Tuesday, September 7, 2010

US church to go ahead with Sept. 11 Quran burning (AP)

US church to go ahead with Sept. 11 Quran burning (AP)

US church to go ahead with Sept. 11 Quran burning (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT

Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Quran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war. (AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - A Christian minister vowed Tuesday to go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Quran to protest the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks despite warnings from the White House and the top U.S. general in Afghanistan that doing so would endanger American troops overseas.

Grim outlook for Democrats puts House up for grabs (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 10:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2009 file photo, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks in Silver Spring, Md. Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are playing defense all across the country. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP - Their control of the House in peril, Democrats are playing defense all across the country. Disgruntled voters, a sluggish economy and vanishing enthusiasm for President Barack Obama have put 75 seats or more - the vast majority held by Democrats - at risk of changing hands.

AP sources: Former FBI man implicated in CIA abuse (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:12 PM PDT

AP - A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect has returned to U.S. intelligence as a contractor, training CIA operatives after leaving the agency, The Associated Press has learned.

CO firefighters to step up attack on Boulder blaze (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - Firefighters planned to ramp up their battle Tuesday against a wildfire that forced about 3,000 people to flee their homes as the wind-whipped blaze filled the surrounding canyon with heavy smoke and spit flames.

EU decries 'barbaric' plans to stone Iranian woman (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image made available by Amnesty International in London on Thursday, July 8, 2010, shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran on charges of adultery. Ashtiani is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday. (AP Photo/Amnesty International, File)** EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES**AP - The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery intensified Tuesday with a top European Union official calling it "barbaric" and an Iranian spokesman saying it's about punishing a criminal and not a human rights issue.

Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:38 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks on as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as she hosts the re-launch of direct negotiations, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks.

Chicago Mayor Daley won't run for re-election (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 01:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2009 file photo, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley speaks before the city council in Chicago. Daley announced Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, that he is not running for re-election. Daley became mayor in 1989. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who has presided over the nation's third-largest city for 21 years, like his father did before him, announced Tuesday that he will not run for a seventh term, saying the time "just feels right."

John Lennon killer Chapman denied parole in NY (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this 1975 file photo, Mark David Chapman is seen at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Ark. Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is again up for parole in New York. Chapman is scheduled to be interviewed at Attica Correctional Facility sometime this week, as early as Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. It will be the sixth try at freedom for the former maintenance man who has spent nearly 30 years in the upstate New York prison. He has been denied parole every two years since becoming eligible in 2000. (AP Photo/Greg Lyuan, File)AP - John Lennon's killer was again denied parole in New York, nearly 30 years after gunning down the ex-Beatle outside the musician's New York City apartment building.

US smoking rate still stuck at 1 in 5 adults (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:56 AM PDT

AP - U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday.

Boise State gains ground in AP Top 25 (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 01:17 PM PDT

Boise State cornerback Brandyn Thompson (13), right, defends a deep pass against Virginia Tech wide receiver Dyrell Roberts (11) in the final minute of the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 in Landover, Md. Boise State won the game 33-30. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - More AP Top 25 voters are buying into Boise State as the No. 1 team in the country.

U.S. says not considering NATO Afghan troop request (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:25 PM PDT

U.S. soldiers from Delta Company, a part of Task Force 1-66, patrol at Arghandab river valley, Kandahar province, September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Oleg PopovReuters - The United States does not plan to contribute to a NATO request for 2,000 troops for the Afghan war, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, even as the head of the alliance held out the possibility of U.S. participation.

Car bomb kills 20 in Pakistan after Taliban threat (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:14 AM PDT

Villagers gather near the bodies of victims who were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the town of Lakki Marwat in Pakistan's northwest, September 6, 2010. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday killing at least 19 people, police said, in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants. REUTERS/Zahid MohammadReuters - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, in another blow for a country grappling with devastating floods.

U.S. team to discuss N.Korea in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Freed South Korean fishermen, wearing caps, meet their family members after returning from North Korea at a port in Sokcho, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. North Korea freed the crew Tuesday of a South Korean fishing boat seized a month ago, a sign the rivals may be talking behind the scenes to improve relations that have plummeted to their lowest point in years since the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Sang-hack) ** KOREA OUT **Reuters - A U.S. government team will travel to Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing next week to discuss North Korea but has no plans to visit the poor, isolated state or meet its officials, the State Department said Tuesday.

Pressure mounts in U.S. against Koran-burning plan (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 10:38 AM PDT

Reuters - Civil and military leaders stepped up calls on Tuesday for an obscure U.S. pastor to drop his plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, as fears grew it would fan religious hatred.

Congress Republicans wary of Obama economy plan (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:55 AM PDT

FILE - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, right, talks with then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Chicago. Daley, 68, announced Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, that he is not running for re-election. Daley was elected to the state Senate in 1972 and as Cook County state's attorney in 1980. He became Chicago mayor in 1989 when he won a special mayoral election after the death of Mayor Harold Washington.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)Reuters - Republicans in the Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve $350 billion worth of measures to boost the economy with midterm elections less than two months away.

Call for Sept 11 truce over New York Muslim center (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:35 AM PDT

Reuters - Families of September 11 victims are arguing whether to call a truce on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States as debate rages over plans for a Muslim center near the World Trade Center site.

Hermine lashes south Texas, 3 other storms possible (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:40 AM PDT

Reuters - Tropical Storm Hermine barely maintained its tropical storm status on Tuesday as 40 mile per hour winds kept lashing south Texas and the storm moved further inland about 15 miles south-southeast of San Antonio, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said.

Blast rips through Mexico oil refinery, kills one (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:52 PM PDT

Workers stand around ambulances that arrived to rescue victims of an explosion in the oil refinery at Pemex's Cadeyreta complex, in Cadeyreta near Monterrey, September 7, 2010. An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery operated by state oil company Pemex Tuesday, and rescue workers said at least five people were seriously injured. REUTERS/Kristian Lopez (MEXICO - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY BUSINESS)Reuters - An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery on Tuesday, killing one worker and pushing gasoline and diesel prices higher on worries state oil monopoly Pemex will have to import more fuel.

Ten million without shelter in Pakistan floods: UN (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 09:30 AM PDT

A woman displaced by flooding looks at her destroyed home in Kharak village, Punjab province, Pakistan. Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.

Search for Guatemala mudslide victims called off (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 11:56 AM PDT

Relatives of a landslide victim take the coffin to a church for a funeral in Nueva Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan, Solola, west of Guatemala City, on September 5. Officials called off the search Tuesday for 15 people missing after deadly landslides in Guatemala, fearing fresh avalanches of mud after the heaviest rains in 60 years.(AFP/File/Johan Ordonez)AFP - Officials called off the search Tuesday for 15 people missing after deadly landslides in Guatemala, fearing fresh avalanches of mud after the heaviest rains in 60 years.
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