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Thursday, June 2, 2011 – Daily News 5B WORLD BRIEFING Republicans press Obama on spending WASHINGTON (AP) — Face to face at the White House, GOP leaders complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he had not produced a detailed plan of spending cuts and accused him of playing politics over Medicare as the nation careens toward a debt crisis. The White House said Obama has in fact led on the issue and made clear that he has no intention of dropping what Democrats believe is a winning political issue: accusing the GOP of trying to destroy the popular health care program for seniors. ‘‘He doesn’t believe that we need to end Medicare as we know it,’’ said press secre- tary Jay Carney. Republicans said their plan would save Medicare, not end it, and they in turn accused Obama of failing to present any pro- posals to preserve Medicare or drive down deficits at all. ‘‘Unfortunately what we did not hear from the president is a specific plan,’’ said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. Number of European food contamination patients up by 1/3 BERLIN (AP) — The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of food- borne bacterial infections is one third higher than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a poten- tially deadly complication than can shut down their kidneys, officials said Wednes- day. The death toll rose to 17, with German authorities reporting that an 84-year-old woman with the complication had died on Sunday. Medical authorities appeared no closer to discovering either the source of the infection or the mystery at the heart of the outbreak: why the unusual strain of the E. coli bacteria appears to be causing so many cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome, which attacks the kidneys and can cause seizures, strokes and comas. ‘‘This particular strain we’re dealing with now seems to be unique,’’ said Dr. Hilde Kruse, program manager for food safety at WHO Europe: Germany’s national health agency said 1,534 people in the country had been infect- ed by EHEC, a particularly deadly strain of the common bacteria found in the digestive systems of cows, humans and other mam- mals. The Robert Koch Institute had report- ed 1,169 a day earlier. 41 killed in deadly Yemen street battles SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Street battles between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen killed dozens of people Wednesday in this country teetering on the brink of civil war, forcing residents to cower in basements or brave gunfire to fetch bread and water. Nearly four months of mass protests call- ing for President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ouster have exacerbated already dire poverty, shut- tering businesses and forcing up prices of essential goods. It’s a trend that does not bode well for long-term stability in this gun- ridden corner of the Arabian Peninsula, home to an active al-Qaida branch and other armed Islamist groups. Yemen’s mainly peaceful protests gave way to fighting last week between Saleh’s security forces and fighters loyal to the head of Yemen’s most powerful tribal coalition, Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar. That was the tipping point that pushed the anti-government upris- ing toward civil war. At least 41 people were killed Wednes- day as clashes spread to new quarters of the city. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clin- ton said Saleh’s refusal to step down was prolonging the crisis. IRS grappling with soaring taxpayer identity theft; sharply up from 2008 to 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine filing your tax return and learning that someone else got your refund. With your name and Social Security number, no less. The IRS is grappling with a nearly five- fold increase in taxpayer identity theft between 2008 and 2010, a Government Accountability Office official plans to tell a House hearing Thursday. There were 248,357 incidents in 2010, compared to 51,702 in 2008. The GAO findings, obtained by The Associated Press, don’t begin to describe the pain for a first-time victim, who must wait for a refund while the IRS sorts out which return is real and which is a fraud. 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