Monday, July 23, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 23/07/2012





Police: Colo. suspect planned attack for months
The shooting suspect who went on a deadly rampage inside a Colorado theater planned the attack with "calculation and deliberation," police said Saturday, receiving deliveries for months which authorities believe armed him for battle and were used to rig his apartment with dozens of bombs.



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Final movie rampage victims identified
Ashley Moser drifted in and out of consciousness in the ICU, bullets lodged in her throat and a gunshot wound to her abdomen. In her waking moments, she called for her 6-year-old daughter Veronica.



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Obama to visit victims and their families
President Barack Obama will fly to Colorado on Sunday to visit with the families of victims from the Aurora movie theater shooting, the White House announced, as he and Mitt Romney dialed back their campaigning in the shocked aftermath of the massacre.



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James Holmes in solitary confinement
This photo provided by the University of Colorado shows James Holmes. University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery says 24-year-old Holmes, who police say is the suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, was studying neuroscience in a Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado-Denver graduate school. Holmes is suspected of shooting into a crowd at a movie theater killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said. (AP Photo/University of Colorado)[Updated at 9:50 p.m. EST] CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Flags outside the Arapahoe County Detention Facility flew at half-staff Saturday for the victims killed and wounded in the Denver-area movie theater massacre. Beyond the jail's walls sits the suspected gunman police say is responsible for the rampage, one of the worst mass shootings in United States [...]



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Beijing's heaviest rains in 6 decades kill 10
Children sit on the luggage carts as they stranded at the Beijing Capital International Airport after flights are canceled due to the heavy rains in Beijing, China Saturday, July 21, 2012. Heavy downpour flooded roads and caused hundreds of flights to be canceled in the capital. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTChina's government says the heaviest rains to hit Beijing in six decades have killed at least 10 people.



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Norway marks anniversary of Breivik's massacre
Services and gatherings will be held from the very south of the country to the Arctic archipelago of SvalbardReligious services, wreath-laying ceremonies, commemorative gatherings and a concert are scheduled across Norway Sunday on the first anniversary of twin attacks that killed 77 people.



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Troops march in San Diego gay parade in uniform
Betty Ayala salutes a group of veterans as she holds a sign showing her son during the gay pride parade Saturday, July 21, 2012, in San Diego. For the first time ever, U.S. service members marched in a gay pride event decked out in uniform Saturday, after a recent memorandum from the Defense Department to all military branches made an allowance for the San Diego parade - even though its policy generally bars troops from marching in uniform in parades. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Some of the loudest cheers Saturday at San Diego's gay pride parade were for active-duty troops marching in military dress, the first time that U.S. service members participated in such an event while in full uniform.



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Syria revolt reaches Aleppo; rebels target cities
RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP - This citizen journalist image shows a dead body lying in the street in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. This week, fierce fighting between troops and rebels reached the Syrian capital, the central bastion of Bashar Assad's rule, shattering parts of the city and sending thousands of people fleeing to neighboring Lebanon and Iraq. Activists and residents reported a tense calm in Damascus Saturday but said sporadic gunfire and explosions could be heard throughout the night. (AP Photo)Riding a wave of momentum, Syrian rebels made a run on Aleppo Saturday in some of the fiercest fighting seen in the country's largest city, which has been a key bastion of support for President Bashar Assad over the course of the 17-month-old uprising.



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Bomb kills 15, wounds 20 in northwest Pakistan
A man injured in a bomb attack in Upper Dir, seeks treatment after he was brought to Lady Reading hospital in PeshawarA bomb exploded at a compound in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding 20, local government and intelligence officials said. The bombing in the compound, used by a local militia and containing residential units and an office, occurred near the village of Spin Tal in the Orakzai tribal region. The Pakistan military has been conducting operations against militant groups in the area for months. ...



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Blast rocks Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan
An explosion on Sunday rocked the Egyptian pipeline built to carry natural gas to Israel and Jordan, the 15th time it has been attacked since the start of the uprising in early 2011 that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. The blast occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning at al-Tuwail, east of the coastal Sinai town of al-Arish, at a point before the pipeline splits into separate branches to Israel and Jordan, security officials and witnesses said. ...

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Rupert Murdoch quits boards of British papers
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as a director from a string of boards overseeing the Sun, Times and Sunday Times newspapers in Britain, the company said in an internal memo on Saturday.

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Chavez says election rival, Romney want to subjugate Venezuela
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez talks to supporters during an election rally in MaracaiboCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez compared his election rival to "far-right" U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Saturday, saying both men wanted to subjugate the country under capitalism and crush his socialist "revolution." South America's top oil exporter will hold its ballot on October 7, a month before the November 6 U.S. election. Chavez is in full campaign mode, aiming for a new six-year term and saying he is fit and well after three cancer operations in the past year. ...



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U.S. not meeting its pledge to rebuild Haiti
The deadly earthquake that leveled Haiti's capital more than two years ago brought a thread of hope: a promise of renewal. With the United States taking the lead, international donors pledged billions of dollars to help the country "build back better," breaking its cycle of dependency.



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As election approaches, candidates beef up spending
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a Victory town hall in Bowling GreenLess than four months until the U.S. presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's campaign is beefing up on personnel and investing more cash internally as outside groups pour millions into television ads to help him counter Democratic President Barack Obama's messaging over the airwaves. ...



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Suspect arrested in L.A. homeless stabbings
Police arrested a suspect in the stabbings of three Los Angeles-area homeless people in recent weeks, a man they say goes by a name signed on "death warrants" found with the wounded victims.

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