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Today's lead stories:
Syria Warns the US: No Sanctions
Gov. Jeb Delays Corporate Cleaning of Everglades
Demands to Alleviate Homelessness
Rising Religious Tension in Pakistan
Presidential candidates speak to DC
Syria Warns the US: No Sanctions
Syria hit back at the United States today saying it is further
degrading its reputation in the Middle East after the U.S.
Congress yesterday took a step towards slapping sanctions
on Syria. The Syrian Accountability Act passed a House Committee,
and appears to also have support in the Senate and White House.
Sponsors of measure, numbering more than 275, accuse Syria
of sponsoring terrorism, occupying Lebanon, and seeking weapons
of mass destruction. Syrian officials say the sanctions will
have little effect on its people and will mostly hurt the
American oil companies in the region. And as Mitch Jeserich
reports, Syria also warned that the sanctions would be a step
back in Syrian-American relations.
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Gov. Jeb Delays Corporate Cleaning of Everglades
In Florida, arguments over cleaning up the Everglades are
stirring again. Florida governor Jeb Bush signed legislation
this session that extends the deadline by 10 years---from
2006 to 2016-- for the U.S. Sugar Corporation to meet acceptable
levels of phosphorus in their runoff water. The deadline was
set in The Everglades Forever Act of 1994. Environmentalists,
congressional representatives and the Miccosukee Indians who
live in the Everglades are contemplating their next move.
From St. Petersburg, Sally Watt reports.
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Demands to Alleviate Homelessness
As the cold weather begins to set in some parts of the country,
concern is growing for the rising levels of homeless people
around the US. Just this week, the State’s Veteran Affairs
Commissioner of Connecticut announced that in one week 15
vets, including a National Guardsman who served in the recent
war on Iraq, declared themselves homeless and sought shelter
at the veteran's home. Meanwhile hundreds of activists from
cities across the country joined the Homeless Poets Project
this week in DC to demand that the government do something
to end homelessness. Activists called on elected officials
to make into law pending legislation called the Bring America
Home Act. They say the new legislation would make great strides
to ending homeless in the United States. Tom Gomez has more
from DC.
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Rising Religious Tension in Pakistan
Pakistan today test-fired a surface-to-surface nuclear-capable
ballistic missile with a range of 700 kilometers as joint
naval exercises between Indian and American forces concluded
in the Arabian Sea close to Pakistan’s coast. The Indian
government said the exercises were part of an operation to
head off potential threats from terrorists. The naval exercises
coincide with the visit of US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard
Armitage, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Christina
Rocca and Chief of the US Central Command, General John Abizaid
to Pakistan. This as the situation in Pakistan is tense after
an extremist Pakistani politician and Sunni militant chief
Azam Tariq was killed in a drive-by shooting on the outskirts
of Islamabad. The killing of Tariq, a bearded Islamic cleric
who led the violent Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) Sunni extremist group,
comes days after six men from the rival Shia Muslim sect were
killed in a drive-by shooting in the southern port city Karachi.
Masror Hussain reports from Islamabad.
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Presidential candidates speak to DC
As most eyes have been squarely focused on the California
recall election, residents of Washington DC have been all
but shut out of the national political arena. With no senators
or representatives and only three electoral college votes,
DC citizens have long called for representation, the lack
of which is most acutely felt in times of presidential election
campaigning. Yet this past week, two candidates did the unusual,
and whereby presidential candidates normally bypass the District
of Colombia, as Sarah Turner reports, a large DC crowd got
to hear from these two presidential contenders.
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