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Fingers Pointed Over Alleged Fort Hood Shooter

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:37:16 -0500

There are allegations that U.S. intelligence forces may have dropped the ball in properly investigating Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s ties to a known anti-American cleric. Hasan allegedly killed 13 soldiers in Fort Hood. CBS News' Bob Orr reports.

Service Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Danger

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:52:23 -0500

About 3 million children in the U.S. suffer from food allergies. For some, a reaction can be quick and deadly. Now families can turn to a new way of better protecting their children. CBS 2’s Anne State reports on dogs that are sniffing out danger.

News review 2005 part 6 of 6

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:17:14 -0400

Including: Riots across France; Jordan hotel bombings; River pollution in China; Bird flu in Eastern Europe; Iranian aircraft Tehran building; UN Climate conference; and more. PAKISTANI RAPE VICTIM MUKHTAR MAI GIVEN BRAVERY AWARD Glamour magazine honoured rape victim Mukhtar Mai with a bravery award for her courage in bringing her violators to justice in conservative Pakistan. Mukhtar was raped in 2002 by a group of men on the orders of the tribal council (Jirga) as a family punishment after her younger brother was accused of sexual relations with a girl from an influential tribe. An appeal is pending in Paksitan's Supreme Court against a high court order to free 13 men of involvement in the crime. 'SCOOTER' LIBBY PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES IN CIA LEAK PROBE President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis Libby, plead not guilty on November 3 to charges in the CIA leak probe, in a case that could put a spotlight on how the Bush administration made its case for the Iraq war. Libby resigned in October after he was indicted on five counts of obstructing justice, perjury and lying in the two-year investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. RIOTING AND CIVIL UNREST SPREAD FROM IMPOVERISHED SUBURBS OF PARIS ACROSS FRANCE, GOVERNMENT IMPOSES STATE OF EMERGENCY Sixteen nights of rioting and civil unrest across France were sparked after two youths of North African origin were electrocuted on October 27 in an electricity substation in what locals say was an attempt to escape the police. Authorities deny that they were being chased by police at the time. More than 5,000 cars were set ablaze and at least 1,500 people detained, many of them of Arab and African origin. One person died. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose tough line on the unrest had been widely criticised, said "We can see that the French integration model is not working and needs to be seriously revisited." JORDAN HOTEL BOMBINGS KILL OVER 50 PEOPLE Three suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jordan's capital killed 56 people and injured 96 people on November 9, many of them attending wedding parties. Al Qaeda in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in a statement that a "group of our best lions" had carried out the attacks. LIBERIA ELECTS FIRST FEMALE HEAD OF STATE IN AFRICA Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became Africa's first elected female head of state after winning presidential elections in Liberia with 59.4 percent of the vote. Nicknamed the "Iron lady", the Harvard-educated economist beat former football star George Weah in an election run-off. Weah alleged the run-off vote was rigged but international observers said the poll was largely free and fair. SUICIDE ATTACKS ON TWO MOSQUES KILL AT LEAST 80 IN IRAQ A series of suicide bombings in Iraq left at least 80 people dead and another 100 injured on November 18. In the worst attacks, suicide bombers struck two Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin near the Iranian border, killing at least 74 people. IRAQ PRISONER ABUSE ALLEGATIONS Earlier the same week, the Iraqi Interior Ministry denied allegations of systematic prisoner abuse, saying only a handful of the 173 detainees found by U.S. troops in a secret prison bunker were assaulted. Many of the prisoners said they had been beaten, tortured and deprived of food. Photographs showed signs of serious bruising and malnourishment. The discovery sparked in inspection process by Iraqi and U.S. officials which on December 12, saw a second packed prison in Baghdad, where 625 inmates were being held in very overcrowded conditions. GAZA BORDER WITH EGYPT OPENS UNDER PALESTINIAN CONTROL Palestinians formally opened on November 25 a border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt that will allow Gazans to travel abroad freely for the first time since Israel occupied the coastal territory in 1967. The cross-border movement will be supervised by European Union monitors as part of a U.S.-brokered deal after Israel's Gaza pullout in September and the first travellers were to begin using the terminal on November 26. RIVER POLLUTION THREATENS POPULATION OF CHINESE CITY OF HARBIN A toxic spillage into the Songhua river after an explosion at a petro chemical factory in Jilin threatened the water supplies of the north eastern city of Harbin for five days at the end of November. Schools were closed and residents urged not to panic buy supplies of bottled water. Imported water was rationed to drinking and washing as soldiers were deployed to install filters into water plants to absorb the chemicals. ASTEROID SCARES LOCALS IN SOUTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PROVIDES SPECTACULAR LIGHT SHOW Western Australia was treated to a spectacular light show on December 3 night as a meteor blazed through the sky, leaving a bright tail in its wake. Resident of Halls Head, south of Perth, Karun Cowper, who was enjoying a meal with his family at Halls Head, caught the moment on camera. SHIMON PERES THROWS HIS SUPPORT BEHIND PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON AND HIS NEW KADIMA PARTY Veteran Israeli statesman Shimon Peres threw his weight behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new Kadima Party. Sharon said Peres would play a key role in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking if Kadima won Israel's March's election. EXCLUSION ZONE SET UP IN CRIMEA AS CULLS CONTINUE AGAINST SPREAD OF BIRD FLU IN EASTERN EUROPE Ukrainian troops moved from house to house on December 4 in five villages in the Crimea peninsula where a virulent strain of bird flu has been detected, removing domestic birds for a mass cull in pits being excavated by diggers. Three kilometre exclusion zones were set up around each village. U.S. FORCES LAUNCH HEAVY BOMBARDMENT ON IRAQI CITY OF RAMADI FOLLOWING INSURGENT ATTACK As the year drew to a close the fighting in Iraq continued. American forces launched a heavy air bombardment on the Iraqi city of Ramadi on December 6 in retaliation for an insurgent attack on a U.S. military vehicle. IRANIAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASHES IN TO TEHRAN APARTMENT BLOCK KILLING OVER 100 PEOPLE In one of the worst aircraft crashes of the year, an Iranian military aircraft burst into flames and smashed into a Tehran apartment block on December 6, killing all on board and others on the ground. 108 people died when a C-130 transport plane, carrying scores of journalists to cover military exercises in the south of the country, crashed. UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CONFERENCE IN MONTREAL ON GREATEST CHALLENGE FACING HUMANITY, HALTING GLOBAL WARMING Environment ministers agreed on December 10 to a road map to extend the Kyoto Protocol climate pact beyond 2012, breaking two weeks of deadlock at U.N. talks aimed at curbing global warming. The agreement on a Kyoto renewal road map gives members seven years to negotiate and ratify accords by the time the first phase ends in 2012. Most countries agree that deeper cuts will be needed to avoid climate chaos in coming decades. Global warming is widely blamed on a build-up of gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, cars and factories.

Officer: "He did not utter a word"

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:32:40 -0500

Nov. 11: The convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad was put to death at the Greenville Correctional Center in Virginia. NBC’S Steve Handelsman reports.

News review of 2005 part 2 of 6

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:11:36 -0400

Including: Lebanon - Hariri Assassination; Bird flu; Kyoto pact comes into effect; Iraq violence - insurgency continues; Global flyer world record; Indonesia earthquake; and more. LEBANON - HARIRI ASSASINATION February was marked by the assasination of former Lebanese President Rafik Al Hariri on Valentine's day (February 14). A massive car bomb in Beirut's waterfront district killed the ex-premier and 19 others in an attack that would reverberate through the following months and leave an indelible change in the Lebanon's political landscape. The explosion gouged a huge crater out of the road, ripped facades from luxury buildings and left cars ablaze on the rubble-strewn street. At least 150,000 people attended his funeral including French President Jacques Chirac. Sixty-year-old Hariri had held office for most of the previous 12 years before quitting in October 2004 amid a bitter rift with President Emile Lahoud. A direct consequence of the attack was the removal of 14,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon, which Hariri had been calling for in the run up to a May general election. Syria had been a major power broker in its smaller neighbour since the civil war when it was credited with helping to bring the conflict to a close in 1990. A U.N. report issued in late October accused high-ranking Syrian security officials and their allies in Lebanon of involvement in the plot to kill Hariri. The United States and France threatened economic sanctions if Syria did not cooperate in the probe and detain officials for interviews with U.N. investigators. BIRD FLU PANDEMIC FEARS IN YEAR OF ROOSTER Earlier in the month, fears of a bird flu pandemic emerged as the Chinese celebrated the start of the Year of the Rooster. In Vietnam, where 41 people have died of bird flu, over half of the country's 64 provinces are infected despite ruthless measures to stop the spread of the H5N1 strain, including the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of poultry. The World Health Organisation has said the lethal virus is endemic in poultry across much of Asia and it could only be a matter of time before it develops the ability to jump the species barrier and mutate into a form that could pass easily from human to human, triggering a pandemic that could kill millions. The disease has so far killed 62 people and infected 122 in four Asian countries, and caused 125 million bird fatalities across South-East Asia. Most human cases have been linked to contact with sick birds. The strain first surfaced in humans in Hong Kong in 1997, re-emerged in 2003 in South Korea and has reached as far west as European Russia, Turkey and Romania, tracking the paths of migratory birds. In October Europeans were advised not to eat raw eggs and cook chicken carefully and the European Union banned imports of pet birds after a parrot died of the H5N1 strain in Britain and halted some imports of live birds. KYOTO PACT COMES INTO EFFECT After years of delays, the United Nations (U.N.) Kyoto protocol on curbing emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for disrupting the climate took effect on February 16 with muted celebrations. Washington has dismissed the deal as an economic straitjacket, but 141 nations have signed up to a first step to halting global warming by imposing legally binding caps on greenhouse gas emission, mainly from burning fossil fuels in power plants factories and cars, in 35 developed nations. But the protocol excludes until at least 2012 major developing nations India, China and Brazil which comprise a third of the world's population. Environmentalists celebrated the pact, but many think it is not enough. Climate experts fear temperature rises will disrupt farming, raise sea levels by melting icecaps, cause more extreme weather like hurricanes or droughts, spread disease and wipe out thousands of plant and animal species by 2100. IRAQ INSURGENCY CONTINUES WITH MASSIVE SUICIDE BOMB In Iraq the violence continued. A massive suicide bomb on February 28 killed at least 115 near the marketplace in Hilla, 100 kilometers south of the capital. It was the single bloodiest attack in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The bomber drove a car into a crowd of people queuing outside a government building, apparently to get health certificates needed to apply for government jobs. Insurgents fighting to drive U.S. troops from Iraq and wreck the transition to democracy have often targeted people looking for state jobs or army and police recruits. GLOBAL FLYER WORLD RECORD At the beginning of March adventurer, Steve Fossett became the first person to make a solo, non-stop flight around the world. After three days in the air his single-engine jet-powered experimental plane sponsored by Virgin Atlantic touched down smoothly in Kansas 67 hours after he left the same airstrip. The first non-stop flight around the world without refueling was made in 1986 by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan, who completed the 26,366 miles (42,430 km) in nine days. ITALIAN JOURNALIST RELEASED BY IRAQI INSURGENTS, FRENCH JOURNALIST AND IRAQI DRIVER RELEASED TWO MONTHS LATER Italy celebrated and mourned after Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was released by Iraqi militants. But her freedom was tainted by the death of the secret agent, Nicola Calipari who negotiated her release. He was killed by U.S forces who shot at the car in which they were travelling. Calipari's death fuelled calls by anti-war activists to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq. Later in the month Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced a progressive planned reduction of the 3,000 serving soldiers from September. Two months later France was welcoming home another journalist held hostage for five months by Iraqi Sunni insurgents. Aubenas' driver, Hussein Hanun al-Saadi, who was kidnapped with her, was also released and returned home to music and celebration at his Baghdad home. Al-Saadi looked pale and withdrawn and later stated his intention to leave Iraq following his ordeal. The pair were snatched after leaving their Baghdad hotel on January 5th. The French governemnt denied a ransom was paid to secure their sudden release KYRGYZSTAN - POPULAR REVOLT UNSEATS PRESIDENT AFTER OPPOSITION ALLEGATIONS OF VOTE RIGGING On March 24, violent anti-government protests led to the storming of government buildings in the capital Bishkek and the eventual downfall of veteran Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev. Protesters were demonstrating against elections results which handed Akayev overwhelming control of government, but which international observers said were flawed. Akayev refused to resign, but after protesters seized control of the seat of state power, he fled the country with his family for Russia where he tendered his resignation. The Kyrgyz Parliament accepted on April 11, having first stripped him and his family of special privileges granted by the previous parliament. INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE Whilst political upheaval threatened to split Kyrgyzstan, four days later a natural one was compounding the misery of Indonesia, recovering from the December 26th tsunami. An earthquake measuring 8.7 devastated Nias island, killed at least 800 people and left thousands injured and homeless. About 700,000 people live on the island which escaped major damage in the December tsunami. Large parts of the island, famed as a surfing paradise, were damaged and much of the regional capital, Gunungsitoli was flattened.

11/11 Pre-Market: BoE Quarterly Inflation Report

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:12:54 -0500

11/11/09 The stories,data, and stocks that may have the greatest impact during the next trading session.

News review 2005 part 3 of 6

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:12:50 -0400

Including: Mugabe retains power in Zimbabwe; Pope John Paul II dies; Protests against Japanese history textbook; France rejects EU constitution; Khodorkovsky sentenced and more. MUGABE RETAINS POWER IN ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS CONDEMNED AS UNFAIR BY THE WEST Zimbabweans kept President Robert Mugabe in power after March 31 elections gave him an overall majority in the 150-seat parliamentary assembly. Despite turnout of less than 50 percent and accusations that the polls were flawed, Mugabe's Zanu-PF (Zimbabwe African National Unity-Patriotic Front) party took 78 seats, leaving the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai with 41 seats and one independent. 30 other seats are directly appointed by Mugabe. 81-year-old Mugabe has held power for 25 years since independence from Britain and has been isolated and criticised by the international community for misrule and wrecking the economy. POPE JOHN PAUL II DIES, CARDINAL RATZINGER ELECTED SUCCESSOR An estimated 300,000 people crammed into the Vatican city on April 8 to watch one of the most momentous funerals in recent history. Polish Pope John Paul II died on April 2nd after a 26-year papacy, after long bouts of illness and increasing frailty. He was buried a week later in a simple wooden coffin, after a huge outpouring of grief, during which millions files past his body as it lay in state. The conservative German 78-year-old Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI surprisingly quickly on April 19 and faced with the daunting task of leading 1.1 billion Roman Catholics through what some predict will be a difficult papacy. BRITAIN'S PRINCE CHARLES FINALLY MARRIES CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES AFTER 35-YEAR AFFAIR The day after attending the pope's funeral, Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles finally married his mistress of 35 years, Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles troubled first marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, was unable to survive his continuing affair with Camilla and they divorced before Diana's death in a Paris car crash. TOGO - VIOLENCE FOLLOWS DISPUTED POLL, KILLING AT LEAST 100 Togo voted for a new president amid opposition allegations of vote rigging and bouts of violence on April 24. Western diplomats said the rioting killed at least 100 people after the disputed presidential poll and thousands fled for neighbouring countries. The UNHCR said 20,000 refugees had left for Ghana and neighbouring Benin. Togo's constitutional court confirmed Gnassingbe as the winner of the poll with 60 percent of the vote, against 38 percent for the opposition candidate Emmanuel Akitani-Bob. PROTESTS ACROSS ASIA AS JAPAN USES CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY TEXTBOOK IN SCHOOLS Japan's use of controversial history textbook which critics said whitewashed the country's brutal colonial and wartime past provoked sometimes violent protests in South Korea and China. The New History Textbook, published in 2001, is used in only 18 of Japan's 11,102 junior high schools. The writers, the Society for History textbook reform have criticised other texts as offering a "masochistic" view of history. But the furore it created sold 600,000 copies to general readers and its approval by the Education Ministry ignited big demonstrations in China and violent protest in Seoul. The textbook reiterates Tokyo's claim to rocky south Korean-held islands known as Takeshima in Japan and Tokto in South Korea, and Japan's biggest teaching union said the text lacked an awareness of the "pain and suffering" caused to Asian people in World War II. Other critics say it does not provide enough detail of the 1937 Nanking massacre when Japanese soldiers killed civilians and does not mention "comfort women", a euphemism for women forced to become sex slave for the Japanese army before and after the war. ECUADOR CIVIL UNREST FORCES PRESIDENT GUITERREZ FROM OFFICE Street protests erupted in Quito after a Supreme Court decision to drop corruption charges against former President Abdala Bucaram, a key political ally of President Lucio Gutierrez. Within a week Gutierrez fled office after congress voted to oust him for "abandoning his post" and the state prosecutor's office ordered his arrest for two deaths during the huge demonstrations and rioting by rival groups. He was flown from the presidential palace by military helicopter and replaced by Vice President Alfredo Palacio. CALLS FOR US TO QUIT IRAQ GROW WITH VIOLENT INSURGENCY Thousands of supporters of rebel shi'ite leader Moqtada al Sadr marched on the second anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein to denounce the U.S. presence in Iraq and demand a speedy trial of their former president. The protesters marched from Sadr city to Firdos Square in central Baghdad where a statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled two years previously by U.S. troops and celebrating Iraqis. Chanting 'No America, No Saddam, yes to Islam', protesters waved flags and displayed puppets of U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and their former president. UNITED KINGDOM - LABOUR WIN HISTORIC THIRD TERM DESPITE OPPOSITION OVER WAR IN IRAQ British Prime Minister survived opposition over the Iraq war to secure a historic third straight victory, but with a slashed majority in parliament. He was third leader of three key global allies in Iraq - the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, to win re-election postwar, but admitted voters had sent a clear signal they wanted to curb his power. UZEBKISTAN PROTESTERS MASSACRE Protests sparked by the trial of 23 Muslim businessmen in the Uzbek town of Andihzan capital turned into a bloody massacre on May 13 as troops moved to suppress what was deemed by President Islam Karimov an uprising fermented by Islamic extremists. Human Rights groups and opposition leaders estimate between 500 and 745 people died as witnesses said security forces using an armoured personnel carrier's machine gun opened fire on a crowd of rebels, protesters and onlookers, among them women and children, outside a school. The official death toll was 187. KHODORKOVSKY SENTENCED Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of six of seven charges of fraud and tax evasion on May 31 and sentenced to nine years in prison, a year short of the maximum demanded by prosecutors. FRANCE AND NETHERLANDS REJECT NEW CONSTITUTION OF EUROPEAN UNION IN REFERENDUM France voted overwhelmingly against the European Union new constitution on May 29 in rejection that could sound the death knell for the proposed charter. The resounding "No" vote sent shock waves through Europe but was seen by some analysts as a punishment for the policies of French president Jacques Chirac's conservatives which have resulted in a fragile economy and high unemployment, which at the time of the poll was at a five-year high of 10.2 percent. The Netherlands emphatically rejected the EU referendum, plunging the bloc deeper into crisis. Official results confirmed 61.5 percent voted 'NO' with a turnout of 63.3 percent. The vote effectively meant the indefinite delay of the treaty designed to make the running of the EU smoother following its enlargement from 15 to 25 states. In September the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU will not have a constitution for "at least two or three years", leaving the issue on ice.

Downtown Mobile under water

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:46:46 -0400

CNN's Ted Rowlands reports from an inundated Mobile, Alabama. (August 30)