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Sales of previously owned homes in January stumbled considerably for the second consecutive month. The National Assn. of Realtors in Washington said Friday that sales fell 7.2%.

January sales were the lowest since June but 11.5% higher than in January 2009.

Previously owned homes make up the bulk of the nation’s buying activity. Economists said that last month’s sales drop from December was another sign the market is critically weak and unlikely to recover robustly this year as the potential for more foreclosures looms.

Friday’s report follows news this week that sales of newly built homes hit a record low in January and that mortgage applications plunged to their lowest level in nearly 13 years.

The poor-sales data on all these fronts indicated that Congress’ attempt to stimulate the market by extending and expanding a home-buying tax credit through April was having little to no effect on consumer sentiment, economists said.

The credit was extended in November as it neared its expiration and buyers were flooding the market, boosting sales.

“The tax credit wore off,” said economist Christopher Thornberg, a principal with Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. “Now that the tax credit has been extended, it is no longer functional.

“We will get a push close to the end of it, probably in March.”

He said sales could plunge after the tax credit expires April 30.

The Realtors group’s data are based on its proprietary multiple listing service. The group reports an annual sales pace every month that is adjusted to take into account seasonable variations.

Last month’s sales pace was 5.05 million units for the year, the Realtors group said, meaning that many units would be sold if January’s rate carried through for the rest of the year.

The dour housing news came as the government reported that the U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster pace in the final three months of 2009 than estimated.

Gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 5.9% in the fourth quarter, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. That was up 0.2% from the previous estimate reported by the department.

Private inventory investments, exports, personal consumption expenditures and nonresidential fixed investment were the biggest contributors to that growth, even as imports increased.

Most of that growth was related to business inventory restocking, a temporary factor that is expected to fade in the coming months.

In the Realtors group’s report, the number of existing homes for sale at the end of January fell 0.5% to 3.27 million. That represents a 7.8-month supply at the current sales pace, up from a 7.2-month supply in December. Raw inventory is at its lowest level since March 2006.

Washington policymakers have taken several measures to support the housing market, keeping interest rates low and insuring mortgages for many buyers through the Federal Housing Administration. Last year the Obama administration launched a $75-billion effort to reduce mortgage payments for troubled borrowers, though that program has struggled to make mortgage relief permanent.

Foreclosure properties and other distressed homes remain a big part of the market, accounting for 38% of sales last month and contributing to a drop in prices. The national median price was $164,700 in January, an 8% decline from $178,300 in December, but unchanged from a year earlier.

“For people trying to sell their homes, they are going to be competing with distressed home sales,” said Celia Chen, a housing economist with Moody’s Economy.com. “In order to really understand or predict when the housing market will recover we need to have a good handle on when foreclosures are going to hit the market, and I think there is a lot of uncertainty around that.”

Regionally, previously owned home sales fell 5.2% in the West, 7.4% in the South, 6.9% in the Midwest and 10.9% in the Northeast.

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iranian authorities on Tuesday struck back at international condemnations of the government’s crackdown against the opposition, summoning the British ambassador to the Iranian Foreign Ministry and accusing the United States and Britain of orchestrating violent protests that rocked the country earlier this week.

Speaking to reporters, the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, said countries including the United States and Britain had miscalculated in criticizing the government’s response to the demonstrations, which left at least eight people dead.

“Some Western countries are supporting this sort of activities. This is intervention in our internal affairs. We strongly condemn it,” he said, according to The Associated Press. “In this regard, the British ambassador will be summoned today.”

The British government said its ambassador to Iran, Simon Gass, would respond “robustly” to any criticism and would reiterate calls for Iran to respect the rights of its citizens.

The conservative speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Ali Larijani, rebuked American and British officials for their “disgraceful comments” about the demonstrations, according to the state-run PressTV. The criticisms of Iran’s action were “disgustingly vivid that they clarify where this movement stands when it comes to destroying religious and revolutionary values,” he said.

Opposition Web sites quoted by news agencies said Tuesday that authorities had detained the sister of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday night, adding to the toll of arrests following the Sunday’s protests.

Iranian authorities arrested at least a dozen opposition figures on Monday, including former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, the human rights activist Emad Baghi and three top aides to the former presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi, Iranian news sites reported.

All told, more than 1,500 people have been arrested nationwide since Sunday, including 1,110 in Tehran and 400 in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the pro-opposition Jaras Web site reported.

In Hawaii, where he is on vacation, Mr. Obama condemned the violence against protesters and called for the release of those “unjustly detained.”

“For months, the Iranian people have sought nothing more than to exercise their universal rights,” Mr. Obama told reporters. “Each time they have done so, they have been met with the iron fist of brutality, even on solemn occasions and holy days.”

He added that the protests in Iran had nothing to do with the United States or other foreign countries. “It’s about the Iranian people, and their aspirations for justice, and a better life for themselves,” he said. “And the decision of Iran’s leaders to govern through fear and tyranny will not succeed in making those aspirations go away.”

The streets of Tehran were largely quiet on Monday and early Tuesday, as citizens absorbed the shock of Sunday’s violence. Thirteen people were reported to have been killed and many more wounded in street battles in cities across the country between security forces and protesters, who fought back more fiercely than ever before. The government said Monday that eight people had been killed in Tehran, and opposition Web sites catalogued five deaths in other cities.

The government said that it was holding the bodies of five protesters, including a nephew of Mr. Moussavi, the state-run IRNA news agency reported, in what appeared to be an attempt to prevent funerals that could turn into more demonstrations. The bodies were being held pending autopsies.

The authorities’ use of deadly force on the Ashura holiday drew a fierce rebuke on Monday from the opposition cleric and reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who noted that even the shah had honored the holiday’s ban on violence.

“What has happened to this religious system that it orders the killing of innocent people during the holy day of Ashura?” Mr. Karroubi said in a statement, according to the Jaras Web site.

Mr. Karroubi, a fierce critic of the government, was attacked Sunday by plainclothes security officers, and other attackers later smashed the front windshield of his car, the Sahamnews Web site reported.

Government supporters blamed opposition members for the violence and called for their prosecution. The Revolutionary Guards issued a statement calling violence by the protesters a “horrible insult to Ashura” and called for “firm punishment of those behind this obvious insult,” the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

Large groups of police officers stood guard in several central Tehran squares on Monday morning, witnesses said. At least three subway stations were closed, apparently to prevent any further gatherings.

Still, there were reports of continuing scattered protests on Monday in Tehran’s Haft-e-Tir square and other areas, Jaras reported.

The police fired tear gas to disperse a group of mourners who gathered outside the Tehran hospital where the body of Mr. Moussavi’s nephew, Ali Moussavi, had been held, the Nowrooz Web site reported. A prominent opposition figure with ties to the Moussavi family said Ali Moussavi had been killed by assassins.

Family members said Mr. Moussavi’s body disappeared from the hospital overnight, and on Monday IRNA reported that his body and four others were being held while investigations were carried out.

A 27-year-old journalist who was reporting on the street clashes on Sunday was reported missing. The reporter, Redha al-Basha, who was working for Dubai TV, has not been heard from, according to a statement issued by Dubai TV. Mr. Basha was last seen surrounded by security forces in Tehran, witnesses said.

The group Human Rights Activists in Iran said that the 1,100 people arrested in Tehran were being held in Evin Prison, the Gooya Web site reported.

Among those arrested in Isfahan was the son of a senior cleric, Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri. Ayatollah Taheri is the former Isfahan representative of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his son Muhammad is married to the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran’s 1979 revolution.

Ayatollah Taheri tried last week to lead a memorial service for the dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died Dec. 20. The arrest of his son was viewed as an effort by the authorities to pressure the ayatollah.

Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Toronto, and Peter Baker from Honolulu.

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The term of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been indefinitely extended until new elections are held.

The decision was made at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Parliament’s mandate was extended too.

The elections were due in January but have been postponed over differences between rival factions Fatah and Hamas.

Hamas, which is boycotting an election, says the extension is unconstitutional.

PLO officials say they are acting to prevent a political vacuum.

Officials are hoping that reconciliation talks between Mr Abbas’s Fatah movement and Hamas will eventually result in elections in June, but little progress has been made.

Mr Abbas called elections for 24 January, 2010, but said he would not stand for re-election, citing frustration with attempts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

His position as Palestinian Authority (PA) president was extended for a year in January 2009, after his four-year mandate ran out, but since then Hamas, which controls Gaza, has argued that he no longer has legitimacy.

The term of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the PA’s parliament, was also due to run out in January 2010.

On Wednesday the PLO voted to extend it too, even though the legislative body has not been functioning since July 2007, as Fatah and Hamas have been unable to agree how to handle the fact that several of its Hamas members are in Israeli jails.

On Tuesday, Mr Abbas said a peace deal could be reached in six months, if Israel were completely to freeze construction of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Mr Abbas said he had made the suggestion in phone calls to Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, but had not yet received an answer.

Israel has rejected Palestinian and American demands for a total freeze, although it has scaled back construction in the West Bank.

Israel has rejected Palestinian and American demands for a total freeze, although it has scaled back construction in the West Bank.

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COPENHAGEN — The United States for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases that would involve both President Barack Obama’s administration and the U.S. Congress to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Speaking Wednesday at a U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson described her agency’s decision that greenhouse gases should be regulated as complementary to U.S. legislation — not an effort to supplant the work of Congress.

“This is not an either/or moment. This is a both/and moment,” she told more than 100 people who packed a U.S. meeting room within the conference center.

The EPA on Monday gave the president a new way to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions when the agency determined that scientific evidence clearly shows they are endangering Americans’ health. That means the EPA could regulate those gases without the approval of the U.S. Congress.

The EPA decision was welcomed by other nations in Copenhagen that have called on the U.S. to boost its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The full U.S. Senate has yet to take up legislation that cleared the Senate environment committee and calls for greenhouse gases to be cut by 20 percent by 2020, a target that was scaled back to 17 percent in the House after opposition from coal-state Democrats.

“We need legislation” to remove any uncertainty that businesses might have, Jackson added. “The reason for legislation is to take that question out of their minds. … We will work closely with our Congress to pass legislation to lower our greenhouse gases more than 80 percent by 2050.”

Jackson said the U.S. would take “reasonable efforts” and also “meaningful, common sense steps” to cut emissions, but didn’t provide specifics.

Negotiators on Wednesday, meanwhile, worked to bridge the chasm between rich and poor countries over how to share the burden of fighting climate change, and the top U.S. climate envoy, Todd Stern, highlighted the Obama administration’s efforts to curb greenhouse emissions.

“We are under no illusion this is going to be easy,” Stern said. “But I think an agreement is there to be had if we do this right.”

Lumumba Di-Aping of Sudan, the head of the 135-nation bloc of developing countries, said the $10 billion a year that has been proposed to help poor nations fight climate change paled in comparison to the more than $1 trillion already spent to rescue financial institutions.

“If this is the greatest risk that humanity faces, then how do you explain $10 billion?” he said. “Ten billion will not buy developing countries’ citizens enough coffins.”

China, which has recently overtaken the United States as the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, strongly protested a blunder that prevented a top diplomat from entering the vast Bella Center where the 192-nation U.N. climate conference is being held.

Su Wei, the director general of China’s climate change negotiation team, told the meeting he was “extremely unhappy” that a Chinese minister was barred from entry three days in a row.

Su called the incident “unacceptable” and expressed anger that U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer was not informed. De Boer pledged to investigate and “make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Meanwhile, small island nations, poor countries and those seeking money from the developed world to preserve their tropical forests were among those upset over competing draft texts attributed to Denmark and China outlining proposed outcomes for the historic Dec. 7-18 summit.

Some of the poorest nations feared too much of the burden to curb greenhouse gases is being hoisted onto their shoulders. They are seeking billions of dollars in aid from the wealthy countries to deal with climate change, which melts glaciers that raise sea levels worldwide, turns some regions drier and threatens food production.

Diplomats from developing countries and climate activists complained the Danish hosts pre-empted the negotiations with their draft proposal, which would allow rich countries to cut fewer emissions while poorer nations would face tougher limits on greenhouse gases and more conditions on getting funds.

“When a process is flawed then the outcome is flawed,” Raman Mehta, ActionAid’s program manager in India, said of the Danish proposal. “If developing countries don’t have a concrete indication of the scale of finances, then you don’t get a deal — and even if you do, it’s a bad deal.”

A sketchy counterproposal attributed to China would extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which required 37 industrial nations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by an average 5 percent by 2012, compared with 1990 levels.

The Chinese text would incorporate specific new, deeper targets for the industrialized world for a further five to eight years. However, developing countries including China would be covered by a separate agreement that encourages taking action to control emissions but not in the same legally binding way.

Poorer nations believe the two-track approach would best preserve the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” recognized by the Kyoto treaty.

The U.N.’s weather agency unveiled data Tuesday showing that this decade is on track to become the hottest since records began in 1850, with 2009 the fifth-warmest year ever. The second warmest decade was the 1990s.

In Rome, Greenpeace activists climbed halfway up the Colosseum at dawn Wednesday to press for a historic climate deal at the Copenhagen conference.

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WASHINGTON — The senior American general in Afghanistan is predicting success for President Barack Obama’s revamped war strategy and telling Congress it’s the best available approach, even though it differs from what he originally sought.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and his political counterpart, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, told House and Senate committees Tuesday that they fully support the Obama plan, which does not reflect fully either man’s initial preferences.

To probe further, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday was calling Eikenberry and Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander for the greater Middle East, to jointly testify on the new U.S. approach.

McChrystal told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that he believes the Taliban can be defeated; he defined that as weakening the militants to a point that they no longer are capable of threatening the Afghan government. His first objective, though, is to reverse the momentum the Taliban have acquired in recent years.

McChrystal cautioned against expecting immediate results, but he said progress should be evident within a year.

“Ultimate success will be the cumulative effect of sustained pressure,” he said.

Obama has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. While endorsing the president’s plan, the general said he had not recommended Obama’s 18-month deadline for beginning a pullout and had preferred that more fresh forces be sent in.

Eikenberry, who had privately expressed doubts about sending a large number of additional troops, stressed the importance of widening the anti-Taliban effort to include more U.S. and NATO civilian contributions to stabilizing the country and building the credibility of the central government.

The ambassador offered words of caution about the outlook for turning around the war. “Our forces and our civilians are trying to help a society that simultaneously wants and rejects outside intervention,” he said.

He also spoke cautiously of the Afghans as partners.

“In spite of everything we do, Afghanistan may struggle to take over the essential tasks of governance,” he said, adding, “If the main elements of the president’s plan are executed, and if our Afghan partners and our allies do their part, I am confident we can achieve our strategic objectives.”

In Afghanistan on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates toured NATO’s new joint command center at the Kabul airport.

“Getting this place gives us new opportunities, especially now that there are new forces coming,” he said. “We’ve got all the pieces coming together to be successful here.”

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Not five minutes after I meet Canadian design gurus Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados in Toronto’s famous pedestrian village, a small pug sporting a Dolce And Gabbana cardigan runs toward us. The event serves as the perfect prelude for our day in the Distillery, lovingly described by Steven and Chris as stylish, charming and a  always a little unexpected.

Over the past seven years Steven and Chris— whose former show, Designer Guys, made them a household name—attest to having spent countless hours inside the gates of 55 Mill Street. These days when they’re not shooting their wildly popular CBC talk show, Steven and Chris, they invariably come here in search of inspiration tucked carefully within this 13-acre Victorian hideaway.

“I think a lot of people just don’t know that this place is always changing,” says Steven as we grab a green tea from Balzac’s Coffee Roastery. “We come down so frequently because after two weeks you’ll find that there’s totally different merchandise. There’s a great sense of movement here”. Chris chimes in that as long-time Eastenders and proud representatives of the ever-evolving world of design, the transformative face of the Distillery is, literally and figuratively, right up their alley.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Distillery, as small teams of men string lights around evergreens that line the main Trinity Street drag.

“This is definitely the best time of year to come to this area,” he adds. “There are always amazing events going on and the shop owners really go all out with their products with the holidays around the corner.” One such store is the Vintage Gardener, the first stop we make on our journey.

“This is our favourite store for mood,” says Chris of the tiny little space filled to the brim with plants and garden pieces. “It’s like something out of a fairytale, or like being  in some lovely person’s garden shed”

A few steps northwest bring us to Bergo Designs in the Link Building.

“We featured this on our show once” says Steven holding up a glossy, bright red human figure, whose been impaled with a handful of large kitchen knives. In theory, the item is a knife-rack, but Chris is quick to explain that it’s so much more. “We talked to a woman who had gone through a tough divorce and her best friend gave her this as a gift and told her to think of her ex-husband everytime she used it. She told us that the item made her laugh so much that she, over time, found it easier to reconcile with her ex. Now they’re great friends!”

As we continue along on our journey everything we see seems to remind the two long-time partners of another Distillery tale. “I remember we walked into the Corkin Gallery and on display there were these incredible charcoal drawings of wolves. I still think it was the best show we’d ever seen”.

The pair agree that they should do a Steven and Chris spotlight on galleries, as we walk into the Artscape Studios building — where local artists keep shop on two floors with winding hallways.The space is extremely open concept – with glass walls enabling passersby to gaze at the artists in action as they fashion the very products that will line their shelves. 

The guys are especially interested in a Tanya Kirouac encaustic painting on a gallery wall. The forest scene depicted on the canvas is made entirely of pigmented beeswax and its smell couldn’t be more fitting.

“We love that you can actually speak to the artists here,” says Steven. 

By this time we’re hungry and we begin to head west towards Distillery lane. En route, Steven and Chris insist that we peek into the Stone Distillery Fermenting Cellar, where a seminar appears to be in session. “There’s always something different going on here,” says Chris. “And it’s a stunning and totally unique venue for parties and weddings.” 

The cellar space is huge, with massive stone walls and gorgeous windows hat cast a gothic light on scattered visitors. A crowd of 20 or so are sitting by a stage in the southeast corner, listening to a young man host a hands-on workshop about do-it-yourself wreath making.

After browsing through many a vendor’s booth, we can no longer ignore our rumbling tummies. The Taste of Quebec beckons us with its aromas of baking bread and promises of fine cheese.

The owner Thom Sokolanski doesn’t let us down. Trained in France, he treats us to an  over-the-top tasting session, offering samples of fromage that go for more than $250 a wheel. He whispers that his Quebecoise sugar pies are a season specific steal.Chris proclaims that this is now his favourite store. He’s especially fond of Thom’s friendly approach—an attitude that makes the Distillery the perfect neighbourhood. 

“It’s all about  the atomsphere ,” says Steven as Chris nods in agreement.

I choose to believe them because, after all, they are the experts.

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Pop star Madonna has been confirmed as the new face of high-end fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana.

Stefano Gabbana, one of the Italian designer duo, is thrilled that the singer has taken part in a campaign for the fashion house, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“The campaign with Madonna is beautiful. I can’t say anything about it. We are at the last shot… Madonna is simply beautiful… We’re very, very tired but very happy as well… To have Madonna in our campaign is a dream come true,” Gabbana posted on micro-blogging website Twitter.

The 51-year-old star will appear in the label’s spring 2010 campaign, advertising their womenswear collection. The advertisement will be Sicilian-themed and was shot in Brooklyn, New York, by fashion photographer Stephen Klein.

Earlier, Madonna has campaigned for Louis Vuitton, while her boyfriend Jesus Luz also campaigned for Dolce and Gabbana.

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