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8A Daily News – Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Western nations expel Syrian envoys U.N. officials cited eye- witness accounts of shad- owy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats Tuesday in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the massacre of more than 100 people. U.N. special envoy over massacre BEIRUT (AP) — As a poor area in Homs province. ''They went after the women, children and elderly,'' he said, ask- ing that his name not be used out of fear of reprisals. Kofi Annan met with Assad in Damascus to try to salvage what was left of a peace plan, which since being brokered six weeks ago has failed to stop any of the violence on the ground. Survivors of the Houla massacre blamed pro- regime gunmen for at least some of the carnage as the killings reverberat- ed inside Syria and beyond, further isolating Assad and embarrassing his few remaining allies. ''It's very hard for me to describe what I saw, the images were incredibly disturbing,'' a Houla resi- dent who hid in his home during the massacre told The Associated Press on Tuesday. ''Women, chil- dren without heads, their brains or stomachs spilling out.'' for president WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney is set to clinch the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a win in the Texas primary, a tri- umph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals. According to the Asso- ciated Press count, Rom- ney was sure to pass the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination on Tuesday unless he flopped badly in the Texas contest, an unlikely sce- nario with no one else campaigning. Romney to clinch GOP nomination He said the pro-regime gunmen, known as shabi- ha, targeted the most vul- nerable in the farming vil- lages that make up Houla, setts governor has reached the nomination milestone with a steady message of concern about the U.S. economy, a campaign organization that dwarfed those of his GOP foes and a fundraising operation second only to that of his Democratic opponent in the general election, Pres- ident Barack Obama. ''That goal is accom- plished, but there's a much bigger goal to be accomplished and that's The former Massachu- Awards Dinner 2011-2012 School Year Sponsored by RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY 1150 Monroe Street, Red Bluff Thursday, June 14 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Reservations required (see below!) 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In Obama, he will face a well-funded candidate with a proven campaign team in an election that will be heavily influenced by the economy. Factories collapse in Italy's latest PANARO, Italy (AP) — Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck Tuesday morning, col- lapsing the roof. earthquake SAN FELICE SUL TG24 TV that a piece of furniture, which had top- pled over, saved her from being crushed by the wreckage. She was taken to a hospital for treatment. The building had been damaged in the first quake, on May 20, and had been vacant since. The woman had just gone back inside it Tuesday morning to retrieve some clothes when the latest temblor knocked down the building, firefighters said. DAILYNEWS At least three employ- ees at the factory — two immigrants and an Italian engineer checking the building's stability — were among those killed in the second deadly quake in nine days to strike a region of Italy that hadn't considered itself particularly quake prone. By late Tuesday, the death toll stood at 16, with one person missing : a worker at the machinery factory in the small town of San Felice Sul Panaro. Some 350 people also were injured in the 5.8 magnitude quake north of Bologna in Emilia Romagna, one of Italy's more productive regions, agriculturally and indus- trially. Originally govern- ment officials had put the death toll at 17, and there was no immediately explanation for the low- ered toll. 65-year-old woman who was pulled out alive by rescuers after lying for 12 hours in the rubble of her apartment's kitchen in Cavezzo, another town hard hit by the quake. Firefighters told Sky The injured included a Man NJ roommate NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A former Rutgers University stu- dent convicted of using a webcam to spy on his male roommate kissing another man days before the roommate killed him- self publicly apologized on Tuesday for the first time. convicted of spying on gay lack of remorse and had told him: ''I haven't heard you apologize once.'' Dharun Ravi said in a statement issued through his lawyer he was sorry for what he called his ''thoughtless, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices.'' Ravi's roommate, Tyler Clementi, threw himself from New York City's George Washing- ton Bridge in 2010. Ravi was sentenced in March to 30 days in jail. He said Tuesday he'll start serving his term on Thursday in New Brunswick. The sentencing judge had criticized Ravi for a chief retiring WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the National Weather Ser- vice has suddenly retired and the agency is seek- ing an emergency $35.6 million from Congress because of allegations of financial mismanage- ment and money shifting within the agency. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- tration chief Jane Lubchenco, who over- sees the weather service, said in a memo investi- gators found that agency officials moved tens of millions of dollars around without congres- sional approval, as required by law. The money went from being appropriated for technol- ogy improvements to meeting shortfalls in payroll and operations at local weather offices. Weather service director Jack Hayes retired Friday. His chief financial officer was already on administra- tive leave. Agency spokesman Scott Smullen said investigators found no evidence of corruption or personal financial gain. The agency will soon release a report on the issue. Weather service financial storm has Iran, other Mideast states hit by computer virus LONDON (AP) — Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on com- puter users and their co- workers and filch informa- tion from nearby cell- phones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on Israel as the culprit. The Russian Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab ZAO said the ''Flame'' virus is unprecedented in size and complexity, with researcher Roel Schouwen- berg marveling at its versa- tility. ''It can be used to spy on everything that a user is doing,'' he said. Computers in Iran appear to have been particu- larly affected, and Kasper- sky's conclusion that the virus was crafted at the behest of a national govern- ment fueled speculation it could be part of an Israeli- backed campaign of elec- tronic sabotage against the Jewish state's archenemy. The virus can activate a computer's audio systems to listen in on Skype calls or office chatter. It can also take screenshots, log key- strokes and — in one of its more novel functions— steal data from Bluetooth- enabled cellphones. 2 Roman wrecks found off western Greece ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two Roman-era ship- wrecks have been found in deep water off a west- ern Greek island, chal- lenging the conventional theory that ancient ship- masters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea, an official said Tuesday. Greece's culture min- istry said the two third- century wrecks were dis- covered earlier this month during a survey of an area where a Greek-Italian gas pipeline is to be sunk. They lay between 1.2 and 1.4 kilometers (0.7-0.9 miles) deep in the sea between Corfu and Italy. That would place them among the deepest known ancient wrecks in the Mediterranean, apart from remains found in 1999 of an older vessel some 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) deep off Cyprus. 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