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Seven NATION N.Y. governor trying to foreigners expand abortion rights kidnapped Albany, N.Y.: Bucking a trend in which states have been seeking to restrict abortion, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is putting the finishing touches in Nigeria on legislation that would guarantee women in New York the right to late-term abortions when their health is in danger or the fetus is not viable. GUARD KILLED AT Cuomo’s proposal, which has not been made CONSTRUCTION CAMP public, would clarify that licensed health care practitioners, and not only physicians, can perform By Shehu Saulawa abortions. It also would remove abortion from the and Jon Gambrell state’s penal law and regulate it through the state’s Associated Press public health law. BAUCHI, Nigeria — Gun- men attacked a camp for a Feds might shift drone construction company in ru- ral northern Nigeria, killing a program from CIA to military guard and kidnapping seven Washington: Facing growing pressure to lift foreign workers from Britain, the secrecy around targeted killings overseas, the Greece, Italy, Lebanon and the Obama administration is considering shifting more Philippines, authorities said of the CIA’s covert drone program to the Pentagon, Sunday, in the biggest kidnap- which operates under legal guidelines that could ping yet in a region under at- allow more public disclosure in some cases. tack by Islamic extremists. John Brennan, whom President Barack Obama has nominated to run the CIA, favors moving most The attack Saturday night drone killing operations to the military. As White happened in Jama’are, a town House counterterrorism adviser for the past four in Bauchi state. There, the gun- years, Brennan has overseen the steady increase men first attacked a local pris- in targeted killings of suspected militants and al- on, burning two police trucks, RICCARDO DE LUCA | ASSOCIATED PRESS Qaida operatives. Bauchi state police spokesman A held a sign expressing his sentiments, echoed by many of the thousands who gathered Sunday in St. Hassan Muhammed told The Peter’s Square at the Vatican, as Pope Benedict XVI blessed the faithful from his window. Man fired for slapping toddler Associated Press. Minneapolis: A man accused of slapping a The gunmen then targeted toddler on flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta is out a workers’ camp for Leba- of a job, his former employer said Sunday. nese construction company Thousands flock to see Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho, no longer Setraco, which is building a is an employee of AGC Aerospace and Defense, road in the area, Muhammed Composites Group, Daniel Keeney of DPK Public said. The gunmen shot dead a Relations confirmed Sunday night. guard at the camp before kid- Benedict one last time Al Haase, president and CEO of AGC, released napping the foreign workers. a statement Sunday that didn’t refer to Hundley, “The gunmen came with 60, by name but called reports of an executive’s explosives, which they used behavior “offensive and disturbing” and said he “is POPE: PRAY FOR ME, MY SUCCESSOR no longer employed with the company.” to break some areas,” Mu- Hundley was charged with assault last week By Elisabetta Povoledo Picking a pontiff: hammed said. after he was accused of slapping a 2-year-old boy One British citizen, one The New York Times and called him a racial slur during a Feb. 8 flight. Greek, one Italian, three Leb- VATICAN CITY — Pope no nominations, His attorney has said he would plead not guilty. anese and one Filipino were Benedict XVI asked the tens kidnapped, said Adamu Ali- of thousands of people who Obama plays golf with Tiger flocked to St. Peter’s Square yu, the chairman of the local no applications Palm City, Fla.: President Barack Obama government area that encom- on Sunday for one of his played golf Sunday with Tiger Woods, the White passes Jama’are. He said one last public appearances to CARDINALS KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR House said Sunday. of the hostages was a woman, pray for him and his succes- Once the sport’s dominant player before his while the rest were men. sor. By Laurie Goodstein career was sidetracked by scandal, Woods joined No group immediately Speaking from his win- The New York Times Obama at the Floridian, a secluded and exclusive claimed responsibility for the dow in the Apostolic Pal- There is no formal nominating process for yacht and golf club on Florida’s Treasure Coast, abductions, though Nigeria’s ace, the pope did not make choosing the man to succeed Pope Benedict where Obama is spending the long Presidents Day predominantly Muslim north any direct references to his XVI, and campaigning for oneself is counterpro- weekend. The two had met before, but Sunday was has been under attack by the startling decision to resign ductive. But the cardinals who will file into the the first time they played together. radical Islamic sect known effective Feb. 28. But in his Sistine Chapel next month to elect a new leader The White House prohibited media coverage of as Boko Haram in the last greetings to pilgrims in vari- Obama’s weekend golf outing. of the Roman Catholic have been qui- The foursome also included Jim Crane, a year and a half. The coun- ous languages, he called on etly sizing up potential candidates for years. them in Spanish to “continue Houston businessman who owns the Floridian and try’s weak central government They were impressed when the young soon- baseball’s Houston Astros, and outgoing U.S. Trade praying for me and for the has been unable to stop the to-be-cardinal of , , Representative Ron Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas. group’s bloody guerrilla cam- next pope.” told gathered for a momentous synod Obama, an avid golfer, also received instruction paign of shootings and bomb- Thousands — some in last October that the church should Saturday and played a few holes with Butch ings. The sect is blamed for 50,000 according to Ital- ALESSANDRA TARANTINO listen more and admit its mistakes. They took Harmon, Woods’ former swing coach. killing at least 792 people in ian news media — filled St. ASSOCIATED PRESS note a year ago when Timothy M. 2012 alone. Peter’s Square on a mild, Benedict’s public appearance Dolan of New York delivered a winning ad- WORLD Boko Haram, whose name hazy Sunday morning. They from the window of his studio dress on evangelization to the College of Car- means “Western education cheered for the pope, calling overlooking St. Peter’s Square dinals, the day before the pope gave him the Finance ministers pledge is sacrilege” in the Hausa out “Viva il Papa!” — long was expected to be one of red hat of a cardinal. language of Nigeria’s north, live the pope — and clap- his last before his resignation They deemed Cardinal a gra- not to wage currency wars has demanded the release of ping out his name rhythmi- takes effect Feb. 28. cious host on their visits to the Vatican, where Moscow: In a concerted move to quiet fears of all its captive members and cally: “Be-Ne-De-To!” he guides the selection of bishops, but some a so-called currency war, finance officials from the called for strict Shariah law Dozens of homemade ban- centered on the beginning said he practically put the crowd to sleep dur- world’s largest industrial and emerging economies to be implemented across the ners — mostly sheets stapled of Lent, a 40-day period ing his talk at the International Eucharistic expressed their commitment Saturday to “market- entire country. The sect has to wooden planks — swayed of reflection before Easter, Congress last June in . determined exchange rate systems and exchange rate flexibility.” killed both Christians and throughout the square, each the pope called on the Ro- These impressions, collected from inter- Muslims, as well as soldiers an expression of affection for man and its In a statement issued at the conclusion of views with a variety of church officials and ex- a conference of the Group of 20, the finance and security forces. Benedict, who stunned the members to refocus on God, perts, may influence the very intuitive, often ministers promised: “We will refrain from world last week in becoming “repudiating pride and ego- The group, which speaks unpredictable process the cardinals will use to competitive devaluation. We will not target our to journalists in telephone the first pope to retire in 600 tism.” decide who should lead the church. exchange rates for competitive purposes.” conference calls at times of its years. “In the decisive moments The cardinals will gather on March 1, one In its statement, the group also vowed to choosing, could not be imme- Some of the banners read of life — indeed, if we look day after Benedict steps down, and will meet “take necessary collective actions” to discourage diately reached for comment “With the pope forever” and closely, in every moment — every morning to discuss where the church is corporate tax evasion, particularly by preventing Sunday. “We love you very much.” we are at a crossroads. Do headed and, over lunches and dinners, take companies from shifting profits to avoid tax Foreigners, long abducted One seminarian at the we want to follow the self or the measure of one another’s characters, tal- obligations. For instance, a number of big U.S. by militant groups and crimi- front of the crowd held up a God? Individual interest or ents and experiences, based on personal rela- companies, including Apple and Starbucks, have nal gangs for ransom in Nige- simple sign that said, “We’ll the real good?” he said. tionships and observations. But undoubtedly come under scrutiny recently for seeking out the ria’s oil-rich southern delta, miss you.” Francesca Della Penna, they will also consider geography, doctrinal friendliest tax jurisdictions. have become increasingly tar- “He’s meant a lot to me a Roman who had come to approach and . geted in Nigeria’s north as the and to other Roman Catho- hear the pope with members By the time the 117 cardinal electors en- Airstrikes on Afghanistan’s violence has grown. However, lics; it’s important to pay our of her church , said, “I ter the conclave to choose the next pope, they residential areas will stop respects to him before we be- was moved; he touched my abductions of foreigners in must be ready to vote. Kabul, Afghanistan: The new commander of the north have seen hostages gin to speak too much about heart.” According to church rules, the conclave U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Sunday he regularly killed. the next pope,” said Mark She called his retirement could begin March 15, but might start earlier would comply with an intended order by President Foreign embassies in Ni- Baumgarten, a seminarian announcement “a coura- if the Cardinals reinterpret the mandatory 15- Hamid Karzai that prohibits Afghan forces from geria have issued travel warn- from Perth, Australia, who is geous decision dictated by day waiting period. The waiting period was calling in NATO airstrikes on residential areas. ings regarding northern Nige- studying in Rome. prayer, a true message of Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., on the job a week, ria for months. In his address, which faith.” See POPE, A10 said the international coalition would find “other ways” to support Afghan ground forces, which frequently depend on NATO air power in their operations against Taliban insurgents. Karzai announced his planned decree Saturday after 10 civilians, including five women and four children, died in a NATO airstrike Tuesday Hagel foes say they’ll probably allow vote night reportedly called in by Afghan intelligence operatives in a remote village in eastern Konar DEFENSE NOMINEE MAY BE CONFIRMED BY MONTH’S END national security team, which in- came ensnared in Republican law- province. The air attack on two homes also killed cludes Hagel and John Brennan, makers’ questioning of how the three militant commanders, Afghan officials said. By Darlene Superville the delayed confirmation vote, the White House counterterrorism White House handled the Sept. Associated Press adding that there was nothing to adviser who is awaiting confirma- 11 attack against a U.S. diplo- Incumbent has big lead in PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Re- worry about in any disclosures tion to become CIA director. For- matic mission in Benghazi, Libya, Ecuador’s presidential election publican opponents of former Sen. that may yet come. mer Massachusetts Sen. John Ker- in which the U.S. ambassador Quito, Ecuador: First official results in Chuck Hagel’s stalled bid to be- “No, I don’t believe he’s quali- ry assumed his post as secretary of and three other Americans were Ecuador’s presidential election show incumbent come defense secretary said Sun- fied,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., state at the beginning of February. killed. Hagel was not involved in Rafael Correa leading with 56.6 percent of the vote day that they’ll probably allow his said of his fellow Republican and Critics contend that Hagel, the administration’s response. against 24 percent for his closest challenger. Senate confirmation vote to pro- former Senate colleague. “But I who snubbed McCain by staying GOP senators also have chal- The results, with 30.5 percent of the vote ceed unless material more damag- don’t believe that we should hold neutral in the 2008 presidential lenged Hagel’s past statements counted, would mean that Correa has coasted to ing to the nominee — and, by ex- up his nomination any further, be- race between McCain and Obama, and votes on nuclear weapons, a third term. tension, the Obama administration cause I think it’s (been) a reason- isn’t supportive enough of U.S. and his criticism of President None of the other six candidates had more — surfaces in the coming week. able amount of time to have ques- ally Israel and is unreasonably George W. Bush’s administration. than 6 percent. Critics said the decorated Viet- tions answered.” sympathetic to Iran, which has de- Republicans last week delayed Correa is a dynamic but polemical leftist nam combat veteran is a “radical” McCain and other Republicans fied international pressure to halt a confirmation vote but have in- economist who first took office in 2007. unqualified to lead the U.S. mili- have angered President Barack its pursuit of material that could dicated one will be allowed when He has spent heavily on the poor but drawn tary. A top White House official Obama by delaying him from be used to make nuclear weapons. senators return from a break Feb. broad criticism as intolerant of dissent. expressed “grave concern” over rounding out his second-term Hagel’s nomination also be- 25. STAFF, WIRE REPORTS