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12 √ ITALY Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dismissed as “media trash” on Thursday reports that a teenage girl attended parties at his Milan villa. Italian newspapers have reported that a 17-year old Moroccan runaway named Ruby had told prosecutors in Milan that she attended parties at Berlusconi’s sumptuous villa in Arcore, northern Italy. — REUTERS √ KIM JONG-UN The White House said on Thursday that North Korea’s leadership transition appeared to be only in the early stages and it would still take some time to discern the final outcome. Jeff Bader, President Barack Obama’s Asia adviser, made clear, however, that Washington was closely monitoring the political situation after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s son, Jong-un, gained greater prominence in recent weeks as his father’s likely successor. — REUTERS › WORLD FRIDAY-SUNDAY OCTOBER 29-31 2010 U.S. MILITARY ON ALERT AHEAD OF MARATHON Security tight at Pentagon REUTERS — The Pentagon is tightening security for this weekend’s Marine Corps marathon after a series of shootings targeting military buildings in the Washington area, an official said Thursday. The FBI says a single weapon was used in an Oct. 19 shooting that shattered two windows at the Pentagon and in another shooting at a Marine Corps museum south of Washington the previous weekend. It is investigating whether a third shooting at a Marine Corps recruiting station this week was also connected. No one was injured in the shootings but security measures were being heightened, a Pentagon spokesman said. “The Pentagonforce protection agency will probably have a larger presence than normally for these activities this weekend,” Colonel Dave Lapan told reporters. TheMarineCorpsmarathon is being held on Oct 31. Nigeria claims weapons came from India REUTERS — An illegal shipment of rocket launchers and heavy mortars intercepted in Nigeria first arrived in the country in July on a ship which sailed from India, the Nigerian customs service said on Thursday. Nigeria’s secret service intercepted 13 containers in the port of Lagos this week, some of which were found to contain rocket launchers, grenades, explosives and ammunition. The seizure raised concern about national security in Africa’s most populous nation, which is preparing for elections expected to be held next April and which was shaken by car bombings in the capital Abuja almost four weeks ago. Customs Director Dikko Abdullahi said the containers were discharged from the vessel MV CMA-CGM Everest, which docked in Lagos on July 10 and sailed out again five days later. The ship’s manifest listed the contents as building materials and its last port of call before Lagos was Jawaharlal Nehru port, south of Mum- bai, the customs service said. “Our system is configured to block suspicious importations of this nature,” Abdullahi said in a statement. “The importer and exporter had no address on the system and we have reason to believe that the importer’s name given in the import documents is fictitious.” The Pentagon has heightened security ahead of Sunday’s marathon. REUTERS √ OIL SPILL The foam cement that Halliburton Co. used to seal BP’s doomed well was unstable and may have contributed to the blowout that led to the oil spill, a presidential commission said on Thursday. Both Halliburton and BP were aware of flaws in the cement mixture — REUTERS Newzz! BUZZ SECTION READ IT DAILY.
14 › WORLD Asian agenda includes meeting with top rivals REUTERS — President Barack Obama will hold bilateral meetingswithRussianPresident Dmitry Medvedev, ChinesePresidentHuJintaoand other leaders during his upcoming trip to Asia, White HouseofficialssaidThursday. ObamaleavesonNov.5fora 10-day trip that will take him to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. He is attending a G20 summit in Seoul and an Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperationmeeting in Yokohama. Obama will meet with IndianPrimeMinisterManmo- han Singh and other officials in India, his first stop on the Nov. 5-14 trip. In Indonesia, he will meet with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Nov. 9, WhiteHousedeputynational security adviser Ben Rhodes told a news conference. Obama will hold a bilateral meeting in Seoul on Nov. 11 with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. HealsowillmeetwithHuon Nov. 11 on the sidelines of the G20 in Seoul. They will discuss the global economy, trade, North Korea, Iran and FRIDAY-SUNDAY OCTOBER 29-31 2010 other issues. In Japan, Obama will meet with Nov. 13 with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Australia’s new prime minister,JuliaGillard,hisfirst meeting with her since her governmentwassworninlast month. Obama Pension protests losing steam REUTERS — Further strikes disrupted rail and air transport in FranceonThursdaybutthebroader protest against planstoraisetheretirementageappearedtobewaningadayafterparliamentadoptedpensionreformlegislation. Flights in and out of French airports were reduced by 30 - 50% due to a one-day stoppage by air traffic controllers,andarollingstrikebyrail workers halved some services but caused less disruption than previouslytohigh-speedlinks. Government estimates suggested nationwide marches had mustered about half the number who turned out the last time, the interior ministry putting the final turnout at 560,000,versus1.1milliononOct.19. The CGT union said the protests hadattractedabout2millionpeople, downfrom3.5millionduringthelast rally. Workers at the LyondellBasell refinery in southeast France voted to stop blocking fuel from leaving, anothersignthatproteststhathavehit petrolpumpsareeasing. PresidentNicolasSarkozyrefused tobackdownwhenunionsmounted wave after wave of strikes and nationwidestreetralliesinthepasttwo monthsagainsthisflagshipreform. √ FINLAND A former senior diplomat at Iran’s embassy in Helsinki, who resigned and joined the opposition, said on Thursday he had been granted political asylum by Finland only weeks after applying for it. Hossein Alizadeh, deputy head of mission at the Iranian embassy until early last month, was at least the third Iranian diplomat this year to seek political asylum in Europe, all saying they were protesting against electoral and human rights abuses. “I have political asylum and refugee status. I got it yesterday. It was given to my whole family, we are five,” Alizadeh said. — REUTERS
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