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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING Obama says Congress must act quickly to raise the US debt ceiling WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama demanded on Monday that lawmakers raise the nation's $16.4 trillion federal debt limit quickly, warning that ''Social Security benefits and veterans' checks will be delayed'' if they don't and cautioning Republicans not to insist on cuts to government spending in exchange. ''They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy,'' he said at the 21st and final news conference of his first term. ''The full faith and credit of the United States of America is not a bargaining chip. And they better decide quickly because time is running short.'' Answering questions for about an hour, Obama also said he will soon ask Congress to enact new gun control legislation in the wake of the shootings that left 20 elementary students dead at a Newtown, Conn., school a little more than a month ago. Among the proposals under consideration are a ban on assault-style weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines. Obama said he would unveil his proposals next week. He was meeting after his news conference with Vice President Joe Biden, his point man in producing gun control measures to present to Congress. Facing stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association, he conceded lawmakers may not approve everything he asks for. Mali Islamists gain ground BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Despite a punishing aerial bombardment by French warplanes, alQaida-linked insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali on Monday, seizing a strategic military camp that brought them far closer to the government's seat of power. Declaring France had ''opened the gates of hell'' with its assault, the rebels threatened retribution. ''France ... has fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia,'' declared Omar Ould Hamaha, a leader of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, one of the rebel groups controlling the north, speaking on French radio Europe 1. French fighter jets have been pummeling the insurgents' desert stronghold in the north since Friday, determined to shatter the Islamist domination of a region many fear could become a launch pad for terrorist See us for your Holiday Fun! HOMETOWN CAFE 1081 Solano St, #A, Corning, CA ~ Breakfast~Lunch BOWLING SPECIAL through Jan. 6 Providing year round family fun since 1958 attacks on the West and a base for coordination with al-Qaida in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The Islamist fighters responded with a counteroffensive Monday, overrunning the garrison town of Diabaly, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Segou, the administrative capital of central Mali, said French Defense Minister JeanYves Le Drian. 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