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Los Angeles Times: House Republicans face backlash at home over budget plan
Standing in a brightly lit bingo hall off a wooded road, a space that doubles as the dining room for Danny's Friday night fish fry, Republican Rep. Charles Bass should have felt a long way from the pressure-cooker of budget politics in Washington.
But as he opened a town hall meeting here last week, it was clear the pressure had followed him to American Legion Post No. 59.
What is his rationale for wanting to change Medicare to a voucher system, questioners demanded to know. How is this going to lower premiums? If the idea is to cut the deficit, why does the Republican budget plan offer tax breaks for the wealthy?
CNN: Rep. Giffords cleared to attend shuttle launch
Astronaut Mark Kelly visits U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords twice a day, witnessing and aiding her recovery from a devastating bullet wound suffered nearly four months ago.
Friday, the Arizona congresswoman will witness her husband's own inspiring moment: Commanding the space shuttle Endeavour on its last launch.
Doctors have cleared Giffords, who was shot in the brain at a January 8 event in Tucson, to attend the scheduled launch in Florida, a source close to her said Sunday.
The source told CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that Giffords will be accompanied by a nurse. There will be no doctor or medical assistance on board.
MSNBC: Analyst says the cost of gas may have plateaued
The average price for a gallon of gasoline rose 11.5 cents in the past two weeks, but the lift was smaller than in prior weeks, and price increases may be near an end, a widely followed industry analyst said Sunday.
The national average for self-serve regular unleaded gas was $3.88 a gallon on April 22, up 11.53 cents per gallon from April 8, according to the nationwide Lundberg Survey.
The price was still below the July 11, 2008, all-time high of $4.11, and survey editor Trilby Lundberg said there was a "very good chance" that gasoline prices would not rise to meet that level.
Reuters: NATO jets strike inside Gaddafi compound
A NATO airstrike flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.
Firefighters were still working to extinguish flames in a part of the wrecked building when journalists were brought on a government-organised trip to the scene, a few hours after three loud explosions shook central Tripoli.
The press official, who asked not to be identified, said Gaddafi used the destroyed building for ministerial and other meetings. She said 45 people were injured, including 15 who were seriously hurt, and some were still unaccounted for after the attack.
Los Angeles Times: One Israeli killed, three hurt in West Bank shooting
An Israeli man was killed and three others wounded Sunday when a Palestinian security officer opened fire on a convoy of ultra-Orthodox Jewish worshippers who had entered a religious site in a Palestinian-administered area without permission and then ignored orders to stop, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
The Jewish worshippers were attempting to make an unauthorized predawn pilgrimage to Joseph's Tomb, located in the West Bank city of Nablus.
Telegraph: WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed
Al-Qaeda terrorists have threatened to unleash a “nuclear hellstorm” on the West if Osama Bin Laden is caught or assassinated, according to documents to be released by the WikiLeaks website, which contain details the interrogations of more than 700 Guantanamo detainees.
However, the shocking human cost of obtaining this intelligence is also exposed with dozens of innocent people sent to Guantanamo – and hundreds of low-level foot-soldiers being held for years and probably tortured before being assessed as of little significance.
The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
The disclosures are set to spark intense debate around the world about the establishment of Guantanamo Bay in the months after 9/11 – which has enabled the US to collect vital intelligence from senior Al Qaeda commanders but sparked fury in the middle east and Europe over the treatment of detainees.
BBC: China, Japan, South Korea seek trilateral trade pact
The Trade ministers of China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to step up efforts towards a tri-lateral free trade agreement.
The ministers said that free flow of trade and investment between their three countries was key to sustaining economic growth.
Asian economies have been looking to increase trade among themselves as demand from key markets like US and Europe has fallen as countries on both side of the Atlantic try to recover from the financial crisis.
The three trade ministers met in Tokyo.
CNN: Man attacks flight attendant on Alitalia plane
An apparently agitated passenger attacked a flight attendant on Alitalia Flight 329 from Paris to Rome late Sunday and asked that the flight be diverted to Tripoli, Libya, the airline said.
Other flight attendants immobilized the attacker, Alitalia said, and the plane and its 131 passengers landed safely at Rome's Fiumicino airport, where the attacker was taken into police custody.
The flight attendant was taken to the airport emergency room for a check-up, the airline said.
Italy's state-run ANSA news agency reported the attacker was a man from Kazakhstan and that he attacked the flight attendant with nail clippers.
BBC: Egypt: Mubarak to be moved to Cairo military hospital
The former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is to be moved to a military hospital in Cairo after a doctor declared him well enough to travel.
He has been in hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since falling ill during questioning about corruption allegations and protesters' deaths.
Prosecutors said the 82-year-old was supposed to go to Tora prison hospital, but it was not ready to receive him.
Houston Chronicle: Workers recovered body of trapped Idaho miner
The operator of a northern Idaho silver mine says workers have recovered the body of a miner who was trapped when a tunnel collapsed nine days ago.
Hecla Mining Co. says the body of 53-year-old Larry Marek was discovered Sunday afternoon.
Marek and his brother, Mike, had just finished watering down blasted-out rock and ore in the mine when the ceiling collapsed in a 6,150-foot deep tunnel April 15. Mike Marek escaped unharmed.
Crews labored around the clock to dig through the collapsed debris and build a second intersecting tunnel to reach Marek, but by Sunday officials had determined he could not have survived.
BBC: Nigeria election violence 'left more than 500 dead'
A Nigerian human rights group says more than 500 people died after presidential elections earlier this month.
The Civil Rights Congress said the violence happened mostly in the northern state of Kaduna and that the number of victims could be even higher.
Rioting broke out when it emerged that Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian - had defeated a Muslim candidate from the mostly Islamic north.
Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the violence.
USA Today: Air-traffic controllers union asserts safety, pushes for controlled naps
The union representing air-traffic controllers says it will continue to press for carefully controlled naps and other measures to reduce fatigue, despite the insistence by transportation officials that such measures will not be allowed.
National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Paul Rinaldi also defended the safety of the air-traffic system, which has endured a withering spate of bad publicity in recent weeks. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating six incidents of suspected sleeping by seven controllers and also suspended a controller for watching a DVD while on the job.
"It is safe to fly. It has never been safer to fly," Rinaldi says in a release.
BBC: Fire in Chinese capital kills 17 people
A fire has swept through a four-storey building in the Chinese capital, Beijing, killing at least 17 people.
State media said 24 others were hurt.
The authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze, in the southern suburb of Daxing.
Excite: In Easter message, pope urges diplomacy in Libya
Pope Benedict XVI contrasted war and hunger with the joy of Easter Sunday and issued a ringing call for diplomacy to prevail over fighting in Libya, for nations to welcome refugees from conflict and for Middle East leaders to respect their citizens.
Benedict celebrated Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square, packed with pilgrims and tourists and awash in the bright colors of spring flowers as he marked the church's most joyous day of the year.
He told the crowd: "In the current conflict in Libya, may diplomacy and dialogue replace arms, and may those who suffer as a result of the conflict be given access to humanitarian aid."
Referring to northern Africa and the Middle East, the pope prayed for the realization of a society where "every political choice is inspired by respect for the human person."
KOB: Plane crashes into NM lake; no survivors; drugs found
A single engine fixed-wing plane has crashed into Lake Heron, about 20 miles south of Chama in northern New Mexico.
Lt. Eric Garcia with the New Mexico State Police says the accident happened around 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
A dive team and personnel from the Laguna Vista Volunteer Fire Department were called to the scene where the plane was found completely submerged.
Excite: Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies
Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami, the military said.
Agriculture officials also plan to send a team of veterinarians into the evacuation zone around a stricken nuclear plant to check on hundreds of thousands of abandoned cows, pigs and chickens, many of which are believed to have died of starvation and neglect. The government is considering euthanizing some of the dying animals, officials said.
About 14,300 people have been confirmed dead so far in the catastrophic March 11 tsunami and earthquake. Another 12,000 remain missing and are presumed killed. Some of their bodies were likely swept out to sea, while others were buried under the mass of rubble.
Cleanup crews have discovered some remains as they gingerly removed rotting debris to clear the area for rebuilding.