Top Cheney aide among sources in CIA story
By PETE YOSTASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press', Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper talks about his testimony to the grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame during the taping of 'Meet the Press' Sunday, July 17, 2005 at the NBC studios in Washington..
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was among the sources for a Time magazine reporter's story about the identity of a CIA officer, the reporter said Sunday.
Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years that vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove were not involved in the leaks of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity.
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British Sunni group condemns bombingsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS In this CCTV image made available in London Saturday July 16, 2005, by the Metropolitan Police, the four London bombers are seen arriving at Luton railway station at 0721 local time on Thursday July 7 , 2005. The image shows from left to right Hasib Hussain, Germaine Lindsay, dark cap, Mohammed Sidique Khan, light cap, and Shahzad Tanweer.(AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, ho) BIRMINGHAM, England -- Britain's largest Sunni group on Sunday issued a binding religious edict, known as a fatwa, condemning the July 7 suicide bombings in London.
The Sunni Council said the bombings in London trains and a double-decker bus were against Islam, adding that any type of suicide attack was against the Quran. The attacks killed 55 people, including the four bombers, who were Muslims.
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Small tsunami reveals big gaps in readiness along Pacific coast
By ALICIA CHANGAP SCIENCE WRITER
VENTURA, Calif. -- The tiny wave generated by a major undersea earthquake off the far Northern California coast last month revealed large gaps in how ready communities hugging the Pacific shoreline are for a true tsunami threat.
Although the alert was canceled about an hour after blaring sirens warned some towns of a could-be killer wave that never arrived, the effects of the magnitude-7.2 quake are still rattling emergency planners.
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Seattle women bound for Cuba in defiance of law
By GEORGE ESTRADAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE -- Cindy Domingo has been to Cuba a dozen times, but hopes she isn't pushing her luck too far for her 13th trip, when she'll travel without U.S government permission to protest tight new restrictions on visiting the communist country.
Domingo, a longtime Seattle activist dedicated to humanitarian and feminist causes, will accompany three other Seattle-area women on the July 21 trip and expects to join hundreds of other defiant travelers in a "travel challenge."
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Quake triggers rockfall at Mount St. HelensS
EATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER NEWS SERVICES
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT --
A magnitude 3 earthquake rattled Mount St. Helens yesterday, triggering rockfall and sending an ash plume above the crater rim, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake occurred at 5:22 a.m., the largest recorded at the volcano in several months. Its cause was not immediately known.
In the past two days scientists have placed new Global Positioning System monitors and a seismic station on the east and west sides of the glacier. Gas-emission readings earlier this week showed little change.
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Governors voice National Guard concerns
By ROBERT TANNERAP NATIONAL WRITER
Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, right, chairman of the National Governors Association, speaks during the opening news conference of the association's annual meeting as Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack listens Saturday, July 16, 2005, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) DES MOINES, Iowa -- The nation's governors voiced sharp worries Saturday for the National Guard troops they share with the federal government, saying changes caused by the huge demands of the war in Iraq need more examination.
More than 30 governors gathered here for their summer meeting, where they were scheduled to meet privately on Monday with top officials of the Guard, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Homeland Security Department.
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Governors eyeing White House in 2008
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Many governors are potential presidential candidates in 2008, which makes Iowa, with its first-in-the-nation presidential voting status, a suitable setting for a National Governors Association meeting. Presidential politics was never far from the governors' minds during the meeting in Des Moines:
"I can tell you these guys will be friends of mine for a long time no matter what happens in politics." - Democratic Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia, standing beside fellow Democrat Tom Vilsack of Iowa and Republican Mike Huckabee of Arkansas. All three are association leaders with presidential aspirations.
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Governors aim to ease voters about change
By RON FOURNIERAP POLITICAL WRITER
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Republican or Democrat, most governors have two things in common. First, they want to be president. And they know that to be president they must find new policies and language - presumably both - that help voters feel less anxious about their place in a rapidly changing society.
"People sense that there are enormous changes going on in the world and they don't see Washington providing any answers," said Democratic Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia.
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Groups fighting illegal immigration spread
By DUNCAN MANSFIELDASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. -- A volunteer movement that vows to guard America from a wave of illegal immigration has spread from the dusty U.S.-Mexican border to the verdant hollows of Appalachia.
At least 40 anti-immigration groups have popped up nationally, inspired by the Minuteman Project that rallied hundreds this year to patrol the Mexican border in Arizona.
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Pakistan probes ties to London bombings
By PAUL HAVENASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Intelligence agents swooped down on a religious school suspected of links to one of the London suicide bombers, questioning students, teachers and administrators about the alleged attacker, school and intelligence officials said Saturday.
Agents also visited at least two radical Islamic centers, armed with pictures and a dossier on Shahzad Tanweer, a 22-year-old Briton of Pakistani ancestry who blew himself up in London's Underground. The July 7 attacks on subways and a double-decker bus killed 55, including four bombers.
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Indonesia, Aceh rebels agree to peace dealBy SLOBODAN LEKICASSOCIATED PRESS
Free Aceh Movement (GAM) Supreme Leader Hasan di Tiro, right, and leader Malik Mahmud pose for a photo on the balcony of their office in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, on June 23, 2005. The latest round of peace talks between the Indonesian government and separatists from tsunami-ravaged Aceh province of the country kicked off Tuesday, July 12, 2005 in Finland and both sides appeared to be nearing a deal to overcome the main obstacle in peace talks aimed at ending the long and bloody conflict in the province. (AP Photo/Naofumi Takeuchi) HELSINKI, Finland -- The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels agreed Sunday to sign a formal peace agreement next month, vowing to end a 29-year conflict that has killed 15,000 people in the tsunami-ravaged province.
The peace deal - which will allow reconstruction aid for victims of the Dec. 26 natural disaster - is to be signed Aug. 15 in Helsinki, the two sides said after wrapping up the fifth and final round of talks in the Finnish capital.
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Experts urge release of Iraq scientists
By CHARLES J. HANLEYAP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Former U.S. arms inspectors are calling for release of the final handful of Iraqi weapons scientists still imprisoned at Baghdad's high-security detention center, where the death of one of them remains an unsolved mystery 18 months after his battered body turned up at a local hospital.
A declassified document, meanwhile, tells of beatings and other abuse at the same Baghdad airport detention complex.
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Candidate returns Penthouse donations
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher has refunded $3,000 in campaign donations from companies tied to Penthouse magazine.
Gallagher, Florida's chief financial officer, said he rejected the money because the magazine doesn't reflect his conservative views.
"I have a strict policy of not accepting contributions from entities that don't share the mainstream Republican values I believe in," Gallagher said.
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Glacial cover-up won't stop global warming
By GEORGE JAHNASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Marc Olefs and Andrea Fischer, from left, researchers from the Innsbruck University take samples from the glacier, July 4, 2005, at Eisgrat (Ice Spine) skiing station on Stubai glacier near the village of Neustift im Stubaital in the alpine Austrian province of Tyrol. It gets so cold up at this Alpine skiing station that the locals call it Eisgrat, "Icy Spine." But Eisgrat's spine is melting.(AP Photo/George Jahn) EISGRAT, Austria -- It gets so cold up at this Alpine skiing station that the locals call it Eisgrat - "Icy Spine." But Eisgrat's spine is melting. A sign on a sheer cliff wall nearby points to a mountain hut. It should have been at visitors' eye level but is more than 60 feet above their heads. That's how much of the glacier has shrunk since the sign went up 35 years ago.
"It's not a good feeling," says Alois Ranalter, a maintenance worker who spends his summers focused on stopping the melt. "The glacier is our life."
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Mexico evacuates tourists before hurricaneBy MARK STEVENSONASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Tourists evacuate Isla Mujeres island on one of the last ferries as Hurricane Emily approaches Saturday July 16, 2005, in Islas Mujeres, Mexico. Mexican officials issued a hurricane warning Saturday for much of the eastern Yucatan peninsula, including the resort of Cancun, as Hurricane Emily barreled across the Caribbean south of Jamaica.(AP Photo/Israel Leal) CANCUN, Mexico -- A massive evacuation of tourists in one of the world's largest resorts began Sunday, with hundreds of buses dispatched to move tens of thousands of vacationers away from Hurricane Emily, heading for a direct hit on Mexico's coast.
The size of the task was daunting: About 500 buses were ordered to move 30,000 tourists in Cancun - part of a total of 70,000-80,000 mostly foreign visitors to be evacuated statewide to temporary shelters in ballrooms and convention centers.
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The New Zealand Herald
Heavy rain floods houses and roads in Coromandel region
17.07.05 5.15pm
Homes and roads were left flooded in parts of Coromandel Peninsula this afternoon as heavy rain lashed the area before moving towards Gisborne.
While there were no reports of injuries, several motorists had to be rescued from vehicles caught in rising floodwaters on State Highway 25 near Hikuai north of Whangamata.
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Suicide bomber in fuel truck kills 60
17.07.05 8.30am By Sami Jumaili
KERBALA. Iraq - A suicide bomber in a fuel truck killed at least 60 people near a crowded vegetable market in a town south of Baghdad on Saturday and al Qaeda warned of more violence in a bid to seize the Iraqi capital.
The blast near a Shi'ite mosque in Musayyib, near Kerbala, also wounded 82 people and destroyed nine cars, police said.
"This is a black day in the history of the town," Musayyib police chief Yas Khudayr told Reuters by telephone.
Some people who rushed to the scene discovered they had lost loved ones.
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Bomb probe widens to Egypt, Arrests in Pakistan
16.07.05 10.00am
LONDON - Egyptian police today questioned a British-trained biochemist about last week's London suicide attacks, and Pakistan arrested four people as it investigated possible al Qaeda links to one of the bombers.
Magdy Elnashar, a 33-year-old researcher at Leeds University, who also studied in the United States, was being questioned about the attacks that killed more than 50 people and injured 700 on July 7, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.
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Suicide bomber's family suspect son was 'brainwashed'
17.07.05 By Mark Trevelyan
LONDON - Relatives of one of the London suicide bombers said on Saturday he may have been "brainwashed" and appealed for new leads in a fast-moving investigation which has so far linked Britain, Egypt and Pakistan.
"We are devastated that our son may have been brainwashed into carrying out such an atrocity, since we know him as a kind and caring member of our family," said the parents of Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30.
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Ten suicide bombs in Iraqi capital, 25 dead
BAGHDAD - Ten suicide car bombers exploded in a series of apparently coordinated attacks across the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, police sources said.
All appeared to target US or Iraqi security forces, police said. Reuters journalists saw the aftermath of five. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for those, before police reported a further five suicide car bomb attacks late in the day.
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Bombers had been banned from mosques in Leeds
By Ian Herbert and Arifa Akbar
Three of the London bombers had been banned from mosques in the Beeston area of Leeds, where one of them lived, a Muslim academic has said.
Razaq Raj, who is a senior lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, said he knew that Shahzad Tanweer, Hasib Mir Hussain and Mohammad Sidique Khan had been banned but did not know the reason why.
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NZ Tube bomb victim named
Shelley Mather was 'a bubbly young girl with a very positive outlook on life', said a former colleague. 16.07.05 By Monique Devereux and Stuart Dye
Shelley Marie Mather should have been sunning herself today under the Greek summer sun.
Instead, her parents, John Mather and Kathryn Gilkison, are keeping vigil in London, waiting for news that their 26-year-old daughter's body has been identified among those recovered from the bowels of the city's Underground system.
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Israeli forces kill seven Hamas activists in Gaza
16.07.05 1.00pm
By Donald Macintyre
ZEITOUN, Gaza City - Israel has assassinated seven Hamas militants in an apparent shift of policy executed only hours after the Palestinian Authority (PA) had itself confronted the faction in fierce clashes that left two Palestinians dead and 30 injured.
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions was plunged into its greatest peril yesterday since it was called over four months ago.
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LONDON - British police have released a chilling photograph of the four young men who bombed London last week which shows them trudging into a train station on the morning they detonated their explosives.
One newspaper said British officials had checked out one of the four last year but concluded he did not pose a threat.
As the investigation into the bombings continued in Pakistan and Egypt, Scotland Yard detectives published the picture in a bid to jog memories and garner more information from the public about the men's movements on the morning of the attacks.
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