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 Pope
Benedict XVI seeks to end Jewish-Catholic tension over Holocaust
The
Pope sought to end years of tension between Catholics and Jews when
he called for the victims of the Holocaust never to be forgotten.
Speaking at Yad Vashem, the memorial to the six million Jews murdered
by the Nazis which crowns wooded hills in west Jerusalem, he specifically
called for their suffering never to be denied.
Camp
Liberty can hold about 14,000 troops
.
Camp
Liberty has a chapel, Moral Recreation and Welfare building, PX
shoppette, barber shop, Internet cafe, gym and more. Camp Liberty
lies northeast of Baghdad International Airport. The land near the
camp is a former hunting reserve for Saddam Hussein..
Atlantis
Mission Offers One Last Lifeline to Hubble
Periodic
maintenance visits by astronauts have been the lifeblood of the
Hubble telescope ever since it was launched in 1990 from the shuttle.
Floating above the murky atmosphere, the telescope was designed
to see the stars with peerless precision. It was hailed as the greatest
advance in astronomy since Galileo, until astronomers discovered
shortly after its launching that it couldn’t be focused because
its mirror had been exquisitely polished to the wrong shape
Top
U.S. military commander in Afghanistan to step down
eporting
from Washington -- The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan
is stepping down, a senior defense official said today. Army Gen.
David McKiernan will be replaced by Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal,
who commanded special operation forces in Iraq. The senior defense
official spoke on condition of anonymity because Defense Secretary
Robert M. Gates plans to make the announcement at a news conference
this afternoon.
Obama,
industry leaders join to cut healthcare costs
Coalition
of insurers, hospitals and doctors says $2 trillion in medical expenses
can be saved over a decade. Obama calls it 'a watershed event in
the long and elusive quest for healthcare reform.'. Reporting from
Washington -- President Obama, joined by an array of groups pledging
to cut the cost of healthcare, said today the commitment that insurers,
hospitals, doctors and others have made to saving money will help
him achieve the healthcare reform he is pursuing on Capitol Hill.
White
House not laughing about Sept. 11 joke
WASHINGTON
-- The White House is keeping its distance from an entertainer's
joke comparing commentator Rush Limbaugh to a terrorist.
Sri
Lanka factor' in Tamil Nadu poll
Few
elections in India have been fought over a pan-national issue. Fewer
still on international ones. But in the southern state of Tamil
Nadu, the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka has become a big electoral
theme.
Firefighters
race to quash wildfire before winds whip up
SANTA
BARBARA, Calif. — Firefighters spent Monday mopping up a wildfire
that destroyed dozens of homes, racing against forecasts that called
for moderate winds to return by nightfall.
U.N.'s
Ban urges Israel to change settlement policy
UNITED
NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on
Israel on Monday to "fundamentally change its policies"
on settlements and prove its commitment to a two-state solution
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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