Prelate recalls suffering of Church in Cambodia

Catholic Culture Monday 30th July, 2012

The apostolic prefect of Battambang, a city located in northwestern Cambodia, discussed the terrible persecution of the Church there under the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79). "It is a martyr Church," says Spanish Jesuit Father Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzlez. "The Church in Cambodia was completely leveled. All our leaders, as I said earlier, bishops, priests, nuns, many catechists, were killed. Those who weren't killed died of hunger or disease, and...

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RadioTimes: Louis Smith: from X Factor to Olympic gymnast - the GB medal hopeful on singing, nude shoots and crude Twitter posts... http://t.co/Sek1GZ8r

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Michigan Matters: GOP Senate Candidates

This week on Michigan Matters we?ll look at the red hot GOP Senate race as candidates Clark Durant, Pete Hoekstra, and Randy Hekman explain why they should be chosen to face Senator Debbie Stabenow in the fall.

Then GOP strategist Rocky Raczkowski and Bankole Thompson from the Michigan Chronicle analyze the race in a Michigan Matters exclusive, Sunday at 11:30am on CBS 62.

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Tune in for Michigan Matters each Sunday at 11:30 a.m. on CBS 62.

Archived posts and video is available at?CBSDetroit.com/MichiganMatters.

Source: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/07/29/michigan-matters-gop-senate-candidates/

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Syrian forces pound rebels in Aleppo

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian troops said they had recaptured a district of Syria's largest city Aleppo, after heavy fighting against rebels who remain in control of swathes of the commercial hub despite being pushed out of the capital Damascus.

The past two weeks have seen forces of President Bashar al-Assad struggle as never before to maintain their grip on the country after a major rebel advance into the two main cities and a July 18 explosion that killed four top security officials.

Government forces have succeeded in imposing their grip on Damascus but rebel fighters gained control of parts of Aleppo, a city of 2.5 million people, where Reuters journalists have toured neighborhoods dotted with Free Syrian Army checkpoints flying black and white Islamist banners.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said attacks on Aleppo were putting the nail in the coffin of Assad's government, showing he lacks the legitimacy to rule.

"If they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people in Aleppo, I think it ultimately will be a nail in Assad's own coffin," Panetta said, speaking to reporters at the start of a weeklong trip to the Middle East and North Africa.

"What Assad has been doing to his own people and what he continues to do to his own people makes clear that his regime is coming to an end. It's lost all legitimacy," he said, adding, "It's no longer a question of whether he's coming to an end, it's when.

Fighting for the past several days has focused on the Salaheddine district in the southwest of Aleppo, where government troops have been backed by helicopter gunships.

Rebel fighters, patrolling opposition districts in flat-bed trucks flying green-white-and-black "independence" flags, said they were holding off Assad's forces in Salaheddine. However, the government said it had pushed them out.

"Complete control of Salaheddine has been (won back) from those mercenary gunmen," an unidentified military officer told Syrian state television late on Sunday. "In a few days safety and security will return to the city of Aleppo."

Reuters journalists in the city were not able to approach the district after nightfall on Sunday to verify whether rebels had been pushed out. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human rights said fighting was continuing there.

The government also declared victory on Sunday in the battle for the capital, which the rebels assaulted in force two weeks ago but have been repulsed in unprecedented fighting.

"Today I tell you, Syria is stronger ... In less than a week they were defeated (in Damascus) and the battle failed," Foreign Minister Walid Moualem said on a visit to Iran, Assad's main ally in the region.

"So they moved on to Aleppo and I assure you, their plots will fail."

Rebel-held areas of Aleppo visited by Reuters were almost empty. Fighters were basing themselves in houses.

Cars entering one Aleppo district came under fire from snipers and a Reuters photographer saw three bodies lying in the street. Unable to move them to hospital for fear of shelling, residents had placed frozen water bottles on two of the corpses to slow their decomposition in the baking heat.

A burnt out tank lay in the street, while nearby another one had been captured intact and covered in tarpaulin. Burnt cars could be seen in many streets, some marked with "shabbiha" - a reference to pro-Assad militiamen.

Near the centre of town, most shops were shuttered, some with "Strike" painted over them. The only shop doing business was a bakery selling subsidized bread, where the queue stretched around the block.

U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said 200,000 people had fled the fighting in and around Aleppo in the last two days, and the violence across Syria made it hard for humanitarian agencies to reach them.

"Many people have sought temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings in safer areas. They urgently need food, mattresses and blankets, hygiene supplies and drinking water."

Assad's ruling structure draws strongly on his Alawite minority sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, while his opposition is drawn largely from the Sunni Muslim majority, backed by Sunni leaders who rule nearly all other Arab states.

That has raised fears the 16-month conflict could spread across the Middle East, where a sectarian divide between Sunnis and Shi'ites has been at the root of violence in Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain and elsewhere.

Shi'ite Iran demonstrated its firm support for Assad by hosting his foreign minister. At a joint news conference with Moualem, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi rebuked the West and Arab states for holding the "illusion" that Assad could be easily be replaced in a managed transition.

CRUCIAL TEST

In Damascus, many residents have fled fighting in the outskirts for relative safety in the heart of the capital.

In the centre, shops open only between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., food prices have soared and no one dares walk outside after dusk, even in the holy month of Ramadan when streets are normally packed late into the night with people breaking the fast.

"To begin with I was with the regime, for sure," said Ahmed, from one of the southern suburbs where the army, backed by helicopters and tanks, launched its counter-offensive.

"But now, no, the regime must go. Take what they want with them, but they must go."

The battle for Aleppo is a decisive test of the government's ability to put down the revolt after the July 18 explosion killed four of its top security officials and wrecked the Assad family's image of untouchable might.

It has committed huge military resources to Aleppo after losing control of outlying rural areas and some border crossings with Turkey and Iraq.

(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy and Dominic Evans in Beirut, Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai and a reporter in Damascus who cannot be identified for security reasons; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Sophie Hares)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/helicopters-artillery-fire-over-syrias-aleppo-082850722.html

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Arizona deputy says he risked life for illegal immigrant

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A deputy from a controversial Arizona sheriff's office countered accusations of racial profiling on Thursday, telling a court that he had risked his life to rescue a Latino illegal immigrant from armed kidnappers.

Carlos Rangel told a civil trial alleging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that, at the behest of federal immigration police, he went undercover to play the role of the immigrant's relative to meet kidnappers, one of whom pointed a gun at him.

The kidnappers were arrested and the immigrant was released.

Asked by defense lawyer Tom Liddy, Rangel if he was an "anti-Hispanic bigot", Rangel answered: "No. I am not."

Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," and his office are defendants in a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix that will test whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling Hispanic citizens and legal residents.

The 80-year-old lawman testified this week he was against racial profiling and denied his office arrested people because of the color of their skin.

The sheriff, who is seeking re-election to a sixth term in November, has been a lightning rod for controversy over his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws in the state, which borders Mexico, as well as his investigation into the validity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Arizona was in the news last month when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key element of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants requiring police to investigate those they stop and suspect of being in the country illegally.

Arpaio faces a separate, broader lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department in May, alleging systematic profiling, sloppy and indifferent police work and a disregard for minority rights.

'RUDE' AND 'MOCKING'

The civil lawsuit was lodged in the name of Manuel Ortega Melendres, one of five Hispanics who say they were stopped by deputies because they were Latino, which Arpaio denies. It was later opened to all Latino drivers stopped since 2007.

Melendres, a Mexican tourist on a valid visa in a truck was pulled over ostensibly because the white driver was speeding.

Rangel, who arrested Melendres, was asked by plaintiffs' counsel if he had questioned the driver. He told the court he had no grounds to investigate the driver.

When asked by Liddy if he had ever racially profiled anyone while working at the sheriff's office, Rangel, a 13-year veteran of the force, replied: "No".

In later testimony, a Hispanic woman who is a U.S. citizen told the court she was pulled over by a sheriff's deputy in 2009 on suspicion she had drugs, alcohol and weapons in her car as she drove home from studying at a Phoenix valley university.

Despite telling the deputy she was pregnant, Lorena Escamilla said, she was thrown roughly onto the back seat of his patrol car. A subsequent search of her car did not find any drugs. While she was cited for failure to produce identification and not having insurance, charges against her were dropped.

Escamilla said she later filed a charge of assault with Phoenix police department against the deputy and has since been fearful of being pulled over by the officer.

Also testifying was a Hispanic mother who was in a vehicle with a group of Boy Scouts that was pulled over in 2009 by a deputy for speeding while returning from the Grand Canyon.

Diona Solis, who is also a U.S. citizen, said the deputy was "rude" and "mocking" and unnecessarily requested identification from the boys in the car aged 8 to 11, among them her son.

"The boys were minors ... I thought it was unreasonable to ask them for IDs ... they hadn't done anything wrong," she said.

(Editing by Mary Milliken and Anthony Boadle)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-deputy-says-risked-life-illegal-immigrant-102120677.html

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Chevron to invest $2 billion in Congo-Angola oil field

BRAZZAVILLE, July 29 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp plans to invest $2 billion to develop its Lianzi oilfield straddling the maritime border between Republic of Congo and Angola, a company official said on Sunday.

"Production from the Lianzi field will begin in 2015 and investments will cost $2 billion," Katia Mounthault-Tatu, a Chevron spokeswoman, told Reuters.

State revenues from the field, which holds proven reserves of 70 million barrels, will be split 50-50 between Congo and Angola, the two countries confirmed in an agreement on Friday.

Congo produced 105 million barrels of crude oil last year. Angola pumps around 1.8 million barrels per day.

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London 2012 Summer Olympics: Opening ... - Tv Food and Drink

I forgot to get dessert for the #OpeningCeremonies. Luckily, I have peanut butter and baker?s chocolate. Let the games begin, fuckers!

?Yo London, Imma let you finish, but Beijing had the best #openingceremonies of all time.?

#OpeningCeremonies ?Would anyone notice if they added a fake country to the parade? like Newfartandstand?

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Princess Di hologram for the #OpeningCeremonies at the #olympics. I?m calling it.

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?Here?s the Queen, cheering wildly for Great Britain.? Sure, let?s go with that. #OpeningCeremonies

The Queen looked utterly bored! Haha! My bf says she?s thinking ?It?s past my bedtime & I missed Golden Girls! Dammit!? #openingceremonies

Now they?re apparently doing an affectionate ?Tribute to Pollution & Black Lung?. #Olympics #OpeningCeremonies

#openingceremony #openingceremonies They?re making it smell like sulfur in the stadium. First Mr. Bean? now this. Go England!

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#openingceremonies Dancing nannies and kids jumping on beds as entertainment ? what is wrong with British people?

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Holy shit! It?s raining Julie Andrews! #openingCeremonies

That awkward moment when it took Harry Potter 7 long books to beat Voldemort? and Mary Poppins did it in 2 minutes. #OpeningCeremonies

Mary Poppins is practically perfect in every way ? but that inflatable baby is way sick #oopeningceremonies

Quit bragging about all your musical geniuses, Britain. We invented Hanson. #TEAMUSA #OpeningCeremonies #London2012

#openingceremonies hey who?s leading Afghanistan ? he?s cute!

?Albania has never won an Olympic medal.? ?Is that a set-up or a punch line? ?#openingceremonies

Here comes American Samoa! Oh wait, no. it?s just 80s pop band The Jets #openingceremonies

There?s a place called Andora? ?#OpeningCeremonies

oh dear ? Angola?s outfits looks distrubing close to Aunt Jemima?s ? #openingceremonies

Hello Markus Rogan! How do I get to Austria? #OpeningCeremonies

I love how NBC skips over the boring countries ?#Olympics #OpeningCeremonies

Doesn?t #Bhuntan mean something bad in Italian??#OpeningCeremonies

When I saw Bhutan at the #OpeningCeremonies, I remembered when Andy Bernard said ?it?s on like wearing Sean Jean in Bhutan!?. #TheOffice

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I want to go to Chad. ?I never go anywhere.?#OpeningCeremonies

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D-J-I-B-O-U-T-I spells Djibouti!!! ?#OpeningCeremonies

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Next fuckable country? Dominican Republic! #OpeningCeremonies

There?s too many countries ? we need to go to war more ?#OpeningCeremonies

Christ and I thought It?s a Small World was long. ? #OpeningCeremonies

Wait we have Independent Olympic Athletes? ?Are they freelance? ?Do they train from Starbucks during the week?

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I love the independent athletes. ?They look like they only ones having any fun.?#openingceremonies

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You know who should narrate the #OpeningCeremonies? Statler & Waldorf.

Here?s Japan?. and no giant robots. Buckets of fail. #OpeningCeremonies

I swear some of these countries are made up. ?I fully expect to hear ?Park Place!? and ?Fraggle Rock!? at any moment ?#OpeningCeremonies

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LOSE. ?Moldova got the shaft for a WalMart commercial ?#OpeningCeremonies

This Olympics ?#OpeningCeremonies needs the San Diego chicken running around and doing the cabbage patch

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Saint Kittis and Nevis? ?St Vincent & the Grenadines? ?Sao Tome & Principe? ?Now NBC is just making shit up. ? #OpeningCeremonies

Every guy from Spain is hot but one? can you guess who? ?#OpeningCEremonies

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I didn?t know Niki Minaj was from Spain #OpeningCeremonies

Does the whole Swedish olympic team work at the Gap? #openingceremonies

?Stanislas? is such a cool name? then you get nicknamed ?Stan? and it all goes to shit #openingceremonies

?Even in Syria? I don?t get no respect??

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According to my dad, the US athletes looked like ?security guards at Target.? #OpeningCeremonies

@RalphLauren make the #UnitedStates #outfits in #china. #fail

?We?re USA? of course we don?t make our own #openingCeremonies clothing. ?Have you met us??

The US is the only team who takes photos of themselves. :/ Just saying. #OpeningCeremonies

Poor Uruguay ? like the guy in the circus who has to follow behind the giant elephants #openingceremonies

Yemen, I?m in love with your flag holder. #Olympics #OpeningCeremonies

Brace yourselves everyone?Zambia is coming up !!!!! #OpeningCeremonies

Great Britain?s entrance was seriously #epic. #Olympics #OpeningCeremonies

The British outfits have gold pit stains. #WTF #openingceremonies

All the countries were done in record time? Holy shit how long did other Olympics take? #OpeningCeremonies

You know you?re legit when you have 3 generations from all over the world singing in unison. #McCartney #OpeningCeremonies

For anyone who missed the #OpeningCeremonies don?t be upset. It sucked. #Olympics2012

I missed a rerun of Shark Tank for this? #OpeningCeremonies

#OpeningCeremonies ends w/ the Queen locks everyone up in the stadium and says: Happy Hunger Games!

Due to overwhelming request, NBC will replay the Beijing #OpeningCeremonies immediately following whatever this is.

Source: http://tvfoodanddrink.com/2012/07/london-2012-summer-olympics-opening-ceremonies-top-tweets-openingceremony-openingceremonies/

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