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NEWS OF THE WORLD
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CARIBBEAN
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Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country's most populous city.
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Jamaica hit by hurricane
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain and a powerful storm surge as it headed for landfall Wednesday near the country's most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and then pose a possible threat to Florida. At least one person in nearby Haiti was killed after being swept away by a rushing river.
The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was forecast to make landfall in the vicinity of Kingston Wednesday afternoon and then spin on into eastern Cuba overnight. It was expected to pass west of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, where pretrial hearings were being held for a suspect in the
The island's international airports closed, cruise ships changed their itineraries and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting as the late-season storm neared Jamaica's south coast. Police slowly drove through drenched communities in the capital of Kingston with their cruiser's lights flashing.
deadly 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen.
In southwestern Haiti, a woman died in the town of Camp Perrin after she was swept away by a river she was trying to cross, according to Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of the country's civil protection office. There were also reports of extensive damage to Port Sult along Haiti's far-southwestern coast after a river burst its banks. Local municipal official Darius Joseph said some residents had left their flooded homes for shelter in schools and churches.
Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm conditions were possible along the southeast Florida coast, the Upper Keys and Florida Bay by Friday morning. A tropical storm watch was in effect for the area, the center said.
Across Jamaica, poor people in shamrackh shantytowns and moneyed residents in gated communities were growing increasingly jittery about Sandy's approach. Many sections of the debt-shackled country have crumbling infrastructure, and a lack of building codes has resulted in some middle-class homes and
While Jamaica was ravaged by bands from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and other powerful hurricanes centered offshore, the eye of a hurricane hasn't carved across the island since Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, according to Jamaican meteorologist Jacqueline Spence.
tin-roofed shacks being built close to steep embankments and gullies
Stranded business travelers and a smattering of locals were riding out the hurricane in hotels clustered along a strip in Kingston's financial district. Some read prayer books or novels, while others watched movies or communicated with loved ones on computers.
Cris Hopkinson, a Toronto woman who was on a business trip, said she was hoping to catch a flight off the island Friday when the stormy weather clears.
"For now, I'm just hoping that the glass in the windows don't shatter from the winds," Hopkinson said in the dining room of the Courtleigh Hotel.
MIDDLE EAST
Militant groups influencing Syria
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Syrian residents wheel a man injured from an artillery shell that landed near a bakery, to a hospital for treatment in Aleppo, Syria.
BEIRUT — The current international peace plan seeking to stop Syria's civil war suffered a major setback Wednesday when an Al-Qaida-inspired militant group rejected a cease-fire proposed by the international envoy.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, said the government in Damascus and some rebel leaders had agreed to a four-day truce during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, which starts Friday.
The modest scope of the proposal reflected how short the international community is on ideas — and even that appeared doomed. Both sides have agreed to previous, more ambitious cease-fires in the past only to break them, and neither side shows much interest in stopping the fight now.
The Syrian government denied it has made a decision, saying it is studying the proposal, and rebel
leaders have expressed doubts.
An extremist group, Jabhat al-Nusra, which has joined the fight against President Bashar Assad, also rejected the truce.
"There will be no truce between us and the prideful regime and shedder of the blood of Muslims," the group said in a written statement posted Wednesday on mill-
tant websites. "We are not among those who allow the wily to trick us, nor are we ones who will accept us to play these filthy games."
EUROPE
Space tourism looks promising in future
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WARSAW, Poland — British billionaire Richard Branson says his space tourism project keeps being pushed back and isn't sure of an exact date for the first launch.
He says it will be at least another 12 or 18 months before the Virgin Galactic venture can offer paid space travel to adventurers.
The founder of the Virgin Group met with students on his first visit to Poland on Wednesday.
where he came to launch Virgin Academy, which will help young people kick start their own businesses.
Asked about Virgin Galactic, Branson said he has "stopped counting" days to the launch because it gets delayed to "the next year, to the next year."
More than 100 would be space tourists have signed up for the $200,000 two-hour trips that go 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Virgin Group owner and British billionaire Richard Branson talks to students at Warsaw University.
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