THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
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Suicide bomber kills 10 people in a new wave of violence
Wounded U.S. soldiers lie on the ground at the scene of a suicide attack in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab province north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 4. A suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 10 people, including three NATO service members, officials said, the latest in a string of attacks as spring fighting season gets under way. A senior U.S. defense official has confirmed that two U.S. soldiers were among three NATO forces killed in a suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan.
Norway and Germany, which commands alliance operations in northern Afghanistan, said none of their troops were involved.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 10 people, including three American soldiers, at a park in a relatively peaceful area of northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, part of an increase in violence at the start of the spring fighting season.
bombing. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
In Kabul, NATO said three of its service members were killed in a
Shortly before noon, the bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of the park in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab province, police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmad Zai said. His target was unclear, but Zai said four of the 10 killed were Afghan police officers. At least 20 people were wounded, officials said.
bombing Wednesday in northern Afghanistan. It provided no other details about the attack or the nationalities of the three.
A senior U.S. defense official, however, confirmed that three were American troops killed in the Faryab
The Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attack, are targeting Afghan and NATO security forces as they fight to assert their power and undermine U.S. efforts to try to build up the Afghan military, who will take the lead in combat responsibility over the next couple of years.
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Iraqi fugitive vice president flees to Qatar and Saudi Arabia
RYIDH, Saudi Arabia Iraq's fugitive vice president arrived Wednesday in Saudi Arabia after a four-day official visit to neighboring Qatar, the official Saudi news agency said.
Tariq al-Hashemi, the top Sunni official in Iraq's Shiite-dominated government, is wanted in Iraq on terror charges for allegedly running death squads against Shiite pilgrims, government officials and security forces.
Iraqi authorities issued a warrant his arrest in December, touching off
Saudi Arabia's official SPA news agency said al-Hashemi arrived in the kingdom on Wednesday. A Foreign Ministry official said the Iraqi vice president was greeted by Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal in the Red Sea port city of Jiddah. There were no further details of the meeting.
a political crisis in Baghdad and deepening the country's sectarian divide just days after the U.S. military withdrawal.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Al-Hashemi, who has denied the charges and says they are politically motivated, took refuge in the self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq, out of the jurisdiction of the central government in Baghdad.
him so he can stand trial in Baghdad. Doha refused the request.
Earlier this week, he left Iraq for the first time since the allegations were leveled against him. He flew to Qatar and stayed for four days.
Iraq called on Qatar to extradite
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Hungarian lawmaker's speech criticized as 'anti-Semitic'
BUDAPEST, Hungary — A far-right Hungarian lawmaker was urged to resign Wednesday after making a speech in Parliament that was widely criticized as anti-Semitic.
In his speech, Zsolt Barath criticized the verdict in a well-known, 19th-century court case that had found several Jews innocent of murdering a Hungarian peasant girl. That verdict stoked anti-Semitism in Hungary at the time and led to disturbances in cities across the country.
On Tuesday, Barath of the farright Jobbik party commemorated the case by claiming the judge had proof of the defendants' guilt but succumbed to pressure to acquit them to avoid seeing Hungary bankrupted by international financiers.
Janos Funay of the governing Fidesz party accused Barath of opening "centuries-old wounds" with his speech.
Two opposition groups, Politics Can Be Different and the Socialist Party, urged Barath to resign.
"We cannot tolerate barely concealed anti-Semitism within the walls of Parliament," Politics Can Be Different said in statement, describing Barath's speech as an "incitement falsely made to appear as a history lesson."
Rabbi Sloma Koves of the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation said Barath should face a parliamentary ethics committee.
"It is our daily experience that increasingly coarse, racist and anti-Semitic speech is becoming permissible in the Hungarian Parliament," Koves said.
SOUTH AMERICA
Second offshore oil leak leads to lawsuit against Chevron
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A Brazilian prosecutor filed a new $11 billion suit against U.S. oil company Chevron Corp. and drilling contractor Transocean Ltd for a second leak in an offshore oil field.
In this Nov. 13, 2011 photo, released by Chevron oil company, ships try to control an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
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The federal public prosecutor's office said Wednesday on its website that prosecutor Eduardo Santos de Oliveira filed the lawsuit because of alleged environmental damage caused by oil that leaked from cracks on the ocean floor on March 4. It is near the offshore Chevron well where at least 110,000 gallons (about 416,000 liters) spilled late last year.
That first leak led Oliveira to ask for $11 billion damages from Chevron and Transocean.
Oliveira also wants the two companies to be prohibited from sending profits overseas.
Last month, federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 17 Chevron and Transocean company executives, accusing them of environmental crimes, of misleading
Brazil's oil regulator about safety plans and of not providing accurate information in the wake of the spill.
The executives could face up to 31 years in prison.
A judge must still decide if the case will go to trial, which would be a lengthy process given the number of defendants, the complexity of the
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case and the Brazilian legal system's room for numerous appeals.
Chevron spokesman Kurt Glaubitz said in an emailed statement the second lawsuit "is another in a series of outrageous actions ... all of which are without merit."
Protest contained with pepper spray
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said.
Raw video posted on the Internet Tuesday evening showed students chanting "Let us in, let us in" and "No cuts, no fees, education should be free."
Students were angry because only a handful were allowed into the meeting room, and when their request to move the meeting to a larger venue was
denied, they began to enter the room, said David Steinman, an environmental advocate who is running for Congress as a Green Party candidate.
Two officers were apparently backed up against a wall, and began using force to keep the students out of the room. Steinman said both officers used pepper spray.
"People were gasping and choking." Steinman said.
Marioly Gomez, 21, said she was standing in a hallway outside the meeting with several hundred other students who wanted to get into the meeting.
"I got pepper-sprayed without warning," she said.
Santa Monica College spokesman Bruce Smith said he believed it was the first time pepper spray had been used to subdue students on campus.
"It was the judgment of police that the crowd was getting out of hand and it was a safety issue," he said.
Firefighters were called to the campus at about 7:20 p.m. Five people were evaluated at the scene and two were taken to a hospital, Santa Monica Fire Department Capt. Judah Mitchell said. Their conditions were not known, but the injuries were not believed to be serious, Mitchell said.
Students have been upset over a new plan that involves the formation of a nonprofit foundation
which would offer core courses for about $600 each, or about $200 per unit — about four times the current price. The program is designed to cope with rising student demand as state funds dwindle.
The move has raised questions about whether it would create two tiers of students in a system designed to make education accessible to everyone and whether it's even legal under state education law.
Community colleges statewide have lost $809 million in state funding over the past three years, causing schools to turn away about 200,000 students and drastically cut the number of classes offered.
In this photo provided by David Steinman, 33rd district congressional candidate David Steinman wipes his face after being sprayed with pepper spray during a protest on Tuesday, April 3, in Santa Monica, Calif. Police police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting Tuesday evening, authorities said.
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