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8B – Daily News – Tuesday, July 6, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Tar balls from Gulf oil spill wash up on Texas beaches GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas official said Monday that tar balls from the Gulf oil spill have been found on state beach- es, becoming the first known evidence that gush- ing crude from the Deepwa- ter Horizon well has now reached all the Gulf states. Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson said two crews were removing tar balls found on the Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island on Sunday. ‘‘We’ve said since day one that if and when we have an impact from Deep- water Horizon, it would be in the form of tarballs,’’ Pat- terson said in a news release. ‘‘This shows that our modeling is accurate. Any Texas shores impacted by the Deepwater spill will be cleaned up quickly and BP will be picking up the tab.’’ The state said responders have recovered about 35 gallons of waste material tainted by the oil from the two sites. Signs of landfall by oil from the Deepwater Hori- zon spill had previously only been reported in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Israel eases Gaza closure KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, Israel (AP) — Israel is easing its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to allow in virtually all con- sumer goods, but the new rules are unlikely to restore the territory’s devastated economy or allow rebuild- ing of all that was destroyed in last year’s war. The White House wel- comed the changes that were announced Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Wash- ington for a meeting with President Barack Obama. International Mideast envoy Tony Blair said Israel’s measures ‘‘should have a dramatic influence on the daily lives of the people of Gaza and on the private sec- tor.’’ The new blockade rules come in response to an out- cry following a deadly Israeli raid on a blockade- busting flotilla at the end of May. The changes will improve Gazans’ access to goods from household cleaners to timber, but Israel will continue to ban most travel and exports from Gaza and restrict the import of desperately needed con- struction materials. Gaza business leaders and rights activists said the measures are far short of what Gaza needs, and that the only active cargo cross- ing, Kerem Shalom, may not be enought to bring in all the goods now permit- ted. Clinton calls for Russian http://www.lesschwab.com http://www.lesschwab.com The West’s Largest Selection PER CUSTOM WHEELS Renegade PER ULTRA 175 ARE 1080 cease-fire TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Russia on Mon- day for failing to live up to the cease-fire agreement it signed nearly two years ago to end the fighting in this small former Soviet state. She asserted that Russia is occupying parts of Geor- gia and building perma- nent military bases in con- travention of the truce. ‘‘We’re calling on the Russians to enforce the agreement they signed,’’ she told a news conference with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at her side. She said that includes pulling its troops back to the positions they held before the invasion. Several times she point- edly referred to Russian troops as occupiers of the breakaway Georgian terri- tories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. She said the U.S. was ‘‘appalled and totally rejected’’ Russia’s rationale for the invasion, which temporarily put U.S.-Russian relations in a deep freeze and prompted NATO to suspend coopera- tion with Moscow. ‘‘The United States is steadfast in its commit- ment to Georgia’s sover- eignty and territorial integrity,’’ she said. ‘‘The United States does not rec- ognize spheres of influ- ence,’’ she added, referring to Russian President Dmit- ry Medvedev’s claim that his country has ‘‘privileged interests’’ and special influence in Georgia and other former Soviet states. Agency takes blame for MONTH MONTH error in report THE HAGUE, Nether- lands (AP) — A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Mon- day it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful. But the review by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency claimed that none of the errors effected the funda- mental conclusion by U.N. panel of scientists: that global warming caused by humans already is happen- ing and is threatening the lives and well-being of mil- lions of people. Mistakes discovered in the 3,000-page report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year fed into an atmosphere of skepticism over the reliabil- ity of climate scientists who have been warning for many years that human- AN MUCH MORE... STOP IN FOR YOUR 2010 WHEEL BROCHURE! Red Bluff 522 ANTELOPE BLVD. (530) 529-1654 It’s a little hot to jog outside! We’ve got a solution! Enjoy your cardio at Tehama Family Fitness Center Over fifty pieces of cardio equipment 8 new 42” flat screens in our cardio area 5[[X [RR after your workout! 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Win bolsters governing party’s hold on Poland WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland chose a rival of the late president over his twin brother in a vote seen as a move away from three months of shock, grief and mourn- ing that followed the death of Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash. Bronislaw Komorows- ki was declared the win- ner Monday, meaning his governing pro-business Civic Platform party now has a year of control of both government and the presidency before the next parliamentary elec- tions.