Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Palestinian kills 4 Israelis on eve of peace talks (AP)

Palestinian kills 4 Israelis on eve of peace talks (AP)

Palestinian kills 4 Israelis on eve of peace talks (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:22 PM PDT

Israeli policemen gather at a site of a shooting attack near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arbah, Tuesday, Aug, 31, 2010. A Palestinian gunman opened fire on an Israeli vehicle traveling in the West Bank on Tuesday, killing four passengers, authorities said, in a deadly attack that cast a long shadow over Mideast peace talks set to start this week. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.

Hurricane Earl pounds Turks and Caicos; US braces (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

Hurricane Earl is seen moving west-northwest in the Caribbean, in this National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite image taken and released on August 30, 2010. Hurricane Earl strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm on Monday after lashing the northeast Caribbean islands, and was expected to swipe the U.S. East Coast in the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. REUTERS/NOAA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSAP - Federal officials urged U.S. residents to prepare for possible evacuations and islanders in the Turks and Caicos hunkered down in their homes Tuesday as powerful Hurricane Earl howled over open seas toward the East Coast of the U.S.

Obama: End of Iraq combat mission not victory lap (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungAP - Hours before addressing the nation, President Barack Obama told U.S. troops just back from Iraq that his speech outlining the withdrawal of combat forces "is not going to be a victory lap" nor a cause for celebration.

Iraq says it's independent as US ends combat (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, walks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, before their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Biden made a new appeal to Iraqi leaders Tuesday, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to end the political deadlock and seat a new government. March 7 parliamentary elections left Iraq without a clear winner, and insurgents have since exploited the uncertainty to hammer Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the end of American combat operations Tuesday leaves his country independent and an equal to the United States and he assured his people their own security forces will protect them.

AP source: Unlikely that 2 men plotting terror (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

A man is led away from a plane at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam Monday Aug. 30, 2010 in this image taken from TV. The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men's luggage were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official said Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010, casting doubt on earlier suggestions even as Dutch authorities held the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act. (AP Photo/RTL, via APTN) ** NETHERLANDS OUT: ONE TIME USE ONLY: FOR USE UNTIL 1600 GMT SEPT 2, 2010 ONLY: WEBSITES MUST REMOVE THIS IMAGE AFTER 1559 GMT THURSDAY SEPT. 2, 2010: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men's luggage is finding they were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official said Tuesday, casting doubt on earlier suggestions even as Dutch authorities held the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act.

New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:25 PM PDT

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Fidel Castro, left, stands with U.S. journalist of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, second from right, and Cuban Jewish Community President Adela Dworin, third from right, at the National Aquarium in Havana, Cuba, Monday Aug. 30, 2010. Goldberg is a national correspondent for the magazine who has written on the Middle East and Iran. (AP Photo/Estudios Revolucion, Cubadebate)AP - Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the gray-bearded revolutionary expressed regret for past persecution of homosexuals.

Caroline Giuliani's case set for dismissal in NYC (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:06 PM PDT

Caroline Giuliani exits Manhattan criminal court following her appearance, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, in New York. The daughter of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was arrested for shoplifting at a Sephora store. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - A judge told former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's 21-year-old daughter Tuesday to do a day of community service and keep out of trouble to get rid of charges that she stole makeup from a high-end cosmetics store.

Montana drinking and driving culture at crossroads (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken Aug. 20, 2010, a patron sits at the bar at the Kettlehouse Brewery in Missoula, Mont. Montana has long been a state where you could crack open a beer and drive down the interstate just about as fast as you liked. Drinking and driving was legal until 2003, when it was changed only under heavy federal duress, and there was no specified speed limit on major highways. But spurred by the high-profile death last year of a highway patrolman at the hands of an intoxicated driver, Montana's Old West drinking and driving culture is in retreat. (AP Photo/Mike Albans)AP - Montana has long had a reputation as a place where you could crack open a beer while driving down the interstate just about as fast as you liked.

Cops: Calif doctor gets stuck in chimney, dies (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:52 PM PDT

AP - Police say a California doctor apparently tried to get into the home of the man she had been dating by sliding down the chimney. Her decomposing body was found there days later.

Frankenstein cited over monstrous behavior in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:20 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Department shows Forrest Frankenstein. Police say Frankenstein, a Cincinnati concertgoer, threatened them multiple times, then beat his head against a partition inside their cruiser after his arrest. Frankenstein, from Hamilton in southwest Ohio, was being held Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, on $80,000 bond on counts of menacing, disorderly conduct and vandalism. (AP Photo/Hamilton Sheriff Department)AP - Ohio police say a Toby Keith fan named Forrest Frankenstein threatened them and beat his head against a partition in their cruiser after his arrest.

Hurricane Earl could sideswipe East Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 01:23 PM PDT

A house is flooded as a nearby river was overflow due to the heavy rains of Hurricane Earl at Potters Village, in the outskirts of St. John's,Antigua, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Earl battered some islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category 3 storm on a path projected to menace the United States. (AP Photo/Johnny Jno-Baptiste)Reuters - Powerful Hurricane Earl churned toward the eastern U.S. seaboard on Tuesday and looked to sideswipe the densely populated coast from North Carolina to New England, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Obama: No Iraq victory lap as combat mission ends (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:56 AM PDT

President Barack Obama (L) and Vice President Joe Biden (R) meet with the national security team on Iraq in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, August 11, 2010. REUTERS/Pete Souza/The White House/HandoutReuters - President Barack Obama declared the U.S. combat mission in Iraq officially over on Tuesday but said he would not take a "victory lap" because a lot more work remained to be done inside the country.

France proposes EU commodities markets regulation (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 06:37 AM PDT

A worker at a steel plant in the French Lorraine region, in a file photo. REUTERS/Vincent KesslerReuters - France has sent detailed proposals to the European Commission calling for common action to regulate volatile commodities markets before it is due to head the Group of 20 economic powers, ministry officials said.

Obama administration appeals stem cell injunction (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a ruling that blocked federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, asking the judge who issued the injunction to put it on hold pending the appeal.

Four Israelis killed on eve of Mideast summit (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:56 PM PDT

An Israeli soldier patrols along a highway near the site of a shooting attack which killed four Israelis near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, August 31, 2010. On the eve of a U.S. sponsored peace summit in Washington, unidentified gunmen killed four Israelis on Tuesday in the occupied West Bank in the worst such attack in many months, Israeli medics and police said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Reuters - Four Israeli settlers were shot dead in their car in a drive-by attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, on the eve of a U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace summit in Washington.

Republican leads Senate race in Pennsylvania (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:53 AM PDT

Reuters - Republican Pat Toomey has opened a 10-point lead over Democrat Joe Sestak among likely voters in a Senate race in Pennsylvania dominated by economic worries, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.

New Yorkers see right to mosque, but want it moved (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 04:28 AM PDT

VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)Reuters - New York voters contradicted themselves over a planned Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site, with majorities saying both that Muslims have the right to build one but that they should be forced to move it, a poll issued on Tuesday finds.

Iraq hails sovereignty as U.S. ends combat mission (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 09:43 AM PDT

A U.S. soldier takes down the vehicle numbers of humvees loaded up on a trailer as they prepare to leave Iraq at Balad Base 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad August 27, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Iraq celebrated its sovereignty as the U.S. military formally ended combat operations on Tuesday, despite political deadlock and persistent violence, and warned other countries not to interfere as U.S. troops depart.

Iraq speech will not mark victory lap, Obama vows (AFP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:52 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Iraq war veterans at Fort Bliss, Texas. Obama said Tuesday his speech marking the end of US combat operations in Iraq would not be a victory lap, as Iraqi leaders vowed their forces could defend the country.(AFP/Tim Sloan)AFP - President Barack Obama said Tuesday his speech marking the end of US combat operations in Iraq would not be a victory lap, as Iraqi leaders vowed their forces could defend the country.

Dutch hold two over suspected 'terrorist' plot (AFP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 12:29 PM PDT

Dutch prosecutors said two Yemenis arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Tuesday after US security found a cellphone taped to a bottle in their luggage were being for possible terrorism offences.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Dutch prosecutors on Tuesday said two Yemenis arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after US security found a cellphone taped to a bottle in their luggage were being held for possible terrorism offences.
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