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8A Daily News – Thursday, August 16, 2012 Syrian warplanes bomb rebel- Syrian fighter jets screamed through the sky Wednesday over this rebel-held town, dropping bombs that lev- eled the better part of a poor neighborhood and wounded scores of people, many of them women and children buried under piles of rubble. Activists said more than 20 people were killed. held town AZAZ, Syria (AP) — Observatory for Human Rights said 23 people died in the double airstrike and more than 200 were wound- ed. Mohammed Nour, a local activist reached by phone, put the death toll at 25. Neither figure could be independently confirmed. Reporters from The Associated Press saw nine dead bodies in the bomb- ings' immediate aftermath, including a baby. The Britain-based Syrian icked civilians fleeing for cover. So many were wounded that the local hos- pital locked its doors, direct- ing residents to drive to the nearby Turkish border so the injured could be treated on the other side. One per- son's remains were bundled into a small satchel. The bombings sent pan- A group of young men found a man buried in the wreckage of destroyed homes, his clothes torn and his limbs dirty, but still alive. demotion WASHINGTON (AP) — A four-star Army gen- Army general facing possible eral who was the first head of the new U.S. Africa Command is under investigation and facing possible demotion for allegedly spending hun- dreds of thousands of dol- lars improperly on lavish travel, hotels and other items, The Associated Press has learned. Gen. William ''Kip'' Ward has been under investigation for about 17 months, and Defense Sec- retary Leon Panetta is expected to make a final decision on the matter before the end of the month, according to sev- eral defense officials. The defense officials WORLD BRIEFING ly calm President Barack Obama as a man seething with animosity and power lust as the Republicans seek to undermine one of the Democrat's greatest campaign strengths — his personal likability. The president's re- election effort, Romney said Wednesday, ''is all about division and attack and hatred.'' Obama, Romney added later while campaigning in Charlotte, is an angry man who ''will do or say anything to get elected.'' said Ward is facing numerous allegations that he spent several hundred thousand dollars allowing unauthorized people, including family mem- bers, to fly on government planes, and spent exces- sive amounts of money on hotel rooms, transporta- tion and other expenses when he traveled as head of Africa Command. A four-star general is the highest rank in the Army. While the exact amount of alleged mis- spending was not dis- closed, the estimated total raises comparisons with the $823,000 allegedly spent by dozens of employees of the General Services Administration, who were accused of lav- ish spending during an October 2010 conference at a Las Vegas resort. Romney tries to portray a president threatening Pittsburgh- based U.S. Attorney David Hickton — who led the investigation that resulted in Busby's indictment — in a June 20 email. animosity CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Mitt Romney is portraying the outward- seething with Whether by calcula- tion or not, Obama highlighted his most genial side as he cam- paigned in Iowa, joking with voters about the pleasures of state fair junk food, and joshing with his wife, who made a rare campaign appear- ance with him. ''It all boils down to who you are and what you stand for,'' Michelle Obama told Iowans in Dubuque, on the final leg of the president's three-day bus tour of that toss-up state. ''We all know who my hus- band is, don't we? And we all know what he stands for.'' With polls showing Obama with a slight lead, Romney is focused on the ''likability gap'' that is evident in sur- veys that consistently show Obama ranking higher on general favor- ability questions than on handling the economy, which until now has been the Republican's chief focus. Romney's approach also comes as he and his running mate, congressional budget writer Paul Ryan, face increasing questions on a touchy economic issue for many Americans'' their stance on Medicare. and you could help pets that have been abandoned in our community Federal prosecutors also announced new charges against two Ohio men, including one previously charged in June, for some YouTube threats that claimed university comput- ers had been hacked. Those threats are not directly relat- ed to the bomb scares, but were uncovered as a result of the same investigation. Hickton said Busby is in custody in Ireland, but it wasn't clear when he'd be brought to Pittsburgh to face the new charges. reaches 13 BAGHDAD (AP) — Three bomb blasts shortly before sunset Wednesday killed 10 people north of Baghdad in the latest spasm of violence to grip Iraq. Iraq death toll the volatility of the coun- try eight months after the last U.S. troops pulled out. Insurgents, led by the local branch of al-Qaida, are trying to re-establish themselves in their old strongholds and under- mine the government. The first bomb went The blasts underscored off Wednesday in Baqou- ba, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of the Iraqi capital. Police said two civilians and one police officer were killed, and five people were wounded. regulators have already fined Barclays, based in Britain, $453 million for submitting false informa- tion between 2005 and 2009 to keep the interest rate, known as LIBOR, low. American and British LIBOR, short for Lon- don interbank offered rate, is used to set the interest rates on trillions of dollars in contracts around the world, including mort- gages and credit cards. Minutes later, authori- ties said, a car bomb exploded at the entrance of the main market in Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. A sec- ond blast struck as police arrived on the scene. Police said the toll for both bombings in the town was seven killed and 26 wounded. The bombs exploded shortly before the cere- monial breaking of the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan, when families and friends gath- er for a sunset meal. Police said the Muq- dadiyah market was crowded with shoppers who were buying last- minute supplies for the ''iftar'' meal. 7 banks make a $500 donation to Providing Essentials for the Tehama Shelter to benefit the Tehama County Animal Care Center If we receive 1,500 "likers" on Facebook by Sept. 15 we will Subpoenas were issued, mostly last month and this month, to Bar- clays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS, the person said. scandal ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The attorneys general of New York and Con- necticut have issued sub- poenas to seven banks over the possible manipu- lation of a global interest rate, a person with knowl- edge of the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. subpoenaed in rate-fixing The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. work legally SANTA ANA (AP) — Thousands of young illegal immigrants lined up around the country for their first chance to work legally in America without fear of being deported. A new federal program that went into effect Wednesday could affect more than 1 million illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. A crowd of over 13,000 lined up in Chicago. Hun- dreds waited outside non- profit offices in Los Angeles for help opening the door to the staples of success in the U.S. — a work permit, and later a Social Security num- ber and driver's license. High school student Nathaly Uribe (NAHT'-uh- lee oo-REE'-bay) moved from Chile when she was a toddler. The 17-year-old from Glen Burnie, Md., hopes the program will make it easier to get a decent job and help pay for college. Young illegal immigrants line up to for 1st chance to bomb threats PITTSBURGH (AP) — A founding member of a Scottish terror group was indicted Wednesday on charges he emailed bomb threats that disrupted cam- pus life and forced the evac- uation of more than 100 buildings on the University of Pittsburgh campus earlier this year. Scottish terror founder charged in no known ties to Pittsburgh or the university, and the prosecutor wouldn't com- ment when asked why Busby allegedly sent the threats or whether they're related to his activities with the Scottish National Liber- ation Army, an outlawed militant group that seeks Scottish independence from the United Kingdom. Hickton said Busby has NASA telescope sees a supermom of a galaxy WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year. Astronomers used The galaxy is about 5.7 billion light years away in the center of a recently dis- covered cluster of galaxies that give off the brightest X- ray glow astronomers have seen. It is by far the biggest creation of stars that astronomers have seen for this kind of galaxy. Other types, such as colliding galaxies, can produce even more stars, astronomers said. But this is the size, type and age of galaxy that shouldn't be producing stars at such a rapid pace, said the authors of a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. ''It's very extreme,'' said Harvard University astronomer Ryan Foley, co- author of the study. ''It pushes the boundaries of what we understand.'' over divorce LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian's divorce has engulfed her family and network, liter- ally. Attorneys for Kardashian, estranged husband spar Adam Stuart Busby, 64, of Dublin, Ireland, was charged Wednesday with 17 emailed threats sent to the school between April 6 and 21, and also with emailed bomb threats against federal courthouses in Pittsburgh, Erie and Johnstown in June. He's also charged with Attorneys for her estranged husband sought detailed records Wednes- day about her reality shows and details of depositions with her mother and current boyfriend Kanye West to prove her 72-day mar- riage to NBA player Kris Humphries was a fraud. The legal bickering means it is unlikely the couple will be granted a divorce, or annulment, as Humphries desires, before next year, attorneys and a judge said during a testy hearing. 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