International
Chancellor Merkel: $29.6 billion in aid for Greece planned as bailoutBERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved legislation on Monday that would give Greece euro22.4 billion ($29.6 billion) through three years as part of a wider bailout, as the German government acknowledged that letting Greece go bankrupt could send the euro into a tailspin and hurt Germany’s own economy.Video shows Pakistan Taliban boss alive, threatening attacks KABUL (AP) — The leader of Pakistan’s Taliban appeared in a video Monday threatening attacks against the U.S. three months after American and Pakistani officials believed he died in a U.S. missile strike.Hakimullah Mehsud’s emergence occurred as a suicide bomber attacked the gate to a CIA base where seven agency employees were killed last December.  
National Nashville braces for more flash flooding Monday as river swellsNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville braced for more deaths Monday as the flooded Cumberland River continued to swell, sending muddy water rushing through neighborhoods and into parts of the historic heart of Music City after a destructive line of weekend storms killed 22 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.The flash floods caught the city off-guard, and thousands of residents and tourists were forced to flee homes and hotels as the river rapidly spilled over its banks.Condemned British woman in US loses appeal of murder caseGATESVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 51-year-old British grandmother convicted of murdering a 20-year-old woman and kidnapping her newborn son will soon be executed, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her last appeal on Monday by declining to review her case.Linda Carty, who moved to the U.S. from St. Kitts in the British Virgin Islands, insists she played no role in the May 16, 2001, slaying of her neighbor, Joana Rodriguez, and abduction of Rodriguez’s 4-day-old son, Ray.  
State/localNew Orleans gets ready to guard Lake Pontchartrain from oilNEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans plans to open a staging area at Fort Pike for the effort to protect Lake Pontchartrain from oil advancing from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who took office Monday, said the city is working with St. Tammany Parish, which borders the northern end of the lake.Lake Pontchartrain is connected to the Gulf the Rigolets and the Chef Menteur passes. It was one of the primary conduits of storm surge from the Gulf during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Local officials and environmentalists spent decades cleaning up the lake and in recent years many species of wildlife have returned to its brackish waters. Dolphins are frequent visitors and manatees have visited.Fort Pike, a historic landmark, was built in the early 1800s. 
Search called off for two missing boaters on the Mississippi River NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rescue officials have ended their search for two boaters missing since their pirogue capsized on the Mississippi River.Paul Barnard, civilian search and rescue coordinator, told The Times-Picayune that officials searched Saturday and Sunday morning for the men to no avail.Special La. shrimp season to close at 6 p.m. Tuesday because of spill(AP) — Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says a special shrimp season will end at 6 p.m. Tuesday.Secretary Robert Barham opened the season last Wednesday to let trawlers harvest marketable white shrimp before any possible effects of the oil spill showed up in state waters.—–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]