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"(CNN Student News) -- July 6, 2011 .",
"Download a PDF map related to today's show: .",
"• Kennedy Space Center .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi!",
"We're launching a special edition of CNN Student News this week.",
"As the space shuttle program wraps up, we're taking a look back - and a look forward - at NASA's space program.",
"First Up - Last Shuttle Launch .",
"AZUZ: The U.S. has been launching shuttles for 30 years.",
"They are the world's first re-usable spacecraft.",
"They launch like a rocket and land like a plane.",
"Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery and Endeavour: These five orbiters have launched more than 600 astronauts into space.",
"This video you're seeing right here highlights some of their achievements.",
"Over the course of 134 shuttle flights, these crews have logged millions of miles in space and carried thousands of tons of cargo.",
"The space shuttle has served as America's main transport for crews and supplies to the international space station.",
"Shuttle crews have also repaired space equipment, like the Hubble Telescope.",
"They've launched new satellites, and they've done experiments that can't be done on Earth.",
"When the shuttle was first announced, the idea was that shuttle launches would be cheap enough to happen every week.",
"But it actually costs about half a billion dollars to launch a shuttle, and NASA only ever planned a few missions each year.",
"So, what's NASA's plans for the shuttles' retirement?",
"Each one of them will become an exhibit in museums across America.",
"So maybe one day, you might even get to go inside one.",
"Now, we're going to hear from someone who not only gets to go inside a shuttle, he gets to fly in one too: the commander of Atlantis's latest mission, speaking a few weeks before the last scheduled mission.",
"CHRISTOPHER J. FERGUSON, ATLANTIS COMMANDER: I don't think that the full magnitude of the moment will really hit us until the wheels have stopped on the runway.",
"I'm not sure words will really be able to capture -- for the crew and for the entire shuttle work force -- just how much the shuttle program has meant to us for the last 30 years.",
"Shoutout . CHERYL CASTRO, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!",
"Which constellation is named for a hunter in Greek mythology?",
"If you think you know it, shout it out!",
"Is it: A) Capricorn, B) Orion, C) Ursa Major or D) Scorpio?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"Orion is the mythological hunter who can also be found in the stars.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"NASA's Next Steps .",
"AZUZ: Orion is also the name of a new program at NASA.",
"It's expected to be the replacement for the space shuttle program.",
"Americans could be headed back to the moon or into deep space toward Mars.",
"Now, those missions are a long way off.",
"Part of the Orion program did go on the road recently though, and WTXL reporter Greg Angel got a chance to check it out.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) DMARCUS MCDONALD, STUDENT: It flies into space and looks at stars or moons or other planets.",
"GREG ANGEL, WTXL REPORTER: Dmarcus McDonald is talking about Orion.",
"This capsule, touted as the future of NASA, expected to one day carry man into deep space.",
"CHARLES OHBAUGH, NASA ASTRONAUT: What this vehicle will allow us to do is hopefully go beyond lower Earth orbit, on to the moon and hopefully to Mars, ultimately, is our goal.",
"ANGEL: But 34 million miles from Mars, here on Earth, Orion is getting a lot of attention during this special stop in Tallahassee.",
"Dee Arnold drove in from Valdosta, Georgia to check it out before Orion is taken to its final destination at Kennedy Space Center.",
"DEE ARNOLD, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA: I just like things that go on with the space program, and I just think it's awesome.",
"I just wanted to see the next thing that NASA was going to do, the next part of space explorations.",
"NASA ANNOUNCER: Three...two...one...launch!",
"ANGEL: The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as it's called, will likely be in line to replace the shuttle program.",
"LINDA SINGLETON, NASA: We're excited and very passionate about the work we do on this program, and we hope to launch our first orbital test flight as early as 2013, so we're ready to get on with the next program.",
"ANGEL: While there's still a lot of work to be done, according to NASA, this spacecraft should eventually be capable of sustaining a crew of up to six astronauts on deep space missions that could last anywhere from six days for a lunar fly-by, to up to 900 days for a Mars exploration mission.",
"(END VIDEO) Blog Promo .",
"AZUZ: There's debate among scientists on this issue and we know you've got some opinions on it, too.",
"Where should America go next?",
"To the moon? Trips to Mars?",
"Somewhere else?",
"Or should we just stay home? Send us your thoughts about the end of the shuttle program and the start of the next space program on our blog.",
"You'll find that at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: Before we go, the shuttle program may be on its last Endeavour.",
"And NASA's not likely to find the lost continent of Atlantis.",
"But that doesn't mean the agency isn't going to be looking for its next Discovery.",
"So, while NASA moves forward, we'll leave you with a look back.",
"We hope you're enjoying your summer so far.",
"For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"(VIDEO MONTAGE OF SHUTTLE PROGRAM)"
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"(CNN) -- Wladimir Klitschko has told CNN Sport that he believes he has put a touch of reality into David Haye's life, after winning their heavyweight unification fight in Hamburg earlier this month.",
"Klitschko, along with elder brother Vitali, spoke to CNN in London as they showed off all five belts and the Ring Magazine belt they now hold jointly between them.",
"Both brothers are still angry with the way Haye bad-mouthed them before the fight, but Wladimir believes that his unanimous points victory might now lead to the Briton altering the way he behaves in the future.",
"Klitschko dominates Haye in heavyweight showdown .",
"\"It was definitely nice to beat David.",
"Aside from taking his belt it was good to just show him the way to behave properly -- it was kinda reality rehab for David Haye to become a better person,\" Wladimir told Don Riddell.",
"\"He will now be better in the ring, and outside the ring, because I think he lifted himself off the ground a bit and we have put him back down on the ground.",
"\"I'm very happy to achieve my goal as a therapist, as Doctor Klitschko for David Haye, and everything that is happening to him is good experience that he cannot buy in a shop,\" added Wladimir.",
"\"You have to gain it in your life and that's what's happening to David Haye right now, so it's a belt for me but it's also a lesson for him for the future.\"",
"Wladimir also revealed that the victory over Haye was the highlight of his career so far, made even more special by the atmosphere generated by the 45,000 supporters in the Volksparkstadion.",
"\"This fight was really something special for me even though it was a very rainy night.",
"\"The stadium was amazing and there were fans present from all over the world, the United States, UK, former Soviet republics and Germany,\" continued Wladimir.",
"\"Being live on TV was also special, but you don't really think about TV because you are focused on the fight, so you feel the atmosphere of the stadium instead.",
"\"You feel the fans, how they scream, how they support, it was definitely something special for me and I will never forget this fight.\""
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"Wladimir Klitschko tells CNN he has put some 'reality' into David Haye's life .",
"Klitschko and elder brother Vitali were speaking to CNN Sport in London .",
"Wladimir also reveals his victory over Haye was the highlight of his career so far ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona was taken to an area hospital after his vehicle and a bus collided, but he is fine, the state-run Telam news agency reported Monday.",
"Maradona was traveling with his girlfriend in Ezeiza, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, when the accident happened, Telam said.",
"Both were transported to a local hospital for observation, the news agency reported.",
"Sources close to Maradona told Telam neither Maradona nor his girlfriend suffered serious injuries.",
"Maradona is a former Argentine player and coach, revered by many as one of game's greatest players."
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"He is not thought to have sustained serious injuries ."
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"(CNN) -- The scandal embroiling the empire of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International might extend from London to Washington, legal experts not personally involved in the unfolding matter said Monday.",
"The potential liability flows from journalists at individual newspapers, such as the recently defunct News of the World, to its parent, News International, to its parent, News Corp., which is a publicly held company in the United States.",
"\"The allegation so far with this phone hacking scandal includes a component where someone within News Corp.'s organization perhaps made payments to London police officers to perhaps obtain information that would thus allow News of the World to write newspapers and sell newspapers,\" said Mike Koehler, a professor of business law at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.",
"If true, that might violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which Koehler described as \"a U.S. law that generally prohibits the payment of money or anything of value to a foreign official for a business purpose.",
"\"So, there does seem to be a basis for a U.S. investigation at this point.\"",
"If anyone at News Corp. participated in payments to police officers or authorized such payments or even knew about them and failed to stop them, the case could wind up in the lap of the U.S. Department of Justice.",
"The potential implications for the Murdoch media empire are numerous and none of them are good, Koehler said.",
"\"Many FCPA enforcement actions have what I call 'a point of entry' -- a set of limited, discrete facts that give rise to the inquiry in the first place.",
"But it's also very common for the 'where else?'",
"question to be asked on the theory that, if News Corp. employees within the organization were making these payments to London police officers, perhaps others in this organization -- all over the world, for that matter -- were making similar payments.\"",
"The decision to close the News of the World followed accusations that it illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of murder and terrorist victims, politicians and celebrities, and claims it may have bribed police officers.",
"Police said last week that they had identified almost 4,000 potential targets of phone-hacking.",
"\"There could be potential exposure,\" concurred Don Zarin, author of \"Doing Business Under The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act\" and a partner with the Washington-based law firm of Holland & Knight.",
"The act stipulates that U.S.-listed companies, their employees or agents may not make bribes to foreign officials.",
"A second portion of the law applies to accounting requirements for public companies.",
"\"They have to keep books and records in reasonable detail that reflect the transactions,\" Zarin said.",
"So, if a bribe was made and not properly noted, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the DOJ could each have a case, he said.",
"A telephone call or an e-mail from an editor in London to his or her boss in New York could prove key, he said.",
"\"If you send an e-mail to the boss saying, 'I'm going to pay $10,000 to police officers for this information,' that would provide the jurisdictional basis or potential liability on the part part of possibly the British employees.\"",
"If any employee of News Corp., which is listed in the United States, knew about and authorized such a payment, \"they could have potential exposure,\" he said.",
"And if Rupert Murdoch -- the 80-year-old Australian-born head of News Corp. who became a U.S. citizen in 1985 -- knew what was going on and authorized it -- even implicitly -- \"he could have some potential exposure,\" Zarin said.",
"The penalties can be severe, including jail time and fines, he said.",
"Ignorance confers no protection, he said.",
"\"The SEC has brought cases against U.S. companies who had no knowledge of what foreign subsidiaries were doing, but had misbooked it,\" he said, adding that the SEC blamed the companies for not having set up the internal controls that would have caught the illegal behavior.",
"A DOJ spokeswoman said she could not comment on possible Justice Department involvement.",
"If the charges wind up being nothing more than civil accounting violations, the SEC would handle the case and DOJ would not become involved, said James Tillen, coordinator of the FCPA Practice Group at Miller and Chevalier, a Washington-based law firm specializing in international regulatory issues, tax and litigation.",
"That would still carry a major risk to those involved.",
"\"The SEC has a lot of bite in significant fines, penalties, prohibiting people from serving as officers in public companies,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"That can derail a career quickly.\"",
"But a criminal prosecution by DOJ would be the most to fear, since it would carry the potential of jail time, he said.",
"SEC fines can range up to $25 million per violation in such cases, but totals regularly exceed $100 million because the agency can force the company to disgorge ill-gotten gains.",
"The DOJ can impose a criminal fine on individuals of up to $100,000 and five years in prison for each count on a bribery charge, he said.",
"Multiple counts could lead to higher fines and sequential prison terms.",
"But fines are typically pegged to how much a company or an individual gained as a result of the crime, he said.",
"That can be easy to figure out when the subject is a contract, but any case involving Murdoch's empire might present more of a challenge.",
"\"How many more newspapers did you sell?\"",
"he asked. Still, U.S. authorities may choose not to intervene at all.",
"\"If the Department of Justice were satisfied that the U.K. had sufficient ability to prosecute this, then they may step aside,\" Tillen said.",
"\"If they weren't satisfied, then they could be very interested.\"",
"England passed an aggressive law, the U.K.",
"Bribery Act, which became law on July 1, but it is not retroactive, Tillen said.",
"The predecessor legislation that would apply \"is a hodgepodge\" of laws, some of which date back more than a century, he said.",
"\"That's part of the problem.\"",
"Still, as things now stand, the nearly 4,000 miles that separate Washington from London won't put off U.S. investigators.",
"\"Of the 10 largest fines in FCPA history, eight have been against foreign companies,\" Tillen said.",
"But that may change.",
"Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, has criticized the act as putting U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage and held hearings last month intended to water it down, Tillen said.",
"\"The criticism is that it's being overly enforced by SEC and DOJ to reach activities that it shouldn't reach,\" such as taking officials out for free meals, he said.",
"A spokeswoman for Sensenbrenner provided CNN with a statement Monday from the congressman.",
"\"I plan to introduce a bill that would reform the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and bring it up-to-date with the changing world,\" Sensenbrenner said in the statement.",
"\"We need to bring clarity to what is and what is not illegal.",
"My intent is to make sure that the stop signs and red lights are clearly visible for American companies doing commerce internationally.",
"\"Right now, there is confusion regarding who qualifies as a foreign official.",
"Foreign law enforcement officers are clearly foreign officials and it is absolutely absurd to imply that any changes to the FCPA would change that status or permit U.S. businesses to bribe policemen,\" he added."
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"A second portion of the law applies to accounting requirements .",
"\"There does seem to be a basis for a U.S. investigation,\" says a business law professor ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A prominent California Democrat campaign fund manager charged with defrauding a state legislator of $677,181 is in settlement negotiations with federal prosecutors, a law enforcement source said Tuesday.",
"Kinde Durkee, whose Durkee & Associates firm is based in Burbank, California, has been charged with two counts of mail fraud regarding the alleged misappropriation of $677,181 in campaign funds belonging to California Assemblyman Jose Solorio, a Democrat whose office is based in Anaheim, authorities said.",
"The law enforcement source asked for anonymity because the source wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the negotiations.",
"Durkee is accused of filing false disclosure reports to hide the misappropriations, according to an affidavit by FBI Agent Reginald Coleman.",
"Durkee, who appears to have signature authority over more than 400 bank accounts, including those for political campaigns, allegedly moved \"substantial\" sums of money from client campaign committees to her firm's accounts or other campaign accounts, Coleman said in the affidavit.",
"Durkee also allegedly spent funds from clients' accounts to make her firm's payroll and to pay for her mortgage, her American Express bill, her mother's assisted living facility expenses and other personal expenses, Coleman's affidavit said.",
"In an interview with the FBI on September 1, \"Ms. Durkee admitted that she had been misappropriating her clients' money for years, and that forms she filed with the state were false,\" Coleman wrote.",
"Durkee and her attorney could not be reached by CNN for comment on Tuesday.",
"In the wake of the charges, U.S. Rep. Susan Davis, D-California, has accused Durkee of stealing \"upwards of $250,000 in campaign funds,\" according to a letter that Davis sent to her supporters on Saturday.",
"Durkee was also Davis' campaign fund manager, a Davis spokeswoman said.",
"\"As this scandal emerges, she may well become known as the Bernie Madoff of campaign finance treasurers,\" Davis said about Durkee in the letter to supporters.",
"Lauren Horwood, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento, California, said prosecutors are looking at Davis' accusations and the campaign accounts of other Democrats that Durkee was managing.",
"\"The investigation is looking at all of the accounts of clients of Kinde Durkee,\" including those of elected Democrats, Horwood said.",
"On her firm's website, Durkee states: \"We have performed accounting and reporting for political campaigns day-in and day-out since 1972.",
"Accounting, reporting and compliance management for political campaigns and nonprofits is quite different from standard business accounting; we understand the differences because we've specialized in political campaigns.\"",
"Durkee, who was arrested earlier this month and released on $200,000 bond, will return to federal court for a preliminary hearing on October 19 in Sacramento, Horwood said.",
"CNN's Casey Wian and Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report."
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"She has been charged with two counts of mail fraud .",
"She is accused of misappropriating $677,181 in campaign funds .",
"The FBI accuses her of spending other clients' money on personal expenses ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Work to recover bodies from the scene of a pipeline explosion in a densely populated Nairobi slum has ended, Kenya Red Cross said Tuesday.",
"Red Cross officials said 82 bodies had been recovered.",
"Police pegged the number at 76.",
"There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.",
"The blast Monday morning flattened homes, reduced some bodies to dust and forced a massive evacuation of the Sinai slum amid fears that big pools of leaked fuel could ignite, police and Kenya Red Cross officials said.",
"The fire erupted around 10 a.m. local time, possibly as a group of people were siphoning fuel from the pipeline, which runs through the Lunga Lunga industrial area, officials said.",
"Coming to a precise accounting of the toll may be difficult because so many of the victims were found huddled together and severely burned, Carol Nduta, a Kenya Red Cross emergency medical instructor and dispatcher who traveled to the scene, said Monday.",
"Some of the bodies were burned to dust, she said.",
"In addition to the dead, 118 people were hospitalized, police said.",
"The precise cause of the incident is under investigation.",
"Kenya Pipeline Co., the state-owned petroleum company that owns the pipeline, said in a statement Monday night that it had detected a spill from a bypass line in the Sinai community on Monday morning and immediately moved to shut it down.",
"State-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation quoted Prime Minister Raila Odinga as saying the incident occurred after a mechanism on the pipeline failed, allowing fuel to spill into a drainage ditch, where it then ignited.",
"Police, however, said the incident may have occurred after someone punctured the pipeline in an effort to steal fuel.",
"Fatalities from fuel leak accidents are common in Kenya.",
"Scores of residents scramble to scoop up fuel whenever there is a leak or a tanker is involved in an accident.",
"In 2009, more than 100 people died in a fire after an oil tanker overturned in Molo, in western Kenya.",
"In that incident, someone trying to take some of the fuel lit a cigarette, starting the fire.",
"A 2009 article in a Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation, discussed concerns of such a fire in the Sinai slum, where residents built shanties and even a church next to or even on top of the pipeline, according to the Daily Nation.",
"\"I don't think there will ever be a fire, but you never know,\" the newspaper quoted one resident who it said had refused to move away from the pipeline despite eviction notices from the pipeline's owner.",
"CNN's Divina Mims, Andreena Narayan, Faith Karimi, Lillian Leposo, Helena DeMoura and Kim Chakanetsa contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Red Cross says 82 bodies have been recovered .",
"NEW: Police pegged the number at 76 .",
"An investigation into the incident's cause is under way ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- BP, Transocean and Halliburton all share responsibility for the deadly explosion that resulted in the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to the final federal report on the matter released Wednesday.",
"The three companies \"violated a number of federal offshore safety regulations,\" according to the report, which includes a series of recommendations for improving drilling safety.",
"The report, issued by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, concludes that a key cause of the explosion was a faulty cement drilling barrier at the Macondo well site.",
"\"The precise reasons for the failure of the production casing cement job are not known,\" the report states.",
"But the disaster was \"the result of poor risk management, last minute changes to plans, failure to observe and respond to critical indicators, inadequate well control response, and insufficient emergency bridge response training by companies and individuals responsible for drilling\" at the site.",
"BP was \"ultimately responsible\" for operations at the site \"in a way that ensured the safety and protection of personnel, equipment, natural resources, and the environment,\" the report concludes.",
"But Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, was also \"responsible for conducting safe operations and for protecting personnel onboard.\"",
"Meanwhile, Halliburton -- a BP contractor -- was \"responsible for conducting the cement job, and ... had certain responsibilities for monitoring the well,\" the report says.",
"A spokesman for BP said the company agrees with report's conclusion.",
"\"The Deepwater Horizon accident was the result of multiple causes, involving multiple parties, including Transocean and Halliburton,\" Scott Dean said.",
"\"BP (has) acknowledged its role in the accident and has taken concrete steps to further enhance safety.",
"... We continue to encourage other parties to acknowledge their roles in the accident and make changes to help prevent similar accidents in the future.\"",
"Lou Colasuonno, a Transocean spokesman, said the report \"confirms that the primary cause of the incident was the catastrophic failure of the cement in the Macondo well,\" but his company continues to take \"strong exception to (any) criticisms of the Horizon drill crew.\"",
"Halliburton continued to deny any responsibility for the tragedy.",
"The report \"incorrectly attributes the operation decisions to Halliburton,\" said Zelma Branch, a Halliburton spokeswoman.",
"\"Every contributing cause where Halliburton is named, the operational responsibility lies solely with BP.",
"Halliburton remains confident that all the work we performed with respect to the Macondo well was completed in accordance with BP's specifications for its well construction plan and instructions.\"",
"The explosion on the rig led to more than 200 million gallons of oil being released into the Gulf.",
"Eleven people working on the rig died in the explosion, while 16 others were injured.",
"Besides the oil, hundreds of thousands of gallons of chemical dispersant went into the water.",
"At the peak of the crisis, in June 2010, 37% of Gulf waters -- a total of 88,522 square miles -- were closed to fishing due to contamination.",
"The U.S. government announced plans in August to hold its first oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf since the incident.",
"The proposed sale, scheduled for mid-December in New Orleans, will include more than 20 million acres in the western Gulf, according a recent statement from the Department of the Interior.",
"CNN's Vivian Kuo and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"The final federal government report on the Gulf oil spill blames BP, Transocean, and Halliburton .",
"The companies violated numerous federal safety regulations, the report says .",
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"(CNN) -- Serbia's Davis Cup champions hope that world No.",
"1 Novak Djokovic will be able to play in Friday's opening rubber of the semifinal against Argentina in Belgrade.",
"The 24-year-old arrived in his home city on Thursday following his epic four-hour U.S. Open final victory over Rafael Nadal in New York on Monday.",
"He has been drawn to play David Nalbandian, but his teammates are prepared for the possibility that history will repeat itself in the tennis teams event.",
"Last year Djokovic also played in a Monday final at Flushing Meadows, that time losing to Nadal, and pulled out of his opening singles against the Czech Republic after falling ill. \"We'll see how he feels,\" said Victor Troicki, who clinched the decisive rubber in last December's final against France.",
"\"If he's not that great, I'll be definitely ready to play the first match against Nalbandian.",
"\"Last year I found out three hours before the match that I would play, but this time I'm aware that he might not play if he's not right.\"",
"Nalbandian, who lost to Nadal in the third round at the U.S. Open, has been struggling with injuries this year but holds a 3-1 career record over Troicki.",
"The former world No.",
"3, now ranked 74th, is 1-4 against Djokovic -- who has won 64 of 66 matches this year.",
"\"David has been a main feature for Argentina in Davis Cup for the last few years, he's a real cup player,\" Argentina captain Tito Vazquez told the tournament's website.",
"\"He's been trying quite hard to come back on the circuit.",
"He played an excellent first set against Nadal in the U.S. Open, and he's a player who's capable of beating anybody, so that's why we chose him.\"",
"The second singles rubber sees Serbia No.",
"2 Janko Tipsarevic take on former world No.",
"4 Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion who is resurrecting his career after a year out with wrist problems.",
"Tipsarevic and Nenad Zimonjic were drawn to face Juan Ignacio Chela and Juan Monaco in Saturday's doubles tie, but that line-up could yet change depending on Friday's results.",
"In the second semifinal, last year's runners-up France travel to Cordoba to play Nadal's Spain on his favored clay surface.",
"The French won 5-0 in his absence last year, but may struggle without injured world No.",
"7 Gael Monfils -- their best clay player.",
"Nadal will play Richard Gasquet in the opening rubber, then Gilles Simon will take over as France's No.",
"1 against David Ferrer.",
"Nadal has beaten 15th-ranked Gasquet in all nine professional encounters, while world No.",
"11 Simon's only win over Ferrer came on Cincinnati's hard-courts this year after two clay defeats in 2007.",
"\"I know exactly what he's going to do,\" Simon said of his fifth-ranked opponent.",
"\"He's a real warrior on the court, but I know that I can win and I have to keep believing that every moment.\"",
"In the doubles, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco will play France's Michael Llodra and world No.",
"10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who has struggled on clay this year but may be given a chance in the reverse singles."
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"1 returns to Belgrade just days after his grueling U.S. Open final triumph .",
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"(CNN) -- The lawyer for a U.S. man being held in Aruba in connection with the case of a missing American woman urged authorities on Sunday to release his client.",
"Gary Giordano, 50, was arrested by Aruban police on August 5, three days after Robyn Gardner, 35, was last seen near Baby Beach on the western tip of the Caribbean island.",
"\"Today, 9 days later, 4 voluntary interviews, 2 site visits, and more than 30 statements coming from different sources including witnesses and professionals, we can not deduce that there is hard proof to sustain a demand by the public prosecutor against our client,\" Giordano's attorney, Michael Lopez, said in a written statement.",
"According to Aruban prosecutors, the missing woman and the suspect arrived on the island July 31 from the United States.",
"Authorities search phosphate mines on Aruba .",
"Lopez said last week that his client came to Aruba on vacation with a female friend he had met on a dating site and has known for years.",
"Giordano told authorities that he had been snorkeling with Gardner when he signaled to her to swim back, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.",
"When he reached the beach, Gardner was nowhere to be found, he allegedly said.",
"Lopez denied statements by prosecutors that his client is no longer cooperating with authorities in the investigation.",
"The attorney said in his statement Sunday that Giordano, whom he identified by his initials, GG, has given \"all possible cooperation.\"",
"\"The client has his own business and family in the United States.",
"He has no reason whatsoever to obstruct any investigation,\" Lopez said.",
"He added that his client could be returned to Aruba \"in case any legal proof shows up.\"",
"This weekend, authorities said that crews searching for the missing woman have looked in Aruban phosphate mines.",
"Gardner's boyfriend speaks to HLN's Dr. Drew .",
"Articles of clothing were found Friday in one mine, but authorities had not determined whether they are related to the disappearance of Gardner, Aruban Solicitor General Taco Stein told CNN.",
"FBI agents on Friday searched Giordano's Gaithersburg, Maryland, home, Special Agent Rich Wolf told CNN.",
"Agents, wearing vests that said FBI and carrying empty cardboard and plastic boxes, arrived around 8:40 p.m. Friday.",
"About 15 unmarked cars could be seen on the street, as well as a Montgomery County police vehicle.",
"Stein said Friday that the suspect will appear in court Monday, where an investigating magistrate could order him held for at least eight more days, order him to remain on the island or release him outright due to a lack of evidence.",
"Although officials have stopped actively searching for Gardner, they are continuing to seek evidence in the case.",
"\"In anticipation of any possible reason of prolongation of the client's detention, we can state that no felony has been committed by him,\" Lopez said in his Sunday statement.",
"\"The Department of Justice at this time does not have any basis to request prolongation of his detention.\""
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"Gary Giordano is being held in connection with Robyn Gardner's disappearance .",
"His lawyer, Michael Lopez, says Giordano has not committed a felony .",
"Lopez insists his client is cooperating in the investigation ."
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"(CNN) -- A Southern California man who attracted widespread attention for allegedly throwing his 7-year-old son overboard during a harbor cruise was charged Wednesday with felony child abuse and endangerment as well as misdemeanor resisting an officer, the Orange County District Attorney's office said.",
"Sloan Steven Briles, 35, of Irvine, California, is also accused of being under the influence of alcohol on August 28 when he tossed his son into the path of boat traffic in Newport Beach Harbor, said Susan Kang Schroeder, chief of staff for the prosecutor's office.",
"Briles, who is free on $100,000 bail, is scheduled to be arraigned September 26 in Newport Beach, the prosecutor's office said.",
"If convicted of both charges, he faces a maximum sentence of six years in prison, authorities said.",
"Briles recently told a Los Angeles TV news station that he did nothing wrong.",
"Briles told CNN affiliate KTLA, \"We were having fun, it was a harbor cruise!\"",
"He said he did not hit his son and he \"did nothing except jump in the water with my kid.\"",
"Asked if he would have done the same thing had he not been drinking, Briles responded, \"Absolutely.\"",
"Briles also disputed the sheriff's and witnesses' account of the event and said it was just a joke.",
"\"We jumped in together,\" Briles told the affiliate.",
"\"We thought it would be funny.",
"We were just screwing around.\"",
"Briles, who's divorced, was on the tour boat Queen with his two sons -- the other is age 6 -- when he got into an argument with his girlfriend, the sheriff's office said.",
"The boat takes passengers past Newport Beach houses that are or were occupied by celebrities, including the home where the late John Wayne lived, authorities said.",
"His 7-year-old son became upset about the argument and started crying, authorities said.",
"Briles allegedly poked his 7-year-old son in the chest and repeatedly slapped him in the face, making him cry, prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday.",
"The boy asked his father to stop, prosecutors said.",
"The father took the boy to the bow of the boat and told him, \" 'If you don't stop crying, I'm going to throw you overboard,' \" a sheriff's department spokesman said.",
"The dad then picked up his son and threw him about 10 feet over the side of the tour boat, prosecutors said.",
"The first mate stalled the vessel and steered it to shield the boy from being struck by another boat, and the captain threw a life ring to the crying boy as he treaded water, prosecutors said.",
"The father then jumped into the water \"to avoid the angry passengers on the Queen who began to yell at him,\" according to the statement released by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.",
"Prosecutors allege the father made \"no attempt to swim to his son's aid.\"",
"Another passing boat helped the boy out of the water, but the Queen's crew asked that boat \"not to help Briles, who was eventually pulled back onto the Queen,\" the prosecutor's media announcement said.",
"When sheriff's deputies who patrol the harbor approached Briles on the boat, he allegedly ignored their orders to stand, struggled with them and made his body go limp, prosecutors said.",
"Deputies had to drag him from the tour boat to the sheriff's harbor patrol boat, prosecutors said.",
"There were 85 people on the tour boat, authorities said.",
"Deputies took the two boys to their harbor station and later turned them over to their mother, a sheriff's spokesman said.",
"CNN's Carey Bodenheimer contributed to this report."
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"Sloan Steven Briles, 35, of Irvine, California, is charged with felony child abuse .",
"Boy, 7, ended up in the water, in the path of oncoming boats .",
"Father allegedly was under the influence of alcohol at the time .",
"Briles has said he's doing nothing wrong and \"we were having fun\""
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"(CNN) -- Two crew members have died after an engine room fire on a Norwegian cruise ship, Norwegian police confirmed Thursday.",
"Nine people have been taken to the hospital, a spokeswoman for Sunnmore police district told CNN.",
"There were 55 crew on board the ship, MS Nordlys.",
"All 207 passengers who were aboard the ship have been safely evacuated and taken to a hotel in the town of Alesund, operator Hurtigruten ASA said.",
"They are of various nationalities.",
"Two of the crew members are seriously injured, Borghild Eldoen, a spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centers for southern Norway, told CNN.",
"One has been taken to a specialist burns hospital in Bergen, Norway's second city.",
"She said police suspected an explosion had occurred in the engine room.",
"The fire is now under control but firefighters are battling to stabilize the multi-deck ship, which is taking on water, with the use of pumps, Eldoen said.",
"Everybody on board has now been accounted for and no one is believed missing, she added.",
"The cruise ship was operating on a popular tourist route from Bergen, to the small town of Kirkenes in the country's far northeast when the fire broke out, forcing the vessel to stop at Alesund, CNN affiliate TV2 reported.",
"Alesund, a town of some 40,000 people surrounded by fjords, is 226 kilometers (147 miles) north of Bergen.",
"The cause of the fire is under investigation.",
"Hurtigruten staff in Alesund are booking guests on to alternative vessels or making arrangements for them to travel home, the company said.",
"The 400 foot-long Nordlys, built in 1994, has 475 berths for passengers and can carry 45 cars.",
"CNN's Laura Smith-Spark, Laura Perez Maestro, David Wilkinson, James Partington, and Stefan Simons contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Firefighters are battling to stabilize the damaged ship, which is taking on water .",
"Two people have died after a fire on the cruise ship, Norwegian police confirm .",
"Nine more people have been taken to the hospital, police say ."
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"(CNN) -- Former first lady Betty Ford was remembered Tuesday as a woman whose disclosures about her personal battles showed courage and grace and brought encouragement to others.",
"\"She was a tireless advocate for those struggling,\" said former first lady Rosalynn Carter.",
"\"She was never afraid to speak the truth.\"",
"Ford, who died Friday at age 93, raised awareness of issues involving women's rights, cancer, alcoholism and substance abuse during and after her stint as first lady.",
"Carter, close friends with Ford, also recalled their work together as advocates for those with mental illness.",
"A former president and first ladies present and past joined family members Tuesday afternoon at the first of two services for Ford.",
"It may have been the words of a board member at the alcohol and substance abuse treatment center in Rancho Mirage, California, which bears Ford's name, that most captured her spirit and devotion to others.",
"\"Good afternoon.",
"I'm Geoff. I'm an alcoholic,\" Geoffrey Mason said to mourners at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, nestled among the arid mountains in Palm Desert, California.",
"Addressing her casket, Mason talked about how Ford encouraged others to peel away sadness, anger and guilt as they regained sobriety.",
"He cited the former first lady's battle with alcohol and painkiller abuse.",
"\"Maybe, just maybe if we worked at it like you told us to, maybe we also could get some relief from the darkness that we had become almost comfortable with.\"",
"\"Thank you God for bringing us this extraordinary lady,\" Mason said.",
"\"This brave and inspirational pioneer into our lives.\"",
"Among those attending were former President George W. Bush, who escorted former first lady Nancy Reagan to a pew, current first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Hillary Clinton.",
"A military honor guard escorted Ford's casket, covered by a white shroud bearing a large blue cross.",
"Journalist Cokie Roberts spoke of Ford's service as a political wife when her late husband, President Gerald R. Ford, served in Congress.",
"Roberts said the former first lady asked her to stress in her eulogy the camaraderie once common in Congress.",
"\"That friendship made governing possible,\" Roberts told the mourners.",
"Roberts' father, the late Rep. Hale Boggs, D-Louisiana, served with Gerald Ford, a Republican, in the House.",
"Roberts read from Proverbs 31, a praise of the good wife: \"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.\"",
"Michael Ford spoke of his mother's dancing skills, her love for her husband and her ability to connect with people in their brokenness.",
"Ford's remains will lie in repose at the church until midnight Tuesday, and then be flown Wednesday to the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, according to a website on the memorial plans.",
"Ford's remains will lie in repose there beginning at 7 p.m., said a statement posted on the website.",
"In remarks to reporters Monday, Clinton said she is \"grateful for having known\" Ford.",
"\"Her commitment to speaking out on issues that, before she took them on, were just not discussed made a huge difference in the lives of Americans,\" Clinton said.",
"\"I remember well when my mother's best friend was dying of breast cancer; nobody talked about it in those days,\" she continued.",
"\"But Betty Ford made it acceptable\" to discuss the issue in public.",
"While Clinton, the current secretary of state, was in Palm Desert, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, was not at the service because of problems with the aircraft he was to take, said Ford spokeswoman Barbara Lewandrowski.",
"He will attend Thursday's service at Grace Episcopal Church.",
"Former first lady Barbara Bush also will attend.",
"CNN's Elise Labott and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"Journalist Cokie Roberts recalls camaraderie in Washington .",
"Rosalynn Carter speaks of Betty Ford's resolve .",
"Former first ladies and a former president are at the church .",
"Ford will have a public funeral in California and a private burial in Michigan ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Soccer Federation will hold a news conference Monday to formally introduce former German skipper Jurgen Klinsmann, 46, as the new coach of the men's national soccer team.",
"Klinsmann's first match will be a highly anticipated August 10 bout with Mexico, which thrashed the U.S. 4-2 in this year's Gold Cup final.",
"He takes over as the team's 35th manager, replacing Bob Bradley who had coached the team since January 2007.",
"Bradley was relieved of his duties Thursday.",
"U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said he was excited to see Klinsmann taking over.",
"\"He is a highly accomplished player and coach with the experience and knowledge to advance the program,\" Gulati said in a statement last week.",
"\"Jürgen has had success in many different areas of the game and we look forward to the leadership he will provide on and off the field.\"",
"Klinsmann's record as a coach is a mixed bag.",
"Though he silenced many of his critics by leading Germany to a third-place trophy in the 2006 World Cup, he stepped down to be with his wife, Debbie, and their two children, who live in California.",
"\"I have a big wish to return to my family and get back to normality,\" he said during a news conference announcing his resignation.",
"In 2008, the Goppingen native took over Bayern Munich, one of Germany's most prestigious club teams, but he was replaced after a year, despite a 25-9-9 record and making the quarterfinals of Europe's Champions League.",
"It was widely reported that he did not see eye-to-eye with Munich's board of directors.",
"It's worth noting that Klinsmann coached American star Landon Donovan during a loan to Munich.",
"Klinsmann told Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl last year that he believes Donovan \"can play at the highest level\" and thinks the 29-year-old midfielder could have excelled in Germany's Bundesliga had he been given more time.",
"Klinsmann's resume as a player is far more impressive.",
"As a striker, \"the Golden Bomber\" always had a knack for finding the back of the net and amassed 232 goals in 516 games during his 17-year club career.",
"During that time, he played for some of the world's best teams, including Italy's Inter Milan, England's Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich.",
"He also played for the West German national team that won the 1990 World Cup and the German squad that brought home 1996's European Championship.",
"He scored 47 goals in 108 games for his national team.",
"Klinsmann has been considered for the U.S. post in the past, but negotiations crumbled twice over the amount of control Klinsmann would wield in coaching the top American squad.",
"Last year, Klinsmann told Wahl that he passed on the job after the 2006 World Cup but \"left it totally positive.\"",
"In a separate interview with SI's soccer guru, Klinsmann said he turned down the job following the 2010 World Cup because the U.S. Soccer Federation wouldn't give him full control of the team in writing.",
"He declined to explain exactly what the federation refused to include.",
"\"That goes too much into specifics,\" Klinsmann told Wahl.",
"\"I don't want to go that far.",
"We couldn't get the deal done because of a couple of issues, and the main issue was we couldn't get it into a written format.",
"And that's it.\" Klinsmann will immediately replace Bradley, who was signed to a second four-year contract in August.",
"He had a 45-25-12 record but faced criticism for decisions that observers said led to losses in pivotal games.",
"Included are a 2-1 loss to Ghana in the second round of the 2010 World Cup, and blown 2-0 leads in the 2009 Confederations Cup final against Brazil and the Gold Cup final against Mexico in June."
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"He has a mixed record as a coach .",
"His first match will be a highly anticipated bout against Mexico ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi has not been seen for six weeks and may be facing psychological torture by the government, activists claimed Monday, citing sources in the country.",
"\"We are extremely concerned for the health and well-being of Karrubi, who is 74 years old, and no one has heard from him for six weeks, not his wife, any family or associates,\" said Hadi Ghaemi, the director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.",
"His wife said she had not had any contact with him since July 16, the campaigners said, citing the opposition leader's official website.",
"Ghaemi alleged that Karrubi is \"surrounded by a team of psychiatrists working with his captors\" to try to manipulate him into a televised confession.",
"He cited \"a credible source from inside Iran,\" without saying who it was.",
"An opposition website said February that both Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi, another opposition leader, had been detained.",
"The website, Kaleme, citing \"trusted sources,\" reported that the men and their wives had been arrested and taken to Tehran's Heshmatieh prison.",
"The semi-official Fars news agency denied the report, citing an unnamed judiciary source, but it had earlier said that the government had restricted the movements and communications of both men.",
"The two, who are both former government insiders, both ran for president against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the disputed 2009 election that led to months of protests and a government crackdown on the opposition.",
"Iranian authorities rounded up opponents afresh in February, as revolutions swept the region.",
"Iran media said Monday that that Karrubi was being kept in an unknown location but did not include any comments from Iranian officials.",
"International journalists have been limited in their ability to gather news in Iran, where the government has squelched the media and maintains tight control over state-linked news organizations."
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"Mehdi Karrubi has not been in contact with his wife since July 16, she says, according to campaigners .",
"Activists fear he is under psychological pressure to make a televised confession .",
"He and Mir Hossein Moussavi came under restrictions in February .",
"Iranian officials have apparently not commented on the reports about Karrubi ."
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"San Diego, California (CNN) -- When you refuse to acknowledge a group of people in all their nuances and complexities, or depict them as predictable and one-dimensional, or dictate for them a code of acceptable behavior, it is a blatant sign of disrespect.",
"It would be offensive for someone to suggest that all Italian-Americans think a certain way, all Irish-Americans behave a certain way or all African-Americans vote a certain way.",
"So it is with 50.5 million Hispanic Americans, who come in every variety imaginable.",
"You might know this from what you consume daily in the form of political messaging, media images and advertising campaigns from Madison Avenue.",
"What better time to assert the right of Hispanics to be unpredictable and complicated human beings than Hispanic Heritage Month, which gives Americans the chance to learn more about, and pay respect to, the nation's largest minority.",
"In 1968, Congress set aside one week each year to honor the contributions and culture of Hispanics.",
"In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation expanding the period to 30 days: September 15 to October 15.",
"A generation or two ago, the challenge for Hispanics was simply to get noticed by corporations and political parties.",
"That happened. Ten million votes cast in a presidential election, and roughly $1 trillion in buying power, is hard to ignore.",
"Today, the new challenge is to get those same corporations and political parties to see Hispanics as they really are as opposed to how others want them to be or assume them to be.",
"For example, in the past several weeks, I've been asked often on radio and television interviews to predict where the Hispanic vote will go in the 2012 election.",
"My answer: Just about everywhere.",
"Will Hispanics take a chance on the Republican presidential nominee -- especially if it is Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry who has a record of attracting Hispanic support to the point of being attacked by Republican rivals who mistakenly cast the immigration debate as \"us\" vs. \"them\" and put Hispanics in the \"them\" camp?",
"Or will they double down by sticking with President Barack Obama who, while earning two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008, also heads an administration that has repeatedly lied to and manipulated Hispanics by promising immigration reform but delivering only record numbers of deportations -- more than 1 million since Obama took office?",
"My answer: Yes.",
"Both those things will happen.",
"And more. This is not a monolith. The Hispanic population in the United States is made up of conservatives, liberals, middle-of-the-road moderates, Republicans, Democrats, independents and everything in-between.",
"It's true that most Hispanics are registered Democrats, just like they have been for the past five decades dating back to the \"Viva Kennedy\" clubs in 1960.",
"But it is also true that Hispanics have -- in gubernatorial, congressional and presidential races over the years -- been willing to cross party lines and support moderate Republicans who eschew anti-Hispanic nativism and craft a message that appeals to them.",
"You see that sort of thing much more often at the local and state level than you do in the federal arena.",
"But it happens everywhere.",
"The list of Republicans who enjoyed significant Hispanic support in their political careers is long and distinguished.",
"It includes George W. Bush, John McCain, Jeb Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and two former Arizona governors -- Fife Symington and Jane Hull.",
"Of course, among Hispanics, there are differences in geography, economic status and educational attainment that help shape how they see the world and their place in it.",
"There are also ancestral differences.",
"According to the 2010 census, about two-thirds of those 50.5 million people are Mexican or Mexican-American.",
"The other third is made up of Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Salvadorans, Brazilians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Colombians, Venezuelans and others.",
"Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American and self-described \"son of exiles\" who is being talked about as possibly landing on the 2012 Republican presidential ticket, is the darling of South Florida.",
"Yet, if Rubio were on the GOP ticket, he is likely to be very unpopular in the Southwest where many Mexican-Americans resent Rubio's hard line on illegal immigration.",
"It's easy to talk tough about border security or oppose \"amnesty\" when you represent a community in which came here on the red carpet of the Cuban Adjustment Act, a relic of the Cold War that makes it almost impossible to remove Cuban immigrants once they arrive on these shores.",
"But besides those differences, there are also similarities.",
"Regardless of their backgrounds or biographies or biases, Hispanics want what the rest of their countrymen want: The chance to work for a brighter tomorrow, the right blend of rights and responsibilities and the respect that comes from being seen as individuals and not just part of a group.",
"And why not? That's the American way.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette Jr."
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"He says Thursday marks beginning of Hispanic Heritage month .",
"People ask which candidates are going to get the Hispanic vote?",
"Navarrette: America's 50 million Hispanics aren't a single bloc ."
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"(CNN) -- A top international Red Cross official will be meeting with Syrian leaders over the next two days to discuss \"urgent humanitarian challenges\" in the conflict-wracked nation and permission to visit detainees amid stark reports of prisoner abuse.",
"Jakob Kellenberger, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was to arrive in Damascus on Saturday for a two-day visit, the ICRC said.",
"He will meet with President Bashar al-Assad, Prime Minister Adel Safar, Walid Muallem, the minister of foreign affairs and expatriates, and the Syrian Red Crescent, the ICRC said.",
"This comes as Syria remains engulfed in nearly six months of public protest, and the regime has been reviled internationally for its crackdown on peaceful demonstrators, which has led to more than 2,000 deaths and thousands of arrests.",
"When Kellenberger visited Syrian officials in June, he reached an understanding that would give the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent \"enhanced access to areas of unrest, and negotiations would take place concerning ICRC visits to detainees.\"",
"\"The purpose of the talks to be held in the Syrian capital today and tomorrow is to review progress made in both these areas,\" the ICRC said.",
"\"The ICRC president's visit will also offer an opportunity to discuss the impending start of ICRC visits to persons detained by the Ministry of the Interior.",
"The ICRC visits detainees in order to assess the conditions in which they are being held and the treatment they receive.\"",
"This visit comes on the heels of an Amnesty International report detailing the deaths of at least 88 people in detention and widespread abuse of prisoners.",
"Another issue to be addressed is access to medical care for the sick and wounded.",
"There have been reports of people not being able to access medical care during security operations.",
"Elsewhere in Syria, two people were killed on Saturday in Habash, a village in northwestern Idlib province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group.",
"This occurred as security and military personnel stormed the city in search of wanted militants, the group said.",
"The latest international pressure on the Syrian regime was Friday, when the European Union banned the import of Syrian oil and added four more Syrians and three entities to a list of those targeted by an asset freeze and a travel ban.",
"Russia's foreign minister slammed the EU sanctions against Syria, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported Saturday.",
"\"We've always said that unilateral sanctions will bring no good.",
"It destroys the partnership approach to any crisis,\" Sergei Lavrov said."
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"Protests have erupted across the country for nearly six months .",
"At least two people died in Idlib province Saturday, activists said ."
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"(CNN) -- In the middle of the massive effort to protect New Yorkers from the effects of Hurricane Irene last month, a colorful moment gave people an amusing opportunity to laugh and joke.",
"It was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to communicate with Spanish-speaking New Yorkers in their own language.",
"\"My Spanish skills, may continue poco a poco (little by little),\" said the mayor in not-so-fluent Spanish on Aug. 30 when asked by reporters about his repeated attempts to communicate in Spanish.",
"Bloomberg never explained whether his speaking Spanish was out of a genuine concern to effectively communicate with people or a way to score political points with New York's Hispanic voters — or both.",
"The New York mayor is not alone.",
"The relatively recent trend of politicians trying to communicate in Spanish also includes President Barack Obama.",
"Back in June, he became the first president in 50 years to make an official visit to Puerto Rico.",
"He started his speech by greeting his supporters in Spanish.",
"\"Buenas tardes (good afternoon)\" said the president to hundreds of his supporters who seemed excited to hear Obama rolling the \"R.\" Puerto Ricans have surpassed Cubans as the largest Latino group of voters in Florida, a swing state expected to be highly contested once again in 2012.",
"Some Republican presidential candidates also seem to be courting Hispanics.",
"On Sept. 2, Mitt Romney attended a breakfast sponsored by the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Tampa, Florida.",
"About 100 Hispanic leaders from across the country heard Romney's speech.",
"The former Massachusetts governor didn't try to roll any Rs, but paid close attention to the issue of how much the economic downturn has hit Latinos.",
"\"Hispanics, as you know, have been hit terribly hard, disproportionately hard with an unemployment rate that is substantially higher than the national figures,\" Romney said.",
"Experts say appealing to the fastest-growing ethnic group in the country is crucial the year before presidential elections.",
"Mark Lopez, associate director at the Pew Hispanic Center, says that \"Latinos have played a growing and important role in the nation's presidential elections over the last few election cycles.",
"There are now more than 21 million Hispanics who are eligible to vote and Latinos reside in some key states.\"",
"According to the U.S. Census, in the 2008 presidential election, Latinos represented 13 percent of all voters in Colorado, 14 percent in Nevada, 15 percent in Florida, and 38 percent in New Mexico.",
"Those four states will likely be swing states again in 2012.",
"\"Even the participation rate among Hispanics in presidential elections has been growing [in those states],\" says Lopez.",
"In 2008, 9.5 million of the nation's 12 million registered Latino voters went to the polls.",
"Juan Andrade, president of the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, an organization that tracks Latino voting trends, says he's expecting a dramatic increase next year.",
"\"Our estimate is that we will probably have at least 12 to 13 million registered to vote in the next presidential election.",
"It could be even higher,\" Andrade says.",
"In 2004, former President George W. Bush won more than 40 percent of the Latino vote.",
"Four years later, 67 percent of Hispanic voters went for Obama.",
"Experts say anybody getting that kind of support from Latinos next year, whether Democrat or Republican, has a good chance of winning the presidency.",
"\"The Latino vote can prove decisive and we have demonstrated the ability to swing critical states again like we did in 2008,\" says Andrade.",
"Still, Andrade cautions that it's still too early to determine what the Latino voter behavior will be in 2012, and whether the enthusiasm of 2008 is going to be there again.",
"\"Are we going to continue to increase in voter registration and voter turnout as we have in every consecutive presidential election over the last 30 years?",
"It remains to be seen,\" says Andrade.",
"According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, there are currently 50.5 million people of Hispanic origin in the United States, which represents 16.3 percent of the total population."
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"In 2004, Bush won more than 40 percent of the Latino vote .",
"Four years later, 67 percent of Hispanic voters went for Obama ."
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"New York (CNN) -- A former on-air meteorologist for New York's WABC-TV has pleaded guilty to charges of filing a phony attempted sexual assault report, a story she later recanted.",
"Heidi Jones pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of false reporting in the third degree, her attorney, Paul Callan, said Wednesday.",
"Jones, who did weather reports on the station's weekend newscasts, called police on November 24, 2010, saying that she had nearly been attacked while jogging in Central Park.",
"She said that on November 21 she had crossed paths with a man, whom she described as a Hispanic in his 30s, who taunted and harassed her.",
"Police said Jones later recanted the story as police questioned her.",
"After she was arrested and charged in December, she was suspended by WABC and later resigned.",
"Before Wednesday's guilty plea, Callan filed a motion to dismiss the charges on the grounds that Jones was denied her right to a speedy trial.",
"State Supreme Court Justice Richard Carruthers denied the motion.",
"While sentencing is scheduled for October 26, the defendant and the district attorney's office said they have agreed on a sentence of three years probation with 350 hours of community service.",
"Assistant District Attorney Shanda Strain said in court that the number of hours of community service was based on the number of hours law enforcement officials spent investigating the case, said Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.",
"Callan said that Jones \"wished to express her sincere apologies for any problems caused by her and by this incident and she specifically apologized to the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation.\"",
"He added, \"Heidi Jones has always sought a way to accept personal responsibility for the unfortunate actions\" CNN's Jesse Solomon contributed to this report."
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"Heidi Jones pleads guilty to two misdemeanor counts .",
"She filed the false report in November .",
"A sentence of probation and community service has been agreed on, prosecutors say ."
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"(CNN) -- Iran's foreign minister says he backs Syria's president but that the embattled Bashar al-Assad must pay heed to his citizenry's demands amid the country's instability, an Iranian news outlet reported on Saturday.",
"Semi-official Iranian Students News Agency quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi as saying that Syria should be more cautious and patient in its dealings with the citizenry.",
"Iran has been a top ally of Syria.",
"The foreign minister warned of the consequences of a power vacuum amid the five-month-long protests in the Arab country.",
"Syria's regime has come under criticism and pressure for its harsh crackdown on demonstrators and world powers have called for al-Assad to step down.",
"As a result of the tumult, Iran is concerned about the effects of the instability on the region and exploitation of the unrest by other countries.",
"\"We take one single position on Middle East and North African countries' popular developments.",
"We believe developments in regional countries came following discontent of their nations,\" Salehi told ISNA.",
"\"Regional governments should be vigilant about foreigners' meddling in their internal affairs.",
"Current interference of foreigners in internal affairs of some regional countries, particularly in Syria, is clear-cut to everyone.\"",
"Salehi insisted that al-Assad should be supported and that \"changing the regime in Syria is unconventional and is followed by an evil purpose.\"",
"Meanwhile at least one person was killed in the suburban Damascus town of Saqba after protests broke out on Saturday, said Rami Abdul Rahman, the head of Human Rights Observatory in Syria, an activist group.",
"Abdul Rahman said scores of people were arrested in raids Saturday night as protesters tried to get to Damascus.",
"He said snipers have been deployed on the rooftops and security forces have a heavy presence on streets.",
"Reports of state-run news agency reporters on Saturday denied there were demonstrations in Damascus-area regions, despite news reports from Arabic-language networks.",
"The Syrian Arab News Agency report said Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya once again proved \"to be part of the conspiracy plotted against Syria through their psychological and media war strategies.\""
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"Iran's foreign minister warns of a power vacuum .",
"The Syrian uprising is nearly half a year old .",
"One person killed in Damascus suburb, an activist says ."
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"(CNN) -- Olympic champion Michael Phelps admitted it was good to be back on the winning trail after securing his first gold medal at the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai.",
"Defending champion Phelps, from the United States, came first in the men's 200 meters butterfly a day after he was pipped to gold in the 200m freestyle by compatriot Ryan Lochte.",
"He won in a time of one minute 53.34 seconds to beat Japan's Takeshi Matsuda, who had led with 50m to go, into second while China's Wu Peng claimed the bronze medal.",
"Phelps, a 14-time Olympic gold medal winner, has had a disappointing year but said he was relieved to pick up his first gold in China and now wanted to embark on a lengthy unbeaten run.",
"\"A lot of it is being fitter but also I didn't want to lose that race again,\" he told reporters.",
"\"Having a number of defeats this year is extremely frustrating for me and I didn't like the feeling.",
"\"So I kind of wanted to have the feeling of winning a race again.",
"It feels good to win a race.",
"It doesn't matter what it is so I dug as deep as I could that last 50, just tried to finish as strong as I could.",
"\"I knew (bronze medallist) Wu Peng was finishing very well, he finished very well yesterday and Takeshi has always been there at the end.",
"I kind of tried to put it into the biggest over-gear I could put it in and just get to the wall.\"",
"Phelps won a record-breaking haul of eight gold's at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 but had suffered a run of defeats leading into the World Championships.",
"Despite landing his first gold in Shanghai, and swimming quicker than last year, he says there is still more to come.",
"\"I'm super-happy with swimming faster than I did last year, close to a second-and-a-half but I still want more in that event and I want to be faster.",
"I think that was a little too close for my comfort,\" he added.",
"Phelps will go head-to-head with Lochte again on Thursday as they do battle in the 200m individual medley final.",
"Elsewhere, Federica Pellegrini, from Italy, regained her women's 200m freestyle crown and in the process made history as the first female to win both the 200m and 400m freestyle at consecutive World Championships.",
"The men's 50m breaststroke title went to Brazil's Felipe Franca da Silva, who pipped Italy's Fabio Scozzoli and defending champion Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa to the line.",
"And China took another gold as Sun Yang won the men's 800m freestyle title, beating Canada's Ryan Cochrane into second.",
"Hungary's Gergo Kis took bronze."
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"Michael Phelps wins his first gold medal of the World Swimming Championships .",
"Phelps successfully defends his 200m butterfly title in a time of one minute 53.34 secs .",
"Japan's Takeshi Matsuda takes silver while China's Wu Peng won bronze .",
"Federica Pellegrini adds women's 200m freestyle to her 400m freestyle title ."
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"(CNN) -- Freestyle skier Jeret \"Speedy\" Peterson, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Games, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police in Utah said Tuesday.",
"The Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake responded to a 911 call from Peterson, 29, Monday night, said Lt. Justin Hoyal.",
"Peterson told police he was going to take his life and said he was in Lambs Canyon, between Salt Lake City and Park City, Hoyal told CNN.",
"Officers found him deceased there at about 11:30 p.m., he said.",
"Peterson told an CNN iReporter in Vancouver, Canada, the cheers he received when receiving the silver medal in men's aerials \"was one of the coolest feelings in the world.\"",
"He had competed in two previous Winter Games.",
"According to a biography on the United States Ski and Snowboard Association website, Peterson picked up the nickname \"Speedy\" at a summer ski camp in Lake Placid, New York, in the mid-1990s because coaches thought he resembled the cartoon character \"Speed Racer\" with a big helmet.",
"He won the 1999 U.S. Junior Championship and took bronze at two straight World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001.",
"His signature jump was called the \"Hurricane,\" which he failed to land in Torino, Italy, during the 2006 Winter Games, dropping him from third to seventh.",
"The next day, Peterson was sent home after a post-party fight, according to the biography.",
"Members of the U.S. Olympic Committee mourned Peterson's passing.",
"\"I know Speedy's friends and family were incredibly proud of his effort in Vancouver, and his achievements were an inspiration to people all over the world,\" said committee chief executive Scott Blackmun.",
"\"The personal challenges Speedy has battled are familiar to all of us, and on behalf of the U.S. Olympic Committee, I'd like to offer my sympathy to Speedy's family and friends.",
"Today is a sad day.\"",
"CNN's Anna Rhett Miller contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Fantasy role-playing takes a staggering step forward as \"Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale\" lurches along with uneven visuals and spotty artificial intelligence but a combat system that is easy to learn and even easier to use.",
"The first D&D electronic game (Bedlam Games, Atari) that features use of the new Fourth Edition rules from Wizards of the Coast, \"Daggerdale\" allows players to create and develop a character from first level, much like the classic tabletop version of D&D.",
"Ability scores, hit points, attack and damage rolls are all part of making up your character, but without the use of any dice.",
"There are four base characters: male human fighter, male dwarven cleric, female elven rogue and male halfling wizard.",
"You cannot mix and match: no female elven fighters or male human rogues.",
"Each race and class has its own bonuses and class abilities to help perform their actions.",
"The adventure begins in a dwarven mine overrun by goblins.",
"As with any D&D campaign, the story builds from there into a rousing battle with a major enemy at the end.",
"There are major quests that help move the main plot along and minor quests that offer opportunities to earn more gold and experience points.",
"Experience points are the backbone of character development, allowing for increased abilities, powers and weapons.",
"Only one quest can be tackled at a time.",
"Once you start one, you need to complete that mission before moving on to the next.",
"This often results in a lot of back and forth through some of the same areas.",
"Gold and weapons can be gathered from fallen enemies or from barrels that seem to be everywhere and in every setting.",
"Improved weapons, armor, rings, amulets and potions can also be purchased from local merchants.",
"Sounds like a typical D&D game, right?",
"Visually, the game conveys the fantasy setting well.",
"The dwarven mine appears foreboding but doesn't quite reach the creepy darkness it could have.",
"A jail also is well-lit when it could have been a better mood-setter with some lighting adjustments.",
"A mini-map in the upper right-hand corner was very helpful in pointing to merchants, non-player characters who might send you on quests and the locations of those quests.",
"A larger map was easily accessible using the character menu.",
"Player characters appear different as they don different armor and hold different weapons.",
"Enemies look unique from type to type (e.g., a minion looks different from a controller) and can be readily identified by appearance alone.",
"Each enemy has a small box above its head that lists out what it is, what level of power it possesses, how many hit points it has and other information.",
"Of course, in a traditional tabletop D&D game, these things would be hidden so players wouldn't be able to target weaker foes first in order to whittle down the opposing forces.",
"The information box would sometimes appear if the enemy were hidden around a corner, thus ruining any surprise that could have occurred.",
"There were also instances in which there would be an info box but no enemy.",
"Enemy artificial-intelligence was also hit and miss.",
"Although the overall tactics of groups of enemies was good (minions charged as their archers and magic-users pinged from afar), they would also stand in place as I lobbed fireball after fireball at them.",
"Those battles were less than epic.",
"However, combat was pretty good all in all, and that's where I thought the game shined over its table-top counterpart.",
"I played through the single-player campaign as the halfling wizard, and switching from normal weapons to spells was incredibly easy.",
"All four buttons on the controller can be mapped directly to weapons, spells or potions.",
"There are four more locations that can be used by pressing the left trigger button (Xbox 360) or the L2 button (PS3) and then utilizing the standard buttons.",
"Spells had cool-down times after casting, so you could either stand there and get pounded or find another way to attack as you powered back up.",
"As I increased in levels, more spells became available so I could fire off spell after spell in a cycle.",
"Action was quick and intense.",
"Battles didn't last very long against weaker opponents and were appropriately longer against stronger opponents.",
"There are some \"boss\" battles before the final conflict, and those required some use of tactics (run-and-gun) to be successful.",
"My biggest gripe about the game has to do with when those tactics fail and you die.",
"In single-player mode, there are healing potions you can carry with you to regain hit points.",
"There are also clerics in the settlements who will heal you for free.",
"However, there are occasions during a quest when an enemy gets some really good hits in, and, in the heat of battle, you lose track of your hit points, and you die.",
"Here is the gripe: No matter what stage you are at in the quest, you have to restart it from the beginning.",
"There are no checkpoints during the quest.",
"There are no \"save and reload\" points other than in between quests.",
"Although this is very much like the table-top version of the game (dead is dead, after all), it was insanely frustrating from a video-gaming standpoint.",
"On more than one occasion, I completed a rather lengthy fight, defeated multiple big bad guys and got killed on the way back to the quest-giver (having forgotten to heal myself on the way).",
"This was particularly maddening during the climactic battle, in which you have to defeat multiple high-level characters in rapid succession.",
"Get through some but lose in the last one?",
"Too bad. If playing with a party of characters is more your speed, there is a co-op mode that allows for up to four players to combine talents toward the common good.",
"The enemies are stronger, and the loot gets better with more people.",
"Completing the game's main quests can be done in less than four hours (a good length for a D&D campaign), but doing all the side quests will add some time to your play.",
"Overall, \"Daggerdale\" was enjoyable but a bit buggy.",
"The story and combat were good and made for an exciting experience.",
"The spotty visuals and enemy AI weighted down the overall fun, but not enough to make me want to stop playing.",
"Is it good enough to live up to the D&D name?",
"Depends on how much actual roleplaying you like to do.",
"There is little to none to be had here.",
"Interactions with other non-player characters happen largely in grunts and subtitles.",
"No dialogue exists other than during cut-scene cinematics.",
"It won't replace your tabletop game, but it might give you some good ideas how to run your next campaign while allowing you some enjoyment along the way.",
"\"Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale\" is available now on the PC and through the Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.",
"It is rated T for Teen.",
"This review was done playing the Xbox Live Arcade version as a halfling wizard in the single-player campaign."
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"(CNN) -- Palermo edged Inter Milan 4-3 in a thriller in Sicily, while Juventus opened their new stadium in style by defeating Parma 4-1 in Sunday's Italian Serie A matches.",
"A double from Fabrizio Milito and goals from and Abel Hernandez and Maurizio Pinilla gave Palermo a dream start to the season as Inter lost despite Diego Milito twice giving them the lead and Diego Forlan scoring on his debut.",
"Meanwhile, in Turin, debutants Stephan Lichsteiner and Arturo Vidal, along with Simone Pepe and Claudio Marchisio, all found the net for Juventus, who conceded a late consolation penalty from Sebastian Giovinco.",
"Elsewhere, new Roma coach Luis Enrique had a disastrous debut as his team lost 2-1 at home to Cagliari and finished with 10 men.",
"Meanwhile, in the day's two English Premier League matches, Nigerian striker Peter Odemwingie scored a third-minute opener -- but then missed a penalty -- as West Bromwich claimed their first win of the season with a 1-0 success at Norwich.",
"In the other game, bottom side Blackburn earned their first point of the season, but Bobby Zamora's well-taken equalizer gave hosts Fulham a 1-1 draw after a fine strike from Ruben Rochina had put Rovers ahead.",
"In the German Bundesliga, both matches finished 2-1, with two Timmy Simons penalties giving Nuremberg victory at Cologne.",
"Meanwhile, Schalke missed out on the chance to claim a top three place when they let a 1-0 lead at Wolfsburg, for whom Mario Mandzukic scored twice.",
"There were only seven goals scored in the five Spanish Primera Liga matches with Rayo Vallecano versus Real Zaragoza and Racing Santander against Levante both ending 0-0.",
"Ruben Castro's late winner gave Real Betis a 1-0 success over Mallorca as the Seville-based club joined Real Madrid and Valencia on maximum points after two matches.",
"Elsewhere, Osasuna beat Sporting Gijon 2-1 for their first win of the season while Espanyol defeated Athletic Bilbao by the same score."
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"Palermo beat Inter 4-3 and Juventus thump Parma 4-1 in Italy on Sunday .",
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"Real Betis make it two wins from two in Spain after a 1-0 win over Mallorca ."
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"(CNN) -- A North Carolina woman will serve at least 14 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the death last year of her 10-year-old stepdaughter.",
"As part of a plea agreement, Elisa Baker admitted killing Zahra Baker and attempting to thwart investigators by planting a fake ransom note at the family's Hickory, North Carolina, home in October 2010.",
"Zahra's body was dismembered and some of the remains were found a month later.",
"The freckle-faced girl's disappearance and search drew national attention.",
"Zahra had lost part of her left leg at age 5 and lost hearing in both her ears while undergoing treatment for cancer.",
"Dressed in a pink jail jumpsuit, Baker answered Judge Timothy Kincaid's questions in a soft voice during her plea hearing Thursday.",
"Kincaid advised her that she will face between 14 years, nine months, and 18 years, six months in prison.",
"Kincaid had already agreed to move Baker's murder trial out of Catawba County because of pretrial publicity in the case.",
"The judge was supposed to announce Monday where the trial would be held, according to CNN affiliate WCNC, but that hearing was put on hold because of the pending plea deal.",
"Baker also pleaded guilty to charges of obstruction of justice, bigamy, obtaining property by false pretenses and identity fraud.",
"In the plea agreement she signed, and also under questioning Thursday, Baker admitted to several aggravating factors in the case, including \"a history and pattern of physical, verbal and psychological abuse of the victim.\"",
"Moreover, Baker said she \"secreted the victim from family and others\" and \"desecrated the victim's body to hinder detection,\" hampering the police investigation as a result.",
"She also accepted statutory aggravating factors, namely that \"the victim was very young, physically infirm or handicapped\" and that \"the defendant took advantage of a position of trust or confidence ... to commit the offense.\"",
"A call placed Thursday to Baker's court-appointed attorney was not immediately returned.",
"District Attorney James Gaither Jr., whose district includes Burke, Caldwell and Catawba counties, told CNN he \"absolutely\" feels that justice was served, while adding that he wished \"the law and the facts were more favorable to the state.\"",
"Gaither said it was unexpected when Elisa Baker chose to cooperate with authorities on a case that caused \"confusion and outrage and real frustration\" in the North Carolina community.",
"In a statement, he said that he agreed to the plea deal to avoid \"the risk ... that Elisa Baker would avoid responsibility for her part in the death of Zahra.\"",
"\"The probability was that without her cooperation, law enforcement would not locate Zahra's body,\" Gaither said.",
"\"The probability of a successful prosecution for first-degree murder was likewise very unlikely.\"",
"The district attorney said he had consulted with Emily Dietrich, the late girl's biological mother who lives in Australia.",
"He said she was \"pleased and satisfied\" with the case's conclusion.",
"Court documents in the case show that Baker told authorities Zahra was killed two weeks before she was reported missing.",
"Authorities found the fake ransom note at the home.",
"One criminal investigator testified at Thursday's hearing that Baker told authorities she found Zahra not breathing on September 24, 2010, according to WCNC.",
"Investigations have no \"credible evidence\" to suggest that anyone other than Elisa Baker was involved in Zahra's death, Gaither said in February.",
"CNN's Joe Sutton contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The victim's biological mother is \"pleased and satisfied\" with the result, he says .",
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"She will spend between 14 and 18 years in prison, judge says ."
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"Bellevue, Washington (CNN) -- Just a year before turning 40, Judy Haley was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer that required an immediate mastectomy.",
"The procedure and the treatments that followed left her fatigued, nauseated and in so much pain that she couldn't pick up her 1-year-old daughter or do simple household chores.",
"She also struggled with depression because she needed constant child-care assistance.",
"\"It's really hard to ask for help,\" Haley recalled.",
"\"You want to be competent and independent.",
"... And then, all of a sudden, you have to acknowledge the fact that you can't take care of your daughter all by yourself.\"",
"Haley and her husband were both full-time students, so there were also financial concerns.",
"The couple cashed in their retirement to deal with the crush of medical bills.",
"\"I was really bottoming out emotionally,\" Haley said.",
"That's when a friend recommended that she reach out to the Pink Daisy Project, a nonprofit that provides support to breast cancer patients under 45.",
"Since 2008, the Pink Daisy Project has helped more than 150 women -- mostly in the form of house-cleaning assistance and gift cards for gas, groceries and restaurants.",
"But according to Haley, it's so much more.",
"\"It's hope,\" she said. \"Right when I would hit the (emotional) low, there was a gift card ... or the toilet was 'magically' clean.",
"I can't overemphasize the value of that to somebody with cancer.\"",
"The founder of the Pink Daisy Project, Debbie Cantwell, can relate to Haley's plight.",
"She was 41 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006.",
"\"I could not even wrap my head around it,\" Cantwell said.",
"\"You're relatively healthy, and they tell you (that) you have a chance of dying. ...",
"It just throws your world upside down.\"",
"Cantwell underwent surgery to remove both breasts and 20 lymph nodes.",
"She received eight rounds of chemotherapy and 37 radiation treatments before undergoing breast reconstruction surgery.",
"She blistered, bled, lost all her hair and continued to work full-time as a copywriter and the sole provider for her husband and two young children.",
"Throughout her treatment, however, Cantwell was supported by family, friends and co-workers who pitched in to help her with her daily responsibilities.",
"Co-workers donated vacation and sick leave.",
"Friends brought over meals and took on child-care duties.",
"Relatives helped with mounting costs.",
"\"I just felt so grateful that all these people in my life were there for me and made it manageable,\" she said.",
"\"Once I was through with treatment, I couldn't possibly pay everybody back.",
"So I decided I was going to pay it forward.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"Through her ordeal, Cantwell met other young breast cancer patients who were struggling through their treatment but lacked the kind of support that she had.",
"She found that many breast cancer foundations exist primarily to raise awareness and funding for research and treatment, not to offset the daily stress on patients' lives.",
"\"I'm all for research; I hope my daughter never has to go through this,\" Cantwell said.",
"\"But the Pink Daisy Project's biggest concern is helping the (young) women that can't wait for a cure. ...",
"They're sick right now, and they need help today.\"",
"Cantwell fields grant requests through her website.",
"The grants average $400 in value and are designed to cover a woman's basic needs for about one month, but Cantwell will customize the level and type of support based on need and available resources.",
"The money comes from small fundraisers and personal donations.",
"\"Right now, the Pink Daisy Project is helping women in these small ways,\" Cantwell said.",
"\"But eventually, I want to be able to help in larger ways with real practical, tangible things like helping with bills ... helping with the rent, helping with medical payments.",
"It's so hard to focus on healing when you've got $12,000 in medical bills.\"",
"The average age of women diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States is 61.",
"But according to the Young Survival Coalition, there are more than 250,000 women living in the U.S. who were 40 or younger when diagnosed.",
"\"I think it's harder when you're younger,\" Cantwell said, \"because you're a mom, or you're a college student, or you're working.",
"You normally felt really good.",
"And suddenly, you feel terrible all the time.\"",
"Cantwell said older women also tend to have a larger support system.",
"\"Older women sometimes have grown children to help or a retired husband, or their friends don't work,\" she said.",
"\"Plus, there's a lot of senior services and Medicaid and disability and Social Security that, younger women, we often just don't have.\"",
"In addition to providing young breast cancer patients with immediate assistance, the Pink Daisy Project has built an online community that connects them and offers emotional support during what can be a potentially isolating time.",
"\"I feel like they're my sisters, and I just want to do whatever I can to help them,\" Cantwell said.",
"\"I cry a lot. I always light a candle when I lose somebody I've helped. ...",
"It's unbelievable and heart-wrenching, but it's just part of the job.",
"... \"I'll probably die of breast cancer someday.",
"But I don't feel sorry for myself.",
"I never have. I want to really make the most of the time I have by doing some good in the world.",
"... And if the spirit of helping each other were to continue, I'd feel my efforts meant something.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Pink Daisy Project's website at pinkdaisyproject.com and see how to help."
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"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods' return to golf proved to be short-lived when the former world No.",
"1 pulled out of the prestigious Players Championship after only nine holes of Thursday's opening round.",
"The American was making his comeback after suffering knee and Achilles injuries during the Masters at Augusta last month, but those problems recurred from his first shot at Sawgrass.",
"The 35-year-old, trying to win his first tournament since the scandal over his extra-marital affairs broke in late 2009, sent his tee drive wide of the fairway and bogeyed the hole.",
"He dropped three more shots at the fourth hole and another at the fifth, and walked off the course in Florida's Ponte Vedra Beach after a bogey at nine left him six over the card.",
"Injured Woods faces 'weeks' on sidelines .",
"\"The knee acted up and then the Achilles followed after that and then the calf started cramping up.",
"Everything started getting tight, so it's just a whole chain reaction,\" Woods told the PGA Tour's website.",
"\"This morning I felt fine during the warm-up, and then as I played, it progressively got worse.\"",
"Woods had been confident after playing nine holes on Tuesday, his first on-course action since finishing fourth at Augusta.",
"\"Oh yeah, the knee is much better, no doubt.",
"The Achilles is better as well.",
"So I'm here playing,\" he said after that practice effort.",
"Woods also pulled out of the $9.5 million tournament last year in the final round, due to a neck injury.",
"He won it for the first and only time in 2001.",
"The Players Championship is the most lucrative on the PGA Tour and is often referred to as golf's \"fifth major\" outside the Masters, the U.S. and British Opens and the PGA Championship.",
"The continuing injury problems mean Woods is battling to be fit for the second major this season, the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Maryland from June 13-19.",
"He has been revamping his swing under the tutelage of coach Sean Foley, but is still having problems with the same left knee that required surgery after he seriously injured it during his triumph at the 2008 U.S. Open.",
"Meanwhile, Nick Watney claimed a one-shot lead at the Players Championship, shooting eight-under-par 64 in his opening round on Thursday.",
"The 30-year-old American, seeking his second title this year and fourth PGA success overall, birdied his first three holes after starting at the 10th tee then gave back two shots at the par-four 14th.",
"He immediately bounced back with another birdie, then an eagle three at the second preceded a run of four birdies in five holes before he bogeyed at his penultimate green.",
"However, his ninth birdie at the last gave Watney a slim advantage over compatriot Lucas Glover, who won the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow on Sunday.",
"Veteran Mark O'Meara shared third place with fellow American David Toms after both shot 66, while world No.",
"2 Martin Kaymer was tied for fifth on 67 with U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, South Africa's Rory Sabbatini and Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson.",
"World No. 3 Luke Donald was in a big group tied for 13th on 69, while fourth-ranked Phil Mickelson was back in 44th after a 71."
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"He has problems with same left knee that required major surgery in 2008 ."
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"(CNN) -- Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru died early Monday from injuries sustained after jumping from the balcony of his Nyahururu home in central Kenya, a senior police official said.",
"Wanjiru jumped from the second-floor of his home late Sunday after his wife caught him in the company of another woman, said Jasper Ompati, a police official in Nyahururu.",
"Wanjiru's wife, Tereza Njeri, and another woman were taken to the police station to give statements but were not considered suspects, Ompati said.",
"The death remains under investigation, he said.",
"Njeri, who lives in Nairobi, returned home unexpectedly to find the two together, Ompati said.",
"Wanjiru is believed to have jumped after his wife locked him inside a bedroom on the second floor, making it impossible for him to leave, he said.",
"Wanjiru achieved worldwide fame when he became Kenya's first Olympic marathon champion at the Beijing Games in 2008.",
"Kenyans were mourning the death of Wanjiru, who was considered a national hero.",
"Hundreds were lining up to view his body at a Nyahururu funeral home.",
"Athletics Kenya, the governing athletic body, said the country lost a great athlete.",
"The association said it had pinned its hopes on Wanjiru to win another medal at the London Olympics in 2012.",
"\"He's left a gap that will be hard to fill,\" said David Okeyo, the secretary-general of Athletics Kenya.",
"The International Olympic Committee praised Wanjiru as an accomplished runner who will be remembered for winning his country's first Olympic gold medal in the marathon and setting a new Olympic record in the process.",
"\"Our thoughts are with his family and friends,\" the IOC said in a written statement sent to CNN.",
"At 21, Wanjiru was the youngest gold medal winner in the marathon at an Olympics since 1932.",
"After his Beijing triumph, Wanjiru has set about dominating the marathon distance, claiming a number of victories in races.",
"It helped him be crowned the men's champion in the 2009 and 2010 world marathon majors series.",
"In recent years, Wanjiru has had a number of troubles.",
"In December 2010, Wanjiru was charged with making death threats against his wife and illegally possessing an AK47 rifle.",
"At the time, prosecutors alleged Wanjiru was drunk when he made the threats.",
"Wanjiru pleaded innocent to the charges during a court appearance in his home town of Nyahururu.",
"His wife later dropped the charges, though he still faced a weapons charge.",
"Wanjiru was forced to withdraw from the London Marathon, a premier running event ahead of the 2012 Olympics, after he was involved in an automobile accident in January in Kenya.",
"Journalist Lillian Leposo contributed to this story."
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"(CNN) -- One by one, disasters have battered the Deep South in recent years: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, horrific tornado outbreaks, the Gulf oil spill and now a flood of biblical proportions on the Mississippi River.",
"It's as if Old Testament punishments have befallen the bayous, deltas and savannahs of a region that's already scourged with staggering poverty.",
"\"We're waiting for the locusts,\" commented Kim Fritz, interim executive director of the Mississippi Casino Operators Association.",
"\"At a certain point, you have to go: 'What else?'",
"\" Within her group alone, the economic punch of this month's expanding flood has put 10,000 hourly employees temporarily out of work at 16 shuttered casinos along the river, Fritz said.",
"Open Story: Damage map .",
"\"All kidding aside,\" she said, \"it's been pretty tough in this area over the past few years, but we just get up and keep going.\"",
"Up and down the magnificent Mississippi, tales of hardship -- and at least one case of good fortune -- are emerging as the river is rising.",
"Flooding and other disasters are nothing new to the crawfishermen, casino workers, hotel housekeepers, barge skippers, watermen and other working-class individuals who make their living from the Mississippi and the Gulf.",
"But so many problems coming so closely together are taking a toll.",
"\"What can we do to catch a break?\"",
"asked Wayne Mansfield, director of the Warren County Port Commission and the Warren County Economic Development Foundation, based in Vicksburg, Mississippi.",
"Floodwaters on rise in Mississippi, Louisiana .",
"The 600-acre facility, the nation's 11th-busiest inland port moving as many as 14 million tons of bulk material a year, is closed because of flooding, bringing business to a halt, he said.",
"\"Vicksburg's and Warren County's economy has long been tied to the river, for 150 years or more,\" Mansfield said.",
"\"Because of fuel prices ... we had seen an increase in barge activity, but the problem now is the barges have nowhere to dock because the docks are underwater.\"",
"It's not just riverbank commerce that has been paralyzed, Mansfield said.",
"Inland flooding of roads has also forced many businesses to shut down, including 1,200 jobs at a paper mill and a manufacturer of shallow-water oil rigs, Mansfield said.",
"\"You know, the one thing about Mississippi and Mississippians, we are truly a resilient people,\" Mansfield said.",
"\"After the event is over, we will rely once again on the river for our recovery.\"",
"What does cresting mean?",
"If there's a welcome surprise in the slow-moving disaster that's the great Mississippi River flood of 2011, it's that the crawfish are now running heavy, said craw fisherman Jody Meche, 41, of Henderson, Louisiana.",
"Crawdads are so big in this part of the country that Louisiana accounts for 98% of the country's production, according to the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association.",
"Meche has been exposed to crawfishing all his life, starting with his father.",
"His dad was born on a house boat on a bay of the Atchafalaya Basin, home to the nation's largest river swamp and part of the Mississippi River watershed.",
"The basin is among the most culturally rich and ecologically varied regions in the country, and it's home to the Cajun culture.",
"With a thick accent steeped in the region, Meche considers himself a Cajun and speaks a little French though he can't keep up with the old timers, he said.",
"Meche has been fishing for crawdads for 21 years, a skill he learned from his fisherman father, he said.",
"For now, the flood has pushed so much water -- and oxygen -- down the river that crawfish are growing fast and eating well, Meche said.",
"That translates to a good catch in his traps.",
"But the rising waters have forced Meche to string the crawfish traps to higher tree branches, he said.",
"So he has to motor his 19-foot skiff closer to the tall branches and stand atop the catwalk on his boat to tether the traps to the tall trees among the flooded banks, he said.",
"It's worth the extra work, he said.",
"He's now harvesting 50 to 60 sacks a day of crawfish, or 700 to 1,000 pounds, he said.",
"\"The crawfish is going to run heavy, but it's a hectic situation,\" said Meche, who's also vice president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association West, which has 400 to 500 members.",
"\"We have to cut a lot of the branches and the trees.",
"You have to add strings to the cages, and with every day the water rises, you have to raise the strings higher in the tree.\"",
"If this pace continues, he can meet the typical annual income of $30,000 to $50,000, minus up to 35% in expenses such as bait, gas and motor parts, he said.",
"\"You see, we're like farmers,\" Meche said.",
"\"You got to make hay while the sun is shining.\"",
"The flood does pose one big threat to him and other craw fishermen.",
"If the water breaches the levees and floods roads, markets will close and trucks won't be able to transport the bounty to consumers, he said.",
"\"We're keeping our fingers crossed that it's going to stay within the levees,\" Meche said.",
"\"And that's going to be a real big if.\"",
"How the Mississippi River levees could fail .",
"The other peril facing the fishermen is old timber.",
"Past hurricanes such as Gustav in 2008 felled many trees along the river, and the timber has since been lodged along the banks, said Stephen Minvielle, director of the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association.",
"The flooding Mississippi will likely dislodge a lot of that wood, and \"it's going to act as 10,000-pound battering rams floating down the river,\" Minvielle said.",
"Meche, a tough Cajun who skins farm alligators in the off-season, said he's prepared for all seasons, come what may.",
"\"The craw fishermen, we're hard working people,\" Meche said.",
"\"We're a resilient people.",
"We're not lazy people, you know what I'm saying.\""
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"The Deep South has been pummeled by big disasters caused by nature and man .",
"This month's flooding on the Mississippi River has rendered many residents jobless .",
"But, as one Cajun fisherman says, Southerners are \"a resilient people\""
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A human rights group on Saturday urged Iranian authorities not to put acid in the eyes of a man found guilty of blinding a woman who scorned him.",
"Majid Movahedi is scheduled to be blinded by having five drops of acid in each eye Saturday, according to Amnesty International.",
"It was unclear what time -- or whether -- the punishment will take place Saturday.",
"The semiofficial Iranian Students' News Agency, or ISNA, reported Saturday that the acid punishment had been postponed and another date hadn't been established.",
"Movahedi was convicted in 2008 of throwing a bucket of acid on Ameneh Bahrami.",
"The attack blinded Bahrami, who sought to have authorities render the ancient punishment of \"an eye for an eye\" in accordance with Islamic law.",
"The rights group is urging Iran to forgo the acid punishment.",
"\"It is unbelievable that the Iranian authorities would consider implementing such a punishment,\" said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, an Amnesty International deputy director.",
"\"Regardless of how horrific the crime suffered by Ameneh Bahrami, being blinded with acid is a cruel and inhuman punishment amounting to torture, and the Iranian authorities have a responsibility under international law to ensure it does not go ahead.\"",
"Bahrami said it has been very difficult for her since the attack.",
"She says she first met Movahedi in 2002 when they attended the same school.",
"She was a 24-year-old electronics student.",
"He was 19. She never noticed him until he sat next to her in class and brushed up against her.",
"Bahrami says she knew it wasn't an accident.",
"\"I moved away from him,\" she said, \"but he brushed up against me again.\"",
"Bahrami said that over the next two years, Movahedi harassed her and made threats, even asking her to marry him.",
"\"He told me he would kill me.",
"He said, 'You have to say yes.'",
"\" On a November afternoon in 2004, his threats turned to violence when he followed her from the medical engineering company where she worked.",
"As she walked to the bus stop, she sensed someone behind her.",
"She turned around and was startled to see Movahedi, who threw something over her.",
"What felt like fire on her face was acid searing through her skin.",
"\"I was just yelling, 'I'm burning!",
"I'm burning! For God's sake, somebody help me,' \" she said.",
"The acid seeped into her eyes, and streamed down her face into her mouth.",
"When she covered her face with her hands, streaks of acid ran down her fingers and onto her forearms.",
"In 2009, Bahrami told CNN that she had undergone more than a dozen surgeries on her badly scarred face, but still imagined that in the future she would have a wedding day.",
"\"I always see myself as someone who can see and sometimes see myself in a beautiful wedding gown, and why not?\"",
"She said. CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"Majid Movahedi was convicted in 2008 of an acid attack on a woman .",
"He was sentenced to have five drops of acid in both eyes ."
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"Reno, Nevada (CNN) -- A man who once appeared discreetly as a stunt pilot in movies became the center of national attention after a crash at a Nevada air show.",
"Jimmy Leeward is presumed dead after the Friday crash.",
"The 74-year-old owned Leeward Ranch, a pilot community in Ocala, Florida.",
"The 500-acre gated community features plane enthusiasts who build custom homes on lots that include hangars.",
"The community has a runway so that people can fly from their homes.",
"\"The vision was to have a variety of great airplanes, a variety of great pilots,\" Leeward said in a documentary about his ranch.",
"\"And a place where everybody could really have a lot of fun.",
"I wanted that as part of my vision to be something that was just like my father had in the 1930s.\"",
"Leeward started building the community in the 1980s with his sons and it has grown to more than 170 homes.",
"Some residents left condolences on Leeward's Facebook page.",
"His family also left a message on the page.",
"\"Dear friends, we are deeply saddened by the tragedy at the air race today.",
"Please join us in praying at this time for all the families affected,\" the message said.",
"Leeward, was flying a P-51 Mustang in a Reno air race Friday, when he lost control and crashed.",
"Some witnesses are crediting him with using his flying skills to help limit the number of people injured.",
"'I was ... preparing to die,' witness at Nevada air race crash says .",
"\"I think he was trying to do whatever he could right up to the end,\" said Fred Scholz, a witness.",
"\"I could hear the engine ...",
"I thought he was coming in on top of us.",
"Instead, he missed us by about 100 feet and went out into the box area in front of us.\"",
"Leeward, a son of a pilot, said that he was raised in airports.",
"He worked as a stunt pilot in several films, including \"Amelia\" and \"The Tuskegee Airmen.\"",
"He had been part of the Reno air race since 1975, said Mike Houghton, president of the Reno Air Racing Association.",
"\"He was very active in aviation.",
"He did a lot of stunt flying for movies,\" he said.",
"\"He was a close personal friend.",
"Well liked.",
"Great guy. Great family man.\""
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"Leeward, 74, is presumed dead after the Friday crash .",
"He owns Leeward Ranch, a pilot community in Ocala, Florida .",
"He once worked as a stunt pilot in movies ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Relations between once strategic allies Israel and Turkey continued to deteriorate Monday as both countries exchanged allegations that their nationals were targeted for intrusive and overly extreme security screening at each other's main international airports.",
"Some 40 Israelis who landed in Istanbul's Ataturk airport Monday morning were individually questioned by Turkish authorities according to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein.",
"She said it was the first time such an incident had occurred with Israelis nationals flying into Turkey.",
"Another Foreign Ministry official, Yigal Palmor told CNN that Israel was still looking into the incident and seeking clarification as to who gave the instructions for the Israeli passengers to undergo enhanced screening.",
"Speaking to Israeli news portal Ynet one of the detained Israeli passengers said they were asked a series of questions about their travel and instructed to open their bags and show the contents of their computers.",
"\"They apparently got an order to detain us, one by one.",
"Everyone was in shock; we didn't know what they were going to do to us.",
"Obviously this was done intentionally in order to create an unpleasant feeling\" one of the unidentified passengers told Ynet.",
"Another passenger described Turkish authorities specifically identifying Israelis for screening: \"As soon as they saw an Israeli, they told him to move on to questioning.",
"All the Israelis were together and they accumulated the passports in one file...",
"I have never seen them behaving in such disrespect.\"",
"A Turkish Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity following diplomatic protocol, would not respond directly to the charges that Israeli passengers were specifically targeted for increased scrutiny, but he pointed out that Turkish passengers leaving Israel were subjected to more intense screening the day before in Tel Aviv's international airport.",
"\"Turkish passengers on the Turkish Airlines flight from Tel Aviv were searched in an unusual manner... and complaints were filed,\" the Turkish official told CNN.",
"\"On the return of the flight to Istanbul it seems Turkish police have just kept and delayed some passengers for passport control, no questioning,\" he added.",
"\"They were scrutinized in a different matter I guess.",
"In a different manner than the usual,\" the Turkish official told CNN, but he denied that there was some kind of \"tit-for-tat\" treatment of passengers taking place.",
"In report published Monday in the semi-official Anatolian Agency members of a group of Turkish tourists claimed they were forced to undergo additional security screening at Israel's Ben Gurion airport on Sunday as they were preparing to leave Israel.",
"One male Turkish passenger identified by the last name \"Teke\" described being asked a series of detailed personal questions followed by a forced strip search in a special security room.",
"\"They forced me to undo my trousers.",
"While I was getting out angrily, I saw that they were taking some Turkish women in these rooms the same way.",
"This made us even more upset.",
"They only did this to the Turks. They only took Turks to the special rooms,\" Teke told Anatolian.",
"Eyup Ensar Ugur, the guide for a Turkish tourist group told CNN Israeli airport security singled out Turkish passengers shortly after they checked in their bags at Ben Gurion airport.",
"\"It was mostly psychological.",
"Their search was very detailed right down to a pack of tissues.",
"They were taking out even dirty clothes as they opened suitcases,\" Ugur said.",
"\"They took us in special rooms for a body search... the situation lasted at least three hours.",
"It was very unnecessary. It was as if they received an order to delay the process, to bother the people.\"",
"Palmor could not comment on the allegations telling CNN that other than media reports Israel had received no official complaint from either the Turkish government or Turkish citizens.",
"Complaints about excessive security screening and profiling at Israel's Ben Gurion airport are common and have lead to a number of high profile controversies involving foreigners and Palestinians travelling in and out of Israel.",
"The respective airport incidents come on the heels of Ankara's announcement Friday, that it would expel the Israeli ambassador and other high-ranking diplomats stationed in Turkey within a matter of days.",
"Turkey downgraded relations following Israel's refusal to apologize for the killing of eight Turks and one Turkish-American during an Israeli assault on the Turkish flagged ship Mavi Marmara in 2010.",
"The ship had sailed for Gaza carrying supplies and pro-Palestinian activists seeking to break the Israeli maritime blockade of Gaza.",
"The blockade was imposed, according to the Israeli military, to prevent the smuggling of weapons to the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.",
"A United Nations investigation into the violent maritime event found that the Israeli blockade of Gaza was a \"legitimate security measure\" in compliance with international law, but it said that Israel had used \"excessive and unreasonable\" force in the takeover of the ship.",
"Israel insists that its soldiers acted in self-defence after being assaulted by the Turkish activists.",
"Istanbul is a popular transit hub for many Israelis traveling to and from Israel.",
"Turkish Airlines flies daily flights between Istanbul's Ataturk Airport and Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.",
"CNN's Izzy Lemberg and Kevin Flower reported from Israel; CNN's Yesim Comert and Ivan Watson reported from Turkey."
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"Some 40 Israelis complain they were singled out in Istanbul .",
"A Turkish group says they were singled out at Tel Aviv .",
"Relations between Israel and Turkey have been deteriorating .",
"Israel refuses to apologize for a raid in which nine Turks died ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Syrian activists are denouncing the Turkish government in the wake of the Syrian regime's announcement that it has a deserted army officer in custody.",
"Lt. Col. Hussein al-Harmoush defected months ago and began broadcasting video statements denouncing the Syrian government, before eventually fleeing to neighboring Turkey.",
"News of his detention by Syria comes amid persistent international consternation with that country's regime for its fierce crackdown on anti-government protesters, a six-month outpouring that has resulted in more than 2,600 deaths.",
"\"Enough is enough,\" U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Thursday, urging \"some coherent measures\" against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.",
"Omar al-Muqdad, a prominent Syrian opposition activist who is now in exile in Turkey applying for refugee status, said the Turks handed al-Harmoush over to the Syrian secret police.",
"\"The Turkish government is directly responsible for Harmoush's destiny, because Harmoush was a refugee on their territory.",
"They have to be honest about him. ...under international rules, any country that receives him has to protect him,\" al-Muqdad said.",
"Al-Harmoush had called on all Syrian soldiers to defect and mobilize against al-Assad.",
"Eventually he fled Syria to Turkey.",
"Two weeks ago, al-Muqdad called CNN in a panic, saying al-Harmoush had gone missing from the refugee camp in Turkey where he'd been living.",
"At the time, he suspected Syrian security agents had kidnapped the defecting officer.",
"\"I talked to him on the morning of August 29th,\" al-Muqdad said.",
"\"He said 'I have a meeting with a Turkish security man.",
"When I finish I will call you.'",
"I waited for three days and didn't hear from him.",
"Then after that we discovered that the security man took him and didn't send him back to the camp.",
"They sent him to Syria directly.",
"The Turks made a trick with Harmoush.",
"They caught him in Turkey and sent him to Syria.\"",
"The Syrian Arab News Agency said Syrian TV broadcast an interview or what it called a \"confession from al-Harmoush\" on Thursday night.",
"Al-Harmoush said he defected because of bloody incidents, but he was not ordered to open fire on civilians.",
"He said opposition members, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, contacted him while he was in Turkey.",
"He discussed talk of weapons and money.",
"He said he didn't get the kind of support he was promised.",
"The interview didn't indicate how he returned to Syria.",
"Another Syrian activist, Omar Idilbi of the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, said that from what Syrian TV is showing, there are signs that al-Harmoush has been tortured.",
"CNN has previously asked the Turkish Foreign Ministry about al-Harmoush, but Turkish diplomats said they were not familiar with his case.",
"Turkish Foreign Ministry officials were accompanying Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a tour of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.",
"One official who requested anonymity told CNN the government \"on principle\" never hands over people who came to Turkey on humanitarian grounds.",
"There are more than 7,600 Syrian refugees in six Turkish refugee camps and there is daily traffic back and forth across the borders.",
"In Egypt, the first stop on the Turkish delegation's trip, Syrian activists tried to confront Erdgoan about al-Harmoush.",
"When Erdogan emerged from the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo on Tuesday, a crowd of angry Syrian activists stood outside the gates chanting \"Erdogan coward\" and \"Erdogan, where is Harmoush?\"",
"Erdogan waved to the crowd, apparently not understanding the question.",
"But one Syrian activist cornered a senior Turkish official next to the government motorcade and demanded to know al-Harmoush's whereabouts.",
"The Turkish official had no idea what he was talking about.",
"Turkey is critical to the Syrian opposition movement.",
"Dissidents have fled to Turkey to escape the ongoing government crackdown in Syria and have been holding opposition meetings in Turkish cities.",
"On Thursday, a Syrian opposition council is announcing its creation in Istanbul, the latest in a number of groups claiming to represent the opposition in Syria and abroad.",
"But now, with Syria announcing it has al-Harmoush in custody, opposition activists said they feel betrayed by the Turkish government.",
"\"I can't trust the Turks any more.",
"They are hypocrites,\" said al-Muqdad.",
"\"There are a lot of questions that the Syrian government and the Turkish government should answer,\" said Idilbi, who is based in Beirut, Lebanon.",
"The importance of al-Harmoush to the Syrian regime became evident September 8, when opposition activists and residents inside Syria called CNN to report Syrian security forces had attacked the village of Ibleen, where al-Harmoush's brother Mohammed lived.",
"According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a number of Syrian army defectors had taken shelter in Ibleen while awaiting the chance to smuggle themselves across the nearby border to Turkey.",
"Video filmed of the aftermath of the Syrian government raid showed blood-spattered houses, burned-out cars and trucks, and a ransacked home.",
"At least five people were killed in the raid, including al-Harmoush's brother.",
"His corpse was shown in another video released by opposition activists.",
"Thousands of people attended his funeral.",
"Syria's state news agency claimed responsibility for the raid on Ibleen, saying Syrian security forces had killed a number of \"armed terrorists\" who had been residing there.",
"Violence continued Thursday.",
"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces killed one person and wounded five others in the Damascus countryside.",
"A volunteer Red Crescent medic who was wounded in the western city of Homs last week has died of his injuries at a Lebanese hospital, the group said.",
"Last month, al-Assad told the U.N. secretary general that military operations in the country had been halted.",
"The regime has indicated that it wanted to end the fighting and foster stability.",
"\"These promises have been broken promises,\" Ban said said Thursday.",
"CNN's Yesim Comert and Tracy Doueiry contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: In his \"confession,\" al-Harmoush says he was not ordered to fire on civilians .",
"Lt. Col. Hussein al-Harmoush of the Syrian army defected to Turkey .",
"There's no explanation from the Turkish side about his reappearance in Syria .",
"Activists say they feel betrayed by Turkey ."
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"(CNN) -- A new one-volume guide to virtually every rumor, controversy, assertion and accusation about Sarah Palin -- scurrilous or otherwise -- is about to hit the stands, and it's already generating a storm of controversy.",
"\"The Rogue: Searching for The Real Sarah Palin\" by Joe McGinniss is a merciless review of Palin's personal life and meteoric rise from the mayor of a small Alaskan town to the center of America's political universe.",
"CNN obtained a copy of the book -- which relies heavily on unnamed sources -- earlier this week.",
"Palin critics will find some of their worst assumptions about the former governor reinforced by McGinniss; Palin defenders will be outraged.",
"The book portrays Palin as an image-obsessed governor who was ill-prepared for the burdens of Wasilla's town hall -- much less for the Republican presidential ticket.",
"If that's not enough for you, how about charges of racism, adultery, and cocaine abuse?",
"Her parenting skills also leave something to be desired, if McGinniss is to be believed.",
"Needless to say, those closest to the former governor are not amused.",
"The Palin family has had a rocky relationship with McGinniss since he moved in next door to their home in Wasilla last summer to research the book.",
"Palin's husband, Todd, accused McGinniss this week of \"relentlessly stalking my family to the point of moving in right next door to us to harass us and spy on us to satisfy his creepy obsession with my wife.\"",
"\"His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears,\" Todd Palin asserted.",
"The former governor told Fox News that McGinniss \"needs to get a life.\"",
"The Palin circle is not alone in its criticism of McGinniss.",
"New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin called most of the book \"dated, petty and easily available to anyone with Internet access.\"",
"Maslin accused McGinniss of using his time living near the Palins \"to chase caustic, unsubstantiated gossip,\" often attributed to unnamed sources such as \"a friend\" or \"one resident.\"",
"In an interview broadcast Thursday on NBC's \"Today\" show, McGinniss said: \"I think I was as fair as I could possibly have been given the fact that (Palin) told all the people who were closest to her not to talk to me.\"",
"Palin \"overreacts,\" McGinniss said.",
"\"She has no modulation in her responses to stress.\"",
"McGinniss' other notable books include \"The Selling of the President\" in 1969 -- a critical review of Richard Nixon's first successful presidential campaign -- and \"Fatal Vision\" in 1983 about Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a military physician who was convicted of murdering his wife and children.",
"He also wrote a book about Alaska -- \"Going to Extremes\" in 1980.",
"McGinniss' website calls his latest work \"an extraordinary double narrative that alternately traces Palin's curious rise to political prominence and worldwide celebrity status and then recounts the author's day-to-day experiences as he uncovers the messy reality beneath the glossy Palin myth.\"",
"Among other things, the book cites an unnamed friend who claims Sarah Palin once snorted cocaine off an overturned 55-gallon oil drum while on a snowmobiling trip.",
"As for Todd Palin, he \"did coke with us all,\" former friend John Bitney says in the book.",
"\"He was on the end of the straw plenty.\"",
"\"I'm not saying Todd and Sarah Palin today abuse cocaine or even use it, but there is no question they both did at one point in their lives,\" McGinniss told NBC.",
"Bitney was fired from his position as Gov.",
"Palin's legislative director because he \"dared to embark on a romantic relationship with the estranged wife of a friend of Todd's,\" McGinniss writes in the book.",
"McGinniss also repeats an allegation that Palin had an affair with Brad Hanson, one of her husband's former business partners.",
"Hanson denied the charge in a statement Thursday, calling it \"a complete and outright lie.\"",
"One gossipy tidbit: Palin had a sexual encounter with former NBA star Glen Rice in 1987, before she was married.",
"Rice played for the University of Michigan at the time.",
"\"She freaked out afterward,\" McGinniss quotes a source in the book as saying.",
"\"The thing that people remember is ... how completely crazy she got\" over the fact that she had sex with an African-American.",
"\"She was just horrified. She couldn't believe that she'd done it.\"",
"Rice, according to McGinniss, remembers Palin as \"a sweetheart.\"",
"McGinniss states that, as governor, Palin fired roughly two dozen state employees who had formed a coalition known as the Diversity Group.",
"\"Her distaste for people of color ... became manifest,\" McGinniss asserts.",
"\"Sarah just isn't comfortable in the presence of dark-skinned people,\" Bitney says in the book.",
"McGinniss also cites unnamed friends in characterizing Palin as a subpar mother.",
"\"From the start ... Todd was the parent,\" one source says in the book.",
"\"When he was home, he changed the diapers.",
"He fed the kids. Sarah never lifted a finger.\"",
"In her New York Times review, Maslin complained that McGinniss spent too much time writing about his own day-to-day experiences and not enough on detailed research.",
"Noting that McGinniss' book includes a comment by one source on the condition of the Palins' toilet, Maslin wrote: \"A journalist as seasoned as Mr. McGinniss surely knows what these details will do to his credibility regarding the book's more serious claims.\"",
"Right or wrong, the book has thrust McGinniss into a media spotlight that continues to follow Palin despite the fact that she is no longer in public office and has not announced any campaign for the White House in 2012.",
"There is even a \"Doonesbury\" connection to the latest Palin drama.",
"Garry Trudeau, the celebrated creator of the long-running comic strip, last summer developed a story line with one of his stock characters -- Fox News TV journalist Roland Hedley Jr. -- moving next door to McGinniss in Wasilla to spy on his spying on the Palins.",
"McGinniss subsequently contacted Trudeau and the pair came up with a way to release tweet-sized advance excerpts of the book in \"Doonesbury\" -- this time via a pre-publication copy of the manuscript of \"The Rogue\" that lands in the fictional Hedley's hands.",
"The \"Doonesbury\" story line has Hedley's boss at Fox News warning him to protect fellow Fox contributor Palin in his coverage of the book, and Hedley tweeting misleading depictions of the real excerpts.",
"Several newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, have decided against running the installments of \"Doonesbury\" that involve the Palin book.",
"\"This week we are not publishing 'Doonesbury' comic strips because they do not meet our standards of fairness,\" said a published note by Tribune Editor Gerould Kern.",
"The Tribune noted that copies of the book were unavailable for review.",
"Maslin wondered in her review what was stopping the Tribune and others from publishing the cited strips.",
"\"Is it the book's intrepid reporting, or its questionable tone?\"",
"she asked. \"Mr. McGinniss's most quotable, inflammatory lines call Ms. Palin a clown, a nitwit, a rabid wolf and a lap dancer -- and those aren't the parts that assail her as a wife and parent.\"",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report ."
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"\"The Rogue\" by Joe McGinniss comes out next Tuesday .",
"Joe McGinniss' book alleges that Palin once used cocaine .",
"The book also claims Palin was an image-obsessed governor and poor parent .",
"Sarah Palin's husband says the book is full of \"disgusting\" lies ."
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"(CNN) -- A Louisiana justice of the peace who drew criticism for refusing to marry an interracial couple has resigned, the secretary of state's office said Tuesday.",
"Keith Bardwell resigned in person at the Louisiana secretary of state's office, said spokesman Jacques Berry.",
"The state Supreme Court will appoint an interim justice of the peace to fill Bardwell's position, Berry said, and a special election will be held next year to fill the position permanently.",
"Bardwell, a justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward, refused to perform a marriage ceremony for Beth Humphrey, 30, and her boyfriend Terence McKay, 32, both of Hammond, Louisiana, and sign their marriage license.",
"The two were married by another justice of the peace.",
"The couple filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against Bardwell and his wife, Beth Bardwell, on October 20, claiming the two violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.",
"Bardwell, speaking to CNN affiliate WBRZ, said he was advised \"that I needed to step down because they was going to take me to court, and I was going to lose.\"",
"\"I would probably do the same thing again,\" he said.",
"\"I found out I can't be a justice of the peace and have a conscience.\"",
"Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, D-Louisiana, who had called for Bardwell's dismissal, said Tuesday night that \"Bardwell has finally consented to the will of the vast majority of Louisiana citizens and nearly every governmental official in Louisiana.",
"Bardwell's refusal to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples was out of step with our Louisiana values and reflected terribly on our state.",
"We are better off without him in public service.\"",
"Initial reports were that Bardwell refused to issue a marriage license to the couple, but in the lawsuit Humphrey and McKay say they obtained the license from the parish court clerk's office and contacted Bardwell to see if he would perform the ceremony and sign the license to legally validate the marriage.",
"Humphrey wound up speaking by telephone with Beth Bardwell, the lawsuit said, and Beth Bardwell asked Humphrey if they were a \"mixed couple.\"",
"When told they were an interracial couple, Beth Bardwell said, according to the lawsuit, \"We don't do interracial weddings,\" and told her the two would have to go outside the parish to marry.",
"Bardwell did not return repeated phone calls from CNN in October, but told CNN affiliate WAFB that he had no regrets about the decision.",
"\"It's kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven't done wrong,\" he said.",
"In addition, he told the Hammond Daily Star in an October story that he did not marry the couple because he was concerned for the children that might be born of the relationship and that, in his experience, most interracial marriages don't last.",
"\"I'm not a racist,\" he said.",
"\"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house.",
"My main concern is for the children.\"",
"Humphrey said in October that she wanted Bardwell to resign.",
"\"He doesn't believe he's being racist, but it is racist,\" she said.",
"According to the lawsuit, Bardwell estimated he refused to marry at least four other interracial couples in the past 2½ years.",
"\"Defendant Beth Bardwell ... aided, abetted and conspired with defendant Keith Bardwell to deprive plaintiffs of their constitutionally protected civil rights,\" according to the suit.",
"No response to the suit has been filed, and it was unclear whether the Bardwells had retained an attorney.",
"The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, claiming that Humphrey and McKay suffered emotional distress as a result of the incident.",
"Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal has said he believed Bardwell should lose his license, and the National Urban League called for an investigation into the incident by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, saying in a statement that Bardwell's actions were \"a huge step backward in social justice.\"",
"According to the Census Bureau, Tangipahoa Parish is about 70 percent white and 30 percent black.",
"The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out any racially-based limitations on marriage in the landmark 1967 ruling in the case Loving v. Virginia.",
"In the unanimous decision, the court said that under the Constitution, \"the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.\"",
"CNN's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report."
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"Keith Bardwell resigns in person at Louisiana secretary of state's office, official says .",
"Bardwell refused to marry couple after he found they were of different races .",
"They filed federal lawsuit; Louisiana governor called for Bardwell to resign ."
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"(CNN) -- It's truly the dog days of summer in the South.",
"The heat wave that has encompassed many Southern states this week is not expected to loosen its grip in the coming days.",
"Scorching high temperatures are in the forecast over the weekend in the North.",
"Topeka, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; and Oklahoma City are several cities under an excessive heat watch Friday through Sunday.",
"And little relief is expected next week.",
"An area of high pressure is anticipated to circulate hot and humid air over much of the central and eastern part of the country, the National Weather Service said in a statement Thursday night.",
"\"Heat index values in excess of 110 degrees are likely,\" it said.",
"Extreme heat indices -- how the air feels, with heat and humidity -- are expected to reach up to 116 degrees in Minneapolis next week.",
"\"These are extreme out-of-the-ordinary temperatures for Minnesota,\" CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.",
"Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington and other areas in Texas experienced afternoon heat indices of 105 degrees or more through Thursday.",
"The month of June was the hottest recorded for Texas since 1895, according to the National Weather Service.",
"Lawton, Oklahoma, and Wichita Falls, Texas, shot past the 100 mark for the area's 16th consecutive day of triple-digit heat Thursday.",
"In Oklahoma City, forecasters are calling for nearly another full week of temperatures near or above 100 degrees, threatening to break a 1936 record for 22 consecutive days of such heat.",
"The heat has driven up the demand for water and shrunk soil, resulting in low water pressure and burst pipes in Oklahoma City.",
"Officials issued mandatory water-use restrictions for the first time in at least a decade, according to utilities department spokeswoman Debbie Ragan.",
"More than 200 people have suffered from heat-related emergencies in Tulsa and Oklahoma City since June 17, when the agency issued its first heat alert, said Lara O'Leary, spokeswoman for the Emergency Medical Services Authority of Oklahoma.",
"Forecasters say people should limit outdoor activity during the hottest times of day, wear lightweight clothing, drink plenty of water and watch for signs of heat exhaustion, which include heavy sweating, pale and clammy skin, a weak pulse, fainting and vomiting.",
"At the peak of the past week's heat wave, more than 20 states from the Plains to the Northeast were under heat advisories."
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"Heat wave hits many southern states this week .",
"Scorching high temperatures are in the forecast over the weekend in the North .",
"Little relief is expected next week .",
"Extreme heat indices are expected to reach up to 116 degrees in Minneapolis ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan and U.S. officials say the two governments held face-to-face talks in Tunisia over the weekend, but Washington says the sole point of the meeting was to repeat its demand that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi \"must go.\"",
"The disclosure came nearly four months into the bombardment of Libya by NATO allies, including the United States.",
"Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim called Saturday's talks \"a first step,\" adding, \"we welcome further steps.\"",
"\"We are ready to discuss ideas to move forward, make sure that people are not harmed any more, that this conflict comes to an end and that the damaged relationship between Libya and the (United) States and other NATO countries can be repaired,\" Ibrahim said.",
"But in Washington, a U.S. official familiar with the meeting said the purpose of the meeting was \"for us to convey directly that Gadhafi must go.\"",
"And a senior State Department official called the three-hour session in Tunis \"a one-time meeting to send a clear message,\" not the start of negotiations.",
"NATO has been bombing Libya under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians from troops loyal to Gadhafi, who is battling a rebellion that has claimed control of the eastern half of the country.",
"Libyan officials had been reaching out to Washington with increasing frequency in recent weeks with no response, said the State Department official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity.",
"After Friday's announcement that the United States would recognize the rebel movement based in Benghazi as Libya's rightful government, the official said the Obama administration wanted to tell the Libyans face-to-face what it has been saying publicly: that Gadhafi must go.",
"Saturday's meeting was \"a straightforward effort to send a very clear message to the Gadhafi regime,\" the official said.",
"And after conversations with people who spoke to the Libyans afterward, the Libyans are believed to have heard and understood the U.S. position, the official said.",
"Ibrahim said in June that Libya would not consider a peace initiative that would require Gadhafi to step down.",
"The State Department official said talks involved three American envoys and four Libyan officials.",
"One of the Americans was the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz.",
"Cretz was recalled from Libya in December amid the disclosure of embarrassing U.S. diplomatic cables published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli was shuttered and American personnel evacuated by sea and air in late February, after the current revolt against Gadhafi erupted.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson and John King contributed to this report."
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"U.S. officials told Libya that Gadhafi \"must go,\" an American official says .",
"A Libyan government spokesman calls the talks \"a first step\"\nThere are no details and no comment from Washington on the report .",
"Libyan rebels have denied previous reports of talks with the government ."
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"London (CNN) -- Police charged a bank trader with fraud Friday, a day after he was arrested in connection with the discovery of unauthorized deals at Swiss banking giant UBS.",
"City of London Police said Kwaku Adoboli appeared in court later Friday, charged with two counts of false accounting and one charge of fraud by abuse of position.",
"During the proceedings, Crown Prosecutor David Levy said this was in connection with losses in excess of $1.5 billion.",
"Separately, UBS said Thursday that it estimated its losses at around $2 billion.",
"The suspect was not obliged to and did not enter a plea.",
"Clad in a V-neck sweater, a crisp white shirt, and gray slacks, the suspect wiped his eyes from time to time but otherwise did not appear visibly upset.",
"The court ruled that Adoboli will remain in police custody until his next hearing, set for Thursday.",
"Adobili can apply for bail during next week's proceeding.",
"A commital hearing has been set for October 28.",
"The 31-year-old was arrested in an early morning operation in London's banking district hours before the loss was announced on Thursday, police said.",
"His first name has been spelled elsewhere as Kweku.",
"The Financial Services Authority, the Serious Fraud Office and the Crown Prosecution Service are also involved in investigating the case, the City of London Police statement said.",
"The bank declined to comment on the arrest.",
"Shares in UBS rose slightly in early trading in Europe Friday after falling around 10% the day before.",
"The bank is large enough to take a $2 billion hit, experts said, but the size of the loss it reported is almost unprecedented.",
"Credit rating agency Moody's has said it is looking at UBS for a possible downgrade.",
"Its review of UBS will focus on \"ongoing weaknesses in the group's risk management and controls\" as revealed by the reported loss, Moody's said in a statement.",
"Moody's downgraded two French banks earlier this week amid questions over their exposure to debt.",
"News of the alleged rogue trader came amid pronounced economic anxiety in Europe.",
"Markets there have been in turmoil in recent weeks as concern has mounted that Greece might default on its huge debt, sending shock waves through the 17-nation eurozone and further afield.",
"U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner attended a meeting of Europe's Economic and Financial Affairs Council in Wroclaw, Poland, on Friday, at which questions around Greek debt and financial stability in the eurozone were discussed.",
"Finance ministers for the European Union member states, central bank presidents and representatives of other major financial bodies were also present.",
"The conference comes ahead of G20 and IMF meetings later this month.",
"Lex van Dam, a former trader who is now a partner at Hampstead Capital in London, said a bank's risk management division is supposed to examine a trader's activities.",
"UBS is not likely to collapse, but the scandal could prompt the bank to split its investment bank into a separate company, he added.",
"UBS said no client positions were affected by the loss, which is still being investigated.",
"But the \"unauthorized trading by a trader in its investment bank\" could cause UBS to post a loss in the third quarter of this year, it said.",
"The loss would potentially be among the largest costs ever to a bank in unauthorized trading.",
"Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel cost his French bank, Societe Generale, almost $6 billion, and was sentenced to three years in prison last year.",
"Yasuo Hamanaka cost Sumitomo Corporation $2.6 billion in the global copper market, and was sent to prison for eight years over fraud and forgery in 1997.",
"Nick Leeson, the subject of the Ewan McGregor movie \"Rogue Trader,\" lost about $1.3 billion for his bank, Barings, in 1995, forcing it to close.",
"UBS made a pre-tax profit of about $1.9 billion in the second quarter of this year, it announced in July, down from about $2.5 billion the quarter before that.",
"CNN's Erin McLaughlin, Nina dos Santos, Laura Smith-Spark, Irene Chapple, Ben Rooney, Alex Mohacs, James Partington, Laura Perez Maestro, Kendra Petersen, Nick Thompson and Christine Theodorou contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Kwaku Adobili, in police custody, has a Thursday hearing .",
"NEW: The 31-year-old suspect didn't enter a plea .",
"Credit rating agency Moody's says it is reviewing UBS for a possible downgrade .",
"UBS itself reported the suspected rogue trader to police, officers say ."
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"(CNN) -- Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month.",
"More than a million people are expected to head to west London over the course of the colorful two-day event, which features music, parades, dancing and stalls serving up Caribbean favorites like jerk chicken and rice and peas.",
"Some 5,500 officers will be on duty at the carnival on Sunday and 6,500 on Monday -- a public holiday in Britain -- with 4,000 additional officers deployed elsewhere across the city on top of usual police numbers, London's Metropolitan Police, or Met, said.",
"Commander Steve Rodhouse said creating a safe environment at the carnival is \"a top priority\" for the police force.",
"Speaking to the press earlier this week, he said police had intelligence to suggest that some gangs intended to cause trouble at the event.",
"\"I want to say to those who want to come to corrupt this magnificent event: You are not welcome,\" he said.",
"\"Please do not come.",
"The Met will do everything in its power to make it as hard as possible for you.\"",
"Officers will carry out checks for weapons as people enter the area, he said in a prepared statement.",
"Forty-three people have already been arrested as part of the Met's annual Operation Razorback, which aims to deter suspected troublemakers from committing crime at the carnival.",
"Organizers say the carnival will finish at 7 p.m. on Sunday and Monday -- an earlier time than usual -- in a bid to keep trouble from breaking out.",
"The event started four decades ago as a local festival set up by the West Indian community of the Notting Hill area.",
"Now, it involves a huge costumed parade, live bands, more than 40 static music stations and hundreds of food stands.",
"There had been speculation the carnival, which its organizers say is Europe's biggest street festival, might be canceled after the disorder that hit the capital's streets three weeks ago.",
"Tens of millions of dollars of damage was caused to shops and business in the violent disorder, with the west London borough of Ealing, north London's Tottenham area and Croydon to the south of the city among the worst affected.",
"As of Thursday, there had been 2,006 arrests for a variety of offenses connected with the unrest, with 1,135 people charged so far, the Metropolitan Police said.",
"Some 950 people have already appeared in court and 42 have been jailed.",
"Officers investigating the unrest have about 20,000 hours of security camera footage to watch and are working on more than 1,200 crime scenes, the police said."
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"Thousands of extra police officers will be deployed in west London and elsewhere .",
"More than a million people are expected to attend the two-day Notting Hill Carnival .",
"Police say intelligence indicates some gangs are planning to cause trouble .",
"Three weeks ago, London was hit by outbreaks of rioting and looting ."
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"(CNN) -- Tropical Storm Bret is expected to strengthen as it moves away from the Bahamas and out to sea, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.",
"As of 2 p.m., Bret -- the second tropical storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season -- was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Great Abaco Island, according to the hurricane center.",
"The storm had been about 65 miles (105) from the island earlier Monday.",
"The storm is drifting to the north-northeast and is expected to pick up speed and strength as it moves away from land, according to forecasters.",
"Grand Bahama Island and the Abaco Islands in the northwest Bahamas nevertheless remained under a tropical storm warning Monday.",
"Bret could dump 2 to 4 inches of rain in the northwest Bahamas.",
"The storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) Monday afternoon, with higher gusts."
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"Tropical Storm Bret begins to move away from land .",
"Tropical storm warnings remain for Grand Bahama, Abaco Islands in the Bahamas .",
"It is drifting to the north-northeast ."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola has said the Spanish and European champions will fight until the end of the transfer window to sign Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas.",
"Guardiola, 40, is confident the Spain midfielder can improve his squad.",
"The former Barca captain also confirmed the Catalan giants are chasing Udinese forward Alexis Sanchez.",
"\"Barcelona have made an offer, Arsenal another and we have until 31 August to try to reach an agreement,\" Guardiola told a news conference.",
"\"We will fight to the end to try to get Cesc because we believe he will improve the team and the squad.\"",
"Copa America flops: Who is to blame?",
"Fabregas, a midfielder who was a member of Spain's 2010 World Cup winning squad, is a product of Barca's La Masia youth academy, and has been frequently linked with a return to Catalonia.",
"Chilean international Sanchez scored 12 league goals for Udinese last season as Francesco Guidolin's side qualified for the European Champions League, and Guardiola admitted strengthening Barca's attack was more important than adding to their midfield ranks.",
"\"Between a midfielder and a forward our priority is a forward, but there's money for two players.\"",
"But Guardiola denied Barca would only be able to sign one of the two transfer targets.",
"\"According to what Andoni [Zubizarreta, the club's technical secretary] has told me there is enough money to sign both, and that is what we will try to do.\"",
"On Sanchez, 22, Guardiola added: \"He's very young, he can play in three positions of attack ... and according to what they have told me he is a very nice guy.\"",
"Barca are currently in the U.S. as part of their preparations for the 2011-12 season and the 21-time Spanish champions begin their league title defense away to Malaga on August 21."
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"Josep Guardiola has said Barcelona will fight to sign Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas .",
"The Barca coach also admitted the European champions are chasing Alexis Sanchez .",
"Guardiola has been told the Catalans can afford to sign both players ."
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"(CNN) -- As the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) winds to a close, here are five takeaways from the event, which traditionally features lots of premieres, star power and schmoozing.",
"1. Alexander Skarsgard isn't good in bed -- or so quipped Kirsten Dunst when asked how her character, Justine, could walk out on him on their wedding night in Lars von Trier's \"Melancholia.\"",
"Judging by the ecstatic reaction he received from the TIFF audience, Skarsgard has no reason to worry.",
"If Dunst doesn't want him, there are plenty of eager replacements waiting in the wings.",
"2. Woody Harrelson could be a serious Oscar contender.",
"Harrelson has shown his mettle before of course, in Milos Forman's \"The People vs Larry Flynt,\" when he was nominated for Best Actor; in Oliver Stone's \"Natural Born Killers\"; as well as in last year's Iraq vet drama \"The Messenger\" (when he was nominated in the Supporting slot).",
"But he's never given such a commanding and well-rounded performance as he shows us in \"Rampart,\" a second collaboration with \"Messenger\" director Oren Moverman, a no-holds-barred portrait of a corrupt cop penned by James Ellroy.",
"Harrelson doesn't just dare to show us this dinosaur's very dark side, he also dares us not to care.",
"3. The classics are going multicultural.",
"The Brits have always been famed for their literary adaptations and costume dramas, but they never used to look like this.",
"In the past, Emily Bronte's romantic hero (or anti-hero) Heathcliff has been played by Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes.",
"But Andrea Arnold is the first director to cast a black actor in the part -- in fact two black actors, as she also tackles the full scope of the story, from Heathcliff's arrival on the moors as a child to his return as a grown man (played by newcomer James Howson).",
"While literary purists may see the sense in that casting, they will have to take a deeper breath before sizing up Michael Winterbottom's updated version of Thomas Hardy's \"Tess of the d'Urbervilles\" (previously filmed by Roman Polanski with Nastassja Kinski).",
"Winterbottom -- who once relocated \"The Mayor of Casterbridge\" to the Yukon Gold Rush -- has switched the action to modern-day India, and cast the luminous \"Slumdog Millionaire\" Freida Pinto as Tess, or rather \"Trishna.\"",
"Hardy would probably also be surprised by the lashings of sex Winterbottom has worked into this provocative drama.",
"4. Michael Fassbender can't get enough of it.",
"Sex, that is. First, the \"X-Men: First Class\" star played Sigmund Freud's heir apparent, Carl Jung, in David Cronenberg's witty history of the early years of psychoanalytic theory, \"A Dangerous Method,\" in which Jung embarks on a reckless affair with a masochistic patient played by Keira Knightley.",
"Then he showed up as a contemporary sex addict in Steve McQueen's hardcore drama \"Shame,\" a stunning performance that won him the Best Actor award at the recent Venice Film Festival.",
"Asked how he researched this role, Fassbender insisted he spent quality time in bed -- with his script.",
"5. Ryan Gosling will never live down his past.",
"At least, not in his native Canada, where a generation apparently grew up on the young Gosling's adventures in \"Breaker High\" and \"Young Hercules\" and won't let him forget it.",
"\"Breaker High\" was the first thing he was asked about after the premiere of \"Drive.\"",
"Somehow, the show had passed by his \"Drive\" co-star, Albert Brooks, who needed filling in on how it fitted in before Gosling's \"Mickey Mouse Club\" days.",
"Gosling took it on the chin.",
"Asked at the end of the session if there was any message he hoped unified his diverse acting roles, he deadpanned: \"Basically, I'm just trying to relive 'Young Hercules' every time.",
"That was the high point for me.\""
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"There was lots to learn at the Toronto International Film Festival .",
"The Brits have always been famed for their literary adaptations .",
"Michael Fassbender insisted he spent quality time in bed -- with his script ."
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"(CNN) -- A compromised levee in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, failed Tuesday, forcing authorities to order more evacuations in the region.",
"The levee failed in at least four locations along a two-mile stretch along the Black River, City Manager Doug Bagby said.",
"The failure was sending floodwaters from the Black River into a populated but rural area of Butler County, sparing the city of Poplar Bluff, said the city's deputy police chief, Jeff Rolland.",
"Authorities were worried about another one to three inches of rain in the forecast.",
"It was unclear how many people might eventually be affected by the flooding, Butler County Sheriff's Detective Scott Phelps said.",
"As of midafternoon Tuesday, several hundred homes had been evacuated in the county, he said.",
"The breaks occurred between Poplar Bluff and the community of Qulin, about 12 miles to the southeast.",
"Missouri Gov.",
"Jay Nixon said 59 water rescues were conducted and nearly 7,000 people had to be moved in Butler County.",
"Bagby said about 1,000 of them are city residents, with more than 200 being sheltered at Black River Coliseum.",
"Flood levels are dropping slowly, Bagby said, and people may be able to return to their homes Wednesday afternoon if the trend continues.",
"\"It's sunny in Poplar Bluff right now,\" Bagby said on Tuesday afternoon.",
"The city has received 15 inches of rain in the last four days, Rolland said -- five of them in just one storm Monday.",
"\"It's just extraordinary,\" Rolland said.",
"Nixon deployed about 200 members of the Missouri National Guard to Poplar Bluff and the southeastern corner of the state for what the National Weather Service said could be record flooding.",
"Nixon ordered troops to help with efforts to shore up levees near Poplar Bluff and other river communities, among other duties.",
"\"A lot of people are getting very worried that they're going to see higher levels than they've ever seen before,\" said Aaron Luke, a Nashville resident, who visited family in the Poplar Bluff area over the weekend.",
"Luke left his car at an aunt's house north of Poplar Bluff when rising waters prevented him from leaving the area.",
"\"I had to grab a rental car to get out and return to Nashville,\" he said, after using a boat to get across a swollen creek.",
"Authorities ordered residents most at risk to evacuate immediately.",
"Other residents near the river were asked to closely monitor developments and water levels in their neighborhoods, the police department said.",
"Daryl Nelson helped evacuate his father and sister from the south end of the city.",
"\"You don't know when it's going to be over and you can get back in,\" he told CNN affiliate KFVS.",
"\"It's better than getting everything ruined.\"",
"Poplar Bluff resident Alleesha Gloyd, 29, said many streets were flooded Monday night.",
"\"They're not driving wisely at all,\" she said of area motorists.",
"CNN's Ed Payne, Phil Gast, Marlena Baldacci, Michael Pearson and Kara Devlin contributed to this report."
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"59 people rescued in Poplar Bluff area .",
"Levee fails, sending water rushing into rural part of Butler County, Missouri .",
"Missouri's governor has enlisted the National Guard in the flood fight ."
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"(CNN) -- Jam band Phish broke attendance records and raised more than $1.2 million for victims of flooding this week in their home state of Vermont.",
"The show took place at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction on Wednesday night -- nearly three weeks after Vermont experienced deadly, damaging floods caused by the remnants of Hurricane Irene.",
"\"It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont,\" Phish guitarist and singer Trey Anastasio said.",
"Vermont Gov.",
"Peter Shumlin was among those attending the show, thanking Phish for coming back to Vermont, a state they hadn't played since 2004.",
"\"There's nothing better than the state of Vermont, nothing better than Phish fans,\" Shumlin said.",
"\"It's been seven years...",
"It was worth the wait!\"",
"The proceeds -- the final tally announced in a press release from the band -- will help Vermont, \"rebuild better than the way Irene found us,\" the governor said.",
"Vermont was one of the hardest-hit states as Irene made its way up the East Coast.",
"Many communities in the small state were cut off as floodwaters washed away roads and bridges.",
"Phish's decision to get involved in the recovery effort wasn't a difficult one.",
"\"We think it's a really nice way to come back and give back to a state that has given us so much,\" keyboardist Page McConnell said when the band announced its intention to hold the concert.",
"Phish partners with local charities in an effort to make positive impact in each of the towns they visit while out on tour, and in 1997 the band created the WaterWheel foundation to oversee its charitable activities.",
"That includes fundraisers following disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan earlier this year.",
"When it came to Vermont, the state where Phish was formed in 1983, however, the band concluded, \"We have to do something bigger,\" said Beth Montuori Rowles from the WaterWheel Foundation.",
"Despite having little time to plan, the concert came together, \"quite easily,\" Montuori-Rowles said .",
"The band, on its website, thanked numerous major donors who underwrote the concert's production expenses.",
"Proceeds of the concert -- from ticket sales, merchandise sales, download and webcast sales -- will be directed to the WaterWheel Foundation and to the Vermont Community Foundation.",
"Both organizations continue to raise money online for the Vermont recovery effort.",
"And police in Essex Junction, located in western Vermont just outside Burlington, said the event also went \"better than expected\" from their end.",
"There were no arrests or serious injuries, with only a slight traffic back-up for an hour as the gates opened.",
"\"I can't remember a group as large and as pleasant to deal with as this one,\" Essex Junction Police Capt.",
"Brad LaRose said.",
"The police department even got in on the philanthropy, with some officers donating their time back to the cause.",
"Rich Lewis, the Champlain Valley Expo's public relations director, described the fans that came out Wednesday night as \"upbeat\" and \"appreciative.\"",
"The concert, while a tiring event for Lewis and his staff who had just closed the state's fair at the same venue last week, was \"substantial on all levels.\"",
"\"I can't tell you how much we appreciate being a part of this groundbreaking historic event,\" Lewis said."
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"The show broke attendance records at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction .",
"It was Phish's first show since 2004 in Vermont, where they formed in 1983 .",
"The funds will help those affected by floods caused by remnants of Hurricane Irene ."
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been ruled out of a return to his former club Barcelona when the group stage of the European Champions League kicks off on Tuesday.",
"The Sweden international, who spent just one season in Spain following his big-money move from Milan's city rivals Internazionale in 2009, suffered a thigh injury in training on Monday.",
"\"The tests carried out showed that the player has a strain in his thigh muscle and will not be leaving for Barcelona with the rest of the squad.",
"He will rest for a few days and then start his treatment towards the end of the week,\" the Italian club's website reported.",
"Ibrahimovic's absence could mean a reprieve for Italy international Antonio Cassano, who was expected to make way for Brazil star Alexandre Pato despite scoring in the club's Serie A opener on Friday.",
"Ibrahimovic also netted in that game, a 2-2 draw with Lazio.",
"AC Milan fight back to draw with Lazio .",
"Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta said he was disappointed that his former teammate would not be lining up at the Camp Nou against the tournament's defending champions.",
"\"It's a pity that he can't play -- he's a great player and you always want to play against good players.",
"He really wanted to come and play, and it's a shame he can't make it.",
"However, I don't think that takes anything away from the game, which should be fantastic,\" Iniesta told reporters at a pre-match press conference.",
"Iniesta will renew his rivalry with Milan's Dutch midfielder Mark van Bommel, with whom he clashed during the 2010 World Cup final.",
"\"It's true that during the final there was some rough play, but I prefer to think there was no malicious intent.",
"He's an opponent, but above all we are professional companions and I respect him in all respects,\" said Iniesta, who scored the only goal of the match in Johannesburg in extra-time.",
"Barca coach Pep Guardiola is expected to recall two-time world player of the year Lionel Messi, who was rested for Saturday's shock 2-2 draw with Real Sociedad.",
"The Argentina forward will make his first competitive outing against the seven-time European champions, as he bids to be the competition's top scorer for the fourth season in a row.",
"Barca will be without new signing Alexis Sanchez, with the Chile midfielder expected to be sidelined for two months after tearing a thigh muscle against Sociedad as the Catalan team dropped their first points of the La Liga season.",
"The match is the pick of Tuesday's ties, with Viktoria Plzen of the Czech Republic hosting BATE Borisov of Belarus in the other Group H fixture.",
"In Group E, English club Chelsea host Germany's Bayer Leverkusen, while Spanish side Valencia travel to Belgium to play Genk.",
"Chelsea's build-up has been marred by a controversy over $80 million striker Fernando Torres, who supposedly criticized \"older\" teammates in an interview with Spain's Primera Liga website which was translated to English on his personal Internet page.",
"\"We are going in-depth to regain the tape of that interview.",
"We'll see if things play exactly as they are in that interview,\" said the London team's manager Andre Villas-Boas.",
"Torres was dropped for Saturday's win at Sunderland, having earlier lost his place in the Spain squad for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Liechtenstein.",
"Group F sees another England-Germany clash as Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund host Arsenal, while French runners-up Marseille visit Greece's Olympiakos.",
"In Group G, Portuguese champions Porto welcome Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk, and Apoel of Cyprus host Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg."
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"Zlatan Ibrahimovic suffers injury ahead of Champions League trip to Barcelona .",
"Swede will miss match against former club after damaging his thigh in training .",
"Barca to recall star forward Lionel Messi, who was rested in weekend La Liga game .",
"Defending champions will be without injured new signing Alexis Sanchez ."
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"(CNN) -- Activists speaking at a Syrian government-sponsored \"national dialogue\" meeting Sunday criticized recent crackdowns by the country's security forces, calling for an end to violence against protesters.",
"Syria's vice president hailed the Damascus University meeting between officials and members of the opposition as a step toward creating a \"democratic nation.\"",
"\"We hope that at the end of this comprehensive meeting to announce the transition of Syria to a pluralistic democratic nation where all citizens are guided by equality and participate in the modeling of the future of their country,\" Vice President Faruq al-Shara said in opening remarks at the meeting, which was broadcast live on state television.",
"Syrian activists say that security personnel have assaulted unarmed protesters during months of anti-government demonstrations that erupted nationwide in mid-March.",
"The Syrian government has claimed armed groups are responsible for the violence at the demonstrations.",
"Several speakers at Sunday's meeting called on Syria's government to change its tactics.",
"\"The bloodshed needs to stop.",
"Yes, there are unauthorized protests, but is it a reason to use unjustified and excessive violence?",
"The use of all types of excessive force is unjustified,\" said Qadri Jameel of the opposition Front of Change and Liberation.",
"Syrian researcher Al-Tayyeb Tizzina also criticized the use of force and asked for violence to stop in order for the dialogue to succeed.",
"\"The establishment of a political society requires the immediate start of a process dismantling the police state that is dominating Syria,\" he said.",
"Al-Shara acknowledged that a surge of violence in Syria precipitated Sunday's meeting.",
"\"We have to admit that without the big sacrifices that were presented by the Syrian people, from the blood of their sons, civilians or military in more than one province, city and town, this meeting wouldn't have happened,\" he said.",
"The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said the meeting included members of the opposition, independent activists, youth leaders and academics.",
"However, some opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's regime have criticized the meeting, saying the government is trying to quiet widespread unrest without making meaningful changes.",
"Demonstrators protested the meeting in nationwide \"no dialogue\" marches Friday.",
"\"Any dialogue must be based on the base of (al-Assad's) stepping down from power,\" said a statement from the Change in Syria Conference, an opposition group that called for al-Assad to hand over power to the vice president at a meeting in Turkey last month.",
"Sunday's dialogue meeting began as Syria's foreign ministry summoned the U.S. and French ambassadors and accused them of interfering in internal affairs when they visited Syria's fourth-largest city without permission last week, state media reported.",
"The ministry told the diplomats that their visit to the city of Hama violated the Vienna Convention, according to SANA.",
"That 1961 accord, brokered through the United Nations, sets ground rules as to how diplomats can operate in other countries.",
"However, a senior U.S. State Department official said U.S.",
"Ambassador Robert Ford was not summoned by Syrian officials on Sunday; his meeting with Syria's foreign minister was previously scheduled by the U.S. Embassy in Damascus last Thursday.",
"The official declined to speak on the record because of the sensitivity of the situation.",
"In the meeting, Ford said his visit to Hama was meant to gather information and support freedom of expression.",
"He also accused the Syrian government of inciting Syrians against the United States, including organizing a protest outside the U.S. Embassy Friday and Saturday, the senior State Department official said.",
"Protesters threw tomatoes, eggs, glass and rocks at the embassy as they called for the ambassador to leave during the 31-hour demonstration, according to the senior State Department official, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the situation.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland issued a blunt rebuttal to similar Syrian government accusations Friday, calling claims that Ford's visit was inciting protesters \"absolute rubbish\" and saying she was \"dismayed\" by the Syrian government's reaction.",
"Nuland said the U.S. Embassy had notified the Syrian Defense Ministry before the visit and that Ford's car was waved through a security checkpoint.",
"The French foreign ministry issued a statement Sunday saying that its embassy had also been besieged by demonstrators, faulting Syrian authorities for failing to stop the destruction of vehicles, burning of French flags and other damage.",
"The French government summoned Syria's ambassador to France on Sunday to issue a formal protest on this matter, and to hold Syrian authorities responsible for the security of French diplomats in the Middle Eastern country.",
"It also challenged the Damascus government's decision to summon Eric Chevallier, France's own ambassador to Syria.",
"Like the U.S. ambassador, Chevallier visited Hama on Thursday and spent the night, the French government said, meeting with wounded people and their families and medical staffers at a hospital.",
"Al-Assad issued a decree appointing a Hama provincial governor Sunday, a day after firing the existing leader after a series of peaceful demonstrations there, including a massive anti-government protest last Friday.",
"Activists and Human Rights Watch have reported many arrests and deaths in a fierce government crackdown in the area.",
"Citizens have called a general strike in the city.",
"Diplomatic tensions over Syria also flared in Washington last week, with the State Department summoning Syrian Ambassador Imad Mustapha Friday.",
"The State Department said Mustapha was called \"to express a number of our concerns with the reported actions of certain Syrian embassy staff in the United States.\"",
"The statement, issued in response to a question taken at Friday's daily briefing, said the State Department had received reports that Syrian mission personnel had been conducting video surveillance of people participating in peaceful demonstrations in the United States.",
"\"We are also investigating reports that the Syrian government has sought retribution against Syrian family members for the actions of their relatives in the United States exercising their lawful rights in this country and will respond accordingly,\" the statement said.",
"CNN's Elise Labott, Yousuf Basil and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report."
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"U.S. State Department official: The Syrian government incites anti-American sentiment .",
"Also Sunday, a state-backed \"national dialogue\" meeting continued in Damascus .",
"\"The bloodshed needs to stop.",
"...",
"Excessive force is unjustified,\" one activist says ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Everyone remembers the iconic image of Brandi Chastain on her knees after the U.S. women's soccer team won the 1999 World Cup Championship.",
"Hope Solo was only 17 then, inspired by the American women on the field.",
"Now, Solo, the goalie of the 2011 team, is poised with her teammates to repeat the drama of all those years ago.",
"After winning several games in dramatic fashion, the U.S. women face Japan Sunday for the championship in Frankfurt, Germany.",
"The 1999 team set the bar high, Solo told CNN Friday.",
"But she wanted to set the record straight: her team wants its own bragging rights.",
"\"Twelve years later, this team wants to write their own storybook ending,\" Solo said.",
"\"We want to end with our legacy and we are a very different team from the '99 team.",
"So, you know, we do hope that looking forward, people remember the 2011 U.S. women's soccer team.\"",
"Sunday's game will determine what kind of lasting memories Solo's team will be able to etch, but it was hard not to know Solo's name Friday.",
"She became somewhat of an instant celebrity, especially on Twitter, where a trending topic was \"marrymehope.\"",
"She dodged the question about the topic on CNN's \"American Morning,\" instead focusing on the team spirit that catapulted America to the finals.",
"Others may find it surprising that the United States emerged as the new darling of 2011 soccer, she said, but not the team.",
"\"We came into this tournament with one goal,\" Solo said.",
"\"It wasn't to beat Brazil in the quarterfinal.",
"It wasn't to make it to the final.",
"Our only goal of this tournament was to win the whole thing.",
"I think when you get this close, you would have a lot of regrets if you walked away and you didn't win it all.\"",
"Japan may have world's collective sympathy after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, but America is not going down to the sentimentality, Solo said.",
"\"This team is truly a team, and, as cliche as that is in sports these days, this team will fight until the bitter end to find a way to win,\" she said.",
"\"It's not always pretty but everybody on the field is trying to find a way to win,\" she said.",
"\"I think it's the American way.",
"It's the American spirit.",
"I think America is so behind us because you can feel that spirit and you can feel the fight in our team.",
"And people kind of grab on to that.\"",
"If they win Sunday, the U.S. women would become the first team to win the Women's World Cup three times, after taking titles in 1991 and 1999.",
"Just as she was inspired by the 1999 team, Solo hopes to awaken the thrill of soccer among the next generation of American women.",
"\"You can't not think about it when you see the kids come to our games, when you see all of the inspirational signs that are at the training fields, at the playing fields,\" Solo said.",
"\"I do my best to be a good role model and I do my best to inspire people, especially the youth of America.\"",
"She wants to give back, she said, because the fans instill confidence, give her joy.",
"And that's what will make her thrive come the all-important game Sunday."
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"Hope Solo was only 17 when the U.S. women won the 1999 World Cup .",
"She says she was inspired by her predecessors .",
"But the 2011 team wants to leave its own legacy .",
"In turn, she wants to be a good role model to younger Americans ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Eight people were killed Monday after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the home of a senior police official, Karachi police said.",
"Six officers who were stationed as guards were killed in the attack, along with a mother and a girl as they were walking to the girl's school, said Shoukat Ali, a senior Karachi police official.",
"The house was badly damaged, but the intended target of the attack -- Chaudhry Aslam -- is safe, said Jamil Khan, a Karachi police official.",
"The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.",
"Ihsanullah Ihsan, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, told CNN by phone that Aslam was the target of the explosion.",
"\"Aslam has killed and arrested lots of our mujahidin and will have to face the consequences,\" Ihsan said.",
"\"Mujahidin\" refers to militants fighting against the Pakistani state and who are often affiliated with radical Islam.",
"Ihsan said the explosion is also a message to officials who work against the Taliban and alongside the United States.",
"\"All pro-U.S. security officials are ... our target,\" Ihsan said.",
"But Aslam said he was \"not afraid of this coward attack by Taliban,\" appearing on national news channels and vowing to continue the fight against the militants.",
"\"I have been receiving threats from the Taliban for a long time,\" the police official said.",
"\"I have been defeating Taliban (militants) by arresting them, and will continue until I have last drop of blood in my body.\"",
"Aslam added, \"I will give (the) Taliban a lesson which even their children will remember forever.\"",
"CNN's Nick Paton Walsh contributed to this report ."
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"\"All pro-U.S. security officials are ... our target,\" the Pakistani Taliban says .",
"The eight killed include six officers, a mother and a child .",
"Police: Chaudhry Aslam, a senior police official, was the intended target but is safe .",
"Aslam appears on national TV and vows to continue fighting the Taliban ."
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"(CNN) -- Some big-name clubs were in action in European football's second-tier competition on Thursday, but most attention was focused on Istanbul for the visit of little-fancied Maccabi Tel-Aviv.",
"In a match played against a backdrop of escalating tensions between Turkey and Israel, the home team Besiktas triumphed 5-1 in the opening round of the Europa League tournament.",
"With Turkey having announced the expulsion of Israel's ambassador last week and the suspension of military agreements following a naval incident in May, there were fears the match might not go ahead.",
"But despite some anti-Israel protests outside Inonu Stadium, the match passed relatively peacefully after Besiktas took the lead in the third minute through Portuguese striker Hugo Almeida, who doubled the advantage before half an hour had been played.",
"Maccabi, 18-time Israeli champions but third in the league last season, pulled a goal back through Roi Kehat's header four minutes after halftime but could not manage a first victory in the club's fifth meeting with Turkish opposition.",
"Besiktas -- fifth in last season's Turkish Super Lig and winners of the domestic cup before club officials were arrested in a match-fixing investigation -- hit back immediately through Mehmet Aurelio and Egemen Korkmaz, while Brazilian substitute Edu added the fifth goal two minutes from time.",
"In the other Group E tie, Dinamo Kiev had to come from behind to draw 1-1 with English side Stoke City.",
"Ognjen Vukojevic's late goal canceled out Cameron Jerome's 55th-minute opener in Ukraine to deny the visitors victory in the club's first European outing in 37 years.",
"Last season's losing finalists Braga beat English debutants Birmingham 3-1 away in Group H, while Belgium's Bruges won 2-0 at home to Slovenia's Maribor.",
"Atletico Madrid, who won the 2009-10 title, cruised to a 2-0 win at home to Scottish side Celtic -- playing after Swiss club Sion lost an appeal after fielding ineligible players.",
"Striker Falcao scored a record 17 goals in the competition last season as Porto won the title, and he opened the scoring with an early header for his new Spanish club.",
"Brazilian midfielder Diego sealed victory in the second half.",
"In the other Group I match, Italy's Udinese won 2-1 at home Rennes.",
"In Group A, English club Tottenham drew 0-0 away to Greece's PAOK Salonika, who missed a first-half penalty which had to be retaken.",
"Russia's Rubin Kazan won 3-0 away to Irish minnows Shamrock.",
"Danish titleholders Copenhagen lead Group B, winning 1-0 at home to Ukraine's Vorskla Poltava after dropping down from the Champions League qualifiers.",
"Germany's Hannover drew 0-0 at home with Belgian runners-up Standard Liege.",
"PSV Eindhoven, European champions in 1988, won 1-0 at home Poland's Legia Warsaw while Romania's Rapid Bucharest triumphed by the same score away to Hapoel Tel-Aviv of Israel in the other Group C tie.",
"Italian side Lazio were surprisingly held 2-2 at home by Romania's Vaslui in Group D, while Portugal's Sporting Lisbon won 2-0 away to Swiss club Zurich.",
"Big-spending French club Paris St. Germain won 3-1 at home to Austria's Salzburg in Group F, while Spanish side Athletic Bilbao won 2-1 away to Slovakia's Slovan Bratislava.",
"In Group G, Dutch club AZ Alkmaar beat Sweden's Malmo 4-1 and Ukraine's Metalist Kharkiv came from behind to win 2-1 away to Austria Vienna.",
"Maccabi Haifa gave Israel some joy with a 1-0 win at home to AEK Larnaca of Cyprus in Group J, while Steaua Bucharest and Germany's Schalke battled to a stalemate in Romania.",
"English club Fulham, losing finalists in 2010, drew 1-1 at home with that season's Dutch champions Twente in Group K -- where Denmark's Odense head the standings after winning 3-1 away to Poland's Wisla Krakow.",
"In Group L, Belgian side Anderlecht trounced AEK Athens 4-1 as Argentine striker Matias Suarez scored a hat-trick, while Russia's Locomotiv Moscow won 2-1 in Austria against Sturm Graz."
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"Maccabi Tel Aviv lose 5-1 in trip to face Turkish club Besiktas in Europa League .",
"Match played against a back-drop of rising tensions between Turkey and Israel .",
"It passes with few problems, though protesters demonstrate outside ground .",
"European football's secondary tournament begins group stage after qualifying rounds ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- September 16, 2011 .",
"Media Literacy Question of the Day .",
"What factors would a journalist need to consider when telling a story about a wartime battle? ... ...",
"Know Your News -- The following questions relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News.",
"Write your answers in the space provided.",
"Click here for a PDF version of this Newsquiz.",
"1. What medal, the highest U.S. military honor, was Dakota Meyer awarded for his actions during a firefight in Afghanistan? ... ...",
"2. What country has the world's second-largest economy? ... ...",
"3. Who was the U.S. president during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks? ... ...",
"4. What month-long event takes place from September 15 to October 15? ... ...",
"5. At what grade level are students in a Maine school district receiving iPads in an attempt to improve their reading? ... ...",
"6. On Sunday, 9/11 memorial ceremonies were held at Ground Zero in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in a field in what Pennsylvania town? ... ...",
"7. What U.S. statistic rose to 15.1 percent in 2010, its highest level since 1993? ... ...",
"8. Along with CNN, what group sponsored a debate between Republican candidates in Tampa, Florida on Monday? ... ...",
"9. In what capital city did the Taliban carry out several attacks on Tuesday? ... ...",
"10. British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited what war-torn nation on Thursday? ... ..."
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"Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on CNN Student News .",
"Write your answers in the space provided .",
"Today's Newsquiz includes the Media Literacy Question of the Day ."
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"(CNN) -- Two of Malaga's big-name pre-season signings engineered the Spanish club's first win of the new La Liga season on Monday.",
"Spain internationals Santi Cazorla and Joaquin Sanchez both scored twice in the 4-0 victory at promoted Granada, relieving the pressure on coach Manuel Pellegrini after the opening-day defeat by Sevilla.",
"The former Real Madrid boss was given a big transfer kitty by Qatari owner Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nassar Al-Thani after Malaga flirted with relegation last season before finishing 11th.",
"Cazorla, who cost $27 million when he joined from Villarreal in August, netted the opening goal four minutes into his home debut in the Andalusian derby.",
"Fellow winger Joaquin, who signed for $5.5 million from Valencia, doubled the lead on 25 with a header from a cross by Jesus Gamez, and Cazorla made it 3-0 with a free-kick two minutes after the halftime break.",
"Cazorla set up Joaquin for the fourth in the 72nd minute to leave Granada bottom of the table below Sporting Gijon, with both clubs losing their first two matches.",
"In England's Premier League, unbeaten Newcastle moved up to fourth place despite being held 0-0 away to promoted Queen's Park Rangers.",
"The home side ended a run of three defeats after manager Neil Warnock gave midfielder Joey Barton the captain's armband against his former club."
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"New signings Santi Cazorla and Joaquin Sanchez score twice in Malaga's 4-0 win .",
"Promoted Granada drop to bottom of table in Spain after second successive defeat .",
"Unbeaten Newcastle move up to fourth place in England after 0-0 draw at promoted QPR ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Asian football president Mohammed bin Hammam has failed to overturn his life ban in an appeal to world ruling body FIFA.",
"The Qatari had hoped to be reinstated after being accused of bribing officials for votes in June's FIFA presidential election, but the Appeal Committee announced on Thursday that the suspension will stand.",
"\"The appeal made by Mohammed bin Hammam has been rejected and the decision of the FIFA Ethics Committee confirmed,\" FIFA's website reported.",
"\"The sanction of being banned from taking part in any kind of football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other) at national and international level for life has therefore been maintained.\"",
"Ecuador's Francisco Acosta chaired a panel also comprising Argentina's Fernando Mitjans and Augustin Senghor of Senegal to hear the case.",
"Bin Hammam said he now intended to pursue the matter with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, where he feels he has a better chance of success.",
"\"Of course, today's outcome from the Appeal Committee was not unexpected or surprising.",
"To be fair to the Appeal Committee members though, as a consequence of our experiences with the Ethics Committee, we didn't make serious efforts to prove my innocence this time around,\" he said on his website.",
"\"I can now see, at last, light at the end of the tunnel and I am heading confidently towards it.",
"My next step is to go to CAS, where from now on I will be equal to my rival.\"",
"Bin Hammam was provisionally found guilty of breaching FIFA's ethics code just days before the June 1 election, in which he was to be incumbent Sepp Blatter's only opponent.",
"The 62-year-old withdrew from contention and was subsequently banned for life in July.",
"He has maintained his innocence, despite being found guilty of offering money to Caribbean delegates.",
"FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was also provisionally suspended for his part in the affair, but decided to resign rather than appear in front of the Ethics Committee.",
"Bin Hammam, a former FIFA Executive Committee member, was chairman of the Qatar Football Association from 1992-96 and president of the Asian Football Confederation from 2002-11.",
"He was a key figure as Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, despite accusations of corruption in the build-up to the FIFA delegates' vote on that tournament and the 2018 event, which went to Russia."
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"FIFA rejects Mohammed Bin Hammam's appeal against his life ban from football .",
"Qatari had been found guilty of breaching ruling body's code of ethics .",
"The 62-year-old was accused of trying to buy votes from Caribbean delegates .",
"He had been head of the Asian Football Confederation since 2002 ."
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"(CNN) -- A 93rd minute Thiago Silva goal salvaged a late draw for AC Milan as they held Barcelona in their opening European Champions League Group H match on Tuesday.",
"It was the least Milan deserved after taking the game to the European champions, even going ahead within the first minute thanks to a piece of individual brilliance.",
"Brazilian international Pato slalomed through Barcelona's surprisingly porous defense before slotting home to give the home side an early, and unexpected, bloody nose.",
"Barcelona pressed for an inevitable equalizer with Lionel Messi again central.",
"After clipping the post a few minutes earlier, his mazy run found him enough space to stroke a ball across the penalty box that was gleefully tapped in by Pedro.",
"And when David Villa scored with a brilliant second half free kick, it looked like Barcelona would start their defense of the crown with an impressive win against one of the strongest teams in European football.",
"But Thiago Silva's late, late header shared the points.",
"Elsewhere in Europe goals were in short supply.",
"It took Chelsea 72 minutes to break the deadlock against German side Bayer Leverkusen in Group E, Brazilian defender David Luiz curling in a right foot shot from Fernando Torres' lay off.",
"Spain international Torres was again the provider when he unselfishly squared the ball to compatriot Juan Mata with the match going into injury time, sealing a 2-0 victory.",
"Arsenal had their hopes of an early away victory against Borussia Dortmund in Group F dashed late on when an incredible Ivan Perisic volley cancelled out Robin van Persie's first half strike.",
"The result of the night, however, came from Cyprus where Apoel Nicosia came from a goal down against Russian champions Zenit St Petersburg with under 20 minutes left to win 2-1 in Group G. Konstatin Zyryanov's second half strike looked to have sealed victory for Zenit, but two goals in three minutes from Apoel's Brazilian duo of Gustavo Manduca and Ailton turned the tie on its head.",
"Elsewhere in Group G Porto got their campaign off to a winning start by beating nine-man Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 in Portugal.",
"Striker Kleber made it a good night for Brazilians playing in Europe after scoring the winning goal in the second half.",
"Belgian side Genk fought a creditable 0-0 draw against Spain's Valencia in Group E, whilst Czech debutantes Viktoria Plzen also won their first ever Champions League point in Group H with a 1-1 home draw against BATE Borisov from Belarus.",
"In Group F Didier Deschamps' Marseilles got their Champions League challenge off to the best possible start against Greek side Olympiakos.",
"Argentina midfielder Lucho González' scored the only goal of a game that saw Olympiakos reduced to ten men after substitute Rod Fanni was shown a straight red card for a reckless challenge."
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"AC Milan score an injury-time equalizer against Barcelona .",
"Milan had taken the lead in the first minute, before settling for a 2-2 draw .",
"Chelsea beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 .",
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"(CNN) -- Players in the top two tiers of the Spanish league have announced they are to go on strike for the first two weekends of the season.",
"Over 100 players, including Barcelona captain Carles Puyol and Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, voted for action in a long-running financial dispute with the league (LFP).",
"Spanish champions Barcelona are due to begin the defence of their title at Malaga on August 21 with their nearest challengers, and fierce rivals Real Madrid, hosting Athletic Bilbao.",
"In a statement on their web site the president of the players' union (AFE) Luis Manuel Rubiales confirmed the strike action would go ahead.",
"The disagreement centers on the union's demand for an increase to the emergency fund that helps protects players' wages if their clubs experience financial difficulties.",
"The league said in their own statement that they did not understand the strike action as they had recently introduced two \"historic\" changes in relation to the players' requests.",
"A new financial self-regulation code for clubs has been introduced as well as a guarantee to cover a chunk of wages for players at clubs who go into administration.",
"\"For this reason, the calling of a strike at a moment when fundamental steps forward are being taken is incomprehensible for the LFP,\" they said.",
"At a press conference on Wednesday Rubiales, flanked by Puyol and Casillas, attacked the league.",
"\"It is lamentable. As it stands we are at the bottom of the pile in Europe,\" Rubiales said.",
"\"We don't want more money we want the clubs to honor the contracts they sign with their players.",
"\"We have put forward proposals which exist in Holland, Germany, France and England which are preventative.",
"In these countries if a club shows it can't pay its players the club doesn't compete.",
"\"We have asked that players who are owed more than three months (wages) can break their contracts.",
"It seemed like we had an agreement but it was left out.\"",
"The LFP continued in their statement: \"The position of the LFP is at all times to advance the negotiations, to continue working and to reach early agreement satisfactory to all.\""
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"Spanish soccer players vote to strike for the first two weekends of upcoming league season .",
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"Dispute centers on a fund to help protect players' wages at struggling clubs .",
"The Spanish league call the strike action 'incomprehensible'"
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A \"surprisingly healthy\" population of rare snow leopards has been discovered in the remote northeastern stretches of Afghanistan, one of the few areas largely unaffected by the near decade-long war in the country.",
"Researchers photographed the elusive big cat using camera traps at 16 different locations across Afghanistan's mountainous Wakhan Corridor, according to a recent report from the Wildlife Conservation Society.",
"The images are the first camera trap records of snow leopards in Afghanistan, the organization noted.",
"\"This is a wonderful discovery -- it shows that there is real hope for snow leopards in Afghanistan,\" said Peter Zahler, the group's deputy director.",
"\"Now our goal is to ensure that these magnificent animals have a secure future as a key part of Afghanistan's natural heritage.\"",
"The organization said the discovery \"gives hope to the world's most elusive big cat, which calls home to some of the world's tallest mountains.\"",
"But the endangered animal also faces threats from poachers, shepherds and those who capture the cats for illegal trade.",
"Their populations have declined by as much as 20% over the past 16 years, the group reported.",
"Researchers estimate between 4,500 and 7,500 snow leopards are left in the wild, scattered across Central Asia."
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"A population of rare snow leopards has been discovered in Afghanistan .",
"Researchers photographed the elusive big cat using camera traps .",
"The endangered big cat faces threats from poachers and shepherds .",
"Between 4,500 and 7,500 snow leopards are left ."
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"Antalya, Turkey (CNN) -- Hundreds of activists at a meeting in Turkey titled \"Conference for Change in Syria\" issued a declaration Thursday calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down and hand power to his vice president, with the goal of then organizing democratic elections.",
"The opposition gathering also declared its support for the \"Revolution in Syria,\" and elected a 31-member council aimed at assisting the protest movement in Syria.",
"For the last two days, the activists from Syria and international diaspora have gathered in the conference rooms and lobbies of a hotel in this Turkish beach resort, to plot ways to support the bloody revolution in Syria.",
"There are signs the gathering is worrying the regime in Damascus, which has deployed tanks and soldiers in a bloody attempt to crush a tenacious protest movement.",
"On Thursday, as activists busied themselves in workshops on social networking and the drafting of a final declaration, dozens of pro-regime supporters gathered outside the hotel wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the portrait of Syrian al-Assad.",
"\"We love Bashar,\" they chanted.",
"Tareq Salhab, a dentist who traveled from the coastal Syrian city of Latikiya to Antalya on Thursday, accused anti-regime demonstrators in Syria and the activists in the opposition conference in Turkey of being \"terrorists\" and \"traitors.\"",
"\"You have to go to Damascus and Homs and Latakiya to see the democracy in Syria,\" Salhab said, listing Syrian cities.",
"Syrian authorities have denied all CNN requests for journalist visas since last February.",
"Meanwhile, human rights groups report more than 800 people have been killed in the government crackdown and more than 10,000 people detained.",
"Turkish police were out in force in Antalya, ensuring that several hundred pro-government demonstrators could not reach the opposition conference venue.",
"\"This conference is a hard message to the Syrian regime,\" said Omar al Muqdad, a human rights activist from the Syrian town of Dara'a, which has become the symbol of defiance against the al-Assad family, which has ruled Syria for four decades.",
"\"They (the Syrian regime) sent these people here to protest outside this hotel.",
"That means our message, they got it,\" al Muqdad said.",
"\"What would post-Assad Syria look like?",
"That's the $50 million question,\" said Amr Al-Azm, a Syrian-American history professor from Shawnee State University in Ohio.",
"\"We've been able to begin to address what the alternative would like like...we've provided a road map,\" Al-Azm said.",
"Al-Azm helped draft the conference's final communique, which has yet to be released.",
"He is an unlikely revolutionary though.",
"Until last March, Al-Azm was a senior consultant on a project headed by Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma, aimed at reforming Syria's culture ministry.",
"\"What changed for me was the violence, the unprecedented level of violence that seemed random and almost uncontrolled,\" Al-Azm said.",
"\"There are people that I actually know that have had their fingernails pulled out.\"",
"Conference organizers say their main goals are to organize committees aimed at supporting protesters inside Syria, communicating with the media, and lobbying foreign governments.",
"Their aim, they say, is to help unite the opposition both inside and outside Syria."
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"NEW: Syrian activists issue a declaration telling President Bashar al-Assad to step down .",
"The activists are meeting in Turkey in support of the Syrian opposition .",
"Dozens of pro-regime Syrians show up in support of al-Assad .",
"Al-Assad's regime sent the pro-government group, an opposition activist says ."
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"(CNN) -- Edward \"Ned\" Kelly packed a lot of living, stealing and killing in his scant 25 years.",
"So much so that Mick Jagger portrayed him in a movie.",
"As did Heath Ledger.",
"Australian artist Sidney Nolan made Ned Kelly the subject of a series of paintings.",
"The cattle rustler, robber and cop killer was hanged in November 1880 after a string of crimes, including the deaths of three police officers in one incident.",
"His reputed last words: \"Such is life.\"",
"Australia's best-known outlaw, or bushranger, was buried in the Old Melbourne Gaol.",
"But his remains became \"lost\" after they were transferred to another prison near Melbourne.",
"On Thursday Victoria Attorney General Robert Clark announced the search for the remains was over.",
"Through DNA analysis, Kelly's headless skeleton has been positively identified.",
"\"To think a group of scientists could identify the body of a man who was executed more than 130 years ago, moved and buried in a haphazard fashion among 33 other prisoners -- most of whom are not identified -- is amazing,\" Clark said in a prepared statement.",
"The official credited doctors and scientists at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.",
"A DNA sample taken from Melbourne schoolteacher Leigh Olver, great-grandson of Kelly's sister, was instrumental.",
"Opinions on the infamous Kelly and his gang are decidedly mixed, according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.",
"Some scholars and observers have described the outlaw as cold-blooded and egotistical.",
"Author Clive Turnbull said the son of an Irish immigrant showed courage, independence and sympathy for the underdog.",
"Kelly is an integral part of Australian cultural history, with his defiance of the oppressive British authority of the time striking a chord for many Australians.",
"Kelly was captured and hanged after a shootout with police in the Victorian town of Glenrowan.",
"In the shootout, the gang was wearing suits of homemade armor that had been fashioned from farming implements.",
"In 2001, the State Library of Victoria purchased a piece of it for $100,000 (AU $200,000).",
"The library's collection includes the outlaw's helmet and breastplate.",
"According to Clark, the outlaw's remains were among those transferred from the Old Melbourne Gaol to Pentridge Prison in 1929.",
"The skeletons were exhumed again in 2009.",
"\"The project required examination of the remains of 34 individuals in total, many of which were co-mingled and incomplete, making the successful identification even more remarkable,\" according to Clark.",
"The investigation began when a skull believed to be Kelly's was given by an individual to officials in 2009.",
"The skull \"had been taken from the Old Melbourne Gaol in December 1978 where it had been on display next to the death mask of Ned Kelly.",
"An ink inscription 'E.",
"Kelly' was written on the side.\"",
"The skull analysis prompted forensic experts to try to identify Kelly's skeleton.",
"\"Ned Kelly's remains turned out to be an almost complete skeleton found buried in a wooden ax box, although most of the skull was missing,\" Australian officials said.",
"\"Consultations will commence shortly with Ned Kelly's family and other parties involved, regarding the appropriate future resting place for Ned Kelly's remains.\"",
"One problem emerged in the process of identifying the remains, however: The skull from the Old Melbourne Gaol wasn't a match.",
"That mystery continues."
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"Others have called him a cold-blooded killer .",
"His remains have been positively identified; most of the skull is missing ."
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"Rome, Italy (CNN) -- A businessman and his wife were arrested on charges of blackmailing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italian police said Thursday.",
"The blackmail allegations are linked to a sex scandal surrounding Berlusconi for months.",
"Gianpaolo Tarantini, 36, and Angela Devenuto, 34, were arrested at their Rome home and brought to Naples to be questioned by prosecutors.",
"A judge issued an arrest warrant for a third person, Valter Lavitola, who authorities said was the link between Berlusconi and Tarantini.",
"Lavitola is believed to be out of the country.",
"Tarantini, who is accused of paying escorts to go to parties with Berlusconi, has said the leader was not aware of the payments.",
"But, according to the Naples's prosecutors, Berlusconi was a victim of \"veiled and implied threats\" and paid 500,000 euros ($714,250) to Tarantini.",
"Berlusconi told the Panorama newspaper, owned by his media group, that he gave the money to Tarantini as an act of charity.",
"\"Through Lavitola,\" Berlusconi told Panorama, \"I helped a person (Tarantini) with a family and kids, which is now in very bad economic situation.",
"I have nothing to repent of.",
"I didn't do anything illicit; I just helped a desperate man without pretending nothing (anything) in exchange.\"",
"Tarantini said he will cooperate with authorities.",
"He denied he blackmailed Berlusconi, to whom he expressed his \"gratitude for all what he did for he and for my family.\"",
"In a separate case, Berlusconi is presently on trial in Milan for allegedly paying for sex with a then-17-year-old Moroccan belly dancer named Karima el Mahroug, nicknamed \"Ruby the Heart-stealer.\"",
"The Berlusconi sex scandal explained .",
"He is charged with abuse of power because prosecutors say he phoned a police station -- where she was being held on theft charges -- to have her released.",
"Berlusconi has repeatedly denied all of the allegations, even joking about how unlikely it is that a man his age would be capable of the sexual feats some have claimed.",
"\"I'm 74 years old and even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to me too much even for a 30-year-old.\"",
"In 2009, his wife of 19 years, Veronica Lario, filed for divorce and publicly accused her husband of \"consorting with minors\" after he attended the 18th birthday party of an aspiring TV actress and model called Noemi Letizia.",
"Berlusconi said the young woman was the daughter of a friend and that he had done nothing inappropriate.",
"Noemi Letizia and her family also said there was nothing improper.",
"That same year, another young woman, Patrizia D'Addario, alleged she and other girls were paid to attend parties at Berlusconi's residence.",
"Berlusconi denied the claim, telling his weekly magazine Chi: \"I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.\"",
"El Mahroug has denied having sex with the premier.",
"Both admit that he gave her money, although they say it was an act of kindness to help the young girl.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"They are accused of blackmailing the Italian prime minister .",
"Berlusconi said he gave the family money out of charity ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- With U.S.-Pakistan relations in the deep freeze, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and American officials called Thursday for a thaw.",
"\"Blame games, rigidity, arrogance, insensitivity to each other's national interests is certainly very counter-productive,\" Musharraf said in Washington.",
"\"It definitely saddens me to see the deteriorating Pakistan-United States relations,\" he said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.",
"Twelve weeks have passed since American commandos killed Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan, an event that dramatically widened the rift between the two countries.",
"Musharraf denied he knew during his time as president or later that bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan.",
"\"Whether one believes it or not, let me say with confidence, I did not know,\" he declared.",
"He suggested that it was negligence and not complicity of the Pakistan government that allowed bin Laden to stay there undetected.",
"\"If there was complicity this is very, very serious indeed,\" Musharraf said.",
"\"I think the UN and the United States have all the right to be against Pakistan if it ultimately comes to believe that ... people were hiding him, people were complicit in it,\" Musharraf said.",
"The former president and general, who has been living in London, pledged to return to Pakistan next March for a political comeback in 2013, in what he called \"the mother of all elections.\"",
"David Petraeus, making his way home from Afghanistan where he was commanding general and soon to start his new job as CIA director, reportedly told a Paris audience yesterday he also is worried about relations with Pakistan.",
"He just completed a visit there and said the relationship is at a difficult stage but the U.S. must continue efforts to work with Pakistan, recognizing what it has done in the fight against terror.",
"Meanwhile in Washington, top U.S. military leaders told senators of their concerns about Pakistan.",
"The soldier poised to take over as chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Ray Odierno, said militants hiding out in Pakistan along the Afghanistan border are a major security challenge facing the United States.",
"Adm. James Winnefeld, tapped as the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pakistan must do more to crack down on insurgents like the Haqqani network.",
"\"Pakistan is a very, very difficult partner and we all know that.",
"We don't always share the same world view or the same opinions or the same national interests,\" Winnefeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee.",
"\"I think we need to continued pressure on Pakistan using all elements of pressure that we're able to apply to what really should be a friend to get them to realize that the Haqqani network poses a threat to their own country and to take the steps that we've asked them to take.\"",
"Former congresswoman and Wilson Center director Jane Harmon said both the United States and Pakistan have made mistakes and miscalculations.",
"\"Nothing is irreparable and this relationship has got to be fixed,\" Harmon said after Musharraf's speech.",
"\"I think some tough love is required, I think there needs to be a more honest and straight relationship,\" Harmon said.",
"\"The Pakistanis have grievances, but we clearly have grievances too.\""
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"The former president of Pakistan says he did not know Osama bin Laden was hiding there .",
"\"Let me say with confidence, I did not know,\" Pervez Musharraf tells a Washington group .",
"Musharraf and U.S. officials separately call for a thaw in chilly U.S.-Pakistan relations ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Home to some 70 million Muslims, Nigeria is stepping up efforts to capitalize on the growing popularity of the one of the world's fastest-growing financial sectors: Islamic banking.",
"Earlier this year the Central Bank of Nigeria announced a final set of regulations which introduced Islamic banking to the country.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy discussed the sector's potential with Hajara Adeola, managing director of Lotus Capital, one of the groups helping to pave the way for Islamic finance in Nigeria.",
"Adeola says there is a growing appetite for this form of banking.",
"\"It is working in Nigeria and there is a lot of interest in doing Islamic banking, in West Africa in particular,\" she says.",
"Spread across the Middle East and other parts of the world, a slew of Islamic financial institutions have been offering interest-free services that advocates say can provide a more sustainable alternative to conventional banking practices.",
"The industry, which exists in more than 50 countries, is estimated to be worth around $1 trillion and has the potential to eventually be worth $5 trillion, according to ratings agency Moody's.",
"Charging and paying interest is not allowed in Islamic finance because it is prohibited under Sharia law.",
"Instead, if a bank is providing finance for an infrastructure project, for example, the bank and customer agree to share the risk of investment and divide any earnings.",
"\"One of the most well known (principles) is the lack of interest or usury, so you can't own a return simply for having money -- which is what interest is,\" Adeola says.",
"\"You would have to somehow employ that money into productive use and then you can earn a return on that money.\"",
"Islamic banks are not allowed to trade in financial risk areas or deal in mortgage-backed securities or credit-default swaps.",
"Investing in Islamically unacceptable businesses such as alcohol and cigarette makers, casinos and adult-entertainment companies is also forbidden.",
"In June, Jaiz Bank International became the first group to be allowed to open a Shariah-compliant bank in Nigeria after gaining an approval in principal from the country's Central Bank.",
"Adeola believes Nigeria has the potential to become one of the largest Islamic banking sectors in the world.",
"\"It is a huge market,\" she says.",
"\"There's about 70 million Muslims in Nigeria.",
"Research shows approximately 30% of the Muslim population typically would be interested in Islamic finance and if you look at the projection they made for the size of the market, it is really quite tremendous -- and that's just the domestic.\"",
"But the Central Bank's decision has met opposition from some Christian leaders in Nigeria, who argue that the move could increase religious violence in a country whose population is almost evenly divided between Muslims and Christians.",
"According to a VOA news report in mid-July, the Christian Association of Nigeria said the introduction of Islamic banking could stir up religious tensions at a time when security forces are fighting Islamic fundamentalists who want an independent state in northern Nigeria ruled by Islamic law.",
"But Adeola says that Islamic finance is not a threat and can appeal to the country's Christian community as well its Muslims.",
"\"Islamic finance is universal,\" she says.",
"\"There is nothing about it that offends anyone or offends their faith or their principles.",
"If anything, there are many Christians who like to invest with us because it's also in line with their own ethical values.\"",
"Christian Purefoy and Teo Kermeliotis contributed to this report ."
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"Islamic banks do not charge interest because it's prohibited under the Sharia law .",
"Islamic finance can appeal to Christians as well, says Hajara Adeola of Lotus Capital ."
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"Hebron, West Bank (CNN) -- Standing under a large poster of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, Nabil Saeed lays out large rolls of red, green, white and black cloth on his workshop table.",
"These are the colors of his homeland, one he hopes will soon become a fully recognized state.",
"The flag-maker marks the cloth in precise shapes before cutting different colored layers as the hum of a sewing machine is heard from a small room next door.",
"The Saeed family home in the West Bank city of Hebron has been bustling with activity lately, as they seek to meet the increased demand for Palestinian flags ahead of an expected move by the Palestinian Authority to seek statehood at the United Nations next week.",
"Having cut the cloth, Saeed and his wife, together with his nephew Mahmoud, sit in a small room, filled with textiles, threads of different colors, and three small tables.",
"Perched upon each table is an old sewing machine, like a relic of a bygone era.",
"Like clockwork, the pieces of cloth here are passed between them.",
"First, Nabil's nephew, Mahmoud, sews the pieces together, passes them to Saeed's wife, who passes the flag-in-making on to him, who quickly adds the finishing touches and lays it on a pile of flags on the table next to him.",
"During the past few weeks the three of them have sewn over fifteen thousand flags says Nabil, who has been doing this for over 40 years.",
"His profession has even landed him behind bars in an Israeli prison.",
"\"During the first Intifada we were only producing a very small quantity of flags because it was forbidden, but when the Palestinian Authority arrived we started producing huge quantities,\" he explains.",
"At a time when business is slow, Saeed welcomes the Palestinian authority's U.N. initiative and the public relations campaign behind it.",
"He says it has brought him fresh business, at a time when the global economy and foreign competition has made his job more difficult than ever.",
"\"During the second Intifada we also produced large quantities of flags, but when people started importing the flags from outside with cheaper prices, it was not that good business,\" Nabil says, remembering that he used to be able to charge the equivalent of about seven dollars for a flag.",
"He says he would be lucky to get four dollars today.",
"\"We used to do thousands of flags before people start importing the flags from China, it's something that affected the prices dramatically.",
"It caused us to stop producing,\" he says.",
"But money is not the driving factor for the flag maker, rather he is driven by the dream of finally having a Palestinian State.",
"\"This flag that we sew and will continue to sew, we hope we will see it raised at the United Nations with the rest of the world.",
"This is our hope, and we are sure that one day our flags will be raised in the United Nations and on every international occasion.",
"It is a dream that is coming true, and we hope that our brothers, the Arabs, will support us,\" the flag makers say.",
"Mahmoud, Saeed's nephew, agrees.",
"\"Money is not the issue here, what is important is to have a state where we can live in dignity, where we can go wherever we want, where we can visit our holy places and walk our streets without having soldiers stopping us and asking for ID.",
"This would be much better than any quantity of money.",
"Business is important, but living in freedom and dignity is much more important,\" Mahmoud says.",
"Yaeem Al-Heleh has been running a printing business just down the road from Saeed's flag factory since the 1980's.",
"Cardboard boxes full of flyers, posters, and small printed flags are stacked in the corner of the room.",
"Nearby, workers use a hot press to flatten the freshly printed flags and others print large posters adorned with the picture of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat standing next to current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.",
"Like his friend Nabil Saeed, Al-Heleh welcomes the extra income the Palestinian statehood campaign has brought, and he too believes the dream it carries is important.",
"\"We have been dreaming of having a state since the beginning of occupation.",
"People were very positive towards this campaign.",
"Here in Palestine everybody is supporting this idea.",
"We hope to have the support from the Arab states and the whole world,\" he says.",
"Although he, like many, sees the likelihood of Palestinian Authority success at the United Nations Security Council as very low, AL-Heleh says he is hopeful that the Palestinian push for statehood will bring change.",
"Read what Israel's prime minister thinks about the Palestinian bid .",
"\"The flag today has a special meaning, before we used to fight in order to raise it.",
"The flag used to be raised and then the Israeli soldiers used to take it down and now the flag is in a way of getting sovereignty and recognition.",
"Now 130 countries recognize us and are ready to support us, I think it's a dream that could come true,\" he says.",
"Sitting behind his sewing machine Nabil Saeed sighs when asked whether he thinks the Palestinian Authority will succeed with its effort this month.",
"\"If we don't succeed in September, it won't be the end and we will continue the resistance until our flag is raised everywhere.",
"I will continue sewing the flag and I will never get bored of it.",
"This is our flag, this is our pride and we will continue raising it all of our lives,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- More than 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables are now available in full and unfiltered online, exposing scores of U.S. diplomatic sources and informants that were meant to be protected often for their own safety, according to the website WikiLeaks.",
"But this is not an official WikiLeaks release.",
"Rather, what appears to be a string of errors has lead to both the raw file and the password that unlocks that file to be released into the public domain, without WikiLeaks control.",
"In a statement posted on Twitter, WikiLeaks said, \"Guardian investigations editor, David Leigh, recklessly, and without gaining our approval, knowingly disclosed the decryption passwords in a book published by the Guardian.\"",
"In February, Leigh released the book \"WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy.\"",
"In it, he describes in detail how WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange gave him the password to unlock the massive archive of diplomatic cables.",
"The London-based Guardian newspaper responded to the WikiLeaks tweet with its own statement: \"It's nonsense to suggest the Guardian's WikiLeaks book has compromised security in any way.",
"Our book about WikiLeaks was published last February.",
"It contained a password, but no details of the location of the files, and we were told it was a temporary password which would expire and be deleted in a matter of hours.",
"\"It was a meaningless piece of information to anyone except the person(s) who created the database.",
"No concerns were expressed when the book was published and if anyone at WikiLeaks had thought this compromised security they have had seven months to remove the files.",
"That they didn't do so clearly shows the problem was not caused by the Guardian's book.\"",
"So how did it happen? In November, WikiLeaks announced that it would begin releasing the diplomatic cables together with select media partners, including the Guardian, Germany's Der Spiegel, France's Le Monde and Spain's El Pais, among others.",
"WikiLeaks now says it has more than 90 participating media and human rights partners.",
"WikiLeaks shared both the raw file containing the cables and the password with its partners in order for them to jointly comb through the files and research their contents.",
"Most media, including WikiLeaks, redacted the material before publishing their findings.",
"WikiLeaks itself promised to publish all of the diplomatic cables on its website but only after vetting the documents and conducting its own \"harm minimization\" policy of removing any information that might endanger diplomatic sources and informants.",
"However, in that process, the raw file was unwittingly posted online by WikiLeaks supporters and available for anyone to download, according to former WikiLeaks insider Daniel Domscheit-Berg.",
"WikiLeaks often asks its supporters to help back up its website by downloading and sometimes mirroring the material it has already released.",
"\"The people releasing the file were not aware of the password issue, and vice versa.",
"At least that is how it appears to me,\" Domscheit-Berg told CNN.",
"\"That's the precise sort of miscommunication that must not happen when dealing with such serious information, and one of the problems that made me and others leave the project.\"",
"The file was encrypted, so anyone downloading it would not have been able to open it without the password.",
"Several month later however, according to WikiLeaks, the Guardian released that password.",
"Now, anyone with access to the downloaded file and the password can see all of the unfiltered information from these cables, including protected sources.",
"It's not clear exactly when WikiLeaks discovered the security breach.",
"But in the last week, WikiLeaks has dramatically sped up the publication of the diplomatic cables.",
"Before last week, the website had released less than 10% of the entire cache.",
"As of Wednesday evening, more than 140,000 had been released, more than half of the entire cache.",
"In a statement explaining the sudden rush to publish, WikiLeaks said it was part of its \"commitment to maximizing impact, and making information available to all\" -- inviting the public to \"crowdsource\" the files and post their findings on Twitter as a form of public journalism.",
"WikiLeaks said Wednesday it took \"emergency action\" two weeks ago in the hopes of preventing the password from being spread.",
"That included accelerating its publication schedule \"to get as much of the material as possible into the hands of journalists and human rights lawyers who need it.\"",
"WikiLeaks also says it contacted the U.S. State Department to warn the department of the breach.",
"According to the statement, WikiLeaks personnel spoke for 75 minutes with a State Department legal advisor by phone, in the hope that the U.S. government would be able to warn any sources that may be put in danger by the now-public cables.",
"State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Thursday that \"WikiLeaks did advise us of the impending release of information and of its intention to continue to release classified documents.\"",
"\"We have made clear our views and concerns about illegally disclosed classified information and the continuing risk to individuals and national security that such releases cause,\" Nuland said.",
"\"WikiLeaks has, however, ignored our requests not to release or disseminate any U.S. documents it may possess and has continued its well-established pattern of irresponsible, reckless, and frankly dangerous actions.",
"We are not cooperating with them.\" WikiLeaks denies it is responsible for the security breach.",
"In an earlier Twitter posting, WikiLeaks said: \"There has been no 'leak at WikiLeaks'.",
"The issue relates to a mainstream media partner and a malicious individual.\"",
"That was a thinly veiled referenced to the Guardian newspaper and Domscheit-Berg, the former WikiLeaks insider who now runs Openleaks, another whistle-blowing site, and who is currently embroiled in a war of words with Assange.",
"Domscheit-Berg told CNN that he discovered the security breach \"by chance\" and alerted his media partner, the German newspaper Die Freitag.",
"WikiLeaks blames Domscheit-Berg for directing attention to the breach and the Guardian for leaking the password.",
"Domscheit-Berg counters that ultimate responsibility lies with WikiLeaks.",
"\"The password should never have been shared with anyone at all,\" he said.",
"\"This was a fixed agreement within WikiLeaks.",
"It was not meant to be given to anyone at all.",
"Ironically, not even I knew the password or had any access to the data.",
"Why it had been passed on, only Julian (Assange) knows.\"",
"Assange was not available for comment."
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"Thousands of secret U.S. cables are now online .",
"WikiLeaks blames the writer of a book on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange .",
"\"Nonsense,\" say the writer and his publisher ."
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"(CNN) -- Dan Wallrath was honored as a Top 10 CNN Hero last year for his efforts to build mortgage-free homes for U.S. troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"He and his group, Operation Finally Home, recently partnered with the television show \"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition\" to build a house for Army Staff Sgt.",
"Patrick Zeigler, who survived the 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas.",
"CNN Heroes producer Kathleen Toner recently spoke to Wallrath about the experience, which will air on ABC on Sunday night.",
"Kathleen Toner: How was working with \"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition\" different from one of your typical builds?",
"Dan Wallrath: The biggest difference was just the magnitude of it.",
"The first day when we had the Braveheart March, where volunteers and builders march in, that was very exciting -- getting things kicked off, just feeling the energy of all the volunteers and the folks.",
"Video: Watch volunteers arrive at the build site .",
"And then this house was built in about 100 hours, where normally we take about six months.",
"When you do it in a week, you see the impact of the whole community.",
"We had so many volunteers.",
"It was amazing how smooth everything went.",
"Of course on our other projects, we get to interact with the family a lot more during the construction.",
"So we missed that. But the good part about working with the show is that the family has this amazing week where everything changes.",
"So it's pretty exciting.",
"Toner: Building a house in 100 hours sounds almost impossible.",
"How did it really work?",
"Wallrath: There were probably 4,000 or 5,000 volunteers involved, and it was a 24-hour work site.",
"They set up floodlights and worked 'round the clock.",
"They had to talk to the neighbors and let them know it's going to be going on 24/7, but the community was all for it.",
"What amazed me was that meant that people were volunteering at all hours.",
"To volunteer from midnight until 4, 5 o'clock in the morning -- when the cameras and the celebrities are not there -- that's pretty special.",
"I'd built homes for 30 years and never seen anything like that.",
"And we stayed ahead of schedule.",
"I was impressed. They said that if we didn't exceed the record (for their shortest build time), we came real close.",
"Toner: What was the moment like when the family saw the home for the first time?",
"Did you really say the show's signature line?",
"Wallrath: (laughs) We really did say, \"Move that bus!\"",
"It was special. There were so many people there that day who'd helped out.",
"It was very exciting to see the look on the faces of the young couple.",
"It's the same look I've seen so many times when we've given away homes before -- when the young man realizes that no matter what happens to them, his family is going to be taken care of.",
"For him, going through everything he has, to see that burden being lifted off him, it was such a joy.",
"Toner: I hear you have plans for the empty lot next door to that home?",
"Wallrath: We had such a good response from the community (Salado, Texas, about 30 minutes from Fort Hood), so we felt like it was the right place to put another family.",
"We spoke to the developer that we worked with, and he gave us that lot at a very discounted price.",
"And we've found a great couple that's going to be in this house: another wounded veteran.",
"It'll just be great for them to have another veteran nearby.",
"You and I can't relate to what they went through, but all of the guys tell me that when they have tough times, there's no substitute for talking to someone who's been through the same thing.",
"Toner: And you've established a fund where people can donate to help others wounded in the Fort Hood attack.",
"Wallrath: We're going to reach out to the other families that are all over the United States now.",
"We're not going to be able to build homes for every one of them.",
"But if they need wheelchair ramps, doors widened, a room added on -- that's the kind of thing that, as homebuilders, we're going to be able to do.",
"It's so exciting to be part of it, because now all these families are not going to be forgotten.",
"America's going to step up, and we're going to be able to help them.",
"Read the full update on CNN Hero Dan Wallrath: Support, donations pour in for Hero homebuilder ."
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"CNN Hero Dan Wallrath will be featured Sunday on \"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition\"\nWallrath said thousands of volunteers pitched in to help him build a home in Texas .",
"The home is for an Army soldier who was injured in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings .",
"Wallrath: \"These families are not going to be forgotten\""
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has said the English FA Cup winners could move for Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero.",
"But Mancini suggested any move for the Argentina forward could depend on whether or not his compatriot Carlos Tevez completes a switch to Brazilian outfit Corinthians.",
"The Italian coach said on Monday that City had agreed a fee with Corinthians for Tevez, 27, claims which were later denied by the Sao Paulo club.",
"Any deal to take Tevez back to the team he played for between 2004-06 would need to be completed before the Brazilian transfer window closes on July 20.",
"Copa America flops: Who is to blame?",
"When asked about the latest on Tevez's proposed transfer, Mancini told a press conference: \"I don't know ... but they are continuing to talk about the deal.\"",
"Former Inter Milan boss Mancini moved on to discuss a potential bid for Aguero, who scored 20 league goals for Atletico last season, and he said an offer from the Etihad Stadium side could be imminent.",
"\"At the moment I don't know,\" said Mancini when asked if a bid had already been made for the former Independiente striker.",
"\"Maybe in the next days.",
"At the moment I haven't spoken to Gary Cook [City's CEO] or the chairman, I don't know what has happened.\"",
"And when asked if any move for Aguero was dependent on Tevez leaving the club, the 46-year-old replied: \"Yes, I think so.\"",
"Both Tevez and Aguero were part of Sergio Batista's Argentina squad which was eliminated from the 2011 Copa America on Saturday, beaten on penalties by Uruguay at the quarterfinal stage.",
"One player who will definitely not be at City next season is Shay Given, after the 35-year-old goalkeeper completed a move to Aston Villa.",
"Given, who formerly spent 11 years with Newcastle United and is the Republic of Ireland's most-capped player, has signed a five-year deal with the Birmingham-based team."
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"Roberto Mancini has suggested Manchester City could move for striker Sergio Aguero .",
"But Mancini said any move for the 23-year-old could depend on Carlos Tevez .",
"Tevez is currently the subject of negotiations between City and Corinthians .",
"Goalkeeper Shay Given has completed his move to Aston Villa on a five-year deal ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan won the Women's World Cup for the first time on Sunday, denying the United States a record third title after twice coming from behind in the final and then winning a penalty shootout in Germany.",
"Japan had come into the tournament as sentimental favorites, helping rally a nation that had been devastated by a March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster.",
"For the United States, it was more a disappointment -- especially considering that the team twice relinquished leads.",
"The U.S. conceded equalizers at the end of the regulation and extra-time periods, then Japan had a player sent off before the Americans missed their first three spot-kicks.",
"Japan missed their third, but Saki Kumagai blasted the winner high into the net for an unassailable 3-1 lead to make her team the first from Asia to win the four-yearly soccer event.",
"\"We lost to a great team, we really did,\" U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo told ESPN, which broadcast the game.",
"\"I truly believe that something bigger was pulling for this team.\"",
"Japanese residents were glued to their televisions, despite the game starting around 4 a.m. local time.",
"In one Tokyo eatery, for instances, scores adorned in the team's colors burst out in joy once their team beat the U.S. squad for the first time in 26 tries.",
"The Japanese had won only three matches in five previous tournaments, and have never won the Asian title.",
"Women's soccer a 'beautiful flower' for post-disaster Japan .",
"But, despite their preparations being affected by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated their homeland in March, Japan qualified second in Group B with two wins from three matches.",
"They then denied the hosts a third success by winning the quarterfinal 1-0 in extra-time before beating Sweden 3-1 in the semis.",
"The U.S. had last reached the final at home in 1999, winning the tournament for the second time after triumphing in the inaugural event in China eight years before then.",
"And Pia Sundhage's team had looked set to end that long wait wait for another trophy, dominating the first half in Frankfurt as top scorer Abby Wambach hit the underside of the crossbar with a scorching left-foot shot and Lauren Cheney headed over when unmarked.",
"Cheney was replaced at halftime by Alex Morgan, who broke the deadlock in the 69th minute when she latched on to a long pass from Megan Rapinoe and fired in a left-foot shot that gave Japan goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori no chance.",
"But Japan equalized with nine minutes of regulation time left through Aya Miyama following some disastrous defending by the Americans.",
"Wambach having a ball as she heads to World Cup final .",
"The midfielder scored her second goal of the tournament after U.S. captain Christie Rampone uncharacteristically gave the ball away and teammates Alex Krieger and Rachel Buehler were unable to clear the resulting cross.",
"Wambach put the U.S. in front again in the 104th minute, collecting her fourth goal in six matches at the tournament to put her second on the alltime World Cup scoring list with 13.",
"The striker, whose extra-time equalizer against Brazil took their quarterfinal to a penalty shootout, nodded home from close range after Morgan found space down the left and provided a perfect cross.",
"But Japan refused to give up, and Homare Sawa leveled again with a near-post flick-on from Miyama's left-wing corner that deflected into the net off Wambach.",
"That strike was the midfielder's fifth of the tournament, earning her the golden boot award.",
"The drama continued as Japan defender Azusa Iwashimizu was harshly sent off for fouling Morgan on the edge of the area in the final minute, but her teammates scrambled the resulting free-kick clear.",
"The U.S. made the worst possible start to the shootout when Kaihori blocked Shannon Boxx's attempt with her trailing leg, then Miyama put Japan 1-0 ahead.",
"Carli Lloyd skied her shot over the bar, but Hope Solo gave the Americans a chance when she saved Yuki Nagasoko's weak effort.",
"However, Kaihori then denied Tobin Heath before Solo got her hand to Mizuho Sakaguchi's low shot but could not keep it out -- 2-0 to Japan.",
"Wambach coolly slotted in her attempt, as she did in the shootout win over Brazil, but Kumagai clinched a famous victory.",
"\"We made just a couple of mistakes.",
"We let them back in the game but I still think we did well,\" Sundhage said in quotes reported by AFP.",
"\"We had a lot of possession and played some good soccer.",
"It's hard to lose on penalties, some go in and some go out.",
"It's a small difference between winning and losing.",
"We just didn't take our chances.\"",
"Japan's hero Kaihori said the whole team deserved the credit for their success.",
"\"We have some very good players on the team and that is why we won the final.",
"It is all down to the players in front of me, it was a team effort,\" she said.",
"\"I got support during the shootouts because the Americans missed a couple.",
"In a shootout, I just have to believe in myself, and I was very self-confident in that situation.",
"I just wanted to save all those shots coming at me.\"",
"The U.S. team, meanwhile, captured the hearts of Americans for its creativity, dazzling plays and free spirit.",
"Their white-knuckle wins kept fans engrossed and revamped interest years after the team's last win in 1999, before a packed house at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke by phone with the U.S. team Sunday before the game, wishing the players good luck and telling them that America is proud of how well they've done.",
"\"I just got the highest hopes that this great team, which has shown such resilience, will be coming back and winning for the U.S.,\" Clinton told reporters, adding that she plans to watch the game from Greece.",
"While the U.S. team played for bragging rights and to boost the sport's profile in their home country, Japanese players were hoping to give their citizens something to smile about after this spring's massive earthquake and tsunami.",
"\"To be in the final is, to be honest, like a dream,\" Japanese player Homare Sawa told FIFA before the game.",
"\"We know USA are a great and strong team, but they have weak points, too, and there's always a chance to score.\"",
"The Japanese players had won over their share of fans, with Solo of the U.S. team calling them \"the sentimental favorites\" for helping to lift the spirits of their devastated nation.",
"\"They're playing for something bigger and better than the game,\" the American goalkeeper said in a conference call prior to the match.",
"\"When you are playing with so much heart, that's hard to play against.\""
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"Americans, seeking record third title, miss first three spot-kicks in Frankfurt .",
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"(CNN) -- It wasn't until Melissa Reese's husband allegedly put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her that she says she decided it was time to leave her abusive relationship.",
"She could take her belongings and kids, but her dogs were a different story.",
"Dropping Capone and Sophie, her Alaskan Malamute and Miniature Doberman, at an animal shelter where they could be euthanized or adopted by another family was not an option.",
"\"I couldn't give them up,\" Reese said.",
"\"That would be like putting my children out in the cold, and I couldn't do that.\"",
"Reese said whenever her husband threatened her, Capone would squeeze in the middle and try to push him away.",
"Her pets had protected her, and she couldn't leave them behind to become victims of her husband's wrath.",
"So she called Ahimsa House, which placed the dogs with foster families until Reese got settled in a new home.",
"Reese's husband later pleaded no contest to charges of simple assualt and battery.",
"Ahimsa House -- which stands for \"nonviolence\" in Sanskrit -- is the only animal shelter in Georgia that specifically cares for pets from homes of domestic violence.",
"In the last year, dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, livestock and horses took refuge for a combined total of 20,000 nights.",
"In one case, the shelter took in 18 chickens.",
"The Atlanta shelter will house a pet for as long as the owner needs.",
"Every animal also receives a medical examination from a veterinarian.",
"As Ahimsa House Executive Director Maya Gupta explained, pets in households with an incidence of domestic violence often have hidden injuries themselves.",
"\"Abusers tend to be very good with their human victims in knowing exactly where to hit so that the bruises don't show -- so she can put on a long sleeve shirt or some makeup and cover them -- and to some extent, they also do that with animals,\" she said.",
"Domestic violence against women: Recognize patterns, seek help .",
"Perpetrators of domestic violence often harm or threaten a family pet in order to manipulate a partner and coerce him or her to stay in a relationship.",
"As a result, 18% to 45% of battered women remain with their abuser in fear of what he may do to a pet or livestock upon leaving, according to a study by the American Bar Association.",
"Tanya Mcleod, an advocate against domestic violence who alleges a close relative abused her and their dog Brownie, explained that abusers realize pets provide a type of comfort for victims and use that to their advantage.",
"\"The abuser will often make threats and say, 'If you leave I'll kill Fluffy, or I'll flush the goldfish down the toilet' -- whatever it is that will make that person stay in that relationship,\" she said.",
"Brownie was considered a part of the family to Mcleod and her three kids.",
"When it became clear she was giving more attention to the dog, Mcleod says the relative got jealous and abused Brownie as a way to take control.",
"\"He would hit him, kick him, sometimes choke him,\" Mcleod recalls.",
"\"He would tell us that we couldn't see Brownie.\"",
"The relative was never charged for abusing Brownie or Mcleod.",
"In every state, pets are considered property under the law, and judges cannot order a person to not harm, injure or interfere with the care of a family pet.",
"But that is changing as 21 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted laws to include pets in domestic violence protection orders.",
"MNN.com: When you have to give your pet away .",
"Texas is the most recent state to pass a bill that will punish family violence perpetrators under protective orders who torture pets.",
"Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who sponsored the bill that will go into effect September 1, said the legislation provides the opportunity for law enforcement to bring federal prosecution against abusive partners who threaten pets.",
"Protective orders protect women against further abuse by a partner, but the same doesn't hold true for pets, Davis explained.",
"Now that pets are included in orders, abusers will receive a misdemeanor for the first violation and felony charges upon two or more violations.",
"Every day, thousands of pets and humans are at risk in abusive relationships, according to Phil Arkow, coordinator of the National Link Coalition, which seeks to prevent violence toward people and animals.",
"A study by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence found that 71% of women entering shelters report that their batterer had injured, killed or threatened a pet to exert control over them.",
"For many women, fleeing with their dog or cat isn't an option when only one in eight domestic violence shelters accept pets, according to the NCADV.",
"The Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Texas recognized this problem and started PetSafe -- a program to provide temporary boarding, medical care and food for pets of families escaping domestic violence.",
"This year, the program cared for 20 pets, but the organization investigated 14,642 cases of animal abuse, neglect and cruelty in 2010, according to HSPCA spokeswoman Stacy Fox.",
"Tips for adopting the best shelter dog .",
"In the past few years, state representatives have been debating bills that would include pets in domestic violence protective orders.",
"David Favre, a law professor of animal cruelty at Michigan State University, said the majority of these bills eventually pass because \"everybody can agree with the principle.\"",
"\"Who's going to stand up and say, 'No, the husband should be able to abuse the pet'?\"",
"he said. However, Favre explained adding pets in protective order laws may not be effective since pet abusers already violate the state's animal cruelty law.",
"\"If a man wants to inflict harm, he's not going to really be stopped by this protective order,\" he said.",
"But after hearing stories -- in one case, a man cut off a dog's ears and sent them to his partner to get her to return -- Davis says she believes the new law will help keep women safe.",
"\"The bill isn't about protecting the pet nearly as much as it is about protecting women, who unfortunately can be convinced to say in an abusive situation where a pet is used as basically a pawn against her emotions,\" she said.",
"Domestic violence against men: Know the signs .",
"What to do if your pet is being abused: .",
"1) First, if he's threatening the pets, you are next.",
"Don't assume that he's bluffing.",
"Don't make excuses.",
"Don't think things will get better.",
"They won't, says Phil Arkow, coordinator of the National Link Coalition.",
"The lives of you and your children are in danger.",
"Get out -- now! 2) Avoid bitter custody battles by making sure all of your pet's records are in your name: rabies and other shots, pet food purchases, dog or cat licenses, pedigree papers, receipts for vet bills, etc.",
"These should all be in your name to establish that you are the caregiver.",
"3) Make sure your pets are current on all their licenses and vaccinations.",
"This makes it easier to house them in an emergency shelter.",
"4) Pets should have an identification tag that does not have your name or home number.",
"Use the number of a friend or the animal's veterinarian.",
"5) Have an emergency plan that includes your pets.",
"If you're able to prepare for your pet's departure, try to have pet items -- including vaccination and medical records, medications, licenses, blankets, leashes, collars and pet carriers -- in a safe place where your abuser won't be able to find them.",
"6) Have a safe place for your pet lined up in advance such as a women's shelter that offers on-site housing or off-site foster care for pets, a trusted friend, veterinarian, kennel or animal shelter.",
"Keep this location secret in case your abuser tries to take control of the pet in order to take control of you and your children."
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"18% to 45% of women remain with an abuser in fear of what he may do to a pet upon leaving .",
"21 states have enacted laws to include pets in domestic violence protection orders .",
"Ahimsa House in Atlanta looks after pets for domestic violence victims until they find housing .",
"71% of women report their batterer had injured, killed or threatened a pet to exert control ."
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"(CNN) -- His nickname is \"The Fever.\"",
"Mexican officials say Jose Carlos Moreno Flores was a major drug lord in charge of trafficking and operations for a large Mexican cartel in the coastal state of Guerrero, where the beach resort of Acapulco is located.",
"According to Mexico's Ministry of Defense, Moreno Flores was caught Sunday in Mexico City's Tlalpan District.",
"His capture is particularly important because Moreno is allegedly tied to the Sinaloa Cartel led by Joaquin \"El Chapo\" (Shorty) Guzman, Mexico's most wanted man.",
"Guzman, who remains a fugitive, commands such a vast international drug trafficking network and his profits from the illicit trade are so big that he made Forbes Magazine's list of the world's most powerful.",
"He appeared at number 60 on last year's list with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.",
"The magazine calls him \"the biggest drug lord ever.\"",
"The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the capture of Guzman.",
"Mexico's top drug kingpin lord, who's reportedly 54, was captured in Guatemala in 1993, but escaped eight years later.",
"Officials say Moreno Flores, who was considered one of Guzman's lieutenants, did business with drug traffickers from Costa Rica and Guatemala from his base of operations in Chilpancingo, capital of the state of Guerrero.",
"From Chilpancingo, Moreno Flores shipped the drugs (mainly cocaine) to the United States by land.",
"\"The Fever\" was also allegedly in charge of the cultivation, harvesting and distribution of marijuana in the fertile mountain region of Guerrero state.",
"Violence in Chilpancingo had recently increased because a group of Sinaloa Cartel operatives led by Moreno Flores have been fighting a turf war with a rival group known as \"Los Rojos\" (The Red Ones).",
"When he was caught, Moreno Flores was in possession of three high-caliber weapons, communication equipment and one unspecified vehicle."
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"Jose Carlos Moreno Flores works for a large drug cartel, Mexican officials say .",
"He is linked to Mexico's most wanted man, they say .",
"He shipped cocaine to the U.S., mostly by land, the officials say ."
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"Watch the full interview with Simon Cowell on Tuesday night.",
"\"Piers Morgan Tonight\" airs weeknights on CNN/US at 9 p.m.",
"ET and on CNN International at 0200 GMT (live simulcast), 1200 GMT and 2000 GMT / HKT 1900.",
"CNN -- Simon Cowell, gearing up for Wednesday's premiere of \"The X Factor\" on Fox, told CNN's Piers Morgan, \"It is the biggest moment in my career.\"",
"The creator, executive producer, and judge on the new vocal competition series is a guest on Tuesday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"Morgan asked Cowell how the American version of \"X Factor\" differs from the UK version, which has dominated British television for eight seasons.",
"\"It has its own personality,\" said Cowell.",
"\"When I watched it back at this screening we did, I got a real buzz.\"",
"Cowell, who also created \"America's Got Talent\" -- for which Morgan serves as a judge -- told Morgan that the talent on \"X Factor\" is \"crazily good.\"",
"Cowell cautioned, however, that \"there's a long way to go.",
"And I've seen people who start off great and then for whatever reason, if you put them on the live show, they're horrendous. ...",
"But so far, I'm happy.\" When he left \"American Idol\" in 2010 after nine seasons as a judge, Cowell also walked away from over $100 million he could have been paid for staying put.",
"He also invested a great deal of his own money into \"X Factor.\"",
"In addition, the \"X Factor\" prize money is an unprecedented $5 million recording contract.",
"\"There's a lot at stake here, isn't there, for you?\" asked Morgan.",
"\"You don't go into anything contemplating failure,\" said Cowell, \"because if you did, you wouldn't make it.",
"If it didn't work out well, I would be really, really upset, disappointed, because I believe in it.",
"I believe in the show, I've done the show for a long time, I do think it's the best one.",
"I actually do. And when it works, it's fantastic.",
"But you have to be a big boy about these things, you know?",
"And you've got to take risks.",
"And part of what I've loved about doing this is the risk I've taken.\"",
"Cowell told Morgan that put his \"heart and soul\" into \"X Factor,\" and pointed out some of the program's other distinguishing characteristics.",
"\"I like the fact that there isn't an age limit,\" said Cowell.",
"\"You're going to see a very different type of contestant.\"",
"Cowell told Morgan that when the rules for \"X Factor\" were created, they made the minimum audition age 12 and set no upper age limit whatsoever.",
"\"Or you could be in a group,\" Cowell pointed out.",
"\"We also kind of said it has to reflect what is happening in the music business, this show.",
"And in the music business, a lot of people who are having hit records, they've gone through similar issues.",
"They've had drug problems, alcohol problems, home problems -- you name it, they've had them.",
"\"And they've normally used this to sort themselves out.",
"And so I absolutely felt the same way.",
"I didn't want to start putting too many rules on it.",
"It was all about talent. Somebody wants to make their life better, they own up to what they did; I don't have an issue with that.",
"And I had no qualms showing it.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"His new show, the U.S. version of \"The X Factor,\" debuts Wednesday on Fox .",
"Cowell says he put his \"heart and soul\" into \"X Factor,\" calls talent \"crazily good\"\n\"X Factor\" contestants have no upper age limit; winner gets $5 million record deal ."
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"(CNN) -- One person was killed and two people were injured after gunmen attacked Guinean President Alpha Conde's residence, a government spokesman said Tuesday.",
"The person killed was a member of the presidential guard, the Ministry of Communications said.",
"The president was not injured.",
"The attack occurred in downtown Conakry, the capital city of the West African nation early Tuesday morning and the battle lasted two hours.",
"Authorities believe the attackers may have been soldiers with the Guinean army, said Durus Yale Dore, a government spokesman.",
"Local reports were calling it a failed coup attempt.",
"Conde has been the president of Guinea for less than a year.",
"His election last year ended a two-year transition to civilian rule after a military junta took power in December 2008.",
"Journalist Amadou Tam Camara said the attackers were heavily armed and the group had a rocket launcher.",
"The president's compound was heavily damaged and the attack has surprised many in Guinea, Camara said."
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"The attack occurs in downtown Conakry, the capital city of the West African nation .",
"The president's compound is heavily damaged but the president is not hurt .",
"Authorities believe the attackers may have been soldiers .",
"Conde took over from a military junta with his election last year ."
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"Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Seven people were killed in a series of clashes between police and suspected Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey that sent guests at a wedding party scrambling for cover, an official said Monday.",
"The fighting started Sunday night when suspected militants attacked four locations in the town of Semdinli, an official from the governor's office in Hakkari province told CNN.",
"The attacks targeted the local police and military headquarters, a mountain commando unit and residences of military personnel, said the official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak with the media.",
"A wedding celebration nearby was caught in the crossfire.",
"As heavy gunfire and explosions rang out, guests cried and screamed, a video from Dogan News Agency shows.",
"Women and children in colorful dresses ran away from the dance floor, scrambling to take cover.",
"The bride and groom also fled.",
"Some wedding guests were wounded, the official from the governor's office said.",
"One soldier, one police officer, three civilians and two suspected militants were killed during the clashes, the official said.",
"Six security forces and six civilians were injured during the firefight, he said.",
"The bloody, 26-year war between guerrilla fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish state has escalated over the last month.",
"The Kurdish separatist movement has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks throughout the summer that have claimed the lives of more than a dozen Turkish soldiers.",
"In August, the Turkish military retaliated, launching a wave of airstrikes and artillery barrages across the border against suspected PKK camps in the mountains of northern Iraq.",
"The Turkish armed forces claimed to have killed more than 100 rebels in the cross-border attacks.",
"Turkey has been fighting against the PKK since 1984.",
"More than 30,000 people, mostly ethnic Kurds, have been killed in the conflict."
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"A video shows a wedding celebration caught in the crossfire .",
"1 soldier, 1 police officer, 2 suspected militants and 3 civilians are killed, an official says .",
"Official: The fighting started when suspected militants attack four locations .",
"The clashes come as fighting between Kurdish militants and the Turkish state escalates ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- An Indian politician accused in U.S. diplomatic cables of sending a private jet to fetch a pair of sandals denied the allegations on Tuesday and said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had gone \"mad.\"",
"\"I would request the government of his country to send him (Assange) to a mental asylum and if they have no space for him in his country we can put him in our mental hospital,\" Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati, who goes by one name, said at a rare news conference.",
"Mayawati's blistering response comes a day after a U.S. cable released on WikiLeaks alleged she was a \"paranoid dictator\" and that \"when she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand.\"",
"\"I have no information on when the plane was sent to Mumbai for bringing sandals as has been stated by a BJP (opposition party) leader, and it looks like he and the WikiLeaks owner had gone in the same plane,\" Mayawati said.",
"The Dalit (formerly \"untouchable\") leader is an icon for millions of low-caste Indians who were oppressed by upper caste Hindus for centuries.",
"As the U.S. diplomatic cable explained, \"Dalits will remain with Mayawati regardless of poor governance, simply because the fact that one of their own is chief minister provides them heretofore unimaginable pride.\"",
"A member of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Mayawati became the first Dalit woman chief minister in 2007, winning elections in the country's most populous state by a majority.",
"The controversial leader has often been criticized for her extravagance in what is one of India's poorest states.",
"She has erected numerous enormous statues of herself across her state of Uttar Pradesh, spending more than a $1 billion dollars as a symbol of Dalit empowerment.",
"She is often congratulated with garlands made out of 1000 rupee or $20 bank notes at her political rallies.",
"And she's known to have a penchant for designer handbags.",
"But according to senior political journalist and co-author of Mayawati's autobiography Ajoy Bose, the self-glorification works for her constituency.",
"\"That's the irony. In many ways, you find victim communities tend to look at larger-than-life leaders.",
"Dalits are a particularly oppressed community, they were never even allowed to worship the same gods, so they never had their own icons.",
"So she has very cleverly used this to her advantage.",
"This is not just megalomania, it also plays well with her audience.",
"And she is not just a whimsical autocrat, she is far too successful in politics to be dismissed as that.\"",
"On Tuesday, Mayawati rejected the allegations that she was \"obsessed with becoming Prime Minister\" saying they were \"baseless\" and indicative of \"anti-Dalit mentality.\"",
"The scathing report titled \"Portrait of a Lady\" sent by U.S. diplomats in New Delhi quoted a local journalist's account of the \"Dalit Queen\" making a state minister do sit-ups as punishment for a minor error.",
"In a paragraph titled \"Eccentric Paranoia,\" the U.S. cable reported Mayawati employs nine cooks (two to cook, the others to watch over them) and two food tasters.",
"The U.S cables cite \"local journalists\" and Mayawati's aide Satish Mishra as sources.",
"Mishra, a Parliament member who is also known as Mayawati's right hand man, is quoted in the cables of allegedly saying Mayawati has a \"penchant for personal corruption\" and a \"strong authoritarian streak.\"",
"Mishra denied ever meeting a U.S. official in May 2007 (the time mentioned in the cables) and threatened to take legal action.",
"He told reporters on Tuesday, \"there is definitely some conspiracy behind it because a 2007 event is being talked about ahead of the 2012 Uttar Pradesh elections.\"",
"Bose was also surprised by the cables.",
"\"We all know she is pretty eccentric and pretty dictatorial and she can splurge, but as far as these specific allegations are concerned, the sourcing seems to be suspect,\" Bose said.",
"According to Bose, Mayawati has always been a very controversial leader, and for the urban middle classes who \"dislike her intensely,\" the WikiLeaks reports just confirm what they already think.",
"As for whether these cables will affect Mayawati's political pull, Bose said: \"She hasn't done that much for the Dalits, but when your leader is attacked by a class and caste which has been seen as the oppressor, then you automatically cling to your leader even more strongly, so all of this may actually be doing Mayawati a favor.\""
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"Moscow (CNN) -- The Russian space agency on Monday postponed the launch of a new manned mission to the International Space Station due to last week's accident in which an unmanned cargo craft was lost, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.",
"Alexei Krasnov of the space agency, Roscosmos, said the next manned mission, originally planned to launch on September 22, now would occur in late October or early November, according to the RIA Novosti report.",
"In the United States, NASA's space station program manager told reporters Monday that the timing of the rescheduled mission could force the temporary de-manning of the space station later this year.",
"However, the NASA official, Mike Suffredini, said no decisions can be made until a commission appointed by Russia completes its investigation of the August 24 crash involving a Soyuz rocket -- the same kind used to power the flights of crew members to the space station.",
"With a planned rotation of the six crew members aboard the space station scheduled to begin next month, a delay in using the Soyuz could prevent the ability to bring replacements, Suffredini said.",
"\"If we don't have Soyuz flying by the middle of November -- the 16th or so, the normal landing time for the last crew -- we would have to de-man ISS at that point,\" Suffredini said.",
"The six astronauts at the space station are three from Russia, two from the United States and one from Japan.",
"Due to the schedule change announced Monday, the three Russian astronauts on board will return to Earth eight days later than originally planned, on September 16 instead of September 8, Krasnov said.",
"They will fly a Soyuz vehicle already at the space station.",
"Suffredini said another Soyuz vehicle at the space station, which is set to fly back the other three crew members, will have its certification for the return mission expire by mid-November.",
"If there can't be a new manned mission from Earth by then, administrators will have to decide whether to take extensive steps to extend the vehicle's certification for the return flight, proceed on a return flight without certification, or de-man the space station by flying back the remaining crew members within the certification period, he said.",
"\"We're going to do what's safest for the crew and for the space station,\" Suffredini said.",
"He acknowledged that leaving the space station without any crew members increased the risk for trouble.",
"\"There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned,\" Suffredini said, adding that the risk increase \"is not insignificant.\"",
"The commission in Russia investigating last week's accident will determine the new launch date for the next manned mission, Krasnov said, according to the RIA Novosti report.",
"Prior to that mission, Roscosmos will make two unmanned Soyuz launches, \"either an automated one or a freighter or both,\" he said.",
"On August 24, a Progress M-12M space freighter carrying food and other items to the space station broke up over southern Siberia after failing to separate from its Soyuz-U carrier rocket, RIA Novosti reported.",
"It was the first loss of a Progress freighter in more than 30 years of operation, according to the report, which said the cause was believed to be a rocket engine failure.",
"However, it was the second failed space launch in Russia in less than 10 days.",
"On August 18, Russia lost a sophisticated Express-AM4 telecommunications satellite when the launch vehicle put it into the wrong orbit.",
"The Progress M-12M that went down last week was to deliver more than 3.8 tons of cargo to the space station crew, including food supplies, medical equipment, personal hygiene items and scientific equipment needed for experiments, according to Roscosmos and space officials.",
"Suffredini said Monday that space station crew is well-supplied due to the delivery of goods by the final U.S. shuttle mission carried out by Atlantis last month.",
"NASA is now reliant on the Russian space agency to ferry U.S. astronauts to orbit, since the grounding of the U.S. shuttle fleet has left the United States with no way to lift humans into space.",
"Plans are in the works for private companies to begin shipping cargo to the station, and eventually to carry astronauts as well.",
"CNN's Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"The announcement follows last week's loss of a Russian supply vessel ."
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"(CNN) -- Pakistan has been an unreliable ally of the United States in the war against al Qaeda and other extremist organizations, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told CNN in an interview set to air in full Monday night.",
"Biden, who spoke to CNN's John King on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, said Pakistan has failed \"on occasion\" when forced to choose between the United States and al Qaeda.",
"The price of Pakistan's choices has been the \"loss of life of American soldiers in Afghanistan,\" the vice president said.",
"Islamabad has \"been very helpful in other times,\" he added.",
"\"But it's not sufficient. They have to get better.",
"We need a relationship that is born out of mutual interest.",
"And it's in their interest that they be more cooperative with us.\"",
"\"We are demanding it,\" he said.",
"Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May.",
"Pakistan's government -- which has struggled with significant pro-al Qaeda sentiment within its borders -- was not informed of the attack beforehand.",
"Pakistani authorities insist they did not know bin Laden's location.",
"Despite troubles in Pakistan and elsewhere, the United States is \"getting close\" to bringing about an end to organized, legitimized terrorist activities, Biden said.",
"\"We have done great damage to ... al Qaeda,\" he said.",
"\"Satellite organizations\" have emerged in Somalia and elsewhere, he said, but \"they are less coordinated\" and \"less capable.\"",
"\"And we're relentless in pursuing them,\" he added.",
"As a result, Americans are safer today than they were a decade ago, Biden asserted.",
"Regardless, the vice president cautioned that \"there is always a possibility of a lone wolf\" attack within the United States or elsewhere.",
"\"There's always a possibility of an incident occurring, but I do not believe there's anyone right now capable of putting together the kind of extremely complicated planned operation that took place on 9/11,\" he said.",
"Biden said he believes that in 25 years, Americans will \"read about this period of terror as ... a part of a chapter in the history of this country.\"",
"The vice president denied former Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that controversial interrogation techniques such as waterboarding -- stopped by the Obama administration -- would help generate useful intelligence in the war against al Qaeda and other organizations.",
"\"I've seen zero evidence that it works, and I think there's abundant evidence that it hurts us internationally.",
"It hurts our security,\" Biden said.",
"It does so, he said, \"by making a mockery of who we say we are and giving rationale for those who want to do us harm to recruit people.\""
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"Americans are safer today than they were before the 9/11 attacks, Biden says .",
"Biden says harsh interrogation techniques are counterproductive ."
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"(CNN) -- A trip to Iran to learn more about her family's ancestry became a nightmare for American journalist Roxana Saberi.",
"In January 2009, several men showed up at the Iranian-American's door and carted her off to Evin Prison, the notoriously brutal lockup outside Tehran where three American hikers were recently imprisoned.",
"Like Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, Saberi was accused of being a spy for the U.S. Like them, she denied the accusation.",
"Iran tried, convicted and sentenced Saberi to eight years.",
"But, to her shock, she was freed after 100 days.",
"She returned to the U.S. in May 2009.",
"On Wednesday, Fattal and Bauer were freed after two years at Evin.",
"Shourd was released last year.",
"CNN talked with Saberi about the advice she would give the hikers and about her experience at Evin.",
"CNN: Did you ever hope that you might be set free, even after your sentence?",
"Roxana Saberi: I didn't think I was going to be set free after being sentenced to eight years.",
"When they said I was going to be freed, I was in disbelief, very happy disbelief.",
"CNN: You wrote in your book that about gaining a unique kind of mental clarity and toughness.",
"Saberi: I learned over time, especially from my cellmates, that things happen to you, and you can't control them.",
"All you can control is your response to them.",
"In prison, you cannot control your physical environment.",
"CNN: You can say that, but to actually live that way under those circumstances is another thing.",
"You were interrogated for days on end.",
"Saberi: (The interrogators) were mostly harsh and threatening, but then they would say, \"Oh, are you hungry?",
"Do you want us to make comfortable?",
"Do you want some tea or some water?\"",
"I think it was partly to mess with the person's mind.",
"My cellmates, the women who were prisoners, they are the strong ones.",
"There were times when I was angry and told myself that I hate the sin and not the sinner.",
"I had to learn from my cellmates, who were in prison much longer.",
"I asked them, \"How do you not hate these people for doing this to you?\"",
"(Saberi says she nurtured relationships with other prisoners by teaching them English.",
"Many were at Evin for believing in Baha'i, a monotheistic faith believers are persecuted for in Iran.)",
"Saberi: These prisoners told me, \"We don't hate (the guards), but we forgive them,\" which was incredible to me.",
"I tried hard to hate the sin and not the sinner. ...",
"I realized we are all human beings, and (the prison workers) do their jobs to have job security.",
"They get paid for it. Some of them do believe in the ideology, and some don't.",
"If our captors, I believe, were raised in a different environment, they wouldn't do what they do.",
"But I really got a lot of strength from other prisoners.",
"We taught each other jokes in our different languages.",
"I taught them vocabulary that had to do with shopping and English curse words.",
"We exercised. CNN: How did you exercise?",
"Saberi: Sit-ups, push-ups in our cell.",
"We were allowed to go outside four times a day, escorted by guards who pushed and tugged at the chadors we had to wear.",
"The guards would take us to a cement cage -- the walls, all cement and bars.",
"Overhead them, at least you could see sky.",
"CNN: When the guards were marching you back and forth, did you say anything to them?",
"Did they speak to you? Saberi: They mostly didn't say anything.",
"(But) a female guard -- she was older -- reached under my chador and grabbed my hand and squeezed it.",
"CNN: Did you see any other humanity like that in your guards?",
"Saberi: There was humanity in some of them, in this female guard.",
"She seemed to be trying to tell me that everyone would be OK. Toward me, the guards were mostly civil.",
"I did see them yelling at other prisoners.",
"I assume that because I was a foreigner, and Iranians say they are kind to foreigners.",
"We tried to learn more about the women guards, because they would stop by our cells when they were giving us food.",
"They were very tight-lipped and were instructed not to say much about themselves.",
"We got tidbits about their lives.",
"One had kids, and one had a nose job; this kind of plastic surgery is very popular in Iran.",
"They had the same values -- caring about how they looked -- like other women would have.",
"But I didn't get that close with any of them. They don't allow it. CNN: Tell me more about how you kept sane, especially in solitary confinement.",
"How did you even keep track of time?",
"Saberi: Well, I thought I was going crazy.",
"I was in solitary for more than two weeks; then I was sent to a cell that had state-run TV playing so I could see the time.",
"I could hear the call to prayer and see sun rays cast on the cell walls and floors.",
"CNN: Can you describe what solitary confinement was like?",
"Saberi: It was dark.",
"I could hold my hands out and touch two walls.",
"There was ratty brown carpet.",
"There was a broke toilet.",
"A military blanket.",
"A sign on the wall quoted (founder and supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah) Khomeini said, \"Prisons must be colleges for human improvement.\"",
"There was a window on the ceiling out of reach that was covered with metal mesh and bars.",
"On the other side of my wall, I heard a prisoner whimpering.",
"I was very worried, because no one knew where I was.",
"(Saberi wrote in her memoir \"Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran\" that only after many days did Iranian authorities allow her to call her father.",
"They forced her to lie to him in saying that she didn't know where she was and that she was in trouble for drinking alcohol.)",
"I tried to keep my sanity by singing songs like Christmas carols and \"We Will Rock you,\" and I played notes with my fingers on the wall.",
"I kept saying things that gave me courage like Gandhi's \"I do believe I am seeking only God's truth and have lost all fear of man.\"",
"CNN: When you were let out of solitary, what happened?",
"Saberi: They put me in another cell.",
"CNN: And you were held for four months.",
"What did you think when news came last week when the Iranian president said that Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer were going to be released?",
"And what did you think when they were freed Wednesday?",
"Saberi: In Iran, you never believe it until you see it.",
"I thought about their families.",
"CNN: You've talked to their families before.",
"Saberi: I could relate to how worried they were.",
"My parents were in a similar situation.",
"I wanted to comfort them and to explain what prison was like for me.",
"CNN: What would you say to Josh and Shane now?",
"Saberi: I'd like to hear from them how their situation was.",
"I hope that they are able to adapt well in this new part of their life and perhaps learned lessons in prison that can help them when they're free.",
"I would tell them to take their time and not feel pressured to make decisions. This is their time. It's theirs again."
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"(CNN) -- An international human rights monitor urged Haitian authorities to bring former dictator Jean-Claude \"Baby Doc\" Duvalier to justice for alleged human rights abuses committed during his 15-year rule.",
"Amnesty International published a new report Thursday with evidence of arbitrary detentions, torture, deaths in custody, killings and disappearances of Haitians from 1971 to 1985 when Duvalier was in power.",
"Amnesty said the abuse was systematic and widespread under Duvalier's iron-fisted rule.",
"\"Neither the passage of time nor immunity from prosecution can be used as excuses for not investigating or prosecuting those responsible for such crimes, including Jean-Claude Duvalier himself,\" the report said.",
"Duvalier stunned the world by returning to Haiti in January.",
"He had been living in exile in France.",
"After Duvalier's return to Port-au-Prince, Haitian authorities reopened a 2008 corruption and embezzlement case against him based on allegations that he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the national treasury.",
"Amnesty International as well as other human rights groups want Haitian authorities to also bring Duvalier to trial for his alleged brutality.",
"Amnesty gave the Port-au-Prince public prosecutor 100 documents that it said detailed cases of human rights violations.",
"\"What is needed is political will from Haiti's new administration to comply with their international obligations and their duty to the survivors and victims of abuses,\" said Javier Zuniga, a special advisor at Amnesty International.",
"\"The cases of human rights abuses we documented in Haiti are likely to be only a small proportion of what really happened during Duvalier's rule,\" Zuniga said.",
"\"We will probably never know the true extent of the horror, but carrying out effective investigations will go a long way towards delivering justice.\"",
"Amnesty International's documents tell the experiences of cobblers, taxi drivers, filmmakers, mechanics, distillers and even hairdressers, all of whom, they say, were arrested for anti-government activity.",
"Among the testimonies is that of Evans Paul, a journalist who was arrested in October 1980 at the Port-au-Prince airport.",
"He was returning from New York after interviewing the exiled former Haitian President Paul Eugene Magloire.",
"He was several journalists arrested for subversion, according to Amnesty International.",
"\"Several people with sticks ... gave me a severe beating,\" Paul told the organization.",
"\"A man ... pushed a long stick behind my legs and arms.",
"I was like a ball. I felt as my body was going to break everywhere.",
"At that point I was beaten with sticks.",
"At one point I felt as though I were going to die.",
"They gave me something to drink.",
"Then they started again even worse.",
"The skin on my buttocks had been torn away.",
"The blood was running down.",
"They weren't put off. On the contrary, you could say that the sight of my blood excited them even more.",
"When I was on the point of dying, they untied me and dragged me to a dark cell.",
"You couldn't see anything.\"",
"He was later released without charge.",
"Gerard Duclerville, a Catholic lay activist, was arrested in December 1982.",
"Duclerville told Amnesty that he was interrogated about his radio show.",
"\"They jacked me up and started raining blows on me with a baton ...",
"I must have been hit 70 times with the baton.",
"At some point I felt it was too much for me and I couldn't stand any more.",
"I said to them, 'You guys, instead of torturing me like that, it would be better if you just killed me and get it over with...'\" He was released without charge and needed treatment in a hospital, including skin grafts.",
"He was lucky. Others died in custody, Amnesty said.",
"Still others \"disappeared,\" never to be seen again.",
"Michele Montas, a journalist and former spokeswoman for the United Nations secretary-general, said she endured threats and detention and survived an assassination attempt for her journalism.",
"The staff at the independent radio station of her husband, Jean Dominique, was harassed and the station was shut down during Duvalier's rule, she said.",
"She was expelled from the country in 1980 and returned only after Duvalier's ouster.",
"\"We have enough proof,\" she told CNN in January.",
"\"There are enough people who can testify.\"",
"Dominique was slain in 2000.",
"His daughter Nadine Dominique is one of the organizers of a Duvalier victims' group in Quebec, Canada.",
"\"We were shocked when we heard the news that he had returned to Haiti,\" said Nadine Dominique.",
"\"We all felt so strongly that we had to help bring him to justice, because without that, the Haitian people will never fully heal.",
"You cannot move on without that closure.\"",
"With the release of its report, Amnesty International urged Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, to take swift action.",
"\"Haiti's current government led by President Michel Martelly has an obligation under international law to bring to justice those responsible for the crimes against humanity committed during Duvalier's years,\" Zuniga said.",
"CNN attempts to reach Martelly for comment were unsuccessful.",
"Duvalier told reporters in January that he returned to Haiti to help with rebuilding the country after last year's devastating earthquake.",
"In May, he was living with his companion Veronique Roy in a friend's hilltop home in a plush Port-au-Prince neighborhood.",
"He took over Haiti at the young age of 19 -- then the youngest leader in the world -- but at 59, looked infirm beyond his years.",
"He has since turned 60.",
"He agreed to speak about all the allegations against him but in the end, CNN never heard back from him."
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"(CNN) -- Cycling superstar Mark Cavendish will be riding for a new team next year after the collapse of HTC-Highroad, but gave no clues Friday to his eventual destination.",
"The sprinter took his tally of Tour de France stage victories to 20 with five wins on this year's race amid continued speculation he was going to jump ship to British-based Team Sky.",
"He said this week that he would make public his decision within a month, but then HTC-Highroad owner Bob Stapleton announced Thursday that the team would fold because they could not find a sponsor for 2012.",
"Cavendish, who has been with the team for five years, was quick to pay tribute to them on his personal website.",
"\"I am obviously very disappointed that HTC-Highroad will no longer be a team at the end of this season,\" he said.",
"\"I am hugely indebted and incredibly grateful to my teammates and all the staff for their support over the last five years and I am immensely proud of what we have achieved together.\"",
"But the Manxman, who claimed the green jersey for the first time in this year's Tour de France, would still not reveal where he was headed.",
"\"A number of teams have expressed interest in me riding for them in 2012,\" he added.",
"\"I have now made a decision I am happy with and will be in a position to discuss my intentions once everything has been finalized.\"",
"Team Sky, who boast his fellow British Olympic teammates Bradley Wiggins and Geraint Thomas, remain the favorites to get his coveted signature, but Cavendish has also been linked with new Australian team GreenEdge.",
"They announced Friday the signing of world pursuit record holder Jack Bobridge and brothers Cameron and Travis Meyer, three of the most promising riders in cycling as they add to their 2012 roster.",
"But they will do well to match the achievements of the soon to be defunct HTC-Highroad, who have been the most successful team in the professional peloton with their men's and women's teams achieving nearly 500 victories over five years."
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"Record breaking sprinter Cavendish \"proud\" of team's achievements .",
"Cavendish set to reveal which team he will ride for soon .",
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Fighting that raged for hours in Kabul Tuesday afternoon after a dramatic Taliban attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO's command calmed down greatly during the evening hours, a military spokesman told CNN .",
"But the strike in central Kabul and two other brazen assaults across the city left residents unnerved, and security forces braced for more.",
"Gunfire continued to ring out.",
"Three police officers have died and others have been injured in the violence across Kabul, police said.",
"The Afghan Public Health ministry said one civilian was killed and at least 18 were wounded, but none seriously.",
"The central Kabul strike occurred amid intelligence that insurgents might launch a high-profile attack in the capital around the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States, a coalition officer and a senior official of NATO's International Security Assistance Force confirmed to CNN.",
"The strike directed at the ISAF headquarters and the embassy was the most dramatic.",
"Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told CNN that his group targeted \"the U.S. Embassy, governmental organizations and other foreign organizations.\"",
"Militants stormed a building under construction and set up positions there to launch the attack, U.S., ISAF and Afghan officials said.",
"ISAF said the insurgents attacked the \"vicinity\" of the embassy and the ISAF headquarters using small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.",
"An ISAF official said there were initial reports that some rounds hit the NATO base and caused minor damage.",
"Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for ISAF, said a small number of \"terrorists\" used high-elevated positions around the area to strike with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.",
"He said the group failed to inflict ISAF and U.S. casualties but he noted the strike was \"carefully planned.\"",
"A senior ISAF official said the attacks were launched from an area outside the secure zone surrounding both areas.",
"ISAF said Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces immediately were sent to the scene.",
"Coalition forces were providing air support.",
"The Afghan Interior Ministry said four suicide attackers entered the building site from which the attack was being carried out.",
"Three of them have been killed, it said.",
"CIA Director David Petraeus, testifying at a congressional hearing in Washington Tuesday, said Afghan forces were clearing the building.",
"The building is next to Abdul Haq Square, a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy, an intelligence officer told CNN.",
"An embassy spokeswoman said staff at the U.S. facility had been told to take cover.",
"\"The U.S. Embassy can confirm an attack has occurred in the area of the U.S. Embassy\" by people armed with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, spokeswoman Kerri Hannan said.",
"She said four Afghans -- three visa applicants and a local contract guard -- were hurt in the attack on the embassy compound, but none had life-threatening injuries.",
"\"Our thoughts are with these individuals and the other victims of the terrorist attacks that happened today in Kabul.",
"We appreciate the response of the Afghan National Security Forces whose operations stopped the attack on the embassy compound,\" Hannan said.",
"A U.S. Embassy worker, who asked not to be named for security reasons, called the assault \"well-coordinated\" and said there was incoming fire around every corner of the building.",
"After a few hours of loud and intense fire, he said, the situation appeared to calm down.",
"He said the people at the embassy were well-protected by the guards there.",
"ISAF's Jacobson also said the situation calmed down by early evening.",
"Pentagon spokesman George Little said the attacks were \"less than spectacular\" and despite their high-profile nature \"one of the things we're seeing this fighting season is a less effective insurgency.\"",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there were no reports of U.S. casualties and the country \"will take all necessary steps\" to secure the area and keep personnel safe.",
"She said the \"dedicated, brave men and women\" from the United States who work for the Afghan people \"will not be intimidated\" by this cowardly act.",
"Central Kabul is considered a high-security area, and it is protected by police and other security forces.",
"ISAF said that it doesn't appear insurgents breached the sector around the sites.",
"ISAF personnel currently were told to stay indoors and take cover but there are no casualties, the official said.",
"Gen. John Allen, ISAF commander, remains on the compound, ISAF said.",
"The Afghan National Directorate of Security and the Interior Ministry spokesman said the insurgents were using rocket-propelled grenades and light weapons.",
"A hospital official said two injured civilians were being treated and the hospital expected to handle more casualties.",
"The area was cordoned off, according to Gen. Mohammed Zahir, the head of criminal investigation for the Afghan police.",
"The coalition and ISAF officials pointed out that while this attack is considered to be high-profile because of the U.S. Embassy and ISAF targets, it so far is not considered a \"spectacular\" attack because of the small number of gunmen and limited weapons involved.",
"Other violence also was reported.",
"In a Twitter message, ISAF said a \"suicide attacker was identified & killed by ANP before reaching target near Kabul airport,\" making reference to the Afghan National Police.",
"There were no further details. The Taliban said a suicide attack targeted a police compound in the western part of the city, but the Interior Ministry said the attacker -- clad in an explosives vest -- was shot before he entered the compound.",
"Another attacker set off a bomb in front of a high school, the ministry said.",
"Casualties were reported in both incidents.",
"The U.S. Embassy issued an emergency message about the series of attacks across Kabul Tuesday, saying \"the situation is uncertain and ongoing.",
"There are media reports that many roads are closed in Kabul.\"",
"It said appointments for visas or U.S. citizen services have been canceled for now and it said Americans in Afghanistan should monitor the websites of the embassy and the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs for the latest information.",
"\"We urge U.S. citizens to shelter in place, avoid unnecessary movement, and to avoid the neighborhood around the U.S. Embassy: Wazir Akbar Khan, Microrayon, and Massoud Circle,\" it said.",
"\"The Embassy also urges U.S. citizens to remain vigilant and avoid areas where Westerners congregate.",
"Do not discuss travel plans or other personal matters with strangers, or in public.",
"Be alert and aware of your surroundings, and always travel with mobile phones or appropriate communication equipment.\"",
"The attacks by the Taliban continue what has been a violent period.",
"Over the weekend, two Afghan laborers were killed while 77 U.S. troops and 25 Afghan workers were wounded in a Taliban truck bombing on an ISAF base in Afghanistan's Wardak province.",
"Last month, Taliban suicide bombers killed at least eight people in Kabul when they attacked the British Council, a British-government-affiliated body that fosters cultural and academic exchanges.",
"The Taliban harbored the al Qaeda network that launched the 9/11 strike.",
"A U.S.-led coalition toppled the Taliban and has been fighting militants in Afghanistan for nearly 10 years.",
"NATO is drawing down and handing over security control to national forces.",
"Some 10,000 U.S. troops are scheduled to depart by year's end, with all U.S. military personnel out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014.",
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Vygaudas Usackas, head of the European Union mission in Afghanistan, were among those who condemned the attacks.",
"NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Taliban attacks in Kabul Tuesday were an attempt to derail plans to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces in Afghanistan.",
"\"We are witnessing that the Taliban try to test (the) transition but they can't stop it.",
"Transition is on track and it will continue,\" Rasmussen said.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling in Atlanta, Barbara Starr, Adam Levine and Elise Labott in Washington and Tim Schwarz, Matiullah Mati, Ruhullah Khaplakwak and Suzanne Malveaux in Kabul contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea this week returned to London as newly-crowned champions of the fifth Barclay's Asia Cup in Hong Kong.",
"Taking on two other English teams as well as Kitchee, the Hong Kong champions, the English Premier League's runners-up last season used the competition to put the finishing touch on a summer of preparation, and to raise the club's profile in this part of the world.",
"In truth, the outcome was never seriously in doubt, despite the presence of Premier League opponents Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers.",
"Such is the financial muscle of a moneyed group of clubs, who include Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, the rest of England's top flight increasingly seem to exist to make up the numbers.",
"Manchester City used to be in this latter group, before a massive cash injection from billionaire Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family, catapulted City into football's big time.",
"However, the club is hemorrhaging money, as a sky-high wage bill coupled with the payment of exorbitant transfer fees exceeds what it actually earns in ticket sales, sponsorship and other commercial deals.",
"But as long as their wealthy benefactor's largesse continues and success accompanies it, neither the owners nor the fans particularly mind.",
"Chelsea also has a rich owner, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who made headlines in 2003 by purchasing the club outright and declaring that they would immediately be a force to be reckoned with.",
"The London club certainly look like contenders this season if last weekend's performance is any indication -- no goals conceded in four matches held across three countries - but their impact off the field is most eye-catching.",
"Chelsea played in front of 85,000 fans in Malaysia, while another packed stadium greeted them in Hong Kong when they faced Villa in the Asia Cup final.",
"That's tens of thousands of Asian-based fans buying tickets and merchandise such as replica shirts as they lapped up a rare opportunity to watch their heroes in the flesh.",
"Not a bad little earner.",
"Gate receipts for the Barclay's Asia Trophy totaled almost HK$20 million over the two days, according to the Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA), but local organizer ProEvents Management says that the tournament's use is much wider -- as a vehicle for promoting the Premier League brand.",
"\"The issue of whether it makes money isn't the issue,\" says Paul Kam, Chairman of ProEvents.",
"\"It is a very important market for the clubs.",
"The benefits are long term.\"",
"It is a sentiment echoed by Chelsea's new man.",
"\"It would be unreasonable for us not to do preseasons like this and not touch the amount of fans that we have,\" André Villas-Boas, newly installed manager at the club, told CNN ahead of the tournament.",
"\"We have to respect [both] our commercial activities and the football planning, and at this moment we have been balancing it properly.\"",
"Fans in Asia seem to be grateful that the League's big guns are concentrating on this region.",
"\"It's the first time I've seen them play and it was a great experience,\" says Eric Yiu, a Hong Kong fan who started supporting Chelsea three years ago.",
"\"I was lucky, a friend gave me tickets.\"",
"Hong Kong is not exactly an undeveloped market for the England's Premier League.",
"In 2006 cable operator PCCW paid HK$1.56 billion (US$200million) for the broadcast rights to Premier League games.",
"The casual Hong Kong fan is likely more familiar with the star names at Chelsea and their counterparts at other high-flying clubs than they are with local professionals.",
"Expanding a support base is set to become even more important for clubs.",
"The sport's European governing body, UEFA, seeks to impose punitive measures on clubs who fail to balance their books.",
"Beginning in the 2012-13 season, the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules stress that income should be earned from football-related activities and are designed to straiten those clubs who operate outside of normal profit-and-loss structures.",
"Clubs found guilty of breaking FFP rules will be banned from European competition -- a huge disincentive given the popularity, prestige and profile that playing in the UEFA Champion's League brings.",
"Cynics will point out that accounting sleights of hand will essentially render FFP rules meaningless.",
"Newly-wealthy Manchester City, for example, recently announced a stadium naming rights deal with Etihad, the airline wing of their own parent company, Abu Dhabi United Group.",
"The club's Chief Executive, Garry Cook, said the deal was \"one of the most important arrangements in the history of world football.\"",
"At $US 651M, the 10-year arrangement is far outside the market price for similar naming rights and it has been suggested that this, amongst other, equally creative ways of getting money into the club provides clubs like City with a loophole to avoid FFP stricture.",
"The club's rivals, including Arsenal's outspoken manager Arsene Wenger, have cried foul of the deal, which Wenger describes as part of City's ongoing \"financial doping,\" giving some teams an unfair advantage over their less wealthy opponents.",
"\"The credibility of financial fair play is at stake,\" Wenger said at the time of the deal's announcement.",
"\"The backdrop is UEFA's Financial Fair Play and this helps to make significant progress in that area,\" Cook said when announcing the sponsorship deal.",
"\"This is not just a wide-ranging agreement.",
"It is a long-term commitment.\"",
"UEFA are currently looking into the case to determine its legitimacy and they may yet not avoid censure.",
"English football is now a global concern, with teams from the top tier jetting across the globe, trying to pry open new, lucrative markets -- clubs looking to export the passion and excitement of English football to a new, enthusiastic audience.",
"As the playing field soon looks to be leveled, it looks likely that these foreign forays will become even more important to teams looking to stay onside of UEFA's rules."
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"Cash injections from rich owners increasingly dictates the performance of English Premier League clubs .",
"Overseas warm-ups are big money-spinners for British clubs, as tickets and merchandise create revenue .",
"New Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules for 2012 stress that income should be earned from football-related activities ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- Libya's interim prime minister said on Tuesday that he expects the county to have a new government within 10 days.",
"Mahmoud Jibril, head of the National Transitional Council's executive board, spoke at a Group of Eight conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.",
"\"I expect the government to be announced within a week, 10 days maximum from now ... most of the work has been done,\" he said.",
"\"I think this government, when formed, will help tremendously, bring about stability and order in Tripoli and the rest of the country.",
"Therefore, I am not bothered by the time we are consuming to bring about some sort of national consensus behind this government.\"",
"Jibril said negotiations include discussion of the number of ministries the new government will have and where they will be located.",
"Earlier Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Libya's transitional leadership on the apparent success of that country's revolution, ushering in a post-Gadhafi era for the North African nation as part of the international body.",
"\"For Libya, this is a historic day,\" said Ban, who directed that the country's new flag be presented alongside the U.N. flag amid a standing ovation from those in attendance.",
"The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to accept the credentials of the country's new leadership after rebels last month all but ousted Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi after more than four decades in power.",
"\"I am sure you saw your new flag this morning, flying so proudly outside this building,\" the U.N. chief said.",
"The rebuilding of Libya and the Palestinian quest for statehood are expected to be the dominant topics this week as world leaders converge on the United Nations in New York for the 66th annual session of the General Assembly.",
"On Tuesday, Ban met with Mustafa Abdul Jalil -- head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council -- to discuss the deployment of a support mission to be run by British diplomat and U.N. envoy Ian Martin.",
"The mission is thought to largely center on post-conflict planning, with particular focus on security-building and electoral assistance.",
"But American participation, the U.N. chief says, is instrumental in supporting the new government, noting challenges facing transitional leadership as it confronts pockets of resistance and the specter of Gadhafi, who remains at large.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to continue to protect Libyan civilians for as long as they remained threatened by the former regime, pledging to reopen the American embassy in Tripoli later this week.",
"\"Six months ago, as his tanks approached Benghazi, Gadhafi predicted that his opponents would be slaughtered like rats,\" said U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague.",
"\"But he had not counted on the courage of the Libyan people, the principled stand of the Arab League and the resolve of the international community.\"",
"Hague said he sought to send to a clear message to the former dictator and his remaining supporters that \"their time is up,\" adding that the unfreezing of Libyan assets will help pay for the country's critical services.",
"Tuesday's Libya summit at the U.N. General Assembly was billed as an event designed to give world leaders a chance to figure out ways to help Libya rebuild from the battle against their former leader.",
"The meeting was in stark contrast to two years ago, when Gadhafi gave a rambling General Assembly address where he floated conspiracy theories, urged probes into U.S. military activities and took aim at the structure of the Security Council itself.",
"Meanwhile, the international body also focused on what it described as an alarming increase in global desertification, and wrapped a two-day meeting on noncommunicable diseases, now the world's leading killer.",
"It is only the second time a health issue has been debated at a special meeting of the General Assembly, following the group's pledge to take on AIDS a decade ago.",
"Delegates unanimously approved a \"political declaration\" on Monday, addressing illnesses including cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lung diseases and diabetes in developing countries, which often struggle with limited budgets and overwhelmed health care systems.",
"Also on the plate of U.N. activities this week is an expected address from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will take the podium Thursday to address recent changes in the Middle East.",
"His visit marks the seventh time the Iranian president has traveled to New York since he took office in 2005.",
"Ahmadinejad told Iranian state media on Monday that the U.N. must meet the international community's \"real demands,\" raising questions as to whether the Iranian leader will broach the issue of Palestinian statehood, a lightning-rod topic and the subject of much diplomatic wrangling.",
"The U.S. has pledged to block a Palestinian membership application should it reach the Security Council, but is likely eager to head-off a scenario that would involve an American veto -- a move widely seen as unpopular in the Middle East.",
"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has, however, seemed largely undeterred.",
"In a speech Friday that appeared both an attempt to manage domestic expectations and push the statehood issue, the Palestinian leader told an audience in Ramallah, \"We are going to the United Nations to attain full membership.\"",
"He has said the Palestinian territories should be represented by their \"natural borders\" -- with Israel remaining within its 1967 boundaries, which would afford Palestinians the Gaza strip, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.",
"He called disputed territories inhabited by Israeli settlers \"illegal.\"",
"On Friday, the body will address the controversial bid.",
"Abbas is scheduled to speak, and has said after he gives that speech, he will deliver a formal membership application to the U.N. secretary-general.",
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes the measure, is scheduled to speak later in the day and has called the move provocative and pushed for a return to the negotiating table.",
"The Palestinian territories currently have \"observer\" status, meaning delegates can speak in the General Assembly but not vote.",
"A \"yes\" vote in the General Assembly -- where only a majority vote would be needed -- could afford Palestinians with the status of \"permanent observer,\" similar to the position the Vatican currently holds.",
"A vote in their favor would be all but assured, meaning they could pursue legal actions against Israel, though analysts suggest that the elevated status could prematurely raise expectations for change in the region.",
"Hamas, the Palestinian organization that controls Gaza, has warned Abbas against making the request, saying it would show a willingness to acknowledge and negotiate with Israel, which would \"deprive the Palestinian people from their right to come back to their homeland.\"",
"The five permanent members of the Security Council are the United States, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom.",
"The General Assembly, the U.N.'s main policy-making body, has 193 member nations.",
"CNN's Joe Vaccarello and Mitra Mobasherat contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Libya's interim PM says he expects Libya to have a new government within 10 days .",
"Presentation of the country's new flag draws a standing ovation .",
"\"This is a historic day,\" says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon .",
"The group will address the Palestinian quest for membership this week ."
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"Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- Norway's nightmare lasted just over three hours, all in the middle of a summer afternoon.",
"Authorities are still trying to piece together exactly what happened last Friday -- and, perhaps as significantly, why.",
"But they have offered a timeline as to how the bloodshed began in central Oslo and then continued 20 miles away, at a political youth camp on Utoya island.",
"While police have not officially named him, they have arrested a man who has been identified in local and national media reports as Anders Behring Breivik, 32.",
"A manifesto, purportedly written by a man of that name and posted online the day of the attacks, signals his intent to be part of a \"European civil war\" and his distaste for Norway's leadership.",
"Here is a chronological recap of last week's violence that left at least 93 people dead across the two sites, compiled from statements and interviews of police, witnesses and government officials: .",
"3:20 p.m.: An fertilizer bomb explodes outside government offices in central Oslo, near the Norwegian parliament and the offices of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.",
"The government's leader is not present at the time of the blast.",
"At least seven people are killed.",
"Sometime thereafter, the suspect in the bombing takes a 3/4-mile ferry ride on Tyrifjorden -- Norway's fifth-largest lake -- to Utoya island.",
"The 26-acre island, about 20 miles from central Oslo, is hosting a youth camp run by the Labour Party.",
"About 700 teens and young adults are attending the camp, and are gathered in a large meeting room where camp organizers share information about the bombing in Oslo.",
"A man dressed in an apparent police uniform asks to address the group, but instead opens fire.",
"The suspect walks around the camp shooting people.",
"Some try to hide or plunge into the water, while others are picked up by boaters passing by and brought to safety.",
"But at least 86 are killed in the attack, according to authorities.",
"5:27 p.m.: A local police station, situated near Utoya, is alerted.",
"5:30 p.m.: Authorities in Oslo, home to the national police headquarters, become aware of the youth camp shooting for the first time.",
"5:38 p.m.: Local police near Utoya request assistance from other law enforcement agents in the Norwegian capital.",
"5:52 p.m.: Several local police arrive on the lakefront near Utoya.",
"6:03 p.m.: The first police depart for the island in a boat.",
"6:09 p.m.: Members of an elite Norwegian police unit arrive on the shore.",
"6:25 p.m.: These specially trained forces land on the island.",
"6:27 p.m.: The gunman does not put up a fight as he is taken into custody on the island by the police unit."
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"An explosion rocked government offices in central Oslo on Friday afternoon .",
"Police say the suspect in that blast then headed 20 miles to Utoya Island .",
"There he gunned down at least 86 people, in addition to 7 killed by the bomb .",
"The 32-year-old man didn't put up a fight when he was arrested, police say ."
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"(CNN) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter has denied reports that he plans to hand over power to UEFA chief Michel Platini before the end of his final four-year tenure as the head of world football's governing body.",
"Blatter, 75, was elected unopposed for a fourth term in June after allegations of bribery and corruption led to the suspension of his sole opponent -- the former head of the Asian Football Confederation, Mohamed Bin Hammam of Qatar.",
"Former France international Platini was voted in for a second term as head of European football's ruling body in March, and also serves as a FIFA vice-president.",
"A report from ESPN on Tuesday claimed a deal had been struck between Blatter and Platini which would see the former European Footballer of the Year assume FIFA's top job in two years.",
"\"The existence of a reported 'deal' between me and Michel Platini for the FIFA Presidency is pure nonsense,\" Blatter wrote on his official account on social networking site Twitter.",
"\"The suggestion that I intend to stop my four-year mandate before its end is simply ridiculous.\"",
"It has been a troubled 12 months for FIFA, with officials Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii both receiving bans from the organization in November 2010.",
"Nigeria's Adamu and Temarii of Tahiti were accused of offering to sell their votes during the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.",
"Adamu's appeal against his three-year ban will be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on October 4.",
"Bin Hammam, who was Asian president when Qatar was awarded the 2022 tournament, was then suspended in May and subsequently handed a lifetime ban from football for allegedly offering bribes in exchange for support in June's presidential ballot.",
"The 62-year-old denies the charges and his appeal hearing against the ban will be heard on Thursday."
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"Sepp Blatter denies a plot to hand over FIFA presidency to Michel Platini .",
"Report from ESPN suggests Platini would succeed Blatter in two years .",
"Platini is the president of European football's ruling body UEFA .",
"Blatter was elected unopposed for a fourth term as FIFA chief in June ."
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"Maumelle, Arkansas (CNN) -- A man whose naked body was found next to a sleeping TV weatherman in an unfilled tub earlier this month died from asphyxiation, authorities said Thursday, but there was \"no indication\" he was strangled.",
"Maumelle, Arkansas, police Lt. Jim Hansard noted that the medical examiner cited other contributing factors in 24-year-old Dexter Williams' death, including intoxication with methamphetamine and amphetamines.",
"Police said the investigation remains open and there is \"no indication (from the medical examiner) in any way that there was a strangulation,' and the manner of death remains 'undetermined.\"",
"Police say Williams' body was discovered September 5 in a hot tub with former TV meteorologist Brett Cummins.",
"Cummins, 33, has not been charged in the case.",
"He has since resigned from KARK-TV in Little Rock.",
"The owner of the home, Christopher Barbour, found Williams' body at the bottom of an empty tub, his face blue and purple and a chain resembling a dog collar around his neck, according to a Maumelle police report.",
"Maumelle police will soon turn the case over to the Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, which will determine whether any charges will be filed."
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"Dexter Williams died of asphyxiation, medical examiner rules .",
"Williams was found in a hot tub with local weatherman Brett Cummins .",
"Police say there's \"no indication ... there was a strangulation\""
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"(CNN) -- Rangers scored three second-half goals to beat Celtic 4-2 in Glasgow's Old Firm Derby Sunday and go four points clear in the Scottish Premier League.",
"In-form Steven Naismith fired Rangers ahead with a thumping strike after 22nd minutes but Celtic were quick to level through Gary Hooper's well-worked goal 12 minutes later.",
"Celtic took the lead just before halftime as Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor allowed a weak shot from Moroccan Badr El Kaddouri to elude his grasp and trickle into the net.",
"But Nikica Jelavic headed Rangers level seven minutes after the interval and they were ahead when Kyle Lafferty converted after 67 minutes.",
"Mulgrew, who was fortunate to escape with just a yellow card for his first half challenge, then saw red in the 75th minute and Naismith took advantage against 10 men to score the fourth and his second in injury time.",
"\"I didn't think there was an awful lot between the teams in the first-half.",
"I'm not sure we deserved to go in 2-1 down but that's what we were faced with,\" Rangers manager Ally McCoist told Sky Sports.",
"\"We asked the boys for a reaction in the second-half and boy did we get it.\"",
"Celtic manager Neil Lennon was disappointed by his team's second half display: \"We didn't compete and it was almost as if the players had gone out in the second-half thinking the game was won,\" he said.",
"Matches between the two giants of Scottish football usually prove crucial in the domestic title race and the victory left Rangers on 19 points after seven games, with Celtic on 15 in second."
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"Rangers score three second half goals to beat Celtic in Glasgow's Old Firm Derby .",
"Steven Naismith on target in each half for Rangers who go four points clear at top in Scotland .",
"Celtic have Charlie Mulgrew sent off in the second half for second bookable foul .",
"Old Firm Derby is one of the most hotly-contested in world football ."
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"(CNN) -- HTC-Highroad, the cycling team that top Tour de France sprinter Mark Cavendish races for, is to fold at the end of the season.",
"Bob Stapleton, manager of the United States team, said Thursday that closing was the best option after a deal with a potential partner broke down over the weekend.",
"HTC have racked up 93 victories between their male and female riders in 2011, and are the sport's most successful team in the past three years.",
"In a statement Stapleton said: \"After an exhaustive search to secure long-term sponsorship we have concluded that it's time to release our team members to pursue other options.",
"\"Our team's success has been based on our outstanding people.",
"It's in their best interest that we make this decision now.\"",
"Cavendish, has won 20 stages of the Tour de France for HTC-Highroad, and claimed the green jersey -- for the event's best sprinter -- in the most recent installment that finished last month.",
"In further quotes carried by AFP, Stapleton added: \"Our view was that if we couldn't be close enough on financial firepower, we couldn't consistently outperform with far less money.",
"\"And if we couldn't be in a leadership position in the sport, then we weren't going to be in a position to drive change and that was our fundamental mission coming in, and if we weren't going to succeed in that, then it was best to let people go and pursue their own interests.\"",
"Since launching in 2008, HTC-Highroad has won 484 races including 54 grand tour stages."
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"Cycling team HTC-Highroad to fold at the end of 2011 season .",
"Deal with potential partner collapsed over the weekend .",
"Bob Stapleton, manager of the U.S. team, says closing is the best option ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Sarah Lancaster's marriage has been followed by a baby carriage.",
"The \"Chuck\" star, 31, who wed attorney Matthew Jacobs earlier this year in Southern California, delivered a son on June 29, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.",
"Oliver Michael Jacobs was born in Los Angeles, weighing in at 8 lbs., 7 oz.",
"\"We feel so fortunate for every minute we get to spend with our healthy and happy baby,\" the couple tell PEOPLE.",
"PHOTOS: Who's Due Next?",
"Lancaster plays Ellie on NBC's action comedy spy series, which is back for its fifth season on October 21.",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2010 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Sarah Lancaster and her hudband welcomed their son in June .",
"Oliver Michael Jacobs was born in Los Angeles .",
"The \"Chuck\" star wed Matthew Jacobs earlier this year in Southern California ."
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"Seattle (CNN) -- Washington teachers on strike for seven days reached a tentative agreement Wednesday to end their protests, following the intervention of the governor, a spokesman for the teacher's union said.",
"\"There's a tentative agreement, which we will now vote on,\" Union spokesman Rich Wood told CNN.",
"\"All of the big issues, class size, teacher pay and transfers we were able to agree on.\"",
"Wood said more details of the planned deal would be discussed at a Thursday meeting for some 2,000 teachers who left the classroom for the picket line after negotiations with the Tacoma school district for a new contract broke down.",
"Wood said teachers could go back to school as early as Friday if they approve the deal.",
"A spokesman for the school district did not respond to CNN requests for comment on the proposed agreement.",
"Earlier Wednesday, Washington Gov.",
"Christine Gregoire announced she would referee the feud between the Tacoma school district and striking teachers that had kept 28,000 students from classrooms for seven days.",
"Negotiations at her office lasted about seven hours Wednesday before the agreement was announced.",
"\"This agreement provides a long-term solution, meets the districts needs and ensures teachers remain proud to report to their classroom every day,\" Gregoire said in a statement.",
"Last week, a state judge ordered the teacher's union and school district to restart stalled negotiations and told striking teachers to get back into the classroom.",
"But the teachers, who have rejected school district proposals for a new three-year contract, continued their protests.",
"Bryan Chushcoff, the judge hearing the case, said teachers and the union are defying his order.",
"A hearing had been scheduled for next Tuesday to determine what penalties the teachers and union could face.",
"Chushcoff said last week that an agreement could prevent further litigation from taking place over the strike.",
"Contract talks between the school district and union fractured over teacher pay, class size and how educators are transferred between schools.",
"Across Washington, state services cuts are in the works after the governor's office last week said the state is expected to collect $1.4 billion less in revenue between now and June 2013 than previously forecast."
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"Washington's governor intervenes in negotiations .",
"A meeting will be held Thursday to discuss details of the deal .",
"More than 2,000 Tacoma teachers have been on strike for a week .",
"Teachers could go back to class Friday ."
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"(CNN) -- The International Olympic Committee told CNN Friday that they are waiting on the result of an investigation by amateur boxing's world governing body into allegations that huge bribes were paid so Azerbaijan can win gold medals at the London 2012 Games.",
"Reports by the BBC suggested that organizers of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA)'s World Series of Boxing (WSB) paid $9 million to an Azeri national.",
"The money was allegedly paid to secure two gold medals for Azeri boxers at next year's Olympics in Britain.",
"\"We welcome AIBA's announcement of an immediate inquiry into these claims and we await the outcome of their investigation,\" an IOC spokesman told CNN.",
"\"For its part the IOC takes all allegations of corruption very seriously.",
"And we would urge the BBC to make any evidence they have available to AIBA and to our ethics commission which will then determine if further action is necessary. \"",
"Olympic boxing has suffered from a number of controversial judging decisions, the most notable involving Roy Jones of the United States at the 1988 Games in Seoul.",
"He was widely recognized to have easily won his final bout against home fighter Park Si-Hun, but lost on a split decision.",
"There were also a number of questionable results at the Beijing Olympics in China.",
"The IOC said that the boxing authorities had reacted to the controversies by making \"significant changes to their procedures\".",
"It added: . \"We would also note that the judging process in boxing as in other sports at the Games are transparent and open to public scrutiny .\"",
"The AIBA confirmed that they would launch an investigation but its president Wu Ching-Kuo told AFP that the allegations were \"totally untrue and ludicrous.\"",
"Amateur boxing's world championships are being staged in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku this weekend, the first event where boxers of all nations can secure a qualifying spot for the Olympics."
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"Amateur boxing hit by 'cash for gold medals' bribery allegations ahead of London Olympics .",
"BBC report claims money changed hands to make sure Azerbaijan fighters won at next year's Games .",
"International Amateur Boxing Association to launch an inquiry into the allegations .",
"International Olympic Committee urge BBC to make all their evidence available for scrutiny ."
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"(CNN) -- Beth Holloway, the mother of long-missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, opposes a court petition to declare the her dead, an attorney said Thursday.",
"The petition was filed in June by Dave Holloway, Beth Holloway's ex-husband.",
"It will be heard in a Jefferson County, Alabama, probate court on Friday.",
"Natalee Holloway was 18 and had just graduated high school in the Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Mountain Brook when she disappeared on a celebratory trip with classmates to Aruba in 2005.",
"\"Beth intends to oppose Dave's inexplicable effort to have Natalee declared dead,\" attorney John Q. Kelly said in a statement.",
"\"Beth gave birth to and raised Natalee, and will always hope and pray for Natalee's safe return.\"",
"Last week, Dave Holloway's attorney said he filed the petition because he \"is seeking closure for his family.\"",
"\"This is a normal proceeding for families when a loved one has been missing for an extended period of time,\" attorney Karen Hennecy said in a statement.",
"\"Alabama law requires a waiting period of five years when a body has not recovered and no death certificate has been issued.\"",
"\"If Dave seeks closure on such a personal and sensitive matter, it should be respected, but not imposed upon Beth in such an adversarial and public manner,\" Kelly said Thursday.",
"Beth Holloway said in a statement last week, issued through her Natalee Holloway Resource Center, which aids families of missing persons, that she learned about the filing when she was handed documents by a process server while addressing a conference in Georgia.",
"Natalee Holloway's disappearance remains unsolved.",
"A suspect, Joran van der Sloot, was arrested but never charged in connection with the disappearance.",
"He was indicted on federal extortion charges last year after prosecutors accused him of offering to sell information about the location of Holloway's remains in exchange for $250,000.",
"Van der Sloot is awaiting trial on murder charges in Peru in the death of a woman whose body was found in his hotel room last year.",
"If convicted, prosecutors have said, he faces a 30-year prison term.",
"-- CNN's Vivian Kuo contributed to this report."
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"Her attorney says Beth Holloway finds the petition \"inexplicable\"\nBeth Holloway \"will always hope and pray for Natalee's safe return\"\nThe petition will be heard in an Alabama court on Friday ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's National Transitional Council will hold an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss the formation of an interim government, a senior council member told CNN Friday.",
"Mohammed Naser, the council member, said the formation of a government could take up to one week, but NTC members agreed that the interim government would include a premier, a vice premier, and 22 ministers.",
"Naser did not give further details.",
"Earlier this week, Elamin Belhaj, a senior member of the NTC, told CNN the formation of a Libyan government would not be announced until anti-Gadhafi forces controlled the borders of the country and liberated three cities that still remained under loyalist control -- Bani Walid, Sirte and Sabha -- a task that could take up to one month, he said.",
"\"We are not a fully established country,\" he said this week of the fact that Libya has not been completely liberated.",
"The NTC, he said, will expand as cities are liberated in order to give representation to all regions of the country.",
"Ultimately, the council could have approximately 80 members; it currently has 43.",
"Belhaj said that after liberation, the NTC will create an interim government by appointing a prime minister who will be responsible for forming the government.",
"The prime minister will decide how many ministers will be in that interim government, but he must return to the NTC for approval of that government.",
"Belhaj explained that the NTC decided to use the expression \"interim government\" because \"the international community wants to deal with us through a government.\"",
"That interim government will prepare for the election within eight months of a National Congress, a body that will have 200 members.",
"At the creation of the congress, the interim government will cease to exist.",
"The National Congress, Belhaj said, will form a committee to write a constitution for Libya, which will then be presented to the Libyan people to vote on in a referendum.",
"If it's approved, Libya would have a permanent democratic constitution for the first time, he said.",
"In the final stage of transition, Libya will create a political system, including the formation of political parties that will participate in general parliamentary and presidential elections.",
"Asked to comment on charges that the ranks of the NTC are divided by regional rivalries, Belhaj said there is no division in the NTC.",
"Islamists and secularists are \"all together\" during this stage of revolution, he said.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"The NTC wants to form a government that will carry Libya into elections .",
"Forming the new government could take a week, a senior NTC member says .",
"The interim government would include a premier, a vice premier, and 22 ministers ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid have reduced Barcelona's lead at the top of the Spanish Primera Liga to three points after coming from behind to win 2-1 at Almeria on Thursday.",
"Madrid, looking to bounce back following their defeat in \"El Clasico\", suffered a poor start and fell behind in the 14th minute.",
"Kalu Uche broke down the right and his low cross was met by the unmarked Albert Crusat at the far post.",
"And the home side nearly doubled their advantage just seven minutes later when Domingo Cisma's free-kick was superbly saved by Iker Casillas.",
"However, the visitors drew level in the 27th minute thanks to a moment of superb skill from Cristiano Ronaldo.",
"The $125 million man burst past two defenders, fooled a third with one of his trademark stepovers and fird home a shot into the far corner for his 19th league goal of the season.",
"From then on, Real were the better side.",
"Veteran midfielder Guti struck the post from the edge of the area before Rafael Van der Vaart put the rebound wide.",
"And the winning goal came in the 69th minute when Van der Vaart collected Gonzalo Higuain's pass before firing home a low shot into the bottom corner.",
"Madrid should have added to their lead, but Ronaldo was denied by goalkeeper Diego Alves while Karim Benzema and Mahamadou Diarra also missed good chances."
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"Real Madrid reduce Barcelona's lead at the top of the Primera Liga to three points .",
"Madrid come from behind to secure a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Almeria .",
"Cristiano Ronaldo scores a stunning goal to bring Madrid back into the game ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon will lift its ban on media coverage of the flag-draped coffins of war victims arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.",
"Military vehicles carry coffins containing U.S. troops in this photo the Pentagon released in 2005.",
"But the families of the victims will have the final say on whether to allow the coverage, he said.",
"President Obama asked Gates to review the policy, and Gates said he decided after consulting with the armed services and groups representing military families to apply the same policy that is used at Arlington National Cemetery.",
"\"I have decided that the decision regarding media coverage of the dignified transfer process at Dover should be made by those most directly affected -- the families,\" he said at a news conference.",
"Watch Gates announce reversal » .",
"Gates said he had formed a group to create an implementation plan for the new policy.",
"Not long after Gates' announcement, the political action committee VoteVets.org issued a written statement saying it is \"fully supportive\" of the decision.",
"Watch what led to a media ban on photos of the caskets » .",
"Advocates of opening the base to coverage point out that the unmarked coffins make it impossible to identify specific remains.",
"A statement from the National Military Family Association said it \"appreciates the sensitivity\" of the secretary \"and his recognition that individual families must play a part\" in any decision about media coverage.",
"\"We look forward to the recommendations of the working group on the implementation of this policy,\" the group said.",
"Not everyone had a positive reaction.",
"\"Military Families United is disappointed in the president's decision to overturn the ban that has been in place for over 18 years,\" the group said in a release.",
"\"Just last week, Families United released the results of a survey conducted among military families, which found that more than 64 percent ... believe that this ban should not be overturned.",
"It is evident that military families were not consulted nor their wishes honored when the decision was made.",
"\"This is a complete disregard for the will of America's military families and their need for privacy during this solemn moment,\" the release said.",
"After the Iraq War began, critics of the George W. Bush administration accused it of disallowing photographs and filming to de-emphasize the number of casualties from what many considered an unpopular war.",
"Although the Defense Department won't confirm it, it is widely accepted that the idea for the ban began after the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, when the United States deposed dictator Manuel Noriega.",
"After a news conference held by President George H.W.",
"Bush, his press secretary made a humorous remark, which caused the president and reporters to laugh.",
"At the same time, viewers were watching coffins of the first casualties from the invasion being unloaded at Dover.",
"The following year, when the Persian Gulf War began, the Pentagon banned media coverage of war dead being returned to the base.",
"One of the family members who favors lifting the ban is Karen Meredith of San Francisco, California, who wrote Obama urging him to order the change.",
"Lt. Ken Ballard left for Iraq on Mother's Day 2003.",
"He came home in a casket on Memorial Day 2004.",
"\"I wanted the nation to grieve with me, and if we don't see those images we don't know that these young men and women are dying,\" she said.",
"\"And to me it's an honor to have an honor guard at Dover when they're bringing these men and women back through the mortuary.",
"But we've never been able to see those pictures of the honor being given.\"",
"Others say the honor should remain private.",
"\"When they come off the plane these are anonymous caskets.",
"What is the greater good of that?\"",
"asked Vince Rangel, who was an Army Ranger captain in Vietnam.",
"\"I would rather take that attention and give it everything it deserves at the grave site in the communities where you can get all that information, so people can understand these people as human beings.",
"Not just as a flag-draped casket that comes out of a plane.\"",
"Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said about two weeks ago that a good deal of input needed to be collected from a number of sources, including Pentagon offices representing family interests, the Defense Department's public affairs office and the various service branches.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr and Susan Roesgen contributed to this report."
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"Defense secretary Robert Gates says families will have final say on each coffin .",
"Group says, \"Military families were not consulted nor their wishes honored\"\nAnother family group says it \"appreciates the sensitivity\" of the secretary .",
"Gates ordered review after president requested info on longstanding ban ."
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"Knoxville, Tennessee (CNN) -- Helen Ashe experienced many hardships growing up in Abbeville, South Carolina, during the 1930s and '40s.",
"Her family's first house had no lights or running water.",
"But even during tough times, she and her twin sister, Ellen, were taught to be selfless.",
"\"My daddy taught us not to take the last piece of bread from the table; somebody may come by that's hungry,\" Ashe remembered.",
"Since 1986, Ashe has been leaving a whole lot more than bread on the table.",
"As the founder of the Love Kitchen in Knoxville, Tennessee, she has helped serve more than 1 million free meals to those in need.",
"Aided by her sister and a team of volunteers, Ashe serves those whom she calls the five Hs: the hungry, the homeless, the helpless, the hopeless and the homebound.",
"\"We have so many people that are in need,\" said Ashe, 83.",
"\"That's what keeps us going.\"",
"The Love Kitchen prepares and distributes about 2,000 meals a week from a large community center that's equipped with a restaurant-style kitchen.",
"On Wednesdays and Thursdays, the Love Kitchen serves a lunchtime meal where everyone is welcome.",
"Hundreds often dine in, but the majority of meals -- 1,500 on average -- are delivered to Knoxville residents who cannot physically leave their homes.",
"Many of these people are elderly and suffer from debilitating illnesses or diseases.",
"\"Each week, we get a list of people that are either hospitalized, too old to come in to eat, or homebound,\" volunteer James O'Hare said.",
"\"Then on Thursday, they take a stack of these seven meals, and the volunteers deliver to that person.\"",
"Each takeout box has an entrée, a vegetable, bread and dessert so recipients receive well-rounded meals for a whole week.",
"But they also get much more.",
"\"It feeds their body, and it also feeds their soul,\" O'Hare said.",
"\"They have somebody that comes and talks to them, gives them some encouragement.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"Ashe doesn't typically deliver the meals herself.",
"She and her sister stay at the community center, greeting volunteers, recipients and even fans who drop by to say hello.",
"\"My sister Ellen is a blessing to me,\" Ashe said.",
"\"She always says the Love Kitchen was in the making.",
"And that's why the Lord sent two: because it's so much work to do for one.\"",
"The two enrolled in nursing school in the late '50s, and after graduation, they began working at what is now the University of Tennessee Medical Center.",
"At the time, Ashe said, segregation was in \"full force.\"",
"She saw many of her black patients struggle for food and transportation.",
"\"They didn't have money,\" Ashe said.",
"\"They didn't have transportation home.",
"The Lord put it into my brain for me to do something about this.\"",
"Ashe said she used her own funds when she could to help those in need.",
"However, she dreamed of a place \"where people could come and eat and wouldn't have to pay anything.\"",
"In 1986, that dream became reality when the pastor of a nearby church said she could set up shop in the basement.",
"The first day the Love Kitchen opened its doors, it served 22 meals.",
"\"I think our first meal was fried chicken with some fried potatoes and a little salad on the side,\" said Leroy Mundy, 66, who has been coming to the Love Kitchen since it started.",
"The number of recipients grew over time, as did the venue size.",
"But more than two decades later, there's still down-home Southern cooking and some good old-fashioned Southern hospitality.",
"\"You leave with love and some higher spirits when you talk to these two ladies here,\" Mundy said.",
"The Love Kitchen's food is donated by an area grocery store.",
"Local farmers and specialty shops also bring in fresh vegetables, fruit and baked goods.",
"Meals are served fresh in a kitchen that is up to Health Department standards.",
"Volunteers range in age, and many are local professionals who have been inspired by Ashe's vision and work.",
"Ashe gives all the credit to God and her wonderful parents.",
"Her motto remains the same as the day they opened their doors.",
"\"We work for what we got, and we share what we get,\" she said.",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out the Love Kitchen's website at www.thelovekitchen.org and see how to help."
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"The majority of them are delivered to people who can't physically leave their homes .",
"The Love Kitchen \"feeds their body, and it also feeds their soul,\" said a volunteer .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"Belfast, Ireland (CNN) -- The British government said Thursday it will pay compensation to the relatives of those killed and wounded by British soldiers in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland in 1972.",
"Thirteen people died when British troops opened fire at a mainly Catholic civil rights march in Londonderry, and another man died four months later of injuries sustained on that day.",
"Last year, Prime Minister David Cameron described what happened in Londonderry as \"unjustified and unjustifiable,\" following the release by the British government of a damning report that reversed decades of official explanations for the 1972 killings.",
"The paratroopers who killed 14 people had no reason to believe they were under threat from the victims, gave no warnings before firing and lied to the far-reaching official inquiry into the seminal event, the inquiry concluded.",
"The independent Saville Report was a comprehensive rejection of the British government's official account of the killings, which had stood for 38 years.",
"Lawyers representing the affected families wrote to Cameron demanding compensation.",
"The families now say Britain's Ministry of Defence has replied, saying it wants to \"resolve the compensation question as quickly as possible.\"",
"\"We acknowledge the pain felt by these families for nearly 40 years, and that members of the armed forces acted wrongly.",
"For that, the government is deeply sorry,\" a spokesman for the ministry said Thursday.",
"\"We are in contact with the families' solicitors and where there is a legal liability to pay compensation we will do so.\"",
"However, the relatives of one of the victims -- 19-year-old William Nash -- say they want the soldiers involved to be prosecuted for murder and will not accept the compensation.",
"The relatives branded the British government offer \"repulsive\" and said they would not accept a payment \"under any circumstances.\"",
"Bloody Sunday is widely accepted as fueling support for the IRA (Irish Republican Army) during the early years of what became known as The Troubles -- 30 years of violence between pro-British and pro-Irish forces.",
"Even the name of the city where it happened is disputed, with pro-Irish nationalists calling it Derry and pro-British unionists calling it Londonderry.",
"The IRA, a republican paramilitary organization, is listed by the British Home Office as a proscribed terrorist group.",
"The Troubles claimed about 3,000 lives over a three-decade period, with 1972 the single bloodiest year.",
"The pro-British Ulster Unionist Party has called for IRA victims to be compensated by the British government."
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"British troops shot dead 13 people and a 14th later died of his injuries .",
"A report last year found that British soldiers were to blame in the massacre .",
"Bloody Sunday is widely accepted as having fueled violence in Northern Ireland ."
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"(CNN) -- A lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the Caribbean island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson, a statement from the media mogul said.",
"About 20 people, including Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, were in the house at the time of the fire, which broke out around 4 a.m., Branson said.",
"No one was injured.",
"\"Many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping carry my 90-year(-old) mum out of the main house to safety,\" Branson wrote in the e-mailed statement.",
"Branson said the house, located on Necker Island, the 74-acre private island the billionaire owns in the British Virgin Islands, was destroyed, along with \"thousands of photographs and my notebooks.\"",
"\"But all my family and friends are well -- which in the end is all that really matters,\" he said.",
"The lightning strike that caused the fire occurred in the midst of Tropical Storm Irene, which strengthened into a hurricane early Monday.",
"Pictures show the house completely engulfed in flames against an ominous sky.",
"\"Currently just huddled up with family and friends in the continuing tropical storm realising what really matters in life,\" Branson said.",
"He promised to rebuild, saying \"we'll create something even more special out of the ruins.\"",
"In addition to Branson's private residences on the island, Necker is also open as a luxury resort that can accommodate up to 28 guests for those who can afford the hefty $54,500-a-night price tag.",
"The island has been featured on such TV programs as \"MTV Cribs,\" and TV personalities Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo were recently married on the island."
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"20 people, including actress Kate Winslet, were in the house at the time .",
"No one was injured ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- For the 2.5 million people who have fled the four-year conflict in war-torn Darfur, refugee camps in eastern Chad hold the promise of a safe haven.",
"Women and girls have to make perilous journeys outside their refugee camps to find firewood .",
"But, once there, it's the women refugees' role to find wood and water.",
"To do this, they have to leave the camps and walk for many miles, putting their very lives at risk.",
"Now, a small nonprofit organization is cutting the dangers faced by these women, by helping them to move away from firewood and cook using cardboard, tinfoil and the power of the sun.",
"And as well as saving lives, they're offering refugees hope, independence and economic opportunity.",
"A month's wood supply \"lasts five days\" The World Food Program gives Darfur refugees a maize/soy mixture, beans, lentils, salt, oil and firewood.",
"But a month's wood ration only lasts five days, so to cook this food, women are forced to forage for fuel -- and that's a dangerous business.",
"When they leave the relative safety of the camps, they are vulnerable to beatings, rape and murder at the hands of roving Janjaweed patrols and local villagers, with whom they compete for scanty resources.",
"When Californian nonprofit Jewish World Watch heard about the dangers these Darfur refugees face, they were determined to act.",
"Their co-founder and president, Janice Kamenir-Reznik, told CNN, \"These women have survived onslaughts on their villages and hundreds of miles of walking to get to a camp.",
"That they should be vulnerable there seemed terrible.\"",
"Jewish World Watch saw that if they could cut the number of trips that women had to make outside the camps, they should see a concomitant fall in violent attacks.",
"Solar cooking seemed the solution.",
"Without forces of their own on the ground, the charity decided to fund a partner to run a trial.",
"But when they approached the large relief organizations, they received a lukewarm response: the cultural and educational challenges involved in solar cooking were felt to be insurmountable.",
"Kamenir-Reznik and her colleagues were certain solar cooking would work in the camps, and they persisted.",
"\"If you protected your daughter from having to walk 20 miles to find wood and give her body to violence in the process, wouldn't you think that's worth it?\"",
"she told CNN. \"What do people think, that these people don't care about their daughters as much as you and I care about ours?",
"They do what they have to for survival, but that doesn't mean they like it.\"",
"Eventually, Jewish World Watch were put in touch with KoZon, a small Dutch nonprofit who were carrying out a pilot in Iridimi camp, home to 17,000 refugees.",
"In May 2006, the Iridimi project launched.",
"\"It can't be hot: there has been no fire.\" At project manager Derk Rijks's first demonstration in Iridimi, Rijks's 40-strong female audience was skeptical.",
"He set up the cooker, then waited until the food was ready.",
"\"I took the oldest, most respected mama I could find in the group,\" he recalls.",
"\"I said, 'Mama, will you open the bag and take the pot out?'",
"I offered her my handkerchief and said, 'Take this, because the pot will be hot.'",
"She looked at me and said, 'No, it can't be hot: there has been no fire.'",
"I said, 'Mama, I warn you, it is very hot.",
"You will burn yourself.' She said, 'It can't be hot.' She opened the bag, put her hand on the pot and jumped back two meters.",
"Then she looked at me and said, 'I have two hands!",
"I want two handkerchiefs!'\"",
"The women were incredulous that solar cooking had worked.",
"Rijks offered to teach them how to cook their food using solar the following day, but he still had to promise them his rations as a guarantee in case it didn't work.",
"It did. The women in Iridimi camp have now embraced solar cooking wholeheartedly, even converting their menfolk, who were skeptical initially because the food tasted different.",
"Cardboard and tinfoil .",
"Rijks's team ships in the cardboard and aluminum foil that makes the cookers.",
"The refugees use Arabic gum as a glue, which they buy in Chad -- and that's all they need.",
"And he is keen that the refugees own and run the project independently.",
"\"Our only jobs are to show it once or twice, train the auxiliary trainers and train the artisans.",
"It is now their project,\" he said.",
"The climate in Chad allows the women in Iridimi camp to cook on solar for about 330 days per year.",
"They still have to use wood stoves in the mornings, but lunch is cooked using solar, as is the evening meal, which is kept warm in insulated baskets until it's needed.",
"Over 18 months, all women in the Iridimi camp over the age of 15 have been trained and 10,000 cookers have been distributed.",
"And when the women at nearby Touloum camp heard about the solar cookers at Iridimi, they asked if the project could be extended.",
"That's happening shortly: Rijks estimates that the women in Touloum will be cooking with solar within a year and a half.",
"Eventually, Jewish World Watch hopes to extend the project to a third camp, as well as funding the ongoing projects at Iridimi and Touloum -- the cookers have to be replaced every few months.",
"Trips to find firewood \"cut by three quarters\" Rijks reports that the number of trips women make to find firewood has fallen by about three quarters.",
"But that's not the only advantage. Now that the women don't have to sit by smoky fires constantly stirring their food, they are healthier and have more free time to develop cottage industries, like vegetable gardening and craftwork.",
"The gardens are irrigated using recycled water from the showers.",
"Some women weave insulation baskets; others make protective bags to carry the cookers.",
"Rijks has recently struck a deal with the trucks and the Air France planes that bring supplies to the camp to take back the women's handicrafts for sale in the West.",
"What will the future hold for these refugees?",
"The message from the women at Iridimi is of hope, one day.",
"\"They all say, 'When we go back home, we'll teach this to all the women in our village and they will all do solar cooking,'\" Rijks told CNN.",
"\"They're convinced they're going home.\"",
"Rijks himself is less sure.",
"\"I know it won't be immediate but I hope that the refugees can go back in a few years,\" he said.",
"\"It will be an immeasurable shame on the West if we couldn't arrange that.\"",
"A catalyst for the future .",
"As for solar cooking, Janice Kamenir-Reznik hopes that the success of their project will inspire others.",
"\"I would hope that our little project was a catalyst for the UN High Commission for Refugees to wean the relief organizations off wood and onto solar cooking,\" she said.",
"\"That's our ultimate dream.\"",
"\"The larger organizations tend to see things a little bit more rigidly: find a solution to cook today's dinner,\" she continued.",
"\"But the problem's not an instant one to solve.",
"You don't just keep providing the firewood for today's dinner.",
"You build for the future.\"",
"And back in Iridimi camp, the ray of hope that solar cooking is bringing to some of the world's most destitute people -- along with personal safety, improved health and entrepreneurial opportunity -- will continue to shine.",
".............................. Is slow-cooking with solar power the way forward?",
"Do you think the United Nations should switch to solar cooking?",
"Share your thoughts and read others' views in the Just Imagine forum.",
".............................. For more information on the solar cooker project or to make a donation, visit Jewish World Watch's Web site.",
"Images courtesy of Barbara Grover.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Fewer trips outside leaves women less prone to beatings, rape and murder .",
"Accompanying cottage industries provide entrepreneurial opportunity ."
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"(CNN) -- The grim stories of two women who endured long-stretches of solitary confinement in Iran's most notorious prison are chilling omens for the two jailed U.S. hikers who each reportedly received an eight-year prison sentence on Saturday.",
"Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been abused and assaulted in Evin Prison, their friend Sarah Shourd said in a BBC interview in June.",
"Evin is noted for its harsh conditions and its wing for political prisoners.",
"\"My worst fear is that they're not safe,\" said Shourd, who was arrested with Fattal and Bauer in July 2009 but was freed for medical reasons in September after 410 days of solitary confinement.",
"The two men were sentenced on charges of spying and illegal entry.",
"Shourd said a guard at Evin was furious that Fattal took extra food and pushed him down the stairs.",
"The guard repeatedly threw Bauer -- Shourd's fiance -- against a wall of his cell until his head began bleeding.",
"She said the three had feared that they would be executed soon after they were arrested, when a guard began cocking his gun.",
"In July 2009, Shourd, Fattal, and Bauer were hiking in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish area along the border with Iran when they were arrested by Iranian police.",
"Shourd said they accidentally strayed across the border.",
"Iranian authorities say the three crossed into Iran illegally.",
"Twice, they feared for their lives as guards loaded them into a vehicle to a mysterious location and cocked their weapons, Shourd said.",
"Terrified, they held hands, cried out and begged for their lives.",
"In September, Shourd spoke to CNN's \"American Morning\" about her stint at Evin, where she was in solitary confinement.",
"She said she got through the ordeal of imprisonment by thinking of her mother and loved ones and \"just knowing I had to come back to them, you know, bruised but unbroken.\"",
"As she wept while prison guards slammed the door of her cell and walked away, Shourd understood what Fattal and Bauer were coping with.",
"\"I can see them in their cramped little cell with very little sunlight and they only get out an hour a day and, you know, they exercise side by side on a space like the size of a towel.\"",
"Asked whether she was physically abused, she said no.",
"\"It is all psychological. And it's just the hardest thing, of course, is being so alienated from your family.\"",
"She remembers how she begged to make a phone call, a request that was finally granted seven months into her captivity.",
"\"By the time I got a phone call, I lost hope that it was going to happen,\" she told CNN.",
"\"There's just so many ups and downs.",
"You think it will be over and then it goes on and on and on.\"",
"American journalist Roxana Saberi also spent time in solitary confinement at Evin and spent hours thinking: Is it going to ever end?",
"\"I felt anger toward God, as well.",
"I said, 'Why are you punishing me?",
"Why don't you save me?'\" Saberi told CNN's \"American Morning\" in September.",
"She was sentenced to eight years in prison but was released after 100 days in May 2009.",
"She said the ordeal was a hard one.",
"\"When you're alone, you feel helpless.",
"You might feel hopeless.",
"At first you might be in a state of denial.",
"You ask or tell yourself: 'I can't accept this.",
"It is just a nightmare. It is going to end.'\" Saberi never knew whether she would be able to speak with her lawyer or when she might see her parents again.",
"She spent her 32nd birthday in jail, in the midst of a hunger strike.",
"She chose to stop eating because her body was the only thing she could control.",
"It was her only weapon against the regime.",
"The Iranians promised her freedom if she would admit she was a spy.",
"They threatened her to keep her silent about her time in Evin.",
"Saberi said she was threatened by her captors if she spoke about \"certain things.\"",
"One guard told her he would sign her death warrant.",
"She said they told her: \"I think you've seen how capable we are.",
"We have agents all over the world and we can find you anywhere.",
"You might be reporting in Afghanistan and we can kill you and make it look like you died in a car accident.\""
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"Sarah Shourd said Fattal and Bauer were roughed up .",
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"Saberi says she was threatened during her imprisonment ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- India's prime minister Monday called for reforms in the country's slow-paced judicial system as a key measure to fighting corruption as he discounted the notion that a citizen ombudsman alone can eradicate deeply-entrenched graft.",
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a management institute in Calcutta in eastern India that his government though was open to dialogue with campaigners demanding an anti-corruption watchdog with sweeping powers.",
"His comments came as 74-year-old activist Anna Hazare's hunger strike entered its seventh day at a large protest site in New Delhi, packed by thousands of supporters.",
"Hazare has set August 30 as a deadline for parliament to pass a bill drafted by members of the civil society to create a Lokpal, or citizen ombudsman.",
"The campaigner rejects the government's version of the legislation already tabled in the elected national assembly, saying it's too weak.",
"In his speech in Calcutta, Singh reiterated that his government believed concerns over the proposed law should be conveyed to lawmakers and a parliamentary committee scrutinizing the Lokpal bill.",
"\"We are open to a reasoned debate on all these issues,\" he remarked.",
"Singh, however, disagreed that a Lokpal could become the ultimate solution to tackling corruption.",
"\"The creation of the Lokpal as an institution will help.",
"But it will not solve the problem.",
"It needs to be supported by improvements in the pace and quality of judicial processes,\" he said.",
"The Indian leader suggested speeding up India's justice system, notorious for its sluggishness and how long it takes to settle lawsuits.",
"\"Speedy trials and timely judgments will do a great deal to discourage corruption and dispel the notion that those who break the law can get away scot-free.",
"This requires a number of judicial reforms,\" he said.",
"Meantime, Hazare continued his fast at New Delhi's Ramlila Grounds, a day after he made a rare appeal to his supporters to hold sit-ins at the homes of lawmakers until they agree to the civil-society draft of the Lokpal bill that the government has not accepted in full.",
"New Delhi's police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told CNN that officers had removed demonstrators surrounding houses of elected leaders from different locations in the city.",
"There were no detentions, he said.",
"Police had no immediate details about how many protesters had gathered outside the homes of parliamentarians after Hazare's call.",
"In his dramatic comments Sunday, the elderly campaigner also described public gatherings as superior to the federal assembly.",
"\"... the people's parliament is over and above New Delhi's parliament.",
"It is this people's parliament that has created that (elected) parliament,\" Hazare said.",
"Some observers, however, disapproved of the activist's protest tactics modeled after hunger strikes of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as he fought the British rule.",
"\"Mr. Hazare is well within his rights to hold protests.",
"But to say, 'You accept my bill and nothing else,' might amount to coercing the government and parliament,\" constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap said.",
"He, however, described Hazare's support base as a clear indication of public disaffection with chronic corruption.",
"\"I think most of the people may (not know) what Lokpal or Jan Lokpal bills are and about their implications.",
"They have hit the streets because they are frustrated with this corruption and also with the government's handling of the whole issue,\" Kashyap said.",
"Nonetheless, he warned that democratic bodies should be allowed to work in accordance with laid-down norms.",
"\"In the name of corruption, you cannot demolish democratic institutions.",
"You cannot throw the baby with the bath-water,\" Kashyap said.",
"Experts also believe the South Asian nation is required to carry out a range of reforms to overhaul its systems.",
"\"Corruption is a systemic problem.",
"A Lokpal may be curative, but it can't be preventive as far as corruption is concerned.",
"We need systemic, administrative and, above all, political and electoral reforms,\" Kashyap added.",
"On Saturday, a leading civil-rights activist, Aruna Roy, echoed similar views on Hazare's campaign.",
"\"I think (Hazare) is ill-advised.",
"Anyone who says, 'My view should be the only view,' is wrong,\" said Roy of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information.",
"\"We must assert our rights.",
"But to get rid of these (democratic) institutions would be a great disaster for all the people in this country,\" she warned."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champions Manchester United made it two wins out of two in the new English Premier League season as they beat Tottenham 3-0 at Old Trafford.",
"Second half goals from Danny Welbeck, Anderson and Wayne Rooney sealed a comfortable victory for Alex Ferguson's youthful side, who went joint top of the table.",
"It marked defeat for Tottenham in their opening game of the season after their first fixture of the new campaign was canceled due to the London riots.",
"Victory took United level at the summit with rivals Manchester City, who maintained their 100 per cent record with a 3-2 win at Bolton on Sunday.",
"United manager Alex Ferguson told Sky Sports: \"The second half was absolutely fantastic.",
"I thought it a fast game, end-to-end, it was very even but in the second half we took off and it was a fantastic performance.\"",
"On hearing it was the second youngest team Manchester United had fielded in the Premier League era Ferguson added: \"It tells you we still believe in young players, more so when you see the ability they've got.",
"\"This group have fantastic ability -- they force you to play them.\"",
"On Welbeck he added: \"He's always shown great loyalty Danny, when we put him on loan at Sunderland last season that's when he grew up.",
"\"He's a bit rangy, a long-legged boy who can gallop quickly, he's a good footballer and has a great attitude to win the ball back.\"",
"Tom Cleverley was the first to test Tottenham's goalkeeper Brad Friedel as the veteran American turned his goal-bound effort round the post before Ashley Young went close with a looping header from Rooney's cross.",
"Jermain Defoe and Gareth Bale both tested United's Spanish keeper David De Gea in the second half before Welbeck broke the deadlock on the hour with a firm header from Cleverley's right wing cross.",
"Welbeck was also heavily involved in the second goal as his back-heel wrong footed Tottenham's defence and Anderson slotted the ball into an empty net.",
"Rooney then grabbed his second of the season as he nodded home Ryan Giggs' cross from seven yards out.",
"Earlier on Monday United confirmed they have signed a four-year sponsorship with express and logistics company DHL.",
"The deal, worth $16.5 million a year according to British newspaper The Financial Times, will see the DHL logo appear on all United's training kit."
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"(CNN) -- The death toll from a string of hurricanes and tropical storms in Haiti has risen to nearly 800 people, an official with the Haitian Red Cross says.",
"A man carries drinking water through the flooded streets of Gonaives, Haiti, last month.",
"Jean Pierre Guiteau, the group's executive officer, said they suspected the numbers may climb further because many people were still missing.",
"Heavy rainfall from four major storms in August and September created fatal flooding and mudslides in Haiti.",
"Tropical Storm Fay caused flooding and significant damage when it hit the impoverished island nation.",
"Heavy rains from Hurricane Gustav, considered a major hurricane, caused destructive mudslides after it made landfall in Haiti on August 26, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.",
"Tropical Storm Hanna passed over northern Haiti in early September, bringing heavy rain and flooding.",
"Ike, another major hurricane, caused flooding and mudslides.",
"The United States has provided more than $30 million in humanitarian assistance to Haiti in the wake of the storms, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.",
"The United Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated more than $4 million for post-hurricane humanitarian aid, the agency said.",
"The U.S. Navy sent the USS Kearsarge to Haiti last month to deliver more than 1,400 metric tons of relief supplies, in support of USAID and the World Food Program.",
"It delivered heavy lift helicopters to carry rice, water, plywood and other supplies to Haitians, and also carried medical and engineering teams to remote parts of the country.",
"Even before the tropical weather struck Haiti, an estimated 2.3 million Haitians had fallen into food insecurity, with dramatic increases in prices for staple foods, USAID has said."
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"Death toll from string of hurricanes and tropical storms in Haiti rises to nearly 800 .",
"Heavy rainfall from four major storms in August and September created fatal flooding .",
"United States has provided more than $30 million in humanitarian aid ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazil's Olympic swimming champion Cesar Cielo is free to compete in this year's world championships after escaping a drugs ban.",
"Cielo, who won the 50m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Games, was cleared by a special tribunal of the Court of Arbitration of Sport sitting in Shanghai where the worlds are being held.",
"Cielo and teammates Nicholas dos Santos and Henrique Barbosa were given warnings after testing positive for a banned diuretic.",
"But another swimmer on the Brazilian squad, Vinicius Waked, was banned for a year because it was his second violation for drugs offences.",
"The CAS tribunal dismissed an appeal by world swimming's governing body FINA, who wanted stiffer punishments.",
"It followed a six-hour hearing Wednesday at which Cielo appeared to give evidence.",
"The quartet tested positive for Furosemide, which can act as a masking agent for other banned drugs, at a meeting back in May.",
"They claimed that a caffeine supplement had been contaminated to bring about the failed drugs test.",
"The decision to clear Cielo is a major boost for the world swimming championships where he is set to be a big attraction.",
"But it drew criticism in some quarters and triple world champion Roland Schoeman wrote on his Twitter blog: \"FINA and the CAS have done a great disservice to the world of swimming & set a dangerous precedent.\"",
"Cielo is reigning world champion over 50m and 100m, breaking the championship record in the shorter sprint and setting a new world mark of 46.91 seconds in the 100 in Rome two years ago.",
"The 24-year-old is also the holder of the world record in the 50m, setting a record of 20.91 in Sao Paulo in December 2009.",
"American Michael Phelps, who won a record eight golds at the Beijing Olympics, returns to China for the competition and could swim up to seven events as he builds up to London 2012."
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"Brazil's Olympic swimming champion Cesar Cielo escapes drugs ban .",
"Special panel of Court of Arbitration of Sport gives Cielo a warning .",
"Cielo can defend his 50 and 100m freestyle titles at Shanghai worlds .",
"Cielo and three other teammates tested positive for banned diuretic ."
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"(CNN) -- At least four people were killed when a tourist trolley derailed Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, state media reported.",
"About 30 people were injured in the accident, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported, citing firefighters.",
"The trolley went off the tracks in Rio de Janeiro's hilltop Santa Teresa neighborhood, Agencia Brasil said.",
"CNN affiliate TV Record showed images of rescuers carrying injured passengers away from the wreckage on stretchers.",
"Investigators are trying to determine what caused the accident, TV Record reported.",
"A French tourist died two months ago after falling out of one of the trolleys, Agencia Brasil said.",
"Rio de Janeiro is scheduled to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016."
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"About 30 people are injured, state-run Agencia Brasil reports .",
"Investigators are trying to determine what caused the accident, TV Record says .",
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