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TUESDAY APRIL 28 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"No one can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle."
Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man No.67
FACT OF THE DAY
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009
The first double-page spread in the Amazing Spider-Man series was in issue No.136. This is also the issue in which Harry Osborn appears for the first time as the Green Goblin
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1. Human activity forces elephants from country
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Growing pressure from poaching and human encroachment in Zimbabwe has driven hundreds of elephants to migrate from the country and at least one leopard to stalk an upmarket Harare suburb, conservationists said Monday.
As many as 400 elephants have crossed the Zambezi River, which separates Zambia from northern Zimbabwe, in recent months, said Johnny Rodríguez, head of the independent Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force.
LIMA, Peru — Peru said Monday it has granted asylum to a Venezuelan opposition leader who faces corruption allegations back home but claims to be a victim of political persecution by President Hugo Chavez.
2. Peru grants Venezuelan opposition leader asylum
Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde announced the decision before Congress, telling reporters later that Manuel Rosales was given asylum for "humanitarian reasons."
Venezuelan prosecutors accuse Rosales of illegal enrichment while he was governor of western Zulia state, saying he failed to show a legal source of about $68,000 in income between 2000 and 2004.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Park Police said they arrested 91 protesters in front of the White House, including some in wheelchairs who chained themselves to a fence.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico says the World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu by one level, two steps short of declaring a full-blown pandemic
WHO said the phase four alert means sustained human to human transmission causing outbreaks in at least one country. It signals a significant increase in the risk of a global epidemic, but does not mean a pandemic is inevitable.
3. Mexico's pandemic alert raised for swine flu
The protesters are calling on the president to support legislation that would give people with disabilities in need of long-term care alternatives to nursing homes.
Sgt. David Schlosser said a large group gathered on a sidewalk outside the White House on Monday without a protest permit required for groups of more than 25 demonstrators.
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is furious that the federal government flew a presidential Boeing 747 and a fighter jet near Ground Zero. The incident on Monday caused a brief panic
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WHO has confirmed human cases of swine flu in Mexico, the United States, Canada and Spain. Only Mexico has reported deaths from the new strain.
5. Mayor is outraged with planes over Ground Zero
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4. Police arrest protestors outside the White House
among workers, who said they were not notified in advance.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Air Force said the flight was a government photo opportunity and training mission involving a presidential plane.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he had no information on the flying photo op.
6. New plan for GM Corp. means 21,000 jobs cut
DETROIT — General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21,000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.
The plan, which includes an offer to swap roughly $27 billion in bond debt for GM stock, would leave current shareholders holding just 1 percent of the century-old company, which is fighting for its life in the worst auto sales climate in 27 years.
Bin Laden may have died
Associated Press
Pakistani intelligence claims 'he does not exist anymore,' has no proof
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, meets Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad on one day. Pakistani intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but there's no proof on one way or another about the al-Qaida chief's fate, the country's president said.
U. S. officials said bin Laden was most likely hiding in the mountains along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, in particular the lawless tribal regions.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof. Other Pakistani officials and a U.S. counterterrorism official said they thought the al-Qaida chief was alive.
Reports of bin Laden's death or of near-captures have punctuated his years on the run since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"We continue to believe that bin Laden is alive," said the U.S. official, who declined to be named
because he was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record.
Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, calling it a "holocaust," and spoke of the January election of Somalia's U.N.-backed president, calling for him to be overthrown.
"They are much more informed." Zardari said. "They've been actually after him for a longer time. They've got more equipment. They've got more intelligence. ... so they tell us they have no trace at the moment."
In an interview Monday with international media outlets, Pakistani President Asif Al Zardari said American officials had told him they did not know where bin Laden was.
"That's not confirmed. We can't confirm that. It's still in between fiction and fact."
The latest recording emerged in March, in which bin Laden referred to the December-January
Zardari added that his country's intelligence agencies "obviously"
ingly debunked by periodic audio and video recordings.
ASIF ALI ZARDARI Pakistani president
feel that he does not exist anymore," but he didn't explain how or when they reached that conclusion, and quickly qualified his comment by saying bin Laden "may be dead."
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, appearing later Monday with his visiting British counterpart at a news conference, seemed surprised when a reporter asked about Zardari's remarks.
"It's still in between fiction and fact."
Ben Venzke, director of IntelCenter, the U.S. contractor that tracks extremist propaganda, said it was unlikely al-Qaida would bin Laden's death a secret.
"That's not confirmed. We can't confirm that," he said.
"I don't know what are the comments of the president, but at the same time, I must clarify this, that nobody knows about Osama bin Laden," Gilani said. "We don't know it, whether he is alive or dead."
noise among the militants. From that I'd guess that he is alive," he said.
"Bin Laden's death will likely be celebrated by the group and its affiliates as him having achieved martyrdom as opposed to the group seeing it as a crushing and demoralizing blow," Zwenge said.
Mahmood Shah, a former security chief in the tribal regions, said he believes baden Laken is alive. "Where, I don't know. If he had died, we would have heard a lot of
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The Black Student Union elected its executive board
CAMPUS Black Student Union selects new president
members for the 2009-2010 school year last night. Jordan Brown, Bloomington, Ind.,
As a part of his plan for the future of the BSU, Brown said he would promote an idea he called E.O.E. (Encouraging Ourselfs and Each other).
voted in as the new president.
"It will implement programing based on improving ourselves as college students and preparing for subsequent life," Brown said.
Outgoing BSU president Koga Moffor, Overland Park senior, will become the Facebook Liaison. Moffor said she felt she would do a good job in her new position because she was expressive and good at communicating by e-mail.
"It feels good, but it's going to feel better when I start seeing the progress the newly elected executive board makes," Brown said.
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