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Friday, November 11, 2011
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Greek leaders to pick PM of new government
Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou waves to journalists while exiting the Presidential Palace after a meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias and opposition leader Antonis Samaras, in Athens Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greece's embattled prime minister and the head of the main opposition party reached an initial agreement to form an interim government that will ensure the country's new European debt deal and then lead Greece to early elections, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou waves to journalists while exiting the Presidential Palace after a meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias and opposition leader Antonis Samaras, in Athens Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greece's embattled prime minister and the head of the main opposition party reached an initial agreement to form an interim government that will ensure the country's new European debt deal and then lead Greece to early elections, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Three journalists reach out to secure a copy of the communiqu? issued by Greece's presidency in Athens Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greece's embattled prime minister and the head of the main opposition party reached an initial agreement to form an interim government that will ensure the country's new European debt deal and then lead Greece to early elections, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
A clerk in Greece's presidency tries to distribute copies of an official communiqu? to a throng of waiting journalists, in Athens Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greece's embattled prime minister George Papandreou and the head of the main opposition party Antonis Samaras reached an initial agreement to form an interim government that will ensure the country's new European debt deal and then lead Greece to early elections, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Opposition leader Antonis Samaras looks on during a meeting at the Presidential Palace with Greek President Karolos Papoulias and Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou, in Athens on Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greece's embattled prime minister and the head of the main opposition party reached an initial agreement to form an interim government that will ensure the country's new European debt deal and then lead Greece to early elections, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou, attends a meeting at the Presidential Palace with Greek President Karolos Papoulias and opposition leader Antonis Samaras in Athens on Sunday, Nov. 6 2011. Greece's embattled prime minister and the head of the main opposition party reached an initial agreement to form an interim government that will ensure the country's new European debt deal and then lead Greece to early elections, the president's office said. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? The leaders of Greece's two biggest parties are due to resume talks Monday to agree on who should be the country's new prime minister, after reaching a historic power-sharing deal to push through a massive financial rescue deal and prevent imminent bankruptcy.
Europe's markets and government, however, remained cautious that the power deal would resolve the country's political turmoil and alleviate concerns over Greece's membership of the euro.
Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and conservative leader Antonis Samaras are to hold fresh talks to hammer out the composition of the new 15-week government, which will be tasked with passing the euro130 billion ($179 billion) package from the country's international creditors before elections.
Former European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos is being tipped as the most likely new head of the government that would serve until a Feb. 19 general election.
Officials in Greece's two main political parties have confirmed that the 64-year-old former central banker is a candidate though there's no indication yet he would want the job, for however short a period.
None of the people being considered have been announced publicly.
Papandreou and Samaras agreed on the interim coalition late Sunday under mounting international pressure for cross-party acceptance of the deal following a week of turmoil in the markets as investors fretted over a disorderly Greek default and the country's possible exit from the euro.
As part of the deal, Papandreou agreed to step down halfway through his four-year term. Elected after a landslide victory a little over two years ago, Papandreou's stock took a big battering last week after his call for a referendum on Greece's latest rescue package, that was agreed less than two weeks ago.
Though the referendum pledge was pulled after Greece's main conservative opposition said it agreed to the broad outlines of the rescue deal, markets remain in a jittery state, especially as the country needs the next batch of bailout cash within weeks to pay off debts.
"There are cool-headed people in both parties," Justice Minister Miltiadis Papaioannou told private Antenna television. "This was not a card game; it was about keeping the country on its feet."
Senior conservative officials conceded they had come under strong pressure from European Union officials before withdrawing their demand for an immediate general election."
All European markets have opened sharply lower Monday, though shares on the Athens Stock Exchange bucked the trend, trading 2 percent higher.
European governments also remained cautious as they awaited developments on the composition of Greece's new government. Finance ministers from the 17 eurozone countries are due to meet later in Brussels, and will be awaiting an update from Greece's Evangelos Venizelos.
"What is clear is that the European partners are becoming more and more intransigent with Greece and they will want evidence of concrete advances on Monday evening," said Silvio Peruzzo, an analyst at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Germany's vice chancellor Philipp Roesler again warned Greece not to delay in pushing through reforms.
"The Greeks themselves have the choice: reforms in the eurozone or no reforms, and out. There is no third way," he told the popular German daily Bild
Frustrated with Greece's protracted political disagreements, the country's creditors have threatened to withhold the next critical euro8 billion ($11 billion) loan installment until the new debt deal is formally approved in Greece.
Greece is surviving on a euro110 billion ($150 billion) rescue-loan program from eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund. The new government's main task is to push through the second euro130 billion deal, that involves private creditors agreeing to cancel 50 percent of their Greek debt.
Punishing austerity imposed in exchange for the rescue loans, brought Papandreou's government to its knees. Its efforts to keep the country solvent have prompted violent protests, crippling strikes and a sharp decline in living standards for most Greeks.
"I don't expect anything," Athens resident Stavros Stournaras said for the new political agreement. "When people truly go hungry and there's an uprising, then things will change."
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AP Television producer Theodora Tongas contributed.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Justin Bieber denies charges he fathered a child (AP)
NEW YORK ? Justin Bieber has denied allegations he fathered a child in a backstage bathroom and says he has never met the woman who filed the paternity suit against him.
"To set the record straight, none of it is true," the teen heartthrob declared Friday during a brief appearance on NBC's "Today" show.
As mobs of fans screamed adoringly in Rockefeller Plaza, Bieber called it "crazy" that anyone would make up such a story.
"I know I'm going to be a target, but I'm never going to be a victim," Bieber told "Today" host Matt Lauer. "It's crazy, because every night after the show I've gone right from the stage right to my car. So it's crazy that some people want to make up such false allegations."
The paternity suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court by Mariah Yeater earlier this week. She had just turned 19 when she says she and Bieber, then 16, had a brief sexual encounter after one of the singer's concerts last fall at Los Angeles' Staples Center.
She said she gave birth to a boy in July and believes Bieber is the father because there were no other possible men she had sex with at that time.
Asked if he knows Yeater, Bieber told Lauer, "Never met the woman."
Yeater is asking a judge for child support and a paternity test. A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 15. Her lawyer has described her as a stay-at-home mother who is looking for adequate child support if a paternity test determines Bieber is the father.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles police have said Yeater could be investigated for having had sex with a minor. It's illegal in California to have sex with someone under age 18. If the other person is not more than three years older, it is a misdemeanor, which carries up to a one-year jail sentence.
Bieber, 17, attracted what appeared to be hundreds of fans as he briefly chatted with "Today" hosts, straining to be heard above the earsplitting screams.
Along with knocking down rumors, Bieber's appearance was apparently timed to the release of a Christmas album.
"It's hard to record a Christmas album in September," he said.
Bieber returns to "Today" for a live musical appearance on Nov. 23.
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NBC is owned by NBC Universal.
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Online:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/
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Ethics committee to investigate Rep. Richardson (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Rep. Laura Richardson charged Friday the House Ethics Committee has singled her out for scrutiny because she's African-American.
Richardson, D-Calif., effectively announced the committee's investigation before the panel revealed it, accusing fellow lawmakers of ignoring wrongdoing by others in order to focus on her.
The Ethics Committee is looking into whether she improperly used staff for political purposes.
The committee is composed of five members from each party. The ranking Democrat is a Hispanic, Rep. Linda Sanchez of California. Other Democratic members are Rep. Donna Edwards, an African-American from Maryland; Rep. Pedro Pierluisi, who represents Puerto Rico; John Yarmuth of Kentucky; and Joe Courtney of Connecticut. The five Republicans are all white men. They are Rep. Jo Bonner of Alabama, the committee chairman; Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas; Rep. K. Michael Conaway of Texas; Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania; and Gregg Harper of Mississippi.
Since the beginning of 2010, an Associated Press count shows the House Ethics Committee has announced investigations or investigative results for at least 33 House members, 12 of whom are African-American. There are 43 African-Americans in the 435-member House. Some investigations involve multiple lawmakers.
The Ethics Committee had no comment on Richardson's allegations. The committee leaders did announce that the vote Thursday to establish a four-member investigative subcommittee was unanimous. Dent will head the panel. The other members are Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Democrats Yarmuth and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico. Bishop and Lujan are not members of the Ethics Committee.
"We argue that the committee has chosen to unjustly target its investigations concerning use of official House resources for political purposes on certain members, while overlooking the well-publicized misuse of official House resources for personal purposes by numerous other members of Congress," Richardson said in a statement.
"Specifically, numerous members have used their House offices for personal lodging, in some cases for years, saving tens of thousands of dollars personally at taxpayers' expense," her statement said. "Under House rules, personal use of House resources is as impermissible as political use."
A number of House members have publicly acknowledged sleeping in their offices, but the Ethics Committee has not prohibited the practice.
Richardson also said she would "explore the issue of whether the Ethics Committee has engaged in discriminatory conduct in pursuing two investigations against me while simultaneously failing to apply the same standards to, or take the same actions against, other members ? of whom the overwhelming majority are white males."
The Ethics Committee last year concluded after a seven-month investigation that Richardson did not receive an improper gift from a lender, nor did she fail to disclose real property, income and liabilities on her financial disclosure forms.
This is not the first time the committee has investigated use of congressional staff for political purposes.
The committee in 2006 concluded an investigation of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., with a statement that the lawmaker agreed to specific steps to ensure that his staff was not used for political purposes. The committee did not issue a finding that Conyers misused his staff but noted that the lawmaker acknowledged a "lack of clarity" in his communications with staff regarding their official duties.
The statement said Conyers "accepted responsibility for his actions."
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
Sadr says to resist any U.S. presence in Iraq (Reuters)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) ? Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Thursday he would resist any American presence in Iraq, including a civilian one, beyond year-end when all U.S. forces depart nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Sadr, whose Mehdi Army militia once battled U.S. and Iraqi troops, has opposed any U.S. military footprint and his bloc is a key part of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's fragile coalition.
"We do not accept any kind of U.S. presence in Iraq, whether it is military or not," Sadr said in an interview aired on al-Arabiya television.
"If they stay in Iraq, through a military or non-military (presence) ... we will consider them an occupation and we will resist them whatever the price will be. Even a civilian presence, we reject it," the cleric said.
United States President Barack Obama said on October 21 all remaining U.S. troops, currently around 33,000, would be withdrawn from Iraq by December 31 after Washington and Baghdad failed to agree on immunity for American soldiers.
But a huge U.S. embassy will be maintained in Baghdad along with consular operations in Arbil in the northern Kurdish zone and in the southern oil city Basra.
Thousands of private contractors will also work as guards and trainers for Iraqi troops using U.S. hardware such as tanks and F-16 fighters.
Sadr galvanized anti-U.S. sentiment after the overthrow of Sunni dictator Saddam and led two uprisings against U.S. forces in 2004.
His Mehdi Army was crushed by Maliki in 2008 and has for the most part been demobilized, although U.S. officials say splinter groups have continued to attack U.S. soldiers.
In September, Sadr called on his followers to suspend attacks against U.S. troops to ensure they leave Iraq by the year-end deadline.
Although overall violence in Iraq has fallen from the peak of sectarian fighting in 2006-7, Iraqi security forces continue to battle a stubborn Sunni insurgency and Shi'ite militias still capable of lethal attacks.
October was the bloodiest month this year, with 161 civilians, 55 police officers and 42 soldiers killed in a series of major attacks.
Thursday, six people were killed and dozens wounded when two bombs exploded in the northern city of Baquba while 12 people died and at least 70 others were wounded in triple explosions in Basra late Wednesday.
(Writing by Serena Chaudhry; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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Books flow from an American teen to African schools
High school junior Tatiana Grossman founded 'Spread the Words' to send books, both paper and digital, to schoolchildren in Africa.
Tatiana Grossman, a high school junior, says she?s having a busy year so far, what with a full homework load.
Skip to next paragraphBut she has another demand on her time: her non-profit organization Spread the Words, an initiative Ms. Grossman founded that encourages people to send books to children in Africa, for which she recently won the 2011 World of Children Youth Award along with two other honorees. She's in New York City today to receive the award.
Grossman, who lives in Palo Alto, Calif., says she first found out about the high rate of illiteracy in Africa when she was 12. Her mother had told her about a book drive that was being organized by a local library aiming to donate books to schoolchildren in Africa.
?I was like, 'Wait, why would they need a book drive?? ? Grossman says.
Her mother told her some of the statistics, and Grossman says they were a revelation.?
?I was stunned,? she remembers.
Soon after, Grossman started a book drive on her community library lawn after contacting the African Library Project, an organization founded in California that works with partners in Africa to donate books and compile libraries at African schools. The African Library Project gave her suggestions on how to set up the book drive and an address where she could send the books, Grossman says.
She eventually collected 3,500 books in 10 days, many of which were books from parents whose children had outgrown them.
Grossman says the results blew her away.
?I didn't even think I would get a thousand,? Grossman says. ?I was like, 'I'm just a kid. How am I going to do this?' I was really shy.?
Today, Spread the Words has compiled libraries to serve 99 African villages and schools. Grossman was able to travel to Africa when she was 13 and see some of the results of her work.
?It was an unforgettable experience,? she says. ?It was amazing to see how [the students] were using the books.?
Grossman has also spoken publicly about the organization, including at a literacy conference in Africa, where she delivered a speech in front of thousands of people. She found that was difficult, at first.
?I was pretty nervous about it,? she says. ?But once I got up there, the message was more important than my shyness.?
Currently, she?s working on a project with Silicon Valley experts, open source digital content providers, and teachers that would enable classrooms in Africa to have digital textbooks ? a difficult challenge when many don?t have electricity. The plan would involve classrooms installing projectors that would project textbooks and children?s books onto a screen.
According to the current plan, schools that lack electricity will power their projectors using solar panels. Now that she's won the World of Children Award, Grossman says, the financial support that comes from winning the prize will make it possible for projectors to be installed in African classrooms.
?[The projectors will] have the largest impact on classrooms,? Grossman says. ?Right now, the teachers are teaching from memory.?
In her spare time, Grossman enjoys swimming on her school team, playing oboe, and reading. Her favorite book is a children's book by Pam Munoz Ryan, ?Esperanza Rising,? about a young girl who moves to America from Mexico. Its message about conquering adversity spoke strongly to her.
?It was the first time I remember being exposed to a young girl who faced adversity and prevailed,? Grossman says. ?It opened my eyes to the problems other kids have and how strong they have to be to overcome them.?
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