<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wjz.com/wireapnational/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>WJZ - Baltimore, Maryland's Breaking News, Weather &amp; Sports Station</title><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational</link><description><![CDATA[WJZ - Baltimore, Maryland's Breaking News, Weather & Sports Station]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Corporation. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:20:51 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq PM Ramps Up Attacks On Baathists Before Vote]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Iraqi.prime.minister.2.1327512.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Iraqi.prime.minister.2.1327512.html</link><description><![CDATA[A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to confess their alleged role in planning suicide attacks in Baghdad last month. The three, all in detention and dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, said the bombings were ordered by Saddam's Baath Party. Al-Maliki's intensified rhetoric worsens one of Iraq's most dangerous sectarian fault lines — one which the United States has long struggled to calm.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:16:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Begins War Games To Protect Nuclear Sites]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Report.Iran.begins.2.1327238.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Report.Iran.begins.2.1327238.html</link><description><![CDATA[Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel. It said the five-day drill will cover an area a third of the size of Iran and spread across the central, western and southern parts of the country. Gen. Ahmad Mighani, head of an air force unit in charge of responding to threats to Iran's air space, said Saturday the war games would cover regions where Iran's nuclear facilities are located.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:07:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientist: Leak Of Climate E-mails Appalling]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Key.scientist.says.2.1327556.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Key.scientist.says.2.1327556.html</link><description><![CDATA[A leading climate change scientist says the leak of documents stolen from a British research institute may be aimed at undermining talks at next month's Copenhagen global climate summit. Kevin Trenberth — of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado — said in an interview Sunday that hackers cherry-picked from the stolen data and distributed selected documents to try to undermine scientific consensus on man-made climate change. Britain's University of East Anglia said hackers last week stole data from its Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:57:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venezuela To Get 300 Tanks, Armored Vehicles]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Venezuela.to.receive.2.1327555.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Venezuela.to.receive.2.1327555.html</link><description><![CDATA[President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, and urging civilians to join government-organized militias to be ready to defend Venezuela from a foreign invasion. Chavez called on his supporters to undergo military training and join the militias during a Saturday speech that ended around midnight, saying he thinks "it's the obligation" of every member of his socialist party to participate in an ongoing effort to "organize combat groups." Chavez, a former paratroop commander, said more than 300 armored vehicles and Russian war tanks, including T-72 battle tanks, will be arriving in Venezuela along with radar and air defense systems.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:54:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark: 65 World Leaders For UN Climate Summit]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Denmark.65.world.2.1327258.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Denmark.65.world.2.1327258.html</link><description><![CDATA[Sixty-five world leaders have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December, and several more have responded positively to invitations, Danish officials said Sunday. But the world's top three carbon polluters — the United States, China and India — have not indicated whether their leaders will attend the meeting, and that could have a big impact on its chances of reaching a deal. The nations that plan to send their leaders to Copenhagen include Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom, a Danish official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not an official spokesman.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report: Leaked UK Documents Detail Iraq War Chaos]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/British.newspaper.says.2.1327257.html</guid><link>http://wjz.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 reported Sunday. 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>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:43:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palestinian Nun Takes Step Toward Sainthood]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Thousands.in.Nazareth.2.1327453.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Thousands.in.Nazareth.2.1327453.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls on Sunday took an important step toward sainthood. Thousands of worshippers gathered in the biblical town of Nazareth to attend the beatification of the late Sister Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas. Ghattas helped found the Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem in the 1880s. The order, highly regarded in Palestinian communities, continues to run schools for Palestinian girls in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:33:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds Protest Iranian President's Brazil Visit]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Hundreds.gather.in.2.1327524.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Hundreds.gather.in.2.1327524.html</link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Brazilians are protesting the impending visit of Iranian's president, citing his calls for Israel's destruction, his government's controversial nuclear activities and his declarations against homosexuals. About 500 people gathered Sunday for the protest at Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema Beach. Groups representing gays, Afro-Brazilian artists, Christians, Jews, and Holocaust survivors carried protest banners and a giant cage containing white balloons, which they said is a symbol of Iran's "repressed values."]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:28:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Cosmonaut Feoktistov Dies At 83]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Russian.spaceship.designer.2.1327375.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Russian.spaceship.designer.2.1327375.html</link><description><![CDATA[Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83. The Russian Space Agency said in a statement Sunday that Feoktistov died of unspecified causes late Saturday in Moscow. In 1964, he traveled aboard the Voskhod spaceship as part of the first group space flight in history.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:07:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Releases Ex-official On Bail In Mass Trial]]></title><guid>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Iran.releases.former.2.1327221.html</guid><link>http://wjz.com/wireapnational/Iran.releases.former.2.1327221.html</link><description><![CDATA[Iran released a former vice president on a $700,000 bail Sunday after his lawyer said he had been sentenced to six years in prison in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the post-election unrest. Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served under former President Mohammad Khatami in his two terms from 1997-2005, is the most senior former official among more than 100 people on trial since August. After his arrest, he made televised confessions saying he had provoked people to riot. But his family and other opposition figures said the statements were coerced — a claim also made about other defendants' confessions during the trial. Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said Abtahi was released on a $700,000 bail after the verdict was delivered, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report did not say what his sentence was.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>