Friday, September 25, 2009 PITTSBURGH: Several protests have been staged around Pittsburgh as world leaders arrive in the city for the Group of 20 Summit.Protesters seeking human rights reforms in China gathered in a designated protest area near the site of the G-20 meeting.Several dozen people led by more than a dozen monks walked through downtown Pittsburgh to protest the regime ruling Burma.Earlier in the day, Oxfam America held a mock football game. A dozen activists wore Steelers uniforms bearing the names of world leaders to spotlight hunger issues.Later Thursday, a group called the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project is holding a march it calls a "People's Uprising." It begins outside downtown and will head toward the meeting site. It's unclear how many people will participate.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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