A tornado flipped mobile homes, tossed debris into trees and tore the roof off a police station as it traced a path up to a half-mile wide in southern Indiana, officials said Thursday. Thousands of homes and businesses lost power in Wednesday night's storm, and two elderly residents were hospitalized after being trapped in their home. At least five homes were destroyed in Jackson County, said Duane Davis, the county's emergency management director. The tornado was responsible for tearing blowing roofs off of some homes and the Crothersville police station, the National Weather Service said. Its path grew to a half-mile wide at one point, meteorologist Dave Tucek said. ...
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 Iran 'ready for nuclear talks' |
Iran is ready to discuss "common concerns" about its nuclear programme but pledged not to negotiate what technology to use, its president says. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not say if Iran accepted a Western proposal to restart negotiations and offer incentives if Tehran suspended uranium enrichment. "The Iranian nation will never hold negotiations about its definite rights," he said in a speech in Qazvin. It is his first public comment since the plan was presented to Iran. The international community is awaiting Tehran's response to the offer submitted by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana to Iranian officials on Tuesday. ...
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Editor - 10:51:00 06-08-06
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| Iraq allies hail Zarqawi killing? Again??? |
The US and UK have hailed news that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has died in a US air strike. Zarqawi died when US planes dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on a site near the city of Baquba. He was identified by fingerprints, tattoos and scars. The US struck after receiving specific tip-offs from within Zarqawi's organisation, officials said. US President George W Bush described the news as a severe blow to al-Qaeda and "justice" for Zarqawi. British PM Tony Blair described it as "very good news", but both leaders said Zarqawi's death would not end violence. The news came shortly before the Iraqi parliament approved the key posts of defence and interior ministers. The two crucial roles had remained unfilled despite the formation of a coalition government last month. ...
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Editor - 10:44:00 06-08-06
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| Little prospect of EU lifting China arms ban: UK |
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it saw little prospect of the European Union lifting its arms embargo on China in the near future.Brussels imposed the ban after Chinese authorities killed hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 but some nations, including France, have pushed for an end to the embargo. Fierce opposition from the United States and Japan, coupled with China's enactment of a law threatening military action if Taiwan declared independence, made a decision to lift the ban politically impossible last year. British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett said there was still disagreement within the 25-member bloc. ...
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| Boy's ignored 911 call leads to charges |
Two 911 dispatchers who authorities say wrongly assumed it was a prank when a 5-year-old boy called to report that his mother had collapsed have been charged with neglect of duty.By the time an officer arrived, the boy's 46-year-old mother was dead."I understand they get quite a few crank calls, but you have to take it seriously when someone calls 911," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Wednesday in announcing charges against Sharon Nichols, 43, and Terri Sutton, 47.They could get a year in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor.Worthy said the mother, Sherrill Turner, might be alive today had the dispatchers done their jobs correctly.The president of the dispatchers' union did not immediately return a call for comment.Robert Turner, now 6, called 911 twice on February 20 to report that his mother had collapsed and needed medical care, but "neither operator treated this as an emergency," the prosecutor said....
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| Italian Fathers' `Tsunami' of Custody Cases Harms Legal System |
Divorced Italian fathers, emboldened by a new law that grants them more rights in children's custody, are filing court cases at a rate that threatens to shut down the country's judicial system, already the slowest in Europe. ``There will be more than 40,000 appeals in the next two years, a tsunami for Italian courts,'' said Alberto Bucci, a judge and president of Rome's civil-court division that rules on divorce cases. ``We're worried. The situation may soon become unsustainable,'' he said in a telephone interview. The legislation favors joint custody rather than granting care of children to the mother. Prior to the law, joint custody was only given in 12 percent of cases, while mothers received the children in 84 percent, according to the Italian Statistics Institute. The law also allows for appeals of previous decisions. Separations and divorces rose 59 percent between 1994 and 2003, ...
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