New unrest erupts in north London

New unrest erupts in north London

LONDON

New unrest erupted on north London’s streets late Sunday, a day after rioting and looting in a deprived area amid community anger over a fatal police shooting.

Police deployed extra officers on London’s streets to prevent a repeat of Saturday’s violence in north London’s Tottenham area, which appeared to be quiet Sunday night.

But disturbances broke out in Enfield, about 5 miles north of Tottenham. TV footage showed riot and mounted police patrolling the streets, and there also were images of smashed shop windows and police with dogs detaining at least one man.

A peaceful protest against the killing of a 29-year-old man in Tottenham degenerated into a Saturday night rampage, with rioters torching a double-decker bus, destroying patrol cars and trashing a shopping mall in the nearby Wood Green district.

Ex-NY governor Hugh Carey dies

NEW YORK

Former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was at his best when faced with a crisis, and when he took office in 1975, New York City wobbled at the edge of fiscal calamity.

The governor had inherited the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. New York City, the nation’s Wall Street-powered economic engine, was nearing bankruptcy. Famously declaring the “days of wine and roses are over,” the well-to-do son of an entrepreneur rose to the challenge, forced major changes in the way New York governed and financed itself, and stared down a Republican president to keep New York City from insolvency.

The liberal Democrat who reversed the tax-and-spend excesses of his Republican predecessor to keep the city and state afloat died Sunday at his summer home on Shelter Island. He was 92.

Syria intensifies protest crackdown

BEIRUT

Syrian troops fired on mourners at a funeral and raided an eastern city Sunday, killing at least 59 people in an intensifying government crackdown on protesters. More than 300 people have died in the past week, the bloodiest in the five-month uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad.

Syria’s Arab neighbors forcefully joined the growing international chorus of condemnation against Assad’s regime for the first time Sunday. Even the king of Saudi Arabia — whose country does not tolerate dissent and lent its military troops to repress anti-government demonstrations in neighboring Bahrain — harshly criticized the Syrian government and said he was recalling his ambassador in Damascus for consultations.

4 found fatally shot in Maryland home

BROOKLYN PARK, Md.

The mother of a man found shot dead along with a woman and two teenagers called police after receiving a disturbing text message from him, and as officers arrived at the home to check on the family Sunday, they heard a single gunshot, authorities said.

Neighbors said a couple and their two teenage children lived in the home where officers found the four bodies. Anne Arundel County Police did not immediately identify the people.

Cleric vows attack if US troops stay in Iraq

BAGHDAD

A powerful anti-American Shiite cleric in Iraq with thousands of loyal followers threatened Sunday that U.S. forces who stay past the Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline are fair game to attack.

Iraqi officials, worried about a potential backlash if U.S. troops remain in the country, have tried to portray any American force that does not withdraw as trainers of the still-growing Iraqi military rather than as combat troops.

Associated Press