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On Sunday

Secret US memo made legal case to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Document provided justification for acting despite an executive order banning assassinations

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, according to people who have read the document.

The memo, written last year, followed months of extensive interagency deliberations and offers a glimpse into the legal debate that led to one of the most significant decisions made by President Obama – to move ahead with the killing of an American citizen without a trial.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Euro crisis spreads and puts the world economy at risk

Rupert Cornwell: Capitalism’s heart occupied – where will it all lead?

‘Crisis level’ floods threaten Bangkok

South Sudan’s Kiir in Khartoum for key talks

TEPCO orchestrated ‘personal’ donations to LDP

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Hundreds held in anti-Wall Street protest  

Witnesses describe chaotic scenes on New York’s Brooklyn Bridge as police officers surround and handcuff demonstrators.

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New York City police said about 700 protesters have been arrested after they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours.

Police said some demonstrators spilled onto the roadway Saturday night after being told to stay on the pedestrian pathway.

“Over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets have been issued in connection with a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway, and that if they took roadway they would be arrested,” said a police spokesman.

“Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were.”




Sunday’s Headlines:

Pakistan protests at assassin’s death sentence

Libya conflict: Sirte medical need dire, says Red Cross

A Search for the Real Ratko Mladic

Trekking in Kashmir: Where nuclear powers once clashed

Love of animals led to language and man’s domination of Earth

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Americans’ divide over global warming getting deeper

Despite onslaught of science, resistance to the idea seems to be hardening

By CHARLES J. HANLEY

Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.

“I don’t think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything like that,” the author recalls.

But the headline on the 1975 report was bold: “Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” And this article that coined the term may have marked the last time a mention of “global warming” didn’t set off an instant outcry of angry denial.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Meltdown fears for euro as G20 makes plans for Athens to default on debt

Wave of riots over China land grabs

Bitter battle for Gaddafi’s hometown

Israel ponders response to Palestinian U.N. statehood bid

Ry Cooder takes on the bankers

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington



By STEVEN LEE MYERS

Published: September 17, 2011


WASHINGTON – While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges – and worst-case scenarios – that would have once been almost unimaginable.

What if the Palestinians’ quest for recognition of a state at the United Nations, despite American pleas otherwise, lands Israel in the International Criminal Court, fuels deeper resentment of the United States, or touches off a new convulsion of violence in the West Bank and Gaza?




Sunday’s Headlines:

Special report: Palestinian bid for statehood divides a people

Somalia bans foreign aid workers from rebel areas

TEPCO doles out money to greedy municipalities

No rest for an Egypt revolutionary

In search of Nirvana

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

9/11 anniversary: US marks 10 years since attacks

The US has started to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

The BBC 11 September 2011

Security is tight following warnings of a possible al-Qaeda attack.

The US embassy in Afghanistan has begun the ceremonies, with events due later in the sites where four hijacked planes struck, killing nearly 3,000 people.

An official memorial to those who died is to be unveiled at the site of the World Trade Center, whose twin towers were destroyed in the attacks.

Metal barriers have been erected on roads near the World Trade Center, while police in New York and Washington are stopping and searching large vehicles entering bridges and tunnels.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Coral reefs ‘will be gone by end of the century’

Germany Lacks Clear Plan for Climate Change

Fukushima’s wave of despair

Tsvangirai: Mixed messages are hurting Zimbabwe

Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

U.S. Appeals to Palestinians to Stall U.N. Vote on Statehood

 

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARK LANDLER  

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has initiated a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a plan by Palestinians to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, but it may already be too late, according to senior American officials and foreign diplomats.

The administration has circulated a proposal for renewed peace talks with the Israelis in the hopes of persuading the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to abandon the bid for recognition at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly beginning Sept. 20.




Sunday’s Headlines:

The hunt for Gaddafi – and his victims – goes on

‘It Is Possible to Pull the Plug’

Elections to be held by March 2012, says Mugabe

Witness to a decade that redefined Southeast Asia

India’s Anna Hazare, from village activist to national campaigner

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

U.S. Appeals to Palestinians to Stall U.N. Vote on Statehood

 

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARK LANDLER  

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has initiated a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a plan by Palestinians to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, but it may already be too late, according to senior American officials and foreign diplomats.

The administration has circulated a proposal for renewed peace talks with the Israelis in the hopes of persuading the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to abandon the bid for recognition at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly beginning Sept. 20.




Sunday’s Headlines:

The hunt for Gaddafi – and his victims – goes on

‘It Is Possible to Pull the Plug’

Elections to be held by March 2012, says Mugabe

India’s Anna Hazare, from village activist to national campaigner

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

10 dead as Hurricane Irene churns up Atlantic

 Winds begin to blast Northeast; storm downs trees, leaves millions without power

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A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Irene shut down New York and menaced other cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms as it steamed up the East Coast, unloading a foot of rain on North Carolina and Virginia and knocking out power to 2 million homes and businesses. At least 10 people were dead early Sunday.

By early Sunday, the storm had sustained winds of 80 mph, down from 100 mph on Friday. That made it a Category 1, the least threatening on a 1-to-5 scale, and barely stronger than a tropical storm.

Nevertheless, it was still considered highly dangerous, capable of causing ruinous flooding across much of the East Coast with a combination of storm surge, high tides and six inches to a foot of rain.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Goldman Sachs targeted as ‘Jaws’ joins battle over banking crash

Tripoli runs out of food and fuel

Anna Hazare: India campaigner ends hunger strike

Secret river discovered under the Amazon

From Zeros to heroes… the rise and rise of a superband

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Operation Mermaid: ‘Rebels in Tripoli have risen up’

Fighting reported in capital; Gadhafi’s former No. 2 urges government troops to join the opposition

 NBC, msnbc.com and news services

TRIPOLI, Libya – Explosions and gunfire rocked Tripoli through the night as opponents of Moammar Gadhafi rose up in the capital, declaring a final push to topple the Libyan leader after a six-month war reached the city’s outskirts.

“The zero hour has started,” said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice-chairman of the rebel leadership council. “The rebels in Tripoli have risen up.”

However, a defiant Gadhafi said an assault by “rats” had been repelled.

“Those rats … were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them,” Gadhafi said in an audio message broadcast over state television early Sunday.

Intense gunfire erupted after nightfall. Reuters journalists in the center of the capital, a metropolis of 2 million people, said it subsided somewhat after several hours. Fighting was reported early Sunday in several neighborhoods.

NATO aircraft made heavy bombing runs after nightfall, The Associated Press reported.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Food aid reaches only one in five of Somalia’s starving

The hilltop Spanish town overshadowed by a debt mountain

Bahrain government fires hundreds of employees for political views

South Korea churches’ beacons an eyesore to some

U.S. scholars say their book on China led to travel ban

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Aung San Suu Kyi in first political trip beyond Rangoon

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has made her first political trip outside Rangoon since her release from house arrest last November.  

The BBC 14 August 2011  

She called for national unity as she visited Bago, about 80km (50 miles) north of Burma’s main city.

Hundreds of people lined the streets as her convoy made its way to Bago.

The Burmese authorities had earlier warned that such a trip could trigger unrest and security agents were monitoring the convoy.

However, the BBC’s South-east Asia correspondent, Rachel Harvey, says recent moves have suggested a thaw in relations could be under way.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Elephant and rhino poaching ‘is driven by China’s economic boom’

FBI investigates secret payments to Fifa whistleblower

Bitter battle as Libyan rebels take key town

Kidnapping of American in Lahore highlights risks for US aid efforts in Pakistan

Shammi Kapoor passes away

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Brown blames US and Europe for ‘throwing away’ recovery  

Former prime minister mounts an extraordinary attack on world leaders for mishandling economic crisis and risking ‘a decade of joblessness’  

By Matt Chorley, Jane Merrick, Stephen Foley and Margareta Pagano Sunday, 7 August 2011

Gordon Brown today launches an extraordinary attack on the leaders of America, France and Germany, accusing them of being “wrong” on the big economic decisions and failing to heed his warnings over the EU debt crisis.

The former British prime minister breaks his silence to claim wrong-headed EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, had “thrown away” another chance of economic recovery. They ignored his warnings about their banks’ debt levels and are exacerbating the financial crisis which, in turn, risks condemning millions of people to a decade of joblessness.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Emergency talks called to calm global financial crises

Muslim Brotherhood holds first open vote in Egypt

Five myths about Africa

Hip-hop moments that shook the world

Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Syrian unrest: ‘Many deaths’ as army attacks Hama

The Syrian army has begun an assault on the city of Hama in northern Syria, with residents saying that dozens of people have been killed.

The BBC  31 July 2011

Hama has been in a state of revolt and virtually besieged for the past month.

Locals said more than 20 people were killed in “intense gunfire” after forces moved in from several sides.

The army is signalling that it will not tolerate large-scale unrest ahead of the month of Ramadan, when protests are expected to grow, correspondents say.

Syria has seen more than four months of protests against the authoritarian four-decade rule of President Bashar al-Assad’s Baath party.




Sunday’s Headlines:

China rail crash families accept compensation as Beijing moves to silence furore

Kenya is on the brink of its own disaster

Europe’s Right-Wing Populists Find Allies in Israel

Campaign puts Mexico teachers union leader back in spotlight

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