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6A Daily News – Wednesday, July 6, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Casey Anthony cleared of murder ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony was acquitted Tuesday of mur- dering her 2-year-old daughter in a case that became a national sensa- tion on cable TV, with its CSI-style testimony about duct-tape marks on the child’s face and the smell of death inside a car trunk. After a trial of a month and a half, the jury took less than 11 hours to find Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and aggravated child abuse. She was convicted only of four misdemeanor counts of lying to investi- gators who were looking into the June 2008 disap- pearance of her daughter, Caylee. Tears welled in Antho- ny’s eyes, her face red- dened, her lips trembled, and she began breathing heavily as she listened to the verdict. Anthony, 25, could have gotten the death penalty if convicted of murder. Many in the crowd of about 500 people outside the courthouse reacted with anger after the ver- dict was read, chanting, ‘‘Justice for Caylee!’’ One man yelled, ‘‘Baby killer!’’ Obama warns lawmakers against short- term deal WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to reach a sweep- C & C PROPERTIES ing long-term deal within the next two weeks to raise the nation’s borrow- ing limit rather than ‘‘kick the can down the road’’ with a makeshift, short- term solution, and he declared it must include the tax hikes Republicans strongly oppose. He said he was sum- moning leaders of both parties to the White House on Thursday to try to get it done and beat an Aug. 2 deadline to avert a first-ever federal default that could shake econom- ic markets worldwide. Obama said he opposed a stopgap, short- term increase, as suggest- ed by some lawmakers. But he stopped short of ruling out a limited exten- sion, and his spokesman Jay Carney later declined to say whether the presi- dent would veto such a measure. Obama renewed his stand that any deal must include not only spending cuts but also new revenue — tax increases vehe- mently ruled out by many Republicans in Congress. ‘‘We need to come together over the next two weeks to reach a deal that reduces the deficit and upholds the full faith and credit of the United States government and the credit of the American people,’’ Obama said at the White House. Britain shocked by tabloid allegations LONDON (AP) — Britain’s voracious tabloids may have hit a new low: The News of the World was facing claims Tuesday that it hacked into a missing 13-year- old’s phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her disappearance. 741 Main Street, Suite #2 Red Bluff, CA 96080 1-800-287-2187 (530) 527-2187 An Independently owned and operated Member of Coldwell Banker Residential Affiliates. 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Major advertisers — including Ford UK — have pulled their ads from the paper. Britons are used to see- ing their tabloid press harass royals, sports stars and celebrities, constantly eavesdropping and paying even the most tangential sources for information about stars’ sex lives and drug problems. But the latest hacking case was met with revul- sion from everyone from British Prime Minister David Cameron to movie stars to people who com- mented on Twitter. ‘‘(It is) shocking that someone could do this, knowing that the police were trying to find this person and trying to find out what had happened,’’ Cameron said while on a trip to Afghanistan. Author files sex assault charge against Strauss-Kahn PARIS (AP) — A young French author for- mally accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempt- ed rape and broke her long public silence Tues- day with a dramatic account of fending off an attacker who ripped at her clothes as they fought on his apartment floor. Tristane Banon’s crim- inal complaint was already spawning an ugly public battle that appeared to be dividing France and follows trans- Atlantic mudslinging over the Guinean chamber- maid who accused Strauss-Kahn of forcing her to perform oral sex in his New York hotel room. The sudden weakening of the maid’s case because of New York prosecutors’ doubts about her credibility revived hopes in Strauss-Kahn’s Socialist Party that he could return to France and retake his position as the strongest potential chal- lenger to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 elec- tion. Those hopes could be undermined by the 31- year-old writer’s legal action, which is expected to set off a lengthy pre- liminary investigation by prosecutors into whether there is enough evidence to pursue a case in France. While many here saw Strauss-Kahn, 62, as a victim of rough U.S. jus- tice, the French public may recoil at a drawn-out case in French courts brought by a woman whose mother is a Social- ist Party official. Polls already have found French voters evenly divided over whether they Military could be key player in Venezuela’s future CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s mili- tary took center stage in the country’s bicentennial cele- brations Tuesday, and it likely will be a key player in the country’s political future if Hugo Chavez is eventual- ly forced out of the presi- dency by cancer. want Strauss-Kahn to return, with women more likely to object to his reviving a political career. Police, care providers beg for money ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — With 10 beds and a wait- ing list 21-people long, the Emily Program had planned to open a second in-patient facility for people with serious eating disor- ders later this month. Min- nesota’s government shut- down has thrown those plans in doubt. The private, St. Paul- based treatment program was waiting on a July 18 inspection by the licensing division of the Department of Human Services. The division closed in the shut- down, and ‘‘without that last step in the licensing process, the program will be unable to open,’’ said Jil- lian Lampert, director of licensing for The Emily Program. Lampert was one of sev- eral dozen people who pleaded Tuesday before a court-appointed ‘‘special master’’ for a continuation of state funding or services during the shutdown. In the second day of such hear- ings, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Kath- leen Blatz heard pleas from advocates for the homeless and indigent and sexual assault victims, as well as child care providers, police officers and prosecutors, hospital officials and more. The hearings have been a lesson in the deep and wide-reaching tentacles of state government. The shutdown that start- ed Friday resulted from a budget standoff between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders. Dayton wants to raise income taxes on the state’s wealthiest res- idents to provide more money for social services and public education. Republican lawmakers oppose any tax increase. The two sides met briefly Tuesday but reported no progress. Until a budget deal materializes, state spending decisions fall to Blatz, who stepped down as the state’s chief justice in 2006. A state district court judge has ordered programs essential to life, health and public safety to continue during the shutdown, and Blatz must make recommenda- tions to her on which pro- grams qualify. As she presided over the parade of need, Blatz repeatedly reminded those before her that she had limited power. New source of asbestos contamination raises fears in Montana LIBBY, Mont. (AP) — For a decade, the people of Libby have longed for the day when they will be rid of the asbestos that turned their town into the deadliest Superfund site in America. Now they are being forced to live through the agony all over again, thanks to two giant piles of bark and wood chips on the edge of town. An Associated Press investigation found that the federal government has known for at least three years that the wood piles were contaminated with an unknown level of asbestos, even as Libby residents hauled truckload after truckload of the material away from the site and placed it in yards, in city parks, outside schools and at the local cemetery. The Environmental Protection Agency did not stop the removal of the material until the AP began investigating in early March. Regulators still do not know what effect the mater- ial could have on public health, but EPA documents obtained by the AP showed that the agency found potentially deadly asbestos fibers in four of 20 samples taken from the piles of scrap wood in 2007. The sprawl- ing piles came from a now- defunct timber mill that took thousands of trees from a forest tainted with asbestos from a nearby mine. The potential for more contamination has frayed nerves in the town of 3,000 people and further eroded confidence in the govern- ment to clean up the mess that to date has killed an estimated 400 people and sickened 1,750. Thousands of troops marched beneath thunder- ing fighter jets and heli- copters while an announc- er’s booming voice declared that the nation is ‘‘free, socialist, independent.’’ Top brass appeared alongside Chavez, a former paratrooper, as he saluted and addressed the parade from his presidential palace. The image brought to mind key moments of Chavez’s career, such as a 2002 coup against him, in which mili- tary loyalists came to his rescue. Despite the appearance of a fully unified Bolivarian National Armed Force, some analysts and former officers say there are long- standing internal divisions between those who solidly stand behind Chavez’s drive for socialism and those who do not. If Chavez’s health worsens, some believe latent tensions could erupt within the ranks and the military could end up play- ing a key role in any transi- tion to new leadership. ‘‘It’s going to clearly be an important actor in the days to come,’’ said Diego Moya-Ocampos, a political analyst with IHS Global Insight in London. He said the military is ‘‘the only institution that would have the power to put pressure on the political actors to gener- ate outcomes.’’ 197 migrants feared drowned KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Nearly 200 African migrants were feared drowned Tuesday after a boat carrying them to Saudi Arabia caught fire off Sudan’s northeast- ern coast, a semiofficial news agency reported. The Sudan Media Cen- ter said three migrants were rescued. The boat had launched from Red Sea State, one of Sudan’s 26 states, and sailed for four hours in Sudanese ter- ritorial waters before the blaze broke out, according to the news agency. 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