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		<title>Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool (AP)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8211; Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough line in talks with the smart phone maker. The UAE says it will block BlackBerry e-mail, messaging and Web services Oct. 11 unless authorities can gain access to the encrypted data traffic &#8212; a demand by other countries warning of possible bans including India. The proposed UAE action threatens BlackBerry service for an estimated 500,000 local subscribers and could tarnish the country's reputation as the Gulf's business and tourism hub with potentially millions of visitors left without key BlackBerry services. Dubai's police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, said that fears of espionage and information sharing by foe Israel &#8212; as well as UAE allies United States and Britain &#8212; helped prompt the possible limits on the popular BlackBerry. Tamim told a conference on information technology that the proposed BlackBerry curbs are also "meant to control false rumors and defamation of public figures due to the absence of surveillance," according to a story posted Friday on the website of the UAE newspaper Al-Khaleej. Tamim, whose remarks are often considered to reflect the views of Dubai's leadership, did not elaborate on the spying accusations in the article. He did not respond to calls by The Associated Press for further comment. The police chief gained international attention as the pointman in the probe into the January slaying of a Hamas commander in Dubai, which Emirati officials have blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency. UAE officials reportedly are still in talks with BlackBerry maker, Canada-based Research in Motion Ltd. Tamim's comments, however, point to a hard line by Emirates security chiefs who demand access to BlackBerry data. Blackberry traffic is encrypted and routed through servers operated by RIM. The company has said it would not disclose details of discussions with regulators in any of the more than 175 countries where it operates. This week, India gave RIM a 60-day window to offer ways for authorities to monitor BlackBerry traffic. Saudi Arabia last month allowed BlackBerry services to continue, citing "positive developments" after talks with the company. It's unclear whether the Saudi reprieve is permanent. Other countries such as Indonesia and Lebanon have also noted security worries about BlackBerry services. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful quake causes devastation in New Zealand (AFP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ CHRISTCHURCH (AFP) &#8211; New Zealand's most destructive earthquake in nearly 80 years caused two billion dollars' worth of damage Saturday, felling buildings, tearing up roads and sending terrified residents fleeing into the streets. Officials said it was "extremely lucky" no one was killed when the 7.0 magnitude quake shook the country's second-largest city Christchurch just before dawn. Frightened residents fled from their homes to find streets covered in rubble and glass, but despite the extent of the damage only two people were seriously injured in the city of 340,000 people. A state of emergency was declared in Christchurch and a 7:00 pm to 7:00 am curfew imposed in the city centre as initial estimates put the damage at up to two billion dollars (1.44 billion US). Christchurch mayor Bob Parker said he was "horrified by the amount of damage" which daylight showed was considerably worse than first thought. "There would not be a house, there would not be a family in our city that has not in some way have damage done to their person, to their property," Parker said on national radio. "I think it's like an iceberg; there is... below the visible line, significant structural damage." Few people were on the streets as the quake hit but building facades crashed to the ground, crushing parked cars and showering the roads with shattered glass, while gas and water electricity supplies were cut. Residents were warned to stay away from damaged buildings for fear of further collapses as severe aftershocks continued to rock the city. "I think we've been extremely lucky as a nation that there's been no fatalities... we're blessed actually," Civil Defence Minister John Carter said after being briefed on the impact of the quake, which he described as a "significant disaster". Prime Minister John Key flew to the city to survey the scene and support residents, many of whom described the quake as a terrifying experience. "We are not going to let Christchurch suffer this great tragedy on its own," Key said. The quake, initially recorded at a magnitude of 7.4, struck at 4:35 am (1635 GMT Friday) at a depth of five kilometres (three miles), 45 kilometres west of Christchurch, the US Geological Survey said. "Oh my God. There is a row of shops completely demolished right in front of me," resident Colleen Simpson told the Stuff website, adding that many people had run out onto the streets in fear. Christchurch Hospital spokeswoman Michele Hider said two men in their 50s were seriously injured -- one was hit by a falling chimney and the other was cut by falling glass. Police closed the centre of the city as looters targeted damaged shops, and brought in 80 extra officers from Auckland to enforce the curfew. "There's considerable damage there, and we've already had reports of looting. Shop windows are broken and obviously it's easy pickings for displays and things," police Inspector Mike Coleman said. The military was also mobilised, with troops assisting the police security efforts and a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules plane bringing urban rescue specialists with sniffer dogs to comb wreckage for anyone trapped in the rubble. Two air force helicopters were also called in to help with damage assessment. In the hours immediately after the quake, roads in the seaside suburbs were packed with cars as residents moved inland, but there was no tsunami. Kevin O'Hanlon, from the Mairehau area of Christchurch, said: "Just unbelievable. I was awake to go to work and then just heard this massive noise and, boom, it was like the house got hit. It just started shaking. I've never felt anything like it." Mayor Parker said he was in bed when the quake struck and he was "absolutely scared. I've never felt anything like it and I've experienced, like most Kiwis, a number of good shakes." The quake, felt throughout the South Island and the southern part of the North Island, was the most destructive in New Zealand since the 1931 tremor in Hawke's Bay that killed 256 people. It caused the temporary shutdown of Christchurch International Airport, forcing the diversion of inbound international flights to Auckland and Wellington until the airport reopened Saturday afternoon. New Zealand sits on the so-called "Ring of Fire", on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year. It averages at least one a day that is magnitude 4.0 or stronger. Meanwhile, as residents took stock of the quake damage they also had an eye on looming bad weather, with destructive gale-force winds of up to 130 kilometres (80 miles) an hour predicted to arrive on Sunday. "Winds of that speed can be damaging and with many buildings extensively damaged (by the earthquake) it could cause a major headache for emergency services," a weather service spokesman said. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>A quake reading on a seismograph. A strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (AFP/File) - A quake reading on a seismograph. A strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand's second largest city Saturday morning, causing a series of aftershocks and power outages in the city.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri) ]]></description>
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		<title>Special Report: Outgunned FDA tries to get tough with drug ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 1 / 3 Tom Abrams (R), director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC), talks with co-workers Sheetal Patel (L) and Ernest Voyard (2nd L) about the FDA's enforcement of rules against deceptive pharmaceuticals advertising at FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, June 9, 2010. To drug companies, it is all part of patient education. But consumer advocates, some lawmakers and others see the barrage of ads as a way to push medicines that people may not need as well as raise the nation's overall healthcare costs. Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst Fri Sep 3, 2010 1:18pm EDT Corrects spelling of Gleevec in 12th paragraph By Susan Heavey and Lisa Richwine SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - It wasn't what you would call a casual get-together. In February 2009, a popular New York blogger attended a brunch with fellow "frazzled moms." They took in tips from a style expert and listened to a nurse extol the virtues of Mirena, a birth control device sold by Bayer Healthcare. The nurse was on Bayer's payroll. In a series of events organized with the help of a women's website, Mom Central, the pharmaceutical company gathered a captive audience of young mothers. It provided the nurse with a script and had the women fill out a survey before they left. The sessions earned a stern rebuke from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In a letter to Bayer Healthcare made public earlier this year, the agency faulted the drugmaker for telling "busy moms" that using its intrauterine device (IUD) "will result in increased levels of intimacy, romance and, by implication, emotional satisfaction." Besides hyping the product, the nurse failed to disclose potential risks. "Here you have a company hiring a third-party to invite people into a home like a Tupperware party," said Thomas Abrams, whose department oversees pharmaceutical marketing reviews at the FDA. "That was extremely, extremely concerning to us because this product has risks -- risk of infection, loss of fertility. Huge risk." Under the Obama administration, the FDA has vowed to crack down on increasingly aggressive marketing tactics -- both online and off. But even Abrams acknowledges the agency lacks the resources to sharply curtail misleading drug ads. Downturn or no, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't been skimping on advertising. In 2009, companies spent a vast $4.8 billion to reach out to consumers in the United States -- the only country besides New Zealand that allows direct-to-consumer advertising -- up from nearly $4.7 billion the year before, according to tracking firm Kantar Media. To drug companies, it is all part of patient education. But consumer advocates, some lawmakers and others see the barrage of ads as a way to push medicines that people may not need as well as raise the nation's overall healthcare costs. As media splinters into a sea of Internet blogs, on-demand television and niche publications, companies are racing to keep pace. Websites and digital technology offer powerful tools that make it easier, cheaper and quicker to target specific groups. And drugmakers are relying more on celebrities and other methods to make their products stand out. For example, last year the FDA warned Abbott Laboratories over a promotional DVD featuring former basketball star and HIV patient Earvin "Magic" Johnson that the agency said suggested the company's HIV drug Kaletra was safer and more effective than proven. Agency staff have also slapped Allergan Inc for its website promoting its eyelash-boosting drug Latisse, saying various webpages did not tell potential consumers about possible risks, such as extraneous hair growth if the product touches the skin elsewhere, and downplayed possible allergic reactions. Earlier this year, Novartis earned a warning for two websites it sponsored -- www.gistalliance.com and www.cmlalliance.com -- to promote its leukemia drug Gleevec. The FDA said although the sites never used the therapy's brand name, they clearly alluded to it and yet failed to mention critical side effects. All told, the number of warnings the agency has sent drugmakers has ballooned, despite voluntary industry guidelines established in 2005 to help curb complaints. In 2008, under the Bush administration, the FDA sent just 21 notices to companies for violating the agency's marketing standards. Last year, it sent 41 letters to companies. Already this year, it is outpacing that effort, having issued 45 warnings through August 28. CREATIVE MARKETING The FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications, reviews advertisements and other promotional items before and after they run to try to ensure companies do not mislead consumers or make false claims. Its job isn't getting any easier. "Companies have become more aggressive with their promotion, more creative," said Abrams, a former pharmaceutical salesman who spent seven years working in sales and marketing for two different companies before moving to the FDA's promotional division for the last 16 years. The advertising universe has been transformed in other ways since his days pushing promotions in New Jersey, home to several of the nation's top drugmakers. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media networks are the new frontier in marketing, and drugmakers are dipping in like everyone else. Pfizer Inc, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca all have Twitter feeds, and some also have blogs. Unlike the case for print and broadcast, the FDA has yet to lay out guidelines for industry to follow, though Abrams said the agency aims to release a draft later this year. "We are developing separate guidance that are issue-specific and can apply to the various mediums used on the Internet," he told Reuters. For example, the agency will advise companies how to respond when consumers make an unprompted request for information on a drug. The lack of guidelines remains a sore point for the industry. "FDA has continued enforcement actions without these clear standards," said Jeff Francer, a lawyer at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the industry lobby group that made the 2005 pledge to clean up ads. In comments submitted to the FDA ahead of the expected new guidelines, drugmakers made their feelings known. Officials for diversified healthcare company Johnson &#038; Johnson urged the agency to "keep its approach as simple and flexible as possible," in a letter this past February. And Big Pharma has acquired some unlikely allies. Internet companies that thrive on online advertisements, including YouTube's parent Google Inc and rival Yahoo! Inc, have joined forces with drugmakers in pressing the FDA for clear standards. 'RUNNING TO KEEP UP' Even without the Internet, FDA officials would have trouble keeping up. Congress has helped deliver a handful more staffers to help tackle the growing flood of ads, but the agency still has just 57 officials charged with reviewing roughly 75,000 marketing items a year, Abrams noted. They review "thousands and thousands" but can't get to them all, he said. As a result, agency officials say they must prioritize which promotions get checked first. Those that could have the biggest effect on public health top the pile. To make matters worse, Congress moved to allow industry funds to boost FDA ad reviews but never fully authorized the program. Companies could have voluntarily paid a fee to have the FDA screen their television commercials before they ran, rather than later when they could get a warning. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, who took over in May 2009, has said staffers simply can't cope with the volume. "We're sort of always running to keep up," Hamburg, a former New York City health chief and public health expert, told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee in March. "We do review the ads and can take action when we think there are misrepresentations or inadequate presentation of risks, but the volume makes it very, very difficult," she said. "The fact is: we don't review them, sign off, and then they go up." Insufficient staff isn't the agency's only problem. It is also hampered by antiquated technology systems. At a time when digital videos take seconds to upload and can reach millions of views in minutes, the FDA's marketing reviewers read storyboards of television and Internet spots on paper, which are archived in a separate room across the agency's 130-acre campus. As with other government entities, the division is moving toward electronic submissions but isn't there yet. To ease the workload, the agency recently enlisted doctors to report misleading promotions aimed at medical professionals. Its "Bad Ad" campaign seeks to teach physicians how to spot questionable promotions or statements and then report them to the agency voluntarily. So far, it has received about 100 complaints through the effort. Nevertheless, consumer activists say FDA's overall approach is likely to fall short. Abrams' office "certainly needs more money and manpower to be regularly monitoring this kind of stuff," said Steve Findlay, a senior health policy analyst for Consumers Union, an independent non-profit group aimed at protecting buyers. Findlay said the industry's efforts at self-policing have helped, especially among larger companies, but some companies have clearly crossed the line. "We're still seeing drug ads that are not completely balanced and are inappropriate or off-base," he said. Consumer advocates worry pharmaceutical companies are increasing efforts to reach teenagers through online ads. Allergan used a "High School Musical"-type promotion for prescription acne drug Aczone featuring "Twilight" movie actor Michael Welch. He starred in an online video series called "Aczone: The Musical." Other companies have created stuffed animals, games and children's books to promote medicines to youth, said Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a group of doctors, parents, teachers and other advocates. "It's not a good idea to start kids on a life of choosing drugs based on whether they are cool, or whether some celebrity is promoting them," said Linn, who believes marketing of medicines to children should be outlawed. Allergan spokeswoman Caroline Van Hove said the Aczone campaign was appropriate because the drug is approved for ages 12 and older. The musical website was "just one of many informational tactics" to educate patients about what at the time was the first new FDA-approved acne medicine in a decade, she said. PhRMA's Francer said the vast majority of ads don't merit any regulatory action. He added that it can be extremely hard, especially with television commercials, to convey all of a medication's risks. "It can be incredibly challenging for the companies to present all of the risk information that both they and the FDA want to be presented in a way that is understandable to patients," he told Reuters. 'AN AMAZING EVENING' In Bayer's case, the New York blogger and another one in Columbus, Ohio wrote about the parties immediately afterward, mentioning both the website that helped organize them as well as the birth control device being touted. Although studies show that drug ads work -- consumers who see them are more likely to ask their doctors about the product -- it is unclear whether the company's events to promote Mirena had any impact beyond the small parties' audience. "I went to a brunch yesterday that was hosted by Mom Central and Bayer Healthcare, and they brought in two speakers. One to talk (humorously) about their Mirena birth control product, and the other to give us 'frazzled moms' some basic style tips... The speakers knew their stuff, and did a good job," read one account on www.sanemoms.com that then focused only on fashion. Another shorter post, at chefdruck.blogspot.com, also only mentioned Mirena in passing in favor of tips on shoes and husbands. "We had an amazing evening, talking about sex, fashion, and living a simpler life," it said. Stacy DeBroff, chief executive of Mom Central, likened the parties to a focus group, but said her website won't partner with any other drugmakers until the FDA clears up its rules. "For us, it was kind of an experiment of sorts ... If we bring people into your living room what happens?" she told Reuters. Still, the FDA did not find out about the Tupperware-like party pitch or the online posts until months after they hit the blogosphere and the agency received a complaint. Abrams declined to say who filed the grievance. Bayer Healthcare, a unit of the German drugmaker Bayer AG, said it stopped holding the parties 10 months before it even received the agency's letter. In comments to the FDA over social media policies, the German drugmaker said the agency should open up channels to market products and embrace the use of technology, not restrict it. "Any FDA approach should seek to maximize the dissemination of accurate healthcare information to patients and their caregivers," Bayer's senior counsel Christopher Cannon wrote earlier this year. The FDA, he added, should allow drugmakers to be "using the full spectrum of social media and other tools available via the Internet." Abrams, age 55, said he personally uses Facebook but still relies on his younger staffers to keep up with technology. "I'm not that sophisticated," he joked. He also said his division will continue to be aggressive in rooting out suspect marketing. One ad reviewer, he said, recently called in on her way to vacation in Florida, having seen a misleading television ad for an erectile dysfunction suppository at the airport. As for Abrams, he keeps a pad of paper by his television for some evenings when he is watching with his wife, Maureen. "I can be watching TV with my wife after our kids go to bed, and she knows ... when a drug commercial comes on: no talking," he said. ]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Special-ops on show to woo war skeptics (AP)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan &#8211; The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years &#8212; special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents &#8212; to try to convince skeptics the war can be won. More than previous commanders, Gen. David Petraeus has released the results of special operations missions — 235 militant leaders were killed or captured in the last 90 days, another 1,066 rank-and-file insurgents killed and 1,673 detained — to demonstrate the Taliban and their allies are also suffering losses as NATO casualties rise. Petraeus told reporters traveling Friday with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, that in the past 24 hours, special operations forces carried out eight missions, capturing three targeted individuals. Four more were believed killed or detained, Petraeus said. Accentuating the positive is part of Petraeus' media style, developed when he commanded U.S. forces in Iraq and was widely credited with helping turn the tide in that war. Those skills are part of what the White House knew it needed when President Barack Obama selected the four-star general in July to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal, after remarks critical of the administration appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. Since taking command, Petraeus has used a series of high-profile media interviews to try to reverse the wave of pessimism about the war, especially within Congress and the American public. Playing up missions by special operations forces &#8212; Navy SEALs, Delta Force, Army Rangers and Green Berets &#8212; offers a way to demonstrate that the U.S. and its NATO partners are taking the fight to the Taliban. Petraeus has shared key heretofore classified data with reporters at a level of detail that surprised many U.S. officials here and in Washington. A senior official in Kabul downplayed the notion that publicizing these details is calculated to win public support, saying it simply highlights one of the war's successes. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the commander's strategy. Special operations missions are now at their highest tempo, with nearly 4,000 carried out between May and August, according to officials here. U.S. officials are sensitive to the suggestion that Petraeus is using the spec-ops successes for public effect, perhaps because it harks back to the largely discredited body counts of the Vietnam war. But back in Washington, the release of information was warmly welcomed in some quarters, offsetting the daily drumbeat of rising U.S. casualties. At least 28 U.S. service members have been killed in the past week. Special operations troops have been in Afghanistan since the conflict began in 2001, working with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance to drive the Taliban from power after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States and later to pursue al-Qaida leaders. Last fall, McChrystal, who commanded special operations forces in Iraq, stepped up the tempo, broadening their mission to include killing or capturing midlevel commanders in the Taliban and their allies in the Haqqani network. What's new is that Petraeus and his aides are talking about it. By highlighting their successes, Petraeus could earn bankable political capital that he will need if he recommends that Obama slow the drawdown of U.S. troops that the president promised will begin next July. This does not mean that Petraeus is shifting emphasis from traditional counterinsurgency strategy — clearing territory, holding it, building on it, and then turning it over to the Afghan government. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press and two other news organizations, Petraeus spoke of spec-ops successes, but added: "You don't kill or capture your way out of an industrial strength insurgency." However, demonstrating progress is difficult in a war fought in hundreds of small, scattered engagements, where frontlines do not move and where cities do not fall. That's where the spec-ops raids come in. The mystique of elite, highly trained commandos swooping down on an unsuspecting Taliban leader in the dead of night plays well back home, especially at a time when much of the news from Afghanistan focuses on rising American deaths and frustration with the Afghan government. Heavy use of special operations forces is not without risk. Afghans from President Hamid Karzai to lowly village elders complain night raids offend Afghan culture and turn the population against the international coalition. Last spring, Vice Admiral Bill McCraven, who heads up the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command Forward, traveled to a small village in Gardez province to apologize to Afghan elders, after his troops killed two armed men during a nighttime raid in February. The elders claimed three women died in the crossfire. U.S. officials insist that an Uzbek militant leader was killed in a helicopter strike on his convoy Thursday in the northern province of Takhar. Karzai and the local governor dispute this, saying the convoy contained a candidate for parliament his campaign workers. A U.S. defense official here says such armed actions are the exception. The official said one special operations task force recorded no shots fired in 973 out of 1,225 missions in the 12 months ending in August. The targets simply gave up without a fight. The official added up to 10 Afghan special forces troops take part in each raid, often in the lead, when the force reaches the target. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to describe classified operations. U.S. officials believe the increased operational tempo by such forces over the past year has begun to bite into the insurgent network in the central part of Helmand province, a southern area that has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the past two years. U.S. intelligence has tracked a breakdown in regular communications between local commanders in Helmand and their leadership in Quetta, in the border region of Pakistan, according to defense officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence. There is anecdotal evidence, the officials say, that resentment is building in the midlevel ranks of the Taliban, aimed at the top commanders who are safely ensconced in Quetta or in the North Waziristan area of Pakistan. Still, the senior U.S. official in Kabul concedes spec-ops forces have not yet reversed the Taliban's momentum nationwide. There's progress in some areas, he said, but "we clearly need to do more in others." ___ Kimberly Dozier reports on intelligence and counterterrorism for The Associated Press in Washington. Other popular stories on Yahoo! &#8226; Hillary Clinton's one-man presidential campaign &#8226; Giant traffic jam returns to China &#8226; Pricey sports car recalled after bursting into flames Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>UPS cargo plane crashes near Dubai airport (AP)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &#8211; A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the "bodies of two pilots" had been found at the scene, but UPS did not confirm that. The plane went down inside an Emirati air base near a busy highway intersection about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Dubai's international airport. WAM said the crash occurred in an unpopulated desert area, suggesting there may not have been casualties on the ground. Smoke rose from the crash site, which was shielded from the highway by walls. Migrant laborers from a nearby camp gathered along the roadside to watch. UPS spokeswoman Kristen Petrella said the Boeing 747-400 &#8212; which has a wingspan of 212 feet (64.6 meters) and length of 232 feet (70.7 meters) &#8212; went down at about 8 p.m. in Dubai (12 p.m. EST). Flight 6 was en route to the UPS hub in Cologne, Germany, she said. Petrella said the plane had two crew members but the company has not confirmed any casualties. Two U.S. aviation experts said the plane had taken off and then turned around and was returning to land when the accident took place. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak to the media. UPS, an Atlanta-based company formally known as United Parcel Service Inc. and the world's largest shipping company, dispatched an investigation team to the scene. A Dubai-based spokesman for the General Civil Aviation Authority, Ismail al-Baroushi, said an investigation was under way, but it was "too early to speculate" on the cause of the crash. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz also said the U.S. agency will send a team of experts to Dubai to assist with the investigation. A witness, who refused to give his name, said he was sitting on the balcony of his home when he heard a "big boom." "There was fire and too much smoke," he said. In October 2009, a Sudanese Boeing 707 cargo plane crashed in the desert outside Dubai after taking off from Sharjah airport north of Dubai, killing six crew members. Emirati regulators have banned the plane's Sudanese owner, Azza Transport, from operating in the country. There are about 300 747 freighters in service, carrying about half the world's air cargo. UPS planes have been involved in four accidents since 1985, none fatal, according to an aviation safety database. The most recent involved a fire that broke out in the cargo hold of a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 en route from Atlanta to Philadelphia. Smoke was billowing from the plane when it landed, but the three pilots were able to evacuate safely, said the database, maintained by the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va. In 2005, pilot error cause the nose gear of a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F to collapse during a landing in Anchorage, causing $10 million in damages to the plane. Prior to Friday's accident, five major airline accidents have been linked to Dubai Airport since 1973, with no fatalities, according to the database. The most recent was on March 12, 2007, when a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Airbus A310 with 236 passengers and crew members aborted a takeoff. The plane came to rest at the end of the runway with a collapsed nose gear. ___ Associated Press Airlines Writer Samantha Bomkamp in New York and AP writers Michael Casey in Dubai and Joan Lowy in Washington contributed to this report. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Cory Freeman looks at two stranded &#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (AP) - In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, Cory Freeman looks at two stranded goats near Roundup, Mont. The goats were rescuedÂ after nearly two days and are in good condition. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sandy Church of the Rimrock Humane Society) NO SALES. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Birth tourism&#8217; a tiny portion of immigrant babies (AP)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ SAN JUAN, Texas &#8211; When Ruth Garcia's twins are born in two months, they'll have all the rights of U.S. citizens. They and their six brothers and sisters will be able to vote, apply for federal student loans and even run for president. Garcia is an illegal immigrant who crossed into the country about 14 years ago, before her children were born, and the citizenship granted to her children and millions others like them is at the center of a divisive national debate. Republicans are pushing for congressional hearings to consider changing the nation's 14th Amendment to deny such children the automatic citizenship the Constitution guarantees. They say women like Garcia are taking advantage of a constitutional amendment meant to guarantee the rights of freed slaves, and paint a picture of pregnant women rushing across the border to give birth. A recent Pew Hispanic Center study shows 8 percent of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 had at least one illegal parent. A closer examination of the issue shows that the trend is not as dramatic as some immigration opponents have claimed. Most children of illegal immigrants are born to parents like Garcia who have made the United States their home for years. Out of 340,000 babies born to illegal immigrants in the United States in 2008, 85 percent of the parents had been in the country for more than a year, and more than half for at least five years, Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer for Pew, told The Associated Press. And immigration experts say it's extraordinarily rare for immigrants to come to the U.S. just so they can have babies and get citizenship. In most cases, they come to the U.S. for economic reasons and better hospitals, and end up staying and raising families. Garcia's husband has been deported and she earns a living selling tamales to other immigrants who live in fear of being deported from the slapdash, impoverished colonias that dot the Texas-Mexico border. "I think that children aren't at fault for having been born here," Garcia said. "My children always have lived here. They've never gone to another country." Under current immigration law, Garcia and others like her don't get U.S. citizenship even though their children are Americans. With an estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, the issue strikes a chord with many voters &#8212; people like retired Air Force nurse and pediatric nurse practitioner Susan Struck, 66, of Double Adobe, Ariz. "People come over ... and they have babies with U.S. birth certificates, then they go back over the border with that Social Security number, with that birth certificate," and have access to public services, she said at a recent event near the border organized by conservative tea party activists. Several prominent Republican leaders share Struck's beliefs on the issue. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has been a vocal advocate for changing the Constitution, and he helped the issue gain momentum heading into the midterm elections. "Women have traveled from across the world for the purpose of adding a U.S. passport holder to their family, as far away as China, Turkey and as close as Mexico," said Jon Feere, legal analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for strict immigration laws. Still, changing the Constitution is highly unlikely, legal scholars say. Measures have been introduced in each two-year congressional session since 2005, but none has made it out of committee. Constitutional changes require approval by two-thirds majorities in both chambers of Congress, an impossibility now because Democrats have the majority in both houses and most oppose such a measure. Even if Republicans gain power in November and legislation is passed, an amendment would still need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. To be sure, some pregnant Mexican women do come to the United States. In border cities like Nogales, women have been coming to the U.S. for decades to give birth, although the primary reason is better medical care, Santa Cruz County sheriff Tony Estrada said. Billboards advertising birthing services in Arizona line streets across the border in Nogales, Mexico. Tucson Medical Center, 115 miles southeast of Phoenix, offers packages designed to provide inclusive care to new mothers. The program draws some residents of the northern Mexican state of Sonora who can afford its upfront costs and already have U.S. visas, spokesman Michael Letson said. Princeton University demographer Douglas Massey said in 30 years studying Mexican immigration, he's never interviewed a migrant who said they came to the United States just to get citizenship for their children. "Mexicans do not come to have babies in the United States," said Massey, who blames the tightening of the border in the 1990s for cutting off normal migration of men who used to come to work for a year or two and then go home. "They end up having babies in the United States because men can no longer circulate freely back and forth from homes in Mexico to jobs in the United States and husbands and wives quite understandably want to be together." More common, he and other experts says, are families stuck with one child who is legal and others who aren't &#8212; like Beatriz Gomez, a 35-year-old illegal immigrant who came to Phoenix 11 years ago on a now-expired tourist visa from Arriaga in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Her 12-year-old daughter was born in Mexico and is here illegally, but her two youngest children, ages 8 and 5, were born in the U.S. and are citizens. "It's sad," Gomez said of her oldest daughter, who was only 1 when the family came to the United States. "She studies hard, and she won't be able to go to a university like the other two." ___ Christie reported from El Mirage, Ariz. Associated Press Writers Amanda Lee Myers in Phoenix and Jonathan J. Cooper in Hereford, Ariz., contributed to this report. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Mobs attack home of Iranian opposition leader (AP)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TEHRAN, Iran &#8211; Pro-government crowds swarmed outside the battered home of a key Iranian opposition leader Friday after militiamen attacked with firebombs and beat a bodyguard unconscious in a brazen message of intimidation and pinpoint pressure on dissent. The assault on Mahdi Karroubi's five-story residence late Thursday &#8212; just hours before major state-backed rallies &#8212; displayed the growing tactics of trying to isolate and harass top opposition figures after relentless crackdowns appear to have driven protesters from the streets. The 72-year-old Karroubi, a cleric and former parliament speaker, has been the most public protest leader in recent months &#8212; and has paid the price with repeated damage to his car and tense confrontations with backers of the Islamic state. But the latest backlash, described by a pro-reform website, was by far the most aggressive. Mobs of hard-line militiamen &#8212; known as Basij &#8212; began breaking down the front door of Karroubi's residence before being driven back by warning shots from guards, according to the Sahamnews website, which supports Iran's pro-reform movement. Karroubi was at home at the time, but was not injured, his son Hossein told The Associated Press. Media restrictions imposed by Iranian authorities blocked journalists from reaching the site and independently verifying the accounts. A video posted on the Internet by a group backing the opposition showed smashed windows and graffiti on the walls and door panel of the house, located on a tree-lined street in north Tehran. Hossein Karroubi said dozens of hard-liners &#8212; some on motorbikes &#8212; continued to damage the opposition leader's home on Friday and that police were not responding to the scene. Some security cameras outside the building were torn down, he said. "The reason for attacking my father is the challenge he raised against the centers of power," another son, Taghi Karroubi, told the AP. "The attack was very harsh and we feared they wanted to kill (my father)." The melee came after nearly a week of pro-government gatherings outside Karroubi's home. The trigger for the assault apparently was to keep him from attending annual pro-Palestinian rallies on Friday and becoming a draw for opposition protesters. Last year, the event turned into street riots after tens of thousands of counter-protests staged marches claiming massive ballot fraud in the June 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At the time, the momentum of the opposition rallies seemed formidable. Marchers openly denounced Ahmadinejad and his backers and tangled with Basij vigilantes, a paramilitary force aligned with the powerful Revolutionary Guard. But authorities gradually began to reclaim the upper hand. The Revolutionary Guard gathered stronger and more mobile forces &#8212; including club-swinging Basij on motorbikes &#8212; while authorities conducted arrest sweeps and widely choked off the Internet and mobile phone messaging used to organize the protesters. Internet service was slow or inaccessible in Tehran on Friday. The opposition has not held any street demonstrations since February and canceled plans for a rally on the anniversary of the election. Security forces, meanwhile, have turned their attention to squeezing Karroubi and others in the opposition vanguard, including Green Movement head Mir Hossein Mousavi and former President Mohammad Khatami. Karroubi's car has been attacked and he has been jostled by angry crowds, including during a visit in June to visit a pro-reform cleric in the holy city of Qom, opposition websites reported. Khatami &#8212; despite his elder statesman role &#8212; was barred from traveling to Japan in April to attend a conference on dialogue between cultures. Khatami's former vice president and others in his government have been arrested on charges of trying to overthrow the Islamic system. Mousavi has kept a lower profile recently than Karroubi. But Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, was surrounded and mocked last week by a group of hard-liners, according to the Mousavi-backed website Kaleme. Last week, opposition websites carried a copy of a purported government directive banning all Iranian newspapers and news agencies from mentioning the three pro-reform leaders or showing their pictures. Mousavi condemned the attack on Karroubi's home, saying it proved the government's "enmity against Israel is an excuse" for attacking opposition figures. "Karroubi and figures like him and other freedom-seekers are the real enemies of authoritarians." Karroubi, meanwhile, was visited by well-wishers including Yasser Khomeini, a grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, according to Sahamnews. Elsewhere in Tehran, Ahmadinejad addressed a rally for Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, which is used to both support Palestinians and condemn Israel. In his speech, Ahmadinejad said Israel and its supporters are too weak to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel, the United States and other nations believe Iran intends to develop atomic weapons under the cover of its civil nuclear power program. Iran denies that, saying its nuclear work is only for peaceful purposes. The Iranian leader also dismissed the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks held in Washington this week, saying "the fate of Palestine will be decided in Palestine and through resistance and not in Washington." Iran supports the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Meanwhile, Egypt canceled a visit by Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, to protest comments in which he accused Arab leaders of betrayal for attending the new round of Mideast peace talks in Washington. Mottaki had been scheduled to visit Cairo Monday for a meeting of Nonaligned Movement members. Iran has an uneasy relationship with U.S.-allied Arab nations, which have watched Tehran's growing influence in the Middle East with concern because of suspicions over its nuclear program and its support for radical Islamic groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah II attended the talks in Washington. Iran severed ties with Egypt after it signed a peace deal with Israel in 1979 and provided asylum to Iran's deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ___ Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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