<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcco.com/wireapnational/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV</title><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational</link><description><![CDATA[Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:46:13 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Survivors Recount China Mine Disaster; 104 Dead]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/China.mine.disaster.2.1328080.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/China.mine.disaster.2.1328080.html</link><description><![CDATA[When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two co-workers and they ran for their lives. Minutes later, there was a huge bang, a torrent of hot air and the earth shuddered. The death toll two days later was up to 104, with four still missing, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. The accident Saturday was the deadliest in China's mining industry for two years, and has highlighted how heavy demand for power-generating coal comes at a high human cost. "Development is important, but the growth of GDP shouldn't be achieved at the price of miners' blood," said provincial governor Li Zhanshu over the weekend, urging officials to better manage coal mines.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:34:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search On For Indonesian Ferry Accident Survivors]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Rescuers.search.stormy.2.1328131.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Rescuers.search.stormy.2.1328131.html</link><description><![CDATA[Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for 21 passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm. Officials say 254 survivors were pulled from the sea and at least 29 other people drowned. The Dumai Express 10 was hit by towering waves Sunday and sank about 90 minutes into an inter-island trip from Batam to Dumai in Riau, a province off Sumatra island in western Indonesia. A second ferry ran aground nearby, but all its passengers were said to be safe. Fishing boats, police patrols and navy warships set out in lashing rain at first light Monday in search of 21 people reported missing, said Lt. Col. Edwin, a navy officer heading the mission. Like many Indonesians, he uses one name.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:20:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asia Stocks Mixed As Figures On US Economy Awaited]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Asian.stock.markets.2.1328172.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Asian.stock.markets.2.1328172.html</link><description><![CDATA[Asian stock markets were mixed Monday after a decline on Wall Street and as investors hunkered down ahead of a stream of figures that could confirm the U.S. economy is recovering at a slower pace. Trading was subdued with financial markets in Japan closed for a national holiday. Oil hovered above $78 a barrel while the dollar rose against the yen and fell versus the euro. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 140.15 points, or 0.6 percent, at 22,588.44 while South Korea's Kospi was off 2.72, or 0.2 percent, at 1,617.88.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:15:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[General: Canada Halted Prison Moves More Than Once]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Canadian.general.says.2.1328118.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Canadian.general.says.2.1328118.html</link><description><![CDATA[Canada's top general said Sunday the transfer of prisoners to Afghan authorities has been halted more than once due to concerns detainees would be tortured. Gen. Walt Natynczyk, the country's chief of defense staff, declined to elaborate Sunday because he didn't want to pre-empt statements by other military officials in upcoming hearings on the matter in Parliament. A senior Canadian diplomat alleged last week that government officials ignored evidence that prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a few years ago were tortured.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:59:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BC-WEA--Global Weather-Fahrenheit, WEA]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/East.Asia.Southeast.2.1327308.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/East.Asia.Southeast.2.1327308.html</link><description><![CDATA[Minimum and maximum temperatures in Fahrenheit, precipitation in inches and weather conditions as recorded for the previous day and forecast for the current and following day in each city as of 0200 GMT: ;MIN;MAX;COND;PRECIP;MIN;MAX;COND;MIN;MAX;COND Amsterdam;46;60;rn;0.00;48;50;clr;46;55;rn]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:52:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bermuda Dismisses Ammunition Case Against US Woman]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Bermuda.court.strikes.2.1327957.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Bermuda.court.strikes.2.1327957.html</link><description><![CDATA[Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory. The Supreme Court ruled there was no evidence that Lori DuBell intended to bring the gun magazine into Bermuda. The court issued an absolute discharge Friday meaning she will have no criminal record in the territory. The real estate broker from Naples, Florida, pleaded guilty in September to illegally importing the magazine and served nine days in jail.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:20:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algeria Court Acquits 2 Former Guantanamo Inmates]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Lawyer.Court.acquits.2.1327466.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Lawyer.Court.acquits.2.1327466.html</link><description><![CDATA[An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two former detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face charges of links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said. Abdelli Faghoul and Terari Mohamed had admitted in court to links with the illegal drug underworld, but denied any connection to foreign terrorist groups, defense lawyer Farid Abbache told The Associated Press. The two men were released from Guantanamo and handed over to Algerian authorities on Aug. 15, 2008 — nearly seven years after they were taken into custody and held without trial, the lawyer said.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:10:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist: Leak Of Climate E-mails Appalling]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Key.scientist.says.2.1327556.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Key.scientist.says.2.1327556.html</link><description><![CDATA[A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online says the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark. Kevin Trenberth, of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado, said Sunday that he believes the hackers who stole a decade's worth of correspondence from a British university's computer server deliberately distributed only those documents that could help attempts by skeptics to undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change. Trenberth, a well respected atmospheric scientist, said it did not appear that all the documents stolen from the university had been distributed on the Internet by the hackers.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:40:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: Leaked UK Documents Detail Iraq War Chaos]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/British.newspaper.says.2.1327257.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/British.newspaper.says.2.1327257.html</link><description><![CDATA[Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper says. Britain's Sunday Telegraph published details of private statements made by senior British military figures claiming plans were in place months before the March 2003 invasion, but were so badly drafted they left troops poorly equipped and ill-prepared for the conflict. The documents — transcripts of interviews from an internal defense ministry review of the conflict — disclose that some planning for the Iraq war had begun in February 2002. Maj. Gen. Graeme Lamb, then head of Britain's special forces, was quoted as saying he had been "working the war up since early 2002," according to the newspaper.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:28:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exit Polls: No Clear Winner In Romania's Election]]></title><guid>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Exit.polls.Runoff.2.1325991.html</guid><link>http://wcco.com/wireapnational/Exit.polls.Runoff.2.1325991.html</link><description><![CDATA[A presidential election aimed at helping Romania emerge from a political and economic crisis failed to produce a winner, and the top two candidates will compete in a runoff next month, according to two exit polls. If the exit polls are confirmed by official results on Monday, centrist President Traian Basescu, 58, will face socialist former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, 51, in the runoff on Dec. 6. One exit poll said Basescu won 34.1 percent of the votes, compared to 30.9 percent for Geoana, on Sunday. The other said Basescu won 32.8 percent, compared to 31.7 percent for Geoana. Conservative opposition leader Crin Antonescu polled about 21 percent, finishing third in an election featuring a dozen candidates]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:25:34 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>