Post-Sandy woes force New York to cancel marathon
Two days after announcing the annual New York Marathon would take place Sunday as scheduled, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed course and cancelled the event.
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US dismisses aid offer from Hafiz Saeed as ‘hollow’
The US today dismissed as “hollow” the offer of humanitarian aid for Hurricane Sandy victims from Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind and for whom the US has offered a bounty of USD 10 million.