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8A – Daily News – Wednesday, August 25, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Jet bursts into flames 43 killed and 53 rescued BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese passenger jet broke apart as it approached a fog-shroud- ed runway in the coun- try’s northeast and burst into flames as it hit the ground Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring 53 others, state media said. The Henan Airlines plane with 91 passengers and five crew crashed in a grassy area near the Lindu airport on the outskirts of Yichun, a city of about 1 million people in Hei- longjiang province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Xinhua quoted Hua Jingwei, an Yichun pub- licity official, as saying that some passengers were thrown from the cabin before the broken plane hit the ground. The Brazilian-made Embraer E-190 jet had taken off from Hei- longjiang’s capital of Harbin shortly before 9 p.m. (1300 GMT) and crashed a little more than an hour later, Xinhua said. Tea party, wealthy challengers look to topple veterans WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran Sens. John McCain and Lisa Murkowski counted on voters to reward political experience Tuesday as they faced spirited Republican primary chal- lenges in Arizona and Alaska 10 weeks before the general election. Florida weighed the mer- its of wealthy outsiders vs. establishment candi- dates in primaries there. Nominating contests in four states — Vermont also was voting, and Oklahoma held GOP runoffs — highlighted dominant themes of this unpredictable election year, including anti-estab- lishment anger and tea party challenges from the right. Rich political upstarts in Florida were testing whether money and fresh faces could win the love of voters upset with Washington and with can- didates backed by nation- al party leaders. Rick Scott, who made a fortune in the health care industry and spent $39 million of his own money on his gubernatorial bid, hoped to defeat establishment- favored Bill McCollum, the state’s attorney gen- eral and a former con- gressman, in the GOP primary. Jeff Greene, a big-spending real estate tycoon, sought to over- take Rep. Kendrick Meek in the Democratic Senate nomination fight. ‘‘I just think we need something different,’’ said Democrat Christina Slesinger, a 43-year-old Orlando accountant who voted for Greene. ‘‘I don’t want the same old, same old,’’ she said. Boehner says Obama needs to act swiftly CLEVELAND (AP) — House Republican leader John Boehner on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to support an extension of tax cuts and to fire key economic advisers, arguing that more than a year of ‘‘gov- ernment as community organizer’’ has failed to revive the economy. In a speech to the City Club of Cleveland, Boehner said Obama needs to act immediately on several fronts to break what the Republican describes as ‘‘ongoing economic uncertainty.’’ He said the president should work with the GOP to renew soon-to- expire tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush. Congress will tackle the issue when it returns next month. The Ohio lawmaker also called on Obama to propose aggressive spending cuts and seek the resignations of Trea- sury Secretary Timothy Geithner; the head of the National Economic Coun- cil, Larry Summers, and other members of his eco- nomic team. ‘‘Never before has the need for a fresh start in Washington been more pressing,’’ said Boehner, who promised that he would run things differ- ently if Republicans cap- ture control of the House in the fall and he is elect- ed Speaker. Responding to the crit- icism, Vice President Joe Biden said Boehner’s speech only told voters what the GOP is against, not what the party is for. War not over for troops left in Iraq BAGHDAD (AP) — Lt. Ryan Alexander stands thigh-deep in a dark grove of reeds and palm trees, hunting for rockets. Officially, the U.S. combat role in Iraq is ending this month, but Alexander and his platoon are under orders to keep insurgents from using the south Baghdad field as a hiding place for Katyushas. ‘‘We’re going to be doing this as long as they tell us,’’ Alexander said in a near-whisper in the steamy pre-dawn air, his machine gun slung over his shoulder. Behind him, Iraqi Lt. Wassan Fadah Hussein had his handgun out and ready for action. In the near distance came a gunshot. ‘‘Sound- ed like a little boom,’’ Alexander drawled. The number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq dipped Tuesday to 49,700, drop- ping below the 50,000 threshold ahead of the end-of-the-month dead- line set by President Barack Obama. But the war is not yet over for the remaining troops, who will continue to put them- selves in danger on coun- terterror raids and other high-risk missions that aren’t called combat but can be just as deadly. Until the end of 2011, U.S. troops will mostly focus on training Iraqi soldiers and police to take over the nation’s still- shaky security. They will counsel Iraqi officials on 3rd Valid 8/24/10 thru 8/29/10 can do is warn people to stay inside. ‘‘There’s really not a lot you can do right now,’’ El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles said. ‘‘Those gun battles are breaking out everywhere, and some are breaking out right along the bor- der.’’ how to endear themselves to their citizens, whether through handing out soc- cer balls to kids or build- ing irrigation systems for farmers. Mexican drug war sends bullets into El Paso EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The first bullets struck El Paso’s city hall at the end of a work day. The next ones hit a university building and closed a major highway. Shootouts in the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border are sending bullets whizzing across the Rio Grande into one of the nation’s safest cities, where authorities worry it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt or killed. At least eight bullets have been fired into El Paso in the last few weeks from the rising violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexi- co, one of the world’s most dangerous places. And all American police can do is shrug because they cannot legally inter- vene in a war in another country. 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More than 6,000 peo- ple have been killed there since 2008, when the Sinaloa and Juarez car- tels started battling each other and Mexican authorities for control of the city and smuggling routes into the U.S. Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against the cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006. Sherrod refuses to return to Ag Department WASHINGTON (AP) — Shirley Sherrod, ousted from the Agriculture Department during a racial firestorm that embarrassed the Obama administration, rejected an offer to return to the USDA on Tuesday. But at a cordial news conference with the man who asked her to leave — Agriculture Sec- retary Tom Vilsack — she said she may do consulting work for him on racial issues. She was asked to leave her job as Georgia’s director of rural development in July after comments she made in March were misconstrued as racist. 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