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Gunman attacks yeshiva
JERUSALEM – A lone gunman stormed a well-known Jewish religious school in Jerusalem Thursday night and killed eight people in the deadliest attack in the city in more than four years.
Armed with a pistol and machine gun, the attacker walked into the unguarded Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav and opened fire in the library and nearby dormitory before police killed him.
The shooting was the latest setback for the Bush administration’s faltering attempts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by year’s end, and some Israelis worry that it could be the beginning of another spasm of violence.
Mexican nationals fight for FARC
MEXICO CITY – Mexico was reeling Friday from the discovery that at least six Mexican nationals were present at a rebel camp where a top insurgent commander was killed last weekend in Ecuador.
Up to five Mexicans were killed in the March 1 attack by the Colombian military on a rebel base in Ecuador, Ecuadorian security minister Gustavo Larrea said Friday. A sixth Mexican, 26-year-old Lucia Morett, survived.
Experts say that it’s the first time Mexican nationals have been known to die alongside members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Latin America’s oldest guerrilla group.
Bombing kills 53
BAGHDAD – A double bombing in a crowded central Baghdad shopping street killed at least 53 people Thursday and injured 125, demonstrating that insurgents still have the capacity to inflict mass civilian casualties despite the gains of the U.S. military’s surge strategy.
The bombers made it clear that it was their intention to kill as many civilians as possible by adopting a well-worn tactic: First, a small device exploded, and then, as people rushed to help the injured, a suicide bomber detonated himself amid the crowd, witnesses said.
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, suicide bombings are a hallmark of al-Qaida in Iraq, which has repeatedly sought in the past to foment sectarian rivalries by blowing up Shiites.
NATIONAL
Obama wins Wyoming
Sen. Barack Obama won Wyoming’s Democratic caucuses Saturday, a boost in his efforts to regain momentum after a rough week that included controversies involving two of his top advisers and losses in three states.
The Wyoming win propels him on to Mississippi, where he is favored in Tuesday’s primary.
Less than 9,000 Democrats participated in the caucuses in Wyoming, the nation’s least populated state, which is home to only about 59,000 registered Democrats.
Who is responsible for global warming?
NEW YORK – While President Bush, a longtime global-warming doubter, may now accept that humans are contributing to the warming of the Earth, that is not the case for the many scientists and free-market advocates in the parallel-universe world of climate-change skeptics.
Examining many of the same studies and climate records that a United Nations panel of scientists said last year showed that humans were very likely causing most of the planet’s warming, they reach the diametrically opposite conclusion.
In what was billed as the largest gathering ever of climate-change skeptics, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, a libertarian advocacy group, sponsored a three-day conference last week that drew more than 550 people from at least 11 countries, including scientists, economists and policy advocates.
LOCAL/BSU
Southern Idaho assists Western Idaho College
Officials with the College of Southern Idaho and the College of Western Idaho say they’re close to reaching a deal for CSI to provide financial aid oversight while CWI seeks accreditation.
The oversight could last for several years.
CWI interim president Dennis Griffin says the agreement could be presented to the schools’ board of trustees by April.
25,000 concealed weapons issued in Treasure Valley
Canyon County Commissioner David Ferdinand has plenty of company when it comes to concealed weapons in Southwest Idaho.
More than 25,000 people in Canyon, Ada and Owyhee counties can legally carry concealed weapons.
Canyon County has 4,582 valid and active concealed weapon permits, 281 of which were issued in 2008 alone. Ada County has about 20,000 and Owyhee County has 1,045 current permits.
Ferdinand drew attention to the issue of concealed weapons in late February when he tried to pass through a security checkpoint at the Boise Airport with a revolver in his carry-on bag.
Although he said he merely forgot to remove the firearm from the carry-on, Boise Police cited him and he could face fines and jail time for trying to board a commercial aircraft with a weapon.
Library keeps sex books
NAMPA – The Nampa Public Library board will take public comment Monday regarding two books on sexuality that a Nampa man has asked the library to remove. The meeting is at 4 p.m. in the library basement.
Randy Jackson asked the library to remove “The New Joy of Sex” and “The Joy of Gay Sex” two years ago. The board voted to keep the books. Jackson said they are “pornographic.” The library has said it will keep the books where children could not easily access them.
WHAT THE?
I mean, I think it was red, actually, I’m just guessing; can I go now?
A man in Sapporo, Japan, who had been getting welfare payments for years because he claimed to be blind, was hit by a car. He was arrested for welfare fraud after he told the police the car was red.
World/National/What the? stories courtesy of MCT Campus Wire Services unless otherwise credited. Local/BSU stories are courtesy of the Boise State Web site at www.boisestate.edu. All stories are compiled by News Writers.