October 31, 2005

UN pressures Syria over Hariri death (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A Syrian vendor displays the U.N. Flag alongside Iraqi and Syrian flags at his shop in Damascus October 30, 2005. Foreign ministers are expected to increase pressure on Syria on Monday with a vote on a Security Council resolution demanding Damascus cooperate with a probe into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister or face possible sanctions. REUTERS /Khaled al-Hariri (Reuters)Reuters - The U.N. Security Council plans
to tighten pressure on Syria on Monday by threatening Damascus
with possible sanctions unless it cooperates with a probe into
the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister.


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Reid Says Rove Should Resign (AP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby walks out of the West Wing towards the Eisenhower Executive Office Building earlier Friday before resigning from his position at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 28, 2005. Libby was indicted on Friday on obstruction of justice and perjury charges in the two-year-old investigation into who leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. (Jason Reed/Reuters)AP - The indictment of a top White House aide is a sign of deeper problems within the administration, say Democrats who are criticizing President Bush for lauding I. Lewis Libby rather than apologizing for his alleged actions.


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Consumer Spending Bounces Back in Sept. (AP)

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AP - Consumers got back into a buying groove and boosted their spending by a solid 0.5 percent in September. Incomes also grew briskly.

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‘Saw II’ Cuts Down ‘Zorro’ at Box Office (AP)

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AP - Horror swung a sharper blade than Zorro at the box office. With Halloween at hand, the bloody “Saw II” won the weekend with $30.5 million, almost double the $16.5 million opening of Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones’ swashbuckling sequel “The Legend of Zorro,” according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Dutch Witches Get Tax Break for Studies (AP)

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Dutch witch Margarita poses for a portrait as she sits in her museum in Appelscha, northern Netherlands, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. Dutch witches were guaranteed a financial treat when the Leeuwarden District Court reaffirmed their legal right to write off the costs of schooling, including in witchcraft, against their tax bills. Those costs run to thousands of euros (dollars). (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Dutch witches are getting a tax break. A court has ruled that the cost of witchcraft lessons can be taken as a tax deduction.


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Patriots Beat Bills in Bruschi’s Return (AP)

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New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi (54) shouts out instructions to his defense during the first quarter against the Buffalo Bills in Foxborough, Mass., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Tedy Bruschi raised his arms early in the game and the fans cheered. Then another returning star won it for the Patriots with two fourth-quarter touchdowns. Corey Dillon, who struggled most of the season before missing his previous game with an ankle injury, came on to score on two 1-yard runs and New England came back for a 21-16 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night.


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Bush nominates Alito to Supreme Court (Reuters)

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President Bush listens after announcing the nomination of U.S. Appeals Court Justice Samuel Alito (R) for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court at the White House, October 31, 2005. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court
on Monday in a move likely to set off a partisan battle with
Democrats as he tries to right his struggling presidency.


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Sharon demands “real war on terror” by Palestinians (Reuters)

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A Palestinian gunman fires in the air as he and other mourners carry the body of Islamic Jihad militant Arshad Abu-Zeid during his funeral in the West Bank town of Jenin, Monday Oct. 31, 2005. Three Islamic Jihad militants were killed during a shoot-out with Israeli Defense Force soldiers in the nearby town of Qabatiyah late Sunday. One was accused by Israel of planning a deadly suicide bombing last week, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said. The incident threatened to scuttle a fresh truce and fuel a new round of violence. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)Reuters - Taking a hard line after Israel's
pullout from Gaza last month, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said
on Monday the Palestinians must wage a "real war on terror"
before peace talks can resume.


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Six US soldiers killed in Iraq (Reuters)

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An Iraqi National Guardsman walks past the wreckage of a car bomb used in an attack against an Iraqi army convoy in Kadim district, northwest Baghdad, October 31, 2005. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)Reuters - Six U.S. soldiers were killed in two
bomb attacks around Baghdad on Monday and in the far west there
were angry accusations of civilian deaths in a U.S. air strike
that targeted al Qaeda fighters coming in from Syria.


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Wilson says leak destroyed wife’s CIA career (Reuters)

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Ambassador Joe Wilson, husband of CIA agent Valerie Plame, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington DC July 14, 2005. Valerie Plame's nearly two-decade career at the CIA and the secret life she crafted to conceal it were blown when her identity was revealed by a newspaper columnist, Wilson said in a CBS '60 Minutes' interview on Sunday. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Valerie Plame's nearly two-decade
career at the CIA and the secret life she crafted to conceal it
were blown when her identity was revealed by a newspaper
columnist, her husband, Joe Wilson said in a CBS "60 Minutes"
interview on Sunday.


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