French bill targets underage smoking sparks debate
The Senate advanced a plan to ban tobacco sales to under-16s, impose a 4000 dollar fine on vendors, and bar free cigarettes. schools would educate students on smoking dangers as France fights rising youth smoking rates. In separate items, a water-line flood in Wheeling damages a formal wear shop, a South Carolina mansion faces a budget shortfall, and a Long Island case sees a man sentenced to 150 years to life for kidnapping and raping a teenager.
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Beth Loschin
Massachusetts
Long Island
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Eid al Adha Celebrations Continue Amid War Threat in Baghdad
In Baghdad Muslims observe Eid al Adha with dawn prayers and family gatherings despite US led invasion looming. People speak of hardship from sanctions and inflation yet share meals, gifts, and charitable acts while clinging to tradition and hope for children.
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Falah Abdel- Mahdi
Abraham
Al-Qaida threat remains active says FBI CIA chief testify
Mueller and Tenet warn Congress the al Qaida network is resourceful and merciless and plots new attacks on the United States. They cite possible use of chemical, biological or radiological weapons and a dirty bomb and note heightened threat during Muslim holy days. They say the network operates in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq and that hundreds of U.S. cells may exist domestically.
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Bush plan for veterans health faces congressional rift
House Veterans Affairs Chair Rep. Christopher Smith warned that several Bush administration proposals to expand veterans health care costs will not pass. He cited likely defeats for higher prescription drug copayments and an enrollment fee, while VA Secretary Principi defended a 7.7 percent budget rise to 27.5 billion and a 30 day wait goal for new patients.
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Before Oklahoma City bombing a warned by Elohim City links
Federal records show two agencies had information that white supremacists near Elohim City in Muldrow could strike government buildings before the 1995 attack. FBI questioned a reformed white supremacist linked to an earlier plot as agents fretted about an April 19 incident, while executions and prison threats intensified concern.
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