September 30, 2006

Baghdad under total daylight curfew (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A soldier mans a checkpoint during a four-hour vehicle curfew for Friday prayers in Baghdad September 29, 2006. (Faleh Kheiber/Reuters)Reuters - Iraq imposed a total daylight curfew on
Baghdad on Saturday, banning all movement, as U.S. forces said
they had foiled a possible suicide plot to attack the city’s
sprawling “Green Zone” government compound.


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Missing Brazilian jet is located in Amazon (AFP)

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A relative of a passenger on board the Gol airline flight 1907 outside Brasilia airport. The wreckage of missing Brazilian GOL airline Boeing 737 has been spotted in a remote area of northern Brazil but there was no immediate word about the 155 passengers and crew.(AFP/Ronaldo De Oliveira)AFP - The Brazilian Air Force found the Gol Airlines jet that went missing a day earlier with 155 people on board during a flight from an Amazon jungle city to Brasilia.


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Lebanon says Israel finally poised to complete pullout (AFP)

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French Foreign Legion soldier from the 2nd corps of engineers work on reconstructing "Airport Bridge" at the entrance of the southern suburb of Beirut. Lebanon said that it had been informed by UN peacekeepers that Israel was finally poised to complete its promised pullout from the south, weeks after a UN Security Council truce resolution came into force on August 14.(AFP/Anwar Amro)AFP - Lebanon said that it had been informed by UN peacekeepers that Israel was finally poised to complete its promised pullout from the south, weeks after a UN Security Council truce resolution came into force on August 14.


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FDA lifts ban on most fresh spinach (AP)

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Lettuce crops are see in Salinas, Calif. on Monday, Sept. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, FILE)AP - Most fresh spinach in the United States is “as safe as it was” before a nationwide E. coli outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, revising a two-week-old consumer warning.


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‘Ugly Betty’ on ABC is TV’s top-rated (AP)

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This undated promotional photo provided by ABC shows actress America Ferrera in the title role of the network's new comedy series 'Ugly Betty.' ABC's 'Ugly Betty,' has become the most-watched new series of the fall television season so far. (AP Photo/ABC/Michael Desmond)AP - America may be falling for America Ferrera, the star of ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” an underdog that has become the most-watched new series of the fall television season so far.


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3 playoff spots still undecided in NL (AP)

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St. Louis Cardinals So Taguchi, right, of Japan, slides into Milwaukee Brewers catcher Mike Rivera in the third inning during their baseball game on Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Taguchi knocked the ball out of Rivera's glove as he scores on a single hit by Juan Encarnacion. (AP Photo/Kyle Ericson)AP - With two days left in the regular season, a lot of excitement remained in the National League. Three playoff spots were still undecided, with St. Louis, San Diego and Los Angeles moving into good position to advance to the postseason and Houston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati hoping for dramatic comebacks during the final weekend.


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Brazil plane plunged nose first (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

REFILING: COMPLETING NAME OF AIRPORT Relatives and friends of passengers of Gol flight 1907 wait in Rio de Janeiro's Galeano airport, September 29, 2006, for news of the passenger plane. The Brazilian passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle on Friday after colliding with a small plane, the company and news reports said. (Bruno Domingos/Reuters)Reuters - The Brazilian passenger plane
that crashed with 155 people on board likely plunged into the
ground nose first, the president of airport authority Infraero
said on Saturday, meaning there is little chance that anyone
survived.


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U.S. terrorism trials face court challenges (Reuters)

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Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) signs the Military Commissions Act of 2006 during an enrolment ceremony in the Capitol in Washington September 29, 2006. Seated from (L-R) are Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Senate majority leader Bill Frist, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Stevens. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Reuters - New military trial rules for
terrorism suspects that President George W. Bush endorsed and
Congress approved will draw vigorous court challenges and could
be struck down for violating rights guaranteed under the U.S.
Constitution, critics and legal experts said.


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Lula’s star undimmed for Brazil’s slum dwellers (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A dog watches as men push a car in Sao Paulo's biggest slum, Heliopolis, September 28, 2006. With an estimated 80% of its 125,000 residents supporting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in his campaign for re-election, Heliopolis joins the other millions of Brazil's poor that back Lula in spite of the disillusion of many wealthier voters. (Rickey Rogers/Reuters)Reuters - Posters trumpeting the
Workers’ Party plaster scrappy homes in Sao Paulo’s biggest
slum, where residents see their own hardship tales reflected in
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.


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Pakistan said behind Mumbai blasts (Reuters)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Forensic officers examine a damaged railway train compartment hit by a bomb blast in Mumbai July 12, 2006. Indian police said on Saturday they had found evidence that Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai and Pakistan's military spy agency was behind the plot. (Punit Paranjpe/Files/Reuters)Reuters - Indian police said on Saturday they had
found evidence that Pakistan-based Islamist militant group
Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai
and Pakistan’s military spy agency was behind the plot.


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