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Show 0 A I I NtRAlO Y AS Morning briefing FAST FACT GoH holt ate 4 2S unties in tUmotot and at knt 4 irxhos divp. !v ((, nww fit Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The World Austria solemnly marks anniversary of Nazi Germany's takeover On the VIENNA, Austria same square where thousands gave Adolf Hitler an adoring welcome in 1938, Austrians marked the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany's annexation Wednesday by lighting 80,000 candles: one for every person who perished under the regime. The somber "Night of Si- lence" remembrance in stark contrast to the jubilation lit up that greeted Hitler Vienna's Heldenplatz, or Heroes' Square. "So many bad things happened. We must never forget," said Marcus Mor, a computer science student. "We have to live with this and do something to make sure history never repeats itself." 3 - if si .11 i X 4 si i. ' CD : y n V 6T'j ft". Ji . j - Russian blogqer charged with inciting hatred MOSCOW "ir O. 1k Prosecutors have charged a Russian blog-ge- r who wrote on a popular Internet site that police should be publicly incinerated in what is believed to be the country's first such case against a blog-ger. Savva Terentyev said Wednesday he was charged with inciting hatred in a court in the northern city of Syktyvkar. The charges filed Tuesday stemmed from his posting on a Web forum in February . 2007 that criticized police in the wake of a raid on an opposition newspaper. and those . "They're trash that become cops are simply trash, dumb, uneducated representatives of the animal world," he wrote. "It would be good if in the center of every :yi . ! r ; t 5 42 Q1 X. LILU STRAUSSAssociated Press Candles are lit during a commemoration service in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria. On the same Vienna square where thousands gave Hitler an adoring welcome in 1938, Austria marked the occasion by lighting 80,000 candles one for each Jew . and Austrian "undesirable" who perished. town in Russia ... an oven was built, like at Auschwitz, in which ceremonially, every day, and better yet, twice a day ... the infidel cops were burnt. This would be the first step toward cleaning society of scum." these The case comes at a time of growing concerns in Russia that authorities have begun to tighten control over the Internet. Web logs, online newspa- - y ' : pers, chat rooms and other Internet sites have emerged as a vibrant source of critical news and commentary in Russia, compared with much of the national media. ; translator and asked the judge whether journalists could hear his statements. "Since I was arrested I've been treated unfairly. I have been tortured. I. am a human being." The only specifics he offered were that he's had a "bleeding lip" for more than a year and he said he suffers from constant headaches from the bright lights in his prison cell. among humans. The government has ordered all kindergartens and primary and special education schools closed for two weeks starting Thursday, Health Secretary York Chow said. School children r along with teachers and parents wore masks Wednesday as they walked Rocket attack kills three U.S. soldiers A barBAGHDAD, Iraq rage of rockets targeting an American military base in southern Iraq on Wednesday morning killed three U.S. solAfghan detainee asks diers, bringing to 12 the numto boycott Gitmo trial ber of Americans killed in Iraq in the past three days. outside. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba An AfJust after 6 a.m., about four said crashed down on Comrockets Woman detainee ghan Wednesday stopped trying bat Outpost Adder in an attack that he wants to boycott his Hong Kong schools to transport skeleton trial at Guantanamo Bay and that also wounded two other close amid flu outbreak A U.S. soldiers and one civilian, railed against the proceedings MUNICH, Germany said Navy Lt. Patrick Evans, a HONG KONG as unfair and illegal. Hong Kong woman was stopped at a MuU.S. military spokesman. nich airport after baggage ordered more than half a milMohammed Jawad, who is The military reported ancontrol handlers found the accused of throwing a grenade lion primary and kindergarten other soldier died, and two skeleton of her brother sealed that wounded two U.S. solstudents Wednesday to stay in a plastic bag in her luggage, more were wounded on Tuesdiers, initially refused to attend home for two weeks because his first pretrial hearing, delay- of a flu outbreak in one of the police said Wednesday. day near the southern city of woman and Diwaniyah when a roadside The ing its start. After he appeared world's most densely popubomb exploded during a comin the courtroom, the judge, lated cities. her friend, who both live in Italy, were hauled bat patrol. The dozen U.S. milThe government also asked Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, in by airport police Tuesday one of its top scientists to inwarned Jawad that if he does itary deaths in three days are not attend future sessions he after a scan of the bag showed an unusually high figure for vestigate the deaths of three children. a human skull and other bones. recent months, when Americould still be tried, convicted But the World Health Orgaand sentenced in absentia. The women were traveling to can fatalities in Iraq have been In combative exchanges nization said only two of the dropping. Italy from Brazil. The American deaths came It turned out that the woman with the judge, Jawad said he children tested positive for the has been mistreated at Guan-- . the day after an explosion killed was trying to fulfill the last flu, and both had other dis16 passengers on a bus that was who wish of her brother tanamo Bay where the U.S. eases as well.. died 11 years ago in Sao Paulo, traveling near Nasiriyah. ConThe outbreak has not been military holds about 275 men linked to bird flu, which was Brazil to be buried in Italy. flicting accounts emerged on suspected of links to and the Taliban The travelers produced detected in birds in Hong ai. J deWednesday about the incident, nounced the tribunal system as Kong. Bird flu remains difficult the appropriate papers from with the bus driver and a pasfor humans to catch, but scienBrazilian authorities for the unjust. senger asserting that passing "I am innocent, I want justists fear the virus that causes unusual transport, and were al- American soldiers opened fire it could eventually mutate into tice and fairness," said Jawad, lowed to carry on their way to on them, a charge that U.S. milbones and all. who spoke through a Pashto a form that spreads easily Naples itary officials denied. ; y ) Pi:,' THEMBA . 1 W- - s HADEBEAssociated Press Sharing a laugh Former South African President Nelson Mandela right reacts with Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the launch of a Walter and Albertina Sisulu exhibition, "Parenting a Nation," at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday. The Ferraro reaves Clinton post aftei furor over Obama comments Geral-din- e WASHINGTON Ferraro has stepped down from an honorary post she held in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a ers or voters from the South segments where both men more often lost to former candidate Mike Huckabee. suspended for buying Skittles 8th-grad- er NEW HAVEN, Conn. Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an Obama. honors student Ferraro notified Clinton by letter Wednesday that she would no longer serve on Clinton's finance committee as "Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair." Ferraro, in a newspaper interview last week, said Obama wouldn't be succeeding in his presidential race if he weren't black. Obama has called the comments "ridiculous" and his campaign aides have called on Clinton to denounce the statement. Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate. School spokeswoman Cath- spot Romney: would be an 'honor' Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. He said the blast, which killed 12 people, adds weight to the case for new safety rules that his agency recommended in 2006. "These tragedies are preventable," Wright told the House Education and Labor Committee. He urged lawmakers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to enact new standards quickly. . controversy regarding comments she made about Barack V.P. NATION eighth-grad- e in Connecticut. erine SuUivan-DeCarl- o says the New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a districtwide school wellness policy. Michael's suspension has been reduced from three days to one, but he has not been reinstated as class vice president. Superintendent Reginald Mayo said Wednesday that the principal was just trying to keep students safe, but that he would review the decision to suspend Michael. Michael says that he didn't realize his candy purchase was against the rules, but he did notice that the student selling the Skittles on Feb. 26 was being secretive. . fgmmfmimr.,. Pets can be source of resistant staph germs People struggling to get rid of recurrent staph infections might want to consider an source: the d family pet. A German woman repeatedly battled the same strain B. MOSHERPantagraph Honoring an American president Illinois Wesleycm senior artist Chris Killham poses next to his post-i- t note Abraham Lincoln creation on the top level of the Illinois Wesleyan University Hansen Student Center in Bloomington, 111, on Tuesday. Killham put his piece together for the first time in preparation for the Illinois Wesleyan Student Art Show in April of drug-resista- superbug MRSA until her cat was tested and treated. It's one of the few documented cases of transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between a person and a cat. The otherwise healthy WASHINGTON-M- itt woman had deep abscesses, or Romney says he would be somehow survived the fall onto 2 suspects charged in boils, all over her back, said campus. The biology and politi"honored" to be chosen as a lane and the death of student leader cal science major had been shot Dr. Andreas Sing, a microbi30's fast Interstate the to mate Republirunning several times, including once in ologist at the Bavarian Health rush of vehicles. can presidential nominee. N.C. "It the was miraculous and Food Safety Authority in of HILLSBOROUGH, out the right temple. really dropped Romney Oberschleissheim near Munich. Two suspects were charged that we didn't have some fatalipresidential race in February ties with this incident," Dallas Wednesday with after falling behind in the delAgency: Refinery blast Nasal and other swabs from murder in the killing of the her husband and two chilpolice spokesman Sgt. Gil was preventable egate count in Super Tuesday Cerda said. dren showed they carried the University of North Carolina's contests to John McCain. McWASHINGTON MRSA germ on skin but had student body president, though Busby, 27, was in fair condiProper Cain has now clinched enough no signs of infection. Mom tosses boys, then tion, a hospital spokeswoman one remains at large. upkeep probably would have delegates to become the preJames Atwater, 21, prevented the deadly explosaid. Police said her sons were Demario Antiseptic washes and annominee. from self sumptive overpass last month at a Georgia of Durham, was arrested and tibiotic nasal ointment killed sion stable at another hospital, but came comments Romney's Motorists the germ in the other family DALLAS ordered held without bond. Po- sugar refinery where withospital officials declined to on Fox News Channel's "Han-nit- y aclice said they are still searching nesses reported snow-lik- e watched in horror Wednesday comment later Wednesday. members, but the woman was & Colmes." cumulations of industrial dust, still infected. Four weeks after for the second suspect, as a woman tossed two young The three were able to speak He has recently been suga federal safety official said the apparently healthy cat was with investigators, although Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr. boys off a freeway overpass, gested as a promising option Police Hill sufBrian Chief treated with antibiotics, the the have the took then may former leap Chapel Wednesday. for a McCain ticket by The Feb. 7 accident at Impefered internal injuries. woman was free of MRSA and traffic herself." Curran would not say wtych of into rush-hou- r White House deputy chief of But the shocking moment had Busby had not been arrested the suspects shot and killed Eve rial Sugar outside Savannah fits her abscesses had all healed. staff Karl Rove and other poan incredibly fortunate ending. as of Wednesday but could Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga., who a widely understood pattern of Sing wrote in a brief report in litical commentators. face two charges of attempted was found a week ago lying dust explosions, said William Police said Khandi Busby today's New England Journal Others say he would not help of Medicine. on a street about a mile from Wright, a member of the U.S. McCain attract evangelical vot and her children, ages 8 and 6, capital murder, Cerda said. two-stor- y first-degr- |