Archive for October, 2010

Indonesian volcano unleashes new powerful eruption (AP)

Mount Merapi spews pyroclastic flow as seen from Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. The deadly volcano spewed searing cloud of ash down its slopes Sunday, prompting panic and chaos among thousands of villagers who had taken advantage of a lull in activity to rush home and check on their livestock. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)AP – Indonesia’s deadly volcano has unleashed another powerful eruption, spewing out towering clouds of hot ash. There were no immediate reports of new casualties or damage.


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Ex-guerrilla to be Brazil’s first female president (AP)

Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers Party, gestures to supporters as she arrives to give her victory speech after winning the election runoff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. Governing party candidate Dilma Rousseff was elected Brazil's president, becoming the nation's first female leader, and will take office Jan. 1.  (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP – A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil’s long dictatorship was elected Sunday as president of Latin America’s biggest nation, a country in the midst of an economic and political rise.


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Ruthless Yemen bomb suspect blew up his own brother

The Al Qaeda bomb-maker thought to be behind the Yemen cargo bombs is so ruthless that he once slipped explosives inside his own brother’s body to kill a Saudi prince.

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Contraception could be free under health care law (AP)

FILE - In this May 28, 1999 file photo, a new birth control pill container designed to look like a woman's makeup compact for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., of Raritan, N.J., is displayed at the manufacturer's assembly line. Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.  (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)AP – Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.


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Iraqi forces free hostages from church; 19 killed (AP)

Iraqi security forces and wellwishers surround an Iraqi youth after his release from a hostage situation at the Sayidat al-Najat church following a rescue operation by Iraqi and US forces in Baghdad's Karrada neighbourhood. Seven Christians were killed and at least 13 wounded in an operation involving US and Iraqi forces to end a hostage drama at a church in the Iraqi capital, officials said.(AFP/Khalil al-Murshidi)AP – Islamic militants held around 120 Iraqi Christians hostage for nearly four hours in a church Sunday before security forces stormed the building and freed them, ending a standoff that left at least 19 people dead, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.


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Jets are Halloweenies in loss to Packers

Thanks to three turnovers, two failed replay challenges and one inept offense, the Jets looked nothing like the world beaters that had backed up all its bravado through the first seven weeks of the season, disappearing in a 9-0 loss the Packers Sunday.

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Gitmo former ‘child soldier’ sentenced to 8 years (AP)

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Canadian Omar Khadr, front left, stands with his defense team as his verdict is read at Camp Justice on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. Jury members are represented by numbered cards at left. Khadr, a former teenage al-Qaida fighter, was sentenced Sunday to eight more years in custody under the terms of a plea agreement unsealed after a military sentencing jury said he should serve 40 years for war crimes. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)AP – A former teenage al-Qaida fighter was sentenced Sunday to eight more years in custody under the terms of a plea agreement unsealed after a military sentencing jury said he should serve 40 years for war crimes.


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