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8A – Daily News – Monday, November 8, 2010 Obama promises ’midcourse corrections’ NEW DELHI (AP) — Hampered by heavy elec- tion losses at home, Presi- dent Barack Obama promised from India on Sunday to make ‘‘mid- course corrections’’ to rein- vigorate his embattled domestic agenda in the face of a testier American public and more combative Con- gress. On a day of friendly out- reach, Obama also was con- fronted about his support for Pakistan, New Delhi’s nuclear neighbor and rival. He defended the alliance while acknowledging that Pakistan-based extremists are ‘‘a cancer’’ with the potential to ‘‘engulf the country.’’ His comments took on added significance because he spoke in Mumbai, where memories are fresh from attacks in 2008 by Pakistani assailants that killed 166 in the city. Obama urged the two nations to talk peace; he didn’t commit the U.S. as middle man. Domestic politics fol- lowed Obama across the globe, and he tried to explain how he will recali- brate his presidency from the rubble of this past week’s elections. The topic came up not in response to a question from a Washington reporter but rather an Indian college student, who told Obama: ‘‘It seems that the American people have asked for a change.’’ The president agreed that people vented their frustra- tion about the economy by sacking many incumbents. A ‘‘healthy thing,’’ he said, even though his Democratic Party suffered, losing con- trol of one of the chambers in Congress. He said he would not retreat on spend- ing money for energy and education, and offered no specific policy changes. GOPtakes aim at health care bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Resurgent Republicans rallied Sunday behind an agenda based on unwaver- ing opposition to the Obama White House and federal spending, laying the groundwork for gridlock until their 2012 goal: a new president, a ‘‘better Senate’’ and ridding the country of that demonized health care law. Republicans said they were willing to work with President Barack Obama but also signaled it would be only on their terms. With control of the White House and the Senate, Democrats showed no sign they were conceding the final two years of Obama’s term to Republican lawmakers who claimed the majority in the House. ‘‘I think this week’s elec- tion was a historic rejection of American liberalism and the Obama and Pelosi agen- da,’’ said Rep. Mike Pence, the Indiana Republican who is stepping down from his post in GOP leadership. ‘‘The American people are tired of the borrowing, the spending, the bailouts, the takeovers.’’ Voters on Tuesday pun- ished Democrats from New Hampshire to California, giving Republicans at least 60 new seats in the House. Republicans picked up 10 WORLD BRIEFING Israel’s governorships; the GOP also gained control of 19 state legislative chambers and now holds the highest level of state legislative seats since 1928. ‘‘It was a very rough week, there’s no sugarcoat- ing that,’’ said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who led the Democratic Congres- sional Campaign Commit- tee. Gates, Obama urge repeal of ban on openly gay service WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year’s end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It’s a position shared by his boss, the pres- ident. 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Buildings were sold to settler groups in and around the sensitive Old City of Jerusalem at a fraction of the going market rates by gov- ernments that were involved in peace talks with the Pales- tinians, who claim those same areas. Sharing Jerusalem is one of the touchiest issues facing Mideast negotiations. Sever- al previous rounds have bro- ken down over the fate of the holy city. A key sticking point is a hilltop in the walled Old City, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits atop the ruins of the biblical Jew- ish Temples. Both sides claim the site. Myanmar votes for first time in 20 years YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Voters in the secre- tive military-ruled nation of Myanmar cast their first bal- lots in two decades on Sun- day, as slim hopes for demo- cratic reform faced an elec- toral system engineered to ensure that most power will remain in the hands of the junta and its political prox- ies. 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It fielded 1,112 candi- dates for the 1,159 seats in the two-house national par- liament and 14 regional par- liaments, while the largest anti-government party, the National Democratic Force, contested just 164 spots. Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a landslide victory in the last elections in 1990 but was barred from taking office, urged a boycott of the vote. Hundreds of potential oppo- sition candidates were either in prison or, like Suu Kyi, under house arrest. The mil- itary has ruled Myanmar since 1962, when it was known as Burma. Decades of human rights abuses and mistreatment of its ethnic minorities have turned the Southeast Asian nation into a diplomatic outcast. The junta has squandered Myan- mar’s vast natural resources through economic misman- agement and found itself allied with international pariahs like North Korea. Many voters said they want- ed to cast their votes against the junta’s politicians. Weekend violence kills at least 20 in northern Mexico CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — At least 20 people were killed in drug- gang violence over the weekend in this northern Mexican border city, includ- ing seven found dead out- side one house. The seven men were believed to have been at a family party when they were gunned down Saturday night, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the attor- ney general’s office in Chi- huahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located. Five were found dead in a car, and the other two were shot at the entrance of the home. There have been several such massacres in Ciudad Juarez, a city held hostage by a nearly three-year turf battle between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. Few residents now ven- ture out to bars and restau- rants. 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