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Annual quotas for the sushi mainstay will be trimmed from 13,500 tonnes this year to 12,900 tonnes in 2011, the 48-member International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) decided at the close of a 10-day meeting in Paris.

Some nations here favoured a much lower cap, or even a suspension of fishing, to ensure bluefin’s long-term viability.

Voters will choose a successor to President Rene Preval, who is not running for reelection. Haitians will also elect 11 of the country’s 30 senators and all 99 parliamentary deputies in the landmark vote.

Sunday “is an important day for the country’s future,” Preval said Saturday in a recorded broadcast message, urging voters to act with “order and discipline … so election day goes off well and Haiti can move forward.”

At the head of the 18-strong presidential field are a 70-year-old academic and former first lady who could become Haiti’s first woman leader, and a young technocrat plucked from obscurity to be the ruling party candidate.

The elections come as Haiti battles a cholera outbreak that has claimed 1,648 lives and is yet to peak. It is also the first election since a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in January killed 250,000 people.

Protesters marched through Dublin waving placards reading “Eire not for sale, not to the IMF” and “there is a better, fairer way”, denouncing the bailout and calling on Prime Minister Brian Cowen to quit.

A spokeswoman for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), which organised the march, said about 150,000 people took part. Police put the figure at 50,000.

The whistle-blower website is expected to put online three million leaked cables covering US dealings and confidential views of countries including Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel, Russia and Turkey.

US diplomats skipped their Thanksgiving holiday weekend and headed to foreign ministries hoping to stave off anger over the cables, which are internal messages that often lack the niceties diplomats voice in public.

Zapatero added that he would not “deviate from austerity”, a day after he ruled out an Irish-style rescue for Spain and markets cranked the country’s debt risk premium up to record highs.

“If it is necessary to accelerate the reforms, we will do it,” he told reporters following a meeting with 37 leaders of big business.

Victory gave the All Blacks their third clean sweep of the Home Nations (England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales) in five years and was their fourth in all after previous ‘slams’ in 1978, 2005 and 2008.

This latest success meant the Tri-Nations champions, coached by former Wales boss Graham Henry, ended 2010 having lost just once in 14 games (26-24 to Australia in Hong Kong in October) and cemented hosts New Zealand’s status as favourites to win the 2011 World Cup.

On the last day of action at an Asiad unprecedented in size and scale, China fittingly won the last gold at stake when their women’s volleyball team toppled South Korea 3-2 in a thrilling finale.

Zhou Chunxiu earlier added yet more gold to their glittering haul by defending her women’s marathon title with teammate Zhu Xiaolin taking silver and North Korea’s Kim Kum-Ok the bronze.

Hussey registered his highest Test score of 195 and Haddin contributed 136 in a Gabba record stand of 307 runs to propel Australia to a 221-run first innings lead on the third day.

England, who have not won a Brisbane Test since Mike Gatting’s team prevailed by seven wickets in 1986, reached the close at 19 without loss with Andrew Strauss on 11 and Alastair Cook six.

Many carried flowers and photos of their loved ones as they were taken in a fleet of white buses to the Pike River mine, eight days after the disaster.

The visit, organised by the mining company, would help grieving families deal with the loss, said Laurie Drew, whose 21-year-old son Zen was killed.

The Belgian presidency of the European Union said finance ministers from its 27 member states would meet in Brussels on Sunday to discuss Ireland, which is poised to become the second euro zone country after Greece to be bailed out.

A meeting of the so-called Eurogroup forum of euro zone finance ministers is expected to start at roughly 1 p.m. (1200 GMT) and be followed by a meeting of ministers from the broader EU to sign off on the rescue.

Supporters of popular musician Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly ran in panic, along with the candidate and his family, when bursts of gunfire interrupted his rally late Friday in the southern city of Les Cayes, witnesses said Saturday.

Les Cayes police chief Rony Cineac said no one was killed or wounded in the shooting, the latest violence to blight the run-up to the presidential and legislative elections in the poor earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation.

But, two days before crucial presidential and legislative elections in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation, no one in this sprawling new village founded by Haitians made homeless by the January 12 quake seems to have any idea where they will vote.

If voting stations are planned in Canaan, no one, not even the local police, knows where they will be.

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan said all sides in the 10-day-old financial rescue talks in Dublin want at least “an outline agreement” before markets open Monday.

Ireland has been priced out of bond markets and needs a loan to fund its annual deficits and its cash-strapped banks. But many analysts doubt that the country will be able to afford the repayments on an international bailout unless the interest rates are low.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in eastern Paktika province, which has long been a refuge for Islamist extremists from around the world. It is one of the most violent areas of Afghanistan, where NATO and Afghan forces fight daily against the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida.

The attackers, who were disguised in police uniforms, made it through three security gates, said Nawab Waziry, the head of Paktika’s provincial council. One attacker detonated his explosives inside the police headquarters building, while the other blew himself up near the entrance about 20 minutes later.

The survey, due out Tuesday, is expected to find pockets of resistance among combat troops to ending the ban on gays. But some 70 percent of respondents were expected to say that lifting the ban would have a positive or mixed effect, or none at all, according to officials familiar with the findings.

The study is expected to set the stage for a showdown in the Senate between advocates of repealing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” law and a small but powerful group of foes in the final days of the lame-duck Congress.

Later, the predators will come – Siberian tigers, wolves and maybe leopards.

Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filling the vast emptiness of Siberia with grass-eating animals can slow global warming.

Around him sits the patch of upstate New York farmland that gave birth to a piece of modern mythology – Woodstock. At 68, Duke Devlin reflects on the definitive concert of his youth by spinning tales of community and anti-authoritarianism that end, invariably, with the word “man.” As in, “Sometimes I’m amazed that we’re still talking about this, man.”

Of course we’re still talking about it. And, as a historical interpreter at the festival’s site, it’s Devlin’s job to talk about it, to tell the story of the `60s. Unlike so many today who say they were at Woodstock, he actually was. And still is.

The NFL investigation determined that Steve Scarnecchia took the six-minute video of the walkthrough and presented it that day to McDaniels. The coach declined to view it.

But the NFL fined both the coach and team because the matter was not promptly reported, as required by the league.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said he was flying the first leg of the Sydney-Singapore-London flight as a sign of the airline’s conviction that it had completed all modifications and other checks on the Rolls-Royce engines, and the planes were safe to fly.

“We are 100 percent comfortable with it,” Joyce told reporters. “If we weren’t, we wouldn’t be restarting the operations today.”

The escalation of tensions between North and South Korea this past week capped a postelection period that included two presidential trips abroad, discussions about America’s future in Afghanistan and a debate in Washington over Senate ratification of a nuclear treaty with Russia.

The risk for Obama is that the capital and energy spent on a foreign crisis can undermine the perception that he’s working on the public’s top priority: finding jobs at home for Americans.

After winning 24 straight games, maybe it was just not meant to be.

Nevada roared back from a 17-point halftime deficit Friday night, beating No. 3 Boise State 34-31 in overtime in a wild game for the Wolf Pack’s biggest win ever. It snapped Boise State’s winning streak and ended any hopes the Broncos would play in the BCS title game.

The question is what to do about the highest-paid 3 percent of taxpayers. Should Congress let their tax cuts expire at year’s end as scheduled? Extend them for only a while? Or make them permanent?

It isn’t just a debate over how much money high-income Americans should get to keep. It’s about how much their tax cuts might aid the economy. And how much they’ll affect the budget deficit years from now.

Retail sales rose a slight 0.3 percent compared with the day after Thanksgiving last year, to $10.69 billion, according to ShopperTrak. The firm says that’s still a record for the day.

The slim increase came despite a 2.2 percent boost in store traffic, the Chicago research firm says.

Shiites, who control a key piece of tribal real estate, cut a deal with the deadly Haqqani network to give insurgents a safe, alternative route to Afghanistan through Pakistan’s Kurram tribal region, said Munir Bangash, who is familiar with the deal. A second tribesman from Kurram confirmed the deal but spoke only on condition of anonymity fearing retribution from the Taliban and from fellow tribesmen.

The deal underlines the problems of shutting down the Haqqani network’s access to its bases in Afghanistan from its refuges in Pakistan.

Many residents of Alemao, a patchwork of shantytowns covering a wide swath of steep hillside, could be seen streaming down the narrow alleyways carrying their belongings, hoping to avoid being caught in the crossfire of the looming invasion.

A police spokesman said the deadline for the drug members to surrender was “when the sun sets.”

The release of hundreds of thousands of State Department cables is expected this weekend, although WikiLeaks has not been specific about the timing. The cables are thought to include private, candid assessments of foreign leaders and governments and could erode trust in the U.S. as a diplomatic partner.

In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman, Steve Field, said Friday that the government had been told of “the likely content of these leaks” by U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman. Field declined to say what Britain had been warned to expect.

The candy company launched in 1920 was in bankruptcy. More than 200 of its retail stores were closed. Customers who worried they would never be able to buy the chocolates again stripped display cases and emptied shelves of the confections.

But six years after its 2004 near-meltdown, Fannie May has seen a turnaround and is thriving again thanks to what its executives say has been a mix of the old and the new: a strict adherence to decades-old chocolate recipes and growth and expansion in online and retail sales.

Most of those serving in America’s armed forces have no strong objections to repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, according to a Pentagon survey of 400,000 active duty and reservists that is scheduled for release Tuesday.

But the survey found resistance to repealing the ban strongest among the Marines, according to The Washington Post. It’s an attitude apparently shared by their top leader, Commandant Gen. James Amos, who has said that the government should not lift the ban in wartime.

As Portugal and Spain insisted they will not seek outside help, creating an eery sense of deja-vu for investors, Europe braced for what seems inevitable – more expensive bailouts.

The Portuguese Parliament approved an unpopular debt-reducing package, including tax hikes and cuts in pay and welfare benefits. But while that helped to avoid a sharper deterioration in bond markets, the sense among analysts was that the move had only bought a little time.

DeLay’s lead attorney, Dick DeGuerin, expressed confidence on Friday the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Austin will rule in his favor because it has in the past. Add to that a varied assortment of available arguments, and DeGuerin and law experts say they’re convinced this is only the start of what will become a precedent-setting case.

“This is the first and only time that a prosecution like this has ever taken place in Texas. It’s totally unprecedented, and we believe we’re right,” DeGuerin said.

Incoming GOP governors and legislative leaders across the nation insist they intend to focus initially on fiscal measures to spur the economy, cut spending and address state budget problems.

“At this point, the economy dominates everything, and until the economy is turned around and our fiscal house put in order, there’s not going to be a lot of appetite for anything else,” said Whit Ayres, a pollster in Alexandria, Va., whose firm did research for several GOP candidates in the midterm race.