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"Belgrade, Serbia (CNN) -- Clashes between Serbian police and protesters broke out Sunday in Belgrade after an ultranationalist party demonstrated against the arrest of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic.",
"Nearly 20 people were injured in the violence -- seven police and 12 civilians -- according to police.",
"They said they made more than 100 arrests.",
"Mladic, wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, was captured Thursday after nearly 16 years in hiding.",
"The Serbian Radical Party held its protest Sunday in front of Serbia's parliament building.",
"Despite calls for calm from the event's organizers, demonstrators on the fringes of the rally threw rocks at police.",
"Hundreds of officers, some in riot gear and others on horseback, moved in against the crowd.",
"Some beat and kicked protesters.",
"Police stayed on the streets as the demonstrators scattered.",
"\"We are gathered here to peacefully protest the betrayal by (Serbian President) Boris Tadic and his bosses in Brussels,\" party leaders told the crowd before the clashes erupted.",
"\"We have had enough economic humiliation by our enemies, who are destroying our country ... in every way.\"",
"At the protest -- which was attended by members of Mladic's family and thousands of others -- speakers demanded that Tadic step down and asked that elections be held immediately.",
"Mladic's son, Darko, told the crowd that his father is sick.",
"\"He needs medical treatment that he is not getting,\" the younger Mladic said.",
"He described his father as \"a freedom fighter,\" and said he had \"defended his own nation, defended his people, which was his job.\"",
"The younger Mladic called on protesters to keep their demonstration peaceful.",
"\"Tomorrow if I'm able to visit my father, I will tell him of this and he will cry again,\" he said.",
"Mladic gave himself up without a fight, despite having two handguns, according to Rasim Ljajic, the government minister in charge of searching for fugitive suspected war criminals.",
"Officials located Mladic in a village called Lazarevo, north of the Serbian capital, after culling information from his former comrades, those who supported him financially and his close family members, Ljajic said.",
"It is not clear what source led investigators to the former military commander, accused of ordering the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica.",
"His arrest clears a major hurdle that once stood between Serbia and its long-awaited entrance into the European Union, but the move could also usher in political backlash from the country's electorate, some of whom consider Mladic a hero.",
"\"We're conscious of this danger,\" Ljajic told CNN Saturday.",
"\"We know we did something that didn't bring us joy or applause from the public.",
"But we also know that we took great responsibility and did something that the political elite of any country is supposed to do.\"",
"He called Mladic's capture \"a political investment,\" noting the government's desire to bring the war crimes suspect to justice \"even if citizens punish us in the next elections.\"",
"The massacre at Srebrenica, which sparked international outcry and preceded a NATO bombing campaign, is now remembered as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.",
"Mladic allegedly presided over the five-day slaughter in July where Muslim men and boys were systematically executed in what was described at the U.N. war crimes tribunal as \"the triumph of evil.\"",
"Mladic's forces encircled the town, a U.N.-declared \"safe area\" where thousands of Bosnian Muslims had sought refuge, allegedly conducting wholesale slaughter and rape, despite the presence of a few hundred lightly armed Dutch U.N. peacekeepers charged with protecting the area's residents and its refugees.",
"The former general is considered the last of the fugitive war criminal suspects in the region, following the capture of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in jail in 2006 during his trial at The Hague.",
"At the rally Sunday, a defiant Darko Mladic told the crowd, \"We will never accept those who bombed us to write our history.",
"For centuries we have been fighting for our own state, for our own country to give us security.",
"We don't allow illiterate Westerners to write our history.\"",
"A medical team has determined that Mladic is healthy enough to be extradited to face a war crimes tribunal, a court spokeswoman in Belgrade said Friday.",
"While the war crimes suspect suffers from several chronic conditions, the team said there are no immediate problems barring a move.",
"This comes after five doctors examined Mladic Thursday night, according to the ex-general's lawyer, Milos Saljic.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Nearly 20 people are injured as protesters, police clash in Belgrade .",
"NEW: Police make more than 100 arrests .",
"Demonstration calls for President Boris Tadic to step down .",
"Ratko Mladic was captured Thursday after 16 years in hiding ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan's parliament elected Yoshihiko Noda as the country's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the country's sixth new leader in five years.",
"Noda won 308 out of 476 possible votes.",
"The prime minister-elect will officially take over his new post after a ceremonial endorsement by Japan's emperor, which is expected to happen Wednesday.",
"Ahead of the vote, former Prime Minister Naoto Kan officially submitted his resignation, as did his Cabinet, clearing the way for Noda's election.",
"The Democratic Party of Japan, the country's ruling party, picked Noda as its new leader on Monday.",
"He served as finance minister in Kan's cabinet.",
"In his first speech as party leader, Noda called for party unity to tackle Japan's massive problems.",
"\"Running Japan's government is like pushing a giant snowball up a snowy, slippery hill,\" he said Sunday.",
"\"In times like this, we can't say, 'I don't like this person,' or 'I don't like that person.'",
"The snowball will slide down.\"",
"On Friday, Prime Minister Kan announced that he would resign.",
"His approval rating had tumbled following the devastating March earthquake and tsunami that triggered the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl as reactor cores overheated and spewed radioactive material into surrounding areas.",
"An observer of Japan's revolving door of prime ministers said the country's political problems are weighing down one of the world's largest economies.",
"Japanese politicians lack spine and public support, said Keith Henry of the Tokyo-based Asia Strategy, a government policy consulting firm.",
"\"They've got to turn the ship around 180 degrees,\" Henry said.",
"\"Until they see an iceberg, they're not going to do it.\"",
"Japan is facing a massive reconstruction program in the region devastated by the tsunami, an ongoing nuclear energy crisis and unaddressed problems in the economy.",
"Noda, a fiscal conservative, has pledged to raise taxes and would like to privatize state assets.",
"Last week, the credit rating agency Moody's downgraded Japan to an Aa3 rating from Aa2, blaming the country's huge deficit and frequent changes in administration that have prevented the government from implementing long-term economic policies.",
"The CIA World Factbook puts the government debt at more than 200% of the GDP.",
"CNN's Kyung Lah contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Yoshihiko Noda comes to power after serving as finance minister .",
"NEW: Noda officials becomes prime minister after endorsement by the emperor .",
"In his first speech as party leader, Noda calls for unity .",
"Japan's political problems are weighing down its economy, an analyst says ."
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"(CNN) -- Roars, growls and galloping hooves replaced music Tuesday on some of Mogadishu's radio stations in a protest of a ban on music imposed by Islamic extremists.",
"Radio Shabelle, along with the stations Tusmo and Hornafrik, were responding to threats from Muslim militant groups that believe music is un-Islamic and want it prohibited.",
"Mogadishu's 14 private radio stations stopped playing music Tuesday after Hizbul al-Islam, an Islamic extremist group, issued a 10-day ultimatum.",
"The threat was backed by the main militant group al-Shabaab, which has been linked to al Qaeda.",
"A statement from the National Union of Somali Journalists said several stations received calls, warning them that there would be consequences if they failed to comply with the ban within 10 days.",
"But the three stations decided to broadcast the noises instead of music.",
"Radio Shabelle announcers could be heard speaking on air, backed by the sounds of hooves, ocean waves, gunfire -- even the roars and growls of big cats.",
"A radio station director, who could not be identified because of safety concerns, said the stations were unhappy about the ban but were forced to comply \"because of fear for our lives.\"",
"A Somali journalist, who also asked not to be identified, said there is widespread fear that this marks the beginning of a wider plot by extremists to silence independent media.",
"He fears that female journalists may become the the next target.",
"Hizbul al-Islam is one of many rebel groups operating in the country.",
"The group has a complicated relationship with al-Shabaab; between them, the two groups control much of Mogadishu, and several radio stations are in neighborhoods under their control.",
"Somalia has not had a stable government since 1991.",
"Islamic militant groups are fighting the government in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law, or Sharia.",
"Journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report."
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"Mogadishu's 14 private radio stations stop playing music after threat from Islamic extremists .",
"Militant groups are said to believe that music is un-Islamic, want it prohibited .",
"In protest, 3 stations broadcast nature noises: hooves, ocean waves, cats' roars and growls .",
"Somali journalist fears this may mark beginning of plot to silence independent media ."
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"Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) -- Rural villages held mass burials in northern Nigeria on Sunday, the Red Cross said, raising the possibility that six days of post-election violence have produced heavy casualties.",
"There is no official death toll, but witnesses say hundreds have died.",
"The government has provided few other details out of concern the violence could spiral.",
"Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress and longtime civil rights campaigner, told CNN there have been 500 burials.",
"CNN could not independently confirm that number.",
"The Civil Rights Congress, based in Kaduna, has in the past been known to ally itself with pro-northern political groups.",
"The election of President Goodluck Jonathan, who is from the majority-Christian southern part of the country, sparked violence in the Muslim-dominated north last week.",
"Concerns about ongoing violence led Nigerian election officials last week to delay subsequent gubernatorial elections in two states.",
"Northern Muslims in some areas charged that the elections were rigged.",
"Armed protesters in the region prowled the streets chanting the name of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition frontrunner.",
"The last election four years ago was widely condemned for rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.",
"While the Monday elections were marred by violence, reports of underage voting and other logistical problems, observers considered it an improvement.",
"World leaders have urged the west African nation to probe allegations of ballot stuffing and unusually high turnout in some areas.",
"After he was declared the victor, Jonathan warned perpetrators that persistent postelection violence could threaten the stability of the country.",
"\"These acts of mayhem are sad reminders of the events which plunged our country into 30 months of an unfortunate civil war,\" Jonathan said last week.",
"Jonathan was referring to a period of unrest in the 1960s that spawned a civil war in Nigeria.",
"Muslims fearing reprisal attacks in Christian areas have fled to military barracks or neighboring states, the Nigerian Red Cross said.",
"More than 40,000 people are displaced in the north, according to the aid group.",
"Government officials have declined to release the number of fatalities or injuries over fears it could prompt revenge attacks.",
"Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and its most populous nation with 150 million people."
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"Civil Rights Congress president reports 500 burials .",
"There is no official death toll, but witnesses report hundreds have died .",
"Protesters in the mostly Muslim north charge the vote was rigged .",
"Violence leads Nigerian officials to delay subsequent gubernatorial elections ."
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"(CNN) -- Clashing priorities of jobs versus the environment are provoking questions about how far the nation should go to promote clean energy alternatives like solar and wind power.",
"\"The actual debate happening in the United States is not hard to understand,\" wrote Matthew Yglesias on the Center for American Progress Action Fund's blog.",
"\"We're having an argument about whether doubling-down on fossil fuel extraction or promoting efficiency and renewal energy would be better economic policy.\"",
"Each side has its experts.",
"On one hand, economists at the University of Massachusetts believe large-scale investment in clean energy would create about three to four times as many jobs as the same money would in fossil fuel industry.",
"On the other hand, expanding development of oil and natural gas resources would create 1.1 million jobs and $127 billion in government revenue by 2020, according to a new Wood Mackenzie study cited by the American Petroleum Institute.",
"Those numbers could benefit the nation's budget and some of America's 14 million unemployed.",
"Charles T. Drevna of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association summed up his stance in an editorial for the Washington political web site, The Hill: \"It's time for America to develop an energy policy based on reality rather than ideology, grounded in what works rather than in hopes and dreams.\"",
"As political pressure rises inside the White House to slash unemployment, Courtney Hight -- a former member of the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- says she doubts now whether President Obama is \"seeing the opportunity for job growth within some of these clean energy standards and policies.\"",
"Defending Obama's environmental record, White House spokesman Clark Stevens pledged the administration \"will continue to take steps to meet the president's important goals of protecting the health of our families, increasing our nation's clean energy generation, reducing our reliance on foreign oil, and supporting American industries and innovation.\"",
"Criticism of Obama's clean energy initiatives resulted in the resignation of an administration energy official this week after solar panel maker Solyndra -- which got about a half billion dollars in federal loan guarantees -- went bankrupt.",
"On Thursday, Obama defended government help for clean energy companies because they're \"part of that package of technologies of the future that have to be based here in the United States.\"",
"The president said Europe and China are outpacing the U.S. in clean energy because their governments are offering incentives.",
"Many smaller U.S. clean energy companies, he said, find it difficult to find private investors.",
"Environmental 'gut check time' for Obama?",
"Nonetheless, environmentalists say they're worried about other clean energy issues.",
"The State Department is poised to decide later this year whether to approve a permit for a Canadian company to build a new oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Texas, which supporters say will increase jobs and energy independence.",
"In a move last month that angered much of the environmental community, Obama decided to delay implementing EPA rules limiting smog from vehicles, power plants and factories.",
"Business leaders applauded the decision, saying the rules would have killed jobs.",
"Poll: Alternative energy trumps fossil fuel .",
"So, what do Americans think?",
"Most (63%) say developing alternative energy sources should be a higher priority than expanding fossil fuel exploration and production, according to a Pew Research Center study.",
"For so-called \"main street Republicans,\" that number is 66%.",
"Less than half (48%) of all Americans believe global warming is a proven fact caused mostly by cars, power plants and factories, according to a CNN/ORC poll.",
"For self-described independent voters, that number is 38%.",
"\"There's really no evidence at all that most people see a conflict between environmental protection and job creation in fact in many ways they see them going hand in hand,\" said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman.",
"As for Election Day politics, Obama is unlikely to lose many votes over his environmental record, Mellman says, because most environmentalists will find themselves with few acceptable alternatives.",
"Obama's 2012 GOP rivals include candidates who doubt that climate change is real and who favor eliminating the EPA.",
"What Obama does risk is voter turnout and enthusiasm -- key factors that helped him win in 2008.",
"To what extent will clean energy advocates try to convince their friends, relatives, co-workers and colleagues at the water cooler or at cocktail parties or barbeques that they ought to vote for the president?",
"\"I think many of them will,\" says Mellman.",
"\"The question is, how many of them will?",
"And I think that is influenced to some extent by the administration's policy decisions.\""
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"Study: Expanding fossil fuel industry would equal 1.1 million jobs by 2020 .",
"White House pledges to take steps toward \"clean energy generation\""
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"(WIRED) -- And on the 61st day, the TouchPad rose again.",
"HP has plans to produce another round of its TouchPad tablets before the year is out, despite its earlier decision to discontinue its mobile hardware products.",
"\"Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand,\" HP spokesman Mark Budgell wrote in a company blog post.",
"\"As we know more about how, when and where TouchPads will be available, we will communicate that here and through e-mail to those who requested notification.\"",
"Budgell says it will be a few weeks before devices from the additional run will be available for purchase.",
"The blog post signals further confusion from a company in upheaval.",
"Two weeks ago, HP announced suddenly it would end production on all of its mobile hardware, including the soon-to-be-released Pre 3 and Veer smartphones.",
"The decision also included the company's iPad competitor, the TouchPad, killed off a mere 49 days after its debut in July.",
"Circulating rumors suggested third-party retailers were sitting on hundreds of thousands of unsold units.",
"HP followed its announcement by slashing prices on remaining TouchPad inventory, reducing the price of the 16-gigabyte TouchPad to $100, and the 32-gig version to $150.",
"Since the blowout sale prices, however, the company hasn't been able to keep any TouchPads in stock.",
"Retailers have been bombarded by customer requests for the cheapened devices, and dozens of retailers have reported completely selling out.",
"Which is most likely the reason behind HP's decision to once again beef up its inventory for a last TouchPad blast.",
"\"Tablet computing is a segment of the market that's relevant, absolutely,\" HP personal systems group exec Todd Bradley told Reuters in an interview.",
"The company continues to explore licensing options for, webOS -- its proprietary operating system -- according to Bradley.",
"There's no guarantee, however, that HP will continue to sell the last round of tablets at a $100 rate.",
"Hardware teardown website iSupply speculates that, in terms of components alone, a 16-GB TouchPad costs HP approximately $300 to build.",
"That's a $200 bath HP is taking on each individual unit sold, not including the cost of labor, shipping and associated expenses.",
"HP did not immediately respond to a phone request for comment.",
"While the resurgence in TouchPad interest may be a promising sign for HP, the company's flip-flopping decision process isn't serving its public image.",
"\"The only thing I know for sure that's going on at HP is that they have completely lost control of their message,\" Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps said by e-mail to Wired.com.",
"Epps continued, saying HP was \"sabotaging their brand with the mixed messages.\"",
"As of today, the TouchPad is now the No.",
"2 best-selling tablet after the iPad, according to FastCompany.",
"Ironically, that's the exact position HP was vying for.",
"Unfortunately for the company, it took bargain-bin pricing and the threat of extinction to get there.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2010 Wired.com."
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"HP has plans to produce another round of TouchPad tablets before year is out .",
"It will be a few weeks before devices from the additional run will be available for purchase .",
"Now selling for $100, a 16-GB TouchPad costs HP approximately $300 to build ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Thousands of Egyptian workers went on strike Thursday to demand better compensation and transparency in executive salaries, authorities said.",
"The walkout included employees in the petroleum, railway and telecommunication industries, as protests demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak dragged into their 17th day.",
"On Wednesday, tens of thousands of protesters jammed Cairo's Tahrir Square, with so many spilling into a nearby compound of government buildings that government officials moved parliament to another site.",
"The government again sought to portray the imminent threat of chaos if the octogenarian president, Hosni Mubarak, were to end his 30 years of autocratic rule by stepping down right away.",
"Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told PBS' \"NewsHour\" Wednesday that the military might have to intervene if that were to occur.",
"\"Do we want the armed forces to assume the responsibility of stabilizing the nation through imposing martial law, and the army in the streets?\"",
"Aboul Gheit asked rhetorically.",
"\"For the army to rule, to step in, to put its friends on the scene, that would be a very dangerous possibility.\"",
"He urged the protesters to adopt \"some rationality\" and said the self-proclaimed Council of the Wise, a group of prominent Egyptians from various walks of life, should determine a course of action.",
"Aboul Gheit told PBS that Mubarak's interest was to protect the stability of the most populous nation in the Arab world.",
"That's why he will not accede to the protesters' demands that he relinquish power immediately, he said.",
"\"He thinks that it would entail chaos and it would entail violence and it would entail also opportunities for those who would wish to act in a manner to threaten the state, the stability of the country and society,\" Aboul Gheit said.",
"Human Rights Watch has put the death toll at more than 300 since the January 25 rally that ignited the movement.",
"\"Instead of running scared, the regime is fighting back with both words and violence to quash its opponents, portraying the opposition as a foreign-backed, un-Egyptian group of conspirators,\" Human Rights Watch said Wednesday on its website.",
"\"Sadly, its propaganda campaign appears to be as crude as its actual physical crackdown has been.\"",
"The protests were largely peaceful Wednesday, with demonstrators in one rally composed solely of children who chanted anti-Mubarak slogans.",
"\"We want the whole regime to end because they are not making our lives any easier,\" said 11-year-old Yousef Saeed.",
"Some of their older relatives said they had brought the children to the square to witness history unfolding.",
"\"It is the birth of freedom,\" said Saeed's uncle, Mohammed Mostafa.",
"\"Witnessing this event will engrave in them love of this nation, loyalty, freedom and respecting change.",
"I want them to be free.\" But the prospect of freedom was competing with the cost of living as a motivator for some Egyptians, 20% of whom live in poverty.",
"\"Whether Hosni stays or Hosni goes, what's important is that the youth get jobs,\" said Amgad, a mother of three living an hour outside Cairo, in the rural town of Fayoum on the Nile Delta.",
"Her work at a doctor's office earns her $30 per month -- not enough to pay the electricity bill.",
"Amgad said her husband, a day laborer, has been unable to find work since the demonstrations began on January 25.",
"\"Our situation is horrible, to be honest,\" she said as she showed CNN the bedroom where she, her husband and their three daughters sleep.",
"\"I can hardly feed them.\"",
"On the streets of Cairo, the people showed no signs of relenting.",
"They chanted, \"Mubarak is a thief.\"",
"The embattled president, meanwhile, went about business as usual Wednesday, meeting with his foreign minister and Russia's deputy foreign minister, state-run television showed.",
"The unrest extended beyond Cairo.",
"Two people were killed and others were wounded in clashes with police in southern Egypt, state TV reported.",
"A journalist said the hostilities stemmed from complaints about a member of the police force in Kharga.",
"In the northern town of Port Said, protesters attacked the governor's building over a land and housing dispute, state TV said.",
"The protesters were galvanized by the tears and words of an activist who was seized by security forces and held for 10 days before he was released Monday.",
"\"If you are true Egyptians, if you are heroic Egyptians, it's time to step down,\" Wael Ghonim told CNN Wednesday in a message directed to the ruling elite.",
"The 30-year-old Egyptian father of two administered the Facebook page that is widely credited with calling the first protest.",
"Ghonim, on leave from his job at Google in Dubai, said he was prepared to die for the cause.",
"\"Kidnap me, kidnap all my colleagues!\"",
"Wael Ghonim said in comments that challenged Vice President Omar Suleiman to try to undo his efforts and those of his supporters.",
"\"Put us in jail!",
"Kill us! Do whatever you want to do.",
"We are getting back our country.",
"You guys have been ruining this country for 30 years.",
"Enough! Enough! Enough!\" Mubarak's regime said Tuesday that it had discussed a number of reforms with leaders of various opposition groups and appointed a panel to look into amending the constitution.",
"But its insistence that Mubarak's immediate exit was a recipe for chaos elicited impatience from the Obama administration.",
"Washington is calling on its African ally to expand negotiations with opposition groups, lift the 30-year state of emergency and make constitutional changes to bring about democratic elections.",
"But White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs expressed impatience Wednesday with the pace of progress on those matters.",
"\"I think it is clear that what the government has thus far put forward has yet to meet a minimum threshold for the people of Egypt,\" he told reporters.",
"A short White House statement on U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's telephone conversation with Vice President Omar Suleiman used the word \"immediate\" or \"immediately\" four times.",
"Biden \"urged that the transition produce immediate, irreversible progress that responds to the aspirations of the Egyptian people.\"",
"The statement also hinted the White House harbors doubts as to whether the Egyptian government is seriously committed to reforms, referring to the regime's statements as \"what the government is saying it is prepared to accept.\"",
"Meanwhile, an Arab diplomat said that Saudi Arabia would consider matching the more than $1.5 billion in military aid that the United States provides each year to Egypt if Washington were to cut it.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman, Nic Robertson, Saad Abedine, Amir Ahmed, Caroline Faraj and Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report."
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"Day 17 of protests demanding the immediate resignation of President Mubara .",
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"(CNN) -- With Rick Perry instantly assuming the top spot among candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, it is no surprise that nearly every other man and woman on stage with him at last night's debate took aim.",
"Citing his executive order mandating inoculations against a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer, Michele Bachmann expressed outrage that Perry, she said, had \"forced\" \"government injections\" of 12-year-old girls.",
"Jon Huntsman archly claimed that Perry's skepticism about a border fence was nothing short of \"treasonous.\"",
"Ron Paul accused Perry, his fellow Texan, of raising his taxes, increasing the state's debt, and expanding the state government's workforce.",
"The most extended critique of Perry, though, came right out of the gate, from Mitt Romney.",
"Romney accused Perry of trying to scare senior citizens and ruin the Republican Party by calling Social Security unconstitutional, a Ponzi scheme and a failure.",
"Of all the jabs at Perry last night, these mattered most.",
"Social Security stands out as the most important topic generating substantive disagreement among the top Republican contenders.",
"In a debate that vacillated between broad principles of national defense and the rule of law on the one hand, and small government initiatives conducted at the state and federal levels on the other, this particular exchange featured disagreements about one of the oldest, largest and most popular entitlement programs in the country.",
"Just as important, the exchange between Romney and Perry over Social Security underscored their competing views about the meaning of limited government.",
"In their first sentences about entitlement reform, these candidates stand together for reducing waste, slashing fraud and trimming the federal government.",
"It is in the second and third sentences, though, that the differences become clearer.",
"For Perry, power should devolve to the states, and the federal government should maintain operations over only those policy domains for which it has a clear constitutional responsibility.",
"As he noted in his opening remarks last night, the very reason he wants to be president is to make Washington less consequential in the lives of Americans.",
"When asked later about Social Security, Perry went out of his way to offer assurances that the benefits for current and near retirees would remain intact -- \"slam dunk, guaranteed,\" as he put it.",
"But he persisted in characterizing the issue of Social Security reform primarily as one of increased state control.",
"\"The issue is, are there ways to move the states into Social Security, for state employees or for retirees.\"",
"Romney, by contrast, has proposed a variety of measures that in his view will shore up Social Security without either increasing taxes or reducing the federal government's involvement.",
"Though he didn't lay them out Monday night, the components of Romney's plan include the raising of the retirement age, the creation of personal retirement investment accounts for younger workers, and the indexing of benefits to prices rather than wages, as is currently done.",
"Between the two at last night's debate, Perry was the clear audience favorite.",
"But should Perry win the nomination, we can expect President Obama to pick up right where Romney left off on Social Security.",
"On the other hand, if Romney can survive a Republican primary season in which the median voter is vastly more conservative than in the general election, then the terms of next year's debate about Social Security will be vastly more conventional -- to the great relief of moderates and frustration of the tea party sponsors of last night's debate.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of William Howell."
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"He says Mitt Romney turned focus to Social Security and Perry's Ponzi scheme comment .",
"He says Perry now says he'd keep Social Security safe, then talks about moving it to states .",
"Howell: Perry may be favored, but in general election Social Security stance would hurt him ."
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"Middlebury, Vermont (CNN) -- I've spent most of my adult life -- over three decades -- in Vermont.",
"To some degree, it has been like Eden itself, a shelter from the American storm: leafy mountains, red barns and white clapboard houses, quiet dirt roads with covered bridges, village greens, lots of fresh organic food, ex-hippies galore and the open waters of Lake Champlain, which treads a narrow path over 100 miles between the Green Mountains to the east and the Adirondacks to the west.",
"The county where I live -- Addison -- has refused to let in the big box stores, such as Walmart and Costco We prefer our country stores, where you can buy anything from maple syrup and cheddar cheese to nails or diapers for a baby.",
"Bernie Sanders, a socialist, is one of our two senators.",
"We were the first state to allow civil unions.",
"Soon, a single-payer health care system will be put into place -- a bold experiment that might show the rest of the country how to do such a thing.",
"Rumor has it that the number of cows in Vermont exceeds the number of people.",
"And we don't get many hurricanes or tropical storms up here.",
"They haven't been words in our local vocabulary.",
"The problems with weather usually come in the dead of winter, and they involve large quantities of ice, which gather on the birch trees and bend them to the ground.",
"I sometimes have to head to the nearby college where I teach -- a three-mile journey -- on cross-country skis.",
"And that's a satisfying mode of transportation.",
"But as everyone knows by now, we just got hit by Irene, with devastating results -- especially on the eastern side of the Green Mountains.",
"More than 200 roads were closed at one point, with stretches washed out by flooding streams.",
"The lovely town of Brattleboro, once the home of Rudyard Kipling, was deep under water, and people are still trying desperately to clear away the mess.",
"One famous old covered bridge is gone -- a pity, as we have the highest concentration of covered bridges anywhere in the United States, and it's always a shame to lose one.",
"Even where I live, on an old farm outside of Middlebury, on the western side of the state, we had winds that tore up trees by the roots.",
"Power lines were down.",
"Branches still litter the ground around my 150-year-old house, and several shingles were blown from the roof.",
"The Otter Creek, which runs nearby, is dangerously swollen still, reminding me of that great line in T.S.",
"Eliot: \"The river is a strong brown god.\"",
"I've never seen the river this color before: deep brown.",
"My youngest son, a feisty teenager, just asked me if he could swim in the creek.",
"I told him about the people swept downriver only two days ago, one of them still missing.",
"What is weird is how bright and calm the weather has become, leaving behind so much destruction, stirring up stories that will probably linger by the fireside for decades.",
"The sky is suddenly clear as gin.",
"There is no wind, just the aftermath of nature's wrath.",
"I feel a sense of awe, thinking of Irene, how it moved through us on a dark Sunday, churning through the night, turning the field beside my house into a pond.",
"Now it has left us -- thank God -- having taken its nastiness elsewhere.",
"It has left Vermonters to pick up the pieces one by one, like Adam and Eve after the Fall, having to deal with the fact that a snake came through the garden.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jay Parini."
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"Bad weather comes in winter, he says, with ice bending trees and snow blocking roads .",
"Now, Brattleboro deep under water, ruined covered bridges and homes, Parini says .",
"Parini: Vermonters left to clean up in the calm, bright weather Irene left behind ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- Germany's top constitutional court Wednesday rejected a lawsuit charging that the bailout of Greece was illegal, but it said lawmakers would have to approve any future bailouts.",
"The decision halts a move that could have thrown doubt on future efforts to prop up the euro and gives embattled Chancellor Angela Merkel breathing space.",
"Opponents of the bailout argued that it violated the powers of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, but the Federal Constitutional Court rejected that argument.",
"Berlin has been pouring money into the economies of Greece and Ireland in an effort to save the common European currency they all share, the euro -- a move that has angered many Germans and badly hurt Merkel's popularity.",
"The court ruling is a partial victory for Merkel, but it limits the future ability of a German government to pump cash into weaker economies.",
"The ruling means in the future the chancellor will not be able to move quickly to prop up problem euro zone economies.",
"Instead, she will have to present a plan to a fractious Bundestag.",
"Lawmakers \"must remain in control of fundamental budget policy decisions,\" the court said in ordering \"mandatory approval\" by parliament of bailouts in the future.",
"CNN's Sarah Sultoon and Bharati Naik contributed to this report."
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"But it says lawmakers must approve any future bailouts .",
"Berlin has been trying to prop up the economies of Greece and Italy -- angering many Germans ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Authorities arrested a 26-year-old woman in camouflaged fatigues Thursday, accusing her of peering into the windows of Britney Spears' house, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.",
"The arrest was made at Britney Spears home in Calabasas, California.",
"Security personnel found Miranda Tozier-Robbins looking through the windows of the singer's home in Calabasas, California, the department said in a written statement.",
"Tozier-Robbins also had a backpack and video equipment, the statement said.",
"Security personnel asked her to leave, but she \"balked,\" the statement said.",
"They then physically escorted her off the property.",
"A policeman arrived later to arrest her.",
"She was booked on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct, the statement said.",
"Bail was set at $5,000, but Tozier-Robbins was released on a citation to appear in court on June 16.",
"The whereabouts of Spears, 27, during the incident were not immediately known."
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"(CNN) -- Before the start of Libya's civil war, you could count the number of newspapers in the country on one hand and all were heavily controlled by the government.",
"Now there are 120 independent newspapers in the city of Benghazi alone, according to local journalists.",
"These newspapers are mostly run and staffed by engineers, doctors and students, said International Media Support, one of several foreign organizations that is helping train journalists in Libya.",
"One, called \"Sowt\" -- \"Voice\" in Arabic -- was launched by five medical, engineering and economics students in their early 20s in February.",
"It began as an eight-page magazine, now increased to 12 pages and selling 3,000 copies a week across eastern Libya and beyond.",
"One of the editors, Mohamed Shembesh, a 22-year-old civil engineering student, said: \"At the time there was no email or mail service, so we put a physical box in Freedom Square and made a sign telling people they could post contributions to our newspaper.",
"\"Within 10 days we had tens of articles, which we edited and printed in the first issue of the paper,\" he added.",
"The magazine had no source of income, so the editors put charity boxes on streets for contributions.",
"In 10 days they had raised enough money to pay for the first print run of 2,000 copies.",
"The eight-page magazine included four color pages.",
"Many other people eager to make their voices heard when Moammar Gadhafi lost control of the city in February set up their own newspapers.",
"While it may seem surprising for newspapers to be flourishing in an internet age, Libya's uprising was not conducted as much through social media sites as those in Egypt and other Arab countries.",
"Internet penetration in Libya is just 5.5%, according to the ITU, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on the internet and communications.",
"In addition there were frequent internet blackouts after the uprising began in February.",
"The cause of the blackouts was not clear, but a regular connection was not restored until August.",
"Abdelsalam Doma, local coordinator for International Media Support in Benghazi, said: \"Before the uprising we had five newspapers in the whole country and they were just mouthpieces of the government.",
"\"All they had been doing was supporting Gadhafi's word, glorifying his personality and trying to eliminate anything else.",
"\"After the revolution we had all these new newspapers taking the opposite view -- but it is not totally professional.",
"\"In the beginning all they did was attack Gadhafi.",
"It was like someone writing on his Facebook page.",
"The articles had no structure, they were not informative, they took one side but never both sides, there were never any quotes.\"",
"Doma, a 25-year-old engineering student, has himself been on a steep learning curve since the start of this year.",
"He started to work as an interpreter when foreign journalists arrived in Benghazi and decided to train as a journalist on the job.",
"\"I started going out with the crews and tried to learn their craft,\" said Doma.",
"\"The foreign journalists have been teaching me.",
"They write a piece, and I write a piece and they tell me what's wrong with mine.\"",
"Doma began submitting articles to local newspapers and made a radio documentary.",
"He said: \"I submitted my first article to a local newspaper about military camps.",
"I was really embarrassed to show it to anyone, but the editor was totally in love with it and asked me to keep giving them articles.",
"\"I made a radio documentary called 'The Night Visitor' about Gadhafi's secret police for a local station.",
"\"Nobody here really knows what a radio documentary is, but a lot of people loved it.",
"Here in Libya there's a social stigma, we don't talk about things we fear, but I managed to get people to talk.\"",
"Torben Brandt, a media expert for International Media Support, a Danish organization, made his first mission to Benghazi in June, and set up a permanent office there in August.",
"He recruited Doma as a local media coordinator to monitor the state of the media and write regular reports about the content and quality of radio stations, newspapers and the growing number of satellite television channels.",
"The organization has run workshops and courses for local journalists on conflict reporting.",
"It has also held a two-day workshop for 100 journalists all over the eastern part of Libya in the city of Derna.",
"The organization plans to move into Tripoli as soon as it is safe to do so.",
"\"In Benghazi, 80% of people starting up newspapers are engineers because it's the center for the oil refineries,\" said Brandt.",
"\"It's amazing to see how hungry people are for knowledge.\"",
"He knows that not all the newspapers can survive, but hopes those that do will become more professional.",
"Doma said that is already starting to happen.",
"\"I'm quite optimistic,\" he said.",
"\"I read newspapers and nowadays people are providing analysis and holding the politicians to account.",
"\"Some of the new government are still trying to control the media, but the journalists are resisting that.",
"Some journalists now have contracts with foreign television channels from Qatar, Lebanon or United Arab Emirates.\"",
"Doma added: \"The biggest obstacle to the local media is financial sustainability.",
"People are just paying to produce the newspapers out of their own pockets and the market is too loaded with 120 newspapers.",
"People don't know what to buy.",
"\"Most of the newspapers will die out and a few good ones will survive.\"",
"The content of \"Sowt\" too has changed in the eight months since it launched.",
"Shembesh said: \"At the beginning we had six pages of reader articles, and we simply edited them for language.",
"\"Now we only have two or three pages from readers and we have a couple of professional writers.",
"We cover social and political events, social problems, interviews with military and rebel leaders.",
"\"We now get contributions through Facebook and we will be publishing on the internet so people abroad can read us.\"",
"Shembesh hopes that \"Sowt\" will be one of the newspapers that can become sustainable.",
"\"We have started to carry advertising,\" he said.",
"\"We know it's a hard time now and we have to focus and work hard to win the crowds over.",
"It helps that we got in early and built up a base of readers very fast.\"",
"Shembesh still has another year of his studies and plans to become a civil engineer, but believes he can continue to publish \"Sowt\" alongside his other work.",
"Doma is still undecided about becoming a full-time journalist and is juggling several career options and responsibilities.",
"In addition to work for International Media Support, Doma is volunteering in a blood bank, helping out at a local hospital, and acting as a guide and facilitator for a rehabilitation center for fighters with physical, mental and psychological scars from the war.",
"\"And I'm still a student preparing for my final project,\" he said.",
"\"I'm busy doing all kinds of things and I'm really shattered.\""
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"(CNN) -- We were told to be awake and ready to move at 4 a.m.",
"The National Transitional Council fighters we were with were planning to launch a dawn assault on the Saharan city of Sabha.",
"All predictions indicated it would be one of the bloodiest battles yet.",
"NTC officials said loyalist forces would use weaponry they hadn't used before.",
"They didn't go into detail but it sounded ominous.",
"Western intelligence sources told CNN the fighters in Sabha still loyal to Libya's ousted leader, Moammar Gadhafi, had heavy artillery and would likely use it.",
"Sabha was frequently described as loyalist and pro-Gadhafi.",
"The night before the assault there was an edgy, giddy atmosphere on the air base where we were camped along with the force that had traveled more than 600 kilometers from Tripoli.",
"The fighters were shooting more ordinance than usual into the air, and they flocked to our campsite behind the officer's club, eager to chat, and even more eager to use our satellite telephones.",
"One after another, they shyly asked if they could make a call.",
"Each one had a special reason for calling -- reassuring parents, a brother getting married, a sick baby daughter, an angry girlfriend.",
"Many talked about their expectations for the coming day.",
"It would be a bloodbath.",
"It would be easy.",
"\"Maybe I'll die tomorrow, I'm ready for it,\" declared Mohamed, a toothy young man from Sabha who had spent several years in Manchester, England, where he had picked up the local accent.",
"\"But if I don't die, you are all welcome to stay at my house in Sabha.\"",
"Mohamed, like many of the fighters from Sabha, insisted most of the people in his home town sided with the revolution.",
"But there was concern about possible resistance from members of Gadhafi's Gadadfa tribe.",
"Despite a month of impressive advances by the anti-Gadhafi forces, it's clear not everyone has gone over to the revolution.",
"That afternoon we had gone into the nearby town of Birak Al-Shati.",
"I had seen scattered green flags flying over some of the houses earlier in the day.",
"Unlike other towns we had been through, few people in Birak Al-Shati waved or flashed the v-for-victory sign.",
"They just glared at us. As CNN's Cairo camerawoman Mary Rogers was taking pictures of the town, a car drove up to me in the town's main roundabout.",
"The driver, a young man in his early 20s, shouted to me: \"Allah, Moammar, Libya, wa bas\" -- (God, Moammar and Libya only) -- the standard slogan of Gadhafi supporters, then began to pull away.",
"\"Wait,\" I told him. \"Talk to me. We've been speaking to pro-revolutionaries (Gadhafi opponents), but not your type.\"",
"In the passenger seat sat a boy, maybe 10-years old, who repeated the slogan several times, pumping his fists in the air.",
"\"No camera,\" the driver told me.",
"\"Everyone around here feels the same, but we're afraid to say anything with all these thuwar (revolutionaries) around.\"",
"He then drove away.",
"I crossed the street to a cigarette shop where there were about half a dozen people inside.",
"The shopkeeper, a chunky man in his early 20s wearing a jalabiya, echoed the same sentiments.",
"As did another man, who identified himself as Jamal, a businessman.",
"\"If there were free elections here, and we had a choice between voting for Gadhafi or the new regime in Tripoli, 90% would vote for Gadhafi,\" he said.",
"\"And none of this would have happened if NATO wasn't bombing Libya.\"",
"A young fighter with an AK-47 walked into the shop to buy cigarettes.",
"Surprisingly, the discussion over the new Libya carried on.",
"\"We don't want these guys here,\" he said, pointing to the fighter.",
"\"They are going around, breaking into houses, stealing people's possessions.",
"That's what they did to my cousin's house.\"",
"\"If that's what happened, your cousin deserved it,\" replied the fighter, who said he was from Tripoli.",
"By now a fairly large crowd had gathered to listen and take part in the conversation.",
"Suddenly a man pushed through the crowd and grabbed Jamal by the shoulder.",
"\"Get out of here and stop talking like that!\"",
"he shouted, clearly angry, pushing Jamal out of the shop.",
"\"Are you an idiot?\" It was getting tense, so I stepped out of the shop.",
"\"Don't worry,\" the shopkeeper told me.",
"\"It's his brother. He just doesn't want trouble.\"",
"As I stepped to the side of the road, anther car drove up, this time with three occupants wearing baseball caps emblazoned with the pro-Gadhafi Libyan flag.",
"When I peered into the car, I saw that the driver had a bottle of clear brown liquid in his lap.",
"In the back seat a teenager with a machine gun in his lap was rolling a joint.",
"\"We are the revolutionaries of Birak Al-Shati,\" the driver said, a big grin on his face.",
"\"What's that?\" I asked him, pointing to the bottle.",
"\"Whiskey!\" he proudly declared.",
"\"You want some?\" I declined. I knew we had a big day ahead of us.",
"Although we had been told to be awake and ready to go at 4 a.m., I woke up two hours later.",
"Having spent much of the last seven months in Libya, I knew these guys were not strong on punctuality.",
"We ended up leaving the base around 10 a.m. behind the ambulances, and met the main body of fighters heading to Sabha.",
"An hour later, after an uneventful drive though the desert, we arrived on the outskirts of Sabha.",
"I could see some smoke on the horizon, but could hear no gunfire.",
"Small clumps of people by the side of the road were cheering and waving.",
"Driving further into the city, the crowds grew larger.",
"There was gunfire but it was all in the air, the ubiquitous celebratory gunfire.",
"Up above, a man tore down the green flag from the city's main water tower and sent it fluttering to the ground.",
"We were the only journalists in Sabha.",
"Wherever we stopped cheering crowds mobbed us.",
"Most asked if we were with Al-Jazeera.",
"The huge, bloody battle for Sabha wasn't to be.",
"No one was disappointed.",
"\"We are now in Sabha and we were not expecting this,\" one of the doctors shouted.",
"\"This is the best moment of my life.\"",
"There was fighting, of course, in the Sabha neighborhood of Manshiya.",
"We watched as cars and ambulances rushed to the emergency ward in the city's main hospital.",
"It was pandemonium. The medical team we had traveled with arrived at the hospital just minutes before the first casualties began to arrive.",
"Along with the wounded, came the dead, more than 10 in the two hours we were at the hospital.",
"Suddenly the bravado of the young fighters was gone when they drove up with the bodies of their dead comrades.",
"They cried like children in one another's arms.",
"Others just sat on the curb and wept quietly as their friends tried to console them.",
"For many it was their first real encounter with combat.",
"Others vowed to carry on the fight and avenge their friends.",
"By contrast, the loyalist dead were received without fanfare.",
"A pickup drove up to the main entrance to the hospital with two bodies covered with a light blue cloth splayed in the back.",
"On the side of the pickup truck the fighters were smug with satisfaction.",
"\"We killed the rats,\" one told me, pointing his gun toward the bodies at his feet.",
"That night we slept next to a NATO-bombed VIP guesthouse at the airport, which had become the main base for the hundreds of NTC fighters who had taken part in the conquest of Sabha.",
"The next morning we ventured out into the city.",
"Mid-morning, and there were few people out on the streets, and still plenty of green flags.",
"In front of the administration building at Sabha University, a still intact portrait of Gadhafi featuring the odd slogan, \"High you are above every ceiling, proud you are above every height.\"",
"Within minutes, a group of gunmen showed up, backing their pickup up to the poster, which they proceeded to rip apart with a knife.",
"We then went to Al-Gurda, a tight neighborhood composed of families from all over Libya.",
"People look after their neighbors, keep an eye out for strangers, and never, as residents told us, dabbled in the dangerous business of politics.",
"The streets are dusty, the asphalt crumbling.",
"The roads in this corner of Sabha were paved once, in the 1980s and never since, they told me.",
"We sat down with the neighborhood men, each one cradling his machine gun.",
"They explained that the last straw was when armed strangers -- they called mercenaries -- arrived on their street.",
"\"We shot one, he died right over there,\" one of the men told me, pointing to the corner.",
"He then showed me the video of the dying man he had shot on his cell phone.",
"Dentist Abdel Majid Tijani said he had learned to use a gun in school.",
"Gadhafi \"forced us to train on this,\" he said, patting his AK-47 assault rifle.",
"\"He intended to change us to fighters to fight for his dreams in Africa and in other places.",
"But God decided the reverse.",
"He forced us to train on this thing to fight him.\"",
"Afterwards, we went to the nearby home of Khadija Tahir, a strong-willed English teacher at Sabha University.",
"I asked her why Sabha, despite its reputation for being a Gadhafi stronghold, had fallen to the opposition in less than 24 hours.",
"People \"realized that this man is not right.",
"So many people came 180 degrees from being pro-Gadhafi to protesting Gadhafi,\" she told me.",
"\"The other reason is that people got fed up -- lack of electricity, lack of water.",
"So they wanted to get out of this situation.",
"I am one of them.\" There are still a few parts of Sabha where the \"thuwar,\" the revolutionaries, are hesitant to tread.",
"But most parts of Sabha were like Al-Gurda.",
"They'd simply had enough."
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"In the hours before the attack fighters showed signs of nerves and confidence .",
"The city, despite its reputation as a Gadhafi stronghold, fell to the opposition in less than a day .",
"There are still a few parts of Sabha where the revolutionaries are hesitant to tread ."
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"(CNN) -- As the rest of the world waits to see if Japan can avert a nuclear catastrophe, a small band of experts is putting their lives at risk to prevent the disaster.",
"Thousands of people living near the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been evacuated from their homes because of the risk of radiation leaks from reactors damaged by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami.",
"But while most hurry in the opposite direction, about 180 plant workers are staying put -- despite the fact that doing so could result in serious illness or even death -- to battle the meltdown threat.",
"\"The workers at this site are involved in a heroic endeavor,\" former U.S. Department of Energy Official Robert Alvarez told CNN.",
"\"There is at least fragmentary evidence that in some places on this site there are life-threatening doses of radiation.",
"I think they are doing enormously heroic work.\"",
"The workers left at the site are said to be highly trained and experienced nuclear operators, engineers and safety staff with highly specialized knowledge.",
"Richard Wakeford, of the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester, said for many of them -- despite the highly unusual and potentially dangerous circumstances -- it will be just another day at the office.",
"\"They see it as doing their job,\" he said.",
"\"The Japanese in particular are dedicated to duty, and they will see it as their duty to do what they are doing.\"",
"According to the World Health Organisation, the average person is exposed to about 3.0 millisieverts (mSv) a year of radiation, from naturally-occurring, medical and other sources.",
"But monitoring at the Fukushima Daiichi site has recorded radiation as high as 400 millisieverts an hour -- a level known to be a risk to human health.",
"Exposure to 1,000 millisieverts (1 Sievert) of radiation can cause radiation sickness.",
"\"It is difficult to get a clear picture, but there have been spikes in radiation to enormous doses, high enough to risk radiation sickness,\" said Dr. Ira Helfand, a member of the organization Physicians for Social Responsibility.",
"\"These people are undergoing total body radiation, which can cause leukaemia and lymphoma as well as thyroid cancer later on,\" he said.",
"Experts say lessons have been learned since the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 25 years ago, when an unauthorized experiment saw radioactive dust spread across swathes of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and western Europe.",
"Then, emergency workers were sent in with little or no protection to deal with the fallout.",
"\"It was pandemonium; there was no monitoring, no idea of the risks,\" Wakeford said.",
"By contrast, he said, staff at Fukushima Daiichi will be kitted out in protective clothing and breathing apparatus, they will be closely monitored and working in teams to limit their exposure to radiation.",
"\"If I were them I would be more worried about the hydrogen explosions, which have been huge -- enough to blow the roofs off two buildings -- and which I think are a much bigger risk to the workers on the ground,\" he told CNN.",
"But Dr. Helfand said reports suggested that the operation was not going 100% to plan, describing it as \"something out of an adventure movie.\"",
"\"We are in totally uncharted waters, people are ad-libbing to deal with the situation,\" he said.",
"\"Using fire trucks to pump a mixture of sea water and boron onto the reactors is not in any of the manuals.\"",
"Wakeford said the workers will have known they may one day face a risky situation such as this.",
"However, Helfand said that made them even braver, and their work more admirable.",
"\"These workers are trained to understand the risks, but that only makes it all the more heroic that they have agreed to stay and work to prevent a disaster,\" he said.",
"\"They know that if there is a reactor meltdown it could be a major disaster affecting huge areas and massive numbers of people, and they are risking their lives to try and prevent that.",
"All of us owe them a huge debt of gratitude.\"",
"Professor Wakeford agreed: \"They are heroic, there is no doubt about that -- it's a pity that isn't recognised more.",
"They are heroes, and I bow down to them.\""
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"(CNN) -- A new social media campaign hopes to harness the power of celebrities and a Bob Marley song to help bring awareness to the thousands suffering from the famine in the Horn of Africa.",
"The \"I'm Gonna Be Your Friend\" campaign, which kicks off Tuesday, is named for a line in Marley's 1973 song \"High Tide Or Low Tide.\"",
"It uses the song as the soundtrack to a short film on the East African crisis directed by award-winning director Kevin MacDonald.",
"Among MacDonald's movies is the critically acclaimed \"Last King of Scotland.\"",
"Prominent celebrities -- such as Eminem, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears -- have pledged to promote the film by posting it on their Facebook pages or offering links on their Twitter feeds.",
"The video is also on sale, with proceeds going to Save The Children.",
"\"With over 150 global stars already signed up and more joining by the hour, the combined total of their fans and followers on the social networks is over 700 hundred million people,\" the campaign said.",
"\"This huge number will not only help raise awareness of the scale of the crisis but also vital funds for those suffering in the region.\"",
"Twelve million people are facing a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.",
"Somalia has been hardest hit.",
"\"Not one child should be denied food nor water.",
"Not one child should suffer.",
"Along with Save the Children, we must stand up together as friends to put a stop to this, to feed our children and to save their lives,\" said Rita Marley, Marley's wife."
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"Proceeds will go to aid group Save the Children to help famine victims ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- It took Norma Margeson a few minutes to learn to control the skinny metal robot.",
"But instead of viewing it as a machine, she soon warmed up to it as a companion.",
"Georgia artist Norma Margeson has embraced a robot prototype that can fetch household items for patients.",
"\"Oh, I love it,\" she said.",
"\"I think it is such a unique character.",
"It has a personality all its own. It can be a friend, a very good friend.\"",
"Margeson, an artist from Marietta, Georgia, is learning how a health care robot dubbed El-E (pronounced \"Ellie\") can help her accomplish some simple household tasks.",
"El-E is being tested by Margeson and other patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.",
"\"We named it El-E because she reminds us of an elephant.",
"She has this one arm that is sort of gray that can lift objects and move up and down,\" said Professor Charles Kemp, director of the Center for Healthcare Robotics at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.",
"Right now Kemp and his colleagues are focusing on programming El-E to locate and fetch common household items such as a hairbrush, a bottle of pills, a cell phone or a TV remote.",
"El-E also can open doors.",
"Watch El-E the robot in action » .",
"A robot with those skills could provide some independence for patients with motor impairments and a respite for caregivers.",
"Kemp said he hopes his robots could help people in wheelchairs, the elderly and those with such diseases as arthritis and diabetes.",
"\"There is still significant research to be done in order to make robots like El-E function in real homes on a daily basis,\" Kemp said.",
"\"Real homes contain a diverse array of objects, have obstacles that make robot navigation difficult, have varied lighting, contain fragile items, provide shelter to pets and family members, and have messy areas.\"",
"Kemp has been working for more than a year with Jonathan Glass, a neurology professor at Emory University in Atlanta and director of the Emory ALS Center.",
"\"What Charlie and his team have been very focused on is not what they can make the robots do, but what they can make the robots do that's important to people,\" Glass said.",
"\"We may think of things that are relatively trivial -- picking up a cell phone, picking up a remote control for a TV set or even pushing a button somewhere that they cannot quite reach.",
"That may seem to be a small thing to somebody.",
"But to these folks, it's a very big thing.\"",
"El-E is about 5 feet tall, with a single robotic arm that can move up and down to pick up objects at different heights.",
"The robot swivels and rolls on a motorized, wheeled base.",
"During a demonstration in a living-room setting at Georgia Tech, Margeson used a laser pointer to identify objects she wanted El-E to deliver to her.",
"Patients with different levels of mobility also can use head-mounted pointers or touch pads.",
"El-E retrieved bottles of pills and a water bottle when Margeson pointed to them, but its claw could not get a proper grip on a cell phone.",
"Like any young creature, however, the robot is designed to learn from its mistakes.",
"\"In this case, it missed the object.",
"It should try again actually, and it should recognize that it didn't succeed,\" Kemp said.",
"Formal studies have shown El-E to be an efficient worker.",
"In 127 out of 134 trials (94.8 percent), the robot successfully picked up the requested object.",
"Kemp and his students have studied the work of service dogs to try to mimic the most useful assistive functions.",
"And while El-E will never be the warm and loving companion that a German shepherd or a Labrador might be, there are efforts to make El-E interactive and at least somewhat anthropomorphic.",
"When El-E is ready to work, it says: \"Waiting for laser command.\"",
"After the patient points at an object, the robot acknowledges, with the words, \"Detected laser pointer.\"",
"Patients can decide whether El-E should put the object on a table or put it directly in their hands.",
"\"If you look at me, I will deliver to your hand,\" says the robotic voice.",
"Glass said that many ALS patients have, by necessity, learned to be tech savvy.",
"\"For the most part, patients at this stage of the disease are used to dealing with technology,\" he said.",
"\"They're used to dealing with motorized wheelchairs; they are used to dealing with automatic speaking devices and computers.\"",
"But programming a robot to do \"human\" things involves a lot of hardware and software.",
"El-E is powered by a Mac Mini with the Ubuntu Linux operating system.",
"\"It needs to have a laser to navigate and to find objects on the surface,\" Kemp said.",
"\"It needs to have this camera so it can know where to move its hand.",
"It needs to have these four sensors so that it can know as it is moving how much to grip on the object, when to stop moving down, when to let go of the object when handing out the object to a person.\"",
"Kemp's Web site, http://www.charliekemp.com/, includes video that shows what El-E sees as it navigates across a room.",
"Depending on funding, Kemp said he hopes home health care robots may be available in less than 10 years.",
"By that time, El-E may have learned how to carry a plate of hot food from the microwave to the table and pick up a glass without breaking or spilling it."
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"Engineers at Georgia Tech are developing a health care robot for home use .",
"The robot can open doors and fetch items such as a bottle of pills or a cell phone .",
"Robots could assist patients with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease .",
"Such health care robots may be commercially available in less than 10 years ."
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"Guatemala City, Guatemala (CNN) -- The two top candidates in Guatemala's presidential race are headed for a runoff after tallies Monday revealed neither had secured enough votes to win the election.",
"Otto Perez Molina, a retired army general who pledged to take a tough stand on crime, garnered the most votes in Sunday's elections.",
"With almost all of the ballots counted Monday night, Perez Molina had 36% of votes -- far short of the more than 50% needed to win outright.",
"His closest competitor, businessman Manuel Baldizon, had 23% of votes, said Guatemala's election authority.",
"Observers from the Organization of American States criticized Guatemalan election officials' apparent disorganization and slow vote-counting after Sunday's election, the state-run AGN news agency reported.",
"The watchdogs said they hoped the process would improve in the second round of voting, scheduled for November 6.",
"Dealing with widespread violence and the growing threat of organized crime figured heavily in the campaigns of all 10 candidates vying for the presidency.",
"Baldizon championed a crime-fighting plan called \"Security Now!\"",
"Campaign posters for Perez Molina, who led in polls before Sunday's election, featured a clenched fist.",
"The 60-year-old retired general pledged to bring a \"mano dura\" -- firm hand -- to Guatemala's highest office.",
"In a debate co-hosted by CNN en Español last month, Perez Molina called for \"elite units of the army\" to play a larger role in the nation's battle against gangs and drug cartels.",
"But that proposed approach -- and Perez Molina's high rank in the military during Guatemala's decades-long civil war -- worries human rights groups both in Guatemala and abroad.",
"\"These groups have begun questioning his military past and his participation in the war against the insurgents during the armed conflict.",
"Undoubtedly, this issue will be present during his presidency if he wins the elections,\" said Miguel Castillo, a political analyst at Guatemala's Francisco Marroquin University.",
"Concerns stem from the fact that the Guatemalan military committed multiple atrocities during the civil war, though Perez Molina has never been directly implicated in any of them, Castillo said.",
"Perez Molina is campaigning for president for a second time.",
"He was defeated in 2007 by incumbent President Alvaro Colom.",
"\"We would have liked to win in the first round, but we are prepared with a revision of plans and strategy to face the second phase of this electoral process,\" he said early Monday, according to AGN.",
"First-time candidate Baldizon, 41, also said he was ready for the next round, AGN reported.",
"The businessman and attorney, who is running under the banner of the Leader Party, has energized young people.",
"His campaign slogan was \"Only the people can save the people.\"",
"The youngest of all the candidates, Baldizon espouses a concept he calls \"renewed democratic liberty\" in which all members of society have a role to play in seeking solutions to common problems.",
"\"In order to change Guatemala, we need a president who's really committed to our nation, with a calling for service, and who truly wants to change Guatemala,\" Baldizon said.",
"Poverty is endemic in Guatemala, and the country has one of the worst crime rates in Latin America.",
"Forty-three percent of children under 5 are chronically malnourished.",
"And the murder rate last year was 42 per 100,000 people -- one of the highest in the world.",
"In a Vox Latina national survey in July, more than two-thirds of Guatemalans said violence was the issue that concerned them most, far outpacing the combined totals for the economy, unemployment, poverty and lack of education.",
"This is only the fourth time that Guatemala has held presidential elections since peace accords were signed in 1996, officially ending a civil war that devastated the Central American country for 36 years.",
"The conflict left more than 100,000 people dead and a million refugees.",
"The new president will take office in January.",
"CNN's Fernando del Rincon, Rafael Romo and Arthur Brice, and journalist Patzy Vasquez contributed to this report."
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"Businessman Manuel Baldizon is poised for a second-place finish .",
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"(Mashable) -- Google has announced a major algorithmic change to its search engine, subtle in nature and perhaps unnoticeable to many users, but one that should dramatically improve the quality of Google's search results.",
"With this move, Google is targeting content farms -- a common name for low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content, usually by either producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites with original content.",
"Google does not go into details of the change which should impact 11.8 percent of Google's queries (currently only in the U.S., with plans to roll it out elsewhere over time), but it does say that it will affect the ranking of many sites on the web.",
"\"This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites -- sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.",
"At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites -- sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on,\" explain Googlers Amit Singhal and Matt Cuttsin a blog post.",
"While the change will surely have many website owners up in arms, complaining that their website was unfairly ranked lower than before (we're sure that in some cases they will be right), it's a very welcome one.",
"The popularity of Google's search engine is still second to none, but Google has been plagued by black hat SEO practices and content farms for a while now, with thecomplaints from users slowly mounting over time.",
"If Google manages to put an end to content farms or at least significantly reduce their influence in search results, it will be an important step in regaining the trust of its millions of users.",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Google has been plagued by black hat SEO practices and content farms for a while .",
"Content farms are low quality sites that attract traffic with (mostly) useless content .",
"The change should impact 11.8 percent of Google's queries ."
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"Toronto, Ontario (CNN) -- Police fired tear gas outside a prisoner processing center Sunday in Toronto where groups of people gathered to protest the arrest of G-20 demonstrators, a security spokeswoman said.",
"A total of 604 people have been arrested since the protests broke out June 18, said Constable Tim Garland of the Ontario Provincial Police.",
"At least 253 of those arrests came on Sunday, he said.",
"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had harsh words for demonstrators who set at least four police cars ablaze and shattered several windows around the city during the weekend's protests.",
"\"We obviously deplore the actions of a few thugs,\" Harper said at the conclusion of the G-20 summit.",
"Some of the detained protesters were released Sunday from the prisoner processing center -- an old film studio converted to a makeshift jail amid the protests -- while others were being held for bail, Ontario Provincial Police Constable Rodney Petroski said.",
"Some of those released emerged in their stocking feet, carrying a bag of their belongings and speaking about the conditions inside the center.",
"Several detainees who had been arrested for \"breach of peace\" told CNN that they weren't given access to legal counsel and were denied blankets and frequent trips to the bathroom outside what they described as 6-foot by 9-foot makeshift cells.",
"Elsewhere, mobs scuffled with police in multiple locations, according to Neda Snyder, a spokeswoman for the Integrated Security Unit.",
"Of the Sunday arrests, 70 took place on one thoroughfare, Bancroft Avenue, she said.",
"There were no reports of serious injuries to either protesters or police, according to the ISU, which said the safety of summit participants was never compromised.",
"\"I do not believe that the individuals bent on vandalism and violence in our city have finished with their intent, so we will remain vigilant,\" Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said Saturday night.",
"Blair told reporters that packs of disruptive demonstrators infiltrated peaceful protests in order to cause chaos and distract police.",
"\"These criminals rely on the anonymity of hiding in a larger group of the curious and the naive,\" he said.",
"At least four police cars went up in flames and smoke during hours of confrontation, authorities said.",
"Protesters left behind broken windows and graffiti.",
"Blair said police used tear gas after warning a group of protesters \"engaged in acts of destruction\" Saturday.",
"Not all encounters between police and protesters were hostile.",
"At one intersection the crowd danced and chanted, \"You're sexy, you're cute, take off your riot suit!\"",
"More aggressive groups of demonstrators moved from intersection to intersection, trying to circumvent police and get to the security fence protecting the summit meeting.",
"\"The fence is a symbol that they can build a fence and spend a billion dollars on their agenda.",
"The fence is a symbol of what's wrong with this country,\" protester Rolf Gerstenberger said.",
"Authorities said the fence was not breached Saturday.",
"Behind it, world leaders met for an economic summit focusing on recovery from the global financial crisis.",
"Participants agreed on ambitious targets for getting deficits under control, pledging to cut them in half by 2013, according to a final statement made at the conclusion of the conference.",
"This weekend's meetings come on the heels of the two-day G8 summit outside Toronto, where the leaders of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan and Russia also focused on recovery from the global economic crisis.",
"The group also made note of other thorny issues in their final statement issued Saturday, singling out Iran and North Korea for criticism.",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Ali Velshi, Rachel Streitfeld and Leslie Perrot contributed to this report."
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"NEW: At least 253 people arrested Sunday .",
"NEW: Canadian PM: We deplore actions of thugs .",
"Protests erupt in Toronto as G-20 leaders meet .",
"Police have arrested more than 600 protesters since mid-June ."
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"(CNN) -- A major Italian trade union called on workers to strike Tuesday, as the country's Senate prepares to vote on austerity measures to try to bring the country's budget under control.",
"The strikes were causing transport chaos in cities across the country, with parts of the metro shut down in Rome, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.",
"The CGIL union said demonstrations were planned for cities including Rome, Naples, Florence, Milan and many others.",
"The strike comes amid international worries about the health of Italy's economy, the third-largest in Europe.",
"Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi last month insisted that his country could confront the financial anxieties shadowing Italy and rest of the continent.",
"Speaking to lawmakers, he said the economic challenges Italy faces need \"to be tackled with determination and without panic.\"",
"But he also noted \"we do not deny we are facing a crisis,\" adding: \"We need to work together to overcome it.\"",
"There have been fears that the debt crisis roiling Greece and Portugal is spreading to Italy and could affect the stability of the euro, the currency used by 17 nations on the continent.",
"Italy has one of the lowest growth rates in the world and among the highest public debts, warned Domenico Lombardi, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former International Monetary Fund executive board member.",
"He said the roots of Italy's troubles lie in its huge public debt and low growth rate.",
"Italy's economy has been growing at only 0.3%, he said, and most importantly is projected to grow at a similarly feeble rate for the next few years.",
"\"This very low rate of growth really is one of the lowest in the world,\" he said, \"and on top of that Italy has a very high public debt.\"",
"That debt stands at about 120% of gross domestic product (GDP) -- or in other words, a fifth more than the country's annual economic output -- and is one of the highest in the world, bar that of Greece, which has had to be bailed out by Europe.",
"Put these two factors together in Italy and it \"becomes clear that the economy is not going to be able to generate enough resources to pay for its debt,\" Lombardi said.",
"Professor Iain Begg of the London School of Economics told CNN that while Berlusconi's public return to the helm on the economy was welcome after a conspicuous absence, Italy's mercurial prime minister is also a part of the problem.",
"Italy under Berlusconi has failed to \"grasp the nettle of economic reform\" to tackle low growth over a sustained period, Begg said.",
"In addition, he said, Berlusconi erred in July by publicly criticizing Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti (who is himself troubled by corruption allegations) over recently announced austerity measures.",
"\"As soon as you start playing these kind of games politically, the markets smell blood and as soon as they scent it, they start tearing flesh,\" Begg said.",
"He argues that Italy should not be in trouble in the first place because although its debt is high, it is not rising.",
"Also, the public-sector deficit -- the gap between taxation and expenditure -- is very low at 4% compared with other countries, such as 10% in the UK and 11% in the United States.",
"Italy isn't exposed to the same kind of property bubble as Spain and its banking system is strong, Begg said.",
"But other elements, like the new debt deals agreed for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, have paradoxically pushed up borrowing costs for Italy to record levels -- with bond yields, or interest rates on government debt, reaching 6% -- and put it under greater pressure, he said.",
"Unlike McWilliams, Begg believes Italy is highly unlikely to default on its huge debt -- but its situation is nonetheless \"precarious\" if it wants to avoid years of low growth.",
"And the picture is not altogether bleak.",
"Unemployment in Italy, at just over 8%, is not as high as in Spain or Greece, Begg said, giving more leeway for the government to carry out tough reforms and the economy to be turned round.",
"CNN's Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"Strikes cause transport chaos in cities across the country, an Italian news agency reports .",
"The CGIL union calls for demonstrations in Rome, Florence, Milan and many other cities .",
"Italy is trying to bring down its public debt, which is 120% of GDP .",
"Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insists that the country can tackle the crisis ."
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"(CNN) -- Joe Marshall was cruising across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge when a piece of steel and a giant cable crashed down.",
"He was just 50 yards away.",
"The iReporter was just far enough away that he didn't see the debris as it fell.",
"But he did see cars quickly move to the right lanes to avoid the mess.",
"The falling debris forced the closure of the bridge and snarled traffic between Oakland and San Francisco, California, as commuters look for alternate ways to get to and from the cities.",
"It's also forcing structural engineers to look at key questions around the nation's infrastructure: Has the nation done enough to address crucial bridges two years after the tragic collapse of a bridge in Minnesota that killed 13 people?",
"The answer, experts say, is no.",
"The pieces that fell this week raise even more troubling issues because repairs had just been made in September to the same section of the 73-year-old bridge, which spans the San Francisco Bay and carries an average of 280,000 vehicles daily.",
"Over Labor Day weekend, crews worked to repair a damaged steel beam.",
"\"The bridge has been inspected, and it is now safer than when we closed it,\" Randell Iwasaki, the director of the California Department of Transportation, said at the time.",
"Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, says he's concerned that authorities took a \"Band-Aid\" approach in September.",
"\"It failed,\" he said.",
"He's worried about what he calls \"fracture-critical\" bridges: roughly 460 bridges across the country that are in dire need of repairs.",
"\"Following the Minnesota bridge collapse, there was a lot of discussion because of emotions,\" he said.",
"\"I didn't really see a sustained effort that says, 'We are going to replace these fracture-critical bridges.'",
"\" Federal regulators said support plates that were about half as thick as they should have been were the likely cause of the August 1, 2007, bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people and injured 145.",
"The gusset plates -- metal plates that are meant to strengthen joists -- are believed to have failed on the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.",
"A new bridge has since opened in Minnesota, what the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials hailed as one of the nation's Top 10 transportation feats this year.",
"\"It is critical that our transportation systems receive the funding necessary to keep America moving.",
"But even more important is that our state and local governments use that money to deliver projects that quickly meet the needs of our communities,\" John Horsley, the group's executive director, said in a recent report.",
"But engineers say that's the problem: Repairs aren't happening quick enough.",
"If a tragedy like the Minnesota collapse doesn't get people's attention, they wonder, what will?",
"\"I have seen some lip service, but I have not seen a lot of momentum and action,\" said William Ibbs, a professor of civil engineering at UC-Berkeley.",
"\"Part of that is due to the economic recession.",
"When California has a budget deficit of $25 billion, they don't worry about bridges.",
"They worry about closing the budget gap.\"",
"Fari Barzegar, a civil engineering consultant based out of Oakland, says the Minnesota collapse put critical bridge problems front and center before the American public.",
"\"In the engineering community, we knew these things many years ago, and there were requests for money, which wasn't coming,\" Barzegar said.",
"But he says funding hasn't kept up post-Minnesota.",
"According to a 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers report, more than 26 percent of the nation's bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.",
"The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials estimated in 2008 that it would cost roughly $140 billion to repair every deficient bridge in the country.",
"Bridges are typically inspected every two years.",
"\"If we don't start making substantial progress in five years, we will have more collapses,\" Ibbs said.",
"The Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and spans 8.4 miles.",
"It was the largest and most expensive bridge -- $77 million -- of its time.",
"The bridge is best known to most Americans from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.",
"A 50-foot section of the bridge collapsed during the quake, killing one person and prompting efforts to make it quake-tolerant.",
"Part of the bridge, the West Span, is a suspension bridge.",
"The other portion of the bridge, known as the East Span, is a truss-cantilever design.",
"This week's falling debris happened on the East Span, which is in the process of being replaced."
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"Bridge remains shut, snarling traffic across San Francisco Bay area .",
"\"I have seen some lip service, but I have not seen a lot of momentum,\" expert says ."
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"(CNN) -- England opener Alastair Cook just missed out on reaching a remarkable triple- hundred as the hosts continued to turn the screw in the third cricket Test against India at Edgbaston on Friday.",
"Cook scored a career-best 294 as England racked-up a massive first innings total of 710-7 declared on day three, an unbeatable lead of 486 runs with two days play still remaining.",
"And England's position became even stronger when Indian opener Virender Sehwag was caught at slip for his second succesive opening ball duck, as the visitors began their second innings in disastrous fashion.",
"However, in fading light, Gautum Gambhir and Rahul Dravid steered India to 35-1 at the close of play, still needing a mammoth 451 runs to make England bat again.",
"India cannot possibly win the match now, but they will need to bat for the remaining two days to salvage a draw, or hope that some bad weather finds its way to Birmingham.",
"Starting the day on 456-3, in reply to India's score of 224, England continued to plunder runs at will.",
"And, after passing his second-ever Test double century, Cook looked on course to become only the sixth England batsman in history to reach 300, and first since Graham Gooch -- also against India -- in 1990.",
"However, he was caught in the deep, off the bowling of Ishant Sharma, just six runs short of that famous milestone.",
"Cook's marathon innings of 12 hours and 47 minutes fell just half an hour short of the England record, set by Len Hutton, when making 364 against Australia at The Oval in 1938.",
"Their score of 710 was was England's best for 73 years and their third highest of all-time behind the 903-7 declared against Australia at The Oval in 1938 and 849 against the West Indies at Kingston, Jamaica, in 1930.",
"It also leaves them perfectly placed to go an unbeatable 3-0 up in the four-Test series and secure the win that would see them replace India at the top of the Test Championship table."
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"Alastair Cook scores 294 as England dominate third Test against India .",
"Cook's highest-ever Test score helps England reach 710-7 declared .",
"It is England's third-highest ever Test score and their best since 1938 .",
"In reply, India have reached 35-1, needing 451 runs to make England bat again ."
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"(CNN) -- Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in a camp for displaced people in Sudan's Darfur region, the global body said Tuesday.",
"Two of the dead were soldiers; the third was a police adviser for the joint U.N. and African Union mission in the troubled region.",
"Another six peacekeepers were injured in the incident.",
"They came under attack at 10:15 Monday night in the Zam Zam camp in North Darfur while the security unit was on patrol.",
"One of the assailants was also killed, a statement from the joint mission said.",
"It was unclear why the attack occurred.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon \"strongly condemns\" the attack, the U.N. said in a statement.",
"The attack was carried out by unidentified armed men while the peacekeepers were on a \"confidence-building patrol,\" the statement said.",
"Ban \"appeals to the Sudanese authorities to investigate the incident and to bring to justice the perpetrators as soon as possible,\" according to the statement.",
"The peacekeeping mission in Darfur is the world's largest at 20,000 authorized troops.",
"Since it began in 2008, 33 peacekeepers have been killed.",
"\"I condemn in the strongest terms this attack on our peacekeepers who have worked selflessly to bring security to the internally displaced persons of Zam Zam camp where so many Darfuris have sought refuge,\" said Ibrahim Gambari, head of the mission.",
"\"An attack on international peacekeepers is a war crime and we will ensure that justice will be served.\"",
"Darfur is among the most dangerous areas of operation for U.N. personnel.",
"The region remains a tinderbox.",
"At least 300,000 people have been killed and 2.7 million others driven from their homes as a result of fighting between Sudanese rebel groups and the Khartoum government and its allied armed militia.",
"CNN's James Partington contributed to the story."
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"The Darfur region remains a tinderbox ."
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"(CNN) -- Sri Lanka's coconut development minister has banned the felling of coconut trees in an effort to increase coconut production in the face of a severe shortage.",
"Minister Jagath Pushpakumara said that over the past few years, coconut production has decreased because coconut palms are being cut down.",
"He was addressing a media briefing Monday at the Government Information Department.",
"The ban requires that approval for cutting coconut trees be obtained from the provincial managers of the Coconut Development Board.",
"The ban will not apply to trees affected by the coconut leaf wilt disease in the Weligama area on the nation's southern coast.",
"Sri Lanka's annual coconut production is 2.7 billion nuts, and the ministry expects to increase this to 3.5 billion, Pushpakumara said.",
"In an effort to curb a coconut black market, the Sri Lankan government last week set a ceiling retail price of 30 rupees (27 US cents) per coconut in state-owned stores, but stocks quickly sold out and then reappeared at more than double the price on the black market.",
"The island nation-state in the Indian Ocean is approximately the size of the state of West Virginia and has a population of 21.3 million.",
"The island counts coconuts as a dietary staple and one of its biggest exports, along with trademarked Ceylon tea and rubber."
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"An effort to cut the black market on coconuts is being undercut ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Part of the U.S. embassy annex in Kabul came under attack early Monday, a U.S. official and an official from the International Security Assistance Force said.",
"The attack was believed to be largely over by about 4 a.m., the U.S. official said.",
"At that point, there was not yet any word on casualties.",
"ISAF Maj. Jason Waggoner said it was a single incident, not several attacks.",
"The U.S. official described the situation as fluid at the targeted facility, which is used by U.S. government personnel in the Afghan capital.",
"The area is known as a place where personnel both live and work, some in intelligence operations.",
"A CIA spokeswoman declined to comment on the attack.",
"\"Police have heard gunshots in the area,\" said Siddiq Siddiqi, the spokesman for the Afghan interior ministry.",
"\"The gunshots continued for three or four minutes.\"",
"Afghanistan has been site of several high-profile attacks of late, including strikes at the NATO headquarters and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani.",
"Rabbani had been leading efforts for reconciliation talks.",
"U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta contended last Thursday that such attacks represent a strategy shift by the Taliban, the conservative and militant group that has been waging a years-long fight in the war-torn nation.",
"\"We judge this change in tactics to be a result of a shift in momentum in our favor and a sign of weakness in the insurgency,\" Panetta said in a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing.",
"He added that \"the insurgency has been turned back in much of the country, including its heartland in the south, and Afghan National Security Forces are increasingly strong and capable.\"",
"Mike Mullen, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified then that he felt Pakistan is \"exporting\" violence to Afghanistan.",
"He described the Haqqani terrorist network as \"a veritable arm of Pakistan's intelligence\" -- an assertion that Pakistani officials later strongly denied, even as it admitted the country does have contacts with the group.",
"August was the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the conflict began.",
"Seventy-one American troops died that month, including 30 killed when insurgents shot down a helicopter August 6 in the eastern central province of Wardak.",
"The surge in U.S. deaths comes as 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.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr and Claudia Dominguez contributed to this report."
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"The attack occurs overnight in a locale where U.S. personnel live and work .",
"There were no immediate reports of casualties .",
"An ISAF official describes it as a single incident ."
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"(CNN) -- Stuart Broad's stunning five wickets for no runs spell, including a hat-trick, restored England's hopes after Rahul Dravid's 34th Test hundred had put India in command at Trent Bridge Saturday.",
"England looked set to face a massive first innings deficit until Broad performed his heroics to wrap up the Indian innings for 288, a lead of 67.",
"The home side battled to 24 for one, losing Alastair Cook cheaply, by the close to trail by 43 with three days left of the second Test.",
"But it could have been so much worse for Andrew Strauss' men who won the first match of the series at Lord's in convincing fashion.",
"Dravid and Yuvraj Singh had taken India to 258 for four wickets with a stand of 128 until Broad struck.",
"He removed Yuvraj for 62, caught behind, then soon afterwards had India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni caught at second slip by James Anderson.",
"Next ball Harbhajan Singh was lbw, although the decision by South African umpire Marais Erasmus looked dubious with replays indicating he had hit the ball.",
"But there was no doubt about his hat-trick dismissal as he clean bowled Praveen Kumar.",
"Dravid went shortly afterwards to Tim Bresnan for an excellent 117, while Broad, who had earlier removed India's batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, wrapped up the innings to end with Test-best figures of six for 46 in 24.1 overs.",
"Broad, who top-scored in England's first innings of 221, was pleased to have performed his feat on his home ground.",
"\"It's always nice to get a hat-trick anywhere but to get it at Trent Bridge is special,\" Broad told Sky Sports.",
"\"We have to bat well tomorrow (Sunday) to set it up for ourselves.\"",
"Dravid, who shared an invaluable stand of 93 for the second wicket with VVS Laxman (54), admitted he had been constantly under pressure on a difficult wicket.",
"\"It was hard work, but the wicket did get easier than yesterday.",
"\"They have a good quality bowling attack and they tested us.\"",
"England need to win the four-match series by two clear matches to usurp India as the world's top-rated Test side."
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"Stuart Broad takes hat-trick in 5-0 spell in second Test at Trent Bridge .",
"England paceman's feat restricts India to first innings lead of 67 .",
"Rahul Dravid scores 34th Test century to put India on top .",
"England trail by 43 with nine wickets left by close of play ."
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"(CNN) -- Alastair Cook made a superb century as England remained on course to leapfrog opponents India as the number one ranked Test team in the world.",
"On another dominant day for England in Birmingham they finished on 456-3, to lead by 232 after India slumped to 224 all out in their first innings.",
"Cook took full advantage of a lackluster Indian bowling attack by batting all day for an impressive 182 not out with captain Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen also notching half centuries.",
"England are now odds on favorites to go 3-0 up in the four match series and confirm their status as number one.",
"Resuming on 84-0, Strauss and Cook made a patient start and amassed another 100 runs before Strauss was bowled by Amit Mishra for 87.",
"Ian Bell made a confident 34 and the ball before he was clean bowled by Praveen Kumar, Cook notched up his 19th century to a standing ovation from the Edgbaston crowd.",
"Pietersen made a brisk start to his innings with Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma coming in for particular punishment.",
"He and Cook put on 122 for the third wicket before Pietersen was given out LBW off Kumar.",
"But that was India's final breakthrough of the day as Eoin Morgan and Cook put on another 82 before the close of play.",
"India now face a huge task to save the match and prevent being usurped at the top of the world rankings.",
"\"It's always nice to score runs and especially pleasing when you haven't scored in the last two tests,\" Cook told a press conference.",
"\"It's been frustrating not getting through that new ball and it was important that when I did I made it count.",
"\"I did a bit of work last week to get myself into better positions as I might have been falling over slightly but the conditions in the last couple of tests have been very tough.\""
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"England in complete control against India in the third Test match .",
"England close day two on 456-3, a first innings lead of 232 runs .",
"Alastair Cook remains unbeaten on 182 after batting all day .",
"England on course to win Test and become number one Test side in world ."
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"(CNN) -- Sri Lanka opened their 2011 Cricket World Cup with a thumping 210-run win over Group A outsiders Canada in front of a home crowd in Hambantota.",
"An 81-ball century from Mahela Jayawardene -- the fastest by a Sri Lankan at a World Cup -- and 92 from captain Kumar Sangakkara laid the foundations for Sri Lanka's formidable total of 332 for seven.",
"The pair shared a third wicket partnership of 179 as Canada's bowling attack toiled after earlier restricting Sri Lanka to 92 for two from the first 20 overs.",
"Sehwag century sets up India victory .",
"Jayawardene finally fell at the end of the 44th over with the score on 276 for four.",
"But Angelo Mathews and Thilan Samaraweera chipped in with useful runs at the death to steer Sri Lanka past 300.",
"Canada's theoretical run-chase got off to the worst of starts as opener John Davison was out to the seventh ball of the innings, bowled by Thisara Perera.",
"Fellow opener Ruvindu Gunasekera, Zubin Surkari and Jimmy Hansra all fell cheaply, leaving Canada in the mire at 42 for four after 18 overs.",
"Captain Ashish Bagai halted a complete collapse with steady 22 before becoming Perera's third victim.",
"And Rizwan Cheema battled hard for his 37 as wickets tumbled around him, but was eighth man out in the 31st over.",
"Canada's miserable day was completed five overs later when they were all out for 122 -- Henry Osinde was last man out bowled by Ajantha Mendis for four.",
"Sri Lanka's next match is against Pakistan in Colombo on Saturday February 26.",
"Earlier in Group A, New Zealand thrashed minnows Kenya by 10 wickets in Chennai.",
"Kenya won the toss and elected to bat and made a respectable if somewhat slow start to their innings, scoring 33 runs in the first ten overs for the loss of one wicket -- opener Alex Obanda falling to Tim Southee in the seventh over.",
"Bangladesh excited to host Cricket World Cup .",
"But it wasn't long before their innings began to unravel as Kiwi paceman Hamish Bennett -- who finished with figures of 4 for 16 -- ripped through Kenya's top order with only Rakep Patel (16 not out) offering any resistance.",
"Kenya's last five batsmen managed just four runs between them as Jacob Oram and Southee bagged three wickets apiece as Kenya slumped to 69 all out in the 24th over.",
"Kiwi openers Martin Guptill (39 not out) and Brendon McCullum (26 not out) needed just eight overs to knock off the runs as New Zealand romped home.",
"Tougher opposition awaits for New Zealand next Friday as they face arch rivals Australia in Nagpur."
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"Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene scores a rapid hundred to set up 210-run win .",
"New Zealand record thumping 10-wicket win over Kenya .",
"Kenya skittled out for just 69 with Kiwi openers knocking off runs in eight overs ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Thomas Jefferson famously wrote about the wall of separation between church and state.",
"He didn't mention separating church and politics, but everybody knows it's a sticky wicket.",
"On Friday, Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist minister, introduced Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry at at a gathering of social conservatives, calling Perry a genuine follower of Jesus Christ, as opposed to another candidate Jeffress could and did mention in a later interview.",
"\"I think Mitt Romney is a good, moral man, but I think those of us who are born-again followers of Christ should always prefer a competent Christian to a competent non-Christian like Mitt Romney,\" Jeffress told CNN's Jim Acosta.",
"Read more: Perry's minister problem?",
"Romney is a Mormon and he has passed this way before: Four years ago, the first time he ran for president, he made a speech to address concerns, rumors, and political analysis of his religion in a speech.",
"\"I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it.",
"Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy.",
"If they're right, so be it.\" Asked about the controversy on CNN's \"State of the Union\" on Sunday, Romney's Republican presidential rivals took a pass.",
"\"I'm not running for theologian in chief,\" businessman Herman Cain said.",
"\"I'm a lifelong Christian, and what that means is one of my guiding principles for the decisions I made is I start with, do the right thing.",
"I'm not getting into that controversy.\"",
"Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann called the issue \"so inconsequential.\"",
"Asked if she was concerned that people might think she was dodging the question, Bachmann said, \"I think, again, to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now, because every day I'm on the street talking to people.",
"This is not what people are talking about.\"",
"Asked the same question, Cain had a similar answer.",
"\"If that's what it looks like, I'm dodging it, because it's not going to help us boost this economy, and you know that that's my No.",
"1 priority,\" he said.",
"Many things sank Romney's candidacy in 2008.",
"Religion may have been one of them.",
"Explain it to me: Mormonism .",
"Ron Brownstein, editorial director of the National Journal, points out that Romney ran poorly among evangelical Christians, especially in the South, in 2008.",
"\"In all the Southern states, he never topped out above 20% of the votes among evangelical Christians; only 11% in the critical state of South Carolina,\" Brownstein said.",
"In all, 45% of Republicans who vote in primaries are conservative evangelical Christians.",
"They are far less a factor in a general election.",
"For Romney's rivals, this requires straddling a line -- you don't want to alienate a huge part of the primary vote, nor do you want to look intolerant."
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"GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's Mormon faith is once again under the microscope .",
"Influential Baptist preacher calls Romney a \"competent non-Christian\" unlike Rick Perry .",
"Romney ran poorly among evangelical Christians, especially in the South, in 2008 ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday that a rare Roman sword in its leather scabbard which belonged to a Roman soldier and an engraving of a Menorah on a piece of stone dating from 66 CE were found in recent days in the 2000 year old drainage system in Jerusalem which ran between the City of David and the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden.",
"Professor Ronny Reich told CNN that the sword probably belonged to a Roman infantryman stationed in Jerusalem during the Great Revolt (66 CE).",
"At the time there were four Roman legions stationed in the area.",
"This is the third Roman sword found in Jerusalem but what distinguishes this find is the fine state of preservation of the sword: it is around 60 cm (about 24 inches) in length, it was found in a leather scabbard and some of the decoration on the sword was preserved.",
"The stone artifact with an etching of the Menorah was found in the soil near the drainage channel.",
"The etching was probably done by a sharp nail according to Reich.",
"\"The importance of the etching,\" according to Reich, \"is the depiction of the base of the Menorah which clarifies what the original base of the Menorah looked like: a quadrapod resting on a frame that was on the floor.\"",
"The proximity of the find to the Temple Mount is also important and the researchers of the dig Eli Shukron from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Reich believe a passerby who saw the Menorah with his own eyes drew his impression of it on a stone.",
"The Menorah was one of the holy objects inside the Temple.",
"The dig has uncovered so far half of the old drainage channel, which is around 600 meters (yards).",
"In earlier digs the archaeologists found traces of people who lived in the drainage channels hiding from the Romans during the time of the Second Temple's destruction.",
"The drainage channels were also used by people to flee the besieged city.",
"The find comes on the eve of Tisha B'Av which is a fast day in Judaism which commemorates the destruction of the First Temple and Second Temple in Jerusalem."
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"Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid by her Saudi employer.",
"Dr. Kamal Weeratunga said the surgical team in the southern town of Kamburupitiya pulled nails ranging from about one to three inches from Lahadapurage Daneris Ariyawathie's body.",
"He said doctors have not yet removed four small metal particles embedded in her muscles.",
"\"She is under heavy antibiotics but in a stable condition,\" Weeratunga said.",
"Sri Lankan officials, meanwhile, met with Saudi diplomats in Colombo to urge an investigation into the incident.",
"\"It was cruel treatment which should be roundly condemned,\" said L.K.",
"Ruhunuge of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.",
"He said the Sri Lanka government has forwarded to Saudi authorities a detailed report on the incident including statements from Ariyawathie.",
"Ariyawathie left Sri Lanka on March 25 to work as a housemaid in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after the bureau registered her as a person obtaining a job from an officially recognized job agency.",
"She was held down by her employer's wife while the employer hammered the heated nails, Ruhunuge told CNN.",
"She apparently had complained to the couple that she was being overworked, Ruhunuge said.",
"The nails were hammered into her arms and legs while one was on her forehead, he said.",
"\"Most of the wounds are superficial but five to 10 are somewhat deep,\" said Dr. Prabath Gajadeera of the Base Hospital.",
"\"Luckily, none of the organs is affected.",
"Only nerves and blood vessels are affected.\"",
"Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of two children who were opposed to their mother's journey to Saudi Arabia for work.",
"Several countries across the Middle East and Asia host significant numbers of migrant domestic workers, ranging from 196,000 in Singapore to about 1.5 million in Saudi Arabia, according to a report published earlier this year by Human Rights Watch.",
"Many of the domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal.",
"Widespread abuse has been documented by global human rights groups.",
"Common complaints include unpaid wages, long working hours with no time for rest, and heavy debt burdens from exorbitant recruitment fees, said the Human Rights Watch report.",
"Isolation and forced confinement contribute to psychological and physical abuse, sexual violence, forced labor, and trafficking, the report said.",
"The abuse often goes unchecked because of a lack of government regulation and protective laws.",
"Ruhunuge said the registration of the local job agency that placed Ariyawathie has been cancelled.",
"\"We have also asked [them] to pay compensation to the victim,\" he added.",
"\"We want to bring those responsible for justice.",
"We are doing our best in this regard,\" he said.",
"He said his office was ready to accompany Ariyawathie to Saudi Arabia to testify if a case is brought against her former employers.",
"Ariyawathie's dream was to one day return to Sri Lanka and build a house with the money she saved.",
"\"We are looking at the possibility of helping her to do this,\" Ruhunuge said.",
"Karu Jayasuriya, deputy leader of the main opposition United National Party, visited Ariyawathie in the hospital and said he was appalled.",
"\"We want the government to raise this issue at the highest levels with the Saudi government.",
"We cannot imagine that such crude and uncivilized things are happening to our workers,\" he said.",
"Saudi officials were not immediately available for comment."
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"She was attacked after complaining of being overworked .",
"Sri Lankan officials are urging the Saudis to conduct an investigation .",
"The victim is among thousands of Sri Lankan migrant workers ."
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"(MNN.com) -- Lulu and I have fostered our share of dogs over the years.",
"It's always fun to watch her teach shy and withdrawn pooches to cuddle or play keep-away.",
"But I must admit that Lulu also has humped a few foster dogs in her day, even though she was spayed as a puppy.",
"For advice on how to prevent this unwelcome behavior, I called trainers Andrew Zbeeb of Frogs to Dogs in Atlanta and Kate Jackson of Jabula Dog Academy in Decatur, Ga.",
"Both deal with unruly pets for a living, and both agree that it's important to address \"special hugging\" early and often.",
"\"It's more of an assertive thing than anything else,\" says Jackson.",
"\"It's a way of belittling another dog.",
"It's not necessarily dominating, but it's very rude.\"",
"To correct naughty dogs caught in the act, separate them immediately, Jackson says.",
"Give the offending pooch a 30-second time out to sit and decompress.",
"Then allow the dogs to resume play.",
"\"If they step out of line again, offer time out again,\" she says.",
"\"Redirect, redirect, redirect.\"",
"MNN: 'Jenga' dog and his owner defy the critics .",
"Changing this behavior can take time, Zbeeb says.",
"So don't get frustrated.",
"It's the natural, normal way that dogs establish pecking order, he says, even if they have been spayed or neutered.",
"That explains why Lulu reserves this unwelcome greeting for fosters rather than play dates.",
"She never dared such rudeness with Daisy, my sister's smaller but more dominant, pint-sized pooch.",
"\"It's a primitive instinct,\" Zbeeb says, adding that a high-value treat such as cheese or meat can help lure pets to another activity.",
"He stresses that the treat has to be especially good to trump that instinctual behavior to hump.",
"Also, it helps to put a leash on the dogs so you can lead them out of the room for a time out.",
"No matter how embarrassed you get, it's important to maintain a level head when addressing bad behavior.",
"Cursing or yelling only worsens the problem, warns Jackson.",
"As a lead trainer of pit bull training classes offered by the Humane Society of the United States, she puts that theory to practice every Saturday with mix of altered and unaltered dogs.",
"If they grow agitated, Jackson maintains a calm demeanor in the eye of the storm.",
"\"The minute you raise your voice and start yelling for something that's embarrassing or stupid or bad, you lower your level of control,\" she says.",
"\"When your dog does something that mortifies you, be swift and get in there.\"",
"MNN: How to train your dog to behave around guests .",
"That same rule applies if your dog decides to hump humans.",
"Pull them away and schedule an immediate time out that's outside or far away from the situation.",
"You also can step into the dog's space, reasserting your authority.",
"\"Humping a human, that's pretty ballsy,\" Jackson says, no pun intended.",
"That may be grounds for calling in a trainer for assistance.",
"\"If a dog shows confidence enough to belittle a human, they have low regard for people.",
"That's a dog that won't tolerate any correction from a lot of people -- and that can be pretty dangerous.\"",
"In a previous column, I offered tips to help dogs behave around guests.",
"Mastering the \"place\" command helps ensure good behavior.",
"Zbeeb also recommends teaching your dog to properly greet humans.",
"Start by making the dog sit and stay about 8 feet from the front door, but not right in front of the door.",
"Once your dog masters sitting and staying, it's time for you to approach the door.",
"If the dog moves, offer a correction and make it return to the original spot.",
"Return to the door and open it slightly, rewarding your dog for sitting and staying.",
"Repeat this process daily.",
"By the end of the week, your dog should be able to sit and stay without approaching the door, even if it's wide open.",
"Of course, it took much longer than a week for Lulu and me.",
"Once you've mastered this step, practice with familiar faces ringing the doorbell, then graduate to having strangers come to the door.",
"With each exercise, the dog should maintain a sit and stay when guests arrive.",
"\"Learning how to do this will also resolve the issue of humping humans,\" Zbeeb says.",
"\"Dogs that hump humans don't have boundaries and are saying, 'I'm the boss.'\"",
"We can't have that, can we? © Copyright 2010 Mother Nature Network ."
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"To correct naughty dogs caught in the act, separate them immediately .",
"Cursing or yelling only worsens the problem ."
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"(CNN) -- Pioneering gay rights activist Frank Kameny died Tuesday evening at home in Washington, a spokesman said.",
"He was 86. \"He said everyone needs to know they are of value and respected, and by saying, 'Gay is good,' he thought that reflected that feeling.",
"He wanted dignity and self-respect, and that's what he fought for,\" according to Bob Witeck of the Kameny Papers Project.",
"Kameny died peacefully of natural causes, according to his sister Edna Kameny Lavey.",
"He was at a Human Rights Campaign dinner a week ago in a wheelchair, she said.",
"\"Frank Kameny led an extraordinary life marked by heroic activism that set a path for the modern LGBT civil rights movement,\" Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese said in a statement.",
"\"From his early days fighting institutionalized discrimination in the federal workforce, Dr. Kameny taught us all that 'Gay is Good.'",
"\"As we say goodbye to this trailblazer on National Coming Out Day, we remember the remarkable power we all have to change the world by living our lives like Frank -- openly, honestly and authentically,\" said Solmonese, whose group works for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.",
"A seat at the front of the audience was reserved for Kameny when President Barack Obama in December 2010 signed into law the repeal of \"don't ask, don't tell,\" which banned gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces.",
"Kameny attended the ceremony wearing the Combat Infantryman Badge that he was awarded for his service in World War II.",
"Kameny recalled his service fighting in the wake of the Battle of the Bulge: \"I dug my way across Europe slit trench by slit trench, practically.\"",
"But Kameny was not invited because of his heroism in World War II, but for his work toward changing the military policy of discharging homosexuals.",
"Kameny, who had been discharged from the Army Map Service in 1957 for being gay, led a demonstration at the Pentagon in 1965.",
"Kameny called upon the nascent gay rights movement to model itself upon the civil rights movement.",
"The homophile movement, as it was called at the time, said that homosexuals were triply condemned: The medical establishment deemed them mentally ill, the law made them criminals and religions branded them sinners.",
"At a time when lesbians and gay men were so ostracized, the homophile movement decided its best tactic was to embrace the label of sickness: at least that seemed a half-step up from being criminals.",
"But Kameny argued that such an approach was counterproductive, and that gay people should demand equality with heterosexuals.",
"To gain equality, he argued, the movement needed to assert itself.",
"Kameny led the way in tactics such as public demonstrations, went on the attack against the Civil Service Commission for its policy of firing homosexuals, and spearheaded an effort to get the homophile movement to take the position that homosexuality was not only not a mental illness but was on a par with heterosexuality.",
"In 1968, he got the only existing national association of gay rights organizations to adopt as its slogan a phrase that Kameny had coined, \"Gay is Good.\""
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"Kameny, who served in WWII, fought against the Army's policy of discharging homosexuals .",
"He urged what was then called the homophile movement to assert itself to achieve equality .",
"He worked to end homoexuality's classification as a mental illness ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- After emerging from the rubble of Moammar Gadhafi's Baba az' Azia palace late in August, Abdul Hakim Belhaj seized control as the military commander of Tripoli.",
"An Islamist who had taken little public part in the spring uprising against Gadhafi, he claimed his soldiers had won the symbolic battle for the palace, the heart of the Libyan strongman's regime.",
"By taking control of Tripoli, Belhaj gained authority over a third of the country's population and a major slice of its wealth.",
"It was a power play that other opposition fighters bitterly resented.",
"Abdullah Naker, one of several rival commanders, claims his fighters endured far tougher and more significant battles than the siege of Gadhafi's palace, not least the struggle to win control of Tripoli's main international airport that lasted several days.",
"In an interview with CNN he downplayed Belhaj's success and threatened confrontation, as internal divisions threaten to pull apart the coalition that brought Gadhafi down.",
"\"Who is Abdulhakim Belhaj and who appointed him?\"",
"Naker asks.",
"\"We don't know him. We are the leaders, we are the revolutionists, we know everything.\"",
"Naker echoes a much wider complaint that Belhaj is actually a stooge of the Qataris.",
"\"We know that Abdulhakim Belhaj was in a school and Qatar sends him money to buy weapons,\" he said.",
"In Tripoli today it's a commonly held belief that Belhaj's Tripoli Military Council is getting direct funding from Qatar.",
"These concerns come amid reports that a NATO delegation traveled to Qatar last week to raise the issue.",
"Qatar has been a principal player in pushing the revolution forward as part of the NATO alliance.",
"Now there's growing unease in the Libyan capital that fractures among the groups controlling the country could have roots in divisions among the international coalition that overthrew Gadhafi.",
"Belhaj, also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Abdullah Assadaq, was the military leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, LIFG, and denies any nefarious ties to Qatar.",
"But Libya's rumor mill quickly turns suspicion into fact and he is finding it hard to shake the slur.",
"His LIFG began fighting Gadhafi in the 1980s.",
"After Gadhafi successfully crushed the LIFG, the group went underground and scattered.",
"At its peak, the LIFG had underground cells in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, where it shared training camps with Al Qaeda.",
"Belhaj had joined the new revolution with a ready-made army and a political religious ideology to boot.",
"I know this because in 2009 I was trying to interview him when he was an inmate inside the notorious Abu Salim jail in Tripoli.",
"In his writings then, he was trying to lead the group away from violent jihad towards a more political ideology.",
"The so-called recantation theories, a 400-page manifesto he and several other fighting group leaders wrote from within the walls of the high security prison was the first ever direct jihadist challenge to Osama Bin Laden's nihilistic ideology.",
"Bin Laden and Belhaj had never been natural bedfellows, but now they were enemies.",
"Still, none of this cuts the mustard in Tripoli today; he's just another leader with an agenda.",
"Gadhafi himself predicted his detractors had little in common and would soon fight among themselves.",
"Sure enough, as weeks of street uprisings dragged out into months of NATO bombing, fractures appeared.",
"Abdel Fattah Younis, Gadhafi's old ally and military chief who deserted him for the rebels was murdered in suspicious circumstances.",
"Many feared it was the handiwork of the Islamists cutting down a moderate who might have made deals with some of his former boss's friends.",
"Today the fight is a war of words played out in the newly liberated conference halls of the capital.",
"At the weekend, National Transitional Council (NTC) chairman Abdul Jalil tried to reconcile the growing differences.",
"After a contentious group meeting with all the commanders, the atmosphere became so heated that he was forced to meet the next day with individual factions seperately.",
"On the capital's streets, the power struggle has more sinister overtones.",
"First, Belhaj, citing the Jalil and the NTC's backing, called for all heavy weapons to be put under his command or moved out of the city.",
"\"We call on all the revolutionary brigades and small local councils to join this framework as acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the transitional council,\" he said.",
"It is statements like this that rankle with Naker.",
"Naker claims it is his group, the Tripoli Revolution Council, that has the authority to have the weapons rounded up.",
"Legitimacy in the capital, he says, is garnered from the neighborhood councils established to funnel weapons to fighters before the final push to over throw Gadhafi.",
"But his challenge extends beyond Belhaj to the NTC and Jalil, the man who many regard as the very glue holding the disparate groups together.",
"\"We gave this council the legitimacy and if we want we can withdraw the legitimacy from the transitional council....then we have no problem with withdrawing its legitimacy,\" Naker said.",
"The root of the problem is that many Libyan's are loyal to family, tribe, village and town before nation.",
"They've fought often isolated in their towns, Zintan in the western mountains, Misrata under siege on the coast for 6 months and Benghazi, its own large fiefdom in the east.",
"Tripoli's patchwork of neighborhood councils is but a minor mirror of that.",
"Tajoura, Souk al Juma and Fashloom -- to name but a few -- saw many of the weapons smuggled in to the city over the summer.",
"It's given them muscle and the power to punch above their weight, as well as some freedom to choose sides.",
"Belhaj claims many are loyal to him.",
"\"We have met with all the local revolutionary councils and other small councils and we have agreed on a written statement we will show it to media soon,\" he claimed.",
"Trouble is Naker claims loyalty from some of the same councils.",
"Meanwhile, the overnight thump of heavy guns being fired off for fun across many of Tripoli's neighborhoods has dwindled.",
"But no-one here is fooled that they've gone silent for good.",
"Tensions are leading to uncertainty.",
"No-one wants to be boxed in like they were with Gadhafi, lives bounded by parameters.",
"Revolution has given a taste of freedom and the capital's citizens desperately want that seductive flavor on tap for good, enshrined in a genuine democracy before Islamists or anyone else starts taking their choices away.",
"When the men in uniforms with guns and not the politicians in suits start to argue, people get afraid.",
"Both Belhaj and Naker say they want to resolve their differences by talking.",
"But over the past few weeks since Gadhafi's family fled his Babal az Azia palace, misunderstanding and distrust have grown.",
"Reversing it is proving to be a formidable challenge."
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"Belhaj has authority over a third of Libya's population and a large part of its wealth .",
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"Naker has echoed a complaint that Belhaj is a stooge of the Qataris ."
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"(CNN) -- International scientists have announced the discovery of a tiny moon orbiting Saturn.",
"The speck of light, captured by cameras on board the Cassini spacecraft, was first observed on August 15.",
"A review found the moonlet on two earlier images and it has since been seen on multiple occasions.",
"The finding appeared in Tuesday's edition of the International Astronomical Union circular.",
"The moon is about one-third of a mile (a half-kilometer) across and circles Saturn as a part of the planet's sixth, or G, ring.",
"\"Before Cassini, the G ring was the only dusty ring that was not clearly associated with a known moon, which made it odd,\" said Matthew Hedman, a Cassini imaging team associate at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.",
"\"The discovery of this moonlet, together with other Cassini data, should help us make sense of this previously mysterious ring.\"",
"Early next year, Cassini's camera will take a closer look at the moonlet.",
"The Cassini Equinox mission, an extension of the original four-year mission, is expected to continue until fall 2010.",
"If the craft continues to function properly, the mission could be extended up to two more years.",
"Cassini, which was funded by NASA and the European and Italian space agencies, launched in 1997 and took seven years to make the 934 million-mile (1.5 billion-kilometer) trip to Saturn.",
"Since its arrival, Cassini has been making a looping voyage through the Saturn system and is returning loads of data on the ringed planet and its moons.",
"Three years ago, a space probe launched from Cassini found evidence of geysers erupting from underground pools of liquid water on Saturn's moon Enceladus.",
"High-definition pictures beamed back from the probe showed huge plumes of ice coming from the moon's south pole."
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"The speck of light was first observed on August 15 .",
"The moon is one-third of a mile across and circles Saturn as a part of its sixth ring .",
"The images were captured by cameras on board the Cassini spacecraft ."
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"(CNN) -- From Pac-Man to \"Pretty in Pink,\" Dungeons and Dragons to Devo, Rush to \"School House Rock\": If this pop culture laundry list brings back fond memories, then do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Ernest Cline's new novel, \"Ready Player One.\"",
"Packed with '80s nostalgia, it is part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance and all heart, a love-letter to growing up geek.",
"Described as \"Willy Wonka meets the Matrix\" the book takes place in a dystopian future.",
"The year is 2044 and the real world is an ugly place.",
"People escape their grim surroundings by accessing the OASIS, kind of like the Internet on steroids.",
"Hidden somewhere deep inside this virtual utopia is the ultimate golden ticket, the key to unlimited fortune and power, but to find it, players will have to unlock an increasingly difficult series of pop culture puzzles.",
"It's an addictive read.",
"The book has become a best-seller and a movie is in the works.",
"\"Ready Player One\" came naturally to author Cline.",
"He's a self-described geek, a fan of video games, manga and Monty Python.",
"He wrote the 2009 cult classic movie \"Fan Boys,\" an ode to obsessed \"Star Wars\" fans.",
"How serious is Cline's geek cred?",
"He has spent the last few weeks driving cross-country to promote his book in a souped-up DeLorean.",
"Cline's tricked out car incorporates elements from his favorite movie vehicles, including \"Back to the Future,\" \"Knight Rider,\" \"Buckaroo Banzai\" and \"Ghostbusters.\"",
"He's even got an \"ECTO 88\" personalized license plate.",
"CNN spoke to Cline recently about his debut novel.",
"The following is an edited transcript.",
"CNN: What was the spark that led you to write \"Ready Player One\"?",
"Cline: The initial idea for the story came to me way back in the summer of 2001.",
"I was working a technical support job at the time, helping people use computers and the Internet, and so I spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the Internet.",
"I believed it might evolve into a sprawling virtual universe, sort of a cross between World of Warcraft and Facebook.",
"When I start imagining what sort of person would create such a virtual world, I pictured a Willy Wonka-esque video game designer holding a grand video game contest inside his virtual world, and the rest of the story grew out of that first idea.",
"CNN: What was your introduction to geek culture growing up?",
"Cline: That's hard to say.",
"I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s.",
"Saturday morning cartoons like \"Star Blazers\" and \"Robotech.\"",
"Live action Japanese shows like \"Ultraman\" and \"The Space Giants.\"",
"I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.",
"I grew up immersing myself in all of these things, and they informed my whole adolescence.",
"CNN: You demonstrate an encyclopedia-like knowledge of '80s pop culture.",
"It seems like a lifetime of research went into your novel.",
"Cline: It did, in a way, because I was writing about everything I love.",
"It took me a long time to write this novel, and I maintained my interest in the project by filling the story with things I'm passionate about.",
"I was also being lazy, in a way, since I didn't have to do a lot of new research.",
"Now, all of the geeking out I've been doing my entire life can retroactively be classified as \"research\" for my novel.",
"CNN: Tell me about \"Ready Player One\" the movie.",
"I hear you're writing the screenplay?",
"Cline: Yes, I wrote the first draft of the screenplay adaptation earlier this year, and that's what Warner Bros. is using to find the right director.",
"They're very excited about the reception the book is receiving, so the movie could go into production as early as next year.",
"Fingers crossed.",
"CNN: You also wrote the movie \"Fanboys.\"",
"How did that experience compare to writing your first novel?",
"Cline: It was a lot more frustrating, because I had to give up control of the story to get the movie made, and so the end product didn't turn out exactly the way I'd hoped.",
"That experience actually motivated me to finish \"Ready Player One,\" because I wanted to see what would happen if I was able to have total control of my story, with no filters between me and the audience.",
"CNN: Tell me about your \"Ecto 88\" DeLorean.",
"I understand you're wrapping up a cross-country road trip?",
"Cline: Well, I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream.",
"Like owning the \"A-Team\" van or something.",
"But once I sold my novel, it occurred to me that I could finally buy a DeLorean and us it to promote the book, since the protagonist drives one in the story.",
"I could pose with the car in my author photo, then drive it across the country on my book tour, thus making it a business expense!",
"It's one of the best ideas I've ever had.",
"When I bought the car, I knew I wanted to trick it out like the DeLorean in the book, which combines elements from Doc Brown's Time Machine, KITT from \"Knight Rider,\" the \"Ghostbusters\" Ecto-1, and \"Buckaroo Banzai's\" Jet Car.",
"So I went on the Internet and found a Flux Capacitor, an Oscillation Overthruster, and a wide array of Ghostbusting equipment, including a screen-accurate Proton Pack (which rides shotgun).",
"Then I installed a blue KITT scanner on the front of the car and got some personalized ECTO88 license plates.",
"Then I took my time traveling, Knight Riding, Ghostbusting Jet Car out on the road.",
"It was a big hit at every bookstore I stopped at on my tour.",
"Get a guided tour of Cline's tricked out 1982 DeLorean.",
"CNN: It seems like recently geek culture has gone mainstream.",
"Would you agree?",
"Does that change anything about being a geek?",
"Cline: I have no choice but to agree.",
"I wrote the geekiest novel in history and it's now been on The New York Times best-seller list for several weeks.",
"From my perspective, it definitely seems that the geeks have inherited the Earth.",
"It's changed my whole life.",
"CNN: What are you geeking out to now?",
"Cline: Neal Stephenson's new novel, \"Reamde.\"",
"I managed to snag an advance copy and I can't put it down.",
"Mr. Stephenson is one of my favorite writers.",
"CNN: What's next for you? Cline: Well, I've started working on an outline for a possible sequel to \"Ready Player One.\"",
"But at the moment, I'm working on a geeky coming-of-age movie set in the late '80s.",
"Sort of my version of \"Dazed and Confused,\" but instead of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, my characters are steeped in Dungeons and Dragons, arcade games and comic books.",
"It's going to be the nerdiest coming-of-age movie ever made.",
"Read an excerpt from \"Ready Player One.\""
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"Ernest Cline's novel is described as \"Willy Wonka meets the Matrix\"\nA love letter to growing up geek, it combines an intergalactic scavenger hunt and romance .",
"Cline also wrote \"Fan Boys\" movie, an ode to \"Star Wars\" fans ."
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"London (CNN) -- One British citizen was killed and another one was kidnapped overnight at a resort near Kenya's border with Somalia, Britain's Foreign Office told CNN Sunday.",
"The attack occurred at a beach resort north of Lamu, Kenya, the foreign office said.",
"A maritime security source aware of the situation said the victims were a couple and the husband was killed.",
"His wife has likely been taken by Islamic militants by boat toward Ras Kamboni in Somalia, the source told CNN.",
"\"We are working to secure the safe and swift release of the British national who has been kidnapped and ask those involved to show compassion and release the individual immediately,\" the foreign office said in a statement.",
"British officials did not release further details about the kidnapping case, but said they are working closely with Kenyan authorities.",
"The office said it has amended its travel advice for Kenya in light of the attack.",
"\"We continue to advise against all but essential travel to within 30 kilometers of Kenya's border with Somalia.",
"There have been previous attacks by Somali militia into Kenya,\" the advisory said.",
"CNN's David Wilkinson contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Kidnapped British woman may have been taken to Somalia .",
"The killing and kidnapping attack occurred at a beach resort north of Lamu, Kenya .",
"The foreign office advises against travel near Kenya's border with Somalia ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. military has blocked access to a range of popular commercial websites in order to free up bandwidth for use in Japan recovery efforts, according to an e-mail obtained by CNN and confirmed by a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command.",
"The sites -- including YouTube, ESPN, Amazon, eBay and MTV -- were chosen not because of the content but because their popularity among users of military computers account for significant bandwidth, according to Strategic Command spokesman Rodney Ellison.",
"The block, instituted Monday, is intended \"to make sure bandwidth was available in Japan for military operations\" as the United States helps in the aftermath of last week's deadly earthquake and tsunami, Ellison explained.",
"U.S. Pacific Command made the request to free up the bandwidth.",
"The sites, 13 in all, are blocked across the Department of Defense's .mil computer system.",
"\"This is a response to a time of extreme demand for networks,\" Ellison said.",
"Ellison emphasized that it was a temporary measure.",
"\"This blockage will be of a temporary nature and may increase or decrease in the size and scope as necessary,\" according to the message distributed to military announcing the move.",
"\"We are doing this to facilitate the recovery efforts under way in Japan,\" Ellison explained.",
"\"We are trying to make sure we are giving them as many avenues and as much support as we can.\"",
"The blocked websites are: .",
"* Youtube.com .",
"* Googlevideo.com .",
"* Amazon.com .",
"* ESPN.go.com .",
"* eBay.com . * Doubleclick.com .",
"* Eyewonder.com .",
"* Pandora.com .",
"* streamtheworld.com .",
"* Mtv.com . * Ifilm.com . * Myspace.com .",
"* Metacafe.com ."
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"Effort is intended to free up bandwidth for use in helping Japan .",
"Blockage is temporary and subject to change, Strategic Command says ."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second man to be tried in connection with a deadly Connecticut home invasion in 2007.",
"A day before, the jurors heard lawyers' final pleas in the case as prosecutors cast Komisarjevsky, 31, as the instigator of the attack, while the defense insisted \"he did not want anyone to die.\"",
"The trial has gone on for a little over three weeks, during which time jurors heard emotional testimony detailing the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters -- 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.",
"After closing arguments wrapped up Tuesday, Judge Jon Blue started walking jurors through the 17 charges facing Komisarjevsky, including three counts of murder, four counts of kidnapping, burglary, arson and assault.",
"If convicted, he could receive the death penalty.",
"The judge got through 45 of 48 pages detailing the charges late Tuesday afternoon before sending the jury home.",
"Steven Hayes, the first defendant to stand trial, was sentenced to death in December 2010 after a jury convicted him on 16 of 17 charges.",
"As closing arguments began Tuesday, prosecutor Gary Nicholson told jurors, \"Once Komisarjevsky and Hayes completed their plan, where there was a family, there were three corpses.\"",
"Prosecutors allege that Hayes and Komisarjevsky went into the Petit home, beat and tied up Dr. William Petit, raped and strangled his wife, molested one of their daughters, and set the house on fire before attempting to flee.",
"The two daughters, who were both tied to their beds, died of smoke inhalation.",
"William Petit managed to escape.",
"Before assaulting and killing Hawke-Petit, Hayes forced her to go to a bank and withdraw $15,000 from an account after finding evidence the account held between $20,000 and $30,000, authorities said.",
"Nicholson recounted for jurors Tuesday the ways in which Komisarjevsky aided Hayes during the crime, including driving him to the Petit home, helping him beat William Petit and helping him restrain other family members.",
"\"Make no mistake about it, this intrusion into the Petit home was Mr. Komisarjevsky's idea,\" Nicholson said.",
"Defense lawyer Jeremiah Donovan stressed to jurors that his client didn't enter the Cheshire home with a lethal weapon.",
"Komisarjevsky, in his view, didn't kill William Petit when he had the chance, and he closed doors to the girls' room to buy them time to survive the fire.",
"Komisarjevsky was contrasted with Hayes, whom Donovan claimed strangled Jennifer Hawke-Petit, then lit the fatal fire.",
"\"He did not intend that anyone should die,\" Donovan said of Komisarjevsky.",
"On Monday, a 90-minute tape of Komisarjevsky's police confession was played for jurors.",
"He told authorities he followed Hawke-Petit and her youngest daughter home after seeing them in a shopping center parking lot.",
"He said he started thinking the Petit home was \"very nice.\"",
"Komisarjevsky said in the confession he was beating William Petit with a baseball bat when \"he let out this unearthly scream.",
"I kept hitting him until he finally backed up into a corner of the couch. ...",
"He quieted down and was just staring at me with open eyes, just sheer confusion.\"",
"But he also denied killing anyone, saying that Hayes \"pulled me to the side\" and said, \"'We gotta kill them and burn the house down.'",
"I'm like, 'I'm not killing anyone, there's no way.",
"We have the money. There's not a problem.'\" William Petit addressed the media after Tuesday's courtroom session, admitting he was bothered by the defense's strategy -- including its claim that his escape from the house may have precipitated the chain of events that led to the three deaths, or that things may not have unfolded as they did if Hawke-Petit had acted differently.",
"CNN's Deborah Feyerick contributed to this report."
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"On Tuesday, the judge ran the jury through the 17 charges .",
"If convicted, Komisarjevsky could receive the death penalty .",
"His attorney insists he didn't intend to kill, blaming a co-conspirator .",
"He's accused of being part of a plan that left a Conn. woman and her two daughters dead ."
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"(CNN) -- Thailand's capital was braced for unprecedented flooding Wednesday, amid the monsoon rains that have overwhelmed much of the country as well as Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines in recent weeks.",
"\"It's going to be clearer over the next couple days\" whether Bangkok can be spared the brunt of the flooding said Matthew Cochrane, spokesperson for the International Red Cross in Bangkok.",
"So far, 281 people have been killed and four people are missing in Thailand, according to the country's Flood Relief Operations Command.",
"Some 60 of the country's 76 provinces have so far been affected, impacting some eight million people.",
"\"It's really quite serious, these are the worst floods in Thailand since 1949,\" Cochrane said.",
"\"These floods started in June really and started to move south and have really caused huge damage the whole way down,\" Cochrane said.",
"\"They've affected hundreds and hundreds of villages and towns, they've wiped out 2.5 million acres of farmland.",
"This is a very, very serious disaster.\"",
"Over half a million square kilometers -- an area the size of Spain -- are affected by the floods in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, according to CNN meteorologist Jenny Harrison.",
"Asia's wet and wild 2011 explained .",
"In Bangkok officials beefed up flood prevention measures as waterways, including the main Chao Phraya River, became bloated by rising water.",
"\"There are walls still being built in the north of the city,\" Cochrane said Wednesday.",
"\"One of the challenges is the areas where flood waters are typically diverted to protect the capital and protect the economic center of the country, those areas are already flooded, so there's potentially not much room for those waters to go.\"",
"\"For Bangkok we are still confident that the inner part of the city will be safe from (flooding),\" said Thitima Chaisaeng, Thailand government spokesperson, but the eastern and western parts of Bangkok face flooding.",
"On Monday, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ordered canal dredging and reinforcement of flood-prevention embankments to protect the city, state-run news agency MCOT reported.",
"In addition, three new flood-prevention walls were being built at two locations in Rangsit, in northern Bangkok, and in Taling Chan, in the western part of the city.",
"Tourists warned as floods continue to wreak havoc in Thailand .",
"The government needs another 1.5 million sandbags, MCOT reported.",
"The prime minister called on the private sector to supply them, but said the government will buy all the needed sandbags by Wednesday, the news agency said.",
"Meanwhile, around 1,200 people have taken shelter in a gymnasium at Bangkok's Thammasat University.",
"Most of them are from neighboring Ayutthaya province and other flood-affected areas around the capital, said Thanawat Srisuwan, a volunteer at the makeshift shelter.",
"The authorities have set up almost 200 other temporary shelters around the city to receive flood victims.",
"The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said plans were in place to evacuate people from nine areas, mainly in eastern Bangkok, if needed.",
"Elsewhere, patients in two hospitals in Thailand's Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan provinces had to be evacuated after water reached the first floor, the flood operations command said.",
"Multiple tropical weather systems have moved over the region in recent weeks, enhancing monsoon rains and leading to the flooding.",
"Heavy rains are expected in Southeast Asia through the end of October.",
"According to the government website Thaiflood.com, water from northern Thailand has finally reached lower parts of central Thailand, penetrating dykes in Pathumthani and Nonthaburi provinces and flooding outer areas of Bangkok, including the market in Nonthaburi and Chiang Rang road.",
"The giant Rojana Industrial Park has halted operations for the time being, director Amara Charoengitwattanagun told MCOT, and the facility may be further damaged if the flooding worsens.",
"One plant in the park, Single Point Parts, evacuated all workers from the premises and built flood prevention embankments around its building.",
"Honda also confirmed operations at its Rojana plant have been halted.",
"The Japanese automaker says the closure of the plant has already affected the manufacture of 4,500 vehicles.",
"Meanwhile the UNESCO-listed Ayutthaya historical park, which includes the ruins of the old city of Ayutthaya, has been submerged since last week, according to local authorities.",
"\"This is the worst flood in our historical site in 16 years,\" said Somsuda Leeyawanich, from the Thai Fine Arts Department.",
"She said the water level in the park is almost three meters, compared to levels of around 80-90 centimeters during the floods of 1995.",
"\"We are very concerned that if the site is under water more 30 days it may cause serious damage,\" she added.",
"\"The temples are over 400 years old.\"",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report ."
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"In Thailand 281 people have been killed and four people missing .",
"An area the size of Spain is affected by the floods in Southeast Asia .",
"Official: Central Bangkok expected to be spared from brunt of floods .",
"Floods are 'worst to hit Thailand since 1949,' destroying 2.5 million acres of farmland ."
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"(CNN) -- Is this just a normal year, or is the southwest monsoon acting more aggressively than normal?",
"The 2011 tropical cyclone season in the west Pacific has been about average, not significantly above or below usual events.",
"We did have a few consecutive storms that made landfall in the Philippines and other parts of South East Asia in late September and early October, such as Haitang, Nesat, and Nalgae -- but that had more to do with a steering pattern caused by high pressure over the Pacific, not the monsoon.",
"The remnants of these storms did make their way farther into South East Asia, which likely enhanced the monsoon trough, thus leading to higher than average rainfall in countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.",
"Rainfall in most of Thailand is running 15% to 25% above average for the year (with a vast majority of that rain coming in the monsoon months of May to October).",
"What exactly is the southwest monsoon?",
"When does it start, end, and how is it generated?",
"The southwest monsoon occurs during the northern hemisphere summer, and is caused by the land masses of the Indian subcontinent and South East Asia heating up faster than the Indian Ocean.",
"This creates an influx of cooler, moisture-laden air from the ocean over the land.",
"The southwest monsoon generally begins in mid-May and ends in late October/early November, though start and end times vary based on location.",
"India, for example, has a southwest monsoon season that begins June 1 and ends September 30.",
"Which countries are most affected by this monsoon?",
"India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, and Malaysia are all affected in a significant way.",
"India is largely considered the most \"affected,\" since it has the most-consistent monsoon season and depends the most on the rains of the monsoon for their life-sustaining agriculture.",
"Some areas in Asia are recording above-average precipitation, such as in Bangkok which has so far received 58% more rainfall than usual this year.",
"Why is the monsoon bringing more intense weather than usual in 2011?",
"Some monsoons are more active than others, and there can be a myriad of reasons for this.",
"I think the monsoon rainfall was enhanced in September by numerous tropical systems interacting with the monsoon trough.",
"But other reasons could be much more complicated.",
"There could be interactions with other large-scale weather and climate variables, such as El Nino or La Nina (in the case of this summer, La Nina was in place, and this does normally lead to higher than average precipitation in South East Asia).",
"Sea-surface temperatures that are slightly above or below average can also lead to a variation in monsoon rainfall.",
"Scientists will need to look into how all of these potential ingredients came together to produce these flooding rains.",
"Also, the monsoon can be very active in one region, while being relatively inactive in another.",
"It just so happens that for the last several weeks, the monsoon trough has been very active over central Thailand (in and around Bangkok), but other areas of the country have seen below average rainfall.",
"In general are Asian summer monsoons becoming more destructive, or is it just cyclical?",
"I believe it is just cyclical, and as mentioned above, depends on a wide variety of factors.",
"The consequences, however, could be getting worse as populations and cities grow along the major rivers, which see rapid and intense rises during monsoon floods.",
"Is there anything that Asia can do to help alleviate higher than usual rainfall?",
"Better city planning and flood prevention strategies would be the biggest thing.",
"Monsoon floods have always occurred, and these rivers naturally flood their banks occasionally (which is what makes the land in these areas so fertile).",
"But if people continue to build more in these vulnerable areas, natural disasters like floods will continue to become more frequent.",
"CNN meteorologist and weather anchor Jennifer Delgado also contributed to this report."
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"Some storms likely enhanced the southwest monsoon trough, thus leading to high rainfall in some countries .",
"There could be interactions with other large-scale weather and climate variables, such as El Nino or La Nina ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani court has suspended the death sentence of Mumtaz Qadri, a security guard who killed a liberal politician over the latter's remarks on the nation's controversial blasphemy law.",
"\"Qadri was provoked by the governor and should therefore be tried for murder, not an act of terror which is what he was tried for earlier\" said his attorney Raja Shuja Ur Rehman in confirming the judge's decision.",
"Earlier this month, a terror court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near Pakistan's capital, sentenced Qadri to death.",
"The Islamabad High Court suspended the sentence Tuesday until the appeals process is complete.",
"The court did not say when it will meet again to consider the case.",
"Police said Qadri, a policeman serving as a security guard for Punjab Gov.",
"Salman Taseer, fatally shot him in a market in Islamabad on January 4 because of Taseer's remarks on Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law.",
"Police said Qadri confessed to gunning down the man he was supposed to be protecting.",
"Qadri's lawyer appealed the sentence imposed by the Anti-Terrorist Court, saying the court did not have the jurisdiction to make the death penalty decision.",
"Taseer, a successful businessman as well as politician, had said Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law is too harsh.",
"The law makes it a crime punishable by death to insult Islam, the Quran or the Prophet Mohammed.",
"The legislation has been criticized by some as being used to entrap minorities ."
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"A terror court sentenced Qadri to death for Taseer's death .",
"The Islamabad High Court suspends the sentence .",
"Qadri was part of Governor Taseer's security detail when he shot him .",
"His attorney says Qadri's death sentence is illegal ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The trial of American hikers charged with espionage in Iran will resume May 11, the state run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday, citing the head of the Justice Ministry.",
"The trial began behind closed-doors last month, and allowed Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal \"the opportunity to explain their innocence to the court,\" according to February 7 statement from the men's families.",
"Iran accuses Bauer, 28, Fattal, 28, and Sarah Shourd, 32, of spying and trespassing.",
"They were detained July 31, 2009, after they allegedly strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while hiking in Iraq's Kurdistan region.",
"Shourd was released on bail in September 2010 because of a medical condition and immediately left the country.",
"She has not responded to a court summons to return to stand trial, Masoud Shafii, the hikers' attorney in Tehran, has said.",
"Iranian authorities say she will be tried in absentia if she doesn't appear in court.",
"All three have pleaded not guilty.",
"Fattal and Bauer continue to be held in Iran's notorious Evin prison."
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"(CNN) -- All BlackBerry service has been restored following the largest network outage in that smartphone's history, Research in Motion executives said in a conference call on Thursday morning.",
"\"We've now restored full services,\" RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis told reporters.",
"Some BlackBerry users may still see e-mails coming in slowly as the system recovers, he said.",
"The major outage frustrated customers on nearly every continent who were unable to send and receive e-mails and text messages this week.",
"It also comes at a bad time for RIM, which is facing increased competition from Android and Apple smartphones.",
"The iPhone 4S is set to be released on Friday, and social media posts suggest some BlackBerry users may switch to other phones in part because of the prolonged break in services.",
"The outage started on Monday in Europe and spread to North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America over the course of the next two days.",
"A failure at one of the company's messaging servers in Europe, along with the subsequent failure of its backup system, led to a ripple effect that reportedly caused problems for millions of BlackBerry owners.",
"Executives on Thursday did not answer questions about how many people were impacted by the four-day service outage, but they did say this breakdown was the largest in the company's history.",
"\"We've worked 12 yrs since the launch of BlackBerry to win the trust of our 70 million BlackBerry subscribers and we're going to fully commit to win that trust back -- 100%,\" Lazaridis said during the press conference.",
"This is not the first time RIM has faced a major service outage.",
"\"I have been an analyst for 25 years and have watched RIM wrestle with this same outage problem time after time.",
"Every few years we get pinched by yet another major problem,\" tech analyst Jeff Kagan said in a statement.",
"This outage, however, comes at a particularly unfortunate time for RIM, since it faces increasing competition in the smart phone market, Kagan says.",
"BlackBerry users, many of whom use the devices primarily for business purposes, took to the Web to vent their anger about the outage.",
"Twitter and other messaging platforms have been full of complaints since the outage began almost four days ago.",
"The CNN Wire, CNN's Erin McLaughlin and CNNMoney's Julianne Pepitone contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: BlackBerry says service has been fully restored globally .",
"Customers say the outage has disrupted business and personal lives .",
"Backup systems did not perform as expected, an executive says .",
"Millions of people around the world were unable to send, receive messages ."
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"New York (CNN) -- For years, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has been speaking out against human rights violations in her country of Iran, where her defense of political prisoners and support for human rights and democracy have earned her the ire of the ruling regime.",
"In 2008, Iranian authorities shut down the Center for the Defense of Human Rights, of which she is president, and since 2009, she has been living in exile.",
"Ebadi is now in the United States to promote her latest book, \"The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny\" (Kales Press, 2011).",
"The book tells the story of an Iranian family torn apart by competing ideologies.",
"Roxana Saberi interviewed her at Columbia University in New York.",
"Here is an edited transcript.",
"Question: In your book, \"The Golden Cage,\" the first sentence quotes Iranian sociologist Dr. Shariati saying: \"If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.\"",
"But some people ask, \"What's the use of speaking out?\"",
"And does the Islamic Republic of Iran care when others criticize its human rights record?",
"Answer: If no one speaks out when a government violates human rights and uses oppression, this oppression continues.",
"But when people are informed, they gradually become aware, and when they become aware, they begin to object.",
"No change happens in society unless people become aware.",
"Q: And does the Islamic Republic care?",
"A: About the Islamic Republic, it's the same.",
"In 1988, there was a massacre of political prisoners in Iran.",
"At that time, there was no internet, people couldn't spread news much to one another, and very few knew of this story.",
"As a result, Iran's government quietly continued.",
"But [after Iran's disputed presidential election in] June 2009, with the help of the internet, people took photographs and film of the many individuals who were killed in the streets, then put these images on YouTube.",
"The whole world understood what was happening.",
"For example, the killing of Neda [a young Iranian woman shot to death at a protest] shook the world.",
"Q: What more could or should the U.S. government and the international community do about Iran's human rights record?",
"A: The development of democracy and human rights in any country is the duty of that country's people, and foreign countries must watch from a distance and provide help without interfering in internal affairs.",
"It was very important that the U.S. government and other member countries of the U.N. Human Rights Council voted to condemn Iran's human rights violations and to assign a special U.N. rapporteur on human rights for Iran.",
"It was also important that the United States announced travel bans and asset freezes for certain Iranian individuals who have had a direct role in killing or repressing the Iranian people.",
"This is not interference in Iran's domestic affairs but support of the people. ...",
"These types of steps must continue.",
"Q: How can citizens of the U.S., Europe, and other countries help promote human rights in Iran?",
"A: They can do the most. When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights.",
"When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.",
"In fact, I have always said that U.S. policy won't change unless the American people change, and the American people won't change unless they get more information about the world.",
"So this is our duty, to give necessary information to the people.",
"Q: And in your opinion, does the current U.S. president respect human rights?",
"A: Mr. Obama has so far shown that he respects human rights.",
"Q: At a talk at The New School, you said that Iran's Green Movement has in no way become weaker but has just changed its form of resistance.",
"What hope is there that the movement for democracy in Iran will prevail?",
"A: There is a lot of hope that the people of Iran will prevail because fortunately they don't resort to violence, they continue their resistance, and also the economic situation is very bad.",
"The price of food in Tehran has even become more expensive than in the United States.",
"And most importantly, many divisions have formed among conservatives.",
"Altogether, these factors will cause the regime to weaken.",
"Q: Will we see the democratic movement prevail in our lives?",
"A: This depends on whether I die tomorrow or in another 30 years.",
"Q: Let's say you live another 30 years.",
"Will we see it? A: Yes, within 30 years, of course.",
"Q: What influence do revolutions and protests in countries such as Egypt, Libya and Syria have on Iran's democracy movement?",
"A: Syria is the Islamic Republic's only ally in the Middle East, and it is not only an ally but also a puppet of Iran.",
"A revolution has begun in Syria, and the people there are protesting against the dictatorship of the Assad family.",
"If they succeed in bringing democracy to Syria, this will help democracy in Iran a great deal.",
"In Tunisia and Libya, democracy will also help Iran very much, and the people coming to power in those countries will help democracy in Iran progress.",
"In Egypt, the fundamentalists are strong, and in the beginning, it's possible they will be very close to the Iranian government, but they won't become a puppet of Iran because they are Sunni, while the Iranians are Shiite, and feelings of racism exist between the Iranian government and Arab governments.",
"There are no common interests between Iran and Egypt.",
"Also, Egypt sees itself as a big brother of Islamic and Arab countries, and Iran also sees itself as a leader of Islamic countries, ... so while Egypt and Iran will build political relations, Egypt certainly won't transform into a puppet of Iran.",
"Q: What about events in Bahrain?",
"A: In Bahrain and Yemen, the Shiites have protested because they faced discrimination and their situation is not good.",
"Shiites are being killed, and this has caused the Iranian government to support them.",
"Iran even wrote a letter to the United Nations and requested that the issue be sent to the U.N. Security Council.",
"The West has remained quiet, while Iran tells the Shiites that you see, we are the only country supporting you.",
"It is clear that when the people of Yemen and Bahrain reach power, Iran will have a lot of influence on them.",
"The best path is for the West, especially the United States, not to remain indifferent toward the repression of the Shiite people in Bahrain and Yemen.",
"Q: As you know, when I was in prison in Iran, I wanted to retain you, as well as your colleagues Mr. Soltani and Mr. Dadkhah, as my attorneys, but the authorities pressured my father and me not to work with you.",
"I realize that many prisoners in Iran suffered and are suffering more than I did.",
"But to what extent was my experience representative of the experiences of many other prisoners and attorneys in Iran, and what kind of pressures do attorneys there face?",
"A: If Iranian attorneys want to defend political prisoners, problems will certainly be created for them.",
"For example, Nasrin Sotudeh has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.",
"... Mr. [Mohammad] Seifzadeh was sentenced to nine years in prison.",
"After the 2009 election, Mr. [Abdolfattah] Soltani and Mr. [Mohammad Ali] Dadkhah went to prison.",
"They are now free on bail. Mrs. Shadi Sadr, Mr. Mostafaei and me -- all of us were forced to come out of the country because of harassment by the authorities.",
"So you see that every person who supports political prisoners becomes the target of the regime's anger.",
"Moreover, the court forces political prisoners to choose from among the attorneys who work with the regime itself and who are puppets of the Intelligence Ministry.",
"Q: During these past few years, particularly under the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, what changes for women's rights have you seen in Iran?",
"A: There have been no changes, except that the repression has become greater for women.",
"There has been no change in the laws, but whatever happened has not been in women's interests.",
"Q: You talked about your being abroad.",
"What positive or negative aspects does your exile have for your human rights efforts?",
"A: I preferred to be in Iran, but the situation there is such that because of censorship and repression, there is no possibility for any kind of human rights activity."
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"Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi was in New York to promote her new book .",
"She was interviewed for CNN by journalist Roxana Saberi who was imprisoned in Iran .",
"Ebadi predicts democratic reform will happen in Iran ."
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"(CNN) -- Calls by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary Hillary Clinton to \"unite the world in the isolation of and dealing with the Iranians,\" in response to an alleged Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's Ambassador in Washington, reflect a hubristic misapprehension of reality.",
"The Obama Administration mistakenly believes it can exploit the accusations for strategic advantage.",
"In fact, they are likely to play to Iran's advantage, not America's.",
"The U.S. foreign policy community profoundly misunderstands the Islamic Republic's national security strategy.",
"The Islamic Republic seeks to defend itself not primarily by conventional military power, in which it is deficient, but by forging ties to proxy allies around the region-actors with the ability to affect on-the-ground outcomes in key regional settings who are inclined to cooperate with Tehran.",
"In some cases, these actors are discrete political movements, often with paramilitary capabilities, for example, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Shia political parties-cum-militias in Iraq.",
"In other situations, Tehran sees public opinion as its chief ally.",
"By contrasting some regimes' cooperation with the United States and Israel with its own posture of \"resistance\" to American and Israeli ambitions to regional hegemony, Tehran cultivates \"soft power\" across the Middle East.",
"Iran conceives its strategy, especially in a period of relative decline in America's standing, as one that constrains unfriendly regimes in the short term and undermines them in the longer term.",
"Over the last decade, it has helped the Islamic Republic reap significant political and strategic gains in important theaters across the Middle East-Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories.",
"With the advent of the Arab awakening at the end of last year, Iranian decision-makers are confident that some Arab states' shift toward governments more reflective of their peoples' attitudes and concerns-and, hence, more inclined to pursue more independent foreign policies vis-Ã -vis the United States and Israel-will work to Iran's advantage.",
"Iranian policymakers correctly calculated that virtually any successor to Saddam Hussein 's regime in Iraq would be a net positive for Iranian interests.",
"Now, they calculate that a successor to the Mubarak regime in Egypt is bound to be less enthusiastic about strategic cooperation with the United States and Israel and more receptive to Iran's message of resistance.",
"Iran's strategy toward Saudi Arabia runs very much along these lines.",
"Tehran's approach is to highlight Saudi collusion with Washington and (at least indirectly) with Israel on important regional issues, thereby attracting support from ordinary Saudis-not just Saudi Shia but also Sunnis who dislike their government's pro-American stance.",
"In the short term, Iran seeks to constrain the Saudi government from cooperating in military strikes or other coercive actions against it by making this an unpopular prospect for much of the Saudi population.",
"In the longer term, Iran is working to transform the regional balance of power from one in which the United States, the Saudis, and other American allies dominate to one in which American, Israeli, and Saudi influence is marginalized by the diplomatic realignment of Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Turkey, post-Saddam Iraq, and now Egypt.",
"The Saudi leadership tries to push back by portraying Iran as an \"alien\", Shia/Persian element in its environment.",
"At times, this helps the Kingdom hold the line against the Islamic Republic's soft power offensive.",
"But the long-term trend is toward rising Iranian influence.",
"In this context, the notion of an Iranian government plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States simply has no logic.",
"History also suggests we treat the Obama Administration's claims of Iranian government complicity with deep skepticism.",
"For eight years, during 1980-1988, the fledgling Islamic Republic had to defend itself against a war of aggression launched by Saddam Hussein -- a war of aggression financed primarily by Saudi Arabia.",
"Nearly 300,000 Iranians were killed in that war.",
"But, during the entire conflict, the Iranian government never targeted a single Saudi anywhere in the world.",
"This is not because the Islamic Republic loves the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.",
"It is because Iran's national security strategy ultimately depends on appealing to the Saudi public not to support attacks against Iran, by harnessing popular anger over Israeli actions and U.S. overreach in the war on terror.",
"Killing a Saudi Ambassador would have exactly the opposite effect.",
"Whatever Mansour Ababsiar and his cousin may have talked about, it is wholly implausible that the Iranian leadership decided that this was a smart thing to do.",
"The Obama Administration's calls for more concerted action against Iran will ultimately backfire-because they will be seen in most of the Muslim world (outside Saudi Arabia and Gulf Arab monarchies closely linked to Saudi Arabia) as the United States yet again leveling dubious life-and-death charges as the pretext to contain or even eliminate another Muslim power.",
"President Obama, his advisers, and all Americans need to ask themselves if this is really the time to bring the United States even closer to another Middle East war fought in blind defiance of the region's strategic realities.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett."
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"Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leveret say Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton reflect a hubristic version of reality .",
"They also say U.S. foreign policy misunderstands the Islamic Republic's national security strategy .",
"And that Saudi leadership is trying to push back by portraying Iran as an \"alien\", Shia/Persian element in its environment .",
"The Obama Administration's \"calls for more concerted action against Iran will ultimately backfire\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's upcoming Christmas message will say Jesus would be a defender of the oppressed if he were alive today.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver his Christmas message on Channel 4.",
"\"Jesus the Son of Mary is the standard-bearer of justice, of love for our fellow human beings, of the fight against tyranny, discrimination and injustice,\" Ahmadinejad will say, according to a preliminary text of remarks he is planning to deliver in a message to be broadcast Thursday -- Christmas Day -- on British TV.",
"The fiery Iranian leader, who has angered Western countries with his sharp comments on Israel, nuclear power, and the role of the United States in the world, will be delivering the Alternative Christmas Message on Britain's Channel 4.",
"The network, which calls the event a \"traditional alternative to The Queen's Christmas Day broadcast,\" issued the preliminary text.",
"The thrust of his words and the overall message contained religiously inclusive rhetoric, such as his congratulating \"the followers of Abrahamic faiths, especially the followers of Jesus Christ, and the people of Britain.\"",
"And his words conjured a hopeful future.",
"But some of his remarks reflected Ahmadinejad's trademark bluntness.",
"\"If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers,\" the text says.",
"\"If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over.",
"\"If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would fight against the tyrannical policies of prevailing global economic and political systems, as he did in his lifetime.\"",
"The alternative address tradition, which began in 1993, has included remarks from the Rev.",
"Jesse Jackson, an injured Afghan war veteran, a survivor of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and Marge from the television show \"The Simpsons.\"",
"The network notes that \"relations between Iran and the West\" will play \"a central role in world affairs\" in the coming year.",
"The address -- which won't be broadcast opposite the queen's message -- will be preceded by a \"short introduction\" that will put the leader's \"appearance in context.\"",
"\"As the leader of one of the most powerful states in the Middle East, President Ahmadinejad's views are enormously influential.",
"As we approach a critical time in international relations, we are offering our viewers an insight into an alternative world view,\" said Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs.",
"\"Channel 4 has devoted more airtime to examining Iran than any other broadcaster and this message continues a long tradition of offering a different perspective on the world around us.\""
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"Iranian President Ahmadinejad to deliver Christmas message on British TV .",
"Ahmadinejad: If Jesus was alive he would defend oppressed, fight injustice .",
"Channel 4 has broadcast alternative to queen's traditional message since 1993 .",
"Network: Relations between West, Iran central role to world affairs in 2009 ."
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"(CNN) -- Desiré Henriksen feared that there would be no Christmas for her two boys.",
"She had lost her job at Denny's, where she worked the graveyard shift.",
"Her fiancé, who works as a glazier, was having a hard time finding regular work.",
"And the couple fell behind on the mortgage last month.",
"Desire Henriksen decided to sell her hair after losing her job and falling behind on her mortgage.",
"So Henriksen, of Phoenix, Arizona, cut her hair and sold it on the Internet to a hair trader in the Netherlands.",
"\"Everyone was telling me how beautiful my hair was,\" the 27-year-old said.",
"Her friends suggested that she sell it.",
"\"I thought, 'Why not? I'll check it out,' \" she said.",
"\"We're trying to keep our place here,\" she said.",
"\"We don't want to become like people right now who are losing their homes.\"",
"With the economy squeezing the budgets of more Americans, some people are looking for creative ways to pay their monthly bills.",
"Selling hair on the Internet is just one of those unusual methods.",
"\"We've seen about a 20 percent increase in the last four months,\" said Jacalyn Elise, co-founder of TheHairTrader.com, referring to the number of ads offering hair for sale posted on her site.",
"\"These days, some people are just in need of money.\"",
"Henriksen was paid $1,200 for 27 inches of her tresses.",
"But most hair is sold for about $300 to $900, says Marlys Fladeland of Hairwork.com.",
"The hair is used to make wigs or hair extensions or is used in artwork.",
"The longer the hair, the more it is worth.",
"Untreated hair is also likely to fetch a higher price, Elise says.",
"For Henriksen, cutting her hair was always in the cards.",
"But she had planned to give it to a nonprofit organization that provides hairpieces for children who lost their hair after cancer treatments.",
"\"Initially, I had grown my hair out to donate to Locks of Love in memory of my mother, who passed away from cancer last year.",
"I was going to try to give back to people who didn't have any hair.",
"But it didn't work out that way. Instead, I got my kids Christmas [gifts],\" she said.",
"In addition to buying presents for her 10-year-old son and 3-year-old stepson, Henriksen paid off the overdue mortgage bill.",
"She was so pleased with how easy her hairy business deal was, she says she's planning on growing her hair out again and selling it on TheHairTrader.com to help pay for her wedding.",
"A professional lab rat .",
"Others are taking more drastic measures, becoming medical guinea pigs.",
"Paul Clough, 30, fell on hard times five years ago.",
"A homeless man suggested that Clough take part in medical clinical trials, and now it's his full-time gig.",
"Clough estimates that he brought in $28,000 this year by participating in seven medical trials, having his blood taken 500 times and ingesting about a dozen medications.",
"The Austin, Texas, resident has tested everything from cholesterol-lowering drugs to hepatitis C and HIV treatments.",
"He even set up a Web site, Just Another Lab Rat, which explains how and where to volunteer.",
"Clinical research requires testing drugs on volunteers to determine whether the drug is appropriate for the market.",
"The test subjects may be required to stay at a clinic or may have to visit the clinic a few times.",
"Depending on the clinic and the trials they participate in, they may be paid $50 to $5,000 each time.",
"Trials can last 10 days to a month.",
"Safety concerns include side effects or drug reactions, but for many volunteers, the payout outweighs the risks.",
"\"Some people live study-to-study,\" Clough said.",
"\"They have immediate bills to take care of.",
"And a lot of times, when people don't get into the study, they are concerned about how to pay those bills.",
"They don't know what they're going to do.\"",
"\"Five years ago, it was mostly students,\" he said.",
"But today, he sees \"Realtors, taxi drivers. ...",
"It's any walk of life you can think of.\"",
"Your personal gold mine .",
"Jeweler Les Harrell of Littleton, Colorado, struck gold when he had the idea to give people cash for their gold -- at parties.",
"It started out as a fundraising event.",
"But seven months later, he has a Web site, Gold Exchange.",
"He's hired three employees, and he's throwing gold parties seven days a week.",
"Friends and neighbors assemble to swap gossip, have drinks and get their jewelry appraised.",
"Harrell pays cash on the spot for folks willing to hand over their gold.",
"Later, he sells it on the market.",
"He has operations in Colorado, New York and California.",
"Deanna Molinaro was skeptical when she was invited to one of Harrell's gold parties this summer.",
"But the Denver, Colorado, resident changed her mind after walking away with $700 for a wad of tangled gold bracelets, a herringbone necklace and some mismatched earrings.",
"\"I was floored,\" she said, when she first heard about the cash.",
"\"I made a lot of money on things that were lying around in my jewelry box for 20 years.\"",
"Harrell says he typically pays $5,000 per party, not including the cut the hostess makes and the referral fee.",
"And it's not always jewelry he's appraising.",
"\"I've seen it all,\" he said. \"Grandma's old dinosaur ring, gold teeth.",
"I buy a lot of gold teeth, class rings.\"",
"One item he remembers fondly: Uncle Louie's bridge.",
"\"It weighed almost 2 ounces,\" he said with a hint of amusement.",
"People have, on average, about $300 worth of gold just lying around, Harrell says, and liquidating that hidden treasure can help them balance the family budget.",
"Harrell's parties were initially geared toward the upper class, but his clientele is changing.",
"\"What was fun money becomes, 'Oh, my gosh, this is a big help,' \" he said.",
"In reality, a drawer full of costume jewelry, broken chains, errant earring backs and muddled memories may turn out to be next month's heating bill.",
"One woman, living alone on Social Security, recently turned over a shoebox full of jewelry to Harrell to see what, if anything, she could get for it.",
"\"She really didn't know what was real or not,\" related Molinaro, who helped with the transaction.",
"But she cleaned out everything she had.",
"In the end, her shoebox was worth $350.",
"\"She was so excited to get it,\" Molinaro said.",
"\"I got a big hug out of her for it, too.\""
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"Many Americans are looking for creative ways to make ends meet .",
"A hair-selling Web site says it's seen a 20 percent increase in recent months .",
"A Texas man makes a living participating in medical trials .",
"Guests of Gold Exchange parties swap stories, have drinks and sell jewelry ."
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"(CNN) -- One of the 78 wives of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs left the Arizona community of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this week and is receiving medical treatment at a shelter, authorities said.",
"The woman, who is not being named by the Washington County, Utah, Sheriff's Department because she's considered a victim of abuse, was taken to the shelter after a tense standoff with church members Monday.",
"The woman fled to the home of Willie Jessop, a former top church associate expelled by Jeffs.",
"Jessop said the woman came there because she knew he would protect her.",
"Warren Jeffs found guilty of sexual assault .",
"The standoff began when men from the FLDS arrived at Jessop's office, wanting to take her back to the community, Jessop said.",
"Detectives removed the woman and took her to the shelter.",
"Jeffs, leader of the 10,000-member Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is serving a life-plus-20-year term for sexual assault.",
"He was convicted in early August of the aggravated sexual assaults of a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl Jeffs claimed were his \"spiritual wives.\"",
"Warren Jeffs' life sentence raises questions about future of breakaway sect .",
"The FLDS is a breakaway Mormon sect that openly practices polygamy in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, as well as on its Yearning For Zion ranch near Eldorado, Texas.",
"The mainstream Mormon church renounced polygamy more than a century ago."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's new government said it has control of new areas in Bani Walid as the battle rages on for one of the last cities loyal to the ousted ruler.",
"The city center and the northern part of the city are now under government control, said Ali Daeki, a member of the executive crisis committee.",
"Government forces have surrounded the city from all sides, and arrested more than 20 loyalists of former ruler, he said Saturday.",
"Troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi are now in Dahra, a residential area in the southern part of the city, according to Daeki.",
"National Transitional Council fighters also battling for control in Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, and will boost Bani Walid troops as soon as that battle is over, said Abdurahman Bousin, a council spokesman.",
"As the battle for control continues, the U.N. human rights office expressed concern on the number of prisoners in Libya and their treatment.",
"\"It could be up to 7,000,\" said Mona Rishmawi, a senior official with the group in Geneva, Switzerland.",
"\"At this stage, there is no police infrastructure, there is no prison authorities. ...",
"Right now, the Justice Ministry is not fully functional.\"",
"\"There is allegations and evidence of torture\" in the prisons, she said, citing lawyers, clients and human rights groups.",
"CNN's Raja Razek and Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report."
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"Troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi flee to southern part of the city, he says .",
"The United Nations cites evidence of prisoner torture by the NTC ."
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"(CNN) -- It was supposed to be one of the happiest days of Albert Florence's life.",
"He had just secured funding for the home he was building and was traveling along Interstate 295 outside Trenton, New Jersey, one Sunday with his wife and child.",
"That's when he first heard the sirens.",
"\"We were not doing anything illegal, we were obeying the speed limits,\" Florence told CNN.",
"\"It's just a normal routine stop, I thought.\"",
"A state trooper pulled the family SUV over to the side of the road.",
"Even though his pregnant wife was driving, Florence said, the officer focused on him, discovering a warrant for his arrest.",
"The alleged crime, he said, was an unpaid traffic fine.",
"The 35-year-old Bordentown resident was arrested, handcuffed, and hauled off to the Burlington County Detention Center.",
"That began what he called a \"six-day nightmare.\"",
"Florence was strip-searched by corrections staff, all because of what he terms a misunderstanding, a computer glitch.",
"\"It was very disgusting. It was just a bad, bad experience,\" he told CNN Correspondent Kate Bolduan recently.",
"\"I was just told, 'Do as you're told.' Wash in this disgusting soap and obey the directions of the officer who was instructing me to turn around, lift my genitals up, turn around, and squat.\"",
"Still shaken by the experience six years later, Florence sued, and now his appeal is before the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"He is challenging the county's rules allowing routine strip searches of everyone arrested for even minor offenses, regardless of the circumstances.",
"It is an important test of police detention powers in the post-9/11 security-conscious environment, a chance for the justices to offer clarity on an issue in which both inmates and the police have sought guidance.",
"Oral arguments are scheduled for Wednesday.",
"Court records show Florence was subjected to what he terms an invasive strip and visual body-cavity search.",
"He was then held for nearly a week in the county lockup before being transferred to a Newark correctional facility, where he was subjected to another search before being placed in the general prison population.",
"The next day a judge freed Florence, confirming what he had insisted all along, that the fine had been paid.",
"The state argues the \"intake search\" for new prisoners was applied fairly, and applied to everyone.",
"\"At the time Mr. Florence was admitted into the facility, the policy and the practice were to ask him to take off his clothes, take a shower and be subject to a visual search,\" said Carter Phillips, who will argue Burlington County's side of the case before the high court.",
"\"His allegation is that they went further than that, and that's obviously a disputed matter at this point.\"",
"The case has yet to go to trial, pending outcome of the constitutional issues now before the high court.",
"The justices will decide whether corrections officials should have a less intrusive, \"reasonable suspicion\" standard that would prevent the kind of search currently permitted in at least 32 states, including New Jersey.",
"\"Where the counties went wrong is, they're doing a blanket policy of strip-searching anyone that comes in that jail or the prison.",
"So basically, your constitutional rights stop at the prison door,\" said Susan Chana Lask, Florence's New York-based attorney.",
"\"It's a balance -- what are you brought in there for?",
"For failing to pay a fine?",
"Or for murder? You know, failing to pay a fine does not justify strip-searching you.\"",
"But the counties counter by saying that kind of individualized scrutiny does not work in such a controlled environment, when so many new inmates need to be initially processed.",
"\"The basic purpose, obviously, is to avoid the risk of contraband or weapons or anything else being smuggled into the jail, and so therefore, it protects not only the guards, but also protects all of the other inmates,\" Phillips told CNN.",
"\"The question is: Do you have a reasonable expectation of certain kinds of privacy?",
"And it seems to me when you are being lawfully admitted into a prison facility, and he was, at that point, your expectations of privacy essentially drop to zero and the importance of maintaining security rises to about 100 percent.",
"So the balance, it seems to me, clearly favors the prison.\"",
"Florence also points out his alleged offense, failure to pay a fine, is not considered a criminal offense in the state and would not normally result in incarceration.",
"His family said their efforts to free Florence were thwarted by repeated bureaucratic run-arounds.",
"State officials draw a distinction between a strip-search policy for those newly admitted and for those later entering the general prison population.",
"Such initial searches are justified, said the state, when applied for proper reasons, including potential health threats.",
"Federal courts since the September 11, 2001, attacks had been at odds over the constitutionality of strip searches.",
"The Constitution's Fourth Amendment protects against \"unreasonable searches and seizures.\"",
"The Supreme Court in 1979, in what is called the Bell precedent, upheld a search similar to the ones Florence had undergone for those prisoners who had contact visits with outsiders.",
"Using a balancing test, the justices said the prison's security interest justified intrusion into the inmates' privacy.",
"But subsequent appeals courts have found those arrested for minor offenses may not be strip-searched unless authorities have a \"reasonable suspicion\" that the person may be concealing a weapon or contraband such as drugs.",
"In 2008, however, appeals courts in Atlanta and San Francisco found searches of every inmate coming into a prison population are justified, even without specific suspicions.",
"Those opinions were the first of their kind since the 9/11 attacks and, along with Florence's case, now give the high court the chance to clarify an issue that a number of civil and human rights proponents have tried to highlight.",
"Local jails in New Jersey at the time of Florence's arrest were subject to federal monitors after allegations that minority motorists and their passengers were being unfairly targeted for police stops and arrests.",
"Stops of that nature are not at issue in the current appeal.",
"Florence, who is African-American, is not alleging any racial discrimination by the state or individual officers.",
"The case is Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington, New Jersey (10-945).",
"A ruling can be expected early next year."
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"He has filed suit again Burlington County, New Jersey, for his \"six-day nightmare\"\nBoth inmates and police are hoping the Supreme Court will offer clarity on the issue ."
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"(CNN) -- Four kidnapped Afghans who worked for a French aid agency have been released, the group said Tuesday.",
"The staffers were abducted Monday in the Almar district of Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, said Adrien Tomarchio, press officer for a Paris-based non-governmental organization called the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development.",
"Tomarchio told CNN in an e-mail Tuesday that they were freed \"unharmed.\"",
"Ahmad Jaweed Bedar, the Faryab governor's spokesman, said the Taliban kidnapped the four and took their vehicle, a Toyota Hilux Surf.",
"Zeenat Garewal, ACTED country manager, said three of the staffers were community health trainers and one was a driver.",
"ACTED says it has developed programs in many countries to help people affected by wars, natural disasters, economic problems and social crises.",
"It says it has about 900 staffers, of whom 98% are Afghan nationals.",
"The group has been working in Faryab province for more than nine years and has been engaged in development and community health projects there.",
"In a review of its 2010 work in Afghanistan, the group said five staffers had been abducted during that year but were \"released unharmed.\"",
"France has nearly 4,000 troops in the country, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said, and has lost 75 military personnel in the Afghan war.",
"CNN's Matiullah Mati contributed to this report ."
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"Five staffers from the same group were kidnapped in 2010 but released .",
"The incident took place in Faryab province, located in the north ."
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"(CNN) -- Bosnian Serb genocide suspect Ratko Mladic is suffering health problems, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Tuesday.",
"The court, however, denied media reports Mladic had collapsed, and refused to comment on reports he had pneumonia.",
"\"Mladic was transferred to the Tribunal with a series of pre-existing medical conditions for which he is receiving treatment.",
"The Tribunal continues to provide Mladic, as any other detainee, with the best possible medical care and attention available in The Netherlands,\" spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic said in a statement.",
"Mladic, wanted in connection with the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, Bosnia in 1995, among other crimes, was captured in May after 15 years in hiding.",
"He is 69 and told the tribunal in June that he was \"gravely ill.\" Prosecutors want to try the former general in two separate cases, they said in August -- once over the Srebrenica massacre and once for spreading terror in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo and for taking UN personnel hostage.",
"Mladic faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war in both cases, prosecutors said in an August 17 statement.",
"Mladic led Bosnia Serb forces in the civil war that broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina when Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s.",
"More than 200,000 Muslims and Croats died in the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including nearly 8,000 slaughtered at Srebrenica -- Europe's worst massacre since World War II.",
"Mladic has been a combative witness at the ICTY.",
"At a July 4 appearance, Mladic refused to enter a plea, demanded new lawyers and repeatedly interrupted the judge until he was removed from the court.",
"The case is now in pre-trial hearings."
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"Mladic did not collapse, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia says .",
"He had pre-existing health conditions and is receiving treatement, the tribunal says .",
"He is charged with genocide and other crimes over the massacre at Srebrenica .",
"Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed there in Europe's worst masscare since WWII ."
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"(CNN) -- Thailand's devastating floodwaters are draining southward towards Bangkok Friday, and residents have been told to prepare for the worst when the spring high tide and a huge volume of water flowing down the Chao Phraya River merge over the next couple of days.",
"Workers in the city are rushing to shore up barriers and warnings have been posted for the northern suburbs.",
"\"Between seven and eight billion cubic meters of water a day is being released from the Bhumibol Dam in the north of the country, which is heavily affecting provinces like Nahkon Sawan and Ayutthaya,\" government official Wim Rungwattanajinda told CNN.",
"\"From that, about one to 1.2 billion cubic meters of water is reaching Bangkok every day.\"",
"So far, 283 people have been killed and two people are missing in Thailand, according to the government website Thaiflood.com.",
"Some 61 of the country's 76 provinces have so far been affected, impacting more than eight million people.",
"More than 500,000 square kilometers -- an area the size of Spain -- are affected by the floods in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, according to CNN meteorologist Jenny Harrison.",
"Asia's wet and wild summer explained .",
"About 100 kilometers north of Bangkok, the UNESCO-listed historical city of Ayutthaya has now been submerged for 10 days, CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.",
"Shops in Ayutthaya are mostly flooded and closed, and people unable to leave their homes are waiting for help to arrive.",
"Roads have become rivers, with people having to swim or use boats to get food and water.",
"\"Doctors are patrolling the flooded areas in small boats and are making house-calls to residents to those incapable of moving,\" Hancocks says.",
"\"It's one of the worst hit areas in the country.",
"Even if there are no more storms, one government estimate says it'll still take a month for the floodwaters to recede.\"",
"Flood warnings: Crocodiles, snakes and centipedes .",
"Temples and monuments are unable to keep the rising waters at bay, and there are fears that the longer the city's treasures are covered by water, the more likely it will be that the damage could be permanent.",
"\"This is the worst flood in our historical site in 16 years,\" said Somsuda Leeyawanich, from the Thai Fine Arts Department.",
"She said the water level in the park is almost three meters, compared to levels of around 80-90 centimeters during the floods of 1995.",
"\"We are very concerned that if the site is under water for more than 30 days it may cause serious damage,\" she added.",
"\"The temples are over 400 years old.\"",
"Along with people and historical sites, animals are also are being severely affected by the floodwaters.",
"Fifteen elephants, including seven mothers with babies and a nine-year-old known for its painting skills, are stranded on top of Ayutthaya's Royal Elephant Kraal.",
"The elephants climbed on top of the building last week and are going hungry now that food can only be brought in small quantities via rowing boats.",
"Elephants can swim but it's feared the babies would drown in the floodwaters if they attempt to escape.",
"iReporter shares photos of Ayutthaya flooding .",
"Meanwhile, the country's economy may be badly affected from the floods.",
"Manufacturing areas just north of Bangkok have been particularly hard hit hard, including a Honda factory that has been submerged, ruining hundreds of cars.",
"The giant Rojana Industrial Park has also halted operations for the time being, director Amara Charoengitwattanagun told state-run news agency MCOT, and the facility may be further damaged if the flooding worsens.",
"One plant in the park, Single Point Parts, evacuated all workers from the premises and built flood prevention embankments around its building.",
"\"The Thai finance ministry says overall damage from the floods could be more than $2 billion, with the worst yet still possibly to come,\" Hancocks says.",
"CNN's Paula Hancocks and Kocha Olarn contributed to this report ."
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"Thai floods have so far killed 283 people; two people remain missing .",
"Workers in Bangkok rush to shore up barriers as warnings are posted for northern suburbs .",
"Shops in Ayutthaya are mostly flooded and closed, and people unable to leave their homes ."
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"(CNN) -- The August downing of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan that killed 38 people, including 17 U.S. Navy SEALs, was caused by a rocket-propelled grenade, fired by insurgents, that struck the aircraft's aft rotor blade, the U.S. Central Command officially confirmed on Wednesday.",
"An investigation determined that the \"operational planning and execution\" of the ill-fated August 6 mission in Wardak Province \"were consistent with previous missions, and that the forces and capabilities were appropriate given the agility required to maintain pressure on insurgent networks,\" CENTCOM said in a news release issued Wednesday.",
"\"There was no evidence of a pre-planned ambush,\" CENTCOM said.",
"The attack made for the the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the 10 years since allied forces began their campaign there.",
"Seventy-one American troops died in August, six more than in July 2010, which previously had been the worst month for U.S. casualties.",
"CNN's David Ariosto, Barbara Starr, Moni Basu and Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"CENTCOM report finds no fault in mission's planning, execution or forces .",
"\"No evidence of a pre-planned ambush,\" CENTCOM says in statement .",
"17 U.S. Navy SEALs were among the 38 killed in the August 6 attack ."
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"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second man to be tried in connection with a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion, was found guilty on all counts during the second day of deliberations Thursday in a case that drew worldwide attention and sparked broader discussions about safety in the home.",
"Komisarjevsky was convicted of 17 charges, including three counts of murder, four counts of kidnapping, and charges of burglary, arson and assault.",
"He could receive the death penalty.",
"On Tuesday, the jurors heard lawyers' final pleas in the case as prosecutors cast Komisarjevsky, 31, as the instigator of the attack, while the defense insisted \"he did not want anyone to die.\"",
"The trial has gone on for a little over three weeks, during which time jurors heard emotional testimony detailing the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters -- 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.",
"Steven Hayes, the first defendant to stand trial, was sentenced to death in December 2010 after a jury convicted him on 16 of 17 charges.",
"Prosecutors had argued that Hayes and Komisarjevsky went into the Petit home, beat and tied up Dr. William Petit, raped and strangled his wife, molested one of their daughters, and set the house on fire before attempting to flee.",
"The two daughters, who were both tied to their beds, died of smoke inhalation, though William Petit managed to escape.",
"Before assaulting and killing Hawke-Petit, Hayes forced her to go to a bank and withdraw $15,000 from an account after finding evidence the account held between $20,000 and $30,000, authorities said.",
"As the verdict was read, the victims' family members wept openly.",
"Petit called Thursday's verdict \"a relief,\" describing Komisarjevsky as \"a lying sociopathic personality.\"",
"\"I personally felt this case was a case about sexual predation,\" he said.",
"\"There is just a huge plague of violence against women in this country.\"",
"He added that he wondered what it would have been like \"if I had two sons, instead of two daughters.\"",
"Standing sullen-faced before reporters in front of a New Haven courthouse, Petit said there are only \"occasional moments of peace.\"",
"\"It's not clear to me that time heals all wounds ... but you form some scars.\"",
"Petit also reminded reporters that the case had not reached its conclusion.",
"\"We still have the penalty phase to go through,\" he said.",
"The sentencing phase of the trial is set for 10 a.m. October 24."
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"Petit calls the verdict \"a relief,\" describing Komisarjevsky as \"a lying sociopathic personality\"\n\"I personally felt this case was a case about sexual predation,\" Petit says .",
"Sentencing phase of the trial is set for 10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 24 .",
"As the verdict is read, the victims' family members weep openly ."
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"(CNN) -- A deal which would have seen English football club West Ham United move into the London 2012 Olympic Stadium collapsed on Tuesday, casting doubt over the future of the purpose-built venue.",
"The British government announced the stadium, which is located in the Stratford area of east London and has the capacity to hold 80,000 spectators, will be kept in public ownership and rented out to a suitable tenant.",
"\"The government and mayor of London have decided to end the current process to dispose of the Olympic stadium,\" read a statement on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's website.",
"\"The stadium will now be retained it (sic) as a public asset, and the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has been asked to start a new process to secure tenants for the stadium.\"",
"The latest development also secures the future of the stadium as an athletics venue, with London bidding to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships.",
"West Ham originally won the right to move into the stadium in February, beating off competition from rival London club Tottenham Hotspur, after their bid received the unanimous backing of the OPLC.",
"But the decision has now been reversed amid concerns that a continued legal challenge from Tottenham could cause delays which would impact negatively on the future of the stadium.",
"Another contributing factor is the time London would need to prepare for hosting the 2017 athletics showpiece, with Qatar also bidding to stage the championships in Doha.",
"\"The government is committed to securing a legacy from the Olympic stadium, and wants to see it re-opening in 2014,\" British sports minister Hugh Robertson said.",
"\"The process to sell the stadium has become bogged down.",
"\"We are acting today to end the legal paralysis that has put that legacy at risk.",
"Ending the current sale process and looking for a leasehold solution will remove the current uncertainty and allows us to help secure the future use of the stadium with more confidence.\"",
"Despite the setback, a statement from West Ham vice -chairman Karen Brady insisted the news was positive and the club would be interested in pursuing tenancy of the site.",
"\"We would welcome a move by OPLC and government to end that uncertainty and allow a football and athletics stadium to be in place by 2014 under a new process.",
"\"If the speculation is true, West Ham will look to become a tenant of the stadium while Newham Council will aim to help deliver the legacy.",
"The stadium will be the center of global attention when London becomes the first city to host the Games for a third time next year, with the opening ceremony kicking off proceedings on July 27, 2012."
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"West Ham United's move to the London 2012 Olympic Stadium has collapsed .",
"The stadium will now be retained as a public asset and rented to a tenant .",
"West Ham have declared their interest in renting the stadium .",
"Tottenham's continued legal challenge cited as reason for proposed new arrangements ."
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"LONDON (CNN) -- The search for missing workers in a flooded Wales coal mine ended tragically Friday as rescuers discovered the fourth and final man's body, South Wales police said.",
"Authorities identified the men as Phillip Hill, 45, from Neath; and Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, and Garry Jenkins, 39, all from the Swansea Valley.",
"Searchers have recovered all of the bodies, police said.",
"Three other miners escaped Thursday after water rushed into the area where the men were working, apparently after they broke through to a neighboring abandoned mine, Rescue Officer Andrew Watson said.",
"One of the surviving miners was hospitalized.",
"His condition was not immediately known.",
"First Minister Carwyn Jones, who leads the Welsh government, paid tribute to the efforts of rescue workers and families of the miners before the discovery of the fourth was announced.",
"\"My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with all of the families as this horrifying news filters through,\" he said.",
"\"The people of Wales, and indeed people across the world stand together in solidarity with the families through this terrible tragedy.\"",
"The British government will carry out a full investigation into the incident, Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said in a statement released Friday.",
"As of June 2011, 1,500 people in Wales worked in the mining industry.",
"according to government figures.",
"In a drift mine like the one where the men were trapped, coal is excavated from the side of a hill using shafts that are almost horizontal.",
"CNN's Laura Perez Maestro and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"Rescuers locate the body of the fourth and final man missing in a Wales coal mine .",
"The mine flooded on Thursday .",
"All four bodies have been recovered; three other miners escaped ."
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"New York (CNN) -- What happens when you give thousand of cans of food to really creative people?",
"How about a \"canned\" tornado or an \"uncanny\" sculpture of an apple being eaten by ants.",
"Swarms of people are being delighted by the construction work in New York's World Financial Center during the city's 18th Annual CANstruction Competition.",
"On display are 25 sculptures created from more than 100,000 cans of food -- designed and built by architects and engineers.",
"Mia Tsiamis, a structural engineer from the firm ARUP, has been her team's captain for five years.",
"Their entry \"Cangsta's Paradise\" took three months to design and 10 hours to build.",
"\"The whole process is a lesson in project management.",
"It's certainly a challenge squeezing it in with the rest of our daily work,\" said Tsiamis.",
"New York is one of about 100 cities around the world taking part in the international charity competition known as CANstruction that is aimed at helping the hungry.",
"Rules allow each team five people to work on their entry.",
"The cans cannot be bound with glue or adhesives and designers are not allowed to color the cans -- so there is endless time donated to finding the tuna or bean cans with the properly colored labels for the particular design.",
"Among the entries were an enormous Mr.",
"Potato Head, the original Battleship board game, King Kong, Russian Babushka dolls and the Metropolitan Transit Authority designed a train.",
"\"With some of the sculptures, you have to stand way back to see what has been created,\" said Daniel Garwood, a volunteer with American Institute of Architects, one of the presenters of the competition.",
"A representation of Mario and Luigi of the \"Mario Brothers\" video games is one of those objects better seen from afar.",
"Children were especially excited to see the exhibits, snapping pictures and staring in awe.",
"Second- and third-graders of The Mustard Seed School in Hoboken, New Jersey, visited the site on a field trip.",
"\"This year we are teaching them about buildings, foundations and service projects so this is the perfect combination!\"",
"said art teacher Lynn Hamill.",
"The youngsters were running around the larger-than-life canned art feverishly trying to complete an assignment.",
"Jennifer Groce, a parent chaperone for the school, was trying to focus the kids' excitement.",
"\"They have to sketch the different projects and write down how many cans each structure is made of and how many New Yorkers will it feed,\" Groce said.",
"The children picked favorites but their top choices changed each time they saw the next structure down the line.",
"\"I love Mario,\" one student said.",
"\"Oh and this one too!\" He was pointing at another one.",
"Celebrity chef and cookbook author Rocco Dispirito and host of Bravo's TV show \"Top Chef: Just Desserts\" Gail Simmons are among this year's judges who selected the winning sculptures.",
"CANstruction is designed to raise hunger awareness during the Thanksgiving season.",
"All of the cans used in the contest will be donated to City Harvest for distribution to programs that feed impoverished New Yorkers.",
"Co-Presented by the American Institute of Architects, the Society for Design Administration and Arts World Financial Center, Canstruction is on display until November 22."
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"Cans of food turn into Mr.",
"Potato Head, King Kong, a \"Tomato Tornado\"\nArchitects and engineers used 100,000 cans in 25 sculptures .",
"After competition, all the cans of food used are donated to City Harvest ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korean pop star Rain, who stars in \"Ninja Assassin,\" releasing nationwide on Wednesday, has all the trimmings of an international superstar in the making.",
"His talent, good looks and charming swagger have captured the devotion of the Asian continent, where tickets to his concerts evaporate in minutes.",
"He was hailed as one of People magazine's most beautiful two years ago, and, despite being relatively unknown to most Americans, beat Stephen Colbert in a Time magazine online poll of most influential people in 2007.",
"Yet Rain's climb from unknown backup dancer to a member of Asia's A-list wasn't easy: His lack of Western features caused many music labels to look right past him and getting his footing in the United States has been particularly difficult.",
"Despite having six albums under his belt and selling out a two-day Madison Square Garden tour in 2006, Rain's \"Justin Timberlake meets Usher\" brand of bubble-gum pop never saturated pop charts here as it did in the East.",
"But Rain isn't one to accept defeat.",
"\"The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win.",
"So I try harder,\" he told CNN's Talk Asia.",
"\"The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it.",
"A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed,\" he said.",
"The 27-year-old tested Hollywood waters with last year's \"Speed Racer,\" but the action film, which he now calls a \"warming up period,\" failed to give him cross-over recognition.",
"Now, Rain has a second shot at swimming in the American mainstream with another Wachowski produced film, the cut 'em and gut 'em \"Ninja Assassin,\" where the pop star does most of his own stunts.",
"\"I put my heart and soul into this movie,\" he said.",
"Rain trained hard for months to get ready for the movie's slick violence.",
"\"For about a year, I couldn't eat properly, I was working out from 7 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon,\" he said.",
"\"I went through a lot of pain in my efforts to get 100 percent close to the character that I was playing.\"",
"To get the opportunity to finally become an American household name, though, it's worth it.",
"After all, Rain isn't the type of guy who shies away from a challenge.",
"\"What I want to do now is start from the bottom again and build up a name in the U.S.,\" Rain said.",
"\"I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that I think may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard even these days,\" he said.",
"\"I'm hoping people expect a lot from this movie, because I think they will not be disappointed.\""
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"Korean singer Rain is a huge hit in Asia, but has struggled to find large success in the U.S.",
"He starred in last year's \"Speed Racer,\" and has the lead role in \"Ninja Assassin\"\nRain said he isn't afraid of the hard work it'll take to make him a star in the U.S.",
"He says he had to go through intense training for \"Assassin\""
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"(CNN) -- Verizon Wireless is releasing the third smartphone to take advantage of its faster fourth-generation data network on Thursday.",
"Like the others, the Revolution from LG Electronics runs Android and has a large 4.3-inch touch screen.",
"It also has a pair of cameras and a mobile hot spot feature, allowing users to share the fast data connection with eight devices connected via Wi-Fi.",
"The Revolution will cost $250.",
"That's the same price as HTC's ThunderBolt, which was the first 4G phone on Verizon, and $50 less than the Droid Charge from Samsung Electronics, which also came out this month.",
"For a conference in February, a prototype version of the new LG phone was picked to demonstrate an Internet calling service from Verizon that is expected to debut next year.",
"Last week, Verizon added nine new towns to its 4G map and expanded coverage in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and Philadelphia.",
"The network, which offers faster download speeds, is available in 55 metropolitan areas, the company said.",
"Verizon began rolling out the service in December.",
"AT&T Mobility named launch cities for its upcoming 4G LTE on Wednesday.",
"The new 4G network, not to be confused with the old 4G network that's basically a faster version of 3G, will debut in the summer, AT&T said.",
"Traditionally, several months separate the commercial launch of new cell network infrastructure and the release of phones that use it.",
"But AT&T said in January that LTE phones would launch sometime in the second half of the year.",
"In the meantime, Verizon will continue to take advantage of its lead.",
"Also in January, Verizon pledged to launch four 4G phones by midyear, but it may miss that target.",
"Motorola Mobility has said it will delay the release of the Droid Bionic until the summer in order to add features."
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"Verizon Wireless will debut the Revolution from LG Electronics on Thursday .",
"The phone, which uses the faster 4G LTE data network, will cost $250 .",
"It will be the third 4G phone available to Verizon customers ."
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"(CNN) -- Investigators are leaning in the direction that the same person or persons who crafted the Christmas Day underwear bomb were behind the PETN-based devices hidden in packages sent from Yemen, a U.S. government official told CNN.",
"\"The thinking is it's the same person or group of people that built the underwear bomb because of the way it's put together,\" said the official, who had been briefed by multiple U.S. authorities and law enforcement sources.",
"\"But this one is about four times as powerful.\"",
"American authorities are now endorsing British Prime Minister David Cameron's position that the explosives were designed to take down an airplane, the official said.",
"One package was found in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.",
"The other was discovered at an airport in England.",
"On Friday, U.S. officials said they had not taken a position on whether planes or two Chicago, Illinois, synagogues were the ultimate targets.",
"The packages had the synagogue addresses.",
"Meanwhile, a woman believed to be connected to a plot to send explosive packages bound for the United States has been arrested in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, according to a Yemeni government official and a reporter with the state news agency.",
"A female relative of the woman was also being questioned by Yemeni authorities, the government official said.",
"The relationship between the two women was not immediately known.",
"Authorities are looking at a specific material found in the devices and used in the foiled \"underwear bomb\" attempt in 2009.",
"A source close to the investigation said the type of material found in the devices was PETN, a highly explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.",
"Six grams of PETN are enough to blow a hole in the fuselage of an aircraft.",
"PETN was allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit, Michigan, on December 25.",
"AbdulMutallab is alleged to have been carrying 80 grams of PETN in that botched attack.",
"\"The quantity of PETN in these [new] devices was about five times the volume used at Christmas\" by AbdulMutallab, Col. Richard Kemp, the former chairman of the British government's Cobra Intelligence Group, told CNN affiliate ITN.",
"The plot \"does appear to be a typical al Qaeda-type operation,\" he said.",
"A source closely involved in the investigation said the detonating substance was Lead Azide.",
"Lead Azide is a \"very powerful initiator\" which is easily prepared and is a standard substance in detonations, the source said.",
"Believing that a Yemen affiliate of al Qaeda was involved, American and British authorities said explosive devices jammed into ink toner cartridges were powerful enough to bring down a large aircraft.",
"British authorities said they believe East Midlands Airport in central England was simply a conduit for shipment of one device to the United States.",
"\"We believe that the device was designed to go off on the airplane,\" Cameron said.",
"\"We cannot be sure about the timing when that was meant to take place.",
"There is no early evidence that that was meant to take place over British soil, but of course we cannot rule it out.\"",
"UK Home Secretary Theresa May said authorities do not believe the perpetrators would have known the location of the device had they detonated it.",
"As they studied the devices and toiled to understand the extent of the plot, authorities pointed their fingers at al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"The group is based in Yemen, a poor Arab nation that has emerged as a major operating base for al Qaeda and other terror groups.",
"Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told CNN on Saturday that the plan to send the explosives has the \"hallmarks of al Qaeda, the AQAP -- they are constantly trying things to test our system.\"",
"Yemen has asked for outside help to thwart terror groups, but the country, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, is still used for operations, U.S. officials say.",
"The failed \"Christmas Day Bomber\" plot, for example, is believed to be the workings of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"And in January, the United States and United Kingdom temporarily closed their embassies in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, because of terror concerns.",
"U.S. authorities were grateful for a tip from Yemen's oil-rich neighbor, Saudi Arabia, alerting them to the suspicious packages.",
"The Saudi government provided U.S. officials with tracking numbers of the two packages, enabling quick tracing to the United Kingdom and Dubai, a source told CNN.",
"President Barack Obama called King Abdullah on Saturday to thank him, the White House said.",
"On Friday, Obama confirmed the two devices contained explosive material and were bound for two \"places of Jewish worship\" in Chicago, Illinois.",
"\"We ... know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ... continues to plan attacks against our homeland, our citizens, and our friends and allies,\" Obama said during a press briefing.",
"Obama's presidential counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, spoke to Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh, stressing \"the importance of close counterterrorism cooperation, including the need to work together on the ongoing investigation into the events over the past few days,\" according to the White House.",
"Saleh told reporters that Yemen could not confirm the packages contained explosives, but he acknowledged the nation's economy and tourism industry have suffered because of al Qaeda's presence.",
"He vowed to fight the terror group.",
"\"We do want anyone to interfere in Yemeni affairs and start chasing al Qaeda,\" Saleh said.",
"\"We will chase al Qaeda with our airplanes and our equipment.",
"We will chase al Qaeda wherever they are.\"",
"Over the past several months, Yemen, which wants to be seen as a committed partner in the fight against terrorism, has asked for assistance from other countries.",
"Saleh's appearance before reporters a day after Friday's developments is considered significant.",
"Authorities, meanwhile, said the explosive devices were meticulously crafted.",
"They were \"professionally\" loaded and connected using an electric circuit to a mobile phone chip tucked in a printer, Dubai police told WAM, the official news agency for the United Arab Emirates.",
"The devices were packed in toner cartridges and designed to be detonated by a cell phone, a source close to the investigation told CNN.",
"The package found at East Midlands Airport contained a \"manipulated\" toner cartridge and had white powder on it as well as wires and a circuit board, a law enforcement source said Friday.",
"A similar package set to be shipped on a FedEx cargo plane was discovered in Dubai, officials there said.",
"When the Saudis warned Britsh law enforcement that there were explosives inside the cartridge at East Midlands, the British -- using human and canines -- could not detect the material, according to a U.S. law enforcement official familiar with investigation.",
"The British authorities contacted the Saudis to verify the tip, the official said.",
"The Saudis told them to inspect the cartridge again, and that is when the British authorities discovered the material, the official said.",
"In response to the threat, authorities stepped up searches Friday of cargo planes and trucks in several U.S. cities, said law enforcement sources with detailed knowledge of the investigation.",
"Also Friday, the Transportation Security Administration stopped all packages originating from Yemen, and shipping companies UPS, FedEx and DHL all said they were complying with the order.",
"May said Saturday that all cargo into or through the United Kingdom originating in Yemen was halted as well.",
"The U.S. Postal Service also announced a temporary suspension of acceptance of inbound international mail originating in Yemen.",
"Rep. Peter King, R-New York, a ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN that authorities believe \"the current threat has been contained.",
"They're not expecting to find anything else.\"",
"Officials are checking on packages sent from Yemen over the past several weeks, King said.",
"As authorities pressed forward in the investigation Saturday and strengthened security, a leader of a small LGBT-friendly synagogue in Chicago, Illinois, said her place of worship was one of the targets of the intercepted packages.",
"\"It was unnerving, but we carried on as normal,\" Lilli Kornblum, co-president of Or Chadash, said of Friday night's services.",
"The FBI in Chicago would not confirm whether Or Chadash was targeted, spokesman Royden Rice said.",
"\"We notified both targets yesterday,\" Rice told CNN Saturday.",
"\"We always notify potential victims of crime.",
"If they wish to reveal who they are, it's up to them.\"",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Mohammed Jamjoom, Susan Candiotti, Kathleen Johnston and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
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"A female relative of the woman arrested is also being questioned .",
"Governments point to al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen .",
"The explosives were \"professionally\" loaded, Dubai police say ."
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"Manzanillo, Mexico (CNN) -- The storm recently known as Jova has dissipated over western Mexico, but its rains and flooding were responsible for at least six deaths, officials said.",
"In the Mexican state of Colima, one person was swept away in a car by rushing water on the highway, state civil protection spokesman Luis Enrique Venegas told CNN.",
"Three others in Colima were reported missing, he said.",
"\"The main problem for us is damage to roads, bridges and streets.",
"Infrastructure was severely affected by this hurricane and it's going to take a while to get back to normal,\" he said \"We're trying to reopen roads as soon as possible.\"",
"Jova struck Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane late Tuesday, packing winds of more than 100 miles per hour.",
"It weakened into a tropical storm and then a tropical depression as it moved over western Mexico Wednesday.",
"In Jalisco state, civil protection authorities said that they found a body after a mudslide, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.",
"A total of five people have died in Jalisco, the agency reported.",
"The bodies were found as the focus Thursday shifted to cleanup along Mexico's Pacific coast, while the floodwaters from Jova recede.",
"Some residents took to rooftops in the resort town of Manzanillo, one of the hardest-hit areas, as a normally small stream turned into a raging river.",
"Water was waist-deep in some areas on Wednesday.",
"At least 1,400 people were in shelters, police said.",
"\"The roads are all flooded.",
"Bridges are about to fall down.",
"Cars can't get through anywhere.",
"People's homes are destroyed,\" Manzanillo resident Seth Berkowitz said.",
"\"What came through here has really been a terrible disaster for everybody.\"",
"Floodwaters rushed into many homes in low-lying areas of Manzanillo.",
"Resident Roberto Robles lost most of his furniture and spent Wednesday dealing with massive amounts of mud inside his home.",
"\"We were really afraid, especially for the children, who still don't understand what a hurricane is,\" he said.",
"Javier Velasquez said mud ruined his refrigerator when his kitchen filled with water in the early morning hours.",
"\"Only God knows why something like this happens,\" he said.",
"\"They had warned us, but we thought they were crying wolf.\""
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"NEW: Officials say infrastructure and roads were damaged ."
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"(CNN) -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias presented an updated proposal to end the Honduran political crisis, but its adoption seemed unlikely, as one side described the talks as \"failed\" and the other asked for more time.",
"Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya answers questions in Managua, Nicaragua, on Sunday.",
"The document, dubbed the San Jose Accord, calls for ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya's return to power, the creation of a unity government and early elections.",
"The accord is very similar to an original plan suggested by Arias but with more details and a creation of a truth commission to investigate the events that led to the crisis.",
"It also includes a timeline for its implementation, which could have Zelaya back in Honduras by Friday.",
"Arias signaled that his latest effort as mediator after two unsuccessful rounds of talks was also his final.",
"Zelaya and his successor, interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti, can turn to other forms for negotiations if they cannot agree to the deal, Arias said.",
"Arias read the proposal on Wednesday at a news conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, flanked by Zelaya and Micheletti's delegations.",
"Responses from the two camps following Arias announcement gave slim hope that the accord would be signed.",
"Zelaya delegate Rixi Moncada said the opportunity for compromise had already passed with Arias' original proposal, which Zelaya accepted but Micheletti rejected.",
"Watch the reaction of the Organization of American States » .",
"\"(The talks) failed because of the intransigence of the coup regime,\" she said.",
"For Micheletti's side, Mauricio Villegas said his camp would present the San Jose Accord to the three branches of government for their approval, which would be necessary before moving forward.",
"Earlier this week, another Micheletti negotiator said that the supreme court had already signaled that it would not accept Zelaya's return as president.",
"\"We must make way for peace and democracy, because the alternative is a cliff where even bigger trouble than we know awaits,\" said Arias, who had been serving as mediator between the two sides.",
"\"So today I ask you respectfully, but with urgency, to carefully review this document and reflect on it.\"",
"Earlier, Micheletti had offered a counterproposal, Honduras's foreign minister, Carlos Lopez Contreras, told CNN affiliate Televicentro.",
"Sources close to Micheletti's delegation told CNN that the counterproposal would have given amnesty to Zelaya and allowed him to return.",
"But the nation's Supreme Court, which supports the coup and insists Zelaya must be held responsible for allegedly trying to subvert the constitution, rejected the amnesty provision, the sources said.",
"Negotiations had stalled over Arias' proposal that Zelaya be reinstated.",
"Zelaya was going to hold a referendum that could have led to changing the Honduras Constitution, even though Congress had outlawed the vote and the Supreme Court ruled it illegal.",
"Zelaya was deposed June 28, the day the vote was supposed to be held, in a military-led coup and replaced by congressional leader Micheletti a few hours later.",
"Micheletti's counterproposal would have instituted a six-month moratorium on legal action against either side.",
"In another development, Honduras gave Venezuela's diplomats 72 hours to leave the country Tuesday on the grounds that leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been making threats against the provisional government.",
"Venezuela called the expulsion order \"absurd\" and said it will not comply because it does not recognize Micheletti's government.",
"Chavez and Zelaya are political allies.",
"The coup has drawn international condemnation, including demands by the U.N. General Assembly and Organization of American States that Zelaya be reinstated.",
"The European Union and United States also have curtailed some aid.",
"Micheletti has steadfastly refused, saying Zelaya's removal was a constitutional transfer of power, not a coup."
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"NEW: Arias signals his latest effort is his final as mediator .",
"Zelaya's ouster has drawn international condemnation ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama pledged Monday to cut the nation's $1.3 trillion deficit in half by the end of his first term.",
"Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, speaks after Obama called on him at the fiscal summit's closing session.",
"He identified exploding health-care costs as the chief culprit behind rising federal deficits during a bipartisan \"fiscal responsibility summit\" convened to discuss ways to restore fiscal stability without deepening the recession.",
"Meeting with the congressional leadership of both parties, as well as a range of business, academic, financial and labor leaders, Obama warned that the country cannot continue its current rate of deficit spending without facing dire economic consequences.",
"\"I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay,\" he said in remarks opening the one-day summit at the White House.",
"\"We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end.",
"... We cannot simply spend as we please.\"",
"Watch more about the summit and the deficit » .",
"The country, Obama argued, is already starting to face the consequences of greater deficit spending, noting that roughly one in 10 taxpayer dollars in 2008 went toward paying $250 billion in interest on the national debt.",
"The president pledged to take the first step toward fiscal responsibility by, among other things, ending \"accounting tricks\" such as refusing to include money for expenses such as the Iraq war or natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in the regular budget.",
"Such practices, Obama argued, only serve to mask the real size of the deficit.",
"He also pledged to end no-bid contracts in Iraq, root out waste and abuse in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, require every Cabinet member to scrub department budgets \"line by line,\" and reinstate a \"pay as you go\" rule from the 1990s.",
"\"This is the rule that families across this country follow every single day, and there's no reason their government shouldn't do the same,\" he said.",
"\"You don't pay what you don't have.\" But the biggest challenge, he said, would be controlling spiraling health-care costs -- \"the single most pressing fiscal challenge we face by far.\"",
"The projected increase in the deficit is largely due to anticipated growth in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which in turn is driven by rising health-care costs, budget analyst Bob Greenstein noted shortly before Obama spoke.",
"Greenstein minimized the effect of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan on the budget shortfall, saying that it amounts to only one-tenth of 1 percent of the gross domestic product.",
"Obama later added that, without a stimulus package, the recession would deepen, tax revenues would decline and long-term deficit projections would ultimately be worse.",
"\"I have no interest in making government bigger for the sake of it,\" he said.",
"But if health care is not reformed, Greenstein warned, the national debt could soar to 300 percent of the gross domestic product by 2050.",
"\"We are [currently] on the path to the very debt explosion we must avoid,\" he declared.",
"\"Health care is the key\" to getting the nation off an unsustainable fiscal course, added Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget.",
"After Obama's remarks Monday, the fiscal responsibility summit participants separated into small working groups to discuss the specific fiscal challenges facing the country, including taxes, health care, Social Security and the budget process.",
"The administration is planning to issue a final \"fiscal sustainability project\" list of recommendations based on the conclusions of those working groups in 30 days.",
"After the working groups met, Obama stood at a podium and called on participants to share what the groups had discussed.",
"Sen. John McCain, Obama's Republican opponent in November's presidential election, told Obama that a proposal to order new helicopters to transport the president was a prime example of government waste.",
"The price tag for a proposed new fleet of 28 Marine One helicopters has virtually doubled to more than $11 billion over the past six years.",
"Each helicopter in the fleet, which would have several security upgrades, would reportedly cost around $400 million.",
"McCain's group at the summit had discussed procurement.",
"Obama said he has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review the helicopter proposal.",
"\"The helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me,\" a smiling Obama said, drawing laughter from the audience.",
"Rep. Joe L. Barton, R-Texas, told Obama that if he is interested in bipartisanship, then he should encourage House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to \"have a true, open process\" in crafting legislation.",
"The stimulus bill passed this month with no GOP votes in the House and only three in the Senate.",
"\"I think the House Republicans have shown that, when we're not included in the decision-making, we're disinclined to sign off on the solution,\" Barton said.",
"Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night is expected to be dominated by economic and budgetary issues.",
"The president is slated to officially unveil his fiscal year 2010 budget Thursday.",
"Obama intends to cut the federal deficit in half primarily by spending less on the war in Iraq, raising taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year and streamlining government, an administration official told CNN Saturday.",
"The president's budget proposal will project that the estimated $1.3 trillion deficit inherited from the Bush administration will be halved to $533 billion by 2013, or from 9.2 percent of the gross domestic product to 3 percent, the official said.",
"Obama's plans to cut the deficit might be complicated by the continuing economic downturn, which threatens to reduce tax revenues.",
"A group of leading economists is now forecasting a far deeper and more painful recession ahead in the first half of the year, with a solid recovery not taking hold until 2010.",
"The economy is likely to decline at a 5 percent rate in the first quarter, even sharper than the 3.8 percent drop recorded in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a survey of 47 top forecasters from the National Association for Business Economics.",
"And according to estimates by economists Alan Auerbach of the University of California at Berkeley and William Gale of the Brookings Institution, the deficit -- largely because of the recession and the new economic stimulus effort -- will average at least $1 trillion per year for the next 10 years, even if the stimulus is limited to two years and the jobs picture improves dramatically.",
"CNN's Dan Lothian contributed to this report."
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"Participants discuss country's long-term financial problems .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- A famous French painting stolen during World War I by the German Army was returned to the government of France by U.S. officials on Thursday.",
"The 1876 Jules Breton work is called \"A Fisherman's Daughter/Mender of Nets\" or to the people of France it's \"Une Fille de Pecheur/Raccommodeuses de Filets.\"",
"In 1918 the German army confiscated that painting and others from the Musee de Douai in the city of Douai and transported them to Belgium.",
"The following year the Belgium government went to return all the French works of art, but the \"Fisherman's Daughter/Mender of Nets\" was missing.",
"Spring forward to 2010 and French officials alerted Interpol that the painting might have been imported by a gallery in New York City.",
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators worked the case, concluded the painting in New York was the same one stolen from France more than 90 years ago and seized it.",
"The painting, which is worth an estimated $150,000 dollars, was handed over to the French ambassador to the United States during a repatriation ceremony in Washington.",
"ICE did not provide details about how the painting reached the gallery in New York or where it might have been in the decades since it was stolen.",
"\"Returning a painting to a museum is a significant contribution to the celebration of our cultural heritage and a gift to all future visitors who will enjoy the work of art, but it is also yet another symbol of Franco-American cooperation,\" said French Ambassador François Delattre in a written statement.",
"\"We are celebrating today a gesture of friendship by the United States toward the French Republic.\"",
"The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York worked on the case.",
"\"One of the very few ways that we are able to redress the awful legacy of war is to return stolen art to its rightful owners so it can be shared and enjoyed, \"said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.",
"\"In this case, it took nearly a century, but it is nonetheless extremely gratifying.",
"ICE does numerous investigations into stolen art or cultural artifacts and has helped repatriate many other items to various nations.",
"\"We remain committed to combating cultural heritage crimes, which are one of the oldest forms of organized cross-border illicit activity,\" said ICE Director John Morton."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' announcement today at the Worldwide Developers Conference that Apple's new iCloud service will allow music fans to reproduce their entire digital collections on locker-style servers accessible via 10 devices -- including iPhones, iPads and computers -- may not save the ravaged record industry, but it could provide a crucial new revenue stream while allowing consumers to easily consolidate their music libraries in the cloud.",
"\"Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy,\" Jobs said in his keynote speech today at the WWDC in San Francisco today.",
"\"We have a great solution for this problem.",
"We are going to demote the PC to just be a device.",
"We are going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud.\"",
"Rumored for weeks, iCloud will be free for up to 5 gigabytes of music downloaded via iTunes, Jobs announced.",
"The service will scan and match users' current music collections for music carried by the iTunes store, and then make it available to all of the users' devices by sending the songs' metadata to the cloud.",
"The new iTunes iMatch service will cost $25 a year, with unlimited storage, for users to copy digital music ripped from CDs or downloaded illegally.",
"(The free version is available immediately, while iMatch will roll out in coming months, most likely with a new version of Apple's operating system in the fall.)",
"The service will also allow storage of movies, photos and other data files, replacing Apple's MobileMe, in an attempt to shift consumers from physical hard-drive to Web-based storage.",
"Choose Rolling Stone's Cover: The Sheepdogs vs. Lelia Broussard.",
"Vote Now . \"It is one way to make someone pay for music they've already bought.",
"It's pretty ingenious,\" Syd Schwartz, a former EMI Music executive who is now a consultant to artist managers and record labels, tells Rolling Stone.",
"\"I'm sure someone in an executive office at a major label somewhere is going, 'At least that's one way we can monetize the stuff people stole from Napster over the years.'",
"\" Apple isn't the first to provide such a service -- Amazon unveiled its Cloud Drive in late March, and Google jumped into the market with Music Beta a month ago.",
"(Also, in the late 1990s, MP3.com created a very similar service, Beam-It, but since the company had no licenses with major labels, Universal Music successfully branded it illegal piracy and sued, putting the service out of business.)",
"But, in a swipe at his competitors, Jobs declared Apple's iCloud to be significantly faster than Amazon and Google's services.",
"\"It certainly appears like it's going to be a better experience,\" Schwartz says.",
"\"The Amazon and Google services were an attempt to bring them to market quickly.\"",
"And more important, unlike competitors Google and Amazon, Apple has licensing deals with record labels to use their vast song catalogs by artists from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin to Lady Gaga in the new service.",
"As the world's biggest music retailer, with longstanding label deals for iTunes, Apple had the clout to make these deals where Amazon, Google and Spotify could not.",
"The deals allow Apple to scan a user's hard drive and make copies of the songs in the cloud, rather than forcing users into the cumbersome process of uploading their collections.",
"\"You don't have to store individual copies of every track.",
"Which Amazon and Google do,\" says a source at a major label.",
"\"And they have to pay for storage costs.",
"... Scan-and-match is a big advantage of a licensed locker.\"",
"Apple entered the music business in 2002, when it made digital-music deals with major record labels still shell-shocked from Napster and online piracy.",
"In so doing, the computer company almost singlehandedly transformed the record business' longstanding sales model from selling $15 to $18 CDs to far less profitable 99-cent digital tracks.",
"Apple did not give music companies a cut of the iPod, iPhone or other devices, however, and record executives have loudly complained as Apple's shares have skyrocketed during the same period labels have laid off staff, cut artist rosters and in the case of once-powerful EMI, flirted with bankruptcy.",
"Britney Spears' Life in Photos: Her Rise, Fall and Comeback .",
"Labels have struggled in the past several years to find new revenue streams, and numerous top executives point to music subscriptions as a powerful new business model based on monthly fees.",
"However, existing subscription services such as Rhapsody and MOG have yet to gain a foothold in the U.S. music market, and American labels have yet to make deals with Spotify, the free service that has been popular in Europe the last three years.",
"Also, in the past, Jobs has been critical of the subscription model, although he seemed to change his position in late 2009, when Apple bought the growing subscription company Lala.",
"For iCloud, Apple will give the four major labels almost 60 percent of future profits, as well as roughly 12 percent to music publishers, according to music-business sources.",
"(One source at another major label says Apple will determine future percentages based on labels' sales -- and that labels will then give profit shares to their artists based on the artists' sales.)",
"Many in the music business predict Apple will use iCloud as a gateway to a broader subscription service, perhaps in the next few months, although Jobs did not address this point in his speech.",
"\"It's a good start,\" says another music-business source.",
"\"If everyone in America who consumed music paid $25 to put their music in a cloud and then [iCloud] turns into a subscription-based music service -- doesn't sound bad to me.",
"Those economics would work well for everyone.\"",
"Copyright © 2010 Rolling Stone."
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"For iCloud, Apple will give the four major labels almost 60 percent of future profits .",
"Apple isn't the first to provide such a service -- Amazon unveiled its Cloud Drive in March ."
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"(CNN) -- Nearly six months after an explosion aboard an oil rig sent crude spewing from a BP-owned well deep below the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup work along the Gulf Coast is far from over.",
"Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, federal on-scene coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon spill, said Wednesday that operations in some areas won't stop once winter hits.",
"\"I envision there will be some areas where cleanup will go on through winter, although there will be others that will close down within a matter of weeks,\" Zukunft said.",
"Shoreline cleanup assessment teams still have yet to analyze 557 miles of oil-affected beaches and declare them clean.",
"In the meantime, Zukunft said, oil spill response teams will be in place to clean up any residual oil as necessary.",
"\"What we have during this spill, this was 87 consecutive days of a major spill, reoccurring, day in and day out.",
"During that phase, we were in a crisis.",
"Now [crews are] along the traditional lines, dealing with last release of oil and whether that impacted, time-consuming, labor-intensive process,\" he said.",
"Seafood testing continues to be a priority, according to Zukunft.",
"Christine Patrick, a spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, said out of more than 2,700 seafood samples that went through rigorous sensory and chemical testing, none have come up positive for the presence of oil or dispersants.",
"\"No samples have been taken from opened fishing areas that haven't passed those tests,\" Patrick said.",
"As for the search for existing oil still within the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA scientist Sam Walker said Wednesday there is an \"aggressive program\" of work being conducted both offshore, near-shore and within the water to locate hydrocarbons.",
"Walker said more than 31,000 samples have been tested and are in the process of being analyzed for evidence of dispersants or oil contamination, and that the results should be released in the next few weeks.",
"Although it's been nearly three months since oil has last been released into the Gulf, Zukunft said the effects of the disaster remain substantial.",
"\"If you look at what a traditional oil spill has been, you know this is anything but that,\" he said.",
"\"What's different about this is now we have oil that's in a very deep water column.\"",
"Zukunft said even though the highest concentrations of oil detected in the water column is in the parts per billion, the Gulf of Mexico seafood industry is suffering from an unfair stigma attached to its product.",
"\"As I've said, and will continue to say time and again, it is the most sampled seafood anywhere on the face of the Earth,\" the rear admiral said.",
"\"The science, and I've seen it on a first-hand basis, is thorough, it's comprehensive, and so those are some of the hardships that the Gulf of Mexico residents are trying to recover from right now, especially those who make their livelihood harvesting seafood, and then dealing with the image of that.\""
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"Officials stress that seafood testing has not turned up any problems in fish .",
"Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft says effects of the disaster remain substantial ."
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"(CNN) -- A Jordanian official ordered an investigation Saturday to look into police officers' attacks on pro-reform demonstrators in Amman, state-run media reported.",
"Riot police punched, kicked and beat protesters with sticks Friday on the streets of Amman, according to CNN reporters on the scene.",
"Several journalists were among those caught up in the violence, in some instances attacked by police.",
"Police Capt.",
"Mahmoud El-Khatib initially said that authorities only used \"appropriate force\" to prevent even worse bloodshed among what he called two groups of protesters -- one backing the government, the other calling for reform.",
"But witnesses said there were no such rival groups, blaming police using batons and other means to beat back protesters.",
"Lt. Gen. Hussein Majali, the head of Jordan's public security department, on Saturday described the incident as a \"police attack on a pro-reform march in Amman,\" according to the Petra news agency.",
"This same report said the demonstration was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and youth groups, which is distinct from its account the previous day.",
"Majali called for the creation of a panel of \"senior officers\" to investigate, a probe that began Friday night.",
"This investigation, which will use \"video material available to the committee,\" is expected to be done within 72 hours, followed by possible criminal trials.",
"Already, four policemen have been detained as suspects for their involvement in the violence, according to Petra, which was citing a statement from the Middle Eastern nation's public security department.",
"While there have been demonstrations in Jordan, as elsewhere in the Arab world, they have been largely peaceful and few have called for the ouster of its ruler, King Abdullah II.",
"Still, the violence Friday was at times stark.",
"One man lay on the ground, covered with blood-soaked tissues after a witness said he was hit in the head.",
"Another man had a big gash on his arm.",
"A woman, part of a group of 20 huddled together, said she felt shaky after being knocked in the head.",
"The state-run news report did not offer a casualty count, beyond claiming that 17 police officers were injured in the clashes.",
"There were \"light to medium injuries to a number of journalists,\" Petra reported.",
"Mohammed Hanoun, a photographer, said he was attacked by police -- arguing with an official press liaison, who denied the media was being targeted.",
"\"This is the moment I was hit,\" said Hanoun, showing a picture.",
"\"Do you see it? This is the last picture I took; he hit me with the shield.\"",
"Journalists typically wear orange vests in Jordan so they can be identified from protesters or police.",
"Many media members took off their orange vests in solidarity with attacked journalists on Friday.",
"Salman Al Masaed, who was in the front row of the pro-reform demonstration, said he had no doubt that it was police -- and not rival protesters -- waging the offensive.",
"\"We did not see a single person attack us,\" he said.",
"\"The only people that attacked us were the security forces, with their batons.\""
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"(CNN) -- South Korea midfielder Ki Sung Yueng has signed a four-year contract with Scottish giants Celtic, the club have confirmed on their web site.",
"He will join the Parkhead club at the start of 2010 in a deal reportedly worth $3.6 million, having secured a work permit ahead of the January transfer window.",
"The 20-year- old Ki is the Asia 2009 young player of the year and has been linked with a number of leading European clubs.",
"He has played 17 times for South Korea and appeared in all the country's qualifying matches for next year's World Cup in South Africa.",
"\"I am absolutely delighted to sign for Celtic, a football club with a tremendous history and one which is known throughout the world,\" Ki told www.celticfc.net.",
"\"I know that Celtic has some of the best supporters in the world and I will be doing all I can to show these fans what I can do.\"",
"Celtic manager Tony Mowbray added: \"We are very pleased to announce the signing of Ki and we are sure he is a player who has the potential to make an impact at Celtic.\"",
"Ki will join a Celtic squad who have enjoyed a mixed season with an early exit from the Europa League.",
"But Saturday's 3-2 victory at Motherwell registered their fourth win in a row for the first time this season, which kept them two points clear of Old Firm rivals Rangers at the top of the Scottish standings."
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"The 20-year-old is Asian footballer of the year for 2009 .",
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"London, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron will discuss BP, whose leaking well has caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, when he speaks by phone with U.S. President Barack Obama this weekend, Cameron's office at Downing Street said Friday.",
"It will be a \"routine call\" and BP will be one of several issues they discuss, Downing Street said, without providing more information.",
"The phone call follows concern about anti-British rhetoric from Obama and others in America about BP's role in the disaster.",
"London Mayor Boris Johnson said the remarks are \"slightly worrying\" and Piers Morgan, a British TV host and former newspaper editor, said Obama seems to be on \"an absolute witch hunt\" against the BP boss.",
"\"You know, accidents do happen,\" Morgan told CNN's \"Connect the World\" on Thursday night.",
"\"There are major issues in terms of safety here, in terms of environmental tragedy that's going on where this spillage is occurring, but I think simply to demand the guy's head on a plate when he's trying to fix it is not sensible politics, and it's slightly self-serving.",
"\"And I, if I was Barack Obama, would cool the rhetoric.",
"I wouldn't make it a British thing, because BP is not a British company anymore, they are an international company.",
"And it's looking to me a little like Brit-bashing.\"",
"Johnson told BBC Radio 4 on Thursday he wants to see \"cool heads and a bit of calm reflection\" about the problem, \"rather than endlessly buck-passing and name-calling.\"",
"He said many British pension funds are exposed to BP and could be at risk if the company's share price plummets.",
"\"I do think that it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up on the international airwaves,\" he said, adding that the disaster is the result of an accident that BP is trying to remedy.",
"\"Ultimately (BP) cannot be faulted because, I'm sorry, it was an accident that took place, and BP, I think, is paying a very, very heavy price indeed.\"",
"Obama said earlier this week that he was talking with experts about the oil disaster so \"I know whose ass to kick.\"",
"U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said BP was probably lying in its comments about the spill.",
"\"Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings: Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum, they are not telling you the truth,\" Weiner told MSNBC this week.",
"\"I think we as a government have been giving them too much credence for the things they've been saying,\" Weiner said.",
"\"Just about everything they've said at some point has turned out to be wrong.",
"So every time they say they're doing something, your first instinct should be, it just ain't true.\"",
"U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley denied Thursday that Obama or the United States is \"Britain-bashing\" and said it would probably be a topic the president discusses with Cameron on the phone.",
"He said there are certain to be \"ripple effects\" as America demands that BP live up to its responsibilities to clean up the spill.",
"\"The British people understand the frustration and anger that the American people are seeing in this,\" Crowley said.",
"\"It is not going to affect our relationship between the United States and Britain.\"",
"Crowley said the United States understands \"the importance that BP has within British society and the British economy ... but this is ultimately about a private company and its responsibility in light of what's happened in the Gulf.\""
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"Call follows British concerns about \"Brit-bashing\" over oil disaster .",
"Piers Morgan says Obama on \"witch hunt\" against BP boss .",
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Two Gadhafi loyalists and one National Transitional Council fighter were killed Friday in the Abu Salim neighborhood of Tripoli, an NTC member told reporters.",
"A group of about 10 Gadhafi loyalists had entered the streets of Abu Salim waving green flags and holding a picture of the ousted Libyan leader in a move to draw NTC fighters into the neighborhood, which has remained largely loyal to Gadhafi, council member Abdelrazaq Al Aradi said.",
"When anti-Gadhafi forces responded by entering the streets, the loyalists opened fire, Al Aradi said.",
"Afterward, Omar Khadrawi, the assistant to the interior minister, directed a message through reporters to any remaining loyalists.",
"\"Their names have been discovered and the information about them receiving weapons is in the hands of the security now,\" he said.",
"He added that he was offering them \"a last chance\" to hand in their weapons to authorities.",
"On Friday evening, the mood on the streets of the capital was tense.",
"Heavily manned checkpoints dotted the streets en route to Abu Salim.",
"Fighters and area residents told CNN that a small number of Gadhafi supporters started looting and burning cars after Friday prayers.",
"NTC fighters, some drawn from other neighborhoods, responded quickly.",
"Witnesses and fighters said a number of Gadhafi loyalists were detained.",
"Reports conflicted on whether they were armed.",
"Later in the evening, gunshots could be heard in a number of neighborhoods in the city.",
"Al Aradi told CNN separately that NTC fighters think they have captured the organizer of clashes Friday in the Tajoura neighborhood of eastern Tripoli.",
"On Friday, the U.N. human rights office raised the issue of the number of prisoners in Libya and their treatment.",
"\"It could be up to 7,000,\" said Mona Rishmawi, a senior official with the group in Geneva, Switzerland.",
"\"At this stage, there is no police infrastructure, there is no prison authorities.",
"The prison authorities were under the Justice Ministry and, right now, the Justice Ministry is not fully functional.\"",
"\"There is allegations and evidence of torture\" in the prisons, she said, citing lawyers, clients and human rights groups.",
"CNN's Raja Razek and Ingrid Formanek contributed to this report."
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"(Ars Technica) -- Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will cease development of its family of Zune-branded music players due to weak demand and a desire to focus on its smartphone platform.",
"Zune will live on as a software and services platform, according to Bloomberg's source.",
"Windows Phone 7 embeds the Zune player for media playback on the phone, uses the Zune Marketplace for online music sales, and the Zune PC software for media syncing and firmware updates.",
"These uses will be unhindered by the cancellation of the standalone Zune hardware.",
"Since their introduction in 2006, the Zune players always played second fiddle -- if that -- to Apple's iPod line.",
"The 2009 Zune HD model was a well-received, well-designed, and supremely elegant device, but it was a case of too little, too late.",
"It was competing against Apple's iPod touch, with its enormous App Store advantage.",
"Microsoft also did little to promote the Zune brand beyond US borders; the original models were also available in Canada, but until recently, the Zune HD was US-only.",
"As a result, Microsoft failed to threaten Apple's dominance, leaving Cupertino to take 77% of the digital music player market last year.",
"Ars Technica: Zune marketplace going to Europe, Down Under .",
"Over the past couple of months, rumors have been swirling around that Zune would either be killed off or rebranded, and Microsoft has yet to officially confirm the hardware's demise.",
"The apparent decision to cancel the standalone hardware may be the fact behind the rumors, or this could be the first step in a complete overhaul and rebranding of the platform, possibly codenamed \"Ventura.\"",
"The decision to end Zune hardware production also means that it's unlikely that Microsoft will ever mimic Apple and produce an iPod touch equivalent for Windows Phone 7 -- the phone platform without the phone part.",
"COPYRIGHT 2010 ARSTECHNICA.COM ."
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"(CNN) -- It seems a certainty that the biggest headlines coming out of Tuesday night's CNN debate in Las Vegas will be about race, gays, religion or immigration.",
"It has to be, because only Herman Cain is gaining any traction on Mitt Romney, and it is as much for his freshness as it is for his ideas.",
"Last week, both Romney and Cain showed they were going to own the debate on the economy.",
"Little air was left for anyone else on the subject.",
"And this week's CNN/ORC Poll shows that it worked for them.",
"So how do the others gain?",
"By challenging them on the old standby Republican primary issues: those of the social order, of course.",
"Given the stuff that Cain has said -- that he wouldn't hire a Muslim, he wants to zap immigrants like bugs if they try to get over the wall from Mexico, and blacks only vote for Democrats because they are brainwashed -- there is plenty of fodder to rile him up.",
"And mess him up. Not because most Republican primary voters don't agree with him, but because his inflammatory messages will ricochet differently in the media if he repeats them as a front-runner.",
"Then there is Mitt. On an anti-gay scale of one to 10, with Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum registering zero and everyone else but Jon Huntsman earning perhaps a two, only Romney has flipped-flopped up and down the scale.",
"We now know that Bachmann's small business -- which she co-owns with her husband and is always touting -- is actually a clinic that takes people's money with a promise to cure them of homosexuality.",
"Perhaps it would work equally well to cure Romney of his hatred of his own views about gays.",
"And Romney has just as scratchy a record on abortion.",
"Nevada is a touchy place to debate immigration.",
"The large Latino population votes mostly Democratic, and the state has long depended on immigrant labor.",
"And we saw from Sharon Angle's failed race for the U.S. Senate in 2010 that immigrant bashing might get headlines, but it doesn't get enough Nevada votes.",
"I predict that Tuesday night, the candidates will go for the headlines.",
"Then there is the third rail of religion.",
"What will Cain trip up on tonight?",
"Hiring Muslims?",
"Vying with Rick Perry to be the best at avoiding a defense of Romney's freedom of religion?",
"Can Perry get into the conversation at all?",
"Or is he really bearing too much resentment from being brutalized by his opponents for his evangelical Christian faith, as his wife recently said?",
"He is sure to challenge Cain and Romney's credentials to represent the evangelical and tea party wings of the Republican Party.",
"Yes, Tuesday night's debate is going to matter Wednesday, mostly because of the issues that divide the U.S. Let the red meat be thrown.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Hilary Rosen."
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"Hilary Rosen: Romney and Cain seemed to own the debate on the economy last time .",
"Rosen: What's left for others to gain traction on: race, religion, homosexuality, immigration .",
"Nevada is a touchy place to debate immigration, with a large Latino population, she says .",
"Rosen: Perry might challenge others' credentials to represent evangelical Christians ."
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"(CNN) -- Robin van Persie scored early and late in the game to secure a 2-1 victory for his struggling Arsenal team over Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium Sunday.",
"The Dutch international's opener after just 31 seconds was the quickest in their English Premier League history but it needed his curling free kick with 10 minutes to go to grab the three points.",
"Sunderland, struggling just above the relegation zone, weathered the early storm before equalizing with a virtuoso free kick from former Gunner Sebastian Larsson in the 31st minute.",
"But Arsenal were the better side in the first half and got their reward when top scorer Van Persie struck again.",
"Manager Arsene Wenger used his program notes to dispel rumors that Van Persie would be leaving in the next transfer window and the player himself told Sky Sports after the match that he was \"committed\" to Arsenal.",
"The victory lifts them into top half of the table for the first time this season, but they still trail leaders Manchester City by 12 points.",
"Tottenham beat Arsenal in the north London derby game before the international break and were held later Sunday 2-2 at Newcastle.",
"Tottenham, bidding for their fifth straight league win, twice led through a Rafael van der Vaart penalty just before halftime and then substitute Jermain Defoe's clinical strike.",
"But Ibrahim Ba and substitute Shola Ameobi twice pulled them back and it was Newcastle, unbeaten this season, who were pressing at the end.",
"They stay in fourth place, with Tottenham in sixth having played a game less.",
"In the other game played Sunday, West Bromwich Albion pulled clear of the relegation zone with a 2-0 Black Country derby win over Wolves, who have lost five straight.",
"There was a goal drought in Italy's Serie A as only one of 12 teams in action in the afternoon fixtures Sunday managed to score .",
"Juventus were held 0-0 at Chievo and Udinese, who finished with 10 men, failed to score at Atalanta.",
"The results left Juve ahead of Udinese at the top on goals scored.",
"The only positive result came at Novara where visitors Bologna won 2-0 to move off the bottom.",
"In German Bundesliga action, struggling Hamburg scored only the second win of their campaign with a 2-1 victory at Freiburg.",
"Hamburg stay bottom, just behind FC Augsburg, but secured three points through goals from Korean Heung Min Son and Ivo Ilicevic with a penalty.",
"Papiss Cisse equalized for the home side but missed a late penalty for a second leveler."
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"Two superb goals from Robin van Persie give Arsenal three points .",
"Tottenham held 2-2 at Newcastle in top six clash at St Jamess Park .",
"Juventus still top Italy Serie A after goalless draw against Chievo ."
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"HANOVER, Germany (CNN) -- Archaeologists have found more than 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany.",
"Some of the artifacts are so well preserved that the scientists can already retrace some of the battle lines.",
"\"We have to write our history books new, because what we thought was that the activities of the Romans ended at nine or 10 (years) after Christ,\" said Lutz Stratmann, science minister for the German state of Lower Saxony.",
"\"Now we know that it must be 200 or 250 after that.\"",
"For weeks, archeologist Petra Loenne and her team have been searching this area with metal detectors, pulling hundreds of ancient Roman weapons out of the ground.",
"They paint a picture of a highly organized, technologically superior Roman army beset by Germanic tribes in a forest about 80 km (50 miles) south of the modern city of Hanover.",
"The hillside battlefield was discovered by relic-hunters illegally searching for souvenirs of more recent wars near the town of Kalefeld-Oldenrode.",
"One of them brought some of the items he found to Loenne, who works for the local government.",
"Watch how the battlefield discovery could re-write history » .",
"\"We believe the Germans ambushed the Romans here, but the legions quickly fired back with catapults and archers -- and then it came to a massive man-on-man onslaught,\" Loenne said.",
"The items unearthed so far include an axe, still sharp after nearly 1,800 years; horseshoes; shovels; spearheads; and dozens of arrowheads for a Scorpio, a cross between a catapult and a crossbow -- the ancient equivalent of artillery.",
"\"With a very high speed, on a very long distance -- about 300 meters -- you can hit targets precisely,\" said Henning Hassman, of Hanover's archeological institute.",
"Researchers say the evidence suggests the tribesmen lured the Romans into the forest to keep them from making full use of those long-range weapons and draw them into hand-to-hand combat, outside of the formations the imperial troops had mastered.",
"However, they believe the Romans ultimately prevailed.",
"Other relics include coins depicting the late second-century Roman emperor Commodus, depicted in the Oscar-winning Hollywood epic \"Gladiator\" -- a film that opens with a scene of battle against a barbarian horde that scientists say appears to be largely accurate.",
"And Loenne said her team may have only begun to scratch the surface of the forest.",
"\"We hope we might find fortifications and if we are lucky, maybe even battlefield graveyards,\" she said."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Danny Masterson and his girlfriend of eight years, Bijou Phillips, tied the knot Tuesday before an intimate group of family and friends in the Irish countryside, their rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.",
"In a nod to Masterson's Irish heritage, the couple had a formal wedding at a private castle, the picturesque setting of Tipperary serving as their backdrop, during a weeklong celebration.",
"Phillips, 31, wore a custom Zac Posen gown and Masterson, 35, donned Albert Hammond Jr. for Confederacy.",
"The groom's brother Chris Masterson served as best man and guests included actors Ben Foster, Mike Pena and Ethan Suplee and acclaimed artist Gottfried Helnwein.",
"Masterson proposed to Phillips, his costar in several films, in March 2009.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2010 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- The Road to Durban is a 30-minute monthly show that explores the cities making strides in reducing their carbon footprint.",
"Beginning in the United Kingdom, CNN will take viewers to urban centers in Germany, Turkey and Kenya -- before heading to Durban, South Africa for the 17th session of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in December.",
"Along the way, a team of experts will examine the planning, environmental and sustainability issues facing today's cities, as well as the green initiatives being developed to tackle them.",
"After Durban, the show will be heading to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to continue the journey.",
"Watch Road to Durban: A Green City Journey in August at the following times: .",
"Wednesday 17 August: 0730, 1730 Saturday 20 August: 0730, 1230, 1830 Sunday 21 August: 0430, 1630 Monday 22 August: 0330 ."
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"The road to Durban examines the cities making strides in reducing their carbon footprint .",
"Viewers will visit urban centers in Germany, Turkey and Kenya and the United Kingdom .",
"The show will culminate in Durban for the 17th U.N. Convention on Climate Change ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued Thursday to put up stiff resistance in pockets across the country, despite growing international pressure and persistent attacks from domestic forces.",
"NATO estimates that 200,000 of Libya's 6 million people remain threatened by Gadhafi loyalists.",
"Yet Libya's longtime ruler, his family and his supporters continue to be under stress from an array of sources.",
"That includes Interpol's issuance Thursday of a Red Notice calling for the arrest of Saadi Gadhafi, one of Moammar's sons, who allegedly used force and intimidation to take property while serving as head of the Libyan Football Federation.",
"The notice allows the international police agency to widely circulate an arrest warrant with the intention of extraditing the suspect.",
"His father is wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands on charges of crimes against humanity perpetrated since the Libyan uprising erupted in February.",
"Saif al-Islam, Moammar's son and Saadi's brother, as well as intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi are also wanted by the court.",
"In Tripoli, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Thursday that $16 billion in Libyan funds have been unfrozen by international banks, though not all of it has been made available to the country's new leaders.",
"Still, the funds have eased the new country's financial situation, he said.",
"Soldiers and families of soldiers killed in fighting will be paid a monthly allowance, he said.",
"Noting the continuing fighting in Sirte and Bani Walid, he said a new government would not be formed \"until Libya is fully liberated.\"",
"And Libya will import 750,000 lambs to be sacrificed in the upcoming Eid festival, he said.",
"Weeks after he lost his hold on power, Moammar Gadhafi's whereabouts are unknown, though the National Transitional Council reported Wednesday that he was somewhere near the western border town of Ghadamis.",
"Saadi Gadhafi, meanwhile, fled last month to neighboring Niger, where he was granted safe haven on humanitarian grounds.",
"Niger officials have refused to heed the demand of Libya's interim government that it hand over Gadhafi family remembers and/or regime officials who have fled there.",
"They have said that Saadi Gadhafi, like other loyalists who have taken refuge, could be sentenced to death if returned to Libya.",
"U.S. Sen. John McCain said Thursday during a visit to the North African nation that Libyans would like to see Moammar Gadhafi captured and tried.",
"\"There is no doubt this guy was hated by the people of Libya,\" McCain said.",
"He and Republican senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mark Kirk of Illinois traveled to Tripoli to see the nation's post-dictatorship progress.",
"Among other stops, they visited a prison.",
"While saying that Libya's interim council \"still has a lot of work to do,\" McCain called Libya a showcase of the Arab Spring: the movement in North Africa and the Middle East against a number of long-serving rulers.",
"\"The Libyan people have inspired the world,\" McCain said.",
"\"They have turned cynics into supporters.\"",
"But Gadhafi loyalists were still putting up stiff resistance in Bani Walid, Sabha and Sirte, the birthplace of the strongman.",
"The accuracy of attacks on forces in and around Bani Walid -- home to a powerful tribe loyal to Gadhafi -- has prompted allegations by at least one military field commander that Gadhafi supporters may have infiltrated into the ranks of anti-Gadhafi units.",
"\"There are spies among our revolutionaries who send our coordinates to the snipers and Gadhafi loyalists firing from inside Bani Walid, and the proof is that their attacks have been precisely targeted,\" said Emad Ziglam, a field commander for anti-Gadhafi troops outside the city, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) southeast of Tripoli.",
"\"The mistake was mixing the rebel units.",
"We should not have allowed fighters from Benghazi among others to join in, since we do not know them all.",
"There are definitely traitors among us.\"",
"Division among anti-Gadhafi fighters is not unusual.",
"During the months-long war, there have been reports of infighting, raising concerns about a lack of discipline and leadership among the ragtag group of fighters and the possible threat that could pose to the country's stability .",
"Neither side appeared to be making headway in Bani Walid, Ziglam said.",
"He described the humanitarian situation in Bani Walid as \"really bad\" and said 30,000 of the city's residents had fled toward Tripoli and 12,000 toward Sabha, in the south.",
"Thousands of people have fled the fighting in Sirte, where the ousted leader retains a following.",
"The National Transitional Council said that about 100 families left the city Wednesday, and agencies like the Red Cross have described dire conditions for those caught in the fighting.",
"The council also said Sirte was surrounded by revolutionary fighters but estimated that about 5,000 pro-Gadhafi fighters remained within the city.",
"Transitional council military commanders said Wednesday that its forces would wait a few days before launching any major offensive against the city in order to give civilians there more time to leave.",
"CNN's Mohamed Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Interpol issues Red Notice for Saadi Gadhafi, whose father is wanted by the ICC .",
"U.S. senators visit Tripoli and a Libyan prison on Thursday .",
"John McCain cheers the uprising, adds Libyans want Moammar Gadhafi captured alive ."
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"TRIPOLI, Libya (CNN) -- When Libya's National Transitional Council set up shop in the capital, Tripoli, it found the cupboard was bare.",
"\"We only had $13.5 million in the Central Bank of Libya,\" according to Ali Tarhouni, the oil and economy Minister and one of the first senior officials of the NTC to arrive in the capital.",
"Moammar Gadhafi was on the run, but an acute shortage of Libyan dinar -- the national currency -- threatened to stop the revolution in its tracks.",
"\"I was willing to do anything to get the urgent needs to the Libyans,\" Tarhouni said last week.",
"\"We used parallel markets in the exchange of the money.\"",
"\"Parallel markets\" meant wealthy currency dealers in Benghazi, who apparently had many more dinar at their disposal than Gadhafi's Central Bank in Tripoli or the rebels' own Central Bank in Benghazi.",
"With names like Golden Dinar and Sahara International, they became the financial lubricant of anti-Gadhafi forces.",
"The NTC's financial arm, the Temporary Financing Mechanism, had by then already tapped into this informal network of foreign exchange dealers, but not without some controversy.",
"Early in August, according to one source familiar with the TFM's dealings, it exchanged $10 million at a rate of 1.45 dinar to the dollar.",
"The source said that was less than the prevailing market rate of 1.55 dinar, suggesting that the dealer involved did exceptionally well.",
"Another transaction later in August also appeared to be at less than the market rate.",
"\"On what basis did they choose those dealers and those exchange rates?\"",
"the source asked.",
"One currency dealer in Benghazi, Ibrahim Salaby, said the TFM's dealings smacked of favoritism..",
"The TFM says all its dealings have been transparent.",
"It says it had to use the \"parallel\" market and was sanctioned to do so by the rebels' \"Central Bank,\" which was established in Benghazi soon after Gadhafi's forces were ejected from the city.",
"TFM officials said the central bank simply did not have the available funds to exchange large sums of cash, so it designated exchange dealers to be used.",
"E-mails obtained by CNN suggest that those dealers drove a hard bargain with the TFM.",
"One wrote in August that he was withdrawing an offer to exchange at a rate of 1.45 dinar to the dollar because \"no transfer was made, with situation changing in Libya. ...",
"Therefore we had to change the ex-rate to be 1.3LD/US.\"",
"In the chaos of the uprising, there was plenty of cash floating -- and flying -- around Libya.",
"Much of it came from the Gulf and went to groups and fighters beyond the NTC's control.",
"On one occasion, according to the TFM's director, Mazin Ramadan, a currency trader arrived at Benghazi airport short of 20,000 dinar.",
"The money was due to leave on a flight to aid civilians in the western mountains who hadn't received salaries and pensions.",
"Time was short, and a TFM official who had previously spent his own cash on a project was told to take an equivalent sum from a stockpile of cash held on board the plane.",
"A guard thought he was stealing and reported the incident.",
"\"It was a bad judgment call on his part,\" says Ramadan of the official, \"and I paid for it through the gossip channels.\"",
"\"It was a big mistake not communicating every step of our work.",
"We were too busy getting things done,\" Ramadan says.",
"But he insists the TFM has had plenty of oversight.",
"\"We have a steering board which includes a representative from the governments of Qatar and France.",
"We have an independent financial managing agent....They have to approve every transaction, every exchange and every project we do,\" he told CNN in an e-mail.",
"As for the shortage of Libyan dinar, that has eased, in part thanks to the Royal Air Force.",
"At the end of August it flew banknotes worth 280 million dinar to Benghazi, part of a stock of 1.86 billion dinar that had been frozen in the United Kingdom with the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1970."
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"Juneau, Alaska (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and other Republicans began circling Alaska Gov.",
"Sarah Palin in the weeks before McCain picked her as his 2008 running mate, according to e-mails from her old office.",
"Prominent Republicans had touted Palin as a possible running mate for a few months before.",
"But the courtship appears to have accelerated in early August of 2008, just as the biggest controversy of her administration was gathering steam, according to some of the 24,000 pages of e-mails released by Alaska's state government Friday.",
"\"Governor -- I received a call from Charles Adams, Communications Advisor Department for Senator McCain.",
"Mr. Adams was inquiring as to whether or not you would be interested in participating in a National Press Call on Wednesday, 08.06.08,\" Palin's scheduler, Janice Mason, wrote the then-governor on August 4.",
"\"This would be with their National Pool of Reporters.",
"It has very good attendance on calls.",
"It would help the elected official.",
"It would be a total of 15 minutes of your time and would be in regards to Energy.\"",
"It was not immediately clear whether Palin accepted the invitation.",
"In her response to Mason, she questioned whether she could take part in the call, given a planned trip to southwestern Alaska.",
"Around the same time, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley requested a brief courtesy visit during an August 11 trip to Alaska's capital Juneau.",
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also e-mailed Palin to ask her advice on how Alaska distributed its oil taxes.",
"Gingrich suggested Alaska's model, which guarantees every resident a cut of the proceeds, could be adopted in other states.",
"And the Republican National Committee had Palin lined up for a 9 p.m. speaking slot at the party's convention in Minneapolis on September 2, the day she eventually delivered her acceptance speech, as early as August 20.",
"\"RNC feels that this is a much better slot for you and they want you on Primetime,\" Mason wrote.",
"Nothing in the documents indicates whether Palin knew she was being considered for a slot on the national ticket, and further documents indicate she planned to stay at a Hilton Garden Inn and return from Minneapolis the day after her speech.",
"Neither her husband, Todd, nor infant son, Trig, would be able to accompany her, she wrote -- \"All the more reason to keep the trip short.\"",
"McCain eventually named Palin his choice for vice president on August 29, catapulting the once-obscure governor into the national spotlight and making her a potential contender for the GOP's No.",
"1 position in 2012.",
"State officials released the trove of e-mail -- six 11-by-17-inch boxes worth -- on Friday, the result of Freedom of Information Act requests dating to her vice presidential nomination.",
"About three dozen reporters and photographers crammed into the crowded hallway of a state office building in Juneau and hauled them away for review Friday morning.",
"Around the same time that she was being considered for the vice presidential nomination, Palin was coming under increasing scrutiny over her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.",
"Monegan's backers asserted that Palin had fired him because he refused to sack her ex-brother-in-law, a state police officer who had been involved in a bitter custody dispute with Palin's sister.",
"The flap became known as \"Troopergate,\" and it dogged Palin throughout the remainder of the campaign.",
"Two investigations came to differing conclusions about her actions: One found she violated state ethics law by using state employees to put pressure on her former in-law, another found she had stayed within the law and little evidence she knew of the actions of her subordinates.",
"The first investigation was commissioned by the state Legislature, the second requested by Palin herself.",
"On August 6, 2008, Palin was told that the Legislature's investigator, Steven Branchflower, had requested \"a laundry list\" of records from the governor's office: \"Emails, files correspondence, names and addresses of any and all staff that would have any knowledge of Walt's firing,\" wrote her then-chief of staff, Mike Nizich.",
"In the e-mail, one of those released Friday, Nizich adds, \"You got to be kidding me.\"",
"And Palin replies, \"Geez.",
"This is crazy.\" Earlier records in the stash show Palin's frustration with complaints about her family's state-paid travel even before she entered the national spotlight, instructing an aide to remind a reporter \"of the family travels w (with) me that I have personally pd (paid) for.\"",
"\"Hopefully our records very clearly show that,\" Palin wrote on July 10, 2008.",
"\"Also, my return of every per diem offer for everything related to the kids ... and we need to be proactive in this issue with reminding him of all the steps taken to save state monies like no Anchorage apartment ... no chef ... security down from 7 to 2, whatever.\"",
"Palin eventually paid back about $7,000 for travel expenses for her children after an ethics investigator determined nine trips were questionable.",
"The settlement stated that Palin did not violate Alaska's ethics law or commit any wrongdoing, and that she followed the advice of experienced staff.",
"A spokesman for her political action committee said Friday that the documents show \"a governor hard at work.\"",
"\"The thousands upon thousands of e-mails released today show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state,\" said Tim Crawford, treasurer of Sarah PAC, Palin's political action committee.",
"Meanwhile, in a scandal that rocked Alaska's political establishment, Palin moved quickly to link a key figure to her defeated predecessor, Frank Murkowski, the documents show.",
"\"FYI -- I've asked Frank Bailey to help me track down soem [sic] evidence of past administration's dealing with Bill Allen,\" Palin wrote on May 8, 2007, a day after Allen pleaded guilty to bribery, extortion and conspiracy.",
"Palin had beaten Murkowski in 2006 in a primary battle in which she campaigned as a reformer, and backed an unsuccessful 2010 challenge to Murkowski's daughter, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.",
"Allen had been the CEO of the Alaska oilfield services company VECO, and federal prosecutors accused him of leading a scheme to bribe top lawmakers in exchange for favorable state action.",
"The scandal disgraced several lawmakers and led to prison time for Allen.",
"Aides soon replied that VECO had paid $15,000 to fly Frank Murkowski and Allen to a Council of State Governments meeting in Thailand in 2004.",
"Palin aides also asked Allen to resign from a seat on a state board that cultivated ties with the Canadian province of Alberta, a request to which Allen -- who was later sentenced to three years in prison -- quickly agreed.",
"The documents include messages from Palin's official account as well as private accounts, according to Linda Perez, the administrative director for current Gov.",
"Sean Parnell.",
"A search was done \"in an effort to capture everything in the state e-mail system\" that would comply with the request, Perez said.",
"Perez said 2,275 pages are not being released due to legal privileges, while some documents were redacted to remove names.",
"E-mails for the remaining 10 months of Palin's tenure, leading up to her 2009 resignation, have yet to be released.",
"Before the release, Palin told \"Fox News Sunday\" that the messages \"obviously weren't meant for public consumption,\" saying she was sure the material would be taken out of context.",
"\"I think every rock in the Palin household that could ever be kicked over and uncovered anything, it's already been kicked over,\" she said.",
"CNN's Drew Griffin, Kathleen Johnston, Katie Glaeser and Steve Brusk contributed to this report."
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"NEW: E-mails reveal frustration with early ethics questions .",
"Palin, aides express frustration with questions about children's travel .",
"Palin wanted to know about \"past administration's dealing\" with scandal figure ."
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"(CNN) -- The director of a battered women's shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was being held Wednesday on charges that she forced the women she cared for to commit sex acts with strangers, local authorities told CNN.",
"Authorities were also investigating if children who lived at the shelter -- some as young as 5 years old -- were forced into prostitution as well, Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the state attorney general's office, told CNN.",
"\"That is an aspect of our investigation, but that's still yet to be determined,\" Sandoval, whose office has taken the lead of the investigation, said.",
"Soledad Griensen Porras, 50, of Juarez was arrested Tuesday afternoon after one of the women in the shelter stopped police in the street asking for help, according to Adrian Sanchez, spokesman for the Juarez municipal police department.",
"\"Our officers responded immediately and that's when they found the shelter, which had pretty much become a brothel,\" Sanchez said.",
"Officers found \"several irregularities\" at the shelter \"as well as five other women...and eight children,\" Sanchez said.",
"The children had been beaten and had \"chile put on their private parts\" according to a press release from the Juarez municipal police department.",
"\"Griensen is the only person being held in relation to these charges,\" Sandoval told CNN.",
"\"She is currently in our custody.",
"I can't give you anymore details about her since our investigation is ongoing,\" he added.",
"It was unclear how long Griensen had owned the Mujeres Unidas Contra la Violencia (\"women united against violence\") shelter or how long its residents allegedly had been forced to perform sex acts, Sanchez said.",
"\"That is all part of the investigation,\" he added."
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"\"The shelter ... had pretty much become a brothel,\" says a Juarez police spokesman .",
"One of the women living at the shelter stopped police in the street and asked for help .",
"A 50-year-old woman heading the shelter is in police custody ."
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"(CNET) -- The much-discussed BlackBerry tablet may finally come to fruition as soon as next week.",
"It's been talked about for months, but Research In Motion has yet to acknowledge that such a device exists.",
"But today The Wall Street Journal reported that the Canadian smartphone maker may reveal its own iPad-like tablet at its developer conference in San Francisco, which starts Monday.",
"The Journal's unnamed sources say the device is not ready for shipping to customers, but will by sometime during the fourth quarter of this year.",
"The BlackBerry tablet--sometimes referred to as the \"BlackPad\" since RIM bought the domain blackpad.com--is said to have a 7-inch touchscreen and at least one camera, maybe two, according to the Journal.",
"Previous reports have said the BlackPad would have a screen closer to the size of the 9.7-inch iPad.",
"In line with previous reports, the tablet will not have its own cellular service but will be a companion device to a BlackBerry smartphone, the newspaper reported.",
"That means the tablet will have Wi-Fi access but will need to be tethered to a BlackBerry for a 3G connection.",
"Perhaps most interesting is what RIM apparently has planned on the software front.",
"It's been reported before, but the Journal's story reiterates that the tablet won't use RIM's new BlackBerry 6 mobile OS.",
"Instead it will use a new OS from QNX Software, a company RIM purchased earlier this year.",
"The report says the QNX software could eventually replace the software on all RIM smartphones.",
"How much the device will cost is still unknown.",
"Since it's not being sold with wireless service, it seems unlikely it would be sold through a carrier the way BlackBerrys are, and that would mean no carrier subsidy like newer tablets from Dell and Samsung have.",
"© 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"Research In Motion may unveil a tablet device at its conference next week, a report says .",
"The device is sometimes called a \"BlackPad\" since RIM bought the domain blackpad.com .",
"Wall Street reports that tablet will use a new OS from QNX Software ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- One hundred and two canvases all with similar composition but different colors hung edge-to-edge make up the totality of Andy Warhol's painting called \"Shadows\" currently on display at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington.",
"This marks the first time all of the canvases, which were completed over thirty years ago, have been displayed together as Warhol intended.",
"There aren't many museums with enough unbroken wall space to hold the entire piece.",
"The canvases, each measuring four by six feet are hung edge-to-edge as the artist intended covering a continuous 451 linear feet on the gallery wall making it longer than a football field.",
"\"These galleries are just curved enough to give you flow, or push our visitors through the space,\" said Associate Curator Evelyn Hankins.",
"\"There's this kind of beautiful dialogue or conversation between the art and the architecture.\"",
"\"It gives you goose bumps.",
"It shows the elasticity of the painting and the concept,\" said Yasmil Raymond, a curator at the Dia Art Foundation that owns the painting.",
"Only 83 canvases of the work were shown at the first displayed in 1979 at the Heiner Friedrich gallery in New York.",
"They took up several galleries, the continuity broken every time the work came to a corner or a door.",
"\"On the one hand, this installation is about the gestalt, the overwhelming effect of seeing all of these paintings that continue beyond the realm of sight,\" said Hankins.",
"\"And then, it's about looking at the individual objects at the same time.\"",
"The artist used seventeen different colors from chartreuse to Day-Glo acid green to a dull brown to create the backgrounds for the canvases.",
"Then one of two styles of \"peaks\" was silk screened onto the backgrounds, creating a repetitive pattern when the canvases are hung side-by-side.",
"The type of paint stroke used for the backgrounds varies, so that even the canvases with similar colors look different up close.",
"The silk screened image or \"shadow\" is always flat.",
"\"It's a silk screen that I mop over with paint,\" said Warhol about the Shadows when it was first displayed.",
"And the curators believe that Warhol, or perhaps one of his assistants, did use an actual mop when creating some of the backgrounds.",
"The February 1979 issue of New York Magazine quotes Warhol saying, \"Someone asked me if I though they were art and I said no.",
"You see, the opening party had a disco.",
"I guess that makes them disco décor.\"",
"In the late 1970s, Warhol experimented with abstractions, a departure from the pop culture inspired works for which he is known.",
"\"This work comes in a moment when he is reinventing what he wants to do as a painter,\" said Raymond pointing out Warhol stuck with the vivid colors that he had used since the early 1960s.",
"Pragmatically, hanging the paintings edge-to-edge was not as easy as you might think Hankins said because the canvas frames have warped over time.",
"\"Humidity changes the canvas and changes the center bar that the canvas is on,\" she said.",
"\"Wood changes, so none of them are perfectly straight.",
"To hang them edge-to-edge and keep them straight is an extraordinary task.\"",
"\"Shadows\" will be on exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution's museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art until January 15, 2012.",
"Across the National Mall from the Hirshhorn at the National Gallery, more of Warhol's art can be seen in an exhibit on to his work with news headlines that runs through January 2, 2012."
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"In the late 1970s, Warhol experimented with abstractions, departing from pop culture inspired works .",
"The canvases, each measuring four by six feet are hung edge-to-edge as the artist intended ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- On the eve of his address at the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared his country to be \"a new model for life to the world.\"",
"He also said that the United States might be willing to \"highjack\" the Middle East uprisings, according to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA.",
"Ahmadinejad's appearance at the United Nations in New York comes a day after two U.S. hikers, held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, were released.",
"Wednesday evening, Ahmadinejad met with a group of U.S. university students, and then gave an interview to Iranian satellite television.",
"His office provided translated quotes from both.",
"The Iranian leader said \"that the world is in need of change, and Marxism, liberalism, humanism and the West could not solve man's problems,\" his office said.",
"Ahmadinejad added that \"relying on its culture and rich civilization,\" Iran is \"the only nation\" that \"can offer a new model for life to the world.\"",
"He told the students \"that the U.S. may be willing to highjack the regional uprisings but a stormy movement is under way,\" IRNA reported.",
"\"Elsewhere in his speech, he said that the U.N. was set up with the objective of preventing bullying in the world, but this did not happen,\" IRNA reported.",
"Ahamdinejad also gave an interview to New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof in which he discussed the dispute over Iran's nuclear activities.",
"He said that if the United States gave Iran 20% enriched uranium, \"we will cease the domestic enrichment of uranium of up to 20% this very week.",
"We only want the 20% enrichment for our domestic consumption.",
"If they give it to us according to international law, according to IAEA laws, without preconditions, we will cease domestic enrichment.\"",
"Many countries, including the United States, believe Iran is trying to create a nuclear weapons program, but Tehran insists its activities are only to provide energy for the country."
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"(CNN) -- The death of Moammar Gadhafi is not the game-changer many would like it to be.",
"His regime was already a thing of the past.",
"For Libya's transitional government, the challenges today are just as daunting as they were last week.",
"To be sure, Gadhafi's death provides them a moment of respite and an important propaganda boost as they try to cobble together a credible coalition that can govern.",
"It further breaks down the psychological barrier of fear so many Libyans have continued to feel, left over from decades of dictatorial rule.",
"However, the gains, while important, are more symbolic than practical.",
"Gadhafi was the greatest unifier Libyans could have asked for.",
"He was erratic, brutal and a mismanager par excellence and, as such, managed to mobilize a broad swath of Libyans around a shared goal: the downfall of his hated regime.",
"Now that Gadhafi has left the scene, the rebels and their fledgling government have lost their original raison d'etre.",
"Libya was the Arab Spring's first true revolution, the only one in which the revolutionaries now hold the levers of power.",
"And, unlike Egypt and Tunisia, Libya does not have to contend with old, decaying institutions.",
"The old regime does not need to be adapted to the new.",
"But as promising as blank slates are, they are also dangerous.",
"The National Transitional Council has been plagued by infighting and the emergence of factions.",
"The divisions have taken on an increasingly ideological tone.",
"It is the same old story: Liberals and Islamists come together during the revolution, only to split afterward, often in acrimony.",
"Above all else, a government needs to govern.",
"It has to have a monopoly on the use of force, and this is a challenge in one the world's most heavily armed countries.",
"The various militias that helped bring down Gadhafi now represent competing centers of power and influence.",
"Disarming them, or integrating them into the national army, is a key task ahead for Libya's new leaders.",
"The euphoria we are witnessing today in the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi is encouraging.",
"But it is also premature and misleading.",
"It is likely to be remembered as a brief but welcome aberration in a slow slog toward something resembling democracy.",
"All the actors with a stake in Libya should quickly adjust their expectations accordingly.",
"I, and many others, are optimistic about Libya prospects, but only if Libyans -- and international supporters and donors -- get the key components of the transitions right and do it right away.",
"Revolutions are much more glamorous when they are being fought, less so when they're being built through the sometimes unsavory give-and-take of consensus building.",
"With Syria disintegrating, Tunisia holding landmark elections and Egypt sputtering along unconvincingly, the attentions of the international community are understandably divided.",
"But it cannot afford to forget Libya.",
"Fortunately, Libya is perhaps the only Arab country where people seem to genuinely like Europe and the United States for the decisive support they offered to the revolution.",
"That sort of good will doesn't come every day.",
"Here's hoping that we use it and that we use it for good.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Shadi Hamid."
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"Shadi Hamid: Libya's new government's task is challenge even before Gadhafi's death .",
"Loathing for regime unified Libyans, he says; now new government must unify, govern .",
"Disarming militias, integrating them into army next task; slog toward democracy begins .",
"Hamid: International community must use its unique chance to help Libya in its transition ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Kenya's president declared two days of national mourning Wednesday for Wangari Maathai, the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize, who died Monday after a battle with cancer.",
"The announcement by President Mwai Kibaki also said a state funeral would be held for Maathai.",
"No date was specified.",
"Maathai, 71, was an environmentalist who had long campaigned for human rights and the empowerment of Africa's most impoverished people.",
"Kibaki's announcement said Thursday and Friday would be days of national mourning for Maathai, with the national flag flown at half staff.",
"It also said the government has nominated representatives to join the family committee planning the funeral.",
"Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, a tree-planting campaign to simultaneously mitigate deforestation and to give locals, especially women and girls, access to resources like firewood for cooking and clean water.",
"The movement has since planted more than 40 million trees.",
"In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote sustainable development, democracy and peace.",
"She also was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree.",
"In December 2002, she was elected to Kenya's parliament with an overwhelming 98% of the vote.",
"She was honored by Time magazine in 2005 as one of 100 most influential people in the world, and Forbes listed her as one of 100 most powerful women in the world."
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"A state funeral will be held for the environmental activist who died this week .",
"She was the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize ."
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"(CNN) -- African football has been left reeling following the tragic deaths of two players in two days over the weekend, both while appearing for their clubs.",
"On Saturday, Nigerian striker Endurance Idahor collapsed on the pitch and died on his way to hospital while playing for Al Merreikh against Al Amal in a Sudanese league match.",
"The 25-year-old fell to the ground after a minor collision with a rival player and local media later reported that the player had suffered a heart attack.",
"Idahor finished as top scorer during his first season in Sudan and scored 118 goals in 176 appearances for Al Merreikh.",
"Meanwhile, on Sunday, teenage central defender Bartholomew Opoku collapsed while playing for Ghanaian side Kessben in their league clash with Liberty.",
"The 19-year-old was rushed to hospital but passed away on Monday, with the cause of death still unknown.",
"\"It's a massive tragedy and the whole club is in shock.",
"There was no hint he was unwell,\" the BBC Web site quoted Kessben spokesman Fred Acheampong."
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"African football has been left reeling following the tragic deaths of two players .",
"Nigerian striker Endurance Idahor collapsed on the pitch and died in a match in Sudan .",
"Teenage defender Bartholomew Opoku collapsed while playing for Ghanaian side Kessben ."
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"(CNN) -- Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry's suggestion that the United States may send troops to fight Mexican drug cartels riled officials and spurred debate from analysts on both sides of the border Monday.",
"Mexico's top representative in the United States rejected the idea, which the Republican presidential candidate mentioned at a New Hampshire campaign stop Saturday.",
"Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan told reporters his country's longstanding opposition to the presence of American forces had not changed.",
"\"The matter of the participation or presence of U.S. troops on Mexican soil is not on the table,\" Sarukhan said Monday.",
"\"It is not a component that forms part of the innovative approaches that Mexico and the United States have been using to confront transnational organized crime.\"",
"Perry said Saturday that leaders from Mexico and the United States should meet after next year's elections to address the deadly drug trade.",
"\"It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border,\" he said.",
"Analysts in the United States and Mexico said the controversial idea could have significant political consequences and security implications -- even as a political campaign proposal.",
"\"It may be well-intentioned, but it has the potential of really undermining cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico,\" said Eric L. Olson, who studies security relationships between the neighboring countries at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.",
"The United States admits its drug market plays a role in fueling violence in Mexico, and has pledged $1.4 billion in assistance through the so-called Merida Initiative, which includes programs to help train Mexican military, police and justice officials.",
"\"If there's a perception in Mexico that this is all designed somehow as a backdoor entry into Mexico by the U.S., if there's a perception that this is leading to the United States' direct intervention into Mexico, it puts at risk all those cooperative efforts,\" Olson said.",
"George W. Grayson -- author of \"Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?\"",
"-- described Perry's proposal as \"absolute, unadulterated nonsense.\"",
"\"The first thing you'd have to fight is the Mexican Army if you sent troops in there.",
"It's ludicrous,\" he said.",
"Even if they don't gain traction, Perry's comments will likely resonate in campaign rhetoric beyond the United States' borders, as presidential campaigns in Mexico are also kicking into high gear, Grayson said.",
"\"Typically this is a time of nationalism and breast-beating by candidates. ...",
"The politicians are the ones who are going to walk all over it.",
"They're going to say, 'See, the gringos are coming after us,'\" he said.",
"Several Mexican lawmakers -- who the country's constitution says would need to approve any presence of U.S. soldiers -- expressed concern about Perry's comments Monday.",
"Institutional Revolutionary Party Sen. Maria de los Angeles Moreno said U.S. troops in Mexico would be a clear \"aggression.\"",
"\"We must make an effort to face our own challenge, the violence of the criminals and the organized crime groups, but with our own forces and always maintaining the control of our territory,\" said Sen. Carlos Navarrete of the left-wing Democratic Revolution Party.",
"But security analyst Pablo Monzalvo said when it comes to U.S. involvement, some Mexican officials are prone to double speak -- allowing U.S.-led measures to occur even as they speak out against them.",
"Earlier this year Mexico's foreign minister fielded questions from angry lawmakers who said U.S. surveillance of Mexican territory -- aimed at detecting criminal groups -- was illegal.",
"\"There is interference...and this has been said publicly.",
"But I ask myself what has been accomplished by ceding a certain amount of authority,\" Monzalvo said.",
"Perry, who was first elected governor of Texas in 2002, has faced criticism from opponents who have attacked his conservative bona fides on illegal immigration at a series of debates this fall.",
"\"He's trying to compensate and say, 'Yeah, I'm really tough on Mexico,' but I think he's overcompensated,\" said Grayson, who is also a professor of government at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.",
"This isn't the first time Perry has called for greater force fighting drug cartels.",
"Last year he asked U.S. President Barack Obama to send 1,000 additional National Guard troops to the border.",
"\"We must show the cartels that Washington will no longer tolerate their terrorizing and criminalizing the border region,\" he wrote in a letter to the president.",
"Troops crossing the border, however, is a different matter, Olson said.",
"\"No Mexican wants the U.S. to send its military troops. ...",
"They welcome cooperation and they welcome the U.S. accepting responsibility for its role, but they don't welcome the notion of sending troops.",
"That's crossing a line,\" he said.",
"CNN's Isabel Morales and Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report."
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"The Texas governor says fighting the drug trade \"may require our military in Mexico\"\nMexico's ambassador says the presence of U.S. troops \"is not on the table\"\nThe idea could have serious political and security consequences, analysts say .",
"Analyst: Sending troops could undermine cooperation between the neighboring countries ."
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"(CNN) -- Formula One team Williams has announced an increase in profits for the first half of 2011.",
"Despite enduring their worst season on the track, Williams Grand Prix Holdings recorded pre-tax profits were up 37% from $2.07 million to $2.7 million while turnover rose 5% from $71.8 million to $75.5 million.",
"\"Our core business has performed in line with expectations, with greater costs incurred in the first half,\" Williams chairman Adam Parr said, the BBC web site reported.",
"\"We have made several senior new appointments in engineering and aerodynamics, bolstering both our team devoted to improving track-side performance, and supporting our Jaguar Land Rover partnership,\" Parr added, the BBC web site reported.",
"Williams founder and team principal, Frank Williams said the results built on the foundations laid in 2010 while highlighting \"momentum in our diversified growth.\"",
"\"We have upgraded and extended existing partners, whilst our new partnership with Jaguar Land Rover was followed by an exciting alliance announced with Renault (who now provide their engines), which will further strengthen our medium-term performance both on and off the track,\" Williams said, the UK's Press Association reported."
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"Williams team profits rise from $2.07 million to $2.7 million in first half of 2011 .",
"Team principal, Frank Williams says growth highlights \"momentum and \"diversified growth.\""
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"(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal survived a scare in his opening round match against John Isner at the French Open on Tuesday as the big-serving American took the five-time champion to five sets.",
"The World No.1 eventually prevailed against marathon man Isner 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 6-7 (2-7) 6-2 6-4 in just over four hours to set up a second round match with compatriot Pablo Andujar.",
"Nadal started the match in typically dominant fashion breaking Isner in the seventh game of the opening set, before serving out to take a one-set lead.",
"But Isner -- who won the 11-hour epic against Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon last year -- wasn't about to give up and promptly raised his game.",
"The six-foot-nine American -- ranked 39 in the world -- took both the second and third sets on the tiebreak raising the prospect of handing Nadal only his second defeat at Roland Garros and causing one of the biggest upsets in years.",
"But the Spaniard immediately mounted a comeback gaining an early break in the fourth before closing out the set 6-2.",
"Nadal secured another eary break in the fifth set but Isner didn't crumble and pushed his opponent all the way.",
"But Nadal's persistence was rewarded as he took the final set 6-4.",
"\"It's always a very, very close match against John because you play under pressure all the time and at moments in the tie-breaks.",
"I didn't play very well, I was too nervous,\" Nadal said in an on-court interview after the match.",
"Clijsters wins on Paris return .",
"In other matches, fourth seed Andy Murray eased into the second round beating French qualifier Eric Prodon in straight sets 6-4 6-1 6-3.",
"The Briton will play Italy's Simone Bolelli in his next match.",
"Fifth seed and 2009 runner-up Robin Soderling needed four sets to beat American Ryan Harrison.",
"The Swede's 6-1 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 7-5 victory means he will play Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas.",
"Austria's Jurgen Melzer, a losing semi-finalist last year, beat Germany's Andreas Beck 6-3 6-4 6-2.",
"But 11th-seed Nicolas Almagro of Spain is out after losing in five sets 3-6 2-6 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 to the Polish qualifier Lukasz Kubot."
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"Isner led two sets to one, but Nadal fight back ensures passage to second round .",
"Andy Murray and Robin Soderling both into second round after victories on Tuesday ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- It's a daunting assignment for an Army combat brigade at Fort Bliss, Oklahoma -- get all the military's high-tech software, uplinks, phones, drones and computers to talk to each other.",
"The goal of the Army is to fine-tune a global network to provide everyone, from commanders to frontline soldiers, the same information, quickly and seamlessly.",
"\"The network will literally redefine how we fight in the same way that social media has changed the way we interact and communicate in our personal lives,\" Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli said Monday.",
"\"The network will change how we operate on the battlefield.\"",
"Chiarelli said that over 10 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, new equipment had been raced to the battlefield, some of it off the shelf.",
"Now the task is to synchronize new and old equipment in a battlefield setting in the vast and rough terrain of Fort Bliss.",
"That Army installation provides mountainous terrain and desert in an area the size of Connecticut.",
"The testing by 3,500 to 4,000 members of the combat brigade will be the centerpiece of the Army's modernization program, according to Chiarelli.",
"\"It will make our various formations more lethal, faster and more survivable on today's battlefield,\" he said in an hour-long question-and-answer session with journalists at the Pentagon.",
"Already the Army is experimenting with smartphones, finding uses as diverse as monitoring the eye-in-the-sky, real-time video of drones, or transmitting pictures of the wounded to doctors miles away, or calling up biometric details of suspected insurgents stopped at checkpoints.",
"Traditionally formal Army procurement programs could stretch eight years or longer, finally delivering a product to specifications that might already be years behind current technology.",
"Now if the Army is able to integrate existing software into its network, then industry can regularly and quickly update the technology.",
"\"Together we must we ensure have the most current technology available so that ultimately we may get it into the hands of our soldiers as quickly as possible,\" Chiarelli said.",
"Over time the Army will be able to plan and buy equipment more efficiently.",
"\"The Army will buy what it needs, when it needs it, for those that need it,\" Chiarelli said.",
"\"This allows us to buy less, more often and incrementally improve the network capability over time.\""
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"A combat brigade at the Army's Fort Bliss is on a technological mission .",
"The goal is to fine-tune and synchronize a global network of military technology .",
"\"The network will change how we operate on the battlefield,\" says a general ."
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"(CNN) -- News International, publisher of the now-defunct News of the World newspaper in Great Britain, has agreed to pay 2 million British pounds -- the equivalent of $3.2 million -- to the family of British teen Milly Dowler, who disappeared in 2002 and was later found dead.",
"Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of chief executive of News Corporation, the parent company of News International, personally apologized to Dowler's family in July amid allegations that News of the World journalists listened to voice-mail messages on the girl's phone while she was missing.",
"\"As the founder of the company, I was appalled to find out what happened,\" Murdoch said after speaking with the family in July.",
"Allegations that journalists hacked into the girl's voice-mail were part of a larger phone-hacking scandal that rocked Britain this year, prompting several arrests, resignations and hearings in Parliament.",
"As part of the settlement, announced Friday by News International and the Dowler family, Murdoch will pay 1 million British pounds -- about $1.6 million -- to charities chosen by the Dowler family.",
"Those charities \"represent causes close to Milly and those that provide support to other victims of crime,\" in a statement that News International and the Dowler family issued Friday.",
"Milly Dowler was 13 when she disappeared.",
"\"Nothing that has been agreed will ever bring back Milly or undo the traumas of her disappearance and the horrendous murder trial earlier this year,\" the Dowler family said in a statement.",
"\"The only way that a fitting tribute could be agreed was to ensure that a very substantial donation to charity was made in Milly's memory.",
"We hope that projects will be undertaken so that some good can come from this.\"",
"Murdoch apologized again Friday for News of the World's actions.",
"\"The behaviour that the News of the World exhibited towards the Dowlers was abhorrent and I hope this donation underscores my regret for the company's role in this awful event,\" he said in the statement.",
"\"I also hope that through the personal donation something positive can be done in memory of their daughter.\""
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"NEW: Rupert Murdoch says News of the World's behavior was \"abhorrent\"\nRupert Murdoch agrees to donate to charities chosen by girl's family .",
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"(CNN) -- Brian Flynn, brother of a victim aboard downed Pan Am Flight 103, said Thursday that the killing of former Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi is a moment of justice.",
"\"For more than 20 years, (Gadhafi) continued to haunt the world,\" he said.",
"\"We can take some satisfaction that justice can be done.\"",
"LIVE BLOG: Latest developments on Gadhafi's death .",
"A bomb left 270 people dead when it exploded aboard the Boeing 747 as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, less than a week before Christmas day in 1988.",
"The attack ultimately was pinned on Libyan intelligence officials.",
"Flynn's brother, John Patrick, was one of 35 university students killed in the tragedy.",
"A permanent memorial at New York's Syracuse University was dedicated to the victims.",
"Read Brian Flynn's essay .",
"Flynn says he's been in contact with other victims' families, who likely shared a range of emotions upon hearing news of Gadhafi's death.",
"\"We're all together on this,\" he said of the families.",
"\"This is one of those situations that when (John Patrick Flynn) died, I said I promised him and myself that I wouldn't let it go, that there would be justice,\" he told CNN.",
"\"Today is an example that after 22 years, finally justice is done.",
"I owed him that.\" He says he felt \"the Libyan people have helped me fulfill my promise to him.\"",
"\"We commend and admire the courage of the Libyans, knowing that their freedom has come at a cost,\" Flynn added.",
"\"It's taken great courage also on the part of the Obama administration to lead the NATO forces against challenging political and diplomatic circumstances,\" he said.",
"U.S. and European war planes began a military campaign against Libyan government forces in March of this year in support of the country's rebels, helping to eventually oust the longtime strongman in August after more than four decades of near-absolute rule.",
"Gadhafi's death an answer to little girl's prayer .",
"\"Part of me thinks this story had to end this way,\" Flynn added, referring to the former Libyan leader's being killed rather than captured.",
"\"Although it's sometimes hard to celebrate when someone gets killed brutally,\" he said, \"I think in this case there's every cause for celebration.",
"\"He was an unrepentant murderer who was oppressive of his people.\"",
"Two years earlier, the only convicted Lockerbie plotter, Abdelbeset al-Megrahi, was freed from a Scotland prison after serving eight years of a life sentence.",
"He was set free on compassionate grounds because he was battling prostate cancer.",
"Al-Megrahi received a hero's welcome upon his return to Tripoli, enraging many in the United States and Britain.",
"But a Libyan envoy said the new government is not likely to send him back.",
"That country's ambassador to the United States cited al-Megrahi's poor health as a factor, saying he is a \"very sick man\" and is \"living with oxygen beside his bed.\"",
"At the time of his release, doctors had said he had only months to live, but al-Megrahi was still alive -- albeit visibly frail -- as of a few weeks ago.",
"So when news reports surfaced Thursday of Gadhafi's death, Flynn said he took a moment and thought that \"it's worth it, to get justice.\"",
"U.S. President Barack Obama announced later Thursday that \"today we can definitely say the Gadhafi regime has come to an end.\"",
"Speaking during a White House press conference, he said the United States is committed to Libya and will support the country's democratic transition.",
"\"You have won your revolution,\" he added, addressing the Libyan people.",
"For others, Gadhafi's killing also likely marks an end to more than two decades of documenting the Lockerbie tragedy.",
"Two years after the 1988 bombing, Syracuse University Archivist Amy S. Doherty said she contacted the families of the school's slain students, offering the archives as a place for families to donate \"correspondence, journals, diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, examples of creative work, video and audio tapes by or about their child or about the events following the disaster.\"",
"The first collection from a victim arrived in September 1990, according to a university statement.",
"Since then, materials relating to all 35 students have been added.",
"In 2006, the scope of the archives was expanded to include items pertaining to all 270 victims."
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"NEW: \"Part of me thinks this had to end this way,\" Brian Flynn says .",
"Flynn's brother was one of 35 university students killed in the 1988 bombing ."
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"(CNN) -- The decisive and positive terms of ETA's response to Monday's \"Declaration\" in Donostia-San Sebastian by the International Conference group is to be welcomed, as is the response of the Spanish government and others.",
"It has taken many years of patient work to get to this point and every effort must be made to build momentum into the process.",
"I first became involved in the efforts to build a peace process in the Basque country at the time of our own peace agreement in 1998.",
"An Irish priest, Fr.",
"Alex Reid, who I have known for almost 40 years, had played a key role in creating the Irish peace process and he was asked by a priest in that region to bring his expertise to bear.",
"In the years since then, Sinn Féin leaders, including myself, have traveled regularly to the region and met representatives from the Basque country and the Spanish state.",
"It is obvious that many of those in the Basque region who we met are committed to peace and that they have consciously sought to learn from the Irish experience.",
"Almost two years ago a new group Abertzale Left, which includes the banned Batasuna party agreed on a new political strategy for progress.",
"For those familiar with the peace process in Ireland the language used by Abertzale Left is strikingly similar to that used in Ireland.",
"Abertzale Left committed itself to using \"exclusively political and democratic means\" to advance its political objectives.",
"And it seeks to advance political change \"in a complete absence of violence and without interference\" and \"conducted in accordance with the Mitchell Principles.\"",
"These principles were devised by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell who was chair of the peace negotiations in Ireland.",
"Last Monday I returned to Donostia-San Sebastian in Euskadi for an \"international conference to promote the resolution of the conflict in the Basque Country.\"",
"An international group of leaders -- myself, Kofi Annan, Jonathan Powell, Bertie Ahern, Pierre Joxe, and Gro Harland Bruntland -- had been asked to speak on that issue and to set out our view of the next steps needed to encourage a step change in the Basque peace process.",
"In my contribution I pointed out that violence usually occurs when people believe there is no alternative.",
"Transforming a situation from conflict to peace requires creating an alternative.",
"This is hugely challenging.",
"It demands that we seek to understand what motivates, what inspires, what drives our opponent.",
"Each conflict is different but in the course of our efforts Irish Republicans learned that there are general principles of peace-making and methods of conflict-resolution that can be applied elsewhere and which can help end conflict if applied properly.",
"These elements include: dialogue, tackling the causes which lie at the heart of the conflict, a good faith engagement by all sides, an inclusive process with all parties treated as equals and mandates respected.",
"All issues must be on the agenda -- there can be no pre-conditions, no vetoes, and no attempt to pre-determine the outcome or preclude any outcome.",
"And there should be time frames.",
"Most importantly, participants must stay focused and be prepared to take risks and engage in initiatives and confidence-building measures.",
"But if there is a starting point, it must be dialogue.",
"I emphasized this again and again. This is the foundation upon which any progress will be built.",
"Following our deliberations the International Group expressed the opinion that \"it is possible to end, the last armed confrontation in Europe\".",
"We called upon ETA to \"make a public declaration of the definitive cessation of all armed action and to request talks with the governments of Spain and France to address exclusively the consequences of the conflict.\"",
"Thursday's statement meets that requirement.",
"The Spanish government has also welcomed the statement.",
"So, a breakthrough has been achieved, but it must be built upon quickly if its potential is to be achieved.",
"The next steps should now focus on promoting reconciliation, addressing the issue of victims and recognizing that a serious effort has to be made to heal personal and social wounds.",
"There are other issues which will need to be addressed and which can act as confidence-building measures within the process.",
"For example, among these are the issue of prisoners and of demilitarizing the environment and of respecting and acknowledging the democratic rights of all political parties and treating them as equals.",
"And there is for the Basque people the key issue of the right of the people of that historic region to self-determination.",
"As we learned from our own experience, making peace is very difficult.",
"But as the peace processes in Ireland and in South Africa demonstrate, no conflict is intractable.",
"If there is political will and imagination and a preparedness to take risks for peace it is possible to rewrite the script, make progress and achieve agreements.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Gerry Adams."
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"Basque separatist group ETA said Thursday it is laying down its arms .",
"Gerry Adams says there are key lessons from Ireland's experience with peacemaking .",
"He says violence usually occurs when people believe there is no alternative .",
"Adams: Political will, imagination and courage can make peace possible ."
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"(CNN) -- Tunisia, the country where the wave of popular Arab discontent started and spread, will fittingly hold the Arab Spring's first election Sunday, a contest pitting secularists against Islamists.",
"The vote for a National Constituent Assembly is being billed as the freest and fairest since the strongman who ruled Tunisia for nearly a quarter century, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown by street protests last January.",
"Candidates are competing for 218 seats in the assembly, which will be charged with writing a new constitution and probably deciding the structure of Tunisia's future government.",
"Scores of political parties and independent candidates are competing in the contest.",
"Voting began a couple of days ago in the Tunisian diaspora.",
"The winners will be tasked with confronting severe domestic problems front and center after the self-immolation in December of a fruit vendor whose cart had been seized by police.",
"The vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, died in early January.",
"His fiery suicide touched off a firestorm among Tunisians fed up with corruption, high unemployment and escalating food prices.",
"The Tunisian ferment sparked uprisings in North Africa, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Moammar Gadhafi-led Libyan regime were ousted, and public anger in the Middle East, where anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.",
"The collective unrest has been dubbed the Arab Spring.",
"The political debate has been robust during election campaigning and violence has erupted.",
"Islamist groups protested in Tunis this month after a TV network broadcast an animated film called \"Persepolis,\" which at one point depicts God, regarded as an act of blasphemy to many Muslims.",
"Police intervened with tear gas.",
"A subsequent march by Muslim Salafist groups on the prime minister's office was dispersed.",
"Also, there was an attack on the home of the TV station's owner.",
"Ennahada, the most prominent Islamist party, condemned the violence but did not criticize the protests.",
"Amid such tumult, public opinion across Tunisia has been frank and diverse.",
"Balti, one of Tunisia's most popular rappers and a supporter of the Tunisian revolution, told CNN he doesn't plan to vote.",
"\"I don't trust any of these political parties,\" he said.",
"\"Especially the parties that are using religion to get through to the hearts and minds of the people.\"",
"In contrast, his sound engineer plans to vote for Ennahada, strongly supported in provincial cities and among the working classes.",
"\"We are a Muslim country.",
"Our language is Arabic.",
"And Ennahada is close to Islam,\" said M.D.M.C.",
"\"I want religion to play a bigger role in Tunisian society.\"",
"Ennahada consistently wins popularity polls but for many it raises fears.",
"One controversial ad raised the specter of an Islamist society where restaurants are empty of foreign tourists and women lose the right to have jobs or shun headscarves.",
"Ahmed Najib Chebbi, a leading secularist politician, said he believes \"we live with this threat\" from Islamist parties.",
"But Rachid Ghanouchi, the leader of Ennahada, said there's been a \"fear-mongering campaign\" against his group.",
"\"They use scare tactics to frighten businessmen, women, and foreign countries, but I don't think this has worked.\"",
"A strong showing for Ennahada would encourage other Islamists in the region.",
"It also would raise questions about Islamism and democracy.",
"Would Ennahada impose a conservative social code on what is one of the most secular and industrialized Arab countries?",
"Or would it follow the model of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, showing that Islam and democracy are compatible?",
"Ghanouchi, who returned to Tunisia in January after two decades in exile, said there if his party comes to power, it won't impose a religious lifestyle on the more secular parts of the country.",
"He has promised to protect women's rights and work with other political parties.",
"\"Get to know us, not through what others say but through our actions.",
"Give us a chance before you judge us,\" he said.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson, Tim Lister, and Joe Sterling contributed to this report ."
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"Secularists and Islamists are vying for seats .",
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"Paris (CNN) -- Outside France, nobody gave them a prayer.",
"Les Bleus had coughed and spluttered their way to the Rugby World Cup Final, at which point they were expected to be thrashed buy the red-hot favorites and tournament hosts New Zealand.",
"But the French fans didn't care.",
"On Sunday morning they turned out to cheer on their team at various fanzones across the country and they almost saw them produce one of the biggest rugby shocks of all time.",
"They came out in their tens of thousands, many with tricolor facepaint, almost all with red, white and blue flags.",
"There was even the rooster, a seemingly obligatory at every French rugby event, trying to peck at a kiwi - the small, tropical fruit, not one of conspicuous New Zealand fans who was 11,500 miles from home.",
"For New Zealand, France are the bogey team.",
"Les Bleus were not fancied to win their World Cup games against the All Blacks in 1999 and 2007, but on both occasions they came from behind to knock them out.",
"They may have failed to impress during this tournament, but the French fans knew that their team had the quality and they were due a good game.",
"And they delivered it today.",
"A huge roar went up outside the Hotel de Ville as the French squad fronted up to the All Blacks' haka war dance.",
"And in the opening minutes, France took the game to the hosts.",
"This was not going to be the one-way traffic that almost all of the pundits had forecast.",
"Even when Tony Woodcock crossed over to score for the All Blacks, the fans around me were not concerned.",
"The French were playing confident, flowing rugby, the All Blacks were missing kicks and as the game progressed, the hosts were looking rattled.",
"The street cleaners paused to lean on their brooms to watch the giant screen.",
"The soldiers on duty - bristling with machine guns - were glued to the action.",
"And when the French captain Thierry Dusautoir scored his second-half try, the chorus of cheers was deafening.",
"It was well and truly game-on.",
"Sadly for the French, that was all they could muster.",
"The All Blacks just held on for a narrow one point win and the crowds in France disappeared into the afternoon autumnal sunshine.",
"They had lost the game, but it was almost a moral victory.",
"In the same week that the French government's role in the Libyan conflict was acknowledged as being pivotal, French national pride was restored in the sporting arena.",
"They stood up and were counted.",
"They contributed to a thrilling world cup final and they showed that they deserved to be there."
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"On Sunday morning the French turned out to cheer at fanzones across the country .",
"A huge roar went up as the French squad fronted up to the All Blacks' haka .",
"The soldiers on duty - bristling with machine guns - were glued to the action ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- There is one man who will be pacing around the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota this week hoping to make it three majors in a row -- but you won't find his name when you trail your finger down the list of starters at the 91st PGA Championship.",
"Tiger Woods possesses a mental toughness that none of his competitors can match.",
"Though his presence may be unnoticed by spectators lining the fairways, his influence on the players he coaches is becoming far more conspicuous.",
"That is because sports psychologist Dr. Morris Pickens, or \"Dr Mo\" as his players like to call him, is fast gaining a reputation for being one of the best mental coaches in golf.",
"So far this year his mastery of the mind has helped Lucas Glover and Stewart Cink win the U.S. Open and the British Open respectively.",
"In 2007, Pickens helped Zach Johnson to his Masters' triumph at the Augusta National.",
"A win for one of Pickens' players at this year's PGA would complete a career slam of majors for the psychologist.",
"It is a cast iron certainty that this week's winner will not only have to master the course -- all 7674 yards of it -- but also his mental demons coming down the stretch on Sunday evening.",
"Learning to cope with such pressure is not easy.",
"\"It doesn't just happen, you have to develop the mental game off the golf course,\" Pickens told CNN.",
"The best players on the Tour are consistently honing their mental skills and Morris -- who studied under the game's most renowned psychologist, Bob Rotella, at the University of Virginia in the 1990s -- is now just one of dozens of mind men employed by pros on the PGA Tour.",
"\"Good players are mentally good when their game is on.",
"Great players are mentally good regardless of where their game is.",
"They are constantly remembering past memories -- where they've won, where they putted good, and so on.\"",
"Pickens says it is important for players to put aside a set amount of time before a competition visualizing how they see themselves walking, their tempo and thinking about the demeanor they want to convey.",
"But it is more than just about ramming home a message about the powers of positive thinking.",
"Pickens advises more technical players to find ways of accepting where shots go, relaxing in between and staying patient.",
"Someone who struggles with shot selection will require a strategy that focuses on being decisive.",
"\"Being great behind the ball so you can be great over the ball,\" Pickens says.",
"It's the sort of mantra you sense that Tiger Woods has probably uttered to himself thousands of times down the years.",
"The mental side is part of the game that Woods has paid close attention to ever since he was a boy.",
"When most teenagers were blithely thwacking balls out on the range and dreaming of future glory, Woods was already laying the foundations of his mental toughness.",
"With the help of Dr Jay Brunza -- a former military man and friend of Woods' late father Earl -- Woods Jr was being drilled in strategies of emotional detachment in pressure situations.",
"As Pickens points out, it's been key to his success.",
"\"If you learn these mental skills when you are young, it becomes second nature to you.",
"Most guys start learning to be good mentally when they are 30 and it's not easy to incorporate.",
"For Tiger, it's always been part of his game.",
"For others it's an add on.\"",
"Pickens, who has also worked in American Football and Nascar, identifies Woods' extraordinary mental control in adversity as one of his greatest assets.",
"\"His confidence around his scoring is not going to be affected by his confidence about his ball striking.",
"He might have his A-game, but if he doesn't, it's like he says: 'I'll figure out a way and hit three wood or an iron' -- like he did at Hoylake [in 2006].",
"Other guys confidence is all around: 'if I don't hit it good, then I can't score good' and they take themselves out of it.\"",
"Back to back wins on the PGA Tour have ensured Woods is one of the hottest favorites -- even by his standards -- to win his fifth PGA Championship.",
"And it seems implausible that he will miss two major cuts on the bounce.",
"If he is in the mix come Sunday, it is, according to Pickens, another edge he has over his competitors.",
"\"He's been through those experiences more than anyone he's going to face and is familiar with how the intense pressure changes your body.",
"When you've been there so often, like Tiger has, it's easier to manage.",
"I think he still gets nervous and gets those feelings of wanting to win.",
"I just think he doesn't get overwhelmed by them like some guys do.\"",
"But that's all to come. For now, Pickens is concentrating on getting his players in good shape for the tournament.",
"And that means sticking to the same routine.",
"\"It's not Masters week or PGA week.",
"It's what course are we going to?",
"Is it Augusta National, Turnberry or Hazeltine?\"",
"Pickens said.",
"During practice rounds, Pickens will spend around half a day with each of his players.",
"Once the tournament starts.",
"he'll see them during their warm ups and, if required, work through some putting or short game drills after a round.",
"He's confident one of his charges can do the business this week.",
"Cink, Glover and Johnson were all in the top five heading into the final round at WGC-Bridgestone Invitational last weekend.",
"\"They are all probably feeling that they are pretty close,\" he said.",
"But judging by Woods' current form, they will do well to hold him off.",
"Pickens and his players don't discuss Woods, but they do talk about strategies if they are paired with him.",
"\"You have to be prepared for the crowd that follow him.",
"When you play with Tiger you know that there is going to be a lot of chaos and confusion,\" Pickens said.",
"He can't see past Woods this week.",
"\"I'm sure he still struggles with some shots, some putts, like everybody does.",
"But I can't see any weaknesses in his game.",
"I'm just hoping that he's peaked a little early!\""
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"Stewart Cink, Lucas Glover and Zach Johnson have all benefited from his skills .",
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"(CNN) -- Hosts New Zealand edged out France 8-7 in a nailbiting finish to the Rugby World Cup final in Auckland Sunday to win the William Webb Ellis trophy for the second time.",
"It was a repeat of their success in the inaugural competition on their home soil in 1987, but it was far from the easy victory that many had predicted.",
"Watched by a capacity 61,000 in the Eden Park Stadium, and with the hopes of a rugby-mad nation on their shoulders, the All Blacks led 5-0 at halftime thanks to a try from prop Tony Woodcock.",
"Scrum-half Piri Weepu, missed the conversion and two other penalty kicks that would have given them a more comfortable advantage.",
"Stephen Donald, who replaced the injured Aaron Cruden at fly-half, put the home side 8-0 ahead when he slotted home an early second half penalty.",
"But back came France as a sustained attack led to a try for captain Thierry Dusautoir, converted by Francois Trinh-Duc, who was on as a replacement for the injured Morgan Parra.",
"Trinh-Duc had an excellent chance with 15 minutes left to kick a penalty which would have put Les Bleus ahead but his effort went wide.",
"France, given little chance after losing by 20 points to the All Blacks in the pool phase, were pressing at the end but desperate home defense kept New Zealand ahead.",
"At the final whistle the All Blacks players celebrated with a mixture of triumph and sheer relief they had finally laid to rest a 24-year litany of failure in Rugby's showpiece international competition.",
"There were also wild scenes of celebration among the estimated 150,000 people who had gathered to watch the final on giant screens in Auckland.",
"All Blacks coach Graham Henry admitted the closing minutes had been tense before his side closed out a long-awaited victory.",
"\"I'm just delighted for the boys.",
"We've been the top team in the world for a long time, so it's been a long time coming,\" he told the official Rugby World Cup website.",
"Captain Richie McCaw echoed Henry's sentiments after his side hung on for their slender win.",
"\"We had to dig deeper than ever before and it's hard to get it to sink in, but I am so proud of every single one of them,\" said McCaw, who was one of four All Blacks who had played in the quarterfinal defeat to France in the 2007 World Cup.",
"Dusautoir, whose team had been subjected to such criticism as they scraped into the final, believed their display had been the perfect riposte.",
"\"We showed that France deserved their spot in the final,\" he said."
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"Islamabad (CNN) -- A head-bopping, hip-shaking flurry of drum beats.",
"The soulful screams of a saxophone.",
"The gut-thumping strums of a double bass.",
"And the silky smooth lyrics of Summertime -- the lullaby classic made famous by Ella Fitzgerald -- all under a starlit night.",
"The scene could be straight from an outdoor Jazz festival in New York City.",
"But this is Pakistan -- a country plagued by its reputation for Islamist militancy, corruption and poverty -- and the jazz is courtesy of three New Yorkers and a Texan who make up the Ari Roland Jazz Quartet.",
"The four performed at a 500-seat amphitheater on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, in a country American musicians almost never visit because of security concerns and widespread anti-Americanism.",
"The U.S. State Department helped organize the band's visit as part of a cultural exchange program designed to win Pakistani hearts and minds.",
"\"We don't feel like we're in danger,\" said the band's creator and bassist Ari Roland.",
"\"We're thrilled to be here. We feel welcome, so at home.\"",
"The band's visit comes at a time when relations between the U.S. and Pakistani governments are strained.",
"Joint Chiefs Chairman repeats Pakistan claim .",
"The partnership hit a new low when U.S. officials accused Pakistan's top spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI, of harboring extremists and helping insurgents in Afghanistan.",
"Islamabad hit back with it's own tough talk, accusing Washington of using Pakistan as a scapegoat for its failed policy in the region and warning the U.S. might lose Pakistan as an ally if it continues with the public accusations.",
"The Ari Roland Quartet is under no illusion that it can solve the U.S.-Pakistani rift but jazz can help, they said.",
"\"Music has a history of bringing people together from across the world,\" said Roland.",
"But the band acknowledged the hearts and minds America needs to win were probably not among their audience.",
"The concert was invite only, not open to the public.",
"The guests were mostly foreign diplomats, Pakistani politicians and their families -- many educated in the west, people who probably already like America.",
"Even so, the quartet said this was a start.",
"They drew loud cheers when they performed their jazzed up rendition of Dil Dil Pakistan, the country's most patriotic song.",
"More applause came when they joined Pakistani rock band Fuzon for a song called Friendship is Life.",
"Within seconds American and Pakistani musicians were in soulful synchrony.",
"If only U.S.-Pakistani relations were that easy."
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"They are part of a cultural exchange program designed to win Pakistani hearts and minds .",
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