Hopes Fade for Binding Climate Deal as Durban Summit Enters Final Stages; Canadian Activists Barred From Durban Summit for Protesting Environment Minister; Tuvalu Minister Urges World Leaders to Save Pacific Nations From Rising Seas; Least Developed Countries, Small Island States Face U.S. Resistance to Binding Climate Deal.
TODAY’S HEADLINES
• Obama Takes on GOP Economic Platform in Fiery Speech
• Occupy Wall Street Activists Take Over Foreclosed Homes
• Activists Hold Sit-Ins to Challenge Corporate Influence on Capitol Hill
• Occupy Encampments Cleared in New Orleans, Hartford
• Mine Owner to Pay $209 Million for West Virginia Disaster
• 19 Killed in Afghan Roadside Bombing
• U.S. Ambassador Returns to Syria
• Mexican Activists Plead for Protection After Another Murder
• Journalist Shot to Death in Honduras
• Obama Directs Agencies to Promote LGBT Rights Abroad