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Obama sees ‘emerging consensus’ on economic fix

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:00:12 +0000

Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge.

Chinese activist renews call to fight injustice

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:00:11 +0000

A blind Chinese legal activist who escaped house arrest, endured a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle and a hurried daylong flight paused ever so briefly upon his arrival in New York City before taking up a familiar fight.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:28:34 +0000

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, released from a Scottish prison in 2009 and returned to Libya because he was suffering from terminal cancer, had been in and out of hospital for weeks and was taken for an emergency blood transfusion in April. Megrahi’s health had deteriorated quickly overnight, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters. “He was surrounded by his family and died in his house,” he said. He was 60. …

Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:14:55 +0000

Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet.

Tropical storm Alberto forms off Carolinas’ coast

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:54:10 +0000

Tropical Storm Alberto emerged off South Carolina’s coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn’t officially begin until June 1.

Bomb explodes near UN observers’ chief in Syria

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:03:35 +0000

A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties.

APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:56:50 +0000

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate …

Pelosi defends Dems’ Rev. Wright fundraising appeal

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:47:44 +0000

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on “This Week” for sending a fundraising email that attempted to capitalize on the apparently dead advertising plan to link President Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Powerful quake kills at least 4 in northern Italy

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:47:37 +0000

One of the worst quakes to hit northeast Italy in hundreds of years rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, killing at least four people, collapsing factories and sending residents running out into the streets, emergency services said.

Boehner insists on tying debt limit increase to spending cuts

Game Junky — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:46:46 +0000

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, stood by his call insisting that any increase in the debt limit should be offset by greater cuts in spending and tax reform before the end of the year, saying that working toward an agreement now would improve the economy.