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"FLINT, Michigan (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama Monday proposed spending billions to revitalize the nation's economy, a plan the campaign of his likely Republican opponent said would slow economic growth with higher taxes.",
"Sen. Barack Obama wants to spend $60 billion on America's infrastructure.",
"During an economic speech in Flint, Michigan, Obama promised to spend billions to improve America's education, infrastructure, energy and health care systems.",
"To improve America's competitiveness, the senator from Illinois said he wants to spend $10 billion on childhood education, $150 billion over 10 years on developing alternative energy and $60 billion over 10 years to build \"21st century infrastructure.\"",
"Obama said he would pay for these programs by ending the war in Iraq, reducing government waste, charging polluters for greenhouse gas emissions and ending the Bush tax cuts for wealthy individuals.",
"During his speech in Michigan, a state hard hit by the decline of the American automobile industry, Obama also rejected protectionist trade polices that many unions say would help protect American jobs, saying \"it is impossible to turn back the tide of globalization.\"",
"Watch Obama call for America to compete in the global economy » .",
"Obama said he disagreed with those who want to \"build a fortress around America; to stop trading with other countries, shut down immigration, and rely on old industries.\"",
"\"Not only is it impossible to turn back the tide of globalization, but efforts to do so can make us worse off,\" Obama said.",
"\"Rather than fear the future, we must embrace it.",
"I have no doubt that America can compete -- and succeed -- in the 21st century.\"",
"A McCain spokesman attacked Obama's plan, saying the Democrat's \"agenda to raise taxes and isolate America from foreign markets will not get our economy back on track or create new jobs.\"",
"\"To help create jobs in America, we need to lower taxes and open up foreign markets to American goods,\" said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.",
"\"Americans cannot afford Barack Obama's 'change' that takes us back to the failed policies of the past.\"",
"But Obama said now was the time to commit to long-term investments in America's future and blasted McCain for wanting to continue President Bush's economic policies, saying \"there is a clear choice in this election.",
"Instead of reaching for new horizons, George Bush has put us in a hole, and John McCain's policies will keep us there.",
"I want to take us in a new and better direction.",
"\"I reject the belief that we should either shrink from the challenge of globalization or fall back on the same tired and failed approaches of the last eight years,\" he said.",
"\"It's time for new policies that create the jobs and opportunities of the future -- a competitiveness agenda built upon education and energy, innovation and infrastructure, fair trade and reform.\"",
"The two campaigns have been sparring over who would be a better steward of America's ailing economy, and both candidates have been reaching out to blue-collar voters, many of whom backed Republican President Ronald Reagan over the Democrats, in part, because of cultural issues.",
"\"I believe that there are stark differences between myself and Sen. Obama.",
"... And I believe that the same appeals that President Reagan made to the so-called Reagan Democrats will succeed there,\" McCain said during a campaign stop in Arlington, Virginia.",
"Watch McCain vow to win Reagan Democrats » .",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Thursday suggested voters favor Obama over McCain to handle the economy 50 percent to 44 percent.",
"The poll, conducted June 4-5, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points."
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"Sen. Obama offers plan to spend $10B on schools, $60B on infrastructure .",
"Democratic presidential candidate would spend $150B on renewable energy .",
"Obama rejects protectionist trade polices, says U.S. workers can compete .",
"Sen. McCain's campaign says higher taxes to pay for programs would hurt economy ."
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"MOSCOW, Russia -- UEFA have confirmed that Slovakian referee Lubos Michel will take charge of Wednesday's Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea in Moscow.",
"Michel refereed the 2003 UEFA Cup final when Jose Mourinho's Porto beat Celtic.",
"Michel, 40 last week,is remembered by Chelsea fans for controversially awarding a goal to Liverpool against the Londoners in the semifinals of the 2005 competition.",
"Chelsea's manager at the time Jose Mourinho always insisted that Luis Garcia's shot did not cross the line.",
"Michel is regarded as one of the top referees in the world and officiated at Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, including the tense Germany v Argentina game in the first knock-out round.",
"He also refereed the 2003 UEFA Cup final when Mourinho's Porto triumphed over Celtic.",
"Michel speaks English, Russian, German and Polish as well as his native language.",
"Michel will be supported at the Luzhniki Stadium by the assistant referees who have partnered him at major tournaments - Roman Slysko (34) and Martin Balko (36).",
"The fourth official will be Vladimir Hrinak (44), also from Slovakia.",
"Meanwhile, senior police officers from Manchester traveled to Moscow on Monday to help prevent fan violence from marring the final.",
"Manchester police will serve in an advisory role as Russian authorities prepare for Wednesday's match.",
"\"A number of my officers and I have flown out to Moscow to meet local police and help draw up arrangements to police the fixture,\" said chief superintendent Janette McCormick.",
"\"Although GMP officers have no powers of arrest abroad and ultimate responsibility for policing the game lies with the Russian authorities, we have been gathering intelligence on potential and known troublemakers and GMP officers will be in Moscow in an advisory role,\" McCormick added.",
"As Manchester United flew out on Monday, plain-clothed intelligence officers were stationed at Manchester Airport to target known or potential troublemakers from heading to the Russian capital.",
"Ban orders imposed on fans with soccer-related convictions will be rigorously enforced in the next two days to prevent them from flying to Moscow.",
"\"As with all operations like this, we are sending out a clear message to people intending to travel to commit violence to think again,\" said police chief inspector Robert Tinsley, who is based at the airport.",
"The airport is expecting 20,000 more passengers than usual to be flying to Moscow.",
"The British embassy in Moscow have announced that their consular section will stay open on May 21 and 22 to help English fans arriving for the final.",
"\"The consular department will extend their working hours on Wednesday and Thursday to support English citizens coming here to watch the Champions' League final,\" the embassy press service said.",
"The press service report added that a 24-hour telephone \"hot line\" would be organized by the embassy."
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"Lubos Michel will referee Wednesday's Champions League final in Moscow .",
"Fellow-Slovakians Roman Slysko and Martin Balko will be his two assistants .",
"Vladimir Hrinak will be fourth official at the Manchester Utd v Chelsea clash ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Kimi Raikkonen has lambasted McLaren's Lewis Hamilton for the pit-lane accident that ended both of their races at the Canadian Grand Prix.",
"Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen is far from happy after Lewis Hamilton pushed him out of the Canadian Grand Prix.",
"Hamilton's McLaren rammed into the back of world champion Raikkonen's Ferrari as the Finn and Robert Kubica, the race's eventual winner, were waiting at a red light after the safety car was forced into action on lap 17.",
"Raikkonen, while claiming not to be angry, was clearly far from impressed.",
"\"There's not much I can say. My race was ruined by Hamilton's mistake.",
"\"Obviously, anyone can make mistakes, as I did two weeks ago in Monaco, but it's one thing to make a mistake at 200 hundred [miles] per hour but another to hit a car stopped at a red light.",
"\"I'm not angry because that doesn't achieve anything and does not change my result.",
"I am unhappy because I had a great chance of winning.\"",
"Raikkonen, who has failed to score points in the previous two races, said he had to start winning again.",
"\"There is still a long way to go in the championship and it is still very close and we have everything we need to regain the ground we have lost.\"",
"Ferrari team sporting director Stefano Domenicali said Hamilton had made a \"serious mistake.\"",
"\"I think the penalty imposed by the FIA [Hamilton was given a 10-place grid penalty for the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours] is in line with it, even if it does not restore what was a lost opportunity for us.",
"\"Kimi was in an excellent position to fight for the win\" Hamilton, for his part, was apologetic.",
"\"I don't know what happened to be honest,\" Hamilton said.",
"\"I was comfortably in the lead, it was looking like an easy win.",
"Then I went in for the pit stop.",
"It was not a good stop and I saw the two guys in front of me battling in the pit lane.",
"\"I saw the red light but by that time it was a bit late.",
"It was not exactly a racing incident as such, it was unfortunate.",
"It was one of those things.",
"It is different to if you crash into the wall and you are angry.",
"It is not like that. I apologize to Kimi for ruining his race.\""
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"Hamilton was given a 10-place grid penalty for the French Grand Prix ."
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"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- The British Foreign Office has warned its nationals -- traveling to or living in the United Arab Emirates -- about the increased threat of a terrorist attack.",
"In 2006 over one million Britons visited the United Arab Emirates, according to the UK Foreign office.",
"The alert, posted on its Web site, urged Britons in the oil-rich Gulf kingdom to be vigilant -- especially in public places -- because of a \"high threat of terrorism.\"",
"The UAE is among the most moderate Gulf states and is home to thousands of expatriates.",
"\"We believe terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the UAE,\" the Foreign Office statement read.",
"\"Attacks could be indiscriminate and could happen at any time, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travelers such as residential compounds, military, oil, transport and aviation interests.\"",
"By Monday, the U.S. State Department had not issued any warnings about the UAE.",
"The UAE, slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Maine, is in the midst of a building boom to position itself as one of the world's premier tourist destinations.",
"It is already home to the world's largest mall, the world's largest tower, and -- despite being in the Middle East -- boasts the largest indoor snow park in the world.",
"According to the British Foreign Office, more than a million British visitors traveled to the UAE in 2006, while over 100,000 British nationals live there.",
"The country is an ally in the United States' \"war on terror,\" and its ports host more U.S. Navy ships than any port outside the U.S., according to the U.S. State Department.",
"Two of the attackers who took part in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington came from the UAE.",
"And it was among a handful of countries that recognized the fundamentalist Taliban regime before the September 11 attacks."
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"UK Foreign Office: Terrorists may be planning to carry out attacks in the UAE .",
"It added that attacks could be \"indiscriminate and could happen at any time\"\nU.S. State Department has not issued any warnings about the UAE .",
"UAE is a key ally in the United States' \"war on terror\""
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"(CNN) -- Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will address the West in a new message, according to a banner ad from the group's production wing posted on Islamist Web sites known to carry messages from al Qaeda and bin Laden.",
"This image accompanied a message from Osama bin Laden in November.",
"\"To the western nations, soon, God willing, A new speech by the Lion of Islam Sheikh Osama Bin laden, The reasons of the struggle in the 60th anniversary of the Israeli Occupation,\" the banner reads.",
"It was not known whether the message would be audio or video or when it might be posted.",
"In the past, messages were available from an hour to two days after the initial posting.",
"Bin Laden's last message came March 20, when in an audiotape he called Iraq \"the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine.\"",
"In an audiotape released the previous day, bin Laden condemned European countries for siding with the United States in Afghanistan and for allowing the publication of cartoons considered insulting to Islam's prophet, Mohammed."
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"Banner ad on Islamist Web sites says al Qaeda leader will release message soon .",
"It is not known exactly when the message will come .",
"Bin Laden's last communication was an audiotape released March 20 ."
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"GLADSTONE, Illinois (CNN) -- Residents of this small town in Illinois, like many others who live along the banks of the surging Mississippi River, raced against the clock Tuesday to erect a makeshift levee as rising floodwaters threatened.",
"Residents of Gladstone, Illinois, work with the National Guard to create a makeshift levee.",
"\"I'm not moving, not moving my business,\" said Byron Sebastian, a longtime resident of Gladstone, Illinois, who also serves on the city council.",
"\"We've got a lot of good people here helping to try to save this part of town.\"",
"Gladstone is one of many towns under threat Tuesday after rising waters breached a 300-foot area of a levee near Gulf Port, Illinois, before 5 a.m. Levees all along the mid-Mississippi were being topped with sandbags Tuesday as the river, fed by its flooded tributaries, continued to rise.",
"Illinois Gov.",
"Rod Blagojevich called up 1,100 National Guard members to assist in sandbagging efforts, said Patti Thompson of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.",
"She also said inmates are helping on the levees and others are bagging sand in correctional institutions.",
"\"We were very, very disappointed that this levee broke today,\" said Thompson.",
"\"It's a very powerful river, and it can be hard to harness.\"",
"With the help of the National Guard, Sebastian and his fellow residents hustled Tuesday to build a barrier between Gladstone and the encroaching floodwaters.",
"Even though Gladstone is about four miles from the banks of the Mississippi, the rising floodwaters have submerged homes and created rivers where crop fields once stood.",
"The muddy townspeople worked with anxious resolve, cracking the occasional joke, as they filled bags with sand and dirt and loaded them onto ATVs.",
"On the receiving end were members of the Illinois National Guard, who piled up the sandbags as the tops of cornstalks rose above the waters behind them.",
"\"Threats can happen in all shapes and forms, so we are trying to help out,\" said National Guardsman Capt.",
"Lanny Finn, whose unit previously served in Iraq.",
"\"We'll be here for as long as we're needed.\"",
"Sebastian, who lived through floods in 1993, said he never thought he'd have to experience them again.",
"\"We thought that was bad, but this is a lot worse than it was in '93,\" said Sebastian.",
"\"Now we got some lakefront property.\"",
"Elsewhere in Illinois, authorities closed the Great River Bridge on U.S. 34, which connects Illinois to Iowa over the swollen Mississippi, as authorities evacuated about 400 people in Henderson County.",
"The sheriff of Henderson County, where the Mississippi River borders the entire western edge of the county, said authorities are still concerned about the communities of Gulf Port, Carman, Lomax and Dallas City.",
"Watch aerial views of the rising Mississippi » .",
"\"It's been an uphill battle from the start, and the levee just broke loose,\" he said.",
"Sheriff John Jefferson of Hancock County, Illinois, said water was \"very, very close\" to the top of some areas of the county's two levees.",
"\"We've had to evacuate some areas already, but the areas that have not been evacuated yet, we're just keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that the levee will hold,\" he said.",
"In two of the county's communities, Rio Vista and Pontoosuc, power has been shut off in all but 20 residences, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office said.",
"Missouri also began to feel the force of the surging Mississippi Tuesday, as water began to top multiple levees east of Highway 79, forcing authorities to suspend sandbagging efforts at a levee near Foley, officials said Tuesday.",
"In Northwest Missouri, towns and cities along the Mississippi River were bracing for flooding later this week as swollen waters head downriver.",
"Communities at high risk of record flooding include Quincy, Illinois, and Hannibal, Missouri, according to National Weather Service modeling.",
"Moderate flooding is possible later in the week in Alton, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri.",
"The floods began heading downriver Monday to Illinois and Missouri, relieving Iowa somewhat after two weeks of natural disasters that killed 17 people, displaced 38,000 and caused more than $1 billion in crop damages.",
"\"The good news is the floodwater is receding in much of the state,\" said David Miller, administrator for the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division.",
"\"The bad news is we're still in a flood fight.\"",
"President Bush said he and a team will travel to Iowa this week.",
"State and federal officials also plan to meet there this week to decide the best way to house displaced residents, said Bill Vogel, a federal coordinator with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.",
"In Washington, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said the flooding has devastated his state's corn crop.",
"Floods prompted farm-equipment manufacturer John Deere to idle two plants in Waterloo, Iowa, he said.",
"Watch a farmer boat through his fields » .",
"\"Across eastern Iowa, the flooding rivers have washed out railroad lines; Mississippi barge traffic has come to a halt and [flooding has] closed major roadways,\" said Harkin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.",
"\"Thousands of Iowa businesses, large and small, have been impacted.\"",
"Harkin said Iowans \"are a resilient and resourceful people,\" but will need \"generous federal assistance\" to recover.",
"FEMA has set up six disaster recovery centers in Iowa and has provided nearly $4 million in assistance, state and federal officials reported.",
"So far, 24 counties are under federal disaster declarations, making residents eligible for individual aid, Lt. Gov.",
"Patty Judge reported.",
"By Tuesday afternoon, residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the Cedar River inundated more than 400 city blocks, were beginning to return home as the rivers lessened, said Lu Barron, a Linn County supervisor.",
"\"We're doing pretty good,\" she said.",
"\"People are getting into their businesses, and getting into their homes.\"",
"she said. She estimated that thousands of people had returned to their homes after authorities inspected them to make sure they were safe.",
"The death of one woman whose body was found in her car Monday was determined unrelated to the floods, said Courtney Greene, a spokeswoman for the governor's office and the state Emergency Operations Center.",
"Amtrak service from Chicago, Illinois, to St. Paul, Minnesota, and to Kansas City, Missouri, was disrupted by the flooding.",
"CNN's Paul Vercammen contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Towns rush to build makeshift barriers to hold back rising floodwaters .",
"NEW: Record flooding anticipated for towns in Illinois, Missouri .",
"High water forces officials to close U.S. 34 span between Iowa, Illinois .",
"FEMA sets up 6 centers in Iowa; 24 counties declared disasters ."
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"(Oprah.com) -- If you heard there was a weapon proven to prevent most crimes before they happen, would you run out and buy it?",
"World-renowned security expert Gavin de Becker says this weapon exists, but you already have it.",
"He calls it \"the gift of fear.\"",
"One chapter in Gavin's book \"The Gift of Fear\" has stuck with Oprah since she first read it.",
"The story of a woman named Kelly begins with a simple warning sign.",
"A man offers to help carry her groceries into her apartment -- and instantly, Kelly doesn't like the sound of his voice.",
"Kelly goes against her gut and lets him help her -- and in doing so, she lets a rapist into her home.",
"\"We get a signal prior to violence,\" Gavin says.",
"\"There are preincident indicators.",
"Things that happen before violence occurs.\"",
"Gavin says that unlike any other living creature, humans will sense danger yet still walk right into it.",
"\"You're in a hallway waiting for an elevator late at night.",
"Elevator door opens, and there's a guy inside, and he makes you afraid.",
"You don't know why, you don't know what it is. Some memory of this building -- whatever it may be.",
"And many women will stand there and look at that guy and say, 'Oh, I don't want to think like that.",
"I don't want to be the kind of person who lets the door close in his face.",
"I've got to be nice. I don't want him to think I'm not nice.'",
"And so human beings will get into a steel soundproof chamber with someone they're afraid of, and there's not another animal in nature that would even consider it.\"",
"For weeks, Nicole had a funny feeling that something odd was going on in her apartment.",
"\"My gut started feeling like something just wasn't right,\" she says.",
"\"I would come home, and there would be just weird lights on in my house -- lights that I didn't even remember turning on in the first place.\"",
"Then one day, Nicole noticed a UPS delivery box where it shouldn't be.",
"\"I'm like, 'How did this brand of box get on my back balcony?'\"",
"Nicole began to feel uneasy -- but continued to brush it off.",
"\"I would just come home, you know, and almost feel nauseous,\" she says.",
"\"I kept trying to justify it saying, 'Okay, it is in my head.'\"",
"Nicole's funny feeling eventually escalated into full-fledged panic attacks, which Gavin says were her intuition's way of telling her that something was wrong.",
"\"And intuition records everything.",
"So when she started getting panics attacks, her intuition is saying, basically, 'You're not going to listen?",
"Okay, I'll ramp it up. I'll give you panic attacks.",
"You want sleepless nights?",
"I'll give you sleepless nights.'\"",
"Nicole eventually did listen to her intuition, starting with a simple test.",
"\"I dropped a tank top behind the door as I was leaving for work, thinking that when I come home that night, I'm going to peek my head around the corner.",
"If [the tank top] had been pushed to the side, it would have been obvious that the door was opened.\"",
"When Nicole got home, she says the tank top had moved.",
"Caught on camera .",
"The next day, Nicole says she set up a hidden camera to try and find out what was going on in her apartment.",
"Once she came home, Nicole says she plugged the camcorder into her laptop.",
"\"And the first thing I see is this man's head peeking around the corner into my house,\" she says.",
"\"What I felt at that point was just complete terror.",
"I'm sitting there watching this video --this story unfold -- and this person comes in my house, is looking around, going through my things, looking through my laundry, holding up my lingerie.\"",
"As Nicole continues to watch in horror, the intruder undresses himself and puts her lingerie on.",
"\"So this person is in my clothes, proceeds to start pleasuring himself -- just very, very graphic things happening right there in my house with my belongings.",
"And he finishes up, takes off my clothes -- and puts them exactly back as I had left them -- puts his clothes back on, checks to make sure nobody's outside the door and leaves.\"",
"After watching the tape, Nicole says she ran around her apartment, screaming hysterically.",
"She says she had never seen the man in the tape before.",
"\"Initially, I took my cell phone, called my boyfriend at the time, screaming hysterically.",
"All I could say was, 'He's in my house.",
"He's in my house.' Even picking up the phone, dialing, was difficult.\"",
"Two weeks later, police found the man -- 39-year-old Shawn Rogers, a computer consultant with a young son and a wife at the time.",
"Police were unable to charge Rogers with anything more than trespassing ... until he came back to Nicole's apartment to steal her camera.",
"Police were able to charge Rogers with burglary, and he was sentenced to eight years in prison.",
"Dangerous behavior .",
"When Nicole found the UPS box on her balcony, Gavin says this was a warning sign.",
"Gavin applauds Nicole for listening to her intuition and says that quieting her fear could have caused the situation to escalate.",
"\"He's already into behavior of wanting to get caught,\" he says.",
"\"You don't come back again and again and again and not want to get caught.\"",
"Gavin says like Nicole, the intruder's intuition was probably trying to tell him something too.",
"\"Offenders as well can see what's happening in their lives.",
"And talk about not listening to it -- he's in someone's apartment doing something sexual with their clothes on -- that's something to listen to.\"",
"Because the intruder had a job and a family, Gavin says his behavior was not only reckless, but dangerous as well.",
"\"When people do listen, they can stop what's almost fate,\" Gavin says.",
"\"There's a great line that Carl Jung said.",
"He said, 'What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.'",
"If he made it conscious, if he could talk to someone about it, if he could tell someone, he could get better also.",
"But he didn't, and it does mean escalation.",
"If she discovered him, that's dangerous.",
"If he came in when she was there, that's dangerous.\"",
"Your feelings are warnings .",
"Doris, who says she endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of her husband, appeared on \"The Oprah Show\" after leaving her husband.",
"Unfortunately, her battle didn't end there -- two months after she left him, Doris's ex-husband abducted her at gunpoint and raped her.",
"After the show, Oprah spoke with Doris again to ask if her she had sensed any warning signs the night she was abducted.",
"\"As I was coming home from work, it was just a very eerie, strange feeling as I drove up,\" Doris says.",
"\"It was darker than normal in my driveway, and there was a trash can sitting where I normally park right in the middle.",
"\"I thought, 'Hmm, this is strange.'",
"Because my mother lives with me, and she'll turn on the lights when it gets dark.",
"It did give me a little eerie feeling -- the hairs on the back of your neck kind of stand up.",
"But still, I didn't listen to my instincts.\"",
"Gavin says that \"eerie feeling\" is exactly what he wants women to pay attention to.",
"\"We're trying to analyze the warning signs,\" he says.",
"\"And what I really want to teach today and forever is the feeling is the warning sign.",
"All the other stuff is our explanation for the feeling.",
"Why it was this, why it was that. The feeling itself is the warning sign.\"",
"From \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2008 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"(CNN) -- A woman who gave birth to a stillborn boy was left distraught after she discovered his body was kept in a jar for four years by the hospital.",
"Jo-Ann Burrows believed for years that her son had been cremated before making the grim discovery about his fate.",
"The mother-of-five is now taking legal action against the hospital authorities in Hampshire, southern England, the UK's Press Association reported Thursday.",
"PA reported that Ms Burrows had daughter Ellie in April 2004 at the Hythe Birthing Centre, in Hampshire, but gave birth to the stillborn twin two days later at home.",
"She said that an ultrasound scan taken the previous December had not revealed that she was carrying a twin, according to PA. After the stillbirth, Ms Burrows, 44, was taken to the Princess Anne maternity hospital in Southampton, also in southern England, where she gave her consent for the body to be cremated.",
"PA reported that she has spent the past four years asking for the funeral papers and ashes.",
"The 44-year-old is now organizing a naming ceremony and funeral for the stillborn, whose twin sister survived.",
"Ms Burrows was quoted in her local newspaper, the Southern Daily Echo, as saying: \"This experience has made me suicidal, if it wasn't for my friends and family I wouldn't be here.",
"\"I kept asking for my baby's funeral papers because I was always worried that he might be in a jar somewhere.",
"I still couldn't believe it when I found out.\"",
"She was informed through her solicitor in February that the hospital still had the baby and has now filed a medical negligence claim against Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust.",
"It claims the Trust failed to \"exercise reasonable care and skill when performing the ultrasound and also focuses on Ms Burrows' repeated requests for confirmation of the cremation,\" PA reported.",
"A Trust spokeswoman told the news agency: \"Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust confirms that legal proceedings have been brought against it by Ms Jo-Ann Burrows.",
"\"The chief executive has already written to Ms Burrows apologizing for shortcomings in the treatment provided to her and, in particular, for the circumstances which led to Ms Burrows' second twin not being cremated in 2004 as they had previously advised and for the distress this discovery may have caused.\""
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"(CNN) -- Andre Berto claimed the vacant World Boxing Council welterweight title when he halted Miguel Rodriguez in the seventh round in Memphis.",
"Berto took the WBC belt vacated when Floyd Mayweather retired.",
"Berto (22-0, 19 KOs) picked up the WBC belt that became vacant when Floyd Mayweather retired.",
"Rodriguez's record dropped to 29-3 with 23 KOs.",
"Berto floored Rodriguez with an uppercut in the seventh round and when Rodriquez went down a second time referee Lawrance Cole intervened at 2:13.",
"Dane Mikkel Kessler knocked out Dimitri Sartison in the 12th round in Copenhagen, to become World Boxing Association supermiddle champion .",
"Kessler (40-1) dominated throughout in front of an enthusiastic home crowd at the Brondby Hall.",
"Sartison, who was born in Kazhakstan but grew up in Germany, suffered his first loss after a 22-0 start in his pro career.",
"Kessler won the WBA title in November 2004 by stopping Manny Siaca of Puerto Rico.",
"He also lifted the the WBC super middleweight crown two years later when he knocked out Markus Beyer of Germany in the third round.",
"But he surrendered both belts when Joe Calzaghe of Wales ended his unbeaten run in Cardiff last November.",
"Britain's Amir Khan was floored before successfully defending his Commonwealth lightweight title with a fifth round stoppage of Michael Gomez in Birmingham.",
"Khan, who has won all 18 of his fights since turning professional after winning a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, knocked Gomez down in the first round but found himself on the canvas in the second in a brief but rugged contest.",
"Khan said: \"This was one of my toughest fights but I learned from my mistakes.",
"I will watch the video and work on them and continue my journey to the world title.\"",
"Khan was on target with a powerful right uppercut in the first round and a combination of punches floored Gomez, who retaliated in the second round.",
"A left hook over the top of a jab put Khan down and he had to take a standing count and looked unsteady on his legs for several seconds afterwards.",
"Gomez landed a damaging hook to the ribs in the fourth but early in the fifth Khan put his opponent down again with a powerful body shot.",
"Gomez began to take a lot of punishment and referee John Keane stopped the contest.",
"Gomez looked disappointed but appeared to be all but out on his feet."
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"Andre Berto wins the vacant WBC welterweight title .",
"He halts Miguel Rodriguez in seven rounds .",
"Mikkel Kessler becomes WBA super-middleweight champion .",
"Amir Khan successfully defends the Commonwealth lightweight title ."
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"(CNN) -- Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, is honing her message for the fall, aides say.",
"Sen. Barack Obama and wife, Michelle, have been thrust into the public eye.",
"\"Michelle wrote her own stump (speech).",
"And you know, she's refining it now I think as we're going into the general election,\" said senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.",
"\"We have an opportunity for her to kind of step back and think about the message she wants to deliver.",
"So she's really working on it as we speak.\"",
"Her new speeches will include more details about her family and humble upbringing on Chicago's South Side, aides said.",
"Michelle Obama graduated from Harvard Law School, was a vice president at the University of Chicago and landed a job as a health care executive making $275,000 a year.",
"But along with her success has come criticism -- that's she's too angry, too negative and too sarcastic.",
"Now, the woman who would become the first black first lady is trying to connect with voters on a more personal level.",
"Watch experts weigh in on how Michelle Obama is perceived » .",
"On Wednesday, she made an appearance as a guest co-host on ABC's \"The View,\" and later this week, she and her husband will grace the cover of Us Weekly.",
"The magazine is headlined \"Michelle Obama: Why Barack Loves Her,\" and includes details about her love for Target, \"Sex and the City\" and her daughters' recitals.",
"Asked Wednesday while on \"The View\" if she's going through a makeover, she said she realizes \"I wear my heart on my sleeve\" and that \"it's a risk you have to take.\"",
"She said she thinks people will change their perception of her as they see her family more.",
"Michelle Obama's spokeswoman, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, said earlier there is no \"image makeover\" in the works.",
"Watch what Michelle Obama would be like as first lady » .",
"\"She has staff engaged in simply part of the process of growing to a general election campaign and putting a strategy together to help people get to know her,\" Lelyveld said.",
"\"It's what you do as you move from primary voters to general election voters.\"",
"Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a first ladies historian, said it's important for Michelle Obama to define herself before others define her.",
"\"One comment made off-hand ... might be easily misinterpreted by the opposition,\" he said.",
"Michelle Obama saw that in February when a Republican ad used a snippet from a campaign event in which, referring to record voter turnout in the Democratic primaries, she said, \"for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.\"",
"Obama's campaign says she was just excited about the grassroots support, but her words still provided fodder for her husband's opponents.",
"The day after the comments, Cindy McCain, wife of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, introduced her husband saying, \"I don't know about you, if you heard those words earlier -- I am very proud of my country.\"",
"Michelle Obama has been a vocal advocate for her husband while on the campaign trail, delivering sometimes impassioned speeches on his behalf.",
"Robin Givhan, fashion editor with the Washington Post, said people see Michelle Obama in different ways.",
"\"Some people will see confidence, and others might see cockiness.",
"I think some people will see strength.",
"Others might see arrogance,\" she said.",
"\"She comes across as someone who is extraordinarily independent and very much a force to be reckoned with.\"",
"Behind the scenes, she maintains that independence.",
"According to the campaign, Michelle Obama picks out her own clothes.",
"She received a lot of attention for the sleeveless purple dress and pearls she wore the night her husband became the presumptive Democratic nominee.",
"Beyond her style, though, a sense of dignity may be what most defines a first lady.",
"It's a job that requires the ability to strike a balance between queen and commoner.",
"Exactly how Michelle Obama refines her approach on the stump remains to be seen, staffers said.",
"\"We'll see,\" Jarrett said.",
"\"She's learned a lot of stories along the way from the American people, I think she may incorporate some more of the stories that she's heard that resonate with what she's seeing in terms of the direction that people want the country to take.",
"But the rest is up to her. We'll see what she comes up with.\" CNN's Randi Kaye contributed to this report."
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"She has been criticized for coming across as angry, unpatriotic .",
"She is co-hosting on \"The View;\" also on cover of Us Weekly .",
"Her spokeswoman says this is not an \"image makeover\""
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"Brazilian coach Zico is leaving Turkish club Fenerbahce, after failing to reach an agreement over a new contract.",
"Zico guided Fenerbahce to a league and Super Cup double intheir centenary year .",
"Fenerbahce recently suspended negotiations over a fresh deal with Zico because of reportedly high demands by the Brazilian.",
"The Anatolia press agency published a club statement which said: \"The contract of Arthur Antunes Coimbra (Zico) has now come to an end. \"",
"We would like to thank him for the successful work he has done with the club, and wish him all the best for the future.\"",
"Last season Zico led Fenerbahce to the quarterfinals of the Champions League where they were defeated by Chelsea.",
"Reports claimed that after that achievement Zico sought a new annual salary of $4.9 million.",
"He has been earning $2.9million.. Zico, 55, joined the club in July 2006 on a two-year deal and he guided them to a league and Turkish Super Cup double in 2007, their centenary year.",
"Spanish media reports have said that Fenerbahce have lined up current Spain coach Luis Aragones as a replacement.",
"Aragones has led Spain to the semifinals of the Euro 2008 finals ."
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"Media reports suggest that Spain coach Luis Aragones will replace him ."
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"OMAHA, Nebraska (CNN) -- Dozens of calls flooded the Omaha Police Department's 911 emergency line after a gunman opened fire inside the city's Westroads Mall, with witnesses calling in tones that ranged from almost matter-of-fact to near terror.",
"Police make their presence known at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, Thursday.",
"\"I haven't seen anything.",
"I'm hiding in a clothes rack,\" a woman said after a dispatcher asked her for a description of the shooter.",
"\"I mean, there's been like 50 gunshots.\"",
"In one of the recordings, provided to CNN by the police department, a rapid burst of three gunshots can be heard, followed by two more a moment later before the line goes dead.",
"A dispatcher asked one caller to move away from a woman shouting in the background.",
"\"Oh Lord God help us,\" the woman can be heard screaming.",
"Hear some of the 911 calls » .",
"\"She said there is a bunch of people shot,\" the caller says.",
"Robert Hawkins, 19, killed six employees and two customers of Von Maur department store on Wednesday before turning his AK-47 rifle on himself.",
"Two employees remained hospitalized Thursday, one with critical injuries and one in serious condition.",
"A woman who called 911 before ducking into a security office in the store said she heard the gunman demand that a vault be opened near the store's customer service area.",
"Police have not described the shooting as a robbery attempt, saying Thursday they don't know why Hawkins chose the store as a target.",
"The caller described the shooter as having \"a very large gun\" and said he came out of an elevator on the store's third floor and began firing shots into the air.",
"\"I heard the gunshots and I got down as soon as possible because I've got kids,\" she said.",
"Later, she told the dispatcher she'd moved into the security office -- where she appears to have seen Hawkins' dead body on a surveillance camera.",
"\"Oh my gosh! It looks like the gun is laying over by customer service -- it looks like he might have killed himself,\" she said, breaking into tears.",
"\"I see him laying by the gun!\"",
"Police said Thursday that Hawkins had had \"some mental health problems,\" including thoughts of suicide.",
"He had lost his job and recently broken up with his girlfriend, according to a family friend.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- Australia's cricketers will pay tribute to Jane McGrath at their one-day international against West Indies in St Vincent on Tuesday.",
"Jane McGrath died on Sunday at the age of 42.",
"The English-born wife of former Australia fast bowler Glenn McGrath, died on Sunday, aged 42, after a long battle with cancer.",
"The McGraths had two children, James, who is eight, and Holly six.",
"The Australian players will wear pink ribbons and batsmen will use pink grips on their bats.",
"The color pink represents the McGrath Foundation, an organization set up by the McGraths to raise money for the fight against breast cancer.",
"The McGraths were recognized for their charity work this year when they were appointed as Members of the Order of Australia.",
"Australia captain Ricky Ponting said: \"Jane was a wonderful person who fought and maintained grace and dignity during her long-term illness.\"",
"Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said: \"Jane was an inspiration, whose legacy will continue to benefit so many others.\"",
"Former Australia captain Steve Waugh, best man at the McGrath's 1999 wedding, said: \"Courage is often associated with feats on a sport field but the true meaning of it lies elsewhere and someone like Jane best exemplifies that.\""
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"The 42-year-old wife of fast bowler Glenn McGrath, die on Sunday .",
"She had had a long battle with cancer .",
"The players will wear pink ribbons, the color of the McGrath Foundation ."
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"(CNN) -- An Alabama man whose wife died during a honeymoon scuba diving trip off the coast of Australia almost five years ago has been charged in her death.",
"Tina Watson, background right, lies motionless after she drowned in 2003 while diving in the Great Barrier Reef.",
"An Australian coroner ruled Friday that there was enough evidence to put Gabe Watson on trial for the death of Tina Watson, who was 26 when she drowned in October 2003 while diving around a historic shipwreck in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.",
"Watson, 31, told police that his new bride appeared to panic 45 feet underwater and that he \"looked into her eyes and saw her eyes were wide open, but there was no response,\" Townsville Coroner David Glascow said in his inquest findings.",
"Glascow, however, cited what he said were inconsistencies in Watson's statements to investigators.",
"The coroner said he was \"unable to conclude that Tina's death was an accidental drowning.\"",
"Watch Tina Watson's family demand justice » .",
"The couple married just 11 days earlier in Birmingham, Alabama.",
"They left their home in Hoover, Alabama, for their Australian honeymoon two days later, the coroner said.",
"As possible evidence for the husband's motive, Glascow pointed to a statement by the woman's father that Watson asked her to maximize her life insurance and make him the beneficiary shortly before the wedding.",
"The insurance company confirmed that Gabe Watson inquired about her life insurance policy after her death, the coroner said.",
"The coroner noted that Watson, through his lawyers, contended that police had made a judgment that he killed his wife before they began their investigation and that they tailored their investigation to fit their theory.",
"Glascow said he saw no evidence of police rushing to judgment.",
"\"It appears certain that at some point in time, investigators considered some of Gabe's explanations lacked credibility, and it further appears to me that investigators gave Gabe the opportunity to clarify matters which may have caused concern,\" the coroner said.",
"The husband was an experienced diver, and his new wife was considered a novice, the coroner said.",
"They were diving on the Yongala shipwreck about 42 miles off the coast of Townsville in the state of Queensland, Australia."
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"Coroner unable to conclude that Watson's death was accidental ."
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"KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepalese authorities Thursday detained at least 650 Tibetan exiles protesting against China's policies in the province ahead of this weekend's Olympic torch relay in Tibet, security officials in Kathmandu said.",
"A protester is grabbed by Nepalese police during a demonstration in Kathmandu.",
"Police also arrested and charged three local Tibetan community leaders with organizing the protest, after seizing them from their homes Thursday morning.",
"It is the largest single-day round-up of Tibetan protesters in Nepal since the demonstrations broke out in March following China's bloody crackdown on protesters in Tibet.",
"It is also the first time that Nepalese authorities have charged any Tibetan exiles in connection with the protests.",
"Nepalese police forcefully dragged some of the protesters to awaiting vans and drove them to police stations across the capital.",
"Tibetan exile groups said 900 protesters were detained Thursday.",
"Authorities said the three arrested leaders -- two women and a man -- were responsible for the near-daily protests since March and will be held for 90 days under Nepal's public security act.",
"\"They have been arrested for damaging the diplomatic relations between Nepal and China,\" said civilian security officer Jaya Mukunda Khanal.",
"The two women arrested and charged for organizing the protests were Ngwang Sangmo, president of Tibetan Women's Association, and Tashi Dolma, vice president of the association.",
"Also charged was Kelsang Chung, director of the Tibetan Reception Center, which helps Tibetan refugees in Nepal emigrate to India, where the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, lives in exile.",
"While they are the first Tibetan exiles formally arrested, protesters have previously been detained and released hours later.",
"The crackdown comes days before the Olympic torch relay in Tibet.",
"The torch relay wrapped up in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Wednesday, and will continue in Tibet's capital of Lhasa on Saturday, according to China's Olympic Web site."
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"(CNN) -- The son of a man who died from intestinal problems says he now wonders whether his father's wife might have poisoned him.",
"Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking.",
"She is charged with hiring a hit man to kill her husband.",
"Betty Neumar, 76, was charged by North Carolina authorities last month with one count of solicitation of murder in the July 1986 death of Harold Gentry, one of her five dead spouses since the 1950s.",
"Since the arrest, authorities have launched an investigation into the deaths of her previous husbands, including John Neumar Sr., her fifth husband.",
"Neumar's son appeared on \"Nancy Grace\" on Wednesday along with Jay Almond, a news editor with the Stanly News and Press in North Carolina.",
"\"It wasn't long after my father married her that he started being sick,\" Neumar said.",
"He said he learned of his father's death when he read it in a local newspaper.",
"Betty Neumar has not been charged in connection with that death or her other three husbands.",
"\"She has only been charged in one state,\" her attorney Charles Parnell said.",
"\"I want to remind everybody she has only been charged in North Carolina, and obviously, she is presumed to be innocent.",
"There is nothing with the other states because there are no charges at this particular time.\"",
"Here is an edited transcript of the show: .",
"Neumar: You know, actually, murder almost never crossed my mind until the Gentry case came up.",
"In fact, we did not know she was married all this time.",
"We just thought that she was married one time and she was a widow lady who married my father.",
"Well, it wasn't long after my father married her that he started being sick and everything.",
"And he was never sick a day in his life [before then].",
"And I figured something was wrong because he put -- such a wedge became between our families that shouldn't have existed.",
"We were so close. And the longer she was married to him, the less we had to do with him and the more time it seemed like he was sick but she wouldn't let us know about it.",
"In fact, when he did die, I read about it in the newspaper and didn't even know he was dead.",
"And when I went to the funeral home, she already had him cremated.",
"Grace: Had him cremated?",
"Neumar: Correct.",
"Grace: Mr. Neumar, what was the cause of death of your father?",
"Neumar: Well, it's a complicated thing, and I'm not very good with these technical terms and all.",
"But from what the doctors say, it was some type of stomach and bowel and, you know, intestine problem and everything, which I've been told later by some people that the symptoms that he had could be caused by arsenic poisoning.",
"Grace: John, when you first met her, didn't you tell me you believed at that time she was a widow, a one-time widow that married your father?",
"Neumar: Right.",
"That was correct. We were told that her husband just passed away, and my mother had passed away a couple years before that.",
"And we -- you know, we just figured it was a widow and a widower getting married.",
"Grace: How did she meet your father?",
"Neumar: A friend of his went up there to where she had a salon to get haircutting.",
"My father, he went to go up there and get his haircut because I think his barber had retired.",
"So he went up there to get his haircut, and that's where he met her.",
"Grace: And how long after they met did they marry?",
"Neumar: You know, I'm bad with time frame, but I'd say, I think within a year or something like that [1989].",
"Grace: Quick courtship.",
"... Jay Almond, news editor: The information I have is based on an investigation that the Stanly County Sheriff's Office is running, and information there is that the D.A.",
"'s office and the Stanly County sheriff have gathered evidence from witnesses saying that Betty Neumar solicited to commit murder to her husband, Harold.",
"Thomas Harold Gentry was shot to death in Norwood home near the back door inside the home.",
"He was found by friends or family members -- I believe friendly members sent there by his employers.",
"He didn't report to work.",
"... And [they] discover him there dead, and then the investigation there ensues but did not lead to anything enough to press charges against anyone.",
"Grace: .. Jay, what can you tell me about this woman?",
"What is her background? Almond: She's a 76-year-old widow ... and she's been married four other times.",
"She initially was inviting to family members, but then sort of became more of a wedge in the family and has gone from there, got colder and -- with previous family members."
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"(CNN) -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday morning that child rapists cannot be given the death penalty, effectively reserving the punishment only for murderers.",
"CNN's Jeffrey Toobin said the court's ruling falls in line with other decisions on the death penalty.",
"The 5-4 decision stems from a Louisiana case in which Patrick Kennedy, 43, was sentenced to die in 2003 for the sexual assault of his 8-year-old stepdaughter.",
"Proponents of Louisiana's law, which allowed child rapists to be eligible for the death penalty, say that besides murder, no crime is more deserving of the death penalty than child rape.",
"Kennedy would have been the first rapist in 44 years to be executed for a crime in which the victim was not killed.",
"In the majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy said \"evolving standards of decency\" forbid capital punishment for any crime other than murder.",
"CNN's senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, spoke with CNN's Heidi Collins outside the Supreme Court about the impact of the ruling.",
"Collins: This is a huge decision here.",
"What do you make of it? Toobin: It was just high drama in the court today.",
"It's always dramatic at the end of the Supreme Court term.",
"Here it was literally life and death, one of the big open questions in constitutional law about the death penalty: Can you execute someone for a crime other than murder?",
"Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote on so many cases, decided this case, it was 5-4. ...",
"He didn't diminish the seriousness of the crime, but he said the risks of expanding the death penalty are simply too great.",
"He pointed out that there are more than 5,000 child rapes every year in the United States.",
"All of them would raise the possibility of the death penalty.",
"There are only a handful of states -- I think it was six -- that allow the death penalty for child rape.",
"Forty-four states and the federal government say no.",
"He said there is a national consensus that this is not an appropriate punishment.",
"So, this really rules out not just the death penalty for child rape, but any crime other than murder.",
"So it's a major, major decision.",
"See more about the reach of the decision » .",
"Collins: A national consensus except those six states.",
"It's interesting when you look at the court of public opinion.",
"How do you think this decision is going to go down in public?",
"Toobin: Well, I think it's a tough call because support for the death penalty nationwide in the past 10 years has actually been going down.",
"But child rape is such a horrendous crime and all of us have such a natural revulsion towards it that you're never going to get a lot of support for any sort of reduction in sentence.",
"But I think, given the fact that this is a Supreme Court that said no death penalty for murderers under 18, no death penalty for the mentally retarded, this decision is consistent with a certain restriction on the death penalty, which is reflected in the court but also in a kind of national change that's going on.",
"Collins: And in Sean Callebs' piece that we had, I don't know if you heard it.",
"Toobin: I saw it, yeah.",
"Collins: One woman, who actually brought up a very interesting point, when you think about all of this and when you think about the child, the victim, she said, you know, if they know they're going to die for this crime, why would they leave a living witness?",
"Toobin: Justice Kennedy made precisely that point in the opinion.",
"He said, allowing the death penalty here would create a perverse incentive for child rapists to murder their victims.",
"He also pointed out what a difficult moral choice it would put child victims in testifying, giving children literally the power of life and death in their testimony over their attackers.",
"That is something that he wanted to relieve children of -- that burden.",
"Collins: Will they always have to testify?",
"Toobin: Yeah, pretty much.",
"There have been rare examples ... if a child, for example, is simply too young to testify.",
"There are horrible cases of rapes of babies and things like that.",
"But by and large there has to be some sort of testimony from a child.",
"It can be in a noncourtroom setting.",
"It can be sort of in a deposition, not in front of the jury.",
"But you do have to have the child testify.",
"Collins: It's just such a tough decision all around.",
"5-4 on that one, very interesting."
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"YUSUFIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- Female suicide bombers, who often slip through security checkpoints untouched because of cultural norms, are taking a more deadly toll than ever across Iraq.",
"A female suicide bomber struck northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 16.",
"But the U.S. Army has created a solution with \"Daughters of Iraq,\" a program that trains Iraqi women to find female suicide bombers.",
"Women carried out eight bombings in all of 2007, according to the U.S. military.",
"Halfway through 2008, the number of female suicide bombers is 20.",
"A suicide attack carried out by a woman on Sunday in Baquba killed at least 16 people and wounded another 40.",
"\"Daughters of Iraq\" is a spinoff of \"Sons of Iraq,\" which employs Iraqi men to run checkpoints and is credited with taking much of the steam out of the insurgency.",
"The goal of the women's program is twofold: to protect against female suicide bombers, and to provide much-needed income to Iraqi women with few chances for employment.",
"In the town of Yusufiya, southwest of Baghdad, some 30 women are being trained to search other females at security checkpoints -- something men are forbidden to do under Iraqi cultural norms.",
"In mid-May, a female suicide bomber killed an Iraqi army officer in this town.",
"\"When he came out to meet her to help her with a problem she was having, she detonated the vest and killed him and injured some of his soldiers,\" said Michael Starz, a U.S. Army captain.",
"The women will work two or three days a month, making up to $300, an Iraqi military officer explained to applicants.",
"In a community, where families struggle to survive, that's good money.",
"Watch how \"Daughters of Iraq\" works » .",
"The women come from small farming communities.",
"Many of them are widows with numerous children and almost no income.",
"Such is the story of Fawzia, who has six children to support.",
"Her husband was shot to death when his car broke down.",
"\"I am ready (to work) as long as it helps me financially,\" she said.",
"\"I have five children in school.\"",
"Having women work in this tradition-bound society is a social revolution, according to Fatima, a volunteer leader, told CNN's Jill Dougherty.",
"\"Many women would like to do it but their parents would not agree because it's a rural society and it's shameful for girls to go outside the home.\""
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"(CNN) -- Investigators looking for the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to tomatoes will focus on farms in Mexico and Florida, federal health authorities said Friday.",
"Since April, more than 500 people have contracted the same strain of salmonella, linked to raw tomatoes.",
"The tracebacks \"have taken us from point of consumption all the way back to certain farms in Mexico and Florida,\" said Dr. David Acheson, associate commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration.",
"The agency will send teams of investigators to farms in both locations this weekend as well as to the pathways from those farms in an attempt to determine where the contamination occurred, he said.",
"The tomatoes may not have been contaminated on a farm, he stressed; the contamination could have occurred in a packing shed, warehouse, supplier chain or distribution center.",
"\"We are going to all of those places to see if there are any problems that could indicate how or why these tomatoes got contaminated,\" he said.",
"The reported advance in the investigation came as the toll mounted, with 552 people identified as having contracted the strain of Salmonella Saintpaul since April in 32 states and the District of Columbia.",
"It is one of the biggest outbreaks of tomato-caused illness in history, officials said.",
"See where the cases have been reported » .",
"Though the number of reported victims has risen dramatically in recent days, that does not signify a large number of new infections, Acheson said.",
"Instead, he credited improved surveillance and laboratory identification of previously submitted strains for the increased number.",
"The bulk of the new reports were in Texas, which tallied 265 cases, according to Ian Williams, chief of the OutbreakNet Team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"At least 53 of the victims, whose ages range from 1 to 88 years, have been hospitalized.",
"The victims are almost evenly split between males and females.",
"Though no deaths have been officially attributed to the outbreak, a man in his 60s in Texas who had cancer also had the infection, which may have contributed to his death, Williams said.",
"The outbreak began April 10, and the latest case was reported June 10."
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"Tomatoes may have been contaminated after leaving the farm .",
"Outbreak stands at 552 cases since April in 32 states, District of Columbia ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congress passed a $300 billion farm bill over President Bush's veto for a second time Wednesday, a step made necessary by a clerical error when the original bill passed.",
"Congress overrode President Bush's second veto of a $300 billion farm bill.",
"The Senate voted 80-14 to approve the measure over Bush's objections, following a 317-109 vote in the House of Representatives.",
"Both votes were well above the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto, which Bush delivered Wednesday morning.",
"Congress overrode an earlier veto of the farm bill last month, even though lawmakers had discovered that 34 pages were missing in the version originally sent to the White House.",
"In spiking the latest version, Bush said he objected to its continued subsidies for the wealthy and its use of budget gimmicks to hide a $20 billion increase in spending.",
"But Sen. Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the measure actually saves the government $110 million.",
"\"This bill does not add to the deficit or debt, because this bill is paid for,\" he said.",
"\"That is not my claim. That is the finding of the Congressional Budget Office.\"",
"The discovery of the missing section, Title III, prompted concerns from House Republicans that the override vote was improper.",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the sections of the bill that were originally sent to the president had become law after Congress voted to override Bush's first veto.",
"But to put Title III into effect, Congress re-passed the entire legislation, including the missing pages, and resent it to Bush.",
"The House voted 306-110 at the end of May.",
"The Senate voted 77-15 for the bill at the beginning of June.",
"Two-thirds of the $300 billion in spending for the farm bill will go for nutrition programs such as food stamps.",
"Another $40 billion will go toward farm subsidies, and $30 billion is allocated for payments to farms to keep land idle and other environmental programs.",
"After vetoing the latest version of the farm bill, Bush scolded Congress on Wednesday for not \"modifying certain objectionable, onerous and fiscally imprudent provisions. ...",
"I am returning this bill for the same reasons as stated in my veto message.\"",
"When he vetoed the first version of the farm bill, Bush said it \"continues subsidies for the wealthy and increases farm bill spending by more than $20 billion, while using budget gimmicks to hide much of the increase.\"",
"The president said it would hurt efforts to improve American farmers' access to overseas markets.",
"Congress has passed one other bill over Bush's objections: legislation for a $23 billion water project that the president vetoed in 2007.",
"CNN Capitol Hill producer Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Luke Russert, son of journalist Tim Russert, was part of a panel Wednesday that discussed youth voting on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"Luke Russert says dinner table political discussions were part of his upbringing.",
"Besides the youth vote, Russert discussed his father's death, his upbringing and his own future in journalism and political commentary.",
"Tim Russert, 58, was the host of NBC's \"Meet the Press\" and one of America's leading political journalists.",
"He died of a heart attack after collapsing at the network's Washington bureau on June 13.",
"The following is an edited version of the show's transcript.",
"Watch video of the discussion » .",
"Larry King: How did you learn of your dad's passing?",
"Luke Russert: I was in Florence, and I was at an Italian sports bar watching the Italy versus Romania game, and I got a call from my dad's secretary that said he had fainted, and could I get in touch with my mother.",
"Luckily, I was right across the street from the hotel where my mom was.",
"I ran up to her room and said, \"Dad has fainted.\"",
"And we kind of learned in increments of what exactly happened.",
"So it was basically about a half-hour after first hearing that he fainted that we actually knew he collapsed and had a heart attack.",
"And at first, I was upset that I was so far away and removed.",
"And I really wanted to be there.",
"But in reality, it was really a blessing to be an ocean away, because it allowed my mother and me to have some real private time to collect our thoughts, to grieve in private, and not be inundated with all the media coverage and all the phone calls.",
"So, you know, it was something that -- it was difficult, but to have that little cocoon, I think my mother and I really used it to our benefit.",
"King: Must have been a long flight back.",
"Russert: It was. It was a long nine-hour flight.",
"But my mother has been so strong through this.",
"And my family has been there for me every step of the way.",
"My girlfriend has been wonderful.",
"So I can't thank everybody enough.",
"And obviously this happened, but it has made it a lot easier to have such good friends at NBC and all through Washington and my family personally.",
"King: Were you brought up talking politics?",
"Russert: I was. It was always something that was always talked around the dinner table with my father and my mother from a very young age.",
"One of my earliest memories is being a young toddler and remembering Ronald Reagan's face on television.",
"My dad was watching a press conference, most likely at that time on CNN.",
"And it was just something that I always grew up around.",
"And we also talked a lot of sports.",
"We talked a lot of culture.",
"But politics was something that I guess has been engrained in me at a very, very young age.",
"King: Did he pick the brains of you and your friends?",
"Russert: He did. We would actually have some fun discussions where I would assume the role of who his guest would be on Sunday and try to answer the questions that he threw at me.",
"And sometimes, if I could answer a question pretty well, he'd say, \"That question's too easy, I've got to get rid of it.\"",
"So sometimes, I was a guinea pig for politicians.",
"But it was a lot of fun. I enjoyed doing it. And he would also pick the brains of some of my friends.",
"Some did pretty well, and some didn't.",
"But he was always kind to all of us.",
"King: When did you first vote?",
"Russert: I first voted when I was 18, which would have been 2004.",
"And I registered at the same time I registered for the Selective Service, which I think they do here in the District of Columbia.",
"So I've been a registered voter since 2004, and that's the first time I cast an official ballot.",
"King: How did it feel to vote?",
"Russert: It felt great.",
"It kind of felt like you became a man or at least an adult in some capacity.",
"That your decision -- your decision -- became part of the country and its leadership.",
"And I'll never forget the way I voted was I was in college my freshman year, 2004, so I had to go by absentee ballot.",
"And I was going to meet my father in South Bend, Indiana, for the Notre Dame/Boston College game.",
"And I said, \"Dad, I'd rather you bring the ballot personally so it doesn't have to go through the mail, send it up to me in Boston.\"",
"So he brought the ballot, and I filled out my absentee ballot in a South Bend, Indiana, hotel room, and he brought it back and put it right in the FedEx for me.",
"King: We have an e-mail question for you from David in Cary, North Carolina.",
"\"Luke, my condolences,\" it said.",
"\"You've shown great strength and character in recent days.",
"Any chance we'll see you reporting or doing commentary about the 2008 election?\"",
"Russert: Oh yes, you just might.",
"It's something that I'm definitely interested in.",
"I think that I will probably be part of the peacock network.",
"But you never know.",
"I still have the sports show on XM Radio and Carville, and I kind of go into politics.",
"But I wouldn't mind. King: What if CNN made a bid for you?",
"Russert: I'd be your assistant, Larry?",
"King: You got it. You could come to work for us.",
"I think I can speak for management.",
"In fact, they'll probably talk to you tomorrow based on just how well you're handling yourself tonight.",
"Russert: Well, I appreciate it.",
"Everyone has been so kind.",
"I'd love to have the opportunity to come out here and talk about something that is important to me.",
"And it was important to my father, which was young people getting involved.",
"That really is the important issue tonight.",
"Not me. That's important."
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"(CNN) -- The first pictures from NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which successfully touched down near Mars' north pole Sunday, showed a pattern of brown polygons as far as the camera could see.",
"The Mars Phoenix Lander took this image of the planet's surface at its landing site Sunday.",
"\"It's surprisingly close to what we expected and that's what surprises me most,\" said Peter Smith, the mission's principal investigator.",
"\"I expected a bigger surprise.\"",
"The landing on the Red Planet's arctic plains -- which ended a 296-day journey -- was right on target, a feat NASA's Ed Weiler compared to landing a hole-in-one with a golf ball from 10,000 miles.",
"The landing -- dubbed the \"seven minutes of terror\" -- was a nerve-wracking experience for mission managers, who have witnessed the failure of similar missions.",
"In mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, they celebrated the lander's much-anticipated entry.",
"\"It was better than we could have imagined,\" Barry Goldstein, project manager for the Phoenix mission, told CNN.",
"Watch the celebration at mission control » .",
"The Phoenix's 90-day mission is to analyze the soils and permafrost of Mars' arctic tundra for signs of past or present life.",
"The lander is equipped with a robotic arm capable of scooping up ice and dirt to look for organic evidence that life once existed there, or even exists now.",
"\"We are not going to be able to answer the final question of is there life on Mars,\" said principal investigator Peter Smith, an optical scientist with the University of Arizona.",
"\"We will take the next important step.",
"We'll find out if there's organic material associated with this ice in the polar regions.",
"Ice is a preserver, and if there ever were organics on Mars and they got into that ice, they will still be there today.\"",
"The twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor spacecraft.",
"They were originally part of the \"better, faster, cheaper\" program, formulated by then-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin to beef up planetary exploration on a lean budget.",
"But Polar malfunctioned during its descent into Mars' atmosphere in 1999 and crashed.",
"An investigation concluded that as many as a dozen design flaws or malfunctions doomed the spacecraft.",
"The failure of that mission, as well as another spacecraft called the Mars Climate Orbiter the same year, led to NASA to put future missions on hold and rethink the \"better, faster, cheaper\" approach.",
"Mars Surveyor went to the warehouse.",
"Watch the challenges the mission faced » .",
"But all was not lost. In 2003, Smith proposed a plan to re-engineer the Mars Surveyor and fly it on a mission to look for signatures of life in the ice and dirt of Mars far North.",
"Mars Phoenix, literally and figuratively, rose from the ashes of Surveyor.",
"Engineers set to work, testing and retesting the onboard system to ferret out and fix all the flaws they could find.",
"iReport.com: Send your photos, video of space .",
"\"We always have to be scared to death,\" Goldstein said.",
"\"The minute we lose fear is the minute that we stop looking for the next problem.\"",
"The team was concerned about the Phoenix landing system.",
"NASA had not successfully landed a probe on Mars using landing legs and stabilizing thrusters since the Viking missions in the late 1970s.",
"The other three successful Mars landings -- Pathfinder in 1997 and the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in 2004 -- used massive airbags that inflated around the landing craft just before landing to cushion the impact.",
"Learn about NASA's past missions to Mars » .",
"The Phoenix doesn't have airbags because the lander is too big and heavy for them to work properly.",
"Its landing site was targeted for the far northern plains of Mars, near the northern polar ice cap.",
"Data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate large quantities of ice there, likely in the form of permafrost, either on the surface or just barely underground.",
"\"Follow the water\" has become the unifying theme of NASA's Mars exploration strategy.",
"In 2004, the rover Opportunity found evidence that a salty sea once lapped the shores of an area near Mars' equator called Meridiani Planum.",
"Astrobiologists generally agree that it's best to look for life in wet places.",
"CNN's Kate Tobin contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities in Fayetteville, North Carolina, are investigating the death of a pregnant soldier whose body was found Saturday morning in a motel, police said.",
"Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, 23, was a dental specialist from Cold Springs, Kentucky, according to a statement from Fort Bragg, where Touma was assigned to the 19th Replacement Company.",
"Fayetteville police found her body late Saturday morning when they responded to a call about a strong odor coming from one of the rooms.",
"The body was sent to the state Medical Examiner's office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to determine the cause of death.",
"Touma, who was seven months pregnant, arrived at Fort Bragg on June 12.",
"In five years with the Army, she had served with the U.S. Army Dental Activity Clinic in Bamberg, Germany, and in Fort Drum, New York, before her assignment to Fort Bragg.",
"Touma is the second pregnant service member to die in North Carolina in recent months.",
"The remains of Lance Cpl.",
"Maria Lauterbach and her fetus were found beneath in a fire pit January 11 in Marine Cpl.",
"Cesar Laurean's backyard.",
"Watch how police found body » .",
"Authorities said Laurean killed Lauterbach on December 14, 2007, and used her ATM card 10 days later before fleeing to Mexico.",
"He was taken into custody after he walked up to a roadblock set up by a local anti-kidnapping task force investigating another case.",
"Laurean is awaiting extradition to North Carolina."
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"Editor's note: Saturday marks one year since Hamas' defeat of Fatah in the fierce struggle for control of Gaza.",
"CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman has been covering the region for over 15 years.",
"He reports from Gaza on daily life and reality over the past year in this fractious land.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman reports on the past year in Gaza, where people are safer but out of food, gas, and patience.",
"GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- \"If you take pictures, I'll kill you!",
"I'll kill you!\" screamed a masked Fatah gunman, pointing his AK-47 assault rifle at my cameraman, Joe Duran.",
"\"Calm down! Calm down!\" I shouted back at him, turning to Joe to tell him to put the camera down.",
"Joe and I had ducked into a fruit and vegetable shop in Gaza City.",
"We had been covering the funeral of a Fatah gunman killed in a clash with Hamas rivals when our third gunbattle of the day had broken out.",
"The gunman left, much to everyone's relief, and I put my small video camera on the floor and pressed the button to record the constant roar of machine gun fire, which went on for more than half an hour.",
"Earlier in the day, Joe and I were on a street corner videotaping Hamas militiamen when a jeep full of Fatah irregulars opened fire, just down the street from an elementary school.",
"As guns blazed, schoolchildren ran for cover.",
"I watched as shopkeeper Khadar Aliyan slammed shut the doors of his grocery store, the expression on his face one of fear and utter exasperation.",
"\"I'm going home,\" he told me.",
"\"I'm afraid. We're done for. It's never been this bad.\" It was violence like this, which we witnessed on December 2006, that reached a climax in the second week of June 2007.",
"When it ended on June 14, 2007, with Hamas roundly defeating Fatah, Gaza went quiet.",
"And quiet -- relative quiet, that is -- has been Hamas' biggest accomplishment since.",
"No longer do you worry about being kidnapped.",
"Gunbattles, though they can happen, are much less common.",
"After last June's takeover (or coup d'etat, as Fatah supporters call it), Hamas quickly imposed law and order, tried to reacquaint Gaza's drivers with long-forgotten traffic regulations, launched a municipal cleanup campaign, and forced the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who had been held in captivity for almost six months.",
"Chaos-weary Gazans applauded all of these initiatives.",
"But the honeymoon ended quickly as reality sank in.",
"Since Hamas won parliamentary elections in January 2006, and even more so since last year's takeover, Israel has tightened its siege of Gaza.",
"Israel has restricted supplies of gasoline, diesel and electricity to Gaza, limited the amount of food and other goods entering the strip, and made it virtually impossible for manufacturers and farmers in Gaza to export anything to the outside world.",
"Israeli officials say these measures are intended to pressure Hamas, which is on the U.S. government list of terrorist groups, to stop its members and other factions from firing mortars and rockets into Israel.",
"Israel Defense Forces reports that 1,500 Qassam rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza in 2007, and 2,383 in the past six years.",
"As a result, almost all of Gaza's factories have shut down and thousands of workers have lost their jobs.",
"Between 70 and 80 percent of the population is dependent on food supplied by the United Nations Refugee Works Agency, set up after more than 700,000 Palestinians became refugees after the war that resulted in Israel's creation in 1948.",
"Life in Gaza, never easy, in the last year has become a grinding daily struggle to make ends meet.",
"For the vast majority of Gazans, it means they must spend much of their time trying to secure basic commodities.",
"Such as cooking gas, which comes from Israel.",
"In the past, when supplies were plentiful, it was sold from the back of trucks and donkey carts.",
"Not anymore. When there are supplies, people flock to a few distribution centers.",
"One is a hot, crowded compound north of Gaza City, where the stench of gas is so strong you shudder with fear that someone will light a cigarette and the whole place will go up in flames.",
"People have to wait for their cooking gas for hours some claim days, in the hot sun.",
"There I met a woman who identified herself as Um Wadi'a (the mother of Wadi'a), who at 2 p.m. told me she had been waiting since 5 a.m. She said she had run out of cooking gas three days before.",
"Typical of so many people here, she blamed both main Palestinian factions for her woes.",
"\"Hamas hasn't done anything for us, nor has Fatah,\" she said.",
"\"All those people want is to sit comfortably on their thrones.\"",
"In Gaza City, long lines of immobile cars and trucks wind around the block from gas stations, their owners waiting, surprisingly patiently, for supplies to arrive.",
"The only other option is to go in search of black market gasoline, much of it smuggled through tunnels from Egypt.",
"It goes for more than $10 a liter, which comes close to almost $50 a gallon.",
"It is now common for families to divide up responsibilities for the day.",
"One family member will go in search of cooking gas, another will join the line for gasoline or diesel, another for whatever else is in short supply.",
"To get around the shortages, some motorists mix their fuel with cooking oil, a practice that isn't particularly good for the motor.",
"Many people complain that it's unhealthy -- but it works.",
"Others, like electrical engineer Wasim Khazandar, are thinking completely outside the box.",
"Wasim has invented an electric car, which he is more than happy to show off.",
"He's already received dozens of orders from motorists weary of the search for fuel.",
"Beyond material concerns, there are worries here that Hamas has a barely concealed hardline Islamist agenda, and one often hears complaints that the group is intolerant of any form of dissent or criticism.",
"One man who can testify to that is Ibrahim Abu Al-Naja, the most senior Fatah leader to remain in Gaza after most fled to safety in Ramallah.",
"Abu Al-Naja is from the Fatah old school, a grizzled veteran of the group's wars in Lebanon.",
"He told me earlier this year Hamas security officials showed up at his home late at night, bound his hands, put a blindfold on him and dragged him to their headquarters, where they shaved his head and cut off his moustache, then released him without apology or explanation.",
"He makes no excuses for Fatah's dismal track record of corruption and mismanagement when it ran Gaza, but says the crisis that began with Hamas' rise to power is nothing short of a catastrophe.",
"\"Our people has been transformed,\" he said, \"into a desperate people, who must search for food, for the minimum of survival.",
"It's as if we returned to 1948, dependent on gifts and assistance and relief.\"",
"Despite all the difficulties of life under Hamas, despite all the grumbling, the men who run Gaza are as confident today as they were a year ago that they will weather the crisis and emerge stronger.",
"Last Wednesday I went to see Ahmed Yusif, a senior adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.",
"\"Whatever the Israelis think,\" said the U.S.-educated Yusif, \"whatever pressure they put on us, it's not going to make us buckle or give concessions.",
"\"This is part of the Palestinian struggle for more than 60 years living in the refugee camps,\" he said.",
"\"We don't always enjoy a good life.",
"It's the toughness and the suffering [that] are part of the struggle.\"",
"Others here don't quite see it that way, like a man I met in Gaza's old market who would only identify himself as Abu Khalid.",
"I asked him if he was better off today than a year ago.",
"He laughed, cursed Israel, Hamas, Fatah, the United States, the European Union and the rest of the world, then made the following suggestion: \"Let them open a market in Gaza so we can sell some of our children [in order to] feed the rest.\""
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"One woman: \"Hamas hasn't done anything for us, nor has Fatah\""
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- With polls closed for a Zimbabwe runoff that opposition politicians and international observers call a sham, alleged torture victims who support former candidate Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday that they back his decision to pull out of the race.",
"Many of the injured being treated at a private hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, asked not to be identified.",
"\"It's a good move by my president, Morgan Tsvangirai,\" said a 26-year-old Movement for Democratic Change activist who said he was forced to stand on hot coals and had boiling water poured on him about a week ago.",
"\"There's no use going for an election.\"",
"The man, who displayed a large, pale, blistered patch on his back, asked not to be identified -- as did others being treated at a private hospital in Harare -- for fear of further attacks by gangs supportive of President Robert Mugabe.",
"All of the victims said they were taken to \"torture bases\" by the gangs, made up of young men and soldiers.",
"In the March 29 election, MDC officials said their polling showed Tsvangirai clearly defeating Mugabe, who at 84 is the only president Zimbabwe has had since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.",
"But after delaying the release of results for more than a week, the country's electoral commission -- which is made up of Mugabe appointees -- said that although Tsvangirai got more votes, he didn't top the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff.",
"MDC supporters had already reported violence against them by police, military members and other supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.",
"But in the weeks leading up to the runoff, the reports increased in frequency and intensity.",
"More than 70 people were killed in attacks since the election, according to the MDC.",
"Mugabe's supporters have claimed that those attacks were against his party members, a claim international observers, including the United Nations, have disputed.",
"Watch victims say they were taken to torture camps » .",
"Tsvangirai and other party leaders were repeatedly arrested by police or detained on their way to political rallies.",
"And reports of beatings and other intimidation tactics were common in areas where the MDC had made strong showings in the election.",
"\"Mostly for the rural people -- the police would come in for the Zanu-PF, so the area was very tense,\" said a municipal worker at the hospital, who said he was kicked and had burning plastic poured on his skin about three or four days ago.",
"\"Everyone was beaten.",
"Whether Zanu-PF or MDC.",
"There was chaos in the country.\"",
"George Charamba, a spokesman for Mugabe, insisted that the vote was \"free and fair.\"",
"Charamba denied that any pressure was being used.",
"Asked about images from Zimbabwe showing what is reported to be violence against members of the opposition, he responded, \"I thought we are long past the age where we could consider pictures as not lying.",
"It's very, very easy for anyone to stage-manage a demonstration, and a violent one at that.\"",
"Last weekend, Tsvangirai withdrew from the runoff, saying there was no way the result would be legitimate.",
"He has spent much of the time since living in the Dutch Embassy in Harare in fear for his safety.",
"Early Friday, the municipal worker said he was considering whether to heed Tsvangirai's call for his supporters to not vote in the election, but the question may be moot.",
"The gangs took his identification card and threw it into a fire, he said.",
"Another man and a woman treated for broken hands at the hospital said they were tortured and had boiling water poured on their genitals for being MDC supporters.",
"The man said he was forced to drink sewage.",
"Meanwhile, Mugabe laughed and mugged for reporters from Zimbabwe's state-run media as he cast his ballot at a high school.",
"\"Very optimistic, upbeat ... and hungry,\" he said when asked how he was feeling."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's opposition party said four of its activists and the wife of Harare's mayor -- an opposition member -- have been killed by supporters of President Robert Mugabe, just days ahead of next week's presidential runoff.",
"President Robert Mugabe says war veterans will take up arms again if Tsvangirai wins.",
"Thursday's report came as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Mugabe of sponsoring efforts to starve, beat and kill supporters of his opponent Morgan Tzvangirai so he can win the election.",
"Rice was speaking on the same day that Tendai Biti, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change's secretary-general, was charged with treason after being held in jail without charges for a week.",
"If convicted, he could face the death penalty.",
"His arrest and treason charges have been criticized by African and international leaders who characterize it as a ploy by Mugabe supporters to intimidate the opposition party before his June 27 runoff against Tsvangirai.",
"A spokesman for the MDC blamed Mugabe's Zanu-PF party for the five most recent deaths, saying they brought to 70 the number of MDC party members killed since a bitterly contested election three months ago.",
"The body of the mayor's wife, 27-year-old Abigail Chiroto, was found in a mortuary close to the couple's house north of Harare.",
"She had been beaten so severely with rocks and iron bars that her face was almost unrecognizable, MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said.",
"Watch CNN's Nkepile Mabuse report on the violience » .",
"Chiroto was kidnapped, along with her 4-year-old son, on Tuesday.",
"Some of her kidnappers wore military uniforms, Chamisa said.",
"Chiroto's son was released unharmed.",
"Her husband, Emmanuel Chiroto, is an MDC member who was recently elected mayor of Harare.",
"He was not home at the time of the kidnapping.",
"Also Thursday, the MDC said that four other activists were found dead in Chitungwiza.",
"The victims' bodies showed evidence that \"they were heavily tortured until they died,\" an MDC statement said.",
"\"It's unbelievable the way people are being killed or murdered,\" Chiroto said.",
"\"It's almost mass butchering.\"",
"Police confirmed the deaths of the activists but did not link the victims to any political party.",
"Mugabe's party denied any part in the deaths, saying MDC officials made such accusations frequently.",
"\"They are claiming anyone who dies.",
"They phone CNN,\" said Bright Matonga, a Zanu-PF spokesman.",
"\"Whenever someone dies in the hospital, they rush to claim them.\"",
"Matonga said Harare was run by a commission.",
"\"There is no MDC mayor in Zimbabwe,\" he said.",
"\"There is no newly elected mayor in Harare.\"",
"Learn more about Zimbabwe » .",
"In New York, Rice convened a meeting about the situation in Zimbabwe at the United Nations on Thursday.",
"\"Mugabe is increasing violence against [the] opposition.",
"... President Mugabe has squandered the promise of the very nation that was hailed as the jewel of Africa,\" Rice said at a roundtable discussion attended by representatives from many international governments.",
"\"Clearly we have reached a point where broader, stronger, international effort is needed,\" she added.",
"On Friday, a magistrate judge will determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed with a trial against Biti.",
"The judge also will determine whether Biti will be granted bail or will continue to be jailed until the trial.",
"Biti was charged Thursday with treason, communicating false information prejudicial to the state, bringing the office of the president into disrepute and causing disaffection among armed forces, according to a journalist who was in the Harare courtroom.",
"He denies all the charges.",
"Watch Biti arrive for his court hearing » .",
"Biti, wearing a red jacket and looking exhausted, held his head in his hands as the proceedings took place in the packed courtroom.",
"\"I think that one must express very serious objection to the manner in which this whole case is being handled,\" said Tsvangirai, who was in court.",
"\"The accusations are frivolous.\"",
"Three of the charges stem from a document titled \"The Transitional Strategy,\" which Biti is said to have written ahead of the March 29 election.",
"Biti is denying that he wrote the document, and his lawyers described it as \"doctored.\"",
"The fourth charge of communicating falsehoods alleges that Biti announced that Tsvangirai had won the March presidential election by an outright majority, meaning no runoff vote would be needed.",
"In recent weeks, opposition groups and churches have reported numerous cases of kidnappings, torture and other violence in the country targeting opponents of Mugabe.",
"Zanu-PF members have been suspected of being behind the acts.",
"Zanu-PF claims that the MDC is behind the violence.",
"It said MDC members attacked the mayor of Kadoma, a city 140 km (87 miles) southwest of Harare.",
"It also accused MDC activists of causing millions of dollars damage to private business.",
"Last week, Mugabe warned that veterans he commanded in his country's liberation war nearly three decades ago would take up arms again if Tsvangirai won.",
"Watch an ad vilifying Tsvangirai » .",
"The MDC is using word of mouth and file-sharing sites such as YouTube to disseminate its campaign advertisements, claiming that they are banned by state media.",
"The group sent advertisements to supporters via e-mail, asking them to forward them to their friends and relatives.",
"\"Since the regime has denied the MDC access to state media, please send the adverts to as many people as you can,\" the e-mail says.",
"\"A new Zimbabwe is near.",
"The dictator is finished.",
"Let's finish it!\"",
"Mugabe has been Zimbabwe's only leader since the war ended in 1980 but is blamed for the economic collapse of a country once considered a regional breadbasket.",
"Zimbabweans increasingly are unable to afford food and other essentials, with agriculture paralyzed by land reform and the world's highest rate of inflation.",
"Police have arrested Tsvangirai several times in the weeks leading up to the runoff, most recently on Saturday, with 11 other officials and supporters from his party.",
"South African President Thabo Mbeki met Mugabe and Tsvangirai on Wednesday in the hope of quelling tensions.",
"Mbeki was visiting in his capacity as mediator with the 14-nation Southern African Development Community, the South African government said Wednesday.",
"He is under domestic and international pressure for his perceived conciliatory stance toward Mugabe, but the South African leader recently said he would continue his quiet diplomacy despite recent events.",
"CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama decisively defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton in North Carolina Tuesday, but Clinton's narrow victory in Indiana will likely send the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on to the next round of primaries.",
"Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, greet supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina.",
"As polls closed in Indiana, Clinton had a double-digit lead over Obama, but by the end of the evening, Clinton's lead had shrunk, dragging the race out until early Wednesday.",
"A clear winner did not emerge until 1:15 a.m. Wednesday -- seven hours after the polls closed -- because results were slow to come in from Lake County, a Chicago suburb in northwestern Indiana with several precincts that went strongly for Obama.",
"By Wednesday morning, all absentee ballots had been counted in Lake County and the final results showed Obama had taken the county by 12 percentage points.",
"There were 115 delegates at stake in North Carolina and 72 in Indiana.",
"Because Democratic delegates are awarded proportionally, Obama added four delegates to his lead, according to CNN estimates.",
"Obama earlier claimed a decisive victory in North Carolina.",
"With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Obama held a 14-point lead over Clinton.",
"Watch analysis of NC, IN primaries » .",
"\"Some were saying that North Carolina would be a game-changer in this election.",
"But today, what North Carolina decided is that the only game that needs changing is the one in Washington,\" Obama told supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina.",
"Watch Obama thank his supporters » .",
"Obama took an overwhelming 91 percent of the black vote in North Carolina, according to exit polls, while Clinton claimed only 6 percent.",
"Clinton took 59 percent of the white vote compared to 36 percent for Obama, according to the polls.",
"Clinton told her supporters in Indianapolis, \"it's full-speed on to the White House.\"",
"Watch Clinton greet her supporters » .",
"Clinton made a strong pitch to blue-collar workers in Indiana.",
"She pulled a majority of the votes in rural and suburban Indiana during Tuesday's primary.",
"In CNN exit polling, Clinton took 53 percent of the vote in suburban areas, compared with 47 percent for Obama of Illinois.",
"She took 68 percent of the rural vote compared with Obama's 32 percent.",
"In all, 1,738 voters were polled.",
"Clinton had pitched herself as the candidate best-suited to turn around a flailing economy and consciously courted working-class voters in the state -- even driving a pickup truck up to a gas pump once to help promote her proposed temporary rollback of federal tax on gasoline.",
"\"I believe that Americans need a champion in their corners,\" she said at a rally in Indianapolis.",
"\"For too long we've had a president who has stood up and spoken out for the wealthy and the well-connected, but I don't think that's what Americans need.",
"\"Standing up for working people is about the American dream and about the Democratic Party; standing up for the middle class is who we are and what we can be if we stick together.\"",
"Eighty-nine percent of Indiana voters said they have been affected by what they called a recession.",
"Clinton had a slight edge when voters were asked who is most likely to improve the economy -- taking 49 percent to Obama's 47 percent.",
"The candidates now turn their attention to the upcoming contests in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oregon.",
"According to early exit polls, half of Clinton's supporters in Indiana would not vote for Obama in a general election matchup with Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.",
"Watch what the exit polls show » .",
"A third of Clinton voters said they would pick McCain over Obama, while 17 percent said they would not vote at all.",
"Forty-eight percent of Clinton supporters said they would back Obama in November.",
"Obama got even less support from Clinton backers in North Carolina, where 45 percent of Clinton supporters said they would vote for him over McCain.",
"Thirty-eight percent of Clinton supporters said they would vote for McCain while 12 percent said they would not vote.",
"Obama voters appear to be more willing to support Clinton in November.",
"In Indiana, 59 percent of Obama backers said they'd vote for Clinton, and 70 percent of Obama backers in North Carolina said vote for her against McCain.",
"Obama on Tuesday said he didn't agree with those who said his party would not be able to unite.",
"\"Tonight, many of the pundits have suggested that this party is inalterably divided -- that Sen. Clinton's supporters will not support me, and that my supporters will not support her,\" he said.",
"\"I'm here tonight to tell you that I don't believe it.",
"Yes, there have been bruised feelings on both sides.",
"Yes, each side desperately wants their candidate to win.",
"But ultimately, this race is not about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John McCain.",
"\"This election is about you -- the American people -- and whether we will have a president and a party that can lead us toward a brighter future.\"",
"Obama currently leads in pledged delegates and in states won, and he is ahead in the popular vote, if Florida and Michigan are not factored into the equation.",
"Those states are being penalized for moving their primaries up in violation of party rules.",
"With neither candidate expected to win the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination by June 3, the end of the primary season, the final decision will most likely fall to the 796 superdelegates: Democratic governors, members of Congress and party officials.",
"Watch how superdelegates could come into play » .",
"Both candidates have spent the past two weeks shuttling between Indiana and North Carolina, each arguing to crucial working-class voters that their rival is out of touch when it comes to the pocketbook issues that are dominating the campaign.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti, Dan Lothian and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"Clinton wins squeaker in Indiana; Obama cruises in North Carolina .",
"Obama says he does not believe his party is \"inalterably divided\"\n187 delegates were at stake in Tuesday's primaries ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration hailed North Korea's declaration of its nuclear program as a success for the multilateral diplomacy it engaged in through the six party talks with South Korea, China, Japan and Russia.",
"Workers remove fuel rods on the reactor floor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility this year.",
"In fact, North Korea's confessions of many of its nuclear sins -- and its shutdown of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon -- are the closest the international community has come to curbing North Korea's nuclear program.",
"As a result of Pyongyang's handover of the 60-page declaration document -- and Friday's expected destruction of the cooling tower at Yongbyon -- President Bush ordered some sanctions against North Korea lifted and instructed the State Department to remove the reclusive communist nation from U.S. lists of enemies and nations that support terrorism.",
"But as important as what the document says is what it doesn't say.",
"There is no mention of how many weapons North Korea has or where they are hidden.",
"Nor did North Korea admit to a suspected uranium enrichment program or what nuclear secrets it may have shared with Syria.",
"Both issues are reduced in the declaration to \"concerns\" Pyongyang promises to address down the road.",
"Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have pledged a robust verification process to double-check North Korea's claims.",
"And North Korea has promised to allow U.S. inspectors access to the Yongbyon facility and to interview its nuclear experts.",
"But it is far from clear whether Pyongyang will allow the kind of intrusive inspections of its entire nuclear arsenal that the United States will need to get a complete picture of North Korea's program.",
"Congressional Republicans not so sure about Pyongyang .",
"The stiffest opposition to the deal is coming from conservative Republicans.",
"Once considered President Bush's strongest allies in confronting North Korea's nuclear ambition, they feel that the Bush administration has let North Korea off the hook, especially when it comes to its enriched uranium program and suspected proliferation to Syria.",
"Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed \"profound disappointment\" over Bush's announcement that North Korea would be coming off the lists of enemies and state sponsors of terrorism.",
"And Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Michigan, the top Republican on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, accused President Bush of sacrificing its principles for a foreign policy success.",
"\"A decision seemingly has been made that it is more important for the White House to reach a legacy agreement than to get to the bottom of North Korea's nuclear efforts,\" Hoekstra said.",
"\"Lifting sanctions and removing North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism flies in the face of history and rewards its brutal dictator for shallow gestures.\"",
"Rep. Ed Royce, R-California, called North Korea's declaration late and incomplete, alleging that North Korea built a nuclear facility for Syria, considered a terrorist state by the United States, while the nuclear negotiations were ongoing.",
"That, he said, was proof that Pyongyang can't be trusted.",
"\"How do you have a meaningful declaration of your nuclear program without saying how many bombs you have?\"",
"Royce asked.",
"\"This is a signal to other proliferating regimes that nuclear weapons will be rewarded without ever having to give them up.\"",
"Democrats, who once criticized Bush for not talking directly to North Korea about its nuclear program, are cautiously supportive of the deal.",
"Howard Berman, the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the North's submission of a declaration \"encouraging.\"",
"Even former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, praised the Bush administration, saying \"engaging our enemies can pay dividends.\"",
"But Kerry added, \"historians will long wonder why this administration did not directly engage North Korea before Pyongyang gathered enough material for several nuclear weapons, tested a nuclear device and the missiles to deliver them.\"",
"Are we headed down the same road with Iran?",
"In his 2002 State of the Union address, Bush termed Iraq, North Korea and Iran the \"axis of evil,\" saying they were \"arming to threaten the peace of the world.\"",
"Fourteen months after delivering that speech -- and after dictator Saddam Hussein released a 12,000-page declaration that it had no weapons of mass destruction -- U.S. forces invaded Iraq.",
"But no such program was found, nor were stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction.",
"More than five years into the war, the United States is still battling al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents there.",
"Six-party talks with North Korea began in 2003, after North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.",
"Progress was limited until 2007, when North Korea agreed to shut down Yongbyon and allow international monitors back into the country for monitoring and verification.",
"Progress has been even more limited for the third member of the \"axis of evil,\" Iran.",
"The Bush administration has joined the other members of the U.N. Security Council -- Britain, France, China and Russia, along with Germany -- in offering Iran a set of political and economic incentives similar to the ones North Korea was given in exchange for suspending its uranium enrichment program.",
"But the United States has refused to sit down with Iran until that suspension takes place.",
"The U.N. Security Council has passed three resolutions imposing sanctions against Iran, and the United States has worked with some success to isolate Iran from the international financial community.",
"But unlike North Korea, which is isolated and desperately in need of international aid, Iran is rich in oil and a powerful force in the Middle East.",
"And it's only getting richer and more immune to sanctions as oil prices skyrocket.",
"And Iran seems to be running out the clock and waiting to try its luck with a new U.S. president.",
"Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has pledged to engage Iran in direct talks to try to curb its nuclear ambitions.",
"Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has taken a much tougher line, refusing to rule out military action to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.",
"With the coming change in the U.S. administration, U.S. officials, diplomats and other Iran experts believe that it would be at least eight months to a year before the United States and Iran could seriously think about talking.",
"Meanwhile, by its own admission, Iran continues to perfect its nuclear technology.",
"If the North Korean experience can serve as a lesson for the next U.S. president, that lesson may well be that the longer the United States waits to talk to Iran, the higher the cost will be to get Tehran out of the nuclear business."
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"(CNN) -- The last of six Texas A&M University mariners who went missing in the Gulf of Mexico was found dead Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard said.",
"The other five crewmates were rescued earlier in the day.",
"Members of the Texas A&M Offshore Sailing Team are shown in this photo from the team's Web site.",
"The deceased mariner was identified by the university as Roger Stone, the vessel's second safety officer.",
"The survivors -- four university students and a safety officer -- told the Coast Guard they were forced off their sailboat after it took on water and capsized.",
"\"The flooding was so fast that the thing flipped over,\" Coast Guard Capt.",
"William Diehl told CNN.",
"The sailboat, named Cynthia Woods, was one of about two dozen boats heading from Galveston, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, for the annual Veracruz Regatta race, which began on Friday.",
"Diehl said the boat was well-stocked with safety equipment -- including emergency radio beacons, life rafts and ring buoys -- but the crew could only manage to find four life jackets after the boat tipped over.",
"\"The survivors told us that [when] they went into the water, they had four life jackets among the five, and they huddled together and they exchanged the life jackets among them so that they could stay afloat,\" Diehl said.",
"Communication with the boat was lost about midnight Friday, and the boat missed its 8 a.m. radio check the next morning, the Coast Guard reported.",
"A sailboat matching the description of the missing 38-foot boat was found overturned about 5:15 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.",
"The five survivors were found several hours later about 23 miles south of Freeport, Texas, according to the Coast Guard's press release.",
"They were lifted to safety by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter around 2 a.m. local time and taken to University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for treatment.",
"The search for the missing crew member involved two Coast Guard helicopters, a Falcon jet, a Marine Corps C-130 -- which has night-vision capabilities -- and the Coast Guard cutter Manowar.",
"All of those on board the capsized sailboat were experienced sailors, Diehl said.",
"\"They were very well trained,\" Diehl said.",
"\"Obviously [they were] the more senior cadets at the university here, and they had very experienced safety people on board.\"",
"When rescuers retrieved the capsized boat's hull, Diehl said the keel was missing.",
"\"That's the part that keeps the sailboat balanced in the water,\" he said.",
"\"And from talking to the survivors this morning, that's where the flooding started for them.\"",
"The 725-mile Veracruz regatta began on Friday and boats are expected to arrive in Veracruz on Wednesday and Thursday."
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"Deceased mariner identified by the university as Roger Stone .",
"Coast Guard rescues five sailors reported missing .",
"Texas A&M sailboat was taking part in regatta from Galveston to Veracruz, Mexico .",
"Boat's six-person crew missed 8 a.m. radio check Saturday ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After wrapping up the longest presidential primary campaign in modern history, Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she is ready to turn her attention back to being the junior senator from New York.",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton is greeted with cheers as she returns to the Senate after a two-week vacation.",
"\"I look forward to being back with this great team,\" she said as she returned to the Senate at the end of a two-week vacation, taken after she conceded the 17-month-long primary contest to Sen. Barack Obama.",
"The second-term New York Democrat pledged to \"immerse myself in there,\" pointing to the chamber.",
"She had just emerged from the party's weekly luncheon, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called \"one of the most emotional caucuses\" he's ever attended on Capitol Hill.",
"He said the New York senator entered the event to a sea of high fives, cheers and a standing ovation from her Democratic colleagues.",
"Clinton said the opportunity to run for the Oval Office allowed her to \"immerse myself in the extraordinary resilience and resourcefulness that is the American people.\"",
"Watch Clinton being greeted with cheers » .",
"\"I come back with an even greater depth of awareness about what we have to do here in Washington,\" she said.",
"\"So many of the concerns that people have expressed to me over the course of this campaign are ones that they can't individually solve.",
"They can't even really take it on just at the state or local level.\"",
"Clinton said that in addition to working \"very hard to elect Sen. Obama our president,\" she plans to campaign on behalf of Democratic Senate candidates.",
"\"We have been unfortunately stymied by the stalling tactics\" of Republicans, she said, noting the need for 60 votes to get any legislation passed in the Senate.",
"\"It's going to be up to the Democratic Party, and particularly the Democratic Senate, to make progress on everything from health care and the economy to ending the war in Iraq,\" she said.",
"\"I look forward to being back with this great team that we have here and doing everything I can to make that happen.\"",
"Clinton said she is not spending time on the possibility that she may be asked to fill the No.",
"2 spot on Sen. Barack Obama's presidential ticket.",
"\"You know, it is not something that I think about,\" she said.",
"\"This is totally Sen. Obama's decision, and that's the way it should be.\"",
"But she made clear, as she tried to do in her ultimate concession speech June 7, that her supporters should not stray toward John McCain, no matter any hard feelings left over from a bruising primary.",
"\"Anyone who voted for me has very little in common with the Republican Party,\" she said.",
"Thursday night, Obama and Clinton are set to meet with key donors in Washington.",
"The next day, the two will appear jointly in Unity, New Hampshire, a small town on that state's western border where the two candidates tied in the January primary.",
"\"This is going to be a symbolic event that I hope will rally the Democratic Party behind the nominee,\" she said.",
"Obama said he looked forward to working with Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, on his campaign for the White House.",
"\"Bill Clinton is one of the most intelligent, charismatic political leaders that we have seen in a generation, and he has got a lot of wisdom to impart,\" Obama said Tuesday.",
"\"We are going to be working very closely with him and Sen. Clinton to make sure that we not only win in November, but we actually govern in a way that delivers on the promise of universal health care, good jobs and good wages, clean energy, lower gas prices, the things that are really going to make an impact on people's lives,\" he said.",
"Watch Obama discuss Clintons' role » .",
"Obama said the senator's presidential campaign had \"enhanced\" her stature in a way that would bolster her efficacy in the Senate.",
"\"She garnered not just votes but passion and support of so many millions of people,\" Obama said.",
"\"She's going to be a force to be reckoned with not only in the Senate, but hopefully, if I'm successful in the White House, she's going to be one of my key partners in making sure that were moving forward on issues like healthcare that she cares so deeply about.\"",
"At an event in Riverside, California, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said Clinton is probably returning to the Senate with greater political clout.",
"\"I think, if I had to guess, that the fact that the she ran an honorable and incredibly long and dedicated campaign for the nomination of her party would indicate to me that she would probably return to the United States senate with enhanced prestige and enhanced influence,\" McCain said.",
"He also praised Clinton for her work on military matters since joining the legislative body in 2001.",
"\"I think that Sen. Clinton has already attained a position of leadership in the United States Senate,\" he said.",
"\"She works hard at her job.",
"She is a very important member of the Armed Services Committee, and I have worked together with her on a variety of national security issues.\"",
"McCain is working hard to persuade Clinton supporters to back his campaign.",
"CNN's Bob Costantini, Lisa Desjardins, Alex Mooney and Peter Hamby contributed."
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"Clinton promises to \"immerse myself\" in the Senate chambers .",
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's Prince William has helped the U.S. Coast Guard bust a drug smuggling boat carrying cocaine worth a minimum of $80 million.",
"Prince William has helped bust a speed boat smuggling $80 million worth of cocaine.",
"William, who is serving in the Royal Navy, helped make the bust last weekend when he spotted a speedboat found to be carrying nearly a ton of cocaine in the Atlantic Ocean, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.",
"William, 26, was one of the crew members aboard a helicopter attached to the frigate HMS Iron Duke who spotted the ocean-going speedboat hundreds of miles northeast of Barbados, the defense ministry said .",
"The 50-foot-long power boat raised suspicions because it was a small vessel far out to sea and resembled a \"go-fast\" boat commonly used for drug smuggling, the ministry said.",
"The boat's location suggested it was en route to Europe or North Africa, it said.",
"The chopper's crew informed the ship's captain about the boat, and U.S. Coast Guard personnel who were on the frigate then boarded the boat.",
"They found 45 bales of cocaine weighing a total of 900 kilograms (just under a ton), the defense ministry said.",
"The cocaine has a minimum street value of $80 million, the ministry said.",
"The bust went smoothly with no violence, defense officials said.",
"Navy crew detained the five men on the boat, which was in poor condition and later sank.",
"William is in the middle of a two-month attachment with the Royal Navy as part of his continued experience with various branches of the military.",
"The prince, who is called sub lieutenant Wales in the navy, is also expected to spend time aboard a mine hunter and submarine during his attachment, which ends August 1.",
"William's vessel, the Iron Duke, is a patrol boat which supports overseas British territories in the event of a hurricane and carries out counter-narcotic operations.",
"William completed a four-month attachment with the Royal Air Force earlier this year and received his pilot's wings on graduation in April.",
"He learned to fly three different aircraft during the attachment and is known as Flying Officer Wales within the RAF.",
"William is already a second lieutenant in the British Army, where he serves in the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry.",
"The attachments are designed to give the prince, who as king will be the head of the armed forces, experience with the military."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Democratic initiative that would have taxed the windfall profits oil companies have enjoyed due to rising energy prices, with the minority leader calling the proposal a \"gimmick.\"",
"Record energy prices have led to record profits for oil companies.",
"The measure failed to achieve the 60 votes required by Senate rules to proceed.",
"The vote was 51-43.",
"Six Republicans, including three seeking re-election in November, broke ranks to support the bill.",
"Two Democrats -- Sen. Mary Landrieu of oil-producing state Louisiana and Majority Leader Harry Reid, who voted no to be able to bring the measure back to the floor under Senate rules -- voted against the measure.",
"Along with placing a special tax of 25 percent on oil companies, the bill would have permitted lawsuits against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the oil-producing cartel, and suspended deposits into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.",
"Profits from renewable energy sources would be excluded from the tax.",
"\"We're not afraid, on this side, to go after Big Oil when they are not doing the right thing,\" said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York.",
"\"And we are not afraid to go after OPEC because they are a cartel that squeezes us.",
"\"We're not afraid to do some strong tough things that will -- some in the short run, some in the longer run -- that will bring down the price, the all too high price, of gasoline.\"",
"Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota, said the measure was needed to \"wring out\" speculators he blamed for driving the price of crude oil to more than $130 a barrel in recent weeks .",
"But Senate Republicans insisted the new taxes ultimately would hurt consumers and cut American oil supply, saying Democrats simply were playing election-year politics.",
"The bill is \"pure and simple a pathetic attempt to even call itself an energy plan,\" said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.",
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, \"Hitting the gas companies might make for good campaign literature or evening news clips, but it won't address the problem.",
"This bill isn't a serious response to gas prices.",
"It is just a gimmick.\" The Kentucky Republican added, \"They are hoping the idea of going after energy companies will create the illusion of action after a week in which they themselves fought for a bill that would make the problem worse.",
"What a political charade.\"",
"As the average cost of gas edged above $4 a gallon, high prices are definitely on the minds of voters.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday shows 40 percent of respondents are more concerned about the cost of gasoline than long lines at the pump, which occurred during the energy crisis of the 1970s.",
"But 55 percent of those surveyed are more worried about the long lines and rationing.",
"The poll results reflect telephone interviews with 1,035 adults on Wednesday and Thursday.",
"The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett, Lisa Desjardins, Matt Smith, Virginia Nicolaidis and Scott J. Anderson contributed to this report."
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"JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Five Europeans rescued Saturday after an Indonesia diving trip went wrong had to fight off a Komodo dragon while they were waiting to be found, according to reports.",
"Rescued diver Kath Mitchinso embraces fellow diver Ernest Lewandowsky as they arrive on Flores island.",
"The group was found at Mantaolan, on the island of Rinca off the Komodo National Park, after going missing Thursday.",
"The divers -- three Britons, a Frenchman and a Swede -- spent two nights on the deserted island, which is home to the large Komodo dragon, before rangers found them Saturday.",
"Frenchman Laurent Pinel, 31, said the group had to fight off one dragon with rocks and scavenged for shellfish as they waited to be rescued, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.",
"\"On the beach a Komodo dragon came amongst us [Friday] afternoon,\" Pinel said, describing how the group had to pelt the dangerous reptile with rocks to scare it away.",
"\"We had nothing to eat.",
"We ate some kind of mussels scraped from the rocks,\" Pinel told the newspaper.",
"The husband of one of the other divers said he was told they were in good condition, although dehydrated.",
"\"I'm just so relieved,\" said Mats Kohler, husband of Helena Neva Lainen.",
"They are both from Sweden. An official said they were being taken to a hospital for examination.",
"Searchers using boats located the missing divers at 11 a.m. Saturday (11 p.m.",
"ET Friday), the official said.",
"They arrived at a hospital in Labuan Bajo, on the western tip of the island of Flores, about two hours later, an official said.",
"Watch a report on the discovery of the missing group » .",
"They were one of two groups of divers who entered the water off Komodo National Park on Thursday and were supposed to be gone for an hour, said an employee of the dive company, Reef Seekers.",
"The second group came back after the hour passed, but the first group failed to resurface, she said.",
"Earlier, an official with the Komodo Divers Association said the group that returned comprised six snorkelers.",
"Among those who went missing was one of the owners of the dive company, Kathleen Mitchinson, the employee said.",
"The seas that the divers were in are known to be dangerous because of their strong tides, and that's one theory being investigated in the divers' disappearance, the employee said."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration has launched a \"significant escalation\" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.",
"An Iranian flag flies outside the building containing the reactor of Bushehr nuclear power plant, south of Tehran.",
"White House, CIA and State Department officials declined comment on Hersh's report, which appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.",
"Hersh told CNN's \"Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer\" that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents.",
"President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb and \"do not want to leave Iran in place with a nuclear program,\" Hersh said.",
"\"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program,\" Hersh said.",
"The new article, \"Preparing the Battlefield,\" is the latest in a series of articles accusing the Bush administration of preparing for war with Iran.",
"He based the report on accounts from current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.",
"Watch Hersh discuss what he says are the administration's plans for Iran » .",
"\"As usual with his quarterly pieces, we'll decline to comment,\" White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told CNN.",
"\"The CIA, as a rule, does not comment on allegations regarding covert operations,\" CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said.",
"Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, denied U.S. raids were being launched from Iraq, where American commanders believe Iran is stoking sectarian warfare and fomenting attacks on U.S. troops.",
"\"I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran, in the south or anywhere else,\" Crocker said.",
"Hersh said U.S. efforts were staged from Afghanistan, which also shares a border with Iran.",
"He said the program resulted in \"a dramatic increase in kinetic events and chaos\" inside Iran, including attacks by Kurdish separatists in the country's north and a May attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 13 people.",
"The United States has said it is trying to isolate Iran diplomatically in order to get it to come clean about its nuclear ambitions.",
"But Bush has said \"all options\" are open in dealing with the issue.",
"Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed at providing civilian electric power, and refuses to comply with U.N. Security Council demands that it halt uranium enrichment work.",
"U.N. nuclear inspectors say Tehran held back critical information that could determine whether it is trying to make nuclear weapons.",
"Israel, which is believed to have its own nuclear arsenal, conducted a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean in early June involving dozens of warplanes and aerial tankers.",
"The distance involved in the exercise was roughly the same as would be involved in a possible strike on the Iranian nuclear fuel plant at Natanz, Iran, a U.S. military official said.",
"In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.",
"Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, warned other countries against moves that would \"cost them heavily.\"",
"In comments that appeared in the semi-official Mehr news agency Sunday, an Iranian general said his troops were digging more than 320,000 graves to bury troops from any invading force with \"the respect they deserve.\"",
"\"Under the law of war and armed conflict, necessary preparations must be made for the burial of soldiers of aggressor nations,\" said Maj. Gen. Mirfaisal Baqerzadeh, an Iranian officer in charge of identifying soldiers missing in action.",
"Journalist Shirzad Bozorghmehr in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report."
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"Journalist Seymour Hersh says program is being staged from Afghanistan .",
"U.S. officials decline comment, deny the U.S. is launching raids from Iraq .",
"Iranian general says troops are building graves for invaders in the event of war ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Monday signed a bill that will pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the remainder of his presidency and into spring 2009.",
"President Bush on Monday said the men and women of the armed forces deserve \"our unflinching support.\"",
"The supplemental spending bill provides nearly $162 billion in war funding without the restrictions congressional Democrats vowed to put into place since they took control of Congress nearly two years ago.",
"After signing the bill, Bush said the men and woman of the armed services are owed \"our unflinching support, and the best way to demonstrate that support is to give them the resources they need to do their jobs and to prevail.\"",
"Bush also said he appreciated that \"Republicans and Democrats in Congress agreed to provide these vital funds without tying the hands of our commanders and without an artificial timetable of withdrawal from Iraq.\"",
"Watch as Bush thanks Congress » .",
"\"This bill shows the American people that even in an election year, Republicans and Democrats can come together to stand behind our troops and their families,\" Bush said.",
"He also touted the success of the \"surge\" strategy he implemented last year.",
"\"Our troops have driven the terrorists and extremists from many strongholds in Iraq.",
"Today, violence is at the lowest level since March of 2004,\" he said.",
"\"As a result of this progress, some of our troops are coming home, as a result of our policy called 'Return on Success.'",
"We welcome them home.\"",
"White Houses spokeswoman Dana Perino called the bill a victory for the president.",
"\"Because we have seen success in the surge, perhaps Congress decided that it was OK to allow the commander in chief to be able to move forward as he saw fit,\" said Perino, noting the $162 billion was the same amount that the president had requested.",
"The supplemental spending bill also contains a new GI Bill that expands education benefits for veterans who have served since the 9/11 attacks, provides a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits and more than $2 billion in disaster assistance for parts of the Midwest that have been hit by record floods.",
"The signing comes two weeks before the deadline that Defense Secretary Robert Gates had established for the funds.",
"Gates said he would consider laying off Defense Department employees to balance the Pentagon's books if legislation was not signed by July 15.",
"Watch a progress report from the U.S. ambassador to Iraq » .",
"House Democrats had tried to include restrictions on war funding when they drafted the bill, but they were unable to overcome procedural hurdles that Republicans put up.",
"A compromise version of the supplemental bill was later negotiated between Democratic and Republican leaders that included the war funding along with the GI Bill, unemployment benefits and disaster relief -- three top legislative priorities for the Democrats that Bush and congressional Republicans originally resisted.",
"\"At a time when 2 million men and women have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and when our troops have had to endure multiple deployments, stop-loss policies, insufficient equipment and an unclear strategy, giving them the opportunity to fuel our future economy is the least we can do,\" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said of the GI Bill after the Senate sent it to the president's desk Thursday night.",
"Congressional Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives and Senate after the 2006 midterm elections in large part to due to displeasure over the Iraq war.",
"But Democrats -- lacking the 60 votes to overcome GOP filibusters in the Senate, let alone the two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate to override a presidential veto -- have been unable to pass significant restrictions on war funding because Republicans, for the most part, have stuck with Bush on the war."
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"Bush signs supplemental spending bill with $162 billion for wars .",
"Legislation funds Iraq and Afghanistan wars through spring 2009 without restrictions .",
"Bill also contains veteran education and unemployment benefits and disaster relief ."
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"(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama defended his patriotism Monday, telling a crowd in Independence, Missouri, that his \"deep and abiding love for this country\" is the reason he is running for president.",
"Sen. Barack Obama's speech on patriotism comes days before the Fourth of July.",
"\"At certain times over the last 16 months, I have found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged -- at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears and doubts about who I am and what I stand for,\" he said in President Harry Truman's hometown, just days before the Fourth of July.",
"Obama vowed to never question the patriotism of others in the campaign, adding \"I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.\"",
"Obama has been defending his patriotism ever since the beginning of the primary season, when he was first criticized for not wearing a flag pin -- which he now does much more frequently -- and when false rumors began circulating that he did not say the Pledge of Allegiance.",
"Watch excerpts of Obama's speech » .",
"A widely distributed photo also seemed to show him failing to place his hand over his heart during a rendition of \"The Star-Spangled Banner.\"",
"Obama's wife, Michelle, also was criticized about her patriotism, after telling an audience at a campaign event, \"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.\"",
"Obama's campaign said she was just excited about the campaign's grassroots support, but her words still provided fodder for her husband's opponents.",
"At his appearance Monday, Barack Obama appealed to unity.",
"\"Given the enormous challenges that lie before us, we can no longer afford these sorts of divisions,\" he said.",
"\"None of us expect that arguments about patriotism will, or should, vanish entirely; after all, when we argue about patriotism, we are arguing about who we are as a country, and more importantly, who we should be.",
"\"But surely, we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.",
"And surely, we can arrive at a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best of America's common spirit.\"",
"Obama said that for him, \"patriotism starts as a gut instinct, a loyalty and love for country that's rooted in some of my earliest memories.\"",
"Obama described how as he grew up, his patriotism matured to something that \"would survive my growing awareness of our nation's imperfections: its ongoing racial strife; the perversion of our political system that were laid bare during the Watergate hearings; the wrenching poverty of the Mississippi Delta and the hills of Appalachia.\"",
"Obama said he learned that \"what makes America great has never been its perfection, but the belief that it can be made better.\"",
"Patriotism, he said, must involve the willingness to sacrifice.",
"He called attention to the service of John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate.",
"McCain's campaign has been calling on Obama to condemn comments from retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who said this weekend that McCain's service in Vietnam did not necessarily mean that he was qualified to serve as commander-in-chief.",
"Read about what Clark said .",
"Clark is a military adviser for Obama.",
"In his speech Monday, Obama did not directly address Clark's comments, but after calling attention to McCain's service, he said \"no one should ever devalue that service, especially for the sake of a political campaign, and that goes for supporters of both sides.\"",
"\"We must always express our profound gratitude for the service of our men and women in uniform.",
"Period,\" he said.",
"Just as Obama was finishing his speech, his campaign released a statement about Clark's remarks.",
"\"As he's said many times before, Sen. Obama honors and respects Sen. McCain's service, and of course he rejects yesterday's statement by Gen. Clark,\" Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.",
"Meanwhile, McCain's campaign announced Monday it was launching a new Truth Squad to defend the Arizona senator's military record.",
"Leaders of the latest group include McCain's fellow Vietnam prisoners of war Air Force Col.",
"Bud Day and Marine Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, along with former Navy pilot Carl Smith, who served with him.",
"McCain said Monday he was proud of his record of service.",
"Watch McCain's response to Clark's comments » .",
"\"The important thing is that if that's the kind of campaign that Sen. Obama and his surrogates and his supporters want to engage in, I understand that,\" he said.",
"\"But it doesn't reduce the price of a gallon of gas by one penny.",
"It doesn't achieve our energy independence or make it come any closer ... and it certainly doesn't do anything to address the challenges that Americans have in keeping their jobs, their homes and supporting their families.\"",
"Obama was to follow up Monday's speech on patriotism with an address Tuesday about faith and remarks later in the week on service.",
"He will spend his Fourth of July in Butte, Montana, campaigning with his family.",
"McCain on Monday was campaigning in Pennsylvania, a battleground state in the general election.",
"He was scheduled to speak with reporters in Harrisburg before holding a town hall meeting in Pipersville.",
"McCain leaves for Colombia on Tuesday and will travel to Mexico later in the week.",
"His campaign on Monday unveiled his new campaign airplane, a Boeing 737-400.",
"The aircraft shares its name -- the \"Straight Talk Express\" with McCain's campaign bus, which has been a staple of the candidate's 2000 and 2008 campaigns.",
"The 95-seat plane -- with seats for the candidate, his staffers and the press -- has the \"Straight Talk Express\" logo emblazoned on its fuselage.",
"CNN's Tasha Diakides and Chris Welch contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama camp: \"Of course [Obama] rejects yesterday's statement\" by Clark .",
"NEW: McCain's campaign launches a Truth Squad to defend his military record .",
"McCain unveils new campaign airplane ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- About 220 Zimbabweans congregated outside the U.S. Embassy in Harare on Thursday, seeking refuge from election-related violence, embassy spokesman Mark Weinberg said.",
"People seeking refuge sit on a curb and sidewalk outside the U.S. Embassy in Harare on Thursday.",
"By evening, embassy officials were moving \"most of the women and children into safe houses,\" and were trying to get water and blankets for the growing crowd, Weinberg said.",
"Some of the refuge-seekers, identifying themselves as supporters of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change, said militia members supporting President Robert Mugabe's party destroyed their homes or were hunting them because of their affiliation, according to a journalist at the scene.",
"CNN is not identifying the reporter for security reasons.",
"The journalist said the refuge-seekers, some holding their possessions, sat outside the building Thursday afternoon, waiting to be addressed by a U.S. Embassy official.",
"A few of the people had bandaged wounds, according to the reporter.",
"\"The people I can see right now look very miserable, dejected, confused,\" the reporter said.",
"Watch the refuge-seekers wait outside the embassy » .",
"The MDC has said its members were targeted by supporters of Mugabe during the weeks surrounding March's presidential election and last week's runoff.",
"MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from the June 27 runoff, citing violence, intimidation and allegations of vote-rigging.",
"That left Mugabe as the only runoff candidate, allowing him to claim re-election.",
"Tsvangirai himself fled to South Africa for a short time in March during the campaign season, saying he feared for his safety.",
"He also sought refuge in the Dutch Embassy in Harare on June 22, shortly after announcing he was withdrawing from the runoff.",
"He returned to his Harare home this week, a Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman said.",
"Several Western nations denounced the violence and declared Mugabe's runoff victory illegitimate.",
"Reports of violence have continued after the runoff.",
"On Monday, the MDC claimed that a politician from the party was abducted at gunpoint outside a courthouse in the city of Mutare.",
"The assailants, who the MDC said wore military outfits, took Naison Nemadziva, a lawmaker who recently won a seat in parliament against a member of Mugabe's party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.",
"The MDC claimed in a press release that the kidnapping was by supporters of ZANU-PF and that police had not been able to find the lawmaker.",
"This week, a resolution from the African Union in Egypt called for negotiations between Tsvangirai and Mugabe, and some European Union officials have called for a coalition government in Zimbabwe with Tsvangirai as its leader.",
"But Tsvangirai this week said the \"conditions prevailing in Zimbabwe ... are not conducive\" to negotiations with Mugabe.",
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday said Mugabe \"has blood on his hands\" after the violence leading to the runoff and should step down.",
"Mugabe has been Zimbabwe's only leader since its independence from Britain in 1980, when it was called Rhodesia."
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"U.S. Embassy in Harare: 220 Zimbabweans seeking refuge from violence .",
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"Country in political crisis since disputed vote in March, presidential runoff last month ."
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"EDWARDSVILLE, Illinois (CNN) -- A man suspected of bludgeoning eight people to death is a methamphetamine addict with a history of fighting with police, an investigator said as the suspected spree killer made his first court appearance.",
"Suspected spree killer Nicholas Troy Sheley, 28, did not enter a plea during his first court appearance.",
"Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, is being held on $1 million bail in one slaying as police and prosecutors prepare additional charges in connection with a week-long killing spree in two states.",
"Sheley, 28, appeared in an Illinois courtroom on Wednesday via closed-circuit television, but did not enter a plea.",
"He was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ronald Randall, 65, whose body was found behind a grocery story in Galesburg.",
"Other charges include aggravated battery, vehicle hijacking and vehicle theft.",
"Watch Sheley's perp walk » .",
"Sheley, who wore a green-and-white striped jail jumpsuit, said little except to answer \"yes, sir,\" to a series of questions from Judge Edward Ferguson.",
"Authorities say Sheley's alleged burst of violence spanned 300 miles until he gave up without a fight when police confronted him as he smoked outside a bar in Granite City, Illinois, on Tuesday night.",
"Map: See where the bodies were found » .",
"Additional charges are being filed in a second Illinois county which encompasses two other towns where police believe Sheley killed five people, authorities said.",
"Authorities also suspect Sheley in connection with the slayings of an Arkansas couple in Festus, Missouri.",
"All eight victims, which include a child, died from blunt-force trauma to the head, officials said.",
"Sheley's capture ended an intensive manhunt, which included a $25,000 reward offer.",
"Sheley had stopped at Bindy's bar, a popular cop bar in a Granite City shopping center.",
"Two patrons who recognized him from news reports called police.",
"Bar owner Bill Watson told CNN Sheley came in, drank a glass of water and went to the restroom.",
"When he returned from the restroom, Sheley asked for a lighter but was told he had to go outside to smoke.",
"He was outside smoking when authorities arrived and arrested him.",
"As bar patrons celebrated Sheley's arrest, a family member of one of the victims called and thanked them for their assistance, Watson said.",
"\"It really hit home and made us realize really what this guy was all about,\" Watson said.",
"New of Sheley's capture calmed nerves in small towns from the Chicago to St. Louis areas.",
"Police conducting a welfare check Sunday at an apartment in Rock Falls, Illinois, found four people dead, including the child.",
"Sheley was a \"known associate\" to at least one of the Rock Falls victims, state police said.",
"Rock Falls is across the Rock River from Sterling; both are in Whiteside County.",
"The following day, Monday, authorities found Randall's body in Galesburg, about 80 miles south of Rock Falls, and obtained an arrest warrant naming Sheley.",
"The couple found dead in Festus, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb, was in town for a graduation, authorities said, and were last seen at a Comfort Inn there.",
"Sheley is not believed to have had a prior relationship with the couple, police said.",
"During the hunt for Sheley, the St. Louis County Police Department issued a bulletin describing him as an \"extremely dangerous\" methamphetamine addict.",
"\"He has stated to his ex-wife that he has more killing to do,\" the bulletin said.",
"According to a Tuesday affidavit by FBI Special Agent Susan Hanson, Sheley invaded a home in Sterling, Illinois -- just a mile from Rock Falls -- on June 14.",
"A woman inside the home told police the man was Sheley, it says.",
"Sheley then took off to Iowa where he made a phone call in Sterling on Saturday and then went to Missouri, according to the affidavit.",
"A gas station attendant in Galesburg, less than 60 miles from where the call was placed near Davenport, Iowa, told police that he saw Sheley, who appeared to have blood on him, at the gas station, the affidavit stated.",
"A stolen truck belonging to Randall, the victim in Galesburg, was recovered Sunday in Festus, near an Anheuser-Busch distribution plant, authorities said.",
"CNN's Ismael Estrada, Susan Roesgen and Lee Garen contributed to this report."
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"Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, did not enter a plea at first court appearance .",
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"(CNN) -- A Paris court has ordered eBay to pay $63 million damages to luxury goods company LVMH for allowing copies of its goods to be sold on the Web auction site.",
"Louis Vuitton took eBay to court for selling a range of fake luxury goods online.",
"The fashion company -- home to brands including Louis Vuitton, Givenchy, Fendi, Emilio Pucci and Marc Jacobs -- complained it had been hurt by the sale of fake products on eBay.",
"Pierre Godet, an adviser to LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, said the court's decision was \"an answer to a particularly serious question, on whether the Internet is a free-for-all for the most hateful, parasitic practices.\"",
"eBay said LVMH was trying to crack down on Internet auctions because it was uncomfortable with its business model, which puts sellers rather than brands in control.",
"\"If counterfeits appear on our site, we take them down swiftly,\" eBay spokeswoman Sravanthi Agrawal said.",
"\"But today's ruling is not about counterfeits.",
"Today's ruling is about an attempt by LVMH to protect uncompetitive commercial practices at the expense of consumer choice and the livelihood of law-abiding sellers that eBay empowers every day.\"",
"She said eBay intended to appeal the ruling.",
"The case pit two pillars of their industries -- one old, one new -- in a country whose courts often challenge Internet companies on matters protected elsewhere by freedom of speech.",
"The ruling faulted eBay for \"guilty negligence\" for not doing enough to prevent fake goods from being sold on its site.",
"The court also ruled that eBay was responsible for the \"illicit sale\" of perfumes from the LVMH empire, which can be sold only through the brands' \"selective distribution networks.\"",
"The court barred eBay from running ads for the perfume and cosmetic brands or face a fine of $79,000 per day.",
"Heather McDonald, partner at law firm Baker Hostetler, said: \"eBay has policies and procedures in place where they will intervene in an action between a buyer and seller if there's a problem, and they profit directly on the basis of every item that is sold on their Web site.",
"\"This gives them an affirmative obligation to take steps to make sure that illegal goods aren't sold, and they certainly have the ability to do that.",
"\"They have been able to make sure that you can't buy a handgun and they have been able to make sure that you cannot buy pornography or prescription narcotics or other medicines on eBay.",
"\"They have the ability to do this, they have just chosen not do and to rest the entire burden of policing eBay on the shoulders of the trademark and copyright holders whose rights are being infringed here.\""
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"The group sued eBay over sale of fake luxury goods online .",
"Brands affected include Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Fendi and Givenchy .",
"eBay said LVMH was trying to protect uncompetitive commercial practices ."
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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of South Koreans were demonstrating Saturday on the streets of the capital to protest the government's decision to import what they say is unsafe U.S. beef.",
"South Korean protesters protest against government's policy on U.S. beef imports on Saturday.",
"South Korean police estimate that the crowd in Seoul is about 50,000.",
"No clashes were reported between the protesters and riot police, although ongoing protests have at times turned violent.",
"South Koreans have protested regularly since April when the government announced it would resume importing beef from the United States after a five-year ban.",
"That ban was instituted over a case of mad cow disease in the United States in 2003.",
"The widespread public protests essentially paralyzed the government of President Lee Myung-bak, who replaced seven top aides this month and plans to reshuffle his Cabinet.",
"Tens of thousands of auto workers in South Korea went on strike Wednesday to oppose the government's lifting of the ban.",
"After a series of negotiations, Seoul and Washington came up with a revised agreement on June 21 -- one that limits imports to cattle younger than 30 months old.",
"Animals older than 30 months old are considered at a greater risk for mad cow disease, which can be transmitted to humans.",
"The revised agreement also excludes the import of certain parts believed more susceptible to mad cow disease.",
"The initial deal would have allowed the import of all U.S. beef imports.",
"Scientists believe mad cow disease spreads when farmers feed cattle recycled meat and bones from infected animals.",
"The U.S. banned recycled feeds in 1997.",
"Eating meat products contaminated with the illness has been linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady in humans.",
"Until the 2003 ban, South Korea was the third-largest market for U.S. beef exporters.",
"South Korea's new pro-U.S. president agreed to lift the import ban in April before a summit with U.S. President George W. Bush.",
"But the move provoked a backlash over health concerns spurred in part by false media reports about risks, along with a sense that South Korea had backed down too easily to American pressure.",
"The government has vowed to get tough with the rallies.",
"In Washington, the White House announced that Bush would visit South Korea on August 5-6 before heading to the Beijing Olympics.",
"Bush had originally been expected to go to Seoul next week when he visits Japan for the G-8 summit, but the trip did not materialize amid the protests.",
"CNN's Sohn Jie-ae contributed to this report."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Hollywood star Will Smith led a crowd of 46,664 in a chorus of \"Happy Birthday\" to Nelson Mandela on Friday at a party for the South African prisoner, president and Nobel Peace Prize winner.",
"Nelson Mandela had a smile and a message.",
"Smith introduced Mandela to the London crowd celebrating Mandela's life with the words \"The one, the only, the birthday boy, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandelaaaaaaaaaa.\"",
"London was the scene of a concert 20 years ago to celebrate Mandela's 70th and to raise awareness of his imprisonment.",
"Mandela told cheering fans, \"Your voices carried across the water to inspire us in our prison cells far away.",
"Tonight, we can stand before you free.",
"\"We are honored to be back in London for this wonderful occasion.",
"\"But even as we celebrate, let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete.",
"\"Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done.",
"Our work is for freedom for all.\"",
"Watch Mandela at the party » .",
"As Mandela walked on stage, Smith led the crowd in a chorus of \"Happy Birthday.\"",
"Proceeds from the concert in London's Hyde Park will go toward the 46664 Campaign, which Mandela founded in 2003 to raise awareness about the impact of AIDS, especially in Africa, and to promote HIV-prevention measures around the world.",
"The name of the charity represents Mandela's prison number when he was incarcerated at Robben Island.",
"Organizers put 46,664 tickets up for sale.",
"The finale of the concert was scheduled as Queen, Amy Winehouse and Jerry Dammers performing \"Free Nelson Mandela,\" a 1980s hit from the Specials that quickly became an anti-apartheid anthem, but pretty much every act joined them on stage.",
"Dammers was also one of the driving forces behind the London concert in 1988 to awareness of Mandela's long imprisonment by the South African authorities.",
"The former South African president turns 90 on July 18.",
"Watch the crowd celebrate » .",
"Speculation surrounded whether Winehouse would perform after being hospitalized with lung problems last week.",
"More than a dozen African artists, including Johnny Clegg and the Soweto Gospel Choir, performed.",
"Smith, music legend Quincy Jones and Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton were among the stars introducing acts.",
"Other guests at the concert included British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former U.S. President Clinton, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and actor Robert De Niro.",
"Mandela served as his country's first democratically elected president from 1994 to 1999.",
"In recent years, he has campaigned on behalf of HIV and AIDS awareness and has long called the battle against AIDS a basic human right.",
"In 1964, a court sentenced Mandela to life in prison for plotting to overthrow the government by violence.",
"He spent the first 18 years at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town, South Africa, and later spent time at Pollsmoor prison and Victor Verster Prison, closer to the mainland.",
"While in prison, Mandela became recognized as the most significant black leader in South Africa, and he became a potent symbol of resistance in the anti-apartheid movement.",
"Mandela consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.",
"South African President F.W.",
"de Klerk released Mandela in February 1990 after 27 years in prison.",
"Mandela was elected president of the African National Congress the following year, and in 1994, he was elected president of his country."
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"Mandela at outdoor concert in his honor in London's Hyde Park .",
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"Performers include Amy Winehouse, Queen, Annie Lennox, Simple Minds ."
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"(CNN) -- A mining company has found what may be the largest gold deposit ever found in the British Isles, the company's chairman said Tuesday.",
"The price of gold is at historic highs, making new prospects very valuable.",
"Drill samples indicate more than 1 million ounces of gold may lie below what is now rolling Irish countryside, said Richard Conroy, the chairman of Dublin, Ireland-based Conroy Diamonds and Gold.",
"With the price of gold near historic highs, the find could be worth as much as $300 million on the market, Conroy told CNN.",
"The company has been working for 10 years to find gold in a 1,500-square kilometer (600-square-mile) area spanning the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, he said.",
"The site where the company found the gold is near Clontibret, a village in the northern part of Ireland, he said.",
"\"I think it's a major development in Ireland that we now have a significant gold resource,\" Conroy said.",
"\"It's the largest amount of gold, the largest number of ounces, that's ever been reported in Ireland, or indeed in either Britain or Ireland.\"",
"The price of gold is currently around $900 an ounce on global commodities markets.",
"Factoring in costs for mine construction and operation, Conroy said, the gold near Clontibret could fetch roughly $300 million.",
"The company now plans to do more drilling at the site and conduct feasibility studies before moving ahead, he said.",
"An analyst cautioned, however, that the reported amount of gold is still only an estimate.",
"\"Until you've actually mined the stuff, there's always a moderate level of uncertainty,\" said William Tankard, a senior analyst at metals consultancy GFMS in London.",
"One million ounces, if confirmed, would be significant for both Conroy and Ireland, Tankard said.",
"Ireland has small precious metal deposits but nothing as large as Conroy's reported find, Tankard said.",
"Conroy said only one gold mine is currently active in Ireland.",
"\"By no means is it world-leading, but a million ounces is certainly worth thinking about,\" Tankard said.",
"Tankard added that the quality of the gold -- including grade and how concentrated it is -- will also affect its value."
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"With price of gold near historic highs, find could be worth as much as $300m ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's most powerful Sunni Arab political party on Monday said a U.S. soldier's desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, requires the \"severest of punishments,\" not just an apology and a military reassignment.",
"Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond apologizes after a U.S. soldier admitted using the Quran for target practice.",
"The Iraqi Islamic Party, the movement of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, condemned what it said was a \"blatant assault on the sanctities of Muslims all over the world.\"",
"An American staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader used a Quran for target practice on May 9.",
"The U.S. commander in Baghdad on Saturday issued a formal apology and read a letter of apology from the shooter.",
"The sergeant has been relieved of duty as a section leader \"with prejudice,\" officially reprimanded by his commanding general, dismissed from his regiment and redeployed -- reassigned to the United States.",
"But the Iraqi Islamic Party -- which said it reacted to the news \"with deep resentment and indignation\" -- wants the \"severest of punishments\" for the action.",
"\"What truly concerns us is the repetition of these crimes that have happened in the past when mosques were destroyed and pages of the Holy Quran were torn and used for disgraceful acts by U.S. soldiers,\" al-Hashimi said.",
"\"I have asked that first this apology be officially documented; second a guarantee from the U.S. military to inflict the maximum possible punishment on this soldier so it would be a deterrent for the rest of the soldiers in the future.\"",
"A tribal leader said \"the criminal act by U.S. forces\" took place at a shooting range at the Radhwaniya police station on Baghdad's western outskirts.",
"After the shooters left, an Iraqi policeman found a target marked in the middle of the bullet-riddled Quran.",
"Read how the soldier could have provoked a crisis .",
"Copies of the pictures of the Quran obtained by CNN show multiple bullet holes and an expletive scrawled on one of its pages.",
"On Saturday, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, appeared at an apology ceremony flanked by leaders from Radhwaniya.",
"Watch as the U.S. formally apologizes » .",
"\"I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,\" Hammond said to tribal leaders and others gathered.",
"\"In the most humble manner, I look in your eyes today, and I say please forgive me and my soldiers.\"",
"Another military official kissed a Quran and presented it as \"a humble gift\" to the tribal leaders.",
"Hammond also read from the shooter's letter: \"I sincerely hope that my actions have not diminished the partnership that our two nations have developed together.",
"... My actions were shortsighted, very reckless and irresponsible, but in my heart [the actions] were not malicious.\"",
"Hammond said, \"The actions of one soldier were nothing more than criminal behavior.",
"I've come to this land to protect you, to support you -- not to harm you -- and the behavior of this soldier was nothing short of wrong and unacceptable.\"",
"The soldier reportedly claimed he wasn't aware the book was the Quran, but U.S. officials rejected his assertion.",
"Tribal leaders, dignitaries and local security officials attended the ceremony, while residents carried banners and chanted slogans, including, \"Yes, yes to the Quran\" and \"America out, out.\"",
"Watch as villagers protest the Quran incident » .",
"Sheikh Hamadi al-Qirtani, in a speech on behalf of all tribal sheikhs of Radhwaniya, called the shooting \"aggression against the entire Islamic world.\"",
"The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq also condemned the shooter's actions and the U.S. military's belated acknowledgment of what happened.",
"\"As the Association of Muslim Scholars condemns this heinous crime against God's holy book, the constitution of this nation, a source of pride and dignity,\" the group's statement said, \"they condemned the silence by all those who are part of the occupation's agenda and holds the occupation and the current government fully responsible for this violation and reminds everyone that God preserves his book and he [God] is a great avenger.\""
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"U.S. soldier used Quran for target practice, military investigation found .",
"U.S. commander in Baghdad has issued formal apology .",
"Soldier relieved of duty, will be reassigned after sending letter of apology ."
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday defended an increase in export taxes on grains that has riled many farmers, and she called on them to respect the law in protesting her policies.",
"President Cristina Fernandez: Calls on rally Wednesday to support her policies.",
"\"All my life I have soldiered in this party, which always believed in social justice, in the redistribution of income, which caused us to win and lose elections,\" she said in a nationally televised address from the presidential palace.",
"\"But we were always respectful of the popular will.\"",
"Fernandez, of the center-left Peronist movement, made her plea for comity a day after massive demonstrations in various cities blocked traffic and paralyzed much of the country.",
"In a concession to her critics, Fernandez said the increase in taxes on exports of grains that she instituted in March by decree will be debated by Congress.",
"But there is little likelihood that the Congress will order major changes, since her party controls both houses.",
"But Hilda Duhalde, an opponent of Fernandez, was not persuaded.",
"\"It's true that they have a majority in both houses, but we have to put white on black and watch out for the small- and medium-sized producers, who are the ones suffering,\" she said.",
"Argentina raised export taxes in March by more than 10 percent.",
"Fernandez has said growers have benefited from rising world prices and the profits should be spread to help the poor.",
"Farmers have countered that they need to reinvest the profits and that the higher taxes make it difficult for them to make a living.",
"Fernandez said she was open to dialogue, but a dialogue that does not countenance the blocking of roads or other disruptions to the lives of Argentines.",
"\"Democracy for the people, not the corporations,\" she said.",
"She called on Argentines to take to the Plaza de Mayo Wednesday in a show of support for her policies.",
"\"It doesn't matter what party, place or sector you're from,\" she said.",
"\"What is important is not where you're from, but where you are going -- what kind of country do we want?\"",
"To those who do not agree with her policies, she had other advice.",
"\"If they want to change the economic model, what they should do is organize a political party, participate in elections and win them,\" she said.",
"CNN's Carolina Cayazzo contributed to this report."
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"Farmers say higher taxes make it difficult for them to make a living ."
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"SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- The three Americans rescued Wednesday after more than five years in captivity in the jungles of Colombia appear to be in good health, doctors said Thursday.",
"Keith Stansell, left, Marc Gonsalves, center, and Thomas Howes sit in an aircraft after being rescued Wednesday.",
"\"They're very resilient, they're very stress-hardy and they're doing very well, and so I think that certainly is a good-news story,\" said Col. Carl Dickens, a psychologist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.",
"Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell arrived there late Wednesday on an Air Force C-17 to undergo a battery of medical tests and debriefings.",
"All three are U.S. government contractors who were captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in February 2003 when their plane crashed in a remote region of the country.",
"They will begin reuniting with their families Thursday.",
"\"They are very grateful, very excited to be home,\" said Air Force staff Sgt.",
"Daryl Bradley, who accompanied the three men on the flight Wednesday from Colombia to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.",
"Watch CNN's Brian Todd report on the hostages' return » .",
"\"They can't wait to see their families, can't wait to see the differences in the United States, and they're just absolutely pleased to be home.\"",
"Learn about the freed hostages » .",
"A plane the men were on crashed in February 2003 in a remote region of Colombia.",
"They were among 15 hostages, including ex-Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, rescued Wednesday in a Colombian military operation.",
"Read how the military faked out the rebels .",
"The FARC still holds more than 700 hostages in camps scattered throughout the jungle.",
"Bradley, who is a paramedic, earlier said all three Americans appeared to be in good medical condition.",
"Marc Gonsalves' father said he would see his son Thursday.",
"\"We have a lot to talk about,\" George Gonsalves told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"There's been a lot of things that have happened, and I'm sure there's a lot of things that have happened with him that we'd certainly like to exchange a little conversation for about two or three hours anyway.\"",
"Keith Stansell said he was on the beach when his stepfather called with the news of his father's release.",
"\"I didn't even know what to do,\" he said.",
"\"I just started freaking out -- screaming, yelling.",
"I ran as fast as I could off the beach.\"",
"Watch the Stansell family eagerly await the former captive's return » .",
"His sister, Lauren, said she was at home when the phone rang with the news.",
"\"I knew when I heard the other voice that she had good news.",
"I knew it was good news about Dad,\" she said.",
"Amanda Howes said she learned about her uncle Thomas Howes' release from a bulletin on her computer at a TV station, where she works in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"\"A news alert crossed on the bottom of the screen, I click on it and it's this wonderful news,\" she said.",
"\"I literally screamed with enjoyment.",
"I started shaking.",
"Of course, everyone was like ... 'What's the hot news tip?'",
"\" Adm. James Stavridis, head of the U.S. military's Southern Command, has kept a picture of the hostages on his desk since taking his post in 2006 and said their release has been one of his top priorities.",
"\"You could hear the cheers throughout the building when we announced the success of the rescue,\" he said.",
"Watch the hostages land on U.S. soil » .",
"The U.S. government considers the FARC a terrorist group and has refused to negotiate with it while publicly urging the rebels to release the Americans.",
"The FARC, which has fought a long-standing and complicated conflict with Colombia's government and right-wing paramilitary groups, defends the taking of captives as a legitimate act of war.",
"Background on FARC » .",
"Before news of the rescue broke Wednesday, U.S. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, said he had mentioned the three Americans in talks with government officials during his visit to Colombia -- part of a three-day trip to Latin America -- and that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had briefed him on the planned raid Tuesday night.",
"\"It is great news,\" McCain said.",
"\"Now we must renew our efforts to free all of the other innocent people held hostage.\"",
"Months after the men's capture, a Colombian journalist filmed the three at a rebel camp, where FARC commanders branded them CIA spies and prisoners of war.",
"A few months ago, family members saw footage of their loved ones from a captured rebel video.",
"\"It's been a long haul here,\" George Gonsalves said at the time.",
"\"It has been a very trying experience, to say the least, not knowing how he is doing, what he is doing.\"",
"The video showed Marc Gonsalves brushing bugs away from his face and Stansell staring silently into the camera.",
"Only Howes spoke, giving details about his will and telling his wife that he was proud of her.",
"\"You think every year is going to be the year,\" George Gonsalves said.",
"\"That is what I thought last year and certainly I'll hope for that this year.\""
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"Ex-hostages and relatives express joy at rescue operation .",
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"Colombian rebels captured three men in 2003 when their plane crashed ."
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"(CNN) -- British mercenary Simon Mann has been jailed for 34 years for his part in plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.",
"Simon Mann was arrested after a plane carrying him and about 60 mercenaries landed in Zimbabwe.",
"The former British military officer confessed to trying to topple long-time ruler Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - but denied being the plot's leader.",
"The goal of the plot was to install exiled opposition leader Severo Moto who is currently in Spain awaiting trial on charges of arms trafficking, and to gain access to the former Spanish colony's oil wealth.",
"During the trial, Mann testified he was a \"junior\" in the organization which plotted to overthrow the tiny west African country's president in 2004, and that Lebanese businessman Eli Calil was the man in charge.",
"\"Eli Calil was known as the cardinal -- the cardinal -- which I think says it all,\" Mann told the court.",
"Watch Mann's reaction to his sentences » .",
"Footage of the proceedings was broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 News, which says it has the only camera in the courtroom.",
"As Mann's trial progressed last month, South Africa rejected Mann's allegation that it had given its tacit support for the coup plot.",
"\"South Africa will never, tacitly or expressly, support the use of mercenaries to bring about fundamental political changes in any country in our continent or elsewhere in the world including Equatorial Guinea,\" the government said in a statement.",
"Mann testified that several governments, including Spain and the United States, welcomed the idea of a coup.",
"Mann is a former British army commando who was arrested four years ago after a plane carrying him and about 60 mercenaries landed in Zimbabwe.",
"The government of Equatorial Guinea said the group was on its way to overthrow its president.",
"Mann said at the time they were going to guard a diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"A Zimbabwe court convicted Mann of trying to buy weapons illegally.",
"He served four years in jail there before being extradited to Equatorial Guinea's capital of Malabo earlier this year to face charges of leading an abortive coup.",
"Mann testified that his former friend Mark Thatcher -- the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- was a main partner in the plot.",
"Thatcher was arrested along with Mann in 2004, and he pleaded guilty in South Africa the following year to unwittingly bankrolling the plot.",
"He escaped jail time by paying a fine.",
"Thatcher admitted giving $275,000 toward the charter of a helicopter, saying he thought was for commercial purposes and discovered only later it was to be used by mercenaries.",
"But Mann said Thatcher paid $350,000 for a helicopter and a plane which he knew would be used in the plot, and that he attended meetings about the plan with Calil in London.",
"Calil, Mann said, initially asked him to assassinate President Obiang and talked about the possibility of staging a guerrilla war.",
"Mann testified he refused both requests, considering them unethical, but he did agree to help stage a coup.",
"Though he said Thatcher was a top figure in the plot, Mann testified that even Thatcher was under Calil in the group's hierarchy.",
"Mann, appearing in a gray prison outfit, emphasized that he was not the man in charge.",
"Mann's defense lawyer took 45 minutes to question Mann, Channel 4 reported, in contrast to the four hours of prosecution questioning Mann faced.",
"Mann smiled often in the footage shown by Channel 4 and even stuck his tongue out playfully at the camera.",
"After his stint in the British army, Mann was affiliated with the South Africa-based mercenary firm Executive Outcomes.",
"The firm described itself on its now-defunct Web site as a \"military advisory service\" that had played a \"crucial\" role in ending two African civil wars."
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"Mann implicated former friend Mark Thatcher in 2004 plot during testimony ."
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"(CNN) -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president who was killed this year was shot several times, including in her head, according to her autopsy report released Monday.",
"Unsealed warrants show Eve Carson was abducted and then shot by both men.",
"Eve Carson, 22, was found slain on March 5.",
"Carson's autopsy report lists six gunshot wounds, but says two were probably from the same bullet, according to North Carolina's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.",
"Carson's death shocked the community and drew national attention.",
"An estimated 10,000 people turned out for a service remembering her.",
"Her autopsy -- released after a North Carolina newspaper filed a court motion to have it unsealed -- describes wounds to various parts of Carson's body.",
"It says shotgun wounds to her head and hand \"most likely represent a single shot with the hand acting as an intermediate target.\"",
"One of the other four wounds was also a gunshot to her head.",
"A separate, handwritten summary of the medical examiner's report says Carson was \"shot multiple times\" and found lying on her back, with one arm bent behind her head.",
"The autopsy says sexual assault testing was done.",
"It does not say whether any sign of sexual assault was found.",
"Two suspects, Demario James Atwater, 22, and Lawrence Alvin Lovette, 17, have been charged with first-degree murder.",
"Lovette's attorney said the warrants against the suspects rely on hearsay.",
"Atwater's attorney cautioned against \"any rush to judgment.\"",
"Court documents released Friday say Carson was kidnapped from her apartment and forced to provide her abductors with ATM access to her bank account before she was shot to death in the early hours of March 5.",
"The documents -- applications for search warrants -- say a confidential informant told police in the days after the death that Atwater had told her he and Lovette had entered Carson's home through an open door and forced Carson to accompany them in her car.",
"The informant said she had talked with Atwater after a picture was displayed on television showing someone attempting to use Carson's ATM card at a convenience store two days after Carson's body was found.",
"The informant said the two men drove Carson to an ATM, obtaining her PIN number from her.",
"\"The CW [informant] learned that Carson was forced into the back seat with Atwater, and Lovette drove Carson's vehicle,\" the court documents said.",
"\"That information is consistent with video footage taken from an ATM camera on that date.\"",
"The witness told police Atwater said the two got about $1,400 from Carson's account.",
"Bank records show that was approximately the amount taken from the account over a two-day period, the documents said.",
"And the informant said that both suspects shot Carson, according to one of the affidavits.",
"\"This information was corroborated by crime scene search information that two separate weapons were used in the homicide,\" the documents said.",
"The documents said police believe Carson was subjected to a sexual assault \"of an unknown nature\" and asked for a search warrant to collect DNA swabs from the suspects.",
"But Orange County, North Carolina, District Attorney Jim Woodall told CNN Friday the collection and testing done on Carson's body was routine, and authorities do not believe she was sexually assaulted.",
"Prosecutors had fought to keep her autopsy sealed.",
"Following a motion by the Raleigh News & Observer newspaper, prosecutors agreed to allow the report's release.",
"Carson, a native of Athens, Georgia, was a pre-medicine student double-majoring in political science and biology.",
"She was a recipient of the university's prestigious Morehead Scholarship and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, UNC has said."
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"Warrant shows she was kidnapped from her home and robbed ."
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"(CNN) -- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim came out of hiding Monday, and says he has damaging evidence that proves senior members of the government faked evidence for sodomy charges against him.",
"Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he has proof sodomy charges against him were fabricated.",
"\"I have new evidence about the fabrication of evidence against me in 1998,\" Anwar told CNN Monday.",
"\"I totally reject these malicious attacks.\"",
"Anwar was the heir apparent to former premier Mahathir Mohamad until 1998, when he was sacked and charged for corruption and sodomy.",
"The sodomy conviction was overturned, but the corruption verdict was never lifted, barring him from running for political post until this year.",
"In the CNN interview, Anwar rejected the sodomy charges and also said he had evidence of threats on his life that caused him to go into hiding at the Turkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur.",
"Listen to Anwar Ibrahim defend himself » .",
"CNN could not immediately reach members of Malaysia's ruling party.",
"The ruling party, National Front Coalition, has led Malaysia since the country declared independence in 1957.",
"Anwar's opposition party has gradually chipped away at the National Front's power.",
"Recently Malaysian police have said they are investigating a new sodomy charge against him, Anwar said.",
"The new charges were also false and were fabricated to usurp his political gains, Anwar said.",
"\"I will challenge these attacks on every ground,\" Anwar said."
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"Says he can prove government members faked evidence for sodomy charges .",
"Anwar also says he has evidence of threats against his life ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday ordered the makers of certain antibiotics to add a \"black box\" label warning -- the FDA's strongest -- to alert patients of possible tendon ruptures and tendonitis.",
"Cipro is one of the drugs for which the FDA will require a \"black box\" label warning about tendon problems.",
"\"The new language will strengthen the existing warnings,\" said Dr. Edward Cox, director of the FDA's Office of Antimicrobial Products.",
"The FDA is requiring the label warnings and a medication guide for fluoroquinolone drugs, which include Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox, Noroxin and Floxin.",
"The consumer group Public Citizen asked the FDA in August 2006 to put the \"black box\" warning on Cipro and other fluoroquinolones, and also to warn doctors.",
"Earlier this year, Public Citizen filed a lawsuit to force the FDA to take those actions.",
"Public Citizen said Tuesday it was \"pleased\" with the FDA's order but added \"there is still more that the FDA must do.\"",
"\"The FDA is silent on our request that it also send a warning letter to physicians clearly describing possible adverse reactions, such as tendon pain, so that patients can be switched to alternative treatments before tendons rupture,\" the group said.",
"\"We are troubled that the FDA is not doing everything within its power to prevent more people from needlessly suffering disabling tendon ruptures.\"",
"When asked about the lawsuit and why it didn't order the \"black box\" label warning until now, Cox stressed that the FDA included warning information with the drugs from 2001 until 2004, and updated the information last year.",
"Dr. Gupta explains more on antibiotic risks » .",
"\"There has been ongoing work to update the labeling of the fluoroquinolone drug products,\" Cox said.",
"\"We have been working on this issue and making progress over time.\"",
"The companies that make the fluoroquinolone drugs will be required to submit label safety changes and the medication guide within 30 days of receiving the notification from the FDA or provide a reason why they do not believe such labeling changes are necessary, Cox said.",
"Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., which holds licenses for Cipro and Avelox, said it would make the changes requested by the FDA but defended the drugs as \"well-tolerated and effective in all approved indications.\"",
"Schering-Plough markets Cipro and Avelox in the United States under agreement with Bayer.",
"Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, which markets Levaquin in the United States, also said it would abide by the FDA's request.",
"Merck & Co., the maker of Noroxin, said it, too, would update the drug's label.",
"But Merck noted it has stopped promotion of Noroxin because of the widespread availability of its generic form.",
"Oscient Pharmaceuticals (Factive), Daiichi Sankyo (Floxin) and Dipomed (Proquin) did not immediately respond to CNN's requests for comment.",
"The fluoroquinolones drugs can increase the risk of tendonitis and tendon rupture -- which is about 1 in 100,000 -- by three to four times, according to the FDA's Dr. Renata Albrecht.",
"\"This risk is further increased in those over age 60, in kidney, heart, and lung transplant recipients, and with use of concomitant steroid therapy,\" the FDA said in a statement.",
"Albrecht said that sometimes patients have no symptoms before they experience a rupture in their tendon -- commonly their Achilles tendon.",
"\"Sometimes it's been reported on the first day of taking a fluoroquinolone ... a sudden snap or popping sound that is tendon rupture with no preceding warning,\" she said.",
"Normally, she added, that patients experience some pain or inflammation \"a week or two before the patient will rupture.\"",
"Public Citizen, founded in 1971 by consumer activist Ralph Nader, said more than 400 cases of tendon rupture and more than 300 cases of tendonitis in patients using fluoroquinolones were reported between November 1997 and December 2007.",
"\"Because only a small fraction of cases are typically reported to the FDA, the actual number of ruptures and other tendon injuries attributable to the antibiotic is much higher,\" the group said.",
"The FDA would only say that it has received \"hundreds\" of reports of tendon problems linked to fluoroquinolones, without being more specific, citing the ongoing lawsuit.",
"But Cox said \"the FDA continues to receive a considerable number of reports on tendon adverse effects.\"",
"Patients should stop taking fluoroquinolone antibiotics at the first sign of tendon pain, avoid exercise and contact their doctor, the FDA said.",
"Cox said the FDA would not require companies to send letters to doctors alerting them about the connection between tendon problems and the antibiotics.",
"\"It is possible under REMS [Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy] to ask for a letter [to doctors],\" Cox said.",
"\"Certainly for sponsors that would choose to go forward with a letter, we'll be happy to work with them.\""
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"UNITY, New Hampshire (CNN) -- The day began with a kiss.",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama leave Washington on Friday for a rally in New Hampshire.",
"Sen. Barack Obama, on the tarmac at Reagan Washington National Airport, reached out to shake Sen. Hillary Clinton's hand and leaned down to kiss her cheek.",
"It went on from there. Wearing a tie that matched her suit, he put his hand on her back, guiding the way up the plane steps.",
"They sat side-by-side for the flight up to Manchester, New Hampshire, chatting amiably.",
"One overheard conversation was about the plane.",
"Clinton had used it during the primary season.",
"They hopped on a souped-up bus for the 1½-hour ride to Unity, New Hampshire.",
"The honorary mayor of Unity introduced the pair, admitting that he was a Republican who voted for John McCain in the primary.",
"He didn't seem so sure about the general election.",
"They walked onstage to the tune of \"Beautiful Day.\"",
"Arms around each other's waists, they smiled and waved at the crowd.",
"Every camera angle had UNITY signs, big and little, in the backdrop.",
"She said she wants to help elect him president.",
"He gave an ode to Hillary: \"She rocks.\"",
"Watch more from Unity » .",
"One woman stood at the back, periodically yelling, \"Hillary for VP!\"",
"A few others, older women, stubbornly held up tattered Hillary For President placards.",
"But the vast majority cheered her, \"Thank you, Hillary!\"",
"and him, \"Yes, we can!\" They held new signs for the new times: \"UNITY FOR CHANGE.\"",
"As the dynamic duo glowed onstage, a Clinton staffer circulated through the press corps with word that Hillary and Bill Clinton had gone online to give the maximum contribution allowed by law to the Obama for President campaign.",
"It was the picture-perfect day of togetherness that Barack Obama had wanted.",
"It was not entirely believable, but politics is the art of pragmatism."
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"(CNN) -- A Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital is investigating how up to 17 babies in a neonatal intensive care unit received overdoses of the blood thinner heparin.",
"One of the babies died.",
"Officials at Christus Spohn Hospital South say corrective action was taken after the discovery of the overdoses.",
"The infant was one of 17 who may have received a more concentrated form of heparin than was prescribed, Christus Spohn Hospital South said in a statement.",
"Heparin is an anticoagulant often used to clean the IVs of patients and prevent blood clots from forming in the lines.",
"It came into the public spotlight last year when newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid nearly died after receiving an overdose at a Los Angeles hospital.",
"Nursing staff at the Corpus Christi hospital discovered the problem Sunday -- two days after the medication is believed to have been first administered, according to Bruce Holstien, president and CEO of Christus Spohn Health System.",
"The hospital said it took corrective measures after the discovery.",
"A preliminary investigation concluded that \"the medication error occurred during the mixing process within the hospital pharmacy,\" Holstein said in a statement.",
"The baby who died \"was seriously ill, and we do not know at this time what role, if any, the higher than expected concentration of heparin played in this baby's death,\" Dr. Richard Davis, chief medical officer for the health system, said Tuesday.",
"\"Our deepest sympathy goes out to this family,\" he said.",
"Twelve of the 16 other babies remain in stable condition in the neonatal intensive care unit, which cares for ill newborns.",
"Three have been discharged, and one is critical and unstable as that baby has been since admission to the unit, Davis said.",
"In November, Quaid's 12-day-old twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were undergoing intravenous antibiotic treatment for a staph infection at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.",
"According to standard procedure, nurses were supposed to clean the infants' IV lines with Hep-Lock, a drug containing a small dose of heparin, to allow the lines to flow freely.",
"However, instead of the 10 units of heparin they were supposed to receive, the twins received 10,000 units -- 1,000 times the prescribed amount.",
"The babies survived, apparently with no permanent injury, Quaid later told members of a House committee on government oversight, although there is no way to know whether they will show any long-term effects."
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"(CNN) -- Actress Gina Gershon is demanding a retraction from Vanity Fair after the magazine reported \"high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip\" that former President Clinton \"has been seen visiting\" her in California.",
"Actress Gina Gershon \"is extremely offended\" by the Vanity Fair article, her lawyers say.",
"The lengthy article by the magazine's national editor, Todd Purdum, mentioned the actress along with several other women rumored to be associated with Clinton, all anonymously sourced.",
"\"Todd Purdum's insinuation is a lie, and it is irresponsible journalism,\" said Gershon's publicist, Mara Buxbaum.",
"\"We are demanding a retraction.\"",
"A letter sent by Gershon's attorneys to Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, obtained by CNN, demanded a published correction and retraction and threatened possible litigation for defamation.",
"The actress appeared in 1995's \"Showgirls\" and the more recent \"P.S.",
"I Love You.\" Gershon \"is extremely offended by the false and defamatory inference that she engaged in an adulterous relationship with the President,\" the letter says, adding that the actress has been in the same room with Clinton three times, always in the presence of at least a dozen people.",
"\"It is apparent that Vanity Fair was intent upon publishing unsubstantiated rumors, and that it avoided learning the true facts so that the truth would not get in the way,\" the letter says.",
"\"Such conduct is reckless and malicious, giving rise to substantial liability for defamation.\"",
"In a statement, Vanity Fair denied that the article indicates any \"improper relationship\" between Clinton and Gershon.",
"\"The story merely examines the concerns of some of Clinton's aides about reports of his behavior,\" the magazine said.",
"\"We don't believe that any correction is warranted.\"",
"Purdum's article, \"The Comeback Id,\" quoted multiple anonymous sources questioning the former president's behavior since leaving the White House.",
"The article suggested that Clinton's personality had changed since his 2004 heart bypass surgery and said there were reports of Clinton \"seeing a lot of women on the road.\"",
"Clinton issued a tirade against Purdum on Monday when asked by Huffington Post writer Mayhill Fowler what he thought of \"the hatchet job somebody did on you in Vanity Fair,\" according to a recording of the exchange posted on the Huffington Post's Web site.",
"\"[He's] sleazy,\" Clinton responded.",
"\"He's a really dishonest reporter.\"",
"Clinton said that he had not read the article but that he was told that \"there's five or six just blatant lies in there.",
"But he's a real slimy guy.\"",
"Calling Purdum a \"scumbag,\" Clinton said \"he's one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater for Kenneth Starr.",
"He's just a dishonest guy -- can't help it.\"",
"Purdum \"didn't use a single name, he didn't cite a single source in all those things he said,\" the former president said, adding that the article was \"part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama.",
"\"Anytime you read a story that slimes a public figure with anonymous quotes, it ought to make the bells go off in your head,\" he said.",
"Jay Carson, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton's campaign, said late Monday that \"President Clinton was understandably upset about an outrageously unfair article, but the language today was inappropriate, and he wishes he had not used it.\"",
"Purdum, a former New York Times reporter who covered the Clinton White House and is married to former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, defended his article on CNN's \"The Situation Room\" on Monday afternoon, saying he was \"very careful to say there is no clear-cut evidence that President Clinton has done anything improper.\"",
"\"I reject the notion that I'm making an insinuation,\" Purdum said.",
"\"But I'm very comfortable quoting the people I quote because I know who they are, and I know that they are very senior people who have known President Clinton for a very long time and work for him at very high levels.\""
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"BIG SUR, California (CNN) -- Thousands of people living in Paradise are fleeing their small northern California town Wednesday as wildfires charge into the area, officials said.",
"A fire captain looks at the fire burning in southern Santa Barbara, California, on Tuesday.",
"More than half the town's 26,000 residents have been evacuated as firefighters struggled to battle growing wildfires in the area, authorities said.",
"Residents of the nearby town of Concow had already been told to leave their homes.",
"As of 10 a.m. about 14,000 people had been evacuated from Paradise, said Chuck Rough, director of the emergency operations center in the town.",
"\"We don't have much containment,\" said Rough, who said thick smoke in the area had made it impossible to fight the fire by air Tuesday.",
"\"Today we are holding our breath literally and figuratively.\"",
"The blaze -- one of several in Butte County -- has already torched 40 homes.",
"It's just one of the 1,780 wildfires that have scorched more than 614,000 acres in the state in the last few weeks.",
"Most of the fires have been caused by lightning strikes.",
"There were still 323 active fires Wednesday that were being battled by about 20,000 federal, state and local firefighters, authorities said.",
"The fires near Paradise, which is about 90 miles north of Sacramento, California, threatened thousands of homes, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.",
"Residents streamed to shelters in the area, some not knowing if their homes had been destroyed, said Jeannine Olson, a volunteer nurse at Neighborhood Church in the nearby city of Chico.",
"Olson said the church shelter was filled to capacity with about 150 people, and 20 more were living in their cars in the church parking lot.",
"\"People are a little scared and are wondering what is going on,\" she said.",
"\"But people here are trying to handle this the best they can.\"",
"Wind gusts of more than 40 mph pushed the fire dangerously close to many residential communities in the area, said Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.",
"Watch TV crew driven into fire » .",
"\"We were lucky that the winds did not pick up last night as it was predicted,\" he said.",
"\"But there are still some immediate threats.\"",
"Watch what's left of burned home in Big Sur » .",
"Conditions seemed to be getting a little bit better in the fight against a wildfire near the central California coastal community of Big Sur.",
"iReport.com: Share your photos, videos of the fires .",
"The mandatory evacuations in that area had been downgraded to an advisory Tuesday, according to local and federal fire officials.",
"But the Basin Complex Fire was only 27 percent contained Wednesday, according to federal fire authorities.",
"It has torched more than 86,700 acres, and containment is not expected until the end of the month.",
"Watch why fires could be related to global warming » .",
"The nearby Indians Fire, in the Ventana Wilderness, was 97 percent contained after burning more than 81,000 acres, the U.S. Forest Service said.",
"Further south, in coastal Santa Barbara County, the Gap Fire, which has burned 9,710 acres, was 55 percent contained, the Forest Service said."
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"KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Lawmakers in Nepal will vote Saturday to pick the country's first president since it became a republic.",
"Nepal became a republic after the deposal of King Gyanendra Shah earlier this year.",
"The country's newly elected Constituent Assembly abolished a 239-year monarchy following elections in April.",
"But with no one party winning a majority of the seats, it is unclear who may become president.",
"The position is largely ceremonial.",
"But a president will swear in whoever is picked as the new prime minister.",
"The three main political parties continued to negotiate over whom to name president.",
"The Nepali Congress wants outgoing prime minister and party president Girija Prasad Koirala for the position.",
"The Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) wants its leader.",
"But the Maoists -- which won the largest number of seats but fell short of a majority -- do not favor either of the two men.",
"They want a non-political figure as president.",
"Journalist Manesh Shrestha contributed to this report ."
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- Argentine farmers are planning their next move after the country's president announced plans to fund a public works program with revenues from a controversial agrarian export tax.",
"Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has rejected demands for the repeal of an export tax.",
"Eduardo Buzzi, president of the Argentine Agrarian Federation, said the organization's directory board will meet Friday to discuss what steps it plans to take in response to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's announcement.",
"\"We call on farmers across the country to stay calm but to stay on the alert,\" the organization said on its Web site Tuesday.",
"The 44 percent export tax, which applies to soybeans, wheat, corn and sunflower seeds, has caused a three-month-old standoff between the government and farmers.",
"Argentina is the world's second-largest corn exporter and third-largest soybean exporter.",
"On Monday, farmers suspended roadblocks that had snarled traffic across the country, though reports indicated that groups in some rural areas were still blocking roads Tuesday.",
"Kirchner has argued that the tax, which was implemented March 11, pays for increases in seniors' pensions and financial assistance for the poor.",
"She has rejected the farmers' demands for a repeal of the export tax as \"extortion.\"",
"Monday marked the first time Kirchner revealed details of how the government plans to use profits from the tax, which has generated about U.S. $1.5 billion, to lift people out of poverty.",
"\"It is impossible to attack the problem of the poor without distribution of revenue and without touching extraordinary profits,\" she said in a televised address.",
"Kirchner said the Social Redistribution Program will include the construction of 30 hospitals and more than 300 health-care centers, as well as investments in the country's rural roads and in housing.",
"In an apparent criticism of the farmers, she lamented \"the reaction of some who refuse to contribute in the redistribution\" to \"those who have least.\"",
"She apologized, however, at the close of her speech for offending anyone.",
"Analysts suggested that the tax was a \"strong attack\" on on the farmers and their arguments against it.",
"Claudio Loser, a visiting senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue policy analysis center, said it could result in Argentine society being \"less sympathetic to the farmers,\" noting that it was \"surprising\" that the government didn't come up with the plan until the tax was three months old.",
"Loser, who is from Argentina, also predicted that a continuation of the tax would provoke farmers into not investing.",
"Externally, the standoff has had a two-pronged effect on Argentina, he said.",
"\"The conflict has resulted in a loss of market for Argentina,\" he said, as other countries have gone elsewhere for products.",
"Loser also said foreign investors may be more reluctant to invest in Argentina now.",
"CNN's Carolina Cayazzo and Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report."
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"CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- An Illinois man was charged with possession of a potentially deadly neurotoxin commonly found in puffer fish after the FBI led a raid at his home Monday.",
"Edward F. Bachner, 35, of Lake in the Hills, was charged with one count of illegal possession of a toxin, according to a federal complaint filed in U.S. district court.",
"Bachner is listed as the corporate secretary of Rosetta Wireless Corp. in Naperville, in suburban Chicago.",
"Bachner was arrested after accepting a small amount of tetrodotoxin delivered by an undercover federal official at his home, the FBI said.",
"Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin that in large doses can cause paralysis and death.",
"It's often linked to consumption of puffer fish, a delicacy from the Indian and Pacific oceans that can prove fatal if not prepared properly, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.",
"Bachner, using the alias Edmond Backer, attempted to purchase 98 milligrams of tetrodotoxin through the Web site of a New Jersey chemical company, according to the FBI.",
"Bachner claimed he was a doctor working for Illinois-based EB Strategic Research, which does not exist.",
"The quantity of the toxin requested alarmed an employee at the chemical company, who alerted authorities, the FBI said.",
"Bachner appeared before a magistrate judge at the federal court in Rockford and is being held without bond until his next court appearance.",
"If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.",
"Calls late Monday to Bachner's home and business went unanswered."
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"Neurotoxin, commonly found in puffer fish species, can cause paralysis and death .",
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"If convicted, the 35-year-old faces 10 years in prison ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California's director of adult prisons is recommending against \"compassionate release\" for a terminally ill former Manson family member, a spokeswoman said.",
"Susan Atkins is led from a Los Angeles grand jury room after her indictment in the 1969 \"Manson murders.\"",
"Suzan Hubbard, director of the Division of Adult Institutions, decided that Susan Atkins' request should not be sent to the sentencing court for consideration, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.",
"Hubbard's recommendation is advisory and will not necessarily prevent Atkins' release.",
"The court -- not the department or the state Board of Parole Hearings -- has the final say on whether Atkins should be released, Thornton said.",
"\"They're the only ones legally who can recall the sentence,\" she added.",
"Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others.",
"She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California, but has been hospitalized since mid-March.",
"Her request is now before the Board of Parole Hearings, which is conducting an independent investigation and will hear the case during its monthly public meeting, Thornton said.",
"The next meeting is scheduled July 15.",
"Atkins had been held for years at the Corona prison, which earlier determined that she met the criteria for compassionate release under the law, and sent her request to the corrections department.",
"The Board of Parole Hearings will receive public comment, discuss the request in closed session and then announce its recommendation.",
"The board also can decide whether to refer the request to the sentencing court.",
"The court, based in Los Angeles, can either grant or deny Atkins' request.",
"It also can recall her life sentence and resentence Atkins to a lesser term, allowing for her to be paroled.",
"In 2007, the department received 60 compassionate release requests, Thornton said.",
"Ten were approved.",
"Citing privacy rules, prison officials would not disclose the nature of Atkins' illness.",
"Her husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, has been quoted as saying she has terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today.",
"She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times has reported.",
"Atkins, known within the Manson family as \"Sadie Mae Glutz,\" has been in prison since 1971 and has been denied parole 11 times.",
"She is California's longest-serving female inmate.",
"Tate and three houseguests were slain in August 1969 by killers who burst into her Benedict Canyon home.",
"A teenager who was visiting the home's caretaker in his cottage on the property also was killed.",
"According to historical accounts of the murders, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant, and wrote the word \"pig\" in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski.",
"The following night, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were slain in their home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.",
"The two-day crime spree sent shock waves throughout Los Angeles.",
"All of the killers remain behind bars.",
"Atkins also was convicted in the earlier murder of music teacher Gary Hinman.",
"Atkins, like family leader Charles Manson, received a death sentence.",
"Her punishment was changed to life in prison when the California Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty unconstitutional in 1972.",
"Atkins is a born-again Christian, according to a Web site maintained by her husband.",
"During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins has worked to help at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children.",
"Last month, authorities dug for buried bodies at the Inyo County, California, ranch where Manson and his followers once lived, after police became aware that testing had indicated humans might be buried there.",
"Nothing was found, police said."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Bertha -- the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season -- increased in strength Monday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center.",
"A satellite picture from 5:45 a.m.",
"ET Monday shows Hurricane Bertha over the Atlantic.",
"While Bertha's power may fluctuate over the next day, it is expected to begin gradually weakening by Wednesday, the center's 11 p.m.",
"ET advisory said.",
"Bertha's became a major -- or Category 3 -- hurricane Monday afternoon.",
"A Category 3 has wind speeds of 111 to 130 mph.",
"As of 11 p.m. ET, Bertha was 695 miles (1,115 km) east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and about 1,085 miles (1,745 km) southeast of Bermuda.",
"The eye was moving toward the west-northwest at about 12 mph.",
"Its maximum sustained winds were clocked at 120 mph (195 km/hr), up from the 115 mph mentioned in a 5 p.m. advisory.",
"The hurricane is expected to turn to the northwest and decrease its forward speed in the next 24 to 48 hours, the center said.",
"There is a very small chance Bertha will make landfall in the United States.",
"Bermuda could be affected by the hurricane this weekend.",
"See Bertha's projected path » .",
"\"It is still way too soon to determine whether or not Bertha will affect Bermuda,\" the center said.",
"The storm formed Thursday in the far eastern Atlantic, off the coast of Africa, near the southern Cape Verde Islands.",
"It strengthened into a hurricane early Monday.",
"Learn more about hurricanes » .",
"The first tropical storm of the season, Arthur, formed May 31 near the coast of Belize and dumped heavy rain on Central America and southern Mexico."
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"LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A group of anonymous software developers said they will soon start selling a program that will allow iPhone owners to use the hugely popular device on cell phone systems around the world and not just with AT&T.",
"Apple's iPhone is yet to go on sale outside the U.S. Apple's iPhone, released in the United States two months ago, was engineered to operate for the first two years only on the AT&T system through an exclusive arrangement between Apple and AT&T.",
"It has not yet been sold outside of the U.S. Los Angeles software consultant Brett Schulte, who is not affiliated with the developers, demonstrated the software for CNN Friday evening.",
"An iPhone that had the new software appeared to work on the T-Mobile system just seconds after Schulte replaced the AT&T SIM card with a T-Mobile SIM card.",
"\"It's completely software hacked,\" Schulte said.",
"\"There's no case opening required.",
"It's not required to do any kind of disassembly.\"",
"It took Schulte about two minutes to unlock the iPhone.",
"The developers would not give CNN their last names, saying \"We don't want to be hounded.\"",
"The said they would start selling the software, which they haven't yet priced, as soon as their online payment and customer service systems are ready.",
"They're also waiting for more information from their lawyers.",
"Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock told CNN her company has no comment.",
"AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said he couldn't speculate on the legality of unlocking the phone, but he added, \"When you sign up, you're signing a two-year contract.",
"You're obligated to pay the bill.\"",
"\"When people buy the iPhone it's clear from our materials it's designed to operate exclusively on AT&T,\" Siegel said.",
"Schulte, however, said it is possible to buy an iPhone without being contractually obligated to AT&T.",
"The developers recently created a Web site -- iPhoneSIMfree.com -- but there is very little information on it and no direct way for anyone to purchase the software.",
"Internet records showed they bought the domain name less than two weeks ago.",
"Two members of the group, who identified themselves only as \"John\" and \"Liu,\" told CNN in a phone interview that a core group of six people on three continents worked to unlock the iPhone as a hobby.",
"They said they are fans of Apple products who thought the iPhone should be made accessible to people who cannot use AT&T.",
"\"I'm not in America and I can't use it,\" said Liu, who would not reveal the country in which he lives.",
"\"It's not fair.\" Asked if he thought modifying the iPhone was legal, he said \"That's a very good question.",
"I truly believe it is.\"",
"John and Liu said they have not been contacted by either Apple or AT&T, but said that could change the moment their software goes on sale.",
"Earlier this month, a teenager figured out a way to unlock the iPhone, but his method required disassembly of the unit.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- Susan Atkins, a terminally ill former Charles Manson follower convicted in the murder of actress Sharon Tate, on Tuesday was denied a compassionate release from prison.",
"Susan Atkins, Califorina's longest-serving female inmate, is shown in her most recent mug shot.",
"Atkins, 60, has been diagnosed with brain cancer and has had a leg amputated, her attorney said.",
"In June, she requested the release, available to terminally ill inmates with less than six months to live.",
"The California Board of Parole Hearings' decision -- posted Tuesday on its Web site -- came after a public hearing on Atkins' request.",
"It means the request will not be forwarded to the Los Angeles Superior Court that sentenced Atkins.",
"The court would have had the final say on Atkins' release.",
"Her attorney, Eric P. Lampel, called the parole board's decision \"unfortunate.\"",
"\"[The board] ignored the vast majority of evidence presented,\" Lampel said.",
"\"There was a huge amount of pro-compassionate release testimony from many witnesses.",
"It apparently fell on deaf ears.\"",
"Known within the Manson Family as Sadie Mae Glutz, Atkins and four others were convicted in connection with the deaths of five people, including Tate, in August 1969.",
"According to historical accounts of the murder, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and scrawled the word \"pig\" in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with director Roman Polanski.",
"By her own admission, Atkins held Tate down and rejected her pleas for mercy, stabbing the pregnant woman 16 times.",
"Atkins' request roused long-dormant memories of the two-day killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles and left seven people dead.",
"It polarized those who were involved in the case -- and even those who weren't -- over whether she should die behind bars.",
"Atkins told a 1993 parole board that Tate pleaded for her unborn child's life as she held her down.",
"\"She asked me to let her baby live,\" Atkins said. ...",
"I told her I didn't have any mercy on her.\"",
"Three of Tate's houseguests were also slain by the killers, as was a teenager visiting the home's caretaker in his cottage out back.",
"Atkins was also convicted in the earlier murder of music teacher Gary Hinman.",
"One of the first people Atkins confessed to was Virginia Graham, who shared a cell with her before investigators determined the Manson Family was responsible for the murders.",
"Graham said last month she believed Atkins should die in prison.",
"\"She showed that poor woman absolutely no mercy, none,\" Graham said.",
"\"So why should anybody show her mercy at this time?\"",
"Sharon Tate's sister, Debra, has staunchly opposed Atkins' release.",
"\"She will be set free when judged by God,\" Debra Tate has said.",
"\"It's important that she die in incarceration.\"",
"Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Monday he was strongly opposed to the release, saying in a letter to the board it would be \"an affront to people of this state, the California criminal justice system and the next of kin of many murder victims.\"",
"Cooley noted in his letter that Atkins was initially sentenced to death, like others in the Manson Family, including its leader, Charles Manson.",
"Their sentences were commuted to life in prison in 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty laws as they were written at the time.",
"California Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he was also opposed to releasing Atkins.",
"\"I don't believe in [compassionate release],\" the governor told reporters.",
"\"I think that they have to stay in, they have to serve their time.\"",
"Even if Atkins is dying, Schwarzenegger said, \"Those kinds of crimes are just so unbelievable that I'm not for the compassionate release.\"",
"Earlier, Suzan Hubbard, director of adult prisons in California, also recommended against granting Atkins' request.",
"Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Atkins and other members of the Manson Family, said he supported her release, if only to save the state money.",
"Through Monday, the cost for Atkins' medical care since she was hospitalized March 18 totaled more than $1.15 million, and the costs for guarding her hospital room are more than $308,000, said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton.",
"Terminally ill inmates rarely are allowed compassionate release, records show.",
"In 2007, 60 such requests were made to the department, Thornton has said.",
"Ten were approved.",
"Atkins, who has been incarcerated since 1971, is California's longest-serving female inmate.",
"According to a Web site maintained by her husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, she is now a born-again Christian.",
"During her incarceration, the site says, Atkins worked to help at-risk youth, violent crime victims and homeless children, among others.",
"The Web site does not mention Atkins' illness.",
"Lampel said last month Atkins is paralyzed on one side.",
"\"She can talk a little bit,\" Lampel said.",
"\"She can't sit up in bed without assistance, and obviously she can't walk around because she's an amputee.\"",
"Atkins has expressed remorse for her crimes.",
"\"I know the pain I caused Mrs. Tate,\" she said at a parole board hearing in 1985. ln May, authorities dug for buried bodies at the Inyo County, California, ranch where Manson and his followers once lived, after police became aware that testing had indicated human remains might be buried there.",
"Nothing was found, authorities said.",
"CNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday some people are using her controversial reference to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination to suggest that she meant something \"completely unthinkable.\"",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton says her supporters urge her to stay in the race until it is over.",
"Her campaign also accused the rival Obama campaign of \"inflaming\" the situation and purposely taking her words out of context.",
"But the Obama campaign said it was not trying to \"stir the issue up.\"",
"In an editorial in the New York Daily News, the Democratic presidential hopeful also acknowledged her dwindling chances of winning the nomination, saying she is aware of \"the odds\" against her.",
"Headlined \"Hillary: Why I continue to run,\" the editorial began with an explanation of her reference to the assassination when she was speaking to the Argus Leader newspaper in South Dakota.",
"She said she was pointing out that presidential primary campaigns have continued into June.",
"\"Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different -- and completely unthinkable,\" she wrote.",
"Watch Hillary's camp insist the remark had nothing to do with Obama » .",
"Clinton said the newspaper's editor and Bobby Kennedy Jr. issued statements arguing that was the meaning of her remark.",
"No other member of the Kennedy family has issued a public statement on the matter.",
"\"I realize that any reference to that traumatic moment for our nation can be deeply painful -- particularly for members of the Kennedy family, who have been in my heart and prayers over this past week,\" she said, in a reference to Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis with brain cancer.",
"\"And I expressed regret right away for any pain I caused.",
"\"But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for -- and everything I am fighting for in this election.\"",
"Some people -- particularly a number of bloggers -- have suggested she was imagining the possibility that Sen. Barack Obama, the likely nominee, could be assassinated.",
"After Clinton's initial remarks to the newspaper were reported, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying the comment \"was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign.\"",
"But Obama himself later said, \"I don't think that Senator Clinton intended anything by it,\" and that \"we should put it behind us.\"",
"Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe, in an interview Sunday, criticized the Obama campaign's first move.",
"\"It's unfortunate -- a hyped-up press over Memorial Day weekend, the Obama campaign inflaming it, tried to take these words out of context,\" he told \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"Asked about the remark by Obama himself, McAuliffe responded, \"That's great, but Friday they were all part of this process.",
"The press secretary came out and attacked Senator Clinton and got it going so the story would be around for three days.\"",
"Howard Wolfson, a Clinton adviser, told CBS' \"Face the Nation\" that the Obama campaign's first statement critical of Clinton was \"unfortunate.\"",
"But Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod told ABC's \"This Week\" that \"we take her at her word,\" and he added, \"We're beyond that issue now, so certainly we're not trying to stir the issue up.\"",
"The program's host, George Stephanopoulos, noted that a member of Obama's staff sent to the media Saturday a \"searing commentary\" by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann slamming Clinton for her remark.",
"\"Mr. Olbermann did his commentary and he had his opinion,\" Axelrod responded, adding, \"As far as we're concerned, this issue is done.\"",
"On another front, Axelrod slammed Clinton for suggesting she leads Obama in the popular vote.",
"Clinton has been making that argument, based on figures that include Florida and Michigan, even though Obama took his name off the ballot in Michigan and neither candidate campaigned in Florida.",
"The Democratic Party discounted both states' primaries before they took place.",
"\"It would take some very tortured math and tortured logic to say that she's ahead in the popular vote,\" Axelrod told ABC.",
"He added, \"This isn't 'American Idol,' OK?",
"This is a nominating process.",
"We have rules. We elect delegates state by state.\"",
"In her column, Clinton said she believes she can still \"win on the merits.\"",
"\"I am not unaware of the challenges or the odds of my securing the nomination -- but this race remains extraordinarily close, and hundreds of thousands of people in upcoming primaries are still waiting to vote,\" she wrote.",
"She added that her parents \"did not raise me to be a quitter -- and too many people still come up to me at my events, grip my arm and urge me not to walk away before this contest is over.\"",
"She also said she is running \"because I believe staying in this race will help unite the Democratic Party.",
"I believe that if Senator Obama and I both make our case -- and all Democrats have the chance to make their voices heard -- in the end, everyone will be more likely to rally around the nominee.\"",
"She repeated her vow to campaign for Obama if he gets the nomination, and wrote, \"No matter what happens in this primary, I am committed to unifying this party.\"",
"Obama was in Middleton, Connecticut, where he was standing in for the ailing Edward Kennedy who was scheduled to deliver the commencement at Wesleyan University.",
"Watch Obama tell graduates they have an obligation » .",
"The theme of Obama's speech was service, and the senator asked graduates to volunteer their time at home and abroad to fight poverty, preserve peace and protect the environment .",
"\"But I hope you'll remember, during those times of doubt and frustration, that there is nothing naive about your impulse to change this world,\" he said.",
"\"Because all it takes is one act of service -- one blow against injustice -- to send forth that tiny ripple of hope that Robert Kennedy spoke of.\""
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"Obama mentions Robert Kennedy in imploring Wesleyan graduates to volunteer ."
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"(CNN) -- North Korea's apparent cooperation with nations seeking to end its nuclear weapons ambitions -- six years after a deal collapsed and two years after testing a bomb -- may lead to questions about why it would play ball now.",
"Some signs show North Korean leader Kim Jong Il does intend to drop his nuclear weapon program, experts say.",
"One school of thought: The communist nation, in desperate economic straits, has long been willing to drop its program for better relations with the United States.",
"But mistakes on both sides interfered, according to Jim Walsh, a national security analyst.",
"North Korea could be trying to achieve survival through deceit, intending to keep its nuclear weapons as blackmail for better treatment, analysts suggest.",
"But those making a case for North Korea's sincerity, Walsh said, would say it must \"do the things economically that [it needs] to do to avoid collapse.\"",
"\"Having nuclear weapons when the regime is collapsing won't do them much good,\" said Walsh, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.",
"North Korea, following a 2007 agreement with five nations including the U.S., handed over a declaration of its nuclear program on Thursday.",
"The nation also took steps to disable a reactor that officials acknowledge helped extract plutonium to build nuclear weapons.",
"On Friday, it destroyed the reactor's cooling tower -- significant because the tower would take a year or longer to rebuild.",
"Watch the tower being demolished. ...",
"After North Korea's declaration, President Bush said Thursday that he intends to move North Korea from the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism.",
"Down the line, North Korea would receive economic and energy assistance if the U.S. and other nations agree it is complying with other efforts to dismantle its nuclear program.",
"North Korea has been heavily sanctioned in the past because of its nuclear program.",
"Stephen Hadley, the U.S. national security adviser, told reporters Thursday that the terror list was one incentive for North Korea to drop its nuclear ambitions.",
"\"I think it is important to them not to be on a list that says 'enemies' and not to be on a list that says 'supporters of terror,'\" Hadley said.",
"Walsh said North Korea has been weakened by sanctions and its lack of arable land, leading to a population unable to feed itself.",
"\"It can't grow enough food,\" Walsh said.",
"\"And they've got to attract foreign investors.\"",
"He said North Korea was better off in the days of the Soviet Union, when it had an ample amount of communist nations with which to trade.",
"But the Soviet Union collapsed, and many other nations turned away from communism, leaving North Korea increasingly isolated.",
"\"Geostrategically, North Korea was growing weaker, and everyone around them was growing stronger,\" Walsh said.",
"In 1994, North Korea pledged to the U.S. that it would freeze and eventually dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for international aid, including help building two power-producing nuclear reactors.",
"By 2000, however, North Korea was complaining that not all the aid was coming as promised.",
"In 2002, the U.S. accused North Korea of working on a secret nuclear weapons program, and the U.S. said North Korea admitted doing so.",
"Countries including the U.S. halted oil supplies, and North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.",
"It conducted an underground test of a nuclear weapon in 2006.",
"Walsh said both sides haven't fully lived up to previous agreements.",
"The U.S., he said, promised normalized trade at one point but didn't follow through.",
"Jon Wolfsthal, senior fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' international security program, said North Korea has been \"remarkably consistent\" regarding its reactions to U.S. positions.",
"\"When we've engaged them directly, they have responded.",
"And when we have reduced our commitment, to our engagement ... they have responded negatively,\" Wolfsthal said.",
"Wolfsthal said China -- which provides oil and food aid to North Korea -- has been instrumental in getting North Korea to cooperate.",
"\"China has gone from being an uninvested ... mediator to being a true participant in this process -- from a country that originally wanted to help the U.S. and North Korea work out their differences to a state that has worked to convince North Korea to meet its obligations,\" Wolfsthal said.",
"Wolfsthal said he believes China was embarrassed by North Korea's nuclear test, and shifted course.",
"\"I think that over time, the United States has helped China see that North Korea's unpredictable behavior destabilizes their own backyard,\" he said.",
"Walsh and Wolfsthal said another theory has it that North Korea is only playing with negotiators and intends to keep its nuclear program and weapons as a security blanket.",
"Expanding on that possibility, Wolfsthal said North Korea leader Kim Jong Il could keep the country's nuclear arsenal but agree not to produce any more nuclear weapons.",
"\"Everybody's speculating.",
"None of us has met Kim Jong Il,\" Wolfsthal said.",
"Walsh said the West doesn't have hard evidence to determine North Korea's intentions.",
"\"But so far, the evidence is pretty strongly on the side of North Korea wanting a real bargain,\" Walsh said."
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"Deceit possible, experts say, but nation's best interest is to be on West's good side ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.",
"A shopper displays a $500 million Zimbabwean bank note.",
"The bills officially come into circulation Monday, although they were on the foreign currency dealers market Saturday.",
"As high as they are, though, the bills still aren't enough to buy a loaf of bread.",
"They can buy only four oranges.",
"The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar.",
"Once-prosperous Zimbabwe has seen an unprecedented economic meltdown since it gained independence in 1980, with the official inflation rate now at 2.2 million percent.",
"Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, said the new notes are for \"the convenience of the banking public and corporate sector\" in light of price hikes.",
"\"The RBZ has noted with concern the unjustifiable and incessant general increases in prices of goods and services.",
"It is therefore appealing to the business community to follow ethical business practices as well as take an interest in the plight of the general public,\" Gono said in a statement dated Friday.",
"Zimbabwe started issuing large bank notes in December, starting with denominations of $250,000.",
"In January, the government issued bills in denominations of $1 million, $5 million, and $10 million -- and in May, it issued bills from $25 million and $50 million up to $25 billion and $50 billion.",
"The new bills are actually bearer checks and have an expiration date of December 31.",
"Zimbabwe has not had formal currency since the introduction of bearer checks as a temporary measure in 2003.",
"\"The RBZ is fighting a losing battle,\" economist John Robertson said in Harare.",
"\"As long as the inflation remains high, cash shortages will persist.",
"There is need to address the inflation by increasing production so that too goods do not [cost] a lot of money.\""
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"Bills aren't enough to buy a loaf of bread.",
"They can only buy four oranges .",
"Gideon Gono: Notes for \"convenience of the banking public and corporate sector\"\nThe new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Misha Di Bono zips around town in her Infiniti sport-utility vehicle, breezy and unconcerned about the price of gas.",
"Misha Di Bono says people used to make fun of her rolling billboard.",
"She gets $500 a month and free gas.",
"That's because she gets $500 a month -- plus free gas -- for turning her car into a rolling billboard for Jobing.com, the online recruiting company she works for.",
"\"People used to tease me about the 'Jobing' mobile, and now they're like, 'Oh, we'll get Misha to drive,' \" she said, standing next to her decal-covered car.",
"Jobing.com might be the most extreme example of how companies are helping employees during the current gas crunch.",
"But with gas averaging more than $4 a gallon, more and more companies are trying to figure out incentives to help ease the pain at the pump for their employees.",
"Watch a rolling billboard for your company » .",
"\"There's no question companies are feeling the pinch,\" said John Challenger, the chief executive officer of global outplacement company Challenger, Gray and Christmas.",
"\"It's an important issue because no company wants to lose its people.\"",
"His firm recently surveyed about 100 human resources executives at white-collar and blue-collar companies.",
"The survey found that 57 percent of the companies offer programs to help ease commutes.",
"The most popular option was reducing the work week from five eight-hour days to four 10-hour days.",
"Twenty-three percent of the companies polled have such an option, Challenger said.",
"Calculator: How much do you need to work to pay your gas? ...",
"\"We're at a watershed time of how people go to work,\" he said.",
"\"Maybe the gas crisis will be the real trigger.\"",
"Other incentives: Twenty percent of the companies offer carpools, and 18 percent pay for the cost of public transportation.",
"Only 14 percent of the companies offer telecommuting options, the poll found.",
"The survey reports that companies had seen a recent jump in carpooling of 43 percent and a 23 percent increase in the use of public transportation.",
"Still, 31 percent of the companies saw no increase in their employees' commuting behaviors.",
"See gas prices around the country » .",
"Some of the companies have had the incentives for years, but it's taken the soaring gas prices for employees to look more closely at the programs.",
"\"It's something that is much more important than two years ago,\" Challenger said.",
"\"It's hard to get away from, because you're constantly going back to the gas station.\"",
"He added, \"It's hitting people's radar screens now.\"",
"One company offering generous commuting benefits is online giant Yahoo, which rewards employees who organize carpools, ride bikes to work and take company shuttles to and from offices.",
"Yahoo rewards these green-conscious commuters with free movie tickets, lunches, massages and other benefits.",
"iReport: How is your company helping you .",
"The company recently hired an \"employee transportation coordinator\" to help devise even more incentives.",
"\"We've really been listening to our employees to make sure we help them find ways to make the cost of the commute a little less excessive,\" said Barbary Brunner, a Yahoo vice president.",
"But it is the Jobing.com vehicle that is most eye-popping.",
"Company spokesman Joe Cockrell says the company started the rolling billboard cars in 2001, but only three executives took part in it.",
"But now, 60 percent of its 270 employees nationwide drive the cars.",
"Watch a shift from marketing ploy to employee benefit » .",
"\"This year, for the first time, we've had a long waiting list for our wrap,\" Cockrell says.",
"\"It's basically a huge sticker that goes on your car and should last in theory about three to four years.\"",
"It costs the company about $3,000 to $4,000 to turn the cars into rolling billboards.",
"They do have rules: The car can't be older than three years, and employees must take a driving safety course and have clean driving records.",
"Once the cars are wrapped, employees shouldn't flip the bird at other drivers.",
"The company did have to \"unwrap\" one employee's car because he got too many speeding tickets.",
"Cockrell says the program has proved to be a huge win-win.",
"\"These are mobile billboards, and wherever our employees go, so does that billboard.\"",
"Di Bono, who works in community relations, says she loves it, too.",
"She says the cost of filling her tank has doubled in recent years.",
"Now, her company pays her to drive her car.",
"\"They pay for everything,\" she said.",
"\"They pay for me to go to all my appointments and anything I want to do on my own time.\"",
"She added, \"You'd be a fool not to take advantage of it.\"",
"Although many people across the nation are seeking help from their offices, an iReporter in West Virginia recently stopped using his company car and began using his old clunker again.",
"Maurice Alouf's company paid for his V-8 Chrysler sedan, but he says it guzzled gas on his 80-mile round-trip commute.",
"The company didn't offer a gas allowance, and it was costing him more than $60 a week to fill up.",
"So he dusted off his 50-mile-per-gallon Geo Metro.",
"\"It's not fun,\" he said. \"I'd like to keep driving [the Chrysler], but I can't.\""
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"(CNN) -- Radovan Karadzic's arrest after a decade-long hunt is the equivalent of catching Europe's Osama bin Laden, the U.S. diplomat who brokered peace in Bosnia says.",
"Radovan Karadzic, seen here in 1995, has been arrested after a decade-long hunt.",
"Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, led the chorus of congratulations from around the globe telling reporters it was \"a historic day.\"",
"\"One of the worst men in the world, the Osama bin Laden of Europe, has finally been captured.",
"A major, major thug has been removed from the public scene.\"",
"\"He was at large because the Yugoslav army was protecting him.",
"But this guy in my view was worse than Milosevic [Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic]... he was the intellectual leader,\" Holbrooke told CNN.",
"Watch Holdbrooke talk about the arrest » .",
"David Miliband, Britain's Foreign Secretary, said it would \"pave the way for a brighter, European future for Serbia and the region.\"",
"The White House released a statement congratulating the government of Serbia, and thanked the people who arrested Karadzic on a bus in Belgrade for their \"professionalism and courage.\"",
"Paddy Ashdown, the former international administrator in Bosnia, told the BBC that it was a \"longed hoped for day.\"",
"\"The four years that I was working with NATO to try and catch him were peppered by rumors of where he was -- in this cafe, on that mountain, in this valley.\"",
"Watch Karadzic's lawyer slam arrest » .",
"Ashdown also told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper that it was a \"major breakthrough for the Balkans region.\"",
"\"Karadzic was accused of being the architect of the worst war crimes that have been perpetrated in Europe since the Nazis.",
"\"It is a major credit to Serbia and at last brings the prospect of justice for Bosnia,\" Ashdown said.",
"The arrest brought Serbia's hopes of joining the EU one step closer to realization, EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana lauding the news.",
"\"This ... gives us immense satisfaction.",
"The new government in Belgrade stands for a new Serbia, for a new quality of relations with the EU.\"",
"Vuk Jeremic, Serbia's Foreign Minister, said the arrest was proof Serbia was \"serious when it comes to her European fate.\"",
"However, Serb Radical Party Secretary General Aleksandar Vucic said it was \"horrible\" news and that the country was \"on its way to disappear.\"",
"Karadzic, 63, is accused of leading the worst acts of brutality Europe has seen since the Nazi campaigns of World War II.",
"He is wanted over he deadly siege of Sarajevo, which left an estimated 10,000 people dead, and the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica."
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"(CNN) -- Ghana international Michael Essien has followed goalkeeper Petr Cech in agreeing a new five-year contract with English Premier League side Chelsea.",
"Michael Essien has made a big impression on new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.",
"The midfielder, who is in China for the start of the club's pre-season tour, is now tied to the London outfit until the summer of 2013.",
"The 25-year-old has made 143 appearances since moving to Stamford Bridge from French club Lyon in a $49 million transfer in August 2005, scoring 14 goals in total and helping Chelsea win the league title that season.",
"Essien's decision to commit his long-term future to the club is a boost for new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who allowed veteran holding midfielder Claude Makelele to join Paris St Germain on Monday.",
"\"I have not been here long but it is clear to me that Michael Essien is one of the best midfield players in the world,\" Scolari said.",
"\"I have always admired him and it is good news for me and for Chelsea that he signs for so long.\"",
"The Accra-born Essien, who started his career in France with Bastia in 2000 before moving to Lyon three years later, was also pleased with the deal.",
"\"I am really pleased to have extended my career with Chelsea,\" he said.",
"\"I am very happy here. We have a great team and fantastic fans who have always made me welcome.",
"\"With the addition of the new manager, I am feeling very positive about the season ahead.\"",
"Chelsea announced on Monday that Czech Republic goalkeeper Cech signed a new five-year deal, while England full-back Wayne Bridge committed himself to four more years last week.",
"Scolari is still seeking to keep England midfielder Frank Lampard, who has ended talks over a new deal and now appears to be resigned to waiting until his contract runs out before joining Inter Milan following the upcoming season.",
"The Brazilian has so far added only Portugal playmaker Deco to his midfield ranks.",
"His first match in charge will be Wednesday's friendly against Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, one of the three games the team will play in China.",
"Striker Didier Drogba, who has been linked with moves to AC Milan and Barcelona, is not among the touring squad due to a recurring knee problem.",
"Khalid Boulahrouz, meanwhile, completed his transfer from Chelsea to Stuttgart on a four-year contract with the Bundesliga club.",
"The Netherlands central defender was released Monday by Chelsea and arrived in Stuttgart's training camp in Austria shortly before midnight after passing a medical exam in Stuttgart.",
"The deal between Stuttgart and Chelsea was completed Tuesday.",
"Details were not given.",
"The Dutchman played for Hamburger SV for two seasons before going to Chelsea in 2006.",
"He was loaned to FC Sevilla last season.",
"Boulahrouz's departure came a day after 35-year-old former France international Claude Makelele signed a two-year deal with Paris-Saint Germain after joining from Chelsea on a free transfer."
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"(CNN) -- Marius Kloppers was born in South Africa on August 26, 1962.",
"Marius Kloppers, CEO of BHP Billiton .",
"He obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a PhD in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.",
"He began his career in South Africa, working in petrochemicals with Sasol and in materials research with Mintek.",
"After receiving an MBA from Insead in France, he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co in the Netherlands.",
"Kloppers joined Billiton Group in 1993 as a core member of the team that created the Group's aluminum business, assuming a variety of operating and functional positions including General Manager, Hillside Aluminum, and Chief Operating Officer, Aluminum.",
"Prior to the formation of BHP Billiton, he also acted as Chief Executive Samancor Manganese and Group Executive of Billiton Plc, responsible for its coal and manganese businesses.",
"He played a central role in the merger of BHP and Billiton, as Chief Marketing Officer and then Chief Commercial Officer before being appointed Group President, Non-Ferrous Materials and an executive Director of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc in January 2006.",
"Kloppers was appointed Group Executive and Chief Executive Non-Ferrous in July 2007 and has been Chief Executive Officer of BHP Billiton since October 2007.",
"He now lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife Carin and their three children, Noni, Reuben and Gabrielle."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- With Sen. Hillary Clinton beside him, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized the challenges women in his family had overcome as he reached out to female voters at a fundraiser Thursday.",
"Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appears together during a fundraiser in New York Thursday.",
"The New York event was the third in which the former rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination have appeared together this week.",
"In an attempt to close any remaining rifts with Clinton's backers, Obama has asked his supporters to help Clinton retire her roughly $22 million of campaign debt.",
"Obama and Clinton have appeared together five times since Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination in June.",
"During the \"Women for Obama\" event, the Illinois senator recounted how his mother, a single mom who put herself through school, once had to \"swallow her pride\" and accept food stamps to feed her family.",
"He also recalled how his grandmother worked her way from secretary to the vice president of a bank.",
"\"But I also saw how she ultimately hit a glass ceiling -- how men no more qualified than she was kept moving up the corporate ladder ahead of her,\" he said.",
"Obama highlighted the struggles of his wife to balance the responsibilities of her job and parenting -- and admitted that he was somewhat complicit in the situation in which most of the parenting duties fall to his wife.",
"Watch Obama talk about the women who shaped him » .",
"\"As the son, grandson and husband of hard-working mothers, I don't accept an America that makes women choose between their kids and their careers,\" Obama said.",
"\"We take it for granted that women are the backbone of our families, but we too often ignore the fact that women are also the backbone of our middle class.",
"\"And we won't truly have an economy that puts the needs of the middle class first until we ensure that when it comes to pay and benefits at work, women are treated like equal partners,\" he said, urging a commitment to equal pay for women.",
"He urged \"standing up for paid leave, and paid sick leave, because no one should be punished for getting sick or dealing with a family crisis.\"",
"Later on Thursday, Obama traveled to Fairfax, Virginia, to unveil a plan meant to increase women's economic security.",
"The plan includes a tax credit of up to $1,000 for families, an increase in the minimum wage and tax cuts to help working women pay for child care, among other provisions.",
"Clinton, who introduced Obama, urged her supporters to back the Illinois senator, saying, \"It is critical that we join forces.",
"The Democratic Party is a family -- sometimes dysfunctional.\"",
"Watch Clinton make her case for Obama » .",
"\"We shared this remarkable journey, and I could not be prouder to have this opportunity in front of so many of my friends and supporters to express my confidence in his candidacy and my commitment to ensuring that he will take the oath of office come next January 2009,\" she said.",
"Obama, in turn, praised Clinton for her historic presidential run, saying, \"While this campaign has shown us how far we have to go, we also know that because of what Hillary accomplished, my daughters and yours look at America and themselves a little differently today.\"",
"Watch why Obama and Clinton are appearing together » .",
"Despite the public calls for unity, some of Clinton's supporters have been hesitant to fall in behind Obama.",
"With Clinton's debt yet to be paid off, some of her supporters are balking at the idea of donating to Obama -- especially if he does not choose her to be his running mate.",
"\"I certainly know there are lots of people who are withholding their money,\" said Lynn Forester de Rothschild, one of Clinton's \"Hill-raisers\" who raised over $100,000 for the former first lady.",
"Watch why some Clinton backers are balking » .",
"\"This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don't like him.",
"I feel like he is an elitist.",
"I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him,\" Rothschild said.",
"That sentiment may be sending some Clinton fans into Sen. John McCain's court.",
"According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released last week, the number of Clinton supporters who say they plan to defect to the Republican presidential nominee's camp is down from a month ago -- but numbers of those who say they plan to vote for Obama are also down.",
"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, spent two days in New York this week with disaffected Clinton supporters.",
"\"It's not unexpected that they wouldn't just automatically shift over to Obama, because they're not the typical Democratic supporters that just automatically shift over,\" she said.",
"\"They need to be wooed. They need to be won over.\""
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday discussed a \"general time horizon\" for any American troop withdrawals from Iraq, al-Maliki's office said.",
"Sen. Barack Obama rides in a helicopter Monday with Gen. David Petraeus in Baghdad, Iraq.",
"Obama -- who has made ending the Iraq war a cornerstone of his run for office -- engaged in what were described as productive talks with al-Maliki during a trip to Iraq.",
"The Iraqi government has been pushing for the United States to set a general timetable to spell out troop withdrawals.",
"Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi also met with Obama Monday and told reporters afterward they discussed the security agreement.",
"\"I told Sen. Obama (that) Iraqi and American negotiations regarding this are ongoing, and today new Iraqi-American negotiations on this agreement have started with Iraqi written proposals and have a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq,\" he said.",
"The Bush administration has opposed timetables for troop withdrawals.",
"But al-Maliki and President Bush last week agreed to a \"general time horizon for meeting aspirational goals\" on troop cuts.",
"The prime minister reiterated that principle with Obama, according to a statement from al-Maliki's office.",
"\"Developments of the situation and the circumstances is what will decide the presence of foreign troops in Iraq, but without keeping open-ended dates,\" al-Maliki said, according to a statement from his office.",
"\"With the developments on the ground, we can set a vision and clear horizons regarding this issue, and this is a view both sides agree on in the ongoing negotiations.\"",
"Al-Maliki's office quoted Obama as saying he is \"supportive and committed to preserving the gains achieved by the Iraqi government\" under al-Maliki's leadership and that he admires the prime minister's courage.",
"Obama has proposed withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.",
"Spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the Iraqi government's \"vision\" is that most U.S. combat troops would be out of Iraq by 2010.",
"Asked if that stance is part of the current negotiations, al-Dabbagh said, \"No.",
"This is the Iraqi vision.\"",
"iReport.com: Tell us the most important thing the next president needs to know about Iraq .",
"A German magazine on Saturday quoted al-Maliki as saying he backed Obama's proposal, but al-Dabbagh has said that his remarks \"were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately.\"",
"In a statement Sunday, the magazine, Der Spiegel, said it \"stands by its version of this interview.\"",
"In the magazine interview, al-Maliki did not indicate that he was endorsing Obama over Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.",
"McCain does not think American troops should return to the United States until Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining a safe, democratic state.",
"He has been a strong advocate of the \"surge\" -- the 2007 escalation of U.S. troops -- and has said troops should stay in Iraq as long as needed.",
"Louisiana Gov.",
"Bobby Jindal -- who's been mentioned as a possible vice presidential pick for McCain -- on Monday criticized Obama's push to remove troops in 16 months as an \"arbitrary timetable based on politics versus a plan based on the actual results on the ground.\"",
"\"One of the reasons I'm supporting [McCain] -- he has made it clear he would rather lose an election than lose a war.",
"He's made it very clear -- let's listen to the commanders on the ground,\" Jindal said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"McCain last week chided Obama for laying out his plans for Iraq and Afghanistan before talking to Gen. David Petraeus, the head of U.S. troops in Iraq.",
"Obama met with Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, in Baghdad on Monday.",
"He also met with Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni Arab who is one of Iraq's two vice presidents; Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, commander of Multi-National Corps-Iraq; British Maj. Gen. Barney White Spunner, commander of Multi-National Division South East; and Maj. General Abdul Aziz, the Iraqi army's 14th Division commander.",
"Obama's stop in Iraq marks his second visit to the country.",
"The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's trip abroad began in Kuwait and Afghanistan and will go on to Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Germany, France and Britain.",
"The senator from Illinois first visited Iraq in 2006.",
"See the stops on Obama's trip » .",
"Obama arrived Monday afternoon in the southern city of Basra, according to U.S. Embassy spokesman Armand Cucciniello.",
"Obama is traveling with Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a leading Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican who serves on the Foreign Relations Committee and is an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.",
"Obama has said that if he's elected, he would commit more troops to Afghanistan and would order the military to end the war in Iraq, which he has called a \"dangerous distraction\" from the Afghan battle.",
"Obama spent Saturday and Sunday in Afghanistan, where he met with U.S. troops at three bases and with Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- a leader the Democratic senator has criticized for doing too little to rebuild the war-torn nation.",
"Watch Obama meet Karzai, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan » .",
"The fight in Afghanistan recently has become a more pressing issue on the political radar.",
"More coalition forces have died in Afghanistan than in Iraq in May, June and so far in July.",
"Last week, in a major address laying out his foreign policy position, Obama said, \"As should have been apparent to President Bush and Sen. McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was.\"",
"He said part of his strategy would be \"taking the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\"",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh, Frederik Pleitgen and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel accompany Obama on trip .",
"Obama has talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday .",
"Obama says part of his strategy is \"taking the fight to al Qaeda in Afghanistan\""
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"TOYAKO, Japan (CNN) -- President Bush on Sunday defended his decision to attend next month's Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, saying that to boycott \"would be an affront to the Chinese people.\"",
"President Bush speaks with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at a Sunday news conference in Toyako, Japan.",
"Speaking to reporters ahead of this week's summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations in Japan, Bush said he did not need to skip the ceremony to show his position on religious freedom and human rights in China.",
"He said if he failed to attend the Games it would \"make it more difficult to be able to speak more frankly with the Chinese leadership.\"",
"Bush said he would raise concerns when he meets Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Olympics, but he was also \"looking forward to cheering the U.S.",
"athletes.\" He said it was good for them \"to see their president waving that flag.\"",
"Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda also said he would attend the opening ceremony despite concerns about human rights in China that prompted some other European leaders to boycott the event.",
"Bush and Fukuda took questions from reporters at the picturesque lakeside resort of Toyako on the northern island of Hokkaido, where the G-8 summit will begin Monday.",
"Watch Bush, first lady arrive in Japan » .",
"Bush said he and Fukuda discussed the United States' recent decision to lift some sanctions against North Korea and remove the communist nation from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terror.",
"Bush assured Japan that the issue of North Korea's past kidnappings of Japanese citizens will not be ignored by the United States.",
"He told Fukuda that he was \"fully aware of the sensitivity of the issue in your country\" and that \"the United States will not abandon you on this issue.\"",
"North Korea has admitted to abducting 11 Japanese citizens -- to teach its spies Japanese language and culture -- but had insisted the abduction issue was resolved.",
"Holding a book about a young Japanese girl abducted by North Korea, Bush said as the father of two girls he \"can't imagine what it would be like to have a daughter disappear.\"",
"Bush said North Korea's recent destruction of a water-cooling tower at its now-defunct nuclear facility and its declaration outlining its plutonium program are positive steps, but there are \"more to be taken.\"",
"Lifting sanctions would not weaken the pressure on North Korea to be forthcoming on the abduction issue or in nuclear negotiations, the U.S. president said.",
"Bush said North Korea remains the most sanctioned nation in the world and that \"delisting did not get rid of their sanctions.\"",
"Fukuda, who is chairing the G-8 meetings, said global warming would be high on the agenda but that he could not predict what might result from this week's talks.",
"Fukuda said he believes the United States \"has not lost its sense of direction\" on the issue.",
"\"Our views are gradually converging,\" he said.",
"Bush said the United States \"will be constructive\" in the global warming talks \"but if China and India do not share that same aspiration, we're not going to solve the problem.\"",
"Bush said the United States and Japan leads the world in research on clean technologies.",
"He said Japan's advances in battery technology will some day mean that Americans \"will use batteries in cars that look like cars, not golf carts.\"",
"As world leaders began arriving for the summit, more than 1,000 people protested in northern Japan against the event.",
"Demonstrators urged leaders to take urgent measures to stop global warming, grant indigenous people greater rights, combat world poverty and battle discrimination.",
"Watch police tangle with protesters » .",
"Soaring oil and food prices and possible steps against Zimbabwe were also likely to be high on the agenda at the summit.",
"With fewer than 200 days left in his term, Bush says he will press other G-8 leaders to follow through on their commitments from earlier summits, but has warned there is nothing he or anyone else can do in the short term about oil prices.",
"Bush's main economic goal at the summit may be defensive, said David Gergen, former adviser to presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.",
"\"What's essential in this summit for George W. Bush is to make sure the world economy does not spin downward,\" he said.",
"Bush has downplayed what he and other G-8 leaders can accomplish on the economic front.",
"\"One thing we need to make clear when I'm with our partners is that we're not going to become protectionists, that we believe in free trade and open markets,\" Bush said Wednesday.",
"A former administration official who served on the National Security Council under Bush says the G-8's purpose is not to come up with quick solutions.",
"\"This is not a meeting of heads of state that leads to a treaty.",
"It's really kind of public opinion shaping and trying to get people to agree that issues are important,\" said Michael Green, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
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"(AOL Autos) -- Old cars don't die, they just get resold.",
"Check out a vehicle history report to make sure your new used car won't blow smoke down the highway.",
"If you're buying a used car, whether from a dealer or someone who put an ad in the paper, you'll want to know as much about it as you can.",
"Even without anyone trying to deceive you, the vehicle may have problems you can't see from a simple visual inspection or even a short test drive.",
"A vehicle history report prepared by a third party is one way to know what you're getting.",
"Combining information from state DMVs (Departments of Motor Vehicles) and RMVs (Registry of Motor Vehicles) as well as police reports and other sources, a vehicle history report can give you a comprehensive overview of where the car's been.",
"Here are some things to look for -- or look out for -- when you get a report on a vehicle.",
"None of these things is necessarily a reason not to buy a car, but you shouldn't make a decision without asking about anything you see on a vehicle history: .",
"Many owners .",
"The more garages a car's been in, the less likely it's been lovingly cared for all its life.",
"Not everyone is as responsible about car care as you are.",
"Rental cars and former taxis, for example, will often have undergone a lot of abuse, although they tend to be quite inexpensive.",
"Location, location, location .",
"Some parts of the country are more car-friendly than others.",
"Winter storms (with their accompanying salted roads) can be rough on cars, as obviously can floods, excessive heat or even sea air.",
"Cars that have been where these are common may have hidden damage.",
"Name and description .",
"Be sure the car in the report is the same as the car you're looking at.",
"Carefully reviewing the vehicle description is one way to avoid various types of vehicle fraud, like VIN cloning.",
"A cloned vehicle involves using a vehicle identification number (VIN) from a legally owned, non-stolen vehicle to mask the identity of a similar make/model stolen vehicle.",
"Reports, should include detailed descriptions of the vehicle, so you can make sure the car you're reading about is the same as the one you're looking at.",
"Suspicious markings .",
"Keep an eye out for records of body work that might indicate a prior unreported incident.",
"Vehicle history reports, like those from CARFAX, can be very comprehensive.",
"In the case of CARFAX, the company's database contains more than five billion records from thousands of public and private sources, including all DMVs in the United States and Canada and thousands of vehicle inspection stations, auto auctions, fleet management and rental agencies, automobile manufacturers, and fire and police departments."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- President George W. Bush called India's prime minister Thursday to push a proposed nuclear partnership that sparked an unsuccessful no-confidence vote against the Indian leader this week, a White House spokesman said.",
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a confidence vote despite opposition to the nuclear deal.",
"\"Both leaders expressed their desire to see the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible,\" Gordon Johndroe said.",
"The phone call took place two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh narrowly survived the no-confidence vote in the lower house of Parliament.",
"The vote was sparked by concerns from the opposition that India was kowtowing to the U.S.",
"The tentative deal was announced in 2006 and signed by Bush and Singh a year ago.",
"Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the U.S. Congress, India would have access to U.S. nuclear fuel and technology for its civilian nuclear power plants.",
"That would happen even though New Delhi, which tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998, has declined to join international non-proliferation agreements.",
"In return, India has promised that it would not transfer the fuel and equipment to its weapons program, and it would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect at least 14 of its 22 nuclear plants.",
"The plan would also expand U.S.-Indian cooperation in energy and satellite technology.",
"The plan was approved by India's Cabinet last year, and does not have to be ratified by the parliament.",
"The leaders of India's two communist parties -- which hold about 60 seats in Parliament -- have accused Singh of surrendering India's sovereignty to the United States with the deal.",
"A no-confidence vote would have forced Singh to resign, and required the government to hold early elections unless a new coalition could have been formed.",
"The Congress Party-led coalition has governed India since 2004.",
"Tuesday's 275-256 vote was so crucial to the survival of Singh's government that five members of parliament serving prison sentences were freed to cast votes -- under the watchful eyes of their jailers.",
"Shortly after Singh survived the vote, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino praised the deal as \"a good one for everybody.\"",
"\"It's good for India because it would help provide them a source for energy that they need, one that is nonpolluting and one that doesn't emit greenhouse gas emissions,\" she said.",
"\"And we think that we can move forward with this.",
"If their legislature lets it move forward, then we can do the same here and then we'll be able to get this wrapped up.\""
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Twenty-nine people convicted of various crimes, ranging from murder to being a public nuisance while drunk, were hanged in Iran, state TV said.",
"A convicted Iranian drug dealer is hanged from a crane in the southern city of Shiraz in September.",
"Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported earlier that 30 people would be put to death.",
"It was not immediately clear if the last person's life was spared.",
"The Iranian judiciary's statement said that all 30 were convicted of various crimes, which included: murder, murder in commission of a crime, disturbing public safety and security, being a public nuisance while drunk and being involved in illegal relationships -- relationships between men and women who are not married to each other.",
"Kidnapping and using weapons while committing a crime were also among the charges.",
"The statement also said that 20 of the convicts were convicted of drug and alcohol dealing, armed robbery and smuggling arms.",
"The judiciary statement said that the convicts had their cases tried by the highest judicial authorities and were found guilty of the charges brought against them.",
"The verdicts were final with their sentences carried out on Sunday.",
"The judiciary said the hangings should serve as a warning to those who are contemplating committing such crimes, the agency reported.",
"The statement also said that several other individuals are currently awaiting trial and their sentences will be carried out as soon as the verdicts are pronounced by the courts.",
"According to Amnesty International, Iran executed 317 people last year, second only to China's 470.",
"Iran's government launched a campaign March 20 to increase public security and bring the crime rate down.",
"Police cracked down on alleged drug dealers, whom they called criminal gang members, and alleged habitual criminals who use guns in the commission of their crime.",
"Alleged weapons smugglers and people who break social and religious laws, including adulterers, were also targets.",
"National television showed scenes of what were described as criminals being paraded publicly in chains as a deterrent to others.",
"The wave of arrests has now subsided, as officials are now prosecuting the alleged criminals and sentencing those convicted.",
"Journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. government Thursday announced its highest penalty for coal mine safety violations, $1.85 million, for a collapse that killed six miners in Utah last year.",
"Supervisory Mining Engineer Joe Zelanko on Thursday describes the earth movements at Crandall Canyon mine.",
"Insufficient pillar support and activity in areas that should not have been mined caused the August Crandall Canyon mine collapse, federal investigators found.",
"The government fined the mine operator, Genwal Resources, $1.34 million \"for violations that directly contributed to the deaths of six miners last year,\" plus nearly $300,000 for other violations.",
"The government also levied a $220,000 fine against a mining consultant, Agapito Associates, \"for faulty analysis of the mine's design.\"",
"The mine's owner had insisted that earth movement detected at the time of the collapse had caused the disaster.",
"But investigators found instead that the collapse caused the earth movement.",
"\"It was not -- and I repeat, it was not -- a natural occurring earthquake,\" said the government's top mine safety official, Richard E. Stickler.",
"Stickler, the acting assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health, said, \"pillars failed under excessive load and ejected coal very violently.\"",
"Stickler also said the mine's operator \"was taking more coal than allowed from the barrier pillars and the floor.\"",
"\"This dangerously weakened the strength of the roof support,\" Stickler said.",
"In addition to the six miners killed in the initial cave-in August 6 in northwest Emery County, three would-be rescuers died 10 days later in a subsequent collapse.",
"The bodies of the six miners killed in the initial collapse were never recovered.",
"Richard Gates, the lead investigator for the government, said the pillars in the mine \"simply were not large enough to support the load.\"",
"That resulted in a \"catastrophic failure of pillars over a broad area,\" as large as half a mile, he said.",
"University of Utah scientists said in June that the collapse was not the result of an earthquake.",
"\"As seismologists, we're as certain as we can be that the seismic event registered as a magnitude-3.9 shock was due to the collapse of the mine and not a naturally occurring earthquake,\" said Walter Arabasz, director of the university's Utah Seismograph Stations, in a written statement.",
"Earlier this year, a Labor Department report criticized Mine Safety and Health Administration officials for approving plans for a risky mining technique, known as retreat mining, that was in use before the collapse.",
"In the process, miners remove pillars of coal that support the roof of a chamber one by one, allowing the roof to collapse behind them.",
"Mine owner Bob Murray repeatedly denied in the days after the disaster that his company practiced retreat mining at Crandall Canyon.",
"He later admitted that the practice had been used at the mine but said it was not being done at the time of the disaster."
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"(CNN) -- Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Roma girls were laid out on the sand.",
"Photographs of the dead Roma girls on a beach caused outrage in Italy.",
"Italian news agency ANSA reported that the incident had occurred on Saturday at the beach of Torregaveta, west of Naples, southern Italy, where the two girls had earlier been swimming in the sea with two other Roma girls.",
"Reports said they had gone to the beach to beg and sell trinkets.",
"Local news reports said the four girls found themselves in trouble amid fierce waves and strong currents.",
"Emergency services responded 10 minutes after a distress call was made from the beach and two lifeguards attended the girls upon hearing their screams.",
"Two of them were pulled to safety but rescuers failed to reach the other two in time to save them.",
"Watch why the photos have generated anger » .",
"The Web site of the Archbishop of Naples said the girls were cousins named Violetta and Cristina, aged 12 and 13.",
"Their bodies were eventually laid out on the sand under beach towels to await collection by police.",
"Photographs show sunbathers in bikinis and swimming trunks sitting close to where the girls' feet can be seen poking out from under the towels concealing their bodies.",
"A photographer who took photos at the scene told CNN the mood among sunbathers had been one of indifference.",
"Other photos show police officers lifting the bodies into coffins and carrying them away past bathers reclined on sun loungers.",
"\"While the lifeless bodies of the girls were still on the sand, there were those who carried on sunbathing or having lunch just a few meters away,\" Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported.",
"Corriere della Sera said that a crowd of curious onlookers that had formed around the bodies quickly dispersed.",
"\"Few left the beach or abandoned their sunbathing.",
"When the police from the mortuary arrived an hour later with coffins, the two girls were carried away between bathers stretched out in the sun.\"",
"The incident also attracted condemnation from the Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Crecenzio Seppe.",
"\"Indifference is not an emotion for human beings,\" Seppe wrote in his parish blog.",
"\"To turn the other way or to mind your own business can sometimes be more devastating than the events that occur.\"",
"Recent weeks have seen heightened tensions between Italian authorities and the country's Roma minority amid a crackdown by Silvo Berlusconi's government targeting illegal immigrants and talk by government officials of a \"Roma emergency\" that has seen the 150,000-strong migrant group blamed for rising street crime.",
"That has provided justification for police raids on Roma camps and controversial government plans to fingerprint all Roma -- an act condemned by the European Parliament and United Nations officials as a clear act of racial discrimination.",
"Popular resentment against Romanies has also seen Roma camps near Naples attacked and set on fire with petrol bombs by local residents.",
"In a statement published on its Web site, the Italian civil liberties group EveryOne said Saturday's drowning had occurred in an atmosphere of \"racism and horror\" and cast doubt on the reported version of events, suggesting that it appeared unusual for the four girls to wade into the sea, apparently casting modesty aside and despite being unable to swim.",
"\"The most shocking aspect of all this is the attitude of the people on the beach,\" the statement said.",
"\"No one appears the slightest upset at the sight and presence of the children's dead bodies on the beach: they carry on swimming, sunbathing, sipping soft drinks and chatting.\"",
"CNN's Jennifer Eccleston contributed to this report."
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"Photos showed girls' bodies lying on sand covered in beach towels .",
"Newspapers report beach goers eating lunch, sun bathing as bodies carried away .",
"Incident occurred amid heightened tensions between authorities, Roma minority ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congress voted to halt planned cuts in Medicare payments to doctors Tuesday, overriding President Bush's veto in a battle that pitted health insurers against physicians.",
"President Bush says he objects to the bill because it takes choices \"away from seniors to pay physicians.\"",
"The new law stops a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors, part of a scheduled cost-saving formula that went into effect July 1.",
"The money for the doctors will be taken from the government-subsidized Medicare Advantage program, which the Bush administration strongly supports.",
"Bush spiked the bill Tuesday, telling lawmakers they would be \"taking choices away from seniors to pay physicians.\"",
"\"I urge the Congress to send me a bill that reduces the growth in Medicare spending, increases competition and efficiency, implements principles of value-driven health care and appropriately offsets increases in physician spending,\" he said in his veto message.",
"The Senate voted 70-26 to enact the law over Bush's objections, the third time in his presidency that Congress has overridden his veto.",
"The margin in the House of Representatives was a lopsided 383-41, well beyond the two-thirds majority needed.",
"The American Medical Association lobbied heavily for the bill, warning that its members could be forced to curtail seeing Medicare patients if the cuts went into effect.",
"But insurers, which receive government subsidies to offer Medicare Advantage plans, warned that 2 million seniors could lose health benefits if it passed.",
"A total of 21 Senate Republicans joined 47 Democrats and two independents in the override vote.",
"Supporters broke a GOP-led filibuster of the bill last week, aided by the dramatic return of Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.",
"Kennedy's vote came in his first appearance on the Senate floor since surgery to remove a brain tumor in early June.",
"Though he did not vote Tuesday, Kennedy praised his colleagues for overriding the \"misguided\" veto.",
"\"It's a great vote, and a great day for America's seniors,\" he said in a written statement.",
"Those Republicans who opposed the bill argued that it would roll back many of the changes made to Medicare in 2003, when Congress created privately run, government-subsidized prescription drug coverage and expanded the role of private insurers in other coverage.",
"\"These are not pro-patient policies,\" said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona.",
"\"Rather, the bill reduces access, benefits and choices for Medicare beneficiaries.\"",
"But critics of the 2003 reforms say Medicare Advantage subsidies end up costing more than the government would pay to cover the same people through regular Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors.",
"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill will reduce federal spending by $12.5 billion by 2013, largely by reducing Medicare Advantage enrollment.",
"Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said the bill also made \"vital improvements\" by supporting rural health care and lowering fees for mental health care.",
"\"Today, we can stand up for Medicare,\" she said.",
"\"We did it last week, when we came together and voted for this measure by a veto-proof margin, and I believe we can do it today by overriding that veto.\"",
"Congress had passed only two bills over Bush's objections: a $23 billion water-project legislation that the president vetoed in 2007 and a $300 billion farm bill he spiked in May.",
"The Medicare system pays for the health care of roughly 40 million elderly Americans.",
"Rising health care costs have made Medicare a growing part of the federal budget, and the stress on the system is increasing as more baby boomers reach retirement age.",
"While the debate was raging over the bill, the AMA said the cuts could lead to a \"meltdown\" of the government's health care system for the elderly.",
"A recent survey by the group found that 60 percent of physicians will be forced to limit the number of new Medicare patients they can take on if the cuts go into effect.",
"\"We stand at the brink of a Medicare meltdown.",
"... For doctors, this is not a partisan issue; it's a patient access issue,\" AMA President Nancy Nielsen said in a statement after last week's Senate vote.",
"The AMA ran radio and TV ads over the July Fourth congressional recess targeting 10 Republican senators, seven of whom are up for re-election.",
"The AARP, the nation's largest organization of retired people, and other groups also are weighing in against the cuts.",
"Gerald Harmon, a family physician who practices in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, said the cuts could lead to doctors taking fewer Medicare patients, making it difficult for the program's elderly patients to get the care they need.",
"\"This Medicare access problem is a real issue, not just a political football,\" said Harmon, who said 35 percent of his patients were eligible for Medicare.",
"\"It affects your dad when he's sick.",
"It affects my patients in my practice.",
"This has to be addressed.\" CNN's Elaine Quijano and Ted Barrett contributed to this report."
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"TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Thirty people convicted of drug and other criminal charges will be hanged on Sunday, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday.",
"A convicted Iranian drug dealer is hanged from a crane in the southern city of Shiraz in September.",
"The 30 had their cases tried by the highest judicial authorities and were found guilty of the charges brought against them, Iran's judiciary said in a statement.",
"The verdicts are final, and the sentences will be carried out Sunday, according to Fars.",
"According to Amnesty International, Iran executed 317 people last year, second only to China's 470.",
"The U.S. executed 42 people in 2007, according to Amnesty International.",
"The Iranian judiciary's statement said that all 30 were convicted of crimes including murder, murder in commission of a crime, disturbing public safety and security, being a public nuisance while drunk and being involved in illegal relationships -- relationships between men and women who are not married to each other.",
"Kidnapping and using weapons while committing a crime were among the charges.",
"The statement said that 20 of the people were convicted of drug and alcohol dealing, armed robbery and smuggling arms.",
"The judiciary said it will provide more details later as to the crimes committed by those condemned and added that the hangings should serve as a warning to those who are contemplating committing such crimes.",
"Others are awaiting trial, and their sentences will be carried out as soon as the verdicts are pronounced by the courts, the judiciary said.",
"The judiciary asked the public to notify the authorities if they have any information that might lead to arrest and convictions of criminals.",
"Iran's government launched a campaign March 20 to increase public security and bring the crime rate down.",
"Police cracked down on drug dealers, whom they called criminal gang members, and habitual criminals who use guns in the commission of their crime.",
"Alleged weapons smugglers and people who break social and religious laws, including adulterers, were also targets.",
"National television showed scenes of what were described as criminals being paraded in chains as a deterrent to others.",
"The wave of arrests has subsided, as officials are now prosecuting the suspects and sentencing those convicted.",
"Journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate voted Wednesday to move forward on a bill meant to crack down on oil speculators.",
"Democrats say speculation in oil futures is a significant reason why oil prices have risen this year.",
"But Republicans vowed to block the Senate from taking up any other measure until the Democratic leadership agrees to vote on other energy-related issues.",
"Republicans want to offer up to 28 amendments to the bill on a wide range of energy topics, including increasing domestic oil production.",
"The Democrats want to limit them to two amendments.",
"\"This is not some arcane subject; this is the biggest issue in the country,\" said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.",
"\"It's on the floor now. We say, let's deal with it.",
"We're not afraid to vote on their amendments, they shouldn't be afraid to vote on ours.",
"Let the Senate work its will on the No.",
"1 issue in the country.\"",
"The Republicans said they would not prevent the Senate from taking up the housing bill passed earlier in the day by the House, although a final vote on that bill is not expected before the end of the week.",
"Democrats oppose Republican measures to lift bans on offshore drilling and oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.",
"See how gas prices have risen across the country » .",
"Republicans say the process would not be fair unless they can offer all of their amendments.",
"Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, accused the Republicans of wanting to score political points rather than pass legislation.",
"\"The problem with our Republican colleagues is that they want to debate, not act. ...",
"Even when they are offered what they want, they say no.\"",
"Menendez suggested there was bipartisan support for measures meant to limit speculation, encourage conservation and provide tax credits for renewable energy.",
"\"Why would you not move forward on the items that you have consensus?\"",
"he asked. The disagreement between Republicans and Democrats could result in Congress leaving Washington for its monthlong recess in August without passing any measures to lower gas prices, which are averaging above $4 a gallon at the pump.",
"Experts have said lifting bans on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore would not affect the oil market for several years, but Republicans have argued that the psychological effect of opening more areas for oil exploration would bring prices down.",
"Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota, one of the main sponsors of the bill, pleaded for Republicans to help \"wring excessive speculation\" from the oil markets.",
"He says speculation is responsible for 71 percent of the increase in a price of a barrel of oil this year.",
"Some analysts say speculation has added between $40 to $60 dollars to a barrel of oil.",
"But other experts have questioned the extent to which speculators -- rather than basic market principles of supply and demand -- have driven up the price of oil.",
"Wednesday morning, a barrel of light, sweet crude was priced around $128 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down from the $147 a barrel record set July 11 and the lowest price since June 5.",
"Dorgan said ending speculation in the oil market would be a sensible first step toward lowering gas prices that both sides of the aisle could agree to.",
"Republicans \"have come up with a hundred excuses why they don't want to do that,\" he said.",
"But Republicans say they want the opportunity to offer \"real\" solutions that will lower energy prices, which includes more drilling to expand domestic production.",
"See what factors are driving up the price of oil » .",
"\"The Republicans know that American people want us to do something real, something big, something important about the price of gasoline,\" said Sen. Pete Dominici, R-New Mexico.",
"\"And the only thing that we can do that is important is to release large quantities of crude oil and natural gas that are owned by American people and that have been locked up for 27 years in moratoria.\"",
"Dorgan, however, said the Republicans are trying to suggest Democrats are against additional domestic oil production, noting that there are millions of acres of federally controlled land and off-shore drilling sites that are open to exploration but have not been used by oil companies.",
"\"It's a false choice that the minority side says we should drill and that the majority side doesn't,\" Dorgan said.",
"The bill in the Senate would provide more resources and authority to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to detect and punish speculation.",
"It would help stop speculators from using foreign markets to manipulate the price of oil in the United States, require more transparency in oil markets and limit the trading of market players who do not intend to receive the oil they purchase.",
"CNN's Ted Barrett, Debra Krajnak and Scott Anderson contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A 19-year-old girl whose hospitalization exposed a shocking Austrian incest case has woken from her coma, a development that could shed new light on what occurred in the basement were she was held captive for decades.",
"Fritzl initially confessed to raping his daughter and having seven children with her.",
"Doctors placed Kerstin Fritzl in an artificial coma in April after she emerged for the first time from the cellar where she was held captive from birth by her father Josef.",
"Kerstin, along with six other children, was born from Josef Fritzl's incestuous relationship with his daughter Elisabeth, now 43, whom he raped repeatedly during the 24 years she was imprisoned beneath his home.",
"Police say Fritzl, 73, has confessed to holding his Elisabeth captive and fathering seven children, six of whom survived.",
"Kerstin was admitted to hospital in Amstetten, west of Vienna, in an unconscious state after Elisabeth persuaded Fritzl that she needed medical attention.",
"Suspicious medics alerted police, who opened an investigation.",
"Detectives began investigating the case after hospital officials started inquiring about the girl's family history.",
"Kerstin and two of her brothers, aged 18 and 5, had spent their entire lives trapped in the cellar with their mother, never seeing daylight, a television their only contact with the outside world.",
"Another three children Fritzl fathered with Elisabeth were taken to live above ground with Fritzl and his wife, who says she had no idea that her daughter was being held captive.",
"A seventh child died shortly after birth.",
"Elisabeth and her children have been treated at a secure medical unit since their release.",
"Officials at hospital in Amstetten, Austria, did not release any more information about Kerstin Fritzl's condition.",
"A news conference on the case is scheduled for Wednesday."
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"Kerstin Fritzl, 19, spent her entire life in cellar .",
"The dungeon was uncovered after she was taken to hospital with illness ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi representatives will meet with the International Olympic Committee on Monday to try to reach an agreement that would allow now-banned Iraq to participate in next month's games, an official said Friday.",
"Iraq fans cheer during an Olympic qualifying soccer match against Australia in November.",
"Jassim M. Jaffer, Iraq's minister of youth and sports, told CNN he is \"optimistic that we will participate.\"",
"Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh and the ministry's adviser, Basil Abdul Mahdi, are on their way to Lausanne, Switzerland, to meet with IOC officials, Jaffer said.",
"The IOC barred Iraq from participating in the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing, China, citing what it said was government interference with Iraq's Olympic movement.",
"The IOC's charter does not allow political interference.",
"The ban stems from the Iraqi government decision in May to suspend the country's existing Olympic committee and form a new entity.",
"Watch an official explain the decision » .",
"But even as government representatives traveled to Switzerland, Jaffer said Iraq was considering legal action against the IOC.",
"\"We will revert to international courts with a complaint against the IOC ... to get Iraq's rights and the rights of the athletes,\" Jaffer said.",
"On Friday, another Iraqi government official said the country was doing what it could to reverse the ban, but acknowledged that \"chances are slim\" for a change.",
"Basam Ridha al-Husseini, an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, told CNN the government has been in \"heavy negotiations\" with IOC officials through the Asian Olympic Committee.",
"\"The Iraqi government will not give up on our participation, which is still needed by our people,\" he said in a phone interview from Dubai.",
"\"We are doing our best to stop the ban. ...",
"The chances of that are slim, but we will persevere and hope it will happen.\"",
"Repeated attempts by CNN to reach the IOC press office in Switzerland for comment were unsuccessful.",
"But on Thursday, IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said the IOC in June suspended Iraq's national Olympic committee after the government removed elected officials and put in people not recognized by the IOC.",
"She said the IOC had proposed to the Iraqi government that officials come to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, \"to discuss possible solutions.\"",
"\"We're extremely disappointed with the situation,\" Moreau said.",
"\"The athletes have been ill-served by the government in Iraq.\"",
"Iraq missed a Wednesday deadline for the entry of athletes to compete in archery, judo, rowing and weightlifting, Moreau said.",
"She said there is a chance that track and field athletes could compete if the original committee is reinstated.",
"The deadline for the track team to register is at the end of the month.",
"Jaffer, Iraq's sports minister, told CNN on Friday that the IOC's decision was \"unjust\" because it did not take into consideration the Iraqi government's reasons for the May suspension.",
"The minister called on the IOC to come to Iraq and talk to the sports federation to investigate the political interference accusations, and then act accordingly.",
"\"Looking at this from far away, without going into the details, not reading the Iraqi government's reports, not hearing Iraq's side of the story and accusing Iraq of many things is really unfortunate,\" he said.",
"Several Iraqi athletes were to travel to China for the games' start in August.",
"Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain cried for hours after hearing the news of the ban on Thursday, which arrived in the form of a letter to Iraqi officials.",
"\"She hasn't stopped. It's like finding out that a close relative has died,\" said her coach, Yousif Abdul Rahman.",
"Abdul Rahman attempted to console Hussain by assuring her that she could compete in the 2012 Olympics.",
"Watch Hussain react to the news » .",
"\"In this horrible situation,\" she said, \"who can say I'll even be alive in 2012?\"",
"Al-Husseini said Iraq had the right as a sovereign nation to suspend the Olympic committee, which he accused of documented corruption.",
"It was not clear where the committee's funds were going and they \"could be ending up in the hands of terrorists,\" he said.",
"\"We are satisfied with the decision ... stand by it and we are not going to change an order by [Prime Minister] al-Maliki and the Cabinet.",
"... Never,\" he said.",
"He was asked whether Iraq would consider doing what Yugoslavia did in the 1992 Winter Olympics when it was banned -- sending individual athletes and not raising the national flag.",
"Al-Husseini said that would be an option, but al-Maliki rejected it.",
"Al-Husseini said that Iraq had been banned from taking part in the 1990 Olympics during the Saddam Hussein-era because of the invasion of Kuwait.",
"The 1990 ban, enacted by the Olympic Council of Asia, actually was a ban on participation in the Asian Games, a regional Olympics-related event.",
"Iraq participated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the first Games held after the Kuwait invasion.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Morgan Neill contributed to this report."
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"Iraqi officials head to Switzerland to make case to International Olympic Committee .",
"IOC said Thursday Iraq was banned from summer games, which start next month .",
"IOC charged political interference, cited Iraq's suspension of its Olympic committee .",
"Iraqi official says he's \"optimistic\" Iraq will be allowed to take part in games ."
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"(CNN) -- Two teenage girls from Great Britain will fly home Thursday after spending a year behind bars in Ghana for drug-smuggling, the British High Commission in the west African country said.",
"The girls were stopped by customs officials at Accra trying to smuggle drugs back to Britain.",
"Ghanaian police arrested the teenagers, identified as Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, in July 2007 as they prepared to board a British Airways flight to London.",
"When officials searched their laptop bags as part of departure formalities, they found about 13 lbs (6 kg) of cocaine.",
"The girls, now 17, were 16 at the time of their arrest.",
"They faced a maximum sentence of three years.",
"UK media have named the girls as Yatunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever of north London.",
"In January, a juvenile court in Ghana sentenced the pair to nine months in jail for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country.",
"At the time, a British Foreign Office spokesman said the teens would not have to serve the full sentence because they had already spent more than six months in custody.",
"But soon afterward, Ghanaian authorities changed their minds.",
"The girls were housed in a correctional home for girls in the country's capital, Accra.",
"Fair Trials International, a UK-based group that provided legal assistance to the pair, called the girls \"pawns in a larger operation.\"",
"Authorities in Ghana had said a man paid the girls £6,000 (about $11,700) to fly to Ghana to retrieve the laptop bags containing the drugs from two of his associates, according to the country's national news agency.",
"Those men have not been caught.",
"\"The girls have served their full sentences, but the men who groomed them and lured them to Ghana remain free to target other vulnerable young women,\" said Catherine Wolthuizen, Fair Trials' chief executive, in a statement this week.",
"Ghana and other West African countries have become a transit point for drugs headed to Europe.",
"The girls were arrested in a joint Britain-Ghana drug detection operation, the UK's customs agency said Wednesday.",
"CNN's Laura Maestro contributed to this report ."
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"British teens jailed in Ghana on drugs charges, due to fly home to UK Thursday .",
"Pair, both 16 at time of arrest last July, sentenced to nine months in prison .",
"UK legal aid group says girls had been targeted, were \"pawns in a larger operation\""
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"PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (CNN) -- Cambodia has sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council to call attention to its continuing standoff with Thailand over an ancient border temple on disputed land.",
"Cambodian soldiers stand guard near Preah Vihear temple, close to the Thai border.",
"The country is not asking for U.N. intervention, said Information Minister Kheu Kanharith.",
"Rather, the letter that Cambodia's permanent mission in New York submitted to the chairmen of the Security Council and the General Assembly is meant to draw attention to a crisis that entered its sixth day Sunday.",
"The two countries agreed to meet Monday to defuse tensions -- even as each side continued to amass more troops to the site of the Preah Vihear temple.",
"Both Cambodia and Thailand lay claim to the 11th century temple, which sits atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but has its most accessible entrance on the Thai side.",
"The International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962.",
"Thailand claims, however, that the 1.8 square mile (4.6 sq.",
"km) area around it was never fully demarcated.",
"Thailand further says that the dispute arose from the fact that the Cambodian government used a map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia that places both the temple and the surrounding area in that country's territory.",
"Earlier this month, the United Nations approved Cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site -- places the U.N. says have outstanding universal value.",
"The decision re-ignited tensions, with some in Thailand fearing it will make it difficult for their country to lay claim to disputed land around the temple.",
"Opposition parties in Thailand used the issue to attack the government, which initially backed the heritage listing.",
"A Thai court overturned the pact, prompting the resignation of Thailand's foreign minister, Noppadon Pattama.",
"He had endorsed the application.",
"Cambodia, meanwhile, is preparing for general elections on July 27.",
"And Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph.",
"The current flare-up began Tuesday, when Cambodian guards briefly detained three Thais who crossed into the area.",
"Once they were let go, the three refused to leave the territory.",
"Cambodia claims Thailand sent troops to retrieve the trio and gradually built up their numbers.",
"Thailand denies the charge, saying its troops are deployed in Thai territory.",
"Each side has asked its troops to withhold fire unless they are fired upon.",
"So far, the only casualty has been a Thai soldier who was injured Tuesday by a landmine -- possibly left over from the time the Khmer Rouge occupied the area.",
"The Khmer Rouge, a radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, won power through a guerrilla war.",
"It is remembered for the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Cambodians.",
"-- Journalist Soeum Yin contributed to this report ."
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"Cambodia: Letter to Security Council meant to 'draw attention to crisis'\nThe two countries agreed to meet Monday to defuse tensions .",
"Both Cambodia and Thailand lay claim to 11th century Preah Vihear temple .",
"The International Court of Justice awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962 ."
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"(CNN) -- \"The Dark Knight\" opened early Friday to huge crowds and rave reviews.",
"Colorado teen Christina Perez says she painted her face like the Joker as a tribute to Heath Ledger.",
"Much of the praise has gone to Heath Ledger's dark and disturbing portrayal of the Joker.",
"Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose before the movie was finished.",
"iReporter Chelsea Itson, a 23-year-old student, went to the 12:15 a.m. showing in Perrysburg, Ohio, and couldn't sleep afterward.",
"\"It still has me kind of jittery,\" she told CNN.",
"Itson saw the first \"Batman\" movie, but wasn't a big fan of the series, or Heath Ledger, but said her friend wanted to go.",
"iReporter hasn't been to sleep since seeing film » .",
"\"It was completely different from Jack Nicholson [as the Joker],\" she said.",
"After the movie, she said, the audience was silent.",
"\"I've never left a movie shaking before,\" she said.",
"Christina Perez, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and her friends went to the theater four hours early to make sure they got a good seat.",
"\"There was already a line going along the side of the theater, but we managed to get good seats anyway,\" she said.",
"The 17-year-old says she's more of a Heath Ledger fan than a Batman fan, and she wore Joker make up as a tribute to him.",
"\"I thought he was amazing.",
"I felt really sad that he died while filming this, his role was so amazing,\" she said.",
"Jessica Lang, 15, of Mankato, Minnesota, said she wasn't expecting much from the movie and pretty much went only because her brother and some friends wanted to go.",
"\"It was amazing, there were no words for it, it was so good, it was probably the best movie I've ever seen,\" she said.",
"Jenni Smith went to the 3 a.m. showing in Las Vegas, Nevada, even though she had to be at work that day.",
"She and her friends went straight to bed after work Thursday, then got up at 1 a.m. \"I'm a big comic book fan, and I've been reading comic books since I was 5.",
"And I'm also a big movie fan, and we tend to go to a lot of movie openings.\"",
"Her friend Mario Carrillo also dressed up as the Joker, and she made a custom shirt for the event.",
"\"One of the things I just really love is the energy of the crowd on opening day.",
"I find that people are more willing to laugh out loud and cheer. ...",
"It's worth staying up for,\" the 32-year-old publications manager said.",
"Below is a sampling of iReporters' impressions of \"The Dark Knight.\"",
"Some have been edited for length or clarity: .",
"sanjeeva7 of Alpharetta, Georgia: Believe the hype.",
"The Dark Knight lived up to the hype, especially Heath Ledger's role as The Joker.",
"I really felt he was crazy.",
"One of the best villain portrayals of all time and well deserving of an Oscar nomination.",
"Geno Walker of Charlotte, North Carolina: \"Unless you hate yourself, you should go see this movie immediately.",
"Stop reading this right now and go to the nearest movie theater.",
"It doesn't even matter if the show has already started.",
"Buy a ticket, walk in halfway through, sit down and wait for the next showing to start.",
"See it soon and see it often.",
"You'll love yourself more if you do.\" mrRG: \"A haunting experiment into the human psyche is the only way I can describe the unequivocal depth that Ledger was able to reach with this portrayal of one the most evil characters ever brought to the screen.",
"It was definitely Bale's story, but the late Heath Ledger's movie.",
"sonnyjc9: Wife and I watched this yesterday 17 July here in Bangkok, Thailand.",
"Heath Ledger is AWESOME as the Joker.",
"154 minutes of pure entertainment, and you will be giggling to yourself from Heath's performance.",
"It is sad to think he will never reprise this role, but what a farewell.",
"Must see. Zandz: We went to the premiere of this movie last night and thought the movie was only good.",
"However, Heath Ledger did an excellent job portraying the the Joker.",
"The way Heath Ledger plays the Joker is different than how Jack Nicholson plays the character.",
"Both have their unique styles -- Nicholson's Joker was more comical, but Ledger's was more dark (while trying to be funny).",
"The makeup artists also did a great job on this Joker's face."
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"iReporters got up early, stayed up late to see \"The Dark Night\"\nChristina Perez got to the theater four hours early .",
"\"Best movie I've ever seen,\" Jessica Lang said .",
"Send your review: Share photos and videos ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States needs a new law requiring that the president consult with Congress before going to war, a blue-ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said Tuesday.",
"James Baker, left, and Warren Christopher led a panel that recommended a new War Powers Act.",
"The current War Powers Resolution is \"ineffective, and it should be repealed and it should be replaced,\" James Baker said in a joint appearance with Warren Christopher, announcing the results of the study they led.",
"The recommendation follows failed efforts by Democrats in Congress to put a stop to the war in Iraq or to put conditions on President Bush's conduct of it.",
"Congress passed a joint resolution to authorize armed force against Iraq in 2002, but some Bush opponents say it should not have been interpreted as a blank check for the United States to invade and occupy the Persian Gulf nation.",
"Baker, who served in George H.W.",
"Bush's administration, and Christopher, who served under President Bill Clinton, said their project was not prompted by any specific war, with Christopher adding that the commission had \"tried very hard not to call balls and strikes on past history here.\"",
"\"We didn't direct this report at any particular conflict,\" Baker added.",
"The existing law, the War Powers Resolution of 1973, has been regarded as unconstitutional by every president since it was passed as a response to the Vietnam War, Baker and Christopher said.",
"It requires presidents to report regularly to Congress about ongoing conflicts, but the provision has been flouted.",
"\"No president has ever made a submission to Congress pursuant to the War Powers Resolution since 1973,\" former Sen. Slade Gorton, a Republican member of the committee, said Tuesday.",
"The panel, formally called the National War Powers Commission, said a new law should be created requiring the president to consult with key members of Congress before sending troops into combat expected to last more than a week, or within three days of doing so in the case of operations that need to be kept secret.",
"It should also make clear exactly who the president needed to consult.",
"The panel suggests that the president talk to \"a joint Congressional committee made up of the leaders of the House and the Senate as well as the chairmen and ranking members of key committees.\"",
"The new committee would have a permanent professional staff with access to intelligence information, Baker and Christopher said.",
"Congress, in turn, would have to declare war or vote on a \"resolution of approval\" within 30 days, they said.",
"If a resolution of approval failed, any member of Congress could introduce a \"resolution of disapproval,\" but it was not clear that such an act would stop a war in progress.",
"Christopher was unable to say in the news conference what practical effect congressional disapproval would have.",
"Baker said the commission had been in touch with the presidential campaigns of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, as well as leaders of Congress.",
"He declined to reveal what they thought of the proposal, but said: \"We haven't gotten a negative reaction.\"",
"Congress has not officially declared war since 1942, when the United States entered formal hostilities with the Axis powers in World War II.",
"But since then, presidents have sent troops into countries including Korea, Vietnam, Grenada and Iraq.",
"The Constitution makes the president the commander in chief of the armed forces, but gives Congress the power to declare war and approve military budgets.",
"Baker and Christopher's group included both Republicans and Democrats and held seven meetings over 14 months."
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"War Powers Act is \"ineffective\" and should be repealed, blue-ribbon panel says .",
"Former secretaries of state James Baker and Warren Christopher led the study .",
"They say the project was not prompted by any specific war .",
"Panel proposes new law requiring president to consult with Congress ."
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"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Dubai has forgiven the nearly $7 billion Baghdad owes it, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced Sunday.",
"UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has promised to appoint an ambassador to Iraq.",
"UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan promised to \"put out these debts,\" appoint an ambassador to Baghdad, and \"help Iraq building the holy shrines that were targeted by the terrorists,\" al-Maliki said in a written statement.",
"Al-Maliki and the sheikh met Sunday, the first day of a two-day official visit.",
"Al-Maliki was accompanied by the Iraqi ministers of Interior, Commerce and Industry.",
"\"Our biggest challenge is now the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the economic situation and to provide services to our citizens,\" al-Maliki said.",
"Debt relief is a major issue for Iraq, and the United States has urged other nations to forgive Iraqi debt, most of which is held by Arab states, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt said in late May.",
"Also, the UAE Cabinet on Sunday nominated Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shehhi to be the country's ambassador to Iraq.",
"Al-Shehhi, who previously served as the Emirates' ambassador to India, is to travel to Iraq after his nomination is confirmed.",
"An official government source said the UAE intends to reopen its embassy in Baghdad by the end of the year.",
"The United States and other nations have urged Arab countries to post ambassadors to Iraq, reopen embassies and forge closer relationships with Iraq's government.",
"The UAE mission in Iraq hasn't been active since a UAE diplomat was kidnapped and released two years ago.",
"The year before that, two Iraqis working for that mission were killed.",
"No ambassador from an Arab country has been stationed permanently in Iraq since July 2005, when Egypt's ambassador, Dr. Ihab al-Sherif, was abducted from a Baghdad street and slain.",
"Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the assassination, saying it had killed al-Sherif because of Egypt's foreign policies and its alliances with the United States and Israel.",
"The UAE's announcement Sunday came a month after its foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, visited Baghdad.",
"During that visit, al-Nahyan extended the official invitation that brought al-Maliki to Dubai.",
"Iraq's government said that al-Nahyan's one-day visit was the first to Iraq by a Gulf Cooperation Council foreign minister since the 2003 U.S-led invasion that toppled the regime of President Saddam Hussein.",
"The Gulf Cooperation Council also includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.",
"Prior to al-Nahyan's visit, only Syria and Jordan had sent foreign ministers to Iraq in the post-Saddam Hussein era.",
"The Arab League's secretary-general has also visited.",
"War and the Sunni-Shiite rivalry in Iraq and the Muslim world have slowed the Arab world's re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Iraq.",
"Iraq's mixed population is mostly Arab with some Kurds and Turkmens, and mostly Shiite Muslim, with a Sunni Muslim minority.",
"Most Arab countries -- including the UAE -- are Sunni-ruled.",
"Iraq's government is Shiite-dominated and it is forging a close relationship with its neighbor, the non-Arab Shiite nation of Iran -- a development that concerns Arab nations wary of Iran's Islamic Republic government.",
"Al-Maliki's government is seeking to develop close ties to all countries of the region.",
"CNN's Caroline Faraj in Dubai and Mohammed Tawfeeq in Baghdad contributed to this report."
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"West has urged nations to forgive billions in Iraqi debt .",
"UAE Cabinet nominates Abdullah Ibrahim al-Shehhi to be ambassador to Iraq ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Shada's back aches more and more each day as she literally bears her family's burden.",
"Clothed in a black robe, she strains under her husband's weight.",
"Shada now carries her husband around the house.",
"His legs were blown off in a bombing.",
"Murtada, a 29-year-old taxi driver, was once a proud husband and father.",
"But one morning last October, he kissed his family good-bye and set off to work.",
"Within hours, their world was shattered.",
"A bomb blew off both his legs above the knee.",
"\"I lost consciousness for a bit.",
"I knew I was wounded,\" he says.",
"\"I was under the car. I saw my legs were severed, just flesh and skin.",
"I was holding my legs, bleeding.\"",
"Watch Shada strain to carry her husband » .",
"Helpless, the daily burden is now on Shada.",
"She carries Murtada when he needs to be moved.",
"She can't even leave the house because of the constant care she provides her husband.",
"\"I want to work, but I can't really because then who will stay with my husband?\"",
"she says. \"Who will take him to the bathroom?",
"My first concern every morning is my husband.\"",
"See the struggles of Iraqi women » .",
"The attack did to Murtada what roadside bombs, rocket fire, and sniper shootings have done to thousands of Iraqis.",
"Since the war began, the estimates of wounded Iraqis have ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people.",
"Go inside Iraq with CNN's Arwa Damon » .",
"According to Iraq's Health Ministry, 25 percent of the wounded have lost at least one limb.",
"Murtada is one of these grim stats, and his life is now a nightmare.",
"He has stumps where his legs used to be and hasn't been able to get prosthetics.",
"He moves around by lifting himself with his arms, riding in a wheelchair or being carried by his wife.",
"Life has forced Shada to tap into a physical and emotional strength she did not know she possessed.",
"Their 3-year-old son helps care for his father.",
"One time, Murtada admits his thoughts turned dark.",
"\"I was thinking, 'Is this really going to be my life?'",
"And then I was thinking about my son and how I can't provide for him, and then I began thinking about poisoning myself.\"",
"This small family lives in a small rented house in a Shiite neighborhood in western Baghdad.",
"Shada has endured many tough times amid war and conflict.",
"Her brother was shot dead and her father died because of poor health care.",
"Neighbors have helped the family financially, and Shada tries to make ends meet by selling gasoline on the street.",
"But the circumstances have forced the man she relied on to rely on her.",
"\"I look at him like a baby, with the needs of a baby,\" she says.",
"\"Nobody but me can help him.",
"I cannot go to the markets because of him.",
"I am asking people for help because I cannot leave him alone in the house.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Iraqi woman devotes herself to caring for injured husband .",
"Her husband lost both legs in bombing, has been unable to get prosthetics .",
"\"I saw my legs were severed, just flesh and skin,\" he says .",
"Wife: \"I am asking people for help because I cannot leave him alone in the house\""
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"SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir (CNN) -- Senior Pakistani and Indian military officials met Tuesday to discuss a border clash in Kashmir, the first major skirmish between South Asia's nuclear rivals since a 2003 cease-fire.",
"Indian army soldiers on the outskirts of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.",
"Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas told CNN that Pakistan \"made our point clear\" regarding the firefight, which he said began after Indian soldiers crossed the Line of Control that separates Kashmir between India and Pakistan.",
"But an Indian military spokeswoman, Capt.",
"Neha Goyal, told CNN Pakistani troops crossed the Line of Control and \"started firing on our patrol,\" killing an Indian soldier.",
"\"Our troops also retaliated and the Pakistan army troopers ran back,\" she said.",
"Abbas said \"further action should be taken\" following Tuesday's \"flag meeting,\" but did not elaborate.",
"The meeting took place along the Line of Control.",
"Reports in India's media said four Pakistani soldiers were killed, but Pakistan's military \"strongly denied the report of any (casualties) on the Pakistani side.\"",
"Pakistan's military also denied its forces crossed the Line of Control, saying the skirmish started when Indian soldiers tried to establish a forward post on Pakistan's side of the line.",
"\"On Pakistan's' objection, Indian troops opened indiscriminate and unprovoked fire,\" a Pakistan military news release, posted on Monday, stated.",
"\"The Indian fire was immediately responded to.",
"The firing continued -- intermittently during the whole night.\"",
"Pakistan said the Indian soldiers \"were forced to flee from the area leaving behind their weapons\" after the firefight.",
"Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged periodic gunfire since May, but Monday's clashes appear to be a serious setback to the ongoing peace process between the two nations.",
"India and Pakistan had announced a bilateral cease-fire all along their borders in November 2003 and the cease-fire had been holding on the borders until recently.",
"Kashmir has been at the root of two wars between India and Pakistan, both of which tested nuclear weapons in 1998.",
"An 18-year separatist campaign in the Indian-controlled portion of the largely Muslim territory has claimed more than 43,000 lives, according to government officials, although human rights groups and nongovernmental organizations put the toll at twice that number.",
"India has long accused Pakistan of supporting the separatists in Kashmir, a charge Pakistan denies.",
"India blamed militants from Pakistan for a suicide car bombing outside its embassy in Afghanistan that killed 58 people on July 7.",
"A December 2001 attack on India's parliament that India blamed on the militants brought the two nations to the brink of another war, but they have expanded economic and cultural ties since the November 2003 cease-fire agreement.",
"-- CNN's Aliza Kassim in Atlanta and Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar contributed to this report ."
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"India accused Pakistan of attacking one of its patrols, killing a soldier .",
"Firefight took place across the Line of Control border in disputed Kashmir region ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Mad Men\" and \"Damages\" found themselves on top when the nominations for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys came out Thursday morning -- but, again, there was no love for HBO's \"The Wire.\"",
"Emmy nominee Jon Hamm stars as ad exec Don Draper in \"Mad Men,\" which earned 16 nominations.",
"AMC's \"Mad Men\" and FX's \"Damages\" made Emmy history Thursday as the first basic-cable series to be nominated for best drama.",
"The pair, which had made the 10-series Emmy shortlist, have been widely hailed by critics and have received good ratings for basic-cable series -- though \"Damages\" star Glenn Close said she hopes the Emmys help boost the show's audience.",
"\"We need all the help we can get,\" she told The Associated Press.",
"On the other hand, HBO's \"The Wire\" -- which concluded its fifth and final season this year -- once again came up empty in the best drama nominations.",
"It did receive one nod, for writing.",
"The series, though much praised and dissected by a hard-core group of fans, has received little recognition from the Emmys, with just one previous nomination -- also for writing -- in 2005.",
"Check out some of the top Emmy nods this year » .",
"Indeed, HBO has struggled to find a drama to take the place of the much-lauded \"The Sopranos,\" which won best drama last year after a storied run.",
"\"Mad Men,\" which has made AMC into a player, was allegedly turned down by the cable giant, and shows such as the quickly canceled \"John From Cincinnati\" and \"Rome\" haven't had the same impact.",
"On the other hand, \"In Treatment\" received a nomination for Gabriel Byrne's performance as a therapist, and the network's comedies, particularly \"Entourage,\" have performed strongly.",
"Moreover, the network's short-form programming, such as the miniseries \"John Adams\" and the TV movie \"Recount,\" dominated their Emmy categories: \"John Adams\" led all nominees with 23 nominations, and \"Recount,\" about the 2000 presidential election battle, received 11.",
"\"The network has made up for [its lack of drama series success] in other forms,\" Variety TV editor Michael Schneider told CNN.",
"\"It's still the most nominated network and has the most nominated program.\"",
"HBO led all networks with 85 nominations.",
"Among broadcast networks, ABC led with 76 nominations.",
"Among regularly scheduled TV series, \"30 Rock\" earned 17 nominations and \"Mad Men\" received 16.",
"The 17 nominations for \"30 Rock\" were a record number in a single year for a comedy series.",
"Newcomer \"Pushing Daisies,\" the whimsical series on ABC, received 12 nominations.",
"Given that the show only aired nine episodes -- and hasn't been on the air in months due to the writers strike -- its recognition was a surprise, Schneider said.",
"\"It was nice that voters still remembered it,\" he said.",
"Along with \"Damages\" and \"Mad Men,\" nominees for best drama include \"Boston Legal,\" \"Dexter,\" \"House\" and \"Lost.\"",
"Comedy series nominees are \"Curb Your Enthusiasm,\" \"Entourage,\" \"The Office,\" \"30 Rock\" and \"Two and a Half Men.\"",
"Cable series dominated the dramatic acting nominations, with four of the six actors and three of the five actresses appearing on basic or pay cable.",
"Best actor in a drama nominees are Byrne (\"In Treatment\"), Bryan Cranston (\"Breaking Bad\"), Michael C. Hall (\"Dexter\"), Jon Hamm (\"Mad Men\"), Hugh Laurie (\"House\") and James Spader (\"Boston Legal\").",
"\"Dexter,\" which originated on Showtime, earned a short run on CBS following the writers strike.",
"The nominees for best actress in a drama are Close (\"Damages\"), Sally Field (\"Brothers and Sisters\"), Mariska Hargitay (\"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\"), Holly Hunter (\"Saving Grace\") and Kyra Sedgwick (\"The Closer\").",
"A number of familiar names were included among nominees for comedies.",
"The nominees for best actor in a comedy are Alec Baldwin (\"30 Rock\"), Steve Carell (\"The Office\"), Lee Pace (\"Pushing Daisies\"), Tony Shalhoub (\"Monk\") and Charlie Sheen (\"Two and a Half Men\").",
"Only Pace is a newcomer.",
"The nominees for best actress in a comedy are Christina Applegate (\"Samantha Who?",
"\"), America Ferrera (\"Ugly Betty\"), Tina Fey (\"30 Rock\"), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (\"The New Adventures of Old Christine\") and Mary-Louise Parker (\"Weeds\").",
"Sarah Silverman earned three nominations, all for different programs: one for a guest shot on \"Monk,\" another for contributing to \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" and a third for producing her own \"The Sarah Silverman Program.\"",
"Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris and TV academy Chairman John Shaffner announced the nominations Thursday.",
"Chenoweth was particularly bubbly, throwing in a non sequitur about once dating \"Survivor\" host Jeff Probst and declining to sing \"Happy Birthday\" because \"the Emmys can't afford me to sing that song\" due to licensing arrangements.",
"Both Chenoweth (\"Pushing Daisies\") and Harris (\"How I Met Your Mother\") were nominated in supporting actor categories.",
"Two highly rated shows, \"Grey's Anatomy\" and \"Desperate Housewives,\" were snubbed.",
"\"Grey's,\" a regular nominee for best drama, was left off that list, though star Sandra Oh was nominated for best supporting actress.",
"\"Housewives,\" which won six Emmys its debut season, was ignored in both best comedy series and best actress in a comedy series categories.",
"Two guest stars did receive nominations.",
"Stephen Colbert, nominated for individual performance in a variety or musical program, put everything in perspective.",
"\"What an honor, unless I don't win,\" he told the AP.",
"The Emmy Awards ceremony will be held September 21 and broadcast on ABC.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"HBO miniseries \"John Adams\" receives 23 nominations .",
"Emmys snub \"The Wire,\" \"Grey's Anatomy,\" \"Desperate Housewives\"\nCeremony will be broadcast on ABC on September 21 ."
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"(CNN) -- A Virginia judge on Tuesday approved an $11 million settlement from the state to the families of victims killed or injured in last year's Virginia Tech shootings.",
"Parents of wounded Virginia Tech students comfort each other on Tuesday.",
"The 24 victims included in the settlement were among the 32 killed by Seung-Hui Cho's April 16, 2007, shooting rampage.",
"The settlement also compensates 18 people injured.",
"\"The commonwealth has endeavored to meet the needs and concerns of the victims, including family members, through both monetary and non-monetary provisions,\" said Chief Deputy Attorney General William C. Mims.",
"Of the remaining eight deceased victims, families of two chose not to file claims and two other claims are unresolved.",
"The other four will be brought forward at a later date, Mims said.",
"The settlement also includes provisions that allow the families to occasionally meet with the governor and Virginia Tech officials to review legislation and improvements made at the campus in response to the tragedy.",
"The families had pursued wrongful death and personal injury claims against the state after an August 2007 report by an independent panel concluded that more timely and more specific information from university officials might have saved lives.",
"University officials were criticized for not immediately warning students and staff after two students were found dead in a dormitory at 7 a.m. on the day of the killings.",
"Police said they initially believed the two had been involved in a romantic dispute, but later determined they were Cho's first victims.",
"It was almost 9:30 a.m. before authorities sent an e-mail to students and staff notifying them of the shootings and warning them to be cautious.",
"About 9:50 a.m., Cho, 23, began shooting people in Norris Hall, an engineering and classroom building.",
"While criticizing the university response, the panel -- which included former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge -- also said quicker action by school officials may not have made a difference.",
"The report also noted that campus and state agencies might have taken a different approach to Cho had his middle- and high-school records followed him to Virginia Tech.",
"Problems with Cho reportedly began to surface well before the shootings.",
"The records detailed his mental health issues, including a tendency to react to depression with violence."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities are searching for a female soldier, missing after a fire at her apartment near Fort Bragg in North Carolina.",
"Fayetteville, North Carolina, police released this undated photo of 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc.",
"Investigators Thursday morning found evidence of arson at the Fayetteville apartment of 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc, 24.",
"A neighbor, Roland Petty, told CNN affiliate WRAL-TV that he saw a man running from the area on Wednesday night and smelled smoke, although he didn't associate it with the building at the time.",
"In a court filing for a protective order, Wimunc said that in May her husband had knocked her down, held a loaded gun to her head and then threatened to commit suicide, WRAL reported.",
"Watch police at work at Wimunc's complex » .",
"The court documents indicate that John Wimunc is a Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune, the station reported.",
"A Camp Lejeune spokesman told WRAL that police had spoken to John Wimunc on Thursday about his wife's disappearance.",
"\"I haven't seen any violence.",
"I know [Wimunc's husband] was not living here anymore, but that's all I know,\" a neighbor told WTVD-TV, another CNN affiliate.",
"Both stations reported that Holley Wimunc's car was still in the parking lot at the apartment.",
"Her disappearance is considered a missing person case.",
"Holley Wimunc's family, from Dubuque, Iowa, released a statement Friday saying they are \"still trying to absorb the impact of this week's stunning events.\"",
"\"First and foremost, our concern is for our daughter, Holley -- that she will be found and restored to us,\" the James family wrote.",
"\"When you read about or watch television news reports of incidents like this, you can hardly believe that it could happen to you.",
"But it has -- we are so grateful for the thoughts, support and prayers of friends today -- something we're leaning on heavily right now.\"",
"The family said they would not be making any further comments, citing the investigation.",
"No one was inside the apartment at the time of the fire, police said.",
"Wimunc is assigned to Charlie Company, Womack Army Hospital at Fort Bragg, police said.",
"A statement from Fort Bragg said Wimunc is a nurse from Lafayette, Louisiana, who works at the hospital's mother and baby ward.",
"\"Womack Army Medical Center staff is very concerned about our soldier and her safety,\" Col. Terry Walters, commander of WAMC, said in the statement.",
"\"The staff and members of her unit are being supported by the command and with counseling available through our unit chaplains.\"",
"The blaze comes nearly three weeks after the body of a pregnant soldier was found in a hotel near Fort Bragg.",
"Spc. Megan Lynn Touma , 23, was seven months pregnant at the time of her death, authorities said.",
"Investigators say they are treating Touma's death as a homicide."
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"She said in court filing her husband threatened her, WRAL reports .",
"Authorities were called to fire at 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc's apartment Thursday .",
"Fire, apparently arson, had gone out, but Wimunc was missing, police say ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict.",
"Iraqis watch as a statue of Saddam Hussein is toppled in Baghdad in 2003.",
"Failures to recognize the chaos engulfing the country and to send in enough troops to restore order after the 2003 invasion have long been highlighted by critics, but a new report shows the Army assessing itself.",
"Frank opinions from officers serving in the 18 months from the start of war to Iraqi elections in January 2005 reveal there were concerns at the time, not just about assumptions made by planners but at decisions taken once U.S.-led coalition forces had control of Iraq.",
"\"I flipped,\" Gen. Jack Keane, then the Army's deputy chief of staff, told the historians of his reaction to a June 2003 decision to transfer control of all coalition troops away from the land forces command that had been preparing for the mission.",
"He recounted a conversation with Gen. John Abizaid, who succeeded the invasion's architect, Gen. Tommy Franks.",
"\"I said, 'Jesus Christ, John, this is a recipe for disaster.",
"We invested in that headquarters.",
"We have the experience and judgment in that headquarters.\"",
"Keane said it took the U.S. command between six and eight months to get the new headquarters up and running.",
"During that time, troops in the field saw the mood of ordinary Iraqis turn against Americans and watched the insurgency take root.",
"\"By the time we got a plan together to resource everything, the insurgents had closed that window of opportunity quickly,\" Col. David Perkins, a brigade commander in the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, told the historians.",
"\"What we started doing in September was probably a good idea to have done in April 2003.\"",
"Franks, who would soon retire and be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said he ordered the transition to force the Pentagon to get leaders into the field to work with civilian occupation officials.",
"\"That is a task that John Abizaid and I very simply laid on Washington and said, 'Figure it out.",
"Do it fast. Get me a joint headquarters in here.",
"We have a lot of work to do and [civilian administrator of Iraq] Jerry Bremer has a lot of responsibility and he needs help,' \" he recalled.",
"The 720-page report compiled by the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, details the effects of having too few coalition troops on the ground when the reality after the fall of Baghdad was \"severely out of line\" with the anticipated conditions.",
"Previous experience \"should have indicated that many more troops would be needed for the post-Saddam era in Iraq,\" historians wrote in the report, \"On Point II: Transition to a New Campaign.\"",
"\"The coalition's inability to prevent looting, to secure Iraq's borders and to guard the vast number of munitions dumps in the early months after Saddam's overthrow are indicative of the shortage,\" the study found.",
"About 150,000 U.S. and allied troops were in Iraq after the invasion, at a time when war planners were assuming that Iraq's government would remain functional after Hussein's ouster and that there would be no mass insurgency.",
"\"These factors were in line with prewar planning for a quick turnover of power to Iraqis and a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces, leaving Iraqis to determine their own political future -- options that proved impossible to execute,\" the historians wrote in the report released over the weekend.",
"\"We had the wrong assumptions, and therefore, we had the wrong plan to put into play,\" Gen. William Wallace, who commanded the Army's V Corps during the invasion, told the authors.",
"But some of the most critical decisions were made between May and August 2003, which some participants called a \"window of opportunity that could have been exploited to produce the conditions for the quick creation of a new Iraq.\"",
"Among those decisions were the frequently criticized dissolution of the Iraqi army and the order that barred former members of Hussein's Baath Party from public life as well as the change in plan over the joint headquarters."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The inspector-general of the House of Representatives will investigate recent allegations of sexual misconduct among congressional pages, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the chamber announced.",
"The House page program came under scrutiny after the Mark Foley scandal last year.",
"Two pages -- usually high school juniors who serve Congress as messengers -- have been dismissed for allegedly having oral sex in public areas of their Capitol Hill dormitory.",
"\"It wasn't kissing and hugging -- let me put it that way,\" said Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Florida, last week.",
"\"It did go beyond that. There were not only a young male and female involved, but there were also observers and other page participants who were, let's say, enablers.\"",
"To protest what they called lax oversight, Brown-Waite has resigned from the House Page Board, along with Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.",
"Watch more on alleged page misconduct » .",
"Brown-Waite said her resignation was meant \"to send a loud and clear message\" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders.",
"Pelosi, a California Democrat, and Republican Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio issued a joint statement on the matter Wednesday.",
"\"We expect the inspector-general to gather the facts and recommend the appropriate and necessary corrective actions to be taken by the House,\" it said.",
"In 2006, Florida GOP Rep. Mark Foley was forced to resign after his sexually suggestive e-mails to male pages were made public.",
"The House Ethics Committee later found that some people who knew about Foley's questionable communications chose to \"remain willfully ignorant\" rather than confront the matter.",
"Then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, promised an overhaul of the program, which Pelosi pledged to pursue after Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections.",
"\"Apparently Democrats didn't learn from the Mark Foley incident that pages need better supervision,\" Brown-Waite said.",
"\"Apparently they haven't learned anything.\"",
"No members of Congress are involved in the current controversy, and House Clerk Lorraine Miller, who administers the programs, said the students involved were dismissed.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Two GOP lawmakers quit House Page Board in protest .",
"Inspector-general tasked with investigation, recommending \"corrective actions\""
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"(CNN) -- Starbucks is closing more than two-thirds of its stores in Australia, days after announcing that hundreds of its American coffee outlets are also being shuttered.",
"Starbucks announced plans to close 600 stores in the U.S. last week.",
"The Seattle-based global coffee franchise said Tuesday that it will close 61 of its 84 locations in Australia by the weekend.",
"The closures will mean that only 23 cafes will remain open in and around three major cities: Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, the company said in a statement Tuesday.",
"Earlier this month, the company announced it would close 600 company-owned stores in the United States.",
"Starbucks, named after the first mate in Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick,' was founded in 1971.",
"It has more than 8,000 company-operated stores and another 6,800 licensed cafes in 44 countries.",
"Starbucks has seen rising competition from privately-held Dunkin' Donuts and McDonalds recently, and welcomed founder Schultz back as CEO in January after a lackluster performance by the company in the latter half of 2007."
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"Closures follow news of more than 600 outlets to shut in U.S.\nMove by Seattle company will end 685 jobs in Australia, reports say ."
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"(CNN) -- A North Carolina man charged with killing a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier was the father of her unborn child, authorities said Wednesday.",
"Sgt. Edgar Patino faces first-degree murder charges in the slaying of Megan Touma.",
"Army Sgt. Edgar Patino is linked to two anonymous \"confession\" letters sent in what police believe was an attempt to derail the investigation into Megan Touma's death, police said.",
"Patino, 27, was arrested at his Hope Mills, North Carolina, home Tuesday night without incident.",
"Patino, who is stationed at Fort Bragg's JFK Special Warfare Training Center, faces first-degree murder charges in the slaying of Touma, 23, who was seven months pregnant.",
"Touma's decomposing body was found in the bathtub of a hotel room near Fort Bragg on June 21.",
"Authorities said Wednesday that they believe she died late June 13 or early June 14.",
"Although her death has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday that the state medical examiner has not made a final determination of how she died.",
"Watch officials discuss the case » .",
"Patino has admitted being in Touma's hotel room June 13, and investigators found that the room's electronic key card was last used on that day, police said Wednesday.",
"However, Patino has not admitted killing Touma.",
"Patino wore red jail coveralls in his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon.",
"He spoke only to answer the judge's questions, acknowledging that he understood he was charged with first-degree murder and that the charge carries a maximum penalty of death or life in prison without parole.",
"He also requested that an attorney be appointed for him.",
"Fayetteville, North Carolina, police Chief Tom Bergamine said Wednesday that Patino, who is married, was the father of Touma's fetus.",
"Police also said evidence links Patino to a letter received June 25 by the Fayetteville Observer newspaper.",
"In it, the writer claimed to have killed Touma and said more killings were planned.",
"The letter was signed with a circular symbol similar to one used by the Zodiac killer in California in the late 1960s.",
"At the request of police, the newspaper withheld information regarding the letters and delayed publishing a story for several days to allow police to conduct an investigation, Bergamine said.",
"Police also received a similar letter.",
"Fayetteville police Sgt.",
"Chris Corcione said both letters were postmarked June 24 and sent from Fayetteville.",
"Patino purchased a typewriter the day before the letters were sent, Corcione said.",
"That typewriter is now in police custody.",
"Police, however, stopped short of saying Patino wrote the letters, saying only that evidence links him to them.",
"Two of Touma's friends, who are also female soldiers and asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said Touma and Patino had been stationed together in Germany and had dated.",
"They said Patino had proposed to Touma in Germany, but when the two returned to North Carolina, she discovered that he was married.",
"Police said Wednesday that Patino was a person of interest from the early days of their investigation.",
"Corcione said his initial interview with authorities could be described as \"deceptive,\" and officials had little other contact with him until his arrest.",
"Police have found no criminal record for him.",
"\"We felt like from the beginning, there was no major concerns of a serial killer being out there,\" Bergamine said.",
"Patino was being held without bail at the Cumberland County Detention Center, Bergamine said.",
"Asked what police believe the motive to be, Fayetteville police Detective Joshua Carter said, \"Right now, the motive is going to be held close.",
"There's still several months of investigation left to be conducted.\"",
"\"I think one of the things that folks need to understand is that scientific evidence, things that have to go to the lab, they're going to take time,\" Bergamine said.",
"\"This is not the world of television and 'CSI.'",
"Things don't get settled within a hour.\"",
"Touma, a five-year Army veteran, had served with the U.S. Army Dental Activity Clinic in Bamberg, Germany, and in Fort Drum, New York, before her stint at Fort Bragg.",
"She is the second female soldier from Fort Bragg to die under suspicious circumstances since June.",
"Army 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc was killed in early July.",
"Her Fayetteville apartment was torched July 10, and her charred body was found nearby a few days later.",
"Her husband, Marine Cpl.",
"John Wimunc, was charged with arson and first-degree murder in connection with the death.",
"Another Marine, Lance Cpl.",
"Kyle Alden, was charged with arson and felony accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.",
"Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, also had a homicide case involving a female service member this year.",
"The charred body of Marine Lance Cpl.",
"Maria Lauterbach, 20, was found in the backyard of another Marine stationed at the base, Cpl.",
"Cesar Laurean.",
"Lauterbach was eight months pregnant when she died.",
"Laurean, who has been charged with first-degree murder, was arrested in Mexico in April, but because he holds citizenship in the United States and Mexico, he cannot be immediately deported and must go through an extradition process.",
"Authorities have said that if he chooses to fight extradition, it could take two years to return him to North Carolina.",
"CNN's Marylynn Ryan contributed to this report."
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"Patino, also a soldier, was father of Megan Touma's unborn baby, police say .",
"Touma's body was found in hotel bathtub on June 21 .",
"Friends of Touma say she and Patino had dated, served together in Germany ."
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"(CNN) -- Canada announced Wednesday that it will dispatch a warship to Somalia's coast to protect U.N. aid ships from pirate attacks.",
"The Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec will escort ships carrying food aid to Somalia.",
"\"Canada is stepping up to the plate by tasking Ville de Quebec with the role of escorting World Food Programme ships to ensure their safe arrival at designated ports,\" Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said in a government news release.",
"The United Nations hunger program praised Canada for answering its call for help, and said it hoped other governments would step forward to take over from Canada once it completes its mission in a few weeks.",
"The HMCS Ville de Quebec is a 440-foot frigate armed with torpedoes, surface-to-air missiles and other weapons, and carries a twin-engine Sea King anti-submarine helicopter.",
"Ville de Quebec, which can travel at speeds greater than 27 knots, will be dispatched after Somalia's transitional government formally authorizes the mission, the government's news release said.",
"WFP asked the world's naval powers in mid-June to help its ships reach the more than 2 million people in need of aid.",
"It put out the request weeks before French, Danish and Dutch warships ended their escort missions, which began in November.",
"Pirate attacks on unescorted ships have been a growing problem in Somalia.",
"Three European freighters were hijacked off the Horn of Africa in June, adding to the 27 other reported attacks this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which tracks piracy.",
"WFP delivers 80 percent of its aid to Somalia by sea, and WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon said that if there are no warships to escort the food supply, the program will have to rely on ground or air travel to deliver the food.",
"But both are dangerous and expensive.",
"The agency said that if there is no assistance from naval powers, piracy will increase, and so will death and malnutrition.",
"Smerdon said that although Somalia's food crisis hasn't yet reached the devastation of the early 1990s, \"We're worried it will be.\""
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"80 percent of U.N.'s food aid to Somalia sent by ship .",
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"SHERMAN, Texas (CNN) -- A seventeenth person has died from injuries suffered in Friday's bus crash in northern Texas, a hospital spokeswoman said Sunday.",
"The damaged bus is hauled from the crash scene on a flatbed truck Friday in Sherman, Texas.",
"The driver of the bus, which was carrying dozens of Vietnamese people on a church trip, apparently lost control on northbound U.S. 75 early Friday.",
"The bus smashed into a guardrail before rolling on its side and sliding into a gully.",
"The accident happened near the Texas-Oklahoma state line.",
"Twelve people were declared dead at the scene, and four others died at hospitals, officials said.",
"Police estimated that, in addition to the deaths, 33 to 39 of the 54 passengers and the driver suffered mild to serious injuries.",
"Watch what investigators are learning about the accident » .",
"The bus was operating illegally, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board has begun investigating the crash.",
"On Friday, NTSB member Debbie Hersman told reporters that the right front tire of the bus had been retreaded, in violation of safety rules.",
"The blown tire was the only one that was recapped, and it was the only one whose tread separated, she said.",
"Asked what caused the Goodyear tire to lose its air, she said, \"we don't know the answer to that question; that's why we're here.\"",
"The bus itself was made in 2002 by Motor Coach Industries.",
"The trip to Carthage, Missouri, had been scheduled by the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church in Houston, though some of the passengers may have belonged to other churches, Hersman said.",
"The 52-year-old driver had his commercial driver's license, but his medical certificate had expired, she said.",
"Late Friday, police were assisting NTSB investigators with gathering evidence and mapping the scene, documenting the location of witness marks and scars on the highway and bridge rail over an overpass, she said.",
"Preliminary evidence suggests that the bus hit a rail on the right side of the bridge and then traveled 1,809 feet before coming to a stop on its right side in the earthen median between the highway and a frontage road, Hersman said.",
"\"As it dropped off the bridge rail, the bus rolled to the right ... where it came to rest.\"",
"Watch as the fire chief describes the crash scene » .",
"She noted that the bus was not equipped with seat belts, which are not required on motor coaches.",
"In a written statement, motor carrier agency Administrator John H. Hill said investigators noted \"certain irregularities ... about whether the bus was operating under the name Angel Tours or Iguala Busmex.",
"It is important to note that neither of these domestic entities is authorized to operate as a U.S. passenger carrier in interstate commerce at this time.\"",
"He added that the agency identified Angel Tours \"as being a high-risk carrier due to safety violations detected during roadside safety inspections and was subjected to an FMCSA compliance review in May 2008.\"",
"\"This review resulted in FMCSA placing Angel Tours' operations out of service,\" Hill said.",
"\"To date, Angel Tours has not provided the agency with evidence of satisfactory corrective actions to the problems discovered and remains out of service.\"",
"In addition, \"FMCSA has not granted Iguala Busmex authority to transport passengers because it has failed to fully comply with federal safety requirements.\"",
"He said police have been asked to stop any of the companies' buses.",
"Both companies are owned by Angel de la Torre.",
"A man who answered the phone at Angel Tours office said the owner was meeting with his lawyers and was unavailable.",
"Massage therapist Leha Nguyen, 45, was a passenger.",
"She was traveling by herself on the bus when she departed Houston at 8:30 p.m. Thursday for what was to have been her fourth trip to Carthage, Missouri.",
"After sandwiches were passed around, the group said prayers, and Nguyen began to drift off to sleep in her window seat next to an older woman, four rows behind the driver, she said.",
"iReport.com: Were you there?",
"Send photos, video .",
"About 11:45 p.m., the bus passed Dallas, \"and as soon as we passed Dallas we were on the two-way freeway and I feel the bus ride a little bit fast and I have a feeling, not a safe feeling,\" she said.",
"She added, \"I feel a little bit shaky, but I just let myself at peace and then go to sleep.\"",
"Her sleep didn't last long.",
"\"As I opened my eyes, I see the chair falling off and I was sitting right below the TV and I felt that somebody was laying on my leg and then right next to me there was a lady, she got her arm really crushed up and on top of her there was another lady, she cannot move.\"",
"Although her head hurt, Nguyen -- who left Vietnam in 1975 as a refugee -- was in better shape than many of her fellow riders.",
"She accepted an ambulance ride to the hospital, where she learned that her seatmate had died.",
"Once her scalp was sewn up, she aided in translating for other Vietnamese patients whose English was not as good.",
"CNN's Susan Roesgen contributed to this story from Sherman, Texas."
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"The bus was operating illegally, federal agency says .",
"Survivor describes chaos during and after accident ."
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"COPENHAGEN, Denamrk (CNN) -- What makes someone decide to become an actor?",
"It sometimes seems as if the average Hollywood star is motivated mainly by the promise of a fat pay check.",
"Connie Nielsen shot to fame playing Lucilla in \"Gladiator.\"",
"Or perhaps they're drawn to the celebrity lifestyle.",
"Maybe they crave the love of an adoring public, or perhaps they see the movies as a way to leave their mark on the world, to be immortalized on celluloid.",
"For Danish actress Connie Nielsen it was something quite different.",
"For her, being an actor means being an outsider.",
"\"As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider.",
"If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say,\" she told CNN.",
"So Connie Nielsen is not your typical movie star.",
"As a 5-foot-10-inch blonde Scandinavian beauty she has the looks of a classic silver screen siren, but she has steadfastly resisted a career as Hollywood eye candy and rejected the lifestyle that goes with it.",
"\"I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business,\" she says.",
"\"I refuse even the money side of my business.",
"I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth,\" she says.",
"Raised in Elling, a small coastal village in Denmark, she is fluent in seven languages and studied acting in France and Italy, making her screen debut in French comedy \"Par Où T'es Rentré?",
"On T'a Pas Vu Sortir\" (U.S. title \"How Did You Get In?",
"We Didn't See You Leave\") in 1984.",
"She appeared in more French and Italian movies before landing a role opposite Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves in \"The Devil's Advocate\" in 1997.",
"But it wasn't until 2000, when she was cast in Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning \"Gladiator\", that Nielsen landed a role that really let her show her acting ability.",
"As Lucilla, the sister of the villainous Emperor Commodus, Nielsen brought some much-needed subtlety to the swords-and-sandals epic and held her own sharing the screen with Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe.",
"The movie made Nielsen an international star and she scored other successes with \"One Hour Photo\" in 2002, and \"The Hunted\" in 2003.",
"But while the success of \"Gladiator\" opened doors for her, it also meant she had to fight the kind of typecasting that would try to limit her to playing \"the love interest\" to a male lead who got all the good lines.",
"Nielsen has in the past been critical of Hollywood for its lack of female roles, saying \"you think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work.",
"So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad.",
"It's unjust.\" But Nielsen has refused to be pigeonholed, seemingly drawn to difficult roles in controversial movies.",
"She appeared in French movie \"Demonlover\", which dealt with pornography, violence and corporate amorality, while more recent films have taken on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.",
"Danish drama \"Brødre\" (U.S. title \"Brothers\") is about a soldier who returns from Afghanistan a broken man, unable to communicate his experiences from the conflict.",
"Playing his wife, Nielsen put in a powerful performance that won her awards and served to highlight how Hollywood had underused her talents.",
"\"The Situation\" in 2006 was billed as the first film to be made about the Iraq war and told the story of ordinary Iraqis caught up in the conflict, while \"Battle of Seattle\" examined how peaceful protests erupted into riots when the World Trade Organization met in Seattle in 1999.",
"Of her choice of subject matter, Nielsen says that rather than making a political point she is trying to show the human aspects of the conflicts.",
"But Nielsen makes it clear that her career is not the focus of her life and she stresses the importance of making time outside the movies.",
"She is passionate about literature and art and she is currently dating Lars Ulrich, drummer of rock group Metallica.",
"She had a son with him in 2007 and has another son from a previous relationship.",
"\"I will always find something that I want to try and become better at.",
"I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family.",
"I always want to read more books,\" she says.",
"Perhaps her commitment to her art, her interest in social issues and her disavowal of fame simply reflect her Danish upbringing, but there's no doubt that compared to many other Hollywood stars Connie Nielsen is a breath of fresh air."
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"(CNN) -- Radovan Karadzic, whose Interpol charges listed \"flamboyant behavior\" as a distinguishing characteristic, was a practicing psychiatrist who came to be nicknamed the \"Butcher of Bosnia.\"",
"Twice indicted in 1995 by the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Karadzic faces charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, extermination, murder, willful killing, persecutions, deportation, inhumane acts, terror against civilians and hostage-taking.",
"While president of the so-called Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Karadzic's troops were reported to have massacred over hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Croats during a campaign of \"ethnic cleansing.\"",
"Early estimates of the death toll from the 3-year war ranged up to 300,000, but recent research reduced that to about 100,000.",
"The U.S. State Department had a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.",
"His arrest brings an end to more than 10 years as a fugitive.",
"Watch CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour report on Karadzic's rise and fall » .",
"Karadzic was born on June 19, 1945, in Petnjica, Montenegro.",
"He studied psychiatry and medicine at the University of Sarajevo during the 1960s and took courses in psychiatry and poetry at Columbia University from 1974 to 1975.",
"Karadzic, a Serb-Croat, in 1990 helped found the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), a party aimed at unifying Serbs into a common state, and became its president.",
"Two years later, he became president of the newly declared Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, later called \"Republika Srpska.\"",
"During the next three years, he ordered Bosnian Serb forces to seize the majority of Bosnia and Herzegovina.",
"He also announced, according to his U.N. indictment, six \"strategic objectives\" for the Serbian people.",
"They included the establishment of state borders between the Serbs and the other two ethnic communities, Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats.",
"Answering to him, according to the indictment, was Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic.",
"From May 1992, the indictment alleged, Bosnian Serb forces under Mladic's command targeted civilian areas of Sarajevo with shelling and sniping during a three-year conflict within the city.",
"In July 1995, according to the U.N. indictment, troops under Mladic's command executed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslim male prisoners in Srebrenica, a U.N. safe area, and then participated in a comprehensive effort to conceal the killings.",
"The massacre is considered the worst in Europe since World War II.",
"The indictment states that Bosnian Serb forces acted under Karadzic's direction and worked to \"significantly reduce the Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb populations\" in municipalities that were seized.",
"Karadzic was last seen in public in September 1996, a year after the Dayton Peace Accords brought a formal end to the conflict and banned anyone accused of war crimes, including him, from office.",
"He reportedly shaved his trademark bushy hair, grew a beard and donned priest's robes, moving from monastery to monastery in the mountains to avoid capture.",
"CNN Correspondent Alessio Vinci said: \"He enjoyed protection from the local population, wherever he was hiding.",
"Legend has it he disguised himself as a priest to take part in his mother's funeral.",
"\"In 2002, after NATO launched one of its many failed raids to try to arrest Karadzic in Bosnia, I interviewed his mother.",
"At that time she said: 'Serbs are righteous people and I can see that they support him, and that they adore him the way he is.",
"They would lose their lives to protect him.'\"",
"Despite years on the run, Karadzic wrote \"Miraculous Chronicles of the Night\" -- 1,200 copies of which sold out at the 2004 Belgrade International Book Fair.",
"After his arrest was announced, Serb officials revealed the final chapter of his life on the run had seen Karadic reprise his medical role, working in a clinic in Belgrade under a false identity and heavily disguised by a white beard, long hair and spectacles.",
"\"He moved freely throughout the city, and the fact that he even held a job at a medical practice and nobody knew about this contributes to the fact that his false identity was very elaborate,\" said Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic."
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"(CNN) -- An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.",
"Forest clearings draw large numbers of Western lowland gorillas searching for food.",
"\"It's pretty astonishing,\" Hugo Rainey, one of the researchers who conducted the survey for the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society, told CNN Tuesday.",
"The last census on the species, carried out during the 1980s, estimated that there were only 100,000 of the gorillas left worldwide.",
"Since then, the researchers estimated, the numbers had been cut in half.",
"WCS survey teams conducted the research in 2006 and 2007, traveling to the remote Lac Tele Community Reserve in northern Republic of Congo, a vast area of swamp forest.",
"Acting on a tip from hunters who indicated the presence of gorillas, Rainey said that the researchers trekked on foot through mud for three days to the outskirts of Lac Tele, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the nearest road.",
"\"When we went there, we found an astonishing amount of gorillas,\" said Rainey, speaking from the International Primatological Society Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.",
"Though researchers did spot some gorillas, they based their estimate on the number of gorilla nests found at the site, Rainey said.",
"Each gorilla makes a nest to sleep in at night.",
"\"This is the highest-known density of gorillas that's ever been found,\" Rainey said.",
"Watch a glimpse of gorilla life in African swamp » .",
"Western lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered, the highest threat category for a species.",
"Their populations are declining rapidly because of hunting and diseases like Ebola hemorrhagic fever, whose symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting and internal and external bleeding.",
"Take a closer look at the Western lowland gorilla » .",
"While the discovery in northern Congo indicates that the gorilla population remains stable in some areas, it is likely that gorillas will remain critically endangered because the threats facing the species are so great, Rainey said.",
"iReport.com: Share photos and video of gorillas in zoos or the wild .",
"\"We know very little about Ebola and how it spreads,\" he said.",
"\"We don't even know the animal that spreads it around.\"",
"The goal now, Rainey said, is to work with the Congolese government and donors to protect the areas in which the gorillas are known to be living.",
"Western lowland gorillas, which are found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Nigeria as well as the Republic of Congo, are the most numerous and wide-ranging of the four gorilla subspecies, each of which is threatened by extinction, the WCS says.",
"See where the gorillas live » .",
"Illegal hunting and habitat loss have also threatened the Cross River gorillas, found in the highlands of Cameroon and Nigeria.",
"Only about 250 to 300 are estimated to remain in the world, the WCS says.",
"War, habitat loss, poaching and disease are the major threats to the mountain gorillas, made famous by researcher Dian Fossey and the film \"Gorillas in the Mist.\"",
"The mountain gorilla population is starting to recover after decades of conservation work.",
"From a population of around 230 in the 1970s, the mountain gorillas now number around 700, the WCS says.",
"Poaching and war have also threatened populations of Grauer's gorillas in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Zaire.",
"The WCS estimates their population to be around 16,000.",
"News of the discovery of the Western lowland gorillas in northern Congo comes the same week as a report that almost 50 percent of the world's primates are in danger of extinction.",
"Watch what gorilla expert thinks of find » .",
"The report, also delivered to the Edinburgh conference, cites habitat loss and hunting as the greatest threats.",
"The situation is especially dire in Asia, where the report says more than 70 percent of monkeys, apes, and other primates are classified as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered.",
"Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature issued the report."
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"Now 125,000 primates have been discovered in northern Congo .",
"Population declining rapidly because of hunting and diseases like Ebola .",
"Expert: This is the highest-known density of gorillas that's ever been found ."
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"PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNN) -- A passenger train rumbling through the Czech Republic slammed into a collapsed overpass, causing the deaths of at least a half dozen passengers and the injuries of a few dozen more, according to a Czech News Agency account.",
"An areal view shows the scene of the train accident in Studenka, 360 kilometers east of Prague.",
"The EuroCity train, which was traveling about 140 kilometers, or 87 miles, an hour at the time of the accident, crashed around 10:30 a.m. near the Czech town of Studenka.",
"It had been headed from the Polish city of Krakow to the Czech Republic capital of Prague, and was carrying people who were planning to attend an Iron Maiden rock concert, the state-run news agency said.",
"Officials said the engine and its six passenger carriages derailed when part of a bridge under construction fell down as the train approached.",
"At least six people were killed and 41 others were injured, officials said.",
"Initial estimates said 10 people were killed and around 100 were injured.",
"Zdenek Nytra, head of Moravian-Silesian firefighters, said rescuers extricated all survivors, according to the agency."
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"EuroCity train going from Polish city of Krakow to the Czech capital, Prague .",
"Incident occured at around 0830 GMT, officials say ."
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