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"(CNN) -- Five-time U.S. Open winner Roger Federer battled past Marin Cilic of Croatia to reach the last 16 of a grand slam for the 30th straight time Saturday.",
"27th seed Cilic took the second set but the Swiss maestro then took command and ran out a 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-2 winner at Flushing Meadows.",
"Cilic, who had thrashed Bernard Tomic in the second round, looked set to cause an upset until 4-4 in the pivotal third set.",
"Facing a break point, he was warned for taking too much time between points and promptly served a double fault.",
"Federer duly served out for the set and waltzed through the fourth.",
"\"Coming in I knew it was going to be tricky and I'm happy that I was able to counter his pace and his good play,\" he told gathered reporters after his win.",
"\"It was a tricky match, especially at one set all.",
"At the beginning of the third set I thought that was a key moment because he had momentum on his side.\"",
"In later play, in-form Mardy Fish maintained his impressive run with a straight sets win over dangerous outsider Kevin Anderson of South Africa, 6-4 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3).",
"Fish is the highest ranked American left in their home grand slam in New York.",
"But Czech ninth seed Tomas Berdych and Marcel Granollers, the 31st seed from Spain both had to quit their third round matches through injury.",
"It takes to 10 the number of players who have withdrawn through injury in the men's singles, with four going in the women's.",
"In Saturday's night session, world number one Novak Djokovic -- who has lost just twice in 2011 -- defeated Russian Nikolay Davydenko 6-3 6-4 6-2 to set up a last 16 clash with Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov.",
"The Australian Open and Wimbledon champion had only dropped three games in his first two matches, but he was given a sterner test against Davydenko, a semifinalist here in 2006 and 2007.",
"Djokovic told reporters: \"I played well at important moments and got the crucial breaks in all three sets.",
"\"He was aggressive and stayed close to the lines, but I was too passive and I wasn't happy with the game.\""
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"Roger Federer beats Marin Cilic in four sets in U.S. Open third round .",
"Federer survives scare as Croatian takes second set at Flushing Meadows .",
"Top seed Novak Djokovic also reaches fourth round after beating Nikolay Davydenko .",
"Ninth seed Tomas Berdych forced to quit with a shoulder injury in New York ."
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"Otsuchi, Japan (CNN) -- Kyoko Ogawa wore the brave face the world associated with Japan's tsunami survivors.",
"The March 11 catastrophe washed away all her earthly possessions.",
"She watched as her hotel burned to the ground in a gas explosion triggered by the tsunami; a hotel that had been in her family for generations.",
"She was determined not to let the disaster break her.",
"But after the elation of finding her son alive, the reality of losing her livelihood started to erode the calm facade.",
"She was in turmoil. She was afraid to talk to other people about it because she knew everyone was suffering as much as her, if not more.",
"They were \"ganbaru,\" she recalls -- enduring, holding on, withstanding, and living with the pain.",
"She couldn't be the only one to lose control.",
"\"I was in shock because I realized that all that was precious to me was gone,\" she says, six months on from that terrible day.",
"\"I didn't know what to do from then on. I became tormented.\"",
"That was the start of a slippery slope down a dark trail of despair.",
"It's a familiar story in Otsuchi, northeastern Japan, where the devastating earthquake and tsunami turned much of the town in Iwate Prefecture into rubble.",
"Today, much of that physical debris has been cleared away.",
"But the emotional wreckage of the survivors is proving much more difficult to remove, as the mental scars from that day linger months later.",
"In Ogawa's case, depression could have had tragic consequences for her had she not met Suimei Morikawa, a volunteer psychiatrist who listened patiently to her troubles one day at an evacuation center.",
"Morikawa became the difference between life and death.",
"She says she probably would have ended her life if the doctor hadn't been there for her.",
"\"I was so moved by her approach to life,\" recalls Morikawa.",
"\"She may have been suffering and wanting to end her life because she had lost so much, but she also desperately wanted to get over that.",
"I was moved by her willingness to get out of her own situation.",
"I just helped her a little.\"",
"Concerns about suicide and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are growing among mental health specialists working in the region.",
"PTSD in particular, a condition which can push people over the edge if not addressed, can show up months after the initial shock.",
"Suicide is also a major concern in Japan.",
"According to the World Health Organization, Japan has the fifth highest suicide rate in the world.",
"More than 30,000 suicides are reported each year, according to the country's national police agency, with Iwate Prefecture -- one of the regions hit hardest by the tsunami -- having one of the biggest problems.",
"Mariko Ukiyo, a psychologist and volunteer counselor, is part of a therapy group called \"Team Japan 300.\"",
"She and a number of other team members visit temporary villages in the devastated region hoping to treat symptoms of PTSD and ultimately prevent suicides.",
"According to Ukiyo, loneliness and despair take hold when the survivors move from their evacuation center to temporary housing.",
"\"It is only then that people see how their life has changed from their pre-disaster life,\" she says.",
"\"The sense of loss and deep grief can overcome you quickly and if you are alone when that happens, you lose all hope for the future.",
"I think this period is when they need help the most.\"",
"But getting help to the victims is proving to be a challenge in Japan, a country with limited experience in mental health care historically.",
"Ukiyo says the amount of psychological support received by tsunami victims now is a tenth of what the victims of 9/11 in the United States experienced.",
"According to Ukiyo, the devastating 1995 earthquake in the city of Kobe started to raise awareness about the effects of post-traumatic stress -- particularly among the younger generation -- but many Japanese continue to find it difficult to talk about sorrow and loss because of the shame of appearing weak.",
"Ukiyo's strategy is to gather the residents in temporary housing for a regular get-together in a relaxed atmosphere.",
"This gives her the opportunity to keep an eye on each of the participants, observing anyone that shows signs of severe distress.",
"The hope is that what starts out as small talk will gradually evolve into people talking about themselves and their problems.",
"But despite her efforts Ukiyo is not optimistic about the region's future with trauma.",
"\"We are only now starting to hear about sick or depressed people six months after the tsunami,\" she says.",
"She believes suicide rates will only increase.",
"Meanwhile, Kyoko Ogawa vows not to be another victim.",
"She says Dr. Morikawa pulled her back from the brink and she is now making plans for the future.",
"She wants to rebuild her hotel and give back to those who helped her.",
"While Ogawa is a success story for Morikawa, he worries about those he will never reach in this devastated region.",
"\"Now that I have met these people, I have grown attached to them,\" he says.",
"\"It saddens me that there are still so many people suffering here.",
"I can't stand the thought that there may be people who died because they had no-one to talk to.\""
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"Kyoko Ogawa became depressed after losing her hotel in March tsunami .",
"She contemplated suicide after being afraid to talk to anyone about her troubles .",
"She says a volunteer psychiatrist at an evacuation center saved her .",
"Mental health specialists are worried about the impact of the disaster months later ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Two Libyan convoys have passed through Niger this week, officials there said Tuesday -- fueling renewed speculation about the whereabouts of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.",
"One convoy was on its way Tuesday to Niger's capital, Niamey, said a Nigerien military captain.",
"Another convoy reached Niamey a day earlier, a Nigerien Interior Ministry official said.",
"That convoy included six high-ranking Libyan officials close to Gadhafi, including Gen. Mansour Daw, the source said.",
"Daw is said to be the head of the Revolutionary Guard and is responsible for the security of Gadhafi and his family.",
"The sources did not want to be identified because neither is authorized to speak to the media.",
"Niamey is in Niger's southwest corner, near Burkina Faso.",
"Burkina Faso's government told CNN Tuesday that it has not offered Gadhafi asylum, contrary to news reports.",
"If Gadhafi were to enter the country, Burkina Faso would \"respect our obligation in the context of the International Criminal Court,\" said government spokesman Alain Edouard Traore.",
"Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi and the former head of military intelligence, Abdullah Al-Senussi, face charges in the ICC at The Hague for crimes against humanity related to the regime's violent crackdown against anti-government protesters.",
"The court issued warrants for their arrests.",
"Niger and Burkina Faso are signatories to the Rome Statute, meaning they recognize the court's authority.",
"In August, Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Yipene Djibril Bassolet announced that his country was recognizing the rebels' National Transitional Council as Libya's government.",
"When asked what would happen if Gadhafi came to the country, Bassolet responded that Gadhafi could come, but that the government would respect its ICC obligations, Traore said.",
"The African Union has called on its member states -- which include Burkina Faso -- to refuse the ICC arrest warrants.",
"In July, the AU called on the U.N. Security Council to activate Article 16 of the Rome Statute, which prevents any investigation or prosecution for a year.",
"The AU argued that the ICC arrest warrants seriously complicated efforts to find a negotiated political solution in Libya.",
"Traore told CNN that despite the AU postion, Burkina Faso would \"respect our obligation in the context of the ICC.\"",
"An AU representative could not be reached immediately on Tuesday.",
"Gadhafi has historically been a strong supporter of the African Union and has channeled large sums of money its way.",
"Traore said Gadhafi was not in his country, and that the Burkina Faso government was not expecting Gadhafi and doesn't know where he is.",
"Abdallah Kenshil, chief negotiator for the National Transitional Council, said Tuesday a convoy left the pro-Gadhafi stronghold of Bani Walid three days ago.",
"\"We believe that Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was part of that convoy,\" Kenshil said.",
"NATO said Tuesday that while it \"continuously receives reports\" about weapons, vehicles and even convoys of vehicles moving throughout Libya, \"we do not discuss the intelligence and surveillance information we collect.\"",
"\"To be clear, our mission is to protect the civilian population in Libya, not to track and target thousands of fleeing former regime leaders, mercenaries, military commanders and internally displaced people,\" a NATO official said in an e-mailed statement.",
"On Monday, Gadhafi spokesman Musa Ibrahim told Syrian al-Rai TV by phone that Gadhafi was \"in excellent health\" and that \"no one will be able to know where he physically is.\"",
"Meanwhile, representatives of Libya's transitional leadership met with tribal leaders in Bani Walid Tuesday to reiterate that pro-Gadhafi forces will not be harmed if they surrender peacefully.",
"\"We want them to hear it from us again that we will not harm, kill or hurt anyone if they drop their weapons,\" Kenshil said.",
"He added that the NTC made clear there will be no retribution for residents of Bani Walid and that the new leadership of Libya will respect property rights.",
"\"We follow the law and order,\" Kenshil told CNN.",
"\"This is a new Libya.\" \"We don't have a deal yet, but we are very optimistic and very confident that the tribal leaders of Bani Walid will persuade Gadhafi loyalists and forces to drop their weapons and resolve this peacefully.\"",
"Kenshil said rebels believe there are \"several big fish\" from the Gadhafi regime in Bani Walid.",
"For more than six months, Libyans have demanded democratic reforms and an end to Gadhafi's 42-year rule.",
"The unrest exploded into a civil war, and Gadhafi's regime crumbled after anti-Gadhafi fighters stormed the capital of Tripoli in late August.",
"Gadhafi's wife, two of his sons and other relatives fled to Algeria recently, deepening mistrust between the new Libyan leadership and its neighbor.",
"But Algeria said it acted on humanitarian grounds.",
"Journalist Ibbo Daddy Abdoulaye in Niamey, Niger, and CNN's Kareem Khadder and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: \"We follow the law and order,\" rebel council chief negotiator says .",
"Burkina Faso says it has not offered Gadhafi asylum .",
"6 high-ranking officials were in a convoy, a source in Niger's interior ministry says ."
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"(CNN) -- Three people were killed and two police officers were injured in a gun fight in Brooklyn Monday evening -- the latest bloodshed in a violent holiday weekend in New York City that saw at least 48 people shot.",
"An exchange of gunfire between two men broke out in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood around 9 p.m. Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.",
"Officers patrolling the nearby West Indian Parade and Carnival, the site of an earlier shooting Monday, responded to the scene.",
"\"The officers were fired upon and returned fire,\" Bloomberg said.",
"Police identified the gunmen, who both died in the shooting, as Eusi Randy Johnson, 29, and Leroy Webster, 32.",
"Johnson died after Webster shot him in the neck, while Webster was killed by police, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.",
"The dispute started as a fistfight in a hallway, then spilled into the street as it escalated, Bloomberg said.",
"It was not clear what the disagreement was over, the mayor said.",
"A bullet Webster fired \"struck an innocent 56-year-old woman sitting on her stoop two doors down,\" Bloomberg said.",
"The woman's name was Denise Gay and her daughter was at her side when she died, the mayor said.",
"After rushing to the scene, officer Omar Medina \"was hit by bullet fragments in his left arm and chest,\" Bloomberg said.",
"He was taken to a nearby hospital and was in stable condition, police said.",
"A second officer, Avichaim Dicken, received a graze wound on his elbow.",
"Webster had a lengthy criminal record that included arrests for assault, drugs and guns, Kelly said.",
"The gun battle comes during a holiday weekend marred by shootings, with 33 people shot on Sunday alone."
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"Two men get in a gun fight in Brooklyn .",
"A woman is hit by a stray bullet and killed .",
"Two officers rushing to the scene are shot and wounded .",
"The shootings comes during a weekend marred by gun violence ."
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"(CNN) -- The death toll from a shooting at a Nevada IHOP restaurant has risen to four, officials said early Wednesday morning.",
"A gunman carrying a variant of an AK-47 rifle opened fire on uniformed Nevada National Guard members as they were having breakfast at the Carson City restaurant Tuesday morning.",
"In all, 11 people were shot.",
"Of them, one civilian was killed as were two National Guard members.",
"Another National Guard member, who was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery, later died -- bringing the toll to four, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong.",
"The attacker also died of a self-inflicted wound after the shooting.",
"The suspected gunman was identified as Eduardo Sencion, 32, who lived in Carson City and worked at a family business in South Lake Tahoe, California, authorities said.",
"Authorities said they had not determined a clear motive.",
"\"To say that he was targeting before he came into the restaurant those military persons, we have not been able to establish,\" Furlong said.",
"\"Clearly, the fact that five of the 11 were military draws a concern by us.\"",
"Sencion had no previous criminal record on file but his family indicated he may have had mental health issues, Furlong told reporters.",
"The shooting began shortly before 9 a.m.",
"When authorities arrived, those who called in the incident identified the shooting suspect as a man lying wounded in the parking lot between two vehicles.",
"The suspect had continued firing in the parking lot after leaving the restaurant, Furlong said.",
"The AK-47 was recovered as well as an empty 30-round gun magazine and two other gun magazines.",
"A pistol and assault rifle were found in or near a vehicle, the sheriff said.",
"Steven Martin, a witness, told CNN Reno affiliate KRNV that he ran to see if he could help after he heard the shots.",
"\"There was blood everywhere; broken glass everywhere.",
"It was just a war zone down there,\" he said.",
"The shooting took place just a few miles from the Nevada National Guard state headquarters in Carson City."
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"In all, 11 people are shot .",
"Of them, three National Guard members and a civilian are killed .",
"Witness: \"It was just a war zone down there\"\nThe suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities say ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- His compound in Tripoli has been overrun, rebels control the closest international airport and world leaders including President Barack Obama are declaring his 42-year rule over.",
"One major question that remains unanswered is: Where is Moammar Gadhafi?",
"Rebel fighters who searched the sprawling Bab al-Aziziya compound in the Libyan capital on Tuesday found boxes of weapons and ammunition, but no Gadhafi.",
"With the fighters of the National Transitional Council also in control of Tripoli's international airport, the options for an escape narrowed.",
"Mukhtar al-Ahmar, who led the rebels in the takeover of the airport, said there had been fierce clashes there Wednesday, and speculated that Gadhafi loyalists were trying to \"to secure a route for Gadhafi to escape from Tripoli.\"",
"He said he saw an official convoy after sunset Tuesday, and said it was \"possible\" Gadhafi was inside.",
"\"He doesn't seem to have much control of anything,\" U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Tuesday.",
"\"It's interesting that he still hasn't been seen.\"",
"So where could Gadhafi be?",
"Professor Abubaker Saad, a former Gadhafi aide, on Tuesday described to CNN a system of bunkers under the Gadhafi compound in Tripoli that could serve as a hideout.",
"However, Saad noted that NATO and the United States have fired anti-bunker bombs at the compound, so he doubted Gadhafi would hide out there.",
"\"You have to remember that he is a military man,\" Saad said.",
"\"He knows they have weapons that could penetrate those bunkers.",
"That's why I'm dismissing the idea that he's still in there.\"",
"There has been speculation that tunnels might lead from Gadhafi's now-overrun bunker to the Rixos hotel, where about 35 journalists are being held against their will by low-ranking Gadhafi loyalists.",
"But CNN's Matthew Chance, who is among the reporters trapped there, said journalists had scoured the hotel from top to bottom and seen no evidence of secret passages.",
"Saad also noted that Gadhafi's recent public communications, such as a statement broadcast on radio and a reported telephone call to Russia, were audio messages to avoid detection of his whereabouts.",
"\"The quality of the audio has deteriorated, and that's an indication that he is speaking from a distance,\" Saad said.",
"\"That's why I am not really convinced that he is in the compound right now.\"",
"U.S. officials called for Gadhafi to make clear that, regardless of where he may be, he knows he's out as the nation's leader.",
"The United States wants Gadhafi to issue \"a reliable, affirmative statement\" to the international community and his loyalists still fighting in Tripoli \"that he understands ... his leadership is over, so everyone can move on,\" Nuland said.",
"While no sightings of Gadhafi have been reported, at least one source outside Libya -- the head of the World Chess Federation -- told Russia's Interfax news agency that he spoke by telephone with him on Tuesday.",
"According to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, as reported by Interfax, Gadhafi said in the phone call to him at around 10 a.m.",
"ET that he is \"alive and well in Tripoli and not going to leave Libya.\"",
"A U.S. official, speaking on condition of not being identified, said Gadhafi is most likely still in Tripoli.",
"There has been nothing to confirm some reports or speculation that the longtime leader has gone to his hometown of Sirte, the official said.",
"Observers cite three likely scenarios for Gadhafi's immediate future -- his death at the hands of rebel forces, his capture, or his escape or exile to another country.",
"Gadhafi and his second-eldest son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, are under indictment for alleged crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.",
"Officials at the ICC have made clear they want the Gadhafis to stand trial in The Hague, if possible.",
"Countries considered possible exile homes for Gadhafi include Venezuela, a rumored destination for months.",
"Gadhafi and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have a close relationship forged in part by shared opposition to U.S. influence around the globe.",
"In 2009, Chavez was one of three world leaders to attend a lavish celebration of Gadhafi's 40 years of rule in Tripoli, along with Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and King Abdullah of Jordan.",
"That same year a new football stadium in the now rebel-held town of Benghazi was named after the Venezuelan leader.",
"On Tuesday, Chavez said his country would only recognize a Libyan government led by Gadhafi, state media reported.",
"\"From here we confirm our solidarity with the Libyan people, our brother that is being assaulted and bombed ... as part of the imperial insanity,\" Chavez said during a meeting of government ministers in Caracas, the state-run AVN news agency reported.",
"Zimbabwe also is considered a possible exile destination, due to common interests between Gadhafi and President Mugabe -- an interest in pan-African solidarity, a disdain for colonial influence and the ignominy of being largely shunned by the international community.",
"Saudi Arabia is considered a desert nation that might be more to Gadhafi's Bedouin liking.",
"The Saudis accepted the deposed leader of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, after the uprising there that helped touch off protests across the Middle East and North Africa, including Libya, this year.",
"However, Gadhafi's relationship with Saudi Arabia has cooled since the Saudis accused Libyans of trying to kill their king several years ago, and it would be unlikely for the desert kingdom to accept an exiled Gadhafi now, according to Christopher Boucek, a Saudi Arabia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"Other nations mentioned as possible destinations for Gadhafi include Cuba, Syria and Sudan.",
"CNN's Tom Cohen and Mike Pearson contributed to this report."
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"A former aide says it is unlikely he is hiding in the bunkers below .",
"A rebel commander speculates that he wants to clear a route to the airport to flee .",
"Venezuela is considered a possible exile destination ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Comedian Eddie Murphy will host the Oscars next February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday.",
"Brett Ratner, who will produce the 84th Academy Awards show along with Don Mischer, called Murphy \"a comedic genius, one of the greatest and most influential live performers ever.\"",
"\"With his love of movies, history of crafting unforgettable characters and his iconic performances -- especially on stage -- I know he will bring excitement, spontaneity and tremendous heart to the show Don and I want to produce in February,\" Ratner said.",
"Critics panned the co-hosting team of Anne Hathaway and James Franco after last February's awards show, putting pressure on producers to hire a host who will stir positive buzz and draw viewers.",
"\"Eddie is a truly ground-breaking performer, whose amazingly diverse array of roles has won him a devoted audience of all ages,\" Mischer said.",
"\"His quick wit and charisma will serve him very well as Oscar host.\"",
"Murphy was nominated for best supporting actor in 2006 for his supporting role in \"Dreamgirls.\"",
"\"I am enormously honored to join the great list of past Academy Award hosts from Hope and Carson to Crystal, Martin and Goldberg, among others,\" said Murphy, referring to previous hosts and show-business legends Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg.",
"Murphy, who started his stand-up comedy career at 15, was 19 when he became the youngest cast member on TV's \"Saturday Night Live\" in 1980.",
"His feature film debut came in 1982's \"48 Hrs.\"",
"and was followed by \"Beverly Hills Cop\" and the \"The Nutty Professor\" and \"Shrek\" franchises.",
"Murphy's movies have earned in excess of $7 billion at box offices worldwide, according to the Academy's news release.",
"The show will be televised live in more than 200 countries from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Sunday, February 26, 2012."
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"Murphy's \"quick wit and charisma will serve him very well,\" producer Mischer says .",
"He's \"a comedic genius,\" producer Ratner says .",
"Murphy was nominated for best supporting actor Oscar in 2006 ."
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"(CNN) -- Turkish champions Fenerbahce have been withdrawn from the European Champions League group stage by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) in relation to bribery and match fixing allegations.",
"In July more than 30 people were arrested and jailed over claims that several football matches, as many as 19, in the Turkish first and second divisions had been manipulated.",
"The highest profile figure arrested in the scandal was Fenerbahce's president Aziz Yildirim.",
"Fenerbahce won last season's title on goal difference from Trabzonspor.",
"But as the arrests mount the TFF decided to withdraw Fenerbahce before UEFA, European football's governing body, was forced to act on its behalf.",
"\"Regarding the heavy disciplinary sanctions both Fenerbahce and the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), which means Turkey might encounter, it is decided to ban Fenerbahce Sports Club from the UEFA Champions' League this season,\" read a statement posted on the TFF's official web site.",
"The move took place 24 hours before Thursday's group stage draw.",
"European football's governing body acted swiftly to end speculation over who will replace Fenerbahce by announcing that Trabzonspor, who finished second in the Turkish league last season, will take the final group stage berth.",
"After a meeting of UEFA's Emergency Committee on Wednesday evening it was also agreed that Spanish club Athletic Bilbao will no longer need to take part in a qualification match against Trabzonspor on Thursday and will go straight in to the Europa League instead.",
"\"The panel considered that the Turkish Football Federation took the right decision to protect the game, fully in line with our zero-tolerance policy against match-fixing,\" said UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino in a statement posted on UEFA's web site.",
"\"The Turkish Football Federation has shown with this decision that it takes its full responsibility in the fight against corruption.\""
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"The decision was taken by the Turkish Football Federation .",
"Second place team Trabzonspor to take their place in tomorrow's draw .",
"The move is connected to Turkish match fixing allegations ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Republican Party will not provide a formal response to President Barack Obama's speech on jobs, a senior GOP aide said Tuesday.",
"\"This is not a State of the Union Address,\" said a senior GOP leadership aide, who spoke on condition of not being identified.",
"\"The (House) speaker is opening Statuary Hall (in the Capitol) to media following the speech, giving every member of Congress the opportunity to provide a reaction to the president's address,\" the aide said.",
"Obama plans to unveil a major jobs initiative to a joint session of Congress Thursday.",
"After the scheduling brouhaha over the president's State of the Union-style speech was resolved last week, Republican aides in the House and Senate were noticeably mum about details of the official response, which typically all the major television networks carry about five minutes after the president's speech in the House chamber ends.",
"\"Republicans are, and have been, entirely focused on job creation,\" said Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, on Tuesday.",
"\"Every member of Congress, and -- more importantly -- the American people, will provide a reaction to the president's address.",
"We trust in the good judgment of the American people, and the president's proposals will rise or fall on their own merits.\"",
"In the past GOP leaders have chosen rising political stars in their party including Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal of Louisiana to respond to the president's speech.",
"In January Republicans tapped House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to give the official GOP response to the president's State of the Union speech.",
"In September 2009, when Obama delivered a major speech on health care to a joint session, Louisiana Republican Rep Charles Boustany, a heart surgeon, was picked to present the GOP health care plan.",
"CNN's Kate Bolduan contributed to this report."
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"Instead, Republicans will fan out in Statuary Hall to respond .",
"\"This is not a State of the Union Address,\" a senior GOP aide says ."
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- One of Northern Ireland's biggest terrorist trials in decades started Tuesday at Belfast Crown Court amid tight security.",
"Fourteen alleged members of the pro-British or loyalist paramilitary group known as the Ulster Volunteer Force are accused of a total of 97 offenses.",
"The men range in age from 32 to 46.",
"Nine defendants are charged with murder in the October 2000 slaying of rival paramilitary leader Tommy English.",
"The 40-year-old Ulster Defence Association member was gunned down in front of his wife and young children on Halloween night during a bloody feud between the rival groups.",
"The Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association were responsible for the killings of hundreds of people during the conflict between pro-British and pro-Irish forces in Northern Ireland over a 30-year period known as the Troubles.",
"Most of their victims were Catholic civilians.",
"The groups have remained active since the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998.",
"Two brothers -- David and Robert Stewart -- are giving evidence against their alleged former colleagues in the Ulster Volunteer Force.",
"The Stewarts admitted to their part in English's killing and agreed to testify to get a reduced sentence.",
"One of the accused is Mark Haddock, 42, named as a police agent in a 2007 report on the Ulster Volunteer Force by former Northern Ireland police ombudsman Nuala O'Loan.",
"O'Loan said an Ulster Volunteer Force gang based in the Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast had been involved in up to 15 murders and that the Northern Ireland police special branch unit had allowed informers within the Mount Vernon group to act with impunity.",
"At trial, Haddock is sitting separately from the 13 other defendants, surrounded by prison officers for his own safety.",
"Two of his co-defendants were previously charged with trying to kill Haddock in 2006, but murder charges were dropped when he refused to give evidence.",
"A prosecutor opened the case Tuesday, saying Haddock had ordered English's murder.",
"Robert Stewart, 37, then started testifying Tuesday.",
"He also said Haddock ordered the killing and told the gunman to try to avoid shooting the rest of English's family.",
"Supporters of the accused men staged a protest outside the court against the use of \"supergrasses,\" or slang for informers.",
"The term was first used in Northern Ireland in the 1980s when a number of terrorist suspects were convicted on the evidence of former comrades.",
"The trial is being held under 2005 legislation introduced by the United Kingdom -- the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act -- which allows a suspect to enter a written agreement to give evidence against other alleged criminals.",
"Victims' relatives are being given protection from supporters of the Ulster Volunteer Force attending the trial at Laganside courts in Belfast.",
"Families are able to watch proceedings by video link in a separate, secure venue.",
"Large numbers of police officers are inside and outside the court complex.",
"The trial could last three months and will be one of the most expensive ever in Northern Ireland.",
"Police fear there could be unrest in Protestant/loyalist districts as the trial progresses."
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"Belfast court has a heavy police presence as 14 defendants go on trial in large terrorism case .",
"Trial could last three months and is likely to be one of Northern Ireland's most expensive ever .",
"Nine of the men face murder charges in the 2000 killing of a rival paramiltary leader .",
"Rival groups were responsible for deaths of hundreds during conflict known as the Troubles ."
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"HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Fidel Castro appeared \"very well\" during a meeting this week with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, telling her that he watched President Obama's inauguration on television, Argentina's official news agency reported.",
"Fidel Castro is shown talking on the phone in Cuba in October 2006.",
"Castro said he believes Obama is \"a sincere person with good ideas,\" Kirchner said in Cuba at the conclusion of a three-day visit, according to the state-run Telam news agency.",
"\"We talked about all subjects,\" Kirchner said of her Wednesday meeting with Castro.",
"\"I found him very well.",
"We talked about the international situation.\"",
"The report appears to belie widespread speculation that the Cuban revolutionary leader had suffered a major relapse or had died.",
"The 82-year-old Castro has not been seen in public since ceding power to his brother Raul in 2006.",
"An account of Wednesday's meeting, published under Castro's name, also appeared in the Cuban news agency ACN late Wednesday.",
"In it, the 82-year-old former leader noted that Obama is the 11th U.S. president to hold office since the communist revolution that brought him to power in 1959.",
"\"Even though the huge power of that country, they have not been able to destroy the Cuban revolution,\" the agency quoted him as saying.",
"He said he had \"no doubt\" of Obama's honesty, \"but his noble intentions leave many questions unanswered.",
"For example, I asked myself, how could a wasteful and very consuming system preserve the environment?\"",
"Castro transferred his office to his younger brother on a temporary basis in July 2006 after suffering from an undisclosed illness, often thought to be of his digestive system.",
"Though photos sometimes surface, he has made no public appearances since then and handed power to Raul Castro permanently in February 2008.",
"Rumors circulated last week that the elder Castro had taken seriously ill again.",
"Although these rumors surface periodically, some analysts paid particular attention this time because no photos of him had been seen since November, and he made no comments on the Cuban revolution's 50th anniversary on January 1."
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"Argentina's president says she talked to Fidel Castro .",
"Castro thinks Obama \"a sincere person with good ideas,\" Argentine leader says .",
"Castro transferred power in Cuba to his brother in 2006 after illness ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Some families of 9/11 victims say they are confused, anxious and surprised as the 10th anniversary approaches because they have not received invitations to the Sunday ceremony opening the ground zero memorial.",
"Gillian Joseph, who lost her husband Stephen in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, said she is thinking of canceling her plans to attend the memorial because the whole thing seems so disorganized.",
"\"There was no notification. I made reservations not knowing what the final plans were.",
"I still haven't received an official invitation,\" Joseph said.",
"She added that the last thing she wants for herself and her 12-year-old son is have to deal with a large crowd and make a \"hard day even harder.\"",
"Joseph said she has made several calls to the New York mayor's office about her missing invitation without hearing back.",
"So did Ansu Philip, who said the mayor's office finally told her after several days of calling that she would be receiving the invitation last week but she still has not received it.",
"It's been 10 days since she spoke to the mayor's office, and she is anxious to make sure she and her relatives can attend the memorial to honor her daughter, Sneha Anne Philip.",
"And a widow who did not wish to be identified told CNN while she did not receive an official invitation, she assumed there would be some kind of memorial.",
"\"We made plans knowing that something was going to happen.",
"My friend will take us with her.",
"She got two invitations, I got none,\" she said.",
"The woman still feels she should have gotten her own invitation, especially since she says she has never had any problems receiving memorial notifications in the past.",
"\"I'm appalled, surprised, and irritated.",
"This just makes things more difficult,\" the widow said.",
"The confusion and anxieties surround official invitations -- or lack of them -- for the Sunday morning service that will mark the opening of the National September 11 Memorial at ground zero.",
"The ceremony starting at 8:30 a.m. will include the reading of the names of victims and two moments of silence to mark the times the towers were hit.",
"Family members will be allowed in the memorial, where they will see for the first time their loved ones' names inscribed in bronze.",
"Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office said in a statement on Sunday: \"We communicate regularly with the family members and have recently sent out letters and e-mails about this year's ceremony.",
"Family members have direct access to our staff for any questions that arise, and we'll have staff on site that day to resolve any issues.",
"So while we apologize for any confusion, there is no reason for any family member to be concerned about not being able to attend the ceremony.\"",
"Joe Daniels is the president and CEO of the 9/11 memorial.",
"He said he has reached out to victims' families, letting them know that if they have not yet received an official invitation, they will be able to use alternate methods to identify themselves for admission to the ceremony.",
"\"I want to assure you that nothing has changed from years past in terms of access to the ceremony,\" Daniels said.",
"That offers little consolation to family members who want a real invitation that will guarantee them entry.",
"Lois Paterson-Gallo worries that trying to get into the ceremony with other identification methods will complicate getting in, and that will add more stress and anxiety.",
"\"I want the official invitation to cut down on the hassle the day of the memorial.",
"I don't feel totally comfortable that this is going to work,\" she said.",
"Laurie Mirak, whose husband died on 9/11, is traveling and said she won't be back home to get her invitation until after September 11, if in fact it arrives.",
"She has been relying on a website for the 9/11 community of families -- Voices of September 11th -- for information.",
"She plans to bring her husband's death certificate to gain entry to the memorial.",
"Mirak said she is planning on taking part in all of the memorials for her husband and the other victims, and has invitations to all events -- except the ground zero memorial ceremony Sunday morning.",
"Not everyone has had a problem receiving an invitation, though.",
"Elaine Hughes, whose son Kris died on 9/11, received her cardboard invitation in the mail two weeks ago.",
"She thinks the whole issue of invitations is getting blown out of proportion and is confident that \"if you're a family member, they're going to let you in.\"",
"Patricia Tamuccio, who lost a son, was anxious until her invitation arrived in the mail last Thursday.",
"She plans to bring other relatives and she received a notice telling her that she was permitted to bring guests.",
"David de Vere from the United Kingdom, who lost a relative on 9/11, received his invitation in plenty of time to plan a visit and he said he wonders if some people just weren't in the correct database."
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"A ceremony Sunday morning will open the 9/11 memorial at ground zero .",
"Some families of 9/11 victims say they have yet to receive invitations .",
"The mayor's office says staff on site that day will resolve any issues of admission .",
"\"There is no reason for any family member to be concerned\""
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"(CNN) -- His was a suicide with a macabre twist.",
"In February, former Chicago Bears safety David Duerson shot himself in the chest, but not before leaving behind a note requesting that his brain be studied for evidence of a disease striking football players.",
"The plaintive note read, \"Please, see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank.\"",
"Scientists announced Monday that Duerson's brain tissue showed \"moderately advanced\" evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a dementia-like brain disease afflicting athletes exposed to repeated brain trauma.",
"\"Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease,\" said Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist with the Bedford VA medical center, and co-director of the Boston University School of Medicine Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.",
"\"He had severe involvement of areas that control judgment, inhibition, impulse control, mood and memory.\"",
"CTE has been found in the brains of 14 of 15 former NFL players thus far studied at the Boston University center.",
"Their cases share a common thread -- repeated concussions, sub-concussive blows to the head, or both.",
"The picture beginning to emerge from these cases is that that trauma could be causing brain damage.",
"A brain with CTE is riddled with dense clumps of a protein called tau.",
"Under a microscope, tau appears as brown tangles that look similar to dementia.",
"But the cases of CTE have shown this progressive, dementia-like array in players well in advance of a typical dementia diagnosis, which typically occurs when people are in their 70s or 80s.",
"Mike Webster, an offensive lineman with the Pittsburgh Steelers and also diagnosed posthumously with CTE, was 50 when he died.",
"John Grimsley, a nine-year NFL veteran who played most of his career with the Houston Oilers was 45, and Duerson was 50.",
"Scientists at BU have found evidence of CTE in the brain of an athlete as young as 18.",
"\"To see the kind of changes we're seeing in 45-year-olds is basically unheard of,\" McKee said in an earlier interview with CNN.",
"Duerson suffered a minimum of 10 known concussions during the course of his career, some of them involving loss of consciousness, said Dr. Robert Stern, co-director of the Boston University center.",
"Symptoms that nagged Duerson after he retired from the NFL in 1993 were typical of cases such as Webster and Grimsley, including problems with impulse control, an increasingly short fuse and headaches.",
"Duerson's ex-wife said that while playing professionally, the head trauma he bore on the field would become plain after games ended.",
"\"Sometimes he would come home with extreme headaches,\" said Alicia Duerson during an interview with CNN in February.",
"\"We would meet after the game and he would want me to drive because he felt dizziness or he just didn't feel stable.\"",
"Alicia Duerson said that several years before he died, her husband had been extremely bright, articulate, gifted.",
"But as time wore on, he began to lose those faculties.",
"Duerson began to have trouble forming coherent sentences and spelling.",
"Alongside cognitive and emotional problems, a business that he established after his NFL career began failing.",
"The tragic culmination of his problems was his suicide on February 17.",
"\"We do seem to be seeing an increased rate in athletes who have early and moderate stage CTE,\" said McKee, adding the caveat that the BU sample is autopsy-based and therefore inherently biased.",
"Duerson's death, and specifically the decision to shoot himself in the chest, apparently to avoid damaging his brain tissue, shocked members of his family and the football community.",
"Duerson's case is the first in the CTE narrative in which a player ostensibly took his own life to have his brain studied.",
"\"It's important for people to understand that it does not help our research or our mission of the CSTE to take their own lives because they fear they have this disease,\" said Stern.",
"\"The future will lead to successful treatment of this disease.\"",
"Duerson's son Tregg said that the analysis of his father's brain -- the answers to questions about death -- has given the family a measure of closure.",
"\"It is my greatest hope that his death will not be in vain and that through this research his legacy will live on and others won't have to suffer in this manner,\" Tregg Duerson said."
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"David Duerson shot himself in the chest in February .",
"He wanted his brain tissue to be studied .",
"Tests reveal he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy .",
"The disease is known to afflict athletes exposed to repeated brain trauma ."
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"LONDON, England -- New photos released this week show British air force jets shadowing Russian bombers over the North Atlantic Ocean in scenes that echo the Cold War and highlight Moscow's growing assertiveness.",
"A British Royal Air Force Typhoon F2 fighter plane (left) encounters a Russian Bear-H bomber over the Atlantic.",
"The images from Britain's Ministry of Defence show an encounter outside British airspace last Friday between the Royal Air Force's (RAF) new Typhoon F2 aircraft and one of several Russian Bear-H bombers.",
"The incident comes as Moscow seeks to raise its military profile.",
"The encounter happened on the same day that Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, announced it was to resume the Soviet-era practice of continuous long-range bomber patrols on a permanent basis.",
"The move is regarded by analysts as one of several signs of growing Russian assertiveness.",
"Also Tuesday Putin announced plans to revive Russia's aviation industry after more than a decade of post-Soviet under-funding, Reuters said.",
"Opening the MAKS-2007 airshow at the Zhukovsky airbase, east of Moscow, Putin said that \"Russia ... faces the task of maintaining supremacy in producing military aircraft\", according to the agency.",
"Reuters said Putin made his comments as a formation of two dozen warplanes, civilian craft and helicopters roared past at the event, which is intended as a mark of the nation's aviation ambitions.",
"\"The show presents the unique potential of our country,\" the agency quoted him as saying.",
"The British jets, from Number XI Squadron and on their first mission since becoming the UK's new reaction force, cover the southern part of England and were launched from RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, eastern England, according to the Ministry of Defence.",
"The encounter in the skies was not the first this year between the UK and Russia.",
"In July, two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers made unusually long sorties over the North Sea, leading Norway and Britain to scramble fighter jets to follow them.",
"Russia's air force said later it was a routine flight.",
"And earlier this month Russian air force generals said bomber crews had flown near the Pacific island of Guam, where the U.S. military has a base.",
"U.S. planes were scrambled to track them.",
"Last week White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said he did not believe the flights posed a threat to the United States.",
"\"Militaries around the world engage in a variety of activities, so this is not entirely surprising,\" he said.",
"The encounters follow growing rifts during the past 12 months between Russia and the West on issues including Kosovo, energy, and Moscow's treatment of its ex-Soviet neighbors.",
"Earlier this year Putin caused a stir by saying Russian missiles would again be aimed at European targets if the U.S. persisted with plans to build a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.",
"Tensions between the two countries later cooled after compromise talks between Putin and U.S. President George Bush.",
"And the UK and Russia have engaged in tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions of diplomats after Russia refused to allow the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, a former security service agent turned businessman.",
"Lugovoi is accused by the British authorities of the radiation poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London last year, a charge Lugovoi has denied.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"Reuters contributed to this report."
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"Pictures show UK fighters encountering Russian bombers over the Atlantic .",
"Encounter came on the same day Russia resumed bomber patrols .",
"Russian president announces plans for military aviation expansion .",
"Encounter comes amid Russian assertiveness and tensions with the West ."
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"Monaco (CNN) -- A day after tying the knot in a civil ceremony, Monaco's ruler and his South African bride reaffirmed their union Saturday in a religious ceremony at the prince's palace.",
"The event kicked off the second day of festivities in the small seaside nation of 33,000, where a holiday has been declared to celebrate the wedding of Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer, and Prince Albert.",
"The 3,500 guests -- which include 20 heads of state, fellow royals and a number of moguls and celebrities -- began to arrive hours earlier Saturday afternoon at the palace, the same place where one day earlier the couple's civil ceremony had taken place.",
"They walked through Palace Square into the courtyard, passing hundreds of onlookers who followed the nuptials on a pair of giant screens.",
"The last one to stroll the carpet, just before 5 p.m., was Wittstock herself.",
"Her white wedding gown was designed by Giorgio Armani, according to the fashion designer's Facebook page.",
"Archbishop Bernard Barsi conducted the Roman Catholic ceremony under partly cloudy skies, with temperatures forecast to be around 80 degrees Fahrenheit.",
"\"We ask God to bless you, to make your love strong and keep you in unity and loyalty,\" the archbishop said.",
"In matching vows, the couple promised to remain loyal to one another in sickness and in health, and then slipped wedding rings on each other's fingers.",
"Once the ceremony ended, the new princess left to leave her bouquet at the Sainte Devote church -- a Monaco tradition -- and join her new husband for a public procession through the city streets.",
"This will be followed by an official dinner crafted by celebrity chef Alain Ducasse and fireworks outside the Opera de Monte Carlo.",
"The event has galvanized the attention of thousands around the world, whose fascination with Monaco's royalty blossomed with the April 1956 wedding of Prince Ranier III and Hollywood movie star Grace Kelly.",
"Albert, 53, is that couple's only son, and they also had two daughters in Princesses Caroline and Stephanie.",
"Prince Albert formally became Monaco's head of state following his father's death in 2005.",
"While he has publicly acknowledged he has fathered two children, this is his first marriage.",
"Also an Olympian, having competed in bobsled competitions in five Olympic Winter Games -- from Calgary in 1988 to Salt Lake City in 2002 -- the prince met Wittstock at a swimming event in Monaco in 2000.",
"That summer, the 33-year-old woman swam for South Africa in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.",
"The couple announced their engagement last summer.",
"The couple's marriage became legal Friday, with a short civil ceremony at the palace.",
"Afterwards, the couple and their guests feasted at a picnic and took in musical concert featuring Jean Michel Jarre.",
"The guest list for the two-day extravaganza includes heads of state, like French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silivia, and members of the rich and famous such as British model Naomi Campbell, British business mogul Richard Branson and Armani.",
"However, the United Kingdom's royal newlyweds -- Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge -- missed the wedding as they are on an official tour of Canada."
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"NEW: The religious ceremony is held in the courtyard of the prince's palace .",
"NEW: The bride's wedding dress is designed by Giorgio Armani, design house says .",
"Prince Albert and his bride Charlene Wittstock also have dinner and fireworks planned .",
"They had a civil ceremony Friday at the palace, followed by a picnic and musical concert ."
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"(CNN) -- In its halcyon days, the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, Libya boasted of going the extra mile to make guests \"feel privileged.\"",
"It sent flowers and cooled towels to their rooms, and made Porsches and Jaguars -- even helicopters -- available at a moment's notice.",
"But by early Wednesday, the remaining guests at the luxury hotel in the Libyan capital were reduced to raiding cabinets for cheese and fruit.",
"About 35 journalists who were allowed into the North African country to cover the conflict with the blessing of the Moammar Gadhafi regime are trapped at the hotel for a fifth day.",
"And about five more journalists covering clashes in the area fled into the hotel Wednesday morning and were briefly barred from leaving, said CNN's Jomana Karadsheh, who is among those at the hotel.",
"Four were later allowed to go, she saw.",
"But armed Gadhafi loyalists ring the hotel's perimeter and patrol its corridors, barring most journalists there from leaving.",
"It's for their protection, the guards say.",
"CNN's Matthew Chance, who is also at the hotel, urged other journalists in the city not to come for fear they, too, would be trapped.",
"\"We are not being allowed to leave.",
"We want to leave.",
"We are obviously in a very fragile position,\" he said.",
"They have enough snack food and bottled water to last for several days, he explained.",
"\"After that, we're going to be in trouble,\" he added.",
"So, as battle rages outside for control of Tripoli between pro-regime and rebel forces, the reporters can do little but sit and wait.",
"With no air-conditioning and sporadic electricity, they walk the halls with the glow of candlelight to guide them.",
"Giant paintings of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi stare down at them from hotel walls.",
"Snipers keep a wary eye from rooftops.",
"\"The concern we have now is that we seem to be in one of the few remaining patches of territory in Libya which is still controlled by Gadhafi's forces,\" Chance said.",
"\"And so we're kind of very anxious about what might happen at this hotel in the hours ahead.\"",
"The reporters spend their days in helmets and bullet proof vests.",
"At night, they sleep on bedsheets in the hallway to avoid shards of glass from windows shattered by gunfire.",
"\"This is not a comfortable position, but ... all in good spirits,\" BBC correspondent Matthew Price tweeted Tuesday.",
"Chance said the journalists would like to \"negotiate an exit,\" but have been prevented from doing so.",
"The reporters have put up white bed sheets from the top floor balconies of the hotel.",
"In large black letters, they scrawled the words \"TV, press, don't shoot\" on them to leave no doubt they are impartial observers in the conflict.",
"\"Gadhafi loyalists have basically regarded the international media as being on the rebels' side in this conflict, even though that's obviously not the case,\" Chance said.",
"\"We're just here trying to report the government's side of things in this conflict.\"",
"The hotel has served as a de facto media hub approved by the regime for international journalists and scores of government officials who relocated their families there during the civil war.",
"It also made headlines along the way.",
"In March, Eman al-Obeidy, stormed the hotel in tears while journalists were having breakfast and said Gadhafi forces had raped her.",
"In May, Gadhafi himself made an unannounced appearance to hold a meeting with tribal leaders.",
"His sudden appearance, and the fact that the hotel is now being guarded so closely, has led to some speculation that Gadhafi himself is there, or that he has access to the hotel through secret tunnels from his bunker.",
"But Chance said he and other journalists had \"scoured\" the hotel \"from top to bottom\" and had seen no evidence of tunnels.",
"On Tuesday, Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, turned up to debunk reports that rebels had captured him.",
"Hours after the son's defiance stance, rebel fighters and throngs of citizens stormed the ruler's fortress compound in Bab al-Aziziya not far away.",
"Celebratory gunfire rang out as residents took off with souvenirs, including reams of documents and weapons.",
"But away from the action, the journalists waited as dawn gave way to another day Wednesday -- and more clashes erupted outside the hotel.",
"Chance said their goal is to avoid agitating the guards.",
"\"We do not want to prompt any dangerous action,\" he said.",
"\"We are trying to stay as safe as possible.\"",
"He hopes the nightmare, as he called it, ends soon.",
"\"In a fizzle,\" he said. \"Not a bang.\""
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"About 35 journalists, including from CNN, are trapped there .",
"They prowl the hall ways with giant paintings of Moammar Gadhafi staring down at them .",
"They sleep in hallways to avoid whizzing bullets ."
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"(CNN) -- Newly-promoted Atalanta will start the Italian Serie A season with a six-point deduction for their part in an alleged match-fixing scandal.",
"The club's 38-year-old captain Cristiano Doni has also been banned for three-and-half years by the Italian Football Federation, which could effectively end his career.",
"Doni's teammate, Thomas Manfredini, received a three-year ban while former Italy international Giuseppe Signori was suspended for five years.",
"Eight more clubs were also punished by the disciplinary committee, including Ascoli, in the second division, who were also docked six points.",
"Third tier club Ravenna were expelled from the league and Alessandria have been relegated.",
"Benevento had nine points deducted, Cremonese six, Piacenza four and Reggiana.",
"Spezia and Taranta were penalized a point each.",
"Atalanta said in a statement on their official web site they were \"deeply disappointed\" and intended to appeal the decision.",
"Marco Paoloni, a former goalkeeper for Cremonese and Benevento, was at the center of the allegations and has been handed a ban of five years.",
"A total of 16 players and 16 clubs have been punished in some form."
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"Atalanta hit by six-point deduction after probe into alleged match fixing .",
"Italian Football Federation also ban club captain Cristiano Doni for three years .",
"Atalanta say they intend to appeal their points deduction .",
"A total of 16 clubs and 16 players hit with charges ."
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"Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- Bodies lie scattered in a rural field in the southern Philippines, some unearthed from a shallow grave hastily dug by the gunmen who seized the group of men and women just a day earlier.",
"By Tuesday, search teams had found a total of 46 bodies, and it was still unclear if there were more victims from Monday's massacre.",
"The target was a group that included the female relatives of Ismael \"Toto\" Mangudadatu, who had sent the women to file paperwork allowing him to run for governor of Maguindanao province in May.",
"Mangudadatu said he had received threats which he believed were from allies of the incumbent governor Andal Ampatuan -- that he would be kidnapped if he filed the candidate papers himself.",
"Instead, his wife, sister, and the group of journalists accompanying them were kidnapped and brutally killed, possibly tortured, raped and beheaded, according to local media reports.",
"A local police commander described the grisly search operation near an isolated village, telling reporters from ABS-CBN News that 17 bodies were pulled from a single grave.",
"\"They were piled on top of each other,\" Chief Superintendent Josefino Cataluna said.",
"\"It looked as if they were buried hurriedly.\"",
"Those killed included at least 12 journalists, according to the press freedom organization, Reporters Without Borders, making Monday the deadliest single day for journalists anywhere in the world.",
"It was also the worst politically motivated violence in the Philippines' recent history.",
"Witnesses, local officials and analysts have blamed the attacks on Ampatuan, who has controlled the area for a decade and is a long-time ally of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.",
"Ampatuan, who is known locally as a warlord, reportedly commands a private army of nearly 500 men.",
"Philippine military officials also said Monday that the gunmen who carried out the attack were loyal to Ampatuan.",
"Neither Ampatuan nor any of his advisers has commented on the slaying allegations.",
"\"It's not hard to determine the motive,\" according to Philippine analyst Kenneth E. Bauzon.",
"\"How dare this [Mangudadatu] challenge him when he knows that the governor is a position that is presumably reserved for [the Ampatuan] family.\"",
"Ampatuan reportedly wanted one of his sons to succeed him as governor of Maguindanao when he stepped down next year, according to ABS-CBN.",
"A government construction vehicle was found at the site of the hastily dug mass grave, fueling the belief that Ampatuan or his allies had a role in the massacre.",
"Both the Ampatuan and Mangudadatu clans have agreed to participate in the government's investigation into the killings, according to Arroyo's adviser on the Mindanao region, Jesus Dureza, who spoke to the Philippine media on Tuesday.",
"Neither Ampatuan nor his advisers have spoken publicly about the widespread allegations, and that is most likely because he is \"weighing his options,\" Bauzon said.",
"Now, the region is bracing for a backlash of possible reprisal killings.",
"The Philippine government has placed Maguindanao and its surrounding regions under a state of emergency and survivors of Monday's massacre have entered a government witness protection program, according to the state-run Philippines News Agency.",
"Arroyo has sent top level government officials to Maguindanao to \"personally oversee military action against the perpetrators of the dastardly acts,\" she said Tuesday.",
"\"No effort has been spared to bring justice to the victims and hold the perpetrators accountable to the full limit of the law,\" she said.",
"Long-running family disputes in the southern Philippines have spilled innocent blood before.",
"Such blood feuds are known by the indigenous term, \"rido.\"",
"But Monday's massacre has broader implications, Bauzon said.",
"\"I think that this is a culmination for many years of impunity on the part of any family or group for that matter because this has been tolerated by the Arroyo administration,\" said Bauzon, a political science associate professor at Saint Joseph's College in New York, who is from Mindanao and has authored several books on the region and its politics.",
"\"So when the administration looks the other way when journalists report on military abuses [or] when the administration looks the other way when church workers are assassinated, when environmental workers are assassinated or abducted, you know, this [massacre] is just one or two steps away [from that].\"",
"The killings could further damage the political reputation of Arroyo, whose administration has already been scarred by allegations of a tainted election in 2004 and criticism over her response to the recent typhoons to strike the country.",
"\"It's a test as to what how far the Arroyo administration will go to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators,\" Bauzon said.",
"Arroyo's term ends in May 2010, and she cannot seek re-election although there has been speculation that she could seek another political office.",
"Maguindanao is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao which was set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the Philippines, a predominantly Christian country.",
"Negotiations between one of those armed groups, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and the Philippine government broke down last year after the country's Supreme Court blocked a proposed peace deal that would have increased the size and scope of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.",
"Arroyo's government exercises little control in the region and is blamed by her critics for helping legitimize many of the armed groups that operate freely in Mindanao, including those loyal to the governor, Ampatuan.",
"Arroyo issued an executive order in July 2006 that allowed local officials and Philippine National Police to deputize volunteer watchmen, known as barangay tanods, to fight against insurgent groups in the southern regions.",
"This order has been blamed for allowing local politicians to convert their private militias into legal security forces.",
"The strong clan rivalries and the armed groups that support each clan may make it impossible for Arroyo to rout out those behind Monday's mass killing, according to Bauzon.",
"\"The dynasty is strongly entrenched and for her to disband private armies by this warlord overnight is too much of a task,\" he said.",
"\"The Americans were not able to do it in half a century and all she can do is set her sights low by really going after the most visible of the perpetrators.\"",
"CNN's Tricia Escobedo and journalist Maria Ressa contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Massacre was worst politically motivated violence in Philippines' recent history .",
"Death toll from massacre rises to 46, a day after the brutal attack .",
"Mangudadatu says he had received threats if he filed the candidate papers himself ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The estranged husband of \"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\" cast member Taylor Armstrong apparently killed himself in his home, according to police and the Los Angeles county coroner's office.",
"Russell Armstrong's lawyer said he's \"100% convinced\" Armstrong's role in the reality show created his depression, but he does not blame the Bravo network for his death.",
"Investigators did not find a suicide note near the body of Armstrong, 47, who was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m. Monday, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Tuesday.",
"His body was found in a Mulholland Drive home in the hills above Bel Air, California, Winter said.",
"\"It does appear to be a suicide by hanging,\" Los Angeles Police spokesman Richard French said.",
"Armstrong was the subject of numerous celebrity gossip website stories in recent weeks that detailed allegations of abuse made against him in his pending divorce.",
"After Taylor Armstrong filed for divorce last month she told People magazine that she was verbally and physically abused during their nearly six-year marriage.",
"\"I felt like I was dying inside,\" she told People.",
"\"Now, there's some sense of peace.\"",
"In his interview with People, Russell Armstrong said, \"Maybe things happened in the heat of the moment, but it was during a time in our lives that was not characteristic of who we were.",
"This show has literally pushed us to the limit.\"",
"Ronald Richards, who was Russell Armstrong's lawyer, said in an interview Tuesday with A.J.",
"Hammer, host of HLN's \"Showbiz Tonight,\" that the response to the divorce filing was sitting on his desk and had been about to be filed in court.",
"\"He did not want the divorce at all, but he was willing to accept her decision,\" Richards said.",
"\"He tried to fix some of her concerns, but as I've advised many couples in this area, including Mr. Armstrong, these shows have a way of tearing apart a marriage when one spouse takes a certain directions and the other spouse is left kind of supporting the financial part of the marriage.\"",
"Armstrong, who was defending himself against a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, was financially drained, Richards said.",
"His credit cards had been suspended, adding to the pressure, he said.",
"But his downfall was caused by his role in the reality show, he said.",
"\"I'm 100% convinced and based on facts that this show led to his depression on a couple different grounds,\" Richards said.",
"\"One is that the show characterized him as someone that abused his spouse.",
"It highlighted ancient financial negatives in his past and put him in a spotlight that he wasn't equipped to deal with.\"",
"His lawyer said the allegations of verbal and physical abuse stemmed from \"drunk arguments.\"",
"\"That's what they were dealing with here,\" he said.",
"\"There may have been the normal type of kind of shoving that drunk people sometimes get into.\"",
"A combination of factors stemming from the show were \"wearing on him,\" his lawyer said.",
"\"There's the appearance that she's moving forward as a celebrity,\" Richards said.",
"\"He's now a divorce male with kids and he still has a tremendous debt service that he was handling for both of them that was supporting their lifestyle.\"",
"The sudden celebrity that followed the Armstrong's appearance on \"Real Housewives\" was overwhelming to the couple, he said.",
"\"When that sort of stardom attacks a marriage sort of overnight, like in the case of a reality TV star, it's not like an actor that progressively moves up the ladder and the couple deals with this in stages,\" he said.",
"\"A reality show takes an average person that has no stardom and throws them into a public spotlight literally within a couple of episodes, and a lot of couples are not prepared for that and this is a very unfortunate consequence.\"",
"Still, Richards said he does not blame the network for his client's depression and death.",
"\"A network cannot be held accountable to people's voluntarily opening of their doors of their private lives.",
"The adults that allowed this to happen to them are responsible,\" the attorney said.",
"\"The network is justified in making good television out of their conflict.\"",
"Armstrong's death should serve as a warning to the dangers people face when they sign up for a reality show, he said.",
"\"Adults need to go into these things with your eyes wide open, (realizing) that if you're going to have a network cover your private life, you become a public figure, people can comment about you and there's a high degree of probability that your marriage will end up in shambles as a result of this newfound scrutiny by the public and by the TV network that is covering our private lives,\" Richards said.",
"The network that carries the show issued a short statement Tuesday morning: .",
"\"All of us at Bravo are deeply saddened by this tragic news.",
"Our sympathy and thoughts are with the Armstrong family at this difficult time.\"",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan and Jack Hannah contributed to this report."
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"He and reality show cast member Taylor Armstrong were divorcing ."
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"(CNN) -- The shooting down of a Chinook helicopter in central Afghanistan with the loss of 38 lives -- most of them U.S. Navy SEALs -- highlights two crucial aspects of the conflict in Afghanistan, as U.S. forces begin to draw down and Afghan security forces start taking the lead.",
"The first is the growing reliance on U.S. Special Operations Forces to combat the Taliban and other insurgent groups -- in operations every night across the country.",
"The second is that many areas far beyond the Taliban's traditional strongholds in the south remain very insecure, areas where the Taliban have exploited an instinctive wariness of a foreign force among locals -- and punished those who dare to work with them.",
"One such place is the Tangi Valley in Wardak province, where the crash occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning.",
"Soldiers who have served there describe it as perfect territory for insurgents, with steep mountainsides of shale and boulders overlooking orchards and thick vegetation.",
"Improvised bombs are regularly planted along the one road that runs through the valley, next to the Logar River, and detonated from vantage points above.",
"(NATO officials say that the IEDs' control wires are laid across the river, making pursuit of the insurgents more difficult.)",
"Tangi is only 60 miles from Kabul, close to the main highway south.",
"But the Taliban (though not al Qaeda or other foreign groups) have long been active in the area.",
"In 2009, soldiers in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division were deployed to this part of Wardak.",
"They encountered 57 roadside bombs in the valley in just three months, dubbing the road \"IED alley\" and \"Walter Reed Highway,\" a reference to the Army medical center where many soldiers wounded in Afghanistan have received treatment.",
"Firefights were an almost daily occurrence.",
"On his blog this weekend, a former member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade recently deployed to Tangi wrote of the village where the helicopter came down.",
"\"Juy Zarin is a village we went to frequently during our deployment and never found anything good while out there.",
"In fact it was a wonderful place to go if we felt like getting into contact.\"",
"Back in the 1980s, the Soviet Army was never able to pacify the region, and Soviet convoys were frequently ambushed there.",
"Earlier this year U.S. forces passed control of the military post in the valley to Afghan troops.",
"Lt. Col. Thomas S. Rickard of the 10th Mountain Division handed over Combat Outpost Tangi to a unit of the Afghan National Army.",
"\"As we lose U.S. personnel, we have to concentrate on the greater populations,\" Rickard told the U.S. Army website at the time.",
"But the afghan Army did not maintain a permanent presence at the outpost, according to officials of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).",
"As elsewhere, especially in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. forces are now returning to areas previously seen as too remote to focus on or too difficult to defend, where the Taliban and other insurgent groups have filled the vacuum.",
"As they do, the risk of casualties grows -- as does the role of U.S. special forces.",
"The use of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) in Afghanistan has grown exponentially.",
"In a talk two weeks ago at the Aspen Security Forum, the outgoing commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, Adm. Eric T. Olson, disclosed that SOF carried out \"somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 operations\" in 2010 alone.",
"\"This is now routine, every night....ground forces getting on a helicopter and flying against a target,\" Olson said.",
"The template of such operations includes \"a quick reaction force on call to render assistance should things go bad,\" Olson said.",
"In Friday night's attack, it was the quick reaction force, on its way to assist an ongoing mission by Army Rangers, that perished.",
"Speaking of the Navy SEALs who took part in the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, Adm. Olson made their role sound almost mundane.",
"\"For the people involved it was another mission and another target....This is not a force that sits on the second deck of the fire station waiting for the bell to ring every 10 or 15 years.",
"We trace our lessons back to what we did last night.\"",
"Who are the Navy SEALs?",
"But he also recognized the huge burden now falling on Special Operations Forces to subdue the Taliban.",
"\"We are beginning to fray around the edges.",
"We are asking an awful lot of our people,\" he said at the Aspen conference, adding that SOF units were seeing \"a lot of separations short of divorce.\"",
"But 82% of SOF troops who have the choice of leaving or staying in choose the latter, according to Olson.",
"And more will be asked of them. Of the 33,000 U.S. troops due to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, none will be special forces.",
"Special Operations Command -- drawn from all four branches of the U.S. military -- has grown to a strength of 60,000.",
"With a $10 billion budget it is now larger than the U.S. Coast Guard and about the same size as the entire Canadian Defense Force.",
"And the caliber of its members reflects its special status.",
"Thirty percent are college graduates.",
"They are more experienced than regular soldiers, with an average age of 30, and they volunteer multiple times.",
"Olson says 60% of SOF have joined since September 11, 2001 -- and the aim is to keep them in the military for an average of 20 years.",
"SOF operations in Afghanistan have at times been controversial, the subject of criticism from President Hamid Karzai because of civilian casualties.",
"In 2010, then-ISAF Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal tightened rules of engagement after a series of raids involved civilian deaths, although some units remained exempt from the directive.",
"When he took over, Gen. David Petraeus expanded the use of SOF in an effort to drive the Taliban out of Helmand and Kandahar provinces and blunt the Haqqani network further east.",
"In testimony to Congress in March, Petraeus said: \"We have stepped up the tempo of precise, intelligence-driven operations to capture or kill insurgent leaders....In a typical 90-day period, precision operations by U.S. special-mission units and their Afghan partners alone kill or capture some 360 targeted insurgent leaders.\"",
"It appears the Army Rangers were involved in just such a mission in Tangi Valley -- closing in on Taliban commanders meeting in a village -- when they called for reinforcement.",
"Special Operations Forces remain the sharp end of a multi-pronged approach in Afghanistan.",
"Olson said the strategy marries \"the counter-terrorism line of operation and the engagement line of operation -- what's been called village stability operations and the development of Afghan local police trying to return neighborhoods back to the neighbors.\"",
"It's become known as \"clear, hold, build, transition\" to win over what are euphemistically called \"under-governed spaces.\"",
"Such was the aim of commanders in Tangi two years ago.",
"Lt. Col. Kimo Gallahue, battalion commander for the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, told the Armed Forces Press Service in March 2009: \"We'll take the physical terrain from the enemy ... and we'll take the people away, because the people are the prize in this fight.\"",
"But even with the surge last year, many areas of Afghanistan rarely see an ISAF soldier.",
"And officers acknowledge that while a platoon can show a presence, it might take a company or more to persuade villagers they are secure.",
"\"Successful counter-insurgency is labor intensive,\" said one officer.",
"One soldier deployed to Tangi Valley wrote of his experiences on the website AssgnmentAfghanistan in January.",
"\"Few of the villagers are openly hostile towards us, but they are always mindful of the Taliban, who move through the valley at night,\" he said.",
"\"They are in a delicate situation -- we Americans have much to offer them, but they know that we will not be in their valley forever, and they know that the (Afghan National Army) and (Afghan National Police) cannot fight the insurgency alone.\"",
"Last year, the newspaper Stars and Stripes reported on a planned meeting for farmers in the district.",
"Two officials from the ministry of agriculture in Kabul backed out at the last minute, fearing for their safety, and not a single farmer showed up, \"leaving a handful of American soldiers and a lone U.S. Department of Agriculture representative, sitting on otherwise empty benches in a stiff breeze, with folding tables full of unopened water bottles and unmade tea,\" the paper reported.",
"The phrase commonly used in Afghanistan is: \"The Americans have the watches, but the Taliban have the time.\""
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"Commander: SOF carried out \"somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 operations\" in 2010 .",
"Of the 33,000 U.S. troops to be withdrawn by the end of 2012, none will be special forces ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration appealed Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court to delay next week's scheduled execution in Texas of a Mexican national convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl.",
"The execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, who was sentenced to death for the 1994 crimes, \"would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international-law obligation to afford (Leal) review and reconsideration of his claim that his conviction and sentence were prejudiced by Texas authorities' failure to provide consular notification and assistance under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations,\" wrote Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., in a friend-of-the-court brief.",
"In a separate document, a letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights asked that he commute the sentence to life in prison, according to Rupert Colville, a spokesman for Navi Pillay.",
"The two requests were based on the failure of Texas authorities to grant the 38-year-old Leal -- who has lived in the United States since he was 2 years old -- access to a Mexican consular official at the time of his arrest.",
"\"The lack of consular assistance and advice raises concerns about whether or not Mr. Leal Garcia's right to a fair trial was fully upheld,\" Colville said.",
"The case \"raises questions\" regarding compliance with a 2004 International Court of Justice ruling in what is known as the Avena case that the United States failed to fulfill its obligations to 51 Mexicans on death row in U.S. jails when it did not inform them of their right to contact their consular representatives \"without delay\" after their arrests, he said.",
"\"If the scheduled execution of Mr. Leal Garcia goes ahead, the United States government will have implemented a death penalty after a trial that did not comply with due process rights,\" said Christof Heyns, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.",
"\"This will be tantamount to an arbitrary deprivation of life.\"",
"In its 30-page brief, the Obama administration said that complying with its obligations to notify consuls in such cases would serve U.S. interests as well as those of the condemned man.",
"\"These interests include protecting Americans abroad, fostering cooperation with foreign nations, and demonstrating respect for the international rule of law,\" it said.",
"Evidence introduced at his trial included two statements he made to the police on the day of the murder \"during noncustodial interviews\" that incriminated him.",
"His lawyers have said that the failure of Texas to notify and give him access to the Mexican consul \"required suppression of the incriminating statements he made to the police,\" the filing said.",
"He is scheduled to be put to death Thursday.",
"But the Texas trial court found that, because he was not in custody at the time he gave the statements, Vienna Convention obligations did not apply.",
"The International Court of Justice said the remedy to the 2004 Avena case \"consists in the obligations of the United States of America to provide, by means of its own choosing, review and reconsideration of the convictions and sentences of (affected) Mexican nationals.\"",
"In 2005, then-President George W. Bush said the United States would discharge its obligations under Avena by having state courts address them.",
"That was called into question by a 2008 case that found that \"neither Avena nor the president's memorandum constitutes directly enforceable federal law that pre-empts state limitations on the filing of subsequent habeas petitions.\"",
"But it said that Congress could pass a law addressing the obligations imposed by the Avena decision.",
"That has happened. The administration noted in its filing Friday that the recently introduced Senate bill -- the Consular Notification Compliance Act -- would put the United States into compliance with its international obligations under Avena.",
"It added that, since passage of that legislation by the House may take until early next year, Leal's death sentence should be delayed until then.",
"That argument did not persuade the district court, which noted that \"the filing of proposed legislation which might one day afford petitioner a remedy in the state or federal courts does not, standing alone, justify a stay of execution.\"",
"The court of appeals has backed up the lower court, concluding that Leal does not have \"a due process right to remain alive until the proposed Avena legislation becomes law.\"",
"But the administration said that going ahead with Leal's execution would cause \"irreparable harm\" to U.S. foreign policy interests by putting the United States \"in irremediable breach\" of its international-law obligation.",
"\"That breach would have serious repercussions for United States foreign relations, law-enforcement and other cooperation with Mexico, and the ability of American citizens traveling abroad to have the benefits of consular assistance in the event of detention.\""
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"Bastrop, Texas (CNN) -- An elite search team joined local officials Wednesday in Bastrop County, Texas, to help look for people who may be trapped in a huge wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of homes.",
"The cause of the Bastrop County fire, one of many burning in Texas, remains under investigation.",
"County Judge Ronnie McDonald said during an afternoon news conference Wednesday that 576 homes had been destroyed in the county and \"that number will increase.\"",
"In Leander, Texas, about 60 miles northwest of Bastrop, authorities said a smaller fire this week was believed to be the result of arson.",
"Investigators were searching for four teen suspects -- two boys and two girls, all believed to be 15 to 16 years old -- who were spotted running from the wooded area prior to and during the fire on Monday, the Leander Police Department said.",
"That fire destroyed 11 homes in the Mason Creek North subdivision.",
"Authorities estimate the damage at $1.4 million, said Connie Watson, spokeswoman for Williamson County.",
"For nearly 300 days, wildfires have been taking a toll on drought-stricken Texas, scorching communities and creating dangerous conditions.",
"A new wildfire broke out in the western part of Camp Bullis, north of San Antonio, Wednesday afternoon, but authorities say it is already half-contained.",
"At least 125 acres have been burned in the area and 100 homes within a quarter-mile radius have been evacuated, according to Bexar County Fire Marshall Public Information Officer Laura Jesse.",
"Officials have called in air support to drop water and fire retardant and there is a strike team ahead of the blaze creating fire breaks, Jesse said.",
"An air quality alert was in place Wednesday for San Antonio, Austin, Victoria, Houston and Galveston, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen.",
"While winds were relatively calm, humidity was low, expected to be in the \"very dry 10% to 20% range this afternoon,\" said HLN meteorologist Bob Van Dillen.",
"\"That's the real danger today.\"",
"Of biggest concern is the Bastrop County Complex fire, which has killed at least two people.",
"It was 30% contained Wednesday.",
"Authorities were hoping to having the blaze contained by the end of the day Wednesday, said Mike Fischer, the county's emergency management coordinator.",
"\"We can say we're comfortable the fire won't get any larger,\" he said.",
"The fire, near Austin, began Sunday and has spread across 33,000 acres, forcing the evacuations of at least 5,000 people, officials said.",
"\"Last night was the first night we've had (since the blaze started) with no structures destroyed,\" McDonald said at the afternoon news conference.",
"He identified one of the Bastrop County victims as 48-year-old Michael Troy Farr, a worker in the city of Austin's electrical department.",
"Farr's body was found at his residence, McDonald said.",
"The identity of the second victim was not released.",
"Authorities called on residents to take evacuation orders seriously.",
"\"I cannot emphasize enough to Texans in the impacted areas the importance of heeding all warnings from local officials, especially evacuation orders, as these fires are mean, swift and highly dangerous,\" Gov.",
"Rick Perry said.",
"The 600-member Texas Task Force 1 will assist local officials and first responders, Perry said.",
"A leadership team from the task force arrived Tuesday.",
"\"Based on the needs of local officials, a wide area search team consisting of approximately 100 members and nearly one dozen search canines will be in Bastrop Wednesday morning to work with the local incident management team and assist with search operations,\" Perry's office said in a statement.",
"The announcement did not say that anyone was missing, but said Perry made the decision to send in the team after being \"briefed on the potential loss of life.\"",
"A White House statement Wednesday said Perry got a call from President Barack Obama to \"express his concern for citizens of Texas impacted by the unprecedented fires.\"",
"The president assured the governor \"that requests for additional assistance, including as recovery begins, would be quickly assessed,\" the statement said.",
"At the local convention center in Bastrop, evacuees were stopping by to pick up supplies and water.",
"\"It's shocking, mostly, not knowing what the end result is going to be,\" Bill Ludwig said.",
"Linda Arebalos said that while her house can be replaced, \"all the memories is what really hurts, hits the heart.\"",
"She said she thought about the baby pictures, the things her children made in elementary school, \"the things I put up to save to give to their kids.",
"And it's gone. It hurts.\" Jerry Hooten found little more than ashes when he returned to his home and the burned-out shells of cars he had to leave behind.",
"\"We ain't happy about it, but we're all alive,\" said Hooten, who is staying at an RV park outside the danger zone.",
"\"I don't think it's registered in our brains that our house is gone and that, really, half of Bastrop is gone,\" said evacuee Claire Johnson.",
"The two people killed by the blaze were not public safety personnel, according to incident command officials, who declined to offer details.",
"The deaths raise the overall toll from the outbreak of fires to four lives lost.",
"A wildfire killed a woman and her 18-month-old child Sunday when flames engulfed their home near Gladewater, officials said.",
"The Union Chapel fire, 18 miles from the Bastrop fire, appeared to be under control Wednesday, Fischer said.",
"The danger from a fire near Houston -- called the Magnolia fire -- appeared to be lessening for the most populated areas.",
"Officials in Harris County, which includes Houston, said the fire was no longer a threat there.",
"Also, many residents were allowed back into their homes Tuesday in neighboring Montgomery County.",
"About 4,000 homes in Montgomery had been evacuated, according to Lt. Dan Norris of the county's emergency management office.",
"Firefighters continued to battle hot spots in Montgomery, but the bulk of the problems from the Magnolia fire appeared to be centered in Waller and Grimes counties, Norris said.",
"So far in 2011, 7.2 million acres of grass, scrub and forest have burned in wildfires nationwide.",
"Of those, some 3.5 million acres -- nearly half -- have been in Texas, according to Inciweb, a fire-tracking website maintained by state and federal agencies.",
"More than 2,000 firefighters are working fires across the state, said Tom Boggus, director of the Texas Forest Service.",
"The drought in Texas has cost the state an estimated $5 billion this year in loss of crops and livestock, said CNN meteorologist Chad Myers.",
"\"Now fires are adding to that number.\"",
"CNN's Nicole Saidi, Jim Spellman, Josh Levs and Ed Payne contributed to this report."
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"NEW: President Obama places call to Gov.",
"Rick Perry .",
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"(CNN) -- Authorities evacuated more than 3,000 students from a California high school Wednesday after military officials at a nearby base said they found information related to a possible bomb threat.",
"The suspect -- a 22-year-old Navy medic who had been listed as AWOL -- turned himself in to authorities Wednesday afternoon, a military spokesman said.",
"Writings officials allegedly found in Hospitalman Daniel Morgan's quarters at Camp Pendleton's military barracks prompted the evacuation of an Orange County high school earlier in the day.",
"The writings said explosives had been placed at San Clemente High School, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Lt. Jim Amormino said.",
"Authorities evacuated the school, but later declared that the campus was clear of explosives, said Marcus Walton, a spokesman for the Capistrano Unified School District.",
"\"We do not believe he went to the high school.",
"We're checking with military personnel, interviewing people to see (if) maybe he knew somebody at the high school,\" Amormino said.",
"\"We just don't know what his motive is at this time.\"",
"Wednesday was the first day at San Clemente High School, which has 3,200 students and 180 faculty.",
"CNN's Brooke Baldwin, Carey Bodenheimer and Stella Chan contributed to this report."
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"A 22-year-old Navy medic turns himself in to authorities .",
"\"We just don't know what his motive is at this time,\" a department spokesman says .",
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"(CNN) -- Police in California arrested Wednesday a woman they said is suspected of killing a nursing student who was last seen in a hospital parking garage more than three months ago.",
"Giselle Esteban, 27, was arrested in Union City, California, Wednesday, Lt. Roger Keener of the Hayward Police Department told reporters.",
"Evidence -- including blood stains, security camera footage, cell phone records and DNA found on a shoe -- led to Esteban's arrest \"for the murder of Michelle Le,\" Keener said.",
"Esteban was arraigned on Wednesday afternoon and was listed as an inmate in an Alameda County jail without bail.",
"Le, a 26-year-old nursing student, disappeared on May 27 after telling classmates at a hospital in Hawyard, California, that she was going to get something from her car, Keener said.",
"She never returned and the abandoned vehicle was later found about a half-mile away.",
"Investigators searched Esteban's house shortly after Le disappeared.",
"As part of that search, Keener said, they found Le's DNA on one of Esteban's shoes.",
"Police have classified the case as a homicide, but her family has held out hope for her safe return, CNN affiliate KGO reported.",
"Le's family has offered a $100,000 reward for her return or for information on her whereabouts.",
"\"At this point she is still missing and we will fight to bring her home every day until we have her with our family again,\" cousin Krystine Dinh told reporters after police announced Esteban's arrest Wednesday.",
"Le's 23-year-old brother, Michael, told reporters that Thursday will be his birthday -- a day his sister would always call him.",
"\"I just want to hear her voice so badly, and the only thing I'm going to be wishing for is for her to come back home,\" he said.",
"Keener pledged that police would continue their search.",
"\"We will not consider this investigation to be complete until Michelle is found,\" he said."
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"NEW: Family members vow to keep searching for nursing student Michelle Le .",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Russia's policies are putting it on a path to isolation and irrelevance, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.",
"Rice also said that Moscow's other behavior, including using oil and gas as a weapon, threatening countries with nuclear attack, selling arms to rogue states and political persecution of journalists and dissidents, paints a picture of \"a Russia increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad.\"",
"Her comments came in a speech on the state of relations between Washington and Moscow.",
"While the United States has taken issue with Russia's behavior for some time, Rice called its invasion of Georgia last month a \"critical moment for Russia and the world.\"",
"She warned that Moscow's international standing following the Georgia conflict is at a post-Cold War low.",
"\"Russia's invasion of Georgia has achieved -- and will achieve -- no strategic objective,\" Rice said.",
"\"Russia's leaders will not accomplish their primary war aim of removing Georgia's government.",
"And our strategic goal now is to make it clear to Russia's leaders that their choices are putting Russia on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance.\"",
"The United States and Europe will stand up to Russia and not allow it to bully or threaten its neighbors, she said.",
"While the international community has pledged to help rebuild Georgia and provide massive international aid, Rice said Russia has precious little international support.",
"Noting that Russia's recognition of independence for the Georgia breakaway region of South Ossetia has only been matched by Nicaragua and Hamas, she retorted, \"A pat on the back from Daniel Ortega and Hamas is hardly a diplomatic triumph. \"",
"Warning about the consequences of Russia's actions, Rice said the United States has more options than during the Cold War \"when U.S. foreign policy was hostage\" to the standoff with the Soviet Union.",
"Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is at risk, Rice said, and the country's civil nuclear cooperation with the United States is \"not going anywhere now.\"",
"As Russian economic markets continue to take a tumble, Rice warned, Russia needs to be part of the world political and economic community to realize the forward-looking vision laid out by President Dmitry Medvedev when he took office.",
"\"If Russia ever wants to be more than just an energy supplier, its leaders have to recognize a hard truth: Russia depends on the world for its success, and it cannot change that,\" she said.",
"She also took a jab at Russia's recent overtures to Cuba and bomber exercises with Venezuela.",
"The U.S. agenda to help democracies in the Western Hemisphere prosper \"will in no way be diminished by a few, aging Blackjack bombers, visiting one of Latin America's few autocracies, which are themselves being left behind by an increasingly peaceful, prosperous and democratic hemisphere.\"",
"Rice's aides have heavily promoted her speech, inviting Russia experts and journalists to the State Department on Wednesday to preview the remarks.",
"On Wednesday, Rice called Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to let him know she was planning to deliver the speech, her spokesman Sean McCormack said.",
"The speech also was to be translated into Russian, French and German, McCormack said.",
"In her remarks, Rice said the United States will continue to welcome students, political reformers, journalists and other professionals as well as try to help Russia in areas such as the fight against HIV/AIDS.",
"\"And we will continue to support all Russians who want a future of liberty for their great nation,\" she said.",
"At a CNN panel discussion Tuesday, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and James Baker warned the Bush administration against rupturing its relationship with Russia over the Georgia conflict, saying that the United States needed Moscow's cooperation on major national security issues."
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"(CNN) -- Hockey or debt ceiling?",
"Watching both are Canadian national pastimes these days, especially for businessmen such as Marty Cutler.",
"Except, the political show comes with a big dose of concern.",
"Like many Canadians, Cutler, owner of Fairmount Books in Toronto, said he feels quiet pride from closely following American politics and knowing his country is generally free of the acerbic partisan wrangling of its powerhouse southern neighbor.",
"But he fears a U.S. default, if it were to occur, would be sure to hit home hard.",
"\"The whole thing drives us a little crazy,\" he said.",
"\"You're the elephant and we're the mouse: when you roll over we can get crushed.\"",
"More than 50% of Fairmount Books' business is in the United States.",
"If Washington can't find a way to break the debt ceiling impasse, folks like Cutler could pay a heavy price.",
"Nobody can predict the precise global consequences of a U.S. default, but several economic experts said the ensuing panic could fall hard on Canada, the United States' largest trading partner.",
"A default would likely lead to a downgrading of America's stellar AAA-credit rating, which could send interest rates -- the cost of borrowing -- skyward.",
"In a worst-case scenario, this would grind bank lending to a halt, slowing economic activity and plunging the United States -- where Canada does 75% of its trading -- back into recession, according to Jack Mintz, a professor of public policy at the University of Calgary.",
"With approximately 20% of world GDP comprised in America, the international business community has a lot riding on the debt negotiations, Mintz said.",
"But Canadian businessmen such as John Larsen, whose business is also heavily dependent on American customers, may have more to lose than most.",
"\"It would be devastating, no doubt about it,\" said Larsen, chief executive officer Larsen & Shaw, a company that makes hinges in Walkerton, Ontario.",
"Roughly one in five jobs in Canada is dependent on the United States, said Avery Shenfeld, chief economist of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.",
"\"Any material change to the U.S. economy is quickly felt on this side of the border,\" he said.",
"\"There is a sense of pride in Canada's regulatory, financial and political systems ... but Canadians can't afford to laugh off the troubles in the U.S.,\" he said.",
"\"It doesn't take too long for an economic weakness south of the border to send our own economy into trouble.\"",
"For this reason, Catherine Swift, president of Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said her organization has intently followed the debt ceiling talks.",
"The uncertainty has even driven up the value of the Canadian dollar.",
"\"That's going to kick the pants out of (Canadian) exporters,\" she said.",
"\"Some are saying that Canada would become more of a safe haven for investments, but that's a financial market thing.",
"In terms of the real economy, this is bad news.\"",
"Canada is already feeling the reverberations.",
"The Toronto Stock Exchange fell more than 450 points this week and reached a one-month low Friday amid the uncertainty surrounding the debt ceiling talks.",
"Perhaps in an attempt to assuage worries, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said this week that he was \"relatively confident\" the United States will raise the debt ceiling.",
"But he warned that America's broader deficit gap would remain a long-term problem that could hurt Canada as well.",
"\"We're a trading nation and it matters to us that our most important trading partner has their fiscal house in order,\" Flaherty said.",
"Compared to the United States and Europe -- where several countries are saddled with deficit crises -- Canada is on a clear path to a balanced budget by 2014, Flaherty said.",
"\"Canada looks relatively good on the world stage,\" he said.",
"Asked if Canada had contingency plans for a default, Flaherty said, \"What we are doing in Canada is what we're able to do in Canada.\"",
"Still, some Canadian business owners expressed frustration with what they called American fiscal recklessness and its impact on Canadians.",
"\"I'm not surprised, given the reputation of Americans to be arrogant, that they are once again in this crisis situation,\" said Megan Halprin, part-owner of Snowflake, a clothing retailer based in Vancouver that does about a quarter of its business in the United States.",
"In her view, Americans \"seem to attract crises.\"",
"Canadians, she said, are conservative.",
"Whatever their nature, Canadian businessman ought to be paying close attention to the drama unfolding in Washington, said Don Atkinson of Atkinson Maple Syrup Supplies.",
"A default, he said, would have a \"horrible ripple effect\" in Canada.",
"But Atkinson was sure Canadians would survive a default of any magnitude.",
"Chalk that up to old-fashioned principles.",
"\"We pay down our debt,\" he said, \"and don't buy based on credit, as you do in the United States.\""
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"Canada is the United States' largest trading partner .",
"Some businessmen are frustrated with U.S. fiscal policies .",
"\"We pay our debt,\" many say about their homeland ."
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi will captain Argentina for the first time as they take on Venezuela in a friendly in cricket-mad India Friday.",
"Messi has been handed the responsibility by new Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella after their disappointing Copa America campaign.",
"They went out in the quarterfinals to eventual winners Uruguay, costing then coach Sergio Batista his job.",
"\"He is the captain from now on,\" Sabella told gathered reporters Wednesday ahead of the match in the 120,000 capacity Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata.",
"\"We are looking to build a couple of options, looking for one or two players to build up a combination with him.\"",
"The arrival of World Footballer of the Year Messi in India has been greeted with much excitement and a big crowd gathered at Kolkata airport as he flew in.",
"Barcelona star Messi and his teammates will be looking for a morale-boosting win over their South American rivals in the biggest football match over played in India.",
"They will then go to Bangladesh for a friendly against Nigeria's Super Eagles on September 6 as they prepare for 2014 World Cup qualifiers which begin in October.",
"\"Winning will give us confidence.",
"This is the beginning of a long trip ahead and we hope it finishes with qualification to the World Cup,\" added Sabella.",
"Friday's match will be played on an artificial pitch in a cricket stadium adapted for football."
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"Lionel Messi to captain Argentina in friendly against Venezuela .",
"Match is taking place at the cricket stadium in Kolkata in India .",
"Argentina went out of the Copa America at the quarterfinal stage ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Terrorists intent on striking commercial aircraft have shown renewed interest in surgically implanting explosives in humans to circumvent airport security, a U.S. security official tells CNN.",
"The idea of implanting bombs has been discussed in the past, but the United States has obtained fresh intelligence about the desire of terrorists to implant devices, according to the official.",
"Another U.S. official said Ibrahim Hasan al-Asiri, the top bomb maker for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is suspected of being behind the latest efforts.",
"\"He's AQAP's bomb guy,\" said the official.",
"Asiri is also believed to be behind the thwarted 2009 Christmas day \"underwear\" bomb, the failed October 2010 cargo plane bomb and an attempt to kill a Saudi prince using a concealed bomb .",
"Both officials said there is no specific or imminent threat.",
"But the new intelligence prompted officials last week to brief international airlines and U.S. allies overseas, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said.",
"\"We are treating this information seriously, and as a precautionary matter, sharing it with our colleagues overseas and of course U.S. carriers who travel overseas,\" TSA Administrator John Pistole told CNN.",
"\"We see this as the latest iteration or the evolution of what terrorist groups are trying to do to circumvent our security layers and to perhaps defeat our societal norms,\" he said.",
"\"The information is that terrorists are aware of this type of technique and interested in using it, but there is no specific threat as to a date and time and a specific flight,\" he said.",
"The TSA said full-body scanners can not see underneath skin, but said other \"overlapping layers of security\" could help officials deter any plot involving a human bomb.",
"Those layers include intelligence information about possible plots, equipment that checks for minute traces of explosives, behavior detection officers and canine teams.",
"\"All of those layers of security gives us the strongest defense and the best opportunity to detect and deter this from happening,\" Pistole said Wednesday.",
"TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball said passengers flying from international locations to U.S. destinations may notice additional security measures in place.",
"Measures may include interaction with passengers, in addition to the use of other screening methods such as pat-downs and the use of enhanced tools and technologies, Kimball said.",
"\"These measures are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same activity at every international airport,\" Kimball said.",
"A trauma surgeon contacted by CNN said terrorists could use a variety of techniques to conceal bombs in a human, ranging from crude surgery that would likely result in infections, fever and other complications, to more sophisticated procedures that would take greater skill, but could last a long time before causing problems.",
"Terrorists could replicate a cosmetic device, such as a breast or buttock implant, said Dr. Jack Sava, of the Washington Hospital Center.",
"\"In many types of infections after surgery, there can be a kind of honeymoon period of a few days.",
"But once you get several days after the operation, I think that's when you'd start to see signs that would begin with pain and fever.",
"That would get worse and worse, and ultimately be fatal if nothing were done,\" he said.",
"An aviation security consultant said news of terrorists' interest in implants shows the \"continuous competition between terrorists and the defenders, where we always try to be one step ahead, and they try to do the same.\"",
"\"I think we have come to the point where our technology capabilities have been exhausted to the limit, and right now there's no further technology that can be applied to mitigate this kind of risk,\" said consultant Rafi Ron.",
"The TSA does not have the option of subjecting people to medical doses of X-rays to find concealed objects, he said.",
"\"So we are very much now one step behind (terrorists), rather than one step ahead.\"",
"Ron said the TSA is right to focus more attention on airline passengers, instead of on the bags they carry.",
"A person with an implant bomb would likely exhibit signs of stress that could be detected by trained personnel, Ron said.",
"\"One thing obviously is an elevated level of stress, and in (the case of a human bomb) it would probably be extreme,\" Ron said.",
"\"You may also see some influence of drugs to ease pain.\"",
"CNN Correspondent Brian Todd, National Security Producer Pam Benson and Producer Dugald McConnell contributed to this report."
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"An official says al Qaeda bombmaker Ibrahim Asiri is behind the latest efforts .",
"Security official says terrorists have shown renewed interest in implanting explosives .",
"Airlines and overseas allies were briefed last week .",
"Passengers flying from international locations to the U.S. may notice additional security ."
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"(CNN) -- Ousted Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was sentenced Monday to 15 and a half years in prison on charges related to the alleged discovery of weapons, archaeological artifacts and illegal drugs -- including marijuana -- in his country's presidential palace.",
"Ben Ali's one-day trial and sentencing were conducted in absentia.",
"The former strongman and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, have been living in exile in Saudi Arabia since the January revolt that ended his 23-year rule and touched off a wave of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East.",
"Both Ben Ali and Trabelsi were sentenced last month to 35 years in prison on corruption charges.",
"In addition to the prison term, the court imposed a fine of 91 million dinars ($65 million).",
"Ben Ali and members of his inner circle are also facing a series of charges relating to alleged murder and torture.",
"Those charges have been referred to a Tunisian military court, according to the state news agency TAP.",
"Monday's trial -- initially scheduled to begin Thursday -- was held in a packed courtroom in Tunis.",
"Hosni Beji, one of the lawyers representing Ben Ali, earlier asked the presiding judge, Touhami Hafi, to postpone the trial in part to give him time to persuade the former ruler to return to Tunisia.",
"Beji said he is planning to meet Ben Ali in Saudi Arabia on Friday.",
"Beji's request, which was refused, triggered a series of angry outbursts from other people in the courtroom.",
"Ben Ali had ruled Tunisia since 1987.",
"Protests began to erupt in December after the self-immolation of a fruit vendor whose cart had been seized by police.",
"The vendor's fiery suicide touched off a firestorm among Tunisians fed up with corruption, high unemployment and escalating food prices.",
"The revolt that followed left at least 300 people dead and 700 wounded, a United Nations human rights expert recently said.",
"The former strongman's political party has since been dissolved by a court order, and parliamentary elections have been scheduled for this month.",
"Ben Ali argued in June that he has been unfairly portrayed and discredited by political opponents seeking to make a break with their country's past.",
"In a written statement released by one of his attorneys, Ben Ali said he was \"tired of being made a scapegoat\" and is a victim of \"injustice.\"",
"The former leader said that searches of his official and personal offices were \"merely stage dressing\" meant to discredit him.",
"Contrary to the assertions of his opponents, Ben Ali argued that he worked for what he thought \"was the good of the Tunisian people, improving living standards and progressing on the path to modernity.\"",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Zine el Abidine Ben Ali is sentenced to 15 and a half years in prison .",
"Ben Ali was tried partly on illegal drug and weapons charges .",
"Ben Ali was tried in absentia; he and his wife have been living in Saudi Arabia since January .",
"Couple were sentenced last month to 35 years in prison on corruption charges ."
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"Srinagar, India (CNN) -- Three men were detained in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday following a deadly blast outside the Delhi High Court a day earlier, police said.",
"Islamic extremist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack in an email to several TV news channels.",
"\"We are questioning the owner of a cyber cafe and some other people to establish the identity of the email sender, said K. Rajendra, a police director.",
"\"We can confirm the email was sent from Kistwar area.\"",
"Eleven people were killed Wednesday when a bomb inside a briefcase went off outside the court, the Home Ministry said.",
"An additional 74 people were injured.",
"It was the second explosion outside the court complex in four months.",
"The NIA, a security agency set up after the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, has joined the investigation along with police and the National Security Guard.",
"The blast took place mid-morning, after the court opened and shortly before cases usually begin.",
"It was a particularly busy day at the court.",
"Wednesdays are dubbed \"public interest litigation\" days, when many members of the public arrive to put cases before judges.",
"The briefcase was placed in front of Gate No.",
"5, used by litigants and lawyers.",
"From CNN's Mukhtar Ahmad and Sumnima Udas ."
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"This is the second blast outside the court complex in four months .",
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"The blast kills 11 and wounds 74, the Home Ministry says ."
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"(CNN) -- Dozens of 911 calls released Wednesday by the Carson City, Nevada, Sheriff's Office capture the horror of a mass shooting at an IHOP restaurant.",
"In one call, a woman sobs as she tries to give the location of the shooter who fatally shot four others before he killed himself in the parking lot.",
"Others seemed to be left almost speechless by the trauma as they give descriptions and accounts.",
"\"Hurry send ambulances,\" one woman pleads.",
"\"There are people dead.\"",
"A total of 11 people were shot Tuesday, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said.",
"They included five uniformed Army National Guard members and six civilians.",
"Three Guard members, a civilian woman and suspect Eduardo Sencion, 32, were killed.",
"Authorities were investigating the motive Wednesday.",
"Family members told authorities that Sencion had a history of mental problems dating back to age 16, a law enforcement official said.",
"Sencion was carrying an assault rifle and a pistol when he went into the IHOP Tuesday morning, Furlong said.",
"Ralph Swagler, owner of the nearby Locals Barbecue, told 911 that the shooter, who wore a red shirt and black pants, was carrying automatic weapons.",
"\"Now he is coming back outside with a gun,\" Swagler said.",
"\"He is shooting people in the parking lot!\"",
"At that point, the businessman yells for his son to get out of the way.",
"A burst of gunfire is then heard outside the IHOP.",
"\"He is shooting at us now,\" said Swagler, who declined to speak Wednesday with CNN about the incident.",
"\"Automatic weapons.",
"He is shooting at everybody.\"",
"A second assault rifle was found in Sencion's vehicle, according to authorities.",
"Only the assault rifle he carried was fired, the sheriff said.",
"An IHOP customer talked with 911 operators as he looked inside the restaurant's window after the rampage.",
"\"Oh my God, we've got (expletive) people down.\"",
"Sencion, who had no prior criminal history, continued firing in the restaurant's parking lot after shooting the IHOP patrons.",
"Four nearby businesses were hit by gunfire, Furlong said.",
"Emergency operators remained poised during the barrage of 911 calls.",
"\"We've got help on the way,\" they assured eyewitnesses.",
"\"It was crazy,\" said one witness calling from IHOP.",
"\"It was like a nightmare.\"",
"Furlong said he was the second person to arrive on the scene Tuesday morning.",
"He held a woman shot in the head.",
"\"The scene was horrific.",
"It's something that I've never experienced before,\" the sheriff said.",
"\"It looked like a bloodbath, wall-to-wall carnage.\"",
"Investigators are trying to determine whether Sencion obtained the AK-47 used in the shooting lawfully.",
"The released calls include conversations between law enforcement personnel, who are told they need to be on the lookout for possible additional shooters.",
"Sencion acted alone, authorities learned.",
"In one call, an officer is asked if more assistance is needed.",
"\"At this point we have the scene under control,\" was the reply.",
"CNN's Thelma Gutierrez contributed to this report."
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"911 callers describe chaotic scene inside, outside Carson City IHOP .",
"Shooter was found dead of self-inflicted wound in parking lot .",
"Four others were killed, including three members of Nevada National Guard ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona began the defense of their La Liga crown with a convincing 5-0 win over Villarreal in the Nou Camp Monday night.",
"Goals from new recruits Cesc Fabregas and Alexis Sanchez followed an opener from the promising Thiago Alcantara.",
"Lionel Messi then added a double for Pep Guardiola's all-conquering team who have already added to their trophy cabinet with victories in the Spanish Super Cup and European Super Cup before the start of their league campaign.",
"Arch-rivals Real Madrid opened their title bid with a 6-0 rout of Real Zaragoza Sunday and Barca were just as impressive once youth team graduate and Spanish under-21 international Thiago had set them on the way with a 25th minute opener.",
"Home goalkeeper Victor Valdes made a brilliant save to deny Giuseppe Rossi in a rare Villarreal attack before the champions stretched their lead.",
"Fabregas, who combined superbly with Messi in midfield, used that understanding to latch on to a neat through ball from the Argentine ace and add the second just before halftime.",
"Any hopes of a Villarreal comeback were snuffed out quickly after the break as Chile winger Sanchez used his pace to burst clear of the visiting defense and notch the third.",
"Messi weaved his way to add the fourth and fifth to add the icing on the cake for the three-time defending Spanish champions."
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"Barcelona open La Liga campaign with 5-0 rout of Villarreal .",
"Lionel Messi grabs a late double to round off scoring in Nou Camp .",
"Thiago Alcantara and new recruits Cesc Fabregas and Alexis Sanchez also score ."
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"(CNN) -- World and Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt had to battle hard to win the 100 meters race at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday.",
"The Jamaican, who will defend three titles at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea starting at the end of next month, was far from top form as he edged out compatriot Nesta Carter.",
"However, the 24-year-old still set his season's best time of 9.88 seconds despite his poor start to the race, while Carter clocked 9.90.",
"It was 0.3s slower than his world record and 0.1s behind the 2011 leading time by fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell, who heads the series' point standings.",
"\"I came into the race but didn't execute well.",
"I had to work hard and concentrate,\" Bolt told reporters after his final 100m warm-up before the August 27-September 4 world event in Daegu.",
"\"There are some little things to work on.",
"I have time before the world championships and I will continue to do my best.",
"I'm almost back to 100% on the final 60m and I've got to work on the first half.",
"I'll take it one step at a time and hopefully the next race will be better.\"",
"American Michael Rodgers was third in 9.96 ahead of a third Jamaican, Michael Frater, who clocked 10.01.",
"In the men's 400m hurdles, Olympic champion Angelo Taylor defeated fellow American Bershawn Jackson while Britain's David Greene was third.",
"Kenya claimed middle-distance victories as David Rudisha and Silas Kiplagat won the 800m and 1,500m respectively, while Britain's Mohammed Farah edged out U.S. runner Bernard Lagat in the 5,000m.",
"Americans dominated the women's 200m, with Carmelita Jeter (22.20) heading home world champion Allyson Felix (22.32) and Shalonda Solomon (22.63) while compatriot Bianca Knight was fourth in 22.71."
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"Usain Bolt edges out fellow Jamaican Nesta Carter in 100m race in Monaco .",
"World champion set his season's best time of 9.88 seconds despite his poor start .",
"He will defend his three titles at the world championships in South Korea .",
"U.S. women dominate 200m race with Carmelita Jeter beating world champion Allyson Felix ."
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"(CNN) -- The ATP have announced an increase in the prize fund available to male tennis stars on the ATP World Tour which will see the total amount available exceed $90 million by 2014.",
"The ATP's annual season-ending World Tour Finals event -- held at London's O2 Arena since 2009 -- will see a 30% increase in prize money, with the amount given to the eight participating players set to soar to $6.5m over the next three years.",
"The prize money in the Tour's nine Masters 1000 events, which take place in cities such as Cincinnati, Paris, Rome and Shanghai, will also receive a significant boost with a 9% rise.",
"A bonus pool accessible to the world's top 12 players will rise by 33%, from $6m to $8m.",
"In a statement on their official web site, the organization said the monetary increase reflects the sport's current wealth of talent.",
"\"We are privileged to be experiencing a golden era in men's professional tennis,\" said the body's executive chairman and president Adam Helfant.",
"\"It is fitting that the commitment and excellence of the players is recognized and rewarded in this way.",
"\"We are very pleased to have reached this agreement that reflects the fact that business across the ATP World Tour is stronger than ever.\"",
"The planned increases will not affect the prize fund at the tennis season's four grand slams -- The Australian, U.S., and French Opens and Wimbledon.",
"The 2010 World Tour Finals had a prize fund of $5m, with the number-three ranked Roger Federer defeating reigning French Open champion Rafael Nadal to clinch the title.",
"After his triumph at Roland Garros, Nadal has guaranteed his place in this year's O2 Arena showpiece alongside newly-crowned world number one and Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic."
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"The ATP have announced an increase in the prize fund available at Tour events .",
"The total prize fund will increase to $90 million over the next three years .",
"The World Tour Finals jackpot will have reached $6.5m by 2014 ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkish warplanes carried out a second night of airstrikes against suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, as deadly clashes erupted within Turkey between security forces and guerrilla fighters.",
"Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq expressed concern Friday about the Turkish cross border raids.",
"In an interview with CNN, Kawa Mahmoud called on Turkey to resolve its long-simmering conflict with Kurdish separatist through diplomacy, not violence.",
"\"We always emphasize that shelling (the) Iraqi border is inconsistent with international conventions and good neighborly relations, and we consider it as intervention and disregard for the sovereignty of the Kurdish and Iraqi territory,\" Mahmoud said, adding \"the bombings directly affect the infrastructure of the region of (Iraqi) Kurdistan.\"",
"In a news release Friday, the Turkish military said warplanes and artillery pounded more than 100 targets in rugged mountains of northern Iraq where fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have long been active.",
"The Turkish armed forces periodically target what Ankara calls PKK \"safe havens\" and \"attack bases\" in northern Iraq.",
"For more than a decade, these remote border regions have been beyond the authority of the Iraqi central government as well as of the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration that governs the northern part of the country.",
"In the meantime, Turkish officials told CNN two more Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes in a remote region of south-eastern Siirt province Thursday night.",
"An official from the Siirt governor's office, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said suspected rebel fighters carried out two night-time attacks on local gendarme stations and government buildings using \"rocket launchers and long-range weapons.\"",
"The official said two Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded in the fighting.",
"He said three rebels including a female fighter were also killed in the clashes.",
"Dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed over the last month, in a clear escalation of the conflict that has raged intermittently between Kurdish separatists and the Turkish state since 1984.",
"More than 30,000 people have been killed in the conflict, many of them ethnic Kurds.",
"The Kurds are Turkey's largest ethnic minority.",
"For decades, Ankara imposed oppressive policies, which banned Kurdish names and language and sometimes referred to the community as \"mountain Turks.\"",
"The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan 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 Erdogan's 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, riots involving Kurdish youths have periodically erupted in recent months in Istanbul and other Turkish cities."
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"Tensions have been escalating between the Turkish government and the Kurdish minority .",
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid confirmed the signing of Fabio Coentrao from Benfica on Tuesday, with the Portugal international signing a six-year deal.",
"The 23-year-old defender is the fifth new signing to arrive at the Bernabeu since the off-season transfer window opened with the culmination of the most recent league campaign.",
"The left-back, who was one of his country's stand-out performers at the 2010 World Cup, said it was a dream come true to join the nine-time European champions.",
"\"Every footballer dreams of playing for Real Madrid,\" the defender told Real's official web site.",
"\"I wanted to since I was a child.",
"I used to imagine playing for this team.",
"It was my dream and it has now come true.",
"I hope to earn continuity and to show people I'm ready to play here.\"",
"The move will see Coentrao link up with his compatriot Jose Mourinho, the head coach who led Los Blancos to second place in the Spanish First Division last season.",
"\"He is the best coach in the world,\" Coentrao said of the former Chelsea and Inter Milan boss.",
"\"It makes me proud to have the chance to work with him.\"",
"Coentrao, who previously played in Spain during a loan spell with Real Zaragoza in 2008, has played for Portugal on 12 occasions since making his debut in 2009.",
"Coentrao joins fellow new arrivals at Real, Turkish international duo Nuri Sahin and Hamit Altintop, who moved from Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich respectively.",
"Winger Jose Callejon has arrived from Espanyol and young French defender Raphael Varane has been signed from Lens.",
"Elsewhere, Manchester City completed their second signing of the week after Roberto Mancini's team announced the acquisition of Montenegro defender Stefan Savic.",
"The 20-year-old joins the City of Manchester Stadium outfit from Partizan Belgrade on a four-year contract.",
"Savic's arrival comes just two days after the Citizens completed a deal for left-back Gael Clichy, who moved from English Premier League rivals Arsenal.",
"The center-back faced a number of his new teammates during Montenegro's 0-0 draw with England in October 2010, and is looking forward to working with so many international players.",
"\"I never imagined that I'd be teammates with all those City players within a year and I'm so happy to be at this club,\" Savic told City's web site.",
"\"I watch the Premier League all the time and I know it's the place to be so I am just looking forward to helping this club achieve great things.",
"We have an incredible stadium and I've seen how passionate the City fans are many times on TV.",
"\"Montenegro play England later this year so I'm expecting to have some great banter with the England lads.",
"I'm just really happy to be a City player.\"",
"There was also transfer activity at Inter Milan on Wednesday, as they agreed a deal with Argentine team Velez Sarsfield for attacker Ricardo Alvarez.",
"Inter have agreed to pay $17m for 90% of the 23-year-old's contract with an option to purchase the remaining 10% at a later date, according to Velez's web site.",
"Meanwhile, Scottish champions Rangers have completed a deal for Almeria's Juan Manuel Ortiz.",
"The 29-year-old former Atletico Madrid winger has signed a three-year contract at Ibrox."
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"Real Madrid have completed the signing of Portugal defender Fabio Coentrao .",
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"(Mashable) -- Microsoft has just announced the 17 games that will be available on launch day with Kinect for Xbox 360, the tech giant's highly anticipated controller-free gaming system.",
"Kinect, which launches on November 4, is Microsoft's answer to the Nintendo Wii's motion controllers, which helped turn that console into one of this generation's most popular gaming devices.",
"Both Sony and Microsoft have been playing catch-up with the PlayStation Move and Kinect, respectively.",
"Seventeen Kinect-enabled games will be available when the device makes its debut next month.",
"Here's the full list: . Kinect Adventures: This is the game that is included with every Kinect device.",
"It helps introduce gamers to the Kinect interface, letting them transverse the rapids, float around in space and challenge their friends to races, among other minigames.",
"Kinectimals: Think Nintendogs, but with no controller.",
"Game Party: In Motion: This includes a collection of party minigames like Darts.",
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1 The Videogame: You can now control Harry's magic with your hands.",
"Your Shape: Fitness Evolved: A fitness game from Ubisoft that is similar to Wii Fit.",
"Dance Central: This game, made by the creators of Rock Band, tracks your dance moves.",
"We've heard good things about this one.",
"The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout: A game from THQ based on the TV show.",
"DanceMasters: Konami's version of getting your groove down.",
"EA SPORTS Active 2: A fitness game with body tracking, heart rate data and the ability to share workout data.",
"EA has gone all-out with this game, which sort of explains its $100 price tag.",
"Zumba Fitness: See a pattern yet?",
"This is a dance fitness game.",
"Kinect Sports: Microsoft's version of Wii Sports.",
"MotionSports: This game from Ubisoft includes live in-game commentary and 40+ sports challenges.",
"DECA SPORTS FREEDOM: While this game only has 10 sporting events, there is a focus on making it feel as real as possible.",
"Figure skating should be interesting.",
"Kinect Joy Ride: Controller-free kart racing.",
"ADRENALIN MISFITS: This racing/battle game focuses on fantasy worlds.",
"Fighters Uncaged: Fulfill your Fight Club fantasy without the bloody concussions and stitches.",
"SONIC FREE RIDERS: Yup, Sega is bringing Sonic the Hedgehog to Kinect.",
"What do you think of Kinect's launch day lineup?",
"Let us know in the comments.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- Fascinating, vibrant and multicultural.",
"Those are a just a few of the words Dubai's visitors use to capture its essence.",
"You can never prepare for how the ever-shifting landscape will seek to change something within you as well.",
"The larger-than-life grandeur of its towering city skyline, fleet of construction cranes signaling progress and crowded, fragrant souks -- or markets -- all combine to present the swirling scene of Dubai.",
"But in order to soak up Dubai's eclectic diversity, you have to prepare for another truth: \"Dubai is worth a trip, but not all that glitters is gold,\" iReporter Holger Bauer said.",
"Knowing how to navigate the city is key to making the most of your trip.",
"But don't let a fear of the unknown keep you from setting off on a Dubai adventure.",
"\"It's a crossroads of many cultures,\" iReporter Derek Matthew Koebbe said.",
"\"They have a 30-year plan to become one of the largest economic and tourist regions in the world.",
"I would love to travel there again to see this progression.\"",
"Dubai's captivating mystique, beauty .",
"City with a view . For first-timers or repeat visitors, taking in the breathtaking view of Dubai from the top of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, is a must.",
"\"You can get a very good view and 'lay of the land' by going up to the top floors of buildings, such as hotels or the Burj Khalifa,\" Anderson said.",
"\"Going to the viewing deck of the Burj Khalifa in the evening is especially magical.",
"You can view the nightlife below as well as the dancing fountains show, which is absolutely spectacular at night.\"",
"iReporter Sara Ruedy recommends taking the elevator ride up to the 160th floor for a 360-degree view of Dubai's overall splendor.",
"And while visiting the Burj Khalifa, located in the heart of downtown Dubai, don't forget to explore the \"large variety of trendy restaurants, aesthetic pools and fountains, and upscale shopping,\" she said.",
"What to do, where to go . Dubai is full of activities that cater to any traveler's whimsy.",
"From the adventurous recreationalist to the avid shopper, this city is a treasure trove just waiting to be explored.",
"\"The malls are epicenters of activity and entertainment, from indoor ice skating and downhill skiing to aquariums, and of course, the high-end luxury shops,\" Anderson said.",
"Dubai is known for its array of fountains, so take the time to stop and enjoy the show.",
"The Dubai Mall, the largest mall in the world, features a choreographed fountain show, according to Anderson.",
"\"One of the best ways to view the shows, which run regularly throughout the day, is to grab a seat for lunch or dinner at one of the restaurants in the mall with outside terrace seating.",
"The food is delicious as well!\"",
"Ruedy agrees with Anderson when it comes to the food at Dubai's main mall.",
"\"I ate at a Lebanese restaurant named Karam Beirut within The Dubai Mall.",
"The restaurant was unique in that large plates of every fresh vegetable you can think of were provided during the meal, creating a hearty and healthy eating experience.\"",
"Dubai, home of the extravagant, also has the world's only 7-star hotel, the Burj Al Arab.",
"But if you can't afford a stay in 7-star luxury, the city has other agreeable options.",
"\"I would recommend staying at any of the Jumeirah properties, as they are on the beach,\" Koebbe said.",
"\"They have Burj Al Arab as well as the very affordable Madinat Jumeirah.",
"The Madinat has a water park called Wadi Wadi that kids really enjoy!",
"The property also has a replica of a traditional souk with over 40 shops and restaurants.\"",
"If you haven't satisfied your shopping needs at the world's largest mall, don't forget to browse Dubai's souks.",
"\"Another must see is the gold and spice souks near Dubai Creek,\" Koebbe said.",
"\"Be ready to bargain because they raise the prices for any foreigners.\"",
"30 days, 30 kitchens: Making food in the UAE .",
"How to explore . Before you begin, consider Dubai's climate.",
"Koebbe captures it best: \"Think of Florida's humidity combined with Arizona's heat.",
"Average summer temps are 100-plus with 80% humidity.",
"The best time to travel there is between November and March when the highs are in the 80s and the humidity is lower.\"",
"Once you get there, take a ride on the Dubai bus system for a fun way to sightsee.",
"Getting around the city for a dime each trip is easy on your wallet, and it helps you connect with the locals and tourists around you, Bauer said.",
"If you want to explore Dubai's more natural offerings, get outside the city.",
"The countryside and deserts are a nice balance for the towering skyline.",
"\"It's wonderful to get into the countryside and see Al Ain or Abu Dhabi, not far away,\" iReporter Eric Kossoff said.",
"\"We took a half day tour with Arabian Adventures called 'The Sun Downer,'\" Koebbe said.",
"\"They pick you up a few hours before sunset from your hotel and take you into the Al Sahara Desert where you visit a traditional Bedouin camp.",
"The camp provided everything from camel rides to hookahs and traditional foods along with belly dancers.\"",
"Take in the diversity .",
"If you take one thing with you from your Dubai experience, let it be the culture.",
"You won't find a replacement for it anywhere on Earth.",
"\"Dubai is such a beautiful and uniquely diverse destination,\" Koebbe said.",
"\"Wandering through the souks, you hear people speaking in Arabic, British and American English, Hindi, Russian, French and even Chinese.",
"The city has both an old and new feel all around it.",
"\"Wonderful smells of the spice souk are wafting around you mixing with the fragrances of some of the finest perfumes Europe has to offer.",
"You'll find older traditional souks on one corner, then on the next, the very American-like Mall of the Emirates with an indoor ski resort, Ski Dubai.",
"I found the local people to be very warm and welcoming.\""
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"A thriving downtown of towering buildings and crowded markets awaits travelers in Dubai .",
"Get a 360-degree view from atop the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building .",
"From shopping to a sunset desert adventure, get the most out of your trip to Dubai ."
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"(CNN) -- Independence for South Sudan is around the corner, but new satellite images released Wednesday reveal a heavy north Sudanese military presence in an oil-rich border region.",
"Images from the U.S.-based Satellite Sentinel Project showed an apparent Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) convoy of \"significant size\" traveling through the town of Kadugli.",
"The monitoring group, started by actor George Clooney, said the convoy was 2 kilometers in length and had about 1,000 troops.",
"There were heavy transport trucks carrying artillery.",
"\"Less than a week after signing yet another agreement, the Sudanese regime appears to be ignoring its commitment, holding to form, and positioning military assets for intensified offensive operations,\" said John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, which aims to end genocide and war crimes.",
"\"This cycle will continue to be played out with increasingly destructive results for Sudanese civilians until the international community stiffens its spine and imposes swift and severe repercussions for the endless cycle of violence the Khartoum regime continues to fuel.\"",
"The Satellite Sentinel Project combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports with mapping technology in hopes of deterring the resumption of the bloody and bitter civil war north and south fought for decades.",
"The monitoring group said regular fighting between the Sudanese forces and the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army has been reported in the city of Kadugli in the past week.",
"Southerners voted for independence in a January referendum, and with the scheduled July 9 date of separation looming, many fear an escalation of bloodshed could bring both sides back to the brink of full scale war.",
"Violence erupted two months ago along the contested border area of Abyei and subsequently in South Kordofan, a state that lies north of the border but where many people, especially in the Nuba Mountains, are allied with the south.",
"Thousands of people were displaced from their homes, and many fear that after strict borders go into place with independence, they will not be able to return home.",
"\"South Sudan will be born into crisis,\" said Susan Purdin, who oversees International Rescue Committee aid programs in South Sudan.",
"\"Widening violence is triggering more displacement, threatening the lives of vulnerable civilians and hampering access to communities in need while an existing humanitarian emergency grows worse,\" she said.",
"Critical issues -- including oil and the final status of Abyei -- remain unresolved just days ahead of independence.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States applauded talks between north and south but remained concerned about the unresolved matters.",
"\"The United States also calls on the parties to end the fighting in Southern Kordofan, and to facilitate unfettered access for aid workers to deliver humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians affected by the conflict,\" Nuland said.",
"Discussions are under way on how to shape the new post-independence U.N. mission in South Sudan, created in 2005 with a peacekeeping mandate.",
"And the United Nations Security Council will meet next week to discuss whether to recommend a new member state's entry into the global body.",
"Peter Wittig, the U.N. ambassador of Germany, which holds the rotating Security Council presidency this month, said Council members will meet July 13, four days after South Sudan's independence ceremony, to talk about U.N. admission.",
"If granted, South Sudan would become the first state since Montenegro in 2006 to become a U.N. member.",
"CNN's Moni Basu and Nima Elbagir contributed to this report."
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"New satellite images show a Sudanese military presence in South Kordofan .",
"The images captured by George Clooney's group show a convoy .",
"South Sudan is set to gain independence July 9 .",
"The north and south fought a decades-long civil war ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- In a contentious closed-door U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday, Russia criticized France's decision to airlift weapons to rebel forces in Libya, according to a Western diplomat present during the discussions.",
"Earlier Tuesday, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet told reporters that parachute drops of weapons into the North African nation were \"no longer necessary\" because opposition forces had become organized enough to procure their own arms.",
"Rebels battling Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi are \"becoming more autonomous,\" Longuet said.",
"\"This autonomy allows them to build relationships with external partners, including when it comes to equipping themselves in self-defense,\" he said.",
"But even as Longuet said the weapons drops were no longer needed, debate over the approach continued.",
"Russia brought up the issue at the U.N. Security Council session Tuesday, arguing that by sending weapons, France had violated the council's resolution that authorized NATO force in Libya, the Western diplomat said.",
"France offered a detailed defense of the country's actions, arguing that supplying weapons was \"the only practical way of fulfilling\" the council's mandate authorizing force to take \"all necessary measures\" to protect civilians, the diplomat said.",
"During Tuesday's meeting, ambassadors from the United Kingdom and United States defended France's actions, according to the Western diplomat.",
"France acknowledged last Wednesday that it had supplied weapons to anti-Gadhafi forces, saying the weapons were provided for self-defense.",
"\"It became clear that people there were defenseless and very much threatened by Gadhafi's forces,\" French Ministry of Defense spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard said last Wednesday.",
"Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi told reporters last week that rebel forces were receiving arms from France but were not trained in their use.",
"He said it was reckless of France to take such action, saying it went \"against all of the proclaimed aims of NATO's intervention in Libya.\"",
"Meanwhile, in Libya, a rebel spokesman said fighting had moved Tuesday westward from Misrata, which rebel forces say they continue to hold.",
"Eleven rebels were killed in Dafniya, and one was killed in Zliten, said Mohammed Ibrahim, the spokesman.",
"Another 60 rebels were wounded in the two cities, he said, citing figures from Al-Hekma Hospital, in Misrata.",
"Pro-Gadhafi forces fired some six rockets into Misrata, but they caused no casualties, he said.",
"The opposition website freemisurata.com, published by Ibrahim's group, said at least 20 members of Gadhafi's forces were killed and six were captured Tuesday in Dafniya and Zliten.",
"CNN's Richard Roth and Mick B. Krever and journalists Catherine Clifford and Dheepthi Namasivayam contributed to this report."
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"Russia argues that France violated a U.N. Security Council resolution, a diplomat says .",
"Diplomat: Drops were \"the only practical way of fulfilling\" the council's mandate .",
"United States, United Kingdom defend France, the diplomat says .",
"France's defense minister says the weapons drops are no longer necessary ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- The words \"Ganbaro Nippon\" -- \"Be strong, Japan\" -- shine down on the nation's capital nightly from the soaring steel of the landmark Tokyo Tower.",
"But a society known worldwide for its culture of stoicism has been knocked a bit off balance by the one-two punch of a massive earthquake and a nuclear disaster, according to both ordinary residents and experts.",
"Andrew Grimes, a clinical psychologist working in Japan, said the events and their literal and figurative aftershocks have had \"a severe effect on people's sense of security.\"",
"\"It's uncharted territory to some extent,\" Grimes said.",
"\"But I think the mental health aspect is already with us, and it's going to stay with us for a while.\"",
"And Junichi Onodera, the director of a badly damaged hospital in northern Japan, said the disaster's psychological scars will linger longer than the current crises.",
"Onodera runs the Iwate Prefectural Hospital in Yamada, a town in the bulls-eye for the tsunami that followed the March 11 earthquake.",
"Seaweed still drapes cabinets on the first floor of the facility, and X-ray machines, beds and wheelchairs too badly damaged to salvage line the parking lot.",
"Exhausted doctors and nurses whose homes have been destroyed sleep alongside patients, many of whom arrive suffering from what Onodera likens to post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"\"But what can we do?\" he asked. \"There are no psychologists here to help with that.\"",
"The quake killed more than 13,000 people in the region.",
"Another 15,000-plus are still missing, and Japanese troops are still combing the ruins of coastal villages in search of bodies.",
"The island nation has long been plagued by earthquakes.",
"But last month's magnitude 9 quake has generated strong aftershocks for more than a month, with more than eight deaths blamed on fresh tremors in the past week.",
"\"The degree of fear of earthquakes has risen up these days,\" Tokyo businessman Ryuji Kita told CNN.",
"Kita said the repeated aftershocks have put his entire family on edge, and he gets e-mails from friends and relatives in western Japan after each temblor.",
"In Tokyo, more than 300 km (190 miles) south of the quake's worst impact, the disaster was followed by a brief period of rolling blackouts and an extended campaign of power conservation.",
"Outside a nightclub around the corner from the Kantei, the prime minister's office, a sign advises passerby, \"Save power and carry on\" -- an echo of iconic British posters from World War II.",
"Many subway stations have been half-lit, and when baseball returned after delaying the start of its season for three weeks, many games played in the Tokyo Electric Power Company's service area were moved to afternoons.",
"Tokyo Electric faces a 20% capacity shortfall since the quake knocked out two of its nuclear power plants.",
"One of those is Fukushima Daiichi, the center of a slow-motion crisis that Japan declared a top-scale nuclear accident Tuesday.",
"Yoshi Domoto, executive director of the Atlanta-based Japan-America Society of Georgia, said the Japanese have been sticking together, as they have through a long history of disasters.",
"\"They're more group-oriented than Americans, so that's helping them out,\" Domoto said.",
"That sense of community leaves people less isolated than they would be otherwise, said Professor Lonny Carlile of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.",
"Neighborhoods tend to come together, accounting for residents, handing out circulars, or holding regular cleanups.",
"After the tsunami, local governments quickly designated which towns would take in survivors from other towns that were hit, Carlile said.",
"\"You have what in essence is a routine (that will) kick in during an emergency,\" Carlile said.",
"And in the United States, expatriates are raising money for disaster relief.",
"The Japanese community in Los Angeles is so large that Japanese prefectures have their own local organizations, said Gwen Muranaka, English editor of the Rafu Shimpo, a daily Japanese-American newspaper there.",
"\"I think there's a real commitment,\" she said.",
"\"This isn't going to go away in a month.",
"People feel that they're committed to helping.\"",
"But in the shadow of Fukushima Daiichi, fears about possible contamination of the basics of life --- food and water -- have fueled an \"enormous inability to calm down,\" said Grimes, the director of Tokyo Counseling Services.",
"And many people in Tokyo who depend on trains to get around \"are very concerned and afraid of being stuck again, like we all were on that first Friday.\"",
"Grimes said psychiatrists and psychologists expect to see an increased number of patients suffering from depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, nightmares and problems with appetite in the coming months.",
"\"We've had many more people first-time people coming in, including couples,\" he said.",
"As the nuclear crisis drags on, both the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric have faced increasing criticism of their early response and the utility's inability to offer an estimate of when it might be resolved.",
"Prime Minister Naoto Kan's ruling Democratic Party of Japan took a beating in the first round of local elections Sunday, losses he said Tuesday were \"very difficult for our party.\"",
"And with the crisis also pinching Japan's economy, Kan urged citizens to ease up on some self-imposed austerity measures.",
"\"While keeping sympathy with the disaster victims, shall we try not to apply too much self restraint and go back to daily life?\"",
"he asked. \"Consuming products from the disaster-hit area is one way of supporting the victims.\"",
"The Japanese government has begun easing restrictions on produce from the stricken region as radiation readings go down.",
"Vendors selling vegetables and fruit from Fukushima Prefecture were doing a land-office business outside Tokyo's packed Shimbashi subway station at Wednesday's rush hour, with some stands selling out in minutes, their operators announced.",
"A woman named Shiho, who would not give her last name, told CNN she was more worried about continued earthquakes than radiation.",
"She said she was worried about how to evacuate with her two cats, since pets weren't allowed in shelters, and had stockpiled food and water for an emergency kit in case of another major quake.",
"\"The government is confused about what they should do,\" she said.",
"\"We need a clear scenario to recover.",
"If we Japanese people could have a clear vision about how to recover, then the recovery would be more effective.\"",
"CNN's Brian Walker in Yamada, Matt Smith, Yoko Wakatsuki and Noriaki Kawai in Tokyo and Melissa Gray in Atlanta contributed to this report."
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"Japan has a long history of pulling together after disasters .",
"\"We need a clear scenario to recover,\" a Tokyo commuter says ."
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"(CNN) -- Hosts Argentina needed a stunning late strike from substitute Sergio Aguero to salvage a 1-1 draw against Bolivia in the Copa America opener Friday night.",
"Argentina could not break down the underdogs in the first half and just two minutes after the break it was Bolivia who took a shock lead as Edivaldo Rojas backheeled a corner past Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero.",
"Marcelo Martins might have put the game out of Argentina's reach as he beat the offside trap but Romero was alert to push the ball away from him before saving a follow-up effort.",
"A jittery Argentina, with Lionel Messi well below his best, had to wait until 13 minutes from time for the equalizer.",
"Nicolas Burdisso chested down a cross from Marcos Rojo and Atletico Madrid star Aguero volleyed home spectacularly.",
"Aguero had a late chance to give the hosts an undeserved win but Bolivia goalkeeper Carlos Arias saved smartly.",
"The opening match of the 12-team tournament was held in La Plata and a win for Argentina, with the likes of Messi and Carlos Tevez in their ranks, was considered almost a foregone conclusion by the home faithful.",
"But Bolivia played to the standard that had seen them humiliate Argentina 6-1 in the high altitude of La Paz during the last round of World Cup qualifying.",
"\"It is not what we expected, now we must improve and win our remaining matches,\" Barcelona star Messi told gathered reporters after the draw.",
"Argentina's arch-rivals Brazil will be looking to win their fifth Copa America title in six and open against Venezuela on Sunday.",
"The 12 teams are divided into three groups of four, with the top two in each group and the two best third-placed teams reaching the quarterfinal knockout stage."
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"Brazil open against Venezuela on Sunday bidding for fifth Copa title in six ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Before Prince William and his wife, Catherine, left Los Angeles to return to London on Sunday, they got their hands dirty with paint and putty at a children's art center and shook hands with military veterans looking for work.",
"\"On behalf of us both, how grateful we are to have been welcomed so warmly in the Golden State and City of Angels,\" Prince William said at the last stop of the royal couple's three-day Southern California visit.",
"A giant Union Jack flag and an equally large American flag served as the backdrop inside Sony Studios' sound stage 15 as Prince William addressed 1,500 military veterans, their spouses and recruiters from 150 companies Sunday afternoon.",
"The cavernous building is where scenes for the \"Wizard of Oz,\" \"Spider Man\" and many other movies were filmed.",
"William called the ServiceNation job fair \"one of the seriously most important\" of the many events during their 12-day North American tour.",
"\"This is because it's about men and women, who with their own free will, choose to put their life on the line for their country,\" William said.",
"\"They are on the front line of a remarkable relationship between the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, which has safeguarded our freedom for a century.\"",
"The problem of unemployment among former military families will \"be raised monumentally by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge being here,\" said U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President Kevin Schmiegel, one of the job fair organizers.",
"\"Prince William is the most recognizable military officer in the world,\" Schmiegel said.",
"\"So, I think if they look at the portfolio of things that they're interested in raising awareness about, it makes sense that he is interested in this.\"",
"William said the job fair's mission is \"very immediate and personal to us.",
"Catherine and I both have friends back in Britain who could benefit from an initiative like this.\"",
"Earlier Sunday, William and Catherine spent an hour in Los Angeles' low-income Skid Row neighborhood with children at the Inner-City Arts Center.",
"Each got their hands dirty creating their own art.",
"\"What the hell is that?\" William asked Catherine as he looked at her artwork.",
"His wife was painting a snail as she sat among a group of fifth-graders.",
"\"That's amazing,\" Catherine said to children as she admired their work in a ceramics class.",
"The royal newlyweds left a lasting impression at the center, literally.",
"They each put their hands onto a board of putty, leaving ceramic imprints for future visitors to see.",
"Their whirlwind weekend in Southern California was designed to be a combination of commerce and charity missions for the royal couple.",
"Weekend events included the prince's participation in a polo competition in Carpinteria, California, on Saturday afternoon.",
"Prince William and his team won the match after he scored four goals in the final game.",
"His reward? A sterling silver and gold trophy along with a kiss by his wife.",
"Proceeds from the match go to a foundation supported by the prince and his brother, Harry, that helps disadvantaged youth, sustainable development and military families.",
"The royal couple has had a busy stay, which included a meeting with thespians and Hollywood's elite during an event by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Saturday night.",
"While Beverly Hills is the land of the famous, the visit by the recently married couple has caused a major stir.",
"Spago, Wolfgang Puck's restaurant, offered a British menu for the duration, including dishes served during the royal wedding festivities.",
"The Beverly Hills eatery added Yorkshire pudding to its menu for the weekend.",
"Not to be outdone, the city's famously aggressive paparazzi tried to pursue the newlyweds at a private party at the British consul general's Hollywood home.",
"Neighbors near the residence, where the royals also spent the night, gave police permission to arrest photographers caught on private property.",
"The California visit ends the 10-day North American tour that began in Canada.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A top African-American lawmaker urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to focus more attention on the plight of unemployed black Americans, warning that there is growing frustration with the administration among some of its staunchest backers.",
"\"We love the president,\" Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, told CNN.",
"\"We're working with him but are sounding the alarm.\"",
"The national unemployment rate was 9.1% in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.",
"But it was nearly 16% for African-Americans, a figure Waters said was the highest in the nation of any key demographic and the worst since the Great Depression.",
"\"We are unique in terms of the pain that we are feeling in our community,\" said Waters, a key member of the Congressional Black Caucus.",
"Earlier this week, Waters questioned Obama's failure to visit any predominantly African-American communities during his Midwest bus tour.",
"The president visited Minnesota, Iowa and his home state of Illinois from Monday to Wednesday.",
"Waters, a veteran legislator, told a Detroit crowd that some black lawmakers have been reluctant to criticize the nation's first African-American president.",
"\"You are very proud to have a black man as president,\" Waters said in remarks captured on the Grio website, an African-American news site.",
"There is concern, she said, that \"if we go after the president too hard, you are going after us.\"",
"Voices in the crowd could be heard imploring Waters to press Obama on issues like unemployment.",
"\"When you unleash us ... and tell us it is all right to have this conversation, we are ready to have this conversation,\" Waters said.",
"\"We're supportive of the president, but we're getting tired. ...",
"The unemployment is unconscionable (and) we don't know what the strategy is.\"",
"During her interview with CNN on Thursday, Waters pushed the president to take what she characterized as a tougher stance against conservative tea party activists.",
"An increasing number of progressives have complained that Obama was too willing to compromise with conservatives in recent debt ceiling and related budget negotiations.",
"\"We have to let the president know we're behind him,\" Waters said.",
"\"Don't back up from the tea party.",
"Stand up and fight them.",
"Don't give in to them. Don't make deals with them because you are trying to get along.\"",
"\"We want the president to know that he's got a lot of people behind him,\" Waters added.",
"\"We're hurting, and we're getting angry.",
"... Let the president know that we want him to be tough.\"",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"Waters says black lawmakers don't criticize Obama for fear of losing voter support .",
"\"If we go after the president too hard, you are going after us,\" Waters says ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- India's health minister said Tuesday he was misquoted by the media in comments made at an AIDS conference that homosexuality is \"unnatural\" and a \"disease\" that was brought into India.",
"Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters that his remarks were intended to urge those who engage in homosexuality to be careful.",
"He appeared to be backtracking a day after he unleashed widespread outrage .",
"\"Unfortunately, there a disease in the world and which has come to our country which is absolutely unnatural and should not happen but it does,\" Azad said at a New Delhi conference on AIDS and HIV.",
"\"There is a substantial number of men having sex with men in our country.",
"But it's difficult to track who's doing it and where,\" he said in a speech delivered in Hindi.",
"Azad's comments drew criticism from gay rights activists and those who fight HIV in India.",
"\"I think his statement is very irresponsible, more so because of the platform he was speaking from,\" said Anjali Gopalan, executive director of the nonprofit Naz Foundation that fights for sexual rights.",
"\"The minister should have used that platform to end stigmas.",
"Rather he chose it to reinforce the negative stereotypes,\" she added.",
"Roy Wadia, the executive director of India's Heroes Project, said Azad's comments \"not only undermines the ministry the person leads, but strikes a significant blow to health and outreach programs aimed at an already vulnerable and stigmatised population.\"",
"Wadia, whose HIV/AIDS communications and advocacy organisation is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, welcomed the outcry against Azad's comments.",
"\"That is encouraging,\" he said.",
"\"But we clearly have a ways to go in educating society as a whole when the top health official of the world's most populous democracy utters such words and does such harm.\"",
"The United Nations AIDS agency, which estimates 2.5 million Indians are living with HIV, reiterated its position on homosexuality.",
"\"There is no place for stigma and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,\" said Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, in a statement Tuesday as he praised India's overall efforts in providing HIV services to gay and transgender communities.",
"\"Consistent with WHO's disease classification, UNAIDS does not regard homosexuality as a disease,\" Sidibe added.",
"In 2009, New Delhi's high court decriminalized same-sex relationships in a landmark ruling that sparked religious outcry in conservative India.",
"The ruling meant the law -- Indian penal code section 377, which had criminalized consensual homosexual acts between adults -- was partly overturned but remains in place where forced homosexual acts are concerned.",
"Several religious groups opposed to legalizing gay sex challenged the verdict in India's supreme court.",
"Tuesday, Amnesty International said India must do it all it can to protect the rights of gay citizens.",
"\"These outrageous remarks linking consensual sexual activity to a disease simply encourage discrimination against men who have sex with men,\" said Emily Gray, Amnesty International's researcher on sexual orientation.",
"The rights group said the health minister ought to retract his comments.",
"\"India has come a long way in the past decade in protecting its vulnerable populations, including its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender populations,\" Gray said.",
"\"But they are engaging in double standards here: On the one hand, they have decriminalized homosexuality and taken a significant step toward ensuring that people in India can express their sexual orientation.",
"On the other hand, its chief public health officer is pathologizing homosexuality.\"",
"CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report from Atlanta."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City announced a deal with Etihad Airways on Friday which will see the English football club rename their home stadium.",
"As a result of the 10-year agreement, the Premier League team's ground will be called the Etihad Stadium and large parts of the surrounding area will now be known as the Etihad Campus.",
"The Abu Dhabi-based airline has also extended its shirt sponsorship deal with last season's FA Cup winners, which began in May 2009.",
"\"The City of Manchester Stadium will be renamed the Etihad Stadium effective immediately,\" read a statement on the club's official web site.",
"\"Etihad Airways has extended its shirt sponsorship deal reflecting an increased media value due to the club's improved on-pitch performance in the 2010-11 season.\"",
"Roberto Mancini's team achieved a third-place finish in the domestic table, qualifying for the European Champions League for the first time in the club's history.",
"The FA Cup triumph represented City's first trophy in 35 years.",
"City's chief executive officer Gary Cook hailed the agreement as a sign of the team's continued development.",
"\"We are delighted to be expanding our relationship with Etihad Airways through this comprehensive partnership agreement,\" he said.",
"\"Most importantly, in addition to delivering significant revenue at a key stage in the club's evolution, the agreement creates exciting opportunities for our two organizations to cooperate more deeply commercially and on media and community initiatives in the future.\"",
"The deal with Etihad has seen the two-time English champions further strengthen their links with the United Arab Emirates, after the club was taken over by Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in August 2008.",
"On the pitch, City this week completed the signings of France left-back Gael Clichy from Arsenal and Serbia defender Stefan Savic from Partizan Belgrade."
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"(CNN) -- Don Black said he despises Barack Obama.",
"And he said he believes illegal aliens undermine the economic fabric of the United States.",
"A cross and swastika are burned at an event called Hated and Proud in Nebraska in July 2008.",
"Black, a 55-year-old former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, isn't the only person who holds such firm beliefs, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which Thursday released its annual hate group report.",
"The center's report, \"The Year in Hate,\" found the number of hate groups grew by 54 percent since 2000.",
"The study identified 926 hate groups -- defined as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people -- active in 2008.",
"That's a 4 percent jump, adding 38 more than the year before.",
"What makes this year's report different is that hate groups have found two more things to be angry about -- the nation's first African-American president and an economy that is hemorrhaging jobs.",
"For the past decade, Latino immigration has fueled the growth of hate groups.",
"Watch what the family of a hate crime victim has to say » .",
"\"We fear these conditions will favor the growth of these groups in the future,\" said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.",
"\"In the long arch of history, we are definitely moving forward, but these kinds of events can produce backlashes.\"",
"Black claims the number of registered members and readers on his white nationalist Web site surged to unprecedented levels in recent months.",
"On the day after Obama's historic election, more than 2,000 people joined his Web site, a remarkable increase from the approximately 80 new members a day he was getting, Black said.",
"His Web site, which was started in 1995, is one of the oldest and largest hate group sites.",
"The site received so many hits that it crashed after election results were announced.",
"The site boasts 110,000 registered members today, Black said.",
"\"People who had been a little more complacent and kind of upset became more motivated to do something,\" said Black, who also said he joined his first hate group at age 15.",
"Hate groups cited by the law center include white nationalists as well as neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, skinheads, Klansman and black separatists.",
"Skinheads and Klansman saw an increase in membership, while neo-Nazi groups saw a slight decline, according to the law center's report.",
"Most of the hate groups are located in the South, but the state with the highest number of documented hate groups is California with 84.",
"Obama serves as a \"visual aid\" that is helping respark a sense of purpose in current supporters and lure new members, said neo-Nazi David Duke, the former Klan leader who was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in the 1980s.",
"Duke said he fears \"the white European-American\" heritage will soon be destroyed.",
"He added that his Web site sees around 40,000 unique visitors a day, up from 15,000 a day before Obama won the election.",
"Racist anger toward Obama was evident even before he became president.",
"Two weeks before Obama won, authorities said they foiled a skinhead plot to assassinate him.",
"The two suspects, based in Tennessee, also apparently planned to shoot and decapitate dozens of African-Americans, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.",
"Police say a man in Brockton, Massachusetts, allegedly targeted minorities after President Obama's inauguration.",
"They say the man raped a woman, killed her sister and another man after several months of researching white supremacist groups on the Internet.",
"White supremacist groups have gained traction, a reversal from the decline the groups experienced since 2000, according to the law center report.",
"One of the smaller Ku Klux Klan groups, the United Northern and Southern Knights, more than doubled its chapters, widening its geographic reach from eight to 24 states, according to the report.",
"The image of a black man in the White House angers white racists, who fear nonwhites gaining too much power, said Jack Glaser, associate professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley.",
"But racist fears can also be more mundane and personal: Nonwhites in the White House could lead to nonwhites in their neighborhoods, which could lead to interracial dating, a great taboo among hate groups.",
"\"Obama poses a large cultural threat to white racists,\" Glaser said.",
"\"This may explain some of the uptick in hate groups.\"",
"Immigrants are another target of hate groups, according to the report.",
"In a deteriorating economy, illegal immigrants have been blamed by hate groups for allegedly taking subprime loans, according to the report.",
"Scapegoating occurs most often in times of economic distress, according to experts studying hate crimes.",
"From the Holocaust in Europe to abuses against Irish Catholic immigrants in the 1830s in the United States, people are most likely to lash out against others when they feel vulnerable or need to displace their economic frustrations on others, psychologists say.",
"In the city of Detroit, Michigan, where the weak economy has taken a particularly devastating toll, Jeff Schoep serves as the commander for the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States.",
"Schoep said he has seen membership grow by 40 percent in recent months, mostly because of the dire economic circumstances.",
"It is the \"most dramatic growth\" he has seen since he joined the movement in the mid-1990s.",
"The group does not reveal membership numbers to the media, he said.",
"\"You have an American work force facing massive unemployment,\" Schoep said.",
"\"And you have presidents and politicians flinging open the borders telling them to take the few jobs left while our men are in soup kitchens.\"",
"Experts studying hate crimes say there is no reliable way to link the growing number of hate groups with an increase in hate crimes, since many of the attacks go unreported.",
"The FBI's uniform crime report found 7,163 hate crime incidents in 2005.",
"However, a special report by the government that same year said the number could be 10 times higher because many of the crimes aren't reported.",
"The most recent FBI statistics in 2007 saw a slight uptick in hate crimes to 7,624.",
"Some hate groups such as the National Socialist Movement do not publicly condone violence or terrorist acts.",
"\"Violence is absolutely counterproductive,\" said Duke, the former Louisiana legislator and neo-Nazi.",
"But experts say there is a link between joining a hate group and committing violent crimes.",
"Last week in New Orleans, Louisiana, a grand jury indicted four people in the alleged shooting of a woman who tried to leave a Ku Klux Klan initiation, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported.",
"More commonly, members of hate groups engage in vandalism such as an incident in Los Angeles, California, this month where vandals slashed tires and sprayed the word \"Nazi\" on two cars and a house, according to the center.",
"The attack occurred in a neighborhood with signs displaying support for Obama.",
"Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who studied the issue of hate crimes, said people in hate groups can feel paranoid about a specific group of people.",
"This panic leads them to feel threatened, and they may react with violence, he said.",
"Alternately, individuals in a hate group may sometimes transplant their own personal rage onto a particular group that has no real connection to the cause of that rage, he said.",
"\"Their thinking is very distorted,\" Poussaint said.",
"CNN's Stephen Samaniego contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Any time there's a change in the Whoverse (the intergalactic space that occupies the storylines of British sci-fi show \"Doctor Who\" and its spinoffs, \"The Sarah Jane Adventures\" and \"Torchwood\"), fans of the franchise get nervous.",
"And creator Russell T. Davies is bringing quite a change to \"Torchwood.\"",
"(The name is an anagram of \"Doctor Who.\")",
"\"Torchwood\" fans have been jonesing for more of series star John Barrowman's antics as Capt.",
"Jack Harkness for the past two years.",
"During the prolonged hiatus, Davies aligned the franchise with subscription cable channel Starz and moved the entire setting of the show from the U.K. to the U.S.",
"Fans are curious about what's happened to their favorite characters in the meantime and what a bigger budget could mean for the show.",
"\"Torchwood\" started in 2006 as a BBC prime-time sci-fi show about a character and investigative team that originated on the popular \"Doctor Who\" reboot.",
"Barrowman's character is a mysterious, immortal man from the 51st century who adopted the identity of a World War II Royal Air Force pilot and ultimately ended up protecting mankind with the help of a secretive alien-hunting team of Earthlings.",
"This season of \"Torchwood,\" titled \"Miracle Day,\" airs at 10 p.m.",
"ET Friday night on Starz.",
"The season begins with a supernatural occurrence that halts human death on the entire planet.",
"Actress Eve Myles returns as Gwen Cooper, and American actors Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman and Alexa Havins join the cast.",
"The last season of the series, titled \"Torchwood: Children of Earth,\" was broadcast in 2009, and the storyline followed the decimation of Capt.",
"Jack's Torchwood team, including the painful loss of his romantic partner, Ianto Jones.",
"At the end of \"Torchwood: Children of Earth,\" the surviving team was officially disbanded.",
"\"The last time we saw Jack, he was drowning his sorrows in the 'Doctor Who' version of the 'Star Wars' cantina,\" said Jennifer Steele, a 29-year-old Whoverse fan and Alta Language Services project manager in Atlanta.",
"So what brought Capt.",
"Jack back to Earth for \"Miracle Day\"?",
"Barrowman isn't spoiling the surprise -- which he says changes everything -- but wants fans to rest assured that the quirky, silly heart of \"Torchwood\" is back.",
"\"Whatever issues he had, he's gone off and dealt with, and now he's come back refreshed and raring and ready to go,\" Barrowman said.",
"And so is his libido. Barrowman is keen to point out that fans will see Capt.",
"Jack have \"full-on man sex in this series,\" which shouldn't shock sci-fi fans in the least.",
"\"That's what makes science-fiction fans so brilliant,\" Barrowman said.",
"\"They are accepting about different people and the differences between each other.",
"I am a fan myself. We're all quirky. We're all a little nerdy.",
"We're all a little different-looking than everybody else.",
"We might have some little foible; we might have some little obsession, but you know what, as fans of science-fiction, we all understand that about each other.\"",
"Barrowman said his point of view on the acceptance of sexualities in television, as a gay man, is the same as that of sci-fi fans.",
"\"If you don't like me for who I am, do I really need to know you?",
"I think that's the attitude that sci-fi fans have, too.",
"We're not going to let people dictate that we should be something other than who we are,\" he said.",
"Relationships have been a hallmark of Davies' work on \"Torchwood\" and \"Doctor Who.\"",
"\"I know Russell T. Davies has taken a lot of flak for all the relationships on Doctor Who,\" Steele said, explaining that before Davies rebooted the franchise, the character of the Doctor had been largely asexual since the 1960s.",
"\"Jack Harkness has relationships with everybody, because that's the kind of person he is,\" she said.",
"Capt. Jack famously had a tryst with \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" fan-favorite James Marsters in the 2008 \"Torchwood\" episode \"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.\"",
"Marsters played Capt.",
"John Hart, Harkness' former partner and a time-traveling bad boy.",
"\"It was a great moment.",
"I loved it,\" Barrowman said.",
"\"Walking through the saloon doors, right up to each other, looking like we're just going to punch the crap out of each other, and then they kiss!",
"Brilliant!\" The character of Jack Harkness is not necessarily gay or bisexual.",
"\"Despite the fact that Jack is 'try-sexual' -- he'll try anything -- his relationship with Ianto reached a peak in 'Children of Earth,' \" said Edward DeGruy, British sci-fi fan and senior director of guest hospitality for DragonCon, a fan convention in Atlanta.",
"\"When Ianto's sister asked him, 'Well, you're dating this guy; does that mean you're gay?'",
"and Ianto looked at her and said, 'I don't know, but I know I love Jack.'",
"\" That focus on how many people in this world can love one specific person is very nerdy, DeGruy said.",
"\"Sci-fi fans have realized that a relationship is a relationship.",
"However that relationship happens for you is what's important.",
"\"We all have our own beliefs, and fandom believes that one day the world will move in the direction where everyone says, 'Your belief is your belief, and your way of living is your way of living.",
"As long as you're not hurting me, I don't care what you do.'",
"\" And although sci-fi fans deeply identify with the characters on the show, it's the writing on \"Torchwood\" that keeps fans dedicated, DeGruy said.",
"\"Especially to (fans of writer Joss Whedon), because that was Joss' bread and butter.",
"He can write conversations probably better than anyone in the business today.",
"Russell T. Davies being a very close second.\"",
"\"I think now that 'Torchwood' has really hit its stride, Davies is doing a better job than he did on 'Doctor Who,' \" Steele said.",
"Barrowman says the secret to the show's success is that the entire creative team is made up of science-fiction fans.",
"\"This is a show with people who are fans of the genre,\" he said, \"with writers who are fans of the characters, with actors who are fans of the history of the show and of science-fiction.",
"It's made by fans, which is incredible.\""
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"(CNN) -- A power outage Thursday left more than 1.5 million people in the dark in parts of Southern California, Arizona and Mexico as authorities scrambled to figure out what happened and how to get the lights back on.",
"Authorities said the outage occurred after a high-voltage power line between Arizona and California was tripped out of service, according to a statement released by San Diego Gas & Electric.",
"It was not known what caused the service to be shut off, though authorities said it was not an act of terrorism.",
"Power began to be restored by late evening Thursday, though officials warned it would take until Friday to completely restore power in portions of San Diego and Orange counties.",
"\"Again, it's a slow process.",
"It's going to take a long time to bring the power,\" San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders told reporters.",
"The mayor warned residents in one California's most populous counties to stay off the road and limit cellular phone service, and school was cancelled Friday for thousands of students.",
"San Diego Gas & Electric said all of its 1.4 million customers were without power.",
"The power line break \"caused our line from AZ and from the north of our region to both trip off,\" the utility posted on its Twitter account.",
"\"Think of the system as linked by springs, when one part goes out the rest are affected,\" another Twitter post from the utility said.",
"Power outages in California stretched Thursday from San Clemente in Orange County to the state's border with Mexico, a San Diego County spokesman told CNN.",
"In Arizona, about 56,000 customers in Yuma lost power, Arizona Power and Supply said.",
"Parts of Mexico's Baja California and Sonora states were also without power, Mexican authorities said.",
"The power outage posed no threat to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, California, authorities said.",
"At the nuclear power plant, units \"tripped from grid disturbance\" but have offsite power and were in normal shutdown mode, said Eliot Brenner, director of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Public Affairs.",
"The Civil Protection Department in Baja California said authorities there were working to fix a problem at a hydroelectric plant.",
"San Diego County activated its emergency operations center as officials tried to learn more about the blackout, county spokesman Michael Workman said.",
"Linzi Berkowitz in Carlsbad, California, said the widespread power outage wreaked havoc during rush hour.",
"\"The whole city is a mess and hopefully it doesn't get worse,\" she told CNN iReport.",
"Power went out about 3:45 p.m. in San Diego, said Joe Pettigrew, who said he was trapped on the 10th floor of an office building.",
"\"We don't have air conditioning and the windows don't open,\" he said, noting that it was about 80 degrees outside.",
"Rebecca Bloomfield of the San Diego airport authority said the airport was letting only inbound flights land.",
"Outbound flights and security screening were halted due to the power outage.",
"CNN's Chelsea J. Carter, Alta Spells, Greg Morrison and Tina Burnside and CNNMexico.com contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. wants to test claims by Somalia's al Qaeda-linked group Al-Shabaab that it will lift the ban on relief organizations to avoid a humanitarian disaster caused by drought in the Horn of Africa nation, the State Department said Wednesday.",
"The Horn of Africa region is experiencing the worst drought in 60 years, with Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions.",
"Al-Shabaab said Tuesday it would lift a ban on foreign food agencies in drought-hit areas under its control.",
"The United Nations estimates 2.8 million Somalis need emergency aid.",
"There are currently about 1.5 million internally displaced people, and the drought conditions have driven thousands of Somalis over the border into Kenya and Ethiopia.",
"Al-Shabaab banned foreign aid organizations from operating in the country in 2009, accusing them of being anti-Muslim.",
"On Wednesday it reversed its stand, saying it welcomed help from any group which did not have a hidden agenda and has formed a committee to deal with the situation.",
"The group urged all aid groups to co-ordinate their relief actions with the committee for access and assistance.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the U.S. was \"very concerned\" about the drought and resulting food shortages.",
"The U.S. has already delivered more than 1,900 metric tons of food aid through the World Food Program.",
"Nuland said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tasked her staff Wednesday with looking at what else can be done to \"avoid a major humanitarian catastrophe,\" including probing whether Al-Shabaab can be taken at its word.",
"\"The secretary wants to ensure we do all we can to avoid a humanitarian disaster, and if Al-Shabaab is now saying it will allow these humanitarian efforts, then the international community should test that because they have been a problem in the past,\" Nuland said."
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"(CNN) -- \"F.E.A.R. 3,\" the latest installment in the action-horror series, aims higher than your typical first-person shooter game.",
"It boasts cool combat features, a spooky paranormal story line and some dramatic tension.",
"But because its emphasis is on combat, not thrills, the game is not nearly as scary as it should be.",
"\"F.E.A.R. 3\" (Day 1 Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive) continues its franchise's story of a family in conflict as two brothers work together to track down their psychically enhanced mother, Alma, who is about to give birth.",
"However, their reasons for wanting to find dear Mom are totally opposite.",
"Filmmaker John Carpenter, director of the classic fright flick \"Halloween,\" helped create cinematics for the game that heighten its fear factor.",
"Comic book horror writer Steve Niles co-wrote the story line.",
"Co-op mode is the preferred mode of play here, allowing you to take advantage of each brother's skills during combat and strive toward the highest score on each level.",
"You can play as Point Man, who is well versed in military training and technique, or as Paxton Fettel, who was slain during the original \"F.E.A.R\" but returns here as a ghost with psychic energy powers.",
"The brothers must navigate wave after wave of soldiers, whacked-out cultists and creepy creatures created from Alma's mind.",
"The battlefields range from a looted food warehouse to the science bunker where Alma is being held.",
"While the action is pretty linear, there are detours in which you can search for hidden weapons and ammo, psychic link gathering locations, and an Alma doll, which scores big points when found.",
"There are enemies who require some extra work to defeat, including one called a Phase Caster, who summons additional soldiers over and over.",
"Kill him first.",
"Seriously. It is easy to get immersed in the run-and-gun aspects of \"F.E.A.R.",
"3,\" but keep in mind that it's also supposed to be a horror game.",
"Remember, Mom is a psychic time bomb allegedly waiting to erupt when she gives birth to ... whatever.",
"To be sure, there are some very good horror moments in the game.",
"The apparitions that briefly appear, scare and disappear are disconcerting.",
"And having a ghost brother along during solo mode is a constant reminder.",
"When they occur, the terror elements are jump-out-of-your-seat frightening.",
"It is almost like watching a horror movie from the eyes of the lead actor.",
"The problem is those moments don't seem to occur as often as you'd think or hope.",
"There were plenty of times in the game where I forgot it was supposed to be a thriller and not just a shooter.",
"Some levels' features are so combat-heavy that there's no room for any memorable paranormal experiences.",
"Early in the game I was peeking around every corner expecting to find some apparition or twisted scene, only to shrug and move on.",
"By the end of the game, I stopped looking for ghosts and just treated everything as a combat scene.",
"Multiplayer modes help make the game fun to replay.",
"You can work together with your teammates to survive waves of enemies emerging from an advancing fog, or be possessed by Alma and try to take over your former teammates.",
"\"F.E.A.R 3\" is a well-made first-person shooter that will challenge players with intelligent enemies and compelling battles.",
"Sadly, the frights aren't quite as jarring as they could have been.",
"Which, I'm sure, makes the ghosts very sad.",
"Boo. \"F.E.A.R. 3\" is playable on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.",
"It is available now in North America, Australia and the UK.",
"The game is rated M for mature due to blood and gore, intense violence, partial nudity and strong language.",
"This review was done after playing the Xbox 360 version."
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"(CNN) -- Victoria Bol sits under the blazing sun in the soon-to-be world's newest capital of Juba, a city of red soil, winding dirt roads and scattered tin-roofed homes.",
"She watches in delight as children frolic on the streets and women mill about with the new flag of South Sudan wrapped around their shoulders.",
"A few feet away, boisterous neighbors spray the rare paved road with a hose, playing with the soapy suds as they hum the new anthem of a nation on the eve of its birth.",
"\"Oh my goodness, I cannot believe this day is finally here,\" says Bol, a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan.",
"\"It is very emotional. I'm excited, but I'm also thinking of all the people who died for this to happen.\"",
"Bol is among scores who have returned home to witness the birth of South Sudan, as it officially splits from the government based in the north on Saturday.",
"\"The airport is packed and homes are filled with people coming in from all over the world,\" Bol says.",
"\"We lost almost everything -- our relatives, our homes, everything we own -- to get to this point.",
"There was no way I was missing this.\"",
"Bol says dozens of her relatives died in the violence.",
"She fled Juba in 1991 as mortars rained from the sky, and has not set foot in her homeland since then.",
"\"We were at the airport trying to leave when the north started bombing nearby,\" she says.",
"\"Everything shook.",
"We all started screaming and hiding.\"",
"Sudan's Muslim north has been in conflict with the majority Christian south for decades.",
"The civil war created a class of refugees who drifted in and out of neighboring countries -- many on foot -- to flee violence and famine that left about 2 million people dead.",
"In January, South Sudan voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum to split, which was part of a 2005 peace deal that helped end the war.",
"Dallas resident Abuk Makuac escaped Juba in 1984.",
"\"I wish my many relatives who died in the civil war were here to witness the separation into a new country,\" she says.",
"\"From here on, I know that they did not die in vain.\"",
"Scores who fled the long conflict are coming home to a region that has not changed much over the years.",
"The infrastructure is still lacking -- with about 30 miles of paved roads in all of South Sudan, an area the size of Texas.",
"\"It is no Michigan,\" Bol says with a chuckle, \"but it's home, and there is a feeling of solace you get at home that you will never get anywhere else.\"",
"Water remains a luxury in most communities and security is still tense, especially in regions bordering the north where violence still rages days before independence.",
"But patriotism trumps the challenges, say the returnees, who gathered this week in Juba to discuss how they will help move their new country forward.",
"Gordon Ajak, who left Sudan in 1989, hopes to capitalize on the opportunities in his homeland after he decides what to invest in.",
"The 46-year-old bought a one-way ticket from Canada, where he works as a counselor.",
"\"I left Sudan because ... we were not wanted by the government in the north,\" he says.",
"\"We have our own country now. It is time to come back to invest and help my people.\"",
"Business analysts warn that the minimal infrastructure in South Sudan can lead to a difficult business climate.",
"\"Good business skills will come at a premium and there will be a ferocious demand for talent,\" says Robert Taiwo, director of Whitespace Advisory, a global firm that works with businesses looking to invest in Africa.",
"The rewards, he says, can include unprecedented business opportunities.",
"\"Returning South Sudanese will get an opportunity to shape domestic business ethics and this will ultimately govern the commercial context in which everyone operates,\" he says.",
"Ajak says he is not deterred by the flashes of violence that have flared in South Kordofan, a border area between the northern and southern regions that remains tense ahead of the independence.",
"Other challenges such as the disputed region of Abyei remain, he says, but he is ready to sacrifice for his new homeland.",
"\"Back before I left, I was being attacked in a country that did not want me,\" he says.",
"\"The difference now is I'll be fighting for South Sudan.",
"My own country. I'd rather die for my country than watch them suffer.\"",
"James Aguek will not make it home for the festivities, but the Orlando resident is planning to move back permanently.",
"He has already torn his Sudan passport in anticipation of a new one from South Sudan.",
"\"Having a new country gives me a reason to go back,\" the musician says.",
"\"There is no way I would have gone back to that country if we had not voted for the separation.\"",
"For now, Aguek will focus on his upcoming album -- one that includes a song called \"99%.\"",
"It's a reference to the number that voted for the split."
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"\"It is no Michigan,\" one expatriate says, \"but it's home\"\nSudan's Muslim north has been in conflict with the majority Christian south for decades .",
"The two sides officially split on Saturday, a bitter divorce that comes amid tension ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's military has started rebuilding a church burned down in an outbreak of unrest between Christian Copts and Muslims, a military official told CNN on Sunday.",
"The Shahedin Church in Helwan province south of Cairo, the capital, was burned earlier this month in what was believed to be a feud between a Muslim and Coptic family.",
"Further clashes last Tuesday killed 13 Copts.",
"\"The engineering department of the Egyptian Armed Forces has started to rebuild the church in Atfeeh today at the same exact location,\" Army spokesman Maj. Mohamed Askar said.",
"\"The Armed Forces will bear all expenses.\"",
"Meanwhile, thousands of Christians in Cairo have protested outside the offices of the Egyptian state broadcaster for nine consecutive days, demanding the rebuilding of the church and an end to what they call government persecution and discrimination.",
"The Egyptian military previously announced an investigation into the church burning and ensuing violence.",
"Tensions have increased this year between Egypt's Muslim majority and its Coptic minority.",
"A Coptic church in the town of Alexandria was bombed on New Year's Day, killing 23 people.",
"The Palestinian Islamic Army, which has links to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for what was the deadliest attack on Christians in Egypt in recent times.",
"Ten days later, a gunman killed a Christian man and wounded five other Christians on a train in Egypt.",
"Also in January, a man was sentenced for his part in an attack on another Coptic church a year ago, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported.",
"About 9% of Egypt's 80 million residents are Coptic Christians.",
"They base their theology on the teachings of the Apostle Mark, who introduced Christianity to Egypt, according to St. Takla Church in Alexandria, the capital of Coptic Christianity.",
"The religion split with other Christians in the fifth century over the definition of the divinity of Jesus Christ.",
"CNN's Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"13 Copts were killed in clashes last week .",
"The Egyptian military is investigating the church burning and violence ."
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"West Pittston, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The swollen Susquehanna River began receding in northern Pennsylvania on Friday as authorities there and in other eastern U.S. states hit by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee surveyed the damage.",
"The Susquehanna appeared to crest at 42.66 feet at Wilkes-Barre, said Charles Ross with the National Weather Service in State College, Pennsylvania.",
"Earlier, officials had said the river crested there at 38.83 feet, but that estimate was based on a faulty flood gauge, said Ross.",
"\"Unofficially, it appears to be a crest of record,\" he said, surpassing the previous high set by Hurricane Agnes in 1972.",
"Flood stage there is 22 feet, according to the National Weather Service.",
"While the flood-engorged Susquehanna crested in some Pennsylvanian and New York cities, other communities braced for still-higher water levels.",
"The tropical moisture brought floodwaters that have left at least four people dead, caused widespread damage, and prompted police and the National Guard to patrol neighborhoods in an effort to ward off looters.",
"On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed emergency declarations for Pennsylvania and neighboring New York, making federal resources available to respond to the flooding and its aftermath.",
"New York Gov.",
"Andrew Cuomo surveyed some of the hardest-hit areas of his state Friday.",
"\"There's no doubt that there is significant damage,\" he said.",
"\"My guess is that there will be thousands of homes that will have sustained damage when all is said and done -- hundreds of businesses.\"",
"Cuomo said officials were moving from emergency operations into an assessment phase, but warned residents to remain vigilant.",
"\"Stay off the roads.",
"It's not yet time to go home.",
"The water hasn't receded,\" he said.",
"In Luzerne County, in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, between 65,000 and 70,000 people were ordered to leave their homes as the Susquehanna rose above flood stage, according to Emergency Management Coordinator Stephen Bekanich.",
"The valley has a levee system that tops out at 41 feet, said Drew McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Wilkes-Barre mayor's office.",
"McLaughlin and other officials were examining the levees.",
"\"We're closely monitoring, and it seems they are holding steady,\" he said.",
"\"It's pretty much a ghost town,\" McLaughlin said from south downtown, adding that residents appeared to heed the call to leave.",
"Other Luzerne County communities not protected by the system were not so fortunate.",
"Heavy flooding was reported in West Pittston, Harding and Plymouth Township.",
"\"At this point, we haven't been able to assess that (flooding and damage) because the water is so high,\" Bekanich said.",
"Plymouth Township resident Francis Federici was forced to leave his home, which sat in five feet of floodwaters.",
"\"On a normal day, we love it here,\" he said.",
"\"There's nobody around us.",
"We have a beautiful yard.",
"We were fixing our home up.\"",
"Luzerne County Commissioner Maryanne Petrilla told CNN that \"potentially thousands of homes\" have been affected.",
"Shelter space for 4,100 was rapidly being filled, and the county was looking for more space, she said.",
"The area from Ithaca to Syracuse to Utica, in New York, and from Wilkes-Barre, to Scranton, to Monticello, in Pennsylvania, continued to experience major to record flooding, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen.",
"An 8-year-old boy died Thursday in East Cocalico Township, Pennsylvania, after he was caught in a storm-water drain, said Cpl.",
"Melissa Arment with the East Cocalico Township police.",
"He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, she said.",
"A 71-year-old man died Wednesday night in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, as he was bailing water out of the basement of his home and the walls of the structure caved in, said Chief Patrick O'Rourke of Derry Township Police.",
"A third person drowned early Thursday near Brickerville in Lancaster County, CNN affiliate WGAL-TV reported.",
"And a fourth person died about 4:30 a.m. Thursday in North Lebanon Township, Pennsylvania, police said.",
"A motorist became stranded in high water and was outside the vehicle when struck by another vehicle, which then left the scene.",
"The suspect and that vehicle were found, authorities said.",
"Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, had received an incredible 15.37 inches of rainfall associated with Lee.",
"At least six other communities had rainfall totals exceeding 10 inches.",
"Many in the area recalled the flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972.",
"That storm dumped as much as 18 inches of rain on the area in two days, destroying more than 68,000 homes and 3,000 businesses, and leaving 220,000 Pennsylvanians homeless.",
"In Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, CNN iReporter Nick Bohacz said flooded roads prevented him from getting to work.",
"Bohacz, who sent in several photos of the flooding, said he saw a line of people outside a hardware store waiting for supplies.",
"The rising Susquehanna and Chenango rivers were also triggering evacuations in upstate New York, where evacuation orders were issued for portions of Binghamton and the towns of Conklin, Endicott, Johnson City, Union and Vestal, according to CNN affiliate YNN-TV.",
"Numerous cities and counties declared a state of emergency.",
"Video from Johnson City showed a flooded shopping mall and a football field with water nearly up to its goalposts.",
"Water was coming over the flood walls in Binghamton, county spokeswoman Colleen Wagner said.",
"About 15,000 people were ordered to evacuate, and about 1,400 were in shelters, she said.",
"State officials sent in food and water.",
"A number of boat rescues have taken place, she said, but she did not know how many.",
"Broome County Emergency Services Director Brett Chellis urged people in the evacuation areas to leave and not return for now.",
"Water was topping flood walls in Union and Vestal as well as Binghamton, he said.",
"In Otego, New York, about 50 miles northeast of Binghamton, CNN iReporter Don Wyckoff captured footage of water cascading down a road.",
"Wyckoff said he was stunned after watching neighbors and family members lose their homes to the floodwaters.",
"\"You are seeing the tiny mill creek rip out culvert pipes and tearing away roads,\" he said.",
"\"We never thought we would see this again.",
"It happened in 2006, but it is worse now.\"",
"In Oneonta, on the Susquehanna upstream of Binghamton, Police Chief Gary O'Neill said some roads were washed out and parks flooded, but the water appeared to be receding.",
"On the down side, water was flooding the chief's home in Binghamton.",
"Mandatory evacuations were also in place for low-lying areas near Schenectady, New York, YNN said.",
"In neighboring Montgomery County, authorities closed all roads and county buildings, saying only emergency vehicles would be allowed to travel.",
"The New York State Thruway Authority opened and closed several roads and ramps.",
"In Maryland, areas near Baltimore were also affected.",
"High water blocked dozens of roads in Baltimore County, according to CNN affiliate WMAR-TV.",
"The Prince George's County, Maryland, Fire and EMS Department said it was responding to numerous emergency calls, and nearly two dozen people had been rescued or helped by firefighters and the department's swift-water team.",
"Additional rain is in store for much of the region the next couple of days, with up to an inch forecast through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.",
"The rain comes on top of the heavy precipitation that has fallen in the region from Hurricane Irene.",
"What's left of Lee stalled across the central Appalachian Mountains and has since drifted into Indiana.",
"CNN's Chandler Friedman, Ashley Hayes, Phil Gast, Sarah Dillingham, Ines Ferre, Mary Snow, Scott Thompson and Jesse Solomon contributed to this report."
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"NEW: At least four people have died in the flooding so far .",
"NEW: The Susquehanna River crests nearly 21 feet above flood stage .",
"NEW: New York Gov.",
"Andrew Cuomo: \"There's no doubt that there is significant damage\"\nWilkes-Barre officials say they believe the levees will hold ."
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"Near Bani Walid, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's opposition fighters launched an assault on one of Moammar Gadhafi's last bastions of support on Saturday, but they met stiff resistance and some even pulled back, military commanders said .",
"The fighting raged after negotiators failed to work out a deal to surrender the city of Bani Walid, a hardcore Gadhafi stronghold southeast of Tripoli.",
"Fighters believe key members of the ousted Libyan leader's regime -- including two of Gadhafi's sons -- may be hiding.",
"Positioned on the outskirts of the city, Grad rockets and bullets targeted the advancing fighters, some of whom retreated.",
"Others worked to position themselves in advantageous locations.",
"Planes were heard overhead and fighters assumed they were NATO jets because no other aircraft has been allowed in the no-fly zone established by international powers.",
"The National Transitional Council, Libya's new leadership, said it wanted to negotiate the surrender to prevent further bloodshed and destruction, though critics believe it would give Gadhafi's fighters time to entrench themselves within the town.",
"Opposition forces claim Gadhafi loyalists fired on them Friday, hours ahead of a Saturday deadline to lay down their arms.",
"\"The deadline expired yesterday when they fired at our forces with Grad rockets,\" NTC chief negotiator Abdullah Kenshil told CNN.",
"Kenshil said he expects opposition forces to take the town soon but acknowledged the tough resistance by snipers positioned in houses and loyalist forces firing artillery and rockets.",
"Opposition forces have been staging outside the town for nearly two weeks, surrounding it on three sides, while negotiations were under way.",
"Shortly before the Saturday deadline expired, NTC spokesman Shamsuddin Ben Ali said absent a resolution \"it's up to military planners to decide how to move forward.\"",
"Sticking points in the negotiation included the demand by Gadhafi loyalists for opposition fighters to enter their communities unarmed, and to refrain from searching houses, Ben Ali said.",
"The loyalists also asked for blanket pardons, but the NTC wanted to prosecute loyalists with blood on their hands, Ben Ali said.",
"Bani Walid is one of three major towns in Libya that remain loyal to Gadhafi.",
"The other towns are Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast, and Sabha, in the southwest of the country.",
"Opposition forces don't know how many Gadhafi loyalists are in Bani Walid, though they believe they are heavily armed with machine guns and rockets, said Abdulrahman Busin, an NTC spokesman.",
"The NTC has previously said it had confirmed reports that two of Gadhafi's sons -- Saif al-Islam and Mutassim -- were seen inside Bani Walid.",
"Saif al-Islam, who was once viewed as Gadhafi's possible successor, is wanted along with his father, for crimes against humanity for a brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters.",
"Mutassim, a defender of his father, served as Gadhafi's national security adviser.",
"Ben Ali also said he received intelligence reports that loyalist forces were moving captured NTC fighters to Qasr Bu Hadi for use as human shields.",
"That town is 10 miles east of Sirte.",
"Loyalists and opposition forces clashed about 55 kilometers (34 miles) outside of Sirte, said NTC media committee spokesman Jalal el Gallal.",
"CNN can not independently verify the reports.",
"The renewed fighting came as Interpol issued Red Notice arrest warrants Friday for Gadhafi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity.",
"A Red Notice allows Interpol, the international police agency, to circulate arrest warrants widely with an intention to extradite suspects to the ICC.",
"At the United Nations, Ian Martin, the secretary-general's special envoy to Libya, told reporters that fears of a humanitarian disaster within the capital city have not materialized.",
"Tripoli's infrastructure has suffered little damage, the disruption of the water supply has been largely alleviated, supplies of fuel and electricity are improving, schools are slated to reopen September 17, and there has been no general breakdown of public order, said Martin, who had earlier briefed the Security Council after his return from five days in Libya.",
"\"That's quite a striking conflict with other post-conflict\" cities, he said.",
"But those advances do not minimize the enormous challenges that transitional authorities still face.",
"A Supreme Security Committee has been established in Tripoli to bring all armed elements under a single command, but \"the proliferation of weapons is a major concern, including to Libya's neighbors,\" Martin said.",
"\"The approach they're taking is to, at this stage, tell the very top echelon of the military, the police, the civil service, to remain at home while decisions are taken as to which of them should or should not be part of the future,\" he said.",
"Despite appeals by NTC leaders, acts of revenge have been carried out, \"especially of sub-Saharan Africans accused -- often, I think, quite wrongly -- of having fought for the Gadhafi regime,\" he said.",
"In addition, \"terrible evidence continues to come to light of the deliberate human rights abuses and crimes of the Gadhafi regime, both those that took place over many years and during the fall of Tripoli, when many of the prisoners were massacred,\" Martin said.",
"Meanwhile, an interim government is to be established within 30 days of the declaration of liberation, U.N. envoy Martin said.",
"Until then, the NTC is assuming \"caretaker responsibilities\" to carry out urgently needed functions, he added.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed a support mission for three months, after which \"we would then go back to the Security Council for a longer mandate,\" Martin said.",
"CNN's Phil Black and Ian Lee contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Some opposition fighters retreated amid tough resistance .",
"Negotiator: \"The deadline expired yesterday when they fired at our forces\"\nGadhafi loyalists clash with fighters in Bani Walid, a military commander says .",
"Fighting also is reported outside the Gadhafi stronghold of Sirte, a commander says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Ten years after the September 11th attacks, the nation still isn't fully prepared to handle another huge disaster, Lee Hamilton, one of the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, said Thursday.",
"First responders could still have problems communicating with one another, and there is confusion in some communities about who would be in charge, Hamilton told the House Homeland Security Committee.",
"He urged quick action to solve the problems.",
"\"We cannot permit delay of this,\" he said.",
"\"We lost lives at 9/11.",
"We lost lives at Katrina because we were not able to get communication.\"",
"The 9/11 Commission recommended concerted action to fix the problem of responder communications, but the problem persists.",
"\"I think it's an urgent question and shame on us, shame on us if we have not solved this problem when the next disaster strikes,\" Hamilton said.",
"Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said competing measures to deal with the problem are being considered by the House and Senate, while police and fire departments are waiting for some kind of action.",
"\"All they want is a system,\" Ridge said, \"... the opportunity to get voice and data and video over the broadband\" in the event of a terror attack, natural disaster or major accident.",
"The committee's chairman, Rep Peter King, R-New York, said he continues to believe the answer is to set aside a block of wireless telecommunication bands for an emergency communications network.",
"Hamilton said another concern is knowing who is in charge in the event of a disaster.",
"He called it a \"no-brainer\" but added that in metropolitan areas, where many law enforcement and rescue groups would respond in a big emergency, the lines of command are not defined.",
"King held the hearing to assess what progress has been made since the 2001 terror attacks and what still needs to be done.",
"He pointed the finger at Congress -- where he serves -- for not streamlining congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.",
"\"We're sending mixed signals as far as what Congress wants in the area of homeland security, and this fragmentation, to me, is inviting, if not disaster, certainly it's preventing law enforcement and the intelligence agencies from doing the job to the maximum,\" King said.",
"Hamilton also said the Transportation Security Administration and other entities have done a great deal of work on technology to detect all types of explosives but \"we have to accelerate our efforts\" to be able to find bomb materials people carry or could hide inside their bodies.",
"Ridge said the United States has been able to thwart many terror plots, but in some instances it was because the bombers made mistakes and were ineffective.",
"\"Luck is not a strategy,\" he said, warning that the United States must adapt to detect the evolving tactics of terrorists.",
"Hamilton told the panel much progress has been made in the past 10 years, but more needs to be done: \"We are safer today, but not as safe as we could be.\""
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"Communication, lines of command remain problem areas, Lee Hamilton says .",
"\"We cannot permit delay,\" says Hamilton, co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission .",
"\"Luck is not a strategy,\" says former homeland security chief Tom Ridge ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Mel Gibson will not have an acting role in a movie about Jewish historical icon Judah Maccabee, although he may direct the film, Gibson's representative said Friday.",
"The possibility of Gibson's involvement in the Warner Bros. Studios production brought harsh reactions from some Jewish leaders in the United States, including Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.",
"\"I think it's, quite frankly, preposterous,\" Hier told CNN on Friday.",
"\"Judah Maccabee is one of the greatest heroes in Jewish history.",
"Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite.",
"He has made anti-Semitic remarks in the past.",
"I don't know what Warner Bros. was thinking.\"",
"Maccabee was a Judean priest who commanded the Judean resistance to Greek forces around 165 BC.",
"\"Casting him as a director or star of Judah Maccabee is like casting Bernie Madoff to be the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission,\" Hier said.",
"Gibson's representative, in an email exchange with CNN on Friday, said, \"There are no plans at this stage for Mel to be in the film.\"",
"The rep asked not to be identified.",
"\"He is way too old to play the lead character,\" his rep said.",
"\"(The) finished script will determine whether he directs or not but the studio would obviously prefer he direct than not.",
"It's an amazing story that should be told cinematically.\"",
"Gibson's rep pointed to his work on \"Braveheart,\" \"Passion of the Christ\" and \"Apocalypto\" as \"all great stories that translate beautifully on the big screen with such a visual filmmaker as Gibson.\"",
"Hier disagreed, saying that \"The Passion of the Christ,\" which Gibson produced and directed, depicted every Jew, with the exception of Jesus, as a \"tyrant, buffoon, or an idiot.\"",
"Hier alluded to Gibson's infamous rant after his arrest on a drunken driving charge in 2006.",
"The sheriff's arrest report said the actor asked the deputy if he was a Jew and said, \"F---ing Jews.",
"The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.\"",
"\"My anger with Mel Gibson is he has never made efforts to fix his past mistakes,\" Hier said.",
"He said he would have no problem with Gibson becoming involved in a Maccabee movie if he had made amends for what he did.",
"\"They do have the freedom of expression, which we all welcome, don't we?\"",
"Gibson's representative said in response to the criticism.",
"CNN's Jennifer Wolfe and Matthew Carey contributed to this report ."
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"It's like casting Bernie Madoff to be the SEC chief, Rabbi Marvin Hier says .",
"\"Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite,\" Hier says .",
"\"They do have the freedom of expression,\" Gibson rep says of critics ."
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"(CNN) -- Leonardo Damiao grabbed his first international goal as Brazil beat 10-man Ghana 1-0 in a friendly held in London.",
"Despite its billing, the game was anything but friendly as referee Mike Dean sent off Daniel Opare and produced eight cards in the match.",
"The game was settled just before half time as Damiao latched onto Fernandinho's through ball to fire a shot into the corner of the net from a narrow angle.",
"Victory for the Selecao ensured some breathing space for coach Mario Menezes who has been heavily criticized for Brazil's poor showing in the recent Copa America.",
"In front of a lively crowd at English Premier League side Fulham's Craven Cottage ground in west London, it was Ghana who started the brighter of the two teams.",
"But after Jonathan Mensah headed over from a corner, Brazil began to take control of the game and tempers began to flare.",
"The first booking, for substitute Elias, came on 11 minutes and soon after Opare also saw a yellow card for a crunching tackle on Brazil striker Neymar.",
"Opare was dismissed for a second booking just after the half hour mark after he was adjudged to have tripped Lucio and Brazil assumed total control of the game.",
"Damiao thought he had scored after he finished off Neymar's pass but he was flagged for offside.",
"But in the last minute of the first half he got his first goal for his country as he finished smartly from Fernandinho's expertly weighted pass.",
"The striker, who plays for Internacional, would have had a second had he been able to tuck home Hulk's cross into a gaping net but the ball flew past his outstretched leg.",
"Ronaldinho, formerly of Barcelona and AC Milan, drew a good save from Ghana keeper Adam Kwarasey, as did Alexandre Pato but the game ended being settled by Damiao's goal."
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"(CNN) -- Maria Sharapova headed the pack as four of the top 10 seeds at the Western and Southern Open advanced to the third round of the Cincinnati event with wins on Tuesday.",
"Fourth seed Sharapova, a beaten finalist at the Lindner Family Tennis Center last year, secured her place in the third round with a 6-1 6-3 victory over Australian qualifier Anastasia Rodionova.",
"Sharapova, a three-time grand slam winner, is joined in the next round by French Open champion Li Na.",
"Li, seeded fifth, recorded a straight-sets 6-3 6-4 success against the Czech Republic's Lucia Safarova.",
"Can anybody stop Novak and Serena?",
"The 29-year-old was pleased with her return to form having been eliminated from last week's Rogers Cup in the first round.",
"\"It was tough but I was happy I could win today,\" Li told the WTA Tour's official web site.",
"\"I've been missing a lot of shots so I need some more matches on hard courts.",
"\"It's not one thing like my running, my forehand or backhand -- it's just my timing.",
"I need some more matches to find my timing again.\"",
"Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova also enjoyed a victory as the 21-year-old sixth seed disposed of South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers 7-6 (7-3) 6-3.",
"France's Marion Bartoli was the other top 10 seed in action, and the 26-year-old breezed past Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko 6-1 6-2 in just 63 minutes.",
"The first round was completed on Tuesday, with American Serena Williams continuing the form which saw her claim the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Canada last weekend.",
"Williams, currently ranked 31 in the world after suffering with injury and illness over the past year, almost let a 5-1 lead slip in the second set of her match against Lucia Hradecka, but recovered to score a 6-3 7-6 (7-5) win.",
"The 13-time major champion will now come up against Australian 10th seed Samantha Stosur, who beat qualifier Eleni Danilidou 6-3 6-1."
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"Four top 10 seeds advanced at the Western and Southern Open on Tuesday .",
"Maria Sharapova, Li Na, Petra Kvitova and Marion Bartoli are all into the third round .",
"American Serena Williams won her first round match, beating Lucie Hradecka ."
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"(CNN) -- Germany have become the first team to qualify for next year's European Football Championships after thrashing Austria 6-2 in Gelsenkirchen.",
"Mesut Ozil bagged a brace as the three-time European champions continued their 100% percent record in the campaign.",
"Miroslav Klose opened the scoring in the eighth minute, with Ozil doubling the advantage after 23 minutes.",
"Lukas Podolski made it 3-0 five minutes later before Marko Arnautovic pulled one back for the visitors.",
"Ozil all but sealed victory two minutes after the restart with Andre Schurrle and Mario Gotze adding late goals to cap another impressive German display.",
"\"We got caught out twice defensively, but I think we restricted the Austrians to just two chances and I prefer that we created so many chances,\" German coach Joachim Low said after the game, AFP reported.",
"\"It is our philosophy to constantly attack and we are working all the time to have a team in which we can interchange players.",
"This is what you have to have if you want to be amongst the best in the world,\" Low added, AFP reported.",
"In the other Group A matches, Belgium's chances of qualifying took a knock when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Azerbaijan - Rauf Aliyev's 86th minute equalizer canceling out defender Timmy Simons penalty kick.",
"Turkey consolidated second place in the group with a 2-1 home win against bottom-placed Kazakhstan.",
"Robin Van Persie scored four as the Netherlands put San Marino to the sword with an 11-0 thrashing.",
"Wesley Sneijder and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar both scored twice as the Dutch consolidated their lead at the top of Group E. San Marino have now conceded 44 goals in eight matches without managing a single goal themselves.",
"Hungary are now level on points with Sweden after beating them 2-1 in Budapest.",
"Both teams now have 15 points although Hungary have played a game more.",
"In the other Group E match, Finland beat Moldova 4-1 in Helsinki.",
"Two goals from Wayne Rooney and a first international goal for Gary Cahill helped England to a 3-0 win over Bulgaria in Sofia in Group G. Wales' 2-1 victory over second-placed Montenegro in Cardiff also helped Fabio Capello's men open up a three point gap at the top of the table.",
"Russia are top of Group B after they beat Macedonia 1-0 -- Igor Semshov's goal in the 41st minute separating the teams.",
"The Republic of Ireland drew 0-0 with Slovakia in Dublin as both teams missed out on going top of the table.",
"Armenia kept their slim hopes of qualification alive with a 3-0 win over Andorra.",
"In Group C, Italy could only manage a 1-0 win away to the Faroe Islands but still extended their lead over Slovenia, who lost 2-1 at home to Estonia.",
"Serbia boosted their chances of qualifying for next year's championships with a 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in Belfast -- Marko Pantelic's 67th minute goal lifting them to third in the table.",
"Two early goals from Karim Benzema and Yann M'Vila set up a 2-1 victory for France against Albania in Group D. The win leaves them three points ahead of Bosnia and Herzegovina who leapfrogged Belarus on Friday after they defeated them 2-0 in Minsk.",
"In the other Group D match, Romania kept in touch with the qualifying places with a 2-0 win over Luxembourg.",
"In Group F, Greece are top after a 1-0 over Israel in Tel Aviv, while Croatia remain a point behind them after a 3-1 win over Malta.",
"In the bottom half of the table, Latvia beat Georgia 1-0 in Tbilisi.",
"Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Portugal stayed top of Group H on goal difference with a 4-0 away victory against Cyprus.",
"Second-placed Norway also won.",
"A penalty two minutes from time by Mohammed Abdellaoue saw them beat Iceland 1-0 in Oslo.",
"There was only one match in Group I, Friday which ended goalless between Lithuania and Liechtenstein."
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"Robin Van Persie scores four as Netherlands destroy San Marino 11-0 .",
"Wayne Rooney scores twice as England comfortably beat Bulgaria ."
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"(CNN) -- In January 2010, a hardcore \"Transformers\" fan going by \"gaastra\" on a message board for Shout!",
"Factory (a DVD and CD company \"for the discerning pop culture geek\") asked the simple question, \"What would it take to get the Takara shows a release in America?\"",
"Before long, Shout!",
"Factory DVD producer Brian Ward was asking fans how much interest they would have in such a release and what they would like to see on it.",
"18 months later, the first of the \"Takara shows,\" known as \"Transformers: Headmasters,\" was officially released Tuesday for the first time in the United States.",
"Such is the relationship that geek-friendly companies like Shout!",
"have with fans that this release has seen the light of day.",
"\"I'm really excited about it,\" said Michael Albert of Bear, Delaware, moderator of Seibertron.com, a \"Transformers\" community site that boasts as many as 300,000 page views per day (mostly by fans whose interest in \"Robots in Disguise\" goes well beyond one of the biggest box office successes of the year, \"Transformers: Dark of the Moon,\" and its predecessors).",
"\"This is the first time we've gotten a legitimate release of this Japanese series.",
"You would have to get recordings of them burned onto DVDs, or import them from Australia or Europe, or find a laser-disc player from the 1980s to watch this.\"",
"Albert and others from Seibertron.com -- one of many fan sites like tfarchive.com, tformers.com and tfw2005.com -- said that these releases were one of the most sought-after items by fans over the years.",
"The Transformers first became a pop cultural phenomenon in the U.S. in the mid-'80s, based on a pair of toy lines from Japan's Takara company, Microman and Diaclone.",
"When interest in the characters faded after a very short-lived fourth season of the original \"G1\" animated series, it came full circle with the Japanese producing \"Headmasters,\" the first in a series of anime which took the characters in a wild new direction, involving new characters who were able to detach their heads, which were entirely separate characters (the U.S. series only touched on this concept briefly before it ended).",
"\"It really is interesting to see just how the Japanese and their culture played into a series that for most of us we've only known as straightforward Autobots vs Decepticons,\" said Ward, a \"Transformers\" fan himself who has produced all of the Shout!",
"Factory releases of other series, such as \"G1\" and the 1990s \"Transformers: Beast Wars.\"",
"\"[The Takara anime series] really bends towards a lot of things that Japanese children want to see,\" said Albert.",
"\"After 'Headmasters' is over, the Transformers are not so much sentient robots but having human drivers.",
"From what I understand, Japanese children prefer having human drivers.\"",
"Ward pointed out other, more subtle culture differences.",
"\"Where the G1 characters would call Optimus Prime 'optimus' -- they were pretty casual with their leader -- the Japanese approach it very differently.",
"Optimus Prime will be referred in more of a formal manner, he'll be 'Commander' or something among those lines.\"",
"\"The Autobots and Decepticons [in these series] are, no pun intended a well ordered machine,\" he said.",
"\"It's interesting to watch those characters change culturally.\"",
"\"Some major characters die early on,\" said Matt Brown of Canton, Michigan, a podcaster at Seibertron.com.",
"\"Later in the series, another major character bites the dust.",
"They don't mess around.\"",
"As with any anime import, there is the eternal debate of \"subbed versus dubbed.\"",
"There are some fans who simply do not want to watch subtitles.",
"Kim Manning, head programmer for Adult Swim (which is owned by Time Warner, also owner of CNN), and one of the top people responsible for what anime series are seen in the United States, said that every effort is made to get dubbed versions.",
"\"I think they're more likely to reach a more mainstream audience, and we're always hoping to get a larger audience excited about anime,\" she said.",
"\"I think hearing it in your native language allows you to get more absorbed in the action, and to pay more attention to the animation, which is often just gorgeous.\"",
"In the case of \"Headmasters\" however, the episodes are not dubbed, but have brand-new subtitles.",
"\"We saw the releases that had come out in the U.K. and Australia and saw that the subtitles there weren't entirely accurate, and in some cases didn't make sense,\" said Ward.",
"\"It was clear that the folks who had translated did not use English as their first language.",
"We gave it to a really good captioning and subtitling house in L.A. and they did a brilliant job of accurately translating the dialogue and understanding what was being said.",
"We got those scripts approved by Hasbro (owners of 'Transformers'), and we're really happy with the outcome.",
"The translation is about as close as one can get to an accurate translation of what's being said in Japanese.\"",
"Dubbed versions of the series are out there, however, including one for Malaysian and Singapore television.",
"\"When we heard them, it really got to a point where it was comical,\" Ward explaned.",
"\"The voices were awful.",
"Names would change.",
"Soundwave disappears and is simply replaced by 'New Soundwave.'",
"It was almost the equivalent of watching a Saturday afternoon martial arts movie dub, and that's certainly not something we wanted to do with a property as beloved as 'Transformers,' so we opted out of original dubs and went for brand new subtitles.\"",
"Early fan reaction to this was not entirely positive.",
"\"There was a small bit of disappointment that the project couldn't secure enough funding to do a brand-new English dub,\" said Seibertron.com podcaster Bob King of Ashley, Pennsylvania.",
"\"I kind of share that feeling, but I also know that this isn't going to be a very mainstream release, and for them to spend that much money would be kind of a gamble.",
"I appreciate that they're staying cautious.\"",
"\"People who have not seen it before might be disappointed in the subtitles, but rest assured [that the existing dubs] are that horrible,\" said Seibertron.com founder Ryan Yzquierdo, from Chicago, Illinois.",
"\"You can't actually sit there and watch the dubs, unless you like drinking while watching 'Transformers.'\"",
"Albert said that the Takara series' legacy extends beyond a mere curiosity: \"The themes are non-Western compared to what Hasbro does now but some of the design aesthetics do play into what we see today.\"",
"The other Takara series will be released in the near future as \"The Japanese Collection,\" though a production delay has postponed its release for several weeks.",
"Despite those delays and some early hesitation from the subtitle-phobic, Yzquierdo said that most fans are just excited to check the shows out: \"This is something that I never thought I would see released in the States.\"",
"Indeed, this is just the latest example of fans communicating directly with companies to make a difference in what material is released to the public.",
"Manning has communicated often with a \"vibrant\" community of fans on the Adult Swim message boards.",
"\"We definitely look at what people are talking about online, what people are watching and buying online, too.",
"From that, we're always looking for shows that we think will appeal to our audience, and then we pass it around the office -- several of us are anime fans, as well, so we make our own focus group.\"",
"As for the importance of the release of \"Headmasters\" specifically, Ward said, \"It gives [fans] something definitive, something approved by Hasbro.",
"Casual fans who just love Transformers will be really surprised by the quality of the show.",
"These were things that were almost, for lack of a better word, lost to American audiences.\""
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"It's the latest example of fans influencing what material is seen by the public .",
"Japan took U.S. \"Transformers\" cartoon in wild new directions .",
"The release reignited the anime \"subbed vs. dubbed\" debate in some circles ."
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"(CNN) -- A notorious Bosnian Serb general accused of trying to eliminate Bosnian Muslims and Croats from their shared country could face two separate trials in the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.",
"Prosecutors want to try Ratko Mladic first for his alleged crimes in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in 1995, according to a statement from the tribunal Tuesday.",
"Then, prosecutors want to try him for allegedly spreading terror throughout the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995, and for taking U.N. personnel hostage, the statement says.",
"In both cases, Mladic faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war, the statement says.",
"Prosecutors say dividing the case against Mladic \"will maximize the prospect of justice for the victims, enable more effective management of the two separate trials and best allow the proceedings to be adapted in case of unforeseen contingencies.\"",
"In addition, prosecutors say they're taking into account \"Mladic's arrest at this late stage of the Tribunal's mandate, the need to ensure justice for the victims, the desirability of commencing a trial as soon as possible, and the need to plan for the contingency that Mladic's health could deteriorate.\"",
"Mladic, 69, was arrested May 26 after 15 years in hiding.",
"He told the court June 3 that he was \"gravely ill.\" When Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s, Mladic led Bosnia Serb forces in the civil war that broke out in the part of Yugoslavia that became Bosnia-Herzegovina.",
"More than 200,000 Muslims and Croats died in the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys slaughtered at Srebrenica in 1995 -- Europe's worst massacre since World War II.",
"Mladic has appeared in court twice since his arrest.",
"On June 3, he called the charges he faces \"obnoxious.\"",
"At a July 4 appearance, Mladic refused to enter a plea, demanded new lawyers and repeatedly interrupted the judge until he was removed from the court."
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"Former Bosnia Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic could have a war crimes indictment split in two .",
"One indictment would focus on the 1995 Srebrenica massacre .",
"The other indictment would focus on the shelling of Sarajevo and taking U.N. staff hostage .",
"Prosecutors want to begin the trial as soon as possible; Mladic says he is \"gravely ill\""
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's compound was strewn with shell casings and litter two days after its capture by rebel forces, while the bodies of a dozen bound men lay in a nearby intersection.",
"The sprawling complex was littered with spent anti-aircraft shells, with rebel fighters picking through the detritus of the life Gadhafi's supporters left behind when they fled.",
"An armored BMW sedan sat abandoned in a garage near the \"House of Resistance,\" the bombed-out building that Gadhafi left unrepaired as a monument to a 1986 U.S. airstrike that killed one of his daughters.",
"Several NATO airstrikes and the onslaught that led to the fall of the Bab al-Aziziya compound on Tuesday inflicted more damage on the site, the symbolic heart of Gadhafi's nearly 42-year rule.",
"But during a visit by CNN to part of the compound on Thursday, there was no sign of the network of tunnels and bunkers long believed to have been built beneath Gadhafi's headquarters.",
"Nor was there any sign of Gadhafi or his sons, the subjects of an intense manhunt since their regime crumbled.",
"The streets outside Bab al-Aziziya are awash in guns and rumors, including one that saw rebel fighters surround a nearby apartment complex Thursday on a tip that Gadhafi was inside.",
"He was not found. The National Transitional Council, the rebel leadership, says it is determined to flush him out with minimal civilian losses.",
"\"We don't want to spill a lot of blood, you know, because they are our brothers,\" one rebel fighter said.",
"At a nearby intersection, a dozen bodies lay in the sun, some of them with their hands bound.",
"Rebel fighters say the men were executed by Gadhafi's retreating forces.",
"But the bodies appear to be those of black Africans, who made up a large portion of the pro-Gadhafi forces, raising questions about whether the men may have been executed by the rebels.",
"To the south of the compound, which is located near Tripoli's Mediterranean shore, fighting between rebel fighters and Gadhafi loyalists persisted.",
"Snipers and mortar shells continued to inflict casualties on hundreds of civilians, said Kirstie Campbell, a worker for the International Medical Corps in Tripoli.",
"\"I've worked in war zones for 10 years, but this is pretty bad,\" she said.",
"CNN's Dan Rivers and Thomas Evans contributed to this report."
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"Moammar Gadhafi's captured compound is littered with spent shells and debris .",
"Rebels surrounded an apartment building on a tip the fugitive leader was inside .",
"Snipers and mortar attacks are taking a toll on civilians, an aid worker says ."
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"(CNN) -- The wife of a man killed by a shark during their honeymoon in the Seychelles islands paid tribute to him Wednesday, calling him a devoted husband and \"best friend.\"",
"Ian Redmond of Britain died after he was attacked by a shark Tuesday off Anse Lazio beach on the island of Praslin, authorities said.",
"\"I loved him so much and he was a very special husband, a thoughtful son and a devoted brother.",
"He worked tirelessly to give us both a wonderful married life and home and I want to thank him for nine years of joy,\" his wife, Gemma Redmond, said.",
"\"We were having so much fun and we were so excited about our future together.",
"Myself, our families and our friends are devastated and shocked by what has happened.",
"The loss of Ian has left a gaping hole in our hearts that will never be filled.",
"\"He was always calm and collected, strong and brave, witty and intelligent, handsome and caring, a remarkable individual who will be deeply and sorely missed.",
"We are privileged and proud to have shared our lives with him,\" she added.",
"The British high commissioner and a consular official have traveled to the island off the east coast of Africa, the U.K. Foreign Office said.",
"\"Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time,\" the Foreign Office said.",
"Authorities in the Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago, have issued a temporary ban on entering the water in five areas following two fatal shark attacks this month -- the one on Redmond and another two weeks ago.",
"French newspaper Le Figaro reported that a 36-year-old French man was badly bitten on the legs and died as he dived off the same beach in early August.",
"An autopsy concluded he was the victim of a shark attack, the paper said.",
"CNN's Richard Allen Greene and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The victim's widow pays tribute to \"a very special husband\"\nNEW: Authorities in the Seychelles issue a temporary ban on entering the water .",
"The man is the second victim of a shark attack in the area this month .",
"\"Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time,\" the Foreign Office says ."
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"Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Russian officials say a terrorist explosion is the most likely cause of the derailment of an express train which killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more.",
"The head of the Russian Railroads company Vladimir Yakunin told state TV Saturday that investigators' \"main theory behind the accident is the blast of an unidentified explosive device conducted by unidentified persons -- simply speaking, a terrorist act.\"",
"State TV also quoted survivors who said they heard a blast moments before the train derailed.",
"The Russian prosecutor's office is investigating whether the crash was caused by a terrorist attack, spokeswoman Marina Gridneva said.",
"Police said they found a small crater beneath the tracks.",
"But authorities were also looking into the possibility there was a technical fault on the track.",
"Health Minister Tatyana Golikova said 96 people were injured, while the Russian prosecutor's office said 102 were hurt.",
"Forty of the injured were in critical condition, Golikova said.",
"Eighteen people were still listed as missing after the Friday night crash, said Sergei Shoigu, the Russian minister for emergency situations.",
"A total of 681 people -- 20 of them employees -- were on the Nevsky Express as it traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on Friday night.",
"The Nevsky Express is Russia's fastest train, equivalent to a bullet train.",
"The crash happened at 9:25 p.m. (1825 GMT) when the train was 280 kilometers (174 miles) from St. Petersburg, Russian state radio said.",
"At least three carriages carrying more than 130 people derailed and turned on their sides, and emergency workers were working to free anyone who may still be trapped inside.",
"The crash happened 44 minutes after another high-speed train, the Sapsan, had successfully traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on the same rails, a representative of the Russian Transport Police said during a video conference call Saturday.",
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Shoigu of the emergency situations ministry also took part in the call.",
"Shoigu said he would get more information as the derailed cars are lifted and authorities can see what is underneath.",
"In August 2007, an explosion on the tracks derailed the Nevsky Express, injuring 60 people in what authorities called a terrorist act.",
"Some 27,000 passengers on 60 trains were facing delays Saturday as a result of the accident, Russian State TV reported.",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report ."
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"Russian officials say terrorist explosion is most likely cause of derailment of express train .",
"At least 26 people killed and 100 hurt in derailment between Moscow and St. Petersburg .",
"State TV quotes survivors who said they heard blast moments before the train derailed ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- The agent for NFL star Hines Ward, arrested on a driving under the influence of alcohol charge in Georgia, said Saturday he is confident that the facts will show his client was not impaired.",
"Ward, a 35-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver, was released after posting a $1,000 bond, according to a jail record in DeKalb County.",
"\"(Ward) cooperated fully with the police and truthfully answered all of their questions,\" agent and manager Andrew Ree said.",
"\"We are currently in the process of ascertaining all the facts,\" Ree continued in a statement.",
"\"From our preliminary investigation we can tell you that we are confident that the facts will show that Hines was not impaired by alcohol while driving.",
"However, Hines is deeply saddened by this incident and apologizes to his fans and the Steelers organization for this distraction.\"",
"Ward also is known for winning the latest season of ABC's \"Dancing with the Stars.\"",
"He has two Super Bowl rings, was the most valuable player in Super Bowl XL and was selected four times for the NFL Pro Bowl.",
"Ward was born in South Korea and grew up in Georgia.",
"His Helping Hands U.S. Foundation focuses on improving literacy among children, according to his website.",
"He also has a foundation in South Korea targeting discrimination against biracial children.",
"Friday, Hines posted items on his Facebook page about his habit of texting while driving."
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"NEW: Agent says preliminary investigation shows Ward was not impaired .",
"NEW: Player apologizes to his fans .",
"Hines Ward was released after posting $1,000 bond .",
"The Steelers wide receiver is a \"Dancing with the Stars\" winner ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Yao Ming fans in China reacted with shock and disbelief when they learned from U.S. media reports Friday night that their basketball idol has decided to retire.",
"Fans took to the Internet Friday to express their feelings about the basketball star, who plays with the Houston Rockets in the NBA.",
"\"I did not expect his retirement to come so soon!\"",
"said a Netizen called Yilubaijiahei in a Sina Weibo microblog.",
"What does retirement mean for fans?",
"Another person who went by the name Tuzitouda in another tweet wrote: \"I feel a little bit of sadness.",
"If Big Yao retires, it is not only the end of an era, but also the end of my NBA-syndrome including those seasons when Yao played with the Rockets.\"",
"Major news portals in China put the news on their front pages.",
"\"The U.S. media say Yao has formally decided to retire, Chinese superstar says goodbye to NBA,\" reads the headline of Tencent Sports.",
"But Sina Sports, a section of Sina.",
"com, one of China's biggest web portals, says its reporter reached Zhang Mingji soon after hearing the media reports.",
"Zhang, who is one of Yao's agents, said Yao did not announce his retirement and did not inform the NBA and the Houston Rockets that he was doing so, as reported by the U.S. media.",
"Yao's agent told CNN that he is giving a news conference in Shanghai on July 20 to talk about \"his future career plans.\"",
"Chinese sports writers and fans believe that Yao's retirement, of course, will happen sooner or later, although they hope it will be later.",
"They hope the superstar could still play not only in the NBA but for the Chinese national team in the London Olympics next year.",
"The Shanghai native, who stands at 7-feet, 6-inches, was the NBA's top overall draft in 2002, when he was signed by Houston Rockets.",
"He is one of the most successful overseas players in the league.",
"Voted an All-Star player eight times, Yao has chalked up a career average of 19 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks.",
"His field-goal percentage was 52.4.",
"In recent years, however, he struggled with foot and ankle injuries.",
"He missed the 2009-2010 season.",
"After playing only five games, he missed that last season, when he suffered a stress fracture on his left ankle.",
"Yao has been undergoing treatment and training in recent months, but doubts about whether he could make a comeback persists.",
"When asked about his future prospects, Yao himself was reticent.",
"In an interview with a CCTV sportscaster last month, Yao said: \"I don't know if I would join some champion team in the future.",
"I don't even know if I can play again.\"",
"Yao revealed that his left ankle injury was far from healed.",
"\"Walking or jogging is okay... but I need to get 80 percent of my strength back to play.",
"I have got only 30 percent at most now.\"",
"Last month, Yao brought his one-year-old daughter Amy to China for the first time since her birth in the United States.",
"Yao said Amy is one incentive for him to return to the NBA.",
"Yao told CCTV: \"I wish she could watch me play and even win a championship, not only see through video highlights how her dad played before.",
"She is definitely a big motivation for me to continue my role as a player, although my foot still needs a lot of treatment to meet the demands of the game.\"",
"The 30-year-old Yao sounded mellow about this future in NBA.",
"\"A championship ring has become not so important in my plans,\" he said in the interview.",
"\"My main thought for the next 10 years is to look after my family and continue my community activities.\"",
"The basketball superstar has set up the Yao Ming Foundation which he uses to attract donations and raise funds for charity, including building schools and supporting education.",
"He has also joined campaigns to curb environmental degradation and promote animal rights, including multi-media campaign to curb consumption of shark's fins, which are considered a gourmet delicacy in China and Asia.",
"If Yao retires, he would leave behind giant footprints in world of basketball and business.",
"He helped expand the popularity of sports globally and specially in China.",
"Yao is the icon of China's basketball.",
"He was the pillar of the national men's team for many years, playing in world championships and the Olympics.",
"He is also China's goodwill ambassador, the most recognizable face of China overseas.",
"Thanks to Yao, the NBA has been successful in China.",
"NBA games are televised in many TV and cable channels through the season.",
"NBA stars have a big following in the mainland.",
"Some like Jason Kidd and Shane Battier, like Yao, make a lot of money here from endorsing basketball sneakers and sports apparels produced by local companies, like Li Ning and PEAK.",
"Yao Ming currently endorses Chinese brands such as China Unicom CDMA and China Life Insurance, as well as global brands such as Pepsi, Gatorade sports drinks, Visa, McDonald's and Apple computers."
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"Yao Ming was the NBA's top overall draft in 2002 .",
"One Chinese media outlet says Yao did not announce his retirement .",
"The 30-year-old basketball player has been plagued with injuries in recent years ."
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"(CNN) -- The Tanzanian island of Zanzibar began three official days of mourning Sunday, a day after 200 people died when a ferry jammed with passengers and tons of cargo capsized amid strong waves.",
"In addition to Tanzania, South Africa was sending divers and navy forces to help with recovery efforts, said Mohamed Aboud, the state minister of Zanzibar.",
"British officials have also sent helicopters to help with the search efforts.",
"\"Right now, we are focusing on getting the bodies for the relatives, but you never know, God is God ... we might find people alive,\" he said.",
"Rescuers saved 579 people, including 20 children, Aboud said.",
"\"A lot of children are going back to Zanzibar for school, so there were a lot on the ferry,\" said Ismail Katumba, a resident of Dar es Salaam.",
"\"It was so chaotic. It was so crowded.\" The minister said the ferry carries a maximum capacity of about 600 people and was traveling between the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba.",
"But additional passengers, who were apparently not registered, had also made their way onboard, he said.",
"It capsized in predawn hours local time, sending passengers scrambling for any available objects to avoid getting swallowed by the dark waves, witnesses said.",
"Some jumped atop mattresses floating from the cargo.",
"Fisherman, local hotels and residents joined rescue crews to help in the search, authorities said.",
"Rescue crews took bodies to a nearby tent.",
"\"You could hear people screaming loud and crying as bodies surfaced, mostly children,\" said Katumba, who lost a friend in the accident.",
"\"What you do is you just go over and start looking at the bodies to identify them.\"",
"Most of the rescued were transported to local hospitals for treatment, and some have been discharged.",
"President Ali Mohamed Shein of Zanzibar, who ordered the three days of mourning, also called for flags to fly at half staff.",
"Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete also said the nation would mark three days of mourning starting Sunday.",
"The government has buried dozens of unidentified victims, the minister said, and will maintain records for those searching for loved ones.",
"Pemba and Zanzibar, the two main islands on the Zanzibar archipelago, are popular among tourists for their pristine sandy beaches on the Indian Ocean.",
"Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania.",
"CNN's Jim Clancy, Nicole Saidi, Samira Said and journalist Richard Mgamba contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Britain sends helicopters to help with the search efforts, official says .",
"South Africa is also sending divers and navy forces to help .",
"\"Right now, we are focusing on getting the bodies for the relatives,\" official says .",
"Zanzibar is a popular tourist destination ."
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"(CNN) -- Gunmen shot dead Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral on Saturday as his car made its way to the airport in Guatemala City, police said.",
"A motive for the killing of one of Latin America's best-known folk singers remained unclear.",
"The singer's agent was also shot and is in stable condition in the hospital, said police spokesman Donald Gonzalez.",
"In Guatemala on a Latin American tour, Cabral, 74, left his hotel at 5:40 a.m. in a white SUV for an eight-minute ride to the airport.",
"Gunmen attacked the SUV -- at least 20 bullet holes could be seen on the Range Rover.",
"Nothing was reported stolen from the vehicle, government spokesman Ronaldo Robles said.",
"Police found a brown Hyundai Santa Fe nearby containing bullet-proof vests and AK-47 magazines.",
"Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared three days of national mourning.",
"His government said an investigation has been launched but, at this point, that it was too early to say whether Cabral was the victim of a robbery or a direct attack.",
"\"As a country, we are saddened by the cowardly attack against those who will live on in memory -- singing about life, happiness and love,\" the government said in a statement.",
"Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu traveled to the site of the attack, where she wept and said the singer had died \"for his ideals,\" according to Notimex, the state-run news agency in Mexico.",
"\"I can't think of a single reason why Cabral was killed here in Guatemala.",
"He came just to sing,\" Notimex reported she said.",
"Cabral was the latest victim in a wave of violence that has rocked Guatemala ahead of elections.",
"In a report last month, the International Crisis Group warned that the violence and unregulated campaign finance were putting the country's political institutions at risk.",
"Stephen McFarland, the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, echoed that warning Saturday.",
"\"I think this of course hurts Guatemala's image before the rest of the region and I believe that brings serious questions to the table about what can be done to prevent this from continuing,\" he said.",
"Guatemala's human rights ombudsman, Sergio Morales, expressed his condolences to Argentina.",
"\"I ask authorities of this country that this crime not be left unsolved, to investigate,\" he said.",
"Ironically, Cabral, who said he was inspired by Jesus Christ and Mohandas Gandhi, was recognized in 1996 by the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a \"World Peace Messenger.\"",
"iReporter recounts meeting the singer under strange coincidences .",
"Cabral gained fame as a protest singer.",
"His song, \"No Soy De Aqui, Ni Soy De Alla\" (\"I'm Not From Here Nor There\") was recorded in nine languages by stars including Julio Iglesias and Neil Diamond.",
"CNN's Claudia Dominguez and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"The singer was on a Latin American tour .",
"Gunmen attack his SUV as he makes his way to the airport .",
"A motive for the killing remains unclear ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Water with trace amounts of radioactivity may have leaked for months from a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine as it traveled around the Pacific to ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii, Navy officials told CNN on Friday.",
"The USS Houston arrives in Pearl Harbor for routine maintenance, during which the leak was found.",
"The leak was found on the USS Houston, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, after it went to Hawaii for routine maintenance last month, Navy officials said.",
"Navy officials said the amount of radiation leaked into the water was virtually undetectable.",
"But the Navy alerted the Japanese government because the submarine had been docked in Japan.",
"The problem was discovered last month when a build-up of leaking water popped a covered valve and poured onto a sailor's leg while the submarine was in dry dock.",
"An investigation found a valve was slowly dripping water from the sub's nuclear power plant.",
"The water had not been in direct contact with the nuclear reactor, Navy officials said.",
"Officials with knowledge of the incident could not quantify the amount of radiation leaked but insisted it was \"negligible\" and an \"extremely low level.\"",
"The total amount leaked while the sub was in port in Guam, Japan and Hawaii was less than a half of a microcurie (0.0000005 curies), or less than what is found in a 50-pound bag of lawn and garden fertilizer, the officials said.",
"The sailor who was doused, a Houston crew member, tested negative for radiation from the water, according to Navy officials.",
"Since March, the Houston had crisscrossed the western Pacific, spending a week in Japan and several weeks in both Guam and Hawaii, Navy officials said.",
"See a timeline of the sub's movements » .",
"The Navy on Friday notified the Japanese government of the leak, the officials said, and told them it was possible the ship had been leaking while in port in Sasebo, Japan, in March.",
"While Japan has agreed to allow U.S. nuclear-powered ships in Japanese ports, the decision was a not popular in Japan.",
"The Houston incident comes at a time when the Navy is trying to smooth over a problem with a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.",
"The USS George Washington was due to replace the aging, conventionally powered USS Kitty Hawk this summer as the United States' sole carrier based in Japan.",
"While en route to Japan this May, a massive fire broke out on the George Washington, causing $70 million in damage.",
"The fire was blamed on crew members smoking near improperly stored flammable materials.",
"There was no damage or threat to the nuclear reactor, but the ship was diverted to San Diego, California, for repairs.",
"It now is expected to arrive in Japan at the end of September.",
"The Navy this week fired the captain and his deputy, saying an investigation into the fire led to a lack of confidence in the leadership of both men.",
"Just two weeks ago, thousands of Japanese protested the pending arrival of the George Washington."
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"Leak was found on the USS Houston during routine maintenance last month .",
"Navy officials say amount of radiation leaked into water was virtually undetectable .",
"Sub spent time at ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii .",
"Officials: Radiation was \"negligible\" and an \"extremely low level\""
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Dozens of civilians may have been killed by Yemeni forces since May while fighting an armed Islamist group in Abyan province, the activist group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Saturday.",
"But a spokesman for Yemen's ruling party disputed the findings.",
"\"As Yemeni government forces battle armed militants in Abyan, civilians are paying the price,\" Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in the report.",
"\"Both sides need to be doing much more to protect civilians from harm, and the government should be investigating possible laws-of-war violations by its forces in Abyan.\"",
"Human Rights Watch said it did not visit Abyan province because of security concerns but received accounts of attacks from 30 witnesses who fled the clashes.",
"The group cited several reported incidents, including what some described as indiscriminate attacks on civilians with \"artillery shrapnel or small arms with no visible fighting or military targets nearby.\"",
"But the ruling party in Yemen refuted the report.",
"\"The Yemeni government insists that the Human Rights Watch report is 100(%) inaccurate,\" said Tareq Shami, spokesman for the ruling General People's Congress party.",
"\"Only al Qaeda targets are killed by the government, and there is no proof of the government being involved in the killing of civilians in Abyan.\"",
"He added, \"Foreign fighters are also involved killing and attacking civilians in Abyan, not the government.",
"We are defending the people and will continue doing so.\"",
"Abdu Ganadi, spokesman for the Yemeni government, said \"all wars have casualties.\"",
"\"Yemen is trying to limit the civilian deaths,\" Ganadi said.",
"\"Our condolence(s) to the families who lost a loved one.\"",
"Yemen has been consumed by unrest for months as protesters have demanded an end to the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule.",
"Saleh and other senior officials were wounded June 3 in an attack on the mosque at the presidential palace.",
"Saleh is being treated in Saudi Arabia.",
"Officials have said he will return when he has recovered.",
"In recent weeks, government troops have battled both tribal forces and Islamic militants, including al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"CNN's Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report."
] | [
"Human Rights Watch says Yemeni forces may have killed dozens of civilians .",
"It says witnesses report indiscriminate attacks with no visible fighting nearby .",
"A spokesman for the ruling party calls the report 100% inaccurate .",
"He says \"only al-Qaeda targets are killed by the government\""
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"New York (CNN) -- Despite exceptional security ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, many New Yorkers said they remain undaunted about the potential terror threat.",
"While most were aware of the possibility of danger this weekend, many said they won't allow it to spoil the commemoration of those who lost their lives.",
"\"I've lived in New York 40 years,\" said M. Lou Benard, who works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as an event planner and lives on the Upper West Side.",
"\"I'm not nervous. I don't believe the fear propaganda.\"",
"\"I won't let them win,\" Benard added.",
"\"Right after (the attacks) I was nervous, but now I can't let them win.\"",
"Ten years ago Sunday, she was on her way to work in Midtown Manhattan.",
"Benard came out of the Chambers Street subway entrance 10 minutes after the plane hit the North Tower at the World Trade Center.",
"\"I came out and saw the first tower on fire,\" she said.",
"\"I was in such a state of shock, I thought, who would do that?\"",
"Though she says the sight of police wielding automatic weapons makes her nervous, she's glad they're there.",
"\"It's good they are vigilant,\" Benard said.",
"\"While I was running away, those guys were running toward it.\"",
"Lt. Michael Killeen of the New York City Fire Department's Engine Company 23 on W. 58th Street will never forget September 11.",
"The engine company lost six men that day.",
"Killeen takes the threats seriously -- \"you'd be a fool if you didn't\" -- but said that he and his fellow firefighters are in good spirits.",
"They will hold a memorial Sunday at the firehouse.",
"Across town in Queens, Shawn Foley -- a 33 year-old attorney who works in Manhattan -- says the terrorist threat has not changed his plans for the weekend.",
"\"There's so much, not just authorities, but regular people who are aware of (the recent terror threats).\"",
"Bill Parker, a researcher for a biotech research company who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side, agrees that diligence on the part of authorities make him feel safe.",
"\"I'm relieved because of the Times Square Bomber,\" said Parker, referring to the foiled car bombing of Times Square in 2010.",
"The attack was thwarted when two street vendors noticed the bomb, and alerted an police officer.",
"While many talked about memorial events, others said they want to go about business as usual.",
"Miniature replicas of the Statue of Liberty and novelty coffee mugs adorn shelves and I (heart) New York T-shirts hang on racks at a souvenir shop on 7th Avenue in Manhattan.",
"Employee Farhana Mohammad, who works there, said she's seen more tourists than usual over the weekend.",
"\"I think people want to show respect to the memorial,\" she said, \"They're not scared, they just want to show support, and I'm not scared either.\"",
"Rita Silverman, who lives on the Upper West Side, refuses to let the threat of another terror attack scare her.",
"\"I'm sanguine,\" she said.",
"\"If something is going to happen it's going to happen.",
"I'd rather not spend my time being tense.",
"\"I live in New York.\"",
"Those in The Big Apple are contending with random police checkpoints that caused major traffic delays and commuter headaches, but Silverman thinks the measures are worth it.",
"\"It's annoying in the sense that it slows you down, but for safety, the pleasures of New York outweigh any discomforts or delays,\" she said.",
"But Erfanu Hoque, a taxi driver from Queens, said the security measures have hurt his business.",
"\"I don't make money because I'm stuck in traffic,\" he said, sitting at a traffic light in Manhattan's Columbus Circle.",
"But \"I'm not nervous about this weekend because of the security.",
"Anything (that is) for security ... that's okay.\"",
"At another light at Columbus Circle, police randomly selected cars out of traffic for searches.",
"Authorities inspected the trunk of the car of Yelena Weinstein, a Brooklyn resident and Manhattan high school teacher.",
"Just after police waived her on from the checkpoint, she said, \"I felt scared when it happened, but it's okay.",
"Let them search me.\"",
"Tim and Marianne Yoder, Midtown Manhattan residents, say they appreciated the security.",
"\"I hope people cooperate,\" said Tim Yoder.",
"His wife said she is not \"nervous about this threat, we're just proud to be Americans, and moved by the anniversary.",
"\"It's amazing to see the police and firemen doing their jobs, just like they did that day (10 years ago),\" she said.",
"As Ken Bronstein, a retired businessman from the Upper East Side, reflected on the past 10 years, he said the security precautions were necessary.",
"\"If I were the mayor I'd do the same thing, even if there wasn't a threat.\"",
"Bronstein was going to the World Trade Center on 9/11 but was held up waiting for a new refrigerator to be delivered to his apartment.",
"\"A refrigerator saved my life.\""
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"New Yorkers understand the need for heightened security .",
"\"Right after (the attacks) I was nervous, but now I can't let them win,\" one woman says .",
"A resident recalls narrowly missing being in the World Trade Center ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Whether evoking loss or hope, music performed Sunday at Manhattan's ground zero served as soothing support for family members still grieving 10 years after the 9/11 attacks.",
"A somber Paul Simon, wearing a 9/11 Memorial cap, performed \"The Sound of Silence,\" a change from \"Bridge Over Troubled Water\" listed on the program.",
"People in the crowd cried, embraced or sang along.",
"Others milled around the water memorials at the World Trade Center's towers.",
"Many did paper rubbings of victims' names or left flowers.",
"Sixty bagpipers and drummers led a processional at the beginning of the ceremony.",
"The Brooklyn Youth Chorus sang \"The Nation Anthem\" and cellist Yo-Yo performed a Bach selection.",
"In America, thoughts turn to 10 years ago .",
"As is customary, people who lost relatives that day read their names aloud.",
"Linda Spinella, 52, of Wayne, New Jersey, talked about her brother Mark Zangrilli, 36, who worked in the South Tower.",
"\"Too many people lost too many people,\" said Spinella.",
"Her brother's name was one of the last to be read.",
"By then, many people had left the memorial service.",
"\"He had a really contagious laugh,\" Spinella said.",
"\"He loved his kids and he was good to his parents.\"",
"Other musical performances included James Taylor's \"You Can Close Your Eyes\" and flutist Emi Ferguson's rendition of \"Amazing Grace.\"",
"The service concluded with the chorus singing \"I Will Remember You\" and four trumpets playing taps.",
"CNN's Laura Dolan contributed to this report."
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"Paul Simon's \"The Sound of Silence\" among poignant moments .",
"Bagpipers and musicians joined singers, chorus on program .",
"Service concludes with the playing of taps ."
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"London (CNN) -- Four top British police officers will not face further police investigation in connection with an inquiry into phone hacking by journalists, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said Wednesday.",
"They are former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson, former Assistant Commissioners John Yates and Andy Hayman and former Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke.",
"Stephenson resigned as head of London's Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, after it was revealed that Scotland Yard had hired a former top News of the World journalist to be a communications consultant.",
"The revelation came the same day police arrested the journalist, Neil Wallis, over the phone-hacking investigation.",
"Stephenson insisted he had done nothing wrong.",
"All four officers were referred to the IPCC by the local police authority after their involvement in the phone-hacking scandal engulfing News of the World and its parent company, News International, came under scrutiny.",
"News of the World was shut down last month amid allegations its staff had hacked the voice mail of people ranging from celebrities to crime victims, and bribed police.",
"Top Metropolitan Police officers were accused of being too cozy with senior News International staff.",
"The IPCC said in a statement that \"in relation to their alleged respective roles in the 'phone hacking' investigation, the conduct of none of these officers amounts to recordable conduct.\"",
"IPCC Deputy Chair Deborah Glass said the Metropolitan Police had \"rightly come under huge scrutiny\" over its role in responding to allegations of phone hacking by News of the World, Britain's best-selling Sunday paper.",
"\"There can be no doubt about the damaging effect of the perceived inadequate response -- in particular, the failure to notify its many apparent victims -- on public confidence.",
"Sir Paul Stephenson and John Yates both acknowledged this in their decisions to resign,\" she said.",
"But, she added, a \"clear line must be drawn between what is a recordable conduct matter -- in effect, conduct that is either criminal or for which an officer should be disciplined -- and public concerns that will be addressed and scrutinized by Lord Justice Leveson's public inquiry.\"",
"The Leveson inquiry was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron to look into the conduct of the UK media and allegations of phone hacking and police corruption.",
"Stephenson said the outcome of the IPCC probe \"is as I would have expected it to be.",
"\"I regret resources have had to be expended on this matter,\" he said in a statement.",
"Yates handed in his resignation the day after Stephenson quit.",
"He was the officer who decided in 2009 that there was no need to open a new police investigation into phone hacking, despite the 11,000 pages of evidence sitting at Scotland Yard -- a decision he later admitted to Parliament was \"crap.\"",
"The IPCC said it \"would agree that he made a poor decision in 2009\" but said it saw no purpose in questioning him about it again.",
"However, Yates faces further investigation over his alleged role in securing a police job for Wallis' daughter, the IPCC said.",
"Yates said he was pleased he would not be scrutinized further over phone hacking but \"disappointed\" he still faced questions over what he called his \"peripheral involvement\" in the employment of Wallis' daughter.",
"\"I strongly deny any wrongdoing and I am completely confident that I will be exonerated,\" he said in a statement.",
"Cameron has faced questions over his judgment in hiring former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his communications adviser after he resigned from the newspaper.",
"Coulson says he was not aware of wrongdoing while he edited the paper.",
"In a statement released Wednesday by the prime minister's Downing Street office, Cameron said: \"Clearly if I had known then all the things I know now, then obviously I would have taken different decisions.\"",
"The IPCC's decision comes a day after a parliamentary committee examining the phone-hacking allegations at News of the World released dozens of documents related to its inquiry, reigniting questions over whether News International had tried to cover up what happened.",
"Among the documents was a 2007 letter from the paper's former royal correspondent Clive Goodman -- who was sacked and jailed over intercepting royal voice mail -- to News International executives, in which he says that phone hacking was \"widely discussed\" at the newspaper until explicit reference to it was \"banned by the Editor.\"",
"The editor at the time was Coulson.",
"A number of senior News International figures have been asked to give evidence to Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee in September.",
"Coulson and others have also been sent letters asking if they wish to add to or amend their previous testimony before the panel.",
"CNN's Carol Jordan contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Yates says he will be exonerated over a separate investigation .",
"Paul Stephenson resigned as London's top police officer last month .",
"He says he expected this outcome and regrets police resources were used for the probe .",
"London's police have been accused of being too cozy with News International ."
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"(CNN) -- U.N. aid agencies are assisting in relief efforts in southeastern Pakistan after flooding caused by heavy rains killed almost 200 people and destroyed or damaged more than one million homes, the United Nations said.",
"About 200,000 people have been displaced by the flooding and need immediate assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement released Saturday.",
"Joint U.N.-Pakistani teams are on the ground in the region to assess the damage, said Timo Pakkala, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Pakistan.",
"The teams are \"seeing first hand today the devastation and vast amount of flood water in Sindh,\" Pakkala said.",
"Torrential rains during the annual monsoon season have inundated an estimated 4.2 million acres of land, the U.N. said.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report."
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"U.N. humanitarian relief efforts are underway in southeastern Pakistan .",
"About 200,000 people need immediate help, the United Nations says ."
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"New Brunswick, New Jersey (CNN) -- I was 14 on September 11, 2001, and I was a freshman at Marlboro High School in Monmouth County, New Jersey.",
"I experienced a lot of anxiety following the attacks.",
"Terrorism was not a new concept to me.",
"Being Jewish, I always had an interest in Israel, and even as a child, I was well aware of the threat and potential for hatred to manifest in malicious action.",
"I became obsessed with the news coverage.",
"Any time I was near a television, I would tune to CNN.",
"I spent more time with Wolf Blitzer than with my parents.",
"And looking back, this behavior was probably not the best for a 14-year-old, or for anyone, but I couldn't help it.",
"I was mesmerized by the raw footage and intrigued by the uncertainty of our nation.",
"It was exciting to be a part of the nationalism that characterized America after the attacks, but I was disheartened by its fleeting existence.",
"The anxiety and fear that I experienced on and after the attacks on September 11 came rushing back the instant I heard of Osama bin Laden's death.",
"Unlike the crowds of people who were seen celebrating in the streets in Washington and at ground zero in Lower Manhattan, I was scared the same way I was on September 11.",
"It was the first time that I felt scared again.",
"I did not feel safer because he was dead.",
"I was, and still am, fearful of what the reaction will be from his followers.",
"I recalled the images of our retaliation on television: how I couldn't discern any specific details, just the glowing green colors from night vision lenses, but knowing that I got what I wanted, what seemed like everyone wanted: revenge.",
"Now, nearly 10 years later, we were told on Sunday night that we had brought bin Laden, the man responsible for the horrific attacks on September 11, to justice.",
"But while listening to President Obama's speech, I thought to myself that this is not justice.",
"There will never be justice.",
"Bin Laden already accomplished what he wanted.",
"As Americans watched the towers crumble on September 11, we realized that America is not an impenetrable force, and our lives would never be the same because of it.",
"Killing bin Laden does not take that away.",
"His actions were founded upon a deep-rooted hatred, a hatred that is shared by many others, whether he is dead or alive.",
"Even the end of his life alone brings fear.",
"The truth is, it will never end.",
"That is the goal of terrorism.",
"I took this class because I felt I needed to.",
"I wanted to use the skills I acquired as a journalism student to tell a side of the September 11 story that has been untapped.",
"I liked the angle of hearing the accounts from children who lost a parent on September 11 and how their lives have been altered because of it.",
"I am slightly older than the other students in the class, and I felt that my experiences on September 11 were less sheltered.",
"I also wanted to take the class because 14 victims were from my hometown -- Marlboro, New Jersey -- and I felt that it was important for it to be represented in the September 11 narrative.",
"There are children who live literally down the street from me, who grew up alongside me, who I didn't even know who were affected by the tragedy.",
"My interview subject, Corbin Mayo, is from Marlboro, and his father was a fire safety director (contracted for the New York/New Jersey Port Authority) for the World Trade Center.",
"I was impressed by Corbin's willingness to speak about his experiences.",
"As journalists, we distance ourselves from our subjects to avoid biases and to maintain objectiveness, but the focus of our class is centered on narrative journalism, which allows the reporter to establish a closer relationship with the people we interview.",
"The stories we are compiling are not the quintessential accounts of September 11, depicting where they were when it happened, etc.",
"These are the stories of their lives now."
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"Lilonsky interviewed Corbin Mayo for her 9/11 project .",
"The Rutgers students' narratives on the children of 9/11 will appear in September .",
"Lilonsky believes that even with bin Laden's death, \"there will never be justice\""
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"(CNN) -- Canada is formally completing its fighting mission in Afghanistan this week, a move that marks the end of a robust combat presence centered in the dangerous and violent southern province of Kandahar.",
"The Canadian military on Tuesday formally transferred its last district in the province to the United States, where the U.S. 3rd Battalion 21st Regiment took over from the Canadian 1st Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment.",
"On Thursday, Canadian Brig.",
"Gen. Dean Milner will transfer command of NATO-led troops in Kandahar's Panjwai and Dand districts to U.S. command.",
"This transition comes as other countries make preparations for drawdowns and shifting to plans for non-combat missions in Afghanistan, such as training.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama recently announced the withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by the end of next year.",
"France announced that it would also begin to reduce troop numbers, saying it \"will initiate a progressive withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan, and will follow a timetable comparable to the withdrawal of the American troops.\"",
"One of more than 40 countries participating in NATO's International Security Assistance Force with nearly 3,000 troops, Canada has lost more than 157 troops in the war, the third highest death toll after the United States and Britain.",
"The grinding conflict has been frustrating for many Canadian citizens, frustrated by the mission's casualties.",
"Prime Minister Stephen Harper planned an end to the combat mission three years ago.",
"Also, the government says, the \"incremental cost of the current mission in Afghanistan to the Government of Canada from 2001 to 2011 is currently estimated to be approximately $11.3 billion.\"",
"\"Through their operations there to cut off terror at its root, our men and women in uniform have made an enormous contribution to Canadian security abroad,\" said Harper, in his reaction to the killing in May of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.",
"A transition unit of about 1,500 soldiers will be \"packing and shipping all of our equipment, materiel and vehicles back to Canada\" in the coming months, said Capt.",
"Jennifer Stadnyk, spokeswoman at the Canadian Expeditionary Force Command in Ottawa, the Canadian capital.",
"The plan is to have everything out and these troops home before Christmas, she said.",
"In the future, training of Afghan security will be the focus.",
"Up to 950 Canadian armed forces trainers and support personnel eventually will be based in Kabul until 2014.",
"The Canadians will be working alongside Americans, Brits, Australians and others in a countrywide training mission, Stadnyk said.",
"Also, the government said, 45 members of civilian police forces will help mentor the Ministry of Interior and the Afghan National Police.",
"\"What's interesting about this is the direction we kind of laid out in 2008 is actually now where NATO as a whole has gone, and everybody now is increasingly moving towards 2014, to moving towards training missions, giving the Afghans greater responsibility for their own security,\" Harper said in an interview with Canada's National Post newspaper last month.",
"\"We will remain engaged on development and on diplomacy and on particular humanitarian issues, particularly the rights of women and children, education, these kinds of priorities.",
"But we are looking for a military role to be a training role, a behind-the-wire role, and to make the Afghans responsible for their own country, and that's where it's headed.\""
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"Canada lost 157 troops in Afghanistan .",
"It will offer training to Afghan forces .",
"Canada has had nearly 3,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan ."
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"(CNN) -- All-star slugger Manny Ramirez has been arrested in southern Florida on one charge stemming from a domestic dispute, officials said Monday.",
"The former Boston Red Sox star was arrested at a residence on one charge of touch/strike battery, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.",
"Ramirez, who hit 555 career home runs, announced his retirement from Major League Baseball in April, rather than continue with the league's drug prevention and treatment program.",
"He was suspended in 2009 for 50 games after violating the league's drug policy.",
"Ramirez is 39."
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"Ramirez is arrested at a residence in connection to a domestic dispute .",
"He announced his retirement from Major League Baseball in April ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- India's Rahul Gandhi warned lawmakers Friday not to allow the nation's democracy to be undermined, in an apparent criticism of anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare's high-profile hunger strike.",
"His remarks came after Hazare's public fast entered its 11th day, as the 74-year-old activist presses for the creation of a powerful Lokpal, or citizen ombudsman, to tackle corruption.",
"\"Individuals have brought our country great gains.",
"They have galvanized people in the cause of freedom and development.",
"However, we must not weaken the democratic process,\" Gandhi, who is tipped by Indian media as a future prime minister, told parliament in a speech.",
"He thanked Hazare for articulating what he called larger public disillusionment with a system plagued by massive corruption.",
"But in his address to the national assembly, the 40-year-old general secretary of India's governing Congress party cautioned against pressuring elected institutions.",
"\"This (democratic) process is often lengthy and lumbering.",
"But it is so in order to be inclusive and fair.",
"It provides a representative and transparent platform where ideas are translated into laws,\" said Gandhi, whose Italian-born mother Sonia heads the Congress party.",
"\"A process divorced from the machinery of an elected government, or this house, that seeks to undo the checks and balances created to protect the supremacy of parliament sets a dangerous precedent for a democracy,\" he told the lower chamber of elected lawmakers.",
"Three of Gandhi's ancestors -- Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and his father Rajiv Gandhi -- have served as the country's prime minister in the past.",
"Echoing current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's views that any institution alone cannot eradicate deeply-entrenched corruption, Gandhi described the proposed Lokpal as just one tool in the fight against graft.",
"\"Witnessing the events of the last few days it would appear that the enactment of a single bill will usher in a corruption-free society.",
"I have serious doubts about this belief,\" Gandhi said.",
"\"An effective Lokpal law is only one element in the legal framework to combat corruption.",
"The Lokpal institution alone cannot be a substitute for a comprehensive anti-corruption code.",
"A set of effective laws is required,\" he added.",
"Activists and the Indian government have been in talks for days, but there has been a deadlock primarily over three outstanding points to which campaigners want parliament and the government to agree.",
"One of them relates to bringing Indian officials under the jurisdiction of the anti-corruption legislation."
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"India's Rahul Gandhi says a watchdog would not solve the problem of graft .",
"Gandhi thanks fasting activist Anna Hazare for raising the issue of corruption .",
"But he warns that parliament should not be put under pressure .",
"Hazare is into the 11th day of his hunger strike in New Delhi ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of operating the air traffic control system has resigned amid revelations that several controllers have fallen asleep on the job this year, the FAA chief said Thursday.",
"Stepping down is Hank Krakowski, who has been the head of the FAA Air Traffic Organization.",
"David Grizzle, the FAA's chief counsel, will be the acting chief of the unit during a search to fill the post, according to Randy Babbitt, the agency's administrator.",
"\"Over the last few weeks we have seen examples of unprofessional conduct on the part of a few individuals that have rightly caused the traveling public to question our ability to ensure their safety.",
"This conduct must stop immediately,\" Babbitt said in a written statement.",
"\"I am committed to maintaining the highest level of public confidence and that begins with strong leadership,\" he said.",
"The development came after another air traffic controller apparently fell asleep while on duty, the sixth such incident this year that the FAA has disclosed.",
"The latest incident occurred Wednesday morning at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada \"when a controller fell asleep while a medical flight carrying an ill patient was trying to land,\" the FAA said.",
"U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called the trend \"absolutely unacceptable\" and transportation officials immediately began making changes and reviews to address the problem.",
"For example, Babbitt and LaHood said the FAA will assign an extra air traffic controller on the midnight shift at 27 control towers that have been staffed with only one controller during those hours.",
"The FAA said Babbitt and National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Paul Rinaldi \"are launching a nationwide 'Call to Action' on air traffic control safety and professionalism\" and will visit air traffic facilities to underscore those points.",
"The move will include \"an independent review of the FAA's air traffic control training curriculum and qualifications and the expansion of NATCA's Professional Standards committees.\"",
"The FAA is also reviewing staffing and scheduling.",
"\"We are conducting a top-to-bottom review of the way we operate our air traffic control system,\" Babbitt said \"We are all responsible and accountable for safety -- from senior FAA leadership to the controller in the tower.",
"Employees at the FAA work diligently every day to run the safest air transportation system in the world.",
"But I will continue to make whatever changes are necessary to ensure we concentrate on keeping the traveling public safe.\"",
"Along with the Nevada incident, cases of sleeping controllers occurred at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington and the McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee.",
"Three incidents involving the same person occurred at Boeing Field/King County International Airport in Seattle.",
"The FAA said it also suspended two controllers in Lubbock, Texas, for an incident in which they failed to hand off control of a departing flight to the Fort Worth Air Traffic Control Center, and responded only after several attempts by the same center to hand them control of an arriving flight.",
"An FAA statement did not indicate whether the Lubbock controllers were thought to have been asleep.",
"Krakowski's departure was seen as ironic by some, who said he worked hard to improve the safety culture of the FAA.",
"Krakowski was the guiding force behind the FAA's Air Traffic Safety Action Program (ATSAP), which sought a nonpunitive environment to encourage FAA employees to report safety concerns.",
"CNN's Mike Ahlers contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Resigned official tried to improve safety culture of FAA .",
"The FAA is looking for a new chief of air traffic control .",
"The agency is trying to correct \"unprofessional conduct\"\nThe FAA is placing an extra overnight shift controller at several locations ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods will follow his agent, Mark Steinberg, to Excel Sports Management, the company announced Monday.",
"Steinberg joined Excel after more than a decade of working for sports agency IMG.",
"\"After meeting with a number of agencies and businesses, I decided Excel was the perfect fit,\" Steinberg said in a prepared statement.",
"The Golf Channel tweeted Sunday that the network would air a \"special announcement\" concerning Woods.",
"Speculation swirled that the golfer would personally make a statement.",
"The former world No.",
"1 had already announced that he will miss this week's British Open championship at Sandwich, England, because of injuries to his left leg.",
"Woods, a three-time British Open winner, has not played since mid-May because of the problems.",
"On his official website last week, Woods said: \"Unfortunately, I've been advised that I should not play in the British Open.",
"\"As I stated at the AT&T National, I am only going to come back when I'm 100% ready as I do not want to risk further injury.\"",
"He continued: \"That's different for me, but I'm being smarter this time.",
"I'm very disappointed and want to express my regrets to the British Open fans.\"",
"Woods suffered injuries to his left knee and left Achilles tendon during the Masters in April and withdrew after nine holes of the Players Championship when he inflamed his leg again.",
"\"In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have competed at the Players but it's a big event, and I wanted to be there to support the PGA Tour,\" Woods added.",
"\"I've got to learn from what I did there and do it right this time and not come back until I'm ready.",
"\"I think my best years are still ahead of me, and I'm very confident and optimistic about the future,\" he said.",
"The 35-year-old Woods, winner of the British Open in 2000, 2005 and 2006, also missed the 2008 tournament at Royal Birkdale following reconstructive knee surgery after his U.S. Open victory a month earlier."
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"The former world No.",
"1 has still not recovered from injuries to his left leg .",
"Three-time winner Woods also missed the 2008 British Open after knee surgery ."
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"(CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived in China Thursday after a visit to Russia, the state-run Xinhua news agency in China reported.",
"The brief report from Inner Mongolia said Kim was visiting northeastern China but gave no further details about what he was doing or who he was meeting.",
"The trips comes after Kim visited Russia earlier this week, where he said North Korea is ready to return to nuclear talks without preconditions, according to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's spokeswoman.",
"Medvedev and Kim talked for about two hours, Medvedev's spokeswoman Natalia Timakova told Russia's Interfax news agency.",
"\"Kim Jong Il has expressed his readiness to resume the six-party (nuclear) talks without preconditions, and then during those talks (the North Koreans) will be ready to impose a ban on the production of nuclear materials and their testing,\" she said.",
"The last round of six-party talks took place in 2008.",
"In addition to Russia and North Korea, the talks also include South Korea, Japan, the United States and China.",
"\"I have quite a positive feeling about the meeting, which was sincere, rich in content and multi-faceted,\" Medvedev said on Russian TV.",
"While North Korea has called for the resumption of six-party talks without preconditions before, the United States and South Korea have insisted on a tangible demonstration from North Korea that it is serious about denuclearization.",
"Washington and Seoul did not immediately respond to Wednesday's developments.",
"It was first Kim's third visit to Russia.",
"As on trips in 2001 and 2002, he travelled all the way from North Korea in his own armored train.",
"RIA-Novosti said Kim's train consists of 17 rail cars, plus four Russian cars that were added in Russia's Far East to transport local Russian officials and extra security guards and service personnel."
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"Kim Jong Il arrives in northeastern China, according to a brief report .",
"He visited Russia earlier this week .",
"He said he was prepared to return to nuclear talks without conditions .",
"The United States and South Korea want a sign he is serious about denuclearization ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Police will investigate the deaths of nearly 100 animals that were found in a Petco store after flooding in upstate New York, Johnson City Mayor Dennis Hannon said Monday.",
"Employees at the Oakdale Plaza store checked on the premises late Wednesday and \"all was still well,\" Petco chief executive Jim Myers wrote Sunday on the chain's official blog, PetcoScoop.",
"\"When the team members checked again early Thursday morning, the store was flooded with four feet of water and we were unable to enter,\" wrote Myers.",
"A river flood warning was issued Wednesday afternoon for the entire Johnson City area, along with flash flood warnings that continued well into Thursday, according to Joanne Labounty, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service.",
"According to Hannon, a woman who identified herself as the manager of the store approached a firefighter who was near the Petco around 10:30 Thursday morning to request a boat.",
"At that point, the store was under water, Hannon said, and there was not much the fire department could do.",
"Once employees were able to re-enter the store, they were able to rescue a majority of the animals, Myers wrote.",
"More than 100 small animals and three-quarters of the aquatic life were rescued, according to Lisa Epstein, a Petco spokeswoman.",
"The small animals included an assortment of guinea pigs, mice, reptiles and birds.",
"Hannon questioned how the animals could have survived, recalling that \"the floodwaters were very high, well above the front doors of the building.",
"Unless the animals were very near the ceiling, a couple feet from it, they would have perished.\"",
"Hannon is upset that the store did not take more caution after he issued a state of emergency for Johnson City.",
"\"The media was reporting that any area that was flooded in 2006 would be badly flooded again,\" Hannon told CNN, noting that the Oakdale Plaza was one of those areas.",
"The Johnson City store is a relatively new location, Myers wrote in his blog, and it was not in operation during the record high-river floods of 2006, and \"we misjudged the risk to this location.\"",
"\"We apologize to the members of the Johnson City community and look forward to serving you better in the future,\" Myers wrote.",
"Angry comments accompanied the blog post, with readers accusing the chain of making excuses.",
"Several commenters said they had called PETA to report the incident.",
"\"So many, so many residents are outraged over this, we owe it to the community to get to the bottom of it,\" Hannon said.",
"Epstein said Petco is internally investigating the incident as well."
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"Flooding hit upstate New York last week .",
"Nearly 100 animals were found dead after a Petco store flooded .",
"Petco apologizes to the community after residents express outrage .",
"The chain has launched an internal investigation ."
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"(CNN) -- Go ahead, read the headline again.",
"It does say \"Writer's black\" and not \"Writer's block.\"",
"No doubt, overlooking a mistake like that would be a gigantic copy editing if not editorial blunder.",
"But think about it. How often do we do the editorializing in our own minds before we even start to read a writer's work?",
"A recent article by ESPN The Magazine writer Toure' about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick got me to thinking.",
"Opinion: Why I wrote 'If Michael Vick were white' The article and provocative headline pose the question, \"What if Michael Vick were white?\"",
"\"Hmmm,\" I wondered out loud to another writer sitting next to me.",
"\"Hmmm,\" the writer said back to me, following up with a \"That's deep.\"",
"Then we sat quietly for a few moments looking around the room, pondering.",
"We didn't say much else, but the incident and the article stuck with me for a few days.",
"ESPN defends 'white' Michael Vick .",
"It stuck not because of the sports angle, but for the broader ramifications of his questions.",
"It made me think about all the times I had to defend myself for something I said or wrote simply because of my gender, background and any other mechanism we use to define ourselves and other people.",
"I thought about all the times I had been called privileged by African-Americans, biased by whites, narrow-minded by Hispanics, too sensitive by men and unfeeling by women, lefty by conservatives or right-wing by liberals.",
"And I wondered what the response would have been if the reader knew nothing about my background or me.",
"What would it be like?",
"So I decided to write this article anonymously and provide you the reader with a sort of written Rorschach test.",
"I could be white.",
"I could be black.",
"I could be Hispanic or Asian or male or female.",
"Fill in the blanks.",
"Straight away, I must admit that I have a completely selfish reason for doing this.",
"The filter of my own experiences had duped me, too.",
"In all honesty, when I saw Toure's byline, my mind immediately leaped to the finish, drawing a conclusion that an African-American writer would probably go easy on Vick.",
"But I caught myself, stopped, and much like I do in both my personal and professional lives, I put the writer's ethnicity aside and kept reading.",
"So, in an effort to make it easier for you to do the same, I'm removing my byline as I assess the racial and cultural differences that might have steered Michael Vick onto the path of dog fighting, his demise and eventual redemption.",
"In one of the neighborhoods of my youth, blacks and whites had vastly different relationships with animals; mainly dogs.",
"I'm generalizing here, but whites typically treated their dogs as part of their families.",
"The dogs lived indoors, and they climbed onto sofas and into beds at will.",
"But many blacks did not want to eat at a home where dogs or cats had the run of the house.",
"The logic went: An animal in the house meant animal hair in the food.",
"And by the same token, (again, a generalization) whites were generally upset by their black friends who treated their animals as not human.",
"Dogs and cats were mostly kept outdoors unless the temperatures dipped below freezing or swelled to triple digits.",
"Both black people and white people kept any chickens outdoors, and the only violence the fowl faced was getting their necks wrung on the way to becoming Sunday dinner.",
"But for Hispanics I knew, cock fighting was not only accepted, but also expected.",
"Those who partook didn't understand why it's OK to slaughter a rooster but it's not OK to have them fight.",
"Spaniards celebrate bullfighting.",
"Americans flock to the rodeo.",
"And however you feel about any one of these probably has a lot to do with your relationship with animals growing up.",
"Just as the ESPN article makes no excuses for Vick's behavior, this one doesn't either.",
"Part of my mission is to help you understand that people from different backgrounds have different feelings about animals.",
"And perhaps it has more to do with where you come from (culture) rather than the color of your skin.",
"But in America, race somehow pervades the discussion on just about any subject.",
"Even Toure' admits it in his own article when he questions the headline.",
"He writes: \"This question makes me cringe.",
"It is so facile, naive, shortsighted and flawed that it is meaningless.",
"Whiteness comes with great advantages, but it's not a get-out-of-every-crime-free card.",
"Killing dogs is a heinous crime that disgusts and frightens many Americans.",
"I'm certain white privilege would not be enough to rescue a white NFL star caught killing dogs.\""
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"ESPN article about a \"white\" Michael Vick got this author thinking .",
"Readers can make assumptions about authors' race and culture .",
"This anonymous writer invites you to guess those attributes from this essay ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran plans a ceremony to launch a controversial nuclear power plant Monday, the country's government-backed Press TV reported, making it the first nation in the Middle East to put a civilian nuclear power plant online.",
"The Bushehr nuclear plant was connected to the national energy grid on September 3, the country's Atomic Energy Organization announced the following day.",
"Iran's Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, said Sunday that Iran was committed to nuclear non-proliferation and international atomic energy standards, Press TV reported.",
"Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, whose country helped build Bushehr and who appeared with Salehi, said the plant was built to international standards and under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to Press TV.",
"Days before the plant was connected to the grid, the IAEA cited increasing concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.",
"The United Nations nuclear watchdog said in a report that Iran continues to defy U.N. resolutions aimed at curbing its nuclear program.",
"Iran denies that it aims to build nuclear weapons.",
"The Bushehr plant -- which is civilian, not military -- joined the national grid with a capacity of 60 megawatts, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said on its website September 4.",
"The plant is expected to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity when fully operational, about 2.5 percent of Iran's current electricity consumption, according to the IAEA.",
"Iran began the Bushehr plant in 1975, before the revolution that created the current Islamic republic.",
"The IAEA lists no other nuclear plants under construction in the region, though several other Middle Eastern countries have taken steps toward nuclear power.",
"Journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report."
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"Bushehr is the first civilian nuclear power plant operating in the Middle East .",
"It was connected to the grid September 3 .",
"An IAEA report cites increasing concerns Iran may be developing nuclear weapons .",
"Bushehr is a civilian plant, not a nuclear one ."
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"(CNN) -- Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has urged his team not to rest on their laurels after Fernando Alonso's superb win at the British Grand Prix Sunday.",
"Alonso's victory at Silverstone was the team's first since last October's Korean Grand Prix, but Montezemolo, while also congratulating his charges, said Ferrari mush continue to improve.",
"\"We managed to win and that is down to you [the team] and I want to thank you all for it,\" the 63-year-old told the manufacturer's official website.",
"Alonso claims British win for Ferrari .",
"\"Now however, we must keep our feet on the ground ... we must take another step forward, because we want to win again this year: to succeed in that, you must all try and do your best in your daily work, trying to achieve a personal pole position.\"",
"Two-time world champion Alonso, 29, is third in the drivers' standings, behind the Red Bull duo of Australian Mark Webber in second and reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel in first.",
"Ferrari have clinched 16 constructors' championships in their illustrious history and are currently third in the team rankings, 54 points behind McLaren and 164 points behind runaway leaders Red Bull.",
"Passing judgment: Hamilton must stay aggressive .",
"Team boss Stefano Domenicali accepted there was still a large gap between Ferrari and the championship leaders, but said Ferrari must not give up on their pursuit of British-based Red Bull.",
"\"Let us continue like this,\" the 46-year-old said.",
"\"We are a long way off the leaders, but who knows, if things go in a certain way, the air could begin to get more rarefied.\"",
"Vettel, 24, has become the first-ever driver to finish in the top two of the season's opening nine rounds and he said Tuesday that Red Bull must now redouble their efforts.",
"Latest Formula One standings after British Grand Prix .",
"\"It was a tough race and Ferrari were very quick,\" the sport's youngest-ever world champion told Formula One's official website.",
"\"We need to accept this and to understand that when you get beaten you have to accept it.",
"It is a very important time now for the championship.",
"\"We are in a good position still, but we need to keep working on ourselves otherwise the others come too close for our liking.\"",
"The Formula One circuit will now head to Germany, home ground for Vettel, and the 10th round of the season at the Nurburgring."
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"Luca di Montezemolo has warned against complacency at Ferrari after British GP win .",
"Fernando Alonso's victory was Ferrari's first since Korean GP in October 2010 .",
"Sebastian Vettel has said Red Bull must refocus after the setback at Silverstone ."
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"New York (CNN) -- For the first time since the terror attack on the World Trade Center, the general public is being allowed back onto the site.",
"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, members of the city council and some 9/11 victims' family members welcomed the first visitors to the 9/11 memorial plaza that opened on schedule Monday.",
"\"The opening fulfills a promise we made to the families on the 10-year anniversary and keep it open for them and the rest of the world forever to reflect on what happened and to honor the 9/11 victims and heroes,\" said Bloomberg, who is also the 9/11 Memorial chairman.",
"Families of victims were able to visit the memorial Sunday during ceremonies honoring those who were killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks that brought down the twin towers.",
"\"We're so proud of this memorial,\" said Monica Iken, who lost her husband, Michael, in the attacks and was able to visit the memorial, along with other victims' families Sunday.",
"\"I can go see Michael.",
"He's home.\" Monday's visitors passed through metal detectors and surveillance cameras as they began making their way to the the two huge, square fountains that mark the footprints of the World Trade Center towers.",
"The fountains' water flows into granite reflecting pools at the center of the eight-acre, tree-lined plaza.",
"Bronze plates surround the fountains and bear the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 2001 attacks, as well as the six who were killed when a terrorist truck bomb exploded in the parking garage beneath the towers in 1993.",
"Some of the visitors were visibly emotional as they walked into the plaza Monday.",
"Some rubbed their fingers across the etched names of those who died.",
"One man took out a paper and stenciled over a name and carefully rolled up the paper to take with him.",
"The names forming the perimeter where the North Tower stood are those who died in the building and the passengers on American Airlines Flight 11, which was crashed into it, as well as the six dead from the 1993 bombing.",
"The South Tower site includes the names of dead who were in that building and United Flight 175, as well as the names of the first responders who were killed, the dead from the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, and the dead of United Flight 93, which crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.",
"Anthoula Kastimades was there to greet visitors and spoke about seeing her own brother's name on the memorial.",
"\"It was difficult ... obviously, if I could have it any other way his name would not be listed.\"",
"Kastimades brother, John, worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, on the 104th floor of the North Tower.",
"His name is listed next to three or four people who worked at the same desk with him, day in and day out.",
"By design, the placement of the names was given a lot of thought.",
"Architect Michael Arad said the names are staggered, arranged not alphabetically but by something known as \"meaningful adjacency.\"",
"This way, Arad says, each name connects to another and \"beyond a physical place, there is a relationship between one name and another.\"",
"Input was shared by families of the victims so friends, family members, co-workers or people who commuted to work together were listed side by side.",
"By doing so, more personal meaning was brought into the arrangement.",
"Kastimades agrees.",
"\"It gives me comfort that he's listed with them in peace.\"",
"She is also at peace with the memorial.",
"Serving on the 9/11 Memorial board she worked tirelessly to get it right, especially for some 1,100 families, like hers, who have still not received loved ones' remains and consider the memorial to be sacred ground.",
"\"I feel the souls of the victims here,\" Kastimades said, \"and I feel like John is here.\"",
"The memorial has created an authentic place of loss; Kastimades says that sets it apart from any other memorial.",
"\"It's a wonderful feeling to know that we are with these beautiful souls.\"",
"While the memorial is sacred to loved ones, it also is very important for the country, said Joe Daniels, president of the 9/11 Memorial.",
"\"I look forward to people coming here from around the world and sharing in this experience,\" he said.",
"The memorial plaza will be open seven days a week, forever, Daniels said, though access will be restricted due to all the construction on other World Trade Center projects.",
"Visitors must reserve a timed pass, which is free, through the memorial's website.",
"More than 400,000 people from all 50 states and more than 70 countries have received passes at www.911memorial.org since the timed reservation system launched in July.",
"Daniel said watching construction proceed on WTC 1, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is part of the experience.",
"\"The tallest building in the United States is being constructed right in front of them,\" he said, pointing at the structure that eventually will rise to 1,776 feet.",
"Besides marking what happened here, Daniels said, the site reflects the nation's commercial response and strength of will.",
"\"We can build bigger, build higher; that's the American way, and we're doing it.\"",
"The memorial's museum is still under construction and is expected to open September 11, 2012.",
"CNN's Steve Kastenbaum and Todd Leopold contributed to this report ."
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"General public returns to the World Trade Center to memorial plaza .",
"7,000 visitors from 46 states, 30-plus countries are expected this week .",
"Time-reserved passes are available free on the memorial's website ."
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"(CNN) -- English Premier League side Arsenal have agreed a deal to sign Ivory Coast international striker Gervinho from French champions Lille for an undisclosed fee.",
"Speaking at a press conference in Malaysia, where Arsenal have started a pre- season tour of the Far East, manager Arsene Wenger confirmed a deal for the 24-year-old had been agreed.",
"A statement on the official Arsenal website also confirmed the transfer, saying: \"Arsenal Football Club announces that Ivory Coast international forward Gervinho will shortly join the Gunners, subject to a regulatory process.\"",
"Gervinho scored 15 goals last season as Lille collected the French league and cup double, while he has scored six goals in 27 matches for his country.",
"Meanwhile, Wenger has also spoken about the futures of star midfielders Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.",
"Arsenal captain Fabregas has been strongly linked with a return to Barcelona in the past couple of years, while French international Nasri has just one year left on his contract, attracting the interest of Premier League rivals Manchester City and Manchester United.",
"However, Wenger told reporters: \"Yes I expect Cesc to stay -- as simple as that.",
"\"I have never spoken about what has happened behind closed doors but Cesc loves the club.",
"\"We know the Barcelona story goes on for years now and we have to close that.",
"Now we focus on the new season, hopefully with Cesc Fabregas.\"",
"And speaking about compatriot Nasri, Wenger added: \"I expect Nasri to stay as well.",
"There is always speculation when a player has one year to go on his contract that he might leave, but Samir Nasri is very happy and committed to stay at the club.",
"\"I hope he will sign a new contract but I am not the only one to decide that,\" continued Wenger.",
"Meanwhile, Wenger did confirm that goalkeeper Manuel Almunia and striker Nicklas Bendtner, who are both absent from the trip to the Far East, are likely to leave Arsenal in the coming weeks.",
"In other English transfer news, Stoke have completed the signing of injury-plagued former England central defender Jonathan Woodgate on a one-year contract.",
"The 31-year-old Woodgate, who has also played for Leeds, Newcastle and Real Madrid during his career, was released by Tottenham at the end of last season.",
"Elsewhere, Swiss international midfielder Gokhan Inler has completed his move from Udinese to Italian Serie A rivals Napoli.",
"The 27-year-old has agreed personal terms and joined the southern-based side for a fee in the region of $18 million."
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"Arsenal agree to sign Ivory Coast striker Gervinho for an undisclosed fee .",
"Arsene Wenger also says he expects Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas to stay .",
"Stoke sign former England defender Jonathan Woodgate from Tottenham ."
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"(CNN) -- In spite of heightened security due to a terror threat on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, a South Carolina man was apparently able to sneak a stun gun into a professional football game and fired it into the crowd, police said Tuesday.",
"Leroy T. McKelvey, 59, allegedly used the gun on three men in an upperdeck scuffle at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, during a Sunday match-up between the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys, according to New Jersey Police Sgt.",
"Julian Castellanos.",
"The three men suffered minor injuries, he said.",
"McKelvey was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, possession of a stun gun and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.",
"He was taken to Bergen County Jail and later released on $22,500 bail.",
"McKelvey could not immediately be reached for comment.",
"When asked about the security breach, National Football League spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league is \"always refining and improving our security procedures.\"",
"\"These procedures have been successful in keeping items that can cause serious injuries out of our stadiums,\" he said in a statement.",
"\"We will continue to be vigilant in protecting the safety of our fans.\"",
"Mark Lamping, the chief executive of MetLife Stadium, said the stun gun involved in the incident was the size of a small cell phone.",
"\"Procedures for pat downs established by the NFL and used at every game were in effect at all entry gates,\" he said in a statement.",
"A video posted on YouTube apparently captures the immediate aftermath of the alleged attack, showing several Cowboys fans surrounding at least one person who is laying near the base of one of the stadium's seats.",
"CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the video."
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"NEW: Procedures for pat downs were in effect, stadium official says .",
"Three men were hurt in an upperdeck scuffle at MetLife Stadium .",
"Police say Leroy T. McKelvey was able to sneak a stun gun into the stadium .",
"Video posted on YouTube apparently captures the aftermath of the alleged attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Going into Monday night's CNN/Tea Party Debate, the anticipation was that the two frontrunners -- Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney -- would continue their argument over who created more jobs or whose position on Social Security was more electable.",
"But early on it became clear that Perry, who holds a double-digit lead over all of his rivals, would be everyone's target and one-time frontrunner Romney tried to bring Perry back closer to the pack and his other rivals tried to score points at the governor's expense.",
"Here's how CNN's analysts and contributors saw the debate: .",
"Who scored and who didn't? Dana Loesch, CNN contributor and conservative talk show host: I think the overall standout, Romney and Perry really went at each other, they shot each other in each other's foot.",
"I think [U.S. Rep. Michele] Bachmann ultimately had some of the most solid answers of the night.",
"If she expected to stay in or be in the top tier of candidates in this primary, she needed to be aggressive, hard-hitting and go after other candidates.",
"That's what she did. \"Overall, I would give it to Bachmann.",
"[Newt] Gingrich always does well, but he's been doing it for an incredibly long time.",
"In terms of jobs, whenever Herman Cain spoke, every single time he spoke, he backed it up with a plan that he's already published on his website.",
"Paul Begala, CNN contributor and Democratic strategist: \"This is, in fact, I think long-term, strategically, the real Achilles heel for governor Perry, that is where Michele Bachmann took it -- she took it to 'crony capitalism.'",
"She's trying to suggest that Rick Perry will depart from conservative values if there is money to be made for lobbyists.",
"If this notion begins to take hold that Perry might sell out those conservative principles because he's connected to a lobbyist, then Mrs. Bachmann may get back into the race, Mr. Romney may start to press this.",
"When I talk to people in Texas, they think his Achilles heel is cronyism and pay to play.",
"Romney vs Perry .",
"David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst: \"There's no question that Romney and Perry will remain the frontrunners Romney has a better command of the facts.",
"He's a more practiced debater.",
"He gave one of the best answers of his entire campaign when he was asked how he would balance the budget.",
"But Perry has the command presence, and even though people took shots at him as you said, he deflected reasonably well, he came in as a better debater, he was more even this time.",
"\"He talks a lot of Texas.",
"He's going to need to move beyond Texas.",
"He's clearly going to have to beef himself up on the international side.",
"I would have to tell you, Rick Perry walked in here as a frontrunner tonight.",
"And I imagine he walked out as the frontrunner.",
"Erick Erickson, CNN contributor and RedState.com blogger: \"I think this may be the first debate where Mitt Romney didn't come out the clear winner.",
"Perry needed to do well.",
"I think he did well.",
"I don't think the Social Security exchange helps Mitt Romney at all at a Republican primary.",
"He's foolish to continue, and he may want to go after Perry on immigration or HPV.",
"I think the majority of Republican voters agree with Perry.",
"For the life of me, I can't understand why Romney would go with this.",
"[Michele] Bachman was going to make this a key point and backed down from this.\"",
"Gloria Borger, CNN chief political analyst: \"I think that Mitt Romney started chipping away at the economic miracle of the state of Texas.",
"And it's clear he's going to continue to go back at that.",
"He said, you know, when you're dealt four aces, it's easy to win the hand.",
"And I remember that happening with [1988 Democratic presidential candidate] Michael Dukakis, talking about the \"Massachusetts Miracle.'",
"They started chipping away at that, it was a big problem for him.\"",
"On the ideological battle within the Republican Party .",
"Paul Begala, CNN contributor and Democratic strategist: Mitt Romney was cool, Rick Perry was hot.",
"Mitt was factual and Rick was a little more emotional.",
"It was really an interesting study in contrast.",
"The real question is, which party?",
"Not who won, but which party? If this is still the party of investment bankers who carry a putter at the country club, then Mitt Romney wins.",
"If it's people carrying a pitchfork to a tea party rally, Rick Perry wins.",
"In the hall it sure sounded from the audience, a strikingly conservative, almost radically conservative audience which helps Rick Perry.",
"Ari Fleischer, CNN contributor and former President George W. Bush press secretary: \"Perry's gamble is that the American people want to push for greater change in entitlement programs, that they're ready for something fundamental.",
"Mitt Romney's gamble is that they don't want to do anything bigger fundamental, they really just want an expert to go in and change things around the edges and make some smart reforms.",
"\"Who is going to be ascendant?",
"Will it be the tea party movement to change Washington or the more conventional traditional Republican -- keep what's there, make it a little better, a little more cost-efficient.",
"This is the dynamic in play right now.\"",
"Borger: \"I think what you're seeing is this fight within the Republican Party, I couldn't help but watch the debate and you saw Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney, they looked like the old-time, establishment Republican candidates struggling to kind of say, 'OK, this is the way we're going to take the party.'",
"Mitt Romney, it's his turn to be nominated, he ran last time.",
"\"And then you saw the other candidates, they're saying, 'Wait a minute, wait a minute, we're not going to go along with you.'",
"And then you saw Rick Perry, essentially trying to walk both sides of that, saying, 'You know what, yes, we passed the DREAM Act in my state.",
"Yes, I ordered this vaccine for young women,' something that tea party folks do not like, conservative Republicans don't like.",
"\"Trying to walk both sides of that, and come across as somebody who can appeal to independent voters while also appealing to tea party Republicans.",
"That's very difficult, but that's what I think we saw Rick Perry try to do, and we're going to continue to see him try to do that as he has to look at the general election.\"",
"On how this will play out into the general election .",
"Fleischer: \"I think that Republicans have to be careful here that Social Security does not become the defining issue that divides them in this primary.",
"They have to remember in these debates to bring it back to Barack Obama, to jobs, to debt and deficits.",
"This is the core strength that have made Republicans so strong in this cycle.",
"The bigger perspective cannot be lost as these debates continue.\"",
"Roland Martin, CNN contributor: \"If you're a Latino voter, the last thing you wanted to hear was some of the stuff you heard tonight.",
"Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico will be critical states when it comes to November 2012.",
"The GOP did themselves no favors tonight with Latino voters.",
"\"Education did not come up in this debate at all.",
"The only moment it came up was about abolishing the Department of Education.",
"If you're a parent trying to get your kid educated, not a single candidate offered anything to speak to the crisis we have in this country when it comes to education.",
"Major failure in that.\""
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"Romney and Perry entered as frontrunners and left as frontrunners, said David Gergen .",
"Dana Loesch: Bachmann was aggressive against opponents, improved her standing .",
"Debate demonstrated the ideological battle within GOP, said Paul Begala .",
"Fleischer: Group scored points with conservatives but raised questions about general election ."
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"(CNN) -- More than 2,200 people have been killed since the start of mass protests in Syria in mid-March, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday.",
"Navi Pillay spoke in Geneva, Switzerland at a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which met to discuss allegations of human rights violations in Syria.",
"The meeting comes after the United Nations sent a humanitarian mission to Syria this weekend to look for effects of President Bashar al-Assad's protest crackdown.",
"Pillay said that more than 2,200 people have been killed in the crackdown so far, with more than 350 people reportedly killed since the start of Ramadan.",
"\"I wish to use this opportunity to once again call on the Syrian government to immediately and fully halt its crackdown on peaceful protests and ensure the immediate and unconditional release of all detained for their participation in peaceful demonstrations,\" she said during her remarks, according to a U.N.-provided transcript.",
"Meanwhile in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported new deaths in a continuing crackdown on pro-reform demonstrators.",
"Two people were killed and four wounded early Monday morning in the city of Mesyaf in Hama province when regime supporters opened fire, the London-based activist group said.",
"It also said that at least three people were killed and five injured in Homs, when gunmen opened fire on demonstrators participating in a protest timed to coincide with the U.N. delegation's visit.",
"On Sunday, al-Assad rejected calls for his ouster and promised steps toward political reform.",
"Speaking on Syrian state TV a day after the U.N. mission arrived in the country, al-Assad was asked about calls from European leaders for him to step down.",
"\"What they say means nothing to us,\" he replied, according to a CNN translation.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama made the same call last week, and the United States followed up by imposing new economic sanctions.",
"The European Union's political security committee is considering an embargo on Syrian crude oil.",
"Oil and gas make up about a quarter of Syria's economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.",
"In his televised interview, al-Assad continued to deny that his military has targeted peaceful protesters, despite widespread reports from witnesses, medical officials and diplomats in the country.",
"The U.N. team's arrival in Syria came just days after a U.N. fact-finding mission reported having found \"a pattern of human rights violations that constitutes widespread or systematic attacks against the civilian population, which may amount to crimes against humanity.\"",
"The fact-finding mission's report called on the Security Council to \"address in the strongest terms the killing of peaceful protesters and other civilians in Syria through the use of excessive force and other grave human rights violations; to call for an immediate cessation of attacks against the civilian population; and to consider referring the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court.\"",
"CNN's Arwa Damon, Kamal Ghattas, Josh Levs and Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The U.N. Human Rights Council meets in Geneva, Switzerland .",
"NEW: At least 5 people are killed in Syria when regime supporters open fire, an activist group says .",
"The U.N. meeting comes after the United Nations sent a humanitarian mission to Syria .",
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad promises political reform and rejects a call for him to quit ."
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"(CNN) -- The uncle of a Utah motorcyclist pulled from underneath a burning car by a group of bystanders told his nephew's rescuers they are \"heroes to our family.\"",
"Tyler Riggs spoke to CNN's Piers Morgan one day after a group of construction workers, students and other bystanders turned into a ragtag team of first responders to save Brandon Wright, 21.",
"The accident happened Monday on a street near Utah State University in Logan and was captured on video.",
"\"I thank you on behalf of my family, and I know that my nephew Brandon will hope to thank you at some point, too.",
"I know that you might be shy and want to dislodge the title, but you are heroes to our family,\" Riggs said, adding that his nephew is in good spirits.",
"\"He was talking to us earlier and going through physical therapy and felt good after that.",
"Things could have been much worse.\"",
"Sgt. Jason Olsen of the Logan police was the first officer on the scene.",
"He was about to motion to a fellow responding officer to grab a jack when, \"I realized that these citizens had already organized and were just going to manually lift (the car) up.\"",
"The crash occurred when a BMW pulled out of a parking lot and in front of the motorcyclist.",
"Jeff Curtis, assistant chief of Logan police, said the motorcyclist tried to avoid the car, which resulted in him laying the motorcycle down.",
"After crashing, gas spilled out of the motorcycle and ignited, engulfing both the motorcycle and the front end of the car in flames, Curtis said.",
"The motorcyclist became lodged underneath the burning vehicle.",
"The video, shot by Chris Garff, shows several startled bystanders looking under the BMW as flames leap into the air.",
"The crowd quickly grows to include a man in a suit, construction workers wearing hard hats, a woman in sandals and a young man carrying a backpack, the video shows.",
"After one person in the group tries to pick up the blazing car, the crowd joins in and lifts the 4,000-pound vehicle.",
"\"I do remember one gentleman saying, 'We need everybody to come and help lift,' and that's when everybody ran over,\" Olsen recalled.",
"One of the bystanders drags the fallen motorcyclist from under the vehicle, the video shows.",
"Wright was rushed to a hospital and was in stable condition after surgery Monday evening, Curtis said.",
"The driver of the car was not seriously injured.",
"The man Curtis believes to be the driver appears in the video dressed in a dark suit.",
"He stood a little off to the side from the group and did not help lift the car, the video shows.",
"After Wright is pulled from underneath the vehicle, the man in the suit walks over to look at the motorcyclist.",
"\"He was in a shock,\" Curtis said about the driver, adding that any possible charges related to the traffic accident are pending.",
"\"It was frightening,\" said Garff, who shot the scene from the ninth floor of a nearby building.",
"\"You don't really see something like that and then when you do, it's inspiring.",
"It gives us hope,\" he told HLN's \"Prime News.\"",
"Police are looking for the good Samaritans to recognize them at a city council meeting for their actions.",
"Most have already been identified, Curtis said.",
"Three of them, all Utah State University students, spoke to CNN Tuesday.",
"Anvar Suyundikov said he tried not to think of the danger as he jumped in to help.",
"\"At first, when I saw it was a fire, I didn't think about myself,\" said Suyundikov \"I thought about this poor guy underneath the car, and I thought the car was going to explode.\"",
"Another student, James Odei said, \"All that came to my mind was if it was my son or my kid brother or anybody that is known to me, the first thing I would have done was to help that person.",
"So all I did was quickly rush and give a helping hand.\"",
"Abbass al-Sharif said he did not think he or the others who helped were heroes.",
"\"We are just human beings trying to help another human being.",
"It is like our human instinct,\" he said.",
"But police believe the bystanders are heroes.",
"\"Each of those people put their lives in danger as they do what they can to rescue Brandon,\" Curtis told \"Prime News.\"",
"The area where Wright crashed is highly trafficked, Olsen said.",
"\"I think had this accident happened in a suburban area we wouldn't have gotten that kind of response -- we would have never had that kind of manpower,\" he said.",
"Olsen added: \"It speaks volumes to what people will do in a tragic situation to help another person out.\"",
"CNN's Anna Rhett Miller and Brooke Baldwin contributed to this report.",
"Watch Prime News weekdays at 5pm ET on HLN.",
"For the latest from Prime News click here."
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"\"We are just human beings trying to help, another human being,\" bystander said .",
"Tyler Riggs said his nephew is in good spirits .",
"Bystanders rescued Brandon Wright, who was trapped under a burning car .",
"The group is credited with saving his life ."
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"(CNN) -- The casket holding Betty Ford's remains arrived late Wednesday afternoon in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the final of two services will be held for the former first lady.",
"The first service was held Tuesday in California.",
"The plane carrying her casket landed from California at an airport named after her husband, Gerald R. Ford International.",
"The Ford Presidential Library and Museum is in Grand Rapids, where Ford was raised.",
"A welcome ceremony was scheduled for shortly after the casket's arrival, to be followed by a private prayer service at the Ford museum.",
"A public viewing of the casket is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Wednesday and again Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the presidential library, according to its website.",
"A funeral is scheduled Thursday at 2 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, the website said.",
"Her remains will be returned to the museum's grounds for a private interment ceremony, the website said.",
"The first of the two services was held Tuesday in St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, California, near where Ford set up a renowned alcohol and drug abuse treatment center, the Betty Ford Center, in Rancho Mirage, California.",
"Ford died Friday at age 93.",
"Her husband, Gerald Ford, died in December 2006.",
"He was also 93. Ford will be interred alongside her husband.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez and Joe Sutton contributed to this story."
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"NEW: Betty Ford's remains arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan; she died Friday at age 93 .",
"Her casket will have a public viewing Wednesday and Thursday in Grand Rapids .",
"Her funeral will be Thursday; she will be buried alongside her husband ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 25 security personnel were killed when between 200 and 300 militants attacked border posts along Pakistan's border with Agfhanistan, Pakistan's military said Saturday.",
"Those who died included Pakistani soldiers and police, the military said in a statement on its website, and two of the seven checkpoints attacked were overrun.",
"Twenty of the militants, who came from across the border, were reportedly killed, the military said.",
"Reinforcements are now being sent to the northwestern Chitral district.",
"The attacks took place in areas that spanned roughly 125 km, a military official told CNN.",
"\"It was a well coordinated attack involving a large number of militants,\" said the official, who asked not to be named because he's not authorized to speak to the media.",
"Earlier, provincial government official Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told CNN that 36 Pakistani security personnel had died.",
"Fifteen militants were also killed, he said.",
"The militants used both small and heavy weapons, said Rehmatullah Wazir, a senior government official from Chitral.",
"Wazir said clashes continued between security forces and militants in some areas near the border.",
"The Pakistani military said the militants were reported to be from Dir, Swat and Bajaur, three areas in northwest Pakistan where the military has sought over the past two years to remove insurgents.",
"Saturday's attacks were the latest in a series of recent cross-border assaults from Afghanistan's Pech Valley and the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, all areas from which U.S. troops began pulling out earlier this year as part of a strategy designed to bolster security in more populated areas of Afghanistan.",
"Pakistani military officials say the withdrawal of U.S. troops has provided insurgents in the mountainous areas of eastern Afghanistan with safe havens that are used to launch cross-border attacks against Pakistani security forces.",
"The attacks have raised tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan, with each country accusing the other of not doing enough to secure its border region.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib and Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"NEW: At least 25 security personnel died in attacks on border posts, Pakistan's military says .",
"NEW: Some 200-300 militants from across the Afghan border took part in the attacks, it says .",
"NEW: It says two of the seven border posts attacked were overrun by militants .",
"A government official puts the death toll for Pakistan security personnel higher, at 36 ."
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"(CNN) -- A fire truck escorted the funeral procession of Shannon Stone, the veteran firefighter and Texas Rangers fan whose death at a baseball game prompted a national outpouring of condolences.",
"Stone was buried Monday in his hometown of Brownwood, Texas.",
"The 39-year-old firefighter fell to his death Thursday while trying to catch a ball at a Rangers game.",
"He is survived by his wife, Jenny, and his son, Cooper.",
"In the second inning of the ill-fated game, star outfielder Josh Hamilton tossed a souvenir ball into the stands after a batter hit a foul ball.",
"Stone stuck out his glove and reached for the ball, but lost his balance and flipped over the railing of the outfield seats.",
"He fell about 20 feet and crashed head-first into an area near a scoreboard, suffering fatal injuries.",
"Stone died of blunt-force trauma, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.",
"Ronnie Hargis was seated in the stands near Stone and tried unsuccessfully to save him.",
"\"Your first instinct is to reach out and grab him,\" Hargis told CNN's Don Lemon.",
"\"I tried to grab him.",
"I couldn't catch him. He went down. As he went by me I tried to grab him again and I missed and ... it looked like he was in slow motion as he was going to the ground.",
"There was nothing I could do but watch him fall.\"",
"His 6-year-old son witnessed the tragic accident.",
"\"It's just the cruelest of reminders of just how fragile human life can be,\" said Joe Trahan, sports anchor at CNN affiliate WFAA.",
"\"The mind-boggling thing about this is that everyone's intent was right.\"",
"Rangers president Nolan Ryan, a Hall of Fame pitcher, said earlier that the club would review the height of railings at the stadium, even though they currently exceed the city's code limits.",
"Trahan told Lemon that club management is already working on making changes at their stadium.",
"\"I've spoken to Rangers officials, and they tell me that there are meetings that have already taken place with city leaders, meetings with architects at the ballpark, contractors.",
"They're trying to find a permanent solution, not a stop-gap one.\"",
"But fan-awareness also plays a crucial role at stadiums, according to Trahan.",
"\"This is a stark and cruel reminder that (safety) is everyone's responsibility when you go to the ballpark,\" he said, adding that he was surprised that injuries didn't happen more often, especially \"down the first and third base lines ... those are rocket shots coming off those bats.\"",
"The Rangers held a moment of silence before Friday night's game against the Oakland A's.",
"Members of both teams wore black ribbons.",
"Flags at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington flew at half-staff all weekend.",
"The team has set up an account accepting donations in Stone's honor with the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation.",
"Donated money has been earmarked to help the Stone family.",
"The Rangers have donated an undisclosed sum, according to the team's website, and the A's donated $5,000.",
"Watch CNN Newsroom weekdays 9am to 3pm ET and weekends.",
"For the latest from the CNN Newsroom click here."
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"Stone died after falling over railing at Rangers Stadium .",
"Sports anchor: Accident a reminder of \"how fragile human life can be\"\nOutfielder had heard Stone's son ask for ball and pitched one toward him ."
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"(CNN) -- The NATO-led command in Afghanistan is investigating a raid that led to the deaths of six Afghans and claims of civilian casualties.",
"The incident occurred Wednesday in the eastern province of Khost in an operation launched by Afghan and coalition forces, and the probe highlights the coalition's emphasis on avoiding civilian deaths.",
"The force approached a building and \"was engaged with small arms fire.\"",
"\"Coalition forces take every allegation of civilian casualties seriously and will conduct a complete assessment of the engagement,\" NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement on Thursday.",
"President Hamid Karzai on Thursday ordered authorities to launch an investigation as well.",
"Mubarez Zadran, a provincial government spokesman, told CNN that six civilians were killed in a residential area of Khost province's Matoon district and he said two others were wounded.",
"ISAF had said it killed six fighters from the Haqqani network, a militant group with Taliban ties that operates in Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"One female civilian sustained non-life-threatening injuries, ISAF said.",
"\"The target of the operation was a Haqqani leader responsible for indirect fire attacks against the Afghan National Army and the transfer of weapons and explosives throughout the district,\" ISAF said on Thursday.",
"Mussa Majroh, a spokesman for the Khost education department, said a teacher and a student were among those killed in the night raid.",
"Majroh said many people took to the streets to protest the killings.",
"\"They were carrying the dead bodies with them too on the streets and to the front gate of governor's office in the capital of Khost province,\" Majroh said.",
"Thie incident comes as the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said on Thursday in a report that the use of powerful improvised explosive devices -- IEDs -- by militants in Afghanistan has caused a \"dramatic\" hike in \"conflict-related civilian deaths\" in the first half of the year.",
"Afghanistan saw a 15% mainly because of \"the use of landmine-like pressure plate improvised explosive devices by anti-government elements,\" according to the UNAMA's Mid-year Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict."
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"The incident occurs in Khost province .",
"Six Afghans are killed as ISAF targeted a Haqqani leader .",
"President Karzai orders authorities to probe the killings ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- India's parliament on Saturday debated demands by a 74-year-old anti-corruption activist in what an opposition leader called a \"historic occasion\" for lawmakers to come together in the fight against graft.",
"The discussion came on the 12th day of campaigner Anna Hazare's hunger strike calling for a powerful Lokpal, or citizen ombudsman, to deal with massive bribes and kickbacks.",
"Talks with the government hit a roadblock over three of his demands, which include bringing members of India's lower bureaucracy under the new watchdog.",
"The federal government put the case before parliament.",
"Sushma Swaraj, leader of the opposition in the lower chamber of the national assembly, said her group agreed with the three points.",
"She called Saturday's sitting a \"historic occasion,\" saying tens of thousands of Hazare supporters expect effective mechanisms to tackle corruption in their daily lives.",
"A similar debate was also under way in the upper chamber -- the house of elders -- in India's parliament.",
"It was, however, not immediately clear when legislation to establish a Lokpal would be passed.",
"Saturday's meeting of the Indian parliament aimed at eliciting opinion of the federal legislature, composed of ruling and opposition parties, over setting up a tough anti-corruption institution.",
"Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee initiated the debate, describing it as an opportunity to show political will to handle corruption.",
"\"I am sure that members of this house will seize this moment and demonstrate the commitment of the house in dealing with corruption which is gnawing at the vitals of our polity,\" Mukherjee told parliament.",
"Hazare's fast -- a tactic adopted by India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi against the colonial rule -- has also drawn criticism.",
"On Friday, lawmaker Rahul Gandhi, whose mother heads the governing Congress party, warned parliament not to allow the nation's democracy to be undermined, in an apparent disapproval of the high-profile hunger strike.",
"\"Individuals have brought our country great gains.",
"They have galvanized people in the cause of freedom and development.",
"However, we must not weaken the democratic process,\" Gandhi, who is tipped by Indian media as a future prime minister, said in a speech.",
"He thanked Hazare for articulating what he called larger public disillusionment with a system plagued by endemic corruption.",
"But in his address, the 40-year-old general secretary of the Congress party cautioned against pressuring elected bodies.",
"\"This (democratic) process is often lengthy and lumbering.",
"But it is so in order to be inclusive and fair.",
"It provides a representative and transparent platform where ideas are translated into laws,\" Gandhi said.",
"\"A process divorced from the machinery of an elected government, or this house, that seeks to undo the checks and balances created to protect the supremacy of parliament sets a dangerous precedent for a democracy,\" he told lawmakers.",
"Three of Gandhi's ancestors -- Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and his father, Rajiv Gandhi, -- have served as the country's prime minister in the past.",
"Echoing current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's views that any institution alone cannot eradicate corruption, Gandhi described the proposed Lokpal as just one tool in the fight.",
"\"Witnessing the events of the last few days, it would appear that the enactment of a single bill will usher in a corruption-free society.",
"I have serious doubts about this belief,\" Gandhi said.",
"\"An effective Lokpal law is only one element in the legal framework to combat corruption.",
"The Lokpal institution alone cannot be a substitute for a comprehensive anti-corruption code.",
"A set of effective laws is required.\""
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"Lawmakers debate the demand on the 12th day of Anna Hazare's fast .",
"Talks with the government hit a roadblock over three of his demands .",
"Opposition leader says her group agrees with Hazare's outstanding demands .",
"Hazare's hunger strike has also drawn criticism ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Iraq's foreign ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad on Thursday to deliver a diplomatic letter protesting Turkey's aerial and artillery bombardment of northern Iraq.",
"Turkish armed forces have been striking what the country calls PKK safe havens in Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region.",
"About 90 to 100 Kurdish rebel fighters have been killed since the incursion started, Turkey said Tuesday.",
"Around 80 people have been wounded in the push, the military said.",
"Targets included rebel barracks, caves, ammunition depots and anti-aircraft positions in the region, part of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region.",
"On Sunday night, a PKK spokesman said no rebels had been killed.",
"PKK refers to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which the United States considers a terror group.",
"Dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed over the last month, in a clear escalation of the conflict that has raged intermittently between Kurdish separatists and the Turkish state since 1984.",
"More than 30,000 people have been killed in the conflict, many of them ethnic Kurds.",
"The Kurds are Turkey's largest ethnic minority."
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"Around 80 people have been wounded, Turkish military says .",
"Targets included rebel barracks, caves, ammunition depots and anti-aircraft position .",
"A PKK spokesman said no rebels had been killed ."
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"(CNN) -- Call it a security version of the speedy supermarket checkout.",
"Passengers traveling with one carry-on item now have the option of going through an express security lane at Pittsburgh International Airport.",
"\"This move comes as a result of more people carrying more items through the checkpoint to avoid airline bag fees,\" said Bradley D. Penrod, executive director and CEO of the Allegheny County Airport Authority.",
"\"The express lane is a way to streamline the wait at the checkpoint for those who pack light and fit it all in one bag.\"",
"The lane, just to the right of the airport's main security checkpoint and staffed by a Transportation Security Administration employee, began operations Tuesday.",
"Only travelers with one item -- such as a purse, a briefcase, a computer case -- are allowed to use the express lane.",
"Jackets aren't counted as an extra item, but anything else would require passengers to use the other security lines.",
"Traveler reaction so far has been positive, said JoAnn Jenny, a spokeswoman for the Allegheny County Airport Authority.",
"\"It's been hugely popular,\" Jenny said.",
"\"People were really excited about it.\"",
"She said she believes Pittsburgh International is the first U.S. airport to try this particular concept, though other airports have versions of express lanes, including one dedicated for expert travelers, frequent fliers and so on.",
"Keep your shoes on at the airport?",
"Maybe . It's not a pilot program that may go nationwide but rather a fix for a \"Pittsburgh-specific issue,\" Jenny said.",
"Long security lines at the airport over the summer -- sometimes an hour or longer during peak periods -- had officials scrambling for a solution.",
"So they approached the TSA and received the thumbs up for the express lane concept.",
"\"TSA works with airports across the country to provide the best possible security in the most efficient way possible,\" said Greg Soule, a spokesman for the agency.",
"\"The program at Pittsburgh International Airport is one example of TSA partnering with airports to improve the passenger experience while providing world-class security.\"",
"Pittsburgh International hopes the express lane will get more people thinking about packing light so that when the busy holiday season comes around, most will be traveling with just one carry-on, Jenny said."
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"Lane is dedicated for passengers traveling with one carry-on item .",
"\"It's been hugely popular,\" spokeswoman says ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- The man chosen to lead the Atlanta Public School system wasted no time making changes in the wake of a cheating scandal that could lead to criminal charges against some principals and teachers.",
"Interim Superintendent Erroll B. Davis Jr. replaced four area superintendents and a school principal at a board meeting Monday night.",
"Hours later, he told CNN's Randi Kaye that children had been failed, and \"we can't allow that to happen, and we can't allow anyone who was involved with that remain in our system.\"",
"It's the first step taken by Davis to right the alleged wrongs of nearly 200 educators.",
"The personnel changes were announced less than a week after an investigation revealed that dozens of educators had falsified standardized tests.",
"\"I don't know why it went on,\" Davis told Kaye, but, he said, the district must \"make it clear what our values are.\"",
"Davis placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the administration.",
"\"I believe that all failures in any industry are leadership failures,\" Davis said.",
"\"Leadership is accountable for every outcome that takes place under their watch.\"",
"The school board has given Davis approval to mandate ethics training for employees and provide remedial help to perhaps thousands of Atlanta Public Schools students who may have improperly advanced because of the cheating.",
"\"We will identify those children, and we will make the requisite investments to remediate the wrongs that were done against them,\" Davis told CNN.",
"Dozens of Atlanta public school educators falsified standardized tests or failed to address such misconduct in their schools, Georgia Gov.",
"Nathan Deal said a week ago.",
"He was unveiling the results of a state investigation that confirmed widespread cheating in city schools dating as far back as 2001.",
"Investigators said 178 teachers and principals working at 44 schools were involved in the cheating scandal.",
"The educators, including 38 principals, were either directly involved in erasing wrong answers on a key standardized test or they knew -- or should have known -- what was going on, according to the governor's office.",
"Deal's office said 82 of the educators acknowledged involvement, according to the report.",
"Six principals declined to answer investigators' questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, Deal said.",
"The investigation's findings have been forwarded to the state teacher licensing board, Deal said.",
"That agency could take disciplinary action against the educators involved.",
"Whether to bring criminal charges will be up to prosecutors, Deal said.",
"The state's report indicated there was a climate of cheating and performance-at-all-costs during the tenure of former Superintendent Beverly Hall.",
"It's a charge Hall has denied.",
"But Davis said there was \"a culture of fear and intimidation\" that needed to be changed.",
"\"People felt that it was easier to cheat than to miss their goals and objective,\" he said.",
"But he also agreed with board members who said it was important to remember that many Atlanta teachers did their jobs well.",
"\"There were so many teachers who have not made ethical compromises who were doing wonderful things on a daily basis,\" Davis said.",
"The cheating was brought to light after marked improvements in the district's performance on the 2009 statewide Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) revealed a pattern of incorrect test answers being erased and replaced with correct answers.",
"Investigators compared the results with test results from other Georgia schools and found that such patterns did not occur normally, Deal said.",
"That the district's CRCT results fell in 2010 further confirmed the findings, according to the report.",
"Former board chairman Khaatim Sherrer El resigned his District 2 seat at a Monday night meeting.",
"He said he was leaving to accept an out-of-state position, according to the district.",
"The scandal followed a former Atlanta administrator to her new job in Texas.",
"A Texas school district placed its new superintendent, Kathy Augustine, on paid leave effective Tuesday, according to a statement from Augustine.",
"She had served as a deputy superintendent for the Atlanta Public Schools.",
"Augustine has denied any role in the reported cheating.",
"\"I've read the investigative report from cover to cover, and nowhere does it identify anyone as saying I encouraged, directed or condoned cheating,\" Augustine said last week.",
"\"That's because I did not.\" She will be on leave while the DeSoto Independent School District considers what to do about her appointment.",
"Davis said the nature and extent of any charges against educators involved in the scandal will be determined by the district attorney's office.",
"The principals and teachers accused of cheating will also be referred to the Professional Standards Commission to determine whether they will be allowed to keep their credentials, according to Davis.",
"U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the scandal proves there are no shortcuts to success.",
"\"This unfortunate incident highlights the need for transparency and accountability throughout our education system,\" Duncan said in a statement last week.",
"\"Having good information to measure student progress is an absolute bedrock requirement in ensuring that schools are preparing our children for success.\"",
"In a bid to increase stability as it seeks to overcome the scandal and receive full reaccreditation, the board extended Davis' contract through June 2012.",
"Davis recently retired as chancellor of the University System of Georgia."
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"\"There was a culture of fear and intimidation,\" said Interim Superintendent Erroll B. Davis .",
"Children who need remedial help will get it, he said .",
"A report confirms widespread cheating in Atlanta Public Schools on a state test .",
"The local district attorney's office will determine the nature and extent of charges ."
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