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Morning Shinbun Tuesday October 26




Tuesday’s Headlines:

Garry Trudeau: ‘Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble’

USA

Republicans pull ahead in battle for key seats of power

Divide on U.S. Deficit Likely to Grow After Election

Europe

German Turks torn between old ways and integration

Middle East

Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East

Asia

A Top Terrorist Returns to Al-Qaida Fold

Chinese whistleblower faces hard road  

Africa

More peacekeepers couldn’t halt new Sudan war

HRW flays Morocco over detentions

Latin America

Drought brings Amazon tributary to lowest level in a century

EPA rules target truck emissions, fuel efficiency

The proposed standards would cut pollutants from heavy vehicles 20% by 2018.

By Neela Banerjee, Tribune Washington Bureau

October 26, 2010  


Reporting from Washington –

The Obama administration announced new rules Monday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants by requiring greater fuel efficiency for big trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles starting with 2014 models.

The regulations, the first of their kind, call for a 20% reduction in heavy-vehicle emissions by 2018, which would require boosting fuel efficiency to an average of 8 miles per gallon, compared with 6 mpg now, experts estimate.

Morning Shinbun Monday October 25




Monday’s Headlines:

Secret war at the heart of Wikileaks

USA

Political freak show that does little credit to US democracy

Pro-Republican Groups Prepare Big Push at End of Races

Europe

Peter Bossman becomes Eastern Europe’s first black mayor

Merkel facing opposition over plans to change Lisbon Treaty

Middle East

Flies show al-Qaeda’s grip on Iraq

Some Question Insistence on Israel as Jewish State

Asia

Bomb kills five at Sufi shrine in Pakistan

That’s a wrap – kimono-making art may face end

Africa

Guinea hits wall of ethnic loathing

Sudan government ‘committed to January referendum’

Latin America

Cholera outbreak in Haiti ‘stabilising’

Election Day could bring historic split: Democrats lose House, keep Senate



By Karen Tumulty

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, October 25, 2010; 12:10 AM  


The question around Washington today is not whether Nov. 2 will be a difficult day for the Democrats who control Congress, but rather how bad it will be.

Increasingly, it looks like the answer depends on which chamber of Congress you’re following.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report now estimates that more than 90 Democratic House seats are potentially in play; on the Republican side of the aisle, it estimates that only nine appear in jeopardy. As a result, most leading forecasters say it is more likely that Republicans will win the 39 House seats they need to take control.

Morning Shinbun Sunday October 24




Sunday’s Headlines:

Samara: the disappearing wooden city on the Volga

USA

Mama Grizzlies lead Republican hunt for angry women’s votes

Group funding GOP campaigns had its origins backing tobacco

Europe

Stem cell law loopholes allow XCell-Center to operate in Germany

Angelina Jolie’s controversial film divides Bosnian rape victims

Middle East

Gaza hardliners launch arson attack on family leisure park

Iraq’s Maliki says Wikileaks documents could be used in court

Asia

Despite successful U.S. attacks on Taliban leaders in Afghanistan’s northwest, insurgency remains in control

India’s Smaller Cities Show Off Growing Wealth

Africa

MDC furious as police ban Tsvangirai public meetings

‘Joao kept shooting pictures after the blast’

Latin America

Haiti Fears Cholera Will Spread in Capital

Robert Fisk: The shaming of America

Our writer delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq – and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US

Sunday, 24 October 2010

As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims.

Only we could pretend we did not know. Only we in the West could counter every claim, every allegation against the Americans or British with some worthy general – the ghastly US military spokesman Mark Kimmitt and the awful chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Peter Pace, come to mind – to ring-fence us with lies.

Morning Shinbun Saturday October 23




Saturday’s Headlines:

Shakespeare & Company: The bookshop that thinks it’s a hotel

USA

Curing the Ills of America’s Top Foreign Aid Agency

In Arizona, a candidate faces a boycott backlash

Europe

Swedish police hunt for gunmen targeting immigrants

Senate approves controversial pension changes

Middle East

It was the Gaza assault’s worst atrocity. Now the truth may finally be told

A Day in Hell: Iraq, Nov. 23, 2006

Asia

China detonates regional goodwill

Japan’s middle school girls devour novels using their phones

Africa

AU seeks air, naval blockade of Somalia

Africa sees lag in funds for UN peacekeeping

News organizations look at leak with different eyes

Times handles WikiLeaks disclosures more cautiously than Guardian, Al-Jazeera

By Alex Johnson

Reporter  


WikiLeaks.org tried to coordinate coverage of its highly anticipated release of secret U.S. documents from the war in Iraq by sharing the material with a select group of news organizations weeks in advance, but it couldn’t coordinate what they actually said.

In the end, the shadowy, decentralized organization couldn’t even coordinate the release of its own documents.

Al-Jazeera, one of the news organizations that it had given the documents weeks ago, broke WikiLeaks’ embargo by publishing a six-minute video on its website late Friday afternoon. The New York Times, The Guardian of Britain and Le Monde, which also received the material under the embargo, followed swiftly with their extensive prepared reports.

Morning Shinbun Friday October 22




Friday’s Headlines:

Silence of the dissenters: How south-east Asia keeps web users in line

USA

US Tea Party Should Keep Its Hands Off Hitler

Top companies donate big to Chamber in policy fights

Europe

Why Sarkozy could win this fight without really getting his hands dirty

Vatican Bank funds retained in court money-laundering inquiry

Middle East

Bulldozer driver insists he did not see Rachel Corrie

Iran’s secret strategy for Islamic bank network

Asia

China unveils its own version of Google Earth

 For the Kims, the weakest link is family

Africa

British aid failing to get through to those most in need

Nigeria: Feared Muslim sect issues new threats  

Latin America

More than 100 dead in suspected cholera outbreak in Haiti

U.S. halts aid to some Pakistan military units

AP source: White House worried about human rights abuses

By MATTHEW LEE  

The Obama administration is withholding assistance to some Pakistani military units over concerns they may have been involved in human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and torture, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

The official said aid to a handful of Pakistani units believed to have committed, encouraged or tolerated abuses had been suspended under 1997 legislation championed by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. The so-called Leahy Amendment bars U.S. military assistance from going to foreign armed forces suspected of committing atrocities.

“In accordance with the Leahy Amendment, we have withheld assistance from a small number of units linked to gross human rights violations,”the official said.

Morning Shinbun Thursday October 21




Thursday’s Headlines:

What’s So Bad About Parallel Societies?

USA

Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing

Florida activists read between the lines on foreclosure paperwork

Europe

French fuel blockades force thousands to call off their holidays

Eastern Europe confronts fake medicines trade

Middle East

A three-handed game in the Middle East

 Israeli settlers building 544 new homes

Asia

Nato surge on Taliban stronghold drives civilians into the line of fire

Beijing warned its belligerence on islands is ruining relations with Tokyo

Africa

Crackdown on Egyptian media before poll

Backlash as miners shot by Chinese overseers

Latin America

Student becomes new police chief in Mexican town

China ‘trying to block publication of UN Darfur report’

Beijing is trying to prevent the release of a report which says Chinese bullets have been used against Darfur peacekeepers, unnamed UN diplomats say.

The BBC   21 October 2010

The report is being discussed by a United Nations committee which monitors sanctions against Sudan, including an arms embargo on Darfur.

Beijing says it is vaguely worded and full of flaws.

Ceasefires and peace negotiations have failed to end the conflict in the volatile western Sudanese region.

The report says that a dozen different brands of Chinese bullet casings have been found in Darfur, some at sites where attacks on UN troops took place.

The BBC’s Barbara Plett at the UN in New York says the allegations are controversial, but adds that China has the right to sell munitions to Khartoum as long as they are not used in Darfur.

Morning Shinbun Tuesday October 19




Tuesday’s Headlines:

Making the cut at sushi academy

USA

U.S. Pushes to Ease Technical Obstacles to Wiretapping

Foreclosure freeze leads to uneasy politics for Democrats

Europe

Germany’s neighbours from hell

Sarkozy defies French strikers on pension reform

Middle East

Kurdish rebels tell Turkey: keep your promises or ceasefire is over

The Dangers of Being a Journalist in Iran

Asia

Pakistan intelligence services ‘aided Mumbai terror attacks’

Xi Jinping on Track for Chinese Presidency

Africa

Corrupt east African nations ‘running global crime’

Somali militants ban mobile money transfers

Latin America

After Rescue, The Fight for Compensation Begins

Flight delays cost passengers $16.7 billion

FAA-funded study factors in time lost, secondary travel arrangements

By JOAN LOWY

WASHINGTON – Airline flight delays cost passengers more than inconvenience – $16.7 billion more – according to a study delivered to the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday.

The FAA-funded study looks at the cost to passengers for flight delays in 2007, the latest year for which complete data was available when researchers began working on the study.

Unlike past studies of the impact of flight delays, researchers looked more broadly at the costs associated with flight delays, including passengers’ lost time waiting for flights and then scrambling to make other arrangements when flights are canceled.

Morning Shinbun Monday October 18




Monday’s Headlines:

Socrates – a man for our times

USA

New Post poll finds negativity toward federal workers

U.S. Companies Are at Risk of Spying by Their Own Workers

Europe

Weak Merkel stokes xenophobia as she fights for political survival

France: Saudis warn of new al-Qaeda threat

Middle East

Iran brokers behind-the-scenes deal for pro-Tehran government in Iraq

Netanyahu accused over stalled talks to free Shalit

Asia

Gunmen kill 25 people during Karachi election

Video shows Papuans being tortured

Africa

DR Congo women march against rape

Latin America

Mexico closely watches Calif. marijuana vote

Super-Typhoon Megi hits northern Philippines

Super-Typhoon Megi has made landfall in the northern Philippines, lashing the area with heavy rains and winds of more than 225km/h (140mph).

The BBC

Thousands of people in the path of the storm have fled their homes, emergency services are on high alert and schools have been closed in many areas.

It is the strongest storm the Philippines has faced for four years.

In 2006, a storm with winds of 155km/h triggered mudslides, burying villages and killing about 1,000 people.

‘Preparing for war’

The northern provinces of Cagayan and Isabela are on the highest storm alert.

One man in Cagayan was reported missing after he fell into the fast-flowing Buntun river. The man was named as Vicente Decena, a candidate in next week’s local elections.

Morning Shinbun Sunday October 17




Sunday’s Headlines:

USA

US shaken by sudden surge of violence against gays

Republican funding surge provides crucial advantage

Europe

Battle for Trafalgar as developers eye Spain’s last unspoilt shores

German, French rail companies on collision course over Chunnel rights

Middle East

Cracks widen in Netanyahu’s coalition

Seven years of war and still no power to the people

Asia

Japan, Once Dynamic, Is Disheartened by Decline

A foreigner’s battle to preserve South Korea’s hanok houses

Africa

Africa’s children get the ‘Slumdog’ treatment

MDC demands Mugabe reverse appointments

Latin America

‘This was the most compellingly upbeat story since the lunar landings. It was a rare privilege to be there to watch it unfold’

Key U.S. allies in Iraq said to be rejoining rebels

Many have quit Sunni Awakening or are covertly helping al-Qaida group

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and DURAID ADNAN

BAQUBA, Iraq  – Members of United States-allied Awakening Councils have quit or been dismissed from their positions in significant numbers in recent months, prey to an intensive recruitment campaign by the Sunni insurgency, according to government officials, current and former members of the Awakening and insurgents.

Although there are no firm figures, security and political officials say hundreds of the well-disciplined fighters – many of whom have gained extensive knowledge about the American military – appear to have rejoined Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

Morning Shinbun Saturday October 16

For foreclosure processors hired by mortgage lenders, speed equaled money



By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Zachary A. Goldfarb

Washington Post Staff Writers

Saturday, October 16, 2010; 12:57 AM


Millions of homes have been seized by banks during the economic crisis through a mass production system of foreclosures that was set up to prioritize one thing over everything else: speed.

With 2 million homes in foreclosure and another 2.3 million seriously delinquent on their mortgages – the biggest logjam of distressed properties the market has ever seen – companies involved in the foreclosure process were paid to move cases quickly through the pipeline.

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