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4A– Daily News – Tuesday, August 17, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Jetliner crashes — Woman dies, 130 survive BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Boeing 737 jet- liner filled with vacationers crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island Monday. Only one of the 131 people on board died, and the island’s governor called it a miracle. The plane hit short of the runway on Colombia’s San Andres Island and skidded on its belly as the fuselage fractured and bits of landing gear and at least one engine were ripped off. The jet wound up on one end of the runway, crumpled and in pieces, as passengers scrambled or were helped to safety. Officials were investigat- ing reports the Aires airline jet was hit by lightning before the crash on the resort island, Colombian air force Col. David Barrero said. He said other possible causes were being investi- gated as well. Of the 125 passengers and six crew members aboard Aires Flight 8520, the only one killed was a 68-year-old woman, Amar Fernandez de Barreto, San Andres Gov. Pedro Gallar- do said. ‘‘It was a miracle and we have to give thanks to God,’’ Gallardo said. Reid comes out against plan to build a mosque WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Demo- crat on Monday came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moving away from Presi- dent Barack Obama on the controversial election-year issue. Locked in a tight race, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid became the highest profile Democrat to respond to Obama, who last week backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero. Since his comments Friday, the Democratic president and his aides have worked ronmental reviews for all new deepwater oil drilling. That means an end, at least for now, to the kind of exemptions that allowed BP to drill its blown-out well in the Gulf with little scrutiny. The announcement came in response to a report by the White House Council on Envi- ronmental Quality, which found that decades-old data provided the basis for exempting BP’s drilling permits from any extensive review. to explain the statement, which drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. ‘‘The First Amendment protects freedom of reli- gion,’’ said Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman. ‘‘Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else.’’ Critics have said the location of the mosque is insensitive because the ter- rorists who struck were Islamic extremists. The plans call for a $100 million Islamic center two blocks from where almost 3,000 people perished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Reid is in a close cam- paign for re-election. A spokesman for Republican Sharron Angle, Reid’s opponent, said Muslims have the right to worship anywhere, but Obama’s support for construction of the mosque at ground zero ‘‘ignored the wishes of the American people, this time at the expense of victims of 9/11 and their families.’’ Ex-Israeli soldier in trouble over Facebook JERUSALEM (AP) — A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smil- ing beside bound and blind- folded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials. Israeli news websites and blogs showed two pho- tographs of the woman. In one, she is sitting legs crossed beside a blindfold- ed Palestinian man who is slumped against a concrete barrier. His face is turned downwards, while she leans toward him with her face upturned. Another shows her smiling at the camera with three Palestinian men with bound hands and blindfolds behind her. The incident was a reminder of the fraught rela- tions between Israeli sol- diers and the West Bank Palestinians under their control. Israeli soldiers have run into trouble on the social media sites like Facebook and YouTube before. Most recently a group of combat soldiers were reprimanded for breaking into choreo- graphed dance moves while on patrol in the West Bank town of Hebron. The dance featured prominently on YouTube. Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib condemned the photos and said they pointed to a deep- er malaise — how Israel’s 43-year-old occupation of Palestinians has affected the Israelis who enforce it. Interior halts exemptions from reviews for drilling WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama adminis- tration announced Mon- day it is requiring envi- Pages of History Red Bluff – Tehama County A special publication of The Daily News Pages from The Daily News and its preceding titles taken from editions of the newspapers published 1912 -1986 Distributed FREE as a gift to subscribers with home delivered copies of The Daily News on Friday, August 27, 2010 Additional Distribution: • 1000+ Copies to Tehama County elementary students with Newspaper in Education school-delivered copies, September 2010 • 2000 copies for distribution to new residents, visitors through Chambers of Commerce & The Daily News Advertiser sponsor boxes published on each page Limited page sponsorships available! BUSINESS SPONSORSHIP COST REDUCED 50%! • Some full color ad positions available Contact your Daily New advertising representative for available pages and further details. 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Obama slams Republicans as ’No we can’t’ party MILWAUKEE (AP) — Flying thousands of miles to reap millions of dol- lars, President Barack Obama is dashing across the country to help his party retain power, essen- tially offering one famil- iar argument: Republi- cans don’t solve prob- lems. ‘‘Don’t give in to fear,’’ Obama said Monday in his latest ominous vision of a country led by the opposition party. ‘‘Let’s reach for hope.’’ Obama has settled on his message for the piv- otal midterm elections, which means what he said Monday in Milwau- kee will sound like what he says Tuesday in Seat- tle and Wednesday in Miami. He is covering more than 8,000 free- wheeling miles in three days, the kind of personal attention that gets donors to the door. This week offers not just a window for Obama to campaign — Congress is gone, his summer vaca- tion awaits — but also a window into his thinking about the fall campaign. Despite deep voter impa- tience over the sickly economy, the White House is betting people will stick with Democrats if the choice is framed as one between those who act and those who obstruct. On Monday, he warned of reliving a dreadful past, saying Republicans want voters ‘‘to be afraid of the future.’’ Suicides set off alarm at Border Patrol FORT HANCOCK, Texas (AP) — After a bad day on the job as a Border Patrol agent, Eddie DeLaCruz went home and began dis- cussing with his wife how to celebrate her upcoming birthday. Then he casually pressed his government- issued handgun under his chin and pulled the trigger. ‘‘It was the ugliest sound I ever heard in my life,’’ his widow, Toni DeLaCruz, recalled of that day last November. ‘‘He just collapsed.’’ A month later, one of DeLaCruz’s colleagues at the Fort Hancock bor- der post put a bullet through his head, too. Suicides including these have set off alarm bells throughout the agency responsible for policing the nation’s borders. After nearly four years without a sin- gle suicide in their ranks, border agents are killing themselves in greater numbers. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that at least 15 agents have taken their own lives since Febru- ary 2008 — the largest spike in suicides the agency has seen in at least 20 years. It’s unclear exactly why the men ended their lives. Few of them left notes. And the Border Patrol seems somewhat at odds with itself over the issue. Bodies of 2 children recovered from car in SC river ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — The bodies of two toddlers were recovered Monday from a car submerged in a South Carolina river and their mother was charged with leaving the scene, as authorities investigated whether it was an accident. Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said the young boys were recovered from the North Edisto River after the car was found near a rural boat landing. Orangeburg County Coroner Samuetta Mar- shall identified the vic- tims as 18-month-old Ja’van T. Duley and Devean C. Duley, 2, of Orangeburg. She said she would not speculate on a cause of death until autopsies were complet- ed Tuesday. The boys’ mother, whose name was not immediately released, was being held Monday on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, Williams said. He said the Highway Patrol was notified about 6:15 a.m. Monday that there had been an accident and a woman needed help getting her children out of the car. Divers were brought to the scene. Cancer is world’s top ’economic killer’ Cancer is the world’s top ‘‘economic killer’’ as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will pre- sent at a global cancer conference in China this week. Cancer costs more in productivity and lost life than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other dis- eases that spread per- son-to-person, the report concludes. Chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes account for more than 60 percent of deaths worldwide but less than 3 percent of public and private funding for global health, said Rachel Nugent of the Center for Global Development, a Wash- ington-based policy research group. Money shouldn’t be taken away from fight- ing diseases that spread person-to-person, but the amount devoted to cancer is way out of whack with the impact it has, said Otis Brawley, the cancer society’s chief medical officer. Cancer’s economic toll was $895 billion in 2008 — equivalent to 1.5 percent of the world’s gross domestic product, the report says. That’s in terms of dis- ability and years of life lost — not the cost of treating the disease, which wasn’t addressed in the report. Recently expanded and moved near Bidwell Elementary License # 525405817 (530) My qualifications include: B.A. in Elementary Education and experience teaching grades K-8. 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