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Saturday, March 31, 2012 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING Obama: Global oil supply OK to sanction Iran WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday he was plowing ahead with potential sanctions against countries that keep buying oil from Iran, including allies of the United States, in a deep- ening campaign to starve Iran of money for its dis- puted nuclear program. The world oil market is tight but deep enough to keep the squeeze on Iran, Obama ruled. The sanctions aim to further isolate Iran's cen- tral bank, which processes nearly all of the Iran's oil purchases, from the glob- al economy. Obama's move clears the way for the U.S. to penalize for- eign financial institutions that do oil business with Iran by barring them from having a U.S.-based affil- iate or doing business here. Obama's goal is to tighten the pressure on Iran, not allies, and already the administration exempted 10 European Union countries and Japan from the threat of sanctions because they cut their oil purchases from Iran. Other nations have about three months to significantly reduce such imports before sanc- tions would kick in. Still, administration officials said that Obama is ready to slap sanctions on U.S. partners and that his action on Friday was another signal. $1 at a time, Americans wager nearly $1.5 billion OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Lottery ticket lines swelled as Americans wagered nearly $1.5 bil- lion on the longest of long shots: a less than 1 per- cent chance to join the 1 percent Friday night as the winner of a record $640 million Mega Mil- lions jackpot. A cafi worker in Ari- zona reported selling $2,600 worth of tickets to youngest widow has told investigators. The details of bin one buyer, while a retired soldier in Wisconsin dou- bled his regular weekly ticket spending to $55. But each would have to put down millions more to guarantee winning what could be the biggest sin- gle lotto payout in the world. ''I feel like a fool throwing that kind of money away,'' said Jesse Carter, who spent the $55 and donated the last two tickets he bought at a Mil- waukee store Friday to a charity. ''But it's a chance you take in life, with any- thing you do.'' The jackpot, if taken as a $462 million lump sum and after federal tax with- holding, works out to about $347 million. With the jackpot odds at 1 in 176 million, it would cost $176 million to buy up every combination. Under that scenario, the strategy would win $171 million — less if your state also withholds taxes. Laura Horsley, who does communications and marketing for a trade association, bought $20 worth of Quick Pick tick- ets at a downtown Wash- ington, D.C., liquor store Friday. But Horsley, who said she won't buy a lot- tery ticket unless the jack- pot tops $100 million, remained realistic. Political pressures could put Obama in bind on gay marriage BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — President Barack Obama could be caught in an election-year bind on gay marriage, wedged between the pressure of supporters who want him to back same-sex mar- riage and the political per- ils of igniting an explo- sive social issue in the midst of the campaign. Interviews with gay rights advocates and peo- ple close to Obama's campaign suggest it is no longer a matter of if, but when the president pub- licly voices his support. But Obama backers are split over whether that will happen before the November elections. Gay marriage is already a big issue in a handful of states that have it on their ballots in November, including Maine, where Obama was headlining two fundrais- ers Friday. He was not expected to wade into the issue during his remarks. The president also headlined fundraisers Fri- day in Vermont, one of six states, plus the District of Columbia, where gay marriage is legal. He did not mention the subject during his two appear- ances there. Once an opponent of gay marriage, Obama declared in 2010 that his personal views on the subject were ''evolving.'' He has gone no further in public since then. Old photos may be deceptive in Fla. shooting WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When he was shot, Trayvon Martin was not the baby-faced boy in the photo that has been on front pages across the country. And George Zimmerman wasn't the beefy-looking figure in the widely published mugshot. Both photos are a few years old and no longer entirely accurate. Yet they may have helped shape initial public perceptions of the deadly shooting. ''When you have such a lopsided visual compar- ison, it just stands to rea- son that people would rush to judgment,'' said Kenny Irby, who teaches visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a jour- nalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla. The most widely seen picture of Martin, released by his family, was evidently taken a few years ago and shows a smiling, round-cheeked youngster in a red T-shirt. But at his death, Martin was 17 years old, around 6 feet tall and, according to his family's attorney, about 140 pounds. Zimmerman, 28, is best known from a 7-year- old booking photo of an apparently heavyset fig- ure with an imposing stare, pierced ear and facial hair, the orange col- lar of his jail uniform vis- ible. The picture, released by police following the deadly shooting, was taken after Zimmerman's 2005 arrest on an assault- on-an-officer charge that was eventually dropped. 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Clashes, protests erupt across Syria BEIRUT (AP) — Clash- es and protests broke out across many parts of Syria Friday, further complicating a peace mission by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan who urged the government to lay down its weapons first to immediately end the coun- try's yearlong crisis. As angry protesters lamented inaction by Arab countries, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to work out how to help the opposition in talks with Saudi Arabia, the biggest advocate for arming the rebels against President Bashar Assad. Her visit comes ahead of a 60-nation weekend gather- ing of the so-called ''Friends of the Syrian People'' in Istanbul. The meeting is an effort to find ways to aid Syria's fractured opposition, which has been frustrated by the government's military gains on the ground. The U.S. is seeking to unify Syria's opposition move- ment and find ways to fur- ther isolate Assad's regime. 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Suu Kyi said opposition candidates had been target- ed in stone-throwing inci- dents, campaign posters vandalized and members of her party intimidated during the run-up to Sunday's closely-watched parliamen- tary by-elections. During a news confer- ence on the lawn of her crumbling lakeside resi- dence in Yangon, the 66- year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate said government officials were involved in some of the irregularities and that they go ''beyond what is acceptable for democratic elections.'' Romanian doctor saves babies BUCHAREST, Roma- nia (AP) — Dr. Catalin Cirstoveanu runs a cardio unit with state-of-the-art equipment at a Bucharest children's hospital. But not a single child has been treated in the year-and-a- half since it opened. The reason? Medical staff he needs to bring in to run the machinery would have expected bribes. 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