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Sudan sends complaint against S.Sudan to U.N. (Reuters)

KHARTOUM (Reuters) ? Sudan said Saturday it had submitted a new complaint against South Sudan to the United Nations Security Council, accusing it of supporting rebels in two border states, in a sign of new tensions between the two former civil war foes.

Sudan recognized South Sudan as an independent country when it broke away from Khartoum on July 9 this year after a referendum agreed under a 2005 peace agreement.

But tensions have risen since then as north and south blame each other for violence on both sides of their poorly-marked border. They have also failed to agree how to share oil revenues and find a solution for the disputed region of Abyei.

Saturday, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said Sudan had submitted a fresh complaint against South Sudan to the Security Council accusing it of supporting rebels in the two northern border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.

South Sudan "continues providing (rebels) with anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles as well as with ammunition, landmines and mortars," the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SUNA.

Sudan filed a similar complaint in August.

The Sudanese army has been fighting for months against rebels of the northern wing of the SPLM in both states. The SPLM is the ruling party in South Sudan. It denies any support for the rebels north of the border.

For its part, South Sudan has repeatedly accused Sudan of supporting rebels operating in the area south of the border. Sudan denies the charges.

Diplomats had hoped bilateral tensions would ease after southern President Salva Kiir visited Khartoum in October, his first trip to the north since independence.

Kiir and his northern counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir pledged during the visit to find solutions for all disputes and set up several committees to make progress, but little has happened since then.

(Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Peter Graff)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/un/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111105/wl_nm/us_sudan_south

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Wall St falls on euro zone rescue fund concerns (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks retreated on Friday after two days of gains as wealthier nations appeared to pull back from a European Union plan to broaden funding for a plan to deal with the region's sovereign debt crisis.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said hardly any countries in the Group of 20 industrialized nations are willing to participate in the euro zone bailout fund, throwing cold water on plans to stabilize Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

Labor Department data showed U.S. hiring slowed in October but the unemployment rate hit a six-month low and job gains in the prior two months were stronger than previously thought, pointing to some improvement in the still-weak labor market.

"Point one right now is clearly the Greek situation because that thing has got to be resolved very soon or else there will be issues that we are not going to care to address," said Cummins Catherwood, managing director at Boenning and Scattergood in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

"We are all absolutely transfixed by this and it has overcome the jobs report today, which was mildly encouraging but again nothing to write home about."

The PHLX Europe sector index, which includes major European shares, dropped 2.9 percent.

Financial shares also slumped, with the KBW capital markets index down 2 percent.

Shares of Jefferies Group Inc lost 4.9 percent after brokerage Keefe, Bruyette & Woods cut Jefferies target price but said the investment bank is being "unjustly punished" over perceived exposure to the European debt crisis.

The focus on developments from Europe has kept stock trading volatile, with the S&P 500 index swinging more than 1.5 percent every day this week. The index is on track to post its first negative week in five after closing on Monday with its best month in 20 years.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 141.56 points, or 1.18 percent, to 11,902.91. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 14.57 points, or 1.16 percent, to 1,246.58. The Nasdaq Composite Index declined 21.18 points, or 0.79 percent, to 2,676.79.

In a move to make its deficit targets credible, Italy agreed to have the International Monetary Fund monitor the country's progress with long delayed reforms of pensions, labor markets and privatization. Italy's debt burden could be the market's next target after a resolution of Greece's finances.

Shares of daily deals site Groupon Inc rose more than 50 percent in their stock market debut, but at least some of the early trading exuberance may have come from limiting the fraction of the company that was sold.

(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111104/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks

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Mentoring Works Best When Adults, Kids Share Common Interests (HealthDay)

FRIDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Although mentoring programs intended to help children socially, emotionally or academically do offer a number of benefits, these advantages are generally limited and may not be enough for kids facing serious problems, a new report says.

The authors of the report, published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest reviewed more than 70 existing evaluations of mentoring programs.

While overall, mentoring programs have been shown to be beneficial, particularly in helping children improve test scores, there is little research proving that mentoring helps with overall educational attainment, decreases juvenile offenses substance use or helps prevent obesity, among the main issues facing U.S. children today.

And though mentoring helps with kids experiencing some difficulties, most of these programs are not suitable for kids with really serious problems, the report said.

Mentoring programs that matched kids and adults based on common interests so they can find mutually enjoyable activities to do together seem to work best, according to the report.

Mentors have to watch out not to become "over-involved" in a child's life and to avoid giving so much guidance that they come off sounding bossy, study author David DuBois, a professor of community health sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said in a journal news release.

"Mentoring programs represent a particularly exciting direction for maintaining strong investments in the future of our nation's youth despite the economic challenges that are currently facing the country," Dubois said.

More information

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management provides more information on mentoring.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20111104/hl_hsn/mentoringworksbestwhenadultskidssharecommoninterests

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APNewsBreak: UN has new Iranian nuke arms claims (AP)

VIENNA ? The U.N. atomic agency plans to reveal intelligence next week suggesting Iran made computer models of a nuclear warhead and other previously undisclosed details on alleged secret work by Tehran on nuclear arms, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.

Other new confidential information the International Atomic Energy Agency plans to share with its 35 board members will include satellite imagery of what the IAEA believes is a large steel container used for nuclear arms-related high explosives tests, the diplomats said.

The agency has previously listed activities it says indicate possible secret nuclear weapons work by Iran, which has been under IAEA perusal for nearly a decade over suspicions that it might be interested in develop such arms.

But the newest compilation of suspected weapons-related work is significant in substance and scope. The diplomats say they will reveal suspicions that have not been previously made public and greatly expand on alleged weapons-related experiments that have been published in previous reports on Iran's nuclear activities.

It also comes as the drumbeat of reports about possible military action against Iran's nuclear facilities intensifies.

Israeli President Shimon Peres said Friday that international community is closer to pursuing a military solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program than a diplomatic one. The comments, from a known dove, assumed added significance because they followed unsubstantiated reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking his government's support for a strike against Tehran.

British media have separately cited unnamed British officials as saying London was prepared to offer military support to any U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

In Vienna, the diplomats ? from IAEA member nations ? asked for anonymity because their information was privileged. One of them said the material drawn up by IAEA chief Yukiya Amano will be in an annex running around 12 pages and attached to the latest of a regular series of agency reports on Iran's nuclear enrichment program and other activities that could be used to arm nuclear missiles.

Previously undisclosed information contained in the annex, said the diplomats, will include:

? Intelligence from unnamed member states that a bus-sized steel container, located at the Iranian military base of Parchin is likely being used for nuclear-related high explosives testing of the kind needed to release an atomic blast. The agency has satellite imagery of the container.

? Expanded evidence that Iranian engineers worked on computer models of nuclear payloads for missiles.

Significantly, said the diplomats, these alleged experiments took place after 2003 ? the year that Iran was believed to have stopped secret work on nuclear weapons, according to a 2007 U.S. intelligence assessment. But diplomats have told the AP that Tehran continued arms-related experiments in a less concentrated way after that date, a view reflected by recent IAEA reports that have detailed suspicions that such work may be continuing up to the present.

The annex will also say that more than 10 nations have supplied intelligence suggesting Iran is secretly developing components of a nuclear arms program ? among them an implosion-type warhead that it wants to mount on a ballistic missile.

It says that two foreign "sources" ? apparently countries or nongovernment groups within countries ? have helped Iran develop a weapons design, without naming them. And it details how Iran bought "dual use" ? peaceful or military ? nuclear technology from the black market network of renegade Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, as well as alleged preparations for a nuclear weapons test.

The upcoming report is meant to ratchet up pressure on the Islamic republic to stop four years of stonewalling of IAEA experts seeking to follow up intelligence of such secret weapons-related experiments.

Iran denies such activities, asserting that they are based on intelligence fabricated by Washington. It also denies that its uranium enrichment program ? under U.N. Security Council sanctions because it could manufacture fissile warhead material ? is meant for anything else but making nuclear fuel.

In his previous report in September, Amano said he was "increasingly concerned" about a stream of intelligence suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program.

He said "many member states" are providing evidence for that assessment, describing the information the agency is receiving as credible, "extensive and comprehensive."

That report warned of the "possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear related activities" linked to weapons work. In particular, said the report, the agency continues to receive new information about "activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile."

Acquired from "many" member states, the information possessed by the IAEA is "extensive and comprehensive ... (and) broadly consistent and credible," said the report.

The U.S. and its Western allies on the Security Council hope the upcoming report will be strong enough to persuade the IAEA board at its mid-November meeting to report it anew to the council. It was the board that first referred Iran to the Security Council in 2006 ? a move that led to a series of sanctions punishing Tehran for its nuclear defiance.

If that fails, they would like a board resolution setting a deadline of only a few months for Iran to start cooperating with the agency's probe ? or face the prospect of renewed Security Council referral at the next board meeting in March.

One of the diplomats said that Iran was given a copy of the annex earlier this week, giving a chance for comment that would be included when the report is shared with board members. Iran initially refused to accept a copy of the report, he said, reflecting its rejection of the allegations.

A call requesting comment left on the cell phone of Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, was not immediately returned.

___

George Jahn can be reached at http://twitter.com/GeorgeJahn

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111104/ap_on_re_eu/iran_nuclear

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Autocowrecks: Mile-High Insurance Doesn't Exist Either - Epic Fail ...

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How To Find The Cheapest Car Insurance Companies

In September, one of the UK?s largest car insurers announced that they expect car insurance premiums to rise 10-20% in the next twelve months. There are many reasons for the rise ? The Motley Fool blames the floods, for instance, while Admiral Insurance says that the rise is due to the fact that premiums have been kept artificially low for the past several years. The news has many UK drivers seeking cheaper car insurance premiums than they are currently paying.

You?d think that finding the cheapest car insurance company would be a simple matter, but there?s more to it than just checking the prices at all the companies and telling you ?X Insurance Company will insure your car for less?. The fact is that auto insurers include far too many variables when devising their quotes for any responsible advisor to tell you point blank that any one company is the ?cheapest? insurance company in the UK. We can, however, tell you how to find the best car insurance option for your particular situation. Here are some tips to help you find the most economical auto cover.

- Search online for the best and cheapest cover.

Online insurance search sites allow you to solicit quotes from many different insurers using the same information. Checking price comparison sites will give you a baseline for comparison, but it?s important to look beyond the comparison sites. Be aware that many insurers are not represented on most comparison sites, so you may be missing out on cheaper rates if you only look online.

- Look to non-traditional and newer insurers for the best prices.

In a recent experiment, one of the bigger comparison sites searched 33 insurers using a variety of risk profiles. The results? Newer insurers and companies not best known for offering car insurance consistently came out among the cheapest premiums, with Marks & Spencer coming out at the top of the list of cheapest insurers consistently. However, they cautioned, with all the variables that are used by car insurance companies, your results may be different.

- Be sure to take your safety discount and any loyalty discounts you have with your current insurer into account when comparing premium quotes.Many insurers offer perks for staying with them, especially if you?re considering switching companies. Be sure to count decreases in excess and safe driver discounts when you?re considering the costs of changing car insurance companies.

- Don?t be afraid to bargain. When you submit your information to several auto insurance companies for a quote, you?ll be armed with the ammunition you need to get the best deal possible. If you?re satisfied with your current insurer, but have got a lower quote elsewhere, you might find they?re happy to offer you a lower rate to keep your business. Ring them up and let them know that you love their service, but you?ve been quoted a lower premium by another company and ask if they can match it. Be specific. You might be surprised to find how much they value your business. And if they don?t ? you?ve got that lower quote, don?t you?

If you need extra facts in relation to cheapest car insurance, drop by Seri Wertuopz?s Site unhesitatingly.

Source: http://newarticle.eu/new/how-to-find-the-cheapest-car-insurance-companies-2.html

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Senate to block competing infrastructure plans (AP)

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama's campaign-style drive for another batch of economic stimulus spending is facing defeat yet again at the hands of Republicans in the Senate.

This time it's Obama's $60 billion plan for infrastructure jobs that is expected to fall victim to a GOP filibuster Thursday. In votes last month, Republicans blocked Obama's entire $447 billion jobs package and a subsequent attempt to pass a $35 billion piece of it aimed at preventing layoffs of teachers and firefighters.

In turn, the president's Democratic allies are likely to kill a competing GOP plan that would extend existing highway and transit spending programs, accompanied by a $40 billion cut in unspent funding for other domestic programs.

Despite repeated losses, Democrats seem to think they've found a winning issue in pressing popular ideas from Obama's poll-tested jobs package. Republicans say the president is more interested in picking political fights with them than seeking compromise, but they also are sensitive to criticism that they're blocking jobs legislation.

Obama made the case for the infrastructure measure Wednesday, standing at a Potomac River bridge, in a speech aimed at pressuring Republicans to back him.

"Members of Congress who do, who vote no, are going to have to explain why to their constituencies," Obama said. "The American people are with me with this. And it's time for folks running around spending all their time talking about what's wrong with America to spend some time rolling up their sleeves to help us make it right."

He also tried to shame the Republican-controlled House by accusing its leaders of wasting time during a jobs crisis with debates over commemorative baseball coins and reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the country's motto. The House has refused to consider Obama's jobs bill.

"That's not putting people back to work," Obama said. "I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work. There's work to be done. There are workers ready to do it. The American people are behind this."

But Republicans are expected to unanimously oppose Obama because his legislation is financed by a tax surcharge on income exceeding $1 million.

The legislation would provide an immediate $50 billion investment in roads, bridges, airports and transit systems. It also would establish a $10 billion bank to leverage private and public capital for longer-term infrastructure projects.

The measure would be financed by a 0.7 percent surcharge on income over $1 million.

After Obama's full $447 billion jobs bill was filibustered to death last month, the White House immediately announced it would seek votes on component pieces. That's a way to exert political pressure on Republicans sensitive about their own jobs agenda, which so far has centered on relaxing regulations. Those moves are proving equally futile.

"The truth is, Democrats are more interested in building a campaign message than in rebuilding roads and bridges," said Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "And frankly, the American people deserve a lot better than that."

That drew a hot retort from Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

"Their goal is to do everything they can to drag down this economy, to do anything they can to focus attention negatively on the President of the United States in hopes that he can get my job, perhaps, and that President Obama will be defeated," Reid said. "So let's not talk about campaign speeches here on the Senate floor. Let's talk about reality."

Democratic aides say the next jobs measure would be a measure to provide a $4,800 tax credit for hiring an unemployed veteran and increasing the tax credit for hiring a veteran with a service-related disability to up to $9,600.

Obama last week uncorked a "We Can't Wait" initiative that relies on executive authority rather than legislation from a bitterly divided Congress to help homeowners refinance "underwater" homes and give borrowers relief from their student loans.

Meanwhile, House GOP leaders are casting blame on the Senate for failing to act on 16 "forgotten" jobs bills, including a measure to repeal a law requiring federal, state and many local governments to withhold 3 percent of their payments to contractors until their taxes are paid.

On Thursday, the House is poised to approve bipartisan legislation to remove a Securities and Exchange Commission ban that prevents small, privately held companies from using advertisements to solicit investors. The SEC ban, says bill sponsor Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., unfairly limits the ability of small companies to raise capital.

"While the president is out doing campaign events all over the country, what he could do is to actually come to Washington and be focused on trying to help pass bills that would create a better environment for job creation and help put the American people back to work," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obama/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111103/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_jobs

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