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The deadliest attack in two months in the country on the front line of the US-led war on Al-Qaeda was followed by a grenade assault on a second mosque in the same area which killed at least three.

Dozens of people were critically wounded and officials fear the toll from both attacks could rise.

Although officials had urged mass evacuations, with the risk of mudslides and flooding from torrential downpours, many clung to their make-shift homes and their few prized possessions as they had no where else to go.

The American Red Cross reported that the tents and tarps that provide flimsy shelter to many in in Port-au-Prince appeared to have weathered the storm, thanks to disaster preparedness efforts.

“My sisters and brothers, leave the zones that are at risk, I beg of you,” Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said in a television address, flanked by his cabinet ministers.

“There will be rain and wind throughout the country. Don’t be stubborn. Leave if you are in a fragile shelter,” he said.

China, Germany, Brazil and France all voiced reservations about the move, in which the Fed plans to inject another 600 billion dollars (422.5 billion euros) into the economy.

Through a process known as quantitative easing, the Fed will buy up US Treasury securities in a bid to get more cash into the hands of companies and consumers by making long-term borrowing cheaper.

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would pump 600 billion dollars into the economy through debt purchases — effectively printing money — to boost employment and growth.

But Asian nations fear the effects of extra cash pumping through the financial system — as traders seek a better return on their dollar than they would get in the West.

The Labor Department reported that 151,000 nonfarm jobs were created in October, much better than expected, adding the first jobs since May although the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent for the third month.

Obama called the figures encouraging, but reiterated that more needed to be done as he left for Asia just days after Republicans romped home in mid-term elections to retake control of the House of Representatives.

Obama, along with his wife Michelle, boarded his plane at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and headed to India with a brief refueling stop at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.

The trip will force Obama to suspend temporarily the early political positioning made necessary by the Republican seizure of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s elections.

England go into Saturday’s showdown at Twickenham knowing that they have lost eight matches on the trot to New Zealand since scoring a famously hard-fought 2003 victory in the wind and rain of Wellington.

That win was one of only six victories by England over the All Blacks in 105 years, a daunting tally that few pundits expect to be improved this weekend.

Georgian interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said the suspects, who included Georgian military officers, had been providing secret information on Georgia’s military to the Russian military’s foreign intelligence service, the GRU.

He said the ring had been smashed in a cloak-and-dagger operation that saw Georgian security services infiltrate the GRU through a former Soviet army officer working as a double agent and top secret Russian military codes broken.

The Sydney-bound Boeing 747-400 aircraft, with 412 people on board, returned to the airport 20 minutes after takeoff due to “an issue with one of its engines,” Qantas Airways Ltd said in a statement.

That came a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 jet was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its four Rolls-Royce Plc engines appeared to break apart in flight, scattering debris over an Indonesian island.

Separately, a European Union air safety body confirmed it told airlines in August to make checks after finding “wear, beyond engine manual limits” on the type of Rolls-Royce engines fitted to the Qantas jet and some other A380s.

And less than 48 hours after the A380 incident, a Qantas Boeing 747 flying the same Sydney route returned to Singapore, also as a result of engine trouble.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) told airlines in an August 4 directive to conduct additional checks on the Trent 900 after it found “wear, beyond engine manual limits” on certain parts, which “present a potential unsafe condition to the aeroplane.”

The news puts the spotlight firmly onto Rolls-Royce, which makes Trent 900 engines used on the Sydney-bound flight which was forced to return to Singapore after the incident.

“What we have here,” Dilworth, 58, concluded, “is a failure to compete.”

As a restructured General Motors races ahead with its landmark initial public offering, it has taken pains to tell investors that it is a leaner, more nimble company able to edge out rivals in the global auto industry.

Israel eventually destroyed the facility, which Syria denied was aimed at developing a nuclear weapons capability.

In his memoir, “Decision Points,” to hit bookstores on Tuesday, Bush wrote that he received an intelligence report about a “suspicious, well-hidden facility in the eastern desert of Syria” that looked similar to a nuclear facility at Yongbyon, North Korea. This prompted suspicions that Syria was trying to develop a weapons program with North Korean help.

Senior U.S. officials said President Barack Obama’s government had begun “turning the page” on practices of George W. Bush’s administration that had caused global outrage, and denied allegations that the U.S. used torture.

“Let there be no doubt, the United States does not torture and it will not torture,” Harold Hongju Koh, State Department legal adviser, told the council.

Obama, who has said creating jobs is his top priority, received some encouraging news just before he left Washington. The government reported faster-than-expected payroll growth, although the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.6 percent.

Obama called for “putting politics aside” in brief remarks at the White House where he kept up a conciliatory tone with victorious Republicans.

In the first possible policy shift since Democrats suffered heavy election losses two days ago, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs signaled Obama was open to talks on a temporary extension for the wealthy of Bush-era tax cuts that expire at the end of the year.

The fight over tax cuts looms as one of the biggest clashes since the election between Obama and Republicans, who will control the House of Representatives in the new Congress that convenes in January.

Washington believes an undervalued yuan is a major cause of economic imbalances and has pressed Beijing, largely in vain, to let the currency rise more swiftly to reflect the strength of what is now the world’s second-largest economy.

The waters of the debate have been muddied by the Federal Reserve’s decision to buy $600 billion in long-term bonds with new money in an effort to revive the flagging U.S. economy.

The trial, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and conducted with the utmost care, showed that the three-dimensional X-rays called spiral CT scans reduced deaths from lung cancer by 20 percent over just five years.

It was no surprise to Henschke, who has shown even more profound results in a series of studies. And she says she is not bitter that her data, and her advocacy for screening, have been rejected repeatedly by many other cancer experts.

The decision exposed a rift between Pelosi’s liberal allies and the dwindling number of moderate Democrats, who feel besieged and eager for substantive and symbolic changes in direction after Tuesday’s Republican rout. It also is likely to trigger leadership battles farther down the ladder.

Pelosi, the nation’s first female speaker, said many colleagues urged her to seek the post of minority leader in the new Congress that convenes in January. That will be the Democrats’ top post, because Republicans, who grabbed more than 60 Democratic-held seats Tuesday, will elect the next speaker. It will be John Boehner of Ohio, who will swap titles with Pelosi if she succeeds in her bid.

Driving winds and storm surge battered Leogane, a seaside town west of Port-au-Prince that was near the epicenter of the Jan. 12 earthquake and was 90 percent destroyed. Dozens of families in one earthquake-refuge camp carried their belongings through thigh-high water to a taxi post on high ground, waiting out the rest of the storm under blankets and a sign that read “Welcome to Leogane.”

“We got flooded out and we’re just waiting for the storm to pass. There’s nothing we can do,” said Johnny Joseph, a 20-year-old resident.

“We the people have been awakened over the last 20 months,” she told hundreds of supporters. “We did not awaken to go back to sleep.”

Angle will have plenty of opportunities for a political encore.

Attempts were made Friday to complete the statue – which will rise a couple yards higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro. But heavy winds prevented cranes from lifting the torso, arms and head onto the lower half of the robed white figure.

Workers plan to try again just after sunrise Saturday. Polish media say the project cost 4 million zlotys ($1.45 million). Donations came from across the spectrum – from business people to poor people wanting to make a contribution to the church. Work on the statue began in 2008.

Olbermann acknowledged to NBC that he donated $2,400 apiece to the campaigns of Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and Arizona Reps. Raul Grivalva and Gabrielle Giffords.

NBC News prohibits its employees from working on, or donating to, political campaigns unless a special exception is granted by the news division president – effectively a ban. Olbermann’s bosses did not find out about the donations until after they were made. The website Politico first reported the donations.

The case has provoked racial unrest at every turn, and police in Oakland were on alert for more problems following a sentence that many thought was too light.

Defendant Johannes Mehserle had faced a possible 14-year maximum term after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

Hours after CEO Alan Joyce spoke, another Qantas plane with Rolls-Royce engines suffered an engine problem and turned back to Singapore’s airport shortly after it took off for Sydney. Qantas said the problem with the smaller Boeing 747 was not serious and the flight was scheduled to take off again, 3 1/2 hours late.

A passenger described a frightening scene aboard the Boeing, saying there was “a loud bang and a jet of fire from the back of the engine” two or three minutes after takeoff.

It’s the fourth postponement in a week for Discovery’s mission to the International Space Station with six veteran astronauts and the first humanoid robot bound for orbit.

NASA tried to launch Discovery on Friday, but a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up midway through the fueling process and the countdown was halted.

Their willingness to simply go without pay television could be a sign that Internet TV services such as Netflix and Hulu are finally starting to entice people to cancel cable, though company executives say the weak economy and housing market are to blame.

Third-quarter results reported this week by major cable and satellite TV companies show major losses, but don’t settle the question of what’s causing them.

Only when he got to the green did he realize the hole was closer to the edge of a slope than usual, and that his position some 15 yards left of the pin made it nearly impossible to keep it on the green. He had to settle for par, leaving him one shot behind Francesco Molinari.

“That’s why you shouldn’t play golf by memory,” he said after a 2-under 70.

The Associated Press on Friday reinstated its call of Malloy as the winner of the governor’s race. The AP initially called Malloy the winner on Wednesday, after Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said her preliminary count showed Malloy had won by 3,103 votes. The AP withdrew the call Wednesday night when its vote count, with all but a handful of precincts reporting, showed Foley with a narrow lead.

The AP received a complete report of results from heavily Democratic New Haven on Thursday, which substantially boosted Malloy’s total, as did new vote totals from heavily Democratic Bridgeport on Friday. The AP’s complete but unofficial count shows Malloy winning by 7,762 votes. A separate complete count now posted on the secretary of the state’s website shows Malloy winning by 5,644 votes. Both margins are well outside the difference that would trigger an automatic recount under state law.

The strikes in northwest Pakistan were a reminder of the potency of the Taliban and their al-Qaida allies along the Afghan border despite U.S.-backed army offensives. The Obama administration believes success against insurgents there is key to its hopes of winning the war in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani army has supported the creation of militias to fight the Taliban, who are unpopular in many parts of the northwest. The groups know the region and its inhabitants and are seen as useful in securing cleared areas or stopping militants from moving into their districts.

The GOP’s victories seem likely to derail congressional efforts to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays serving openly in the military, thwart efforts to curb the growth of Pentagon spending and frustrate hopes for quick ratification of a nuclear arms control agreement with Russia.

More Republicans in Washington may also mean trouble for Obama’s efforts to improve U.S. relations with Iran and Cuba and restart disarmament talks with North Korea.

Judicial-removal campaigns have generally been difficult to sell to the public. But now some groups view them as a potential tool to influence the judiciary on gay rights, abortion and other divisive social issues.

Organizers of the Iowa campaign had several important advantages: a well-funded TV campaign, a grass-roots structure and an electorate that was receptive to their message.

Tests are needed to verify that the coral died from oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, but the chief scientist who led the government-funded expedition said Friday he was convinced it was related.

“What we have at this point is the smoking gun,” said Charles Fisher, a biologist with Penn State University who led the expedition aboard the Ronald Brown, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel.

Four days after his party suffered heavy, economy-influenced losses in Congress, the president will arrive Saturday in Mumbai, India’s booming financial center, where he will meet with local business leaders and with American executives who have traveled to India in search of billions of dollars in trade deals.

The White House hopes to announce agreements on aircraft and other exports, and generally broadcast that America is open for business with burgeoning India and its 1.2 billion residents.

The president was to depart Friday morning on Air Force One for Mumbai, India, where he was to arrive around noon local time Saturday after refueling in Germany. It’s the first stop on a 10-day tour through India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan, the longest foreign outing of Obama’s presidency.

Obama’s trip aims to seek out economic benefit for the U.S., but advisers are also emphasizing his decision to visit four vibrant and growing democracies. It’s an itinerary meant to reinforce support for democratic values at a time when the U.S. commitment to human rights worldwide has sometimes come into question.

To celebrate the Mexican holiday, “El Dia del Nino” (Kids’ Day), Yuki hurls handfuls of candy into the audience. Kids make a dive for it, then are back in their seats – joining their parents in booing and yelling at the referee to shut up.

Bodies, not candy, are what tend to go flying at a lucha libre wrestling match. But in heavily Hispanic cities such as Phoenix, some parents are choosing the decades-old Mexican form of free fighting as a way to gain some quality time.

The greatest contributions would come from private investment and from “carbon pricing,” either a direct tax broadly on emissions of carbon dioxide or a cap on emissions coupled with trading in emissions allowances, the advisory group of global political and financial leaders said in a report to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The United States has been a major holdout, however, against such carbon pricing plans, and Tuesday’s Republican victory in the U.S. House guarantees none will be enacted for at least two years.

But Terry Nelson, who had been the executive director of political operations for the Washington-based RNC, said that while he had done similar swaps with state parties, he had never done one with a PAC. He also said the transaction was unusual because the PAC had provided a list of seven candidates to whom it wanted the funds to go.

Under Texas law, corporate money cannot be directly used for political campaigns. DeLay is accused of using his PAC to illegally funnel corporate donations into Texas legislative races eight years ago. He is charged with money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay, who faces up to life in prison if convicted, has denied any wrongdoing.

She may have won. Or she may be overly optimistic.

The race is far from over.