A baby boy was delivered by a paramedic and a midwife after his mother began giving birth in one of Scotland’s air ambulances at the weekend.
Euan Cameron arrived mid-flight, while his mother Marion was being transported by helicopter from the Hebridean island of Mull to a hospital on the mainland.
Euan was delivered weighing 10lb 5oz at 4,000ft over Loch Awe.
Two of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brothers and several top security officials were in the delegation in Panjwai in Kandahar province.
One Afghan soldier and three of the militants were killed, police said. The delegation is heading back to Kandahar.
The US soldier said to have carried out Sunday’s attacks is under arrest.
A US military official said that “probable cause” had been found, meaning they could continue to hold the soldier. The unnamed 38-year-old staff sergeant is being held at an undisclosed location.
‘No rush to exits’
A senior Afghan official confirmed to the BBC that an attack “from several directions” had taken place on the delegation, which was there to meet villagers and tribal elders. Afghan forces returned fire.
The BBC’s Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says officials reported a 10-minute gun battle during which Taliban fighters fired from a distance at a mosque where the delegation and civilians were taking part in a prayer service.
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On Thursday, Barack Obama‘s re-election team will release a 17-minute documentary on the president’s first term in office. The film, The Road We’ve Traveled, focuses on Obama’s handling of the economic crisis, the fight for healthcare reform, and, of course, the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.
Obama’s campaign released a trailer for the documentary this weekend, and the clip focuses on the handwringing that took place before the bin Laden raid. In the scene, former President Bill Clinton says, “He took the harder and the more honorable path. When I saw what had happened, I thought to myself, ‘I hope that’s the call I would’ve made.'”
Vice President Joe Biden also offers some dramatic remarks in the trailer, saying, “As he walked out the [war] room, it dawned on me: He’s all alone. This is his decision.”
Not everyone is as thrilled about the movie, or the president, as Clinton and Biden appear to be in the trailer.
Republican Party spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski told USA Today that Americans do not need a movie to be reminded of the president’s record. “Unfortunately, Americans feel Obama’s accomplishments each and every day after President Obama led our country to higher unemployment, record debt, and higher gas prices,” she said.
The documentary is narrated by Tom Hanks and directed by Davis Guggenheim, the award-winning director of Al Gore’s global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth as well as Waiting for “Superman,” which documents the failures of the American education system, and It Might Get Loud, which chronicles the history of the electric guitar.
President Obama attends Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, the same church former president George W. Bush attended during his time at the White House, but voters in the South still continue to question the president’s faith. [See photos of Obama’s re-election campaign.]
A Public Policy Polling study released Monday shows 45 percent of voters in Mississippi and Alabama believe Obama is a Muslim, while only 14 percent correctly identified Obama as a Christian.
The study revealed an especially conservative electorate in the Bible Belt, with 68 percent of respondents identifying as evangelicals and 60 percent rejecting the teaching of the theory of evolution. [Read: Ron Paul Not a Hit with Youth Voters.]
With just two days before the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, the evangelical voters seem to be splitting their votes between former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In Mississippi, 44 percent of voters described themselves as ‘very conservative.’ Romney earned just 26 percent of the evangelical votes in Mississippi, while Gingrich and Santorum earned a combined 67 percent of the evangelical vote. In Alabama, Romney holds 31 percent of the vote at large to Ginrich’s 30 percent and Santorum’s 29 percent. Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul lags behind considerably at 8 percent. In Mississippi, Gingrich holds the lead, earning 33 percent of the vote. Romney follows with 31 percent and Santorum holds at 27 percent. Again, Paul polls poorly, coming in with 7 percent of the vote..
“About all we know for sure about Tuesday’s primaries is that Ron Paul will finish last in them,” says Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Poling. “Beyond that it’s plausible that any of the candidates could finish between first and third in both Alabama and Mississippi.
President Obama isn’t home free in his quest for a second term despite a run of relatively good economic news. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that disapproval of Obama’s handling of the economy is getting worse as a result of rising gasoline prices.
[See a collection of political cartoons on gas prices.]
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the issue of rising gasoline prices, and only 26 percent approve of his work on the issue, the poll finds. Most Americans say higher gas prices are hurting their family finances.
The price per gallon of regular has risen above $3.80 per gallon nationally, with prices going up 3.4 cents per gallon over the last weekend alone, according to a survey for AAA, an organization representing motorists.
Fifty-nine percent of Americans give Obama negative ratings on the overall economy, and 50 percent give him strongly negative ratings, a deterioration by nine percentage points from last month. Earlier this month, Obama seemed to be moving beyond the long-time trouble in the economy.
[How Mother Nature Trumps Rising Gas Prices.]
One reason was the favorable news about job creation and unemployment. As recently as Friday, the government reported that there was a gain of 227,000 jobs in the past month.
But as the poll suggests, perceptions are changing and Americans seem to be growing impatient again that the economy isn’t strengthening at a fast-enough rate.
Not only are public views of Obama’s handling of the economy dropping, so is public approval of how he is handling his job. Only 46 percent now approve and 50 percent disapprove, a switch from early February when 50 percent approved and 46 percent disapproved, according to the Post/ABC poll.
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