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8A Daily News – Friday, November 25, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Egypt's military rulers reject protester calls CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military rulers rejected pro- tester demands for them to step down immediately and said Thursday they would start the first round of par- liamentary elections on time next week, despite serious unrest in Cairo and other cities. The ruling military coun- cil insisted it is not the same as the old regime it replaced, but the generals appear to be on much the same path that doomed Hosni Mubarak nine months ago — responding to the current crisis by deliv- ering speeches seen as arro- gant, mixing concessions with threats and using brutal force. So far it's working no better than it did under the former leader. Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, seething over the military's perceived fail- ings over the past nine months, say they will not leave the iconic plaza until the generals step down in favor of a civilian presiden- tial council, a show of resolve similar to that which forced Mubarak to give up power in February after nearly three decades. ''What we want to hear is when they are leaving,'' said Tahrir protester Khaled Mahmoud on hearing of an apology offered by the mili- tary for the deaths of nearly 40 protesters since Satur- day. ''The ouster of the mar- shal is only a matter of time,'' he added, referring to Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who was Mubarak's defense minister for 20 years before he suc- ceeded him in February. Yemeni protesters reject power transfer deal SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.S.-backed deal for Yemen's authoritarian president to step down fell far short of the demands of protesters who fought $1200 in Discount Coupons were published last week in the D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY … And that does not Count all the ads offering percentage discounts, two-for-ones and Free-with-Purchase offers! Don't miss a Day of it! Subscribe Today 527-2151 It pays for itself. regime supporters on the streets of Sanaa Thursday in clashes that left five dead. The agreement ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule pro- vides for only the shal- lowest of changes at the top of the regime, some- thing the U.S. administra- tion likely favored to pre- serve a fragile alliance against one of the world's most active al-Qaida branches based in Yemen. The plan drawn up by Yemen's oil-rich Gulf neighbors does not direct- ly change the system Saleh put in place over three decades to serve his interests. ''It gives an opportuni- ty for regime survival,'' said Yemen expert Ibrahim Sharqieh at the Brookings Doha Center. ''The only one we've seen changing here is the pres- ident, but the state institu- tions and everything else remain in place. Nothing else has changed.'' Saleh signed the agree- ment Wednesday in the Saudi capital Riyadh, transferring power to his vice president within 30 days. If it holds, he will be the fourth dictator pushed from power this year by the Arab Spring uprisings. Giffords helps serve meal to service members TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords helped serve a Thanksgiving meal to ser- vice members and retirees at a military base in her hometown. Giffords arrived in the dining hall at Davis-Mon- than Air Force Base in Tucson at midday Thurs- day wearing a ball cap and an apron with her nickname of ''Gabby'' sewn on the front. She was accompanied by her retired astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, who also donned an apron. 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Iraq: 19 people killed BASRA, Iraq (AP) — A string of bombings in a southern oil city killed 19 people Thursday evening and injured dozens more, a grim sign of the security challenges Iraq will face after American troops go home. The U.S. military is drawing down its troops ahead of an end-of- December deadline to have all American forces out of the country. Inci- dents like Thursday's triple bombing in a city seen as key to Iraq's eco- nomic development show the dangerous prospects awaiting Iraqis next year. Three bombs went off in a popular open-air mar- ket in Basra, police and health officials said. The third bomb exploded a few minutes after Iraqi army and police forces arrived on the scene in response to the earlier blasts, officials said. The third blast caused all the fatalities and almost all of the injuries, the officials said. Among the dead and wounded were many policemen and Iraqi army soldiers. Germany deflects calls for ECB to have more power STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Germany deflected calls for the European Central Bank to play a bigger role in solv- ing Europe's debt crisis but did win the backing of France and Italy to unite the troubled 17-nation eurozone more closely. Europe's biggest econ- omy and the main financier of the euro- zone's three bailouts has argued against allowing the ECB to use its fire- power to ease a debt crisis that's shown alarming signs recently of spread- ing to big economies, like Italy. Instead of using the ECB's cash-printing power, the eurozone's richest countries decided to use political tools to dig their way out of the crisis: Germany and France agreed Thursday to push for changes to EU treaties to bring the euro- zone's economic policies more in line with each other. ''In the treaty changes, we are dealing with the question of a fiscal union, a deeper political cooper- ation ... there will be pro- posals on this, but they have nothing to do with the ECB,'' German Chan- cellor Angela Merkel said Thursday in Strasbourg, France after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italy's new premier Mario Monti. Many think the ECB is the only institution capa- ble of calming frayed market nerves and Merkel's continued dis- missal of a greater ECB role knocked market sen- timent and stocks all round Europe fell again after a morning rebound. Tough politics for Obama on guns as 2012 approaches WASHINGTON (AP) — They are fuzzy about some issues but the Republican presidential candidates leave little doubt about where they stand on gun rights. Rick Perry and Rick Santorum go pheasant hunting and give inter- views before heading out. Newt Gingrich and Her- man Cain speak to the National Rifle Associa- tion convention. 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The U.S. Marines' top general, James Amos, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, visiting frontline Marines at nine remote out- posts to share Thanksgiving and applaud their gains against the Taliban in a region where al-Qaida hatched the 9/11 plot a decade ago. Traveling mostly in an MV-22 Osprey, the hybrid that flies like an airplane and takes off and lands like a helicopter, Amos began shortly after daylight and finished 14 hours later — At one point the 65-year- old Amos referred to his unusual daytrip as the ''Bataan death march,'' a reference to the gruesome forced march of American POWs in the Philippines during World War II. Amos shook hands with hundreds of Marines, all veterans of tough fighting in Helmand Province, which has been a focal point of the U.S.-led strategy to counter the Taliban and other insur- gent groups. The Marines have vastly improved secu- rity in Helmand over the past year, but with President Barack Obama having ordered 33,000 U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan by next Sep- tember, the prospects for sustaining those gains are uncertain, and the subject of debate at home. Rowling says media left her under siege LONDON (AP) — Writer J.K. Rowling and actress Sienna Miller gave a London courtroom a vivid picture on Thursday of the anxiety, anger and fear pro- duced by living in the glare of Britain's tabloid media, describing how press intru- sion made them feel like prisoners in their own homes. The creator of boy wiz- ard Harry Potter told Britain's media ethics inquiry that having journal- ists camped on her doorstep was ''like being under siege and like being a hostage.'' Miller said years of car chases, midnight pursuits and intimate revelations had left her feeling violated, paranoid and anxious. ''The attitude seems to be absolutely cavalier,'' Rowling said. 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