Also, statewide August home sales down 30 percent from last year, and Onondaga Creek is tinted pink as part of study.
View full sizePresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of Iran, addresses the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York City on Thursday. The delegations of the United States and other countries walked out during Ahmadinejad's speech.From The New York Times:
UNITED NATIONS — The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued a series of incendiary comments in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday afternoon, noting in particular that some people believe the United States orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks as part of a propaganda campaign to “reverse the declining American economy” and to “save the Zionist regime,” meaning Israel.He also lambasted the world’s nuclear powers for trying to halt Iran’s own nuclear program.
The General Assembly, an annual gathering of world leaders, started formally on Thursday with more than 30 presidents, kings and other heads of state scheduled to speak. Mr. Ahmadinejad’s comments, made just a few dozen blocks from the World Trade Center site, prompting a walkout by representatives of the United States, 27 European nations, the European Union, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Costa Rica.
» Read the story: U.S. Walks Out as Iran Leader Speaks [The New York Times]
» Ahmadinejad accuses US of 'orchestrating' 9/11 attacks to aid Israel [The Guardian]
» Booin' Near The UN: New York Gives Ahmadinejad A Piece of Its Mind [Time magazine]
» Guarding Iran's President Ahmadinejad, the Most Hated Man in New York [ABC News]
In other news:
» Statewide home sales in August down 30 percent from 2009 [Central New York Business Journal]
» Attorneys confer with judge in fatal state Route 31 DWI case involving teen driver [CNYcentral.com]
» Onondaga Creek colored pink as part of study [WSYR-TV Channel 9]
» Big donation for the Food Bank of Central New York [centralny.ynn.com]