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Thursday, February 28, 2013 ��� Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING week off without pay, but at the end of the tunnel,������ Obama, the furloughs won���t start al-Maliki said in his office congressional for a month due to notifi- in a Saddam Hussein-era cation requirements. That palace inside Baghdad���s will give negotiators some heavily guarded Green leaders to breathing room to keep Zone. ������Neither the opposimeet as cuts working on a deal. tion nor the regime can Iraqi premier finish each other off,������ he kick in continued. ������The most dangerous thing in this WASHINGTON (AP) warns Syrian process is that if the oppo��� The White House consition is victorious, there ceded Wednesday that rebel victory will be a civil war in efforts to avoid automatic Lebanon, divisions in Jorbudget cuts are unlikely to would spark dan and a sectarian war in succeed before they kick Iraq.������ in and is initiating new wars in Iraq talks with congressional leaders to confront seem- and Lebanon Days ingly intractable tax-andBAGHDAD (AP) ��� spend issues. Iraq���s prime minister numbered President Barack Obama will meet at the warned Wednesday that a for key part White House Friday with victory for rebels in the House and Senate leaders Syrian civil war would of voting of both parties on the create a new extremist same day the cuts, known haven and destabilize the rights law? in Washington-speak as a wider Middle East, spark- Benedict���s legacy: A teacher pope VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� On Monday, April 4, 2005, a priest walked up to the Renaissance palazzo housing the Vatican���s doctrine department and asked the doorman to call the official in charge: It was the first day of business after Pope John Paul II had died, and the cleric wanted to get back to work. The office���s No. 2, Archbishop Angelo Amato, answered the phone and was stunned: This was no ordinary priest. It was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, his boss, who under the Vatican���s arcane rules had technically lost his job when John Paul died. ������It tells me of the great humility of the man, the great sense of duty, but also the great awareness that we are here to do a job,������ said Bishop Charles Scicluna, who worked with Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI, inside the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In resigning, Scicluna said, Benedict is showing the same sense of humility, duty and service as he did after the Catholic Church lost its last pope. ������He has done his job.������ Father of Newtown victim asks committee to ban assault weapons WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After weeks of arguing constitutional fine points and citing rival statistics, senators wrangling over gun control saw and heard the anguish of a bereft father. Neil Heslin, whose 6year-old son, Jesse, was among those cut down at a Connecticut elementary school in December, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to ban assault weapons like the one that killed his child. ������I���m not here for the sympathy or the pat on the back,������ Heslin, a 50year-old construction worker, told the senators, weeping openly during much of his hushed 11- minute testimony. ������I���m here to speak up for my son.������ At his side were photos: of his son as a baby, of them both taken on Father���s Day, six months before Jesse was among 20 first-graders and six administrators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. That massacre has hoisted gun control to a primary political issue this year, though the outcome remains uncertain. The hearing���s focus was legislation by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D- Calif., to ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines carrying more than 10 rounds. A Bushmaster assault weapon was used at Newtown by the attacker, Adam Lanza, who was found with 30-round magazines. ������sequester,������ take effect. This would put the White House and Congress essentially in the position of looking past the cuts to the next looming fiscal showdown: A March 27 deadline to continue government operations or force a government shutdown. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the White House talks, arranged Tuesday, are designed to be a ������constructive discussion������ about how to keep the cuts from having harmful consequences. Obama has been calling for a mix of spending cuts and tax increases to achieve deficit reduction goals. The White House has warned that the $85 billion in cuts could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms and meat inspections. The cuts would slash domestic and defense spending, leading to forced unpaid days off for hundreds of thousands of government workers. The cuts begin taking effect virtually at midnight Friday, the White House said, but the impact won���t be immediate. Federal workers would be notified next week that they will have to take up to a day every ing sectarian wars in his own country and in Lebanon. Nouri al-Maliki stopped short of voicing outright support for Syrian President Bashar Assad���s embattled regime. But his comments in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press marked one of his strongest warnings yet about the turmoil that the collapse of the Syrian government could create. The prime minister���s remarks reflect fears by many Shiite Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere that Sunni Muslims would come to dominate Syria should Assad be toppled, and his statements could provide a measure of moral support for those fighting to keep Assad in power. ������If the world does not agree to support a peaceful solution through dialogue ... then I see no light WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court���s conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote. In an ominous note for supporters of the key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy both acknowledged the measure���s vital role in fighting discrimination and suggested that other important laws in U.S. history had run their course. ������Times change,������ Kennedy said during the fast-paced, 70-minute argument. 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I sent a letter to Tehama County Building and Safety Dept., and one to Red Bluff Sheriff Dept. for trespassing & cutting the fence. They both took immediate action and in a few weeks they made the invaders remove their belongings. We were able to make a complete clean-up. John Stover from The Building & Safety Dept. was very active and seriously followed the problem until it was resolved completely. So I wanted to give my appreciation to both The Building & Safety Dept. of Tehama Co., and The Red Bluff Sheriff Dept. Thank You ~ Henry Salimi