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6B Daily News – Wednesday, August 10, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING British police triple their numbers on London streets LONDON (AP) — London began near- ly tripling the number of police on its streets Tuesday to try to end Britain’s worst rioting in a generation — three nights of looting and burning by poor, diverse and brazen crowds of young people. Meanwhile, however, the chaos spread to at least one more major city. Scenes of ransacked stores, torched cars and blackened buildings frightened and out- raged Britons just a year before London is to host the Olympics. London’s Metropolitan Police force said Tuesday it would flood the streets with 16,000 officers over the next 24 hours, but acknowledged they could not guarantee an end to the violence. ‘‘We have lots of information to suggest that there may be similar disturbances tonight,’’ Cmdr. Simon Foy told the BBC. ‘‘That’s exactly the reason why the Met (police force) has chosen to now actually really ’up the game’ and put a significant number of officers on the streets.’’ In Manchester, which previously hadn’t seen violence, police said seven people were arrested Tuesday as youths rampaged through the center of the northwestern city. Firefighters said a clothing store in the city center and a disused library in nearby Sal- ford were set on fire. Assistant Chief Constable Terry Sweeney of the Greater Manchester police department urged residents to avoid the city center. ‘‘A handful of shops have been attacked by groups of youths who have con- gregated and seem intent on committing dis- order,’’ he said. Interest rates will stay low into 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve guaranteed super-low interest rates for two more years Tuesday — an unprece- dented step to arrest the alarming decline of the stock market and the economy. Wall Street roared its approval and finished a wild day with a 429-point gain. The rally was remarkably fast — the Free Haircuts for Kids Live Music Kids games Free Food provided by: Cornerstone Community Bank and Iglesia Nueva Vida Kids receive free professional photographs provided by: “We Shoot Ya Photography” Informational booths Dow Jones industrial average was still down for the day with less than an hour of trading to go — and enough to erase two-thirds of its decline the day before. The Fed set its target for interest rates near zero in 2008 as a response to the finan- cial crisis that fall. Since then, it had said only that rates would stay low for an ‘‘extended period.’’ On Tuesday, it guaran- teed them until mid-2013. But it was also a sign that the Fed expects the economy to stay weak for two more years, longer than the Fed had previously indicated. It has already been more than two years since the end of the Great Recession. The central bank left open the possibility of a third round of bond purchases designed to hold interest rates down and push stock prices up. The second round, announced last year, led to an extended rally for the stock market. President Obama honors the US forces Afghanistan attack WASHINGTON (AP) — The fallen come home here with such dignity that every American flag on every case of remains is inspected for the tiniest smudge. The dead are treated with reverence by everyone. Including their commander in chief. For the second time in his presidency, Barack Obama was at Dover on Tuesday, saluting troops who died on his watch. Sadness hung everywhere. For Obama, it was a day to deal with the nation’s single deadliest day of the decade-long war in Afghanistan. For the families of the 30 Americans who were killed, it was a time to remember the dreams their loved ones had lived, not the ambitions that died with them. Obama solemnly climbed aboard the two C-17 cargo planes carrying the fallen home from Afghanistan. Their helicopter appar- ently had been hit by an insurgent’s rocket- propelled grenade. Later, the president consoled their griev- ing families.. Polygamist leader sentenced to life SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Polyga- mist leader Warren Jeffs recorded everything he said. Thousands of pages, written with Biblical flourish, about God wanting him to take 12-year-old wives. About those girls needing to sexually please him. About men he banished for not building his temple fast enough. Facing his last chance to keep his free- dom, Jeffs didn’t say a word. He was sentenced to life in prison Tues- day for sexually assaulting one of his child brides — among 24 underage wives prose- cutors said Jeffs collected — and received the maximum 20-year punishment on a sep- arate child sex conviction. Jeffs, 55, will not be eligible for parole until he is at least 100 years old.