<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News,  Weather, Traffic, Sports</title><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News,  Weather, Traffic, Sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:06:58 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Army, Drug Gangs Battle In Mexico Amid Blockades]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Cartel.suspects.military.2.1576445.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Cartel.suspects.military.2.1576445.html</link><description><![CDATA[A shootout in the northern city of Monterrey killed two suspected drug cartel gunmen and wounded a soldier Friday. Suspected gang members also blocked roads in the city for the second day, in a bold attempt to impede security patrols. Gunmen opened fire on an army patrol outside the gates of a prestigious private university in Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city and a major industrial hub, the army said in a statement. Soldiers seized guns, ammunition and hand grenades at the scene.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:34:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NKorean Loggers In Russia Making Defection Bids]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/3rd.North.Korean.2.1575050.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/3rd.North.Korean.2.1575050.html</link><description><![CDATA[The North Korean's note, scrawled in pen, was simple: "I want to go to South Korea. Why? To find freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom of life." The ex-logger, on the run from North Korean authorities, handed the note over to a South Korean missionary in the Russian city of Vladivostok last week in hopes it would lead to political asylum. Just before he was to meet Thursday with the International Organization for Migrants, a team of men grabbed him, slapped handcuffs on him and drove off, rights activists in Moscow said Friday. He was spirited away to the eastern port city of Nakhokda, where he is sure to be handed back over to North Korean officials and repatriated to his communist homeland, activists said in Seoul.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:11:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Bruised Economies Search For Way Forward]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/No.quick.fixes.2.1574984.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/No.quick.fixes.2.1574984.html</link><description><![CDATA[The wreckage of Spain's economic growth model stands neatly aligned on the roads leading out of Madrid — row after row of unsold houses, windows dark, for-sale signs out front. Spain and other countries on Europe's financially stricken fringe are groping for a new basis from economic growth to put people to work and pay down crushing deficits and debts. In Spain's case, something to start generating jobs for 4 million unemployed people amid the rubble of an unsustainable construction and housing boom. The question is especially urgent in countries with the eurozone's messiest public finances: Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Greece.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:08:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarkozy's Party Braces For Electoral Wipeout]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Sarkozy.s.party.2.1576834.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Sarkozy.s.party.2.1576834.html</link><description><![CDATA[President Nicolas Sarkozy's party braced for a potential electoral wipeout in Sunday's final round of regional elections, which an alliance of the rival left hopes will give it a national sweep and a staging ground for 2012 presidential voting. Even damage control was difficult for the conservatives. Sarkozy's UMP party, or Union for a Popular Majority, has ended up pleading with voters to go to the polls, hoping supporters simply failed to cast ballots in the first round — the case for more than one in two French.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:02:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike Begins As Talks Between BA, Union Collapse]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Talks.between.British.2.1574579.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Talks.between.British.2.1574579.html</link><description><![CDATA[A three-day strike by British Airways cabin crew affecting thousands of travelers began Saturday after last-ditch talks between the airline's management and union leaders collapsed. The walkout has forced BA to cancel thousands of flights, but it still hopes to operate around 65 percent of its international schedule over the period. The Unite union has gathered some support from unions in the United States, Germany and Spain for its action — taken to protest a pay freeze and changes to working conditions — but the other unions have so far stopped short of pledging direct action that would affect BA's ability to refuel and service its planes.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:50:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thai Protesters Begin Weekend March Around Capital]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Thai.anti.government.2.1574451.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Thai.anti.government.2.1574451.html</link><description><![CDATA[Protesters riding thousands of motorcycles and crammed into trucks and cars set off Saturday for a daylong caravan through the streets of the Thai capital, hoping to enlist residents in their "class war" against the government. They plan to follow up the march with a "blood painting" on Sunday, the latest shock tactic by the so-called "Red Shirts" in their peaceful, weeklong campaign to oust the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. City and police officials, fearing massive traffic jams, urged residents to use public transport and either stay at home or at their workplaces until the demonstration ends.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:33:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange Sky In Beijing For Year's Biggest Sandstorm]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Orange.sky.in.2.1576782.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Orange.sky.in.2.1576782.html</link><description><![CDATA[China's capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country's north, delaying some flights at Beijing's international airport and prompting South Korean weather officials to issue a dust warning for Seoul. The sky glowed and a thin dusting of sand covered Beijing, causing workers to muffle their faces in vast Tiananmen Square. The city's weather bureau gave air quality a rare hazardous ranking. Air quality is "very bad for the health," China's national weather bureau warned. It said people should cover their mouths when outside and keep doors and windows closed.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:02:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chavez Opponent Charged For Televised Remarks]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Chavez.opponent.charged.2.1576754.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/Chavez.opponent.charged.2.1576754.html</link><description><![CDATA[Venezuelan prosecutors charged a government opponent with conspiracy and other crimes Friday after he said on a television program that the country has become a haven for drug trafficking. Former Zulia state Gov. Oswaldo Alvarez Paz is accused of spreading false information and publicly inciting violation of the law. "Venezuela has turned into a center of operations that facilitates the business of drug trafficking," Alvarez said on a television talk show last month, adding Friday that he stands by his remark and has broken no laws.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:34:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Familiar Faces Face Off For Colombian Pres]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/2.standard.bearer.2.1576752.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/2.standard.bearer.2.1576752.html</link><description><![CDATA[Former Foreign Minister Noemi Sanin has defeated Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's hand-picked successor for the Conservative Party's presidential nomination in a close primary. Results after five days of counting show Sanin beat former Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias by 1.11 million to 1.08 million votes in Sunday's election. The winner, announced Friday, puts standard-bearers of the governing coalition's top two parties in a tight race for May 30 presidential elections.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:32:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Diplomats Urge Resumption Of Mideast Talks]]></title><guid>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/US.international.diplomats.2.1574494.html</guid><link>http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/US.international.diplomats.2.1574494.html</link><description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state. The so-called Quartet group of Mideast negotiators met in the Russian capital to set the stage for peace talks in which the United States would be a go-between. Those indirect talks would be the first under the Democratic Obama administration and the hawkish Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At a news conference after the meeting, Clinton spoke approvingly of indications Netanyahu is ready to address U.S. concerns about new Jewish housing that complicates peace efforts.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:57:53 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>