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SUDANESE PRESIDENT IS DEFIANT IN DARFUR VISIT
Sudan's president said Wednesday he would not be cowed by his indictment on genocide charges nor allow it to distract him from seeking peace in troubled Darfur. Addressing supporters in Darfur's capital of El Fasher, a defiant Omar al-Bashir sought to cast himself as a peacemaker and discount the significance of his July 14 indictment by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor. Al-Bashir said it was an attempt to foil his government's efforts to restore peace in Darfur. And he said Sudan would not be intimidated by the threat of sanctions either. "We will only bow to... 
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SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTSOfficials fear Dolly could break Rio Grande levees By Michael Zamora (AP) Coastal officials worried Tuesday that Tropical Storm Dolly may bring so much rain that flooding could break through the levees holding back the Rio Grande. Officials urged residents to move away from the levees because if Dolly continues to follow the same path as 1967's Hurricane Beulah, "the levees are not going to hold that much water," said Cameron County Emergency Management Coordinator Johnny Cavazos. Forecasters say Dolly was expected to dump 15 to 20 inches of rain and bring coastal storm surge flooding of 4 to 6 feet above normal high tide levels. Read More... British say Taliban leader gives up, another slain By Rafiq Maqbool (AP) A senior Taliban leader has surrendered to Pakistani authorities and another insurgent commander was killed by a British airstrike in southern Afghanistan, British officials announced Tuesday. A suicide bomber blew himself up earlier in the day in the Afghan capital, wounding three civilians, while clashes in the country's west prompted U.S.-led forces to use airstrikes on Taliban militants, officials said. Lt. Col. Robin Matthews, a spokesman at the British Defense Ministry in London, said Mullah Rahim, the most senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan's Helmand province, gave himself up to Pakistani officials Saturday. He gave no other details and there was no immediate confirmation from Pakistan. Read More... Obama says hell work for Mideast peace By Jae C. Hong (AP) Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stepped into the thicket of Mideast politics Wednesday, declaring that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are strong enough internally to make the bold concessions necessary for peace. Obama said he would work to bring the two sides together "starting from the minute I'm sworn into office." But he cautioned it is "unrealistic to expect that a U.S. president alone can suddenly snap his fingers and bring about peace in this region." He made his comments within a few hours of stepping off a military aircraft _ a presidential contender carrying body armor and wearing orange earplugs _ following a five-day tour of war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq with two fellow senators. Read More... 
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Gaffney: Energy Freedom Gill: Will Bredesen Alter the Tennessee Political Landscape in 2009 Obamas great-uncle recalls liberating Nazi camp By Paul Beaty (AP) Charles T. Payne was 20 years old and, like any good Midwesterner, he knew how to listen. He was making conversation, in pieced-together English and German, with a freed prisoner of Ohrdruf, the Nazi work camp Payne's infantry regiment had just liberated at the end of World War II. "With great difficulty we conversed and, if I got what it was he was telling me about, it was that the Germans had killed a million Jews and that the world didn't really know this yet," Payne, 83, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday as, on the other side of the world, his great-nephew, Barack Obama, prepared to visit the Yad Vashem national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Read More... Rescue of mortgage giants could hit $25 billion By RICHARD DREW (AP) A federal rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers $25 billion, congressional budget experts said Tuesday, as lawmakers put finishing touches on legislation that would tap the troubled mortgage giants' profits to help save homeowners from foreclosure. A costly rescue is just a worry, not a fact at this point. Peter R. Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, predicted in a letter to lawmakers that there's a better than even chance the government will not have to step in to prop up the companies by lending them money or buying stock. But Congress is expected to vote as early as Wednesday on a housing measure that would give the Treasury Department authority to throw Fannie and Freddie a temporary lifeline. Read More...
Busch falls short of NASCAR history in trucks race By Garry Jones (AP)
Kyle Busch came up five spots short in his bid to make NASCAR history
Saturday night and Johnny Benson took advantage, holding off Michael
Annett to win the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway.
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