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4A Daily News – Tuesday, October 25, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Obama offers mortgage relief LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Barack Obama offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans, his latest attempt to ease the economic and politi- cal fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled him as he seeks a second term. ''I'm here to say that we can't wait for an increasingly dysfunction- al Congress to do its job,'' the president declared outside a family home in Las Vegas, the epicenter of foreclosures and job- lessness. ''Where they won't act, I will.'' Making a case for his policies and a new effort to circumvent roadblocks put up by Republican law- makers, Obama also laid out a theme for his re- election, saying that there's ''no excuse for all the games and the grid- lock that we've been see- ing in Washington.'' ''People out here don't have a lot of time or a lot of patience for some of that nonsense that's been going on in Washington,'' he said. The new rules for fed- erally guaranteed loans represent a recognition that measures the admin- istration has taken so far on housing have not worked as well as expect- ed. Bodies and survivors pulled from rubble in Turkey ERCIS, Turkey (AP) — Distraught Turkish families mourned outside a mosque or sought to identify loved ones among rows of bodies Monday as rescue work- ers scoured debris for sur- vivors after a 7.2-magni- tude quake that killed at least 279 people. Rescue teams with generator-powered flood- lights worked into the night in the worst-hit city of Ercis, where running water and electricity were cut by the quake that rocked eastern Turkey on Sunday. Unnerved by over 200 aftershocks, many residents slept out- side their homes, making campfires to ward off the cold, as aid organizations rushed to erect tents for the homeless. Victims were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and con- struction debris after over a hundred buildings in two cities and mud-brick homes in nearby villages pancaked or partially col- lapsed in Sunday's earth- quake. About 80 multisto- ry buildings collapsed in Ercis, a city of 75,000 close to the Iranian border that lies in one of Turkey's most earth- quake-prone zones. Cranes and other heavy equipment lifted slabs of concrete, allowing resi- dents to dig for the miss- ing with shovels. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the quake killed 279 people and injured 1,300, though search-and-rescue efforts could end as early as Tuesday. Authorities said 10 of the dead were stu- dents learning about the Quran at a religious school that collapsed. Libyan leader seeks to calm Western concerns TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — After giving a speech that emphasized the Islamization of Libya, the head of the transitional EVERYDAY 9:00am to 6:00pm 345 So. 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National Transitional Council leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Sunday that Islamic Sharia law would be the main source of legislation, that laws contradicting its tenets would be nullified, and that polygamy would be legalized. ''I would like to assure the international commu- nity that we as Libyans are moderate Muslims,'' said Abdul-Jalil, who added that he was dis- mayed by the focus abroad on his comments Sunday on polygamy. A State Department spokes- woman said the U.S. was encouraged that he had clarified his earlier state- ment. The stir created by Abdul-Jalil's address in Benghazi, the eastern Libyan city where the anti-Gadhafi uprising was born in mid-February, came as international pressure mounted on him to investigate the circum- stances of Gadhafi's death. US pulls ambassador out of Syria WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama adminis- tration has pulled its ambassador home from Syria, arguing that his support for anti-Assad activists put him in grave danger — the most dra- matic action so far by the United States as it strug- gles to counter a Mideast autocrat who is with- standing pressure that has toppled neighboring dic- tators. Syria responded quick- ly Monday, ordering home its envoy from Washington. American Ambassador Robert Ford was tem- porarily recalled on Satur- day after the U.S. received ''credible threats against his personal safety in Syria,'' the State Department said, pointing directly at President Bashar Assad's govern- ment. Ford, who already had been the subject of several incidents of intim- idation, has enraged Syri- an authorities with his forceful defense of anti- Assad demonstrations and his harsh critique of a government crackdown that has now claimed more than 3,000 lives. Calling Ford back to the U.S. is short of a com- plete diplomatic break but represents the collapse of the administration's hopes that it could draw Assad toward government changes and a productive role fostering Mideast peace. Washington held off on a full condemna- tion of Assad as his crack- down worsened this spring, and waited months to demand that he step aside. Ford's presence in Damascus had been an important symbolic part of President Barack Obama's effort to engage Syria, which was without a U.S. ambassador for years after the Bush administration broke ties over Syria's alleged role in the 2005 assassination of a political candidate in neighboring Lebanon. Bachmann's ex-NH staff speaks out CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bach- mann's former New Hamp- shire staffers say they were deceived and treated as sec- ond-class citizens before they quit in frustration last week. 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