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ByLynneO'Donnell and Amir Shah The Associated Press KABUL, AFGHANISTAN The Afghan president on Thurs- day condemned the Taliban attack on a Kabul guest- house the previous night that killed 14 people, in- cluding nine foreigners, and said the brutal slayings will not undermine his govern- ment's efforts to achieve peace and stability. Wednesday's attack was the most audacious assault by the insurgents in the Af- ghan capital since the start of their spring offensive. The foreigners killed in- cluded an American, a Brit- ish citizen, an Italian, four Indian nationals and two Pakistanis. Gunmen stormed the res- taurant of the Park Palace Hotel in Kabul as it was hosting a party for foreign- ers around 8:30 p.m. lo- cal time, according to Ka- bul police chief Gen. Abdul Rahman Rahimi. The vic- tims were killed during an hours-long siege that ended early Thursday morning. Five Afghans were also among the dead and seven were wounded, including one Afghan policeman. Though the Taliban have staged similar at- tacks in the past on Kabul hotels and guesthouses — typically extremely well- guarded locations for the ever-dwindling number of foreigners living and work- ing here — the latest assault was a blow to Ghani's gov- ernment, which has been eager to project a sense of improvement in the secu- rity situation in the capital. But since the U.S. and NATO forces formally con- cluded their combat mis- sion at the end of last year, Afghan security forces have struggled to fend off Tali- ban attacks on their own. Ghani's statement said he had spoken to the leaders of the nations whose citizens were killed. He lashed out at the Taliban, saying the "terrorists and enemies of Afghanistan cannot harm our country's relationships with other countries with these activities." The U.N. mission in Af- ghanistan also condemned the assault, saying in a statement Thursday that it was an "atrocity." "Taliban statements on avoiding civilian casual- ties ring hollow when we set them against the latest killings," said UNAMA's human rights director Georgette Gagnon. The Taliban claimed re- sponsibility for the attack in an email distributed to me- dia. Their spokesman Zabi- hullah Mujahid said the ho- tel was targeted because of the presence of foreigners, including Americans there. In the claim, he said only one attacker was involved, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, a suicide vest and a pistol — not three as the Af- ghan government reported. The Taliban often exagger- ate their claims. The Afghan police, which kept the hotel cordoned off on Thursday, said all the attackers were killed in the shootout with security troops. Earlier, U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Monica Cum- mings said in an email state- ment that a U.S. citizen was killed in the attack, although she had no further details and did not identify the vic- tim. Cummings said the U.S. Embassy was in close con- tact with Afghan authori- ties and was working to ob- tain more information. "Our thoughts are with the families of the victims," she said. India's Ambassador Amar Sinha confirmed Thursday that four Indian nationals were also among the dead — three men and a woman. He said they were among a total of 11 Indians residing at the guesthouse, none of whom are embassy personnel. The guesthouse had about 100 residents, he said. In Rome, the Foreign Ministry confirmed that one of the dead was Ital- ian, according to the ANSA news agency. Foreign Min- ister Paolo Gentiloni, in Turkey for a NATO meet- ing, identified him as San- dro Abati. He said he was a consultant for an agency that works to promote in- vestment in Afghanistan, ANSA said. The British Embassy in Kabul issued a statement saying that a dual British- Afghan national was also killed in the attack. And Akhter Munir, press coun- sellor at the Pakistani Em- bassy in Kabul confirmed that two Pakistani nation- als, a finance manager and a consultant, were also killed in the attack. Throughout the stand- off, sporadic gunfire echoed around the guesthouse in a central neighborhood that is home to United Nations compounds and a foreign- run hospital. At one point, two explo- sions could be heard and four ambulances and fire trucks later arrived at the scene. Police initially freed some 20 people trapped in- side the guesthouse, but others had remained inside, according to Zia Massoud, an Afghan government of- ficial. At least 54 hostages were rescued in all, accord- ing to Afghan officials. AFGHANISTAN 9 foreigners among 14 killed in Taliban attack in Kabul ALLAUDDINKHAN—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Afghan police stand guard outside Park Palace guesthouse on Thursday a er being attacked by gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed the guesthouse as it hosted a party for foreigners. NIRANJAN SHRESTHA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nepalese army soldiers deliver relief material to a village at the earthquake hit Dolakha district, Nepal, on Thursday. Nepal was overwhelmed by its second massive earthquake in less than three weeks, its prime minister said Thursday. By Nirmala George The Associated Press CHARIKOT, NEPAL Nepal has been overwhelmed by its second powerful earth- quake in less than three weeks, its prime minister said Thursday as he visited this normally placid foot- hills town, now filling up with frightened villagers desperate for government help. Thousands of people coming from surrounding areas to seek help crowd the streets of Charikot, the administrative center of the isolated district hit hardest by Tuesday's magnitude-7.3 quake, which killed at least 110 people and injured more than 2,300. The mag- nitude-7.8 earthquake that hit April 25 killed more than 8,150 people, injured tens of thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless. "After the first quake, we were not prepared for a sec- ond one so big," Prime Min- ister Sushil Koirala told re- porters after arriving in Charikot by helicopter. With hundreds of thou- sands of people left home- less, he said the coming monsoon rains loomed large. "We need tents. Our peo- ple need shelter. With the rainy season, it will be dif- ficult for people to survive in the open," he said. Nearly everyone is too afraid to sleep indoors and aftershocks are keeping people on edge in this town. Food has been handed out occasionally here, but no- where near enough for the people who keep arriving. Many simply waited at the locked gates of the army's small aid distribution cen- ter, shaking the fence an- grily when their frustra- tion got the better of them. "We came here with such hopes and such difficulty, but now we're just waiting and waiting," said Navraj Nama, 25, who came to Charikot with his brother and elderly uncle after the second earthquake. Premier: 'We were not pr ep ar ed ' fo r 2n d qu ak e NEPAL By Daniel Estrin The Associated Press UMM AL-HIRAN,ISRAEL Is- raelis are once again locked in a bitter settlement dis- pute with their Arab neigh- bors, but this time the con- flict is not unfolding in the West Bank, but in Israel's southern desert. After years of legal bat- tles, Israel's Supreme Court last week cleared the way for the government to up- root the nearly 60-year- old Bedouin Arab village of Umm al-Hiran, a dusty hill of ramshackle dwell- ings without proper elec- tricity or water hookups, and in its place build "Hi- ran," a new community seemingly catering to Jews that is expected to feature a hotel and country club. The project has reig- nited a simmering conflict between Israel's Bedouin community, which says it is a victim of discrim- ination, and the govern- ment, which says it is try- ing to bring order to a law- less area and give a better quality of life to the impov- erished minority. Israel says the hundreds of villagers are sitting on state-owned land slated for development and is offering them free plots in a Bed- ouin township just down the road. But villagers say the plan is cut-and-dry Is- raeli discrimination — part of a broader demographic battle over the land. "Why are the Jews al- lowed and we are not al- lowed?" said villager Salim Abu Alkiyan, a husband to three wives and father of 14 children, who has been fighting evacuation orders in court for more than a de- cade. The Supreme Court says authorities should con- sider giving some villag- ers discounted plots of land in the new develop- ment, but the villagers be- lieve a large Bedouin popu- lation wouldn't be tolerated there. A group of religious Jewish families with ties to the West Bank settlement movement are living in a temporary encampment in a nearby forest waiting to move to the future Hiran. Liad Aviel, a spokes- man of a government of- fice for Bedouin affairs, said authorities are offer- ing the villagers alternate housing in the nearby Bed- ouin township of Hura, and not in Hiran. Mixed Bed- ouin-Jewish communities are nonexistent, save for a smattering of Bedouin families who live in over- whelmingly Jewish com- munities. The development plan is part of a larger settlement program the Israeli gov- ernment has in store for its barren Negev desert. In 2002, it approved the founding of 14 new Israeli communities in the region, including Hiran, which Is- raeli leaders have said will strengthen "national resil- ience." For decades, Israel has been trying to convince scattered, off-the-grid Bed- ouin villagers that it is in their interest to move into government-designated Bedouin townships, where the government can pro- vide them with water, elec- tricity and schools. The matter has moved slowly. This is Bedouin country, where road signs warn of crossing camels, and Bedouin Arabs tend to resolve their internal disputes in tribal courts. Government officials nego- tiate the issue with the for- merly nomadic tribes over tiny cups of traditional bit- ter coffee. Villagers say they want to maintain their rural life- style, and they demand the government officially rec- ognize their villages and hook them up to the na- tional water system and power grid. Advocates for the Bed- ouin say it is unfair that Israel is trying to consoli- date dispersed Bedouin en- campments while subsidiz- ing individual Israeli fami- lies who have set up dozens of small farms throughout the Negev desert. One such farm, which has an animal hotel and pet graveyard, is a short drive away from Umm Al-Hiran. Arab activists are gear- ing up to fight the planned evacuation, whose date has not been announced. The leader of a newly invigo- rated Arab party in par- liament recently marched from Bedouin country to Jerusalem in support of the unrecognized villages, and Arab activists say they are considering renewing the street protests waged two years ago that led the gov- ernment to table a large- scale Bedouin resettlement plan. ISRAEL Demolition plan for Bedouin village sparks outcry TSAFRIR ABAYOV — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Bedouin man walks through the village of Umm Al-Hiran in the Negev desert, Israel, on Tuesday. In a landmark decision, Israel's Supreme Court has cleared the way for the government to uproot the nearly 60-year-old Bedouin Arab village. LEGALNOTICE Trustee Sale No. 708051 Loan No. Title Order No. APN 041-230-23 and 041-230-24 TRA No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 09/07/2007. UN- LESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PRO- TECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEED- INGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 05/29/2015 at 02:00PM, First American Title Insurance Com- pany as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded on Sep- tember 28, 2007 as Document Number 2007017831 of official re- cords in the Office of the Re- corder of Tehama County, Cali- fornia, executed by: Red Bluff Trader, LLC, a California limited liability company, as Trustor, Standard Insurance Company, an Oregon corporation, as Bene- ficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BID- DER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cash- ier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan associ- ation, savings association, or savings bank specified in ation, savings association, savings bank specified in sec- tion 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). At: the main en- trance to the Tehama County Courthouse, 633 Washington St., Red Bluff, CA, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California describ- ing the land therein: See Exhibit "A" attached hereto and incor- porated by reference herein EX- HIBIT "A" Parcel A: (APN 041- 230-23) Parcel 3 of Parcel Map No. 421, as the same is shown on the map filed in the Tehama County Recorder's Office De- cember 12, 1973 in Book 1 of Par- cel Maps at page 207 (being a survey of a portion of the North- east quarter of Section 22, Township 27 North, Range 3 West, Mount Diablo Meridian). Parce B: (APN 041-230-24) Parcel 4 of Parcel Map No. 421, as the same is shown on the map filed in the Tehama County Record- er's Office December 12, 1973 in Book 1 of Parcel Maps at page 207 (being a survey of a portion of the Northeast quarter of Sec- tion 22, Township 27 North, Range 3 West, Mount Diablo Meridian). THE BENEFICIARY IN- TENDS TO AUCTION THE REAL PROPERTY SEPARATELY IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER: 1) 22825 AN- TELOPE BOULEVARD; APN: 041- 1) TELOPE BOULEVARD; APN: 041- 230-23 2) 22835 ANTELOPE BOU- LEVARD; APN: 041-230-24 The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". The street ad- dress and other common desig- nation, if any, of the real proper- ty described above is purported to be: 22825 - 22835 Antelope Boulevard, Red Bluff, CA 96080. The undersigned Trustee dis- claims any liability for any in- correctness of the street ad- dress and other common desig- nation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but with- out covenant or warranty, ex- pressed or implied, regarding ti- tle, possession, or encumbran- ces, to pay the remaining princi- pal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with inter- est thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and ex- penses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $1,191,952.77 (Esti- mated) Accrued interest and ad- ditional advances, if any, will in- crease this figure prior to sale. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the under- signed a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The under- signed caused said Notice of De- signed caused said Notice of De- fault and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not auto- matically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, be- fore you can receive clear title to the property. You are encour- aged to investigate the exis- tence, priority, and size of out- standing liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a ti- tle insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown property. OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be post- poned one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that in- formation about trustee sale postponements be made availa- ble to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may visit the website below us- ing the file number assigned to this case. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be re- flected on the Internet Web site. 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