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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 2011
Page
5
In Kabul Gen. David Petraeus transfers command of U S and NATO troops to Marine Gen. John Allen as withdrawal begins. Petraeus ends a decade long campaign amid uncertain gains from the counterinsurgency strategy against the Taliban.
The House prepared to vote on a GOP debt ceiling bill offering 111 billion in 2012 cuts and a balance amendment, aiming to constrain spending while Democrats and Obama criticize the plan as radical. Senate may not pass it, talks continue on a Senate plan to let Obama raise the debt limit.
Israeli rights group B Tselem says the military charged 835 minors from 2005 to early 2011 for rock throwing. The report cites cases including an 8 year old seized in the West Bank and a 9 year old detained after the mix up.
Lt Col Avital Leibovich says about 160 civilians and soldiers were wounded in attacks by minors during the period. B'Tselem notes authorities must enforce law lawfully and proportionally, criticizing night raids and detentions. The report says juvenile courts helped, but Palestinian minors still lack rights given to Israeli children.
Washington AP reports that shuttle derived science opened eyes to the cosmos and mapped Earth, aiding medical understanding and even improving baby formula and cooling socks. NASA notes shuttle research will end with Atlantis return as ISS progress actions continue.
NASA reports Dawn has been captured into orbit around the large asteroid Vesta after a 1.7 billion mile journey. Dawn will study Vesta's surface, thought to date to the solar system's earliest era, with contact reestablished after antenna alignment. Vesta measures about 330 miles across and is a major belt object.
London police face rapid resignations amid alleged illegal eavesdropping and bribery. Prime Minister Cameron cuts Africa trip and calls emergency parliamentary session as Murdoch empire figures face grilling. Whistleblower Sean Hoare dies in Watford in an unexplained but non suspicious death.
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