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Protesters attack Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Egypt
Demonstrations have broken out across Egypt calling for the resignation of President Mohamed Morsi and pressuring the Brotherhood that backs him.
An Egyptian protester insults the people inside Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in the Muqattam district in Cairo, Sunday. Massive crowds thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country Sunday and marched on the presidential palace in a cheering tide of people that filled a broad avenue for blocks in an attempt to force out the Islamist president.
Manu Brabo/AP
EnlargeA small crowd attacked the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo this evening as elsewhere in the capital large crowds called peacefully for President Mohamed Morsi, a former Brotherhood leader, to step down.
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A crowd made up largely of young men threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at the headquarters, a new villa that had been a major upgrade from the Brotherhood's pre-revolution digs in a dingy Cairo apartment. The petrol bombs burned parts of the building, though did not catch the entire structure on fire.?As of two hours from publication, members of the crowd were trying to break into the building but had not yet managed to breach it. Gunshots rang out in the darkness for several hours as police were nowhere to be seen.
The attack took place as large crowds throughout Egypt went to the streets to demand Mr. Morsi's resignation. A year after he took office as Egypt's first freely elected president, anger and discontent is widespread. And as anger has grown, so has violence against the Brotherhood, a group suppressed by the former Egyptian regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Dozens of its local offices have been attacked or burned down, including several in recent days. Brotherhood supporters are among those killed in clashes between the president's supporters and opponents in recent days in the Nile Delta. Four people were killed today in Assiut and Beni Suef in clashes outside the local offices of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, according to local media.?It was unclear whether they were supporters or opponents of Morsi.?
One man who watched the attack on the Brotherhood headquarters said the violence is justified because group, and Morsi, could not be removed from power through elections. "How can we hope in politics?" asked the man, who gave his name as Saad. "They took power by force. We have to force them out."
Morsi became Egypt's first freely elected president a year ago when he won 51 percent of the vote. But Saad said Morsi has damaged Egypt so much in one year, that it was impossible to wait another three to vote him out of office.
"They want to kill us," said another man when asked why he wanted to break into the headquarters. "They're choking us."?
Other bystanders disagreed with the violence. It appeared that birdshot was fired into the crowd from inside the besieged building.?It was unclear if gunfire was also coming from the crowd. Several young men stumbled away from the area with birdshot wounds to their faces and bodies. One got in a waiting ambulance for treatment before his friend pulled him out, shouting at him that he would be arrested if he went to the hospital.
As some in the crowd attacked the front entrance of the Brotherhood's building, others had a different idea.?"Around to the back, there's an entrance there!" shouted one man, and a crowd followed him as they left to find the back entrance and attempt to break into the building from there.?
Egypt's army has warned last week it would intervene if Egypt descended into chaos following the demonstrations.
A Brotherhood spokesman, Gehad El Haddad,?said on Twitter that a group of ?thugs? was attacking the headquarters, and said two police captains left their posts protecting the headquarters to join the attack. No eyewitnesses reported seeing police engage in the attack. But Morsi has struggled to bring the security forces, long used for suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood, under his control. The police's refusal to protect the Brotherhood headquarters and other Brotherhood offices are a telling sign.
One bystander rejected the Brotherhood spokesman's notion that those in the crowd were paid to attack the building. "Are all these people thugs?" he asked, as he gestured at the packed street, mostly filled with onlookers. "Those inside shooting are the thugs."?
The Egyptian daily Shorouq posted a video on YouTube showing men on top of a Brotherhood building in Gharbeya province, in the Delta, firing on a crowd with shotguns. In December, the Brotherhood sent its members to the presidential palace to disperse an opposition protest there, some members of which had attacked the palace gates with Molotov cocktails. Brotherhood supporters captured, beat, and detained some protesters for hours, according to protesters and videos that appear to show Brotherhood members interrogating protesters and urging them to confess they were paid to attack the palace.?
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Local teams eliminated at Dizzy Dean state baseball tournaments
by Cat Walk Chatt
The weekend was a tough one for local 6-under, 9-under, and 11-under baseball clubs as teams from Catoosa and Walker Counties managed to win just two total games in their respective Dizzy Dean State tournaments.In the 6-under sanctioned tournament in Gordon County, the Chickamauga Dodgers dropped their opener to the Winston All-Stars on Saturday morning. The Dodgers bounced back to beat Ringgold in their second game, but were eliminated from the tournament with a loss to the Canton Stingers.
Ringgold had lost its initial game to the Acworth Warriors. Boynton lost to the Rome Wolves and the East Cobb Cobras, while LFORA went 0-2, falling to Eastside and Midway.
At the 6-under invitational tournament in Canton, the LaFayette All-Stars ? the area?s lone representative ? was sent home with a pair of losses to Paulding County and Whitfield County.
Back up the road in Rome, LaFayette fared no better in the 9-under sanctioned tournament. The Orange-and-Black dropped their first game to Canton on Friday night before being eliminated by the Winston All-Stars on Saturday.
Ringgold also lost its tournament opener to Alpharetta before rebounding to beat Hobgood. However, Ringgold was also sent packing on Saturday night with a loss to Canton.
And in the 11-under sanctioned tournament at the South Cherokee Recreational Complex in Woodstock, the Rossville Braves quest for a state title was short-lived after back-to-back Saturday losses to the Eastside Hurricanes and the Buckhead Bombers.
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Momentous Supreme Court term ends with flourish
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A historic Supreme Court term ended with a flourish of major rulings that marked a bitter defeat for racial minorities and a groundbreaking victory for gay rights, all in the space of a day.
The justices struck down parts of two federal laws ? the Voting Rights Act and the Defense of Marriage Act ? that were passed with huge bipartisan majorities of Congress.
Yet only one justice at the center of this conservative-leaning court, Anthony Kennedy, was on the winning side both times. Kennedy joined the four more conservative justices on voting rights and he was with his liberal colleagues in the gay marriage case.
Just in that 24-hour span, the rulings demonstrated two truths about the court under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts.
The 58-year-old lawyer who cut his teeth in the Reagan administration put to rest any questions he may have raised about his conservative credentials a year earlier when he cast the deciding vote to uphold President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
Roberts has shown himself to be a skillful judge who can get even ideologically differing colleagues to agree on narrow rulings that help form the basis for more definitive later judgments, as happened in the voting rights case.
The chief justice sees a benefit to the court as an institution and to his longer-term goal of saying, "We could go farther here, but let's wait and see," said Kermit Roosevelt, a University of Pennsylvania law professor and former high court law clerk.
But Roberts can move the court no further to the right than Kennedy is willing to go.
Divisive civil rights cases dominated the high court's work in the past nine months, including a challenge to affirmative action in higher education that ended in a compromise ruling.
The second gay marriage case, involving California's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, also produced something of a compromise. It ended in a technical, legal ruling that clears the way for same-sex unions in California, but said nothing about a constitutional right to marriage.
The justices also delivered important victories for business in cases that limited class-action claims and lawsuits over international human rights abuses, allowed authorities to collect DNA from people they arrest, ruled that human genes cannot be patented and called into question agreements between pharmaceutical companies that delay the entry of cheaper generic drugs on the market.
The timing of the voting rights and gay marriage decisions was not planned, but was perhaps inevitable, because the court's toughest cases typically are the last ones resolved before the justices take a long summer break.
Last Tuesday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wondered what had happened to the court's "usual restraint" in the voting rights case. On Wednesday, Justice Antonin Scalia said society's debate about marriage should "be settled democratically rather than by judicial command."
Paul Clement, a former Bush administration official who argued that the federal marriage law should be upheld, said what links those two cases, apart from Kennedy's vote, is the idea that Congress did not give sufficient respect to states.
It subjected some states to strict federal oversight of elections based on old data rather than current conditions, Roberts said in the voting rights case. Congress made second-class citizens of same-sex couples in denying them federal benefits even after states extended them the right to marry, Kennedy said in the gay marriage case.
"It's certainly the thread that united the votes of Justice Kennedy in the DOMA case and the voting rights case," Clement said.
Roberts first expressed reservations about the voting rights law when he was a young lawyer in the Reagan White House. A debate was then taking place in Congress about extending the law's key requirement that states with a history of racial discrimination in voting get Washington's approval before changing the way they hold elections. This "preclearance" provision, often called a crown jewel of civil rights law, was enormously effective in heading off the creative ways some states devised to keep minorities from voting.
When the justices looked at the voting rights law four years ago in a case from Texas, Roberts wrote a consensus opinion that pointedly criticized the law as being focused on past problems, but he sidestepped the larger question that the court now has emphatically answered.
The affirmative action decision ordered lower courts to cast a more skeptical eye on college admissions programs, but did not throw out the University of Texas program that was being challenged. Nor did it make a major pronouncement about affirmative action.
But it may have set the stage for a more consequential ruling in future years, in much the way that the court's voting rights decision flows from its 2009 case.
In the affirmative action case, seven justices formed the majority, including the unlikely pair of justices who have benefited from affirmative action, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas. Sotomayor has spoken positively of affirmative action, while Thomas has been an unyielding critic who has voted to ban all racial preferences.
Their agreement in the Texas case should not mask a deep division on the court about the validity of race-conscious admissions programs.
The court's business cases predictably took a back seat to the run of high-profile civil rights cases. But the business cases show a court that has steadily made it harder for plaintiffs to band together in class actions that can be more efficient and lucrative for plaintiffs, but much more expensive for companies that most often are the defendants in such claims.
Doug Kendall of the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center said the court's conservatives "were completely united in the push to protect corporations from being held accountable in federal court."
Theodore Boutrous Jr., a Los Angeles-based lawyer who often represents business interests at the Supreme Court, pointed out that some of the business cases were unanimous outcomes, not ideological.
"The court again showed deep skepticism toward efforts to stretch statutes and rules to expand class actions and liability based on new and creative theories," he said.
The court showed both more unanimity, in nearly half its cases, and more 5-4 splits, nearly 30 percent of the time, than the average in recent years, according to scotusblog.com.
Those splits often were based on ideology, but not always. Notably, in three cases Scalia aligned himself with Justice Elena Kagan, Ginsburg and Sotomayor. In those instances, including the DNA evidence case, liberal Justice Stephen Breyer was the fifth vote for the majority.
When looking at the four newest justices ? two conservative Republicans and two liberal Democrats ? the division is stark. In 5-4 cases, even when the court is not strictly split along ideological lines, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito almost always disagreed with Sotomayor and Kagan.
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Clinical! Mexico striker runs on and scores despite losing his boot
Mexico striker Jesus Escoboza has shown he?s a true predator in front of goal after running on and scoring against Mali at the Under-20 World Cup ? despite losing his boot.
Escoboza, of Santos Laguna FC, found the net along with Marco Bueno, Jesus Corona and Uvaldo Luna in a 4-1 thrashing of Mali that helped El Tri qualify for the knockout stages.
But he had to work a lot harder than most to find the net, after his football boot flew off in the build-up.
Escoboza had scampered onto a flicked header from team-mate Bueno down the left wing, but just as he appeared to have got away from the last defender to run on and score, his right boot slipped off and the forward was left to control with the ball with his sock.
It worked, though, and after showing some serious composure Escoboza kept going and eventually lashed the ball into the corner with his left peg.
Not bad, and further proof of Escoboza?s rising stock, with Inter Milan believed to be chasing his signature.
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Kazakhstan trade trip poses human rights test for UK's Cameron
By Andrew Osborn
ATYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron helped inaugurate the world's costliest oil project in Kazakhstan on Sunday on a trip aimed at sealing business deals but quickly beset by questions over the Central Asian nation's poor human rights record.
Kazakhstan hopes Cameron's visit, the first by a serving British prime minister, will cement its status as a rising economic power and confer a degree of the legitimacy from the West it has long sought.
The visit takes place just days before the nation marks 15 years since the founding of the new Kazakh capital Astana, also the 73rd birthday of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a national holiday and cause for celebration that has been anticipated for days in state media.
Nazarbayev, a former Communist party apparatchik, has overseen market reforms and maintains wide popularity among the 17-million strong population, but has tolerated no dissent or opposition during his more than two decades in power.
Cameron said he hoped the 30 businessmen accompanying him would sign over 700 million pounds worth of deals during his two-day trip.
"We are in a global race for jobs and investment. This is one of the most rapidly emerging countries in the world," Cameron told reporters on his arrival in the Kazakh oil capital Atyrau.
His office said he aimed to "put British businesses in prime position to secure contracts that the Government believes could total ?85 billion in the coming years".
Cameron is also hoping to persuade Kazakhstan to expand transit rights for British military forces relocating equipment from Afghanistan between now and a planned withdrawal next year. Nazarbayev has already granted overflight rights, but Cameron is looking for land transit rights too.
Cameron and Nazarbayev together opened the Bolashak (Future) oil plant which will process crude that is due to start flowing from the giant Kashagan offshore oilfield in September.
Royal Dutch Shell has a 16.81 percent stake in the facility, which is in the Kazakh segment of the Caspian Sea. Nazarbayev said last week consortium members had so far invested $48 billion, making it the most expensive oil venture in the world.
TEMPTING TARGET
As Britain's trade with the euro zone suffers because of the currency bloc's debt woes, it is looking further afield to forge business links with countries that have enjoyed rapid economic growth in recent years.
With a $200 billion economy, the largest in Central Asia, and deep oil and gas reserves, Kazakhstan is a tempting target. Britain is already among the top three sources of foreign direct investment, according to Kazakh officials.
Since its 1991 independence, officials say British firms have invested about $20 billion in their economy, part of a total $170 billion ploughed into Kazakhstan since then.
But more high profile trade links carry political risks.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said Cameron had a duty to use his trip to denounce human rights abuses.
"We are very concerned about the serious and deteriorating human rights situation there in recent years, including credible allegations of torture, the imprisonment of government critics, (and) tight controls over the media and freedom of expression and association," it said in a letter on Friday.
Answering questions from reporters in Atyrau on Sunday, Cameron said he never put trade and business interests before rights.
"We will raise all the issues, including human rights. That's part of our dialogue and I'll be signing a strategic partnership with Kazakhstan," he said.
"Nothing is off the agenda, including human rights."
Activists most want Cameron to bring up the case of Vladimir Kozlov, a jailed opposition leader, when he meets Nazarbayev.
An outspoken critic of the Kazakh leader, Kozlov was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in October for colluding with a fugitive billionaire in a failed attempt to rally oil workers to bring down the government. Kozlov denied the charges.
Nazarbayev, a former steelworker who now holds the title "The Leader of the Nation", says that he puts stability and rising living standards before hasty political changes in his steppe nation, the world's ninth-largest by area and five times the size of France.
Comparing Kazakhstan to "Asian economic tigers" like South Korea and Singapore, he has said he wants to turn it into "the economic snow leopard of Central Asia".
(Additional reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; in Almaty; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kazakhstan-trade-trip-poses-human-rights-test-uks-201117657.html
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