Lifting ban on gays in military in doubt and more global notes
A lukewarm Defense Department response and congressional opposition cloud hopes for repealing the 17 year ban on openly serving gays. Clinton urges China for North Korea action while Beijing expresses caution. U.S. war funding proposals expand as lawmakers attach border and education aims. In Baghdad, gunmen rob a gold market killing 15, with al Qaida fingerprints cited amid a wave of sectarian crime.
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Washington
Defense
Robert Gates
Congress
House
Senate
Aubrey Sarvis
White House
Beijing
China
U.S
North Korea
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Baghdad
al-Qaida
Qassim al-Moussawi
BP says multiple causes studied for Gulf oil spill after rig explosion
BP officials released an initial account naming seven focus areas including the blowout preventer from Cameron International and cementing by Halliburton. The company avoided assigning fault while Obama officials press for accountability amid a rising spill, ongoing dispersant use, and new Interior Department findings of ethics lapses at the Minerals Management Service.
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Covington
Gulf
BPPLC
Louisiana
Cameron International Corp
Transocean Ltd
Deepwater Horizon
Halliburton Inc
Tony Hayward
Barack Obama
Hayward
Gene Beck
Petroleum Engi
Neer
Texas A&m
College Station
Beck
Guy Cantwell
TransOcean
Halliburton
Mississippi Canyon 252
Interior Department
Louisiana Office of the Minerals Management Service
Earl Devaney
Minerals Agency
Ken Salazar
Obama
Grand Isle
Dauphin Island
Ala
White House
Carol Browner
North Korea Cuts Ties With South Over Ship Sinking
North Korea announces it will sever all ties with South Korea citing the Cheonan sinking as cause. Seoul responds by slashing trade, denying port passage, and resuming propaganda though not declaring war.
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North Korea
South
Seoul
South Korea
Lee Myung-bak
Korean Central
Kaesong
U.S
U.N. Security Council
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Jamaica battles kill at least 30 as drug lord linked violence rages
Jamaican gun battles in West Kingston and Tivoli Gardens drive streets into chaos as police and soldiers push to capture drug kingpin Christopher Coke. Extradition waver fuels clashes, with 26 civilians and three security personnel reported dead in the rampage.
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Kingston
Jamaica
United States
Christopher “Dudus
Coke
U.S
Tivoli Gardens
New York City
U.S. Justice Department
West Kingston
North Shore
Trenchtown
Bob Marley
Jamaica Labor Party
Peter Bunting
People’s National Party
Bruce
Golding
State Department
Caribbean
Richard Minott
Associated Press
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Afghanistan
Douglas Inkley
National Wildlife Federation
Barataria Bay
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