MIAMI (AP) --President BarackObama said Thursdaythat extremists usedan anti-Islam video asan excuse to assaultU.S. interests over-seas, including anattack on the U.S.Consulate in Libyathat killed the U.S.ambassador andthree otherA m e r i c a n s .

The president'scomments came asSecretary of StateHillary RodhamClinton faced ques-tions from members of the House and Senateabout the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate inBenghazi in a series of closed-door classifiedbriefings on Capitol Hill.

Republicans have accused the Obamaadministration of misreading the assault as theoutgrowth of widespread demonstrations in theMiddle East over the video. They insisted it wasa terrorist attack, a term White Housespokesman Jay Carney used on Thursday.Obama did not use the phrase.

"What we do know is that the naturalprotests that arose because of the outrage overthe video were used as an excuse by extrem-ists to see if they can also directly harm U.S.interests," the president said at a candidateforum on the Spanish-language networkUnivision.

Asked if that meant al-Qaida, Obama said,"We don't know yet."

"We will focus narrowly and forcefully ongroups like al-Qaida, the ones that carried outthe 9/11 attacks. Those forces have not goneaway," the president said.

Clinton also announced that, in line withfederal law, she will appoint an independentpanel to look at circumstances of the attack inBenghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevensand there other employees. The so-calledAccountability Review Board will be chaired byretired diplomat Thomas Pickering, she said.

Democrats and Republicans emerging fromthe briefings provided some details about whatthe administration is still piecing together - whowas responsible, how much of it was plannedand what was the security.

Joining Clinton at the back-to-back briefingswere Director of National Intelligence JamesClapper and Deputy Defense Secretary AshtonCarter.

Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, thetop Democrat on the House Armed ServicesCommittee, said it was "clearly a terroristattack," but mortars weren't used until six,

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"So it seemedlike an armed gangthat seized anopportunity," Smithsaid.

Both Smith andRep. C.A. DutchRuppersburger ofMaryland, the topDemocrat on theHouse IntelligenceCommittee, saidthere was no evi-dence to suggestthat the localLibyans at the con-sulate colluded with

the attackers.Published reports suggested that Sufyan

bin Qumu, a former detainee at the U.S. militaryprison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who wastransferred to Libya in 2007, was involved.Lawmakers asked about Qumu at the briefing.

"But not directly related to the attack, but assomeone who's in that region," Smith said."They're attempting to establish whether or nothe was connected to the people who made theattack. He's certainly a person of interest."

Investigators have found no evidence orintelligence to suggest Qumu was at the con-flict, leading it or organizing it, according to aU.S. official, speaking anonymously becausehe was not authorized to discuss the investiga-tion publicly.

Senate Republicans expressed frustrationwith the information provided at the sessionsand disputed the administration's assessment.

"There's increasing amount of evidence thatthis was a coordinated attack by terrorists," saidSen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of theForeign Relations Committee. "The movie was-n't the catalyst for this, the catalyst was radicalIslamic extremists that wanted to attack theUnited States and saw an opportunity to do it inBenghazi."

One of the harshest critics of the adminis-tration, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, scoffed atthe administration's argument that the video setoff the assault.

"I'm stunned that they thought this wassome kind of spontaneous demonstration,"McCain told reporters.

In testimony Wednesday, Matthew Olsen,director of the National CounterterrorismCenter, called the incident a "terrorist attack."

Carney echoed that point on Thursday."It is, I think, self-evident that what hap-

pened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack. Ourembassy was attacked violently, and the resultwas four deaths of American officials," he said.

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) -- Nearly twoyears after President Barack Obama ordered 33,000more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to tamp down theescalating Taliban violence, the last of those surgetroops have left the country, U.S. Defense SecretaryLeon Panetta said Friday.

Panetta said the "surge did accomplish it objec-tives of reversing the Taliban momentum on the bat-tlefield and dramatically increase the size and capa-bility of the Afghan national security forces."

Calling it a "very important milestone," Panettasaid he believes the U.S. is on track to accomplish itsgoals in Afghanistan.

Panetta said the top U.S. commander inAfghanistan, Gen. John Allen, "is saying that theforce he has put in place is sufficient to accomplishthat mission."

The withdrawal, which leaves 68,000 Americanforces in the war zone, comes as the security transi-tion to Afghan forces is in trouble, threatened by aspike in so-called insider attacks in which AfghanArmy and police troops, or insurgents dressed in theiruniforms, have been attacking and killing U.S. andNATO forces.

And it's called into question the core strategy that

relies on NATO troops working shoulder to shoulderwith Afghans, training them to take over the securityof their own country so the U.S. and its allies canleave at the end of 2014 as planned.

The number of U.S. forces there peaked at about101,000 last year, and they have been coming outslowly over the past several months.

The surge was aimed at beating back the Talibanto give the Afghan government and its security forcesthe time and space to take hold. The key goal was toensure that the Taliban did not regain a foothold inthe country that could allow it once again to becomea safe haven for terror groups. And there was hopethat Taliban members would be willing to come to thepeace table.

Military commanders say they have made broadgains against the Taliban, wresting control of areaswhere the insurgents once had strong footholds. AndPanetta has characterized the insider attacks as thelast gasp of a desperate insurgency.

But other top military leaders, including U.S.Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefsof Staff, are worried about the impact of the attackson the troops. Dempsey called them a "very seriousthreat" to the war campaign and has declared that"something has to change."

MIAMI (AP) — President BarackObama cast Mitt Romney on Thursdayas an out-of-touch challenger for theWhite House and an advocate of edu-cation cuts that could cause teacherstrikes to spread from Chicago toother cities. The Republican counteredthat the U.S. economy "is bumpingalong the bottom" under the currentadministration and he predicted victoryin the fall.

The two men eyed each other acrosshotly contested Florida, a state with 29electoral votes, more than any otherbattleground in the close race for theWhite House.

"When you express an attitude that half thecountry considers itself victims, that somehowthey want to be dependent on government, mythinking is maybe you haven't gotten around alot," the president said. That was in responseto a question about Romney's recent observa-tion that 47 percent of Americans pay noincome tax and believe they are victims andentitled to an array of federal benefits.

Obama spoke at a town hall-style forum airedby the Spanish-language television networkUnivision.

For his part, Romney was eager to move pastthat controversy, which has knocked him offstride. He disclosed plans for a three-day bustour early next week through Ohio with runningmate Paul Ryan and sought to return the cam-paign focus to the economic issues that havedominated the race all year.

At a fundraiser in Sarasota, Fla., Romneylooked ahead to his televised head-to-headencounters with Obama this fall. "He's a veryeloquent speaker, and so I'm sure in thedebates, as last time ... he'll be very eloquentin describing his vision," the Republican said."But he can't win by his words, because hisrecord speaks so loudly in our ears. What hehas done in the last four years is establish aneconomy that's bumping along the bottom."

Less than seven weeks before Election Day,polls make the race a close one, likely to besettled in eight or so swing states where nei-ther man has a solid edge. Obama has gainedground in polls in some of those states sincethe completion of the Democratic NationalConvention two weeks ago, while Romney hasstruggled with controversies of his own makingthat have left Republicans frustrated at his per-formance as a candidate.

Still, there were fresh signs of weakness in thenation's job market as the two candidates viedfor support in Florida.

The Labor Department said the number ofAmericans seeking unemployment fell onlyslightly last week, to a seasonally adjustedlevel of 382,000, suggesting that businessesremain reluctant to add to their payrolls. Thefour-week average rose for the fifth straightweek to the highest level in nearly threemonths.

After more than two days of struggle, Romneyseemed eager to leave the 47 percent contro-versy behind as he appeared at the Univisionforum Wednesday night. "'My campaign isabout the 100 percent in America," he said

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But Obama made his most extensive com-ments to date on the subject since the emer-gence of a video showing Romney tellingdonors last May that as a candidate his jobwasn't to worry about 47 percent of the coun-try.

"Their problem is not they're not working hardenough or they don't want to work or they'rebeing taxed too little or they just want to loafaround and gather government checks," thepresident said."

"Are there people that abuse the system? Yes,both at the bottom and at the top," he added,including millionaires who he said pay noincome taxes. He said many at the low end ofthe income scale pay other forms of taxes, andsome who don't pay taxes are senior citizens,students, disabled, veterans or soldiers whoare stationed overseas.

"Americans work hard, and if they are notworking right now I promise you they want togo to work," he said.

As for education, the president said Romneyand running mate Ryan advocate a budget thatwould cut federal funds for schools by about20 percent.

"And you could see potentially even moreteachers being laid off, working conditions forteachers becoming even worse and potentiallyfor more strikes," he said.

The president added that under his administra-tion, "what we say to school districts all acrossthe country is we will provide you with morehelp as long as you're being accountable, andas far as teachers go, I think they work as hardas anybody, but we also want to make surethat they are having high standards of perform-ance in math and science."

Among other changes, Republicans favorrepealing a 2010 change in the program thatmade the federal government the direct lenderfor student loans, replacing private banks.Democrats say a decrease in administrativefees made more money available for loans,while Republicans argue the change hasraised the government's debt.

Money was not a significant issue in theChicago strike. Mayor Rahm Emanuel securedan extension of the school day and empow-ered principals to hire the teachers they want.Teachers were able to soften a new evaluationprocess and win some job protections.

Obama, who ran on a message ofchanging the partisan tone inWashington, told the Univision audi-ence that he had come to the conclu-sion that "you can't change Washingtonfrom the inside. You can only change itfrom the outside." He went on to saythat what he had accomplished sincetaking office was due to mobilizing "theAmerican people to speak out."

Romney seized on the remarks to saythat Obama had surrendered in theface of a broken Washington and majorchallenges. "I can change Washington.I will change Washington," he told sup-porters in Florida. "We'll get the jobdone from the inside — Republicans

and Democrats will come together. He can't doit. His slogan was 'Yes, we can.' His slogannow is 'No, I can't.' This is time for a new presi-dent."

The day's campaign events showed the com-plexities of campaigning in Florida, a state thatis home to large populations of seniors and ofHispanics.

Romney released a new television commercialdesigned to appeal to both groups.

It features Sen. Marco Rubio plugging theRepublicans' plan to overhaul Medicare, aflashpoint in the campaign that Obama sayscould threaten future beneficiaries with highout-of-pocket costs.

Saying his mother is 81, Rubio declares in thead: "We can save Medicare without changinghers, but only if younger Americans accept thatour Medicare will be different than our parents',when we retire in 30 years.

"But after all they did for us, isn't that the leastwe can do?"

While Obama is likely to win the Hispanic voteoverwhelmingly, he drew criticism in hisappearance.

He said the lack of immigration reform legisla-tion was his biggest failure as president and"not for a lack of trying or desire." He said hecouldn't find a single Republican to help workon the legislation. "I'm happy to take responsi-bility for being naive here," the president saidwhen pressed to admit he broke his promise.

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos interjected:"You promised us, and a promise is a promise.And with all due respect, you didn't keep thatpromise."

Obama drew praise from Hispanic groups ear-lier in the year when he announced a policyshift that will allow some immigrants brought tothe United States illegally as children to avoiddeportation.

Romney has been critical of the change, buthas declined to say if he would reverse it if hewins the White House.

In a report filed with the Federal ElectionCommission, the challenger's campaign saidthat as of Aug. 31, it had about $50 millionavailable to spend in the final two months ofthe race. It also reported a bank debt of $15million, of which officials say $4 million hasbeen repaid.NEW YORK (AP) -- A provocativead that equates Muslim radicals with savages

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Daylight 151,669 937 86,517 64,215

Dusk 6,115 44 3,305 2,766

Dawn 2,818 39 1,490 1,289

Dark 71,188 1,234 32,982 36,972

Unknown 3,671 7 553 3,111

Total 235,466 2,261 124,847 108,353

Dry 200,153 1,995 106,486 91,674

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Sept 14, 2012ORLANDO -- Two suspects wanted over a murder inOrlando died Thursday evening when the car theywere traveling in raced away from police andcrashed into a canal.

Five people were traveling in the car when it left theroad, before over-correcting and crossing the medi-an, narrowly missing oncoming traffic and coming torest in a drainage canal

The two murder suspects died and their three com-panions were in critical condition.

Neither of the suspects, nor their alleged victim,have been named. Details of the initial crime werenot available.

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crash

A crash on northbound Interstate 95 south ofNorthwest 79th Street in Miami-Dade is blocking tworegular lanes.

A man from the Pasco County town of Land O'Lakes died Monday evening after having a medicalemergency while driving on Alligator Alley, accordingto the Florida Highway Patrol.

Casey Alan Brown, 40, was airlifted to ClevelandClinic in Weston and later died there, according toFHP.

The accident happened around 6 p.m. on eastboundInterstate 75 at mile marker 37, FHP Sgt. MarkWysocky said.

Brown was driving eastbound on I-75 in a 2011Buick Enclave when he had the medical emergency,causing him to cross the median and enter the west-bound lanes, according to FHP.

The SUV Brown was driving did not hit any othervehicles. But traffic was stopped to allow a rescuehelicopter to land in order to transport Brown to thehospital.

Crash, Boca Raton

The vehicle crashed into wall that leads into thedevelopment causing major structure damage. Thedemolished wall blocked traffic heading west forseveral hours. He says parts of the damaged vehi-cle were found at the scene like a headlight whichshows the vehicle appears to be a 2011 DodgeDurango.

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Serious crashes on I-95 inMiami-Dade and Broward

Sept 16, 2012

A 19-year-old Bulgarian has died after being hit by acar on a recognized bicycle lane in Florida, localmedia reported.

Galina Bumbalova was riding a bicycle on the southside of US 98 near Hidden Dunes Drive in southWalton County on Monday night. She died after theimpact from the accident propelled her into a utilitypole.

The young Bulgarian was in the United States on astudent brigade.

Aaron Shipes, 22, of Santa Rosa Beach was drivingeastbound on US 98 at 9:40 p.m. when his 2005Nissan Extara for some unknown reason suddenlyveered to the right and into the bicycle lane, collidingwith the rear of Bumbalova's bicycle.

Shipes' vehicle reentered the roadway and left thescene.

Bumbalova was transported to Sacred HeartHospital of the Emerald Coast near Destin, whereshe was declared deceased.

The Highway Patrol report stated that Shipes wasnot under the influence of alcohol.

Charges are pending further investigation

Sept 16, 2012Several serious crashes are causing havoc on theroads Friday morning.

In Miami-Dade:A serious accident with injuries is blocking the west-bound ramp on Interstate 395 to Interstate 95 inMiami.

The ramp to Florida’s Turnpike on northbound I-95 is

The four vehicles were traveling in the southboundlanes when the accident occurred shortly before11:30 p.m. All southbound lanes were closed until3:10 a.m., Wysocky said.According to a press release issued by Wysocky,the chain-reaction crash played out like this: Rojowas driving a 2005 Volkswagen Jetta when heslowed for a crash and was rear-ended by a 2003Chevrolet van driven by Anthony Burke Taylor, 52,of Lauderhill.Rojo's Jetta spun so that it was facing north in thesouthbound lanes and was struck by a Ford F-150truck driven by Richardson N. Sid, 28, of BoyntonBeach.

Lake Mary man arrested onhit-and-run charges in fatal

motorcycle crash

According to the Highway Patrol, Spates was driv-ing southbound on I-95, just south of the GriffinRoad exit in Hollywood, about 11:30 a.m. when shesaw a vehicle ahead of her hit some debris in theroadway.

The debris "was kicked up in the wind" by the othervehicle, and it pierced the Range Rover's glass,Wysocky said. The pair were wearing their seatbelts during the accident, the Highway Patrol said.Given vehicles' high speed on I-95, the pole essen-tially became "a projectile" on the highway, saidMark Steele, division chief for Hollywood FireRescue.

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A motorcyclist died and sixpeoplewere injured crashon Interstate 95 north of

Sample Road.

A Lake Mary doctor was arrested on hit-and-runcharges after he hit a motorcyclist in VolusiaCounty and then left the scene, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Dr. Kevin Wynnehit 50-year-old Sabra Vocaturo with his SUV inFebruary on State Road 415 and never stopped tohelp. Vocaturo was thrown from her bike intooncoming traffic.

Authorities said two drivers ran over Vocaturo.They stopped to help but told officers there wasnothing they could do.

Wynne was arrested at his Heathrow home onThursday by the Florida Highway Patrol.

His lawyer contacted FHP the day after the crash,telling them where to find Wynne's Infiniti SUV,which had a part missing.

Wynne is being held on $50,000 bail.

Sept 13, 2012MARION COUNTY -- The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crashthat killed a man late Friday night.

Officials said 22-year-old Daniel Lee Hunt was driv-ing southbound US-27, south of Southeast 80Street at high rate of speed at about 11:25 p.m.Hunt lost control of his Chevy Camaro, causing itrotate onto the grass shoulder and collide with twotrees.

A 29-year-old Sarasotawoman is in critical

Geller said the subway ads cost about$6,000. Donovan said they will be up for amonth.

Opponents say the ads imply that Muslimsare savages.

"We recognize the freedom of speechissues and her right to be a bigot and aracist," said Muneer Awad, the executivedirector of the New York chapter of theCouncil on American-Islamic Relations.

But he said he hopes elected officials andthe MTA, which runs the nation's largestmass transit system, "take on a leadershiprole in denouncing hate speech."

Geller, as head of a group called StopIslamization of America, helped spur amonthslong campaign two years ago toremove a planned Islamic community cen-ter blocks from the World Trade Centersite, which she called the "ground zeromosque." Plans to build a larger center arepending, although Muslims still have regu-lar prayer services at a mosque in thebuilding.

When the ad ran in San Francisco fromAug. 13 to Sept. 4, transit officials took theunusual step of running disclaimers on thesides of the buses, while some artistspainted over "Jihad" or photoshopped pic-tures that said instead, "Defeat Racism."

Geller's group has also placed ads inMetro-North Railroad stations north of NewYork City that read: "It's not Islamophobia,it's Islamorealism."

The Washington Metropolitan Area TransitAuthority hadn't seen Geller's lawsuit onThursday, spokesman Dan Stessel said.The agency told Geller the ad would be"deferred" because of the ongoing vio-lence in the Middle East, he said.

"To be clear, we have not rejected the ad,"Stessel said, but "merely asked the adver-tiser to be sensitive to the timing of theplacement out of a concern for public safe-ty, given current world events."

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NEW YORK (AP) -- A provocative ad thatequates Muslim radicals with savages isset to go up in the city's subway system asviolent protests over an anti-Islamic filmridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sweepover much of the Muslim world.

A conservative blogger who once headeda campaign against an Islamic center nearthe Sept. 11 terror attack site won a courtorder to post the ad in 10 subway stationsnext Monday. The ad reads, "In any warbetween the civilized man and the savage,support the civilized man. Support Israel.Defeat Jihad."

The ad was plastered on San Franciscocity buses in recent weeks, promptingsome artists to deface the ads and removesome of the words, including "Jihad," orholy war. The blogger, Pamela Geller, saidshe filed suit Thursday in the nation's capi-tal to post the ad in Washington's transitsystem after officials declined to put up thead in light of the uproar in the Middle Eastover the anti-Islam film.

Abdul Yasar, a New York subway rider whoconsiders himself an observant Muslim,said Geller's ad was insensitive in anunsettling climate for Muslims.

"If you don't want to see what happened inLibya and Egypt after the video - maybenot so strong here in America - youshouldn't put this up," Yasar said.

But "if this is a free country, they have theright to do this," he said. "And thenMuslims have the right to put up their ownad."

Geller, executive director of the AmericanFreedom Defense Initiative and publisherof a blog called Atlas Shrugs, called anorder by a federal judge in New Yorkallowing the ads "a victory for the FirstAmendment" and said she wasn't con-cerned that her ad could spark protestslike the ones against the depiction ofMuslims in the video "Innocence ofMuslims." Violence linked to the movie hasleft at least 30 people in seven countriesdead, including the American ambassadorto Libya.

"If it's not a film it's a cartoon, if it's not acartoon it's a teddy bear," she said. "What

are you going to do? Are you going toreward Islamic extremism? I will not sacri-fice my freedom so as not to offend sav-ages."

New York police aren't anticipating addingany security to subways when the ads goup and have received no threats or reportsof violence relating to them, chiefspokesman Paul Browne said.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authorityin New York initially refused to run Geller'sad, saying it was "demeaning." But U.S.District Court Judge Paul Engelmayerruled last month that it is protected speechunder the First Amendment.

"Our hands are tied," MTA spokesmanAaron Donovan said. "Under our existingad standards as modified by the injunction,the MTA is required to run the ad."

Donna Lieberman, executive director ofthe New York Civil Liberties Union, backedpublication of the "patently offensive" ads.

"More offensive would be their censorshipbecause that would violate the guaranteeof free expression of all ideas regardlessof how distasteful they are," she said.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The fourWestern powers trying to rein in Iran's nuclearprogram accused Tehran on Thursday of ship-ping arms to Syria in violation of U.N. sanctionsand ignoring demands to open key nuclear facil-ities to U.N. inspectors.

The United States, Britain, France andGermany expressed growing concern that Iran'sgoal is building a nuclear arsenal - not nuclearpower plants for peaceful civilian use, as Tehraninsists.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told a SecurityCouncil meeting on the implementation of U.N.sanctions that members can't be complacentabout Iran's "latest leaps forward in its prohibit-ed nuclear activities."

"We must recognize that we are facing a sit-uation that continues to worsen," she said.

A spokesman for Iran's mission to the U.N.did not immediately respond to an email seek-ing comment.

Rice and ambassadors from the otherWestern powers expressed serious concern atIran's arms exports to President Bashar Assad'sregime in violation of a U.N. ban against allweapons exports.

She reiterated the conclusion of the panel ofexperts monitoring implementation of sanctionsthat Syria is now the "central party to illicitIranian arms transfers."

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark LyallGrant said Iran's supply of weaponry to Syria is

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unacceptable and it must stop.

"It is in stark contrast to the will of theSyrian people and a reminder of Iran'shypocrisy in claiming to support freedom in theArab world," he said.

France's U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araudaccused Assad of massacring his own peopleand urged rigorous implementation of sanctionsto keep Iran from providing his forces with thearms to accomplish his "sinister work."

Rice called on states in the region to "worktogether and redouble their efforts to deny,inspect and seize illicit Iranian shipments."

The 18-month Syrian conflict has escalatedto a civil war which has killed more than 23,000people, according to activists.

Germany's U.N. Ambassador Peter Wittigsaid reports indicate Iran is shipping arms toSyria "under a humanitarian pretext," whichmakes it crucial that all countries enforce the

sanctions to keep pressure on Iran.

Russia and China, who have vetoed threeWestern-backed resolutions aimed at pressuringthe Assad regime to end the violence and starttalks with the opposition, made no mention ofIranian arms shipments to Syria in their speech-es to the council but did address the nuclearissue.

On Iran's nuclear program, the Westernpowers expressed alarm at the latest report fromthe International Atomic Energy Agency. It saidIran has effectively shut down a probe of a sitesuspected of being used for work on nuclearweapons development while doubling the num-ber of machines it could use to make the core ofnuclear warheads at an underground bunker safefrom airborne attack.

The nuclear concerns will be at the top ofthe agenda at a ministerial meeting of the fourWestern powers, Russia and China on Sept. 27on the sidelines of the annual General Assemblygathering of world leaders that begins Tuesday.

"The Iranian regime is at a crossroads,"Britain's Lyall Grant told the council. "It cancontinue to ignore the international communi-ty's concerns over its nuclear program, or it cannegotiate a settlement that will help to realizethe benefits of a civil nuclear program. It cansupport the oppressive regime in Syria in sup-pressing freedom, or it can play a constructiverole in the region. It can be an exporter of ter-rorism or a responsible member of the interna-tional community."

SYRIAN ACTIVISTS: AIRSTRIKES KILL AT LEAST 30BEIRUT (AP) -- Regime airstrikes hit a gasstation in northern Syria Thursday, settingoff a fiery explosion that killed at least 30people and wounded dozens, oppositionactivists said. Amateur video showed thickblack smoke engulfing the scene.

Earlier Thursday, a Syrian military helicop-ter crashed near the capital of Damascus,and Syria's Information Ministry said thehelicopter went down after its rotor acci-dentally clipped the tail of a Syrian pas-senger plane with 200 people on board.The larger aircraft landed safely atDamascus International Airport and no onewas hurt, the ministry said.

The airstrikes and the close call in the skyunderscored the growing turmoil and vio-lence in Syria. The country is embroiled ina civil war between forces fighting forPresident Bashar Assad and those tryingto topple him. More than 23,000 peoplehave been killed in the 18-month conflict,

according to activists.

In recent weeks, Assad's regime hasstepped up airstrikes in northern Syria inan attempt to dislodge rebels from areasthey control there. Activists saidThursday's air attack hit near the town ofAin Issa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers)from Turkey. A day earlier, rebel fightershad seized control of a border crossingnorth of the town.

Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-basedSyrian Observatory for Human Rights, saidthat witnesses counted at least 30 bodiesand that dozens of people were wounded.Another group, the Local CoordinationCommittees, which gathers informationfrom a network of activists across Syria,put the death toll at 55.

Amateur video showed thick black smokerising near the gas station, which was par-tially intact. Several vehicles, including abulldozer and pickup trucks, were on fire.The video, whose authenticity could not beconfirmed independently, also showedseveral damaged cars. A man could beheard shouting "your son is dead."

Both groups quoted witnesses as sayingthe blast was caused by airstrikes on thegas station.

The Syrian conflict appears to havereached a stalemate. The rebels are hold-ing some territory despite the govern-ment's military superiority but have beenunable to score decisive victories. At thesame time, the international community isaverse to getting involved militarily andinstead hopes economic sanctions willsqueeze the Assad regime.

Meanwhile, the fighting continues.

Across Syria, at least 184 people werekilled Thursday, the LCC said, reporting 35dead in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, and 32in Damascus and its suburbs. TheObservatory put the day's total acrossSyria at 162. August has been the dead-liest month so far in the Syria conflict, withactivists saying nearly 5,000 were killed.

The crash near Damascus came after therotor of a military helicopter clipped the tailof a Syrian Arab Airlines jet, the state-runnews agency SANA quoted Syria'sInformation Ministry as saying. Thisseemed to counter speculation that anti-regime fighters might have downed thehelicopter.

Rebels in Syria are fighting mostly withlight weapons. Opposition fighters haveclaimed to have shot down helicopters and

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HONG KONG (AP) -- In a now familiar ritual,Apple's Asian fans jammed the tech juggernaut'sshops in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singaporeto pick up the latest version of its iPhone.

Eager buyers formed long lines at Apple Inc.stores in Australia and Japan to be the first to gettheir hands on the latest version of the smartphone.In Hong Kong, buyers had to sign up online for thechance to pick up the device at a preset time. Thefirst customers were greeted by staff cheering, clap-ping, chanting "iPhone 5! iPhone 5!" and high-fiv-ing them as they were escorted through the frontdoor.

The smartphone is also being launched in theU.S., U.K., Canada, France and Germany on Fridayand will go on sale in 22 more countries a weeklater. The iPhone 5 is thinner, lighter, has a tallerscreen, faster processor, updated software and canwork on faster "fourth generation" mobile networks.

Order numbers indicate the iPhone 5 has over-come initial lukewarm reviews. Apple received 2million orders in the first 24 hours of announcing itsrelease date, more than twice the number for theiPhone 4S in the same period when that phonelaunched a year ago.

Analysts have estimated Apple will ship asmany as 10 million of the new iPhones by the end of

September.Some Australian fans went to extreme lengths to

be the first to own the new phone, grabbing the firstspots in line at Apple's flagship store in downtownSydney on Tuesday - three days ahead of the release.

Todd Foot, 24, nabbed the coveted first spot andspent an average of 18 hours a day sitting in a fold-ing chair adorned with an Australian flag, andattempting to catch a few hours' sleep each night ina tent on the sidewalk outside the store.

Foot's dedication was largely a marketing stunt,however. He writes product reviews for a technolo-gy website which plans to give away the phone afterFoot reviews it.

In Hong Kong, not everyone who lined up wasan Apple enthusiast. University student KevinWong, waiting to buy a black 16 gigabyte model for5,588 Hong Kong dollars ($720), said he was get-ting one "for the cash." He planned to immediatelyresell it to one of the numerous grey market retailerscatering to visiting mainland Chinese buyers. Chinais one of Apple's biggest sources of revenue but arelease date for the iPhone 5 has not yet been set.

Mainland Chinese, who like to shop in HongKong because there's no sales tax and because of thestrength of the yuan, will probably buy it from theresellers "at a higher price - a way higher price," saidWong, who hoped to make a profit of HK$1000($129).

Tokyo's glitzy downtown Ginza district had notjust one long line but two - one, in front of the Applestore and the other across the main intersection atSoftbank, the first carrier in Japan to offer iPhones -both packed with Japanese determined to be amongthe world's first to own an iPhone 5.

Hidetoshi Nakamura, a 25-year-old auto engi-neer, said he's an Apple fan because it's an innova-tor.

"I love Apple," he said, standing toward the endof a two-block-long line, patiently reading a bookand listening to music on his iPod.

"It's only the iPhone for me."

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NEW YORK (AP) -- How does a tabby catearn its stripes? With the right DNA.

Scientists say they've found the gene that setsthe common tabby pattern - stripes or blotch-es.

It's one of several genes that collaborate tocreate the distinctive design of a cat's coat,and it's the first of the pattern genes to beidentified.

Cats with narrow stripes, the so-called "mack-erel" pattern, have a working copy of the gene.But if a mutation turns the gene off, the catends up with the blotchy "classic" pattern,researchers reported online Thursday in thejournal Science.

It's called "classic" because "cat lovers reallylike the blotched pattern," said one of theauthors, Greg Barsh. He works at bothStanford University and the HudsonAlphaInstitute of Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala.

The research team, which included scientistsfrom the National Cancer Institute, examinedDNA from wild cats in California to identify thegene.

They also found that a mutation in the samegene produces the blotches and stripes of therare "king" cheetah, rather than the spots mostcheetahs have.

Leslie Lyons, a cat geneticist who studies coatcolor traits at the University of California,Davis, but didn't participate in the new work,agreed that the research has identified thetabby's stripes-versus-blotches gene. Shenoted that mysteries remain, like just whatgenetic machinery gives a tabby spots.

"The cat has not revealed all its mysteriesyet," she said.

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warplanes in the past, although the regimeblamed most of the problems on mechani-cal difficulties.

Syrian officials did not report any casual-ties in the helicopter crash, saying onlythat it went down in Adra, a Damascussuburb. Adra is near the Douma district,which has witnessed repeated militarycrackdowns to purge the rebels.

"We heard the sound of several explosionsand some gunfire, and a few minutes later,we were told that a helicopter hadcrashed," Mohammad Saeed, an activist inDouma, said via Skype. He said the heli-copter went down near a factory forhousehold items, adding that Syrian MiGwarplanes and helicopter gunships hadbeen flying low over the area before thecrash.

On the diplomatic front, a coalition includ-ing the United States, the European Unionand the Arab League met in theNetherlands to search for new ways of iso-lating the Assad regime. The group called"Friends of the Syrian People" was set upin February after the U.N. Security Councilwas unable to agree on a resolution con-demning Syria's government, due to oppo-sition from Russia and China.

Financial experts joined representatives ofthe group at their meeting in The Hague tohelp member countries understand howSyria may be using dual-use technologiesand front companies to get around theexisting sanctions, which include anembargo on oil and arms trade with Syriaby participating nations.

Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal saidthe sanctions are having an effect, despitenon-participation by Russia, China andIran, citing a sharp fall in Syria's oilexports. Syrian opposition leaders havewarned that sanctions alone will not toppleAssad.

Shelling and gunfire also echoed acrossthe northern border region with Turkey, aday after rebels seized control of thestrategic Tel Abyad border crossing there.The Observatory reported renewed fight-ing near the crossing. Tel Abyad is about40 kilometers (25 miles) north of where thegas station was struck Thursday.

In Akcakale, a Turkish hamlet that strad-dles the border, a large explosion washeard. In the distance in Syria, militaryvehicles were seen rushing toward theblast scene as smoke billowed from thearea.

Akcakale authorities closed local schoolsfor a second straight day.

Turkish police vehicles escorted reporterscovering the events in Syria away from theborder. Turkish security forces were alsoseen moving local residents and cordoningoff the area closest to Syria.

Residents of Akcakale said they fear fortheir safety.

"We're pretty scared. I'm not letting mychildren out of the house. I've sent them(the children) to another village, 5-10 kilo-meters from here," said resident MehmetResat Guvenic. "We're afraid because thisis the first time we're hearing gunfire, andbombings, and shelling."

Customers celebrate as Apple Inc. startedselling iPhone 5 at a store in Tokyo

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