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8A Daily News – Monday, November 28, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Fire from Pakistani border prompted NATO strikes ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan officials claimed Sunday that Afghan and NATO forces were retaliating for gun- fire from two Pakistani army bases when they called in airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani sol- diers, adding a layer of complexity to an episode that has further strained Pakistan's ties with the United States. The account chal- lenged Pakistan's claim that the strikes were unprovoked. The attack Saturday near the Afghan-Pakistani border aroused popular anger in Pakistan and added tension to the U.S.- Pakistani relationship, which has been under pressure since the secret U.S. raid inside Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden in May. Pakistan has closed its western border to trucks delivering supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan, demanded that the U.S. abandon an air base inside Pakistan and said it will review its cooperation with the U.S. and NATO. A complete breakdown in the relationship between the United States and Pakistan is consid- ered unlikely. Pakistan relies on billions of dol- lars in American aid, and the U.S. needs Pakistan to push Afghan insurgents to participate in peace talks. Gingrich lands Union Leader endorsement WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presiden- tial hopeful Newt Gin- grich landed the endorse- ment of New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sun- day while rival Mitt Rom- ney earned a dismissive wave, potentially reset- ting the race in the state with the first-in-the- nation primary. For Gingrich, the for- mer House speaker, the Romney's shifts on cru- cial issues of abortion and gay rights were unlikely to fade. Those worries have led Romney to keep Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses — where conservatives hold great sway — at arm's length. Arab League imposes backing builds on his recent rise in the polls and quick work to build a campaign after a disas- trous start in the sum- mer. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has a vacation home in the state and has been called a "nearly native son of New Hampshire," absorbed the blow head- ing into the Jan. 10 vote that's vital to his cam- paign strategy. "We are in critical need of the innovative, for- ward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," The New Hampshire Union Leader said in its front-page editorial, which was as much a pro- motion of Gingrich as a discreet rebuke of Rom- ney. "We don't back candi- dates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent- minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job," the endorsement said. The Union Leader's editorial telegraphed con- servatives' concerns about sanctions BEIRUT (AP) — In an unprecedented move against an Arab nation, the Arab League on Sun- day approved economic sanctions on Syria to pressure Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an 8-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad. But even as world lead- ers abandon Assad, the regime has refused to ease a military assault on dis- sent that already has killed more than 3,500 people. On Sunday, Dam- ascus slammed the sanc- tions as a betrayal of Arab solidarity and insisted a foreign conspiracy was behind the revolt, all but assuring more bloodshed will follow. The sanctions are among the clearest signs yet of the isolation Syria is suffering because of the crackdown. Damas- cus has long boasted of being a powerhouse of Arab nationalism, but Assad has been aban- doned by some of his closest allies and now his Arab neighbors. The growing movement against his regime could transform some of the most enduring alliances in the Middle East and beyond. At a news conference in Cairo, Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jas- sim said 19 of the League's 22 member nations approved a series of tough punishments that include cutting off trans- actions with the Syrian central bank, halting Arab government funding for projects in Syria and freezing government assets. Those sanctions are to take effect immedi- ately. Other steps, including halting flights and impos- ing travel bans on some, as-yet unnamed Syrian officials, will come later after a committee reviews them. Student says he thought he was following 'plain clothes Egyptians' An American student arrested with two others during protests in Cairo said they were threatened with guns, hit and forced to lay for hours in a near fetal position in the dark with their hands behind their backs. "They said if we moved at all, even an inch, they would shoot us. They were behind us with guns," said Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo. The students flew home Saturday after an Egyptian court ordered their release two days ear- lier. The three had been spending the semester studying abroad at Amer- ican University in Cairo, which is near Tahrir Square, where a new wave of protests began more than a week ago. Protesters have been calling for the nation's military leaders to hand power back to a civilian government before the landmark parliamentary elections scheduled to start Monday. At least 43 protesters have been killed since Nov. 19 and 2,000 wounded, most of them in Cairo. Sweeney spoke to The Associated Press by tele- phone after family greet- ed him at the airport in St. Louis and then again Sun- day by Skype. Will they stay or will they go? LOS ANGELES (AP) — With the clock wind- ing down on a midnight deadline to abandon their weeks-old Occupy Los Angeles protest, hundreds of demonstrators weren't going anywhere Sunday, as they made plans instead to hold an "evic- tion block party." Although city officials have told protesters they must leave and take their nearly 500 tents with them by 12:01 a.m. Mon- day, just a handful were seen packing up Sunday. Instead, some passed out fliers containing the city seal and the words: "By order of Mayor Anto- nio Villaraigosa, this notice terminates your tenancy and requires you to attend the Occupy L.A. Eviction Block Party," which the fliers' said was scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Others attended teach- ins on resistance tactics, including how to stay safe should police begin firing rubber bullets or breaking out tear gas canisters and pepper spray. "Their plan is to resist the closure of this encampment and if that means getting arrested so be it," said Will Picard, one of the protesters. "I think they just want to make the police tear it down rather than tear it down themselves." SWAT team's shooting of Marine draws outrage TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year- old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons. An ordinary morning was unfolding in the mid- dle-class Tucson neigh- borhood — until an armored vehicle pulled into the family's driveway and men wearing heavy body armor and helmets climbed out, weapons ready. They were a sheriff's department SWAT team who had come to execute a search warrant. But Vanessa Guerena insisted she had no idea, when she heard a "boom" and saw a dark-suited man pass by a window, that it was police outside her home. She shook her husband awake and told him someone was firing a gun outside. A U.S. Marine veteran of the Iraq war, he was only trying to defend his family, she said, when he grabbed his own gun — an AR-15 assault rifle. What happened next was captured on video after a member of the SWAT team activated a helmet-mounted camera. New Mass translation launches in US Catholic parishes CLAYTON, N.C. (AP) — English-speaking Roman Catholics who have regularly attended Mass for years found themselves in an unfamil- iar position Sunday, need- ing printed cards or sheets of paper to follow along with a ritual many have known since childhood. Oak Street Barber Shop Holiday Savings Jr. High & High School Students New Winter Hours 8:30-5:00 Mon.-Fri. 9:00-1:00 Sat. 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Mickey Mattox, a pro- fessor at Milwaukee's Marquette University, said he was happy with the idea that the bishops wanted the translations as accurate as possible. Adapting to the changes "was a lot less dif- ficult than I thought it might be," said Mattox, 55, adding, "even though probably all of us are going to end up holding our worship folders for a few weeks until we memo- rize all the new language." Moroccan Islamist Party latest to win election RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The victory of an Islamist Party in Moroc- co's parliamentary elec- tions appears to be one more sign that religious- based parties are benefit- ing the most from the new freedoms brought by the Arab Spring. Across the Middle East, parties referencing Islam have made great strides, offering an alter- native to corrupt, long serving dictators, who have often ruled with close Western support. The Justice and Devel- opment Party dominated Morocco's elections through a combination of good organization, an out- sider status and not being too much of a threat to Morocco's all-powerful king. By taking 107 seats out of the 395 seats, almost twice as many as the sec- ond place finisher, the party ensured that King Mohammed VI must pick the next prime minister from its ranks and to form the next government out of the dozen parties in Morocco's parliament. It is the first time the PJD — as it is known by its French initials — will be part of the government and its outsider status could be just what Moroc- co, wracked by pro- democracy protests, needs. James W. 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