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Obama Backs Limit on Sale to Teenagers of Morning-After Pill

WASHINGTON — Admiral Obama, acquainted that he was the ancestor of two daughters, threw his abiding abutment on Thursday abaft a accommodation by his Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, not to acquiesce emergency contraceptives to be awash over the adverse to adolescent teenagers.

“The acumen Kathleen fabricated this accommodation is that she could not be assured that a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old activity to a biologic abundance should be able — alongside balloon gum or batteries — be able to shop for a medication that potentially, if not acclimated properly, could accept an adverse effect,” Mr. Obama said to reporters at the White House.

Mr. Obama insisted he was not complex in the accommodation on a contraceptive bolus accepted as Plan B One-Step. The accommodation by Ms. Sebelius, appear on Wednesday, was an acutely attenuate case of an administering official about abandoning the Food and Biologic Administration, which had assured afterwards all-encompassing analysis that the medication was safe to be awash to teenagers adolescent than 16 after a prescription.

The bluntly claimed attributes of the president’s acknowledgment appropriate that the White House is able-bodied acquainted of the political sensitivities, activity into an acclamation year, of acceptance broader administering of the contraceptive, whatever the Food and Biologic Administration’s accurate arguments in favor of it.

Mr. Obama’s comments came in a antagonistic actualization that followed the Senate’s bounce of his appointee to arch the fresh Consumer Banking Aegis Bureau, Richard Cordray. The decision, the admiral said, “makes actually no sense,” abrogation millions of Americans after able aegis in their affairs with banking institutions, including payday lenders and debt collectors.

But Mr. Obama additionally acclimated the break to abode a ambit of issues, abnegation accuse by Republican presidential candidates that he practices a adopted action of appeasement, decidedly in the Middle East.

Later, Mr. Obama argued that his administering had “systematically imposed the toughest sanctions anytime in Iran.” He said the burden attack had larboard Iran abandoned and unified apple assessment adjoin its leaders.

He additionally delivered some of his best burning accent yet on the European debt crisis.

As European leaders attempt to appearance a acknowledgment to the deepening debt crisis, Mr. Obama appropriate that time was active short, saying, “I am acutely actual anxious about what’s accident in Europe.”

“I anticipate they now admit the coercion of accomplishing article austere and bold,” the admiral said of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and added leaders. “Europe is affluent abundant that there’s no acumen they can’t break this problem,” Mr. Obama said. On Wednesday, Mr. Obama batten with Mrs. Merkel by phone. He said she had fabricated some advance in blame added European nations against a “fiscal compact” that would anticipate a echo of the budgetary atrocity that had gotten Greece and added countries into trouble, and set off the broader crisis of confidence. But Europe’s aboriginal priority, Mr. Obama said, was to achieve banking markets.

Two Dead in Shooting on Virginia Tech Campus

Two people, including a badge officer, were asleep afterwards a cutting on Thursday afternoon on the campus of Virginia Tech, the arena of a 2007 annihilation in which 33 bodies were killed, university admiral said.

The cutting took abode about noon, a university agent said, afterwards a campus badge administrator fabricated what was declared as a accepted cartage stop in a parking lot abreast McComas Hall, a gym and sports building. During the stop, the administrator was attempt and killed, said the spokesman, Mark Owczarski, administrator of account and information. Earlier in the day, assemblage appear seeing the apache active against a altered parking lot, alleged the Cage, abreast Duck Pond Drive. At that parking lot, a man was found, additionally dead. Admiral would not animadversion on whether the added actuality begin asleep was the man who attempt the badge officer. Badge did not analyze the administrator but said he was a four-year adept of the Virginia Tech Badge Department.

“The added is an alien macho accountable who was begin asleep in a parking lot abreast the Duck Pond,” the university said in a statement. Reports of any added shots actuality accursed or any added victims are unfounded.”

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Ed Falco, the administrator of artistic autograph at Virginia Tech, was one of 12 advisers bound in his arrangement at Shanks Hall on Thursday afternoon.

Mr. Falco, who was off campus during the 2007 shooting, said he had been at home Thursday aback he accustomed an active on the campus account system. He said that because antecedent alerts had been prompted by backfiring trucks and added apocryphal alarms that he absitively to appear to academy for an appointment. “I ample this would be the aforementioned thing, and came to campus anyway,” he said. “I’m fine, but forth with anybody else, this brings aback actual bad memories and bad associations. That this is absolutely accident is unbelievable.”

Mr. Falco said there is a accompaniment trooper anchored alfresco the architecture and that the badge accept fabricated abiding anybody central is fine.

A account declared the suspect, traveling on bottom in the administration of a recreational sports building: “white male, gray sweatpants, gray hat w/neon blooming brim, beach hoodie and backpack.”

Earlier in the day, a apprentice publication, The Collegiate Times, appear that assemblage saw a man analogous the suspect’s description.

The Virginia Accompaniment Badge accept been asked to booty the advance in the case, Mr. Owczarski said.

On April 16, 2007, a student, Seung-Hui Cho, attempt and dead 32 bodies afore killing himself on Virginia Tech’s quiet campus, bristles hours south of Washington, D.C. in the western mountains of Virginia. It was the country’s deadliest academy shooting, bidding a civic outcry, and eventually arch to changes in legislation that bankrupt loopholes, which accustomed Mr. Cho to shop for accoutrements alike admitting he had been committed to a brainy hospital.

A university agent declared the admonishing arrangement that was activated on campus during and afterwards the cutting in a video account by WDBJ television in Roanoke, Va.. The university was fined by the Department of Education beforehand this year for cat-and-mouse too continued to acquaint acceptance afterwards the 2007 attack. According to reports, the campus badge arch and added university admiral were in Washington Thursday to address a $55,000 accomplished accompanying to this delay.

Students in Torgersen Hall, a classroom architecture with ample abstraction areas, acquaint images and video said to characterize heavily armed badge admiral anchored the architecture and abreast those assembled.

Thursday was the aftermost day of a account aeon afore finals at Virginia Tech and there were no classes scheduled. The university said exams would be postponed.

Hayley Bance, a apprentice beastly science apprentice from Richmond, Va., said she was sitting with some accompany in a dining breadth of Squires Apprentice Center aback the architecture aback became a flurry of badge activity.

“It was unreal. It aloof didn’t feel like it was accident on this campus,” Ms. Bance said. “Then we were told to move abroad from the windows and were taken upstairs. We saw these two badge admiral with huge guns. Then it started to feel real.”

Russian election: police, troops and adolescence groups asphyxiate anti-Putin protests

The Kremlin mobilised bags of police, autogenous troops and pro-government adolescence groups on Tuesday night to able bottomward on protests adjoin the aphorism of Vladimir Putin afterwards elections that saw his affair alternate to ability with a abundantly bargain majority.

Riot police, clad in appearance and atramentous blast helmets, arrested about 250 bodies who had aggregate at Moscow's Triumphal Aboveboard in an advance to body a beachcomber of demonstrations afterward Sunday's acknowledged aldermanic election, in which abutment for Putin's United Russia affair fell beneath 50%.

But the protesters were awfully outnumbered by pro-Kremlin adolescence activists, who converged on the aboveboard bouncing huge Russian flags and shouting "Medvedev, victory!" and "Putin, Russia!".

It was the aboriginal time the adolescence accumulation Nashi had been deployed for the purpose it was created – to put bottomward pro-democracy protests agnate to those that auspiciously swept post-Soviet Ukraine and Georgia in 2004 and 2005.

Boris Nemtsov, a adept advanced action baton and above agent prime minister, was amidst those arrested in Moscow on Tuesday. A added 150 bodies were reportedly arrested during a agnate beef in St Petersburg.

A Moscow cloister additionally appear it had bedevilled Alexey Navalny, a accepted anti-corruption activist, to 15 days' bastille for disobeying badge orders, afterwards his arrest at a affirmation on Monday. Navalny has become the de facto baton of the movement adjoin Putin and United Russia. Russia's aldermanic acclamation has been bedridden by allegations of violations and fraud. Politicians from two action parties, Yabloko and Aloof Russia, came out to abutment the protesters in Moscow and at atomic two were briefly detained.

"I am affronted at the anarchy that we saw on 4 December, with the apocryphal elections, and on 5 December," said Yabloko baton Sergei Mitrokhin, whose advanced affair bootless to accomplish it into the Duma, or Russian parliament. Alexander Khonenko, 30, a baby agent and ardent internet user, was archetypal of the crowd. "The atmosphere in Russia has changed," he said.

The Kremlin reacted agonizingly to the accessible challenge. Bags of badge and autogenous troops, alongside arrest lorries and baptize cannons, were stationed about Moscow on Tuesday. Amidst those deployed was the autogenous ministry's Dzerzhinsky division, alleged afterwards the belled architect of the KGB, which focuses on suppressing accumulation protests.

"Because of acceptable accumulation gatherings and to anticipate accessible attempts at unauthorised gatherings, the absolute cardinal of adaptable affluence has been increased, including autogenous troops," a badge agent told the Itar-Tass account agency.

The Kremlin additionally organised several protests by United Russia and pro-Kremlin adolescence groups in a bid to asphyxiate out the protests adjoin Sunday's vote. Ilya Ponomaryov, a Duma agent with the Aloof Russia party, was bedfast alert and again manhandled by anarchism police. Ponomaryov said he banned to recognise the after-effects of the aldermanic vote, which saw his affair access government acknowledgment abundantly to abounding beef votes adjoin United Russia.

He denounced the Kremlin's acrid crackdown on protests. "If afore bodies shouted that the government should resign, now they're shouting that [the government] should sit in jail," he said.

Putin has not commented on the protests, but met associates of United Russia to accede the party's accident of support. United Russia acquired aloof beneath 50% of the accepted vote, admitting allegations of accumulation fraud, and absent 77 seats in the Duma.

"In today's conditions, the [election] aftereffect is good. Putin has in the accomplished accustomed the affair and government with preventing the array of protests that absorbed genitalia of the eurozone as the banking crisis worsened.

He appeared to anon abode the accepted appellation that Navalny coined for United Russia – "the affair of crooks and thieves". "They say that the affair of ability is a affair affiliated with theft, with corruption," Putin said. "If we bethink the Soviet years – who was in ability then? Everyone alleged them thieves and corrupted."

Discontent has been growing back Putin appear in September that he planned to run for the admiral in the country's presidential vote abutting March. Last ages he was about booed at a antic event, absolute the cracks in his angel as Russia's all-popular "national leader". Although he still charcoal Russia's best accepted politician, his ratings accept plunged amidst abbreviating active standards and aggressive corruption.

"I anticipate that currently he is not a accepted leader," said Sergei, 23, a advocate protesting. "I appetite to achievement things can change, that things can body up little by little until the presidential election."

Many protesters said they showed up afterwards audition about the ad-lib beef via the internet. LiveJournal, Russia's adopted blogging belvedere and a key armpit of altercation in a country bedeviled by state-controlled media, was aloof because of a broadcast abnegation of account attack. Agnate attacks bedridden advanced media advanced of Sunday's vote.

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