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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Brazil floods kills over 200
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Arizona shooting: Loughner 'ran red light' before attack
Topic: gabrielle giffords, bbc news US & CANADA12 January 2011 Last updated at 12:19 ET by Rochelle van Amber, BBC News, for the BBC's Biodun Iginla The suspected gunman fr om Saturday's deadly shooting in Arizona was stopped for running a red light hours before the attack, police say. Jared Loughner, 22, was given a verbal warning by an Arizona police officer, the Associated Press reported. Fresh details have begun to emerge about the hours ahead of the attack in which six people were killed and 13 injured, including a congresswoman. Mr Loughner has been jailed pending trial for the attack. US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, remains in critical condition after being shot through the head in the Saturday attack at a grocery store where she was holding a constituent event. In Tucson, Arizona, where Mr Loughner lived and where the attack took place, investigators have said they found a handwritten note among Mr Loughner's effects bearing the words "Die, bitch", which they believe was a reference to Ms Giffords. Other notes previously disclosed read "I planned ahead", "My assassination" and "Giffords". The Arizona wildlife officer who stopped Mr Loughner the morning of the attack took his name and vehicle registration, and released him with a verbal warning after learning he was not wanted on any warrants. "He had a valid license, the car was registered, he had insurance," Arizona Game and Fish department spokesman Jim Paxon said. "He was warned and released because we had no probable cause to hold, or do an extensive search." Also the morning before the shooting, Mr Loughner was confronted by his father, who asked why he was removing a black bag from the trunk of the family car, reports quoting law enforcement officials said. Mr Loughner, who had been expelled from a local college over concerns for his mental health and had been rejected by the US Army for drug use, fled into the desert, AP said. Police visitsMr Loughner's parents late on Tuesday released a statement saying they had been devastated by the attack and pleaded for privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel," Randy and Amy Loughner wrote in a statement handed to reporters waiting outside their house. "We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don't understand why this happened. We care very deeply about the victims and their families. We are so very sorry for their loss." It has also emerged that police had been to the Loughner house before the attack. The Wall Street Journal reported police visited the house to investigate non-violent incidents, including a report by Jared Loughner of identity theft, a noise complaint and Amy Loughner's claim that someone had stolen her license plate sticker. Mr Loughner has been charged with several federal crimes over the shooting, and could face the death penalty if convicted. In an initial court appearance on Monday, he was remanded in custody pending trial.
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12 January 2011 Last updated at 12:47 ETShare this pageFacebookTwitterShareEmailPrint Hezbollah and allies topple Lebanese unity government
Topic: lebanon, nasra ismail, biodun ig MIDDLE EASTLebanon's national unity government has collapsed after 11 ministers from Hezbollah and its allies resigned.
by Nasra Ismail and Biodun Iginla, BBC News Analysts Energy Minister Gibran Bassil said the decision was prompted by a dispute over the UN tribunal investigating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's murder. The announcement came as Prime Minister Saad Hariri, his son, was meeting US President Barack Obama in Washington. Tension has been high in Lebanon, amid indications that Hezbollah members could be indicted by the UN tribunal. On Tuesday, officials said efforts by the Syrian and Saudi Arabian governments to reach a political compromise had failed. The opposition has claimed that a potential deal was blocked by the US. After meeting Mr Hariri, Mr Obama said the latest moves demonstrated Hezbollah's determination to block the government's work. There are widespread fears that a collapse of the government could spark an outbreak of sectarian violence, last seen in Beirut in 2008. Caretaker roleUnder a power-sharing deal agreed in November 2009 to end five months of deadlock, the Shia Islamist movement Hezbollah was given two posts in the 30-member national unity government. Its allies - the Shia Amal movement and the bloc of the Maronite Christian leader and former general Michel Aoun - got another eight. Mr Hariri's Sunni Future movement and its Maronite Christian and Druze allies, meanwhile, had 15 ministers in the cabinet. The five remaining ministers were named by President Michel Suleiman. The resignations of more than a third of the ministers were required to bring down the government. On Wednesday, the 10 ministers allied to Hezbollah were joined by one of the president's appointees, Minister of State Adnan Sayyed Hussein, in announcing that they would resign and force the government's collapse. Mr Hariri will now head a caretaker administration while the president consults parliamentary blocs to seek agreement on an acceptable new figure. Mr Bassil, a member of the Christian Free Patriotic Movement, said the prime minister had rejected their demands for an urgent cabinet session to discuss withdrawing all co-operation with the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) and denouncing any indictments. "The grace period has ended, and the waiting stage that we lived through without any result has ended," he told Reuters news agency. Environment Minister Mohammed Rahhal, a member of the Future Movement, said the resignations were aimed at paralysing the state and forcing Mr Hariri to reject the authority of the tribunal investigating his father's murder, something he could not bring himself to do. "They think that by piling the pressure on him, that Hariri will bend, but they are mistaken," he told the AFP news agency. Other allies of the prime minister criticised Hezbollah for making the announcement coincide with his meeting with President Obama. Mr Hariri made no comment after the talks at the White House, but officials said he planned to fly to Paris this evening to discuss the crisis with French President Nicolas Sarkozy before returning to Beirut. A White House statement said President Obama had commended Mr Hariri for his "steadfast leadership and efforts to reach peace, stability and consensus in Lebanon under difficult circumstances". "The efforts by the Hezbollah-led coalition to collapse the Lebanese government only demonstrate their own fear and determination to block the government's ability to conduct its business and advance the aspirations of all of the Lebanese people," it said. BBC Beirut correspondent Jim Muir says this is believed to be the first time in Lebanon's history that a government has been brought down by ministerial resignations rather than the prime minister himself deciding to call it a day. This is a struggle over the regional balance of power, which was heavily in Washington's favour at the time the UN tribunal was established, but has now swung back in the direction of Syria, Iran and their local allies on the Lebanese stage, our correspondent says. But, he adds, while bringing down the government is one thing, replacing it with another is something else. At the moment, Mr Hariri's allies insist that only he should head any new government. So getting them to agree to someone closer to Syria and the Lebanese opposition will be very hard, our correspondent says. President Suleiman will go through the motions to find a compromise candidate, but the consultations are likely to go round in circles as long as there is no agreement, and certainly there is none in sight, he adds. Rafik Hariri and 22 others were killed in February 2005 when a huge bomb exploded next to his motorcade in Beirut. Syria was initially blamed for the assassination, and eventually forced in its wake to withdraw its troops from Lebanon after 29 years. In the past year, however, members of Hezbollah have emerged as prime suspects. The Canadian broadcaster, CBC, reported in November that evidence gathered by the Lebanese police and the UN pointed "overwhelmingly to the fact that the assassins were from Hezbollah". It published diagrams showing how investigators had traced interlinking networks of mobile phones from the vicinity of the blast that killed Rafik Hariri to Hezbollah's communications centre in south Beirut. Hezbollah has rejected any suggestion of involvement in the assassination. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has called the tribunal an "Israeli project" and warned of dire consequences if it indicts his followers.
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BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Hezbollah Forces Collapse of Lebanese Government
Topic: lebanon, nasra ismail, biodun ig by Nasra Ismail, BBC News Middle East Desk, for the BBC's Biodun Iginla Hezbollah and its allies forced the collapse of the government on Wednesday, deepening a crisis over a United Nations-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of a former prime minister. Eleven of the cabinet's 30 ministers announced their resignations, a move that dissolves the government. They said they were prompted to act by the cabinet's refusal to convene an emergency session to oppose the tribunal, which is expected to expected to indict members of Hezbollah. Ten of the ministers announced their resignations just as Prime Minister Saad Hariri was meeting with President Obama in Washington. The opposition had hoped that all 11 ministers would resign together, to bring down the government at that time and embarrass Mr. Hariri to the maximum.
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Friend said shooting suspect embraces chaos
Topic: gabrielle giffords, bbc news by Rochelle van Amber, BBC News, for the BBC's Biodun Iginla TUCSON, Jan. 12 -- The suspect in the weekend rampage at a political event in Tucson, Ariz., was a skilled marksman and "loves causing chaos," a friend said. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, of Tucson faces federal charges in Saturday's shooting, in which Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was critically injured and U.S. District Judge John Roll, his law clerk Matthew Bowman and Giffords' staffer Gabriel Zimmerman were among the dead. Six people died and 14 were injured. "He was a nihilist and loves causing chaos, and that is probably why he did the shooting, along with the fact he was sick in the head," Zane Gutierrez, 21, told The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday. He said Loughner was obsessed with the meaning and importance of dreams. The suspect also read Friedrich Nietzsche's book, "The Will To Power," and embraced ideas about the effects of nihilism, his friend said. Loughner also used the word "hollow" to describe "how fake the real world was to him, Gutierrez said. Loughner began working on his proficiency with a 9mm pistol, the same caliber weapon used in Saturday's attack, while in high school, his friend said. "If he had a gun pointed at me, there is nothing I could do because he would make it count," Gutierrez said. "He was quick." Law enforcement officials told me at the BBC that police more than once went to the house Loughner shared with his parents. Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Ogan also told me at the BBC that he didn't know the nature of the calls or whether they involved Loughner or another member of the household, the Times said. He said the calls were being reviewed by legal counsel and would be released after the review was complete.
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Topic: bbc news, biodun iginla, the eco 9:38 am EST Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 New England takes a hit as storm scrapes northwardASSOCIATED PRESS | 0 comments HARTFORD, Conn. — A winter storm that shut down much of the South churned up the coast Wednesday, dumping wet, heavy snow across the Northeast and saving its most brutal punch for New England, where hundreds of cars spun out and schools...Read more FOCUS ON:
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SCHOOLS ORDERED SHUT AS STUDENTS JOIN PROTESTS
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