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Mr Obama has sought to blame US economic woes on the previous, Republican, administration Campaigning for the US Congressional mid-term elections has entered its final day ahead of voting on Tuesday.
Opinion polls suggest the Democratic Party will lose its majority in the House of Representatives and struggle to keep its grip on the Senate.
In a marked change from the 2008 campaign, there were thousands of empty seats at President Barack Obama’s final rally in Cleveland on Sunday.
Republicans are seeking to capitalise on anger over the economic downturn.
Up for grabs on Tuesday are all 435 House seats, 37 of the 100 Senate seats and the governships of 37 of the 50 states.
The Republican Party needs to gain 39 House seats to win control of the lower chamber of Congress – an amount opinion polls suggest they will easily win – and 10 to take over the Senate.
Democrats are hoping to hold on to the Senate by at least one or two seats.
Wrapping up a final blizzard of rallies and speeches, Mr Obama campaigned in the key battleground state of Ohio.
Speaking in Cleveland, he repeated the theme from his 2008 presidential campaign.
“In two days, you have a chance to once again say: ‘Yes, we can’.”
He urged his supporters to get the vote out and sought to place the blame for the country’s economic woes on the policies of his predecessor, Republican President George W Bush.
“This election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading us out of this mess,” he told about 8,000 people at an arena that was several thousand people short of capacity.
It was a contrast to the 2008 election when across the country people were turned away from his appearances.
The Democrats face losing up to six House seats, one Senate race and the governorship in Ohio.
Republicans are riding high in opinion polls, buoyed by discontent over unemployment running near 10%, slow economic growth and a burst housing market bubble that has seen many Americans lose their homes.
The party has also gained from the backing of the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement, which has become a lightning rod for discontent over expensive government programmes such as the economic stimulus and Mr Obama’s health care overhaul.
Tea Party favourite Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008 and a former governor of Alaska, said in a TV appearance on Sunday that Tuesday’s vote would be a “political earthquake”.
She said voters would tell the president and the Democrats: “You blew it, President Obama. We gave you the two years to fulfil your promise of making sure that our economy starts roaring back to life again.”
Ms Palin is not running for any office but has hinted at a 2012 run for the presidency.
Republican House leader John Boehner, who stands to replace Democrat Nancy Pelosi as the House Speaker if the polls bear out, acknowledged the economic problems did not start under President Obama.
“But instead of fixing them, his policies have made them worse,” he said campaigning in Ohio.
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Seven victims were killed by a suicide bomber at Aldgate in 2005 Firefighters lacked the training and first aid equipment to treat the most seriously injured, the 7/7 London bombing inquests have heard.
They were told that some of the wounded in the attack at Aldgate in 2005 were untreatable by the fire service.
Firefighter Sean Jones said their first aid kit at the time was “useless” for dealing with such horrific injuries.
The inquests are into the deaths of 52 people who were killed by suicide bombers on three Tube trains and a bus.
Mr Jones told the hearings that he spent up to two hours in a bomb-damaged Tube train carriage at Aldgate trying to help the wounded and dying.
He said: “At that stage all we carried on our fire engine was a very basic first aid kit, a number of bandages, elastic tape.
“The nature of the injuries that we saw on the train, there was no mild first aid – it’s either seriously injured or they get up and walk off.
“So there was no triage that needed to be done, there was nothing like that. It was just purely a case of the casualties that we saw were way beyond our remit and skill levels to be able to treat.
“So our first aid kit would have been useless anyway.”
He added: “We needed paramedics and Hems [Helicopter Emergency Medical Service] there.”
Hugo Keith QC, counsel to the inquests, asked him: “In truth there was nothing that you or perhaps the police officers could have done for them because none of you had the specialist medical equipment?”
Mr Jones, who was based at Southwark fire station in south London at the time, replied: “There was nothing that could have been done.”
The firefighter said the lack of radio communications in the Tube tunnel made no difference to him.
He said: “We just did what we needed to do. At no point did we look for instruction or require instruction. We just got on with the work that needed to be done.”
Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four bombers who carried out the London attacks, blew himself up on an eastbound Circle Line train at Aldgate station, killing seven other people.
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Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere signs a new long-term contract at the Premier League club.
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The two-month-old newspaper says it will continue printing the photos in a “diplomatic” way A judge in Uganda has ordered the local Rolling Stone newspaper to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it says are homosexual.
The judge granted a request by gay rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug).
The group says some homosexual people were attacked after a previous issue.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda but last year an MP introduced a bill which would mean some gay people could face the death penalty.
Giles Muhame, editor of the two-month-old Rolling Stone paper, told the AFP news agency that he would defy the ban.
“We will publish more pictures but in a diplomatic way, so that we can dodge the law,” he said.
He says he is trying to protect Ugandans from those seeking to “recruit children to homosexuality”.
On Monday, it published a further 14 names and photographs, after saying last month it would reveal 100 homosexual Ugandans.
Fifteen names were identified last month, next to a headline which read: “Hang them”.
High Court judge Vincent Musoke-Kibuuka said the publication was “an infringement or invasion of the right to privacy” of those identified, AFP reports.
Smug said several of its members were attacked or harassed after the first issue.
The group’s Frank Mugisha said one woman was almost killed after her neighbours started throwing stones at her house.
The proposed Anti-homosexuality Bill sparked an international outcry after it was introduced to Uganda’s parliament a year ago.
It has not been formally debated, amid reports the government is trying to quietly get it shelved.
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A County Tyrone teenager is jailed for killing his 78-year-old grandfather during a robbery.
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Former prime minister Baroness Thatcher is to leave hospital on Monday, nearly two weeks after she was admitted.
She is said to be in good spirits as she recovers from flu. Her spokesman said doctors were “very pleased” with her progress.
The Conservative peer fell ill a few weeks ago and was unable to attend a Downing Street reception to mark her 85th birthday.
She has suffered minor strokes but still attends public functions.
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The attackers are holding worshippers and priests in the church Gunmen have taken around 40 worshippers hostage in a central Baghdad church, Iraqi police say.
The gunmen first attacked the stock exchange in the Iraqi capital before moving to a nearby Assyrian Catholic church, where a Sunday evening service was being held.
At least six people were killed in the attacks, police said.
The gunmen are reportedly demanding the release of al-Qaeda members imprisoned in Iraq and Egypt.
According to the police, several other people were wounded.
The attackers are also holding two priests at the Our Lady of Salvation Church, the Chaldean Bishop Shlemon Warduni told the AFP agency.
“What we know is that a number of worshippers and two priests are being held hostage at the church by terrorists,” he said.
A local television station, al-Baghdadia, said it had been telephoned by the suspected attackers, who claimed they were from the organisation Islamic State of Iraq – an umbrella group embracing al-Qaeda and other militant groups.
The broadcaster said the men were demanding the release of al-Qaeda prisoners in Iraq and Egypt.
It reported that the men spoke in classical Arabic, which could imply that they are not from Iraq.
The BBC’s Jim Muir in Baghdad said the church in Karada district was surrounded by security forces and the area sealed off.
There were reports that the gunmen threatened to shoot the hostages if the church is stormed by security forces.
In 2008, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen and found dead two weeks later.
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Why Dutch coffee shops are under attack
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The survey said output was being increased by higher domestic demand A growing number of small manufacturers are now expecting to increase production to meet rising demand, according to the CBI business group.
Its latest SME Trends Survey found that 31% of such firms expect to boost output in November-January, while only 12% are predicting a fall.
This gives a balance of +19%, better that the +9% figure recorded for the past three months.
However, the majority of small manufacturers see no change in output.
Russel Griggs, chairman of the CBI’s SME council, said: “Smaller manufacturers saw the pace of output growth slow slightly in the last three months after the fillip from stock rebuilding dwindled.
“But manufacturers expect a faster rise in production in the coming three months as demand at home strengthens.
“It is encouraging that firms have increased their headcount this quarter and are now planning to invest in plant and machinery, and innovation.”
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Five parties win seats in Kyrgyzstan’s new parliament, but without an overall victor negotiations must now begin on forming a coalition government.
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Voters in Ivory Coast wait for the result of the much-delayed presidential election, intended to reunite the country after eight years of division.
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The British Airline Pilots Association said it had been warning of the risks to cargo flights for years The prime minister will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency planning committee, Cobra, later as calls grow for a full review of airport security.
It is expected to discuss tougher checks on freight after a bomb was found on a US-bound cargo plane at East Midlands Airport.
The PETN explosive in the device was not picked up by initial tests.
Aformer head of security at airport operator BAA said cargo checks were less exacting than those on passengers.
Calling for a fundamental review of security, Norman Shanks said: “We’re looking at introducing the explosive detection systems that we currently use for passengers’ baggage which goes into the hold.
“Now this really can’t be introduced for every package, but it could be used for packages coming from areas where there is a known risk.”
Home Secretary Theresa May has pledged to review air freight security following the terror alert on Friday.
Investigators at East Midlands had at first declared the bomb – found on a flight from Yemen – safe, before carrying out a re-examination as a precaution.
Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of counter-terrorism laws, said the failure of existing equipment to initially identify PETN was a “weakness” and checks must be made to ensure the most up-to-date technology was in use.
The British Airline Pilots Association said its members had been warning for years about “open-door” cargo flights.
General secretary Jim McAuslan said efforts should be switched from some of the “redundant security measures” aimed at passengers, towards checking freight instead.
“It makes no sense to us that scarce resources are used to strip down pilots with years of flying experience, rather than targeting resources at the vulnerabilities that we seen exploited in the past 24 hours,” he said.
Calls for an overhaul were echoed by the British International Freight Association, although it insisted that there were “already well-established, in-depth and organised processes” in place to screen cargo.
Officials in the US said the bomb found at East Midlands – and another discovered in Dubai – were both were built by the same man who made the explosive device used in the failed “underpants” bomb attack over Detroit on Christmas Day.
A Saudi-born bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, was named as the prime suspect.
Meanwhile, a female student arrested in Yemen on suspicion of posting the bombs has apparently been freed.
Reports said the woman, named by human rights groups as 22-year-old Hanan al-Samawi, had no known links to Islamist militants and may have been the victim of identity fraud.
A spokesman for Qatar Airways said the parcel found in Dubai travelled on two separate passenger planes via the airline’s hub in Doha.
The two packages were addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area. Both bombs were apparently inserted in printer cartridges.
• Thursday night: Saudi intelligence reportedly tips off MI6 about a cargo plot emanating from Yemen.
• Early hours of Friday morning: alert raised over UPS plane at East Midlands airport. Security cordon put in place, then lifted.
• 0900: suspect package found in Dubai. It was posted via freight firm FedEx.
• 1300: security cordon reinstated at East Midlands airport. Suspicious device sent for detailed examination.
• 1700: FBI says two suspect packages were addressed to religious buildings in Chicago.
• 1835: Emirates Flight 201 from Yemen via Dubai lands at JFK airport, New York, escorted by US fighter jets. The plane is carrying a package from Yemen.
• 1845: FedEx in Dubai confirms it has confiscated a suspect package sent from Yemen and is suspending all shipments from Dubai.
• Friday night: Three UPS flights investigated after landing at Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. They all receive the all-clear after searches.
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The Docklands Light Railway is one public sector scheme that Serco operates Outsourcing group Serco has abandoned plans to pass on the impact of government spending cuts to its suppliers.
Serco, which carries out a host of government contracts, had asked it largest suppliers to pay a 2.5% rebate.
The company said it now wished to “apologise unreservedly” to its suppliers, and had retracted letters asking for the rebate.
The government is reported to have been angered by Serco seeking rebates from its suppliers, but has yet to comment.
The government is reported to have been angered by Serco seeking rebates from its suppliers, but has yet to comment.
Serco operates a number of public sector contracts on behalf of the government and local authorities.
These include running four prisons including Doncaster, the maintenance of a number of RAF bases including Brize Norton, and the operation of London’s Docklands Light Railway.
Shares in the firm were down 6% in morning trading on the London Stock Exchange, making it the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 index.
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Serco said in its statement that it had been working with the Cabinet Office as part of the government’s efficiency programme, which “has involved discussions with our leading suppliers”.
It added: “As a result our plans evolved and we decided not to seek or accept any contributions from our suppliers, who had recently received letters asking for rebates.
“As a company that values our relationships with all our supply chain partners, large and small, we deeply regret this action and apologise unreservedly to them for the concern that this has caused.”
A number of Serco’s suppliers had complained about the plans for rebate payments.
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Initial results suggest victory for Dilma Rousseff Partial results in Brazil’s presidential race suggest the preferred candidate of outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is on course for victory.
Dilma Rousseff is currently on 54% of the vote, with rival Jose Serra on 45%. Final results are due within hours.
If Ms Rousseff wins, she will become Brazil’s first woman president.
Ms Rousseff, of the governing Workers’ Party, has enjoyed the full support of President Lula.
He is leaving office after two terms with record popularity ratings.
Ms Rousseff has promised to continue policies that have fostered years of strong economic growth and lifted millions of people out of poverty.
This second round of voting was forced after Ms Rousseff fell short of the 50% needed in the 3 October first round. She won 47% to Mr Serra’s 33%. More than 130 million voters were due to take part in the polls.
Several opinion polls published at the weekend suggested she could win the second round with a lead of 10 to 12 percentage points.
The results appear to suggest a narrower margin of victory.
Ms Rousseff flashed a victory sign and gave a big smile to photographers after casting her vote in the southern city of Porto Alegre.
“Tomorrow we begin a new phase in our democracy”, she said.
“I will govern for everyone, speak for all Brazilians, without exceptions”.
After casting his vote in Sao Paulo, Mr Serra of the Social Democratic Party said that after eight years of government by the Workers Party, Brazil needed change.
But he said he had faced an “uneven battle”, in apparent reference to the booming economy that has boosted the popularity of President Lula and his preferred successor.
The BBC’s Paulo Cabral in Sao Paulo says Mr Serra has done better than many people expected in a campaign filled with personal attacks and corruption allegations.
But our correspondent says it has been an uphill struggle to take votes away from a government boasting 80% approval ratings.
Mr Serra said he had faced an “uneven battle” Jose Serra, 68, is a former governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state, and a former health minister.
Campaigning under the slogan “Brazil can do more”, he has promised better management of government rather than a radical change of policy.
Ms Rousseff, 62, President Lula’s former chief of staff, has never before run for elected office.
Mr Lula has been active and highly visible in her election campaign. He has to step down after completing the maximum allowed two consecutive terms.
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