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8A Daily News – Tuesday, October 8, 2013 WORLD BRIEFING Threat of default overtakes shutdown as center of attention Insurers, others, say there's still time to fix glitches WASHINGTON (AP) — The glitch-ridden rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law has opponents crowing: ''Told you so!'' and insisting it should be paused, if not scrapped. But others, including insurance companies, say there's still enough time to fix the online enrollment system before uninsured Americans start getting coverage on Jan. 1. After emergency repairs over the weekend, consumers in different parts of the country Monday continued to report delays on healthcare.gov, as well as problems setting up security questions for their accounts. The administration says the site's crowded electronic ''waiting room'' is thinning out. Still, officials announced it will be down again for a few hours starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday for more upgrades and fixes. Despite the confusion, the insurance industry has held off public criticism. Alarmed that only a trickle of customers got through initially, insurers now say enrollments are starting to come in and they expect things to improve. The last major federal health care launch — the Medicare prescription program in 2006 — also had big startup problems. WASHINGTON (AP) — A market-rattling federal default loomed and the partial government shutdown lingered on Monday, but a gridlocked Congress betrayed little or no urgency toward resolving either of the nation's most challenging short-term economic disputes. Stocks got a case of the jitters on Wall Street, and halfway around the world China stressed the importance for the global economy of raising the U.S. debt limit. ''Safeguarding the debt is of vital importance to the economy of the U.S. and the world,'' Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. China holds $1.277 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, second only to Japan. At home, the political rhetoric was unchanged — and generally uncompromising — while a new poll suggested Republicans are paying a heavier price than Democrats for the deadlock. President Barack Obama said the House should vote immediately on ending the partial closure of the federal establishment. Target of SEAL raid in Somalia had planned to attack UN NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the week- end was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country's parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, Starting on Amazing Finds Abbey's Hair Works NEW & USED FURNITURE & MUCH, MUCH MORE! Blue Sun Hair Studio!! Hurry in for the Fall Haul Sale Two Locations - 30,000 square feet RED BLUFF 530-917-1138 REDDING 530-917-7797 22660 Antelope Blvd. 3351 S. 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The report, which was leaked to AP and other media in the wake of the Sept. 21 terror attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall that killed more than 60 people, lists Samantha Lewthwaite — a Briton known in British media as the ''White Widow'' — as one of several ''key actors'' in the plot to attack Parliament buildings, the U.N. Office in Nairobi, Kenyan Defense Forces camps and other targets. The plotters also intended to assassinate top Kenyan political and security officials, the report said. Police disrupted that plot. Lewthwaite, who was married to one of the suicide bombers in the 2005 attack on London's transit system, escaped capture when she produced a fraudulently obtained South African passport in another person's name. Late last month Interpol, acting on a request from Kenya, issued an arrest notice for Lewthwaite. Post-coup Egypt swept by nationalist fervor CAIRO (AP) — While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show. In a sports stadium, celebrities and pop singers lavished praise on the military in a televised extravaganza complete with dancers and an elaborate fireworks display. The scene crystalized Egypt's situation since the July 3 coup that ousted the country's first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi, and ended a year of rule by Islamists. SPAGHETTI DINNER Saturday October 12, 2013 6pm to 7pm Social Hour Red Bluff VFW Hall (no host bar) 7pm Dinner Served $10 each 530-736-6441 Coming to Corning Soon Tickets available: P.O. Box 8538 Red Bluff