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4A Daily News – Tuesday, May 17, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING IMF chief jailed without bail in NYC NEW YORK (AP) — Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the International Mone- tary Fund was denied release on bail Monday on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to spill out. In New York, prosecu- tors said they are investigat- ing reports of at least one other case. In France, a lawyer for a novelist said the writer is likely to file a crim- inal complaint accusing Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her nine years ago. And a French lawmak- er accused him of attacking other maids in previous stays at the same luxury hotel. Strauss-Kahn’s weekend arrest rocked the financial world as the IMF grapples with the European debt cri- sis, and upended French presidential politics. Strauss-Kahn, a member of France’s Socialist party, was widely considered the strongest potential chal- lenger next year to President Nicolas Sarkozy. Making his first appear- ance on the sex charges, a grim-looking Strauss-Kahn stood slumped before a judge in a dark raincoat and open-collared shirt. The 62- year-old, silver-haired Strauss-Kahn said nothing as a lawyer professed his innocence and strove in vain to get him released on bail. The judge ruled against him after prosecutors warned that the wealthy banker might flee to France and put himself beyond the reach of U.S. law like the filmmaker Roman Polanski. Trump not in the running NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump to self: You’re fired. Out of the presidential race before he was officially in it, the celebrity real estate mogul announced Monday he would not seek the 2012 Republican nomination. 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US-Pakistan salvage ties ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top U.S. emissary warned Pakistan on Monday that ‘‘actions not words’’ are needed to tackle militant sanctuaries, as the two coun- tries tried to salvage their relationship two weeks after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a garri- son town close to the nation- al capital. Sen. John Kerry, the first high-level American official to visit Islamabad since the May 2 death of the al-Qaida leader, said Pakistan agreed to take several ‘‘specific steps’’ immediately to improve ties. But he did not say whether those steps include what the U.S. wants most: action against the Haqqani network and other Taliban factions sheltering in Pak- istan and killing American troops in neighboring Afghanistan. Although the United States says it has no evi- dence that Pakistan’s civil or military leadership knew of bin Laden’s whereabouts, the knowledge that the U.S. might find some evidence in the documents seized in the terror leader’s compound has given it new leverage over Islamabad. Pakistan has long balked at U.S. requests to crack down on Afghan Taliban factions on its soil. The Tal- iban and al-Qaida have close ties, and suspicions over Pakistani complicity in hid- ing bin Laden have fostered further questions about whether Pakistan is not only tolerating but perhaps even supporting other militants. Vatican tells bishops to report sex abuse VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican told bish- ops around the world Mon- day that it is important to cooperate with police in reporting priests who rape and molest children and asked them to develop guidelines for preventing sex abuse by next May. But the letter from the Congregation for the Doc- trine of the Faith made no provision to ensure the bishops actually follow the guidelines, and victims groups immediately denounced the recommen- dations as ‘‘dangerously flawed’’ because they stress the exclusive author- ity of bishops to determine the credibility of abuse allegations. The letter marks the lat- est effort by the Vatican to show that it is serious about rooting out pedophiles from the priest- hood, a year after the sex abuse scandal exploded on a global scale with thou- sands of new victims com- ing forward in Europe and beyond. It is significant in that it marks a universal directive to all the world’s bishops to establish ‘‘clear and coordinated procedures’’ with superiors of religious orders to deal with pedophiles and care for their victims. It puts on paper that it is ‘‘important’’ for bishops to cooperate with police in investigating abuse allegations and that bishops should follow civil reporting laws where they exist. But the vague, nonbind- ing measure failed to impress advocates for vic- tims who have long blamed bishops bent on protecting the church and its priests for fueling the scandal. Without fear of punishment themselves, bishops frequently moved pedophile priests from parish to parish rather than reporting them to police or punishing them under church law. US hits debt limit, Geithner suspends investments WASHINGTON (AP) reporters held for the past few weeks will face trial on Tuesday and then are likely to be released. Mousa Ibrahim said late Monday that they will appear before a judge in an administrative court in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Ibrahim said he did not believe the four would face a jail term. He said they were likely to be fined then be released. Ibrahim did not name them but said they includ- ed at least two U.S. citi- zens and a Spaniard. He said a South African reporter was still missing. He said the delay in releasing the four was because of a NATO airstrike on Justice Min- istry offices and the gen- eral chaos of the war. Fla. imam will fight charges of support for Pakistani terrorists MIAMI (AP) — An elderly Muslim cleric charged with supporting Pakistani terrorists will plead not guilty and should not be prejudged simply because of the seriousness of the case, his defense attorney said Monday. ‘‘We only have the — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Monday that he will immediately halt invest- ments in two big govern- ment pension plans so the government can continue to borrow money. Geithner informed Congress of his decision in a letter stating that the government had officially reached its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit. 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