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Romney lied at Denver debate, says Obama
Economy still struggling:
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Revise draft of letter to Switzerland, Pak SC tells govt
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SW China landslide toll rises to 19
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Romney lied at Denver debate, says Obama Denver, October 5 A feisty Obama told a rally of some 12,000 people that the former Massachusetts governor was untruthful during Wednesday's 90-minute debate in Denver, which most observers reckoned the Republican won. "When I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney," Obama said. "But it couldn't have been Mitt Romney, because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy. The fellow on stage last night said he didn't know anything about that." Often criticised for being wooden, Romney's aggressive debate performance gave his campaign a burst of energy after weeks of setbacks. Looking at times tired and displeased, Obama did not seize opportunities to attack the Republican on his business record at Bain Capital, the "47 percent" video and his refusal to release more income tax returns. All this unfolded before a national television audience of 67.2 million, according to television ratings firm Nielsen, up 28 percent compared wit the first presidential debate in 2008 between Obama and Republican Senator John McCain. With two more presidential debates before the November 6 election, senior aide David Axelrod said the Obama campaign would adjust its strategy as a result of the debate. "We are going to take a hard look at this and we are going to have to make some adjustments as to where to draw the lines in these debates and how to use our time," he told reporters. Democratic sources said Obama raised more than $100 million in September in another sign of his financial strength going into the last month of the campaign. Romney prepared for the Denver encounter with days of mock debates and was more ready to go on the offensive against Obama in detailed discussion on taxes, jobs, energy and the budget deficit. Obama is unlikely to add "huge amounts of additional prep time," for the two other debates, on October 16 in New York and on October 22 in Florida, Axelrod said. —
Reuters
Economy still struggling:
Romney
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said an encouraging unemployment report on Friday demonstrates the economy continues to struggle under Obama, his rival in the November 6 poll. "This is not what a real recovery looks like," Romney said in a prepared statement. "Under President Obama, we'll get another four years like last four years. If I'm elected, we will have a real recovery with pro-growth policies that will create 12 million new jobs and rising incomes for everyone." — Reuters
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Revise draft of letter to Switzerland, Pak SC tells govt
The Supreme Court on Friday gave the government time till October 10 to prepare a conclusive draft of the letter to be sent to Swiss authorities for the reopening of a graft case against President Asif Ali Zardari.
A five-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa issued the directive after accepting two of the three paragraphs of draft letter submitted by Law Minister Farooq H Naek. The court noted that the draft was not fully in spirit of the court’s order as its third paragraph conflicted with the first two. “We are inches away from a resolution,” Justice Khosa observed while asking law minister to review third paragraph. Refusal to write letter to Swiss authorities cost former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani his job and a five-year disqualification from holding public office. Naek sought more time which court granted. Justice Khosa said the matter was nearing a resolution which was why court would give government more time. Naek then repeated government’s stance that Zardari enjoyed immunity from criminal proceedings at home and abroad.
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US man shoots, kills chef at Israel hotel
Jerusalem, October 5 Eilat police official Eitan Gedassis told Israel Radio the attacker snatched a gun from a hotel security guard and fired a number of shots at the Leonardo Club hotel in the Red Sea resort city, killing the chef. Police and army anti-terror units stormed the hotel, and the gunman fired back from the hotel kitchen, Gedassis said. Forces from the army's anti-terror unit returned fire, killing the attacker, said a spokeswoman for the Israeli military. The gunman was a 23-year-old Jewish man from New York. He was participating in a program that brings Jews to Israel for work and studies, said Ofer Gutman, head of the Oranim program, which is sponsored partially by the Israeli government. "He was a normal guy," Gutman told Associated Press. "There was nothing that indicated what would happen in the end." Gutman declined to give the attacker's name. Gutman spoke by telephone before boarding a flight to Eilat, where he hoped to calm the gunman's fellow program participants. "It's terrible what happened," he said. The man arrived in Israel about two months ago on the Oranim program, combining Hebrew study, travel and work in an Eilat hotel along with a university course on hotel management, Gutman said. On Tuesday, the hotel and the program decided, together with the man, to terminate his work at the hotel, and the Oranim staff was planning to reassign him to another workplace, Gutman said. —
AP
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SW China landslide toll rises to 19 Beijing, October 5 Yiliang county was struck by multiple earthquakes on September 7, leaving 81 persons dead and 800 injured. As rescuers worked frantically overnight, one body was retrieved on Friday afternoon, bringing the toll to 19 in the landslide, reported Xinhua. The dead students were from the Shangba Primary School, the county education bureau said. Three buildings of the school were damaged in the earthquakes in September. They were demolished later, forcing 30 students to take lessons at the nearby Tiantou school. —
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Rebels capture air defence base near Damascus Beirut/Akcakale, October 5 Across the country, about 180 people were killed in violence on Thursday, including 48 government soldiers, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In New York, the UN Security Council condemned a cross-border mortar attack by Syrian forces that hit a Turkish village and demanded that such violations of international law stop immediately. —
Reuters
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A day after a muted performance in a presidential debate, President Barack Obama fought back against Republican rival Mitt Romney on Thursday and the Democrat's re-election campaign vowed to learn lessons from the setback.
Beirut/Akcakale, October
