October 31, 2007

Rice faces tough battle on Turkey trip (Reuters)

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Protesters shout slogans against outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as they hold portraits of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, October 29, 2007. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)Reuters - Turkey will push U.S. Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice this week to follow through on promises
to help eradicate Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq but experts
say the top U.S. diplomat’s hands are tied.


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Myanmar monks march again (Reuters)

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Monks take part in a protest against the government in Yangon, September 22, 2007. About 200 Buddhist monks marched in central Myanmar on Wednesday for the first time since soldiers crushed monk-led protests against the ruling military junta last month. (Democratic Voice of Burma/Reuters)Reuters - Buddhist monks in Myanmar staged a
protest march on Wednesday, their first since soldiers crushed
a pro-democracy uprising a month ago, as U.N. special envoy
Ibrahim Gambari prepared a return visit to the former Burma.


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Twenty-one convicted over Madrid bombings, alleged mastermind acquitted (AFP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

Photo taken 11 March 2004 of firefighters extricating bodies from one of the trains that exploded near Atocha station, Madrid. A Spanish court has convicted 21 people of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but acquitted a man accused of helping mastermind the Al Qaeda-inspired attack that claimed nearly 200 lives.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)AFP - A Spanish court Wednesday convicted 21 people of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, but acquitted a man accused of helping mastermind the Al Qaeda-inspired attack that claimed nearly 200 lives.


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Myanmar monks march as UN envoy prepares return visit (AFP)

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Buddhist monks walk through Yangon on 26 October. About 100 monks have marched through central Myanmar for the first time since the junta's bloody crackdown on anti-government protests last month.(AFP/File)AFP - About 100 Buddhist monks marched Wednesday in central Myanmar for the first time since the junta’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last month, witnesses said.


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T-Mac lifts Rockets to win over Lakers (AP)

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Houston Rockets' Tracy McGrady dunks the ball over Los Angeles Lakers' Luke Walton during the first half of a basketball game in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Shane Battier made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left, and the Houston Rockets withstood a furious rally from Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in a 95-93 victory on Tuesday night.


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Officials: Boy with matches started fire (AP)

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Frank Santoya a member of the California Fire Office of the state Fire Marshall, surveys the fire damage in the Rancho Bernardo section of San DiegoTuesday, Oct. 30, 2007 (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case.


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Boy confesses to starting California fire (Reuters)

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A firefighter sets a burn out as he battles a fire in southern California, October 24, 2007. About two-dozen fires ravaged southern California last week, destroying 2,300 buildings, according to the California Office of Emergency Services. (John Gress/Reuters)Reuters - A boy playing with matches has
confessed to starting a wildfire that destroyed 63 structures
near Los Angeles, officials said on Tuesday.


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Court finds 21 guilty of Madrid bombings (Reuters)

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Some of the 28 suspects accused of the 2004 Madrid train bombings are seen sitting in court in this video frame grab taken inside an annex of High Court in Madrid, October 31, 2007. (Pool/Reuters)Reuters - A Spanish court found 21 people guilty
on Wednesday of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings
which killed 191 people but the alleged masterminds were
cleared of plotting Europe’s deadliest Islamist attack.


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Iran warns U.S. of “quagmire” (Reuters)

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C) as Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gestures in Tehran, October 30, 2007. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters)Reuters - Iran warned the United States on
Wednesday it would find itself in a “quagmire deeper than Iraq”
if it attacked the Islamic state, and Russia stepped up efforts
for a diplomatic solution to Tehran’s nuclear row with the
West.


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Moderate earthquake hits Northern California (Reuters)

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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in a rural area about 9 miles northeast of San Jose, California, Silicon Valley's biggest city, on Tuesday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said. (Graphic/Reuters)Reuters - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake
struck in a rural area about 9 miles northeast of San Jose,
California, Silicon Valley’s biggest city, on Tuesday night,
causing minor damage.


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