Snowden mystery deepens: All eyes on airport

Transit passengers eat at a cafe with a TV screen with a news program showing a report on Edward Snowden, in the background, at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Transit passengers eat at a cafe with a TV screen with a news program showing a report on Edward Snowden, in the background, at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Transit passengers check into a hotel at the transit zone in Sheremetyevo,airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

An airport worker passes a TV screen with a news program showing a report on Edward Snowden at Sheremetyevo,airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

A transit passenger takes a photo with a mobile phone in the transit zone at Sheremetyevo,airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Transit passengers rest in the transit zone at Sheremetyevo,airport in Moscow Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Russia?s President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has remained in Sheremetyevo?s transit zone, but media that descended on the airport in the search for him couldn?t locate him there.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

MOSCOW (AP) ? Moscow's main airport swarmed with journalists from around the globe Wednesday, but the man they were looking for ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden ? was nowhere to be seen. The mystery of his whereabouts only deepened a day after President Vladimir Putin said that Snowden was in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport.

An Associated Press reporter entered the area Wednesday by flying from Kiev, Ukraine, and found ordinary scenes of duty free shopping, snoozing travelers and tourists sipping coffee, but no trace of America's most famous fugitive. If Putin's statement is true, it means that Snowden has effectively lived a life of airport limbo since his weekend flight from Hong Kong, especially with his American passport now revoked by U.S. authorities.

In a further twist, Ecuador's foreign minister said Wednesday it could take months to decide whether to grant asylum to Snowden and the Latin American nation would take into consideration its relations with the U.S. when doing so. Speaking during a visit to Malaysia's main city, Kuala Lumpur, Ricardo Patino compared Snowden's case to that of Julian Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, who has been given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

"It took us two months to make a decision in the case of Assange, so do not expect us to make a decision sooner this time," Patino told reporters.

Snowden, who is charged with violating American espionage laws, fled Hong Kong over the weekend and flew to Russia. He booked a seat on a Havana-bound flight Monday en route to Venezuela, but didn't board the plane. His ultimate destination was believed to be Ecuador.

The airport zone where Snowden is purportedly staying serves both connecting passengers traveling via Moscow to onward destinations and passengers departing from Moscow who have passed border and security checks.

The huge area unites three terminals: the modern, recently built D and E, and the older, less comfortable F, which dates to the Soviet era. The transit and departure area is essentially a long corridor, with boarding gates on one side and gleaming duty free shops, luxury clothing boutiques and souvenir stores selling Russian Matryoshka dolls on the other. About a dozen restaurants owned by local and foreign chains serve various tastes.

Hundreds of Russian and foreign tourists awaited flights here, some stretched out on rows of gray chairs, others sipping hot drinks at coffee shops or looking out through giant windows as silver-blue Aeroflot planes land and take off.

Business ran as usual at the terminals on Wednesday morning. An Asian girl, about 10 years old, slept peacefully on her father's lap. A middle-aged mother and her teenage daughter tried out perfume samples at a duty free store, while nearby a woman in a green dress picked out a pair of designer sunglasses. A pilot was buying lunch at Burger King.

Putin insisted Tuesday that Snowden has stayed in the transit zone without passing through Russian immigration and is free to travel wherever he likes. But the U.S. move to annul Snowden's passport may have severely complicated his travel plans. Exiting the transit area would either require boarding a plane or passing through border control. Both require a valid passport or other documentation.

Hordes of journalists armed with laptops and photo and video cameras have camped in and around the airport, looking for Snowden or anyone who may have seen or talked to him. But after talking to passengers, airport personnel, waiters and shop clerks, the press corps has discovered no sign of the leaker.

Russian news agencies, citing unidentified sources, reported that Snowden was staying at a hotel in the transit terminal, but he was not seen at the zone's only hotel, called Air Express. It offers several dozen capsule-style spaces that passengers can rent for a few hours to catch some sleep. Hotel staff refused to say whether Snowden was staying there or had stayed there in the past.

"We only saw lots of journalists, that's for sure," said Maxim, a waiter at the Shokoladnitsa diner not far from Air Express. He declined to give his last name because he wasn't allowed to talk to reporters.

The departure and transit area is huge and has dozens of small rooms, some labeled "authorized personnel only," where someone could potentially seek refuge with support from airport staff or security personnel. And security forces or police patrolling the area can easily whisk a person out of this area through back doors or corridors.

There are also a few VIP lounge areas, accessible to business-class passengers or people willing to pay some $20 per hour. Snowden was not seen in those areas.

Sheremetyevo's press service declined to comment on Snowden's whereabouts. A policeman at the airport laughed off a question from an AP reporter about where he might be. "Journalists have searched this place for three days and have found nothing. Was he ever here in the first place?" the policeman asked. He spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Meanwhile, WikiLeaks gave a terse update on Snowden earlier on Wednesday, saying in a statement posted to Twitter that he was "well."

WikiLeaks says that one of its staffers, Sarah Harrison, was traveling with Snowden, but the statement gave no indication if the update came from her, from Snowden, or from some other source.

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson did not immediately return a call and a text seeking further comment.

In a conference call with reporters on Monday, Assange said that he was limited in what he could say about Snowden due to security concerns. He denied reports that Snowden was spending his time at the airport being debriefed by Russian intelligence officers.

In another development, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon said Wednesday that he had decided not to represent the leaker. A statement from his law firm provided no further explanation.

Garzon, who has fought on WikiLeaks' behalf, became famous for indicting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 and trying to put him on trial for crimes against humanity. He was suspended from office in Spain for overstepping his powers by starting an investigation into killings committed on behalf of former Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.

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Yoong reported from Kuala Lumpur. Lynn Berry in Moscow and Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Spanish quake linked to groundwater pumping

Farmers and other residents pumping groundwater from Earth?s crust probably triggered an earthquake that killed nine people last year in southeastern Spain, scientists have found.

Sucking up water for decades would have unloaded stresses within the ground and hastened a quake that was likely to happen anyway, says Pablo Gonz?lez, a geologist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.?

?Even without the groundwater extraction, the earthquake was overdue,? he says. But human activities provided ?a kind of triggering or controlling.?

Gonz?lez and his colleagues report the discovery online October 21 in Nature Geoscience.

Scientists know that people can change the rate of earthquakes by piling up water within the crust, such as behind a dam. Some researchers argue ? though it is not entirely accepted ? that filling a nearby reservoir may have set off the magnitude 7.9 quake that killed some 80,000 people in Sichuan, China, in 2008. Injecting water into the crust, such as during hydraulic fracturing or other drilling, can also trigger quakes; geothermal drilling operations in Basel, Switzerland, set off a small earthquake there in 2006.

Overall, these triggered tremors are usually quite small, on the order of magnitude 3. The quake that struck Lorca, Spain, on May 11, 2011, was magnitude 5.1. But that isn?t uncommon for that region of Spain, the most seismically active part of the country, Gonz?lez says.

Lorca is also a place where lots of water gets pumped from underground for farming and drinking. As a result, the land surface is subsiding at about 10 centimeters each year, the highest rate known in Europe.

When the quake hit, Gonz?lez and his colleagues decided to see whether there was any connection. They used satellite radar data to determine how the ground shifted before and after the quake, and then developed a mechanical model to explain what kind of ground stresses would cause that movement.

The quake struck at surprisingly shallow depths, just 2 to 4 kilometers down, the scientists found. The ground?s movement almost precisely matched the areas where stress had changed the most within Earth?s crust because of groundwater pumping, the team calculated. Both findings suggest that draining the aquifers pushed the crust over some threshold and accelerated the quake, Gonz?lez says.

Stress changes caused by groundwater extraction are tiny compared with the usual stress brought about by tectonic forces. That?s why it would have been hard to predict the Lorca quake based just on groundwater use, Gonz?lez says. And the findings probably don?t apply to other quake-prone areas where groundwater is also being pumped. ?If the fault is not located right on the border of the aquifers where you have the changes in water level, it would probably not have much effect,? he says.

The new study is the first to show how changing stresses within the crust by removing water ? as opposed to adding it, through drilling or dams ? can trigger earthquakes. That finding underscores how little scientists still know about the consequences of messing with the crust, writes Caltech geologist Jean-Philippe Avouac in a commentary accompanying the study.

?We know how to start earthquakes,? Avouac writes, ? but we are still far from being able to keep them under control.?

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345937/title/Spanish_quake_linked_to_groundwater_pumping

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Clashes break out in Beirut after slain official's funeral

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen exchanged fire in southern districts of Beirut overnight after the state funeral of an assassinated Lebanese intelligence chief ended in violence when angry mourners broke away and tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

Sunday's clashes fed into a growing political crisis in Lebanon linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Opposition leaders and their supporters accuse Syria of being behind the car bombing that killed Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan on Friday. They say Mikati is too close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese ally Hezbollah, which is part of Mikati's government.

Thousands turned out in downtown Beirut's Martyrs' Square for Hassan's funeral, which also served as a political rally. The violence erupted after an opposition leader demanded that Mikati step down to pave the way for talks on the crisis.

A group marched to the prime minister's office, then overturned barriers, pulled apart barbed wire coils and threw steel rods, stones and bottle at soldiers and police.

Security forces responded by shooting into air and firing teargas, forcing the protesters to scatter.

On Sunday night, gunmen armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades exchanged fire in southern districts of Beirut, security sources said, and residents could hear the sound of ambulance sirens.

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the clashes in the capital, but in the northern city of Tripoli a 9-year-old girl was killed by a sniper and several people were wounded in clashes.

Gunmen have been patrolling the streets in Tripoli, scene of previous clashes between Sunnis and Alawites sympathetic to different sides in the Syria war.

Opposition leader Saad al-Hariri urged supporters to refrain from any more violence.

"We want peace, the government should fall but we want that in a peaceful way. I call on all those who are in the streets to pull back," Hariri said on the Future Television channel.

SECTARIAN TENSIONS

Sunday's events highlighted how the 19-month-old uprising against Assad has sharpened deep-seated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, which is still scarred from its 1975-90 civil war.

Sunni-led rebels are fighting to overthrow Assad, who is from the Alawite minority, which has its roots in Shi'ite Islam. Lebanon's religious communities are divided between those that support Assad and those that back the rebels.

Hassan, 47, was a senior intelligence official who had helped uncover a bomb plot that led to the arrest and indictment in August of a pro-Assad former Lebanese minister.

A Sunni Muslim, he also led an investigation that implicated Syria and the Shi'ite Hezbollah in the 2005 assassination of Rafik al-Hariri, a former prime minister of Lebanon.

Damascus and Hezbollah have condemned Hassan's killing.

But mourners at Martyrs' Square accused Syria of involvement and called for Mikati to quit. One banner read "Go, go Najib" echoing the slogans of the Arab Spring.

The violence broke out after Fouad al-Siniora, a former prime minister, said the opposition rejected any dialogue to overcome the political crisis caused by Hassan's killing unless the government first resigned.

"No talks before the government leaves, no dialogue over the blood of our martyrs," Siniora said to roars of approval from the crowd.

Mikati said on Saturday he had offered to resign to make way for a government of national unity, but that he had accepted a request by President Michel Suleiman to stay in office to allow time for talks on a way out of the political crisis.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans, Leila Bassam and Samia Nakhoul,; Editing by Giles Elgood and Mohammad Zargham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-break-beirut-slain-officials-funeral-005344533.html

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Happy Hour in Palm Beach - South Florida Food and Wine

Wherever you land in Palm Beach there?s always a drink special being offered. Happy Hours are a hot commodity for restaurants and hotels?in South Florida. More often than not there are some great?steals and deals to be had during the witching hours of 4-7pm.?Drink specials?and?discounted bar menus are alive and well running up and down the coastline from Jupiter to Lantana.

Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all prices and details directly with the venue before visiting this establishment. If we?ve missed a?happy hour?send us an email and we?ll check it out.

Anger Management Cocktail at The Rebel House Boca Raton

Palm Sugar Asian Grill & Dessert Bar Daily Happy Hour 3-7pm discounted beer, wine, cocktails and sake. 340 Clematis St. West Palm Beach, FL 33401

South Shores Tavern?2:1 daily Happy Hour from 4p-7p (excludes?shots, shooters , buckets and pitchers) 502 Lucerne Ave.,?Lake Worth

Ta-bo? Happy Hour Daily 4:00pm ? 7:00pm discounted drinks and appetizers?221 Worth Avenue, Palm Beach

Verdea Restaurant & Wine Bar Daily?$5 happy hour?for both food and drink?from 5-7 pm 4350 PGA Blvd, Palm Beach Gardens 561-691-3130

Cafe Boulud ?Happy Hour?daily from 4-7:30pm, half-priced?specialty cocktails, wines by the glass, beers and select premium liquors bar snacks are $8.

B?ccan Tuesday all-day Happy Hour, cocktails, beer and wine are half price. 350 South County Road, Palm Beach

Echo half price sushi and cocktails from 5:30-7 p.m., Monday- Friday. 230 Sunrise Avenue, Palm Beach

McCormick & Schmick?s at City Place? Monday-Friday Happy Hour discounted drinks and a??bar? menu from 3-6pm. 651 Okeechobee Blvd West Palm Beach

City Cellar Wine Bar & Grill Daily Happy Hour 2:1 drinks 4-7 p.m 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach

World of Beer Happy Hour weekdays 3-7pm 101 N. Clematis Street West Palm Beach

Respectable Street has something going on everynight all night so just stop by and check it out. 518 Clematis Street West Palm Beach

Gratify American Gastro Pub Happy Hour from 4-8pm half priced drinks 125 Datura St West Palm Beach

The Blind Monk ladies night Wednesdays 9pm-midnight 410 Evernia Street #107, West Palm Beach

Taverna Opa in City Place Happy Hour Monday & Tuesday 3-close; Wednesday-Sunday 3-8pm; discounted drinks and appetizers. 651 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach

Oakwood Grill Happy Hour?half priced drinks and appetizers?4610 PGA Blvd Palm Beach Gardens

III Forks Palm Beach Gardens daily Happy Hour 4-7 discounted select drinks. 4645 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens

Spoto?s Oyster Bar Happy Hour daily from 4 ? 6pm discounted drinks and appetizers 4560 PGA Blvd Palm Beach Gardens

The Breakers, The Tapastry Bar nightly from 5:00 p.m. ? 7:00 p.m.? 50% off all well drinks, house wine and beer. The Breakers One South County Road Palm Beach

The Breakers, The Seafood Bar Late night from 11:30 pm ? 12:30 am?discounted drinks and appetizers.?The Breakers One South County Road Palm Beach

updated: 7/6/12, 7/18/12, 8/28/12, 10/22/12

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Olympic star Missy Franklin commits to Cal

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) ? Olympic star Missy Franklin has verbally committed to attend the University of California, ending the pursuit of one of the most sought after swimming recruits.

"Committed to swim at Cal Berkeley! I am officially a baby Golden Bear?????? I am so honored to be a part of such a special team! (hash)GoBears," Franklin tweeted Saturday.

Franklin will be reunited with Cal coach Teri McKeever, who directed the U.S. women's team at the London Olympics, where Franklin won five medals. The 17-year-old won the 100- and 200-meter backstroke events, earned gold medals in the 400 medley and 800 freestyle relays, and a bronze in the 400 freestyle relay.

Franklin will join Olympic teammate Rachel Bootsma on the Bears. Natalie Coughlin and Dana Vollmer, two of her other Olympic teammates, starred at Cal.

Franklin, a senior at Regis Jesuit High in Aurora, Colo., had made earlier recruiting visits to Georgia and Texas. As a result of her decision, Franklin won't make a scheduled visit to Southern California.

Cal can't comment on the commitment until Franklin signs a letter of intent.

Franklin only plans to swim collegiately for her first two years, and then will turn pro in 2015, ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics, according to Swimming World.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympic-star-missy-franklin-commits-cal-001621285--oly.html

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