 Scorching heat is still severely stretching power supplies in parts of the US, with consumers warned of more shortages unless they reduce demand. The National Weather Service has issued another excessive heat warning for California with temperatures set to reach 44C (111F) in Los Angeles. The risk of rolling blackouts still remains and a power grid spokeswoman said: "We still have our guard up." About 29 deaths across the US in recent days are being linked to the heat wave. Electricity is now back on in many of the hundreds of thousands of homes hit by power outages in the past few days, including in California and New York. But in Queens in New York, about 1,000 customers were still without power for a ninth day on Tuesday, a utility company told the Associated Press news agency. ...
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 Instrumental but excluded |
If Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and Ehud Olmert are to be believed, Iran wields significant influence throughout the Middle East, and not least over the current Lebanon crisis. Which, logically, makes it all the more strange that Britain, the US and Israel have so far systematically excluded the Islamic republic from international efforts to end the fighting and achieve a lasting settlement.Tomorrow's Rome conference will be attended by the main western powers and the so-called moderate Arab states. But Iran and its second-string ally, Syria, have not been invited even though it is widely accepted that any peace deal involving their Lebanese political ally, Hizbullah, is unlikely to stick without their support. The UN mission that visited the region and presented its proposals to the security council last week did not travel to Tehran or Damascus. ...
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| Bush vows to help bolster Baghdad security |
Bush said Tuesday that a U.S. military program to bolster Iraqi security forces in Baghdad will better address the violence there as he pledged to stand by Iraq’s new democratic government. “Obviously the violence in Baghdad is still terrible,” Bush said during a joint White House news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bush had praised al-Maliki’s signature program to improve Baghdad security during their last meeting in Baghdad in June. Bush complimented the beleaguered leader for his courage and perseverance in the face of sectarian violence. Recent violence has sapped political support for the more than 3-year-old war in Iraq, in both the United States and Iraq. “He comes wondering whether or not we are committed. He hears all kinds of things coming out of the United States,” Bush said. “And I assured him that this government stands by the Iraqi people.” But the mass majority of Iraq people want the US to leave, so just who is he referring too? ...
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| Los Angeles Seeks Information on 50 Women Possibly Missing for Decades |
Homicide investigators are trying to find at least 50 women they have linked to a man who is in prison for killing two women in the early 1980s, officials said. A sheriff's department statement said they may have been rape or homicide victims between and 1975 and 1984.The man, whose identity was withheld pending an official request for public help Tuesday, was known to photograph women he met at Los Angeles bars in the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Monday.He said the man was serving his sentence in a California state prison for killing two women he had photographed.Some of the unaccounted-for women were in photographs the man had kept, Whitmore said, though it wasn't immediately clear how many....
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| Afghan Violence Kills 10 2 Killed By Roadside Bomb In Kabul; U.S. Soldier, 7 Suspected Taliban Killed In Fighting |
A roadside bomb along a busy Kabul road killed two Afghans on Tuesday as fighting in the eastern provinces left a U.S. soldier and seven suspected Taliban dead, officials said. The Afghan government, meanwhile, launched an urgent appeal for $76.4 million to tackle an "imminent food crisis" caused by prolonged drought, particularly in the north and northwest of the country. The bomb in Kabul, the latest in a series of recent blasts that have rattled nerves in the capital, killed a man and a woman riding in taxi, and wounded four others, said Faiz Ahmad Hotaq, a police official. In the eastern Kunar province, a U.S. soldier was killed Monday in firefight with militants, said Col. Tom Collins, a coalition spokesman....
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| Homeless man finds best reward is honesty Community rallies around man, gives him $4,000 for returning $21,000 bond |
A homeless man who returned $21,000 worth of saving bonds he found in a trash bin is finding out how much honesty can pay off.Charles Moore, 59, had been searching for returnable bottles last week when he came across the 31 U.S. savings bonds. He turned them in to a homeless shelter, where a staff member tracked down the family of the man who had owned them.For his good deed, the bond owner’s son gave Moore $100, but residents around Michigan and in other states decided his action merited a more generous reward. So far, Moore has received over $4,000.One man sent him eight trash bags full of returnable bottles and a bowl of coins. Three others gave a combined $2,500, and two businessmen from Troy donated $1,200, a shopping spree and a lead on a job.“I was thankful for it,” said Moore, who had lost his roofing job in Ohio and moved back to Michigan but couldn’t find work....
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