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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's forces pounded Sunni Muslim rebels in the city of Homs with artillery and from the air on Sunday, the second day of an offensive to expand loyalist control over Syria's strategic centre, activists said.
They said rebels defending the old centre of Homs and five adjacent Sunni districts had largely repelled a ground attack on Saturday by Assad's forces but reported fresh clashes and deaths within the city on Sunday.
The offensive follows steady military gains by Assad's forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, in villages in Homs province and towns close to the Lebanese border.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Assad must halt his "brutal assault" on Homs. Gulf countries, which back the rebels, urged Lebanon to stop "parties" interfering in the Syria conflict, a reference to Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
Opposition sources and diplomats said the loyalist advance had tightened the siege of Homs and secured a main road link to Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon and to army bases in Alawite-held territory near the Syrian coast, the main entry point for Russian arms that have given Assad a key advantage in firepower.
At least 100,000 people have been killed since the Syrian revolt against four decades of rule by Assad and his late father erupted in March 2011, making the uprising the bloodiest of the Arab Spring popular revolutions against entrenched autocrats.
The Syrian conflict is increasingly pitting Assad's Alawite minority, backed by Shi'ite Iran and its Hezbollah ally, against mainly Sunni rebel brigades supported by the Gulf states, Egypt, Turkey and others.
Sunni Jihadists, including al Qaeda fighters from Iraq, have also entered the fray.
ALARM
The loyalist advances have alarmed international supporters of the rebels, leading the United States to announce it will step up military support. Saudi Arabia has accelerated deliveries of sophisticated weaponry, Gulf sources say.
The Sham News Network opposition monitoring group said fighters belonging to the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front had killed five loyalist troops in fighting in the Bab Hud district of Old Homs on Sunday.
Activists said one woman and a child had been killed in an airstrike on the old city, home to hundreds of civilians.
Video footage taken by the activists, which could not be immediately verified, showed the two bodies being carried in blankets as well as a man holding a wounded child with a huge gash in his head.
Rebel fighters also fought loyalist forces backed by tanks in the old covered market, which links the old city with Khalidiya, a district inhabited by members of tribes who have been at the forefront of the armed insurgency.
"After failing to make any significant advances yesterday, the regime is trying to sever the link between Khalidiya and the old city," Abu Bilal, one of the activists, said from Homs.
"We are seeing a sectarian attack on Homs par excellence, The army has taken a back role. Most of the attacking forces are comprised of Alawite militia being directed by Hezbollah."
The Alawites are an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that have controlled Syria since the 1960s, when members of the sect took over the army and the security apparatus which underpin the power structure in the mainly Sunni country.
URBAN WARFARE
Located at a major highway intersection 140 kms (88 miles) north of Damascus, Homs is a majority Sunni city. But a large number of Alawites have moved into mostly new and segregated districts in recent decades, drawn by army and security jobs.
Lebanese security forces said Hezbollah appeared to be present in the rural areas surrounding Homs but there was no indication that it was fighting in the labyrinth streets of Homs, where it could take heavy casualties.
Anwar Abu al-Waleed, an activist, said rebel brigades were prepared to fight a long battle, unlike in Qusair and Tel Kalakh, two towns in rural Homs near the border with Lebanon that fell to loyalist forces in recent weeks.
"We are talking about serious urban warfare in Homs. We are not talking about scattered buildings in an isolated town but a large urban area that provides a lot of cover," he said.
Britain's Hague expressed concern over the escalation of fighting in Homs, saying in a statement: "I call upon the Assad regime to cease its brutal assault on Homs and to allow full humanitarian access to the country."
The Syrian conflict has aggravated neighboring Lebanon's own complex sectarian rivalry, triggering fighting between Alawite pro-Assad and Sunni anti-Assad militia in the northern city of Tripoli that has killed dozens.
Gulf foreign ministers meeting in Bahrain urged the Lebanese government to "commit to distancing itself from the Syrian crisis and to prevent any Lebanese parties from interfering in (Syria) in order to enable it to confront the brutal attacks and crimes conducted by the regime and its allies."
(Additional reporting by Angus McDowall and William Maclean in Dubai; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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As we stand on the precipice of the shutdown of Google Reader the search for replacement RSS clients is more frantic than ever, and now Digg has opened access to its app for any users interested. Currently available on the web and as an iOS app (Android coming soon), importing ones Google account is just a few mouse clicks away. The experience as it exists now is pretty barebones, and Digg says it plans to add a "View unread items only" option, "Mark as unread" button and the always crucial "accurate" unread counts for feeds and folders in the near future. Hit the source link below to give it a shot, and then let us know if it's a contender for the throne.
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Bell tried to shake up the Canadian media landscape last year by acquiring Astral Media, but it ran into a CRTC-sized roadblock -- regulators didn't want 25 TV stations moving to one provider. After some big concessions, however, Bell has received approval to buy Astral for $3.2 billion. The revised deal gives Bell control of 12 channels that include The Movie Network, HBO Canada's owner. Bell is offloading some important TV content to move forward, though. Corus gets several recognizable channels that include the Cartoon Network and Teletoon, while big stations like Disney XD and MusiquePlus are on the auction block. Not that Bell will complain too loudly when the buyout closes on July 5th, mind you. The merger still gives it 35.8 percent of the English Canadian TV market and 22.6 percent of its French Canadian equivalent, or enough to immediately eclipse rivals like Rogers and Quebecor.
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The construction firm working on a massive new math and science building at San Joaquin Delta College has filed suit for $25 million, claiming that Delta "substantially increased the scope of work" after construction had already begun.
The building, which was supposed to be finished nearly a year and a half ago, is the single largest project under Delta's voter-approved $250 million Measure L bond.
Delta officials originally expected the structure to cost about $65 million. They were thrilled when Cypress-based Taisei Construction Co. bid just $35 million for the job in 2009, during the worst of the building bust. The cost has since climbed to nearly $40 million after a seemingly endless series of adjustments and changes, based on what Taisei claims were "substantial errors and problems" with the building's original design.
The dispute over the math and science center is the second significant lawsuit Delta has faced in connection to the voter-approved Measure L construction bond.
Late in 2012, the college agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the would-be developers of a Delta satellite campus in Lodi.
Lodi Victor Ventures LLC claimed in its lawsuit that it had already spent more than $1 million planning the project, only to see the college pull the plug. A settlement was reached in December.
"Deficiencies with the plans and specifications were encountered by every trade on the project, at virtually every stage of the project," the company says in its lawsuit, filed earlier this month at San Joaquin County Superior Court.
Those deficiencies raised costs and burdened Taisei's subcontractors, the company claims.
Delta President Kathy Hart, in a prepared statement, said the college intends to deny Taisei's allegations.
"Delta College's focus is on getting the project completed for the benefit of its students," she said. "It is unfortunate that Taisei has filed suit before the project is complete."
Meeting recently in closed session, Delta trustees agreed to hire a San Francisco-based law firm to defend the college.
While Delta won't comment further on pending litigation, trustees have publicly raised concerns in the past about the increasing cost of the project. In October, Trustee Steve Castellanos alleged Taisei "low-balled" its bid, knowing there was no such thing as a perfect set of design drawings. Castellanos said at the time that the contractor was "nickel-and-diming" the college.
Taisei signed its contract with Delta in February 2010. That contract involved not only building the math and science center, but also tearing down the old Cunningham building, a requirement to receive matching funds from the state.
Taisei's complaint says the college withheld "critical information," causing work on the new building to slow or stop entirely. The contractor says that at times it had to remove work that had already been completed.
In one case, the college originally proposed installing an advanced, energy-efficient ventilation system but switched back to a cheaper, conventional system after the state vetoed the idea.
The advanced system was later inserted back into the plans, but only after Taisei filed its bid expecting to construct the building with the cheaper system, the company alleges. Taisei's complaint refers to this as "fraudulent misrepresentation."
The lawsuit seeks $25 million in damages, plus interest, penalties and attorney fees.
Litigation aside, the building is nearing completion on the northeast side of campus. Hart said the hope is to move in for the start of fall semester in August.
Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or abreitler@recordnet.com. Visit his blog at www.recordnet.com/breitlerblog.
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Places that are prone to natural disasters must have a proper warning system in place and their residents should be educated on how to deal with crisis situations, experts said here Wednesday.
Experts, representatives of governments and the civil society from eight South Asian countries, including India, Pakistan and Bhutan, participated in a three-day workshop on ?Regional Priorities for Knowledge Management and Strategy for Action: South Asia on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction? organised by Unesco.
Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the event which ended Wednesday, SAARC Disaster Management Centre director Santosh Kumar said it was of utmost importance that a proper early warning system was in place for areas that were prone to natural calamities and residents were educated and informed about tackling a crisis.
?Early warnings need to be more quantified and people should be educated about the impact of such a damage?local level communities have to be educated and informed,? he said.
Agreed Lam Dorji, executive director of Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN), Bhutan, who said that when it comes to natural disasters, people at the village level have no education on how to tackle the situation.
?Changes have to be made at the ground level,? he said.
Kumar said it was difficult to say whether climate change was behind the cloudburst and incessant rains which subsequently led to flash floods and landslides, killing hundreds in the hill state of Uttarakhand.
?Scientifically, it is difficult to establish the relation between the heavy rains and climate change as more study is required on this subject though according to reports, global warming is threatening to affect the rain patterns in India,? Kumar said.
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It's been a slow week of MMA, but never fear. UFC 162 and a championship fight are oh-so-close. Who had a good week, and who didn't?
Hot -- Miesha Tate: She's filming "The Ultimate Fighter" now as a coach against UFC women's bantamweight championship. She will also pose nude as a part of ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue.
Not -- Brendan Schaub and Matt Mitrione: The one-time teammates started squabbling on Twitter like a bunch of seventh graders. They are fighting on July 27, so the squabbling will likely continue until then.
Hot -- The Jones' jewelry collection: According to UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones' Instagram, the Jones family has much better jewelry than most of us.
Hot -- GLORY: The kickboxing promotion will become more available to the U.S. fans. They will start airing fights on Spike come October.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? News Corp. formally split in two after the market closed on Friday, with existing shareholders getting one share in the new publishing entity for every four shares they hold in the media company.
Since Wednesday last week, preliminary shares of both sides of the company have been trading as if the split already occurred. Any buyers of preliminary shares will receive them next Friday.
Preliminary publishing shares closed Friday at $15.25.
The recent trading valued the publishing division, to be named News Corp., at around $8.8 billion. That's about 12 percent of the entire company's value. It had a market capitalization of about $75.5 billion before the split.
The movie and TV division is being renamed Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. Its preliminary stock closed at $28.99 on Friday.
Shares of both entities will begin trading normally on Monday, with new News Corp. shares trading under the tickers "NWSA" for non-voting Class A shares and "NWS" for voting Class B shares. Twenty-First Century Fox shares will trade under the tickers "FOXA" for non-voting Class A shares and "FOX" for voting Class B shares.
Rupert Murdoch, who will be chairman of both companies and CEO of Twenty-First Century Fox, will retain his grip on both companies by controlling nearly 40 percent of the voting stock in each.
The split completes a process that the company announced a year ago, and responds to investor concerns that the newspaper and book publishing divisions were dragging on the faster growing pay TV business.
By separating, the publishing division can devote resources toward engineering a turnaround, while the Fox side focuses on launching a national sports network to be called Fox Sports 1 that will compete with pay TV leader ESPN.
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Three passengers died when their small plane crashed near Alaska?s Summit Airport on Friday, authorities said.
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The twin-engine Beechcraft Baron aircraft took off from Fairbank on Friday morning. The crash outside Cantwell, Alaska, is believed to have happened just before noon local time.
An official cause for the crash has not been determined, but state transportation officials observed smoke from the Tanana Valley wildfire near the flight route that may have aggravated already poor weather conditions.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration have said they are looking into the cause of the crash.
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A film festival's first day -- particularly when it's your first day at a festival you've never attended before -- is always a discovery process (though, of course, discovery is what going to film festivals is all about).
So it was yesterday, as I arrived in Karlovy Vary in the northwest corner of the Czech Republic for the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The town itself is a famous spa, known for its geothermal hot springs. Like Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, it's a mountain town, except that it's filled with stunning architecture from two and three centuries ago. The tourists literally come for the waters, buying small ceramic mugs that they carry around to fill from the various fountains spouting the town's mineral water. (Most mugs are shaped so that the handle also serves as a straw -- and most spigots are marked with signs to tell you just how hot the water is).
We left New York Thursday afternoon, arriving in Prague mid-morning Friday (after changing planes in Milan, Italy). From there, it was a drive of roughly 90 minutes into the mountains and down into the valley that houses Karlovy Vary.
I limited myself to two films the first day (and skipped the lavish red carpet opening ceremony, at which John Travolta was given a career achievement award), because I wasn't sure I could physically stay awake for more. But, as these things go, KVIFF has the mechanics of dealing with the press down cold (as befits a festival that's been going for almost a half-century).
I went to a public screening of a new documentary, Sophie Huber's Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, a hit-and-miss portrait of the veteran character actor. Now 86, Stanton is articulate, philosophical, gnomic and, it seems, somewhat impermeable. He gives up little of himself, though his friends who appear on camera (David Lynch, Kris Kristoffersen, Sam Shepard) all delight in telling stories of his fun-loving, rascally ways.
But Huber goes awfully light on film clips (always an expensive proposition for a documentary maker), considering that this is a career that stretches back to 1956 and encompasses, by Stanton's count, more than 200 films. Huber spends an inordinate amount of time on Wim Wenders' vastly overrated 1984 film, Paris Texas, one of the few in which Stanton played a lead.
As it happens, that same year, he starred in Alex Cox's hilariously transgressive Repo Man, which warrants only a single clip (in which Stanton utters the dazzling line, "Ordinary fucking people -- I hate 'em"). Too much of Huber's film is devoted to startlingly high-definition black-and-white footage of Stanton singing country-western tunes for Huber's camera and trying to pry information out of the humorously reticent and cryptic Stanton.
The other film I saw was Omar, credited as being from Palestine, by writer-director Hany Abu-Assad. (The press screening I attended initially didn't have English subtitles, a fact that was quickly corrected). Tense, touching and tough, Omar was a fascinating portrait of a resistance fighter who lives on the opposite side of the West Bank wall from the woman he loves. Omar (Adam Bakri) courts Nadia (Leem Lubany) when he can, shinnying up a rope that lets him climb over three-story wall.
Nadia, however, doesn't know that Omar is involved with her brother Tarek and another friend as resistance fighters. And Tarek won't give his permission for Tarek to marry his sister easily. Then they plan an action -- shooting an Israeli soldier from a sniper's hiding spot one dark night -- that ends with Israeli police chasing and capturing Omar the next day.
From there, Abu-Assad (director of the affecting 2005 film, Paradise Now) turns the film into a fascinating cat-and-mouse psychological thriller, Omar is pitted against an Israeli handler, who tries to turn him into a double-agent to give up Tarek. But Omar hopes to turn the Israeli's plan against him, not knowing that there is an informer within the ranks. The twists are sudden and stunning, with an entire film built around the restraint, anger and humanity in Bakri's eyes.
Day Two of the festival is dawning and I have a tentative schedule set that could include six films. Stay tuned.
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