Israel condemns Palestinian reconciliation deal (AP)

JERUSALEM ? Israel's prime minister says it will be impossible to hold peace talks if the Palestinians go through with a new reconciliation deal.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has chosen to "abandon the way of peace" by reaching a power-sharing deal with the Hamas militant group.

Israel and the Palestinians last month held their first peace talks in more than a year. Without any breakthroughs, Abbas has not decided whether to continue those talks.

Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group. In a statement Monday, Netanyahu said: "It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel. You can't have them both."

The reconciliation deal aims to end a rift that has left the Palestinians with rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza since 2007.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ? The main Palestinian political rivals on Monday took a major step toward healing their bitter rift, agreeing that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would head an interim unity government to prepare for general elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Abbas and Khaled Mashaal, head of the Islamic militant Hamas, said they would move forward without delay, though it appears unlikely elections can be held in May, as initially envisioned.

Monday's agreement, brokered by Qatar, seemed to bring reconciliation within reach for the first time since the rivals established separate governments, following Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza in 2007. Previous deals have collapsed amid deep suspicions and intervention by the sides' rival foreign patrons. Abbas is backed by the West while Hamas has been supported by Iran.

Abbas and Mashaal had reached a reconciliation deal last year, but disagreement over who was to head an interim government had delayed implementation. Hamas strongly opposed Abbas' choice of Salam Fayyad, the head of his Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

It remains unclear whether an Abbas-led interim government that is supported by Hamas would be acceptable to the West, which gives hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Palestinians each year. The United States, Europe and Israel consider Hamas a terror organization, and said they would shun any government that includes members of an unreformed Hamas.

Abbas has international backing and Monday's agreement said all Cabinet ministers would be politically independent technocrats. Fayyad, who would have to step down if a transitional government is formed, said he welcomed the agreement. It was not announced when the caretaker government would take office.

Monday's breakthrough came after two days of meetings between Abbas and Mashaal, hosted by Qatar's emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The two Palestinian leaders signed the agreement in a small ceremony at the emir's diwan, or meeting hall, in Doha.

"We promise our people to implement this agreement as soon as possible," Abbas said after the signing.

"We inform our people that we are serious about healing the wounds ... to reunite our people on the foundation of a political partnership, in order to devote our effort to resisting the (Israeli) occupation," added Mashaal.

The agreement also calls for rebuilding Gaza, which has been largely cut off from the world as part of an Israeli-Egyptian border blockade, imposed after the Hamas takeover in 2007.

The blockade was eased in the past year, but not enough to revive the Gazan economy, including the vital construction industry, and many large-scale projects remain on hold.

The Qatari leader urged the Arab world to stand behind the Palestinians' "historical rights," in an apparent reference for full statehood and return of lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.

The Arab world may have to step in if the West refuses to work with an Abbas-led interim government. The Palestinian Authority currently receives about $1 billion a year for its budget in foreign aid, and that money could be halted if the international community deems a new Palestinian government unacceptable.

With the Palestinians moving toward unity, the fate of low-level border talks with Israel also remains uncertain.

Abbas has said that the talks have run their course, as far as he is concerned, and that he would only resume them if Israel made a better offer on where to draw the border with a Palestinian state.

It is not clear whether Israel would negotiate with Abbas as head of a Palestinian unity government. Israeli officials had no immediate comment Monday.

Abbas and Hamas have had bitter ideological differences, with Abbas pursuing a deal with Israel on the terms of Palestinian statehood and the violently anti-Israel Hamas dismissing such talks as a waste of time.

In recent months, those differences seem to have narrowed. Abbas has lost faith in reaching a deal, at least with the current hardline Israeli government, while Mashaal has been prodding Hamas toward a more pragmatic stance that is closer to that of the group's parent movement, the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood.

However, Mashaal represents Hamas in exile and appears to have had differences with the movement's local leadership in Gaza.

Some of the Gaza leaders have resisted his push for reconciliation with Abbas and moving closer to the Brotherhood, Hamas officials have said privately. Still, Hamas' prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, welcomed the Doha deal, and a delegation from Gaza was present during Monday's signing.

Analysts said they believed this deal stood a chance where others had failed.

"There are several indications that this agreement is a serious one, and can be implemented," said Majid Sweilim, a political analyst in the West Bank. "The president at the helm of the government means it will be accepted by the West. The Qatari sponsorship means it's accepted by the West and will be funded by this wealthy Gulf state," he said.

"President Abbas is very interested in ending the split, particularly with the failure of the peace talks, and Khaled Mashaal is getting closer to the PLO position, in harmony with the changes of the Muslim Brotherhoods in the region," Sweilim added.

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Associated Press writer Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City contributed reporting.

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Riding on the side of a busy highway is a dangerous activity. ?With the increase of drivers that text and drive and sharing the road with larger vehicles can lead to tragedy. ?This is exactly what happened to a young Frostproof bicyclist while riding his bike on the side of U.S. 27 in Frostproof, FL.

According to the Lakeland Ledger, around 2:30 p.m. in early January, Daniel P. Smith, 20, of Frostproof, FL, was riding on his bicycle heading south on U.S. 27 in Frostproof, FL. ?Polk County Sheriff?s Office reports indicate that Smith was riding on the shoulder of the road when a semi-truck being driven by Levon S. Garcia, 29, of Haines City, FL, struck Smith and threw him from his bicycle near Streety Lake Road in Frostproof, Fl.

Reports state that Garcia?s truck was carrying a trailer loaded with wide equipment which caused Smith to be struck by the semi-truck.

Smith, the driver of the bicycle, was taken to Lakeland Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead as a result of his injuries.

According to the 2009 Traffic Safety Facts published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 630 pedalcyclists, riders of two-wheel nonmotorized vehicles, were killed as a result of traffic accidents in 2009. ?Another 51,000 were injured in traffic accidents in the same year. ?The 630 fatalities accounted for 2% of all fatalities reported in traffic accidents in 2009. ?This was a 12% drop in the number of fatalities that were reported in 2008, which were 718. ?The same report indicated that 69% of the fatalities that occurred were in urban areas in non-intersection roadways.

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Russia, China veto U.N. resolution telling Assad to quit (Reuters)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) ? Russia and China vetoed on Saturday an Arab- and Western-backed resolution at the U.N. Security Council calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down over his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising.

The setback in diplomatic efforts to defuse the revolt peacefully came after world leaders and Syrian opposition activists accused Assad's forces of killing hundreds of people in a bombardment of the city of Homs, the bloodiest night in 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab country.

Shortly before the Security Council voted, President Barack Obama denounced the "unspeakable assault" on Homs, demanded that Assad leave power immediately and called for U.N. action against Assad's "relentless brutality."

"Yesterday the Syrian government murdered hundreds of Syrian citizens, including women and children, in Homs through shelling and other indiscriminate violence, and Syrian forces continue to prevent hundreds of injured civilians from seeking medical help," Obama said in a statement. "Any government that brutalizes and massacres its people does not deserve to govern."

He and other Western and Arab leaders put unprecedented pressure on Assad's veto-wielding ally Russia to allow the Security Council to pass a resolution backing an Arab League call for Assad to transfer powers to a deputy.

Apart from Russia and China, the other 13 Security Council members voted in favor of the resolution, which would have said that the council "fully supports" the Arab League plan.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday it had not been possible to work constructively with Russia ahead of the vote, even though military intervention in Syria - fiercely opposed by Moscow - had been absolutely ruled out.

"I thought that there might be some ways to bridge, even at this last moment, a few of the concerns that the Russians had. I offered to work in a constructive manner to do so. That has not been possible," she told reporters at the Munich Security Conference.

After what U.S. officials called "vigorous" talks between Clinton and Lavrov, Moscow announced that its foreign minister would fly to Syria in three days to meet Assad.

Mohammed Loulichki, the U.N. ambassador of Morocco, the sole Arab member of the 15-nation council, voiced his "great regret and disappointment" that Moscow and Beijing joined forces to strike down the resolution.

French Ambassador Gerard Araud told the council, "It is a sad day for this council, a sad day for all Syrians, and a sad day for democracy."

Diplomats said that China had been expected to follow Russia's lead. Russia's decision to vote against the resolution came after U.S. and European officials rejected a series of Russian amendments to the draft resolution.

Moscow said before the vote that the resolution was not "hopeless," but its wording needed to be altered to avoid "taking sides in a civil war." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was still possible to reach consensus.

But U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said amendments that Russia had proposed were "unacceptable."

France called the Homs assault a "massacre" and a "crime against humanity." Turkey said hundreds had been killed and the United Nations must act. Tunisia expelled the Syrian ambassador, and the flag above its embassy was brought down.

Death tolls cited by activists and opposition groups ranged from 237 to 260, making the Homs attack the deadliest so far in Assad's crackdown on protests and one of the bloodiest episodes in the "Arab Spring" of revolts that have swept the region.

Residents said Syrian forces began shelling the Khalidiya neighborhood at around 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) Friday using artillery and mortars. They said at least 36 houses were completely destroyed with families inside.

"We were sitting inside our house when we started hearing the shelling. We felt shells were falling on our heads," said Waleed, a resident of Khalidiya.

"The morning has come and we have discovered more bodies, bodies are on the streets," he said. "Some are still under the rubble. Our movement is better but there is little we can do without ambulances and other things."

An activist in the neighborhood contacted by Reuters said residents were using primitive tools to rescue people. They feared many were buried under rubble.

"We are not getting any help, there are no ambulances or anything. We are removing the people with our own hands," he said, adding there were only two field hospitals treating the wounded. Each one had a capacity to deal with 30 people, but he estimated the total number of wounded at 500.

"We have dug out at least 100 bodies so far, they are placed in the two mosques."

A third Khalidiya resident, speaking by telephone with wailing and cries of "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) audible in the background, said at least 40 corpses had been retrieved from streets and damaged buildings.

CONDEMNATION

As news of the violence spread, angry crowds of Syrians stormed their country's embassies in Cairo, London, Berlin and Kuwait and protested in other cities.

Syria denied shelling Homs and said Internet video of corpses was staged. It is not possible to verify activist or state media reports as Syria restricts independent media access.

The official Syrian account was disregarded across the globe, where international condemnation was thunderous.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said: "The Syrian authorities have jumped a new hurdle in savagery: the massacre in Homs is a crime against humanity and those responsible will have to answer for it."

In remarks aimed at Moscow, he said any country that blocked U.N. action would bear a "heavy responsibility in history."

Tunisia announced it was expelling the Syrian ambassador and revoking recognition of Assad's government. The head of a committee of parliamentarians from Arab states said Arab countries should expel Syrian ambassadors and cut ties.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said: "If the Syrian administration is given the understanding that the current situation of hundreds of people dying daily can continue and the U.N. will not take a stance against it, the atmosphere of clashes will increase more."

It was not immediately clear what had prompted Syrian forces to launch such an intense bombardment, just as diplomats at the Security Council were discussing the draft resolution on Syria.

Russia gave conflicting signals about its intentions before the vote. In an interview early Saturday, Lavrov suggested Moscow would cast a veto if the resolution was presented without amendments.

"If they want another scandal for themselves in the Security Council, then we probably cannot stop them," Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying. But as events marched on during the day with many of the world's top security and foreign affairs officials gathered at a conference in Munich, Lavrov said: "We are not saying that this resolution is hopeless."

Russia objected that the resolution contained steps against Assad, but not against his armed opponents, Lavrov said. "Unless you do it both ways, you are taking sides in a civil war."

Clinton told the conference: "As a tyrant in Damascus brutalizes his own people, America and Europe stand shoulder to shoulder. We are united, alongside the Arab League, in demanding an end to the bloodshed and a democratic future for Syria."

Russia has balked at any Security Council language that would open to door to "regime change" in Syria, a rare Middle East ally where Moscow operates a naval base and sells billions of dollars in advanced weapons.

Clinton and Lavrov met at the conference for what a U.S. State Department official called "a very vigorous discussion."

"The secretary made clear that...the United States feels strongly that the U.N. Security Council should vote today."

HOUSES ON FIRE

Video footage on the Internet showed at least eight bodies assembled in a room, one of them with the top half of its head blown off. A voice on the video said the bombardment was continuing as the footage was filmed.

Syria's state news agency SANA denied Homs was shelled, accusing rebels of killing people and presenting them as casualties for propaganda purposes before the U.N. vote.

"The corpses displayed by some channels of incitement are martyrs, citizens kidnapped, killed and photographed by armed terrorist groups as if they are victims of the supposed shelling," it quoted a "media source" as saying.

The Syrian government says it is facing a foreign-backed insurgency and that most of the dead have been its troops. SANA reported funerals of 22 members of the security forces.

Some Syrian activists said the violence was triggered by a wave of army defections in Homs, a stronghold of protests.

Rami Abdulrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Reuters that the death toll had reached 237, with 60 people still missing. His group said 21 other people were also killed in other parts of Syria on Saturday, including 12 in a funeral procession in an outlying district of Damascus.

The opposition Syrian National Council said 260 civilians were killed, describing it as "one of the most horrific massacres since the beginning of the uprising in Syria."

In Cairo, a crowd stormed the Syrian embassy, smashing furniture and setting fire to parts of the building in protest over the Homs bloodshed. The gate of the embassy was broken and furniture was smashed on the second floor of the building.

In London, 150 people hurled stones at the Syrian embassy, smashing windows and shouting slogans. Police said five men were arrested after breaking into the building and another held for assaulting police. Kuwait's KUNA news agency said Syrians broke into the embassy there at dawn, tore down the flag and injured several security guards. Demonstrators burst into the embassy in Berlin, destroying portraits of Assad and his father.

In the cities of Hama and Idlib, activists said hundreds of people took to the streets in solidarity. They chanted in Idlib: "Homs is bombarded, and you are still sleeping?"

(Additional reporting by Joseph Logan, Mariam Karouny and Dominic Evans in Beirut, Patrick Worsnip at the United Nations, Arshad Mohammed and Stephen Brown in Munich, Ahmed el-Shimy in Cairo, Katharine Jackson in Washington and Steve Gutterman in Moscow; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Russian Scientists Poised to be First to Reach Ice-Buried Antarctic Lake

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If they don't reach the lake before they are forced to leave for the winter, the Russian team will be forced to wait two more years to sample water from the lake, and discover what may be living in it

By Andrea Mustain and OurAmazingPlanet ?| February 4, 2012

Russia's Vostok Station, in a photograph taken during the 2000 to 2001 field season. Image: Josh Landis, National Science Foundation

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science. ? ?

Researchers are racing against the fast-approaching bitter cold and total darkness of Antarctic winter to complete a drill hole to Lake Vostok, one of the largest lakes on Earth, and the largest of the nearly 400 ice-buried lakes discovered on the frigid continent so far.

It's an effort that began more than 10 years ago, and one that has been plagued by difficulties ? and this season, the stakes are higher than ever. If they don't reach the lake before they are forced to leave for the winter, the Russian team will be forced to wait two more years to sample water from the lake, and discover what may be living in it.

The project is a product of serendipity. The colossal lake was discovered beneath a pre-existing drill project, and, although the Russians were the first to begin drilling to a hidden Antarctic lake, they may not be the first to sample one. Teams from the United States and the United Kingdom are nipping at their heels, poised to begin drilling with specially designed equipment as early as fall 2012. However, scientists from U.S. and British projects say it is not a race, and there is enormous scientific value in all three projects. [Race to the South Pole in Images]

Lake Vostok, roughly the size of Lake Ontario, lies in the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, and is buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. The lake itself is likely almost as old as the ice sheet that covers it ? around 14 million years old ? and the water within could be 1 million years old, according to rough estimates.

Scientists suspect that Vostok and other Antarctic lakes, long secreted beneath the ice, are home to cold-loving organismsthat have been left to their own evolutionary devices for hundreds of thousands of years.

New life

"I think we'll find unique organisms," said John Priscu, a microbiologist at the University of Montana, and a veteran Antarctic researcher.

Priscu has studied the microbial life inside Antarctica's ice?for decades, and has been corresponding with the Russian team at Vostok through headquarters in St. Petersburg.

The work had been progressing well, Priscu said. The latest press release from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, issued Jan. 13, said that drilling began this season on Jan. 2, progressed by 5.7 feet (1.75 meters) a day, and was halted on Jan. 12.

Priscu said the team stopped to take measurements and to switch drills from a large ice-coring drill to a smaller thermal drill designed to melt through the final 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 meters) of ice that remain. [Stunning Photos of Antarctic Ice]

"This was the plan, but when you're in the field, things can change," Priscu said. He last corresponded with the team on the ice two or three weeks ago.?

"This has never been done before," Priscu told OurAmazingPlanet. "It's a one-of-a-kind drill, a one-of-a-kind borehole, and a one-of-a-kind lake, so I'm sure they're making decisions on the fly all the time."

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Jsis Article Directory ? Contemplate chip tuning for superior efficiency

While using the ever before improving upon personal pc solutions, autos are turning out to get alot more of electronic than mechanical devices. It is caused by integration of personal pc centered technologies when developing and manufacturing cars and trucks. For example, vehicles are now being built-in with programmable components which may continually be programmed relying on requirements for the operator of your car or truck. In such a scenario, chiptuning takes area with modernized cars.

Chip tuning is usually an operation whereby the chip referred to as EPROM inside of an automotive is modified. EPROM means erasable programmable read only memory. This is often a memory storage element which maintains its data regardless of staying driven off. These kinds of memory are usually erased and fitted with a second system as per expected. Erasing belonging to the present plan in an EPROM chip is often carried out by introducing the EPROM to U.V light. U.V mild, or if you ever like ultraviolet radiation, is often a form of electromagnetic light.

The chip is usually made of silicon. U.V light for erasing the memory is commonly sourced from the mercury vapor gentle emitting system. In the event the unique details in a chip is erased, new data is saved while in the chip. The new facts or should you like plan is commonly personalized to get rid of any limits that manage gas injection and in addition to timing of valves.

Chip tuning is generally undertaken to boost performance of the automotive. When cars are created, the chip is usually tailored into a specified level of performance. Customization belonging to the EPROM chips is normally completed to restrict cars to some a number of stage of operation with the intention to meet the lawful criteria or environmental position of different autobus. That is like that the autos may be used any place during the globe with no producing any troubles or devoid of bleaching laws of states.

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Chip tuning could be one thing you will have seen of in many motor vehicle related tales or it could be a motor vehicle maintenance course of action that you just haven?t had time for you to take into consideration doing or making use of. Also, you may not be informed of it that significantly or likely do not ever heard of it before. If you?re in almost any of those circumstances, you ought to remember and acquainted with what it happens to be capable of bringing about and just how it could gain you.

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Philly cardinal dies ahead of child sex abuse trial

PHILADELPHIA?? Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ? the retired Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia whose competence to testify in an upcoming church sex abuse trial was hotly debated in court ? died in his sleep on Tuesday, the church said. He was 88.

Bevilacqua died in his sleep at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, archdiocese spokeswoman Donna Farrell said. He had been battling dementia and an undisclosed form of cancer.

He served as the spiritual leader of the 1.5 million-member Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1988 until his retirement in 2003.

Bevilacqua, who was both a civil and canon lawyer, was sharply criticized but never charged by two Philadelphia grand juries investigating child sex abuse complaints lodged against dozens of priests in the archdiocese.

His death comes just days after lawyers battled in court over his competency as a witness in an upcoming trial of a longtime aide charged with endangering children through priest transfers.

A Brooklyn native, Bevilacqua was ordained in 1949 and became chancellor of the Brooklyn Diocese in 1976. He was named bishop of Pittsburgh in 1983.

As a church leader, he campaigned for a moratorium on the death penalty and often spoke out against homosexuality, birth control and abortion. He headed the influential bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

'A moral evil'
In the 1990s, Bevilacqua advocated successfully for the canonization of Katharine Drexel ? an heiress who took a poverty vow and educated Native Americans and blacks.

Bevilacqua also fought for the poor and disadvantaged, but also attracted his share of controversy.

In 2002, when the church came under fire for clerical sexual abuse, Bevilacqua called homosexuality an "aberration, a moral evil" and suggested gays were more likely to commit abuse.

Under Bevilacqua, the Philadelphia archdiocese tried to weed out gay candidates to the priesthood and expelled any seminarian found to be an active homosexual ? a zero-tolerance policy experts called relatively rare.

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Bevilacqua was born in 1923, in Brooklyn, the ninth of 11 children of Italian immigrants. He was ordained in 1949.

In Philadelphia, he heeded the pope's call for a "New Evangelization," and used novel methods, such a toll-free confession line, to try to bring lapsed Catholics back into the fold.

He was the first cardinal to host a live weekly radio call-in program, and started a website to let the public email questions to priests.

"We are carrying out the wishes of the Holy Father for a new evangelization, reaching out to people like never before," Bevilacqua said after the telephone hotline began in 1998.

Endangering children
He retired in 2003, after he turned 80, and was replaced as archbishop by Cardinal Justin Rigali, who retired last year after the second grand jury report led to the charges against Monsignor William Lynn, three priests and a Catholic school teacher.

Lynn is charged with endangering children by keeping dangerous priests on the job. His lawyers have argued that he took orders from Bevilacqua.

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Bevilacqua had been deposed in late November to preserve his testimony, but defense lawyers said he no longer recognized Lynn and could not remember much of relevance to the case.

As recently as Monday, lawyers battled in Common Pleas Court as to whether Bevilacqua was competent to testify.

The judge stuck to a prior ruling that he was competent to speak.

A jury is set to begin hearing charges in March against the five defendants.

Child abuse controversies have rocked the Catholic Church in the United States in the last decade, and the church has paid out some $2 billion in settlements to victims, bankrupting a handful of dioceses.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46216103/ns/us_news-life/

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Passengers sue cruise line for $460 million

Officials have called off the search for missing people in the submerged part of the sunken ship. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

By msnbc.com news services

GIGLIO, Italy -- Calling an initial compensation offer ?insulting,? an attorney representing Costa Concordia passengers announced Tuesday details of a $460 million class-action lawsuit against the owner of the wrecked cruise ship, The Guardian reports.

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The lawsuit comes more than two weeks after the cruise ship, owned by Costa Cruise Lines, an affiliate of Carnival Corp., capsized Jan. 13 off the coast of Italy, killing 17. At least 16 passengers remain missing and are presumed dead.

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Mitchell Proner, a New York-based personal injury attorney, said his firm of Proner & Proner, along with a coalition of international lawyers, is representing more than 500 passengers. He announced details of the civil lawsuit filed in Florida on Tuesday during a press conference in Genoa, Italy, according to The Guardian. He called Costa Cruise Lines? initial offer of $14,460 to passengers for lost baggage and psychological trauma ?insulting.?

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?They must be held responsible for what they did,? Proner said. ?They intentionally put the passengers at risk. We believe we can win in Florida and we are going to go forward, forward, forward without fear until they don't know what hit them ? sort of like the Concordia.?

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Proner has teamed up with another New York firm, Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik, noted for winning compensation for Ground Zero workers who had health claims related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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The civil lawsuit has been filed in Florida, the home base of Carnival. While Costa Cruise Lines is headquartered in Italy, it is also registered in Hollywood, Fla.

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?At present, it is unknown as to whether the US courts will accept the class-action claim, given that the conditions set forth by the cruise ship tickets specify that litigation must take place in the Italian courts,? according to a blog post on the Proner & Proner website.

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Unlike in Italy, accident victims who file suit in the United States can recover punitive damages if they can prove a defendant acted egregiously, Reuters reports. These damages can soar above the amount of any actual loss. U.S. lawyers who bring successful cases on behalf of injured people can be awarded fees of as much as 30 percent of any recovery.

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Meanwhile, Italian emergency officials say they are calling off a search for missing people in the submerged part of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, due to the danger to rescue workers, according to the Associated Press.

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Italy's Civil Protection agency said Tuesday that technical studies indicated that the deformed hull of the ship created too many safety concerns to continue the search. It said in a statement that relatives and diplomatic officials representing the countries of the missing have been informed of the decision.

A spokeswoman for Civil Protection, Francesca Maffini, stressed that the search for the missing would continue wherever possible, including on the part of the ship above the water, in the waters surrounding the ship and along the nearby coastline.

The Concordia ran aground off the island of Giglio on Jan. 13 when the captain deviated from his planned route and struck a reef, creating a huge gash that capsized the ship.

The ship, precariously resting on one side, will likely be a part of the scenery off the Italian island of Giglio for the better part of a year.

The cruise line is considering bids for the ship's removal and is expected to make a decision -- based on method and costs -- in two months, NBC News has learned. Actual removal could take up to 10 months.

Inclement weather over the weekend shut down search and salvage efforts at the site of the ship wreck off the Tuscan coast. High winds and rough seas delayed plans to begin pumping 500,000 gallons of fuel off the Concordia. That effort will likely continue midweek.?A barge carrying pumping equipment that was attached to the capsized ship was withdrawn after strong winds and high waves worsened conditions for the divers working on the huge wreck.

The operation, aimed at preventing an environmental disaster in the pristine waters off a marine nature reserve, could take up to one month to complete.

Residents of Giglio have been circulating a petition to demand that officials provide more information on how the full-scale operations can co-exist with the important tourism season. At the moment, access to the port for private boats has been banned and all boats must stay at least one mile from the wrecked ship, affecting access to Giglio's only harbor for fishermen, scuba divers and private boat owners.

"We are really sorry, we would have preferred to save them all. But now other needs and other problems arise," said Franca Melils, a local business owner who is promoting a petition for the tourist season. "It's about us, who work and make a living exclusively from tourism. We don't have factories, we don't have anything else."?

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The Costa Concordia, carrying more than 4,200 passengers, ran aground Jan. 13 off the coast of Italy. At least 15 people died in the accident, and rescuers continue to search for others missing.

Carnival Corp. said on Monday that it will take a hit between $155 million and $175 million against fiscal 2012 net income because of the Concordia wreck. In an annual report filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Carnival also said it significantly reduced its marketing activities after the wreck.

"Costa's booking activity is difficult to interpret because of the significant re-booking activity stemming from the loss of the ship's use and related re-deployments," the company said. "However, we believe it to be down significantly. Despite these recent trends, we believe the incident will not have a significant long-term impact on our business."

Related: Passengers on wrecked ship offered $14,460

The Concordia's captain, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest, suspected of causing the accident by steering too close to shore, and faces charges of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship before the evacuation was complete.

The ship's first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, has also been questioned by prosecutors but the company itself has not been implicated in the investigation at this stage.

NBC News, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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