General Motors will on Monday disclose details of one of most dramatic corporate downsizings in US history, exceeding a key target of its turnround plan and accelerating the demise of the privileged American car worker.Rick Wagoner, chief executive, is expected to announce that about 30,000 workers – more than a quarter of GM's blue-collar US workforce – have taken up its offer of early retirement and severance packages. Almost all will leave by the end of the year, achieving in a few months what the company had set out to accomplish over more than two years.A total of 50,000 workers or more is set to leave the industry over the next few months.Later this week, Delphi – the former GM subsidiary which is north America's biggest auto parts maker – is expected to disclose that at least 9,000 of its 31,000 unionised workers have accepted similar buy-outs....
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 Flash flooding hits rain-soaked mid-Atlantic |
Waves of heavy showers and thunderstorms drenched Washington and the surrounding mid-Atlantic on Sunday, triggering flash flooding that swelled streams over their banks and shut roads throughout the region. "Washington up through Baltimore has received between five and seven inches of rain today and most of it was in about a six-hour period," National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Woodcock said."In many, many counties, rescues ... cars that got stuck in water, many road closures. It's been a very bad day, he said.Up to two more inches of rain were predicted in some locations before showers and thunderstorms were expected to begin tapering off around 3 a.m EDT, The National Weather Service said....
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| 9/11 conspiracy theorists gather at LA conference |
They wore T-shirts asking "What Really Happened?," snapped up DVDs titled "9/11; The Great Illusion," & cheered as physicists, philosophers & terrorism experts decried the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks that shook America to its core. Some 1,200 people gathered at a Los Angeles hotel on the weekend for what organizers billed as the largest conference on the plethora of conspiracy theories that see the 2001 attacks on Wash & New York as, at best, official negligence, and at worst an orchestrated US attempt to incite world war. "There are so many prominent people who are incredibly well-respected who have stated that the evidence is overwhelming that 9/11 was an inside job," syndicated radio talk show host Alex Jones told a news conference. "There are hundreds of smoking guns that people need to be made aware of," said Jones, calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and charging that mainstream media had been slow to cover the growing movement of 9/11 skeptics ...
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| War's Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000 |
At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies — a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration.Many more Iraqis are believed to have been killed but not counted because of serious lapses in recording deaths in the chaotic first year after the invasion, when there was no functioning Iraqi government, and continued spotty reporting nationwide since. The toll, which is mostly of civilians but probably also includes some security forces and insurgents, is daunting: Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed nationwide in the last three years.In the same period, at least 2,520 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq....
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| East Timor's Government Threatens to Unravel As Nobel Laureate Foreign Minister Resigns |
East Timor's Nobel prize-winning foreign minister resigned in protest Sunday after the country's ruling party ignored demands to fire the prime minister over accusations he provoked bloody unrest. Jose Ramos-Horta's departure threatened to unravel the government as it struggled to regain control following the worst outbreak of violence since the tiny nation voted for independence from Indonesia seven years ago. Thousands of protesters kept vigil outside the government headquarters demanding Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri step down or be removed. Many East Timorese say Alkatiri's decision to dismiss 600 disgruntled soldiers in March was to blame for street battles and gang warfare that left at least 30 people dead and sent nearly 150,000 others fleeing from their homes. He also faces allegations of forming a hit squad to silence opponents, a charge he denies....
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| Arizona Deputies Search for Body After Finding Empty Casket With a Military Seal in Desert |
An empty casket with a military seal was discovered in a desert area south of Tucson, and sheriff's deputies were looking for the body. "Obviously it had the smell, and there was other evidence that it had been inhabited recently," Deputy Dawn Barkman said Sunday. Forensic investigators took DNA samples, and a nationwide alert was issued in hopes of finding out who was the casket, Barkman said. Deputies were called to a desert area near Interstate 10 around 5:30 p.m. Saturday after two people playing paintball found the casket, Barkman said. The casket was metallic silver with a U.S. Army insignia on it, she said. ...
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