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4A Daily News – Friday, June 3, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Democrats look at loggerheads WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday sound- ing at loggerheads with the GOP over how to reduce the deficit as a crucial deadline for U.S. creditworthiness approaches. Democratic leaders talk- ing to reporters outside the White House emphasized the need for new revenues as part of any deficit-cutting deal — which generally means new taxes or fees adamantly opposed by Republicans. They bashed GOP plans to remake Medicare and simultaneously insisted compromise would be reached and acknowledged that the hardest work remains to be done. ‘‘This is a thousand-mile journey that we’re on here, and we are taking some first steps,’’ said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. At stake is an unprece- dented default on U.S. debt obligations if Congress fails to raise the federal govern- ment’s borrowing limit by Aug. 2. The Treasury Department warns failure to act would plunge the econo- my into crisis. Romney opens formal campaign STRATHAM, N.H. (AP) — Just as Mitt Rom- ney declared he’s in, it’s suddenly looking like he might have more big-name competition for the Repub- lican presidential nomina- tion. While Romney made his candidacy official in New Hampshire on Thursday, political stars Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani caused a stir of their own with visits to the first-in-the-nation pri- mary state. Both made sure to assail the health care law approved while Romney was governor of neighbor- ing Massachusetts. And rumblings about Texas Gov. Rick Perry, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota further challenged Rom- ney’s standing as the closest thing the GOP has to a front-runner to take on President Barack Obama in November 2012. Bach- mann plans to take part in a presidential debate in New Hampshire on June 13, an aide said Thursday. Unswayed by possible competitors, Romney declared to cheers on a sunny farm in southern New Hampshire, ‘‘I’m Mitt Romney and I believe in America. And I’m running for president of the United States.’’ The former governor and business executive aggressively challenged Democratic President Obama while trying to pitch himself to the coali- tion that makes up the mod- ern GOP: fiscal conserva- tives, social conservatives, evangelicals and libertari- ans. Romney included nods to all as he sought to make himself the candidate with the broadest appeal and best shot at sending Obama home to Chicago as a one- term president. Food- poisoning outbreak in Europe LONDON (AP) — Sci- entists on Thursday blamed Europe’s worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a ‘‘super-toxic’’ strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand new. But while suspicion has fallen on raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce as the source of the germ, researchers have been unable to pinpoint the food responsible for the frighten- ing illness, which has killed at least 18 people, sickened more than 1,600 and spread to least 10 European coun- tries. An alarmingly large number of victims — about 500 — have developed kid- ney complications that can be deadly. Chinese and German sci- entists analyzed the DNA of the E. coli bacteria and determined that the outbreak was caused by ‘‘an entirely new, super-toxic’’ strain that contains several antibiotic- resistant genes, according to a statement from the Shen- zhen, China-based laborato- ry BGI. It said the strain appeared to be a combina- tion of two types of E. coli. ‘‘This is a unique strain that has never been isolated from patients before,’’ Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the World Health Organi- zation, told The Associated Press. The new strain has ‘‘various characteristics that make it more virulent and toxin-producing’’ than the many E. coli strains people naturally carry in their intestines. New Englanders give thanks death toll wasn’t worse MONSON, Mass. (AP) — The sight of flattened homes, peeled-off roofs and the toppled steeple of a 140- year-old church stunned New Englanders after dead- ly tornadoes swept through Massachusetts, striking an area of the country that rarely sees such severe twisters. The storms, which came with fair warning but still shocked with their intensity, killed at least three people, injured about 200 and wreaked damage in a string of 18 cities and villages across central and western Massachusetts. Tornadoes are not unheard of in New England — the downtown of Con- necticut’s largest city was devastated by one last June — so many people heeded warnings. 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The feelings the 31-year- old victim had never been able to express while she was held prisoner did make it into court. ‘‘I chose not to be here today because I refuse to waste another second of my life in your presence,’’ Dugard said in a statement. Weiner struggles to put Twitter photo scandal behind him WASHINGTON (AP) — Publicly silent, fellow Democrats privately seethed Thursday over the distraction and furor sur- rounding the lewd photo sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account, even as he declared he was finished talking about it and wanted to move on. Weiner’s one-day, pun- laden media blitz a day ear- RANDAL S. ELLOWAY DDS IMPLANTS DENTISTRY 2426 SO. 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He says he saw it online before deleting it. Though generally mum in public, Democrats pri- vately fumed at the forced detour in their arguments about Medicare and spend- ing, leaving the generally well-liked seven-term con- gressman from Brooklyn and Queens largely to fend for himself for a third day in a row. Most Republicans seemed content to let the controversy simmer. A scene on the House floor Wednesday afternoon seemed to highlight the sit- uation. As newly elected New York Rep. Kathy Hochul was sworn in — after an upset, special-elec- tion victory Democrats considered a sign of their ability to communicate their differences with Republicans on the future of Medicare — Weiner and the No. 2 House Democrat, Steny Hoyer were locked in a nearly 10 minute, ani- mated conversation. 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