The caretakers of Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home want a federal judge to intervene in their dispute with the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the six-toed cats that roam the property.More than 50 descendants of a multi-toed cat the novelist received as a gift in 1935 wander the grounds of the home, where Hemingway lived for more than 10 years and wrote “A Farewell to Arms” and “To Have and Have Not.”The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum disputes the USDA’s claim that it is an “exhibitor” of cats and needs to have a USDA Animal Welfare License, according to a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami. “What they’re comparing the Hemingway house to is a circus or a zoo because there are cats on the premises,” Cara Higgins, the home’s attorney, said Friday. “This is not a traveling circus. These cats have been on the premises forever.”...
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 Migrants 'die' on voyage to Italy |
Malnourished survivors from a boat of illegal immigrants rescued by the Italian navy, told rescuers that 13 people died in the crossing from Libya. A total of 14 people were picked up in the boat as it drifted off the island of Lampedusa, near Sicily. At least seven were taken to hospital in Palermo, Sicily's capital. Two were reported to be in a serious condition. Thousands of illegal migrants try to enter Italy each year via Lampedusa, many in rickety boats. The tiny island is closer to North Africa than to mainland Italy. ...
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| Israeli attacks stall aid efforts in Lebanon |
Israel's refusal to halt attacks in south Lebanon is hampering aid attempts and preventing stranded civilians from leaving the war zone.The UN's emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, requested a three-day ceasefire in Lebanon to allow aid through but Israel refused to agree to a truce. Israeli planes continued air strikes in southern Lebanon, killing a woman and six children in a house in the village of Nmeiriya this afternoon, according to Lebanese medical sources. Hizbollah guerrillas have fired longer-range missiles deeper into Israel today than ever before and fighting continues near the Israel and Lebanon border....
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| Israel Pulls Forces Back From Embattled Border Town Bint Jbail |
Israeli troops pulled back from a Lebanese border town Saturday after a weeklong battle with Hezbollah, the bloodiest ground fighting of the 18-day Israeli offensive, as Hezbollah's leader vollied new threats at Israel on a TV broadcast. Elsewhere, Israeli warplanes blasted bridges and demolished houses, killing seven people, including a woman and her five children.The battle for Bint Jbail has symbolized Israel's difficulty in pushing guerrillas back from the border, whether by air bombardment or ground assault. Hezbollah on Friday escalated its cross-border attacks, firing longer-range missiles deeper into Israel than ever before....
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| Report: Big Dig company questioning warning Memo from 1999 warning of unsafe tunnel ceiling at issue |
Officials at a Big Dig construction company have been unable to locate a memo a safety officer said he wrote in 1999 warning his superiors that portions of a tunnel’s ceiling could collapse, a newspaper reported Saturday. The Boston Globe, which first reported on the memo Wednesday, cited a construction industry official it did not identify as saying that officials at Modern Continental Construction Co. were searching their files for the memo and taking other steps to determine whether it is authentic.The Globe said it received the memo by mail on Tuesday bearing the signature of the worker, John J. Keaveney, and dated May 17, 1999. It outlined several concerns about the safety of the ceiling design in the Interstate 90 connector tunnel where a woman was killed July 10 when ceiling panels fell on her car. The memo warns that “an innocent State Worker or member of the Public” could “be seriously injured or even worse killed as a result” of the ceiling design. It also questions “how ...
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| Israel strikes on Gaza continue |
Israel is keeping up its offensive on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip, with air strikes on a suspected arms factory on Saturday. A tunnel used by Palestinian militants was also bombed, the Israeli army said. On Friday, the Israeli army withdrew from the area, following a two-day offensive which killed 29 Palestinians. The renewed attacks come as Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas held brief talks with President Mubarak of Egypt to discuss proposal to end the violence. There were no reports of casualties from the latest air raids. Israeli ground forces were also reported to have launched a new incursion into northern Gaza, near the Erez crossing point. In its earlier two-day operation, the Israeli army destroyed several buildings across the territory, killing two Palestinians, one a teenage boy. The Israeli army says it attacked weapons facilities in four areas in a continuing campaign to weaken militant groups in Gaza. ...
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