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YOSemite Wildfire —The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park hasbecomethe fourth-largest conflagration in modern California history, fire officials said Sunday as clouds and higher humidity helped crews further contain the biggest blaze in the
United States this year. The2-week-old Rim Fire moved up aspot on By Craig Whitlock and Ed O'Keefe The Washington Post
WASHINGTON The Obama administration asserted Sunday for the first time that the Syrian government used the nerve gas sarin to kill more than 1,400 people in the world's gravest chemical weapons attack in 25 years, as the White House intensifiedpressure on a skeptical Congress to authorize punitive military strikes against Damascus. Secretaryof State John Kerry said new laboratory tests showed traces of sarin, an extremely toxic nerve agent, in blood and hair samples collected from emergency workers who responded Aug. 21 to the scene of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Damascussuburbs. In an interview blitz on five Sunday television news shows, Kerry said the fresh forensic evidence strengthened an already compelling case for taking military action against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, predicting that Congress would vote to give PresidentBarack Obama that authority. "I can't contemplate that the Congress would turn its back on all of that responsibility and the fact that we would have, in fact, granted impunity to a ruthless dictator to continue to gas his people," Kerry said on "Fox News Sunday." "Those are the stakes." But many lawmakers, in-
the state's list of large wildfires dating back to1932 when it grew to 351 square miles — an area larger than the cities of San Francisco,
Arad league WeighS in —The Arab Leagueon Sunday urged international action against the Syrian government to deter
Oakland andSanJose combined, California Department of Forestry
what it called the "ugly crime" of using chemical weapons. It was a major step toward supporting Western military strikes but short
and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said. Although the fire still is growing, it was 45 percent contained as of Sunday.
of the explicit endorsement that the United States andsomePerDEA phone data —For at least sixyears, law enforcement officials working on acounternarcotics program have hadroutine access, using subpoenas, to anenormous AT&Tdatabase that contains the records of decades ofAmericans' phonecalls — covering afar longer time than
sian Gulf allies had hoped for.
The Leaguemoved beyondthe more cautious stance it took just a few daysago,when it askedthe U.N.Security Council to overcome its internal differences on the Syrian conflict — an out-
come that wasextremely unlikely given Russia's strong support for Syria's president, Bashar Assad.
the National Security Agency's hotly disputed collection of phone call
logs. Thegovernment paysATBTto place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them
Syrian reSpanSe —Syria on Sundayderided President Barack Obama'sdecision to hold off on punitive military strikes, but also took precautions by reportedly moving sometroops and
with the phonedata from asfar backas1987.
military equipment to civilian areas.
EgyPt Pl'utSStS —Egypt's top prosecutor on Sundayreferred ousted Islamist President MohammedMorsi to trial on charges of
The administration predicted Sunday it will obtain congressional backing for limited strikes. After days of edging closer to
inciting the killing of opponents protesting outside his palace while he was in office, the state news agency said. The military ousted
military action against Syria, Obamasuddenly announced Saturday he would first seek approval from Congress, which gets back
Morsi on July 3 after millions took to the streets demanding that he
from summer break Sept. 9. Assad, in turn, tried to project confidence in his escalating
step down. He's been held incommunicado since. Despite other ac-
showdown with the U.S., saying in comments carried by state
cusations by prosecutors, the decision Sunday is Morsi's first referral to trial. No datewas announced for the trial. Morsi will be tried in a
media Sunday that Syria is "capable of confronting any external
criminal court for allegedly inciting his supporters to kill at least10
aggression."
people, use violenceandunlawfully detain and torture protesters. Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood will be tried with
Fmm tha VatiCan —PopeFrancis condemnedthe useof chemi-
Morsi, including top aides and leading members of his political party.
cal weapons and called for a negotiated settlement to the civil war in
Syria. Francis spokewith anguish about Syria: "My heart is deeply
MuslC fastiVal daaths —A multiday electronic music festival
wounded by what is happening in Syria and anguished by the dramatic developments" on the horizon, an apparent reference to the U.S.
that drew tens of thousands of concertgoers to New York City over
Labor Dayweekendwascanceled Sunday, after city officials said two concertgoers had diedand at least four others fell critically ill during
and Franceconsidering a military strike against the Syrianregime. — Fromvuire reports
the first two days of the event. Both deaths were consistent with use of the drug MDMA, also known as Ecstasy or molly, prompting the
city to recommendthat the concerts be canceled just hours before cluding some who had previously pushed for a harder line against Assad, said the White House would have a tough time drumming up support for i ntervention i n S y r i a's seemingly i n t ractable c ivil war. "My constituents are warweary. They don't want to see
us get involved in this," Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "The president has an obligation to make his case to the Congress, but he also has an obligation to make this case to the American people.... It's going to be a very, very tough debate."
the third day of the festival was to start. Drug-related deaths and ar-
rests have doggedseveral popular raves in recent years. VeriZOn deal —Verizon Communications neared a long-anticipated deal Sunday to buy the 45 percent stake in its wireless business
held by Vodafone of Britain for about $130 billion, heralding a continued sweeping realignment within the global telecommunications landscape. Though a deal may have little effect on Verizon Wireless's
nearly100 million subscribers at first, it would ripple through the telecommunications industry and Wall Street, with both having closely watched the back-and-forth of the negotiations for months.
The companies wereexpected to announce the dealtoday, barring last-minute hiccups, according to people briefed on the matter.
MANDELA HOME; HEALTH STILL PRECARIOUS
German political dedate —Chancellor AngelaMerkeland her Social Democratic rival, Peer Steinbruck, fought each other to a virtual draw in their sole television debate of the German election
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laid out contrasting views of the euro crisis andGermany's role in helping countries like Greece, but it was more than an hour into the debate before they discussed other international problems, including
Syria. The election is Sept. 22. Afghan pulitiCS —President Hamid Karzai on Sundaychose his ambassador to Pakistan, UmarDaudzai, asthe newAfghan interior minister. The move, on the eve of the declaration period for potential presidential candidates, was public confirmation that Daudzai would
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not be Karzai's favored successor. Aformer chief of staff to Karzai, Daudzai had said Aug. 17 that he would be a "probable candidate." He was the only major figure in the Karzai camp to formally declare an
interest in running sofar, though others have hinted that they might.
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Instead, Daudzai is getting the Interior Ministry as a consolation prize. Presidential candidates are barred from serving in government.
Thai protester death —One protester was shot and killed and another seriously wounded in southern Thailand on Sunday at the
site of a blockade by rubber farmers who areprotesting a sharp fall
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An ambulance transporting former South African the same level of intensive care at his Houghton home president Nelson Mandela arrives at his home Sunday that he received in Pretoria. His home has been recon-
in rubber prices. It was not clear who was responsible for the shoot-
in Johannesburg.
figured to allow him to receive intensive carethere."
ing, which took place in the predawnhours near arailway crossing that farmers haveblocked with a container truck. The police said the
Mandela was discharged from a hospital after spending 12 weeks there, the South African govern-
Mandela, who turned 95 in July, was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria in June to be treated for the recur-
shooting was linked to an internal conflict among the protesters. The episode Sunday adds further volatility to the protests, which began
ment said, adding that the ailing anti-apartheid leader rence of a lung infection. His condition has ranged
early last month and havethe support of the Democrat Party, which
remained in precarious health. "Madiba's condition remains critical and is at times
from serious to critical, Zuma said, and occasionally doctors have had to use "medical interventions" to
leads the opposition in Parliament.
unstable," President JacobZumasaid in astatement,
stabilize him, the government hassaid in previous
Chinese graft investigation —TheChineseCommunist Party
referring to Mandela by his clan name. "Nevertheless, his team of doctors are convinced that he will receive
statements.
announced Sundaythat a senior official responsible for overseeing — New York TimesNews Service
state-owned corporations was under investigation, and people with
knowledge of that caseand others said that the inquiries were part of a larger corruption investigation encroaching on the retired chief of the domestic security apparatus. The senior official under scrutiny,
TV figure David Frost, who coaxed
Jiang Jiemin, the director of the State-OwnedAssets Supervision and Administration Commission, "is suspected of grave violations of discipline and is currently under investigation," said a brief statement
issuedbyXinhua,themainstatenewsagency. — From wire reports
apology fromNixon, diesat age74 V Pa.re,&OA 6 &o. The Washington Post. Sir David Frost, the veteran broadcaster wh o f a m ously drew a grudging post-Watergate apology out of f o rmer President Richard Nixon, died Saturday aboard a cruise ship sailing from England to the Mediterranean. He was 74. His death, from an apparent heart attack, was confirmed in a statement his family released to the BBC. Known for his laid-back but probing style of interviewing, Frost gained access to an astonishing array ofworld figures during a f ive-decade career. His subjects included seven U.S. presidents and eight British prime ministers, and his A-list included Prince Charles, Nelson Mandela, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Orson Welles, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin. Ferociously prepared b ut charming to the point of servility, he had a knack for getting his interviewees to relax and open up. "He could be — and c ertainly was with me — a good friend and a fearsome in-
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