Ukraine’s Yanukovich: I’m no Kremlin stooge

The man leading Ukraine’s presidential election urges his rival Tuesday to accept defeat, and he vows to unite Ukraine after an election that has split the country in two.

District Judge Richard Story, who is white, told legal teams that their wrangling over the racial composition of the jury “broke my heart.” Defense lawyers sought to strike 10 whites from the jury pool, and prosecutors attempted to remove five blacks and one white.”I’m not asking for political correctness or anything else, but I want a trial based on law and evidence and that is fair and doesn’t judge a man by the color of his skin,” Story said. A robber believed to have held up four Orange County banks in less than four hours was arrested Thursday, just hours after a television viewer recognized his face in a newscast.”The viewer contacted the FBI,” said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, “who sent someone to a motel in Costa Mesa where the suspect was placed under arrest.”Neither the suspect’s name nor the name of the motel was released.The robber is believed to have carried out heists in Westminster, Costa Mesa, Tustin and Huntington Beach on Wednesday, authorities said.”It is extremely rare — if ever — that a robber hits four banks in a day, let alone in 3 1/2 hours,” Amormino said. Michael Barbero, with the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing.He said the vehicle was initially stopped at the checkpoint.”Children in the back seat lower suspicion We let it move through,” Barbero said “They parked the vehicle. Under the old rules, Oklahoma was not scheduled to be called on again until 2010; the other three states, 2009.In interviews, National Guard officials in Arkansas, Indiana and Oklahoma said their units were short on rifles and other basic equipment.”We are hurting in equipment nationally, Guard-wide,” said Lt Col.

The barometer measures sales at stores that have been open at least a year without undergoing an overhaul.Safeway is expecting sales growth to remain about the same in 2007, an indication that its turnaround may have reached a plateau, said Jeff Embersits, a former industry analyst who is now a portfolio manager for Shareholder Value Management.For all of 2006, Safeway made $870.6 million, its highest annual profit since earning $1.25 billion in 2001. “The insurgency continues to gain capacity and strength.”A political leader from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern city of Mosul, who met with Zarqawi in government negotiations on the insurgency, said the rebellion might be more potent without him.”There are more bombings since Zarqawi’s death and more dead bodies. Glusman quit the reserve program as the Sheriff’s Department conducted an internal investigation into his behavior on July 4, law enforcement officials said.Dozens of reserves — many political allies of Sheriff Michael S. but has been more active in Canada and on the East Coast.Although it’s billed as a collaborative installation, both artists remain largely true to their individual practices.