self.document.write('<div style="margin : 0px; width : auto; height : auto; border : solid 0px; overflow : hidden; font-size : 1em; font-family : \'Verdana\'; color : black; background : inherit;"> <div style="padding : 3px;" > <ul style="margin : 0px; padding-left : 0px;"> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010313520_apeubritainfloods.html?syndication=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >200 in UK tourist region rescued from floodwaters</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Britain\'s air force and emergency workers using inflatable boats rescued about 200 people Friday as rising floodwaters caused widespread havoc in northern England\'s picturesque Lake District. One police officer was missing after a bridge was washed away. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://seattletimes.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">seattletimes.com</a> - 2009-11-20 10:34:39 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010313520_apeubritainfloods.html?syndication=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >British air force rescues 200 from floodwaters</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Britain\'s air force has helped rescue around 200 people stranded by rising floodwaters caused by torrential rainfall in a tourist region of northern England. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://seattletimes.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">seattletimes.com</a> - 2009-11-20 08:36:43 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_654163.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Pick for VA director in Fayette declines post</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Fayette County\'s efforts to find a director of veterans affairs fell through again on Thursday when a retired Air Force master sergeant who was pegged for the post declined to accept it. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://pittsburghlive.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">pittsburghlive.com</a> - 2009-11-20 05:26:45 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/-QptIRQ_tXE/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >America\'s fiscal deficit: Stemming the tide</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>Unprecedented levels of government debt may require radical solutions <p> STUDENTS at National Defence University in Washington, DC, were recently given a model of the economy and told to fix the budget. To get the federal debt down, they jacked up taxes and slashed spending. The economy promptly tanked, sending the debt to higher levels than before. The lesson: “You’ll never get re-elected and you may do more harm than good,” concluded Eric Bee, an air-force colonel who took part in the exercise. <p>This is the ugly arithmetic of America’s public finances. Recession and aggressive fiscal stimulus have hugely swollen the federal deficit. Stimulus was essential to cushion a collapse in private demand. In spite of that, the economy has barely emerged from recession and unemployment is still rising, feeding speculation that more stimulus is needed. Yet at the same time voters are growing alarmed at the tide of red ink, and it may be only a matter of time before markets do, too. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2009-11-19 17:46:20 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/N_hDF3Q4CQs/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Sri Lanka\'s retired army chief: General intentions</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>The war’s winners fall out <p>WHEN Sarath Fonseka sought permission this month to retire as chief of Sri Lanka’s defence staff from December 1st, President Mahinda Rajapaksa replied through his secretary that the general, who had led his government’s victory against the Tamil Tigers, could consider himself retired with immediate effect. So General Fonseka had to vacate his office in less than two days. He was told his large security detail would be slashed. He must quit his official residence. The impromptu farewell ceremony for him was so hastily arranged, apparently, that the commanders of the army, navy and air force could not attend. <p>His retirement, more than a month before the end of his term, fuelled rampant speculation that General Fonseka would stand against Mr Rajapaksa at the presidential election he wants to call next year, nearly two years early, to capitalise on the government’s defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2009-11-19 17:46:20 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/nov/18/money-2-bases-okd-senate/" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Money for 2 bases OK\'d by Senate</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Arkansas\' two U.S. senators say the Senate has approved a bill that would send millions of dollars to the state for construction projects at Little Rock Air Force Base and the Pine Bluff Arsenal. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://arkansasonline.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">arkansasonline.com</a> - 2009-11-19 00:58:24 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010282138_apmlemiratesusairforce.html?syndication=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >US Air Force official expects UAE role to continue</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A senior U.S. Air Force official said Monday he expects the force\'s involvement in the United Arab Emirates to continue and potentially expand. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://seattletimes.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">seattletimes.com</a> - 2009-11-16 16:36:08 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.journal-news.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Military_Nurse_Deaths.html?cxtype=rss&amp;cxsvc=1&amp;cxcat=0" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Trial delayed for former nurse charged in killings</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> SAN ANTONIO - The trial of a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients has been delayed. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://journal-news.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">journal-news.com</a> - 2009-11-16 15:52:22 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.journal-news.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Military_Nurse_Deaths.html?cxtype=rss&amp;cxsvc=1&amp;cxcat=0" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Ex-Air Force nurse on trial for killing 3 patients</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> SAN ANTONIO - A former military nurse is on trial accused of killing three terminally ill patients at the Air Force\'s largest hospital last year. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://journal-news.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">journal-news.com</a> - 2009-11-16 09:49:50 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/15/content_12463782.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >U.S. President Obama walks out of Air Force One</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> SHANGHAI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://xinhuanet.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">xinhuanet.com</a> - 2009-11-15 19:48:33 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/15/content_12463756.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Obama\'s presidential plane lands in Shanghai</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> SHANGHAI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Air Force One, the ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://xinhuanet.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">xinhuanet.com</a> - 2009-11-15 19:48:33 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/15/content_12463700.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Obama\'s presidential plane enters Shanghai airspace</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> SHANGHAI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Air Force One, the ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://xinhuanet.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">xinhuanet.com</a> - 2009-11-15 19:48:33 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/bdf0203ac8234c45bbf768de66d76795/15-11-2009-10-05/Dead_pilot_was_experienced" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Dead pilot \'was experienced\'</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> The former air force pilot who died after his jet crashed at an air show in Bredasdorp was an experienced pilot who had taken part in more than 100 air shows. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news24.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news24.com</a> - 2009-11-15 08:03:51 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/8361f4cc1b22431e8fa8058f001543f5/14-11-2009-04-50/Pilot_dies_after_air_show_crash" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Pilot dies after air show crash</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A pilot has died after his fighter jet crashed about 15km away from the Overberg Air Force Base in the Western Cape during an air show. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news24.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news24.com</a> - 2009-11-14 14:54:10 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/topstories/~3/PWvUlA6MPoA/" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Afghanistan Overshadows Obama\'s Asia Trip</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> In an early sign of how President Obama\'s trip to Asia will likely go, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs came back to the press cabin on Air Force One Thursday to a torrent of questions that were not about the president\'s trip to Asia </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://time.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">time.com</a> - 2009-11-13 10:25:51 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120360663&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1001" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Afghan War Decision Weighs On Obama</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> From his stop at Dover Air Force base, to a visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, to Wednesday\'s private visit to military grave sites, President Obama appears to feel the weight of war acutely as he considers U.S. options for Afghanistan. And awareness of his intense engagement may be important for Obama, since no decision on troop levels is likely to be popular with the public. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://npr.org" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">npr.org</a> - 2009-11-12 21:28:11 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://cbs4denver.com/national/obama.fort.hood.2.1303492.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Obama To Honor Fort Hood Fallen Soldiers</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> President Barack Obama has flown to Texas to lead a memorial service at Fort Hood Army base for the people killed in last week\'s shooting rampage and to console their relatives and loved ones. Accompanying Obama to Texas on Air Force One, spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president will talk briefly about each of the 13 who fell under a gunman\'s siege last Thursday. The spokesman said Obama also plans to praise "the dedication of the armed forces" and say just how much people all over the country were touched by acts of heroism and professionalism under incredible stress. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news4colorado.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news4colorado.com</a> - 2009-11-10 18:30:26 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_651704.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Sacrifice of North Huntingdon soldier formally recognized</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Two years after his death in Balad, Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. David Wieger of North Huntingdon, will be honored Saturday with the dedication of a polished black granite monument bearing his likeness and a soccer ball, which has been erected at the entrance of Oak Hollow Park. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://pittsburghlive.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">pittsburghlive.com</a> - 2009-11-06 05:27:04 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/8AtiptnQo1M/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Italy and the CIA: Conviction time</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>A damning verdict in an Italian court against America’s CIA <p> NOBODY knows how many people have fallen victim to CIA-organised “extraordinary renditions”—operations in which suspected terrorists are snatched and shipped to third countries for interrogations that often involve torture. In 2007 the CIA director, Michael Hayden, suggested the figure was around 50. But a European Parliament report the same year concluded that more than 1,000 flights had been run by the CIA through European Union airspace. <p> What is certain is that only one extraordinary rendition has led to a trial. On November 4th that trial, in Milan, ended with the conviction of 22 alleged CIA officers and agents, an American air force colonel and two Italian agents, all for helping to kidnap an Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar, who vanished from a Milan street in 2003. He was released four years later and claimed to have been tortured in Cairo, where he was hung up “like a slaughtered sheep” and given electric shocks. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2009-11-05 18:45:19 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/31/brazil.plane.crash/index.html?eref=rss_topstories" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Amazon tribe finds jet crash survivors</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Indigenous Indians located nine survivors of a plane that crashed in a river in the Amazon rain forest with 11 people onboard, according to the Brazilian air force. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://cnn.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">cnn.com</a> - 2009-10-31 12:40:34 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010170236_apltbrazilamazonplane.html?syndication=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Missing Amazon plane makes river landing, 9 alive</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A plane that went missing over the Amazon made an emergency river landing in a remote part of the rain forest and nine of the 11 people aboard survived, the Brazilian air force said Friday. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://seattletimes.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">seattletimes.com</a> - 2009-10-30 23:36:44 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.journal-news.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Base_Commander_Ousted.html?cxtype=rss&amp;cxsvc=1&amp;cxcat=0" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >APNewsBreak: ND Air Force base commander fired</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> BISMARCK, N.D. - The military says the commander at the Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota has been relieved of his command. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://journal-news.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">journal-news.com</a> - 2009-10-30 21:43:51 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114324453&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1001" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >All But Two Survive Wild River Landing In Amazon</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A plane feared lost in the Amazon made an emergency river landing in a remote part of the rain forest and nine of the 11 people aboard survived, Brazil\'s Air Force said Friday. Members of the Matis Indian tribe found the plane and the survivors in a sprawling jungle reservation. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://npr.org" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">npr.org</a> - 2009-10-30 19:31:05 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010165113_dover30.html?syndication=rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Obama present as the fallen return</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Few words were spoken between President Obama and a grieving Steve Weston, but their predawn meeting at Dover Air Force Base early Thursday came at a critical moment in Obama\'s presidency. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://seattletimes.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">seattletimes.com</a> - 2009-10-30 08:31:33 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;list-style : none;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/8275bcbbc03b4979a9489262ec704366/30-10-2009-07-21/Plane_missing_with_11_on_board" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Plane missing with 11 on board</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A Brazilian military plane with 11 people on board disappeared as it flew over the Amazon, the air force says. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news24.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news24.com</a> - 2009-10-30 06:50:14 GMT </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div>');