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LAX suspect’s family expresses sympathy to victims GEOFF MULVIHILL
An attorney for the family of Paul Ciancia said his relatives also expressed hope for the recovery of the other victims and regret PENNSVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Relatives for the travel disruption caused by the of the suspect charged in last week’s Los attack on the nation’s third-busiest airport. Angeles airport shooting offered sympathy Family lawyer John Jordan read a brief statement outside the town hall in Pennswas killed, saying they were “shocked and ville, a working-class town near Wilmingnumbed” by the deadly rampage. ton, Del., where Ciancia grew up.
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“Paul is our son and brother. We will conCiancia, a 23-year-old unemployed tinue to love him and care for him and sup- motorcycle mechanic, is accused of shooting his way past an airport checkpoint with Jordan said on the family’s behalf. The relatives, who had not spoken pub- bag. He was wounded in a shootout with licly before, said they were cooperating with airport police. the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Prosecutors have charged him with Jordan, who is also the town’s municipal judge, did not take questions. TSA screener Gerardo I. Hernandez and
committing violence at an international airport. In the Ciancia family’s neighborhood in New Jersey, stop signs at either end of the street were adorned with stickers advertising Infowars.com, a website that discusses many of the same anti-government ideas
Greece’s debt inspectors back amid austerity anger
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Violence in Iraq spikes, 12 dead after bombings, shootings SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A double suicide bombing and other attacks killed 12 people in Iraq on Monday, passed a law laying the groundwork for next year’s parliamentary elections. Violence has spiked in Iraq since April, with the pace of killing reaching levels unseen since 2008. U.N. that at least 979 people, mostly civilians, were killed last month alone. The latest attacks came two days after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returned from a trip to Washington ing the insurgency, including weapons and help with intelligence. President Barack Obama pledged Friday to help combat an increasingly active al-Qaida in Iraq but stopped short of announcing new commitments of the assistance alMaliki sought. Al-Maliki’s trip sparked criticism in Iraq, where he faces discontent from across the sectarian divide. Shiites are upset with his failure to provide security, and Sunnis are angry at their perceived secondclass citizen treatment. One of al-Maliki’s harshest crit-
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University students protest outside the Greek parliament against the government austerity measure affecting the education system, in central Athens Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. Greece’s largest labor union has called a new general strike for Nov. 6, in its latest attempt to halt spending cuts imposed as part of Greece’s 240 billion-euro ($325 billion) bailout agreements. DEREK GATOPOULOS
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will require more austerity measures. EU Commission spokesman Simon O’Connor said the troika’s schedule was
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Inspectors from Greece’s bailout creditors have restarted to the EU late Friday. talks on spending reforms that the govern“This was information largely related to out any further blanket wage and pension for 2014, but also to other elements of the cuts, and accusing the negotiators of adopt- (bailout) program conditionality,” he told ing a “punitive approach.” reporters in Brussels. European Commission, the European Cen- ity measures can be implemented, arguing tral Bank, and the International Monetary they would be unproductive in an econFund will, start high-level meetings Tuesday. omy that is contracting for a sixth year and The sides are at odds over the size of a 2014 with unemployment near 28 percent. Unions budget gap and whether a plan to cover it are planning a general strike Wednesday,
approach never helps the situation. What grounded for three hours on that day. we need now is for our European partners Conservative Prime Minister Antonis to explicitly express their trust in Greece’s Samaras late Monday said Greece was ful- prospects,” Hadzidakis told a business conference. cover budget gaps without new blanket pay Greece has survived on international cuts for wage earners and pensioners. “There will be no budgetary gap, in our view, and the numbers will bear this out,” it near bankruptcy in 2010. It has pushed Samaras told private Mega television. through drastic spending cuts and tax hikes Development Minister Costis Hadzida- in return for a total of 240 billion euros ($324 kis said eurozone nations needed to express their solidarity toward Greece instead of After a month-long suspension, talks exerting more pressure. with creditors are aimed at resolving differ“This constant sense of doubt is very ences so Athens receives the next 1 billionnegative for the economy and a punitive euro ($1.35 billion) loan installment.
Norway tragedy: Three dead after hijacker attacks bus MARK LEWIS
AssociAted Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — A knife-wielding man hijacked a bus Monday in rural Norway and killed the driver and two passengers before he was detained by Police in Sogn and Fjordane county in western Norway gave few details about the suspect, but described him as a local resident originally from South Sudan. Police attorney Trine Erdal said the suspect was in his early 30s, not in his 50s as police had earlier reported. The motive for the stabbing rampage was not immediately clear. The victims were two men in their 50s — the Norwegian bus driver and a Swedish passenger — and a 19-year-old Norwegian woman, Erdal said. All had been stabbed. There were no other passengers on the bus, she said.
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arrive on what they thought was an accident scene, police said. He was later arrested by police and taken to a hospital for treatment of cuts but was not seriously injured, Norwegian news agency NTB reported. Oslo police said they called off the deployment of an anti-terror unit after receiving reports that the suspect had been arrested. The same bus route was attacked in 2003 when an Ethiopian man stabbed to death a bus driver, NTB said. He had earlier that day killed a Congolese asylum seeker at a refugee center. Multiple killings are rare in Norway, though the country was shocked by its worst peacetime AP PHOTO massacre two years ago when Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwe- Emergency personnel surround a helicopter near the site of a bus hijacking in Aardal, western Norway, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. A knife-wielding man on Monday hijacked a bus and killed three people on gian right-wing extremist, killed 77 board, including the bus driver, police said. The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, was arrested people in a bomb and gun rampage. after the attack in Sogn and Fjordane county, local police said.
Shiite cleric who is also trying to build an alliance with Sunni parties. According to the Iraqi media, Sadr criticized the trip to the country whose troops occupied Iraq from 2003 to 2011, playing on anti-American sentiment that remains strong in many communities. lashed back in an unusually harshly worded statement, recalling the human rights abuses of both Sunni insurgents and militias associated with the Sadrist movement. Sadr “has the right to exercise early electoral campaigning, but he should not belittle the Iraqis’ minds and memory... They also remember the control of (Sadr)’s militia that fostered murder, kidnapping and theft in Basra, Karbala, Baghdad and other provinces,” the statement said. In a statement issued on Monday, Iraq’s Vice President Khudeir alKhuzaie set April 30, 2014, as the date for the next national elections. Al-Maliki has not ruled out seeking a third term next year despite charges from opponents that his administration is a dictatorship in the making. In the evening, Iraq’s parliament passed legislation to govern those elections. It increased the number of seats to 328 from the current 325, but otherwise was little different than the previous elections law. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who met with al-Maliki in Washington last week, welcomed the passage of the legislation, saying the elections “give the Iraqi people an opportunity to choose the direction of their country.” “The compromises reached today demonstrate the strength of Iraq’s democratic institutions, even in the face of terrorism that seeks to heighten sectarian tension and proa statement. Meanwhile, a roadside bomb hit two civilian cars near the town of Taji some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four and wounding three. Police said the road was often used by military convoys.
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