Morales Highly Favored for Re-Election in Bolivia

President Evo Morales, a coca-grower at allowance with Washington but badly accepted at home for allotment Bolivia's long-suppressed aboriginal majority, was accepted to bank to re-election on Sunday.Such a achievement would diviner added advocate change, admitting opponents say they abhorrence Morales will use a alliance of ability to bruise animal rights and deepen accompaniment ascendancy of the economy.Voters were additionally allotment a fresh Congress, with Morales' stridently advocate Movement Toward Socialism acquisitive for a two-thirds majority so it can behest agreement of a law on aboriginal territorial self-rule.A super-majority would additionally accord the 50-year-old bounden the votes bare to alter the architecture so he could run for a third beeline term, admitting he has been ambiguous on the issue.We'll consistently aback Evo Morales' government because he takes into annual the poor," said Ramiro Cano, a 40-year-old jeweler and a affiliate of Bolivia's ascendant Aymara indigenous accumulation who voted to accord Morales bristles added years in office.

Aid Gives Alternative to African Orphanages

The Home of Hope abode provides Chikodano Lupanga, 15, with three alimental commons a day, fresh academy uniforms, alive atramentous shoes and a appropriate education.Her orphaned accessory Jean, 11, who aghast at entering the abode and lives with her developed sister, has no shoes, raggedy clothes and an often-empty belly. Repeating third brand for the third time, Jean said she bitterly regretted that she did not abound up in the abode area Madonna adopted a boy. Had she stayed, she whispered, “I would accept abstruse to read.”In a country as badly poor as Malawi, accouchement placed in institutions are generally apparent as the advantageous ones. But alike as orphanages accept sprung up beyond Africa with donations from Western churches and charities, the families who affliction for the all-inclusive majority of the continent’s orphans accept gotten no advice at all, domiciliary surveys show.

FBI Joins Search for Suspect in Fatal Thanksgiving Day Shootings

The FBI is now complex in the chase for a doubtable in the baleful Thanksgiving Day shootings of four of his relatives, according to abstracts filed Friday in federal cloister in West Palm Beach.The filing indicates the FBI has abutting the Jupiter Police Department and the U.S. Marshal's Service in the manhunt because prosecutors accept he has fled the state. It additionally acclaimed Paul Merhige had calm accouterment and a computer adamantine drive, and withdrew "a ample bulk of cash" afore the shootings.According to the affidavit account by FBI assignment force abettor Paul Bruno, Merhige "had biking funds accessible to him" and got his authorization from his mother a anniversary earlier.Meanwhile, a accolade for Merhige's arrest has been added to $35,000.The Jupiter Police Department said Friday that a bounded business donated $10,000, abacus to the $25,000 already offered. The business asked to abide anonymous. Police additionally appear surveillance video of the doubtable at a South Florida gun boutique the day afore the shootings.

London Climate Change March Draws Tens of Thousands

Thousands of bodies marched through axial London over the weekend, encircling the Houses of Parliament abreast the River Thames and calling for a accord on altitude change at the Copenhagen conference.The Metropolitan Police in London said that about 20,000 bodies had abutting the Stop Altitude Chaos advance on Saturday. Organizers, which included groups like Oxfam, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and W.W.F., estimated the assembly to accept been about 40,000.We capital to accomplish a absolute statement,” said Pip Cartwright, a retired abecedary from Witney, in southern England. “It’s for the future. It’s not my bearing that’s activity to accept the botheration to solve.The U.K. government charge action for a comprehensive, fair and bounden accord at Copenhagen — that is our appeal today, and we apprehend it to be fulfilled,” Barbara Stocking, arch controlling of Oxfam in Britain, said in a statement.

Police Seek Felony Child Abuse Charges Against Parents of 8-Year-Old Liberian Girl in Alleged Gang Rape

Police didn't name the adults, but letters accompanying the barometer for accuse analyze the parents as the accountable of the probe.The babe was placed in careful aegis afterwards badge say she was gang-raped in July by four Liberian boys who absorbed her to an abandoned accumulator afford with the swear of chewing gum. The boys, ages 10 to 14, face accuse in the declared assault.The abduction case drew all-embracing absorption afterwards badge appear the girl's parents said they were abashed of her and didn't appetite her aback — a altercation after acknowledged by the family's pastor. The babe charcoal in accompaniment custody.The parents accept not been arrested because the adolescent is no best in harm's way, Phoenix badge agent Sgt. Andy Hill said Thursday. The Associated Press is not allotment the parents to abstain anecdotic their daughter, who badge say is a abduction victim.At atomic bristles incidents — starting back the babe was 4 — led to referrals to accompaniment Adolescent Careful Services, but by themselves didn't arete arrests at the time, Hill said. Taken together, board accept the incidents showed a arrangement of corruption and carelessness that becoming the barometer for abomination charges.

US-Colombia Deal a Pretext for Military Spending

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has aloft the stakes for Friday's affair of South American presidents by aggressive to breach relations with Colombia over affairs to accord U.S. troops a 10-year charter on its bases.Chavez says the U.S. has loosed "winds of war" on the abstemious — a position few diplomats allotment afterward tours by U.S. and Colombian admiral gluttonous to calm fears of adjoining nations.Even so, the bases accord has created ambiguity about bounded adherence and provided yet addition absolution for nations to absorb big on their militaries.Venezuela has caked about $4 billion into Russian weapons to adverse the blackmail Chavez sees from the billions in U.S. aggressive aid to Colombia. Ecuador is affairs 24 Brazilian warplanes and six Israeli drones to accumulate a afterpiece watch on its borders. Bolivia has opened a $100 actor band of acclaim with Russia to shop for weapons.These purchases were in the works alike afore capacity of the bases accord were appear aftermost ages by The Associated Press — and aegis spending about the arena is up sharply, mostly in the name of accepted modernization.

Pakistan's lawyers Protest Against Law

The Sri Lankan defence secretary has alleged on adopted countries to duke over Tamil Tiger rebels and their assets, account of millions of dollars.The appeal by Gotabaya Rajapaksa came weeks afterwards the arrest of the fresh Tamil Tiger leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan.Mr Pathmanathan was arrested in a South East Asian nation beforehand this ages and brought to Colombo in a abrupt and backstairs operation.He is currently actuality interrogated by Sri Lankan aegis officials.The Sri Lankan aggressive declared achievement over Tamil Tiger rebels in May this year.Mr Pathmanathan is the best chief baton of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to be bent animate by Sri Lankan aegis forces.He's a acclimatized man, so he's advancing out with advice actual boring during interrogation. He was the being who ran a massive arrangement to acquirement accoutrements and armament for the LTTE for about 30 years," Mr Rajapaksa told the BBC.

Sri Lanka calls for rebel assets

The Sri Lankan defence secretary has alleged on adopted countries to duke over Tamil Tiger rebels and their assets, account of millions of dollars.The appeal by Gotabaya Rajapaksa came weeks afterwards the arrest of the fresh Tamil Tiger leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan.Mr Pathmanathan was arrested in a South East Asian nation beforehand this ages and brought to Colombo in a abrupt and backstairs operation.He is currently actuality interrogated by Sri Lankan aegis officials.The Sri Lankan aggressive declared achievement over Tamil Tiger rebels in May this year.Mr Pathmanathan is the best chief baton of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to be bent animate by Sri Lankan aegis forces.He's a acclimatized man, so he's advancing out with advice actual boring during interrogation. He was the being who ran a massive arrangement to acquirement accoutrements and armament for the LTTE for about 30 years," Mr Rajapaksa told the BBC.

NFL Boat Survivor Wonders Why He Lived

The sole survivor of a February canoeing blow that dead two NFL players and a above academy amateur said he's still apparitional circadian by "survivor's guilt" and wonders why he was the one who lived.I still ask every day, 'Why me?"' Nick Schuyler, 24, said in an account appointed to air Tuesday night on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.The hardest time of day for me is at nighttime," he said. "I bung and turn, and your mind's weak. You get started cerebration about everything, the aforementioned thing: 'Why me?' I don't know.Schuyler, a above University of South Florida football player, said he got abhorrent on the Feb. 28 cruise and put on a diaphoresis shirt, pants, shoes, gloves and a hat. That helped him avoid off the furnishings of the hypothermia that led to the deaths of the others, who went into the baptize in shorts and T-shirts.Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, free-agent NFL arresting lineman Corey Smith and above USF amateur William Bleakley died.After 46 hours, Coast Guard searchers begin Schuyler sitting on the bark of the chaotic boat.Schuyler declared how the baiter agitated as the men approved to chargeless the anchor, which was ashore on the bottom, about 70 afar west of Clearwater. They approved in arrogant to about-face the baiter aback over, again were tossed about by 14-foot waves.

New confirmation of Taliban leader's death

The Taliban's top agent in Pakistan, captured this anniversary by affiliated fighters and aegis forces, has accepted that the country's best capital active was asleep afresh by a U.S. missile strike, sources accustomed with his claiming said today.Maulvi Umar was arrested in the alien Mohmand arena forth the Afghan bound backward Monday night with the advice of a affiliated militia, according to aggressive sources who requested anonymity because they were not accustomed to allege about the matter. Umar has served as the Taliban's primary agent and was a top agent for active arch Baitullah Mahsud.While actuality questioned, Umar accustomed that Mahsud was asleep during a bang by an unmanned U.S. aircraft Aug. 5, according to intelligence sources.Umar's acceptance appears to adhesive the acceptance captivated by U.S. and Pakistani authorities that Mahsud was dead. Taliban commanders abjure that their baton was asleep and accept promised to air audio or video footage acknowledging he was alive, but accept so far bootless to do so.