '99 team truly paved the way for all of us.",
"\"We wouldn't be where we are today as a federation [without them].",
"They set the standard, they set the bar high ... with that said, 12 years on this team wants to write their own storybook ending.\"",
"Solo has been one of the standout performers in the U.S. team's run to the final, her highlight being a save from Daiane during a pulsating penalty shootout victory over Brazil in the quarterfinals.",
"Wambach heads to World Cup final .",
"But despite the plaudits that have come her way, Solo insists the U.S. squad will not be satisfied unless they return home with the World Cup trophy.",
"\"We're not surprised where we stand right now.",
"We came into this tournament with one goal.",
"It wasn't to beat Brazil in the quarterfinal, it wasn't to make it to the final.",
"It was to win the whole thing.",
"\"I think when you get this close, you would have a lot of regrets if you walked away and you didn't win it all.\""
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"Hope Solo has told CNN the U.S. women's team are inspired by the '99 world champions .",
"Solo wants the 2011 team to create their own piece of history .",
"Pia Sundhage's U.S. team face Japan in the women's World Cup final on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Former \"Gunsmoke\" actor James Arness, who played Marshal Matt Dillon in the western TV series for 20 years, died Friday from natural causes, according to his website.",
"He was 88. Over the two decades of \"Gunsmoke\" episodes from 1955 to 1975, Arness worked with hundreds of actors, some of them just up-and-comers such as Harrison Ford, Burt Reynolds and Charles Bronson.",
"He also worked with Bette Davis.",
"Arness left behind a letter to his fans, which was posted on his website after his death: .",
"\"I had a wonderful life and was blessed with some many loving people and great friends.",
"The best part of my life was my family, especially my wife, Janet.",
"Many of you met her at Dodge City so you understand what a special person she is,\" Arness wrote.",
"\"I wanted to take this time to thank all of you for the many years of being a fan of 'Gunsmoke,' 'The Thing,' 'How the West Was Won' and all the other fun projects I was lucky enough to have been allowed to be a part of.",
"I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.",
"EW: Why Arness was greatest TV Western lawman .",
"\"I was honored to have served in the army for my country.",
"I was at Anzio during WWII and it makes you realize how very precious life is,\" Arness wrote.",
"\"Thank you again for all the many letters, cards, emails and gifts we received from you over the years.",
"You are and always have been truly appreciated,\" he concluded.",
"Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 26, 1923, Arness later served in the Army and was sent in 1944 to Anzio, the Italian beach that the Army said was the setting for the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind.",
"Arness was wounded in his right leg and received the Purple Heart.",
"According to an Army website, during the four months of the Anzio Campaign, the Allied VI Corps experienced more than over 29,200 combat casualties (4,400 killed, 18,000 wounded, and 6,800 prisoners or missing) and 37,000 noncombat casualties.",
"German combat losses were estimated at 27,500 (5,500 killed, 17,500 wounded, and 4,500 prisoners or missing), according to the Army.",
"Arness' acting debut was in a movie called \"The Farmer's Daughter\" opposite Loretta Young.",
"He worked for John Wayne's film production company Batjac and made movies with Wayne including \"Islands in the Sky,\" \"Hondo,\" \"The Sea Chase\" and \"Big Jim McLain.\"",
"Arness also acted in the 1951 sci-fi classic \"The Thing,\" and his 6-foot-7 height made the creature more believable, according to his website.",
"After \"Gunsmoke,\" Arness continued acting in television in the mini-series \"How the West Was Won\" in 1978-79 and \"McLain's Law\" in 1981-82.",
"In addition to his wife, Arness is survived by two sons and six grandchildren.",
"The services will be private."
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"Arness was a World War II hero who received the Purple Heart ."
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"New York (CNN) -- \"The Book of Mormon,\" a musical satire about religion written by the creators of \"South Park,\" and \"War Horse,\" a British play about a boy's search for his beloved horse, dominated the 65th annual Tony Awards Sunday night.",
"The apparent predestination of \"The Book of Mormon\" as the big winner was not lost on comedian Chris Rock before he presented the best musical Tony.",
"\"This is such a waste of time,\" Rock joked.",
"\"It's like taking a hooker to dinner.\"",
"\"The Book of Mormon\" got the best musical Tony, along with eight other trophies.",
"The show had been nominated in 14 categories.",
"What the show lacked in suspense was made up with entertainment as two-time Tony host Neil Patrick Harris guided the three-hour broadcast from Broadway's Beacon Theatre.",
"Harris, who is openly homosexual, opened the show with a tongue-in-cheek number proclaiming \"Broadway's not just for gays anymore.\"",
"Most of the dozen song-and-dance performances were from nominated musicals, but the leading actors for \"Spider-man, Turn Off the Dark\" sang a duet from the show that opens on Broadway next Tuesday.",
"\"War Horse\" was the big winner among plays, winning all five categories in which it was nominated -- including the best play Tony.",
"It is the story of a teen's journey to find his horse after it was shipped to France for duty in World War I.",
"If an award was given for the most emotional and breathless acceptance speech, it might have gone to Nikki M. James, the 30-year-old actress who claimed her first Tony after a decade of work on Broadway.",
"\"They say wrap it up, but I will not leave the stage,\" James said, well into her acceptance of the best featured actress in a musical Tony.",
"James, who played an African girl in \"The Book of Mormon,\" claimed the only acting award given to the show.",
"\"The Book of Mormon\" wins set up what might have been the most unlikely of Tony \"thank you\" speeches.",
"\"It it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here,\" Trey Parker told fans of his Comedy Central animated series \"South Park\" as he and Casey Nicholaw accepted the Tony for best direction of a musical.",
"Later, when Parker accepted the best musical award, he thanked \"Joseph Smith, the founder of the Morman religion.\"",
"\"He couldn't be here tonight, but you did it, Joseph, you got the Tony,\" Parker said.",
"John Larroquette now has a Tony to sit on a shelf with his five TV Emmys.",
"The former \"Night Court\" actor won the best featured actor in a musical for his Broadway debut in \"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.\"",
"Ellen Barkin, a veteran film and television actress, won the best featured actress in a play Tony for her Broadway debut in \"The Normal Heart.\"",
"\"Performing in 'The Normal Heart' is a very profound experience for me,\" Barkin said in her acceptance speech.",
"\"It's the proudest moment in my career.\"",
"Barkin's \"Normal Heart\" co-star John Benjamin Hickey was given the best featured actor award.",
"The play, which focuses on the early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York, was chosen the best play revival.",
"The best leading actor in a play award went to Mark Rylance for his role as Johnny \"Rooster\" Byron, a former daredevil motorcyclist in \"Jerusalem.\"",
"Norbert Leo Butz, who portrays FBI Agent Carl Hanratty in \"Catch Me If You Can,\" captured the best leading actor in a musical Tony.",
"His character chases a con artist, based on the real-life story of Frank Abagnale, Jr.",
"The best leading actress in a play award was handed to Frances McDormand for her \"Good People\" role as a struggling out-of-work mother.",
"Sutton Foster, who won a best actress Tony in 2002 for \"Thoroughly Modern Millie,\" got a second trophy Sunday night.",
"Foster carried home this year's best actress in a musical Tony for \"Anything Goes.\"",
"\"Anything Goes\" also won for best musical revival and best choreography."
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"\"The Book of Mormon'\" wins 9 musical Tony awards .",
"\"War Horse\" pulls 5 awards, including best play Tony .",
"Neil Patrick Harris hosted the song-and-dance filled broadcast ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The guard who killed the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, had for years worked with International Security Assistance Forces against Taliban militants, according to three local officials with direct knowledge of the dealings.",
"Sardar Mohammed, who authorities say shot and killed Kandahar's provincial council chief Ahmed Wali Karzai, received training from ISAF and participated in intelligence gathering against militants across the region, according to Besmellah Afghanmal, a provincial council member with close ties to the Karzai family.",
"He \"was one of the trusted commanders for the Karzais,\" Afghanmal told CNN.",
"\"Sardar Mohammad was working with American Special Forces closely and he was participating in many operations with American Special forces against the Taliban in (the) south.\"",
"Others, like provincial parliament member Hashim Watanwal, say Mohammad had worked with both U.S. and Canadian forces in Kandahar -- an ethnically Pashtun dominated region long-considered the Taliban heartland.",
"Baz Mohammed, a Kandahar tribal elder with close connections to the Karzai clan, said the guard was \"a trustworthy person\" who collaborated regularly with ISAF in Kandahar.",
"An ISAF spokeswoman declined to comment on the claims.",
"Though suspected of corruption and opium dealing, Wali Karzai was considered a major power-broker in Afghanistan's restive south and a bulwark for his brother against the Taliban militancy.",
"His death Tuesday sent shock-waves across Afghanistan's political landscape, and prompted President Karzai to weep as mourners gathered for his half-brother's burial the following day.",
"Saidkhan Khakrezwal, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said he and others were with Wali Karzai when the guard came into the room and asked to talk to him.",
"The guard took \"Wali to another room and shoots him with a pistol that he had in his hand,\" Khakrezwal said.",
"Local authorities say the shooter was then shot dead by other guards.",
"The Taliban soon claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying Mohammed had been working for them.",
"It is not clear whether the guard had been a member of a Taliban sleeper cell or if the killing was motivated by some other factor.",
"On Thursday, in a brazen strike illustrating the power and reach of Afghan militants, a suicide bomber slipped into a Kandahar mosque and killed at least six people, wounding 15 others.",
"The attack occurred as several high-ranking Afghan officials gathered to remember Wali Karzai.",
"CNN's Faizel Reshad contributed to this report ."
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"Sardar Mohammed for years worked against Taliban militants, according to three local officials .",
"He worked with both U.S. and Canadian forces in Kandahar, an official said .",
"Sardar Mohammed shot and killed Kandahar's provincial council chief Ahmed Wali Karzai, police say .",
"Wali Karzai was the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai ."
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"Havana (CNN) -- More than 50 years after the fact, Cuba has published the diary that Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara kept during the armed struggle that he waged alongside Fidel Castro from the Sierra Maestra mountains.",
"\"Diary of a Combatant\" recounts Guevara's experiences from coming ashore in Cuba on December 2, 1956, until shortly before the bearded rebels declared victory January 1, 1959.",
"According to Guevara's widow, Aleida March, the goal is \"to show his work, his thoughts, his life, so that the Cuban people and the entire world get to know him and don't distort things anymore.\"",
"The book was edited by the Che Guevara Studies Center, which is directed by March, and published by Australia's Ocean Press/Ocean Sur.",
"Researchers said that Guevara kept his diary in hand-written notebooks and that part of the reason they put off publishing the diary was because some of the notebooks were missing.",
"\"Where are the notebooks? We don¹t know, and there are a lot of different versions,\" Maria del Carmen Ariet, a leading researcher from the Che Guevara Studies Center, said at a press conference to launch the book.",
"But she also said that much of the material was included in \"Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War,\" a more polished account of his time in the Sierra Maestra mountains that Guevara published in 1963.",
"\"We'd have to ask if he really wanted the 'Diary of a Combatant' published,\" she said.",
"Some of Guevara's other diaries have been commercially successful, most notably \"The Motorcycle Diaries,\" the memoir of a 23-year-old medical student on a road trip in Latin America.",
"Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and met Castro in 1955 in Mexico City, where he was plotting his return to Cuba to overthrow Fulgencio Batista.",
"During the guerrilla fighting in the mountains, Guevara was the first subordinate to be promoted to the rank of \"comandante\" by Castro.",
"He went on to become Cuba's Central Bank chief before heading to Africa and then Bolivia to continue armed struggles.",
"He was killed in 1967."
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"\"Diary of a Combatant\" spans period between 1956 and 1959 .",
"It includes accounts of armed struggle beside Fidel Castro in Cuba .",
"Much of the material was published in a 1963 book ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Divers have completed their search of a Russian cruise ship that sank last weekend with the loss of many lives, the Emergency Situations Ministry told CNN Friday.",
"The official death toll has reached 114 -- including 66 women, 28 children and 20 men, the ministry said.",
"The bodies of 15 people are still missing.",
"There were 208 people on the \"Bulgaria\" at the time of the accident Sunday, of whom 79 were rescued.",
"Divers have checked all the boat's compartments, the ministry said, and are now looking for more bodies around the boat as well downstream on the Volga River, where they could have been carried by the current.",
"The area where search efforts continue has been enlarged to 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the scene, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said at a briefing Friday.",
"Preparations are under way for the cruise ship to be raised from the river bottom in the coming days.",
"Two large boat cranes, one from Moscow and another one from Volgograd, which will be used for the lifting, are on the way to the accident site.",
"\"We have asked the Emergency Situations Ministry to keep 23 divers at the scene to continue the search for bodies even during the lifting operation,\" Levitin said.",
"Specialist military divers were brought in mid-week to aid in the search efforts.",
"Four people face criminal charges over the sinking of the ship, which Russian media have called the most devastating river accident in the country's history.",
"All agencies and organizations involved in tourism must be held accountable, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a special government meeting Friday devoted to the accident.",
"\"This means that not only people who rubber-stamp documents, not only scapegoats, but also organizers of cruises must answer,\" he said, in comments broadcast by Russian state TV.",
"\"The measure of punishment to be chosen must make it clear to each executive, irrespective of rank, that he or she will be held responsible for each cruise not only administratively, but also criminally.",
"Criminal liability must be sufficiently serious.\"",
"Medvedev said it would be too expensive and complicated for Russia immediately to replace the fleets of ageing ships in use on rivers and at sea.",
"But, he said, that did not mean those carrying out inspections should not be thorough.",
"\"It is our task to find out the causes of the accident -- they are more or less clear now -- and also to prevent disasters,\" he said.",
"ArgoRechTour, the company that sub-leased the \"Bulgaria\", had illegally organized five cruises on the ship in the summer of 2011 prior to the accident, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said in a report published on its website Friday.",
"The vessel did not have a license to transport passengers, was overloaded, and was last repaired more than 30 years ago, the prosecutors said earlier this week.",
"They had also established that the left engine of the ship was damaged, the prosecutors said on their website.",
"The vessel was built in 1955 in Czechoslovakia, according to Russian law enforcement officials.",
"The double-deck cruise ship went down near the village of Syukeyevo in Tatarstan, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the city of Kazan.",
"Kazan is about 724 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow."
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"NEW: The search for bodies has been extended to 125 miles from the scene, the transport minister says .",
"NEW: President Medvedev says those involved in cruises should be held accountable .",
"Divers have searched all the compartments of the \"Bulgaria,\" officials say .",
"The cruise ship is due to be raised from the bottom of the Volga River this weekend ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- A Georgia woman has been convicted of human trafficking and other charges for bringing two Nigerian women to the United States and forcing them to work in her lavish home like slaves, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday.",
"Bidemi Bello, 41, was convicted on eight counts by a federal jury late last week: two counts each of forced labor, trafficking for forced labor and making false statements in an application to become a U.S. citizen, and one count each of document servitude and alien harboring.",
"\"The evidence showed that this was a case of modern-day slavery hidden within an expensive home in an upscale neighborhood,\" said Sally Quillian Yates, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.",
"Bello recruited her first victim, identified as \"Laome,\" in 2001, according to prosecutors.",
"The girl was 17 when she traveled, using a fake British passport that Bello had gotten for her, they said.",
"The second victim, identified as \"Dupe,\" traveled to the United States in 2004, when she was 20, also on a fake passport.",
"Both women were promised a better life and told that Bello would help further their educations.",
"But upon arriving in the United States, they discovered a decidedly darker reality.",
"Bello beat the women for any perceived infraction -- not cleaning well, not responding quickly enough to the cries of her child, talking back -- with whatever weapon was available: shoes, a large wooden spoon, electric cords and her hands, evidence showed.",
"Testimony also revealed that Bello forced the women to sleep on the floor or couch and bathe with a bucket.",
"They were not allowed to eat what they cooked, and Bello sometimes gave the women spoiled food, evidence showed.",
"Prosecutors said Bello never paid the women for their years of work and made them dependent on her for all their basic necessities.",
"Attempts to contact Bello's attorney were unsuccessful Monday.",
"Laome managed to escape with the help of a friend, buried beneath blankets in the back of the other woman's car, while Dupe scrounged enough money to pay for a cab and sought help at a local church, prosecutors said.",
"Both women testified during the one-week trial.",
"Bello, who holds both American and Nigerian citizenship, is scheduled to be sentenced August 24.",
"The two forced labor charges and the two trafficking for forced labor charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.",
"She is also expected to be stripped of her American citizenship, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Coppedge.",
"If she is, Bello would be deported after serving her expected sentence.",
"Around the world, as estimated 12.3 million adults and children -- 56% of whom are women and girls -- are the victims of forced labor, bonded labor and sex slavery, according to U.S. State Department.",
"The trade puts approximately $32 billion into the pockets of traffickers each year.",
"Coppedge, who is helping prosecute Bello's case, said she is sure similar cases exist in Atlanta and elsewhere in the United States.",
"\"Unfortunately, yes,\" she said.",
"\"I do think there are others.\"",
"Her office urged anyone with information on a human trafficking case to contact the Atlanta FBI at (404) 679-9000."
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"Bidemi Bello was found guilty on eight counts .",
"An attorney describes the case as one of \"modern-day slavery\"\nBello had promised to help further the women's educations .",
"She never paid them and repeatedly beat both women, evidence shows ."
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"Madrid (CNN) -- Spain's opposition conservatives were heading to victory Sunday over the ruling Socialists in local and regional elections, with 84% of the vote counted, according to official results.",
"The opposition Popular Party had 37% of the vote to the Socialists' 27%.",
"The Socialists lost two major posts to conservatives: mayor of Seville and presidency of the Castilla La Mancha region --- where the famed Don Quijote novel was set.",
"This will be the first time in 30 years Socialists will not be at the helm of the La Mancha region.",
"Exit polls indicated the Socialists could also lose the prized Barcelona mayor's post after 32 years to the moderate Catalan nationalist party, Convergence and Union.",
"Polls predict the ruling Socialist Party will suffer deep losses to the conservatives in voting for all 8,000 Spanish city and town mayors and for presidents of 13 out of the 17 regional governments.",
"The outcome is viewed as a bellwether for national elections, due no later than March 2012.",
"The elections came after a campaign overshadowed by week-long protests in Madrid and other cities over the nation's deep economic crisis.",
"Despite a court-approved ban on demonstrations the day before the elections, the demonstrations had continued on Saturday.",
"The Socialist government did not order the police to disband the peaceful demonstrations on Saturday, despite the electoral board's ban that said the day prior to balloting should be a day of reflection, without politicking.",
"Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba had said earlier that police would not create even more problems than already existed in the streets.",
"Rubalcaba voted early on Sunday, shortly after polls opened at 9 a.m. Rubalcaba is widely expected to seek the nomination of the Socialist Party as candidate for prime minister in the next general elections.",
"The current prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, announced last month he would not seek a third term.",
"His government has been squeezed by Spain's 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial crisis that prompted unpopular austerity measures.",
"That's what helped start a wave of protests May 15, when Spaniards using social media sites like Facebook convened demonstrations that attracted large crowds.",
"The protests against the political and financial establishment continued and gained force throughout last week, as demonstrators set up encampments in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol plaza and at emblematic plazas in Barcelona and many other Spanish cities.",
"Overall, reports indicated that tens of thousands took to the streets across the nation in the past week, and news media attention on the protests quickly overshadowed the campaign.",
"Protesters decided Sunday to stay at least another week in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol plaza, said Juan Lopez, a protest spokesman and internet technology manager who is currently unemployed.",
"\"The assembly has just approved that,\" Lopez told CNN by phone.",
"The protesters have divided themselves into decision-making bodies they call assemblies, which debate and then vote on issues.",
"Lopez said the decision applies only to the protest in Madrid, which has been the largest in Spain.",
"Barcelona and other cities would make their own decision.",
"\"We are trying to coordinate,\" he said, but added that, so far, nationwide collaboration is not in place.",
"The sprawling tent city in Madrid's plaza includes a kitchen, a painting workshop to churn out protest placards, a communications office to answer media inquiries and even a day care nursery.",
"Young people dominated the protests on Saturday, but there were also families with young children, senior citizens and many people who have jobs and said they're concerned about the nation's future.",
"Spain has a 42% jobless rate for people ages 16 to 24.",
"A total of 34 million Spaniards were eligible to vote on Sunday, including 500,000 foreigners, mainly from other European Union nations, who have established residency in Spain.",
"About 100,000 police officers were on duty to maintain safety."
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"8,000 local mayoral seats and 13 regional government presidencies are up for election .",
"Thousands have set up tent camps and protested Spain's economic situation .",
"Spain has a 21% unemployment rate ."
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"(CNN) -- South Africa declared national days of mourning Saturday to honor Albertina Sisulu, an icon of the anti-apartheid movement who died this week.",
"Sisulu was 92. The president said flags would fly at half-mast and mourning would last until her burial, which will take place with military honors.",
"Funeral plans for Sisulu, who died Thursday, have not been finalized.",
"Sisulu was married to anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu for nearly 60 years.",
"The couple played a pivotal role in the anti-apartheid movement, and her husband was imprisoned for decades with former South African President Nelson Mandela.",
"Affectionately called \"Ma Sisulu,\" she was also detained numerous times and was held in solitary confinement for seven weeks in 1963, the ruling African National Congress said.",
"As soon as she was free, she took to the streets to rally against the trials of anti-apartheid movement leaders.",
"\"Soon after her husband was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, Albertina was served with a harsh five-year order prohibiting her from attending any gatherings of more than two persons, confining her to her location and preventing her from any political activities,\" the ruling party said.",
"Years later, she faced various bans, including one confining her to her home at nights, weekends and public holidays.",
"Despite the bans, she continued with her quest for liberation.",
"\"Although politics has given me a rough life, there is absolutely nothing I regret about what I have done and what has happened to me and my family,\" she said, according to the ruling party.",
"\"Instead, I have been strengthened and feel more of a woman than I would otherwise have felt if my life was different.\"",
"Sisulu and her husband dedicated their lives to the struggle for freedom in South Africa, and endured banishment, detention and humiliation, said President Jacob Zuma.",
"\"Mama Sisulu has over the decades been a pillar of strength not only for the Sisulu family, but also the entire liberation movement as she reared, counseled, nursed and educated most of the leaders and founders of the democratic South Africa,\" Zuma said.",
"The president said the nation has lost a leader and a role model.",
"Sisulu founded the Federation of South African Women and other civic groups.",
"She gave political guidance and served as a mother figure to activists and other civic organizations, the African National Congress said.",
"\"South Africa remains eternally grateful and indebted to this stalwart of the liberation and an assuming leader of all races of our people,\" Zuma said in a statement.",
"Sisulu is survived by her children and grandchildren.",
"Her husband died in 2003."
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"Albertina Sisulu and her husband played a pivotal role in the fight to end apartheid .",
"President Jacob Zuma declares days of national mourning .",
"He says flags would fly at half-mast until the day of burial ."
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"(CNN) -- Gary Kirsten has been named as the new coach of South Africa's national cricket side following his successful three-year stint with India.",
"The 43-year-old decided not to renew his contract with India after leading the sub-continent team to victory in the limited overs Cricket World Cup in April.",
"Kirsten, a former opening batsman for South Africa, also transformed India into the world's top-ranked team in the five-day Test format.",
"\"I believe this is a natural progression as far as my coaching career is concerned.",
"My coaching philosophy will not be any different than it was for the Indian team,\" he told the Cricket South Africa website on Monday.",
"\"I always endeavor to influence players in a positive way and give them options so that they can grow both as cricketers and as people.\"",
"CSA chief executive Gerald Majola said he was delighted to appoint a man who scored more than 7,000 runs in 101 Tests for his country, scoring 21 centuries.",
"\"The selection of Gary has brought to an end a process that started several years ago when he first expressed interest in the position,\" Majola said.",
"\"Gary's credentials and cricketing experiences speak for themselves and the Board of CSA is confident that he will lead the Proteas to new heights in all formats of the game.\"",
"Kirsten fills the gap left by caretaker coach Corrie Van Zyl, who took the Proteas to the quarterfinals of the World Cup after Mickey Arthur quit in January 2010.",
"He will be assisted by coach Russell Domingo, while former South Africa star Allan Donald will be the team's bowling coach.",
"Kirsten has appointed A.B.",
"de Villiers as the Proteas' new captain for limited overs matches, and the batsman will be Graeme Smith's deputy for Test matches.",
"Meanwhile, the rain-hit second Test between England and Sri Lanka at Lord's appeared to be heading for a draw after the hosts built a 142-run lead going into the final day in London.",
"Alastair Cook followed up his first-innings 96 with an unbeaten 61 as England reached 149-2 at stumps on Monday.",
"The opener put on 117 for the second wicket with Jonathan Trott (58) after captain Andrew Strauss was dismissed for a second-ball duck by Chanaka Welegedara.",
"Sri Lanka had earlier been dismissed for 479, seven runs behind England, after resuming the fourth day on 372-3.",
"Steven Finn took 4-108 to become, at 22, the youngest English bowler to reach 50 Test wickets.",
"England will be hoping to set a target and see if they can repeat the final-day demolition of the Sri Lankan batsman that earned an innings victory in the opening match in Cardiff last week."
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"The 43-year-old has just ended a three-year spell with World Cup winners India .",
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"Second Test between England and Sri Lanka at Lord's is heading for a draw ."
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"(CNN) -- The Canadian woman who was rescued after being stranded and alone for 49 days in a Nevada wilderness left behind handwritten notes about her ordeal, officials said Monday.",
"The notes were found in the van where Rita Chretien was found on Friday, said Owyhee County (Idaho) Sheriff Daryl Crandall.",
"The van was in remote territory near where Oregon, Idaho and Nevada meet.",
"\"Please help.",
"Stuck\" is the way one note begins.",
"The call for help has a date written below it that simply reads \"since Mar 19/11.\"",
"According to officials, the date marks the last time anyone had seen Chretien or her husband.",
"The next line continues with \"No food.",
"No gas. Dead bat. (battery) Lost my way!\"",
"Then the writing gets smaller as the space on the paper begins to run out, the note now reads, \"Al went to get help.",
"Find Mountain City.",
"Did not return!\" And finally, the last words on the page written in red read, \"Maybe died along the way?\"",
"Written in smaller spaces on the paper in a different ink is the couple's name, where they are from, and their phone number.",
"The note also gives name and number of the couple's son, and the date the couple is expected back in home.",
"A second note starts with detailed GPS readings on it, and then outlines the couples inability to get cell service in the rugged mountainous area.",
"Scribbled on the side of the second note is a message that started \"We're headed to Vegas\" and ended \"Got lost.\"",
"Pictures of these notes were taken by the Owyhee County Sheriff's Department amid the weekend search for Albert Chretien, who remained missing three days after his wife's rescue.",
"He left his wife to get help three days after their minivan got stranded off-road in the cold, untamed wilderness.",
"That left Rita alone without much beyond some hard candy, a bag of trail mix, some books and the clothes she'd packed for her trip to Las Vegas.",
"Plus, according to her son Raymond Chretien, she always had faith.",
"Scores of men and women had searched for the Chretiens since the Penticton, British Columbia, residents were last seen March 19 leaving a Shell gas station convenience store in Baker City, Oregon.",
"On Friday, more than a month later, hunters wandered into the area where the van was sitting.",
"Rita Chretien shot up from her spot in the 2000 Chevrolet Astro's backseat when she heard them outside, mustered her lingering strength to open the door and step out shoeless.",
"She waved. Three days later, she was in fair condition, resting comfortably in an Idaho hospital, spending time with her children.",
"\"Right now, we're just celebrating,\" said her son, Raymond, on Sunday, Mother's Day.",
"Even the doctor who oversaw Chretien's care at St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls, Idaho, acknowledged it was not easy to explain how a 56-year-old woman could have such a positive prognosis and demeanor given what she'd gone through.",
"\"In this case, for a person with suboptimal nutrition to survive so long -- let's just say that it is understandable to call it a miracle,\" Dr. James Westberry told reporters Sunday.",
"While rainy and overcast weather forced authorities to call off the first day's air search for Albert Chretien, Cpl.",
"Dan Moskaluk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Saturday that a search dog and about 20 people, riding six to eight all-terrain and four-wheel drive vehicles were on the case.",
"A K-9 unit was also brought in by the Owyhee County Sheriff's Department to help search for the missing man on Saturday.",
"Paula McCollum and her dog Viva covered about four miles in each direction looking for any sign of Chretien.",
"But after the daylight started to fade and weather took a turn for the worse, search efforts came to halt.",
"McCollum said she was shocked that Rita Chretien was able to survive the cold, mountainous region alone, and she wished her husband had remained at her side.",
"\"People keep going,\" McCollum said as she recounted her efforts to locate Albert Chretien, \"they don't turn-around.\"",
"But by backtracking the Chretiens may have found their way back to a road, she said.",
"Sheriff Crandall agreed.",
"He said the couple's van was found five to eight miles from a ranch where they could have gotten help.",
"Pictures released by the sheriff's department show the van in a extremely remote area with no visible roads.",
"The van was stuck in caked mud, ,a shovel pictured near the back of the van, indicating that someone had been trying to free the vehicle from the mud.",
"While the odds are dwindling that Albert Chretien will be found alive, authorities certainly are not ruling it out, said the police spokesman.",
"\"Neither family nor investigators would have thought that we'd be reporting, after seven weeks, of actually finding somebody alive,\" Moskaluk said.",
"\"Until we know exactly what happened to Al, it remains a mystery.\"",
"Rita and Albert Chretien's stop in Baker City was recorded on the store's surveillance tape.",
"They were en route to a trade show convention in Las Vegas.",
"But they later turned off the highway onto a forest service road that led into Nevada, intending to enjoy the \"scenic route,\" said her son, who'd heard the full story from his ailing mother.",
"The couple took some wrong turns and had thought, based on their map, that their road was better than it was.",
"Then, about 20 miles from the highway, \"apparently the road conditions ... degraded quite drastically,\" said Moskaluk, the police spokesman.",
"By the time darkness fell, the minivan had succumbed to the combination of snow and mud, and was unable to move.",
"On March 22, Albert Chretien left the van, setting off to get help.",
"His wife, who Raymond Chretien said is \"not an outdoorsy type of person,\" remained behind.",
"Rita Chretien rationed the little food available -- a beef jerky, some trail mix, fish oil pills, and one piece of hard candy per day.",
"She'd go outside for a walk once a day, using the sunlight to melt snow for drinking water and going to a nearby stream.",
"In the meantime, she had plenty of time to read a few books (some several times) and the Bible, and record her thoughts in a journal.",
"\"She did it because she didn't know the outcome of this,\" her son said, adding that he had not yet read the journal.",
"\"It was intended to sort of tell the story what happened over (those) days.\"",
"All the while, Rita Chretien got weaker, losing 20 to 30 pounds, according to Moskaluk.",
"Her son said that, in her last few days in the wild, she'd come to peace with the sense that her time was dwindling.",
"She penciled May 6 as a critical day in her mind: -- either she'd be rescued or she'd die.",
"\"She definitely had hope.",
"But of course, just like us, every day goes by, you start preparing yourself for both options,\" her son said.",
"\"So she was prepared for either.\"",
"After her discovery, Rita Chretien was airlifted to the Idaho hospital.",
"There, doctors worked first to address her starvation and dehydration, then to build up her ability to eat meals again and gain strength.",
"By Sunday, Westberry said he still hadn't seen her walk, but he said there were no indications of long-term problems and her prognosis was good.",
"Her spirits and evident desire to live, the doctor said, were even better.",
"\"It is unusual for us to see someone in this type of situation to actually not only survive, but to be doing so well at this time,\" Westberry said.",
"\"She obviously had the mindset of survival, and that must have been something that helped her go as long as she did.\"",
"For her son, the best thing was how little his mother had changed after her ordeal.",
"She laughed just the same, and was just as warm, genuine and caring as she'd always been, he said.",
"\"I would have hardly known anything had happened to her,\" he said.",
"\"It was just beyond belief.",
"It's just her. It's amazing.\" CNN's Antoinette Campbell, Greg Botelho, Rick Martin contributed to this report."
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"\"Right now, we're just celebrating,\" Rita Chretien's son says of his mom's recovery .",
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"The search continues for her husband, who left March 22 seeking help ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal had to battle hard to reach the third round of the French Open after a stiff test against fellow Spaniard Pablo Andujar.",
"After being taken to five sets by American John Isner in the opening round, Nadal was made to work hard for a three-hour 7-5 6-3 7-6 (7-4) victory at Roland Garros.",
"The 24-year-old, who is looking for his sixth French Open title, will now play Antonio Veic in the next round after the Croatian defeated Russian 28th seed Nikolay Davydenko 3-6 6-2 7-5 3-6 6-1.",
"After his match, AFP reported that Nadal refused to blame the conditions: \"For a moment today I played better, but in general the match wasn't good for me -- not because of the wind though,\" Nadal said.",
"\"I am practicing well, but not playing well when I play matches -- no excuses.",
"The conditions can have an effect, but it's better to find solutions inside myself than outside.",
"\"My movement is still a little bit slow.",
"I am not happy, but I am here. The beginning of Roland Garros is always tough for me.\"",
"Just like in his opening match, Nadal was sluggish in patches and world number 48 Andujar took advantage to push his opponent to the wire in the first and third sets.",
"The pair exchanged four consecutive breaks of serve in the opening set but when Nadal clinched the second 6-3 with relative ease, a comfortable win looked on the cards.",
"But Andujar raced into a 5-1 lead in the final set after breaking serve twice, Nadal surviving an incredible seven set points to force the match into a tie-break, which he eventually won 7-4.",
"Elsewhere, British fourth seed Andy Murray beat Simone Bolelli 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 7-5 in blustery, overcast conditions on Court Philippe Chatrier.",
"A series of double faults cost Murray ground in the opening set but he battled back into contention to force two set points before taking the tie-break 7-3.",
"Murray's game came together in the second set as he broke his opponent's serve in game seven and took the set but the third was another evenly matched affair.",
"The world number four said the \"brutal\" conditions made life difficult on court.",
"\"The wind was swirling the whole time,\" Murray told reporters.",
"\"It was changing during the rallies so you'd think on one shot 'I've got the wind with me' and it was changing, so there's no real rhythm -- it was really tricky today.\"",
"Fifth seed Robin Soderling, from Sweden, beat Spanish qualifier Albert Ramos 6-3 6-4 6-4 while Spaniard Fernando Verdasco beat Belgium's Xavier Malisse 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.",
"American Mardy Fish eased past Robin Haase, while Colombian Alejandro Falla knocked out German 20th seed Florian Mayer.",
"Sam Querrey, the 24th seed, was defeated by Ivan Ljubicic and Serbian 15th seed Viktor Troicki saw off Tobias Kamke."
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"The world number one wins 7-5 6-3 7-6 (7-4) in three hours in Paris .",
"Andy Murray defeats Simone Bolelli to reach the third round .",
"Number five seed Robin Soderling defeats Albert Ramos ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The International Monetary Fund announced its search for a new managing director as its former chief, Dominique-Strauss-Kahn, is confined to a Lower Manhattan apartment following his release on bail from a Rikers Island jail.",
"A private security guard will monitor Strauss-Kahn around the clock, a source with knowledge of the bail agreement said.",
"Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of trying to rape a maid last week in hissuite of rooms at the Sofitel hotel in New York, will pay the cost of the security guard at the apartment in the city's financial district, the source told CNN.",
"A real estate website states two-bedroom apartments with 9-foot ceilings in the landmark, 23-floor, turn-of-the-century building with a doorman start at $4,250 per month.",
"The rental application asks, \"Do you or do any of your occupants have charges pending against you or against them for any criminal offense(s)?\"",
"Strauss-Kahn does.",
"He faces two counts of criminal sexual act; two counts of sexual abuse; and one count each of attempt to commit rape, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.",
"In the charge of criminal sexual act in the first degree, Strauss-Kahn is accused of having \"engaged in oral sexual conduct with an individual ... by forcible compulsion,\" an indictment states.",
"Supreme Court Judge Michael Obus ordered the release of the 62-year-old economist on Friday over the objection of the prosecution, which said he is a flight risk.",
"While Strauss-Kahn is in his apartment, where he is to stay with his wife, Anne Sinclair, he will not be able to leave except for medical reasons, Obus said.",
"Once he is in a longer-term location, the former banker must give six hours' notice before leaving.",
"Defense lawyer William Taylor alluded to Strauss-Kahn's reported failure to win approval to stay at another apartment in pleading Friday with members of the news media to grant his client privacy.",
"\"The reason that he had to move is because members of the press attempted to invade his private residence and interfere with his family's privacy,\" Taylor said.",
"The conditions of Strauss-Kahn's release included $1 million cash bail and $5 million bond.",
"A document signed by bondsman Ira Judelson shows that the bond was secured by money from Sinclair.",
"Judelson would not divulge what Sinclair put up as collateral.",
"\"I feel very comfortable with the bail package (and) the family is,\" Judelson told reporters.",
"\"I worked with them all last night on putting this together.",
"They're good people.\"",
"On Friday, more details emerged about the alleged attack May 14 in Suite 2806 of the Sofitel hotel.",
"A law enforcement source with knowledge of the case said a room service attendant entered the suite a short time before the 32-year-old Guinean maid arrived.",
"The room service attendant didn't think anyone was in the suite of rooms and used a pass key to let himself in to retrieve some room-service items, the source said.",
"He told police he left the door ajar while inside, according to the source.",
"When the maid showed up at the door about noon, the room-service attendant told her to enter, then departed, the source said.",
"Once inside, the maid parked her cleaning cart in the doorway, as dictated by hotel policy.",
"A short time later, Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from a room and attacked her, the victim has alleged.",
"Prosecutors allege that Strauss-Kahn chased her through his suite, sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her.",
"A criminal complaint states Strauss-Kahn shut the door at one point during the alleged attack.",
"The law enforcement source said the maid escaped about 1:30 p.m. About an hour before his 4:40 p.m. flight was to take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport for Paris, Strauss-Kahn called the hotel to say he had left his cell phone.",
"He asked security to look for it in his room and to have it delivered to the airport, the source said.",
"By then, police had been called to the hotel.",
"Though hotel staff never found the phone, they followed police orders, telling Strauss-Kahn they had found it and would deliver it to him, the source said.",
"Port Authority police took over from there, walking a compliant Strauss-Kahn from his first-class seat to a squad car at the airport, the source said.",
"At the time, Strauss-Kahn was in the fourth year of a five-year term with the global financial institution and was paid $441,980 in 2010, according to the most recent annual report.",
"He also got $79,000 and first-class travel for him and his family while he was on company business.",
"On Friday, the IMF said that Strauss-Kahn will receive a $250,000 separation payment and a \"modest annual pension\" thereafter.",
"We don't disclose pension payments,\" said IMF spokesman William Murray.",
"\"But it is well below the separation payment figure.\"",
"The dean of the IMF Executive Board, Shakour Shaalan, announced Friday that the institution adopted a procedure to select its next managing director.",
"In a statement, Shaalan said the board will meet with final candidates in Washington \"with the objective of completing the selection process by June 30, 2011.\"",
"Strauss-Kahn proclaimed innocence in a resignation letter to the IMF Executive Board late Wednesday.",
"\"To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me,\" he said.",
"His next court appearance is set for June 6.",
"The judge granted the bail Thursday on condition that, in addition to posting $1 million in cash and a $5 million bond, Strauss-Kahn surrender his travel documents and submit to home detention.",
"A criminal court judge denied him bail Monday, saying the fact that he was taken into custody aboard an Air France jet made him a flight risk.",
"Strauss-Kahn's lawyer argued Thursday that his client had bought the ticket on May 11, and that he was not fleeing anything.",
"The maid testified before a grand jury Wednesday, according to her attorney.",
"Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman has disputed her allegations, saying \"forensic evidence, we believe, will not be consistent with a forcible account, and we believe there is a very, very defensible case.\"",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Adam Reiss and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
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"Joplin, Missouri (CNN) -- A Missouri mother said Thursday that her 16-year-old son was killed by this week's powerful tornado, one of scores who have been confirmed dead even as authorities try to track down many others who are considered missing.",
"Michelle Hare told CNN that her son Lantz, who was ripped from a car Sunday night by winds exceeding 200 mph in Joplin, is dead and his body has been located.",
"In the wrenching hours and days since the tornado, the boy's father, Mike Hare, said he'd searched hospitals and continually called his son's cell phone, getting no answer.",
"\"It rang for the first day and a half, and now it goes straight to voice mail.",
"But just in case he gets it, I want him to know his dad loves him,\" the father said earlier this week.",
"Lantz Hare was among those on the list, released Thursday by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, of 232 people from the southwest Missouri city for whom missing persons reports have been filled out.",
"At least 126 people in Joplin had died due to the storm as of Thursday night, said Newton County Coroner Mark Bridges.",
"That makes the tornado the single deadliest to touch down in any U.S. community since modern record-keeping began in 1950.",
"The Hares were among many around Joplin, still desparately searching for missing loved ones and clinging to hope.",
"Christina, Caleb and Robert Hayward, for instance, have not seen their mother since the tornado.",
"\"She went for pizza and never came back.",
"It was three, four hours, and we knew,\" Robert Hayward said Wednesday.",
"\"We all miss her. She was a great person.",
"She didn't deserve this at all. Any one of us would trade places with her.\"",
"One of the frustrations for families desperately trying to find their loved ones was a holdup at the morgue.",
"Some were told that they may have to wait for two weeks before they can visit the morgue to search for relatives.",
"Bridges told CNN that people who can make a positive identification of a relative, such as through tattoos, will be allowed to view a body matching that description.",
"Missouri Gov.",
"Jay Nixon said state officials were brought in \"to get this information out much more quickly and respectfully for these families that need to hear the information about the loved ones who are -- have been lost.\"",
"Families of the missing have provided DNA samples and contacted dozens of hospitals, shelters and nursing homes in their bids to learn whether they have a \"John Doe\" or \"Jane Doe\" that could be their loved one.",
"Charles Writer, 74, is one of 12 residents of Greenbriar Nursing Home on the unaccounted for list.",
"Ten residents and a staff member at the home were killed, a company official said.",
"Writer's family received conflicting reports on the Alzheimer's patient's possible fate, said Leah Mitchell, whose husband is Writer's nephew.",
"They have handed out flyers and used a spreadsheet to contact about several dozen facilities.",
"\"There are two sides of the family,\" said Mitchell.",
"\"One has accepted he's deceased, the other side is not sure.\"",
"Patricia Dawson's family Thursday continued its search for the 74-year-old Joplin homemaker.",
"They, too, have contacted many hospitals and nursing homes within 200 miles.",
"Daughter-in-law Sharyn Dawson said the missing woman \"is an awesome granny to our 6-year-old,\" who hasn't been told about the situation.",
"CNN's Chuck Johnston, Joe Sutton, Marlena Baldacci, Phil Gast, Mike Pearson, Jessica Jordan, Sean Morris and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"NEW: At least 126 people are confirmed dead, coroner says .",
"Lantz Hare, who was ripped from a car Sunday, was killed, teen's mother says .",
"He was among those on a list of 232 people in Joplin who'd been reported missing ."
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"(CNN) -- Darren Clarke holds a one-stroke lead going into the final round of the British Open at Royal St George's, Sandwich, as the Northern Irishman carded a one-under-par 69 to defy the wind and rain that plagued the early part of the day.",
"The 42-year-old, who has never won a major championship, is now just 18 holes away from breaking that duck, as he lies on a five-under-par total of 205, one of just six players to be under par after three rounds.",
"Clarke, who is looking to go one better than his second place in the 1997 British Open, will be paired alongside American Dustin Johnson on the final Sunday, after the 27-year-old from South Carolina posted a joint-best 68 for a 54-hole total of 206 (-4).",
"Numbers game: British Open stats you need to know .",
"Johnson is also seeking his first major success, although he was deprived of a possible win in last year's U.S PGA Championship when he was controversially penalised two shots in the final round for grounding his club in a bunker.",
"The only other player to shoot under 70 was American Rickie Fowler -- and the Ryder Cup star's 68 was enough to put him joint third with veteran Dane Thomas Bjorn on 208, three strokes behind Clarke.",
"Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez (72) and joint overnight leader Lucas Glover (73) are another stroke behind to complete the sextet who remain under par.",
"Clarke, who is bidding to become the third Northern Irishman to win a major tournament in just over a year, following the achievements of compatriots Graeme McDowell and McIlory, told the official European Tour website: \"From tee to green I can't really play any better than that.",
"Ugly and unforgiving: Why Britain offers golf's toughest test .",
"\"I had one of those days where I had full control of my ball flight, although I didn't have the speed with my putting at all.",
"But if somebody had said before the start I could have a 69, I would have bitten their hand off.\"",
"The popular Clarke was cheered loudly throughout his round and he commented on the support: \"I think most of the crowd identify with a guy who's not quite an athlete and likes a pint!",
"\"I have a chance to realise a dream now and that would be fantastic.",
"I have been fortunate to win Ryder Cups and world championships, but a major has so far eluded me,\" he added.",
"The third round began in terrible weather conditions, making low scoring practically impossible, although the wind and rain did ease up later in the day to make for a more benign atmosphere for the later starters.",
"Among those players whose chance of victory were swept away with the wind and rain were Paul Casey (78), Pablo Larrazabal (76), Masters champion Charl Schwartzel (75), defending champion Louis Oosthuizen (74) and tournament favorite Rory McIlory (74).",
"However, world number three Martin Kaymer remains in touch on level par despite carding a three-over-par 73, while former world No.1 Phil Mickelson shot a superb 71 to also lie on level par."
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"Darren Clarke leads British Open by one shot after carding a one-under 69 .",
"Clarke is ahead of American Dustin Johnson (68) as just six players lie under par .",
"Ricky Fowler also carded a 68 and lies joint third with Dane Thomas Bjorn ."
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"(CNN) -- The United States must beat Guadeloupe on Tuesday to guarantee a quarterfinal place at the Gold Cup, having suffered a shock first group-stage defeat in the CONCACAF region tournament.",
"Bob Bradley's team go into the final match of pool play in Kansas on the back of Saturday's 2-1 loss to Panama in Florida -- the nation's first such Gold Cup setback in 27 matches and the first in nine encounters with the Central American side.",
"\"I don't think the heat was a factor.",
"On the night we were not sharp enough,\" coach Bradley told the U.S. Soccer website.",
"\"With the fast turnaround, we're clearly going to consider some changes and be ready to go Tuesday night in Kansas City.\"",
"Five Mexico stars banned after failing drugs test .",
"Panama led 2-0 with first-half goals from Luis Tejada and Gabriel Gomez, the latter a penalty after Tim Bream fouled Blas Perez.",
"Striker Clarence Goodson reduced the deficit in the 68th minute when Michael Bradley flicked on Landon Donovan's corner, but the four-time Gold Cup champions could not manage an equalizer.",
"The win put Panama on top of Group C with two victories from two ahead of the final match against Canada, who are level with the U.S. on three points after beating 10-man Guadeloupe 1-0.",
"Jean-Luc Lambourde was sent off in the fourth minute after a foul on Will Johnson, while Dwayne De Rosario scored the winner from the penalty spot in the 51st minute after Stephane Zubar was booked for fouling Ali Gerba.",
"The Panamanians lost to the U.S. in the 2005 final after a penalty shootout, and reached the quarterfinals in 2007 and 2009.",
"In Sunday's Group A games, defending champions Mexico take on second-placed Costa Rica having already qualified for the last eight after two successive 5-0 wins.",
"However, Mexico's hopes have been hit by the suspension of five players -- Guillermo Ochoa, Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Edgar Duenas, Antonio Naelson \"Sinha\" and Christian Bermudez -- who tested positive for the banned drug clenbuterol.",
"To finish second, El Salvador -- whose only point came in a 1-1 draw with Costa Rica -- must beat bottom nation Cuba by 11 goals and see the 2009 semifinalists lose to five-time champions Mexico.",
"Group B concludes on Monday, with Jamaica already through to the quarterfinals after two victories ahead of the clash with second-placed Honduras in New Jersey.",
"Third-placed Guatemala, who have only one point, must beat bottom nation Grenada by a big margin and hope the Hondurans lose."
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"U.S. national soccer team needs win over Guadeloupe to reach last eight at Gold Cup .",
"CONCACAF tournament hosts beaten by Panama for the first time on Saturday .",
"Panama on top of Group C with two victories from two games .",
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The bloody beating of Nicolas Cage's son on a Hollywood sidewalk last week followed a search for the 20-year-old because the actor wanted to see his son before leaving town, a source with knowledge of the incident said.",
"A lawyer for Cage said he was \"looking for Weston because he didn't have his cell phone and he wanted to get in touch with him to do some recording.\"",
"Cage's request that the man he paid to be his son's assistant locate his son \"doesn't justify what occurred, which was a deliberate, provoked attack where Weston was in no condition to defend himself,\" Cage attorney Martin Singer said Monday.",
"The younger Cage asked Los Angeles police to investigate the assistant, Kevin Villegas, for the alleged assault, according Los Angeles Police Sgt.",
"John Gomperz.",
"Villegas was fired after the incident last week.",
"Weston Cage was placed under a psychiatric hold after Los Angeles police responded to the incident Tuesday, but he was released over the weekend.",
"Cell phone video posted online showed Weston Cage being repeatedly hit as he was pinned down on a sidewalk.",
"\"He wanted Kevin to leave, and what happened, at least three witnesses told me, there was a provocation,\" Singer said.",
"\"Weston threw a weak kick.",
"He put Weston down on the floor, and he began a barrage of punches, 13 to 15 to the face.\"",
"\"I deeply lament the incident that occurred between me and Weston last Tuesday,\" Villegas said, \"and plead with the media and the public to suspend their judgment of the episode until all of the facts come to light.\"",
"The violent incident came amid a dispute between Weston Cage's mother, Christina Fulton, and Nicolas Cage over how to deal with their son's psychological issues, which are outlined in legal document filed in Fulton's lawsuit against Cage.",
"She said she put her acting career on hold for two decades to raise the child while Cage, one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors, pursued his career.",
"Fulton is suing Cage over unpaid taxes and the Hollywood home where she raised Weston, and is seeking to regain legal control over her son, who court documents say suffers from \"a number of mental, psychological and physical ailments.\"",
"He lived with Fulton after she and Cage, who were never married, split up when Weston was a child.",
"Villegas was hired several years ago as Weston Cage's personal wrestling coach when he was in high school.",
"He later became a personal assistant to Nicolas Cage to help with his son.",
"\"Because of a confidentiality agreement, I am limited in what I can share publicly on this matter,\" Villegas said.",
"\"I'm grateful that Weston is getting the care that he needs and wish him all the best.\"",
"Villegas was following orders from Nicolas Cage to find and hold on to his adult son the afternoon of the incident, said the source, who asked not to be identified because of legal and confidentiality issues.",
"The older Cage's lawyer denied the actor asked the assistant to hold on to his son.",
"He only wanted to have the younger Cage call his father, Singer said.",
"The source disputed an initial report that the fight began when Villegas told Weston Cage he could not order a certain item from a restaurant menu.",
"Fulton blames Nicolas Cage for what she said is her son's downward spiral since he turned 18 and left her legal guardianship.",
"\"I do not want him with Nicolas Cage,\" Fulton said.",
"\"I do not want him in that care. That is not the care my son needs.\"",
"Weston Cage, in a statement delivered through his father's lawyer Friday afternoon, said that he did not want his mother to be involved in his care.",
"\"I am an adult,\" Weston Cage said.",
"\"I don't want to have anything to do with my mother.",
"Any problems that I have ever had is because of the relationship that I had with my mother.\"",
"When Fulton heard the quote, she called it \"an absolute disgrace,\" suggesting that Cage's lawyer solicited a statement from her son while he was under a psychiatric hold at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.",
"\"My son is under a spell. He's under a trance,\" Fulton said.",
"\"Weston would say whatever his dad wants him to say.\"",
"Fulton said it is Nicolas Cage's fault that their son is in a hospital.",
"\"He had his chance,\" she said of the elder Cage.",
"\"He had his chance to make it right.",
"My son had a healthy environment here.",
"He had a system that was fantastic.",
"I built that with myself and my team.\"",
"She said she fired Villegas three years ago, but Nicolas Cage rehired him, she said.",
"Nicolas Cage, in a statement from his spokeswoman Friday, called Fulton's comments blaming him for his son's psychiatric troubles \"unfortunate and inappropriate.\"",
"\"This is a time to focus only on giving love and full support to Weston, not an opportunity to lay blame on his father, a man who loves his son very deeply,\" Cage said.",
"Fulton said Cage was rarely around for her son growing up, while she dealt with his medical and psychological issues.",
"\"For 18 years, I raised Weston so Nicolas could go be Nicolas Cage, and go be a superstar, and he did,\" she said.",
"\"So I raised this boy, 24/7, we were glued to the hip.\"",
"After Weston's 18th birthday, his father \"orchestrated\" his removal from her care by persuading the employees she hired to work for him and giving Weston his own home and money, Fulton said.",
"\"They all go work with Nicolas Cage because he has the money and he has the bank account and he has the fame, and I don't,\" she said.",
"Weston's special needs were not being met without her, she said.",
"\"My son right now has been under the care of Nicolas,\" she said.",
"\"That didn't work. It's very obvious it didn't work.",
"It failed miserably, failed miserably.\"",
"Singer, Cage's lawyer, said Fulton's lawsuit against Cage is her motivation for attacking her son's father.",
"\"Ms. Fulton comments about Mr. Cage are absurd, and it's very unfortunate that she would lash out like this because her son does not want to have anything to do with her,\" Singer said.",
"\"This is clearly all about money for Ms.",
"Fulton.\" Fulton's lawyer said she would file for conservatorship of her son next week so she could ensure that he will get the care he needs when he is eventually released from the psychiatric hold.",
"\"I'd like my son to be with his mom, where it worked,\" Fulton said.",
"\"I'd like my son to be in an environment where it worked.",
"You know, 18 years of being successful, 18 years of watching my son respond to all the medical intervention that I have given him and all the support.",
"Why would you mess with that?",
"Why would you interfere with that?",
"My son needs to be home.\""
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"NEW: It doesn't justify a \"deliberate, provoked attack,\" Cage's lawyer says .",
"Weston Cage's former personal assistant is being investigated in the 20-year-old's beating .",
"Former assistant asks public to \"suspend their judgment\" until \"all of the facts come to light\""
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"(CNN) -- China says it is opposed to an upcoming meeting between the U.S. president and Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and is calling on Barack Obama to cancel the visit.",
"Obama will meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Saturday, according to a statement.",
"The White House statement went on to say that the visit will highlight Obama's support for dialogue between representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government.",
"But the issue of Tibet is one that \"involves China's sovereignty and territorial integrity,\" Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement.",
"\"We oppose foreign leaders meeting with the Dalai Lama in any format.\"",
"The foreign ministry statement went on to ask that Obama reverse his decision to meet with the exiled spiritual leader, as well as to \"stop interfering with China's internal affairs and damaging Sino-U.S.",
"relations.\" The current Dalai Lama is also known by the name Tenzin Gyatso.",
"He was born in 1935 in modern-day Qinghai, China.",
"The term \"Dalai Lama\" is a Buddhist religious title.",
"In traditional Tibetan belief, the title is given to those who are the reincarnations of a line of revered religious teachers.",
"The current Dalai Lama is considered the 14th in this line.",
"The Dalai Lama has been in Washington on an 11-day visit.",
"He has conducted a mass ritual for Buddhists and met with several lawmakers on Capitol Hill."
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"U.S. president to meet with Buddhist spiritual leader at the White House on Saturday .",
"China's Foreign Ministry asks Obama to reverse the decision to meet with the Dalai Lama .",
"The Dalai Lama has been in Washington for nearly two weeks ."
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"Key West, Florida (CNN) -- They are both baby boomers, both still living their dreams, but only one of them is feeling secure about retirement.",
"She has her eyes on valuable coins, while he is following butterflies.",
"The ultimate guide to retirement .",
"The Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory is a tropical oasis.",
"As you walk along the path, through the gazebo and across the little bridge, butterflies are all around you.",
"Some will land on your shoulder if you stand still long enough.",
"Here in the habitat, there are 60 species of butterflies and 29 species of birds, says co-founder George Fernandez.",
"\"This is a unique experience,\" he says.",
"He's always sharing his knowledge like a proud kid.",
"\"The Atlas moth is very unique.",
"It lives only four to five days, very, very short life cycle,\" he tells two of his guests.",
"The conservatory opened in 2003.",
"Just like the butterflies, it has been flying high ever since.",
"Thousands of people come here every year.",
"\"It starts with having a passion, having a dream, having a mission,\" says Fernandez.",
"Now after 20 years of hard work, the former gallery owner says that dream, that passion has given this baby boomer and his partner some security.",
"\"We have invested everything that we have and we own into making this a success, and by God, we were gonna do it, and by the grace of God, it came to fruition,\" says Fernandez.",
"Fernandez could retire tomorrow if he chose.",
"But he says that won't happen, \"In the course of eight years, we have found that this has been incredibly rewarding financially, spiritually, emotionally.",
"I wouldn't trade it for the world.\"",
"How much do you need to retire?",
"Like Fernandez, 62, Carol Tedesco, 52, says she's fulfilled.",
"\"Would I do it differently?",
"No. I really wouldn't,\" Tedesco says.",
"But unlike Fernandez, Tedesco couldn't retire tomorrow if she wanted to.",
"\"I love my life,\" she says, \"I make enough money for the life that I have, but I don't have a retirement.\"",
"4 in 10 American's can't afford to retire .",
"Tedesco is a freelance photographer, writer and expert on treasure coins recovered from shipwrecks.",
"On her desk is a book she's written, \"Treasure Coins of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita\" and albums of wedding photos she's done for clients.",
"Tedesco came to Key West years ago.",
"She didn't even bring her car, figuring she'd only be here for a few months.",
"But she's never left.",
"While she hasn't parlayed her dream into wealth, she is living it.",
"\"My dream was to work with historic sunken shipwrecks and with the people who make up that whole field.",
"My fear was being an old person and not having done it.\"",
"Retiring on $3,500 a month .",
"It's not like Tedesco doesn't think about the future.",
"She does. She just thinks about it a bit differently.",
"\"I do plan for the future,\" she says, \"but when I'm planning for the future, I'm planning my next project or my next book or the next photography exhibit or whatever the case may be.",
"So, I'm planning. I'm not necessarily planning on how much money I can put away and what it's gonna grow into.\"",
"Both Tedesco and Fernandez are driven.",
"It's a work ethic both say may have come from being a part of the baby boomer generation.",
"Working hard was instilled in them early.",
"It came from his parents, Fernandez says.",
"\"I could not say, 'Write me a check for.",
"Can I borrow your credit card for.'",
"No, that never existed.",
"I think that was instilled in both myself and my sister and to this day I will pass it on.",
"You can make it. You have to have that drive that is with you all day long, 24/7. \"",
"Neither Tedesco nor Fernandez have children.",
"He has a second home in North Carolina.",
"She has a small Key West home encased in lush tropical foliage.",
"While they came at it differently, neither Tedesco nor Fernandez gaze into the future with worry.",
"They are happy with their lives.",
"Fernandez says, \"I have no dream of ever retiring.",
"I will be here for as long as I can.\" As for Tedesco, \"Well, I have spent a little time in Latin America,\" she says, \"and a Social Security check can go a long way there.\""
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"Both are driven by a work ethic that might stem from being part of the baby boomer generation .",
"Tedesco doesn't have retirement like Fernandez, but neither want to stop working ."
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"(CNN) -- One of the prosecution's final witnesses, Casey Anthony's mother took the stand again Tuesday in her daughter's capital murder trial, breaking into tears from time to time as she discussed items found with the remains of her 2-year-old granddaughter, Caylee.",
"The prosecution plans to rest its case Wednesday, prosecutor Jeff Ashton told Orange County Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr.",
"The defense was unable to move its first few witnesses, Perry said, and will begin its case Thursday.",
"Cindy Anthony began crying when a photograph of Caylee wearing a shirt reading \"Big trouble comes in small packages\" was introduced into evidence.",
"Previous testimony has suggested that scraps of the shirt were found at the scene along with Caylee's skeletal remains.",
"Cindy Anthony said she did most of the laundry at the home, and \"I don't ever remember seeing that shirt.\"",
"She also identified photographs of objects similar to canvas laundry bags she said were in the Anthony home and said that Caylee had a Winnie the Pooh blanket but that she had not seen the blanket since the end of May, before Caylee disappeared.",
"A canvas laundry bag and Winnie the Pooh blanket were found with the little girl's remains.",
"Cindy Anthony's testimony followed that of a long line of investigators and forensic experts, called to the stand in the Orlando courtroom in an effort to support prosecutors' theory that Casey Anthony, 25, killed her daughter by knocking her out with chloroform and putting duct tape over her nose and mouth.",
"They allege she then put the little girl's body in black garbage bags and stored it in her trunk before dumping it in woods near her home.",
"Caylee's skeletal remains were found in December 11, 2008.",
"She was last seen June 16, 2008, but her disappearance was not reported until July 15, 2008, after Cindy Anthony demanded answers from her daughter about Caylee's whereabouts.",
"Anthony faces seven counts in Caylee's death, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading investigators.",
"If convicted, she could face the death penalty.",
"She has pleaded not guilty.",
"Her attorneys have said Caylee was not killed but rather drowned in the family pool on June 16.",
"Defense attorney Jose Baez told jurors that Casey Anthony and her father, George Anthony, panicked when they discovered the body and covered up her death.",
"George Anthony rejected that scenario in his testimony the first week of the trial.",
"Cindy Anthony testified Tuesday that duct tape was also in the home, stored in the garage, but she could not recall making a previous statement that duct tape was used at a command center after Caylee went missing.",
"Baez pointed out that in a July 2009 deposition, Cindy Anthony was asked whether Casey Anthony had removed any duct tape from the home while out of jail on bond and said she didn't think so, as the family had only one roll and her husband was using it.",
"Cindy Anthony explained that at the time, both she and her husband were using the tape on \"no trespassing\" signs on their property because of protesters outside.",
"The final witness of the day was Bobby Williams, a tattoo artist who applied a tattoo to Casey Anthony -- \"Bella Vita,\" Italian for \"beautiful life\" -- on July 2, during the time Caylee was missing but before her disappearance was reported to police.",
"Williams testified that Anthony did not appear to be upset and did not mention Caylee.",
"He said he spoke to her again July 15, when she came into the shop to make an appointment for herself and a friend for July 19.",
"She mentioned at the time that Caylee was with the nanny but would be with her July 19, Williams said.",
"A host of witnesses including Anthony's former boyfriend, friends and acquaintances have testified that Anthony was not upset and did not mention her missing daughter in the 31 days before police were notified the little girl had disappeared.",
"Anthony told authorities afterward that she had been frantically searching for her daughter during that month.",
"After Williams' testimony, Anthony's defense team moved for a mistrial on several grounds, including the fact that prosecutors asked Williams whether she seemed remorseful, although Perry did not allow Williams to answer.",
"Prosecutor Jeff Ashton countered that the question came in response to Baez's asking Williams whether customers do not often get tattoos to remember departed loved ones.",
"Perry denied the mistrial motion.",
"Defense attorneys said they will move for acquittal when the prosecution rests.",
"Earlier Tuesday, FBI forensic examiner Catherine Theisen said that neither Anthony nor Caylee could be excluded as the source of a hair found in Anthony's trunk.",
"Theisen said she subjected a portion of the hair to mitochondrial DNA testing.",
"Such testing is used, she told jurors, when a specimen such as hair or skeletal remains may not contain enough nuclear DNA for testing.",
"Nuclear DNA, she said, is inherited from both parents and can identify a person to the exclusion of all others.",
"Mitochondrial DNA is inherited from a person's mother, and testing shows whether a person cannot be excluded as the source of evidence -- along with their mother, their siblings and anyone else in the maternal family line.",
"Theisen said she compared the hair portion to cheek swabs from Anthony and found that they matched.",
"She said she would not expect to see that DNA type in more than .26% of the African-American population, 1.85% of the Caucasian population and .39% of the Hispanic population.",
"She also acknowledged that the testing could not exclude Anthony's mother, Cindy Anthony; her brother, Lee Anthony; or any maternal uncles as the source of the hair.",
"Theisen also testified Tuesday that she tested the \"hair mass\" found with Caylee's remains and found that it shared the same mitochondrial DNA type as the hair in the trunk.",
"On cross-examination, Baez attempted to question Theisen, over numerous objections from prosecutors, about whether she was aware that Lee Anthony owned the car before his sister.",
"Theisen said she did not recall seeing the name Lee Anthony in the communications she was given about the case.",
"Cindy Anthony also took the stand Tuesday and told prosecutor Linda Drane Burdick that she has bleached her hair blonde for years.",
"She said that Casey Anthony has also highlighted her hair off and on and that Lee Anthony has always kept his hair short.",
"She said Caylee's hair was never colored or processed.",
"FBI trace evidence examiner Karen Lowe previously testified that a 9-inch piece of hair from the trunk appeared similar to a piece of hair recovered from the little girl's hairbrush and was not similar to Casey Anthony's hair.",
"Cindy Anthony said that it was possible her mother had been in the car and that her hair, a mixture of blonde, brown, white and gray, has been shoulder-length for years.",
"Following Theisen to the stand Tuesday was Alina Burroughs, an Orange County Sheriff's Office crime scene examiner who helped process the scene where Caylee's remains were found and helped execute a search warrant at the Anthony home.",
"Burroughs identified photographs of several sheets of heart-shaped stickers found at the home, as well as the sheets themselves, with some stickers missing.",
"On Monday, an FBI latent print examiner testified that adhesive in the shape of a heart was found on a corner of a piece of duct tape that was covering the mouth portion of Caylee's remains.",
"Elizabeth Fontaine explained the find to jurors by asking them to think about when they remove an adhesive bandage from their skin and some of the adhesive remains in the shape of the bandage.",
"Instead of a bandage, however, the outline was the shape of a heart, she said, and about the size of a dime.",
"A sticker was also found at the site where Caylee's remains were discovered on a small piece of cardboard.",
"An FBI analysis showed that sticker did not match those found at the Anthony home.",
"Asked by Baez whether she found a sticker like that in the home, Burroughs said she did not.",
"Jurors sent a note to Perry on Tuesday asking to see the photograph of the sticker recovered from the crime scene.",
"Perry granted that request but made clear to jurors that the sticker has since separated from the cardboard.",
"Fontaine said Monday that she found the heart-shaped adhesive while examining the three pieces of duct tape found on Caylee's remains for fingerprints.",
"She said she didn't find fingerprints but didn't expect to, given the months the tape and the remains had been outdoors and exposed to the elements.",
"Any oil or sweat from a person's fingertips would have long since deteriorated, she said.",
"Perry told jurors Monday testimony in the case could conclude by the end of next week, although he cannot say for sure.",
"Deliberations could begin by June 25, he said.",
"Roy Kronk, the meter reader who discovered Caylee's remains, has been subpoenaed by the defense, his attorney, David Evans, said Tuesday.",
"He was not given a date to appear in court, Evans said.",
"In Session's Mayra Cuevas and Michael Christian contributed to this report.",
"Watch Nancy Grace Monday through Sunday starting at 8 p.m.",
"ET on HLN. For the latest from Nancy Grace click here."
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"Cindy Anthony breaks into tears at several points .",
"Casey Anthony is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2008 ."
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"(CNN) -- A single phone call by Osama bin Laden's trusted courier tipped off U.S. officials to his Pakistan compound, ultimately leading to the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader, a senior Pakistani intelligence official told CNN Saturday.",
"The telephone call the courier made was \"not the final one -- it was the initial piece of evidence\" that sparked the focus on the compound in Abbottabad, the official said.",
"Four years ago, U.S. officials uncovered the identity of a trusted bin Laden courier -- later identified as a Kuwaiti named Abu Ahmad -- whom they believed was living with and protecting the al Qaeda leader.",
"The Washington Post, citing U.S. intelligence officials, reported Friday that Americans had intercepted a \"catch-up phone call\" Ahmad took from an old friend.",
"\"This is where you start the movie about the hunt for bin Laden,\" one U.S. official briefed on the intelligence-gathering leading up to the early Monday raid on the compound told the Washington Post.",
"The Pakistani official told CNN the phone call was made by the courier, though he didn't know when.",
"The courier and his brother were among those killed in Monday's raid.",
"In recent days, the materials taken from bin Laden's compound continued to yield a trove of intelligence, including details about a possible attack on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.",
"At a briefing Saturday focusing on the intelligence aspects of the raid, U.S. officials released five videos showing the al Qaeda leader.",
"They were seized at his compound.",
"One video looks like a home movie, a portrait of a graying man watching television, but it is an image that suggests how conscious bin Laden was of his image.",
"The other videos showed him in more formal attire, making remarks, but U.S. officials removed the audio in all five videos.",
"As early as February 2010, al Qaeda members discussed a plan to derail trains in the United States by placing obstructions on tracks over bridges and valleys, the alert said, according to one law enforcement official.",
"The plan was to be executed later this year, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, though no specific rail system was identified, the official said.",
"The Department of Homeland Security confirmed a notice was sent to federal, state, local and tribal authorities.",
"\"We have no information of any imminent terrorist threat to the U.S. rail sector, but wanted to make sure our partners are aware of the alleged plotting.",
"It is unclear if any further planning has been conducted since February of last year,\" spokesman Matt Chandler said.",
"Rail agencies across the United States heightened security.",
"A U.S. official said that \"valuable information has been gleaned already\" from the information gathered at bin Laden's compound, though no specific plots or terrorist suspects were identified.",
"But the material suggests that al Qaeda was particularly interested in striking Washington, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, according to the law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.",
"U.S. authorities have found that al Qaeda appeared especially interested in striking on significant dates like July 4, Christmas and the opening day of the United Nations.",
"The material seized from the compound included audio and video equipment, suggesting bin Laden may have taped messages there, a U.S. official said.",
"Ten hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices, such as disks and thumb drives, were also found, a senior U.S. official told CNN.",
"Dozens of people in Abbottabad have been arrested because of their suspected connections to the compound where Osama bin Laden was shot and killed, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.",
"Investigators want to know whether any of the people are al Qaeda members or sympathizers.",
"The United States and Pakistan have been allies for years in the anti-terrorism effort, but U.S. concerns that Pakistanis haven't been robust enough in the fight against Islamic militants and suspected U.S. drone attacks that killed innocent civilians have heightened tensions.",
"Another suspected drone strike killed 12 suspected militants on Friday in the Pakistani tribal region.",
"Questions remain over why and how Pakistani intelligence officials could not have known bin Laden was hiding out in the city, which is home to a military academy and has a strong military presence.",
"Pakistani armed forces chiefs issued a statement Thursday admitting \"shortcomings in developing intelligence\" on the terrorist leader's presence in the country.",
"The army chief of staff, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, \"made it very clear that any similar action, violating the sovereignty of Pakistan, will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the United States,\" the statement said.",
"Since the raid, Pakistan has ordered U.S. military personnel on its territory drawn down to the \"minimum essential\" level, the statement said.",
"CNN's Nick Paton Walsh contributed to this report ."
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"Phone call was the \"initial piece of evidence\" leading to compound, Pakistani official says .",
"The phone call was made to an old friend by bin Laden's courier, Post reports .",
"Time of the phone call is unclear ."
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"(CNN) -- World number one Novak Djokovic is into the quarterfinals of the Western and Southern Open after beating the Czech Republic's Radek Stepanek 6-3 6-3 in Cincinnati.",
"Djokovic, 24, had his serve broken on three occasions by Stepanek, ranked 29 in the world, but recovered to seal victory with his first match point at the Lindner Family Tennis Center.",
"\"There are periods of the match where I serve okay and then periods where I serve very bad, but that's okay,\" the Serb, who has now won 55 matches this season, told the ATP Tour's web site.",
"\"It all happens. I played so many matches, and they caught up to me a little bit.",
"It's expected that some part of my game is not working 100 per cent.\"",
"Can anybody stop Novak and Serena?",
"The three-time grand slam winner will face French number one Gael Monfils in the last eight, after the 24-year-old defeated Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2 6-2.",
"Rafael Nadal, the man Djokovic replaced as world number one, emerged victorious from a marathon encounter with his compatriot Fernando Verdasco.",
"Nadal, a 10-time major winner, eventually sealed his 12th career success against Verdasco 7-6 (7-5) 6-7(7-4) 7-6(11-9) in three hours and 38 minutes.",
"\"You enjoy always a good match,\" reflected Verdasco, who forced Nadal to five match points.",
"\"But when you lose in this way, of course it's not easy, because it could have been a big win.\"",
"American number one Mardy Fish will be Nadal's opponent in the next round; after the seventh seed registered a 7-5 7-5 win over French 12th seed Richard Gasquet.",
"Roger Federer, who beat Fish in last year's final, continued his quest for a record fifth Western and Southern Open crown with a 6-4 6-1 triumph over wildcard James Blake.",
"\"Against James it's always a fast paced match from start to finish,\" 16-time major champion Federer said.",
"\"You hope you get on a roll and he doesn't.",
"\"I was able to counter his attacking style.",
"I was able to play clean on my service games.",
"In the second set he didn't play so well, and the score line shows that.\"",
"Federer's last eight opponent will be Czech Tomas Berdych, who eased past Nicolas Almagro 6-2 6-2.",
"British number one Andy Murray is safely through courtesy of a straight-sets 6-2 7-5 victory over American qualifier Alex Bogomolov Junior.",
"Murray, beaten by Djokovic in January's Australian Open final, will play 10th seed Gilles Simon for a place in the semifinals.",
"World number 12 Simon earned his place in the quarterfinals by beating Spain's David Ferrer 6-4 6-7 (7-3) 6-4."
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"World number one Novak Djokovic is into the Western and Southern Open quarterfinals .",
"Djokovic defeated Radek Stepanek, and will face Gael Monfils in the last eight .",
"Rafael Nadal overcame his compatriot Fernando Verdasco in a marathon encounter .",
"16-time grand slam winner Roger Federer beat American wildcard James Blake .",
"British number one Andy Murray set up a quarterfinal against Gilles Simon ."
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"(CNN) -- Trying to choose a luxurious spot for the honeymoon of your dreams can be overwhelming.",
"Hawaii, with its tourist-friendly islands and exotic feel without the passport, gets a lot of attention from honeymooners.",
"But there are other scintillating destinations you don't want to overlook in your search.",
"CNN asked Jacqueline Gifford, travel editor of Brides Magazine, for some unforgettable honeymoon ideas.",
"She shared the results from a recent poll of top travel agents from Signature Travel.",
"These are some of their favorite destinations.",
"French Polynesia .",
"In a relaxing contrast to Hawaii's big waves, the blue lagoons of French Polynesia provide calm waters.",
"The French Polynesian islands are also a favorite of celebrities -- Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman honeymooned there as did Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher.",
"Skip the silver, register for a honeymoon .",
"\"It's all about the overwater bungalows,\" Gifford said.",
"\"They have amazing rooms and you're able to jump right off your deck and go snorkeling.",
"Swimming with (reef) sharks is also very popular with young couples.\"",
"Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea stand out as honeymoon favorites among the nearly 130 islands that make up French Polynesia.",
"It's a haul from any spot in the U.S., but it creates an unforgettable experience for newlyweds.",
"Five spectacular overwater hut resorts .",
"\"It's a once-in-a-lifetime trip,\" Gifford said.",
"\"When we were there, we talked to a few couples and they said, 'This is our honeymoon, we want to do something special and different.",
"We might not ever get back here.'",
"\" Fiji . If you've ever imagined your honeymoon as a secluded escape, Fiji's private island resorts are just what you're looking for.",
"\"It's the ultimate 'Gilligan's Island' fantasy come to life,\" Gifford said.",
"There are a limited number of villas on each island, so it isn't deserted, but seclusion remains a priority.",
"Although staying in one of Laucala Island's 25 villas can cost up to $3,800 a night, the expense is all-inclusive.",
"In other words, requesting five bottles of champagne won't cost you any extra.",
"iReport: Share your scenic destination wedding photos .",
"But with various price ranges for different islands, you can more affordably stay in a beach-front private cottage, or bure (pronounced like \"beret\"), Gifford suggested.",
"\"For people who like to be by the water, Fiji's islands are great,\" Gifford said.",
"\"You see other people, but it still feels private -- nothing like a big resort.\"",
"Italy . When it comes to romantic honeymoons in Italy, couples tend to think of the Amalfi Coast and Capri, or major cities such as Venice, Florence and Rome.",
"But venturing off into the Tuscan countryside or the northern Lake District makes for equally scenic getaways, Gifford said.",
"While Tuscany is well-traveled, its countryside provides an inviting environment for couples who enjoy exploring during the day and relaxing over a good meal and a bottle of wine at dusk.",
"Lake Como is also a gorgeous destination for honeymooners looking to take in the Italian scenery and culture without the rush of the cities.",
"\"The whole region around the Lake District is beautiful, and I'm not sure people are completely in the know about it,\" Gifford said.",
"Bali . If planning your wedding was a little too hectic, then Bali, the ultimate relaxation destination, is for you.",
"As seen in the movie \"Eat, Pray, Love,\" expect to enjoy a natural getaway in a place where life slows down to take pleasure in the little things.",
"\"Bali is the zen destination,\" Gifford said.",
"\"You're enjoying a blissful culture and looking out over serene rice paddies.\"",
"While Bali's beaches provide a nice place to stay, the hills are home to relaxing, isolated retreats.",
"Gifford also recommends taking in some of the spa culture while visiting.",
"Bermuda . Although often associated with the Caribbean, Bermuda is actually situated about 650 miles off the coast of North Carolina.",
"For people living on the East Coast, the plane ride to paradise lasts less than two hours.",
"Travel Snapshots: Bermuda .",
"\"Bermuda has amazing beaches, the pink sands, great food, warm people and all the pampering and nice hotels without having to travel far,\" Gifford said.",
"A small island, Bermuda gives off a close-knit community feel while providing an exotic flavor.",
"Pastel-colored buildings and crystal blue waters give the scenic impression that you're far from home without the long journey.",
"For couples taking a \"mini-moon\" -- and compensating with a longer honeymoon when time allows -- Bermuda provides a special weekend getaway where you can still make it back to work on Monday, Gifford said."
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"The French Polynesian islands' overwater bungalows are perfect for honeymoons .",
"Fiji's private island getaways are available in a wide price range .",
"Bali and the Italian Lake District provide secluded, relaxing spots for honeymooners .",
"Bermuda is just 90 minutes away from the East Coast by air ."
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"(CNN) -- Germany coach Joachim Low has put an end to speculation over his future by signing a two-year contract extension which will keep him at the national side until after the 2014 World Cup.",
"Low -- whose contract was originally due to expire after Euro 2012 --had been linked to the soon-to-be vacant position at Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich, following the news that current boss Louis Van Gaal will step down from the role at the end of the season.",
"However, in a statement on the German Football Federation (DFB) website on Tuesday, Low confirmed that his foreseeable future lay with the national team.",
"\"I am pleased that we were able to agree quickly to a continuation of the cooperation until after the World Cup,\" the 51-year-old former Stuttgart and Fenerbahce boss said.",
"\"We believe that it makes sense to continue along this successful path with the national team.",
"I enjoy this wonderful job and believe in the quality of our players and see good prospects for our team.\"",
"Low replaced fellow German Jurgen Klinsmann at the head of the national side in 2006, leading them to the runners-up spot at Euro 2008 and third place finish at the 2010 World Cup.",
"The former under-21 international has admitted that uncertainty over his future overshadowed last year's tournament in South Africa and said he wanted to avoid a repeat of that for the upcoming European competition.",
"The DFB also confirmed that Low's backroom staff -- assistant Hansi Flick, goalkeeping coach Andreas Kopke and team manager Oliver Bierhoff -- have signed new two-year deals.",
"Meanwhile, Bernd Schuster, the German coach of seventh-placed Turkish League club Besiktas has quit following the Istanbul-based side's string of poor results that has seen them claim just one win in their last seven matches.",
"The 51-year-old ex-German international and former Real Madrid boss' side also suffered a humiliating 8-1 defeat to Dynamo Kiev in the last 32 of the Europa League."
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"Germany coach Joachim Low extends contract until after the 2014 World Cup .",
"The 51-year-old German had been linked to vacant position at Bayern Munich .",
"Low had been due to step down from his post after the Euro 2012 competition .",
"Bernd Schuster, the German coach of struggling Istanbul-based club Besiktas, resigns ."
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"(CNN) -- Passengers were evacuated from a Delta aircraft after smoke began coming from the wheel area, after it landed at Atlanta's airport Saturday afternoon, a witnesses and company official said.",
"Flight 2284 had just arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from Pittsburgh, around 4:14 p.m. when the incident occurred, said Delta spokeswoman Leslie Parker.",
"Parker said the plane's brakes overheated, causing smoke.",
"According to Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen, one of the plane's tires blew out.",
"\"After (the plane) landed there was a big boom, and then just a line of smoke,\" Kalel Dunst, who saw the incident from a hotel room nearby, told CNN.",
"\"It turned off the runway, and the fire got a lot bigger.\"",
"According to Parker, none of the 44 passengers or five crew members on board were injured.",
"All were safely evacuated and bussed to the terminal.",
"She said they departed the plane by slides, though Bergen said they took the back stairs.",
"The aircraft -- an MD 88 -- will be taken out of service and evaluated, the Delta spokeswoman said.",
"CNN's Justin Lear contributed to this report."
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"Delta Flight 2284 arrives in Atlanta from Pittsburgh when a witness reports a \"big boom\"\nA Delta official says the brakes overheated, while an FAA official says a tire blew .",
"None of the 44 passengers and 5 crew members are hurt and all are evacuated ."
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"Diyarbakir, Turkey (CNN) -- At a campaign rally in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried Wednesday to draw parallels between the oppression and persecution Turkey's largest ethnic minority has faced and the pressure he himself faced under Turkey's former secularist leaders.",
"\"We went through the same suffering as you,\" Erdogan told a crowd of thousands of people who gathered amid rain and tight security in they city's main square.",
"\"Your brother (Erdogan) was jailed for only reciting a poem. ...",
"I know what the status quo made my Kurdish brothers live through.",
"I come from within this struggle.",
"I know policies of dismissal, I know denial.\"",
"Erdogan referred to the six months he spent in jail in the late 1990s when he was the mayor of Istanbul.",
"Turkish authorities imprisoned him after he recited a poem that was ruled to have Islamist connotations.",
"In his speech on Wednesday, Erdogan emphasized \"brotherhood\" with the Kurdish people.",
"For nearly 30 years, southeastern Turkey has been the primary battleground for a guerilla war between Kurdish separatists and the Turkish state that has claimed more than 30,000 mostly Kurdish lives.",
"\"For decades we lived in poverty together.",
"For decades, we lived the pressure, oppression, the fascist oppression of the status quo together.",
"What was banned for you, was also banned for us,\" Erdogan said.",
"Security was tight ahead of Erdogan's speech.",
"The Diyarbakir governor's office issued a written statement announcing security forces confiscated dozens of gasoline bombs as well as ingredients for Molotov cocktails during operations launched before the rally.",
"It said it had had information of \"possible attacks on the security forces, political party election bureaus and party offices with Molotov cocktails, flared, and handmade bombs.\"",
"Tensions were raised by clashes that erupted Tuesday during an Erdogan rally in the Black Sea town of Hopa.",
"Diyarbakir has long been a hotbed of support for the Kurdish opposition activists, and intermittent clashes were reported there Wednesday, including one case in which the driver of a large van was pulled onto street after exchanging words with pedestrians.",
"People were subjected to thorough checks before going into the rally, although once inside the mood was jovial, with people praising Erdogan and some women writing notes and giving them to his bodyguards in the hope that they might be passed on to the prime minister.",
"But not far from the rally, in the Kurdish neighborhood of Baglar, almost all of the shops were closed in silent protest against Erdogan.",
"Men on the streets sang political songs and waved flags in support of the Peace and Democracy Party, the main Kurdish political party.",
"Later in the evening Molotov cocktails and other homemade explosives were thrown at police gathered to contain the protests.",
"Fires were quickly put out by heavily armored police trucks and minutes then passed before the next device was thrown.",
"No one was reported hurt in the incidents.",
"In the clashes Tuesday in Hopa, a demonstrator died of a heart attack and one of Erdogan's bodyguards was hospitalized with head wounds after demonstrators hurled stones that struck him as he was riding Erdogan's campaign bus away from Hopa.",
"The demonstrators in Hopa were for the most part members of leftist and secularist groups.",
"Parliamentary elections are to be held in Turkey on June 12.",
"Erdogan's Justice and Development Party is widely expected to once again win a majority of seats in parliament.",
"It first swept to power in 2002.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert contributed to this report."
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"Prime Minister Erdogan says he \"went through the same suffering\" as Kurds .",
"He says both have been victims of \"the fascist oppression of the status quo\"\nKurdish separatists have been battling the Turkish state for nearly 30 years .",
"Security was high; the governors office said it had information of possible attacks ."
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"(CNN) -- Vietnamese authorities are on alert for animal smugglers after four bags of deadly snakes were found on a train from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, according to local press reports.",
"The bags contained an undetermined number of snakes including some king cobras, the on-line news service VnExpress reported.",
"A guard and a conductor found them while inspecting the train when it made a stop at Quang Ngai railway station on Thursday, the website reported.",
"The guard and conductor were not injured.",
"Passengers panicked when they heard about the snakes, VnExpress said.",
"The snakes, which are protected by law in Vietnam, were handed over to the Quang Ngai forest protection agency on Friday and released into the wild.",
"Some of the snakes weighed more than one kilogram (2.2 pounds) each, said Nguyen Van Han, chief of the forest protection unit.",
"Officials in Quang Ngai will increase patrols and inspection the North-South railway, roads and restaurants to prevent the smuggling of wild animals, according toTuoitrenews, an online publication of a Vietnamese newspaper.",
"The king cobra is the world's longest venomous snake with a length up to 13 feet (4 meters) according to New York's Bronx Zoo, which had an Egyptian cobra escape earlier this year.",
"That cobra was found in the zoo's reptile house a week after it escaped from its enclosure."
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"Four bags of venomous cobras are found on a train bound for Hanoi, local press reports say .",
"They cause a panic among passengers .",
"The reptiles are handed over to a forest protection agency and released .",
"Authorities increase patrols searching for animal smugglers ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Manchester City manager Mark Hughes has resigned as coach of English club Fulham amid reports linking him with the vacant job at Aston Villa.",
"Hughes has only been in charge at Craven Cottage for a season, joining the London-based club seven months after he was sacked by City.",
"He led Fulham to eighth place in the English Premier League last season and the club qualified for UEFA's Europa League competition due to their standing in Europe's fair play table.",
"Hughes said he wanted a new challenge but insisted he hadn't been approached by any other club.",
"In a statement he said: \"I hope the supporters and all those connected with the club will understand I wish to move on to further my experiences.",
"\"I would also like to take this opportunity to clarify that neither myself nor my representative have approached or have been approached by another club.",
"This decision to leave Fulham has not been influenced by any outside party.\"",
"Hughes, a former Manchester United and Barcelona striker, spent 18 months in charge at Manchester City, as the club were taken over by Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheikh Mansour, who has since spent around $1bn.",
"But Hughes was dismissed in December 2009 after a slump in league performances before he returned to the game to coach Fulham -- a job he claims he has done well.",
"\"I would like to thank the chairman, directors, players and fans of Fulham Football Club for their support over the last 12 months and wish them every success in the future,\" he added.",
"\"I believe my management team and I have done a good job and the club has a strong foundation from which they can go forward.",
"\"I sincerely wish Fulham a successful campaign in the Europa League next season and for their continued progress on and off the field.\"",
"A statement on Fulham's official web site confirmed that Hughes had left the club.",
"It read: \"Fulham Football Club can confirm that Mark Hughes has provided notice, under the terms of his contract, to leave the club at the end of June.",
"\"After discussions with Mark the club has agreed to accept this notice.\""
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"Former Manchester City coach Hughes says he wants to further his experiences .",
"English media claim Hughes is in the running for the vacant Aston Villa job ."
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"(CNN) -- When looking at the world's lowest unemployment rates, one of the first things you might notice is that many of the countries are in Southeast Asia.",
"Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam all have unemployment rates at or below 3%, ranking them in the top six overall, according to tradingeconomics.com.",
"\"One reason why the unemployment rates in those countries are low is because they're starting to get a lot of investment that used to go to China and would have gone to China,\" said George T. Haley, a professor of marketing and international business at the University of New Haven and co-author of \"New Asian Emperors: The Business Strategies of the Overseas Chinese.\"",
"Haley said high wage inflation in China has prompted companies to start outsourcing to other countries instead.",
"But investing in Southeast Asia is far from a new thing in the corporate world.",
"\"The U.S., in its policies back during the Vietnam War, encouraged and gave actual subsidies to companies that would source from Southeast Asia because they wanted to use the investment to combat the spread of communism,\" Haley said.",
"\"And over time, it just became a good place to invest.",
"You had relatively low cost of labor ... you had investment support from the U.S. government, and you had the growing economy, which just fed on itself.\"",
"Speaking of the U.S., its unemployment rate is 9.2%, which ranks it close to the bottom among the countries on our table of 67 countries.",
"While business is definitely booming in Southeast Asia, take its unemployment numbers with a grain of salt.",
"Many countries define unemployment differently, so it's sometimes difficult to accurately compare rates from different regions.",
"It's also important to note that the table above shows only unemployment rates that have been released since December 2010.",
"Many countries are not on this list because they haven't released their rates in years, if at all.",
"So while the table shows that Angola and South Africa are last on the list at 25%, they are likely far from the world's worst.",
"The latest CIA World Factbook has estimated unemployment rates for most of these missing countries, and eight of them are above 50%.",
"Zimbabwe might have a jobless rate as high as 95%.",
"Other notable countries on the table: .",
"*** America's unemployment rate is well behind its nearest neighbors, Mexico (5.2%) and Canada (7.4%).",
"*** One of the roots of the so-called Arab Spring has been the lack of jobs, especially for young people in the Mideast and North Africa.",
"Tunisia, the first government to fall, had an unemployment rate of 13% one month before its revolution.",
"Egypt's rate was just under 12% in March.",
"Morocco, another country in North Africa experiencing unrest, reported a rate of 9.1%.",
"*** Some of the highest rates on the list come from three countries that have recently received bailouts from the European Union.",
"Ireland and Greece are both above 14%, while Portugal is just a few points behind at 12.4%.",
"But it's Spain, at 21.3%, that has the highest unemployment rate in the EU."
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"Jobs appear to be plentiful in many Southeast Asian countries .",
"One of the reasons, an expert says, is that China -- not just the West -- is outsourcing there .",
"The United States' jobless rate is higher than the rates in Canada and Mexico ."
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"(CNN) -- Sales of a drug widely used by poultry producers on their flocks will be suspended because a study found the livers of chickens given the drug contain inorganic arsenic -- a cancer-causing agent.",
"\"We would like to stress that the levels of inorganic arsenic were very low, representing a very low health risk to people who eat chicken,\" said Dr. Bernadette Dunham, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine, in a Wednesday conference call with reporters.",
"The drug, called 3-Nitro (Roxarsone), contains organic arsenic and has been used by poultry producers since 1944.",
"Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., will suspend the sales voluntarily in the United States, the FDA said.",
"A company spokesman would not say how profitable the drug is.",
"The announcement that the FDA plans to suspend U.S. sales of the drug came after an FDA study of 100 broiler chickens detected inorganic arsenic at higher levels in the livers of those treated with 3-Nitro than in those who did not get the drug.",
"Inorganic arsenic causes cancer in humans.",
"That increase concerns \"a very low but completely avoidable exposure to a carcinogen,\" said Michael R. Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for foods.",
"Pfizer plans to continue selling the product for the maximum allowed 30 more days in the United States.",
"\"The company stated that allowing sales for this period will provide time for animal producers to transition to other treatment strategies and will help ensure that animal health and welfare needs are met,\" the FDA said in a news release.",
"Dr. David Goldman, assistant administrator of the Office of Public Health Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service, said the risk to consumers posed by continuing to eat chicken given the drug during the phaseout period was \"very low.\"",
"The FDA's study was carried out after other studies indicated that organic arsenic could transform into the more dangerous inorganic form, the FDA said.",
"Pfizer, in a statement on its website, equated the average levels of inorganic arsenic in poultry tissue with those found in an 8-ounce glass of drinking water.",
"The product is also sold in Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Australia, Pakistan and Jordan.",
"Asked whether the company would continue selling 3-Nitro abroad, a Pfizer scientist said the company was informing other countries' regulatory systems of the U.S. action but did not say that sales would be suspended.",
"\"We'll work under their regulatory systems to take the appropriate action,\" said Dr. Scott Brown, senior director for metabolism and safety, veterinarian medical research and development for Pfizer Animal Health.",
"The drug is used primarily in broiler chickens to help control a parasitic disease called coccidiosis and \"for weight gain, feed efficiency and improved pigmentation,\" the FDA said.",
"Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, said the drug is widely used but not universally so.",
"\"This is the treatment of choice,\" he said.",
"Though it is not administered to organic chickens, they represent only about 1% of the 8.7 billion broilers produced each year in the United States, he said.",
"The average American eats 85 pounds of chicken per year, Lobb said.",
"A telephone receptionist for the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association said no one was available for comment."
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"Study found that the livers of chickens given the drug contained low levels of a carcinogen .",
"Suspension does not kick in for 30 days .",
"Pfizer says that delay will give time for producers to transition to other treatment strategies, according to the FDA ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The first stage of the NATO handover to Afghan security forces began Sunday, marked with a ceremony at a police station in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province -- a small relatively stable area situated in the country's mountainous central region.",
"Bamiyan -- where New Zealand troops are serving -- is the first of seven areas to transfer security responsibilities, said Seddiq Seddiqi, an Interior Ministry spokesman.",
"\"There is no particular security problem here in Bamyan,\" said provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Ahmadi.",
"\"The only challenge that we worry about will be the interferences of the insurgents from Bayman's surrounding provinces.\"",
"The other six provinces to be transferred include parts of Herat, Balkh, Panjshir, Kabul, Laghman and Helmand.",
"A handover in Lashkar Gah -- Helmand's provincial capital -- is set for Wednesday.",
"Helmand province is home to the small farming community of Marjah, where thousands of NATO and Afghan troops launched a massive offensive that drove Taliban forces from the area, despite fierce resistance and heavy losses.",
"Sunday's ceremony in Bamiyan came a day after a series of Afghan-led raids targeting Taliban leaders in the country's southern and eastern regions.",
"The ensuing firefights left more than 10 insurgents dead in Nangarhar province, while government forces captured weapons and supplies in Khost and Logar provinces, NATO reported.",
"\"Militants were hidden in a school\" and opened fire on government forces, said Nangarhar provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.",
"The spokesman said Afghan forces returned fire on the empty school, as NATO airstrikes pummeled the building.",
"CNN can not independently verify Abdulzai's account.",
"Currently, there are 150,000 ISAF forces in Afghanistan, including nearly 100,000 from the United States -- the largest NATO presence in the region since the U.S.-led war began in 2001.",
"News of the transfers have raised questions about the country's future.",
"While some welcome the transition, critics question whether the country's security forces can repel a resurgent militancy without the same levels of foreign intervention.",
"Last week, the first batch of U.S. soldiers left Afghanistan, beginning a drawdown of 10,000 American troops scheduled to leave by year's end.",
"The full NATO drawdown is expected to take place by the end of 2014.",
"Sunday's transfer ceremony came as Gen. David Petraeus -- the outgoing top commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan -- prepared to formally transfer authority on Monday to incoming commander Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen.",
"Petraeus plans to retire from the military before taking over operations as the head of the CIA.",
"CNN's Reshad Fazel and Matiullah Mati contributed to this report ."
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"There are some 150,000 coalition service members in Afghanistan .",
"A full NATO drawdown is expected by the end of 2014 ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina striker Sergio Aguero may have scored two goals as a second-half substitute on his Manchester City debut, but the club's manager Roberto Mancini maintained the 23-year-old has yet to regain his full fitness.",
"City opened their English Premier League campaign on Monday with a 4-0 victory over top-flight newcomers Swansea City, with Aguero netting a brace after replacing Nigel de Jong on 60 minutes.",
"Italian coach Mancini said Aguero, who joined City from Atletico Madrid for a club-record fee in July, was short of peak fitness because of his appearances for Argentina at the recent Copa America.",
"\"I think he needs more training,\" Mancini, 46, told the Citizen's official web site.",
"\"He's trained for only one week with the team.",
"I think he needs to recover after the Copa America because I don't think he's 100%.\"",
"Aguero double in Manchester City debut .",
"City took the lead through Bosnia's Edin Dzeko after 57 minutes, before Aguero scored his first when he swept home a Micah Richards cross from close range 11 minutes later.",
"The former Independiente forward then assisted Spain's David Silva for City's third goal, before completing the scoring with a stunning 25-yard strike in injury time.",
"\"A better debut than this I don't think is possible,\" reflected Mancini.",
"\"He played 30 minutes, scored two goals, two important goals which closed the match.\"",
"Mancini said it was important for the team to bounce back after they surrendered a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 against cross-city rivals Manchester United in the Community Shield, a preseason friendly that starts the English football season.",
"\"I'm very happy for the supporters because after the Community Shield it was important to start the season very well.",
"\"Silva, Aguero, Dzeko, Yaya Toure all played very, very well.",
"But I think all the team started the season very well.\"",
"The 2011 FA Cup winners City will play their first away match of the season at Bolton Wanderers on Sunday."
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"Roberto Mancini has said Manchester City's Sergio Aguero is not yet 100% .",
"The Argentina scored two goals as a second-half substitute on his debut against Swansea .",
"City defeated the newly-promoted side 4-0 with goals from Aguero, Dzeko and Silva ."
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"(CNN) -- Football officials and players will hold last minute talks Friday to avert a strike that could see the start of the Spanish football season postponed for the first time in 27 years.",
"Representatives of the Spanish Football League (LFP) and the Spanish Footballers' Association (AFE) will make a final attempt to avoid a shut out, called due to the growing issue of unpaid wages.",
"If an agreement can't be reached, Spain's footballers will go on strike from Friday to Monday, effectively canceling the start of both the first and second divisions.",
"Barcelona and Real Madrid will be the highest profile casualties of the postponement.",
"\"We have made clear that all the players support the players' association,\" Barcelona striker David Villa told the Associated Press.",
"\"If a solution is not found, we won't play.\"",
"The disagreement stems from Spain's bankruptcy laws, which allow for the payment of wages to be delayed like any other debt.",
"Six teams in Spain's top flight are currently under bankruptcy protection with the AFE dealing with the cases of over 200 players owed close to $72 million.",
"There has been almost universal support from players and coaches within the Spanish game.",
"When CNN spoke to former Danish international Michael Laudrup, who is now in charge of La Liga side Majorca, he pointed to the discrepancies between the riches of Barcelona, Real Madrid and the rest of Spanish football.",
"\"Not everything is Barca and Real Madrid here in Spain,\" he told CNN's World Sport.",
"\"There are a lot of players not earning so much money and, of course, if they don't pay you in twelve months, well, you have to get a loan from the bank.\"",
"\"I think it's ok what the players are doing now.\"",
"If agreement can't be reached Friday morning, the strike will go ahead as planned and the start of the Spanish season will be delayed for the first time since 1984."
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"A proposed players' strike could postpone the start of the Spanish season .",
"Football officials and players' representatives meet Friday to try to avoid a strike .",
"It would be first strike of its kind since 1984 .",
"Majorca coach Michael Laudrup tells CNN he supports the players ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's acting central bank governor says the country's second largest private lender is not in crisis, warning outspoken lawmakers -- who claim the bank is in trouble -- against spreading fear among its account holders.",
"\"Azizi Bank was neither facing any crisis before, (and) is not facing (a crisis) now.\"",
"Mohebullah Safi told CNN.",
"\"Many Afghans have accounts... and we shouldn't panic the people, which could affect our national interest.\"",
"Safi, who addressed parliament earlier this week at the request of lawmakers, said the central bank is investigating investment problems with Azizi Bank, but noted that its $588 million in reserves are safe.",
"He added that officials are working to change the country's banking laws to better monitor investments made by Afghan banks and their partners both domestically and abroad.",
"But Afghan parliament member Haji Zaher Qader claimed share holders tried bribe him to keep quiet over the bank's lending practices.",
"\"They offered me a million dollars that I keep silent and not to talk about (the) Azizi Bank crisis, but I refused their offer,\" he told CNN.",
"Qader would not elaborate as to who offered him the alleged bribe or provide specifics about banking practices that are a cause of concern.",
"Still, lawmakers have called for a forensic audit of the bank's finances in an effort to prevent a similar scandal to last year's massive fraud at the country's largest private lender, Kabul Bank.",
"More than $900 million in loans went missing from Kabul Bank, many of them interest-free and made without proper documentation, no collateral or repayment plans.",
"The recipients allegedly used the loans to finance lavish lifestyles outside Afghanistan, triggering a crisis that threatened a collapse of the entire Afghan financial system.",
"It also exposed widespread corruption throughout the Afghan banking sector.",
"Kabul Bank handled salary payments for thousands of Afghan soldiers, police and public workers and was reported to have held up to $1 billion in deposits belonging to Afghan citizens.",
"CNN's Fazel Reshad contributed to this report ."
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"Acting director says Azizi Bank's $588 million in reserves are safe .",
"Lawmakers have called for a forensic audit of the bank's finances .",
"Last year, more than $900 million in loans went missing from Kabul Bank ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Israel's foreign minister Tuesday denied that an American-Israeli law student being held as a spy in Egypt worked for Israeli intelligence.",
"Avigdor Lieberman has no idea why Ilan Grapel, 27, should be detained, he told Israel Radio.",
"Grapel was apprehended Sunday and ordered held for 15 days on suspicion of spying for Israel, said Adel Saeed, a spokesman for Egypt's general prosecutor.",
"Grapel was taken into custody in a five-star hotel in downtown Cairo, Saeed said Sunday.",
"Grapel's mother said he had been staying at a $9-a-night youth hostel.",
"Israeli diplomats visited Grapel on Tuesday, according to Egypt's Israeli embassy, and found him to be in good health.",
"Israel continues working for Grapel's release, the embassy said.",
"Grapel's mother denied Monday that her son was involved in espionage, saying: \"Law students don't have time to be spies.\"",
"\"There is no chance he's a spy,\" Irene Grapel said from her home in New York.",
"Her son, a former paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, holds dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship.",
"He worked briefly for St. Andrew's Refugee Services in Cairo, said its assistant director Fiona Cameron.",
"\"Ilan Grapel worked for us for four days last week.",
"We were unaware of his dual citizenship or of his military record,\" she told CNN Tuesday, saying he had been \"thoroughly vetted before he came, though obviously not thoroughly enough.\"",
"The organization had \"no reason to be suspicious of his activities\" for the four days he'd been with them, she said.",
"She learned of Grapel's detention from his friends when she called them to ask why he hadn't shown up for work, she said.",
"Cameron said St. Andrew's had been \"pro-actively in touch with the Egyptian authorities\" about his case.",
"St. Andrew's Refugee Services seeks to help \"the isolated and vulnerable refugee communities in Egypt to come together for empowerment, education, community development and social services,\" according to its website.",
"Grapel is a rising third-year student at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, school officials said Monday in a statement.",
"\"We are in touch with his family and are working with them to provide support and assistance,\" it said.",
"He is involved in the Emory Public Interest Committee as well as Emory Law's Pro Bono program, working with Student Legal Services, it said.",
"He traveled May 10 to Cairo to volunteer at St. Andrews, his mother said.",
"Though Grapel was working without pay, he received a public-service grant from Emory, which has no link to the organization, his mother said.",
"Grapel's IDF work could have been what led Egyptian authorities to focus on him, his mother said.",
"\"He loves the Arab culture.",
"He loves the Arab religion,\" she said.",
"Grapel speaks Arabic, which he studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and he spent his junior year at Ben Gurion University in Israel.",
"\"He gravitates toward Arabic-speaking students on campus so he can speak with them, simply to use the language,\" Irene Grapel said.",
"She said she spoke Monday morning with her son, who told her he was being held at a security center in Cairo.",
"Saeed, the general prosecutor spokesman, said Grapel had participated in the Lebanon war of 2006 and was relieved of field combat duties after being injured.",
"Investigators had been following his activities for months, Saeed said.",
"The Israeli government allegedly sent Grapel to Egypt after the January 25 revolution to take advantage of the security vacuum that then existed by recruiting others to provide the Israelis with military and political information, Saeed said.",
"The revolution forced former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power; he stepped down February 11.",
"The suspect, who was present at most of the protests, tried to incite sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians and encouraged demonstrators to engage in violence against the military, Saeed said.",
"His goal was to foment chaos between the Egyptian people and the military, Saeed said.",
"The supreme state security prosecutor has questioned Grapel, and the general prosecutor will announce the results of the investigation when it is complete, Saeed said.",
"Egyptian newspapers carried the story on their front pages Monday alongside photos of Grapel republished from his Facebook account.",
"\"Egypt arrests Israeli Intelligence Officer, a big blow to the Israeli Mossad Intelligence Agency,\" one headline said.",
"Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979.",
"The United States has been granted consular access to Grapel and is following the investigation to determine the exact charges, the State Department said Monday.",
"\"We've confirmed that he was in good health, Mr. Grapel's family is aware of his arrest, and refer you to the government of Egypt for details on the charges against him,\" State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday.",
"The Egyptian authorities provided the United States with \"almost immediate consular access\" to Grapel, Toner said.",
"\"Our function, as they would in that case of any American citizen held overseas, is to provide them with consular services, work with local authorities to make sure he's being treated fairly under local law, provide information about the local legal system and facilitate communication with his family and friends.\"",
"CNN's Diana Magnay, Paul Colsey, Kevin Flower, Jamie Crawford and Tom Watkins and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Israeli diplomats visited Ilan Grapel on Tuesday .",
"The aid agency Ilan Grapel was working for says it had no reason to be suspicious .",
"Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says he has no idea why Grapel was detained .",
"The law student and former Israeli paratrooper was apprehended and questioned Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Casey Anthony's white Pontiac Sunbird is a crushed slab in a Florida junkyard, nearly seven weeks after she was acquitted of murder in her 2-year-old daughter's death, according a person in a law office close to the case.",
"An assistant in the office of Mark Lippman -- who represents George and Cindy Anthony, who owned the car before giving it to their daughter, Casey -- said Friday that the car was destroyed a day earlier.",
"The assistant declined to be named.",
"That the vehicle had been crushed was first reported and documented by Florida TV station WOFL.",
"The car, and the odor emanating from its trunk, had been central to the prosecution's case in Anthony's murder trial.",
"On June 27, 2008, she abandoned the Pontiac at an Orlando business, saying it had run out of gas, according to testimony.",
"It later was towed to a wrecker yard, where it remained until July 15 of that year, when George and Cindy Anthony got a letter from the yard and went to pick up the car.",
"Several witnesses, including a tow yard employee and George Anthony, said there was a vile smell coming from car's trunk.",
"The prosecution alleged -- and expert witnesses testified -- that the odor was that of human decomposition.",
"They claimed Casey Anthony duct-taped her daughter's mouth and nose to suffocate her, and then put the body in the Pontiac's trunk before disposing of it.",
"But the defense rebutted these claims, with attorney Jose Baez blasting what he called \"the state's fantasy of forensics\" in his closing argument.",
"Defense attorneys maintained the child, Caylee, drowned in the Anthony's above-ground pool on June 16, and that Casey Anthony and her father, George Anthony, panicked upon finding her there and covered up the death.",
"George Anthony denied that in his testimony.",
"Baez claimed a \"phantom stain\" in the trunk should have included more in the way of DNA evidence.",
"He said the state used \"junk science\" relating to the odor and stain in the Pontiac's trunk to reach its conclusions.",
"After Anthony was cleared on the murder charge -- and convicted on four lesser counts of misleading law enforcement -- alternate juror Russell Huekler told HLN that he had a difficult time accepting that Caylee's body had been in the car trunk.",
"In Session's Nancy Leung contributed to this report."
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"Anthony's Pontiac Sunbird has been crushed, an assistant in an attorney's office says .",
"The car, and an odor coming from its trunk, had been key to the case in Anthony's trial .",
"A defense attorney criticized \"the state's fantasy of forensics\" in closing arguments .",
"Anthony was acquitted July 5 of murder and convicted on four lesser charges ."
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"(CNN) -- Peru will face either Argentina or Uruguay in the Copa America semifinals after claiming a shock 2-0 last eight victory over Colombia on Saturday.",
"After a goalless 90 minutes, Peru scored the opening goal 11 minuites into extra time when Carlos Lobaton reacted first to fire the ball home after goalkeeper Luis Martinez fumbled an attempted punched clearance.",
"And they sealed their victory six minutes into the second period when Paolo Guerrero set Juan Vargas free on the counter-attack -- and the Fiorentina star drilled home the decisive second goal.",
"Colombia went into the match as firm favorites to progess after winning their group ahead of Argentina, while Peru scraped through as a best third-placed finisher from the group section.",
"However, they missed a host of chances to win the match in extra time, notably when highly-rated Porto striker Radamel Falcao fired a penalty wide.",
"Dayro Moreno hit the post and Fredy Guarin the crossbar as Colombia did everything but score during regulation time.",
"And they were made to pay for those misses as Peru netted twice in extra time to reach the semifinals for the first time since 1997."
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"Peru shock Colombia 2-0 top reach the semifinals of the Copa America .",
"Two goals in extra time sink Colombia for whom Radamel Falcao missed a penalty .",
"Peru will now face either hosts Argentina or Uruguay for a place in the final ."
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