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8A Daily News – Friday, August 19, 2011 Gunmen crossing from Egypt attack Israelis EILAT, Israel (AP) — Gunmen who crossed from the Egyptian desert launched a series of attacks Thursday in southern Israel, killing eight people and threatening to destabilize a volatile border region that includes the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the increas- ingly lawless Sinai Peninsu- la. Israel blamed an armed Palestinian group from neighboring Gaza. Israeli forces killed five of the gun- men along the border with Egypt, the military said, and later launched an airstrike inside Gaza that killed five other militants from the same group as well as a child. The Israeli military said three of the dead men in Gaza had been involved in planning the attack. Gunfire continued on both sides of the border late into the evening. After nightfall, Israel's ''Iron Dome'' anti-missile system intercepted a rocket fired by Gaza militants at the city of Ashkelon, the military said. The attacks were the deadliest against Israelis since a gunman killed eight civilians in Jerusalem in 2008. They suggested that Egypt's recent political upheaval and a resulting power vacuum in Sinai had allowed militants to open a new front against Israel on the long-quiet frontier. US, allies demand Assad resign WASHINGTON (AP) — Executing a global squeeze play, the United States and its European allies on Thursday demanded an end to four decades of brutal family dictatorship in Syria and underscored the tough talk with new sanctions on President Bashar Assad's government. The unified stance iso- lates Assad further as he presses a military cam- paign against major demonstrations. But the diplomacy left many questions unanswered, including how the demand for Assad's ouster can be backed up in the absence of any appetite for military inter- vention, and who inside the Syrian government or among the country's frag- mented opposition might take his place. The messages from Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels coincided with a U.N. report recommending that Syria be referred to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible crimes against humanity, including sum- mary executions, tortur- ing prisoners and target- ing children in the crack- down on demonstrations. Much of Syria was quiet Thursday, although activists reported intense shooting around noon in the flashpoint city of Latakia. Rights groups say Assad's forces have killed nearly 2,000 people since mid-March. The military assault on civilians has escalated since Ramadan began, with security forces killing hundreds and detaining thousands. Norwegian killer called twice to surrender OSLO, Norway (AP) — The man behind the WORLD BRIEFING coast. Norway attacks that killed 77 people last month hung up twice on authori- ties after calling to surren- der during the shooting at a youth camp on Utoya island, police said Thurs- day. The first phone call came 26 minutes before officers arrested Breivik, who identified himself as the commander in an anti- communist resistance movement, police said. ''I am at Utoya at the moment. I want to surren- der,'' he said, according to a transcript distributed at a news conference. Local police chief Sis- sel Hammer said ''the operator took the conver- sation seriously and called back. No one answered.'' Breivik called again one minute before being captured and asked to be transferred to the com- mander of the anti-terror police unit. Libyans fear rebel advance ZINTAN, Libya (AP) — Families fleeing their homes to avoid a possible rebel assault on the Libyan capital described deteriorating living condi- tions in Tripoli: Power outages lasting days, gun battles at night and a cli- mate of fear in which no one dares to criticize the regime — even among friends. With opposition fight- ers steadily gaining ground in the six-month- old civil war, there are signs that Moammar Gad- hafi's 42-year-old rule may be unraveling. The rebels seized Libya's last functioning oil refinery Thursday and claimed to have captured most of the nearby city of Zawiya, just 30 miles (50 kilome- ters) west of the capital along the Mediterranean A rebel victory in Zawiya could leave Gad- hafi nearly cornered in his increasingly isolated stronghold of Tripoli. Rebel fighters are now closing in on the capital from the west and the south, while NATO con- trols the seas to the north. The opposition is in charge of most of the east- ern half of the country. The Libyan leader has given no indication he is willing to relinquish power, however, and rebels could easily get bogged down on the way to the capital or face a protracted battle there. ''We know he (Gad- hafi) is finished,'' said Mohammed Said, a 50- year-old school teacher who fled Tripoli on Tues- day. ''We just don't know when.'' Archaeologists comb Civil War camp SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — When word reached Camp Lawton that the enemy army of Gen. William T. Sherman was approaching, the prison camp's Confeder- ate officers rounded up their thousands of Union army POWs for a swift evacuation — leaving behind rings, buckles, coins and other keepsakes that would remain undis- turbed for nearly 150 years. Archaeologists are still discovering unusual, and sometimes stunningly personal, artifacts a year after state officials revealed that a graduate student had pinpointed the location of the mas- sive but short-lived Civil War camp in southeast Georgia. Discoveries made as recently as a few weeks ago were being displayed Thursday at the States- boro campus of Georgia Southern University. They include a soldier's copper ring bearing the insignia of the Union army's 3rd Corps, which fought bloody battles at Gettys- burg and Manassas, and a payment token stamped with the still-legible name of a grocery store in Michigan. ''These guys were rousted out in the middle of the night and loaded onto trains, so they didn't have time to load all this stuff up,'' said David Crass, an archaeologist who serves as director of Georgia's Historic Preser- vation Division. ''Pretty much all they had got left behind. You don't see these sites often in archaeology.'' Camp Lawton's obscu- rity helped it remain undisturbed all these years. Built about 50 miles south of Augusta, the Confederate camp imprisoned about 10,000 Union soldiers after it opened in October 1864 to replace the infamous Andersonville prison. But it lasted barely six weeks before Sherman's army arrived and burned it dur- ing his march from Atlanta to Savannah. Engineers mull reversing river CHICAGO (AP) — The city was in a predica- ment. By the late 1800s, the slow-moving Chicago River had become a cesspool of sewage and factory pollution oozing into Lake Michigan, the source of drinking water for the bustling metropo- lis. The waterway had grown so putrid that it raised fears of a disease outbreak and concerns about hurting develop- ment. So in a first-of-its- kind feat, engineers reversed the river by dig- ging a series of canals that not only carried the stinking mess away from the lake, but also created the only shipping route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Now a modern threat — a voracious fish that biologists are desperate to keep out of Lake Michigan — has spurred serious talk of undertak- ing another engineering feat almost as bold as the original: reversing the river again to restore its flow into the lake. The Army Corps of Engineers is studying ways to stop invasive species from moving between two of the nation's largest water- sheds, including a pro- posal to block the canals and undo the engineering marvel that helped define Chicago. After the first reversal, the city at the edge of the prairie blossomed and today is known for stun- ning skyscrapers, a sparkling lakefront and a river dyed green every St. Patrick's Day in the heart of Chicago's downtown Loop. Changing of the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Seasons Saturday, August 27th @ 10am Shopping 101 Saturday, September 3rd @ 10am Fall Sale Please call to reserve a seat Red Bluff Garden Center 527-0886 766 Antelope Blvd. (Next to the Fairground) Storm kills 3 in Belgium HASSELT, Belgium (AP) — A storm swept through a popular open-air music festival in this town eastern Belgium on Thurs- day killing at least three people and injuring more than 70 others, an official said. Ambulances and police cars raced to and from the site of the Pukkelpop festi- val, near the town of Has- selt, 50 miles east of Brus- sels, late Thursday, their sirens blaring. Concertgoers described scenes of panic as the sky darkened, the winds whipped, rain poured, hail- stones nearly half an inch (larger than 1 centimeter) across pelted the crowds, and concert structures buck- led. ''It was frightening. It looked terrible. All the structures collapsed,'' said Brinnie Gardner, 20, of Aukland, New Zealand, who is on a tour of Europe with a friend. ''There was panic. It was crazy.'' Hugo Simons, Hasselt's head of emergency medical planning, told VRT radio that three people had died, 11 had been severely injured and 60 had sus- tained light injuries as a result of the storm. Organizers estimated that 60,000 people were at the three-day festival, which started Thursday, when the storm broke. Many were streaming out of the grounds after the storm, which turned the festival site into a scene of mud and destruction within about 10 minutes. Animals are moving north about 15 feet a day WASHINGTON (AP) — Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says. About 2,000 species examined are moving away from the equator at an average rate of more than 15 feet per day, about a mile per year, according to new research published Thursday in the journal Science which analyzed previous studies. Species are also moving up mountains to escape the heat, but more slowly, averaging about 4 feet a year. The species — mostly from the Northern Hemi- sphere and including plants — moved in fits and starts, but over sever- al decades it averages to about 8 inches an hour away from the equator. ''The speed is an important issue,'' said study main author Chris Thomas of the University of York. 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