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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 ��� Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING resulted from BP���s ������culture of corporate recklessness.������ Obama warns that uncertainty over budget cuts already taking hold WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Barack Obama on Monday said looming automatic spending cuts are already affecting the economy, while a top administration official warned that the nation���s borders would be less secure if billions of dollars are yanked from the budget Friday. ������The uncertainty is already having an effect,������ Obama said. ������Companies are preparing layoff notices. Families are preparing to cut back on expenses. The longer these cuts are in place, the bigger the impact will become.������ Despite the urgent rhetoric, there was no indication the White House and congressional Republicans were actively negotiating a deal to avoid the so-called sequester ahead of the end of the week deadline. The last known conversation between Obama and GOP leaders was last week and there have been no in-person meetings between the parties this year. With Congress back from a weeklong recess, House Speaker John Boehner showed little willingness to move off his long-held position that the sequester be offset through targeted spending cuts, not the package of cuts and tax increases Obama supports. ������Mr. President, you got your tax increase,������ Boehner said, referring to the tax rate increases that took effect on Jan. 1. ������It���s time to cut spending here in Washington.������ Syria says it is ready to talk to armed opposition BEIRUT (AP) ��� Syria said Monday it is prepared to hold talks with the armed rebels bent on overthrowing President Bashar Assad, the clearest signal yet that the regime is growing increasingly nervous about its long-term prospects to hold onto power as opposition fighters make slow but persistent headway in the civil war. The offer, by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid alMoallem during a visit to Moscow, came hours before KWIK KUTS Family Hair Salon 20 % off ANY RETAIL PRODUCT with any chemical service of $50 or more 200 Regular $ Haircut off Reg. $13.95 Not good with other offers Expires 3/31/13 With coupon 1064 South Main St., Red Bluff ��� 529-3540 Embattled British cardinal becomes first to skip papal conclave residents of Damascus and state-run TV reported a huge explosion and a series of smaller blasts in the capital, followed by heavy gunfire. State-run news agency SANA said there were multiple casualties from the explosion, which it said was a suicide car bombing. The proposal marked the first time that a high-ranking regime official has stated publicly that Damascus would be willing to meet with the armed opposition. But al-Moallem did not spell out whether rebels would first have to lay down their weapons before negotiations could begin ��� a crucial sticking point in the past. The regime���s proposal is unlikely to lead to talks. The rebels battling the Syrian military have vowed to stop at nothing less than Assad���s downfall and are unlikely to agree to sit down with a leader they accuse of mass atrocities. Billions of dollars at stake for BP NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� BP bears most of the Sierra Sound NEW & USED CD���s Special Orders Avail. Car Stereo Sales - Service Installation We make house calls! 226 So. Main St., Red Bluff 527-3735 blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico because it cut corners and put profits ahead of safety, a U.S. Justice Department attorney charged Monday at the opening of a high-stakes trial that could result in the oil company and its partners being forced to pay billions more in damages. The London-based oil giant acknowledged it made ������errors in judgment������ before the deadly blowout, but it also cast blame on the owner of the drilling rig and the contractor involved in cementing the well. The civil case went to trial after attempts to reach an 11th-hour settlement failed. Eleven workers were killed when the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by the BP exploded on April 20, 2010. An estimated 172 millions of gallons of crude spilled into the Gulf over the three months that followed. Justice Department attorney Mike Underhill said the catastrophe INCOME TAX PREPARATION Fast, Friendly, Reasonable Fees Fee for Short or Long form includes all the tax credits and E-filing with direct Deposit. Also Bookkeeping, Payroll and Financial Services available P RALPH CAMPBELL, EA ONE STOP ���Check out our selection of beer, wine & tobacco Your One Stop Convenience Store 714 Walnut St., Red Bluff JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Oscar Pistorius on Monday informed South African authorities that he wants to resume athletic training while on bail for the murder case against him, a government official said. 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And he must deal with an exiled diaspora and American officials who were already making clear on Monday they will not be mollified by a new, younger face. ������There���s going to be a huge charisma deficit,������ said Ann Louise Bardach, author of ������Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington.������ ������You go from Fidel to Raul who at least had some of the shine of the Castro mantle, somebody who fought in the revolution.������ She said Cuba faces ������massive������ problems including a large public debt, dependence on Venezuela, an aging population, decades of brain drain and one of the world���s slowest Internet connections. STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe���s widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat. Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said. The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of 1-kilogram (2.2pound) packs of frozen meatballs that were labeled as beef and pork. The Czech State Veterinary Administration said it tested two batches of Ikea meatballs and only one of them contained horse meat. It did not say how much. Meatballs from the same batch had been sent from a Swedish supplier to 12 other European countries ��� Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland ��� and would be pulled off the shelves in all of them, Ikea said. Later Monday, the company expanded the withdrawals to stores in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic, all of which were getting meatballs from the same Swedish supplier. 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