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Putin says U.S. Setting Off New Arms Race

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that “a new arms race has been unleashed in the world” as the United States moves forward with a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. Russia will field new weapons in response, he said, dismissing American assurances that the missile system is not directed against Russia as nothing more than “diplomatic cover.”

“It’s not our fault. We didn’t start it … funneling multi-billions of dollars into developing weapons systems,” Putin declared in what may be his final major address before he leaves the Kremlin after presidential elections March 2, to become prime minister.

“Russia has and always will have a response to these new challenges,” Putin declared. “Over the next few years, Russia will start production of new types of arms, with the same or even superior specifications compared to those available to other nations.”

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Vatican Rejects Criticism Of New Prayer For Jewish Conversion

The top Vatican cardinal in charge of relations with Jews on Thursday denied that a new prayer for their conversion was offensive and said Catholics had the right to pray as they wish.

The Vatican had come under fire from Jewish groups in recent days for changing its Good Friday service to include a prayer urging God to let Jews “recognize Jesus Christ as savior of all men.”

Earlier this week, Pope Benedict ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at traditionalist Good Friday services, deleting a reference to their “blindness” over Christ.
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Cardinal Walter Kasper spoke in an interview in a leading Italian newspaper a day after world Jewish leaders said the new prayer could set back inter-religious dialogue by decades.

“We think that reasonably this prayer cannot be an obstacle to dialogue because it reflects the faith of the Church and, furthermore, Jews have prayers in their liturgical texts that we Catholics don’t like,”

“I must say that I don’t understand why Jews cannot accept that we can make use of our freedom to formulate our prayers,” Kasper, a German, told the Corriere della Sera.

“One must accept and respect differences,” said the cardinal.

In a separate interview with Vatican Radio, Kasper said: “The Holy Father wanted to say ‘yes, Jesus Christ is the savior of all men, including the Jews’.”

He added: “But this does not mean we are embarking on a mission [to convert Jews]. We are giving witness to our faith.”

The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday called the revision to the prayer “cosmetic revisions,” saying that the prayer is still “deeply troubling” because of its call to convert Jews.

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Homosexual Group Says Restaurant Discriminated In Violation of New Laws

Even by the standards of Blackpool on a Saturday night, they must have been a sight to behold - nine gay men and transsexuals, several wearing women’s clothing.

The men were, it seems safe to say, a broad-minded bunch. They are, however, unlikely to say the same of staff at Pizza Hut.

When the group asked for a table, they claim they found themselves rapidly back out on the street.

Michael Kemp, 48, who was wearing a miniskirt and other female attire, said: “When we arrived at the Pizza Hut, we noticed people were staring at us and laughing.

“A male member of staff approached us with a big smirk on his face and, when we asked for a table, he told us that the restaurant had run out of pizzas and told us to try somewhere else.

“We couldn’t believe it. Who’s ever heard of a Pizza Hut running out of pizzas? It was clear they were embarrassed by us, especially because some of us were wearing women’s clothing, and didn’t want us in the restaurant.”

Now Mr Kemp, Paul Barnabas, 47, and his partner Iain Buck, 38, are claiming up to £3,000 compensation from the worldwide chain, saying they were discriminated against because of their sexuality.

Their brief encounter with Pizza Hut staff came last summer, shortly after it became illegal for shops, bars or restaurants to refuse to serve anyone because of their sexuality.

Their claim, which is being funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, is thought to be the first under the legislation.

Mr Kemp, a gardener and flower arrangement demonstrator, is a member of Encompass - a group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual men and women in Flintshire.

He said they were enjoying a weekend away when they decided to go to Pizza Hut in Church Street, Blackpool, at around 6pm. Some of the men, who were transsexuals, were wearing dresses or short skirts, women’s underwear and high heels.

Mr Kemp said: “None of us had been drinking. I suppose we did look a bit odd, but no worse than any of the hen and stag parties that visit Blackpool every weekend.

“We felt humiliated, shocked and down-trodden by being refused a table. I’m not a gay activist, but I believe it is important people aren’t discriminated against simply because of their private life.

“If this restaurant had turned away a group of black men, there would have been an outcry.”

A spokesperson for Pizza Hut said: “We find discrimination of any kind completely unacceptable and are taking this allegation extremely seriously.

“Unfortunately, we are unable to comment further as this matter has been passed to our solicitors.”
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Arkansas - Leprosy Outbreak Denied

The Springdale Chamber of Commerce on Friday tried to defuse Thursday’s television report that suggested there had been a leprosy outbreak in that city.

The release from Springdale Chamber President and CEO Perry Webb states, in part: “You may be aware of a media report that is suggesting there has been an outbreak of leprosy in Springdale. This is not true. The chamber has been in touch (Friday ) morning with Gov. Mike Beebe, Congressman John Boozman, the Center for Disease Control and the Washington County Health Department. Each of these entities is fully engaged and is reporting to us that there is no outbreak (of leprosy in Springdale or northwest Arkansas ). ”

Representatives of the Washington County Health Department explained that nothing has changed in the number of known cases of communicable diseases in northwest Arkansas in the past year, the news release states.

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5.4-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Mexico’s Baja California

A moderate earthquake rocked Baja California in Mexico, shutting down factories near the U.S. border and leaving about 400,000 people without power, authorities said Saturday. No major damage or injuries were immediately reported.

The quake that struck around 11:15 p.m. Friday had a preliminary magnitude of 5.4, said Jessica Sigala, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Co. It was centered 16 miles southeast of the border town of Mexicali and about 100 miles east of Tijuana.

“It has been felt pretty widely in Southern California, southwestern Arizona and probably northern Mexico,” Sigala said.

It was followed by at least 15 aftershocks, including four with preliminary magnitudes of 3.8, 3.6, 3.5 and 3.0.

The quake left about 400,000 people without electricity and 1.2 million without cellular telephone service, said Fire Capt. Rene Rosado, director of civil defense in Mexicali.

About 80,000 workers were evacuated or were unable to enter factories for Sony Corp., Honeywell International Inc. and other major corporations that typically run 24 hours a day until the buildings could be checked for damage, he said.

Two bridges showed 2- to 3-inch cracks and were closed until engineers could determine they were safe, he said.

The Baja peninsula is a geologically active region. In 2006, a magnitude-5.4 temblor struck the Mexicali area, but there were no injuries or damage.

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Police: 4 Witnessed Beating One Recorded Attack

Four classmates witnessed a beating that left a 16-year-old boy dead, and one of them recorded the incident on his cell phone, authorities said.

Investigators confiscated the cell phone as evidence, police said.

Dakota DeRemus, a sophomore at Gardner Edgerton High School, suffered from a heart condition and died after he was involved in a fight with another 16-year-old boy on Monday.

Juvenile authorities charged that 16-year-old with involuntary manslaughter in connection with DeRemus’ death.

wall — damaging it — and cuffed him.

Immediately after the proceeding, both families declined to comment, but later, DeRemus’ family issued a statement.

They then spoke out on Thursday, expressing their anger and grief.

DeRemus’ grandmother, Rosella Davis, read from a written statement.

“If this rumor is true that they decided to videotape my grandson’s death, then that is a sick thing to happen,” said Rosella Davis, DeRemus’ grandmother.

Police said they had identified the four witnesses and were discussing the matter with the Johnson County district attorney’s office, and additional charges could be filed in the case.

The process wasn’t working quickly enough for DeRemus’ father.

“You’re no more than a murderer yourself when you’re a witness to something like that and you let somebody die because you’re afraid you’ll get in a little bit of trouble and get grounded. I think it’s sick. I will miss Dakota for the rest of my life. I hurt for my boy. I hurt for my family. We were very, very close, and I now I have an empty spot in my life that will never be filled,” said Scott DeRemus.

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U.S. Sees Russia China OPEC Financial Threat

The United States is worried that Russia, China and OPEC oil-producing countries could use their growing financial clout to advance political goals, the top U.S. spy chief told Congress on Tuesday.

Such economic matters joined terrorism, nuclear proliferation and computer-network vulnerabilities as top U.S. security threats described by National Director of Intelligence Michael McConnell in an annual assessment.

McConnell said U.S. intelligence agencies had “concerns about the financial capabilities of Russia, China and OPEC countries and the potential use of their market access to exert financial leverage to political ends.”

Russia, bolstered in part by oil revenues, was positioning itself to control an energy supply and transportation network from Europe to East Asia, and the Russian military had begun to reverse a long decline, he told the Senate Intelligence Committee.

China has pursued a policy of global engagement out of a desire to expand its growing economy and obtain access markets, resources, technology and expertise, McConnell said.

It seeks a constructive relationship with the United States and other countries, but as its influence grows “Beijing probably will increasingly expect its interests to be respected by other countries,” he said.

Russia and China have long been able to target U.S. computer systems to collect intelligence, he said. “The worrisome part is, today, they also could target information infrastructure systems for degradation or destruction.”

In the energy sector, a weak U.S. dollar had prompted some oil suppliers, including Iran, Syria and Libya, to ask for payment in other currencies, or to delink their currencies from the dollar, McConnell said. “Continued concerns about dollar depreciation could tempt other producers to follow suit.”

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Russia Plans Buildup In The Mediterranean

Russia has completed a two-week naval exercise in the Mediterranean and plans to re-establish its footprint in the region.

Russian navy commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said his force would establish a presence in areas deemed by Moscow as strategic. Vysotsky said this would include the Mediterranean and the neighboring Atlantic Ocean.

“What is important is that we have arrived [in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean] at a scheduled time and not just that we appeared there,” Vysotsky said on Feb. 3. “We’ll do all we can to build up our presence where Russia has strategic interests.

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Tornadoes Rip Through South Killing 15

Tornadoes across four Southern states tore through homes, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses in a rare spasm of violent winter weather that killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more.

The twisters that slammed Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky were part of a line of storms that raged across the nation’s midsection at the end of a day of Super Tuesday primaries in several states. Candidates including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee even paused their victory speeches to remember the victims.

A couple and their 11-year-old daughter were killed in their home after a tornado touched down near the center of Atkins, a community of 3,000 along the Arkansas River in the central part of the state, the Pope County Sheriff’s Office said. Authorities across Arkansas, where at least seven people died, searched in the night for additional victims.

“This was an extraordinary night,” said Gov. Mike Beebe. “When it’s compounded by darkness, that makes it that much more difficult.”

Authorities in Tennessee said storms killed at least five people there, and Kentucky State Trooper Stuart Recke said three adults died outside Greenville, in the western part of the state. At least 60 people were injured in the four states, authorities said.

The power was knocked out briefly at a Little Rock convention hall that hosted an watch party for GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor.

“While we hope tonight is a time for us to celebrate election results, we are reminded that nothing is as important as the lives of these fellow Arkansans, and our hearts go out to their families,” Huckabee said.

At the W.J. Matthews Civic Center in Atkins, a shelter was empty except for a American Red Cross volunteers and a single touchscreen voting machine. The civic center had hosted an election precinct earlier Tuesday.

Cell phone pictures sent to television stations showed a dark, broad funnel approaching Atkins. Traffic was snarled on nearby Interstate 40, with tractor-trailers on their sides.

At least six tornadoes touched down between Oxford, Miss., and Jackson, Tenn., said Richard Okulski of the National Weather Service in Memphis.

One storm tore a large part of the north wall off Hickory Ridge Mall in Memphis. Steve Cole of the Memphis Police Department said a few people north of the mall took shelter under a bridge and were washed away, but were pulled out of the Wolf River with only scrapes.

Later, the same system damaged a dormitory at Union University in Jackson, where a 2003 tornado killed 11 people and one in 1999 killed nine. Eight students were trapped Tuesday but weren’t seriously injured, school spokesman Tim Ellsworth said.

In Arkansas, the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office said debris, including parts of houses, blocked U.S. Highway 62. The town of Gassville was sealed off because of the possibility of gas leaks resulting in an explosion, and injury reports could not be confirmed because phone lines were down.

The three dead at Atkins were family members who died after their home took a direct hit, Pope County Coroner Leonard Krout said.

“Neighbors and friends who were there said, ‘There used to be a home there,’” Krout said.

Two people died in Hardin County, Tenn.; two died in Memphis when the roof collapsed at a warehouse; and one died in Fayette County, authorities said.

At least 13 people in Memphis were taken to a hospital, and two were critical, said Lt. Keith Staples of the Memphis Fire Department.

A tornado shredded warehouses in an industrial park in Southaven, in northern Mississippi, said Desoto County Sheriff’s Department Cmdr. Steve Atkinson.

“It ripped the warehouses apart. The best way to describe it is it looks like a bomb went off,” Atkinson said. “A lot of fire departments are here and we’re searching each warehouse to see if there was anybody in there. It’s going to be a time consuming thing and we’ll probably be searching into the morning.”

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US Recession Will Dwarf Dotcom Crash

The recession facing the United States is of a scale that dwarfs the dotcom slump.

The slowdown will cause a damaging regulation backlash as governments attempt to compensate for the financial pain facing families. Britain faces a similar plight, though it may avoid as deep a slowdown as the US.

The views of Stephen Roach, one of the world’s leading economists, now heading the Asian wing of Morgan Stanley, would have seemed outrageous at last year’s World Economic Forum.

It is a sign of the times that they are now close to the consensus. This year’s event has been dominated by discussions of the stock market slump on both sides of the Atlantic, the Federal Reserve’s emergency interest rate cut and the SocGen fraud disaster.

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