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US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday called on a health insurance company to publicly explain why it raised premiums for some customers by 39 percent.

“With so many families already affected by rising costs, I was very disturbed to learn through media accounts that Anthem Blue Cross plans to raise premiums for its California customers by as much as 39 percent,” or 15 times faster than inflation, Sebelius said in a letter that was faxed to the insurer.

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Wellpoint earned 2.7 billion dollars in the last quarter of 2009, she said, calling on the insurance company to “provide a detailed justification” for the increase.

“As we continue the health insurance reform debate in Washington, this announcement reminds us that too many Americans can be left with unaffordable insurance each time the rates or rules change in the private market,” Sebelius said.

Last month, plans to reform the US health care system hit a wall when the election of a Republican to the Senate Massachusetts seat long held by Ted Kennedy robbed the Democrats of their 60-vote supermajority in the Senate.

President Barack Obama vowed during his campaign for the White House to reform Air Maxhealth care and make coverage accessible to the 47 million Americans who currently do not have any, and to make coverage less of a financial drain on US workers.

Last year, the insurance industry issued a report saying that health care reforms would lead to significantly higher insurance premiums. Obama dismissed the report as “bogus”.

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Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information.

The deaths in Ciudad Juarez were part of a total of 24 people killed across Mexico since Saturday in violence caused by ongoing turf battles between powerful drug cartels.

About two dozen teens and young adults were hospitalized following the late Saturday assault in Ciudad Juarez, one of the deadliest cities in the world located across the border

from El Paso, Texas.

Grieving witnesses and family members told The Associated Press ed hardy outlet on Sunday they thought the victims, mostly residents of the

housing complex where the attack occurred, had no ties to drug traffickers.

“It must have been a huge mistake,” said Martha Lujan, who lives at the housing complex.

The young adults had gathered to watch a boxing match, Lujan said, when two trucks pulled up loaded with armed men who opened fire.

Ten people were killed at the scene and other three died at local hospitals, Chihuahua State Attorney Patricia Gonzales said.

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gave his first name because he feared retaliation, said the party was an innocuous gathering of friends who must have been targeted incorrectly.

“I think there was some confusion,” he said. “We’re seeking justice.”

Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million people, is home to several drug cartel bosses who are battling for turf as thousands of troops and federal police try to stop them. More

than 2,250 people were killed there last year alone.

On Sunday morning in the border town of Nogales, just south of Arizona, state police found three bodies burned inside an abandoned vehicle in what appeared to be an execution,

officials said.

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city of Navolato.

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attorney general for the state of Sinaloa, where Navolato is located.

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gunmen riding in trucks with tinted windows attacked a police station with grenades and assault rifles, killing a police officer and two civilians — a mother and her son who

had come to pay a fine.

More than 15,000 people have been killed in Mexico in the past three years in cartel-related violence.

Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to the opposition parties to join the parliament session and speak in the House for the people of

their respective constituencies, reports BSS.
The Prime Minister made the call while presiding over the Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP) meeting in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban here this afternoon.
Referring to BNP’’s criticism against the government, Sheikh Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League, said the oppositions should criticize the government in the

house, not outside the parliament, to show respect to the parliamentary democracy.
Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Chief Whip Vice-Principal ugg bootsAbdus Shahid said that the Prime Minister has also asked the

AL lawmakers to further increase contact with the people of their respective constituencies keeping in mind the greater national interest.
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motion on the President’’s speech in the House. Highlighting the success of her government’’s first year in the current tenure, the Prime Minister apprised the meeting that a

total of 317 decisions were taken in the cabinet, of which, 183 were implemented so far while the rest remained under the process of implementation.
She also said that steps would be taken so that the parliament members could get more time to speak in the Jatiya Sangsad on different important issues. A request would be made

to the Speaker for allocating more time for the lawmakers in this regard, she added.
On a query, Abdus Shahid said the question of making the parliament ineffective is not correct. “The nation will not accept the comment made outside the House by a person who is

not a member of parliament,” he said.
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9th parliament, a rare example in the history of parliamentary UGG Classic democracy in Bangladesh.”
Besides, he added, seven members of parliament belonging to the opposition political parties were made the chairmen of different parliamentary standing committees.
Among others, Chief Whip Vice-Principal Abdus Shahid, Health and Family Welfare Minister Prof. Dr Ruhal Haque, Awami League Advisory Committee member Tofail Ahmed also spoke in

the meeting that lasted 50 minutes.

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BEIRUT – The first sign of trouble was uggs on sale a flash of light on the horizon

Monday — and then witnesses said the Boeing 737 tumbled like “fire falling down from the sky” into the stormy Mediterranean Sea.

All 90 aboard were feared dead in the pre-dawn crash. Lebanon’s leaders ruled out terrorism while investigators collected witness accounts in

hopes they could provide clues. Aviation experts cautioned it was too early to know what brought down the Ethiopian Airlines jet —

particularly without the black boxes.

Many people were giving DNA samples to help identify the remains of their loved ones; one man identified his 3-year-old nephew by the boy’s

overalls.

“Please find my son,” pleaded Zeinab Seklawi, whose 24-year-old son Yasser was on Flight 409, which was headed to the Ethiopian capital,

Addis Ababa.

At the Government Hospital in Beirut, Red Cross workers brought in bodies covered with wool blankets as relatives gathered nearby. No

survivors had been found by nightfall, and the health minister told reporters 21 bodies were recovered. Marla Pietton, wife of the French

ambassador to Lebanon, was among those on board, according to the French Embassy.

The Boeing 737-800 took off at uggs on sale about 2:30 a.m. in driving rain, lightening and thunder,

and went down two miles (3.5 kilometers) off the coast, said Ghazi Aridi, the public works and transportation minister.

Hours after the crash, pieces of the plane and other debris were washing ashore, including a baby sandal, passenger seats, a fire

extinguisher, suitcases and bottles of medicine.

“We saw fire falling down from the sky into the sea,” said Khaled Naser, a gas station attendant who saw the plane plunge into waters that

had reached 64 degrees (18 degrees Celsius) by Monday afternoon.

The Lebanese army also said the plane was on fire shortly after takeoff. A defense official said some witnesses reported the plane broke up

into three pieces.

Aviation safety analyst Chris Yates said reports of fire could suggest “some cataclysmic failure of one of the engines” or that a bird or

debris had been sucked into the engine.

He noted that modern aircraft are built to withstand all but the foulest weather conditions.

“One wouldn’t have thought that a nasty squall in and of itself would be the prime cause of an accident like this,” said Yates, an analyst

based in Manchester, England.

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accuracy of witness reports of flames.

“Eyewitnesses almost always report aircraft exploding in the sky or seeing heavy, heavy flames,” said William Voss, head of the Flight Safety

Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Alexandria, Va.

Beirut airport is equipped with a sophisticated weather radar that flight controllers use to guide planes around the towering thunderheads

and accompanying winds and lightning that can cause structural damage to airframes.

The electrically charged clouds are part of massive storms that have regularly formed off the Lebanese coastline this winter.

Takeoffs in such poor weather conditions are particularly difficult, and the controllers often assist pilots to find a way through the storm.

The Boeing 737 is considered one of the safest planes in airline service. The jet was first introduced in the 1960s, and today is the

workhorse on many short- and medium-range routes.

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series of incidents and crashes linked to problems with a valve in the rudder assembly. The valve reportedly would malfunction and cause the

rudder to turn independently of the pilot’s commands.

The problem was considered resolved after operators of older Boeing 737s were ordered to carry out inspections and upgrades of the rudder

control systems.

Sidney Dekker, a professor of flight safety at the School of Aviation at Lund University in Sweden, said the rudder problem has been

corrected by the manufacturer and that he’d be “hugely surprised” if it had anything to do with the crash.

Dekker, himself a 737 pilot, said that if reports of an engine fire proved to be correct, the accident could have resulted from a loss of

control at a relatively low altitude where it would have been difficult to recover.

He noted that the 737’s engines had extra power in order to fulfill performance requirements in the event of the loss of an engine at

takeoff. This tended to produce a turning movement of the entire aircraft — known as yaw — toward the dead engine.

Poor visibility in low clouds combined with high winds may have contributed to the problem faced by the pilots trying to regain control, he

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An international rescue effort, with UGG Sundance Grab bags help from the

United States, Cyprus and the U.N., was launched after the crash. The weather hampered the search as ships plowed through tall waves.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced a day of mourning and closed schools and government offices.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said terrorism was not suspected in the crash of Flight 409. “Sabotage is ruled out as of now,” he said.

Ethiopian Airlines’ CEO Girma Wake said the aircraft had been serviced on Dec. 25 and passed inspection. He said the plane had been leased in

September from New York-based CIT Aerospace. A CIT spokesman declined to comment and referred questions to Ethiopian Airlines.

The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines has long had a reputation for high-quality service compared to other African airlines, with two notable

crashes in more than 20 years.

A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines jet crash-landed off the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean when it ran out of fuel in November 1996, killing

126 of the 175 people aboard. In September 1988, an Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed shortly after taking off when it ran into a flock of

birds, killing 31 of the 104 people on board.

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with Boeing to buy 10 more of the 737-800s at an estimated $767 million. The order will expand the airline’s fleet from the 36 aircraft it

has now — not including the 737-800 that crashed Monday.

The plane was carrying 83 passengers and seven crew, Lebanese officials said. Aridi, the transportation minister, identified the passengers

as 54 Lebanese, 22 Ethiopians, one Iraqi, one Syrian, one Canadian of Lebanese origin, one Russian of Lebanese origin, a French woman and two

Britons of Lebanese origin.

Ethiopian Airlines reported that there were 82 passengers and eight crew; the discrepancy could not immediately be explained.

Weeping relatives streamed into Beirut’s airport to wait for news on their loved ones. One woman dropped to her knees in tears; another cried

out, “Where is my son?”

Andree Qusayfi said his 35-year-old brother, Ziad, was traveling to Ethiopia for his job at a computer company, but was planning to return to

Lebanon for good soon.

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storm,” Qusayfi said, his eyes red from crying. “But he insisted on going because he had work appointments.”

Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned ship and its 21 crew members, including 14 Filipinos, after more than a month in captivity, the Philippine government and the ship’s

owner said Friday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that its embassy uggs outletin Nairobi, Kenya, reported that the MV Delvina

was heading to Mombasa with its crew, who were safe and in good health.

Foreign Affairs spokesman Ed Malaya said the ship, seized on Nov. 5, was released around 2 a.m. Friday (1 p.m. EST Thursday, 1800 GMT Thursday).

“All the crew are reported unharmed and are well despite their 43-day ordeal,” the ship’s owner, Meadway Shipping & Trading Inc., said in a statement in Athens, Greece.

It said the ship was hijacked northeast of the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean as it sailed from Ukraine to Mombassa.

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whether a ransom was paid. It said it did not want to jeopardize the safety of other ships and crew still being held by pirates.

The Philippine government’s statement said 53 Filipino sailors on four ships were still being held by the pirates. More than 340 others have been freed since 2006. Filipinos

account for about 30 percent of the world’s 1.2 million merchant sailors.

The release of the ship and its crew comes a week before a visit by Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister Abdurahman Aden Ibrahim Ibbi to Manila to discuss anti-piracy measures, a

separate statement said.

“As the supplier of about a third of the world’s shipping manpower, the Philippines is directly affected by the scourge of piracy,” the statement said.

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Iran on Wednesday test fired an upgraded version of an advanced missile capable of hitting Israel and parts of Europe, an apparent show of strength aimed at discouraging

attacks on its nuclear facilities.

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that it rein in its nuclear ambitions. Iran touted the launch as a success proving it can deter any U.S. or Israeli military strike against its nuclear facilities.

“This is a matter of serious concern to the international community and it does make the case for us moving further on sanctions. We will treat this with the seriousness it

deserves,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said after talks with U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon in Copenhagen.

Britain’s Foreign Office said Iran has the “clear intention to extend the range of its missiles,” calling the launch “the wrong signal to send when the international community

is trying to find a diplomatic solution” to its growing nuclear program.

Wednesday’s test was the third for the Sajjil-2 since it was unveiled in May. The missile has the longest range of any in Iran’s arsenal, about 1,200 miles — putting Israel,

Iran’s sworn enemy, and U.S. bases in the Gulf region well within reach. It could also reach parts of southeastern and eastern Europe.

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and the West, though experts are skeptical over some of Iran’s claims of advances.

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the past.”

But equally important is the political message, said Washington-based security analyst Alex Vatanka.

“One signal is very clear — they are saying Iran will not negotiate with the West from a position of weakness. They are saying: If you think sanctions and threats are something

to worry us, then you are mistaken,” said Vatanka, with the intelligence analyst group Jane’s.

“The message from Iran today is that Tehran can do more, Iran’s arm is long,” he said.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor declined to comment on the latest missile test.

Former Israeli defense ministry official Uzi UGG Tasmina Sandals Rubin told Israeli television, “the fact

that they are capable of carrying out three launches in a year is significant, because it means the Iranians are investing a lot of money in this.”

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facilities. The U.S. and its allies accuse Tehran of seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, and Israel — which is believed to have its own nuclear arsenal — has not ruled out

military action to stop Iran’s program.

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U.S. officials have not been able to determine its authenticity.

Iran denies seeking a nuclear warhead, saying its nuclear program is intended solely to generate electricity.

Negotiations over the program have been deadlocked for months, with Iran equivocating over a U.N.-drafted deal aimed at removing most of the low-enriched uranium from the

country so it would not have enough to produce a bomb. The U.N. nuclear watchdog last month sharply rebuked Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment, and Washington has

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that the test was a success, accompanied by a brief clip showing the missile rising from the launch pad in a cloud of smoke.

Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi vowed that the Sajjil-2 would be a “strong deterrent” against any possible foreign attack. He said the new version can be fired more quickly

and flies faster than previous ones, making it harder to shoot down. He gave no further details.

The two-stage Sajjil-2 is powered entirely by solid-fuel while the older Shahab-3 missile, with a similar range, uses a combination of solid and liquid fuel. Solid-fuel missiles

are more accurate than ones using liquid fuel. They also can be fueled in advance and moved or hidden in silos.

The fear in the West is that Iran will be able to produce intercontinental, three-stage missiles, which can reach more than 3,500 miles, putting much of Europe in its reach.

“If you look back at what Iran has invested in terms of manpower and funding, the missile systems program is only second to Iran’s investment in the nuclear program,” Vatanka

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Tuesday, the long-delayed inaugural flight of the world’s first commercial plane constructed with half its components made

from lightweight composite materials.

The sleek jet lifted off from Everett’s Paine Field on a flight over Washington state, beginning an extensive testing program

needed to obtain Federal Aviation Administration certification.

“It’s very historical. I can’t think of a thing about it that I’m not impressed with,” said Joe Bierce, a flight instructor

for Delta Connection in Jacksonville, Fla., who was among the 25,000 people who gathered to watch the takeoff.

The two-member crew performed a variety of basic system checks, including testing the landing gear and the flaps, before

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the huge aircraft kicked up clouds of mist.

The plane is the first of six 787s Boeing will use in the nine-month flight-test program that will subject the planes to

conditions well beyond those found in normal airline service.

Chicago-based Boeing, which has orders for 840 of the jets, plans to make the first delivery to Japan’s All Nippon Airways

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giving passengers a more comfortable cabin with better air quality and larger windows.

Officials cut the flight a little short after rain reduced visibility at Boeing Field.

Boeing has relied on suppliers to build huge sections of the plane that are later assembled in Everett. But that approach so

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Tuesday’s flight “was a very mundane on takeoff and very mundane on the landing, and that’s exactly what you want on the

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Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis pledged that his bank would lend $5 billion more to small- and mid-sized businesses in 2010

than it did in 2009. JPMorgan Chase & Co., said last month that it would boost such lending by $4 billion.

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underwater mortgages, bring executive compensation under control and give more support to legislation overhauling financial

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Obama earlier in the year tried — with little apparent effect — to jawbone the leader of China into letting Chinese

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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy “jawboned” the steel industry into overturning a price increase after first encouraging

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banks helped to create the desperate economic situation that we’re in and that they’ve gotten a lot of money and haven’t

helped the economy in exchange.”

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American University political scientist James Thurber said he believed Obama’s effort would have “limited effect” in changing

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publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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good enough because the public was likely to still see it as excessive, this official said.

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Her father, Charles Cox, flew in from Puyallup, Wash., south of Seattle, to assist in the search. He spent Saturday morning granting dozens of interviews to media outlets around

the country in an effort to keep his daughter’s name and picture in the news.

While Cox and Josh Powell shared a brief hug before the prayer service began, Cox said the only conversation he’s had with him since his daughter was reported missing was on

Tuesday.

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“I can’t say anything,” he said following the prayer service.

Complicating the search for Susan Powell, McLachlan said police don’t have a description of the clothing she was wearing when Josh Powell last saw her about 12:30 a.m. Monday.

Susan Powell’s friend, Kiirsi Hellewell, described her as a “girly girl” who liked to get dressed up when she went out with friends and make blankets for friends at church.

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COPENHAGEN – Tens of thousands of sale uggs protesters have marched

through the chilly Danish capital and nearly 1,000 were detained in a mass rally to demand an ambitious global climate pact,

just as talks hit a snag over rich nations’ demands on China and other emerging economies.

The mostly peaceful demonstrations in Copenhagen on Saturday provided the centerpiece of a day of global climate activism

stretching from Europe to Asia. Police assigned extra officers to watch protesters marching toward the suburban conference

center to demand that leaders act now to fight climate change.

Police estimated their numbers at 40,000, while organizers said as many as 100,000 had joined the march from downtown

Copenhagen. It ended with protesters holding aloft candles and torches as they swarmed by night outside the Bella Center

where the 192-nation U.N. climate conference is being held.

There have been a couple of minor protests over the past week, but Saturday’s was by far the largest.

Police said they rounded up 968 uggs on sale people in a preventive action against a

group of youth activists at the tail end of the demonstration. Officers in riot gear moved in when some of the activists,

masking their faces, threw cobblestones through the windows of the former stock exchange and Foreign Ministry buildings.

A police officer received minor injuries when he was hit by a rock thrown from the group and one protester was injured by

fireworks, police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch said.

Earlier, police said they had detained 19 people, mainly for breaking Denmark’s strict laws against carrying pocket knives or

wearing masks during demonstrations.

At the talks, the European Union, Japan and Australia joined the U.S. in criticizing a draft global warming pact that says

major developing nations must rein in greenhouse gases, but only if they have outside financing. Rich nations want to require

developing nations to limit emissions, with or without financial help ugg outlet.

Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, representing the 27-nation EU, told The Associated Press that “there has been

a growing understanding that there must be commitments to actions by emerging economies as well.”

He said those commitments “must be binding, in the sense that states are standing behind their commitments.”

Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his country — the world’s No. 5 greenhouse gas polluter — will not offer

more than its current pledge to slow its growth rate of emissions. It has offered to cut greenhouse gases measured against

production by 20 to 25 percent by 2020.

“National interest trumps everything else,” Ramesh told the AP. “Whatever I have to do, I’ve said in my Parliament. We’ll

engage them (the U.S. and China). I’m not here to make new offers.”

China has made voluntary commitments to rein in its carbon emissions but doesn’t want to be bound by international law to do

so. In China’s view, the U.S. and other rich countries have a heavy historical responsibility to cut emissions and any

climate deal in Copenhagen should take into account a country’s level of development
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Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists told the AP that rich nations are trying to re-negotiate the deal they

reached two years ago on the island of Bali, calling on developing nations to limit emissions with financial help.

“It’s going to blow up in their faces,” he said. “The rich countries are trying to move the goal posts. And developing

countries are not going to agree to that, no matter how loudly the rich countries demand it.”

The tightly focused negotiating text was meant to lay out the crunch themes for environment ministers to wrestle with as they

prepare for a summit of some 110 heads of state and government at the end of next week.

U.S. delegate Jonathan Pershing said the draft failed to address the contentious issue of carbon emissions by emerging

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“The current draft didn’t work in terms of where it is headed,” Pershing said in the plenary, supported by the European

Union, Japan and Norway.

But the EU also directed criticism at the U.S., insisting it could make greater commitments to push the talks forward without

stretching the legislation pending in Congress. Both the U.S. and China should be legally bound to keep whatever promises

they make, Carlgren said.

Thousands also marched in a “Walk Against Warming” in major cities across Australia and about 200 Filipino activists staged a

festive rally in Manila to mark the Global Day of Action on climate change. Dozens of Indonesian environmental activists

rallied in front of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.

Environmentalists staged stunts and protests in 100 piazzas across Italy, from Venice’s St. Mark’s Square to a historical

piazza in downtown Rome. They carried banners that read “Stop the Planet’s Fever” and asked passers-by to sign a petition

calling on world leaders to reach a deal to reduce emissions.

In Copenhagen, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace laureate, and Greenpeace leader Kumi Naidoo were among those ratcheting

up the pressure for a fair, ambitious and binding treaty
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Naidoo exhorted politicians to act bravely by crafting a fair, ambitious and binding treaty, so they can later “look their

children and grandchildren in the eyes” and tell them they did the right thing. “Failure to do so will be the worst political

crime that they would have committed,” he said.

At a candlelight vigil on the conference grounds, Tutu compared the mass demonstrations outside to other popular movements

that made a mark in history.

“We want to remind you that they marched in Berlin and the wall fell,” Tutu said. “They marched in Cape Town and apartheid

fell. They marched in Copenhagen and we are going to get a real deal.”

Demonstrators chanted and carried banners reading “Demand Climate Justice,” “The World Wants a Real Deal” and “There is No

Planet B,” navigating for miles along city streets and over bridges past officers in riot gear, police dogs and the flashing

lights of dozens of police vans.

Inside the Bella Center, delegates gathered around flat-screen TVs showing both the larger peaceful rally and the police

crackdown on the young activists. Riot police tied them up with plastic cuffs and made them sit down on a closed-off street

before busing them to a detention center set up for the climate conference
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Britain’s Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, said dealmakers have a long ways to go. “There are difficult issues to

overcome,” he said, “around emissions, around finance, and around transparency and they are all issues we need to tackle in

the coming days.”

But the climate conference president, Connie Hedegaard, sought to reassure people that world leaders have come to seriously

confront climate change.

“It has taken years to build up the pressure … that we’re also seeing unfolding today in many capitals around the world,”

Hedegaard said. “And I believe that that has contributed to making the political price for not delivering in Copenhagen so

high.”