 The nationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) has a clear lead in the country's elections, early results suggest. An election monitoring group said the Radicals had taken 28.5% of the vote, but they are not expected to find partners to form a governing coalition. The pro-EU Democratic Party (DS) and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) were credited with 22% and 17% respectively. EU foreign ministers are due to meet in to discuss the bloc's ties with Belgrade and the future of Kosovo. Serbia's electoral commission said turnout was about 62% of the 6.6 million eligible voters. 'Vicious campaign' After the first projections were announced, the SRS candidate for prime minister, Tomislav Nikolic, said: "We have won as we had expected." "Despite running against the parties led by the prime minister and the president (Boris Tadic) and their vicious campaigns against us, we proved our strength," Mr Nikolic said. ...
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 Heavy Snowstorms Claim 11 Across United States |
The latest in a series of winter storms battered Colorado on Sunday, dumping several inches of snow and whipping up strong wind that created whiteout conditions on the state's eastern plains.Officials closed a long stretch of Interstate 70, from near Denver International Airport almost to the Kansas state line, because of high winds, blowing snow, poor visibility and ice.Accidents caused by blowing snow and icy roads closed southbound Interstate 25 near Fort Collins for two hours Sunday morning. State Patrol Master Trooper Ron Watkins said no injuries were reported.Wind up to 60 mph piled the snow into drifts as high as 3 feet in parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.A blizzard warning was in effect for much of eastern and northeastern Colorado, and the State Patrol advised against unnecessary travel....
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| Former Ohio College Employee Accused of Slowly Stealing $400,000 in Computers, Electronics |
A former Bowling Green State University employee is accused of using school money to order $400,000 in computers and electronics, then selling them, the college said Sunday. Michael McHugh, 44, has pleaded not guilty to theft and two counts of theft in office. He has been jailed since Dec. 1 in lieu of $100,000 bail. The theft went unnoticed for years in the university's $400 million budget because the items were bought slowly starting in 2001, spokeswoman Kim McBroom said. The purchases from Apple Computers, Office Depot and other retailers ramped up in 2003 and caught attention last year. McHugh was manager of the Northwest Ohio Regional Book Depository in Perrysburg, which stores rarely used books for the university library and sends them out when students or other institutions seek to borrow them. ...
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| Officials: U.S. intel spurs shift by al-Maliki Information on Shiite militia causes Iraqi prime minister's change of course |
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki decided to drop his protection of the feared Shiite militia of a radical anti-American cleric after U.S. intelligence reports convinced him the armed group was deeply infiltrated by death squads whose actions were isolating him both in the Arab world and among moderate political forces at home, two government officials said on Sunday. Al-Maliki's turnaround on the Mahdi Army was puzzling because as late as Oct. 31, he had intervened to end a U.S. blockade of Sadr City, the northeast Shiite enclave in Baghdad that is headquarters to the militia. It is held responsible for much of the sectarian bloodshed that has turned the capital into a battle zone over the past year. Shiite militias began taking revenge after more than two years of incessant bomb and shooting attacks by Sunni insurgents. In a desperate bid to fend off a feared all-out American offensive, the cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, last Friday ordered the 30 lawmakers and six Cabinet ministers ...
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| Hurry Up And Give Birth, The Game Is On Wife Induces Labor So Husband Can See The Bears Play The Saints |
Nine months pregnant and married to a fervent Bears fan with tickets to Sunday's NFC Championship game, Colleen Pavelka didn't want to risk going into labor during the game against the New Orleans Saints. Due to give birth on Monday, Pavelka's doctor told her Friday she could induce labor early. She opted for the Friday delivery. "I thought, how could (Mark) miss this one opportunity that he might never have again in his life?" said Pavelka, 28, from the southwestern Chicago suburb of Homer Glen. At 10:45 p.m. Friday, Mark Patrick Pavelka was born at Palos Community Hospital after close to six hours of labor. ...
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| Taliban to Open Schools in Afghanistan |
The Taliban said it will open its own schools in areas of southern Afghanistan under its control, an apparent effort to win support among local residents and undermine the Western-backed government's efforts to expand education. The announcement follows a violent campaign by the fundamentalist Islamic group against state schools in the five years since its ouster by U.S.-led forces. The Taliban destroyed 200 schools and killed 20 teachers last year, and President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that 200,000 children had been driven from the classroom. The Taliban's announcement that it will open schools ``is like putting salt into the wound,'' said Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan's education minister. Abdul Hai Muthmahien, the purported chief spokesman for the militants, said the group will begin providing Islamic education to students in March in at least six southern provinces, funded by $1 million allotted by the Taliban's ruling council. He said textbooks would be the same ...
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