Kansas' attorney general, a vocal abortion opponent, charged a well-known abortion provider with illegally performing late-term abortions, but a judge on Friday threw out the charges after less than a day.Judge Paul W. Clark dismissed the charges against Dr. George Tiller after Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said her office had not been consulted by Attorney General Phill Kline.Clark signed his one-page order only hours after Kline's complaint against Tiller was unsealed.Kline's office did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Kline lost his re-election bid in November and leaves office in three weeks.Most of the 30 misdemeanor counts Kline filed against Tiller involve abortions performed on patients 17 or younger, including a 10-year-old, according to the criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Sedgwick County District Court....
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 Thousands flee as war escalates in Somalia |
Ethiopian attack helicopters and tanks headed for battle Friday as fighting raged for a fourth day between Somalia's Islamic militia and the country's secular government, witnesses and a government official said.Tens of thousands of Somalis fled their homes as the Ethiopian-backed government used artillery to push back Islamic fighters who had advanced on the regime's only stronghold, Baidoa. Islamic forces who have declared they want to bring the whole country under Quranic rule said the latest fighting had been started by the government but now they would launch their own attacks.Sheik Ibrahim Shukri Abuu-Zeynab, a spokesman for the Islamic movement, told reporters in the capital, Mogadishu, that the fighting so far was just a taste of what was to come."We will now start our real attack against the invaders and would not stop until we force the Ethiopians out of our country," he said....
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| Sudan's refugees in Chad beg for help as killing widens |
Thousands of people who fled to Chad from Sudan's Darfur region pleaded with the U.N.'s top refugee official on Friday to either move them or protect them against cross-border raids that have killed hundreds.U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres visited the Goz Amer refugee camp near Koukou Angarana, close to the border with Darfur, where Arab raiders attacked two villages last weekend, killing Sudanese refugees and Chadian civilians."When we see these villages, burned last week with 40 people killed and now 90,000 Chadians displaced, one can understand the huge security problem," Guterres said, referring to the number of people uprooted over the past year."The international community has a great responsibility to create a humanitarian space so we can keep working. To do nothing would be unacceptable," he said....
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| CHRISTMAS IN THE MIDDLE EAST UNIFIL Troops Play Santa Claus for Lebanese Kids |
To say Lebanon has had a difficult year would be an understatement. UN peacekeeping troops are trying to spread a little seasonal cheer by handing out Christmas gifts to Lebanese children. After a year marked by political unrest and war, Lebanon is a country which could certainly do with a little peace and goodwill around Christmas time. Soldiers from the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL have been trying to do their bit by handing out gifts to children. UNIFIL commander Major General Alain Pellegrini monitored Thursday the distribution of gifts to students in the southern city of Naqoura, where the UN force has its headquarters. Italian soldiers dressed up as Santa Claus while Ghanaian troops played Christmas music on brass instruments. French troops, who gave out presents in the southern village of Srifa, have had a tradition of distributing gifts to children in different parts of the south since their original deployment in 1978, ...
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| Bad weather delays shuttle return |
Nasa has decided to put back the return of the shuttle Discovery to Earth by least 90 minutes due to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first chance to land had been at 2056 GMT (1556 local time) at Kennedy. The next chance is at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 2230 GMT (1730 local) while White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico is also on standby. Discovery needs to be on the ground on Saturday or it will run low on the fuel that powers its electrical systems. "As we get closer, we'll have much more certainty on what we're really faced with," said Nasa's Norman Knight, who will direct the landing. The shuttle has been on a 13-day mission to rewire the International Space Station (ISS). ...
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| 3 Dead in Army Helicopter Crash Near Seattle |
An Army Blackhawk helicopter crashed on a mountain southeast of Seattle during a training mission, killing all three people aboard, military officials said Friday.The UH-60 went down about 9 p.m. Thursday, according to a statement issued by Fort Lewis, an Army post south of Tacoma.Searchers found the first two bodies quickly, then discovered the third Friday morning in the same general area, said Lt. Col. Dan Williams. He said the remains will undergo autopsies.The names of the dead were not immediately released.The soldiers were members of the 4th Squadron, 6th Air Cavalry Regiment, which has been at Fort Lewis for about a year, said David Kuhns, a civilian spokesman with the post....
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