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U.S. odd man out in climate talks
NUSA DUA, Indonesia – Laying a new international climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, has been tortuous work for government delegates from more than 180 countries.
The U.S. has been seen as the biggest obstacle to progress, not only because it has attempted to remove targets and deadlines for emissions cuts from any deal but also because it blocked agreement on issues like the transfer of clean technology from richer to poorer countries.
Chinese delegates in Bali have suggested for the first time that they might be willing to make commitments to reduce their emissions.
Car bombs in southern Iraq kill at least 42
AMARAH, Iraq – Three coordinated car bombs ripped through the main street of the city Wednesday, killing at least 42 people and wounding at least 125 in the largest bombing in Iraq since August.
“Amarah has never seen such an explosion before,” Abdel Karim Khalaf, the chief spokesman for Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. “A triple explosion surely indicates that the security forces have been infiltrated. This situation is very dangerous and has to be remedied.”
Who might be behind Wednesday’s car bombs, was uncertain, usually blame is on the Sunni extremist group al-Qaida.
Doctor sentenced to 30 years for organizing online drug network
PHILADELPHIA – A young doctor who orchestrated a staggering Internet pharmacy network from his Philadelphia apartment reaching to Europe, Australia and his native India – was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison.
Akhil Bansal, an MBA student at Temple University, created and operated a wholesale network that smuggled 11 million prescription pills from India and distributed them to 60,000 Americans, earning $8 million. At its height, the network shipped 75,000 pills a day, including Viagra, sedatives and painkillers.
The investigation, dubbed Operation Cyberchase, marked the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s first-ever major investigation of this type. The case took agents here to India, Costa Rica and Australia.
NATIONAL
House votes to outlaw waterboarding by CIA
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives voted Thursday to prevent the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods that already are banned from use by the U.S. military.
Waterboarding involves holding a person down and pouring water into his nose or mouth until he feels he’s drowning. The CIA reportedly employed it against terrorist suspects.
The legislation would require the CIA and other intelligence agencies to use only interrogation techniques authorized for the military in the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations.
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Caldwell airport work flies forward
Caldwell is moving ahead with plans for a new airport terminal and officials expect construction to begin in late 2008 or early 2009.
Conceptual plans for the new building call for a roughly 12,000-square-foot facility that will include office and administrative space, secured pilot facilities, assembly areas, a lobby, support facilities, a pilot shop, public restrooms and a restaurant.
While the extended and strengthened runway would allow larger planes to land at the airport, there are no plans for passenger service to be supported.
WHAT THE?
I’ll bet it was ‘Matlock’
Two old ladies were watching television in an assisted living facility in Seattle. When one of them changed the channel to a religious program, the other one stabbed her. “I don’t know what they were originally watching,” a police spokesman said, “but it must have been something really good.”
Run for your lives! Oh, nevermind
Officials evacuated a school in Gaines Township, Mich., after receiving a “suspicious” package with an Iraq address. Turns out, the package was filled with letters that the students had sent to soldiers in Iraq. It was returned to the school by the Post Office.