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4A Daily News – Tuesday, June 7, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Weiner admits sending lewd pix, but he won’t resign NEW YORK (AP) — After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Mon- day that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a woman and admitted to ‘‘inappro- priate’’ exchanges with six women before and after getting married. He apologized for lying but said he would not resign. Weiner said at a news conference that he had never personally met any of the women he corre- sponded with online and sometimes via telephone, and was not even sure of their ages. He also said he had never had sex outside of his marriage. ‘‘This was me doing a dumb thing, and doing it repeatedly, and lying about it,’’ he said. He said he did not feel the scandal affected his work as a lawmaker but would understand if his constituents decided not to re-elect him. ‘‘I’m going to work very hard to win back their trust,’’ he said at the half-hour-long news con- ference. 120 Syrian forces dead in attack BEIRUT (AP) — Armed men killed 120 Syrian security forces and torched government buildings Monday in a northern region where troops have unleashed deadly assaults on pro- testers for days, Syria said. The government vowed to respond ‘‘deci- sively,’’ hinting at an even Respecting People. Impacting Business Call us. And get back to work. 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But even they acknowledged there was fighting, although it was not clear who was involved. Communications were cut to the area around Jisr al-Shughour on Monday and the details of the attack were impossible to verify, but there have been unconfirmed reports by activists and residents in the past of Syrians and even mutinous troops fighting back against security forces. Adnan Mahmoud, the chief government spokesman, acknowl- edged that Syrian forces had lost control of some areas for ‘‘intermittent periods of time’’ and said residents had appealed to the army to do what was necessary to restore secu- rity. Edwards emails discuss knowledge of payments WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors have obtained emails between John Edwards and a for- mer aide to use as evi- dence at trial that he knew about payments to his pregnant mistress even while he was publicly denying it, people famil- iar with the case told The Associated Press on Mon- day. Dozens of emails were exchanged between Edwards and his former speechwriter Wendy But- ton as they worked on a never-released draft state- ment to acknowledge paternity of his out-of- wedlock child, according to people who have seen the messages and request- ed anonymity because they have not been made public yet. The messages, draft statements and notes of their related phone con- versations are key evi- dence prosecutors are using against Edwards, indicted on charges he failed to report nearly $1 million allegedly spent to keep his mistress out of the public eye as he pur- sued the White House. The former senator was still denying he was the baby’s father and publicly maintained he knew noth- ing about any money that may have been spent when the emails were sent in summer 2009. 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