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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING Obama says raise taxes for the rich to help cut huge deficits WASHINGTON (AP) — Drawing clear battle lines for next year's elections, a combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay high- er taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3 tril- lion. He promised to veto any effort by congressional Republican to cut Medicare benefits for the elderly without raising taxes as well. ''This is not class warfare. It's math,'' Obama declared, anticipating Republican criticism, which was quick in com- ing. ''Class warfare isn't leadership,'' House Speaker John Boehner said, in Cincinnati. Obama's speech marked a new, confrontational stance toward Republicans after months of cooperation that many Democrats complained produced too many concessions. While the plan stands little chance of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the pub- lic can support. The president's proposal, which he challenged Congress to approve, would predominantly hit upper-income taxpay- ers and would also target tax loopholes and subsidies used by many larger corporations. It would spare retirees from any changes in Social Security, and it would direct most of the cuts in Medicare spending to health care providers, not beneficiaries. Protesters in Yemen storm military base; troops kill scores SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards on Monday, weakening the control of Yemen's embattled president over this poor, fractured Arab nation. His forces fired on unarmed demonstrators else- where in the capital, killing scores, wounding hundreds and sparking international condemnation. The protesters, joined by soldiers from the renegade 1st Armored Division, stormed the base without firing a single shot, according to witnesses and security officials. Some car- ried sticks and rocks. They used sandbags to erect barricades to protect their comrades from the possibility of weapons fire from inside the base, but none came and the Republican Guards eventually fled, leaving their weapons behind. Although the base was not particularly large — the Republican Guards have bigger ones in the capital and else- where in Yemen — its capture buoyed the protesters' spirits and signaled what could be the start of the collapse of Pres- ident Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year-old regime. ''It was unbelievable,'' said protester Ameen Ali Saleh of storming the base on the west side of the major al-Zubairy road, which runs through the heart of Sanaa. ''We acted like it was us who had the weapons, not the soldiers.'' ''Now the remainder of the regime will finally crumble,'' said another demonstrator, Mohammed al-Wasaby. ''Our will is more effective than weapons. The soldiers loyal to Saleh just ran away.'' Palestinians say they will submit letter seeking UN membership after speech UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians brushed aside heated Israeli objections and a promised U.S. veto Monday, vowing to submit a letter formally requesting full U.N. membership when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the General Assembly. As the Palestinians edged closer to seeking statehood recognition from the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Abbas to meet with him in New York. The Israel leader said he wanted to resume peace talks, upping the pressure on Abbas and building on the frenzied diplomacy swirling around the Palestinians bid. Regardless, Abbas said he had not been swayed by what he called ''tremendous pressure'' to drop the bid for United Nations recognition and instead to resume peace talks with Israel. Senior aides to the Palestinian leader said Abbas was undaunted by threats of punitive measures. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, howev- er, there was still time to find a solution to the diplomatic cri- sis. Clinton told reporters in New York that the U.S. is talk- ing with all sides to defuse the standoff, noting that the week was young and there were still several days to seek compro- mise. Perry knocked from GOP rivals on his left and his right WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Perry's Republican rivals are struggling to find a coherent, easy-to-grasp argument against the Texas governor, who tops GOP presidential polls despite attacks from all sides. In fact, it's the ''all sides'' nature that complicates the opposition's message. Republican voters who watched last week's presidential debate and its aftermath might wonder: Should I see Perry as too conservative or too moderate? Perry is the newest face in the GOP race and his oppo- nents are determined to define him for primary voters, cast- ing him as liberal, conservative and unelectable. They hope their characterizations of the front-runner take hold before he has a chance to sway opinions. Mitt Romney depicts Perry's criticisms of Social Securi- ty as too far to the right. ''If we nominate someone who the Democrats could correctly characterize as being against Social Security, we will be obliterated as a party,'' the former Massachusetts governor said recently. On immigration, however, Romney and other opponents say Perry veers too far left. The governor opposes a fence along the entire border with Mexico, and he granted in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants in Texas. Obama backs ending one day of US postal mail service WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. Postal Service should be allowed to reduce mail delivery to five-days-a-week to help cut its massive losses. The Postal Service lost $8.5 billion last year and is facing even more red ink this year as the Internet siphons off large amounts of first-class mail and the weak economy reduces advertising mail. While the post office has cut more than 100,000 workers in the last few years it needs to cut more, close offices and find other ways to reduce costs to keep operating. In his economic growth and debt reduction plan unveiled Monday, Obama endorsed the idea of dropping one day of mail delivery — it is expected to be Saturday — and urged other changes in postal operations He agreed that nearly $7 billion the post office has over- paid into the federal retirement system should be refunded to the agency, urged that its payments for advance funding of retiree medical benefits be restructured, and said the post office should be allowed to sell non-postal products and raise postage rates. Appeals court throws out Padilla terror sentence MIAMI (AP) — The 17-year prison sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla is far too lenient for someone who trained to kill at an al-Qaida camp and also has a long, violent criminal history, a federal appeals court ruled Monday as it threw out the sentence. A divided three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new sentencing hearing for Padilla, a U.S. citizen and Muslim convert convicted in 2007 along with two co-conspirators of several terrorism-related charges. 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