Sunday, September 28, 2008

News Headlines for september 28, 2008

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Middle East News
  • In this photo released by the Mennonite Central Committee, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, addresses the audience during an event billed as an international dialogue on the role of religion in building peace, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mennonite Central Committee, Melissa Engle)
    Israeli officials: US sends radar to Israel AP - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
    JERUSALEM - Israeli officials say the U.S. has provided Israel with an advanced radar system that will give early warning in case of an Iranian missile attack.
  • No interim peace deal with Israel, Saudi says AP - Sat Sep 27, 8:53 PM ET
    UNITED NATIONS - Arab nations will totally reject any partial or interim solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because historically such arrangements have become permanent, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Saturday.
  • Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks to the press in August 2008. The United States and Iraq are close to an agreement on the presence of US troops in the country beyond 2008, the foreign ministers from the two countries said Saturday.(AFP/POOL/File/Ali Abbas)
    US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,174 AP - Sat Sep 27, 8:32 PM ET
    As of Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, at least 4,174 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Europe News
  • Conservative party leader David Cameron gives a speech in London in April 2008. The Conservatives are set to start their party conference believing that victory at the next general election is a distinct possibility for the first time in a decade.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)
    Tories aim to show readiness for govt AFP - 3 minutes ago
    BIRMINGHAM (AFP) - The Conservatives start their party conference Sunday believing that victory at the next general election is a distinct possibility for the first time in a decade.
  • A wedding cake with statuettes of two women. Treasury Minister Angela Eagle has become the first female MP to enter into a civil partnership with her lesbian partner.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)
    MP weds lesbian partner AFP - 8 minutes ago
    LONDON (AFP) - A junior minister has become the first female MP to enter into a civil partnership with her lesbian partner.
  • Conservative party leader David Cameron is seen here in April 2008. The Conservative Party has seen its opinion poll lead over the governing Labour Party halved on the eve of its annual conference, according to a new survey published in The Sunday Telegraph.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)
    Conservative poll lead halved: survey AFP - 13 minutes ago
    LONDON (AFP) - The Conservative Party has seen its opinion poll lead over the governing Labour Party halved on the eve of its annual conference, according to a new survey published Sunday.
Latin America
  • Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, top, gestures as he rides in a van at a rally on the last day to campaign for proposed changes to the constitution in an upcoming referendum in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Ecuadoreans will decide on Sept. 28, 2008 whether to approve proposed changes to the constitution which would grant Correa the power to dissolve Congress and run for office through 2017. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
    Ecuadoreans go to polls to vote on constitution AP - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
    QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuadoreans go to the polls Sunday to vote on a constitution that would significantly broaden President Rafael Correa's powers and let him run for two more consecutive terms.
  • Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez tries a Magalhaes (Magellan) laptop computer for school children while Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, right, looks over his shoulder, before the signature of several agreements between the two countries and Portuguese private companies Saturday, Sept. 27 2008, in Lisbon. The Venezuelan government will buy one million of the Magalhaes computers manufactured in Portugal. Officials valued the total of the signed contracts in more than three billion dollars. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
    Chavez lands in Cuba, meets with Castro brothers AP - Sun Sep 28, 12:32 AM ET
    HAVANA - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise visit to Cuba late Saturday and wasted little time heading into a closed-door meeting with President Raul Castro and his ailing brother Fidel.
  • Omar Yoguez Singu, right, is presented to the media by police in Oaxaca, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008. Singu, 32, was arrested for allegedly raping and killing 20-year-old Marcella Grace Eiler, of Eugene, Oregon, on Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz)
    Police in Mexico arrest alleged killer of US woman AP - Sun Sep 28, 12:14 AM ET
    MEXICO CITY - Authorities in southern Oaxaca state said Saturday they have arrested a man who allegedly raped and killed a U.S. woman.
Africa News
  • Tourists visit the Elephantine temple on the island of the same name in the River Nile. Bandits who kidnapped 19 tourists and Egyptians in the desert have taken their hostages back to Sudan but are now heading towards Egypt, Sudanese officials said on Sunday(AFP/Khaled Desouki)
    Kidnapped tourists back in Sudan: foreign ministry AFP - 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
    KHARTOUM, (AFP) - Bandits who kidnapped 19 tourists and Egyptians in the desert have taken their hostages back to Sudan but are now heading towards Egypt, Sudanese officials said on Sunday.
  • In this May 28, 2008 file photo, the U.S. Navy destroyer, USS Howard, sails off the coast of Hawaii during sonar exercises, on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The Howard, off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew. (AP Photo/Hugh E. Gentry, File)
    US destroyer watching hijacked ship off Somalia AP - Sun Sep 28, 12:51 AM ET
    MOGADISHU, Somalia - A U.S. destroyer off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.
  • An Egyptian resident leaves a house in Manshiyet Nasser shanty town in eastern Cairo September 13, 2008. (Nasser Nuri/Reuters)
    Cairo's poorest live life on the edge Reuters - Sat Sep 27, 8:12 PM ET
    CAIRO (Reuters) - As Manal Mohamed goes about her day, in the back of her mind she's on alert for signs the ground might be moving, fearing a repetition of the rockfall that crushed homes and lives in Cairo's Duwaiqa district this month.
Asia News
  • Japan's Transport Minister Nariaki Nakayama, seen here, has resigned on Sunday over a series of gaffes, just days after new Prime Minister Taro Aso's cabinet took office(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
    Japan's new PM faces setback as transport minister resigns AFP - 7 minutes ago
    TOKYO, (AFP) - Japan's new Prime Minister Taro Aso on Sunday faced his first political setback just days after taking office as his transport minister was forced to resign over a series of embarrassing gaffes.
  • Muslim girls decorated their hands with henna as part of Eid-al-Fitr festival preparations in Multan September 28, 2008. The Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. REUTERS/Asim Tanveer (PAKISTAN)
    Militants attack Pakistani forces; Pole kidnapped AP - 7 minutes ago
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Islamic militants struck back at security forces in Pakistan's northwest while gunmen Sunday abducted a Polish engineer and extended a wave of attacks on foreigners.
  • Relatives of a bomb blast victim mourn at a hospital in New Delhi September 27, 2008. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)
    Indian police detain a dozen over Delhi blast Reuters - 15 minutes ago
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police have detained about a dozen people in connection with a bomb blast in a crowded New Delhi market that killed two people and wounded 22, a spokesman said on Sunday, the second attack in the capital this month.
Canada
  • Hurricane Kyle takes aim at New England, Canada Reuters - 18 minutes ago
    MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Kyle strengthened into a hurricane off the United States on Saturday as it took aim at New England and Canada's Maritime provinces, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
  • Harper's oil sands plan puzzles industry, greens Reuters - Fri Sep 26, 5:30 PM ET
    CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday he would ban exports of tar-like bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to countries that do not match Canadian efforts to cut carbon emissions, a campaign promise that perplexed both the oil industry and environmentalists.
  • Canadian election rivals square off over economy Reuters - Fri Sep 26, 6:58 PM ET
    CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper lashed out at his opponents on the campaign trail on Friday, saying they wanted the country to sink into a recession as the world economy slows.
Australia/Antarctica News
  • Illicit drug trade in Australia put at $10 billion: study Reuters - Sat Sep 27, 2:08 AM ET
    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Up to A$12 billion ($10 billion) in illicit drug money could be flowing out of Australia every year, according to an estimate by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC).
  • New nuclear commission set to meet in Sydney AP - Fri Sep 26, 4:52 AM ET
    CANBERRA, Australia - India and Pakistan will attend an international nuclear disarmament conference for the first time in Sydney next month, Australia's government said Friday, even though the nuclear-armed foes have consistently shunned a nonproliferation treaty.
  • BHP Billiton-owned copper mine "La Escondida" in Chile. Asian economic growth will slow at some point but demand for raw materials from countries such as China is expected to continue, the chairman of the world's largest mining company has said.(AFP/File/Jorge MuÑoz)
    BHP Billiton chairman says Asian demand to continue AFP - Wed Sep 24, 3:18 AM ET
    SYDNEY (AFP) - Asian economic growth will slow at some point but demand for raw materials from countries such as China is expected to continue, the chairman of the world's largest mining company said Wednesday.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Last chance to see Joaquín Sorolla in Malaga

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More than 3,000 visitors a day

Fourteen large canvases comprise the exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Malaga

23.09.08
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MALAGA (Spain)
Last chance to see Joaquín Sorolla in Malaga
The exhibition 'Vision of Spain’ ran in Valencia for five
months and will now go to Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid
and then back to Valencia.

The count down is on to be able to see the much-visited ‘Sorolla, visión de España’ exhibition originally showing at Malaga’s Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) until September 21st. The run of the exhibition was extended until today (Tuesday 23rd) the operning hours were extended and it now finally closes at 2 a.m. tomorrow morning.
This exhibition comprises 14 large canvases, which are on loan from the Hispanic Society New York who commissioned the works to decorate their premises in 1911.
When the exhibition was in the artist’s home city of Valencia, more than half a million people went to see it in the five months it was on show. At the CAC more than 3,000 people have visited the exhibition a day and it will move to Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid before going back to Valencia after the run in Malaga.

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Palin press may boycott UN conference

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is about to take her first tentative steps onto the world stage, with UN talks with the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)
Politico - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

NEW YORK – Journalists, displeased with Sarah Palin’s efforts to restrict their access to her, are threatening not to cover her events surrounding the United Nations conference here unless they're allowed more access.

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Bernanke: Recession more likely without bailout

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US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson(L) and US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, seen here before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill, Congress Tuesday to swiftly pass a 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, warning the entire US economy was at risk.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
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AP - 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bluntly warned reluctant lawmakers Tuesday they risk a recession with higher unemployment and increased home foreclosures unless they act on the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to bail out the financial industry.

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Paulson on verge of historic new powers

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks at a press conference on Comprehensive Approach to Market Developments at the Treasury Department in Washington, September 19, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)
The Christian Science Monitor - Tue Sep 23, 4:00 AM ET

Washington - Henry Paulson Jr. has become one of the most famous and, perhaps, consequential U.S. Treasury secretaries since Alexander Hamilton. Legislation submitted to Congress would transform Paulson's office into that of temporary overseer of America's entire financial system.

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Gunman opens fire at school, 9 dead

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By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press Writer
HELSINKI, Finland
A gunman opened fire at students at a vocational school for adults in western Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself, police said. Finnish media reported nine people were killed and the gunman was wounded.
The shootings began just before 11 a.m. local time as about 150 students went to class in Kauhajoki, 180 miles northwest of Helsinki. Witnesses said panic broke out as the hooded gunman entered the school and began firing.
"Within a short space of time I heard several dozen rounds of shots, in other words it was an automatic pistol," school janitor Jukka Forsberg told broadcaster YLE. "I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning and one managed to escape out of the back door."
YLE, citing police at the school, reported nine people were killed. The Finnish news agency STT said the school building was on fire and the gunman reportedly had explosives on him.
Jussi Muotio, superintendent of the Kauhajoki police, confirmed that several people had been wounded but could not immediately confirm the deaths. "The incident is over now," Muotio said.
Vesa Nyrhinen, detective superintendent from the local police, declined to say how seriously the gunman was injured. "He was wounded by his own bullets," he said.
College rector Timo Varmola told YLE there were 150 students in the school at the time.
The shootings happened almost a year after another gunman killed eight people and himself at a school in southern Finland, an attack that triggered a fierce debate about gun laws in this Nordic nation with deep-rooted traditions of hunting in the sub-Arctic wilderness.
With 1.6 million firearms in private hands, Finland is an anomaly in Europe, lagging behind only the United States and Yemen in civilian gun ownership, studies show.
Finnish media said YouTube clips of a man firing a gun appeared to be linked to the shooting. In one of them, a young man wearing a leather jacket fires several shots in rapid succession with a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.
The posting was made five days before the shooting and the location was given as Kauhajoki. The posting included a message saying: "Whole life is war and whole life is pain. And you will fight alone in your personal war."
The person who posted the clip identified himself as a 22-year-old with the name "Mr. Saari." He also posted three other clips of himself firing a handgun in the past three weeks.
Clips from the 1999 Columbine school shootings in Colorado were listed among his favorite videos.
Police could not immediately confirm whether the postings were linked to Tuesday's shooting.
Last year, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, described by police as a bullied 18-year-old outcast, opened fire at his high school in southern Finland on Nov. 7. He killed six students, a school nurse and the principal before ending his own life with a gunshot to the head.
Finnish investigators have said Auvinen left a suicide note for his family and foreshadowed his attack in YouTube postings.
After Auvinen's rampage, the government said it would raise the minimum age for buying guns from 15 to 18, but insisted there was no need for sweeping changes to Finland's gun laws.


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Monday, September 22, 2008

Europeans kidnapped in Egyptian desert near Sudan

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By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago

CAIRO, Egypt - Kidnappers have seized 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians during a Sahara desert safari to Gilf al-Kebir, a plateau famed for its prehistoric cave paintings, Egyptian officials said Monday.

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