China has no timetable for re-establishing ties with the Vatican, a religious official was quoted as saying, throwing into doubt earlier reports that the two sides could have diplomatic relations by the 2008 Olympics.Qi Xiaofei, deputy head of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, made the remarks on Wednesday in Hangzhou where the World Buddhist Forum, China's first international religious meeting since the Communists swept to power in 1949, got under way on Thursday. Ties between China, whose Catholics must worship in state-backed churches, and the Vatican were cut in 1951. The Vatican has formal relations with Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing considers a breakaway province...
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 US envoy says North Korea boycotts nuclear talks |
The chief U.S. envoy to multilateral talks on ending North Korea's nuclear programs said on Thursday Pyongyang was boycotting the discussions, but urged patience for the stalled process.U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill held no substantive discussions with North Korean nuclear envoy Kim Kye-gwan in Tokyo this week when the two were in the Japanese capital for a private security forum — dashing hopes for renewed progress in the six-party nuclear talks. The other chief envoys in the talks were also in Tokyo, with most attending the same forum. ...
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| Mudslides Strike Northern California After Storm Dumps 6 Inches of Rain; Man Missing |
Heavy rain triggered mudslides across northern California on Wednesday, forcing evacuations, closing roads and possibly burying an elderly man in his backyard. Mudslides caused by more heavy rain in the already soaked region were reported all along the San Francisco Bay area, with Sonoma, Marin and Santa Cruz counties hit hardest. The latest storm dumped up to 6 inches of rain over 24 hours. Rescuers in Mill Valley were searching for a 73-year-old man who was reported missing after leaving his house early in the morning. He had gone outside when a 12-foot wall of mud swept down a steep hillside about 3 a.m. ...
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| Ex-FEMA chief won’t work in Louisiana parish. Fired after Katrina chaos, Michael Brown rejects offer to be paid consultant. |
Under mounting criticism, former FEMA chief Michael Brown said Wednesday that he will not serve as a paid consultant to St. Bernard Parish, a New Orleans suburb hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. Brown, whose name became synonymous with government ineptitude after Hurricane Katrina, had planned to meet with officials in the parish Thursday to help them navigate the recovery process. He canceled his trip after residents protested. Brown made the decision after meeting in Orlando, Fla., with parish President Henry “Junior” Rodriguez, where both were attending a national hurricane preparedness conference. “I talked to Junior Rodriguez tonight,” Brown said Wednesday by telephone, “and I told Junior, ‘My offer still stands. If you need advice, I can continue to do that free of charge for you. But why should I come down there and stir up controversy?”’ Well at least he’s an expert at screwing up, so maybe that is why they wanted him. Have to keep up Government tradition...
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| 14 Indicted In Human Smuggling Ring |
U.S. and Canadian authorities announced Wednesday that they have broken up a human smuggling ring suspected of illegally shepherding dozens of Indian and Pakistani nationals into Washington state from British Columbia. To date, a federal grand jury in Seattle has indicted 14 U.S. and Canadian men for their roles in the alleged scheme. Twelve had been arrested as of Wednesday. Leigh Winchell, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle, said investigators on both sides of the border have worked closely for more than a year, apprehending roughly 50 people who had paid as much as $35,000 apiece to be smuggled into the United States. They were given fake U.S. Passports and were expected to fan out across the United States, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. ...
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| Diverted jet lands in Dublin after bomb scare |
Fighter jets escorted a commercial plane carrying 172 people to an airport in Scotland on Wednesday after a passenger passed the captain a note saying there was a bomb on board, and the plane landed safely, authorities said.Ryanair Flight FR25, a Boeing 737 en route from Paris to Dublin, was escorted to Glasgow's Prestwick Airport, which was closed for about two hours while army explosives experts searched the plane. No bomb was found, Strathclyde police said.The 167 passengers and five crew were safely escorted off the plane and questioned at the airport, police said.Later, all the passengers were allowed to continue their journey, arriving at Dublin International Airport aboard the aircraft shortly before midnight — about nine hours after the incident began, Ryanair spokeswoman Pauline McAlester said....
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