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Monday, May 3, 2010 – Daily News – 3B WORLD BRIEFING NYPD: No evidence of Taliban link NEW YORK (AP) — Police investigating the failed car bomb left in Times Square have video- tape of a possible suspect shedding clothing in an alley and putting it in a bag and found a substance that resembled fertilizer in the parked SUV, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sun- day. Kelly said officers were on the way to a Pennsylva- nia town to talk to a tourist who might have recorded the suspect on his video camera. The video shows a white man in his 40s taking off one shirt, revealing another underneath. there’s no evidence that a Pakistani Taliban video- taped claim to the failed car bombing is valid. Police found the SUV parked on one of the prime blocks for Broadway shows such as ‘‘The Lion King’’ on Saturday night. Thou- sands of tourists were cleared from the area for 10 hours. The bomb was dis- mantled, and no one was hurt. The SUV contained three barbecue-grill-sized propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, police said. Timers were connected to a 16-ounce can filled with the fire- works, which were appar- ently intended to set the gas cans and propane afire, Kelly said. Obama pledges to address Gulf Coast oil spill VENICE, La. (AP) — No remedy in sight, Presi- dent Barack Obama on Sunday warned of a ‘‘mas- sive and potentially unprecedented environmen- tal disaster’’ as a badly dam- aged oil well a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico spewed a widening and deadly slick toward delicate wetlands and wildlife. He said it could take many days to stop. Obama rushed to south- ern Louisiana to inspect forces arrayed against the oil gusher as Cabinet mem- bers said the situation was grave and insisted the administration was doing everything it could. Mindful of the political damage suffered by Presi- dent George W. Bush for a slow response after Hurri- cane Katrina ravaged the same region, Obama defended his administra- tion’s actions, saying it had been preparing for the worst from ‘‘day one’’ even as it had ‘‘hoped for the best.’’ The president vowed that the administration, while doing all it could to mitigate the environmental and economic disaster, would require well-owner BP America to bear all costs. ‘‘BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill,’’ Obama, with rain dripping from his face, said in Venice, a Gulf Coast community serving as a staging area for the response. The commissioner said Europe agrees on rescue plan BRUSSELS (AP) — European governments and the International Monetary Fund on Sun- day committed to pull Greece back from the brink of default, agreeing on euro110 billion in emergency loans on the condition Athens make painful budget cuts and tax increases. The rescue is aimed at keeping Greece from defaulting on its debts and preventing its financial crisis from infecting other indebted countries just as Europe is struggling out of recession. After chiding Athens for years of mismanage- ment and cheating on their budget reporting, the IMF and Greece’s 15 partners that share the euro currency rewarded Prime Minister George Papandreou for tough measures including cuts in civil servant’s pay. ‘‘I have done and will do everything so the country does not go bank- rupt,’’ Papandreou told a nation which now faces years of painful belt-tight- ening after years of over- spending. France, Greece’s most sympathetic partner, agreed there was no other choice. Storms, floods kill 7 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Seven people were killed in Tennessee and three in northern Mississippi by a line of storms that brought heavy flooding and torna- dos to the region over the weekend. More rain and storms loomed Sunday as emergency officials in Ten- nessee sought help from the state’s Army National Guard, and urged people to stay off roads and interstate highways turned into raging rivers. At a Sunday news con- ference, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said it will likely be days before flood- waters recede enough to thoroughly assess the dam- age to roads and bridges. Tennessee officials have confirmed 7 deaths. At least three people are missing after getting swept away by flood waters, and one of them is presumed dead by the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, which would bring the death toll to 8. Bredesen said he expects to ask for federal disaster designation. Earlier Sunday, TEMA asked for the state’s Nation- al Guard to help with rescue operations. Newspaper chastises McCain, Kyl PHOENIX (AP) — Ari- zona’s largest newspaper criticized U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl and a host of other elected offi- cials in a rare front-page editorial Sunday, saying the politicians have failed to find solutions to illegal immigration. The state has become the target of calls for boycotts since adopting a law that requires local and state law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration status if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the country illegally. ‘‘The federal govern- ment is abdicating its duty on the border. Arizona politicians are pandering to public fear,’’ The Arizona Republic said in a full-page editorial. ‘‘The result is a state law that intimidates Latinos while doing nothing to curb illegal immigra- tion.’’ Doug MacEachern, an editorial writer for the Republic, said the newspa- per has put editorials on the front page over the years but this was the first time one filled the front page. ‘‘It’s of sufficient impor- tance that we thought it required something very over-the-top to grab peo- ple’s attention,’’ he told The Associated Press on Sun- day. Mexico, Germany urge climate change action KOENIGSWINTER, Germany (AP) — With the fight against global warm- ing in serious trouble, Ger- many and Mexico are call- ing on world leaders to get international negotiations back on track and reach concrete results by the end of the year. ‘‘We need to show the world how serious the threat is,’’ Mexican President Felipe Calderon said as he opened an international cli- mate change conference in Germany on Sunday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who also spoke at the opening of the conference co-hosted by both countries and aimed at laying the groundwork for the next U.N. conference on climate change, asked nations around the world for more ambition in efforts to cut greenhouse gases. While scientists believe global temperatures must not rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) com- pared to pre-industrial times, the world is now headed for a 3 to 4 degree increase, Merkel said. ‘‘We have to realize that we have quite a long way to go to reach the 2-degree- goal,’’ Merkel said. ‘‘There- fore we have to ascertain how we can reach our goals nonetheless.’’ Pope all but endorses Turin Shroud TURIN, Italy (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI all but gave an outright endorse- ment of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sun- day, calling the cloth that some believe is Christ’s bur- ial shroud an icon ‘‘written with the blood’’ of a cruci- fied man. During a visit to the Shroud in the northern Ital- ian city of Turin, Benedict didn’t raise the scientific questions that surround the linen and whether it might be a medieval forgery. Instead, he delivered a pow- erful meditation on the faith that holds that the Shroud is indeed Christ’s burial cloth. ‘‘This is a burial cloth that wrapped the remains of a crucified man in full cor- respondence with what the Gospels tell us of Jesus,’’ Benedict said. Support our classrooms, keep kids reading. DONATE YOUR VACATION newspaper dollars to the Newspaper In Education Program HELP OUR CHILDREN For more details call Circulation Department (530) 527-2151 D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 PHONE: (530) 527-2151 FAX: (530) 527-5774 545 Diamond Avenue • P.O. Box 220 • Red Bluff, CA 96080