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This edition was generated on Sun Aug 19 08:45:01 EDT 2012

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General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather


General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

  • Police guard Camp Ashraf in 2011
    Report: Iraqis help Iran skirt sanctions Reuters - 11 hrs ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq has been helping Iran skirt economic sanctions imposed because of its nuclear program, using a network of financial institutions and oil-smuggling operations that are providing Tehran with a crucial … More »Report: Iraqis help Iran skirt sanctions

    Police guard Camp Ashraf in 2011

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq has been helping Iran skirt economic sanctions imposed because of its nuclear program, using a network of financial institutions and oil-smuggling operations that are providing Tehran with a crucial flow of dollars, the New York Times said on Saturday. In some case, Iraqi government officials …

  • A protestor holds a poster of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside Ecuador's embassy in London
    Assange to speak from Ecuador embassy in row over his fate Reuters - 9 mins ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to weigh into a standoff between Britain and Ecuador over his future on Sunday by speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy where he holed up to avoid arrest … More »Assange to speak from Ecuador embassy in row over his fate

    A protestor holds a poster of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside Ecuador's embassy in London

    LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to weigh into a standoff between Britain and Ecuador over his future on Sunday by speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy where he holed up to avoid arrest by police deployed in force outside. Ecuador has granted political asylum to the former computer …

  • Fire burns above Hidden Valley Ranch where fire crews worked to halt progression of the Taylor Brige Fire on Thursday, August 16, 2012, near Cle Elum, Wash. The Taylor Bridge Fire has forced hundreds to evacuate and has burned dozens of homes near Cle Elum, Wash. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLE TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; TV OUT
    Idaho evacuations ordered; Wash. residents go home AP - 4 hrs ago

    Thunderstorms and lightning threatened fire officials' plans to contain a large blaze in central Washington state as hundreds of Washington and California residents returned home to find out whether their homes were spar … More »Idaho evacuations ordered; Wash. residents go home

    Fire burns above Hidden Valley Ranch where fire crews worked to halt progression of the Taylor Brige Fire on Thursday, August 16, 2012, near Cle Elum, Wash. The Taylor Bridge Fire has forced hundreds to evacuate and has burned dozens of homes near Cle Elum, Wash. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLE TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; TV OUT

    Thunderstorms and lightning threatened fire officials' plans to contain a large blaze in central Washington state as hundreds of Washington and California residents returned home to find out whether their homes were spared.

  • Sudan plane crash in south kills all 32 on board AP - 53 mins ago

    The office of the Sudanese president says all 32 people on board died when a plane carrying a government delegation crashed in the country's south. More »Sudan plane crash in south kills all 32 on board

    The office of the Sudanese president says all 32 people on board died when a plane carrying a government delegation crashed in the country's south.

  • Syria's President Bashar al-Assad attends Eid Al Fitr prayers at al-Hamad mosque in Damascus

    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad performed Eid prayers in a Damascus mosque on Sunday, state television showed, his first appearance in public since a stunning July bombing in the capital that killed four of his top security officials. Assad, battling a 17-month-old uprising against 42 years of rule by …

  • KABUL (Reuters) - Iran has rejected Afghan government claims that Tehran orchestrated a series of suicide bomb attacks earlier this week that killed at least 28 people in Afghanistan, Iran's English-language Press TV reported on Sunday. Afghanistan's spy agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), killed two alleged …

  • Investigators say a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral for a policeman in southern Russia, killing at least seven other policemen and badly wounding 12 others.

  • President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at a campaign event, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in Windham, N.H., at Windham High School. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    The "Solid South" was a political fact, benefiting Democrats for generations and then Republicans, with Bible Belt and racial politics ruling the day.

  • Norquist, founder of the taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, attends the Reuters Washington Summit in Washington

    Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist dismissed recent criticism of his tax pledge from former President George H.W. Bush, saying the 41st president had “lied” to the American people by raising taxes while in office. “When George Herbert Walker Bush ran for president, he...

  • Obama: Ryan's tax plan great for Romney ABC OTUS News - 14 hrs ago
    President Barack Obama campaigns Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in Windham, N.H., at Windham High School. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    By ALEX MARINO, MATTHEW LAROTONDA and DEVIN DWYER WINDHAM, N.H. — President Obama today ratcheted up attacks on Mitt Romney over his personal tax rate, accusing the presumptive GOP nominee of choosing a running mate whose budget plan would reduce his tax burden to less...

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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 19, 2012
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
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Herman Wouk (1915 - )  
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