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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon is portraying India as a major customer for U.S. military equipment, worth an estimated $6 billion in the past decade, even as U.S. companies are shut out of a multibillion dollar bid for fighter jets that India is starting this week.",
"In the newest edition of a congressionally mandated report, the Defense Department signaled that it was hoping to interest India in its top-of-the-line and most expensive weapon, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, still being tested.",
"Arms sales, as well as more frequent military exercises and exchanges, are seen as an important ways to cement ties between the two countries.",
"But India doesn't always buy American.",
"Recently, India considered and then rejected a major purchase of U.S. F-16 and F-18 fighters, a expensive setback for U.S. arms sales and the U.S. aviation industry.",
"That deal -- now between the Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon -- is a reminder of the vast sums in play.",
"\"With a potential contract price of US$9 billion to US$14 billion, this is the single biggest competition in the global defence aviation industry at the moment and offers both bidders a much-needed opportunity in a major market,\" said James Hardy, Asia Pacific Editor at IHS Jane's Defence Weekly said in a statement.",
"The Defense Department downplayed any suggestion that arms sales and other contacts could backfire and that next-door Pakistan may feel new pressure both in its already-strained relationship with Washington and with its historical enemy, India.",
"\"It's important that none of us think about relationships in this region as a zero-sum game,\" said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Scher at the Pentagon.",
"\"We have valuable relationships with Pakistan and valuable relationships with India and these things can co-exist.\"",
"Scher signaled that he hoped the relationship, and the arms sales would continue to grow.",
"\"I think there is a great potential to do much more,\" Scher said in a briefing at the Pentagon.",
"\"India sees the U.S. as a reliable defense supplier and we have been able to provide some top-of-the-line equipment.",
"Is there some potential for more? Certainly there is. That is for the government of India to decide\" Lisa Curtis of the Heritage Foundation, a long-time observer of U.S. and Indian affairs, said the report should be a catalyst to deepen defense ties and possibly lead to a loosening of present export and licensing controls.",
"\"The Defense Department offer to provide India with information on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter sends a clear signal that the U.S. considers India one of its most important future defense partners and is willing to consider co-production of some of its most sophisticated defense technology,\" Curtis told CNN.",
"The Pentagon's government-to-government program of foreign military sales to India have included C-17 and C-130 aircraft, radar systems, Harpoon weapons and specialized tactical equipment.",
"Any consideration of India's role in the region must include China and U.S. concerns about the Chinese modernization of its armed services especially its navy.",
"\"The attention given to maritime security cooperation in the report should be seen in light of a series of maritime incidents in which Chinese naval vessels have challenged other countries' naval vessels in the South China Sea,\" Curtis said.",
"\"It is clear that the U.S. views India as a leader in helping to maintain freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean region and will likely look for ways to enhance India's involvement in maritime security endeavors throughout the Indo-Pacific in the future.\""
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"The Pentagon tells Congress it hopes to interst India in its most expensive weapon .",
"The top-of-the-line F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is still being tested .",
"But India recently rejected purchase of other U.S.-built fightrers .",
"Arms sales are seen as a way to cement relations between the U.S. and India ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A House panel voted Thursday to subpoena the White House for documents related to the solar energy company Solyndra.",
"The House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on oversight and investigations voted along party lines, 14 to 9, in favor of issuing the subpoenas for internal documents regarding the decision to issue more than half a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees in 2010 to Solyndra, which later filed for bankruptcy.",
"The decision followed a contentious debate among subcommittee members, with Republicans accusing the Obama administration of stonewalling, and some Democrats calling the subpoena resolution politically motivated.",
"Rep. Cliff Stearns, the Republican chairman of the subcommittee, said the White House Office of Management and Budget earlier this year \"repeatedly failed to cooperate with our investigation and we agreed to put off a vote on that subpoena\" in hopes that engaging the White House could avoid the need for subpoenas.",
"\"Only after repeated failed attempts to engage the White House did the committee notify the White House\" that it intended to discuss possible subpoenas, Stearns said.",
"\"This finally got the attention of the White House counsel,\" who then met with lawmakers Wednesday, he said.",
"\"Unfortunately, the White House was unable or unwilling to answer even the most basic questions.\"",
"Democrats slammed the subcommittee's move, though some acknowledged the White House could be more forthcoming with information in the case.",
"Veteran Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, said after the vote: \"I've never seen a procedure quite like this.\"",
"\"We are protesting here a sweeping subpoena,\" he said.",
"Since Republicans have \"been able to find nothing\" wrong in what they've looked at so far, they have \"increased the size of the net and reduced the size of the holes in the net as they go about this fishing expedition.\"",
"The White House accused the House panel of choosing \"a partisan route.\"",
"\"This administration has cooperated extensively with the committee's investigation by producing over 85,000 pages of documents, including 20,000 pages produced just yesterday afternoon,\" White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement.",
"\"Administration officials have participated in multiple briefings and hearings, and the White House has also already provided over 900 pages of documents in response to requests we have received.",
"And all of the materials that have been disclosed affirm what we said on day one: this was a merit-based decision made by the Department of Energy.\"",
"Schultz called the subpoenas \"unprecedented and unwarranted.\"",
"Federal analysts looking at the proposed Solyndra loan in 2009 warned then of possible problems, as well as pressure from the White House to speed up a decision, according to a memorandum released last month by congressional investigators.",
"Approved in May 2010, the Energy Department's loan allowed Solyndra to build a factory in Fremont, California, to produce state-of-the-art solar panels.",
"Solyndra filed for bankruptcy in late August and closed its doors, however, putting more than 1,000 people out of work after it received $535 million in loan guarantees.",
"The bankruptcy leaves the federal government unlikely to get the loan money back.",
"President Barack Obama touted the company in a widely publicized visit last year.",
"A source familiar with the congressional investigation said the White House has provided e-mail communications with details about who at the White House was looped in on the deal while red flags were being raised about the financial soundness of the company.",
"White House Chief of Staff William Daley announced last week that he is ordering a 60-day independent review of the state of the Energy Department's loan portfolio.",
"The review will include recommendations about how to improve the loan monitoring process.",
"The review will be headed by Herb Allison, a veteran of both the Obama and last Bush administrations who oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), among other things.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Tom Cohen, Josh Levs and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report."
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"NEW: White House: The \"unprecedented\" subpoenas are part of a \"partisan\" effort .",
"Stearns: The White House is \"unable or unwilling\" to answer basic questions .",
"The House subcommittee voted on party lines in favor of subpoenas .",
"Federal analysts looking at the Solyndra loan in 2009 warned of possible problems ."
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"(CNN) -- There is no doubt that the three recent fatal shark attacks in Western Australia involve great white sharks.",
"This species is known to inhabit the shallow waters along this coast and are known to migrate south around this time of the year to the seal colonies on the southwest coast.",
"While they may stay around seal colonies -- their natural prey -- for months, they are not noted for sitting off a beach waiting for food to turn up.",
"They are mostly individual, transient, inquisitive animals that will investigate objects in the water.",
"Swimming, surfing or diving alone near aquatic animals (including seals and dolphins) far from the beach early in the morning or late in the evening may well attract a curious shark and increase the risk of encountering one.",
"As the population increases and water-related activities become more popular, the number of people who go into the water every day also increases.",
"But the chance of encountering a shark still remains very low.",
"American killed in shark attack off Western Australia .",
"Most Australians understand the risk when they enter the ocean.",
"Over the past 50 years, only one person has been killed by a shark each year in Australia on average, compared to the 87 people who drown at Australian beaches on average each year, according to Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA).",
"Therefore, the hysteria in the media surrounding a shark attack seems disproportional to other fatal incidents.",
"Historically human-shark interactions predominantly occurred in the summer months.",
"But in recent decades, swimmers, surfers and divers are continuing to pursue these activities outside of the traditional summer season because of improvements in wetsuit technology.",
"This is reflected in the occurrence of shark attacks throughout the year since the 1950s; particularly for surfers, snorkelers and SCUBA divers who can enter the water at any time of the year and extend the time they spend in the water in areas that, in earlier decades, were likely to be too cold for recreational purposes.",
"In the past 20 years, 49% of all shark-attack victims were wearing a wetsuit.",
"There have been 26 attacks recorded in the cooler months (May-August) during the past two decades, resulting in six fatalities compared with 15 incidents -- resulting in four fatalities -- during the same months in the previous 20-year period.",
"There is no suggestion that wetsuits in themselves are the cause of an attack, but rather that their use has allowed people to extend their time in the water, increasing the risk of encountering a shark.",
"The frequency of attacks also reflects the popularity of water-based activities in harbors, estuarine areas and rivers, with people more likely to encounter species such as bull sharks, which have a propensity to inhabit shallow nearshore coastal areas, bays, harbors and rivers in summer months.",
"In the vast majority of cases, sharks involved in an attack on humans do not stay around the area and can swim 80 to 100 km away by the next day.",
"Unfortunately other sharks may later swim into the area and may be blamed for the attack.",
"Hunting down and killing sharks on suspicion of being responsible is unjustifiable.",
"However, if the animal can be identified and has not left the area, it would be appropriate to remove it.",
"But once the animal swims away it would be almost impossible to know which shark was responsible.",
"Shark attacks are a reality of entering the ocean, but it is worth emphasizing that they are very rare events.",
"Even If you do encounter a shark, the chances of being attacked are very small."
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"A scuba diver became the third fatality from a shark attack in as many weeks .",
"Authorities believe the man was killed by a great white off the Australian coast .",
"West: Shark encounters more likely, as water-based activities become more popular .",
"But he says many more people drown on average off Australian beaches ."
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"(CNN) -- As filthy floodwater continued to seep towards central Bangkok, Thailand's Prime Minister laid out a three-point plan to get the country back on its feet after the worst flooding in 50 years.",
"Immediate aid will be issued to people whose homes and businesses have been destroyed by the deluge which has claimed more than 500 lives since July, Yingluck Shinawatra announced Tuesday.",
"\"This disaster is the biggest that we have ever met.",
"We're trying to cope with situation and help as much as we can,\" she said.",
"\"We can't stop all flooding but we will try to reduce the impact.\"",
"Aid packages will be offered to people to help restore homes and businesses as part of a short-term recovery plan over the coming year.",
"Details are expected to be announced next week.",
"Longer-term plans include the formation of two committees, one to oversee reconstruction and future development and the other to manage water resources.",
"Yingluck acknowledged criticism of the official response to the disaster by setting herself a deadline of one year to win back public confidence.",
"The prime minister's promises came as murky waters continued to move towards Bangkok's city center.",
"\"The situation is quite serious.",
"The water is making ground slowly but surely towards the heart of Bangkok,\" flood relief co-ordinator Rungsun Munkong told CNN.",
"He said thousands of people were refusing to leave their homes despite orders to evacuate to outer provinces.",
"\"I believe thousands of people are in their homes and are still not evacuating,\" Rungsun said.",
"\"(They) possibly will be stranded with little food and water as time goes by.\"",
"Relief workers, distributing aid to evacuation centers in central Bangkok, said they were struggling to reach residents determined to wait out the crisis in tower blocks.",
"\"I think it will be difficult down the road to get help to these people,\" Rungsun said.",
"\"People need clean water, that's the first important thing.",
"Cooked ready-to-eat food is also quite important, baby milk and so on.\"",
"Thailand has been inundated with its worst flood in half a century, affecting at least 25 of the country's 77 provinces.",
"More than 500 people had been killed in the deluge according to figures released Sunday by the country's interior ministry.",
"A Thailand Disaster and Mitigation Department report, issued Sunday and reported by MCOT, estimated about 3.1 million people have been affected and 4 million acres of farmland have been damaged.",
"Moreover, the department said two people are believed missing and about 75 highways have closed.",
"In the provinces of Nakhon Sawan and Ayutthaya, cleanup efforts were under way.",
"On Sunday, the Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Nonthaburi, near Bangkok.",
"There, the government provided 100 boats to help transport people and disperse relief supplies after requests by local officials, according to MCOT.",
"Despite public criticism of the government's overall response, Yingluck said she would not shake up her Cabinet -- in the short-term, at least.",
"She explained that the focus first is to address the situation, with a full evaluation and possible shuffling to be done after the crisis abates, reported MCOT.",
"Floods are an annual occurrence in the country but have been particularly acute this year, and some residents and analysts have criticized the government's response.",
"\"Now the government is sending a mixed signal that the situation is fine, but the truth is it the situation far from over,\" political analyst Supong Limtanakul told CNN.",
"\"It is a slow suffocating death of (the) Bangkok business area.\"",
"The city's main airport and two large industrial sites are also at risk, Supong said.",
"Supong said the government did not have enough resources to deal with floodwaters, noting that officials had recently asked the private sector for water pumps to help drain water out of Bangkok.",
"M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Bangkok's governor, told MCOT that it may take up to two weeks to drain water out of Bangkok's main roads, and months to drain water from smaller roads.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report ."
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"Thai PM lays out three-point flood recovery plan .",
"Floodwater moving closer to heart of Thai capital .",
"Thousands refusing to leave home, risk being trapped without food .",
"More than 500 people have died, interior ministry says ."
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"(CNN) -- Political and anti-war activists in the Midwest said they were the target Friday of searches the FBI called part of an investigation into the \"material support of terrorism.\"",
"Warrants led to the search of five residences and one office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said FBI spokesman Steve Warfield, who said there were no arrests.",
"Two other searches were conducted in Chicago, Illinois.",
"Activist Tom Burke in Chicago said he and others in Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan were served subpoenas to testify before a grand jury.",
"He also said computer hard drives were taken from locations in both cities, as well as a cell phone in Minneapolis.",
"Warfield would not comment on that statement or provide details of the searches.",
"He also would not discuss the investigation, other than indicating it is the work of a joint task force on terrorism.",
"The Minneapolis searches were concluded by mid-afternoon Friday, Warfield said.",
"Burke said many agents were still at a Chicago location Friday afternoon.",
"A coalition of groups represented on the Fight Back website released a statement condemning the raids as \"harassment.\"",
"\"We see them as a way to impair our freedom of speech,\" said Burke, a member of the Colombia Action Network.",
"\"We've done nothing wrong.\"",
"The coalition came together after a large anti-war protest at the Republication National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in 2008, Burke said.",
"\"We agree the U.S. should treat neighbors in peaceful ways,\" said Burke, pointing to conflict in the Middle East and Colombia.",
"\"We think they [the FBI] are on a fishing expedition.\"",
"Among the groups the activists are involved with are the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society, which was active during the Vietnam War.",
"One of the apartments searched in Minneapolis belongs to Mick Kelly, an anti-war and government protestor, CNN affiliate KARE reported.",
"Kelly said the search warrant indicated agents were looking for evidence of his travels to Latin America and Palestine.",
"Jessica Sundin of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee told CNN agents took a hard drive, paper files, photos, a cell phone and her passport during a search of her Minneapolis residence Friday.",
"Denying any wrongdoing, Sundin said she was given a subpoena to appear next month before a grand jury in Chicago.",
"She said she will not cooperate with federal investigators, but will talk to lawyers before deciding whether to appear.",
"Sending American weapons and troops abroad is not the solution to international problems, Sundin said.",
"\"We've been unapologetic in our opposition to U.S. intervention,\" she said.",
"The task force carrying out the raids comprised a number of local and federal agencies, KARE said.",
"CNN's Katherine Wojtecki contributed to this article ."
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"FBI searches homes, office in Minneapolis and Chicago .",
"The searches are part of a joint task force probe of terrorism, the FBI says .",
"An activist says hard drives were taken during the searches ."
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"(CNN) -- A rumored rift between Iran's two most powerful leaders surfaced Sunday when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei overruled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's acceptance of the resignation of the country's intelligence minister.",
"The Fars semiofficial state news agency reported that Ahmadinejad had accepted the resignation of Heydar Moslehi as the intelligence minister, who oversees the crackdown on anti-government protests in Iran.",
"A later Fars report said Moslehi was reinstated by Khamenei \"because the supreme leader opposed his removal from his post.\"",
"\"Following the reports in news websites belonging to the government that said Moslehi's resignation had been accepted by the president, he will remain in his post because the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, opposed the resignation,\" according to Fars.",
"Under Iranian political tradition, the supreme leader appoints or approves the appointments of the ministers of intelligence, interior, defense and foreign affairs.",
"The first indications of a rift between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad came in 2009, when Khamenei forced the president to remove his first vice president, who also is the father of Ahmadinejad's daughter-in-law.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this story."
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"Ahmadinejad accepted the intelligence minister's resignation .",
"Supreme Ruler Khamenei then rejected the change .",
"It is the latest indication of a rift between the two ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Acts signed for October's tribute concert for Michael Jackson include Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Smokey Robinson, Cee Lo Green and JLS, the promoters told CNN Thursday.",
"Members of the Jackson family taking the stage October 8 in Cardiff, Wales, include several of Michael Jackson's brothers, \"the next generation of Jacksons,\" and 3T, which consists of Tito Jackson's three sons.",
"Alternative rock band Alien Ant Farm and British R&B singer Craig David are also on the bill, while other artists will be added in the next few days, according to promoter Global Live Events.",
"\"This announcement is just the beginning, we have many more to announce,\" Global Live Events executive Paul Ring said.",
"\"This concert will unite various generations and musical genres, reminding everyone of just how amazing a talent Michael was.\"",
"With the \"Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert\" lineup now known, fans can start \"registering their interest for tickets\" online at http://www.michaelforevertribute.com/ beginning Thursday, the promoter said.",
"A lottery will determine which fans will be invited to purchase tickets, it said.",
"The concert in the Wales Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, which seats 75,000 people, would be at least four hours long, Global Live Events CEO Chris Hunt said.",
"Jackson matriarch Katherine Jackson and the promoter are scheduled to discuss the show's plans in a live broadcast on CNN Monday.",
"The delay produced grumbling and doubts expressed on Jackson fan websites, but promoters hope the revelation of the lineup will satisfy them.",
"\"Fans of Michael's music will get the concert they've been waiting for,\" Hunt said in a message posted on the promoter's website last week.",
"Two of the five surviving Jackson brothers, Jermaine and Randy, objected to the timing of the show, issuing a sharply worded statement last month that reflected a deep division within the Jackson family.",
"\"We want to make clear that this does not reflect the position of the entire family,\" the two brothers said in a joint statement after their mother and four siblings endorsed the show.",
"\"While we wholeheartedly support the spirit of a tribute that honors our brother, we find it impossible to support an event that is due to take place during the criminal trial surrounding Michael's death,\" Jermaine and Randy Jackson said.",
"The involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, begins in September and is expected to continue into October.",
"While Katherine Jackson has previously said she would attend every day of Murray's trial -- as she did when her son was tried on a sex charge -- the promoter said the Jackson mother will travel to Wales for the concert.",
"\"In light of this, we feel it is inappropriate to be involved with such an ill-timed event and its promoter, Global Live,\" Randy and Jermaine Jackson said.",
"Their statement said the idea of the October concert was presented to the entire family in April \"as an idea already in its advanced stages.\"",
"The decision to go ahead with it \"disrespects opinions and wishes expressed in the strongest terms\" by some members of the Jackson family, they said.",
"The Michael Jackson Fan Club agreed with the two brothers, issuing a similar statement.",
"\"We share their concerns that this concert is taking place at a most inappropriate time when everyone's care and attention should be focused on the matter of justice.",
"We believe that, as stated by Jermaine and Randy, the most important tribute we can give to Michael Jackson at this time is to seek justice in his name.\"",
"Jackson fans posted messages on the concert's Facebook page questioning ticket prices and the process for buying them.",
"Fans must register for a chance to buy a ticket.",
"While the website initially said the higher a pledge to a charity they make while registering, the better their chances of getting a good seat.",
"It was later revised to say that donations are not mandatory and all applications will have an equal chance.",
"A portion of the concert proceeds, particularly fan pledges, will go to charities, The Aids Project LA and The Prince's Trust, the promoters said.",
"A spokesman for Michael Jackson's estate said last month that the promoters never sought or obtained permission from the estate's executors to use the late pop singer's name or image.",
"\"The estate has not been contacted and is not involved with Global Live Events in the UK tribute concert announced today,\" spokesman Jim Bates told CNN."
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"Fans start registering for tickets Thursday .",
"\"Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert\" is set for October 8 in Cardiff, Wales .",
"Fans gumble because of the line-up announcement delay .",
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- President Obama wrapped up an eight-day tour of Asia on Thursday, holding talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and speaking to American troops at Osan Air Base.",
"Nuclear negotiations involving North Korea and Iran highlighted a news conference held by the leaders.",
"Obama announced that he will send American envoy Stephen Bosworth to North Korea on December 8 for bilateral talks on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear program.",
"\"If North Korea is prepared to take concrete and irreversible steps to fulfill its obligations and eliminate its nuclear weapons program, the United States will support economic assistance and help promote its full integration into the community of nations,\" Obama said.",
"\"That opportunity and respect will not come with threats.",
"North Korea must live up to its obligations.\"",
"Obama also said the United States and its allies were working on steps to take against Iran after its apparent rejection of a nuclear deal.",
"\"We have begun discussions with international partners about the importance of having consequences,\" Obama said.",
"\"Our expectation is that, over the next several weeks, we will be developing a package of potential steps we could take that will indicate our seriousness to Iran.",
"I continue to hold out the prospect that they may decide to walk through this door.",
"I hope they do.\" Iran rejected a key plank of a deal Wednesday designed to ease international fears that Tehran aims to build nuclear weapons.",
"Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said his country will not send its partly enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for medical research, but added that Tehran might allow its nuclear material to be reprocessed inside Iran, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.",
"The deal hammered out in November with the help of the U.N. watchdog agency aimed to reduce the amount of raw material Iran has to build a nuclear bomb.",
"Tehran denies that it wants to do so, saying its nuclear program is to produce civilian nuclear energy and do medical work.",
"During their news conference, Obama and Lee also expressed support for a stalled U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement.",
"The deal was signed in 2007, but has yet to be ratified by the legislatures of either country.",
"South Korea was the final stop on Obama's four-nation tour of Asia.",
"Obama began his trip in Japan before traveling to Singapore, where he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations economic forum, meeting on the sidelines with world leaders including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.",
"Obama then traveled to China, where he met with leaders including President Hu Jintao.",
"After their talks, the two spoke of a common vision of shared responsibilities and economic opportunities.",
"Trade, nuclear proliferation, climate change and the sticky issue of human rights were part of their discussions.",
"Obama, whose flight will stop for refueling in Alaska, is due back in the United States on Thursday."
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"Obama met with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to discuss free trade agreement ."
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"London (CNN) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama have come under fire after they were overheard talking rudely about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the G-20 summit.",
"Sarkozy was overheard telling Obama: \"I can't stand him.",
"He's a liar,\" according to French website Arret Sur Images.",
"Obama is reported to have replied: \"You're tired of him; what about me?",
"I have to deal with him every day.\"",
"The comments have provoked criticism in Israel and the United States -- but it is not the first time a prominent figure has been caught off-guard, on-mic.",
"CNN looks back at 10 of the most infamous gaffes.",
"Gordon Brown on 'bigoted' voter .",
"Then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's 2010 election campaign was not going well, but he had no idea how much worse it was going to get when he stopped to chat with a voter a week before the poll.",
"Gillian Duffy, then a 66-year-old pensioner, proceeded to berate Brown, explaining why -- despite having backed his Labour party all her life -- she was now \"ashamed\" to admit her political allegiance.",
"Brown kept up a polite conversation with her as the TV cameras looked on, then drove away unaware his microphone was still on.",
"Once inside the car, he complained to advisers: \"That was a disaster.",
"They should never have put me with that woman...",
"Ridiculous... Bigoted woman.\"",
"Brown later apologized, but went on to lose the election.",
"George W. Bush to Tony Blair .",
"Brown's predecessor, Tony Blair, was witness to one of the most famous on-mic blunders by U.S. President George W. Bush during a lunch meeting at the 2006 G-8 summit in Russia.",
"Bush hailed the prime minister with the greeting \"Yo Blair!\"",
"and thanked him for a recent gift of a sweater.",
"He then began discussing the situation in the Middle East, offering a not-entirely-diplomatic solution to the difficulties between Syria and Israel.",
"\"What they need to do,\" he told Blair, \"is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s--- and it's all over.\"",
"George W. Bush on reporter .",
"The 43rd President of the U.S. was no stranger to the gaffe -- entire books were written about his famous \"Bushisms\" -- and they were in evidence even on the election trail.",
"At an Illinois campaign stop in September 2000, Bush was caught on camera referring to New York Times reporter Adam Clymer as a \"major-league a------\" -- to which his running mate Dick Cheney replied: \"Oh yeah, big time.\"",
"Bush later said he was sorry his comments -- intended, according to his advisers, as a \"whispered aside\" -- were overheard.",
"\"I regret that the private comments made it to the public airwaves,\" he said.",
"\"I regret people heard the comments.\"",
"Prince Charles on royal correspondent .",
"George W. Bush is not the only one to have voiced his frustration and anger at a member of the media in an unguarded on-camera moment.",
"Prince Charles got himself in hot water with the British press when he was caught muttering under his breath about a reporter to his sons William and Harry during a photocall on a skiing holiday in Switzerland in 2005.",
"Taking exception to a question from the BBC's veteran royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, the prince complained: \"Bloody people.",
"I can't bear that man. He's so awful, he really is.\"",
"The comment did little to repair Charles' fractious relationship with the media, and proved that gaffes can still offend, even when couched in polite language.",
"Joe Biden to Barack Obama .",
"U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in a class all his own when it comes to putting his foot in it.",
"In one of his most famous blunders, he was caught on tape dropping the F-bomb while congratulating Obama over the signing of the controversial healthcare bill in March 2010.",
"Introducing the President to the media, he turned to hug Obama, and was heard whispering: \"This is a big f------ deal.\"",
"Jesse Jackson on Barack Obama .",
"Obama has also been the target of on-camera slip-ups.",
"In the run-up to the 2008 election, veteran civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson was overheard accusing the then-Illinois Senator of \"talking down to black people.\"",
"During the taping of an interview for Fox News, Jackson whispered to a fellow pundit \"I want to cut his nuts off.\"",
"Jackson later apologized for his \"regrettably crude\" remarks, which became one of the immortalized soundbites of the campaign.",
"John Major on colleagues -- and himself .",
"Elections are fertile hunting ground for gaffes, as politicians battle for airtime and headlines, but then-UK Prime Minister John Major found himself in trouble in 1993 when he admitted he didn't understand why people kept voting for him.",
"The day after members of his Conservative party had rebelled in parliament over plans to expand Britain's links with Europe, the normally unemotive Major was heard referring to the eurosceptic MPs as \"bastards,\" and threatening to \"crucify\" them.",
"Speaking to a reporter after an interview -- when he thought the microphone had been switched off -- Major said he could not see \"how such a complete wimp like me keeps winning everything.\"",
"Jacques Chirac on British food .",
"French President Jacques Chirac also had winning on his mind when he was caught out on tape, criticizing an entire nation in 2005.",
"Chirac was playing a leading role in Paris's quest to host the 2012 Olympics when he tried to make the most of what he saw as a clear advantage over competitor city London: Food.",
"\"The only thing that they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease,\" he told Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.",
"\"You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine.\"",
"Predictably, the comments provoked the ire of the British tabloids, but the Brits had the last laugh days later, when London won the rights to stage the 2012 Olympics.",
"Jean Chretien on U.S. politicians .",
"Chirac is not the only politician to have risked cross-border conflict with an ill-advised on-mic jibe.",
"Speaking to his counterparts from Belgium and Luxembourg at a NATO summit in Madrid in 1997, Jean Chretien, the then-Prime Minister of Canada, was overheard taking aim at his neighbors in the United States.",
"Chretien was taped claiming that U.S. politicians would all be in jail if they worked in Canada or elsewhere, as they all sold their votes.",
"Ronald Reagan on Russia .",
"While Chretien's remarks did not prompt an attack on Ottawa, a joke by U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the height of the Cold War could have had much more serious implications.",
"Taking part in a sound-check shortly before his weekly radio address to the nation in August 1984, Reagan \"announced\" to listeners: .",
"\"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I have signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.",
"\"We begin bombing in five minutes.\""
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"Nicolas Sarkozy overheard calling Benjamin Netanyahu 'a liar' at G-20 summit .",
"Gaffe is not the first time a politician has been caught on-microphone but off-guard .",
"George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden all made similar gaffes ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The American accused of killing two Pakistani men isn't a diplomat, as U.S. officials have said, but rather a CIA contractor in the country providing security for CIA officers, a U.S. government official said Monday.",
"The revelation that Raymond Davis was working for the U.S. intelligence agency when he shot two men -- one of them in the back, according to Lahore police -- is a dramatic twist in a case that has already inflamed hard-line clerics and an angry public that wants the American tried in a Pakistani court.",
"In protests since Davis' arrest last month, hard-line Pakistani clerics have condemned the shootings and demanded that the government not release the American.",
"Despite the revelation of Davis' true line of work, U.S. officials on Monday renewed their argument that he enjoys diplomatic immunity and must be released.",
"U.S. officials notified Pakistan that Davis had been posted to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad in January 2010, U.S. officials said.",
"Pakistan's only recourse under international law is to order Davis out of the country, according to a senior U.S. official who briefed reporters on background Monday.",
"\"Any other form of action, including a judicial action or any other proceeding, is inconsistent with his status,\" the official said.",
"Davis was jailed January 27 after fatally shooting two men who pulled up to him on a motorcycle in a bustling Lahore neighborhood.",
"U.S. officials and Lahore police said Davis told them he shot the men in self-defense.",
"Evidence showed the two men may well have been robbers, according to police who found cash and cell phones linked to a robbery reported earlier that day.",
"But Lahore's police chief, Aslam Tareen, has said witnesses told police that Davis kept firing, even when one of the men was running away.",
"\"It was clear-cut murder,\" Tareen told reporters.",
"That Davis was working for the CIA as a contract employee seems to explain the assortment of gear Lahore police reported finding in his rental car following his arrest.",
"According to a Lahore police report, Davis' car contained 9mm pistol, five ammunition magazines, two cell phones, an infrared light, a digital camera, a telescope, a long-range wireless set and a survival kit.",
"While acknowledging that Davis is a CIA contractor, the U.S. official said that Davis is not a case officer or paramilitary officer.",
"\"Davis is a protective officer, someone who provides security to U.S. officials in Pakistan.",
"Rumors to the contrary are simply wrong,\" the official said.",
"The U.S. official added \"any suggestions that he was conducting covert operations or personally leading efforts to target militant groups is wrong.\"",
"But the official said Davis could have been providing security for CIA officers who were engaged in covert operations .",
"Davis is part of the agency's \"global response staff,\" which is responsible for protecting the safety of CIA operatives in other countries.",
"He was doing \"advance work,\" scouting areas of Lahore at the time of the shooting, the official said.",
"Davis' role required him to \"know the environment.\"",
"He provided all facets of security for case workers including surveillance detection, route surveillance and protection in potentially hostile environments, said the official.",
"The 36-year-old Davis is a former member of the U.S. Army special forces and had been employed by security firm XE Services, previously known as Blackwater.",
"Davis began working for the CIA nearly 4 years ago.",
"He was assigned to Pakistan in late 2009.",
"He was living with other security personnel at a safehouse in Lahore before the shooting incident.",
"Until Monday, U.S. officials had described Davis only as an employee who was attached to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and who was working at the U.S. Consulate in Lahore at the time of the shootings.",
"Formally, they continue to describe him only as a member of the \"technical and administrative staff\" of the embassy.",
"The U.S. government has had ongoing conversations with Pakistan's government about Davis' security, State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said Monday.",
"\"Clearly, we hold the government of Pakistan fully responsible for his safety,\" Crowley said.",
"A U.S. official said Davis is being held in a facility with 4,000 other prisoners, some of them militants.",
"Pakistani officials have moved Davis to a separate part of the prison and taken away guards' guns for fear one might kill the American, the U.S. official said.",
"Dogs are even being used to taste and smell Davis' food to ensure he is not poisoned, according to the official.",
"Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently traveled to Pakistan in part to express \"our deepest sorrow for the loss of life\" and underscore Davis' diplomatic immunity.",
"Members of Congress have told senior Pakistani leaders that billions of dollars in U.S. aid are in jeopardy unless Davis is released.",
"But Crowley said Monday no such action is currently being contemplated.",
"The U.S. supplied more than $1.5 billion in nonmilitary aid to Pakistan in fiscal year 2010.",
"CNN's Pam Benson and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"U.S. officials say Pakistan's only recourse under international law is to expel Raymond Davis .",
"The American.",
"who is accused of murder in Pakistan, is a CIA contractor, a U.S. official said .",
"Davis provided security for officials, the official said .",
"Lahore police arrested Davis January 27 after shooting two men he said tried to rob him ."
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"(CNN) -- Attackers firebombed three churches in the southeast Asian nation of Malaysia overnight, assaults that come amid widespread Muslim ire over a court ruling that allowed Christians to use the word Allah as a term for God.",
"Malaysian news reports said no casualties have been reported, and police have promised to step up security for churches and other places of worship.",
"But the acts stirred unease in the diverse society -- where 60 percent of the people are Muslim, 19 percent are Buddhist, 9 percent are Christian and 6 percent are Hindu.",
"\"We regret the irresponsible actions of certain extremist elements for the recent spate of firebombs thrown into church premises.",
"These actions display their immaturity and intolerance toward others within a multi-racial society,\" the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia said in a statement.",
"The violence comes as Muslims protest a recent court ruling that allowed a Catholic newspaper to use the word \"Allah\" for God.",
"Muslims believe Allah, an Arabic word, should only be used by Muslims.",
"A stay has been placed on the order on the grounds of national interest.",
"Muslims took to the streets Friday to protest the use of the word by non-Muslims, and authorities such as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called for the matter to be resolved in court amicably and expressed hope the protests don't deteriorate.",
"\"We should not raise the tension level in this country,\" he said Thursday, as quoted by Bernama, the Malaysian National News Agency.",
"Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia's head of state, on Friday called for calm and the spirit of unity, according to a Bernama report.",
"The three churches attacked were in the Kuala Lumpur region.",
"They are the Metro Tabernacle Church, the Assumption Church and the Life Chapel.",
"The attacks occurred late Thursday night and early Friday.",
"\"It's incumbent upon the Malaysian government to investigate the church bombings and to prosecute the perpetrators of this religiously motivated violence,\" said Leonard Leo, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent federal agency that makes recommendations to Congress and the president regarding how to handle violations of religious freedom around the world.",
"\"There are many parts of the world where Christians do use the world 'Allah' in their translations of the Bible,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"So the Malaysian Supreme Court ruling that overturns the government's ban on the use of the word is not inconsistent with what the practice would be elsewhere around the world.",
"The Malaysian ban is what's unusual, not the court's ruling.\""
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"Muslims oppose recent court ruling allowing a Catholic newspaper to use the word \"Allah\" for God .",
"60 percent of the people in Malaysia are Muslim, while 9 percent are Christian .",
"The three churches attacked were in the Kuala Lumpur region of the country ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon moved closer Wednesday to its next military trial on the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the suspected ringleader of the deadly bombing of the USS Cole.",
"Saudi-born former millionaire Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri is charged with the 2000 bombing in the Yemeni port of Aden that killed 17 sailors, wounded dozens and crippled the warship.",
"The \"referral of charges\" by the Defense Department Military Commissions unit sets in motion a chain of events that will lead to the appointment of a military officer as the trial judge in the case and a meeting of the judge, prosecutors and defense lawyers in coming weeks.",
"The arraignment will take place within 30 days.",
"A statement from the Defense Department said the charges against al-Nashiri allege that he was in charge of planning the attack, which took place October 12, 2000.",
"\"The convening authority referred the charges to a capital military commission, meaning that if convicted, al-Nashiri could be sentenced to death,\" the Defense Department statement said.",
"The news release also mentions charges against al-Nashiri related to an attempted attack on the USS The Sullivans in Yemen in January 2000 and an attack on a French tanker in 2002 that resulted in the death of one crew member.",
"One of al-Nashiri's civilian defense lawyers said his legal team was disappointed in the government action.",
"\"We are disappointed the United States will now descend further down the path of expedient and secret justice that military commissions have come to represent,\" Rick Kammen said in an e-mail.",
"\"We're not talking about a constitutionally adequate trial, and we are disappointed that the U. S. government will use the constitutionally inadequate military commissions process to seek the death penalty against Mr. al-Nashiri,\" Kammen wrote.",
"He added that the decision to move forward with the case \"regrettably confirms to the world that the United States intends to render second-class justice to the men imprisoned in Guantanamo.\"",
"Earlier, lawyers for al-Nashiri argued that his waterboarding and other mistreatment while in U.S. custody and delays in his case should have forced the government to drop any plans for a military trial that could end in a death sentence.",
"\"By torturing Mr. al-Nashiri and subjecting him to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, the United States has forfeited its right to try him and certainly to kill him,\" the brief said.",
"\"Through the infliction of physical and psychological abuse, the government has essentially already killed the man it seized almost 10 years ago.\"",
"Al-Nashiri's legal team, comprising military and civilian lawyers, made the arguments to the \"convening authority\" of the military court, retired Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald.",
"The commission was brought into existence by President George W. Bush and overhauled by President Barack Obama.",
"In legal papers obtained by CNN, al-Nashiri's lawyers presented details of their client's treatment, saying that, in addition to subjecting their client to waterboarding, his questioners revved a power drill by his ear and chambered a round in a handgun, all while he was naked and hooded.",
"\"The government has admitted to waterboarding Mr. al-Nashiri and subjecting him to verbal and physical threats to his life and threats to the safety of his family,\" the brief says.",
"\"Both set of acts constitute torture.\"",
"If it goes to trial, the case will be the first full prosecution under the military commission system.",
"It is seen as the latest fine-tuning of the system before the military commission moves ahead with prosecution of other terrorist suspects, especially the four men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.",
"The American Civil Liberties Union issued a news release restating its \"concerns about the inherent unfairness of the military commissions.\"",
"\"Unlike federal courts, military commissions have unfairly lax rules for allowing evidence, except when it comes to torture -- the commissions may admit coerced testimony, while evidence of the torture that produced it can be censored,\" said Denny LeBoeuf, director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project.",
"This latest step for the Guantanamo detainee comes as the new chief prosecutor for military commissions, Army Brig.",
"Gen. Mark Martins, is taking over.",
"Martins was first in his class at West Point, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law.",
"He will have the chance to put his stamp on the job amid renewed scrutiny of both the military trials and the Guantanamo Navy Base detention facilities.",
"In a recent Weekly Standard profile, Martins is portrayed as the man the administration hopes will bring new credibility and legitimacy to the system.",
"He has powerful friends, including his former commander, Gen. David Petraeus, now CIA director.",
"Petraeus gave Martins the job of cleaning up the military detention and interrogation system in Afghanistan, and Martins delivered.",
"In an effort to polish the reputation of the military commission system, both inside the United States and internationally, Martins may push for greater transparency of the process.",
"He could roll out a plan the Pentagon has been working on for months to provide closed-circuit television transmissions of the military proceedings to victims, families and journalists in the United States.",
"There would be a \"kill\" switch in the control room to wipe out the audio in case any national security secrets were blurted out in the courtroom.",
"Al-Nashiri is one of 171 detainees remaining at Guantanamo."
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"The man suspect of being behind the attack on the USS Cole will go on trial .",
"The formal \"referral of charges\" is the first step in the military commission process .",
"His attorneys and the ACLU criticize the decision to use a military commission ."
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"(CNN) -- Coffee shops in the Dutch city of Maastricht have banned foreign tourists, except those from Germany and Belgium, from entering their premises from Saturday, according to the local association of coffee shops.",
"Coffee shops in the Netherlands are places where customers can legally buy and consume cannabis.",
"\"We have put in place a 'neighbouring country' criteria,\" Marc Josemans, president of the Society of United Coffeeshops and owner of the Easy Going coffee shop, told CNN.",
"\"This is a form of self-regulation.",
"It is not a law, there will be no judge, this was just the only choice we had.\"",
"The move comes after Maastricht's city council decided that something had to be done about the 2.2 million visitors that come to the city every year, according to Josemans.",
"\"The visitors put a lot of pressure on the city when they come here and make it very busy on our narrow streets.",
"So the city said that something had to be done about the traffic and nuisance,\" he said.",
"\"But the biggest nuisance isn't the number of coffee shops or the clients, but the illegal drug runners that can be quite aggressive and start fights and rob the tourists.\"",
"All visitors to Maastricht's coffee shops -- some 6,000 a day, almost three-quarters of whom are foreign, according to Josemans -- already have to show their passports and their information is then kept for 48 hours.",
"Now only those with a Dutch, German or Belgian passport will be allowed in.",
"\"A number of people will leave disappointed, and we are not very proud of refusing entry to visitors who have come to our shops for the last 28 years and never caused a problem,\" said Josemans, who has himself used cannabis for 35 years.",
"\"The question now will be if they instead buy from the illegal drug runners here or if they buy illegally in their own countries.\"",
"Nobody from Maastricht city council was available for comment Saturday.",
"A spokeswoman for Maastricht police told CNN that the police were not a party to the ban and that it is not illegal for foreign tourists to enter the city's coffee shops.",
"The spokeswoman, who is not named in line with department policy, said police would not carry out any identity checks to enforce the ban.",
"\"We will just go about our normal business and carry out our duties where needed,\" she said.",
"At spokeswoman at the tourist office for Maastricht, which lies near the Belgian border, said it was not aware of the new rules.",
"The Society of United Coffeeshops decided on the ban in July but it only came into effect October 1.",
"The organization is also working on a plan to move seven of the city's 14 coffee shops to the outskirts, where foreign tourists can then go and buy hash and marijuana, Josemans said.",
"\"But the first relocation won't happen until June 2013, so we had to put this ban in place now, and we could then change it again once we've completed the relocation.",
"\"At these new sites, the parking (areas) will have direct access to the coffee shops, so the drug runners can't approach the clients as they walk to the coffee shop.\"",
"Josemans also says the Dutch government wants the coffee shops to operate on a smaller scale and is planning to impose a nationwide ban on anyone who doesn't hold a Dutch passport buying cannabis.",
"\"They want to put this 'weed pass' in place from January 1 next year, but we are strongly against this.\"",
"A press release on the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice website from May this year says coffee shops will become private clubs where only adult Dutch citizens can become members.",
"\"The Cabinet expects that closure of coffee shops to foreign drugs tourists will ensure that they no longer travel to the Netherlands to purchase and consume cannabis.",
"After all, many of them can use the illegal markets available in their immediate surroundings,\" the press release says.",
"The statement does not give a date for the implementation of the new measures.",
"CNN's calls to the Dutch justice ministry were not immediately returned.",
"But Josemans says cannabis supply is not only a Dutch problem.",
"\"This is also the responsibility of the other European governments; nobody is taking responsibility for those millions of customers who want to buy cannabis for their own use,\" he said.",
"\"It is time to get their heads out of the sand to get a decent drugs policy in place to address this problem.\""
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"Maastricht city authorities say they need to cut visitor numbers .",
"Many visitors cross the border to use cannabis in the city's coffee shops .",
"Now only Belgian and German tourists will be allowed in to such shops ."
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"(CNN) -- You could say Chris Nsamba has always been something of an overachiever.",
"By the age of 16 he'd already won three science competitions for adults.",
"Now in his late 20s, the Ugandan is still dreaming big: He hopes to build and launch the first African manned shuttle into space.",
"\"It isn't about money, it isn't about competition or pride,\" said Nsamba, founder of the African Space Research Program.",
"\"The mission is about advancement in space technology as a continent and what we can contribute towards that growth.\"",
"While the group's plans are ambitious, they are starting at the beginning of the aerospace ladder.",
"To test their engineering skills, Nsamba and his team are finishing off the first Ugandan designed and built aircraft.",
"But for Nsamba the sky is not the limit.",
"\"We are trying to have Africa participate in the contribution of knowledge into mankind's destiny,\" he said.",
"He says the program's slogan, \"Slowly We Get Smart and Quickly We get Old,\" sums up why his efforts are so important.",
"\"United as one, the knowledge we acquire today will help generations of tomorrow, and perhaps save our future generations from some kind of catastrophe,\" he continued.",
"Nsamba has a team of over 600 volunteers, many of whom are engineering students, who work on the project in his backyard.",
"Uganda doesn't have a history of space exploration and Nsamba is teaching the aspiring astronauts himself.",
"\"This is not a one-man mission.",
"We work jointly to achieve goals,\" Nsamba said.",
"\"I have trained my crew (in) advanced astronomy.",
"They are very good at astronomy in regards to calculations and identifications of various space objects.\"",
"As well as his astronomy lessons, he's educating them about the dangers of space, such as re-entry and the harms of radiation.",
"But while the team may be knowledgeable, they lack the tools and machinery to properly get the project off the ground.",
"It's all down to money, but this could be about to change.",
"The Ugandan Government's Science and Technology department has told CNN that the state is going to start providing financial support to the program.",
"\"You can call it a public-private partnership but mainly driven by the young people whose passion is in space science.",
"I applaud their ambition,\" said Richard Tushemereirwe, a spokesman from the department.",
"\"It provides an opportunity for Africans in general and Ugandans in particular to participate in space science and research instead of being spectators,\" he continued.",
"A team of flight engineers from the Ugandan Civil Aviation Authority has also been assigned to review and advise the team.",
"Tushemereirwe wouldn't disclose how much funding the group will receive.",
"But until now the project has been funded by well-wishers from around the world.",
"Nsamba says equipment has been donated to them and anything else the team needs they make it themselves.",
"\"Recently we manufactured and launched a prototype thruster, a small shuttle engine in a prototype format,\" Nsamba said.",
"One of the donors to the program is Lauren Stewart, a financial analyst from Texas.",
"Stewart discovered the group online and immediately wanted to be involved.",
"\"When you listen to the news you never hear good news from Africa, it's always sadness, so this is a light,\" she said.",
"\"They are trying to do something on a positive side rather a negative side compared to what I'm used to hearing.\"",
"Stewart is now trying to raise the group's profile in the States.",
"\"I want people to trust them and get involved so they can be part of history,\" she said.",
"Despite the challenges the team faces, Nsamaba remains confident they'll have a space shuttle built in four to six years.",
"He's already named it \"The Dynacraft.\"",
"\"It will first operate in Earth's lower orbit then advance with time,\" he said.",
"\"We might not have money in our system but we do get our homework done!\""
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"The African Space Research Program is based in Uganda .",
"A team of over 600 volunteers are building an aircraft and space shuttle .",
"The group has just secured funding from the Ugandan government .",
"The founder says they'll have a shuttle built in 4-6 years ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- At London Fashion Week, all eyes are usually on the clothes.",
"Egyptian Azza Fahmy is one of the Arab world's preeminent jewelry designers .",
"But the Arab and Islamic-influenced brooches, bracelets, necklaces and rings adorning the models heading down Julien Macdonald's catwalk are also getting attention.",
"They are part of a collaboration between the fashion powerhouse and former British Designer of the Year and Egyptian jewelry designer, Azza Fahmy.",
"\"I really love the craft and the skill and the romance that goes into the pieces.",
"So, that teamed with my sense of high octane glamour and my London high living twist is a great mix and a contrast.",
"And that's what I like,\" Macdonald enthused to CNN.",
"In return, \"Azza Fahmy Jewellery\" gets international exposure, to the likes of Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and OK!.",
"But don't -- as one London paper did -- call the catwalk collection \"designer bling.\"",
"\"It's quite a deep and nice collection -- not bling bling.",
"I hate bling bling collections,\" Fahmy exclaims.",
"Starting at $250 to 'the sky's-the-limit', Fahmy's pioneering blends of gold, silver and precious stones, makes her one of the Arab world's preeminent jewelry designers.",
"The only problem is, a mere 30 percent of these 'jewels of the Nile' are sold outside Egypt -- Fahmy was missing out on the lucrative Gulf Arab market.",
"One of the challenges of marketing designer jewelry in the Middle East is getting past the traditional mentality that measures an item's worth not by exceptional finishes but by its weight in grams and karats.",
"To do well in the East, Fahmy and her daughters Fatma and Amina steered the family business to the West.",
"It started with the Julien Macdonald collaboration, and now exclusive Western stores like Kabiri, Harrods and Harvey Nichols are selling their jewelry.",
"Arabs tend to imitate Western spending habits, paying big money for luxury foreign items like Bulgari or Cartier -- but they don't give the same attention to their own Arab brands.",
"Fahmy believes that as her jewelry becomes popular in the West -- more Middle Eastern buyers will follow suit.",
"The marketing strategy seems to be working.",
"Her team says the collections now sell in the U.A.E., Qatar and Bahrain.",
"Next stop -- Saudi Arabia.",
"\"To have a product which stands beside Cartier, etcetera -- it's a challenge.",
"But we are sure of the ourselves because we are presenting something special, something which is different from all these brands,\" Fahmy said.",
"At her workshop on the outskirts of Cairo, Fahmy's craftsmen work in the belief they're turning precious metal into something different -- art.",
"Fahmy's daughter, Amina Ghaly, works for the family business as a designer and says there's value in the design, the marketing and workmanship poured into each item.",
"\"At least 20 to 25 people will have touched that piece just to have one perfect piece at the end,\" Ghaly explained.",
"In the 60's, Fahmy was the first woman to apprentice in Egypt's jewelry district.",
"The one-time government employee used to run a one-woman shop in her spare time.",
"Today, more than 180 employees drill, solder, hammer and file under her watchful eye, crafting two to three thousand pieces every year.",
"The luxury goods market is a crowded one, as Fahmy well knows: \"Like any business, it's not a joke,\" says the designer.",
"Going to the West to find a better footing in the East is seriously savvy move.",
"A move that could lead to future success on the catwalk -- and with more consumers worldwide."
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"Azza Fahmy is Egypt's preeminent jewelry designer .",
"She collaborated with fashion designer, Julien Macdonald on his A/W '08 collection .",
"International exposure has increased sales in the lucrative Middle East markets .",
"Azza Fahmy on the competitive luxury industry: \"Like any business, it's not joke\""
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"(CNN) -- Fifteen people have now died after consuming cantaloupe contaminated with the listeria monocytogenes bacteria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.",
"At least 84 people in 19 states have become ill with the bacteria, the agency said.",
"And the number of illnesses could still grow, added the CDC, citing reporting lags and how the disease can develop slowly in some people.",
"On Tuesday, the CDC was reporting 13 deaths and 72 illnesses in what was already then the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in the United States since 1998.",
"Five people have died in New Mexico from eating the tainted cantaloupes, the CDC said.",
"Three people died in Colorado, two in Texas and one each in Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma.",
"Illnesses have also been reported in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.",
"What you need to know about Listeria .",
"Most of those who fell ill are more than 60 years old, the CDC said.",
"Doctors also are closely monitoring the pregnancies of two women who ate contaminated cantaloupe, with the agency noting that listeriosis can cause miscarriages and stillbirths.",
"Older adults and people with compromised immune systems are also especially susceptible.",
"Public health investigators have traced the source of the bacteria to a farm in Granada, Colorado.",
"Food Poisoning 101 .",
"The grower, Jensen Farms, issued a recall for its Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes on September 14.",
"By now, the cantaloupes should all be off store shelves, the CDC said.",
"The agency warned that people should not eat Rocky Ford cantaloupes, even if they have eaten part of one and have not yet fallen ill.",
"It also said that consumers should be wary of eating any cantaloupes if they don't know where they came from.",
"How to keep your food safe ."
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"Contaminated cantaloupes have caused illnesses in 19 states, the CDC says .",
"In addition to the deaths, a total of 84 people have fallen ill, the agency says .",
"The fruits are thought to be tainted by listeria monocytogenes bacteria .",
"Colorado-based Jensen Farms has recalled its cantaloupes ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A United Nations court has found that the United States violated an international treaty and the court's own order when a Mexican national was executed last year in a Texas prison.",
"Jose Ernesto Medellin was executed by lethal injection for raping and murdering two girls aged 14 and 16.",
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a ruling Monday in an unusual case that pitted President Bush against his home state in a dispute over federal authority, local sovereignty and foreign treaties.",
"Mexico had filed a formal complaint against U.S. state and federal officials .",
"\"The United States of America has breached the obligation incumbent upon it\" to stop the execution, the ICJ announced in a unanimous opinion.",
"Jose Ernesto Medellin's death by lethal injection in August followed a 15-year legal dispute after his conviction for two brutal slayings.",
"At issue was whether Texas and other states had to give in to a demand by the president that the prisoner be allowed new hearings and resentencing.",
"Bush made that request reluctantly after the international court in 2004 concluded that Medellin and about 50 other Mexicans on various states' death rows were improperly denied access to their consulate upon arrest, a violation of a treaty signed by the United States decades ago.",
"Their home countries could have provided legal and other assistance to the men had they been notified, the court said.",
"In a separate judgment, the ICJ declined Mexico's demand that the United States provide guarantees against executing other foreign inmates in the future.",
"The U.S. Supreme Court last March ruled for Texas, allowing the Medellin execution to proceed.",
"Efforts stalled in Congress last summer over legislation that would have given foreign death row inmates like Medellin a new hearing before any punishment could be carried out.",
"State Department officials have said the international ruling will not help other foreign inmates in U.S. prisons, because federal officials cannot force states to comply.",
"Administration officials also said that the president did all he could to force state compliance and that Congress now needs to intervene with specific legislation.",
"Medellin was 18 when he participated in the June 1993 gang rape and murder of two Harris County girls: Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16.",
"He was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death.",
"The prisoner's lawyers argued that Mexican consular officials were never able to meet with the man until after his conviction.",
"Only Oklahoma has commuted a capital inmate's sentence to life in prison in response to the international judgment.",
"Days after Medellin died by lethal injection, Texas executed Honduran native Heliberto Chi Acheituno, who also said his treaty rights were violated.",
"The ICJ in 2004 ordered the United States to provide \"review and reconsideration\" of the sentences and convictions of the Mexican prisoners.",
"That world court again in July mandated that the United States do everything within its federal authority to stop Medellin's execution until his case could be further reviewed by American courts.",
"Based in The Hague, Netherlands, the ICJ resolves disputes between nations over treaty obligations.",
"The 15-judge panel is the principal judicial organization of the United Nations, laying out rights of people detained in other nations.",
"The Supreme Court appeal turned on what role each branch of government plays to give force to international treaty obligations.",
"After the ICJ ruling, the United States pulled out of that international court's jurisdiction in matters arising from the Vienna Convention.",
"In allowing the Medellin execution to proceed, the Supreme Court majority noted congressional \"inaction\" on the issue, efforts that had \"not progressed beyond the bare introduction of a bill in the four years since the ICJ ruling.\""
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"Jose Ernesto Medellin executed in Texas by lethal injection last year .",
"State Department says ruling won't aid other foreign inmates .",
"U.S. Supreme Court ruling had allowed execution to proceed ."
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"(CNN) -- French shoemaker Christian Louboutin is seeing red -- and will likely be seeing a lot more of it -- after a judge in Manhattan denied an injunction that would have kept fellow designer Yves Saint Laurent from selling shoes with red soles.",
"The lawsuit, filed in June, takes issue with four specific shoes from YSL's Cruise 2011 Collection: the Tribute, Tribtoo, Palais and Woodstock models, claiming the shoes violate Louboutin's trademarked \"lacquered red sole.\"",
"\"Everyone sees the flash of red and associates the red with Louboutin,\" attorney Harley Lewin said Thursday about his client.",
"In fact, Louboutin's red soles have graced many a red carpets, adorning the feet of celebrities Oprah Winfrey, Heidi Klum and Sarah Jessica Parker.",
"In 2009, Jennifer Lopez wrote a song about them, \"But it's the last time, I'm movin' on, I'm throwing on my Louboutins.\"",
"In his decision Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero acknowleded that in choosing a red sole for his shoes, Louboutin had \"departed from longstanding conventions and norms of his industry,\" to create a product, \"so eccentric and striking that it is easily perceived and remembered.\"",
"However, Marrero went on to say that, \"Louboutin's claim to the 'the color red' is, without some limitation, overly broad and inconsistent with the scene of trademark registration.\"",
"\"This was a trademark that never should've been issued,\" David Bernstein, attorney for the defendant, Yves Saint Laurent said.",
"He adds, \"YSL has been using red since the 1970s, other designers have used red on the soles of their shoes.",
"They aren't doing so to confuse people, but because it's a design aesthetic.\"",
"Lewin thinks the judge went too far.",
"\"This is no longer about the case,\" he said.",
"Judge Marrero's decision drew parallels between painters and fashion designers, calling them both members of a creative industry where no one should be barred from using color to achieve their aesthetic.",
"Doing so could, \"interfere with creativity and stifle competition.\"",
"Bernstein agrees.",
"\"No designer should be able to monopolize a color.\"",
"There have been cases when companies have copyrighted color.",
"Owens Corning, for example, has the trademark for pink fiberglass.",
"Marrero said industrial products are different because the application of color is simply to distinguish one manufacturer from another.",
"Lewin says his client \"separated his shoes from everyone else's by using a red sole.\"",
"Lewin said he's never had such an outpouring from his fellow attorneys, law professors and members of the fashion industry, telling him, \"This [verdict] is an abomination.",
"Tell your client to appeal.\"",
"On August 17, both sides will meet for a case management conference, and Lewin says he will announce his plans to do just that.",
"\"This is not over,\" Lewin said, \"Not by a long shot.\""
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"Judge won't stop Yves Saint Laurent from selling shoes with red soles .",
"Designer Christian Louboutin had asked him to do so .",
"Attorney says color red is associated with Louboutin .",
"But judge said the claim is \"overly broad\""
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"(CNN) -- I appeared on a couple of segments on CNN this week where the topic was the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.",
"A question raised was whether this was political.",
"The Republican/tea party spokesperson said yes, arguing that labor unions were behind it (in fact the labor unions did not join until this week).",
"I said it was economic, but political in the sense that you have a political party -- the GOP -- entrenched with the wealthy and Wall Street while doing nothing to protect middle-class America.",
"But I was wrong. It is not economic. And it is not political. It is personal. Executive pay is now about five times higher than it was in 1980, adjusted for inflation.",
"The average salary for the rank-and-file American worker, however, is about the same as it was in 1980.",
"Really? Does American exceptionalism exist only at the top 1% of our workforce?",
"Did our CEOs really get 5 times better than they were in 1980 and our workers remain just ho-hum average?",
"I don't think so. Neither does the rest of America.",
"When there is this kind of disparity while these same CEOs are paying taxes at a rate lower than their secretaries, their receptionists, and the people who clean their offices, it is personal.",
"When he was chair of the DNC, my former boss, the late Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown, used to say in his stump speech that we live in an era where \"the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and the middle-class got squeezed.\"",
"This was back in 1992. It could not be truer today.",
"While President Obama has not done things perfectly, he has injected some fairness and balance into the economy to spur growth and job creation.",
"More needs to be done, but his attempts have been met mostly by gridlock and a GOP that only wants to see him fail.",
"In the meantime, corporate profits are at an all-time high, but corporations are paying lower taxes than ever before.",
"Some aren't paying any at all. This week, we see banks tacking on extra fees -- which, contrary to what they argue, would lead them to 13% more in profits than they were making before the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act went into effect.",
"At the same time, CEOs, while also making record amounts of money (the average CEO makes $11 million a year while the average person makes $40,000), have laid off millions of Americans while sending our jobs overseas.",
"These are not nameless, faceless Americans.",
"They are our neighbors, our friends and even our families.",
"It is personal. Republicans continue to protect this twisted system.",
"And to add insult to injury, Republican legislators and the GOP presidential candidates want to eliminate the protections the middle class gained from the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Democrats and signed by Obama.",
"Does the crash of 2008 ring a bell?",
"Are Republicans really advocating that the greed of Wall Street be put before the needs of the American people?",
"Yes, and here's why: In the 2010 election cycle, corporations spent over $275 million getting politicians elected and spent almost $3 billion lobbying them.",
"While some of those donations went to Democrats, the vast majority went to Republicans.",
"It's no wonder Republicans want less government accountability and more tax giveaways for billionaires and giant companies -- that's what their corporate donors demand.",
"I, for one, take it personally.",
"So does Obama. The second question I was asked this week was whether the demonstrators had a \"candidate\" in the race.",
"They do. President Obama.",
"He acknowledges Americans are angry.",
"He knows times are tough and he continues to fight to restore some much-needed protections for exactly the people in that crowd at Wall Street.",
"He and Democrats want more balance in the system.",
"One way of getting there is the Buffett Rule -- Obama's proposal, named after billionaire Warren Buffett, that those making more than $1 million pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the rest of us.",
"Critics scream \"class warfare,\" and decry the attacks on the \"job creators,\" and cry \"socialism\" as they continue to preserve this unjust system that is giving rise to what could be a powerful and sustained movement.",
"Here are my answers: . Class warfare?",
"You bet. As Buffett has said so eloquently, this country has been engaged in class warfare for decades, and guess what?",
"His class won. It is now time to stand up and fight for fairness for the middle class and a balanced approach for working-class families, who have labored just as hard as America's top CEOs but have not had the same kind of increases in salary.",
"On job creators?",
"Who are they? The majority of job creation comes from our small businesses, none of which are raking in the salaries of the top 1% of wealthy Americans.",
"So asking the top 1% of wealthy Americans to pay their fair share and pay at least as high a tax rate as their workers is not class warfare or an attack on \"job creators\" or socialism.",
"It is in fact the American way.",
"And America agrees.",
"Meanwhile, in the greatest country in the world, Latino children now rank highest in child poverty rates.",
"Latinos and African-Americans suffer from much higher unemployment rates than others.",
"With all this taken together, is it any wonder that our masses could be giving rise to our own \"spring\"?",
"While it is no Arab Spring, the movement is spreading.",
"Not economic, not political, but personal.",
"Republicans would do well to take it personally too.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Maria Cardona."
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"Maria Cardona says Occupy Wall Street is not political or economic; it's personal .",
"She says protesters railing against corporate greed, status quo of unfair taxation .",
"She says GOP supports system, thwarts Obama's attempts at protection for middle class .",
"Cardona: Class warfare?",
"Yes, and the wealthy class won.",
"It's time to stand up for fairness ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The first two weeks of the NBA's regular season have been canceled, as basketball players and management have yet to reach a deal on a new labor agreement, Commissioner David Stern announced, according to NBA.com.",
"The two sides remain far apart, Stern said from the NBA meetings.",
"He added that no further talks are scheduled.",
"Derek Fisher, the president of the NBA Player's Association, said the entire season may be in jeopardy.",
"And the association's executive director, Billy Hunter, said the owners are more dug in than in the past.",
"The commissioner had warned last week that such a cancellation may well be coming, at which time Los Angeles Lakers' guard and NBA Players Association President Derek Fisher acknowledged the stakes.",
"\"We know our backs are against the wall in terms of regular season games and what those consequences will be,\" he said then.",
"The league's owners began a lockout of its players in early July.",
"Stern has said that last season was not profitable for most of the league's 30 owners, who want cost-cutting help from players.",
"The league lost as much as $300 million in the 2010-11 season, according to the commissioner.",
"Less than a week ago, the NBA canceled its preseason, which meant the loss of about $200 million in revenue, Stern said.",
"One of the battles has focused on the owners' rejection of the players union's call for an average $7 million player salary in the sixth year of a new labor deal.",
"The current average salary is about $5 million.",
"Other big issues include a fight over a move by owners to get a bigger share of revenues and whether the NBA will strengthen its salary cap.",
"The last work stoppage occurred in 1998."
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"NEW: The Player's Association says owners are more dug in than in the past .",
"The commissioner says the sides are far apart, and no new talks are scheduled .",
"The league's owners began a lockout of its players in early July .",
"Sides are deadlocked over salaries, revenue sharing ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords joined about 50 dignitaries and family members Thursday in Washington to mark the retirement of her husband, Capt.",
"Mark Kelly, from the U.S. Navy.",
"Kelly, 47,enlisted the military in 1987 and served as a combat and test pilot before joining the U.S. space program.",
"He was part of space shuttle flights in 2001 and 2006, and then commanded ones in 2008 and again in May.",
"The last one took place several months after Giffords was among 13 people wounded in a shooting at a constituent event outside a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket.",
"Six others -- including a federal judge and a child -- were killed.",
"Since then, the Arizona Democrat has been mostly out of the public eye and in intense rehabilitation in Arizona and Texas.",
"One exception, prior to Thursday, was her August 1 return to the Capitol to cast a vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling.",
"She attended Thursday's event inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located next to the West Wing of the White House, along with her congressional chief of staff, Pia Carusone, plus her and Kelly's mothers and his two teenage daughters from a previous marriage.",
"Sporting glasses, black pants, running shoes and a brace on her right hand, Giffords smiled as she entered to prolonged applause and sat in the front row.",
"Kelly officially retired from the Navy on Saturday.",
"Thursday's event to commemorate the occasion was attended by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and several other members of Congress.",
"At one point, Giffords helped present her husband with the Legion of Merit and Distinguishing Flying Cross medals, in honor of his fourth space shuttle mission.",
"Vice President Joe Biden presided over the ceremony, attaching a Legion of Merit pin to Kelly's jacket and later offering remarks.",
"\"It's not every day you encounter examples of sheer, sheer courage and selflessness and dedication like you see in this couple,\" he said of Giffords and Kelly.",
"Kelly also spoke, extending thanks to those who have offered their \"boundless friendship and optimism\" over the past eight, trying months.",
"And he made a plea for NASA to \"remain a permanent part of the fabric of this great country.\"",
"The former astronaut gave flowers to his daughters and wife, then addressed her in front of the crowd.",
"\"Gabby, you remind me every day to deny the acceptance of failure,\" he said.",
"\"I look forward to the next phase of our life together and watching all of your future achievements.\"",
"Kelly announced his retirement in June, writing then on his Facebook page that he wanted to devote more time to helping Giffords recover from her injuries and spend more time with his daughters.",
"\"This was not an easy decision.",
"Public service has been more than a job for me and for my family,\" he wrote."
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"Captain formally retired from the U.S. Navy on Saturday .",
"Vice President Biden presides over formal retirement ceremony .",
"Kelly's wife, Gabrielle Giffords, shot last January, takes part in the event .",
"The ex-astronaut says Giffords reminds him not to accept failure ."
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"(CNN) -- The tragedy of Ireland's violent past seemed close to the surface this week as an Irish presidential candidate was confronted about his former role as an IRA commander, and Britain's prime minister talked with a family about a Catholic victim of \"the troubles.\"",
"Irish presidential candidate Martin McGuinness was confronted Monday by a man claiming to be the son of a soldier killed by the Irish Republican Army in the 1980s, as McGuinness campaigned ahead of Election Day, October 27.",
"David Kelly confronted McGuinness in Athlone, Ireland, demanding answers about his father, Patrick Kelly, who he said had been shot dead with a trainee police officer as they attempted to rescue a kidnapped businessman in the Republic of Ireland in 1983.",
"As shoppers and the media looked on, Kelly demanded that McGuinness name the killers, to which McGuinness replied, \"I don't know who was responsible for the killing of your father.\"",
"Kelly then accused McGuinness of having been a member of the IRA's ruling Army Council at the time of the killing -- which McGuinness denied.",
"\"You are a liar. I want justice for my father,\" Kelly said.",
"McGuinness, a former IRA commander and now a leader of the political party Sinn Fein, stepped down from his position as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister to run for president of the Republic of Ireland.",
"Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, while the Republic of Ireland is an independent state.",
"Meanwhile, on Tuesday the widow of murdered Catholic Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane and other family members will hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron about their demand for a public inquiry into his 1989 killing.",
"The family says they suspect the British government sanctioned the killing.",
"Finucane, 39, had represented IRA members in many high-profile cases, but he had also represented pro-British, or loyalist, terrorists.",
"He was gunned down by a loyalist gang at his Belfast home, in front of his wife and three children.",
"His family has long believed the security forces cooperated with the killers.",
"The man convicted of Finucane's murder was a police informer.",
"John Finucane was the youngest at the family dinner table on the day of the killing, just 8 years old.",
"Now a lawyer himself, he will also attend Tuesday's meeting at Downing Street.",
"\"The meeting is at the request of the prime minister and we expect to be told what his intentions are,\" he told CNN.",
"\"We are optimistic and hopeful he will announce there is an inquiry and the inquiry is one we can engage with.",
"We are cautiously optimistic, but there have been let-downs over the past 22 years.\"",
"Finucane says he has \"absolutely no doubt\" the state was involved in his father's murder.",
"\"That's not just my opinion, that's the opinion of Sir John Stevens, the most senior policeman in England, when he examined it.",
"It's also the opinion of Peter Cory,\" a retired Canadian judge, \"who was tasked with looking at the evidence in the case to decide whether an inquiry was necessary.",
"So it's not just my family that believe there was collusion.",
"\"I think it's pretty much accepted that there was collusion in my father's killing.\"",
"The question, he said, is \"how high up the chain of command that went.\"",
"Finucane added that, \"in the absence of a transparent examination of all the relevant evidence, I believe it went as high as the office where I'm going to meet the prime minister.\"",
"The British prime minister at the time was Margaret Thatcher.",
"While the almost daily violence of the 1970s and 1980s is a thing of the past in Northern Ireland, remnants of \"the troubles\" remain.",
"Some terrorist splinter groups remain active and even have the capacity to kill.",
"Still, the current campaign is on a much smaller scale than in the past.",
"Sinn Fein, viewed as the IRA's political wing, is now a key player in the peace process and shares power with its former bitter enemies, pro-British lawmakers, in a coalition government in Belfast.",
"But this week's events show how old wounds still haunt and divide the island.",
"Finucane believes facing the past is the key to continuing progress.",
"\"The issue of the past is the single most important issue that has the ability to bring both sides of the community here back to a very dark place,\" he said, \"and unresolved cases like my father's do nothing but damage the present society.\""
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"Man confronts Republic candidate demanding answers for his father's killing .",
"Patrick Kelly was shot dead attempting to rescue a kidnap victim in 1983 .",
"Family of murdered lawyer Pat Finucane will talk with British Prime Minister Cameron .",
"Finucane's family wants inquiry, and says British government was complicit ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Army on Wednesday will report that while the number of suicides in the active-duty force declined in 2010, the number of suicides in the Army Reserve and National Guard increased, a senior Army official said.",
"The increase in Reserve and National Guard suicides is among troops who are in the United States and not activated for duty.",
"The senior Army official said more than half of those troops were never deployed to a war zone.",
"The official said one possible explanation for the increase in suicides is economic pressure and rising unemployment, but he emphasized that the Army simply does not have answers.",
"The official noted that for Guard and Reserve personnel who live as civilians back in their communities, the Army is not able to provide the same type of suicide awareness and prevention programs that are available to active-duty personnel.",
"The decline in active-duty suicides, even though slight, may be initial evidence that those awareness and prevention programs are helping, the official said."
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"Report on suicides is to be released Wednesday, senior Army official says .",
"Active-duty suicides declined in 2010, but rose among Reserve, National Guard .",
"Increase was among stateside troops, most of whom were never in a war zone .",
"Army doesn't have any answers for the discrepancy, official says ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Nearly 700 patients and 100 employees at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta have been exposed to tuberculosis after coming in contact with a hospital employee carrying the disease, a hospital spokesman said Thursday.",
"The Georgia Department of Community Health and the hospital have identified 680 patients who were exposed to tuberculosis between November and February, said hospital spokesman Lance Skelly.",
"Patients will begin getting tested for tuberculosis next week, Skelly said.",
"To date, no patients or employees have reported symptoms of tuberculosis, he said.",
"The hospital and the department began notifying people about the exposure this month, after an Emory employee was diagnosed in April with the infectious disease, he said.",
"The employee did not know he had tuberculosis when he came in contact with employees and patients, the hospital said.",
"The hospital took extra precautions by contacting patients who were in the hospital for 90 days before the day the employee is known to have developed the disease, Skelly said.",
"\"That is a major reason the numbers are so much higher.\"",
"All hospital employees are screened for the disease and must receive screenings each year, it added.",
"A hospital statement did not say whether the employee had been screened.",
"About 11 million people in the United States are infected with latent tuberculosis, which is symptom-free and is not contagious.",
"Of those, 5 to 10 percent go on to develop active tuberculosis, which can be spread to others through the air, such as through coughing or sneezing.",
"It can be fatal if not properly treated.",
"Symptoms of tuberculosis include chest pain, a bad cough (possibly with blood), weakness and a fever.",
"While tuberculosis usually impacts the lungs, the kidneys, brain and spine may also be affected.",
"Both the number and rate of tuberculosis cases has been on the decline since 1993, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .",
"The number of reported deaths nationwide dropped from 644 in 2006 to 544 in 2007, the most recent year for which such data is available, the CDC said."
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"NEW: Number and rate of TB cases has been on the decline since 1993, CDC says .",
"A hospital employee unknowingly exposed patients and staff to TB, the hospital says .",
"The exposure occurs between November and February .",
"TB can be fatal if not properly treated ."
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"(CNN) -- Attorneys representing Casey Anthony invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 60 times during a deposition given in a civil suit against her, according to a transcript of the proceedings.",
"In addition, Anthony's attorney Charles Greene asserted he would also invoke the Fifth Amendment on her behalf if questioning delved into the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.",
"Anthony, who was acquitted in July of murder charges in Caylee's death, is being sued in civil court by a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez.",
"When Caylee was reported missing in July 2008 -- a month after she was last seen -- Anthony maintained she had been kidnapped by her nanny, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez.",
"Authorities were never able to find the nanny.",
"But they did find Gonzalez, who claimed she never met Anthony or her daughter.",
"Gonzalez's attorneys claim, according to questions asked of Anthony in the October 8 deposition, that Gonzalez was questioned by the police in Caylee's disappearance, was kicked out of her apartment complex, lost her job and that she and her two daughters received death threats as a result of media attention in the case.",
"Anthony herself said little in the deposition, but did acknowledge she was aware she was being sued by Gonzalez.",
"She also said she has not spoken to her brother, Lee, in the past six months, and has not spoken to her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, since October 14, 2008.",
"However, Greene did not permit her to answer questions including whether she had ever met Gonzalez; whether a person named Zenaida was ever a nanny to Caylee; or whether defense attorney Jose Baez's assertion during Anthony's criminal trial, that Zenaida Gonzalez was one of Anthony's \"imaginary friends,\" was true.",
"She also was not allowed to answer questions about whether she considered herself a good mother to Caylee; the last day she saw the 2-year-old alive; and whether she drowned in the Anthonys' pool in June 2008, as the defense claimed during Anthony's criminal trial.",
"Asked why he was invoking Anthony's right against self-incrimination, Greene said, according to the transcript, \"I need not explain our factual basis other than to tell you that it could tend to incriminate and provide a link in the chain of evidence that could be used against (Anthony).\"",
"Asked by Gonzalez's attorney John Morgan what pending criminal case that applies to, Greene said, \"We made our objection and that's all I'm going to state.\"",
"Morgan told Greene he anticipates a hearing before a judge on a motion to compel Anthony to answer some of these questions.",
"Greene said that taking it to a judge is \"the best thing to do.\"",
"While Anthony was acquitted on murder charges in Caylee's death, she was convicted on four counts of lying to authorities investigating the child's disappearance.",
"She was given credit for time already spent behind bars, however, and was released from jail July 17.",
"She has remained in seclusion since then, although a judge ruled she must serve a year of probation stemming from her 2010 conviction on check fraud charges.",
"The transcript of the deposition notes that Anthony participated via videoconference from \"an undisclosed location.\"",
"\"I hope that you and your counsel understand that we did not ask questions that many people may have wished we did concerning your employment history then or now, where you live, where you stay,\" Morgan told Anthony as questioning wrapped up.",
"\"... We did this, this deposition, in pursuit of truth and not in pursuit of sensation.\"",
"Anthony has also been ordered to repay more than $217,000 to authorities for the costs of investigating Caylee's disappearance.",
"In Session's Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report."
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"Anthony says she has not spoken to her parents in years .",
"Zenaida Gonzalez is suing Anthony for defamation .",
"Gonzalez lost her job, received death threats, attorneys say ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- A 28-year-old California man pleaded no contest Thursday to stalking actress Halle Berry, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.",
"Richard Anthony Franco of Commerce was sentenced to 386 days in county jail, but received credit Thursday for 193 days already served and won't do any more time, prosecutors said.",
"Franco was also sentenced to five years' probation and ordered to undergo a year of psychological counseling, the prosecutor's office said.",
"Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis Landin also imposed a 10-year criminal protective order, prosecutors said.",
"As part of a plea deal, one count of first-degree residential burglary was dismissed at sentencing, prosecutors said.",
"Franco pleaded no contest to one count of stalking.",
"In July, Franco allegedly showed up several times at Berry's Hollywood Hills home.",
"He was arrested after she reported a possible burglar, according to police.",
"At the time, off-duty officers hired by Berry called police and said they were holding a burglary suspect at her home.",
"A resident there identified him as the same man who had climbed over a locked security gate into the property several times over a few days, police said.",
"Both times, he had claimed he was \"there to see somebody,\" but left after a Berry employee ordered him out, police said."
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"Richard Anthony Franco is sentenced to time already served .",
"One count of residential burglary is dismissed in a plea deal .",
"He must undergo a year of psychological counseling .",
"Franco allegedly climbed over a locked security gate to her Hollywood Hills home ."
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"London (CNN) -- August 13 is likely to be Heathrow Airport's busiest day in its history, so the airport is building a temporary terminal to check through more than 10,000 athletes on that one day, the day after the closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Games.",
"With 80% of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, coaches, media and other visitors expected to use Heathrow during the games, the world's busiest international airport unveiled the design of a temporary terminal to be used just for departures.",
"\"The airport ... already operates close to capacity,\" said Nick Cole, the head of Heathrow's Olympics planning team.",
"\"Every part of the airport is working together to ensure we can give the athletes a warm welcome and ensure all passengers enjoy the atmosphere.\"",
"London has had a relatively smooth seven years of planning and building venues.",
"The one big worry for organizers and the city is transport.",
"There are plans to limit car traffic while creating special Olympics-only traffic lanes.",
"Officials have also asked companies to find ways to keep some employees out of central London and off the busy transport networks during July and August.",
"In recent years, Heathrow has suffered from baggage snafus, snow disruptions and strikes.",
"To help get people out of London after the games, Heathrow will allow athletes to check their luggage at the Olympic Village east of the city.",
"Heathrow expects a 35% increase in baggage on August 13.",
"Departure will not be the only challenge.",
"The airport expects nearly 50% more passengers arriving on July 26, the day before the opening ceremony.",
"That includes 390 athletes bringing in 780 firearms, says Heathrow."
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"The day after Summer Olympics end is expected to be the busiest in Heathrow's history .",
"The airport estimates it will check through 10,000 athletes on that one day .",
"To ease the crush, it plans a temporary terminal just for departures .",
"Heathrow will also allow athletes to check their luggage at Olympic Village on that day ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Protesters upset about corporate greed rallied in New York's Times Square Saturday night, marking the 29th day of a movement that is tapping into popular frustrations about income disparities and an ailing U.S. economy.",
"People hoisted signs in the iconic square and chanted.",
"At one point, police began clearing a part of the street when a van pulled up and officers began making arrests.",
"Police said they had given the crowd several warnings to disperse.",
"Forty-two people were arrested in Times Square, bringing the total number of protesters arrested in New York City on Saturday to 70, according to Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.",
"Two police officers were injured in the Times Square confrontation and sent to a hospital for treatment, he said.",
"Other people were arrested during the day for pulling down barriers and five were arrested for wearing masks, Browne said.",
"As police cleared the street, protesters chanted, \"We are peaceful protesters\" and \"The whole world is watching.\"",
"The demonstration in Times Square was one of several that took place in the United States and around the world on Saturday.",
"Protesters took to the streets again in Lower Manhattan earlier in the day.",
"The group waved flags and banged drums, while keeping up an online presence that has helped spawn similar actions elsewhere.",
"Others joined the demonstrations, yelling slogans of discontent over Wall Street influence, Beltway politics and their own seeming lack of opportunity amid U.S. unemployment levels that continue to hover above 9%.",
"\"Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,\" chanted protesters as they meandered east of the city's Zuccotti Park, considered a home base for the Manhattan protesters.",
"Columns of police on patrol and atop scooters monitored the march, but as dusk fell, it appeared largely peaceful.",
"Earlier, an \"Occupy Wall Street\" spokesman said police made several arrests outside the LaGuardia Place Citibank in Lower Manhattan, after several protesters tried to enter the bank to withdraw cash and close their accounts.",
"Police, meanwhile, said they made 24 arrests after protesters refused to comply with a bank manager's request for them to leave.",
"On Friday, scores were detained during scuffles with authorities during similar protests in several American cities, including Denver, Seattle, San Diego and Washington.",
"Reports of violence, however, were rare.",
"In Los Angeles, protesters and police alike reported good relations Saturday -- and in recent days.",
"Amber Barrero, 22, a student, said she has been participating in the Occupy Los Angeles movement since Day One, or October 1.",
"Police have been quite friendly, Barrerro said.",
"\"When we're occupying, they donate bread, snacks and water,\" said Barrerro, who attended Saturday's rally in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles.",
"Added Mark Simon, 63, an unemployed bookstore employee: \"So far, they've been very well behaved.",
"The police are still the police, and they are part of the 99%,\" referring to the vast majority of Americans enduring a troubled economy.",
"As demonstrators walked the near mile from City Hall to Pershing Square -- and then back -- police were peppered on the periphery, and there were many moments when none was in sight.",
"John Sherman, assistant commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, said the force established a working relationship with the protesters, and \"they approached us in the very beginning,\" he said.",
"Added one officer: \"We're continuing to have a good relationship with Occupy L.A.",
"If we get too close, they may feel threatened.",
"They're cooperating with us, so we're cooperating with them.\"",
"Among the more distinctive figures at the Pershing Square rally was Rev.",
"Danny Fisher, a minister at a Buddhist temple in Rosemead, who wore his full vestment.",
"\"Religious leaders often speak very idealistically, but I think it's important to be available and let people know we hear them and we know they're upset,\" he said.",
"He wore his vestment so \"people know they can approach us and see that religious figures are here,\" he added.",
"In Lower Manhattan Saturday, union groups such as the United Auto Workers also joined the loosely defined movement.",
"\"I know why I'm here,\" said New Jersey resident Tony Buontempo.",
"\"I am surrounded by people that are losing their jobs.",
"The government, the establishment, doesn't get it.",
"They've literally abandoned us.\"",
"Melissa Rice, a college-age protester, said she was marching \"for all the young people who... can't afford college, and all the elderly who can't afford to take care of themselves.\"",
"Protester Jonathan Signey claims the monthlong protests are \"rooted in targeting those financial institutions that tanked our economy in 2008, made a profit out of it, and have not been held accountable by anybody.\"",
"Signey argued that \"corporate power has come to dominate politics\" and blamed institutions such as the investment firm Goldman Sachs for \"selling these packages of derivatives, that they knew were junk, to everybody, and at the same time betting against them.\"",
"Goldman and other firms underwent intense scrutiny in April this year after a U.S. Senate report found that it had misled clients and later Congress about short-selling securities linked to the housing market just prior to the 2008 financial crisis.",
"The investment house has said the report exaggerated the bets, and -- along with other firms -- has been subject to high job losses in the wake of the crisis.",
"Earlier this week, the New York state comptroller announced that Wall Street was projected to lose 10,000 jobs by the end of next year, totaling 32,000 from January 2008 to the end of 2012.",
"Demonstrators, meanwhile, continued to congregate at the privately owned Zuccotti Park, serving food and holding signs in protest of corporate greed and a long list of other, often ambiguously defined, concerns.",
"\"Debt is slavery,\" one sign read.",
"\"Need over greed,\" read another.",
"On Friday, the demonstrations seemed to pick up steam around the country, then began spreading to city streets in Europe, Asia and Australia.",
"Firefighters battled a blaze at an Interior Ministry building near Porta San Giovanni in Rome on Saturday, the main gathering site of Italian protesters taking part in the Occupy movement.",
"In Germany, France and the United Kingdom, protesters marched, listened to speeches and displayed banners reading anti-corporate slogans, including the now ubiquitous \"we are the 99%,\" \"Banks are cancer,\" and \"tax the rich 1%.'\"",
"Europeans turned out amid debt troubles and austerity plans in Greece, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Germany, that analysts say have contributed to volatility in U.S. markets.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt and Logan Burruss contributed to this report from New York.",
"Zohreen Adamjee and Michael Martinez contributed from Los Angeles."
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"(CNN) -- If you didn't know that Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins were members of Jane's Addiction, you might think they belonged to three different bands -- and Farrell is the first to admit it.",
"\"One guy's just a ball of sunshine.",
"That's Stephen,\" the singer said.",
"\"Then Dave is like a black hole sometimes, like places where he goes.",
"And me? I'm just like a pingpong ball put in the cosmos, man.\"",
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, pretty much sums up the genius of Jane's Addiction -- the friction of three disparate parts rubbing together, until finally, it explodes into a glorious musical fireball.",
"It's a chemical reaction that, throughout the band's 26-year-history, has all too often imploded as well.",
"\"I'm not really sure how many times we've parted ways,\" said Navarro, the group's guitarist.",
"\"I wasn't really one of the people who thought we wouldn't be back together, primarily because we've gotten back together so many times over the years.",
"We don't break up anymore.",
"We just go on five-year hiatuses.\"",
"The alternative rock pioneers are prepping the October 18 release of \"The Great Escape Artist,\" their first studio album in eight years.",
"\"The sound is definitely updated on this album,\" Farrell said.",
"\"The differences are that we are now working with synthesizers and computer software that goes with guitars, so you'll hear a lot of very modern sounds mixed in with what people call the ageless, or timeless, sound of Jane's Addiction.\"",
"With original bassist Eric Avery, Jane's Addiction put a soundtrack to the gritty Southern California underground arts scene of the late 1980s.",
"The group's first studio album, \"Nothing's Shocking,\" was an examination of love, lust, violence and drugs.",
"By 1990, the band was all over rock radio with \"Stop!\"",
"and \"Been Caught Stealing,\" a pair of hit singles off its sophomore disc, \"Ritual de lo Habitual.\"",
"The new CD is only the group's fourth studio album.",
"\"We pull from the environment,\" said drummer Perkins.",
"\"Jane's Addiction wrote our (first) music in Hollywood in 1986.",
"You hear Los Angeles.",
"You hear that Mexico is only 100 miles away from us.",
"You can hear the struggle, and also the glory, of being a musician in L.A. Our music was never negative, but it had that strong urge.",
"You wanted to go f**k, not to go punch.",
"And I think Jane's still has that.\"",
"CNN visited the band during a video shoot for the new single, \"Irresistible Force,\" on a Hollywood soundstage.",
"Farrell, the lyricist, said the song chronicles how the universe was created.",
"\"I say the big bang was actually a conscious act of cosmic lovemaking.\"",
"Perkins, the pragmatist, has a different interpretation.",
"\"To me, the 'Irresistible Force' is what pulls me, Dave and Perry together.",
"Ever since I was 13, I've been playing with Navarro.",
"I met Perry when I was 17.",
"And no matter how much we stopped playing with each other, and tried to get away from each other, it's the magnet -- it pulls us closer.\"",
"The band members discussed their reunion and new album and how they've avoid fistfights for nearly two decades: .",
"CNN: How does it feel to have Jane's Addiction back together again?",
"Perry Farrell: I love performing with Jane's Addiction.",
"I hope I get to do it all my life.",
"It's healthy for bands to take a break every now and then.",
"People are really looking forward to this new record because they're a little starved.",
"I'm pulling the old woman's trick of making them want, and want, and need and desire.",
"CNN: Who's the peacemaker who calls and says, \"Let's try this again?\"",
"Dave Navarro: I don't really know how it happens.",
"I'm all about peace, but it's like with any family.",
"If there's a conflict in a family, and it's Thanksgiving, and everybody gets together, and you have a few drinks and you start chatting with the family member that you have a problem with -- next thing you know, it's all water under the bridge.",
"Stephen Perkins: If we're not getting along, we don't just stay together because we're getting paid for it.",
"But when we like each other, the music sounds better, and it feels better to cash those checks when you're doing it with friends.",
"Navarro: The old stuff percolates, of course, but the tools we have as adults are different to handle it, you know what I mean?",
"When you're younger, you're not as equipped -- or at least we weren't equipped -- to handle diverse personalities.",
"What seemed a big deal at 19 is way less of a big deal in your 40s.",
"CNN: So no awesome fistfights lately?",
"Navarro: No, no. People keep asking about that.",
"That was done in like '91.",
"That was done a long time ago, and I don't even have any recollection of that.",
"CNN: Maybe that was part of the problem.",
"Navarro: That probably contributed to the problem.",
"(Chuckles) CNN: Do you think you'd still be making music if you had continued to live the way you were living?",
"Navarro: Well, I can't speak for anybody else about that, but I certainly feel that any day above ground is a blessing.",
"Been through a lot. CNN: How do you think you guys would have held up through the scrutiny that's part of today's culture?",
"Navarro: When Jane's Addiction got started, it was the '80s, and there weren't cell phones, and there weren't people chasing people down the street with cameras, and there wasn't the Internet, and there wasn't cable news the way it is now.",
"And I don't know if we'd be where we are, quite frankly, if there was, because we had some what I'd like to call 'colorful times.'",
"You know, the less widely reported, the better.",
"CNN: In order to generate press sometimes, you can't be just a musician.",
"You have to be a musician/celebrity.",
"Navarro: I didn't write the book, but I read the book that earlier had been written by Tommy Lee.",
"CNN: Are people meaner now?",
"Navarro: Back in the old days, there was no \"commenting\" section.",
"Whatever comments you had were up here (points to his head), or you told your friend.",
"It wasn't like public fodder.",
"So yeah, people are meaner now.",
"Sure. But you've got to take the attitude of, \"OK, we're in a blessed position.\"",
"You can't ask the world to entirely love you.",
"CNN: The story of Jane's Addiction is very rock 'n' roll.",
"Farrell: We've definitely had some dark moments.",
"What would a story be without the dark moments?",
"Part of the greatness of any story is that you can rise up out of that darkness and shake off the dust and the dirt.",
"CNN: How are things different now?",
"Farrell: Socially, we've never really hung out, although these days, I'm inviting the guys to things that I do just because I love 'em.",
"But we definitely go to different parts of the universe.",
"Some bands, they all have to like the same thing, and as a result, the sound is very linear, and once the time passes, they sound dated.",
"When it comes to our prescription, we like to have different elements of music and influence coming together.",
"That's what makes a new sound.",
"Perkins: Jane's Addiction used to be the only thing in my life, and now, I've got so many other things.",
"My pie has got a few slices.",
"There isn't just one slice. But it's always got whipped cream on it, and it's always really warm, and I can't wait to get another bite of it."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for a string of attacks that killed almost 70 people and wounded more than 200.",
"The seemingly coordinated explosions Thursday struck during the height of morning rush hour, hitting a number of Baghdad's primarily mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods.",
"Nine car bombs, six roadside bombs and a mortar round all went off in a two-hour period, targeting residential, commercial and government districts in the Iraqi capital, police said.",
"\"The series of special invasions launched, under the guidance of the Ministry of War in the Islamic State of Iraq, to support the weak Sunnis in the prisons of the apostates and to retaliate for the captives who were executed,\" the group said on an al Qaeda website.",
"Iraq's leadership is dominated by Shiite Muslims, including Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.",
"The country's Sunni minority held power under former leader Saddam Hussein.",
"A recent political crisis has raised fears of a return of the sectarian bloodshed in Iraq that ripped the country apart at the height of the war a few years back.",
"On December 19, al-Maliki, a Shiite, ordered the arrest of the Sunni vice president, a move that escalated sectarian tensions and threatened to collapse Iraq's fragile power-sharing government.",
"The political turmoil as well as the recent spate of violence erupted just days after the final U.S. troops withdrew.",
"Violence in Iraq has declined in recent years but last week's attacks were among the worst since August when a series of coordinated bombings killed at least 75 people in 17 Iraqi cities."
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"There are fears of a return of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq .",
"A string of explosions killed dozens of people last week .",
"Violence and political turmoil erupted just days after U.S. troops withdrew ."
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"(CNN) -- The saga of Jack the cat, the lost pet that roamed New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport for weeks before being found last month, has an unhappy ending.",
"The feline had to be euthanized Sunday evening, American Airlines announced on Facebook, where the cat's plight has attracted thousands of followers.",
"\"We are deeply saddened that Jack the cat has passed away, and we offer profound sympathy to Jack's owner, Karen Pascoe, for her loss,\" the airline wrote.",
"\"From all of us at American, our sincere apologies to Karen and Jack's family and friends.\"",
"It was less than two weeks ago the airline announced that Jack had turned up in Kennedy's customs room after being missing for two months.",
"The carrier originally described him as \"well,\" but a health check revealed a number of problems.",
"\"Jack had extensive wounds on the back of his body, and the wounds were unable to heal because his skin had deteriorated due to the malnutrition that occurred while he was lost,\" said Pascoe's friends in a post on \"Jack The Cat is Lost in AA Baggage at JFK,\" the Facebook page devoted to the cat, which has more than 24,000 followers.",
"\"Jack had been through so much, and the last thing anyone wanted was for him to suffer more.\"",
"The saga started August 25 when Pascoe was flying from New York to San Francisco with Jack and a second cat as part of a job relocation.",
"But Jack escaped his kennel and was last seen at Kennedy's inbound baggage claim.",
"(A Department of Transportation Pet Incident Report released last month explains how it happened: A clerk placed one kennel on top of another on a baggage cart and the kennel on top fell.",
"The impact \"caused the kennel to separate,\" allowing the cat to escape.)",
"When a search failed to turn up Jack after a few days, Pascoe became frustrated with American and started the Facebook page \"to help us put pressure on AA to step up their efforts.\"",
"She also urged fliers to \"do whatever they can do to keep their animals out of cargo.\"",
"The airline said it did everything it could to find Jack.",
"While the cat was missing, workers placed food and water around the airport and set up humane traps.",
"American even hired a pet detective and issued a pet Amber Alert in hopes of locating the feline.",
"When Jack was found, the airline promised to cover his veterinary bills.",
"The cat's owner hopes Jack's death will spur improvements in how airlines transport pets \"so that no one else ever has to go through this again,\" her supporters wrote on Facebook."
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"A health check revealed a number of problems after the cat was discovered ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Senate Democrats proposed Friday tax incentives for businesses hiring veterans as well as job training for all service members leaving the military.",
"The measure was unveiled as the next piece in President Obama's jobs bill and as a remedy to unemployment among veterans.",
"\"It would basically make sure that our veterans are not standing at the back of any unemployment line,\" Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) told reporters.",
"\"It's important that we support our troops not just by lip-service but by action, and we intend to act next week.\"",
"Noticeable absent from Friday's Democratic proposal is the job bill's controversial millionaire's surtax, which would increases taxes on those with incomes of more than $1 million.",
"Republicans have roundly rejected the surtax, saying it would hurt small businesses and stunt economic growth.",
"Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington), chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, told reporters they would utilize \"existing pay-fors,\" or revenue streams, that have been used to fund veterans' issues.",
"\"What we did is bring together Republican and Democrat, House and Senate, congressional and administration ideas in putting this package forward.",
"I think it uses the best of everyone's ideas and will make a real difference for veterans,\" said Murray.",
"\"Veterans are not a partisan issue.",
"They are something we can all get behind.\"",
"A major component of the bill would offer tax credits to companies hiring jobless veterans -- up to $2,400 in credits for hiring veterans out of work for more than 4 weeks, up to $5,600 for hiring veterans out of work for more than six months, and up to $9,600 credit for employing veterans with service-connected disabilities looking for work for more than six months.",
"The bill would also make mandatory jobs skills training for every service member moving into civilian life and also offer older veterans additional Montgomery GI benefits for training programs at community colleges and technical schools.",
"\"It is quite frankly shameful that veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have a higher unemployment rate than the rest of America,\" said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana).",
"A cost estimate for the bill was not immediately available.",
"Murray said Democrats plan to attach the veterans' measure as an amendment to House-passed bill that eliminates the 3% withholding requirement for government contractors -- a bill that House and Senate Republicans say would create jobs.",
"While Senate Republican aides indicated the veterans' assistance proposal and the absence of the millionaire's surtax were encouraging, they were cautious and said they would need to see the proposal's details, including how it would be funded.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed Tuesday it intends to refer the latest allegations of corruption involving officials of world football's governing body FIFA, to its ethics commission.",
"According to a report by the BBC, Issa Hayatou -- who is a long-term IOC member, the FIFA vice president and the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) -- accepted $15,000 as a bribe in 1995 from a marketing company.",
"The IOC responded to the claim by requesting the evidence the British broadcaster had gathered on the African executive for further analysis.",
"\"The IOC has taken note of the allegations made by [the] BBC and will ask the program makers to pass on any evidence they may have to the appropriate authorities,\" the body said in a statement to CNN.",
"\"The IOC has a zero tolerance against corruption and will refer the matter to the IOC ethics commission,\" the statement added.",
"Cameroonian Hayatou was one of three FIFA officials -- including Nicolas Leoz from Paraguay and Ricardo Teixeira from Brazil -- who were named by the BBC as having taken bribes from the ISL marketing company who went onto secure valuable World Cup rights in the 1990s.",
"All three are due to cast votes to decide which nations will play host to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in a ballot at FIFA headquarters on December 2.",
"Hayatou said Tuesday that he was considering legal action over the BBC claims.",
"He told Press Association Sport: \"This money was not for me it was for the 40th anniversary of CAF.",
"\"At that time ISL was the sponsor of CAF and they give the money to CAF and not to me, and the executive committee of CAF accepted it and approved it.\"",
"The latest developments follow the suspension of two other FIFA executive members in November -- Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Tahiti's Reynauld Temarii -- after allegations by British newspaper the Sunday Times that both had accepted bribes for their vote.",
"In contrast to the IOC's stance, FIFA said that it would be taking no further action.",
"\"The investigation and the case are definitely closed,\" it said in a statement Tuesday, adding that the allegations had already been investigated by Swiss authorities.",
"\"In its verdict of 26 June 2008, the criminal court of Zug had not convicted any FIFA officials.",
"\"It is therefore important to stress again the fact that no FIFA officials were accused of any criminal offence in these proceedings.\"",
"England's 2018 bid team, who have been concerned that the fall-out from the corruption allegations would damage their chances of hosting the World Cup, claimed the program was \"an embarrassment to the BBC.\"",
"Worried about a backlash from FIFA members, the bid team wanted the BBC to delay the broadcast until after Thursday's decision, but their plea was refused.",
"\"We stand by our previous position that the BBC's Panorama did nothing more than rake over a series of historical allegations none of which are relevant to the current bidding process,\" it said in a statement Tuesday.",
"Michel Platini, the president of European football governing body UEFA, offered England some comfort.",
"\"I don't think this (program) will have an effect, no,\" he told gathered reporters after a UEFA meeting in Zurich Monday.",
"But he added: \"I think what may affect the decision is the atmosphere going back a long time and what people have been writing about FIFA in the British press for many years.\"",
"The 22 members of FIFA's executive committee will be choosing between bids from England, Russia and joint bids by Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium to decide who will host the 2018 World Cup.",
"Australia, the United States, Japan, Qatar and South Korea are bidding for 2022."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Call it a case of high tech meeting low tech, really the lowest of tech.",
"Satellites are locating penguin waste, which is easier to find than the penguins themselves .",
"British scientists are using pictures from high-powered satellites to pinpoint emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica.",
"The penguins are difficult to pick up on sea ice, because of their natural camouflage that helps them blend into the shadows -- so the British Antarctic Survey had to come up with another method.",
"Fortunately, penguin waste shows up nicely from space, staining the ice a light brown.",
"\"We can't see actual penguins on the satellite maps because the resolution isn't good enough,\" said mapping expert Peter Fretwell.",
"\"But during the breeding season the birds stay at a colony for eight months.",
"The ice gets pretty dirty and it's the guano stains that we can see.\"",
"The method helped scientists identify 38 penguin colonies -- of those, 10 were new.",
"Of previously known colonies, six had re-located and six were not found.",
"\"This is a very exciting development.",
"Now we know exactly where the penguins are, the next step will be to count each colony so we can get a much better picture of population size,\" said penguin ecologist Phil Trathan.",
"\"Using satellite images combined with counts of penguin numbers puts us in a much better position to monitor future population changes over time.\"",
"Estimates put the total number of penguins at between 200,000 and 400,000 breeding pairs."
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"(CNN) -- Thai authorities are considering the construction of a super-express waterway through Bangkok to prevent future floods similar to the one that has crippled the Thai capital and brought manufacturing in other parts of the country to a standstill.",
"A team of disaster experts from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok is now investigating permanent solutions to the disaster that has left hundreds dead.",
"\"One of the urgent solutions is a super-express floodway,\" Thanawat Jarupongsakul, from the university's Unit for Disaster and Land Information Studies, told the Bangkok Post.",
"Under the plan, existing natural canals -- some of them more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) long -- would be linked in a 200-km \"super-highway\" that would divert the course of floodwaters from the north.",
"The super-canal would hold 1.6 billion cubic meters of water and drain run-off at a rate of 6,000 cubic meters per second -- the equivalent of two and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools a second.",
"\"This idea is much cheaper than digging a new river as a floodway,\" Thanawat said.",
"He said the proposed scheme would involve the construction of a kilometer-wide exclusion zone next to the floodway to prevent properties from being inundated, and a raised highway on both side of the canal.",
"The super-express floodway would then drain upstream run-off directly into the sea.",
"The university team is also looking at other flood-prevention measures such as a better early-warning system, improved water resource management, a flood tax, the use of a flood-risk map for urban development and groundwater-use controls.",
"\"Now, the government must stop [trying to] solve flood problems with political methods,\" Thanawat told the Bangkok Post.",
"He said poor water management rather than excess rain had caused this year's severe flooding, adding that natural swamps in the west of Thailand's Central Plains, which once absorbed water flow, had been developed into industrial and residential areas, blocking the natural floodway.",
"While giant flood tunnels in the Bangkok metropolitan area could drain floodwater from the city, they could not cope with a massive inundation from the north.",
"\"If there is no step forward, foreign investors will eventually disappear from the country and the next generation will be still worried whether flooding will happen or not,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other top Democrats are heading back to school Tuesday, in hopes of convincing first-time voters from the 2008 election to vote again in 2010.",
"The president is scheduled to headline a Democratic party rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison while the vice president is the main attraction at a similar event at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.",
"The idea is to fire up \"surge\" voters and motivate them to go to the polls again in this November's midterm elections.",
"According to national exit polls from 2008, 11 percent of people who cast ballots in the presidential contest said they were first time voters, and seven out of 10 of those new voters said they backed Obama in the election.",
"Many of those people were young voters, and exit polls indicated that two-thirds of people age 18-29 voted for Obama.",
"In advance to Tuesday's rallies, the president held a conference call with college and university journalists.",
"\"You can't sit it out. You can't suddenly just check in once every 10 years or so, on an exciting presidential election, and then not pay attention during big mid-term elections where we've got a real big choice between Democrats and Republicans,\" Obama said.",
"There's no mistake in the locations for the Obama and Biden rallies.",
"In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the Democrats face tough odds in holding onto open Senate seats and governorships.",
"Polls also indicate that Republicans have a good chance of grabbing back a bunch of House seats.",
"Also on the road Tuesday: Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, at a rally at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland; Labor Secretary Hilda Solis at California State University in Los Angeles; and United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.",
"Obama's speech at the University of Wisconsin is the first in what Democratic Party officials say will be a series of \"Moving America Forward\" events by the president over the next couple of weeks."
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"(CNN) -- A judge on Thursday denied a request for President Barack Obama to testify at a court martial for a U.S. Army flight surgeon who refused to deploy to Afghanistan until he saw proof that Obama was born in the United States.",
"The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, said any evidence or witnesses related to Obama's citizenship is irrelevant to the charges against Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who has 17 years of service in the U.S. military.",
"After failing to deploy with his unit in April, Lakin was charged with missing a movement, disobeying a lawful order and dereliction of duty.",
"The Uniform Code of Military Justice says the maximum punishment for both offenses -- missing his plane and disobeying lawful orders -- is a dishonorable discharge and up to two years in confinement.",
"A guilty verdict could also result in forfeiture of Lakin's pay, which totals $7,959 a month, according to a charge sheet provided by a group sponsoring his defense.",
"Lakin's lawyers argued that all military orders stem from the commander-in-chief.",
"Without evidence that Obama is eligible to be president, they say, the doctor's deployment order was illegal.",
"In addition to putting Obama on their witness list, Lakin's lawyers had asked Lind to order Obama's official birth records from Hawaii be brought to court for trial.",
"\"If the president is ineligible, you need to know that,\" Lakin's civilian attorney, Paul Jensen, told Lind.",
"\"Col. Lakin needs to know that, the government needs to know that, America needs to know that.\"",
"The prosecutors in the case argued that Obama's eligibility is not relevant because the officers who ordered Lakin to go to Fort Campbell and then ordered him to answer questions about why he didn't go were his proper superiors in the military chain of command, and they gave him legal orders.",
"Jensen later conceded that point.",
"The judge ruled that the matter of Obama's eligibility is not relevant because he did not give any orders in the case.",
"She pointed out that while the president is commander-in-chief of the military, it is Congress that is constitutionally empowered to raise armies, pay them and equip them.",
"Any contention that any orders are invalid if the president is ineligible \"is erroneous,\" the judge said.",
"Lind also said that military law says that a soldier's personal beliefs or convictions are not sufficient to allow that soldier to determine that an order is illegal.",
"The soldier has to have \"no rational doubt\" that the order is illegal before he or she can ignore it.",
"Finally she ruled that a military court martial is not the forum in which to determine a president's eligibility, because the Constitution says only Congress has the power to impeach and remove the president.",
"Afterward, Jensen said he respected the judge's ruling, but called it distressing.",
"\"It completely deprives us of any opportunity to present a defense in this case,\" Jensen said.",
"The court martial is set to begin in October, but Jensen said he's not giving up on the matter of Obama's eligibility.",
"\"We will be giving the Army Court of Criminal Appeals in the next week or two the opportunity to take up the issue, and we are going to fight on for justice to be served in this case.\"",
"Lakin is among 27 percent of Americans who doubt or deny that Obama is American-born, according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.",
"They compose the birther movement, which demands that Obama present a birth certificate signed by the doctor who delivered him in 1961.",
"CNN and other news organizations have thoroughly debunked the rumors about the president's birthplace.",
"The Obama campaign released a copy of a birth record issued by the state in 2007, called a \"certification of live birth,\" and allowed reporters to examine the document in person in 2008.",
"Last year, Hawaiian state officials issued a statement that they had personally viewed the president's original Hawaiian birth record, called a \"certificate of live birth,\" and verified it to be authentic.",
"State law bars the release of the original certificate.",
"In addition, two Hawaiian newspapers ran notices in 1961 announcing Obama's birth in the state.",
"CNN's Larry Shaughnessy contributed to this report ."
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"Judge says Obama gave no orders .",
"Defense attorney says he will appeal .",
"Judge nixes president as a witness in court martial .",
"Flight surgeon says Obama has not proved his citizenship, and orders to deploy are illegal ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- They're going for an even 20!",
"Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, stars of TLC's \"19 Kids and Counting,\" are expecting their 20th child this spring.",
"\"We are so excited,\" says Michelle, 45, who is now about three-and-a-half months into her pregnancy and due in April.",
"\"I feel good. I am past the sickness stage now.\"",
"The Tontitown, Ark., couple, who are parents to children Joshua, 23 (who is married to Anna, 23 and has two children, Mackynzie, 2 and Michael, 4 months), twins Jana and John-David, 21; Jill, 20; Jessa, 19; Jinger, 17; Joseph, 16; Josiah, 15; Joy-Anna, 14; twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 12; Jason, 11; James, 10; Justin, 8; Jackson, 7; Johanna, 6; Jennifer, 4; and Jordyn, 3, weathered the medical emergency of their youngest daughter, Josie's birth on Dec. 10, 2009.",
"She was born following Michelle's preeclampsia diagnosis at a mere 25 weeks, weighing only 1lb., 6 oz.",
"Josie's medical drama -- and Michelle's own fight for survival -- was documented throughout their TV series.",
"Josie will turn 2 in December and is developing normally, without any longterm effects from her premature birth.",
"\"It is a miracle. Josie is the most energetic, busy little almost-2-year-old,\" says Michelle.",
"\"She is short, and yet she can keep up with the big girls and she thinks she is just as big as they are.",
"We are amazed at what she can do.\" Questions About the Pregnancy .",
"Following Josie's life-threatening arrival into the world, the Duggars understand that some might question their latest pregnancy.",
"\"Michelle is probably in better health now than she was 10 years ago,\" says Jim Bob, 46.",
"\"She has been getting on an elliptical for about an hour a day and is very careful of what she eats.\"",
"Michelle, who is under the care of a high-risk pregnancy doctor, says she is being cautious, eating a lot of protein and green vegetables and abstaining from caffeine.",
"Approximately 10 to 15 percent of women have preeclampsia -- Michelle had it with her second pregnancy -- and the condition can strike randomly.",
"Women who have had it previously are at higher risk, however.",
"\"We are just going to do the best we can,\" says Michelle.",
"\"I am taking a nap every day, and we are just taking good care.\"",
"Jim Bob agrees: \"If we had lived by fear after Michelle had preeclampsia after her second delivery, we would have missed out on all our wonderful blessings,\" he says.",
"\"So many of her pregnancies have gone extremely well.\"",
"One completely new aspect of this pregnancy?",
"Michelle will have her very first scheduled Cesarean section since Josie's premature birth required a special cut on the inside of her uterus.",
"\"I've never had a planned C-section,\" Michelle says.",
"\"So this one will be different.\"",
"Spreading the News .",
"Also different: how to tell 19 siblings that one more is on the way.",
"Jim Bob gathered all the kids together for a family picture, but instead of telling them to say \"cheese,\" told them to say, \"Mom's going to have another baby!\"",
"\"The kids were all asking, 'Are you joking or are you serious?'",
"\" says Michelle.",
"\"It was a big surprise.",
"The little ones started jumping up and down when they realized he was serious.\"",
"After hugs and high fives all around, the siblings are now debating the baby's gender and name.",
"The Duggars, who heard the baby's heartbeat in a recent ultrasound, expect to find out whether they are having a boy or girl around Christmas.",
"The Season 5 finale of \"19 Kids and Counting\" airs 9 p.m. Tuesday on TLC.",
"The special \"Duggars World Tour: Scotland & Ireland,\" showing a newly pregnant Michelle traveling to Europe with the whole family, premieres November 13, at 8 p.m. on TLC.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"We are so excited,\" says Michelle Duggar .",
"\"Josie is the most energetic, busy little almost-2-year-old,\" says Michelle .",
"\"We are just going to do the best we can,\" says Michelle ."
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will meet Monday with the leader of the country's main opposition party to discuss who will become the nation's next prime minister -- a day after an announcement that Papandreou he will step down amid the country's financial crisis.",
"Papandreou's planned resignation -- announced by President Karolos Papoulias -- is contingent on the approval of the controversial 130 billion euro bailout deal.",
"On Sunday, Papandreou met with Antonis Samaras -- the leader of the New Democracy party, Greece's leading opposition party -- and agreed to form a new government.",
"During Monday's meeting, the two will discuss who will serve in the new government as well as who will be the next prime minister, according to a statement from the president.",
"New national elections will be held sometime after the bailout is implemented, but no more details nor a timeline of future events were disclosed.",
"Earlier Sunday, Samaras told reporters that once Papandreou resigns, everything will \"take its course\" and \"everything else is negotiable.\"",
"The move appears to close one chapter in Greece's tumultuous political and economic saga, as Papandreou had become a lightning rod for critics for his leadership of the south European nation as it tackles a prolonged financial plight.",
"It also paves the way for passage of an agreement that Papandreou negotiated October 26 with European leaders.",
"The deal would wipe out 100 billion euros in Greek debt, half of what it owes to private creditors, and includes a promise of 30 billion euros to help the public sector pare its debts -- making the whole package worth a total of 130 billion euros ($178 billion).",
"But Greece's turmoil is far from over.",
"The bailout -- the second it has received from the European Union and International Monetary Fund -- would be accompanied by additional austerity measures such as slashing government jobs, privatizing some businesses and reducing pensions.",
"It also comes at a time when Greece's economy -- and to some extent the global economy -- is still staggering.",
"Though Greece ranks 32nd in terms of gross domestic product, experts say it wields a disproportionate influence internationally.",
"Economists worry that a Greek default on its debt could pull down larger European economies -- particularly those of Italy and Spain, as well as struggling Portugal and Ireland.",
"Eurozone finance ministers are scheduled to meet Monday in Brussels, Belgium.",
"Within Greece, the bailout's passage would be a significant victory for Papandreou.",
"He has insisted repeatedly in recent weeks that it needs to be approved -- signaling that he'd be willing to resign as prime minister, a job he has held since 2009, as long as that happens.",
"Earlier Sunday, Greece's president met ahead of a Cabinet meeting with all party leaders -- including Papandreou, who heads the socialist PASOK party, and Samaras.",
"Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos is likely to remain in his post as finance minister in a new government, sources told Greek television.",
"Candidates for the prime minister's job include Petros Moliviatis and Loukas Papaimos, according to Greek television.",
"The new government will have a life of four months, according to Greek television, citing sources, and elections will take place in early spring.",
"On Monday -- in addition to a meeting between Papandreou and Samaras -- the Greek president will hold another meeting open to heads of all Greece's political parties.",
"CNN's Diana Magnay, Jim Boulden and Andrew Carey in Athens and Matthew Chance and Hada Messia in Rome contributed to this report."
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"Eurozone financial leaders will meet Monday in Brussels .",
"Papandreou won't be head of the new government, a statement says .",
"He and opposition leader Samaras will talk Monday to plot details .",
"The deal hinges on Greece approving a 130 billion euro bailout deal ."
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"(CNN) -- Japanese protesters took to the streets Saturday to demand safer energy as the nation marked the three-month anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that sparked the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.",
"The massive quake on March 11 triggered a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, forcing the evacuation of thousands.",
"Months later, crews are still working to control radioactive emissions.",
"\"We need electricity, but we cannot put lives at risk,\" said Kentaro Morisawa, a railway worker who took part in the Tokyo protest.",
"\"We have the responsibility to protect our children's lives as much as our lives.",
"Safer energy, such as fuel and water, is what we need today.",
"Crowds sang, chanted and beat drums in protests held nationwide.",
"\"Because we are letting radioactive material leak into the environment, we are getting a bad reputation from overseas,\" protester Mamoru Matsuda said.",
"\"So we need to end this Fukushima crisis as soon as possible.\"",
"Some of the protesters gathered near the headquarters the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the nuclear plant.",
"The protests comes three months into the crisis, which is the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.",
"One of three operating reactors at the plant melted down after the March earthquake and tsunami, and others suffered extensive damage to their radioactive cores.",
"The resulting contamination has forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people from towns surrounding the plant.",
"In addition, restrictions on various agricultural and fisheries products have devastated Japanese farmers and fishermen since the disaster started, though some of those bans have been lifted in recent weeks.",
"The protests are the latest show of discontent for embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who survived a no-confidence vote in this month."
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"They take to the streets as the nation marks the three-month anniversary of a massive quake .",
"The March 11 earthquake triggered a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant .",
"\"We need electricity, but we cannot put lives at risk,\" Kentaro Morisawa says ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Ireland's expulsion of a Russian diplomat over spying allegations is \"clearly an unfriendly step that will not go unanswered,\" Russia's deputy foreign minister said Wednesday, according to a report.",
"Vladimir Titov's remarks were reported by the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency.",
"The ministry press office told CNN it was not aware of the comment and could not elaborate.",
"Ireland on Tuesday rebuked Russia for \"completely unacceptable\" behavior and expelled a diplomat after an investigation found that the Russian intelligence services had forged Irish passports, the government said.",
"An investigation by the Garda Siochana police force found the Russian intelligence services made \"false documents based on the acquisition of details of six genuine passports belonging to Irish citizens,\" and effectively stole the identities of six Irish people, the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.",
"The probe -- launched after last year's discovery of a Russian espionage operation in the United States -- found \"an entirely persuasive picture\" of such activities, the statement said.",
"The department's secretary general met with the Russian ambassador and informed him that it is \"not the behavior the government would expect from a country with which we have friendly relations,\" the statement said.",
"\"The ambassador was also told that the accreditation of a named member of his staff with diplomatic status is to be terminated. ...",
"The individual in question has been asked to leave this jurisdiction by a specified date.\"",
"The statement added, \"It is hoped that it will be possible to move on from this disturbing incident and to develop further the relationship between Ireland and the Russian Federation which is fundamentally strong and which has significant potential.\"",
"CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report."
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"Ireland's \"unfriendly step\" will \"not go unanswered,\" a deputy minister says .",
"Ireland says a probe found Russian intelligence services forged passports .",
"Ireland calls the incident \"disturbing\"\nThe investigation was launched after Russian agents were discovered in the United States ."
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"(CNN) -- A fast-moving brush fire burning just south of Reno, Nevada, on Thursday prompted evacuations, closed a major highway and led the governor of Nevada to declare a state of emergency.",
"The more than 3,000-acre fire began burning around 1 p.m. Thursday in North Washoe Valley, according to a press release from county officials.",
"At least 10,000 people have been evacuated.",
"There was no containment on the blaze, said Nancy Leuenhagen, Washoe County press Iinformation officer.",
"Video from CNN Reno affiliate KOLO showed dark smoke plumes, fueled by heavy wind and dry vegetation, pushing toward U.S. Highway 395.",
"A 12-mile stretch of the highway remained closed late Thursday, according to Dan Lopez of the Nevada Highway Patrol.",
"Several flights at the Reno airport have been canceled or diverted, CNN affiliate KTVN reported.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been and are being affected by this fire,\" Nevada Gov.",
"Brian Sandoval said in a statement.",
"\"Declaring a state of emergency ensures that every resource from the local, state and federal level is available to assist.\"",
"The Nevada Division of Forestry and the Department of Public Safety were aiding local firefighters and emergency personnel, Sandoval said.",
"The National Guard was on standby and the state of California was also providing assistance, according to the governor's website.",
"About 12 families displaced by the fire were receiving assistance at an evacuation shelter at a local high school, said Karli Epstien, Red Cross press information officer.",
"CNN's Nigel Walwyn and Leslie Tripp contributed to this report."
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"Fire affects 3,000 acres in North Washoe Valley .",
"At least 10,000 people have been evacuated, officials say .",
"There has been no containment of the fire, official says ."
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Thai officials on Wednesday pulled out of planned cease-fire talks with Cambodia, hours after fighting flared up again in a bloody border dispute that has sent tens of thousands fleeing over the past week.",
"About 27,000 people are living in shelters in Thailand, the nation's health ministry said.",
"A Thai army spokesman said the two nations had planned meetings between their defense ministers to discuss a cease-fire.",
"\"But before our departure yesterday, some Cambodian media misreported that our trip to Cambodia was to surrender because we were defeated,\" said Col. Sansern Kawekumnerd, the spokesman.",
"\"So the minister thought that if we continued our trip to Cambodia today, it will bring wrong messages to Cambodia and the international community.\"",
"But the negotiation door is not closed, the spokesman said.",
"He accused Cambodia of firing again on Tuesday night, and urged the nation to halt attacks \"to show their honesty of going back to negotiation table.\"",
"The spokesman said Cambodians unsuccessfully attempted to seize Ta Muen and Ta Kwai temples on Tuesday night, leaving one civilian dead.",
"Thailand calls the temples Ta Kwai and Ta Muen, while Cambodia calls them Ta Krabey and Ta Moan.",
"Much of the border between the two countries remains in dispute.",
"Both sides claim the disputed temples are in their country.",
"Clashes between the two started Friday as they accused each other of trying to seize the ancient temples.",
"Thai officials say at least six of its citizens have died and more than 40 injured in the clashes over the past week.",
"Cambodia has said three of its troops have been killed in the fighting.",
"In February, at least 10 people were killed when fighting flared up in another disputed border area between the two nations, prompting the United Nations Security Council to issue a statement calling on both sides to implement a cease-fire.",
"Those clashes stemmed from a longstanding conflict related to the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple.",
"Both Cambodia and Thailand lay claim to the temple, which sits atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but has its most accessible entrance on the Thai side.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report."
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"Fresh clashes break out as talks collapse, a Thai official says .",
"Thailand says 27,000 people are living in shelters .",
"Each side blames the other for the violence, which erupted near two disputed temples ."
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"(CNN) -- A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to federal charges in a kickback scheme involving Army contracting officials, the Department of Justice said.",
"Terry Hall, 43, of Snellville, Georgia, pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday, the department said in a release.",
"Hall ran several companies that received $21 million as part of contracts with the Department of Defense, prosecutors said.",
"\"To obtain the contracting business and facilitate unlawful payments by other contractors, Hall admitted he made more than $3 million in unlawful payments and provided other valuable items and services to U.S. Army contracting officials\" stationed at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, authorities said.",
"The case against Hall stemmed from \"a wide-ranging investigation of corruption at the Camp Arifjan contracting office,\" authorities said.",
"Hall is the eighth person to enter a guilty plea in connection with the bribery scheme.",
"Hall's companies, including Freedom Consulting and Catering Co. and Total Government Allegiance, provided goods and services to the Department of Defense in connection with the Iraq war, according to court documents.",
"The companies received a \"blanket purchase agreement\" to deliver bottled water in Iraq and a contract to build a security fence in Kuwait, authorities said.",
"Such an agreement is \"an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract by which the DoD agrees to pay a contractor a specified price for a particular good or service,\" according to the Department of Justice.",
"\"Based on a (blanket purchase agreement), the DoD is permitted to order the supplies on an as-needed basis, and the contractor is bound by the price agreed upon in the (agreement).\"",
"Hall faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on the money laundering conspiracy charge and a maximum of five years on the bribery conspiracy charge, plus a $250,000 fine on each charge.",
"In addition, Hall agreed to forfeit some $15.7 million to the U.S. government.",
"It was unclear when he is scheduled to be sentenced.",
"Others who have pleaded guilty in the probe include former Maj. James Momon, who according to court documents arranged for Hall's companies to receive $6.4 million worth of orders for bottled water.",
"As a result, Hall paid Momon more than $300,000, the Department of Justice said.",
"Momon pleaded guilty in August 2008 to receiving bribes from contractors at the base and is awaiting sentencing.",
"Another is former Maj. John Cockerham, who arranged for Hall's companies to receive $2.6 million in bottled water orders.",
"Hall paid Cockerham about $800,000, authorities said.",
"He was sentenced in December to more than 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $9.6 million in restitution.",
"Hall was indicted in May along with Army Maj. Eddie Pressley and Pressley's wife, Eurica.",
"The indictment against the Pressleys says they received more than $2.8 million in cash and other items from Hall \"in exchange for Eddie Pressley's agreement to take official actions to benefit Hall,\" the Department of Justice said.",
"Eurica Pressley allegedly arranged for a company named EGP Business Solutions Inc. to be incorporated, opened a bank account in the business' name in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and the Cayman Islands, according to the indictment."
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"Terry Hall pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy .",
"Hall received $21 million from contracts with Department of Defense, prosecutors say .",
"Case stemmed from \"wide-ranging investigation of corruption,\" authorities said .",
"He is eighth person to enter guilty plea in connection with scheme ."
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"(CNN) -- Gay slurs hurled by three figures in professional sports in the last month are more than just testosterone-fueled temper tantrums, some say.",
"The behavior, they say, is symptomatic of a deeper problem and should be used as an opportunity to tackle homophobia in professional sports.",
"\"Kobe Bryant, Joakim Noah and Roger McDowell are not any different from many people in our society who use offensive language like that on a daily basis,\" said Jarrod Chin of the Society for the Study of Sport in Society at Boston's Northeastern University.",
"\"These incidents provide a real opportunity for the NBA and MLB to take a strong stance against homophobia.\"",
"In April, a frustrated Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant laced a referee with an epithet that gays find offensive.",
"Bryant quickly apologized and was fined $100,000.",
"Bryant was apparently angry that the referee penalized him for a technical foul.",
"In early May, Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell made national headlines for tossing anti-gay slurs at a group of fans in San Francisco.",
"He also made crude gestures at the fans, in full view of children who were in the crowd.",
"After a short suspension, an emotional McDowell apologized at a news conference.",
"And last week, bombastic Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah was captured by television cameras lobbing a similar slur at a fan after his second foul in the game.",
"Noah apologized right after the game and was slapped with a $50,000 fine.",
"\"When sports stars use slurs, it is especially damaging because their increased public profile means many more people are exposed.",
"These people seem to have lost sight of the fact that in their prime, in pivotal moments in games, they are one of the most influential people in the world,\" said former NBA player John Amaechi.",
"Amaechi knows all too well about homophobia in sports.",
"He is credited as being one of the few professional stars to admit he is gay.",
"But Amaechi came out of the closet after he retired.",
"He said he did not feel comfortable disclosing his orientation during his 5-year NBA stint.",
"Amaechi says he still remembers the pointed response from NBA star Tim Hardaway that followed his disclosure.",
"\"First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team,\" Hardaway told a radio host in 2007.",
"\"You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known.",
"I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people.",
"I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States.\"",
"Hardaway later apologized for his statement -- but the sentiment persists among many athletes, Amaechi says.",
"\"Sports stars need to remember that being a positive role model is as much a part of their job as making lay-ups, hitting home runs or scoring touchdowns,\" he said.",
"Rick Welts, president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, says he had kept his sexual orientation secret throughout his long career.",
"Welts came out when the Kobe Bryant epithet caused a stir.",
"He said Bryant's slur solidified in his mind that he needed to go public.",
"\"Well, the irony of the timing is it was the day before that I had been sitting in David Stern, the (NBA) commissioner's office, to kind of discuss this with him.",
"And then the next night, Kobe went off,\" Welts told CNN's Eliot Spitzer.",
"\"You know, I think it reinforced that probably it was time, because I think that will probably be remembered as a teaching moment.\"",
"While his disclosure has been received positively for the most part, Welts says is apprehensive about his future and feels that he is in uncharted territory.",
"\"I don't know what my future is.",
"I don't know where my career is going to go,\" he said.",
"\"I think that's part of the big problem with players.",
"There's no example out there. No one has ever done it.",
"No one really knows what's going to happen.\"",
"The NBA recently released a pubic service announcement featuring players Grant Hill and Jared Dudley about anti-gay language.",
"\"Using gay to mean dumb or stupid... Not cool,\" Hill says in the commercial that is running during the playoff games.",
"\"It is offensive to gay people,\" Dudley adds.",
"But some say more needs to be done.",
"\"Male professional sports do have an issue with homophobia, but so does society in general,\" Chin, of Northeastern University, said.",
"\"The NBA and MLB are great vehicles for educating folks about this issue and could really turn these negative events into a positive teachable moment.\""
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"\"It is especially damaging because of their increased public profile,\" says John Amaechi .",
"Sports leaders can \"turn these negative events into a positive teachable moment,\" expert says .",
"Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 for his statement .",
"Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah was fined $50,000 for his slur ."
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"(CNN) -- A former drug dealer was executed in Texas on Wednesday night for the murders of two reputed gang members -- 15 years to the day after the crime.",
"Texas death row inmate Frank Moore says he acted in self-defense when he shot and killed two in 1994.",
"Frank Moore, 49, was pronounced dead at 7:21 p.m.",
"ET, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.",
"\"Self-defense is not capital murder,\" Moore said before the lethal injection began, echoing his unsuccessful claims to the courts to prevent his execution.",
"Moore did not deny firing the fatal shots outside a San Antonio bar but insisted he acted in self-defense and did not deserve to die.",
"Moore was the second death row inmate to be executed in 2009.",
"He spoke at length with CourtTVnews.com in 2007.",
"Samuel Boyd and Patrick Clark were shot multiple times in the head and chest early in the morning of January 21, 1994, outside the Wheels of Joy bar.",
"\"They came with intentions to kill me,\" Moore said in the interview.",
"\"It was a do-or-die situation.\"",
"But no witnesses ever came forward at trial to corroborate Moore's self-defense claims.",
"Prosecutors contended that Moore, a long-time gang member with a lengthy rap sheet dating back to his teens, shot the two in cold blood to assert his authority after a shoving match broke out in the bar, according to court records.",
"A Bexar County jury convicted Moore and sentenced him to death, but his conviction was reversed in 1998 after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found error in the trial court's refusal to give the jury the option of convicting Moore of a lesser offense.",
"Even so, Moore was convicted and sentenced to death at his second trial in 1999.",
"Moore insisted he acted in self-defense when he opened fire on Boyd, 23, and Clark, 15, at a bar near the housing projects where Moore admitted he sold crack cocaine and weapons.",
"But it was not until 2006 that a private investigator, who once worked against Moore and his fellow gangsters, came forward with information that Moore said corroborated his self-defense claims.",
"Warren Huel, a retired Navy Seal who was in charge of the private security firm that oversaw the projects, was the first peace officer on the scene, arriving about 45 minutes before the San Antonio Police Department, according to an affidavit.",
"During that time, Huel said he spoke with witnesses who reported that Boyd and Clark shot at Moore first from inside the car after trying to run him over, according to the affidavit.",
"Witnesses also told Huel that they had seen the victims' relatives remove their weapons from the car before police arrived, Huel stated in the affidavit.",
"When Huel attempted to share the information with San Antonio Police, he says the officers told him to forget everything he had seen and learned, he said in an affidavit.",
"\"I was told that did not matter, as they already had Frank Moore, the murder weapon and an eyewitness,\" Huel stated in his affidavit.",
"\"I was told Moore was a dope dealer and had to go to jail.\"",
"Since then, three others have come forward claiming they witnessed the shootings, providing similar details, said Moore's lawyer, David Sergi.",
"\"Unfortunately, people from the street didn't come forward to testify at the time of the trial,\" he said.",
"\"The problem is, the law doesn't allow for a change of circumstances.\"",
"The Texas State Attorney's Office argued that Moore's claims should be dismissed because the evidence had always been available, and was not the \"newly discovered\" evidence the law requires.",
"A lower court sided with the state, prompting Moore to appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.",
"On Monday, the court declined to hear his claims, making the U.S. Supreme Court Moore's last chance for a reprieve.",
"The justices remained silent on the matter."
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"Frank Moore pronounced dead at 7:21 p.m.",
"ET in Huntsville, Texas .",
"Moore shot Samuel Boyd, Patrick Clark multiple times outside bar in 1994 .",
"Moore says he acted in self-defense after the men shot at him, tried to run him over .",
"Supreme Court declined to issue stay of execution ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The three security guards and the driver of an American development expert who was abducted in Pakistan on Saturday have been detained for questioning, a police official said Monday.",
"The four men are not considered suspects at this point, said the official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.",
"Under Pakistani law, police can detain someone for up to 72 hours without charging them with a crime.",
"Investigators have no leads in the case and are not any closer to finding out what happened to the American, whom the U.S. Embassy identified as Warren Weinstein.",
"Weinstein was abducted early Saturday when gunmen, posing as neighbors offering food, pistol-whipped him and his driver and tied up his guards, U.S. Embassy and Pakistani officials said.",
"Weinstein works for J.E.",
"Austin Associates Inc., a U.S. consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia, a Pakistani official said.",
"He's is a world-renowned development expert, with 25 years of experience, according to his company's website.",
"The site says he was heading what the company described as the \"Pakistan Initiative for Strategic Development and Competitiveness.\"",
"As Weinstein's security guards prepared for the meal before the Ramadan fast early Saturday, three men knocked at the front gate and offered food for the meal -- a traditional practice among Muslims during the Ramadan holy month, according to senior Lahore police official Tajamal Hussain.",
"Once the gate was opened, the three men forced their way in while five other suspects entered the house from the back, Hussain said.",
"The men tied up the three security guards and duct-taped their mouths, he said.",
"They pistol-whipped the driver and forced him to take them to Weinstein's room, where the men hit Weinstein in the head with a pistol, and forced him out of the house and into a waiting car, Hussain said.",
"He said Weinstein is in his 60s.",
"There has been no claim of responsibility nor any demands by any groups, according to senior police official Awais Ahmed.",
"Weinstein has lived in the residence in an upscale Lahore neighborhood for several years, Ahmed said.",
"Weinstein is a Fulbright Scholar in Belgium and is proficient in six languages, with a doctorate in international law and economics, according to his company website.",
"U.S. Embassy officials are working with Pakistani authorities on the case, Embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said Saturday.",
"The U.S. State Department updated a travel advisory for Americans traveling and working in Pakistan this week, warning that extremist groups operating in the country were continuing to target U.S. and other Western citizens and interests.",
"It cited part of the reason for the advisory as \"reported\" abductions of U.S. citizens \"for ransom or personal reasons,\" including the kidnapping of a U.S. citizen in Lahore in June.",
"No further details about that incident were released.",
"Abductions are not unusual in Pakistan, though those targeted are typically Pakistani rather than American or Western.",
"In early July, a Swiss couple was grabbed at gunpoint while traveling in the town of Loralai in the volatile southwestern Balochistan province, provincial officials said at the time.",
"Three weeks after their abduction, Pakistani authorities said they believed the couple was still alive.",
"Weinstein's abduction follows another high-profile incident involving an American in Lahore.",
"Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor, was charged with killing two men in January but was released in March after compensation was paid to their families.",
"Journalists Nasir Habib and Shaan Khan and CNN's Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report."
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"The men are not considered suspects at this time, a Pakistani police official says .",
"Gunmen abducted an American from his Pakistan residence Saturday, authorities say .",
"He is identified as Warren Weinstein, the U.S. Embassy says .",
"There has been no claim of responsibility, or demands ."
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"London (CNN) -- Personal details about Tony Blair that appear online were apparently not hacked from the former British prime minister's computer systems, but from the email account of a former staffer.",
"Responding to a report about a hacker group that claims to have accessed Blair's personal data, a Blair spokesman said Saturday, \"This information has not been obtained from Tony Blair or any of his office systems.\"",
"\"This appears to be information from the personal email account of a former member of staff from a few years ago,\" the spokesman said in an emailed statement to CNN.",
"He didn't elaborate on the situation.",
"The claim by a member of the hacker group TeaMp0isoN (Team Poison) was first reported by the United Kingdom's Telegraph newspaper Saturday.",
"The group posted the information on a website called Pastebin.com that allows users to upload text.",
"The information on Pastebin.com appears to include Blair's National Insurance number -- similar to a U.S. Social Security Number -- and the addresses and phone numbers of numerous personal contacts.",
"The document has a note at the top that reads: \"The information in this article was obtained in 2010 December, we still have access to the webmail server, phone numbers may have changed but all the information is 100% legit.\"",
"It claims to include information on members of Blair's office, his address and phone book -- including the details of \"family, friends, MPs and lords\" -- and the contact details and resume of his former special adviser Katie Kay.",
"CNN was not able to verify the authenticity of the information published on Pastebin.com.",
"The PC Magazine website reported that the material had been leaked by a member of Team Poison known as TriCk.",
"According to posts on TriCk's Twitter feed Friday night, the hacker group obtained the information in December.",
"\"Tony Blair's Private Info is getting leaked tonight, so is his Personal Adivsors CV and UK MPs & Lords who supported the war in iraq,\" one of the Twitter post said.",
"An hour later, another post read: \"doing the writeup now - Tony Blair and his cockroaches are getting owned tonight.",
"- War IS Terror.\"",
"This week, members of the Team Poison hacker group appeared to step into a row over recent actions by hacker group Lulz Security, tweeting that it would expose the identities of its members.",
"LulzSec published Arizona police documents Thursday, obtained by hacking the Arizona Department of Public Safety.",
"The agency confirmed it had been the victim of a cyber attack by LulzSec.",
"The group has also claimed attacks on websites belonging to the CIA, the U.S. Senate and the United Kingdom's Serious Organised Crime Agency.",
"It also obtained more than 1 million e-mail addresses, passwords and other personal information from the U.S.-based Sony Pictures.",
"CNN's Bharati Naik contributed to this report."
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"Spokesman for Tony Blair's office denies the systems of former PM have been hacked .",
"He says the details seem to be from the personal email account of a former staff member .",
"Document appears to give personal details for Blair and address details for personal contacts .",
"Member of hacker group Team Poison says the information was obtained in December ."
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"(CNN) -- A man stranded after his car plunged down a steep embankment in the Angeles National Forest survived for six days by eating leaves and drinking water from a creek, authorities said Friday.",
"David J. Lavau, 67, of Lake Hughes, California, was found in a ravine a week after losing control of his car on a rural road and plunging 500 feet down an embankment into heavy brush, according to a report by the California Highway Patrol.",
"Lavau, who is partially disabled, told authorities that he spent the first night in his car.",
"\"The next morning, he exited his vehicle and observed another vehicle adjacent to his own with a deceased male driver behind the wheel,\" the report said.",
"\"The deceased appeared to have been there for some time.\"",
"Authorities say they have not identified the dead driver.",
"The case began to unfold on September 23, when Lavau failed to return home.",
"Lavau's family began searching for him when he failed to return home, driving the route and stopping at all the curves in the road from Castaic to his home in Lake Hughes.",
"While Lavau's family searched for him, he \"remained at the bottom of the hill surviving on leaves and water from a nearby creek,\" the report said.",
"Lavau's son, Sean, found his father after hearing \"faint yells for help on the roadway from the canyon below,\" according to the report.",
"Sean Lavau hiked to the bottom of the canyon to find his father, the report said.",
"The Los Angeles County Fire Department rescued Lavau and his son from the ravine.",
"Lavau was taken to an area hospital where he was treated for moderate injuries, the report said.",
"The CHP said Lavau's accident and the one involving the dead driver are under investigation.",
"CNN's Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report."
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"California man survives on leaves and water from a creek after his car plunges into a ravine .",
"Authorities: David Lavau's car came to rest near another that went off the road earlier .",
"Lavau's family began to search for him when he failed to return home, the CHP says .",
"Lavau's son found him after driving the route, stopping at every curve in the road, the CHP says ."
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"Yazoo City, Mississippi (CNN) -- Rescue crews in Mississippi continued to search for survivors Sunday from a powerful tornado that ripped through the state a day earlier, killing 10 people, injuring dozens of others and leveling scores of homes.",
"Two children and a 3-month-old baby were among the victims.",
"Two sisters, 9 and 14, were killed inside a mobile home, Choctaw County Coroner Keith Coleman told CNN.",
"The tornado tore a path nearly a mile wide and decimated neighborhoods as it raked cities from the central western border with Louisiana northeastward to Alabama.",
"It leveled a church, sheared roofs off houses, overturned cars, snapped down hundreds of trees and plunged large swaths of the state in darkness as it toppled power lines.",
"The same storm system that unleashed Saturday's twister delivered severe weather to other parts of the South on Sunday, with tornadoes hitting Alabama and South Carolina.",
"On Sunday, a tornado in Darlington County in northern South Carolina overturned as many as four mobile homes and toppled trees and downed power lines.",
"Three people were hospitalized with minor injuries, according to Linwood Epps of the county's emergency management agency.",
"He said that the local Cain Elementary school was damaged, with part of its roof missing.",
"The National Weather Service on Sunday gave the Mississippi tornado a preliminary rating of at least 3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale of 0-5, with wind speeds of up to 160 miles per hour and a preliminary path width of one and a half miles.",
"Were you affected by the tornado?",
"Send in pics, video .",
"Ron Sullivan, a store owner in Choctaw County, said he was lucky to be alive after the storm hit around midday Saturday.",
"\"They always talk about you hearing the train,\" Sullivan told CNN.",
"\"There was no train. There was a bomb.\" He said two customers were walking toward the door of his store when the tornado struck and that \"when they opened the door, it hit and blew me back.\"",
"\"The only thing that went through my mind were two things -- 'Please don't let anything else fall on me' and 'I hope my wife is OK,' \" Sullivan said.",
"The hardest-hit counties were Yazoo and Choctaw, where assessment and rescue crews continued operations Sunday, though a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said there weren't any specific reports of people trapped inside the rubble.",
"Authorities had recorded at least 681 homes damaged across six counties, according to MEMA spokesman Greg Flynn.",
"The agency was reporting 33 injuries, but it hadn't received counts from Yazoo and Choctaw counties.",
"Mississippi Gov.",
"Haley Barbour said he has not yet requested emergency federal aid but plans to do so on Monday.",
"Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were scheduled to arrive Monday, anticipating an application for a disaster declaration, Flynn said.",
"Nearly 80 Mississippi National Guard troops, including 50 military police, had been deployed to Choctaw and Yazoo counties, MEMA reported.",
"Forty highway safety patrol troops were also sent to the affected areas.",
"Five of the dead were from Choctaw County, in the north central part of the state; four were from Yazoo County, north of Jackson; and one was from Holmes County, also in north central Mississippi, said Flynn.",
"Barbour, who was in Yazoo City where his home is located, called the twister gigantic and said that \"in places (it) seemed to be to be several miles wide.\"",
"Only 38 people stayed overnight in shelters in Yazoo City, Flynn said, adding that most of the affected were able to stay with family or friends.",
"Mississippi residents shared stories of tragedy and survival on Sunday.",
"\"You could just feel the glass and debris flying in and cutting you,\" said Stacy Walker, who took cover in a hair salon in Yazoo City where she worked.",
"\"It felt like minutes and minutes.",
"but I'm sure it was just seconds the time that it lasted.\"",
"Walker made it out safe but later learned that a high school friend died protecting her children.",
"Dale Thrasher was inside Yazoo City's Hillcrest Baptist Church when it was flattened by the tornado.",
"\"I went in the sanctuary and got under the pulpit table and the whole building fell around me,\" he said.",
"His injuries: \"Three little scratches.\"",
"In all, 12 counties reported injuries, with some of the injured airlifted to a level one trauma center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.",
"Local coverage from CNN affiliate WAPT .",
"President Obama has \"been briefed on the tragedy in Mississippi and the situation is being followed by the White House,\" Obama spokesman Bill Burton said.",
"Mississippi residents reported that the path of the twister was a half-mile to a mile wide, said Mark McAllister, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Jackson.",
"CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said the twister had traveled 150 miles across Mississippi, starting in the western part of the state and moving northeast before weakening as it moved into Alabama.",
"Early Sunday morning, Alabama's emergency management officials confirmed a tornado touched down in Marshall County in the state's north.",
"At least one mobile home park and some homes in Albertville were destroyed, said CNN affiliate WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama.",
"On Sunday, Nancy Brooks surveyed the damage to her Albertville home, which was extensive.",
"Part of home's roof was blown off, and debris littered the floors, which were now barely visible.",
"Brooks awoke to the sound of the incoming tornado, only to witness a moment later a large tree branch rip into her bedroom just feet from where she sleeps.",
"\"I'm very lucky, I'm very fortunate,\" she said, as friends helped her begin the cleanup process.",
"Saturday's tornado was part of a broad band of storms that stretched from Missouri to the panhandle of Florida, Jeras said.",
"CNN Correspondent Ed Lavandera contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Tornadoes reported Sunday in Alabama and South Carolina .",
"In Mississippi, two sisters, 9 and 14, die inside mobile home, coroner says .",
"Hundreds of homes, buildings flattened by nearly mile-wide twister that traveled 150 miles .",
"Mississippi Gov.",
"Haley Barbour plans to request emergency federal aid on Monday ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration will ask Congress for another $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September, Democratic congressional sources said Thursday.",
"President Obama's spending measure is likely to be the last supplemental request submitted to pay for the wars.",
"The request is expected to pay for those conflicts for the rest of the 2009 budget year, two Democratic congressional sources said.",
"The money would bring the running tab for both conflicts to about $947 billion, according to figures from the Congressional Research Service.",
"More than three-quarters of the $864 billion appropriated so far has gone to the war in Iraq, the agency estimated.",
"Since taking office in January, President Obama has announced plans to shift troops out of Iraq and beef up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, where American troops have been battling al Qaeda and Taliban fighters since al Qaeda's 2001 attacks.",
"In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Obama said the situation in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan \"demands urgent attention.\"",
"\"The Taliban is resurgent, and al Qaeda threatens America from its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border,\" Obama wrote in submitting the funding request.",
"\"There is no question of the resolve of our military women and men.",
"Yet, in Afghanistan, that resolve has not been matched by a comprehensive strategy and sufficient resources,\" Obama wrote.",
"About $75 billion of the latest request would pay for military operations, including $9.8 billion for body armor and protective vehicles and $11.6 billion to replace worn-out equipment.",
"The rest would go to diplomatic programs and development aid -- including $1.6 billion for Afghanistan, $1.4 billion for Pakistan and $700 million for Iraq.",
"The request would also provide about $800 million for the Palestinian Authority, including humanitarian aid for Gaza, the Hamas-ruled territory that was heavily bombarded by Israel in December and January; $800 million to support U.N. peacekeeping missions in Africa; and $30 million to the Department of Justice to manage the closure of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"The supplemental spending bill is likely to be the last such request submitted to Congress to pay for the wars, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.",
"While the Bush administration relied on supplemental spending bills to fund the conflicts, Obama began including war spending in his 2010 budget.",
"The president urged Congress to move quickly on the request \"and not to use the supplemental to pursue unnecessary spending.\"",
"But Rep. Lynn Woolsey, a prominent anti-war Democrat, said the requested funding would \"prolong our occupation of Iraq through at least the end of 2011,\" when U.S. troops are scheduled to leave the country, \"and it will deepen and expand our military presence in Afghanistan indefinitely.\"",
"\"Instead of attempting to find military solutions to the problems we face in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama must fundamentally change the mission in both countries to focus on promoting reconciliation, economic development, humanitarian aid, and regional diplomatic efforts.\"",
"Last month, Obama announced the United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by the end of August 2010.",
"A residual force of between 35,000 to 50,000 troops will remain until December 31, 2011.",
"There are 142,000 American troops in Iraq now.",
"Obama has ordered the deployment of 17,000 troops to fight the Taliban in the south and east and 4,000 more to train Afghan troops."
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"NEW: About $9.8 billion would pay for body armor and protective vehicles .",
"NEW: More than $2 billion would go to aid for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq .",
"NEW: Democratic lawmaker says funds would prolong U.S. occupation of Iraq .",
"Funds would bring tab for Iraq and Afghanistan wars to $947 billion ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The father of actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested in connection with a domestic dispute, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Michael Lohan, 50, was arrested late Monday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's West Hollywood Station said in a statement.",
"Deputies arrested him on suspicion of inflicting corporal injury on a cohabitant, false imprisonment and preventing the report of victimization, the statement said.",
"All are felony charges.",
"Bail was set at $200,000, the statement said, but authorities said Tuesday afternoon Lohan had not been booked.",
"He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after he complained of \"a medical condition not related to the incident\" following his arrest.",
"He will remain at the hospital on observation for at least 24 hours before he is booked at the West Hollywood Station, police said.",
"The sheriff's department did not identify the alleged victim.",
"But Kate Major, Lohan's former fiancee, told CNN she was the victim.",
"\"I can confirm but barely type,\" Major wrote in an e-mail.",
"\"No other comment.\" The alleged victim suffered minor injuries but refused medical treatment, the sheriff's department said.",
"Lohan was arrested near West Hollywood Station following the incident when deputies saw him walking on Santa Monica Boulevard, the statement said.",
"The relationship between Michael Lohan and his 24-year-old daughter has been publicly strained for years, although the two did undergo family counseling together during her recent treatment at the Betty Ford Center.",
"Lindsay Lohan must decide by Wednesday if she will accept a plea deal that would send her to jail or move closer to a trial on a felony grand theft charge.",
"She is accused of walking out without paying for a $2,500 necklace from Kamofie and Co., a jewelry store in Venice, California, on January 22.",
"If Lindsay Lohan decides to go to trial, a preliminary hearing will be held April 22.",
"The judge at that time would also consider the matter of her probation violation; she faces possible jail time for violating her probation for a drunk-driving arrest because of the theft charge.",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan, Carey Bodenheimer and Alan Duke contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Michael Lohan will remain in the hospital for at least 24 hours .",
"NEW: His condition is unrelated to the incident, police say .",
"Lohan was arrested in West Hollywood late Monday .",
"His former fiancee confirms she is the alleged victim ."
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"UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday delivered a lengthy, rambling address in his first appearance before the United Nations -- slamming both the U.N. Security Council and the United States.",
"Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.",
"He broached conspiracy theories, urged probes into U.S. military activities, and took aim at the structure and the actions of the Security Council, in a one-hour and 36-minute speech at the U.N. General Assembly's annual session.",
"Gadhafi called for world unity in confronting various world crises, such as climate change and food shortages, but he aimed his ire at the world body and the United States.",
"Dressed in a traditional Libyan cap and robe, he elaborated on what he believes is the unfairness of the structure of the U.N. Security Council, which has five permanent members -- the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain, each with veto power.",
"In his One hour and 36 minute ramble, Gadhafi: ."
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"Gadhafi says U.N. Security Council brings not security, but terror .",
"Five nations' veto power unfair, Libyan leader tells U.N. General Assembly .",
"Global challenges require unified action, U.N. secretary-general says .",
"Climate change, disarmament, poverty, war among issues addressed ."
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"(CNN) -- An Australian high court ruled Friday that a quadriplegic man has the right to refuse food and water and can be allowed to die, a rare legal finding that some see as a major victory for right-to-die campaigners.",
"An Australian high court ruled Friday that Christian Rossiter has the right to refuse food and water.",
"The ruling means that the nursing facility in which Christian Rossiter has lived since November 2008 cannot be held criminally liable for allowing the patient to die, the Supreme Court of Western Australia said.",
"\"I'm happy that I won my right to die,\" Rossiter, 49, said afterward.",
"But he added that he will further consult with a doctor because he may change his mind.",
"A leading Australian right-to-die advocate called the ruling a significant victory.",
"\"I don't know that many people will want to die this way.",
"But for people who do, it's a very important decision,\" said Dr. Philip Nitschke, founder and director of Exit International, a leading global voluntary euthanasia and end-of-life advocacy group.",
"Nitschke noted that Rossiter's case is significant because his mind is fully functional.",
"\"This is the first time that it's come up with a person that's rational and lucid,\" Nitschke told CNN.",
"\"This is unusual. It's very rare.\" Chief Justice Wayne Martin noted that distinction in his order, saying, \"Mr. Rossiter is not a child, nor is he terminally ill, nor dying.",
"He is not in a vegetative state, nor does he lack the capacity to communicate his wishes.",
"There is therefore no question of other persons making decisions on his behalf.",
"\"Rather, this is a case in which a person with full mental capacity and the ability to communicate his wishes has indicated that he wishes to direct those who have assumed responsibility for his care to discontinue the provision of treatment which maintains his existence.\"",
"Some family and right-to-life groups opposed Rossiter's request.",
"\"Really, what we should be doing is looking after each other rather than facilitating an escape,\" John Barich of the Australian Family Association said in a TV interview.",
"Peter O'Meara, president of Western Australia's Right to Life Association, said, \"The law which is being applied can be a dangerous precedent.\"",
"Rossiter has suffered a series of injuries since 1988 that have left him with limited foot movement and the ability to wriggle only one finger.",
"He is fed through a stomach tube.",
"He relies on staff at the Brightwater Care Group nursing facility in the city of Perth for such routine care as regular turning, cleaning, assistance with bowel movements, physical and occupational therapy and speech pathology.",
"Australian law gives patients the right to refuse life-saving treatment, but helping someone commit suicide is a crime that can carry a life prison sentence.",
"The Brightwater nursing facility sought the ruling to make sure it would not be held liable if it complied with Rossiter's request to stop all nutrition and hydration, except to be given enough liquid to make it possible to take pain medication.",
"Rossiter attended the hearing in a wheelchair, breathing through a tracheotomy tube in his throat.",
"He told the judge he wants to die.",
"It's a point he has been making publicly.",
"\"I can't move,\" Rossiter said in a televised interview this week.",
"\"I can't even wipe the tears from my eyes.",
"And I'd like to die. I'm imprisoned in my own body.",
"I have no fear of death.",
"Just pain.\" Rossiter pointed out in a recent interview with the PerthNow news outlet that he once led an active life.",
"\"This is living hell,\" he is quoted as saying.",
"\"I used to be a cyclist, I used to be a keen walker.",
"I bushwalked around the world. ...",
"I've rock climbed in Yosemite Valley in California up very steep cliffs.",
"I've got a degree in economics and now I can't even read a newspaper, I can't turn the pages.\"",
"Rossiter joined the Exit International right-to-death organization about three months ago, said Nitschke, who talked with him before the hearing.",
"Nitschke said Rossiter appeared \"very happy\" afterward.",
"A Brightwater executive said the company appreciates that the court's ruling has relieved the nursing facility of any liability.",
"\"The whole organization has been most concerned for Mr. Rossiter but also concerned for our own legal standing and this has clarified things greatly,\" said Penny Flett, the company's chief executive.",
"While hailing the victory, Nitschke decried the fact that Rossiter will have to undergo a slow and painful death through starvation, rather than having a quicker and painless way to end his life.",
"Because he cannot use his hands, Rossiter must rely on others to withhold treatment rather than being able to take his own life.",
"Switzerland has an assisted suicide law, and Rossiter has considered going there.",
"\"It's a bit sad that the best that Australia can come up with,\" Nitschke said, \"is that we can let a person like that starve to death.\""
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"Rossiter: \"I can't even wipe the tears from my eyes\"\nRuling means nursing facility cannot be held liable for allowing him to die .",
"Critics fear the ruling will set a dangerous precedent ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- \"Easy Rider\" actor Peter Fonda found a body while driving down Sunset Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades community of west Los Angeles on Wednesday, police said.",
"Fonda, 70, noticed that a car had been parked on side street off Sunset Boulevard for two days, so he stopped to check it out, according to Los Angeles Police Homicide Detective Allen Shubert.",
"\"He looked in the vehicle and saw a body in there and called the fire department,\" Shubert said.",
"A man who had committed suicide several days before was slumped over the wheel of the sedan, he said.",
"The man's identity has not been made public, but he was not a celebrity, he said."
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"(CNN) -- It's well known that the secret to Apple's meteoric success in the world of consumer technology was the vision, leadership and creativity of Steve Jobs, the company's celebrity founder.",
"\"Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that -- it is in our DNA,\" Tim Cook, Jobs' successor, wrote in a staff memo after Jobs resigned from his post as Apple's CEO in August.",
"What's less talked about is what drove Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56.",
"As with anyone, Jobs' values were shaped by his upbringing and life experiences.",
"He was born in 1955 in San Francisco and grew up amid the rise of hippie counterculture.",
"Bob Dylan and the Beatles were his two favorite musical acts, and he shared their political leanings, antiestablishment views and, reportedly, youthful experimentation with psychedelic drug usage.",
"The name of Jobs' company is said to be inspired by the Beatles' Apple Corps, which repeatedly sued the electronics maker for trademark infringement until signing an exclusive digital distribution deal with iTunes.",
"Like the Beatles, Jobs took a spiritual retreat to India and regularly walked around his neighborhood and the office barefoot.",
"Traversing India sparked Jobs' conversion to Buddhism.",
"Kobun Chino, a monk, presided over his wedding to Laurene Powell, a Stanford University MBA.",
"'Life is an intelligent thing' Rebirth is a precept of Buddhism, and Apple experienced rebirth of sorts when Jobs returned, after he was fired, to remake a company that had fallen the verge of bankruptcy.",
"\"I believe life is an intelligent thing, that things aren't random,\" Jobs said in a 1997 interview with Time, providing a glimpse into his complicated belief system that extends well beyond the Buddhist teachings.",
"Karma is another principle of the religion, but it didn't appear to be a system Jobs lived by.",
"If he feared karma coming back to bite him, the sentiment wasn't evident in his public statements about competitors and former colleagues, calling them \"bozos\" lacking taste.",
"Those who worked for Jobs described him as a tyrant they feared meeting in an elevator.",
"\"You'd be surprised how hard people work around here,\" Jobs said in a 2004 interview with Businessweek.",
"\"They work nights and weekends, sometimes not seeing their families for a while.",
"Sometimes people work through Christmas to make sure the tooling is just right at some factory in some corner of the world so our product comes out the best it can be.\"",
"Some engineers who worked tirelessly on the original Mac emerged from the project estranged from their spouses and children.",
"Jobs' relentless work ethic may have been shaped by some of his dysfunctional family affairs as well.",
"'I've done things I'm not proud of' Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs, who promised his birth mother, Joanne Simpson (whom Jobs later tracked down with the help of a private investigator), that they would send him to a university.",
"He dropped out of Reed College after one semester, and he reportedly never was willing to talk to his birth father.",
"Jobs had a daughter, Lisa, out of wedlock with Chrisann Brennan.",
"He denied paternity for many years, swearing in a court document that he was sterile.",
"Later, he had three more kids with Laurene Powell.",
"\"I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that,\" Jobs said in a statement in 2011 to promote his authorized biography.",
"That youthful indiscretion came before Jobs turned to Buddhism and karma.",
"'The core values are the same' The Buddhist scriptures, according to tradition, were transmitted in secret, as were many of Apple's business dealings and Jobs' personal struggles.",
"Like the paranoid secrecy that surrounded product development at Apple, Jobs spurned most reporters' interview requests, misled them in statements he did give, refused to disclose details of his cancer to investors until undergoing an operation and became shrouded in a scandal involving backdating stock options.",
"By all accounts, he played by his own rules.",
"Those who disclosed his secrets or whispered about his company were punished or threatened.",
"Apple sued, and eventually settled with, the anonymous young blogger behind Think Secret, which accurately reported on Apple rumors in the early 2000s.",
"And then there's the story of a lost iPhone 4 prototype, which was purchased and publicized by the blog Gizmodo.",
"\"When this whole thing with Gizmodo happened, I got a lot of advice from people that said, 'You've got to just let it slide,' \" Jobs said onstage at a technology convention in 2010.",
"\"I thought deeply about this, and I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide.",
"I can't do that. I'd rather quit.\"",
"That stance was repeated this year, with Jobs still as CEO though on medical leave, when another employee left a prototype iPhone 5 in a bar.",
"Apple enlisted the help of San Francisco police to investigate.",
"\"We have the same values now as we had then,\" Jobs said at the AllThingsD conference.",
"\"We're a little more experienced, certainly beat-up, but the core values are the same.\"",
"'We're here to put a dent in the universe' Perhaps the most salient of those values is, simply, to make an outsize impact on society.",
"Or, as Jobs put it, \"We're here to put a dent in the universe.\"",
"However, Apple and Jobs didn't make much of a dent with philanthropy.",
"\"We do things where we feel we can make a significant contribution,\" Jobs told Businessweek in 2004.",
"\"And our primary goal here is ... not to be the biggest or the richest.\"",
"To achieve that goal, Jobs was an obsessive micromanager.",
"Part of the reason Jobs' DNA is so ingrained in Apple is because he forced his hand onto so many parts of it.",
"He personally fielded some customer-service requests sent to him via e-mail; he was active in product design, co-authoring more than 300 patents; and he had a hand in the marketing efforts, including the famous Think Different and Mac vs. PC campaigns.",
"\"What is Apple, after all?\" Jobs mused to Time.",
"\"Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.\"",
"'Focus and simplicity' Jobs famously lured John Sculley, the PepsiCo president, to run Apple by saying: \"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?\"",
"(They had a permanent falling out when Jobs was booted from Apple.)",
"\"What makes Steve's methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do,\" Sculley said in a 2010 interview with Businessweek.",
"\"He's a minimalist. I remember going into Steve's house, and he had almost no furniture in it.",
"He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed.",
"He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.\"",
"Restraint, at least in gadget design and interior decorating, was a primary principle for Jobs.",
"Shortly after his return to Apple, he shuttered several divisions and turned his attention to a few key initiatives.",
"Even today, Apple's product lines and revenue are zeroed in on just a few industries in which the company can dominate.",
"\"That's been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity,\" Jobs told Businessweek in 1998.",
"\"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.",
"But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.\"",
"He elaborated in the interview with the publication six years later: \"It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.",
"We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.\"",
"'Stay hungry.",
"Stay foolish.'",
"Apple's management team members have each adopted parts of this code.",
"Jonathan Ive, the industrial-design executive, echoes Jobs' simplicity ethic.",
"Scott Forstall, the mobile software lead, has apparently inherited some of Jobs' enthusiasm and showmanship.",
"And Cook, the former operations chief and, by some accounts, current workaholic micromanager, runs the company like he manages his private life: shrouded in secrecy.",
"However, Cook comes out of his shell in order to impart the ethical standards onto new recruits.",
"He, along with other execs, teaches at Apple University.",
"Apple University ensures that employees are thoroughly educated on the company's principles and that Jobs' ideals live on.",
"Jobs believed people never stop learning and should voraciously open their minds to new ideas.",
"Put another way, like in his closing statement to Stanford's graduating class in 2005, \"Stay hungry."
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"\"That's been one of my mantras: focus and simplicity,\" Jobs said in 1998 .",
"Traversing India sparked Apple co-founder's conversion to Buddhism .",
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"(CNN) -- Four men accused of involvement in a foiled terrorist plot against Western targets went on trial Wednesday in Germany.",
"Fritz Gelowicz appears in court on April 22 in Dusseldorf, northern Germany.",
"Three of the men -- two Germans and a Turk -- were arrested in September 2007.",
"Authorities said they had begun mixing a huge amount of explosive material that could have resulted in a strong blast, bigger than the attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005.",
"The three -- Fritz Gelowicz, Martin Schneider, and Adem Yilmaz -- are charged with membership in foreign and domestic terrorist groups, preparation of explosives, plotting to murder, and plotting to commit a crime using explosives, the court said.",
"Schneider is also accused of attempted murder, the court said.",
"The fourth person, identified in German media reports as Attila Selek, is a German citizen of Turkish descent.",
"The German magazine Der Spiegel said prosecutors are still searching for a fifth man they believe played a central role in the alleged plot.",
"The trial is taking place at the Higher Regional Court in the northern city of Dusseldorf.",
"When Gelowicz, Schneider and Yilmaz were arrested, they were found with sophisticated and difficult-to-obtain detonators, authorities with knowledge of the arrests have said.",
"U.S. interests in Germany were among the targets of the plot, Michael Chertoff, who was the U.S. homeland security secretary, said at the time.",
"Gelowicz and Schneider are Germans who converted to Islam.",
"Gelowicz was a leading member of a radical Islamist center in Ulm in southern Germany and was well known to German authorities, officials said.",
"The trial could last up to two years, Der Spiegel reported.",
"The trial's paperwork reportedly fills some 530 folders and the prosecution plans to call 219 witnesses, the magazine said.",
"A little-known Uzbek militant group, the Islamic Jihad Union, claimed responsibility for the plot days after the arrests.",
"It said the intention was to target both U.S. and Uzbek targets, said German Interior Ministry spokesman Christian Sachs.",
"German authorities had said the three men trained at the group's camps in northern Pakistan.",
"The group said it wanted to target the United States' Ramstein Air Base and other U.S. and Uzbek military and diplomatic installations in Germany, Sachs said.",
"Another of the group's goals, he said, was to force Germany to stop using an air base in Uzbekistan as a stopover point for moving equipment and personnel into and out of northern Afghanistan.",
"The group is believed to have ties to al Qaeda.",
"The Islamic Jihad Union was unknown until April 2004, when it conducted a series of suicide bombings in Uzbekistan, killing 47 people, according to the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, a non-profit organization funded by the Department of Homeland Security."
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"Could have caused bigger blast than attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005 .",
"U.S. interests in Germany were among the targets of the plot .",
"Uzbek militant group, Islamic Jihad Union, claimed responsibility for the plot ."
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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- A 69-year-old who was previously convicted of torching a palace has been arrested in connection with a fire that destroyed Namdaemun, South Korea's oldest wooden structure and a national treasure, authorities said on Tuesday.",
"People on Monday look at the debris of the Namdaemun gate in central Seoul after the fire.",
"Similarities between the Sunday night fire and the 2006 blaze led to the investigation of a man identified only as Mr. Chae, said Kim Young-Su, chief of police of the Namdaemun police station.",
"Chae had served time in prison for the palace fire.",
"Police searched the home of Chae's ex-wife and found a can of paint thinner and a pair of leather gloves they believe were used in the fire, Kim said.",
"Chae confessed to starting the fire, saying he was upset by a land grievance that led him to start the 2006 fire and by the sentence he was handed in that case, Kim said.",
"Chae was free on a suspended sentence, Kim added.",
"Chae said he chose Namdaemun because it was easily accessible by public transportation and yet situated in a lightly populated area where the fire was unlikely to hurt people, according to police.",
"The fire burned for hours, and more than a hundred firefighters tried to save it.",
"Watch the reaction to the Namdaemun's destruction » .",
"Namdaemun was more than 600 years old and stood at the center of Seoul, having served as a main gate into the capital for centuries.",
"The gate was considered a national symbol to Koreans around the world.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"NEW: Chae has confessed to starting the Namdaemun fire, police chief says .",
"NEW: Easy access, lightly populated area dictated Namdaemun choice, police say .",
"The more-than-600-year-old Namdaemun was country's oldest wooden structure ."
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"Montgomery, Alabama (CNN) -- Gabriela Vazquez maneuvers through piles of clothes and toys while trying to control her two small children.",
"\"They never stop,\" she says, while pulling a pair of pants from an almost-empty drawer and deciding whether to toss the pants to the \"keep\" or \"leave\" pile.",
"The decision is not an easy one.",
"Vazquez is attempting to pack five years of her life in the United States into only a handful of bags.",
"\"I crossed over into the U.S. with nothing but my clothes, so I'm taking nothing, only my clothes and my kids,\" she says.",
"Vazquez began packing moments after a federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama, last week allowed most of the state's controversial law, known as HB56, against illegal immigration to go into effect.",
"Judge refuses to block law during appeal .",
"The law allows police officers to check the legal status of people when suspicions exists, detain them and turn them over to federal authorities.",
"It is described by both its supporters and its opponents as the strictest state immigration law in the nation.",
"Law's enactment spooks immigrants .",
"\"We expected the judge to rule like the other judges who blocked the laws in Arizona and Georgia,\" Vazquez says, referring to similar anti-illegal immigration laws approved in those states, with federal judges subsequently blocking the more severe parts of those bills.",
"\"Now, they can take me away from my children anytime,\" Vazquez says.",
"Her journey began five years ago when she and her husband left the Mexican state of MIchoacan and headed north in search of jobs.",
"\"In Mexico, it is hard to find a job.",
"I'm 35 years old, and the ads seeking help say they want people between the ages of 18 and 35,\" Vazquez says.",
"\"It wasn't easy coming over.",
"We left our parents, our siblings, our family, and they didn't know what was going to happen to us.\"",
"The couple entered the United States illegally and headed for Montgomery, where they had relatives.",
"They first rented a room in a mobile home with other families until they found jobs.",
"Vazquez's husband, Marco, became a carpet installer while she jumped from job to job in restaurants, hotels and grocery stores.",
"Deportations will set record in 2011, Napolitano says .",
"They managed to save enough to move into their own place.",
"Along the way, she gave birth to a boy, now 4 years old, and a girl, now 2.",
"\"I was not planning on having kids, but here they are,\" Vazquez says with a smile.",
"A year ago they bought a mobile home that they renovated themselves.",
"Vazquez proudly shows pictures of the transformation of the dwelling, and points out the kitchen cabinets she sanded and repainted.",
"She also brags about her husband's work replacing the floor and walls, and the brand-new electric range the couple bought after the old gas one that came with the mobile home exploded during the renovation.",
"\"There was a small leak and the thing just blew up,\" she says.",
"The final product is a two-bedroom house fully furnished for a family of four.",
"A large wrap-around sofa fills the living room in front of an old model big-screen TV set.",
"A desktop computer sits on a breakfast bar that divides the living room from the kitchen, where a glass table for six can be found.",
"All those belongings will be left behind unless they find a buyer soon.",
"Vazquez apologizes for the mess she says is caused by her efforts to pack as soon as possible.",
"The freshly painted walls have few pictures on them but the nails where many portraits hung a few days ago are still visible.",
"When her husband arrives from work, the two kids are happy to see their father, especially the little girl, who doesn't want to leave her mother's side.",
"Marco Vazquez is a reluctant participant in his wife's plan, which calls for her to return to Mexico with the kids while he stays behind to try to sell their belongings before he joins them.",
"He would prefer to have his family wait so they can all leave at the same time.",
"\"I ask her to stay just long enough so we can save the money to take the truck back to Mexico, but she has made up her mind,\" he says.",
"Gabriela Vazquez hangs up the phone.",
"She has been talking with her mother in Michoacan, who is already planning for her return.",
"In a matter of minutes she warms corn tortillas on the stove and makes her husband some tacos filled with cochinita pibil -- shredded pork in a red chili sauce typical of southern Mexico.",
"The little boy comes asking if they can watch a movie.",
"He wants to see \"Finding Nemo,\" but his mother convinces him to watch something else.",
"\"Nemo\" is already packed away, but she doesn't want to tell him that.",
"\"It is hard,\" she says. \"I've been crying all weekend long and he cried when he saw me.",
"He asks, 'Why do we have to go, why am I not going to school anymore?'\"",
"She decided to pull her son out of pre-kindergarten the same day HB56 went onto effect.",
"Her fear was that she would be arrested while he was in school and authorities would turn him over to child-support services.",
"She says the African-American teacher cried when she told her they were leaving, .",
"\"I held back tears as she told me about the struggles the black community had fought in this same state,\" she says.",
"And she is not the only one to take her kids out of school.",
"According to the Alabama secretary of education, more than 2,000 Hispanic children have skipped school since the law went into effect.",
"By nightfall, Marco Vazquez is playing outside with the kids.",
"A friend arrives and Marco offers him a room to stay once his wife leaves.",
"The man agrees but says he can only pay $50 a month -- that is, if he can keep his job.",
"Marco agrees and turns his attention back to the kids.",
"His wife comes out with two bags full of clothes and tosses them in the back of the pickup truck, telling her husband to give them away.",
"He takes a look and sees clothes the kids wore just a few days ago.",
"He also finds a bag full of toys and a couple of strollers.",
"\"Those were expensive,\" he says.",
"Gabriela Vazquez shrugs and goes back inside to continue packing for the trip."
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"Gabriela Vazquez and her husband entered the U.S. illegally five years ago .",
"They found jobs, had two children and made a home in Montgomery .",
"Now, they are hurriedly packing to return to Mexico .",
"With new state law, \"They can take me away from my children anytime,\" she says ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Three security contractors, two of them American veterans and one from Fiji, have been freed in Iraq almost three weeks after they were detained by the Iraqi Army, U.S. Rep. Peter King said Wednesday.",
"The men, who were working for a security firm, were arrested by Iraqi Army forces in Mahmudiyah on December 9 but were not charged with any offense, said King, a New York Republican.",
"\"I am pleased that these three men have been released after having been detained,\" King said.",
"\"With the unfortunate and clearly deteriorating security situation in Iraq and with al Qaeda in Iraq still very active, these men were in increasing danger with each passing day.\"",
"King said he got involved after being contacted by the wife of one of the men, Army veteran Alex Antiohos of Long Island, New York.",
"The other two contractors are Jonas March of Savannah, Georgia, and Kevin Fisher of Fiji, he said.",
"The congressman asked the U.S. State Department for help and wrote to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to appeal for their release, he said in a statement.",
"King said the three men were detained because the Iraqi military \"did not like the 'mission request authorization' paperwork that had been issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.\"",
"The United States is still negotiating with the Iraqi government about whether U.S. contractors will be granted any diplomatic protections under Iraqi law.",
"The final U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq 10 days ago, after a war that lasted almost nine years.",
"CNN's Adam Levine contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Rep. Peter King got involved after the wife of one of the men appealed for help .",
"The three contractors were detained in central Iraq on December 9 .",
"Two of them are U.S. citizens and military veterans, the third is from Fiji ."
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"(CNN) -- This week's shooting death and subsequent dragging of a black man in South Carolina are being investigated as a possible hate crime, the Newberry County Sheriff's Office said Friday.",
"Sheriff Lee Foster said the body of 30-year-old Anthony Hill was found early Wednesday on a road near an elementary school in the town of Pomaria, 35 miles west-northwest of Columbia.",
"Hill had a single gun shot wound to the head, his body was nearly nude and a rope was around his neck and upper torso, Foster said.",
"Foster said Hill's body -- which carried no identification -- was found around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday by a motorist, who called 911.",
"Officers followed a trail of blood and human tissue nine miles to the trailer park where Hill's co-worker Gregory Collins lives, surrounded his trailer for nearly four hours and finally resorted to tear gas, Foster said.",
"\"He came outside and gave himself up,\" Foster added.",
"Collins, 19, who is white, is charged with murder.",
"Both men worked in Newberry at the Louis Rich turkey processing plant, said Foster.",
"\"They did know each other; they worked in the same industry, on the same shift but different divisions,\" said Foster.",
"\"Neighbors told us the two spent most of the day together Tuesday.",
"They were seen on a porch drinking together.\"",
"Hill, an Army veteran who lived in the neighboring county of Fairfield, was estranged from his wife and had two children, Foster said.",
"Investigators have not concluded that the killing is a hate crime, but are looking at it as one, according to Foster.",
"\"We called the FBI out of an abundance of caution,\" he said.",
"\"We have no motive whatsoever as to why these two gentlemen would have been together, then one shoots the other in the head and drags him down the road.",
"It's a horrific act of violence.\"",
"Collins, who is being held in the Newberry County Detention Center, has been assigned a public defender.",
"Funeral arrangements are pending."
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"30-year-old Anthony Hill's near-nude body found on South Carolina road .",
"Rope around neck and upper torso .",
"Officers follow trail of blood and human tissue to suspect's house ."
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"SILVER SPRING, Maryland (CNN) -- As Marilyn Seitz helps customers find just the right size, she wonders how much longer before she's forced to close her doors.",
"Maryland thrift store manager Marilyn Seitz says the new rules have the potential to put the store out of business.",
"The Pennyworth Thrift Store in Silver Spring, Maryland, isn't suffering from the struggling economy.",
"Secondhand stores across the country are more in demand than ever as many people are desperate to save money.",
"Instead, Seitz is worried her business may become an unintended casualty of an attempt to protect children.",
"After a wave of highly publicized tainted-toy recalls last year, Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.",
"Then-President George Bush signed the bill in August, and new federal restrictions on lead and other harmful substances take effect Tuesday.",
"The new rules ban lead content beyond minute levels of 600 parts per million in any product for children 12 and younger.",
"The law not only makes it illegal to manufacture lead-laced products, but it also makes it illegal to sell them no matter when the products were made -- and stores found breaking the law could face fines of up to $100,000 per violation.",
"\"It would just be virtually impossible for me to feel safe that my toys meet the guidelines,\" Seitz said.",
"\"I feel confident that these are safe toys, but anything carries a risk.",
"Since I can be held criminally and financially responsible if I sell a toy that is on the recall list or a toy that tests for lead, I just have to wipe out all my toys.\"",
"Watch why thrift stores fear new rules will force them out of business » .",
"Now Seitz is going to throw away or give away her entire inventory of children's items, fearing this latest attempt at protecting kids will force the Pennyworth Thrift Store and thousands of others out of business.",
"The ban also applies to children's clothes and books.",
"The National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops say tens of thousands of secondhand stores across the country are at risk.",
"Adele Meyer, the association's executive director, said some owners are preparing to shutter their stores out of fear.",
"\"This has gotten so serious, and it is so frightening, because we serve consumers that sometimes have no other way to clothe their children,\" Meyer said.",
"\"It was a law that was well-intentioned that has unintended consequences, that is hurting the manufacturing industry, the retailers, and the secondary market.\"",
"The Consumer Product Safety Commission, the government agency tasked with implementing the sweeping law, seems to agree.",
"CPSC spokesman Joe Martyak acknowledges the new rules are complex and confusing.",
"\"With the economy the way it is right now, we all are concerned about safety, but we don't want to unnecessarily be impacting jobs and businesses,\" Martyak said.",
"He said the CPSC is trying to set guidelines to help manufacturers, retailers and thrift stores better understand what is safe and what is not.",
"\"What we've been trying to do is to point out categories that we feel and our scientists feel that are safe, that really are almost practically lead-free,\" Martyak said.",
"\"We have no reason to believe that there's a risk involved with them.\"",
"Those categories include products made of certain natural materials, such as wood, cotton or wool; ordinary children's books printed after 1985; dyed or undyed textiles, not including leather, vinyl or PVC; and non-metallic thread and trim used in children's apparel and other fabric products, such as baby blankets.",
"However, Martyak says even these guidelines cause confusion.",
"\"If you have a pair of pants that has two buttons, a zipper, and an applique on it, we can say our understanding is the fabric itself doesn't have lead and you're OK,\" he said.",
"\"But as far as those other pieces that are on the pants, that's where the problem is, because you'd have to have that tested or know some other way that it's not over the lead limit.\"",
"The CPSC is allowing manufacturers an extra year to comply with the product-testing requirements, but it can't offer a reprieve for selling restricted products under the new rules.",
"Congress has the sole power to change the implementation timeline set in the law.",
"Martyak said the agency has tried to win some \"breathing space\" from Congress \"to make whatever tweaks are necessary, keeping safety in mind ... but get to it in a little bit more reasonable, a sane way, because right now we're headed for a lot of chaos in the economy because of this, unfortunately.\"",
"That is what has Marilyn Seitz scratching her head.",
"\"No one wants to do anything to hurt children,\" she said.",
"\"But you've got to stop it at the level of entry. You can't stop it when it's all over like this.\""
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"New rules -- in effect Tuesday -- apply to toys, children's clothes and books .",
"CPSC says its trying to help stores understand what is safe .",
"CPSC spokesman: \"We're headed for a lot of chaos in the economy because of this\""
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel early Sunday released the names of the first group of Palestinian prisoners to be freed in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, setting in motion a process that will allow the public to file objections to specific releases.",
"The list features 477 names, including those of Ahlam Tamimi, serving life terms for being an accomplice in a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant, and Amneh Muna, who plotted the killing of a 16-year-old Israeli boy in 2001 and received a life sentence.",
"Israel approved the deal Tuesday night, agreeing to release in two stages 1,027 Palestinians prisoners, including hundreds serving life sentences for attacks on Israelis.",
"The first swap is expected to take place early this week.",
"Twenty-seven of the prisoners are women.",
"The second stage, which includes 550 prisoners, will occur later this year.",
"A spokesperson for Israeli President Shimon Peres said Saturday that the pardoning process formally commenced after a Justice Ministry official submitted the requisite paperwork.",
"Peres will allocate 48 hours to complete the procedure in order to allow public objections and petitions against the pardons.",
"Read the list (PDF) The president is expected to voice his discomfort with the release of convicted murderers, but is unlikely to reject any of the pardon requests, spokeswoman Ayelet Frish told CNN.",
"Any changes to the list negotiated with Hamas could potentially endanger the entire deal, she said.",
"The most notable name not in the list is jailed Palestinian lawmaker Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences.",
"He was convicted in an Israeli court on murder and other charges related to his role in planning attacks on Israelis during the second Intifada.",
"Shalit has been a recurring topic in the country's national dialogue.",
"Militants captured him in June 2006 after tunneling into the Jewish state and attacking an Israeli army outpost.",
"Israel immediately launched a military incursion into Gaza to rescue Shalit, then 19, but failed to free him.",
"Since then, he has been held incommunicado by Hamas, which controls Gaza.",
"Shalit's family has continuously petitioned Israeli government officials to broker a deal that would secure his release.",
"\"Everyone wants to see Gilad Shalit safe and well and back home but I think there is a real failure to understand the price that is being paid, and the price is phenomenal,\" said Arnold Roth, who lost his daughter Malki in the Jerusalem suicide bombing in 2001.",
"\"We are releasing people who have dedicated their lives to killing Jews and Israelis.\"",
"Roth opposes the announced release of Tamimi, who was sentenced to multiple life sentences for her involvement in the August 2001 bombing of a Sbarro pizza restaurant in 2001, in which 16 people were killed.",
"Israeli radio reported Saturday that 182 files for pardons were submitted to the president for prisoners convicted in Israeli criminal courts.",
"Remaining pardon requests will be handled by the Israeli Defense Forces officials.",
"On Friday, the terror victims association Almagor petitioned the Supreme Court to suspend the release until the deal is thoroughly examined.",
"More petitions against the deal are expected to be submitted Sunday by families of victims directly affected by the prisoners on the list.",
"The Ministry of Justice announced it will operate an information center \"where information regarding prisoners on the list can be obtained.\"",
"Of the male prisoners on the list, 275 will return to their homes in Gaza.",
"Most of the rest will be sent to the West Bank or East Jerusalem.",
"Five prisoners who are Israeli citizens can return to their homes, and 39 are to be sent abroad."
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"NEW: Those on list \"have dedicated their lives to killing Jews,\" father of bombing victim says .",
"The swap is expected to take place early this week .",
"The deal includes an Israeli soldier held since 2006 and more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Batman: Arkham City\" takes everything that was great about the first Arkham title and makes it bigger, bolder and better.",
"The Dark Knight goes up against his most murderous foes with new weapons and allies in a story that expands the Batman universe.",
"Spinning off the ending of \"Batman: Arkham Asylum,\" Gotham City decides that the best way to house all of its criminals is to wall off a large section of the city and dump them all together.",
"So now, Joker, Penguin, Two-Face and others are free to do whatever they want inside those walls.",
"Out of sight, out of mind.",
"The 18-month backstory of the game was presented in a limited series by DC Comics in the months leading up to the game's release.",
"If you didn't read the series, there may be some confusion about what's going on when the gameplay begins.",
"The city is beautifully rendered, with plenty of locations that are unique to Batman's enemies.",
"Although the regular prisoners tend to repeat themselves, each villain looks and feels very unique and true to their comic book counterparts.",
"It also helps that Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy reprise their voice roles as the Joker and Batman, respectively.",
"Those trademark voices have become as necessary as the Joker's laugh or Batman's scowl.",
"Combat is similar to \"Arkham Asylum,\" as rhythmic button pushing sends Batman from foe to foe in a fluid and almost dance-like movement with devastating effects.",
"The more times you can string together attacks will open new power moves that can daze or level multiple opponents.",
"Batman's utility belt is full with some of the same \"toys\" as before but with new abilities and functions.",
"Batarangs, batclaws and explosive gels are back, with additional weapons like smoke pellets and a new Cryptographic Sequencer to help the Caped Crusader escape from trouble or solve puzzles.",
"Tutorials and the Batcomputer will help you master the skills needed to succeed as well as help point you in the direction of the next objective.",
"Arkham City is five times the size Arkham Asylum was, so it is easy to get lost or misplace a mission.",
"Batman spends most of his time traveling this new territory by grapnel gun and gliding.",
"There is an opportunity to get a grapnel boost, so use it and it will cut down the time it takes to get around.",
"In all, there are more than 250 upgrades and collectibles that help increase Batman's skills, armor and weaponry.",
"Take advantage of each when you can.",
"All that real estate needs to be occupied, and developers filled it up with some of Batman's most famous and deadly foes.",
"Each of them wants to rule over the prisoners in Arkham City but is willing to take their shots at the Dark Knight when they can.",
"Mr. Freeze, the Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn and, of course, the Joker are ready to battle Batman in their own ways.",
"Each has a unique agenda, and part of the gameplay is figuring out what they are up to and how best to stop it.",
"The main storyline is filled with intrigue and drama.",
"Fighting skills alone will not win the day, and Batman is again equipped with a Detective mode that lets him spot clues normal eyes can't see.",
"In \"Arkham Asylum,\" this mode could be turned on and pretty much left on at all times.",
"In \"Arkham City,\" the mode stays on until Batman takes a hit.",
"Players will not want to leave it on the entire time, because they'll miss other things that are needed to complete other missions.",
"Twelve complete side missions, which could be regular missions in their own right, help deepen the game's experience and introduce even more villains and weapons to use.",
"Players also are assisted by allies and other heroes as they make their way through the city.",
"The Riddler once again plays a big part in hiding riddles and puzzles all over the City.",
"This time, however, he's taken hostages and releasing clues to their whereabouts only when Batman solves a certain number of riddles.",
"Be warned: There are 400 secrets to be discovered, so don't pass up an opportunity to find them when you can.",
"Catwoman is a playable character in the game, with her own adventures and missions.",
"There is some crossover between her and Batman during cut scenes, but fighting and puzzle-solving are all things she does on her own.",
"She has some special abilities, like being able to climb on ceilings and use her whip and bolas to take down enemies.",
"She also has more than 50 trophies and upgrades that can be collected by only her.",
"The mastermind behind all the action?",
"Well, you don't read comic books from the back to the front, do you?",
"Suffice to say, the game story takes plenty of twists and turns, revealing more about the Dark Knight and his rogues.",
"The action is well balanced between fighting objectives and detective work and has a nice flow and pace.",
"It is a very deep game with a lengthy storyline, plenty of side missions and hundreds of collectibles.",
"The playable Catwoman sections are a nice addition that weaves in and out of the main story but never feels out of place.",
"Through it all, players will become enmeshed in the Batman universe and experience it all as if they were looking through the eye slits of the Dark Knight's cowl and into his mind.",
"It is a wonderful mix of classic characters, enhanced combat and new highlights that makes \"Batman: Arkham City\" worthy to wear the Bat-logo.",
"\"Batman: Arkham City\" will be available Tuesday in North America, Wednesday in Australia, October 21 in Europe and November 23 in Japan for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.",
"A PC version is expected to be released in November, and a Wii U version is planned for 2012.",
"The game is rated T for Teen due to alcohol reference, blood, mild language, suggestive themes, use of tobacco and violence.",
"This review was done playing a review copy on the Xbox 360 ."
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"The game spins off the end of \"Arkham Asylum\"\nStoryline is filled with intrigue and drama; fighting skills alone won't work .",
"Catwoman is a playable character, with her own adventures and upgrades .",
"\"Arkham City\" is a great mix of classic characters, new highlights ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan have comfortably beaten Denmark 3-1 at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg to book their place in the last 16 of the World Cup.",
"First half goals from Keisuke Honda and Yasuhito Endo gave the Danes a mountain to climb.",
"They never looked like they would recover and a miserable night was completed when Shinji Okazaki added a third in the 87th minute, shortly after a Jon Dahl Tomasson 81st minute goal had given Denmark a glimmer of hope.",
"The Danes were comprehensively outplayed by Japan who produced their most resolute and skilful display of the tournament so far.",
"As runners up in Group E Japan will now face Paraguay in Pretoria on Tuesday for a place in quarter-finals.",
"The three-time Asian Cup champions join Netherlands, who confirmed first place in the group by beating an already-eliminated Cameroon 2-1 in Cape Town.",
"A first half strike from Robin van Persie and a second by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar seven minutes from time ensured Netherlands finished with a 100 percent record at the top of Group E setting up a second round clash with Italy's vanquishers Slovakia in Durban on Monday.",
"Champions Italy crash out of World Cup .",
"The win over Cameroon team in Cape Town completed a comfortable group stage for the Dutch, despite not playing their best football.",
"They will be boosted though by the return of Arjen Robben who came on as a second half substitute.",
"Japan 3-1 Denmark .",
"Denmark, who needed to win the match to have any chance of progressing to the knockout stages, started their match with Japan brightly.",
"Skipper Jon Dahl Tomasson saw a chance go narrowly wide in the opening minutes.",
"But two Japanese strikes within 13 minutes of each other stunned the Danes.",
"Honda gave Japan the lead in the 17th minute with fine free kick which flew past keeper Thomas Sorensen who appeared to be deceived by the flight of the ball.",
"Yasuhito Endo doubled Japan's lead in the 30th minute when he curled a beautifully executed free kick around the Danish wall and past the despairing dive of Sorenson.",
"If the Danish keeper was possibly at fault for the first goal, there was nothing he could do with Endo's strike which found the bottom left corner of the net.",
"The second half didn't get any better for the Danish keeper when he fumbled an innocuous looking free kick from Yasuhito Endo.",
"His blushes were saved when the ball cannoned to safety off his right hand post.",
"Jon Dahl Tomasson scored for Denmark in the 81st minute, turning in the rebound from his own penalty kick which had been awarded for a push on Daniel Agger.",
"But it was too little too late for the 1992 European Champions.",
"Moments later, Okazaki scored a third for Japan after Keisuke Honda unselfishly laid the ball on for him.",
"It sealed a memorable win and qualification for the last 16 on foreign soil for the first time in their history.",
"But man-of-the-match Honda believes Japan could go even further in the tournament.",
"\"I expected to be really jubilant but I'm not as jubilant as I thought I would be because I don't think we are finished here.",
"I believe we can go further in this competition,\" the CSKA Moscow star said, AFP reported.",
"Netherlands 2-1 Cameroon .",
"Robin Van Persie opened the scoring for Netherlands in the 36th minute.",
"Playing a neat one-two with Rafael van der Vaart on the edge of Cameroon's penalty area, the Arsenal striker then fired a low shot under keeper Souleymanou to register his first goal of the tournament.",
"Inter Milan's Samuel Eto'o leveled the scores in the 65th minute after Cameroon were awarded a penalty by the Chilean referee, Pablo Pozo when Rafael van der Vaart raised an arm to block Geremi's free-kick in the box.",
"Eto'o stepped up to score his second goal of the tournament.",
"The introduction of Arjen Robben -- his first appearance at the 2010 World Cup -- immediately created panic in the Cameroon defense.",
"Cutting in from the right, Robben fired a shot from 20 yards which rebounded off the post.",
"The ball fell kindly to Klaas-Jan Huntelaar who coolly slotted home the ball into an empty net and secure victory for Netherlands."
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"Japan to meet Paraguay, Netherlands to face Slovakia in last 16 ."
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"Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Rio de Janeiro's special police forces declared Sunday that they were in full control of one of the city's biggest and most notorious shantytowns, Rocinha, after a predawn operation aimed at wresting control from drug traffickers.",
"The operation, involving 3,000 police and security forces, had successfully occupied Rocinha and neighboring slums Vidigal and Chacara do Ceu, the Rio de Janeiro government said on its website.",
"\"The next stage will be looking for the criminals that were able to get out of the places we are working,\" military police Col. Alberto Pinheiro Neto told reporters Sunday morning.",
"About 100,000 people live in Rocinha.",
"Some 200 navy commandos with armored personnel carriers and helicopters also participated in the operation.",
"Roads were blocked at 2:30 a.m. and troops started moving in around 4 a.m., according to the local government.",
"CNN affiliate Band News TV showed military assault vehicles rolling in and heavily armed police patrolling the streets.",
"The massive operation is part of Rio's efforts to eliminate crime and arrest drug traffickers in one of the country¹s most violent cities ahead of the 2014 World Cup.",
"Rio de Janeiro Gov.",
"Sergio Cabral said the so-called \"Shock of Peace\" operation was a \"historic chapter.\"",
"\"We are rescuing communities that were abandoned for decades and dominated by parallel powers,\" he told reporters.",
"\"These are people who need to be able to raise their children in peace.\"",
"Residents told Band News TV that they were happy that police had stepped up their presence.",
"The operation will have an impact beyond Rocinha, which supplies 80% of the drugs in Rio de Janeiro, Congresswoman Marina Magessi told Band News TV.",
"\"We are certain that from now until the end of the year, there will be a shortage of drugs present in Rio,\" said Magessi, a former police inspector responsible for catching some of Rio's top criminals.",
"Police have already \"pacified\" dozens of favelas since they began operations in 2008, but it's an uphill battle.",
"About one-fifth of Rio¹s residents live in the city's 1,000 shantytowns, many of them perched on steep hills overlooking beachside condominiums.",
"Sunday's operation stands in stark contrast to the invasion of the Alemao favela last year when more than 30 people were killed in shootouts.",
"Police arrested Rocinha's top suspected drug trafficker days before they moved in.",
"They found Antonio Francisco Bomfim, known as Nem, in the trunk of a car.",
"On Sunday, police reported capturing a handful of automatic guns and other weapons.",
"They also found the steep and winding roads leading into Rocinha covered with oil, apparently an attempt to make it more difficult for police to enter.",
"CNN's Marilia Brocchetto contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A former police inspector says the operation will cut down on Rio's drug supply .",
"Governor: \"We are rescuing communities that were abandoned for decades\"\nRio de Janeiro is trying to crack down on crime before the 2014 World Cup .",
"Steep roads in Rocinha are covered in oil, possibly in an attempt to hinder police ."
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"(CNN) -- Five people have been charged with attempted theft in Ohio after allegedly trying to steal the carcass of an escaped lion that was set free by its owner -- along with other exotic animals -- and ultimately killed by authorities.",
"Authorities apprehended four adults and one juvenile October 19 as they attempted to sneak the lion carcass into their vehicle, Muskingum County Sheriff Matthew J. Lutz said.",
"\"They got the cat into the trunk, and we stopped them,\" Lutz said.",
"\"I'm not sure what they planned to do with it.\"",
"The five were charged Monday, he said.",
"According to sheriff's department documents, deputies stopped a Jeep Cherokee sport utility vehicle and found the large dead cat inside.",
"Authorites have not released the juvenile's name, but the men were identified as Richard Weidlich, Brian Matthews, Joseph Jakubisin and Cody Wilson, according to the criminal complaint.",
"If convicted, they could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.",
"The attorneys for the men could not be immediately reached for comment.",
"Of the 56 animals released October 18, killed were two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions and 18 Bengal tigers, Lutz said at the time of the incident.",
"Only a grizzly bear, two monkeys and three leopards were taken alive.",
"A monkey remained unaccounted for.",
"Officials in Muskingum County closed schools as sheriff's deputies equipped with night vision equipment attempted to hunt down the animals in eastern Ohio after the suicide of the man at the farm where they lived."
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"Lion was among exotic animals set free by owner, killed by authorities .",
"Four men and one juvenile were charged Monday in Ohio .",
"\"They got the cat into the trunk, and we stopped them,\" sheriff says ."
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"(CNN) -- Americans are spending less time stuck in traffic and wasting less gas, according to a new report.",
"Americans spend a little less time in traffic, a study shows, but drivers on I-110 in Los Angeles might not notice.",
"Rising joblessness and stinging gas prices have put the brakes on worsening trends in traffic congestion, according to a study issued Wednesday by the Texas Transportation Institute, the nation's largest university-based transportation research facility.",
"\"It's temporary, but real,\" said institute spokesman Bernie Fette about the declines.",
"\"As goes the American economy, so goes traffic.",
"There's fewer people going to work.\"",
"The institute attributed the changes to the recession, but the U.S. economy did not begin to slow significantly until the end of 2007.",
"The organization began tracking traffic trends in 1982, and by \"every measure, congestion has increased substantially\" in those 25 years, the latest Urban Mobility Report said.",
"Not in 2007. Researchers surveyed 439 urban centers in the United States and found that travelers spent one hour less stuck in traffic in 2007 than they did in 2006 and wasted 1 gallon less of gasoline.",
"Congestion delay per traveler in 1982 was 13.8 hours.",
"In 2005, that number had almost tripled to 37.4 hours.",
"But it was down to 36.1 hours in 2007, representing a \"rare break in near-constant growth,\" the report said.",
"Because the changes were nominal, most people may not have noticed any change in their commutes.",
"The average person still needs 25 percent more time to travel during rush hour than during other parts of the day, Fette said.",
"\"Things were so congested and bad, it was kind of hard to notice,\" Fette said.",
"Among the report's other findings: .",
"• American travelers still wasted 4.2 billion hours stuck in rush-hour traffic jams.",
"That amounts to nearly one full work (or vacation) week for every traveler.",
"• The overall cost, based on wasted fuel and lost productivity, reached $87.3 billion in 2007, the report said.",
"That's more than $750 per person.",
"• The amount of wasted fuel, from sitting idle with the motor running, topped 2.8 billion gallons, or three weeks' worth of gas, for every traveler.",
"Congestion has slowed but, said the report's authors, that means only that things are getting worse slower, \"hardly a positive goal statement.\"",
"The Urban Mobility Report database includes a few similar periods from regional recessions in the past -- northeastern states in the early 1980s, Texas in the mid-1980s, California in the early 1990s.",
"In every case, when the economy rebounded, so did the congestion problem, the report said.",
"That means congestion trends are likely to swing upward once the economy starts picking up.",
"Americans might then have fatter pocketbooks, but they'll go back to staring through their windshields a bit longer.",
"CNN's Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"Transportation Institute finds Americans spent one less hour stuck in traffic in 2007 .",
"Joblessness, costly gas makes 2007 first year since 1982 trend has slowed .",
"Congestion down, authors say, but it \"means things are getting worse slower\"\nStudy: Once economy gets better, long waits in traffic will get worse ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- Delegates from the United States and other nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a fiery speech that criticized Washington, capitalism and the world body itself.",
"Though incendiary statements from Ahmadinejad are nothing new, tension in the hall grew as the Iranian leader recounted various conspiracy theories about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.",
"\"Some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack,\" Ahmadinejad told the General Assembly.",
"He followed with the claim that the attacks were aimed at reversing \"the declining American economy and its scripts on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime.",
"The majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world, agree with this view.\"",
"That appeared to be the last straw for many of the diplomats.",
"Representatives from the United States, Britain, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, Uruguay and Spain walked out while Ahmadinejad asserted that U.S. government was involved in the attacks or allowed them to happen as an excuse to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"President Barack Obama already had delivered his address to the General Assembly and had left the grounds before Ahmadinejad spoke.",
"White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president \"found the comments to be outrageous and offensive, given how close we are to ground zero,\" the New York site of the attacks.",
"And Mark Kornblau, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the U.N., said in a statement, \"Rather than representing the aspirations and goodwill of the Iranian people, Mr. Ahmadinejad has yet again chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs that are as abhorrent and delusional as they are predictable.\"",
"A European Union diplomat said that all 27 member nations had agreed to walk out if Ahmadinejad made inflammatory statements during his address.",
"The exits did not deter the Iranian leader from his line of attack, however.",
"Ahmadinejad went on to compare the death toll in the September 11 attacks to the casualty count in the wars in Afghanistan in Iraq.",
"\"It was said that some 3,000 people were killed on September 11th, for which we are all very saddened,\" he said.",
"\"Yet, up until now in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions wounded and displaced, and the conflict is still going on and expanding.\"",
"Ahmadinejad also continued the attack on capitalism that he began during a Monday address at the Millennium Global Development Summit.",
"He linked the U.S.-led conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan with wars for colonial expansion in Africa, Latin America and Asia.",
"The Iranian president also touched on the recent controversy over a Florida pastor's plans to burn copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, by waving copies of a Bible and a Quran as he declared his respect and reverence for both.",
"And he concluded his address with a defense of Iran's nuclear ambitions, discussing a recently submitted statement to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.",
"CNN's Richard Roth and Joe Vaccarello contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama found the speech \"outrageous and offensive,\" the White House says .",
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address included 9/11 conspiracy theories .",
"Delegates from U.S., Britain, Sweden, Australia and Spain walked out on the speech .",
"The Iranian president also linked wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to colonial expansion ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Islamist parties made dramatic advances in Egypt's parliamentary elections during the first round of voting for lawmakers this week, a result reflecting a growing embrace of religious-oriented sentiment across turbulent North Africa.",
"\"We accept the results of the elections in any case because it's the will of the people, and our rivals should embrace it too because this is the true democracy we fought for and we wish our liberal brothers better results in the next two rounds,\" Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman of the relatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 40% of the vote.",
"Al Noor Salafi Movement, a hard-line Muslim group, had the second-highest total, 20%, in the first round of voting for the lower house of parliament, according to Yousri Abdel Kareem, head of the executive office of the Higher Judicial Election Council.",
"In the first election after the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, the tallies reflected similar results in Morocco and Tunisia.",
"Moderate Islamists in those North African nations prevailed in recent elections amid the wave of political discontent across the Arabic-speaking world this year.",
"Secularists weren't surprised at the result but they were stunned that some longtime secular groups performed poorly.",
"\"The strong showing of the Islamists should serve to mobilize more support for secular candidate,\" said Mohamed Ghoneim, speaking for the liberal Egyptian Bloc that garnered 15% of the vote.",
"\"We need to build on that and we are going for it.\"",
"Ghoneim said voters were turned off by some secular candidates because they come from Mubarak's old National Democratic Party.",
"The Muslim Brotherhood is entrenched in mainstream Egyptian politics.",
"Most are highly educated -- doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors and businessmen -- and come from solidly middle-class backgrounds.",
"Al Noor Salafi is the first Salafist group to register as a political party in Egypt.",
"Salafis are conservative, religious purists and have been accused of stoking sectarian strife against Egypt's Christian minority and of plotting to undermine the country's fledgling democracy.",
"This week's voting in Egypt marked the initial part of a complex, multi-step process that will first pick members of the lower house of parliament.",
"Voters had to cast three votes, two for independent candidates and one for a party or coalition.",
"Four independent candidates won but runoff elections for those who didn't win clear majorities will be held Monday and Tuesday.",
"One of the four is Amr Hamzawy, once a research director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a spokesman of the \"Board of Wise Men,\" which worked to foster negotiations between the government and protesters.",
"Presidential elections will be held by June, according to the military, which has rulied the country since Mubarak's fall.",
"\"The success of Islamist parties will make it much more difficult, if not impossible, for the Egyptian military to prolong its political control and to recreate a political system along the lines of Hosni Mubarak, as it appeared intent on doing.\"",
"Marina Ottaway, a senior associate of Carnegie's Middle East program, said in an analysis on Friday.",
"Voter turnout was initially reported by the country's election board at 62%, but the board said it would recalculate the figure after reporters raised questions about the number of registered voters used in the calculation, suggesting the true figure was lower.",
"Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the judicial election committee said problems arose during the polling that will be addressed in the next round of voting.",
"They include campaigning on the days of the elections, long lines and the late arrival of a limited number of ballots.",
"Ibrahim said sending vehicles to pick up judges and handing out paper ballots the night before elections are among solutions to problems.",
"Ibrahim said the process has been triumphant for Egyptian democracy.",
"\"The winner of these elections is the Egyptian people,\" he said.",
"As for the future, the Carnegie analysis says \"the response of the military and secular parties, and the political acumen of the FJP\" will determine whether the future government will be \"dominated by Islamists, including hard-line Salafis, or a less threatening alliance of the FJP and secular parties,\" Ottaway said.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report ."
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"Liberals say they'll try harder in the next two rounds .",
"The Muslim Brotherhood calls results the \"will of the people .",
"he Islamist surge reflects a trend in North Africa ."
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"(CNN) -- Mississippi voters Tuesday rejected a controversial amendment that would have defined life as beginning at conception while Ohio voters repealed a law that limited the collective bargaining rights of public workers, CNN projects.",
"The two ballot measures had national implications as Americans voted in an off-year election.",
"The Mississippi amendment would have made it impossible to get an abortion in the state and hampered the ability to get the morning-after pill or birth control pills that destroy fertilized eggs.",
"Disposing of unused fertilized eggs could also have become illegal, making in vitro fertilization treatments more difficult.",
"National right to life groups opposed the measure and the Catholic Church in Mississippi called it extreme.",
"The Ohio law limited the bargaining rights of police, teachers, firefighters and other public workers over salaries, workplace conditions and hours.",
"It prohibited strikes and promotions based on seniority only, and required public workers to contribute at least 10% of their income toward their pensions and at least 15% to pay for their health care insurance.",
"The Republican-controlled legislature passed the bill Republican Gov.",
"John Kasich signed it into law in March but a successful petition drive kept it from being enacted and placed it on the November ballot.",
"Kasich said Tuesday night that it was clear that the people had spoken.",
"\"Part of leading is listening to and hearing what people have to say to you,\" he said.",
"The vote was seen as a victory for unions and Democrats, but CNN projects that Democrats are taking a loss in Ohio in a measure that exempts Ohioans from compulsory participation in the mandatory health care coverage portion of President Barack Obama's health care reform law passed last year.",
"Since the measure is a state one and the health law is a federal one, it is unclear what impact it might have and it is seen as largely a protest vote.",
"In other elections around the country: .",
"• CNN projects that Mississippi's governor's seat will stay in Republican hands as Republican Lt. Gov.",
"Phil Bryant appeared to be on his way to victory over Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree, who would have been the state's first African-American governor.",
"DuPree, who was elected the first black mayor of Hattiesburg in 2001, was expected to spark a stronger than usual turnout in the African-American community.",
"Bryant will succeed Republican Gov.",
"Haley Barbour, who was barred by term limits from running again after serving two terms.",
"• In Arizona, the state senator who wrote the controversial immigration law lost to a charter school superintendent in a recall election widely seen as a referendum on tough measures against illegal immigrants.",
"The recall petition pitted Russell Pearce against fellow Republican Jerry Lewis.",
"Lewis led with 53.4% of the vote with all precincts reporting while Pearce got 45.3%.",
"• Kentucky Gov.",
"Steve Beshear will win a second term, CNN projects, easily beating Republican state Sen. Steve Williams in a race that centered on jobs and the economy.",
"Williams frequently criticized Beshear's record on creating jobs and balancing the state budget.",
"Beshear kept a tally of the number of jobs that companies were bringing to the state on his website.",
"• While the abortion ballot initiative in Mississippi got the most attention, another constitutional amendment that CNN projects to pass will require voters to submit a government-issued photo ID.",
"Mississippi will be the 15th state to require photo IDs to vote.",
"Such laws have become popular with Republicans, who say they are trying to reduce voter fraud.",
"Democrats argue that Republicans are trying to suppress voter turnout, especially among people who tend to vote for Democrats.",
"CNN's David Ariosto, John Helton, Ashley Killough, Kevin Liptak, Paul Steinhauser and Robert Yoon contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Six people were killed and six were injured when a small plane crashed at Cork Airport in southern Ireland on Thursday, local officials said.",
"Survivors were taken to a local hospital, the Cork County Council said.",
"Four of the injured are in serious but not critical condition, and the other two are \"comfortable,\" Cork University Hospital said.",
"The crash caused a fire and scattered debris over a large area, the Irish Aviation Authority said in a statement.",
"The plane crashed on its third attempt to land in low visibility, they said.",
"The airport and roads around it were closed, officials said.",
"It was coming from Belfast in Northern Ireland.",
"Flight NM7100, an inbound Manx2 airline flight, was due to land at Cork Airport at 9:45 a.m., the airport said.",
"Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness expressed shock at the deaths.",
"Robinson called it \"a terrible tragedy,\" and said his thoughts were \"with the families of the bereaved.",
"My thoughts are also with the injured and I hope that they will make a full and speedy recovery.\"",
"McGuinness sent his \"condolences to the families, friends and loved ones of those who have lost their lives in the plane crash.",
"My thoughts are also with those who have been injured.\"",
"In Dublin, Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen said, \"my thoughts are with all of those affected by this morning's crash, including the families and friends of those who have died.",
"I also want to send my best wishes and those of the government, to all of those who survived the crash and are being treated in hospital at present.",
"\"I also want to commend the work of the various rescue crews and all of the emergency and support staff working to help those involved in the crash.\"",
"The aircraft involved was a Metro Liner leased from Flightline BCN in Spain, low-cost airline Manx2 said.",
"Irish and British experts will be involved in the crash investigation, authorities said.",
"CNN's Carol Jordan and Peter Taggart contributed to this report."
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"Northern Irish leaders express shock and hope the injured will recover quickly .",
"The plane crashed on its third attempt to land, authorities say ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was murdered as she was driving through Beverly Hills, California, in a random \"robbery gone bad,\" by a man who killed himself last week, according to preliminary findings in the Beverly Hills police investigation.",
"Speculation that Chasen was targeted by a professional hit was shot down Wednesday by investigators who said much of what has been reported by the media since her killing three weeks was untrue.",
"Harold Martin Smith, 43, was apparently riding his bicycle when he shot Chasen several times as she was on her way home from a Hollywood movie premiere party, police said.",
"Smith later committed suicide with the same gun that was used in the Chasen killing, Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden said Wednesday.",
"Smith shot himself in the head last week as police approached him for questioning as \"a person of interest\" while he was at his Hollywood apartment building.",
"A preliminary ballistics test showed that Smith's gun was used in the slaying of Chasen, 64, said Beverly Hills Detective Sgt.",
"Mike Publicker.",
"\"With Mr. Smith's background, we believe most likely it was a robbery gone bad,\" Publicker said.",
"\"We believe it was a random act.\"",
"Publicker said it appeared no connection existed between Chasen and Smith prior to slaying.",
"\"The detectives were able to do numerous interviews and through the information obtained in the interviews, it appears that he did act alone,\" Publicker said.",
"\"We believe his mode of transportation was by bicycle.\"",
"Authorities said the investigation, which is 60% to 70% complete, remains ongoing.",
"\"There are additional interviews to be conducted, but this is our belief at this time,\" Publicker said.",
"\"Carjackings are not unusual in Los Angeles, but \"in our city it's more than exceedingly rare,\" said Chief Snowden of Beverly Hills.",
"\"It's non-existent.\"",
"\"We don't believe it was a professional hit, and this is an open and ongoing investigation,\" Snowden said.",
"Smith, an ex-convict, pulled a handgun and shot himself as Beverly Hills detectives approached him at Hollywood's Harvey Apartments last Wednesday.",
"The television show \"America's Most Wanted\" put police in touch with a tipster who will likely received a $125,000 reward, Publicker said."
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"Police: preliminary tests show a suicide victim used the same gun that killed a publicist .",
"Police say the suicide victim, Harold Martin Smith, had tried to rob publicist Ronni Chasen .",
"Chasen was driving her car through Beverly Hills while Smith was on his bicycle, police say ."
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"(CNN) -- The leadership of San Francisco's airport fired back Saturday at critics who had rallied around a commercial pilot who had posted videos online showing what he described as shortcomings in security.",
"The series of videos featured scenes from inside the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and were narrated by the pilot, who pointed out the contrast between the passengers, who were heavily scrutinized, and airport employees who just passed through a single door.",
"The footage was posted, and later removed, from the popular video-sharing website YouTube.",
"\"A recent YouTube video, posted by a U.S. airline pilot, presents false and misleading information on SFO's security program,\" the airport said in a statement.",
"\"The video shows a door with a card swipe and suggests that access is gained to the airfield area through this door.",
"In fact, the door shown in the video provides access only to an employee lunchroom.\"",
"The pilot who posted the videos requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.",
"\"I was trying to bring up the obvious, ludicrous TSA-type of security,\" he told CNN.",
"The pilot said he didn't think much about posting his videos online in late November, but that within a matter of days his chief pilot called him to ask him to remove them because they were \"stirring a commotion.\"",
"In its statement Saturday, the airport defended its practices, stressing that there are variances in the security system based on various factors and that many layers of protection cannot easily be seen.",
"\"Proper and effective security requires multiple layers of systems, procedures and policies that are interlaced and constantly monitored,\" the airport said.",
"\"The vast majority of the widespread layers of this security program are behind the scenes and transparent to casual observers.\"",
"A few days after the pilot posted the videos, he said, the Transportation Security Administration told him he was being suspended from the Federal Flight Deck Officer program.",
"As an officer in that program, the federal agency had deputized him, among others, to carry a handgun in the cockpit.",
"The pilot said four air marshals and two local deputies then showed up at his home near Sacramento to personally confiscate his weapon.",
"The only answer he could get from the security agency as to why he was suspended from the program was that he may have violated a regulation, the pilot said.",
"The TSA said that it holds those serving as federal flight deck officers to \"the highest ethical standards,\" and said it took action because the pilot was in the program.",
"\"(Participants in the flight deck officer program) must be able to maintain sensitive security information,\" said the agency's spokeswoman Sarah Horowitz.",
"\"As the issuing authority of credentials and firearms, TSA reviews each possible violation of those standards and acts accordingly up to and including removing an individual from the assigned role.\"",
"In the aftermath of the incident, the pilot said he resigned from the program.",
"He added that he didn't consider that divulging such sensitive information online would stir controversy.",
"\"I didn't think anything would come of it,\" said the 50-year-old pilot, a veteran who was a maintenance test pilot.",
"\"This is really about getting the message out and demanding intelligent security,\" Don Werno, the pilot's attorney, told CNN.",
"\"No state secrets are being shown here.",
"What's being shown here is a lack of security.\"",
"But the airport disagrees.",
"\"San Francisco International Airport is proud to both an innovator and a trendsetter in aviation security,\" it said in its statement.",
"\"SFO meets, and in many cases, exceeds every federal security requirement.\""
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"(CNN) -- World number four Andy Murray continued his superb end of season form, coming back from a set down to beat top seed and defending champion Rafael Nadal in the final of the Japan Open in Tokyo on Sunday.",
"Murray won last week's Thailand Open, as well as last month's Cincinnati Masters, but he looked to be on course for a sixth successive loss against world number two Nadal when the Spaniard powered through the opening set.",
"But Murray turned things around in devastating style, taking the second set and then outplaying 10-times major champion Nadal in the decider, allowing his opponent just four points in the whole set, to complete an impressive 3-6 6-2 6-0 success.",
"It was Murray's 21st win from his last 22 matches, his only defeat in that time coming to Nadal in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, and ensured he closed the gap to third-ranked Roger Federer ahead of next week's Shanghai Masters tournament in China.",
"Murray told the official ATP Tour website: \"I've played well in the last few months in Cincinnati and then the U.S. Open and I now need to carry on that form into Shanghai.",
"\"I need to keep up the wins and hopefully I'll get to the No.",
"3 ranking. It's not the ultimate goal, but it's the target I set myself for the last few tournaments of the year.\"",
"He added: \"It had to be some of the best tennis I have ever played in the third set.",
"I've played some good matches against Rafa in the past but it was just very consistent.",
"I didn't make too many mistakes and played well at important moments,\" he added.",
"Nadal, who is again seeded to meet Murray in the final in Shanghai, conceded that his opponent was too strong for him on the day.",
"\"Andy's serve worked fantastic at important moments.",
"He played unbelievable and made no mistakes in the third set when he played very aggressive and hit a lot of winners.\"",
"Meanwhile, Czech Tomas Berdych claimed his first ATP Tour title in nearly two-and-a-half years with a 3-6 6-4 6-1 success over Croat Marin Cilic in the final of the China Open in Beijing.",
"Third seed Berdych was securing his sixth career title but his first since winning on the clay courts of Munich in May 2009.",
"In the women's final, 11th seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland overcame a second set hiccup to defeat Andrea Petkovic of Germany, seeded nine, 7-5 0-6 6-4 to claim her seventh career title."
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"Murray allows Nadal just four points in the final set to win 3-6 6-2 6-0 .",
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"The two players are seeded to face each other again in the Shanghai final ."
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece's cabinet voted Wednesday to support Prime Minister George Papandreou's call to hold a referendum as soon as possible about the latest bailout plan, ministers coming out of the meeting told a CNN affiliate.",
"The vote was unanimous, though some of the ministers expressed criticism prior to casting their votes, CNN affiliate Mega Channel reported.",
"The cabinet vote came hours before German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and senior figures from the International Monetary Fund and European Union were to meet Wednesday with Greek officials at an emergency meeting in Cannes, France, ahead of the G-20 summit.",
"Their meeting comes a day after U.S. and European stock markets tumbled after Papandreou's call for the referendum on international aid for his country.",
"A \"no\" vote could theoretically force Greece to crash out of the euro and send shock waves through the global financial system.",
"Papandreou is seeking public backing from the Greek people for last week's bailout deal, which took months to reach.",
"But the move created turmoil in domestic politics, with Papandreou forced to hold an emergency Cabinet meeting late Tuesday, and angered his European counterparts.",
"Sarkozy and Merkel issued a terse statement on Tuesday saying they were \"determined to ensure the full implementation, without delay, of decisions adopted by the summit, which are necessary now more than ever.\"",
"White House spokesman Jay Carney struck a similar note, saying Papandreou's move reinforced the need for Europe \"to elaborate further and implement rapidly the decisions they made last week.\"",
"German and French markets closed down about 5% Tuesday, while London's FTSE fell 2.4% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average index closed down nearly 300 points.",
"Greece's former deputy finance minister, Petros Doukas, a member of the opposition New Democracy Party who is not currently in office, told CNN he doubted the referendum would take place.",
"Papandreou is under enormous pressure from Europe, the markets and opposition forces within Greece to backtrack on the proposal, Doukas said.",
"He described Papandreou's actions as a political gamble that had gone wrong, with the prime minister having tried to make the opposition parties share the pain of unpopular reforms.",
"He suggested Papandreou would have to call elections or stand down as leader, as Greece was \"not governable\" with him as prime minister.",
"The announcement of the referendum rattled Papandreou's hold on power, as a lawmaker defected from his party, leaving him with a majority of only two in Parliament.",
"Milena Apostolaki announced her resignation from the PASOK party, saying the call for a referendum was \"a deeply divisive procedure.\"",
"The deal reached last week would see the country's sky-high debts cut in half, but it comes with strings attached, which have led to angry demonstrations in the streets of Greece.",
"Reflecting that anger, Greece's opposition leader, Antonis Samaras, called Tuesday for a snap election, but it is unlikely he has the votes to force one.",
"Papandreou has called for a vote of confidence Friday, separate from his call for a referendum on the international bailout.",
"Elena Panaritis, a fellow PASOK lawmaker who advises Papandreou on economics, said she would support the confidence vote, saying the prime minister had been under heavy political pressure from inside and outside his party.",
"International lenders are demanding that Athens raise taxes, sell off state-owned companies and slash government spending, which would mean firing tens of thousands of state workers.",
"The Institute of International Finance, a global association representing many of the world's biggest banks, reaffirmed its commitment Tuesday to the bailout agreement reached last week, saying it would work closely with all parties to implement it.",
"The European debt crisis claimed its first American victim shortly before Papandreou announced the referendum on Monday, as MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection, leaving top Wall Street creditors holding more than $2 billion in debt.",
"The commodities and derivatives brokerage was run by ex-Sen. Jon Corzine, a former head of Goldman Sachs.",
"Constantine Michalos, chairman of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, said Papandreou's referendum move had taken everyone by surprise.",
"As a consequence, he said, \"Greece is facing a credibility gap as a result of the problems that have been created both on a political level and on a financial market level.\"",
"Michalos also said he saw little point in Papandreou holding a confidence vote this week if the bailout deal, which was reached after top-level negotiations in Europe, could be overturned by the Greek people just a few weeks later.",
"One expert called the surprise plan for a referendum \"a political gamble, which adds further uncertainty to the European debt crisis.\"",
"\"The prime minister will be hoping for a vote in favor to strengthen his mandate, but if the Greek population votes against, it will leave the IMF and Greece's European partners in a very difficult situation,\" said Gary Jenkins of Evolution Securities.",
"The planned referendum casts a shadow on the hard-fought deal that would allow Greece to write off as much as 50% of its debts to banks.",
"The deal would wipe out 100 billion euros in Greek debt, half of what it owes to private creditors, and comes with a promise of 30 billion euros from the public sector to help pay off some of the remaining debts, making the whole deal worth 130 billion euros ($178 billion).",
"No date has been set on the vote, although local news reports say the referendum could come in January.",
"A \"no\" vote threatens to unravel the deal, which was greeted last week with fanfare as a way to keep debt woes in Greece and other European nations from spilling across other borders, threatening the 17 nations united under the euro currency.",
"A weekend survey in Greece found nearly 60% opposed the debt deal reached last week in Brussels.",
"But other surveys have shown a more complicated picture.",
"A survey carried out last week by Kappa Research for the Greek daily newspaper To Vima showed a majority of Greeks wanted a referendum on the international rescue plan, and that more would oppose it than accept it.",
"But in the same survey, 70% of Greeks wanted to stay in the euro, according to RBS European Economics -- a result that may not be possible if they vote \"no\" on the referendum.",
"\"(It) clearly opens a can of worms because the referendum vote could go one of two ways,\" said Frederic Neumann, a senior economist for HSBC.",
"\"If approved, a vote of confidence in the government's handling of the situation ... if calmer heads prevail and it can rationally be explained to the public, I wouldn't discount the measure being approved.\"",
"But, until the referendum is passed, there is added uncertainty, he said, adding, \"That's just an added headache.\"",
"Besides the Greek debt-reduction plan, last week's European Union deal pledged to quadruple the EU's bailout fund to about $1.38 trillion and to raise the capital required to help cushion the region's banks from financial shocks.",
"CNN's Bobby Afshar, Irene Chapple, Catherine Tymkiw, Christine Theodorou, Saskya Vandoorne and Kevin Voigt contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Vote was unanimous, ministers tell CNN affiliate .",
"Vote followed tumultuous day in the markets, with Dow Jones down 300 points .",
"Europe needs to push ahead with the deal, White House spokesman says .",
"A rejection of the deal could send Greece crashing out of the euro ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An Afghan employee of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan who opened fire at a CIA annex there worked as part of a local guard force, a U.S. official said Monday.",
"Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall said the lone gunman killed a U.S. citizen and wounded another in the shootings Sunday.",
"The wounded American was evacuated to a military hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.",
"Security personnel used a flash-bang round to stun the shooter and then killed him, according to another U.S. official who earlier provided details of the incident.",
"The gunman shot indiscriminately, and he is not believed to have targeted the victims, the second U.S. official said.",
"One or two civilians suffered minor wounds as people went running for cover, the official added.",
"The American killed was a CIA employee, according to a third U.S. official.",
"The official said the gunman fired toward the building but never entered it.",
"All the sources spoke on condition of not being identified.",
"The FBI is investigating the attack, along with other U.S. agencies and local authorities, a U.S. official said.",
"Another official said the FBI is the lead agency in the investigation.",
"CIA and diplomatic security officials also are involved.",
"The first U.S. official said the shooter \"is believed to have worked as part of the local guard force\" and added that no motive has been established.",
"Investigators are looking into whether the shooter was a disgruntled employee or whether he was inspired by militants.",
"All Afghan employees go through a background security check and must pass through a metal detector each time they enter the Embassy, the second official said.",
"\"We have no information as to whether the individual was authorized to carry a weapon or if he seized a weapon,\" the official said.",
"Afghan troops guard the outer perimeter of the Embassy, while embassy contractors and members of the U.S. military guard the inside.",
"The CIA building is several hundred yards from the Embassy compound and has its own entrance and security, according to another U.S. official.",
"Embassy personnel usually travel in armored cars for meetings in the CIA facility.",
"\"It's not possible to stop everything from happening.",
"You can only limit it, make it highly unlikely,\" said the official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.",
"\"The job of soldiers and diplomats and spies is to be amongst the people, getting work done.",
"You have to have some level of trust to get anything done.\"",
"\"There is a calculated risk\" for U.S. personnel working in countries like Afghanistan, the official said.",
"The annex area is known as a place where Embassy personnel both live and work, some in intelligence operations.",
"A CIA spokeswoman declined to comment on the attack.",
"Afghanistan has been the 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.",
"The latest shooting is not believed to be related to any other recent attacks in Kabul, U.S. officials said.",
"In December 2009, a Jordanian informant detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA employees and two others.",
"A CIA review of the incident found that some people within the CIA and the Jordanian intelligence service were skeptical about the attacker's reliability, but those concerns had not been passed on to officers on the base.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr, Nick Paton Walsh, Carol Cratty and Pam Benson contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Venezuelan world lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero committed suicide in his prison cell after being arrested for the murder of his wife, according to the World Boxing Council (WBC).",
"The 28-year-old had confessed to stabbing his wife Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero in a hotel in the city of Valencia on Sunday before taking his own life, police confirmed.",
"Valero was found in his cell hanged by his own clothes and though he showed some signs of life he later died, police chief Wilmer Flores Trosel told state television.",
"\"A prisoner nearby heard noises inside the cell and told officials, who immediately went and found the boxer Valero hanging with his own clothes,\" he said.",
"The WBC said Valero is the only fighter in 300 years of the sport who can boast a 100 percent knock out rate from his 27 fights.",
"Valero, nicknamed \"The Inca,\" had recently gone into alcohol rehabilitation and was detained in March for mistreating his wife, according to media reports.",
"He had a distinctive tattoo on his chest of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and defeated Mexican Antonio DeMarco in his most recent fight, in February this year.",
"A statement on the WBC's official Web site read: \"Jose Sulaiman, World Boxing Council President, and all the members of the organization, are deeply saddened, moved and in sorrow due to the tragedy that took place regarding the case of WBC Lightweight world champion, Edwin Valero, who committed suicide in his cell after having killed his wife.",
"\"Valero was very close to the World Boxing Council President and many of its members, who witnessed the happy years of the fighter when he won his Lightweight world title on April 4th, 2009, and when he defended such title last February 6th, in Monterrey, where he was joined by his wife and two little children for two weeks, showing a behavior and a humanitarian sense that were very far from what happened.",
"\"The World Boxing Council declares today, April 19th, 2010, a day of world mourning, as well as it informs that the organization will begin analyzing a plan to set up a way in the creation of a fund for the education of his two little children, who were left alone in life after the passing away of both of their parents.\""
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"The 28-year-old had a record of 27 wins from 27 fights - the best in 300 years of boxing ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- Remember when Hotmail was hot?",
"Dick Craddock, who manages the group responsible for Microsoft's Web-based e-mail service, can still recall the day of celebration in 2004 when the Hotmail division had just posted a stunning financial quarter.",
"Craddock, along with other Microsoft execs and developers, convened to relish in the victory.",
"The triumph was short-lived because soon after, Google launched a competing Webmail service called Gmail, and like in the short time it takes Google to call up a search query, Hotmail instantly looked dated.",
"Gmail gave users a gigabyte of file storage for free, while Hotmail presented a few megabytes and required users to pay for more.",
"Gmail was fast, spam-free and let people attach files several times larger than that of Hotmail.",
"And Gmail only showed small text advertisements, while Hotmail's pages were covered in ads, which is why the site was able to exceed financial goals during that quarter in 2004.",
"After evaluating the options, \"it wasn't hard to pick Gmail; it just wasn't hard,\" Craddock said in an interview on Monday.",
"\"It was a great learning experience about what really matters.\"",
"After a few years of lightning-fast growth for Gmail following its launch and at the expense of Hotmail, Microsoft reversed course.",
"\"We set out to really invest in Hotmail and really, to rebuild it from the ground up,\" said Chris Jones, a vice president who oversees several of Microsoft's Internet applications.",
"The Hotmail team eventually got the green light to dial down the ads while increasing development on features made available to nonpaying users.",
"Making money directly from Hotmail \"is not the most important thing for us to optimize for,\" Jones said in an interview.",
"\"The lesson from some of the most successful Internet companies is they build something valuable and durable.\"",
"That is a notion, Jones said, that Microsoft learned from a rival, Google, and from a partner, Facebook.",
"It is not conventional wisdom for Microsoft, which makes most of its revenue from software sold for hundreds of dollars a package in brick-and-mortar stores.",
"The people who write the history of technology tend to take shortcuts.",
"Accounts of Friendster's, Myspace's and AOL's fall from grace are often summed up as: they just stopped being cool.",
"In fact, they were less reliable and less capable than their scrappier competition.",
"The same was true of Hotmail, but Microsoft is fighting back.",
"The Redmond, Washington, company gathered reporters together here at an art gallery in San Francisco on Monday to show PowerPoint slides that demonstrate how Hotmail is just as feature-rich, if not more so, than Gmail.",
"Microsoft is putting muscle behind features such as granular controls over daily-deal messages and newsletters, automatic filtering and various new functions that launch in the next few weeks.",
"These changes are already being touted to current users of Microsoft's e-mail service in a banner that urges them to look out for \"the new Hotmail.\"",
"It's a part of a campaign to improve the brand's image, so that people aren't embarrassed to say their e-mail address ends in @hotmail.com.",
"\"For a lot of folks, Hotmail was their first Webmail address,\" Jones said.",
"\"Now the challenge that we're fighting, frankly, is mostly one of perception.\"",
"Hotmail still holds the highest market share worldwide, followed by Yahoo Mail and then Gmail, according to research firm ComScore.",
"In the U.S., Yahoo is the leader, and this year, Gmail surpassed Hotmail and maintains faster growth, ComScore says.",
"The options for free e-mail are poised to increase, with other tech giants making bids for the space that follows your name and the \"at\" symbol.",
"Apple will discuss its iCloud service at a news conference on Tuesday, which is the first time the company will give out free e-mail access, in this case, an @me.com address, to customers.",
"Facebook recently gave each of its 800 million users an @facebook.com alias, but few people seem eager to use them.",
"Microsoft is hoping to regain some cool in the hopes of hanging onto the friends it still has -- and to make new ones, before the new kids take over the block."
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"Hotmail faces a growing list of competitors, including Apple, Facebook, Google ."
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"(CNN) -- Voters have elected a former guerrilla who became a crusader against political corruption as the new mayor of Colombia's capital.",
"A military tribunal jailed Gustavo Petro in 1985 for his connections with the M-19 leftist guerrilla group, which was known for high-profile attacks against Colombian authorities -- including a takeover of the nation's Palace of Justice that year, which left dozens dead, including 11 Supreme Court justices.",
"Petro, 51, is not the first Latin American leader with a guerrilla warrior background.",
"Voters in Uruguay and El Salvador also have elected politicians who were previously involved in rebel groups.",
"Before winning Bogota's top job Sunday, Petro, trained as an economist and business administrator, had served as a lawmaker, diplomat and presidential candidate.",
"Speaking to a crowd of cheering supporters Sunday, Petro called his election to Bogota's top post a sign that voters were \"saying yes to reconciliation.\"",
"He vowed to incorporate ideas of other candidates into his administration -- even former Mayor Enrique Penalosa, who he soundly defeated.",
"\"We are going to try to set up some meetings with the candidates to talk about their programs,\" he said.",
"In the political sphere, Petro quickly developing a reputation as a persistent critic of corruption.",
"As a senator, he led the charge against lawmakers and members of then-President Alvaro Uribe's government, accusing them of connections with paramilitary groups.",
"In 2010, he came in third place when he ran for president in Colombia.",
"He takes office as Bogota's mayor on January 1.",
"He has said building homes for the needy and overhauling the education system will be among his top priorities.",
"Journalist Fernando Ramos and CNN's Patricia Ramos contributed to this report."
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"He was jailed for two years and later ventured into politics .",
"Uruguay and El Salvador also have politicians with histories in rebel groups .",
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing Tuesday, kicking off a two-day visit to China, his first state visit since announcing his intention to contest the Russian presidency next March.",
"Aside from meeting his counterpart Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in the 16th Regular Meeting between the two Prime Ministers, Putin will also meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders.",
"Talks are expected to include negotiations on a natural gas deal worth $1 trillion that has been stalled by disagreements over price.",
"The deal would see Russia supply China with up to 68 billion cubic meters of gas every year.",
"\"If the deal can be reached, the trade volume will increase significantly, and this will change the fact that the economic cooperation between the two countries lags behind the political cooperation,\" said Zhao Huasheng, director of the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies at Fudan University.",
"\"Together with cooperation in other economic fields, China and Russia will become real strategic partners in economic terms.\"",
"Putin's arrival in Beijing comes less than three weeks after he announced his bid to reclaim the Russian presidency next year.",
"\"The fact that Putin may become next Russian president indeed adds some political color to this visit, and its impact on bilateral relation will definitely go beyond the impact of a regular state visit,\" Zhao said.",
"\"The meeting to some extent will set the keynote for the China-Russia relation in future.",
"It can be described as the start of China-Russia relation in 'new Putin era',\" he added.",
"Experts say economic cooperation between the two countries will dominate the meeting agenda.",
"\"Since this is mainly a meeting between the two premiers, this visit will be mainly about expanding the economic cooperation and improving trade structure,\" said Jiang Yi, vice director of Research Center for Russian Diplomacy at China Academy of Social Science, the country's top think tank.",
"Recent years have seen a steady increase in trade volume between the two countries.",
"According to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, bilateral trade volume in the year to July increased by 37.4% to a record $42.2 billion compared to the previous year.",
"The ministry forecasts that the bilateral trade volume will reach a new record in 2011, in excess of $70 billion.",
"Among all the economic agendas, energy cooperation stands out as the main focus between Russia, a major energy exporter, and China, the world's biggest energy consumer, according to a 2010 report from the International Energy Agency.",
"According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, during Putin's visit, Chinese vice Premier Wang Qishan will hold an energy negotiation meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin.",
"\"Chinese-Russian energy cooperation is an important part of the two countries' strategic partnership,\" said Liu Weimin, spokesperson of Foreign Ministry, on Monday during a regular press conference.",
"Putin brings with him to China a group of 160 business leaders, including the CEOs of Russian energy giants Gazprom, Rosneft and aluminum producer UC RUSAL."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some private security guards hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan say their contractor has allowed widespread mistreatment, sexual activity and intimidation within their ranks, according to the watchdog group Project On Government Oversight (POGO).",
"A spokeswoman for watchdog group POGO said hazing at a camp for security guards went \"well beyond partying.\"",
"The group sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, and briefed reporters on its findings, which it said are based on e-mails and interviews with more than a dozen guards who have worked at the U.S. compound in Kabul.",
"The company -- ArmorGroup, North America -- has a security contract with the State Department to provide services through July 2010, and has been cited several times for shortcomings in the security required by the contract.",
"A U.S. Senate panel two months ago was critical of the State Department for not closely supervising ArmorGroup, after a series of warning letters from the State Department in the year leading up to the panel's inquiry.",
"When CNN contacted Wackenhut, the corporate parent of ArmorGroup, a spokesperson there said the company would have a response Wednesday.",
"The U.S. Embassy said Wednesday it was taking the allegations very seriously.",
"\"Nothing is more important to us than the safety and security of all Embassy personnel -- Americans and Afghan -- and respect for the cultural and religious values of all Afghans,\" it said in a statement.",
"\"We have taken immediate steps to review all local guard force policies and procedures and have taken all possible measures to ensure our security is sound.\"",
"Should initiation rituals such as hazing be allowed?",
"Sound off below . POGO says two weeks ago it began receiving whistleblower-style e-mails, some with graphic images and videos, that are said to document problems taking place at a non-military camp for the guards near the U.S. diplomatic compound in Kabul.",
"\"This is well beyond partying,\" said Danielle Brian, POGO's executive director, after showing a video of a man with a bare backside, and another man apparently drinking a liquid that had been poured down the man's lower back.",
"She told CNN that ranking supervisors were \"facilitating this kind of deviant hazing and humiliation, and requiring people to do things that made them feel really disgusted.\"",
"Watch claims that alleged hazing at the U.S. Embassy pose a threat to security » .",
"\"This is not Abu Ghraib,\" she said, referring to images and videos of abuse by U.S. military troops against prisoners held at a facility in Iraq.",
"\"We're not talking about torture,\" she continued, \"we are talking about humiliation,\" by supervisors causing a breakdown of morale, and a \"total breakdown in the chain-of-command.\"",
"In the letter POGO sent to Clinton, Brian wrote that the problems are \"posing a significant threat to the security of the Embassy and its personnel.\"",
"Among the recommendations from the group: immediate military supervision of the private security guards, a review of whether the contract should be revoked, and consideration as to whether government forces should replace private security in a combat zone."
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"Dangjin, South Korea (CNN) -- Steelmakers are known to be one of the worst polluters in manufacturing, but South Korea's newest plant claims it is designed to go green.",
"Hyundai Steel's Dangjin plant, which sits an hour and a half south of Seoul on the west coast, is the youngest steel plant in the world and has adopted new technologies to ensure it stand out from others.",
"By simply enclosing storage and transport routes for raw material, they are able to prevent dust particles from entering the surrounding areas.",
"The facility, which includes 35 kilometers (21 miles) of conveyor belts fully enclosed and state-of-the-art storage domes, cost Hyundai Steel roughly $5.5 billion to build.",
"The two blast furnaces produce eight million tons of steel a year.",
"It is no small investment, but the steelmaker believes it will earn its way back in no time.",
"\"With the encapsulated storage system, we minimize loss of raw material so that may be $20 million a year (that we are saving),\" said Hyundai Steel's senior executive vice president Cho Won-suk.",
"Other steelmakers lose roughly 0.5% in raw materials annually by keeping them in the open, subjecting the material to rain and wind, according to Hyundai.",
"The idea is simple but conventional players elsewhere see it as a large investment that would require a new layout for the steel plant.",
"Hyundai's Dangjin plant, which blew in its blast furnace at the beginning of last year, was designed to accommodate the green system from the beginning.",
"Dangjin also boasts its recycling byproducts emitted during the process of burning and melting raw materials.",
"The company says it recycles 100% of its byproducts which supplies 80% of the operation energy at the plant.",
"\"The byproduct gas contains energy and has some value.",
"For example, it contains carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane, so the byproduct gas can be utilized for heating up furnaces in the plant,\" vice president Cho said.",
"To make sure Hyundai is meeting its standards as a green steelmaker, it monitors its emission output around the clock which is not only reported to the government but is also open to the public.",
"The steelmaker keeps its pollution levels below half of the government's regulations, according to Hyundai's technical research center manager, Park Eung-yeul.",
"Its tight relationship with its sister companies, Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Construction, is also enhancing its efforts to become more green.",
"Not only does Hyundai Steel supply car parts to Hyundai Motor, the old cars at the end of their cycle come back to the steelmaker as scrap metal to be melted down and used once again.",
"The rougher steel produced from scrap metal can then be used at construction sites.",
"Despite these efforts, tackling CO2 emissions remains an ongoing challenge.",
"But the company's dedicated task force team continue the drive towards producing environmentally-friendly energy and removing the obstacles in the way of even cleaner steel production."
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"Hyundai is reducing emissions at its steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea .",
"Facility which includes 35 kilometers of conveyor belts cost around $5.5 billion to build .",
"Plant has enclosed its storage and transport routes to limit dust entering surrounding area .",
"Company says it recycles all of its byproducts and monitors its emissions 24 hours a day ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza moved a step closer Friday to extradition to the U.S., where he faces terrorism-related charges.",
"Abu Hamza al-Masri's followers include the \"shoe bomber\" and the only person charged in the 9/11 attacks.",
"UK authorities had ordered his extradition, but he appealed.",
"Britain's High Court dismissed the appeal Friday, a spokesman for Britain's Home Office said.",
"That gives the Egyptian-born cleric, who lives in London, 14 days to apply to the High Court for permission to appeal to the House of Lords.",
"The one-eyed, hook-handed cleric faces 11 terrorism-related charges in the U.S.",
"They include conspiracy in connection with a 1998 kidnapping in Yemen and conspiring with others to establish an Islamic jihad, or holy war, training camp in rural Bly, Oregon in 1999.",
"Abu Hamza, one of the highest-profile radical Islamic figures in Britain, is already in prison for inciting racial hatred at his North London mosque.",
"He was convicted in Britain on 11 terror-related charges and sentenced to seven years prison in 2006.",
"If he is extradited, his British sentence could be interrupted so he could stand trial in the U.S., the Home Office has said.",
"If he receives a prison sentence in the U.S., he would return to England to complete his sentence there before serving time back in the States, the Home Office said.",
"Abu Hamza formerly preached at the Finsbury Park Mosque in London.",
"His followers included the so-called \"shoe bomber\" Richard Reid, who was convicted of trying to light a bomb in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight.",
"They also included Zacarias Moussaoui, who was charged in the U.S. over the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.",
"The cleric was also convicted of possessing eight video and audio recordings, which prosecutors said he intended to distribute to stir up racial hatred.",
"In all, police seized some 2,700 audio tapes and about 570 video tapes from two addresses -- one of them his home - during raids in 2003.",
"The material included a 10-volume \"encyclopedia\" of Afghan jihad, which prosecutor David Perry described as \"a manual for terrorism.\"",
"The texts discussed how to make explosives, explained assassination methods and detailed the best means of attack.",
"Both non-Muslims and Muslims condemned his preaching, which include praising the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., calling al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a hero, and describing the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster as punishment from Allah because the astronauts were Christian, Hindu and Jewish."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- I know you've got the major risks in your financial life well taken care of: Your 401(k) is properly diversified to help you weather market volatility, and your reserve cash fund is on call to cover life's inevitable emergencies.",
"Good work! But I'm worried about your financial blind spots -- those pesky threats to your security that lurk behind seemingly sound decisions.",
"Here are a few common traps, and advice to ensure that you won't get taken by surprise: .",
"Perils of plastic .",
"Good news: You've sworn off credit cards.",
"Goodbye insane interest rates and fees!",
"You're sticking with your debit card from now on.",
"Hidden risk: Debit card transactions aren't reported to the credit bureaus, so if you don't use a credit card, you'll have less of a payment history -- which hurts your FICO credit score.",
"How to stay on top: I love, love, love that you want to use your debit card.",
"But to keep your credit score solid, you still need to keep a few credit cards and use them at least once every few months.",
"Even if you think you'll never need to borrow again, your FICO credit score has a big impact.",
"It can affect your auto insurance premium and whether a landlord will rent to you, and many employers even check it when vetting a job application.",
"Cards issued by credit unions typically charge lower rates (generally limited to a max of 18 percent) and fewer fees.",
"Check out CreditCardConnection.org to find the best options.",
"Oprah.com: How to deal with credit card debt .",
"The bond issues .",
"Good news: You're sleeping better than ever since you moved all your retirement money out of stocks and into bonds.",
"Hidden risk: You're approaching two land mines here.",
"First up is inflation.",
"Make it to age 65 and there's a good chance you'll live another 20 years or longer.",
"(More on this in the next item.) Over a 20-year period, a 4 percent average inflation rate (the historical norm since the '50s) will reduce the purchasing power of today's dollar to about 50 cents.",
"That will make it very hard to maintain your standard of living in retirement.",
"Bonds aren't an ideal inflation hedge, since their historical returns are typically not much better than the inflation rate.",
"Making matters worse, because of the financial crisis and the Federal Reserve's efforts to keep the economy growing, bond yields are at unprecedented lows.",
"This is not a permanent situation.",
"Soon -- maybe this year or next -- interest rates, and thus bond yields, will start to rise.",
"When rates rise, the market price of bonds falls.",
"That hurts your portfolio.",
"How to stay on top: Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch.",
"But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.",
"As a general rule, your age is a good guideline for the percentage of bonds you want -- if you're 55, put 55 percent in bonds and 45 percent in stocks.",
"If you're worried about putting money in stocks right now, stick with mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that focus on dividend-paying stocks.",
"The dividend payout is a steady stream of income, much like a bond, and right now the yield on some dividend portfolios is actually higher than the yield on a five-year Treasury bond.",
"While dividend stocks have their own risk, if you have time on your side -- at least ten years -- you can pocket that nice dividend income today, ride out the volatility, and, over the long term, potentially earn inflation-beating gains.",
"Oprah.com: How to go green on the stock market .",
"Live long -- and prosper?",
"How to enjoy a long, comfortable retirement .",
"Good news: You're likely to reach a much older age than women of previous generations.",
"Today a woman of 65 will probably live 20 more years -- 60 percent longer than her life expectancy in 1900.",
"Hidden risk: That means more years that your 401(k) and IRA need to support you.",
"How to stay on top: To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.",
"If you're 50 or older, take advantage of the catch-up provisions: Instead of an annual 401(k) max of $16,500 in 2010, you're entitled to invest $22,000, and your IRA limit rises from the standard $5,000 to $6,000.",
"You may also want to retire later.",
"Working until 67 or 70 gives those funds more time to grow -- which gives you more security.",
"You don't have to keep the high-powered career you have now; a less demanding job will still bring in valuable income.",
"Retirement loans: on borrowed dimes .",
"Good news: You're in a pinch, but your company allows you to borrow from your 401(k).",
"Hidden risk: Make that plural -- there are three problems with taking your company up on that loan.",
"First, if you leave your job, voluntarily or not, you'll typically have only a few months to pay back what you've borrowed.",
"If you can't, the loan converts to a withdrawal on which you'll owe income tax, and if you're under 55 you'll also be hit with a 10 percent early withdrawal penalty.",
"Second, when you pull money out of any investment, it's no longer working for your future.",
"Anyone who took a loan from their 401(k) in early 2009 missed out when the S&P 500 stock index shot up more than 60 percent from March to December.",
"That was a costly time to be out of the market.",
"Third, your loan money will end up being taxed twice -- when you repay the loan it will be with after-tax dollars, and then in retirement, when you begin using your 401(k) for living expenses, you'll be responsible for the tax due on those withdrawals.",
"How to stay on top: Make a 401(k) loan an absolute last resort.",
"A well-maintained emergency savings fund is a far better insurance policy against unforeseen expenses.",
"As you know, I advise saving up eight months of living expenses -- especially now, when most unemployed people need at least six months to find a new job.",
"Kids need the darndest things .",
"Good news: You're expecting, or you have young kids.",
"Hidden risk: You may not be providing enough security for your family if something happens to you.",
"How to stay on top: You can't control fate, but you absolutely, positively can make sure that your children will be financially secure, no matter what.",
"A term life insurance policy that's at least 15 times your annual income will give your kids' guardian plenty of money to raise them according to your wishes.",
"I know that sounds like a lot, but these policies are remarkably inexpensive.",
"Oprah.com: Discover the pleasures of pinching pennies .",
"Shaky foundations .",
"Good news: The steep decline in home prices means you can afford to buy your first home.",
"Hidden risk: It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.",
"How to stay on top: Property tax, insurance, and maintenance can add 30 percent to your base mortgage.",
"To see how that extra expense will affect you, plug in your price range for a home at BankRate.com to determine your monthly mortgage payment, and then add 30 percent to that figure.",
"If the total is more than your current rent, spend six months \"playing house\" -- each month, deposit the difference between your rent and your probable mortgage payment into a separate savings account.",
"If you can't afford this exercise, you can't afford to buy a home at that price just yet.",
"And don't forget: Before buying a home, you must have an emergency fund that can cover your expenses for eight months.",
"If anything happens to your job or a big expense pops up, you'll need to have the cash to pay the mortgage.",
"Finally, don't buy if there's any chance you'll move within five to seven years.",
"If you sell a newly purchased house, you risk making too little on the sale to cover the typical 6 percent agent's fee and your moving costs.",
"I know the housing market's rock-bottom prices are tempting, but it's better to be safe than sorry.",
"By Suze Orman from O, The Oprah Magazine © 2010 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"How not using a credit card could hurt your FICO score .",
"You may not have enough financial protection for your children's future .",
"Playing too safe with your investments could come back to pinch you later ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal transportation safety officials Wednesday issued an \"urgent\" recommendation calling for a redesign of a component on some Boeing 777 aircraft engines -- a component blamed for two major mishaps in the past year.",
"The engines on this British Airways jet lost power as it prepared to land in London on January 17, 2008.",
"National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the Rolls-Royce engine component played a role in the January 17, 2008, crash of a British Airways jet near London's Heathrow Airport.",
"Both the plane's engines lost power as the plane approached the runway, and 13 people were injured in the resulting crash.",
"Ten months later, on November 26, 2008, a Delta Air Lines Boeing 777 was in cruise flight over Montana when an engine lost power.",
"That plane landed safely in Atlanta after pilots performed a procedure developed in response to the Heathrow crash.",
"In both cases, the NTSB said, a build-up of ice on a fuel/oil heat exchanger restricted the flow of fuel to the Rolls-Royce engines, reducing power.",
"\"With two of these rollback events occurring within a year, we believe that there is a high probability of something similar happening again,\" NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker said in a news release.",
"The Federal Aviation Administration recently ordered operators of Boeing 777s that use the Rolls Royce engines to revise flight manuals to give pilots procedures to follow in certain cold weather conditions, outlining steps they should take if their jets experience a reduction of power.",
"But the NTSB said Wednesday the FAA action does not go far enough.",
"\"The procedure has worked and it has been effective in significantly reducing the likelihood [of an incident],\" said NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson.",
"\"But that's not enough. We need a permanent fix.\"",
"While the emergency procedures work, they add to the complexity of flying the plane and require a descent, which could be hazardous if the plane is not at a sufficient altitude, the NTSB said.",
"Some 56 aircraft in the U.S. fleet and a total of 228 worldwide are equipped with Rolls-Royce engines.",
"But the NTSB stopped short of recommending the planes be grounded.",
"Knudson said the safety board believes the new procedures will significantly address the problem until Rolls-Royce has a new component ready for installation.",
"Rolls-Royce indicated it can have a new system ready within 12 months, the NTSB said.",
"\"We are encouraged to see that Rolls-Royce is already working on a redesign, and we are confident that with the FAA and EASA [European Aviation Safety Agency] overseeing the process, this flight safety issue -- even one as complex as this -- will be successfully and expeditiously resolved,\" Rosenker said.",
"The NTSB recommended that, once Rolls-Royce completes its redesign, the new system be installed on all affected Boeing 777's at their next maintenance check or within six months.",
"A Rolls-Royce spokesman said: \"The report clearly states that the Rolls-Royce equipment on this flight met or exceeded all requirements.",
"The report also highlights the emerging issue of ice build up in commercial 'long-cold-high' routes.",
"This is an industry-wide issue which requires detailed research that is likely to shape future regulations and requirements.\"",
"\"This has been a serious matter for both Boeing, and the airlines who use the 777 with Rolls Royce engines,\" said Richard Quest, CNN's aviation correspondent .",
"\"The development of a permanent mechanical fix will solve the problem.",
"Until then pilots operating the plane will be on their guard for any signs of the problems re-occurring.",
"That said, the plane remains safe to fly, otherwise it would have been grounded by the authorities.\""
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"Safety Board urges quick fix for Boeing 777 engine problem .",
"Rolls-Royce engine blamed for two incidents last year .",
"NTSB: \"High probability\" of similar recurrence .",
"Some 56 U.S. aircraft involved; 228 worldwide ."
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"Miami, Florida (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Paula pushed across western Cuba Thursday evening with wind gusts just under hurricane strength in some places, bringing heavy rain and high winds to the island nation, forecasters said.",
"The storm is gradually weakening and is expected to become a tropical depression Friday, the Miami, Florida-based National Hurricane Center said .",
"As of 8 p.m. ET, the center of Paula was about 25 miles (45 kilometers) east of Havana, the center said.",
"It was moving east at 14 mph (22 kph).",
"Paula passed just south of the Cuban capital around 6 p.m. Thursday -- with sustained winds of 41 mph (67 kph) and a gust of 54 mph (87 kph) recorded in Havana -- after making landfall at about noon near Puerto Esperanza.",
"The storm's maximum sustained winds have weakened to 55 mph (90 kph), the center said Thursday night, but wind gusts of 68 mph had been recorded earlier near Puerto Esperanza.",
"Stronger gusts were confined to a small area near the storm's center, the center said.",
"Paula's tropical storm-force winds have expanded to 70 miles (110 km) outward from the center, altering the landscape of a storm that has been roughly half that size for most of its duration.",
"Forecasters said the storm was likely to stick to an east to east-northeast track, moving across western and central Cuba Thursday night and Friday.",
"The hurricane center said that tropical storm force winds should continue to spread eastward across western and central Cuba Thursday night, primarily along the north coast.",
"The center discontinued an earlier tropical storm watch also was for the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas.",
"Emergency management officials in the Keys said Wednesday they were keeping an eye on the progress of Paula and expected some gusty winds and rain, but no protective actions had been initiated.",
"Forecasters predict the center of Paula will remain south of the Keys.",
"Paula is likely to dump an additional 2 to 4 inches of rain over portions of western and central Cuba over the next two days, the National Hurricane Center said.",
"Total maximum amounts could be 10 inches in some areas.",
"Heavy rain could trigger flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.",
"The Florida Keys could see between 1 and 2 inches of rain.",
"In addition, a storm surge is forecast to raise water levels by 2 to 4 feet above normal tide levels along the coast of western Cuba, accompanied by \"large and destructive waves,\" the hurricane center said."
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"NEW: Storm is gradually weakening, with maximum sustained winds of 55 mph (90 kph)\nTropical Storm Paula pushes across western Cuba .",
"Paula could become a tropical depression on Friday .",
"Forecasters say the storm could bring rain to parts of the Florida Keys ."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- As little Tatyana Larbi, aka Little Miss Muffett, sings about selling her cotton and twigs to the \"sister pigs,\" you can tell the young girl is enjoying her moment in the limelight, even if she can't see the audience's response.",
"The mother of Brooke Stegall, 5, says opera gave her visually impaired child new confidence.",
"The set and costumes are pretty basic.",
"Most were made by parents and volunteers.",
"But that doesn't matter to the beaming mothers, fathers and grandparents in the audience.",
"The fact that these 10 children are performing this day is enough for them.",
"All of the actors in the Pumpkin Pickle Pop Cookies Opera are visually impaired 4- and 5-year-olds.",
"Two are blind, and the others have varying degrees of sight.",
"All are students in Atlanta's Center for the Visually Impaired BEGIN program.",
"But today is their last day here, and performing this 20-minute opera is their \"thank you\" to their families.",
"Watch an awe-inspiring opera performance » .",
"\"These parents work so hard to make this happen,\" said Anne McComiskey, director of the program.",
"She is very aware of the efforts that both the children and the parents put into the program.",
"\"They have to give up vacation time from their jobs,\" she said.",
"\"Some people travel two and three hours once a week to get here.\"",
"McComiskey says the program works with newborns, sometimes only days old, up to 5-year-olds.",
"It helps parents understand what is possible for their visually impaired or blind children.",
"\"First of all, we are teaching the parents how to teach their child,\" she said.",
"\"Because some 90-odd percent of learning comes through your vision, we have to teach mommy and daddy how to do what they would do typically, a little differently.\"",
"She says with the infants, it can be even more basic.",
"\"With a newborn, you're teaching them about their body.",
"A lot of kids don't know they have feet.",
"They have never seen them.\"",
"All of the children go to the center one day a week.",
"The BEGIN program, which is an acronym for Babies Early Growth Intervention Network, was started in 1985 and has about 95 children go through the program each year.",
"The course costs $250 to register, but financial assistance is available.",
"McComiskey says the performance reinforces lessons learned during the course of the program.",
"\"Because this is an opera, they are learning gestures that they wouldn't learn by watching someone else.",
"And they are learning how to listen and respond.",
"They are learning to work in a group.",
"It's just many of the concepts that we have been teaching them for five years, coming to play in the opera.\"",
"Jacqueline Howard is the center's music therapist.",
"She came up with the idea for the opera while talking with some of the teachers.",
"She also sees lessons in the performance.",
"\"If you have a visual challenge, you want to be safe in the space you're in, because you may not be able to see everything around you.",
"So the movements help them feel safe in the space, and we learned to move, sing and play instruments at the same time, which is a challenge for anyone!\"",
"Brooke Stegall, 5, played one of the five \"sister pigs\" in this opera loosely based on \"The Three Little Pigs,\" which added the twist of a few other nursery tale characters.",
"Her mother, Rhonda, says the opera changed her daughter.",
"\"She is just a naturally reserved child, and to see her go up there and just sing and do the motions and just smile and have fun -- it was just great.\"",
"McComiskey says that that is one of the goals of the program: to instill a sense of \"I can\" in the kids.",
"In this case, all 10 students seem to have taken that lesson to heart.",
"All of them will be attending mainstream kindergartens in their school districts next fall.",
"\"That is most unusual, for a child that is blind or visually impaired to go right into a typical kindergarten,\" McComiskey said.",
"McComiskey and the program's teachers worked hard to make sure they are more than prepared.",
"\"We want our kids going into kindergarten ahead of the sighted children in literacy.",
"So we want Tatyana reading Braille, and we want them to be using the long cane so that they can go to the office or whatever, just like anyone else can.\"",
"Adds Jacqueline Howard, \"I always say success breeds success, and the confidence they felt by completing this task, when they're asked to do other things, they'll remember, 'I did that.",
"I can do anything.' \" Tatyana enthusiastically agrees after the performance. \"I am so proud of myself.\""
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"(CNN) -- Actor Larry Hagman said Friday that he has been diagnosed with cancer, but noted \"it is a very common and treatable form\" of the disease.",
"Hagman, who turned 80 last month, is best known for his role as J.R. Ewing, the son of a Texas oil tycoon on the primetime television series \"Dallas,\" and as a dashing Florida astronaut living with a 2,000-year-old genie on the sitcom \"I Dream of Jeannie.\"",
"In recent days he has been preparing for a stint on the remake of \"Dallas\" later this month.",
"\"As J.R I could get away with anything -- bribery, blackmail and adultery,\" Hagman said.",
"\"But I got caught by cancer.\"",
"Hagman said he will receive treatment for his cancer -- the type of which was not disclosed -- while working on the new \"Dallas.\"",
"This isn't the first health scare Hagman has faced.",
"In 2003, he talked to CNN about his fight with cirrhosis and the 16-hour liver transplant in 1995 that saved his life.",
"Warner Horizon Television, TNT's television production branch, which is producing the \"Dallas\" remake, issued a statement Friday expressing support for Hagman.",
"\"We look forward to watching Larry once again work his magic by bringing one of television's most interesting, complex and controversial characters back to the screen in the new Dallas series,\" the statement said.",
"The original \"Dallas\" series ran from 1978 to 1991.",
"\"I could not think of a better place to be than working on a show I love, with people I love.",
"Besides, as we all know, you can't keep J.R.",
"down!\" Hagman said.",
"CNN's KJ Matthews contributed to this report."
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"He will receive treatment while working on the upcoming remake of \"Dallas\"\nHagman underwent a liver transplant in 1995 ."
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"(CNN) -- A top Zetas drug cartel leader -- who allegedly ordered the attack and arson at a casino that killed 52 -- has been captured, Mexican defense officials said Thursday.",
"Carlos Oliva Castillo, alias \"La rana,\" or frog, was arrested Wednesday at a safehouse without a single shot being fired, the country's Ministry of Defense said.",
"Possibly the No. 3 man in the criminal organization, Oliva Castillo allegedly oversaw criminal operations for the cartel in three Mexican states.",
"He was captured in Saltillo, Mexico.",
"Though he was arrested without incident, the cartel tried to distract troops by attacking security forces in different parts of the city, the defense ministry said.",
"The Zetas' rescue ploy failed.",
"According to officials, Oliva Castillo was \"the principal manager\" of the ruthless Zetas in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.",
"He was also described as a confidant of Zetas boss Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano.",
"Oliva Castilo began working for the Zetas in 2005 in Tamaulipas, the defense ministry said, and rose through the ranks quickly.",
"By 2009 he was in charge of the cartel's finances in Nuevo Leon, before taking charge of all operations in that state, the ministry said.",
"This year he assumed a wider role, the ministry said.",
"The three northeastern states that Oliva Castillo allegedly oversaw are some of the Zetas' strongest-held territory.",
"Authorities say that much of the violence registered in these states is the result of the Zetas fighting rival groups such as the Gulf cartel and Sinaloa cartel, for access to lucrative smuggling routes.",
"But the Zetas -- especially in their strongholds -- have branched out from drug trafficking and into extortion of businesses, kidnappings, and human smuggling.",
"The deadly attack that Oliva Castillo is accused of ordering is the casino arson in the city of Monterrey where 52 people died.",
"Officials allege that the attack happened because the casino owners did not comply with payments to the cartel.",
"Last year, the bodies of 72 migrants from Central and South America were discovered at a ranch in San Fernando, located in Tamaulipas state.",
"The Zetas have been blamed for the mass graves and for the deaths of the migrants."
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"He was as high as third in the organization .",
"Cartel members tried to rescue him from authorities ."
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"(CNN) -- Nearly four months after a P-51 Mustang veered out of control and slammed into spectators at the Reno, Nevada, air races -- killing 11 people, injuring scores of others and jeopardizing the future of the event -- race organizers Wednesday said the show will go on.",
"The head of the Reno Air Racing Association said the association will seek permits for the full schedule of races to take place September 12-16 and is confident that it will get them.",
"If not, he said, organizers will stage a one-time-only memorial event to commemorate those killed and injured last year, and will bring an end to the 49-year-old tradition.",
"\"Many of the victims, their families, air race teams and fans have told us they're coming to Reno this September no matter what,\" said Mike Houghton, president and CEO of the Reno Air Racing Association, at a Reno press conference.",
"\"And we feel it's our obligation to give them something, no matter what.\"",
"Houghton said the association is doing everything possible to assure that all features of the races will continue, including the unlimited class race, which featuring planes flying at low altitudes in excess of 500 mph.",
"It was unclear how close spectators would be allowed and whether that would include areas in which they were killed or hurt in the September crash.",
"The event relies on the races to attract its 200,000 fans, who contribute an estimated $85 million to the local economy, Houghton said, and it would not be economically viable as a more traditional air show.",
"In an apparent effort to win government support for the races, the association created a \"blue ribbon review panel\" that included two well-known former government officials, former National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jim Hall and former Federal Aviation Administration official Nick Sabatini.",
"The panel will review changes that can be made to ensure the races' safety, Houghton said.",
"The September 15, 2011, crash came when noted pilot James Leeward's Mustang flew off course, pitching upward briefly before flying into a spectator area.",
"Leeward and 10 spectators died, and about 60 people were injured.",
"The NTSB is investigating the cause of the crash and is examining video that shows a piece of trim tab, an aerodynamic surface on the tail of the plane, separating from the plane at the time the pilot lost control.",
"The crash also has prompted the NTSB to hold a one-day hearing on air show safety.",
"That hearing will be held Tuesday in Washington.",
"Houghton said the race sponsors, vendors and pilots he has met have \"universally\" expressed support for continuing the races, and that fan support has been \"overwhelming.\"",
"Fewer then 20% of the fans asked for refunds from the races canceled after last year's crash, he said.",
"Houghton said the association needs permits or waivers from the FAA, the local airport authority and the city of Reno.",
"He expressed optimism that all three entities would permit the races, but said his biggest concern is any unknown obstacle that could interfere with race plans.",
"The crash is expected to bring a flurry of lawsuits.",
"In a lawsuit filed by the family of deceased spectator Craig Salerno of Friendswood, Texas, lawyers argued the crash was not a \"freak accident,\" but was \"the predictable result of a reckless drive for speed by a risk-taking pilot and crew, coupled with an insatiable drive for profit\" by race organizers.",
"The FAA said it has revised its air race policy to require all air racing organizations to go through a standardized accreditation process to ensure all air race organizations are subjected to the same review and authorization standards.",
"The FAA said it has invited the Reno Air Racing Association to contact it when it is ready to begin the accreditation process.",
"Once the FAA receives that notification, the FAA will select a team that will conduct a top-to-bottom review of the organization's operations, the agency said.",
"In the 49 years of racing at Reno, 19 pilots have died in crashes.",
"Last year's crash is believed to be the first to kill spectators."
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"11 people died in September when racing plane crashed into spectators .",
"Group that runs event says it expects to get permits for this year's races .",
"NTSB is investigating the cause of last year's crash, holding hearing on shows' safety ."
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"(CNN) -- Dozens of people have been killed in Central America as heavy rains continue to hammer the region.",
"In Guatemala, the death toll has risen to 28 and close to 110,000 people have been affected so far, the state-run AGN news agency reported.",
"Citing the president, the agency said 15,000 more people are at risk and roughly 12,000 are in shelters.",
"\"We've been able to respond to all the requests for help we've received -- many by land because we haven't been able to fly over the areas,\" said President Alvaro Colom, AGN reported.",
"Meanwhile in El Salvador, the government has declared a state of emergency and ordered evacuations in some of the hardest-hit areas.",
"At least 24 have died in El Salvador, including seven children, according to the country's civil protection director.",
"Some 13,000 people are in shelters.",
"Central America has been hammered by torrential rain since last week, when Hurricane Jova struck Mexico as a Category 2 storm late Tuesday.",
"It weakened into a tropical storm and then a tropical depression as it moved over western Mexico.",
"More rain in the region is forecast.",
"CNN's Claudia Dominguez and journalist Merlin del Cid contributed to this report."
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"More rain is forecast from remnants of hurricane ."
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"(CNN) -- In a move that could reshape the Cuban economy, the government on Thursday announced a new law that allows for the sale of real estate.",
"The National Assembly in August approved a plan to permit the sale of real estate, and the legislation itself officially was put on the books Wednesday.",
"It goes into effect November 10, the state-run newspaper Granma reported.",
"The new law allows for the sale, exchange, donation and gifting of real estate even in cases of divorce, death, or the owner leaving the country permanently.",
"As stated, the goal of the law is to \"eliminate prohibitions and make limitations (to property ownership) flexible.\"",
"The effect of creating a housing market in the stagnant Cuban economy is uncertain.",
"For one, the law places some limitations -- including a prohibition of the ownership of more than one residential home and one vacation home.",
"Also, only Cuban citizens living in the country or foreigners with permanent residences in Cuba may participate in the transactions.",
"Buyers will be required to swear under oath that they don't own other property.",
"Under the law, in cases where the owner permanently leaves the country, the state confiscates the home and turns it over for free to any legitimate co-owners or family.",
"Cuba has a population of 11 million people and a housing shortage.",
"It's not unusual to find three or four generations crammed into a small apartment or divorced couples under the same roof.",
"Before the law, a black market for real estate existed, where houses were swapped."
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"The legislation is seen as a major reform .",
"Owners are limited to one residential home and one vacation property ."
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"(CNN) -- A plane crashed early Sunday in the southern port city of Karachi, killing at least eight people on board and sending flames shooting through the night sky, a Pakistani official said.",
"The cargo plane took off at 1:45 a.m. from the Jinnah Karachi International Airport for Khartoum, Sudan, said Pervez George, a spokesman for Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority.",
"It went down a few minutes later in the Gulistan-e Johar section of Karachi, an area where many Pakistani naval officers live.",
"Masood Raza, a Karachi district government official, told CNN affiliate GEO News in Pakistan that the pilot appeared to deliberately bring the plane down in a less densely populated residential area in order to save lives.",
"\"If the plane would have crashed in a (more crowded) residential area, it would have been a very big disaster for the city of Karachi,\" Raza said.",
"All eight people confirmed dead were members of the downed aircraft's crew and all are Russian nationals, said George.",
"A local hospital spokesman told CNN that the hospital had received five bodies by 4 a.m.",
"The Russian-made cargo plane was carrying relief supplies, including tents, to Africa before it went down.",
"The plane arrived in Karachi on Saturday from Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, George said.",
"An eyewitness told CNN that he saw fire on one of the plane's wings before it crashed.",
"Firefighters, rescue personnel and area residents rushed to the scene, with jet fuel fanning the large flames and huge plumes of smoke.",
"The blaze was put out by 4 a.m., according to George, at which point rescue personnel continued to comb through the rubble looking for other people possibly killed or hurt.",
"The plane appeared to hit several buildings under construction.",
"Hospital sources told GEO News that Mohammed Raees had burns over 60 percent of his body, resulting from the crash and subsequent fire.",
"Raees told GEO News that he was hurt after flaming parts of a building hit him and the motorcyle he was preparing to ride."
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"NEW: Official says the pilot saved lives by guiding the plane to a less crowded area .",
"Firefighters put out blaze caused by cargo plane crash in the southern city of Karachi .",
"The plane hit buildings under construction in an area housing Pakistani naval officers .",
"All 8 killed were Russian crew members of the Sudan-bound aircraft ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Kristin Cavallari has something big to celebrate this holiday season.",
"The former \"Hills\" star, 24, is re-engaged to her NFL beau Jay Cutler, 28.",
"\"This time its official,\" she Tweeted Wednesday.",
"\"Jay and I are engaged again :).\"",
"The reality star and the Chicago Bears quarterback originally got engaged in April, only to split in July, leaving Cavallari \"absolutely devastated.\"",
"But after rooting his ex on in the live audience during her stint on \"Dancing with the Stars\" in October, a source told PEOPLE Cutler and Cavallari were \"working it out.\"",
"\"I think we both knew from the moment we met that we wanted to marry each other,\" Cavallari told PEOPLE in May, shortly after her man initially popped the question in Mexico.",
"\"It's been a great situation.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Jay and I are engaged again :)\" Kristin Cavallari tweeted .",
"The couple originally got engaged in April, only to split in July .",
"Jay Cutler rooted for his ex on \"Dancing with the Stars\""
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"(CNN) -- As news of the much-awaited release of Myanmar Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi reverberated throughout the world, activists and world leaders were seizing the opportunity to make a case for democracy and human rights in this besieged nation.",
"Myanmar -- formerly known as Burma -- has been ruled by a Marxist military junta since 1962.",
"The military regime has cracked down on political dissidents, forcing thousands to flee.",
"In a statement released Saturday, President Barack Obama called Suu Kyi a personal \"hero\" and called for the military regime to \"release all political prisoners, not just one.\"",
"\"The United States looks forward to the day when all of Burma's people are free from fear and persecution,\" Obama said in Saturday's statement.",
"Suu Kyi: 'I'm very happy to see you again' \"Following Aung San Suu Kyi's powerful example, we recommit ourselves to remaining steadfast advocates of freedom and human rights for the Burmese people and accountability for those who continue to oppress them,\" he said.",
"The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said while Suu Kyi's release is a \"positive signal,\" Pillay urged the military regime to also release the remaining political prisoners still detained.",
"\"I urge the authorities of Myanmar to now release the other 2,200 political prisoners as a clear sign that the new government intends to respect human rights and forge a new future for the country,\" she said.",
"British Prime Minister David Cameron also said Suu Kyi was an \"inspiration\" and that the military regime must uphold its decision.",
"\"Her detention was a travesty, designed only to silence the voice of the Burmese people,\" he said.",
"European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called for the \"unconditional release\" of all detained dissidents and said Suu Kyi's freedom should be unrestricted.",
"\"This is the only way to ensure that the Myanmar elections of 7 November are the start of a real transition to democracy,\" Barroso said Saturday.",
"Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said he was \"thrilled\" by news of Suu Kyi's release.",
"\"People who love freedom everywhere admire her and the long sacrifice she has made for her people,\" he said.",
"\"In light of recent elections, I also hope that Aung San Suu Kyi's release will lead to the rapid inclusion of her and the Burmese citizens in governance,\" he said.",
"Former first lady Laura Bush and former President George Bush called for Suu Kyi's release to be unconditional.",
"\"We strongly support the aspirations of the Burmese people and their demands for basic human rights: freedom of speech, worship, and assembly,\" said Bush.",
"In Asia, Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard called Suu Kyi's detention \"completely unjustified\" and said her government is lobbying for an opportunity to meet with her personally.",
"\"Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd said the government was seeking an early opportunity to speak with Aung San Suu Kyi, to convey Australia's support for her and her struggle for democracy in Burma,\" Gillard said.",
"\"We will closely monitor her situation, including any restrictions imposed on her freedom of movement or association.",
"Australia continues to call on the Burmese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release the more than 2000 political prisoners still detained in Burma,\" she said.",
"China's official Xinhua news agency was less exuberant with words on Saturday.",
"China has refrained from publicly pressuring Myanmar and has remained the Marxist regime's closest ally since the military coup 20 years ago.",
"India has also been criticized by the United States and others for not voicing opposition to the military junta.",
"When India accorded a red-carpet welcome in July to the top leader of Myanmar's military junta, there was little mention of human rights abuses allegedly taking place in Myanmar's prisons, critics claimed.",
"Human rights advocates and Suu Kyi followers overseas still expressed concerns not only for repercussions of her release, but the situation of the prisoners still incarcerated.",
"Burma Campaign UK warned that her release should not be seen as the final return of democracy in Burma and also called for the release of prisoners.",
"\"The release of Aung San Suu Kyi is about public relations, not democratic reform,\" said Zoya Phan, International Coordinator at Burma Campaign UK in a statement released Saturday.",
"\"I am thrilled to see our democracy leader free at last, but the release is not part of any political process, instead it is designed to get positive publicity for the dictatorship after the blatant rigging of elections on 7th November.",
"We must not forget the thousands of other political prisoners still suffering in Burma's jails.\"",
"In Saturday's statement, Phan and the Burma Campaign UK recalled previous incidents in which her release was widely broadcast but did not come through.",
"\"It is the third time Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from house arrest,\" the statement said.",
"\"The last time she was released, in 2002, it was part of a U.N.-led initiative to try to persuade Burma's dictatorship to enter into dialogue leading to a transition to democracy.",
"However, when the time came for substantive discussions the dictatorship refused to continue the dialogue. \""
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Engine problems forced the pilot of a Delta Air Lines aircraft to turn back Thursday night shortly after takeoff from Atlanta, the company said Friday.",
"The aircraft returned to Atlanta without incident, spokeswoman Gina Laughlin said.",
"Passengers aboard Flight 1442 from Atlanta to Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN affiliate WSOC that they had been airborne about 10 or 20 minutes when one of the engines appeared to catch on fire.",
"Laughlin could not confirm the report of flames, but said crew members reported smoke in the cabin following the incident.",
"Passenger Ginger Heath said the incident began with a shaking sensation, followed by \"sparks, a great big boom and lots and lots of fire\" from the engine.",
"\"After that smoke starting coming out of the air vents.\"",
"Other passengers told CNN affiliate WBTV that they heard a \"huge crashing sound\" and felt what seemed like \"bad turbulence.\"",
"\"I kind of thought I was going to die for a second,\" one passenger interviewed by WBTV said.",
"\"A couple of people got hysterical,\" passenger Atiim Browne told WSOC.",
"\"The lady behind me was crying.",
"A couple of people kind of looked at it, you know, as life flashing before their eyes and stuff like that.",
"But again we got back on the floor within a couple of minutes so it wasn't too bad.\"",
"Delta mechanics were inspecting the aircraft Friday, Laughlin said.",
"CNN's Ayesha Durgahee contributed to this report."
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"Smoke inside the cabin followed report of engine trouble, airline says .",
"A Delta spokeswoman says the airline can't confirm the reports of fire ."
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"(RealSimple.com) -- Here are nine common (and commonly ignored) dressing oversights -- and easy ways to fix them.",
"Problem: Incorrectly hemmed jeans .",
"Solution: A good tailor .",
"Don't cut off the extra length and at the same time lose the nice crisp hemline (marked by the recognizable yellow thread).",
"\"A good tailor should be able to preserve the original hem,\" says Guillermo Molina, owner of Guillermo Couture, in New York City.",
"With very long pants, your tailor may have to cut off a bit of fabric above the hemline and reattach the original hems (with barely noticeable blue thread that matches the denim), but the task can usually be achieved by folding a hem up accordion-style and sewing it in place, so the original finished seam is in plain view.",
"Real Simple: How to dress for any occasion .",
"Problem: Peds in plain view .",
"Solution: Partial peds .",
"Your secret weapon against blistered toes is a pair of Peds.",
"But make sure they're truly a secret weapon.",
"\"Visible Peds are a classic faux pas,\" says Leah Feldon, author of \"Does This Make Me Look Fat?",
": The Definitive Rules for Dressing Thin for Every Height, Size, and Shape\" (Villard, $15, amazon.com).",
"To avoid peekaboo nylons, skip the skimpy stockings altogeter or try Hue Toe Covers ($15 for three pairs, barenecessities.com), which cover only the front half of the foot.",
"A bit of padding on the bottom provides a cushion and keeps the cover from sliding and scrunching into the toe of your shoe.",
"Real Simple: Avoiding wardrobe blunders .",
"Problem: Unopened vent .",
"Solution: Scissors .",
"Jackets, blazers, and skirts often come with vents that are tacked together with thread.",
"\"Don't forget to snip the string once you bring your item home from the store,\" says JoAnna Nicholson, author of \"Dressing Smart for Women: 101 Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make...and How to Avoid Them\" (Impact Publications, $17, amazon.com).",
"Besides being a potential source of embarrassment, a tacked-together vent may also increase your chances of ripping your garment when you take a large step or reach for something on the top pantry shelf.",
"Real Simple: Old clothing gets a second life .",
"Problem: A gaping blouse .",
"Solution: Velcro .",
"Your favorite shirt was dried once too often, and now it's a bit snug, with buttons that appear to be hanging on for dear life.",
"\"You don't want your coworkers staring at your chest, waiting for a button to pop off onto the conference table,\" says Clinton Kelly, cohost of TLC's \"What Not to Wear.\"",
"To avoid this scenario, sew a small piece of Velcro between the buttons or use a piece of double-stick tape.",
"That way your shirt will stay flush against your skin, buttons will remain attached, and your assets will be tucked away from Bob in Accounting's sight.",
"Problem: Cropped pants with boots .",
"Solution: Taller boots .",
"Once considered a summer-only staple, Capri pants are now available in thicker, fall-friendly fabrics, such as wool and tweed.",
"But don't wear them with your lowest pair of boots.",
"\"Low ankle boots paired with cropped pants look dowdy, because they break up your silhouette,\" says Stacy London, cohost of TLC's \"What Not to Wear.\"",
"\"Wearing high boots that completely cover the calves and a few inches of skin underneath the pants has a more elongating effect,\" she says.",
"Real Simple: New uses for things in your closet .",
"Problem: Peekaboo lingerie .",
"Solution: A nude bra .",
"White underwear may seem demure and understated next to that rack of red lace skivvies in the department store, but it screams \"Look at me!\"",
"when worn under white clothing.",
"If you want your unmentionables to be unnoticeable underneath a favorite white T-shirt or blouse, wear a bra that is close to your skin tone (this holds true for all underwear).",
"Problem: Visible tag .",
"Solution: Seam ripper .",
"Your Sealy Posturepedic mattress may have come with a DO NOT REMOVE label, but your brand-new scarf didn't.",
"So throw needless caution to the wind and snip the tags on scarves, sheer blouses, and any other wardrobe piece with an unsightly label.",
"Use a seam ripper in lieu of scissors to easily remove stitches holding the tag in place, but beware of tags sewn directly into a seam, says Audrey Smaltz, founder of the Ground Crew, a backstage-management company for fashion shows.",
"For these use a small pair of scissors to cut the tag just below the seam (so the tiny bit of tag is barely noticeable).",
"Real Simple: Dress to flatter your figure .",
"Problem: A bare midriff .",
"Solution: Layering .",
"Pant rises have gotten lower (and lower), but shirts, sweaters, and blouses have stayed the same.",
"The result? An exposed midsection that leaves you looking like a teen pop sensation.",
"Rather than banishing your favorite―and most flattering -- pair of pants to the back of the closet, layer a lacy tank top underneath a sweater.",
"A hint of added color and texture keeps your tummy hidden and creates a more interesting, modern look.",
"Another benefit: Um, how about warmth?",
"Problem: Visible panty line .",
"Solution: Smooth briefs .",
"You want all the attention on you, not your tush.",
"A visible panty line draws attention to your backside (making it look larger), but don't assume a lifetime of wearing thongs is your only option.",
"\"Panties are more demure and chic, and they are also a lot more comfortable,\" says Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys New York.",
"Jockey No Panty Line Promise briefs ($9.50, jockey.com) have flat seams that are only 1/8 inch wide, preventing them from cutting into your skin.",
"These full-coverage briefs end below the curvature of your bottom, completely covering (not bisecting) the area where pants tend to be most snug.",
"Bonus: The spandex briefs are as soft as your most lived-in T-shirt.",
"Real Simple: 10 fashion trends with staying power .",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Take incorrectly hemmed jeans to a good tailor .",
"Use Velcro to keep your blouse from gaping .",
"Open vents and pleats with a pair of scissors or a seam ripper ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, speaking to a gathering of gay and lesbian activists, said Saturday that he is committed to equality, citing the repeal of the military's \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy as an example.",
"Obama said his accomplishments on gay rights issues have been substantial since he last headlined the annual National Dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, in 2009.",
"He acknowledged \"we have more work to do,\" including on the issue of bullying.",
"The president currently supports same-sex civil unions, and has said his views on gay marriage are \"evolving.\"",
"He recently announced his support of the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.",
"Organizations working actively to legalize same-sex marriage say they hope Obama eventually changes his stance.",
"While Obama spoke Saturday about equality, he did not speak on the marriage issue.",
"The president chided participants in a Republican presidential debate last month for not rebuking members of the audience who booed a gay soldier who asked about the repeal of \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell.\"",
"\"We don't believe in standing silent when that happens,\" Obama said of the debate incident.",
"\"You want to be commander-in-chief, you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States even when it is not politically convenient.\"",
"After the debate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said he hadn't heard the booing when the question was asked.",
"Santorum was being asked the question when the incident occurred.",
"Obama spoke of growing tolerance measured, he said, by ordinary Americans: .",
"\"A father realizes he doesn't just love his daughter but also her wife.\"",
"Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said after the speech that Obama reaffirmed commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.",
"\"It was a remarkable experience to see openly gay and lesbian uniformed service members in the audience be able to salute their commander in chief\" about the repeal of \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell.\"",
"Obama's remarks were delivered to a key constituency that hasn't always been receptive to the president's policies and style of leadership.",
"\"I'd like to see the president bring his message of support for the freedom to marry to a broader audience, perhaps in a conversational setting, so that all Americans can hear him talk about why marriage matters to loving gay and lesbian couples and their families,\" said Evan Wolfson, the founder and president of Freedom to Marry.",
"\"It is important that the president lay out the case for Americans opening their hearts to the values of fairness and treating others as they would want to be treated.\"",
"Wolfson, along with other organizations advocating for legal same-sex marriages, said the Obama administration had made significant progress on some issues, but that support for marriage equality was still an important goal.",
"\"We applaud the administration's progress, while we also encourage him to 'evolve faster' on supporting full marriage equality,\" Stuart Gaffney, media director for Marriage Equality USA, said Saturday.",
"He said he wasn't aware of any opposition within his organization to the HRC's selection of Obama as their keynote speaker.",
"\"We look forward to the day soon when our president stands with that pro-equality majority,\" Gaffney added.",
"The Log Cabin Republicans, an organization that represents gay and lesbian conservatives, said Obama's appearance Saturday night was more about politics than substantive policy change.",
"\"President Obama's appearance at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner this evening is more emblematic of their role as an ostensibly partisan organization than a representation of the gay and lesbian community,\" said Christian Berle, the group's deputy executive director.",
"Berle said Obama's stance on gay marriage didn't match that of most Americans.",
"\"As all Americans are becoming open to marriage equality, the president is taking a retreat,\" Berle said.",
"\"Instead he is turning to the gay community for money and applause.",
"\"If the president wants to deserve all the money and adulation he has already received from the gay community, he should announce his firm support for everyone's freedom to marry,\" Berle said.",
"Saturday's event was expected to draw 3,000 gay activists, and took place at a convention center in downtown Washington.",
"The speech was streamed live online.",
"A CNN/ORC International poll taken Sept. 9-11 showed 53% of Americans believe marriages between gay and lesbian couples should be considered valid.",
"That number has steadily been rising in CNN/ORC International polls since 2008.",
"CNN's Athena Jones contributed to this report."
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"NEW: President tweaks GOP hopefuls over debate incident .",
"Obama says he will continue to advocate for equality .",
"Many gay rights activists applaud Obama's track record .",
"But some critics say he has done too little to advance same-sex marriage ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Legendary and curmudgeonly TV commentator Andy Rooney offered his final remarks Sunday on the news show \"60 Minutes,\" capping a career that has spanned more than six decades.",
"In his final essay, delivered around 8:15 p.m., Rooney said, \"This is a moment I have dreaded.",
"\"I wish I could do this forever.",
"But I can't,\" he said. \"But I'm not retiring. Writers don't retire, and I'll always be a writer.\"",
"CBS announced Tuesday that the upcoming program, five days later, would be the last one for the 92-year-old award-winning writer, essayist and commentator.",
"He has been with the network -- first as a writer for \"Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts\" -- since 1949, and been part of the \"60 Minutes\" crew since 1978.",
"\"There's nobody like Andy, and there never will be.",
"He'll hate hearing this, but he's an American original,\" CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said in a release announcing Rooney's exit.",
"The original essay offered Sunday was Rooney's 1,097th for the program.",
"In it, he described himself simply, not as a \"television personality,\" but rather as \"a writer who reads what he's written.\"",
"\"A writer's job is to tell the truth,\" he said.",
"\"I know I've been terribly wrong sometimes, but I think I've been right more than I've been wrong.\"",
"Earlier in the show, Morley Safer -- himself a 79-year-old journalist and a \"60 Minutes\" staple since 1970 -- interviewed Rooney about his personal and professional life.",
"Rooney attended Colgate University until he was drafted into the Army in 1941.",
"In February 1943, he was one of six correspondents who flew with the 8th Air Force on the first American bombing raid over Germany.",
"Last year, Rooney received the Overseas Press Club of America President's Award for these reports.",
"The television commentator admitted Sunday that he doesn't sign autographs and rarely responds to fan mail, telling Safer he didn't \"want to answer an idiot who would have the bad sense to write me a letter.\"",
"Rooney has also engendered controversy, such as his weekslong suspension in 1990 from \"60 Minutes\" for remarks that offended some gay viewers.",
"But he's better known for his sharp commentaries and public persona as someone fed up with everything from desk clutter to chocolate chip cookies to door knobs.",
"In his time at \"60 Minutes,\" Rooney also has contributed many deeper pieces in the wake of events like the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the \"shock and awe\" campaign to start the 2003 Iraq war -- a phrase he scathingly said \"makes us look like foolish braggarts.\"",
"Safer described his longtime colleague as \"America's favorite grouch-in-chief,\" saying Rooney used his \"loud whiny voice ... speaking up for citizens fed up with everything.\"",
"\"There have been many curmudgeons on television over its long history,\" Safer said affectionately.",
"\"None has been so long serving in that role as Mr. Rooney.\""
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"NEW: Morley Safer says Rooney spoke up \"for citizens fed up with everything\"\nIn his final essay, Rooney says, \"I wish I could do this forever, but I can't\"\nAndy Rooney has been with CBS since 1949 and with \"60 Minutes\" since 1978 .",
"He delivered 1,097 original essays during his time on the TV news prorgram ."
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