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nytimes.com — Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. He was 81.

nytimes.com — ¶ Mirwais, son of Hayatullah Haideri. He was 1 ½ years old and had just started to learn how to walk, holding unsteadily to the poles of the family tent before flopping onto the frozen razorbacks of the muddy floor. ¶ Abdul Hadi, son of Abdul Ghani.

nytimes.com — They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances - efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

lens.blogs.nytimes.com — There are all sorts of reasons why people become New York City police officers. Tradition. Family ties. The pension. Antonio Bolfo's reasoning was simple. It was 2006, and Mr. Bolfo - a born-and-bred New Yorker with a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design - was an animator working on PlayStation games like Guitar Hero and Amplitude.

travel.nytimes.com — "Gimme, gimme your heart ..." they sang to "Hands Up," madly waving their arms. Then, suddenly, the purple sky opened and a hard rain sent them scurrying to a covered bar. Hours after checking into the Club Med in Turks and Caicos, I had yet to acclimate.

nytimes.com — BEIRUT - Syrian opposition activists raised the death toll to 260 in a military assault Saturday on the ravaged central city of Homs, an attack that opposition leaders described as the government's bloodiest in the nearly 11-month-old uprising.

nytimes.com — MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched on Saturday through a city gripped by bitter, Arctic cold, in a third major effort by Russians opposed to 's return to the presidency.

nytimes.com — BEIRUT - Syrian opposition activists raised the death toll to 260 in a military assault Saturday on the ravaged central city of Homs, an attack that opposition leaders described as the government's bloodiest in the nearly 11-month-old uprising.

nytimes.com — Peter Dasilva/European Pressphoto Agency Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. But the co-founder has indirectly done so in the documents for his company's public stock offering later this year. Mr. Zuckerberg, 27, one of the world's youngest billionaires, plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead of the offering.

nytimes.com — Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. He was 81.

economix.blogs.nytimes.com — Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart by Amanda Cox. The Labor Department delivered a pleasant surprise today, reporting that the nation's employers added 243,000 jobs in January, compared with 203,000 in December. That's the fastest job growth in nearly a year. Perhaps even more impressive, the unemployment rate, at 8.3 percent, fell to its lowest level in three years.

nytimes.com — So it was jarring recently when some commanders got e-mails from the boss with photos of vagrants taken by his personal staff. The messages cited "a condition that requires your immediate attention." They specified no action, but officers said those highlighted sometimes later wound up in handcuffs.

nytimes.com — In the car faces yet another threat, as parking lots and garages are being snapped up to make way for all sorts of development, especially luxury condominiums. In most cases, the lost public spaces are not replaced, because zoning rules discourage developers from adding parking to new residential buildings.

nytimes.com — So it was jarring recently when some commanders got e-mails from the boss with photos of vagrants taken by his personal staff. The messages cited "a condition that requires your immediate attention." They specified no action, but officers said those highlighted sometimes later wound up in handcuffs.

nytimes.com — They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances - efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

nytimes.com — Two of the sponsors for part of the Ireland trip were frequent partners of Mr. Gingrich: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - the government-backed housing industry giants that Mr. Gingrich has denounced as he fights to stay in contention against Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries.

nytimes.com — With the darkening approach of another ice-hard Saturday night in western Maine, the man on the telephone was pleading for help, again. His tank was nearly dry, and he and his disabled wife needed precious to keep warm. Could Ike help out? Again?

nytimes.com — GENEINA, Sudan - The said on Friday that the famine that has killed tens of thousands of people in this past year has ended, thanks to a bumper harvest and a surge in emergency food deliveries. But conditions are still precarious, United Nations officials warned, with many Somalis dying of hunger and more than two million still needing emergency rations to survive.

nytimes.com — Dorothy Gilman, an espionage writer whose best-known heroine, Mrs. Pollifax, is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the Central Intelligence Agency and the local garden club, died on Thursday at her home in Rye Brook, N.Y. She was 88. The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease, her family said.

nytimes.com — J. Adam Huggins for The New York Times NEW DELHI — Eight thousand miles from Manhattan, barefoot, shirtless, whip-thin men rippled with muscle were forging prosaic pieces of the urban jigsaw puzzle: manhole covers. Multimedia The latest news and reader discussions from around the five boroughs and the region.J.

nytimes.com — With the darkening approach of another ice-hard Saturday night in western Maine, the man on the telephone was pleading for help, again. His tank was nearly dry, and he and his disabled wife needed precious to keep warm. Could Ike help out? Again?

nytimes.com — "It was one of these ideas that the longer it sits around and the more it is scrutinized, the smellier it becomes," said Dan Gelber, a former member of the State House and the South Florida chairman of No Casinos, an advocacy group that fought the bill.

nytimes.com — In the car faces yet another threat, as parking lots and garages are being snapped up to make way for all sorts of development, especially luxury condominiums. In most cases, the lost public spaces are not replaced, because zoning rules discourage developers from adding parking to new residential buildings.

nytimes.com — Thirty-six years ago, Clark Booth, a young Boston journalist, went to Miami to cover X. Though primarily a television newsman, Booth was on assignment for The Real Paper, an alternative weekly long since closed, for which he often wrote. His plan was to interview the players about the potential consequences of the injuries they suffered playing football.

nytimes.com — Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama's proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan, which would require Congressional approval, will not be fleshed out until later this month, the idea behind it is sound.

nytimes.com — For most Americans, who remember World War II as beginning in 1941, it is necessary to recall that Europe had succumbed to an infatuation with violence long before the United States entered the conflict. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale, compels us to look squarely at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by 's Reich.

nytimes.com — Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. He was 81.

nytimes.com — Reliable, maybe. Future classics? Not likely. But in the past decade, those bargain-price models from the '70s and '80s have been revisited by a generation of enthusiasts who grew up riding in the back seats.

nytimes.com — In the past decade, Japanese cars from the 1970s have joined the ranks of respectable collectibles.

nytimes.com — Judge John Hodgman’s column; Henry Winkler on the meaning of cool.

nytimes.com — And it presents , the perceived front-runner for the Republican nomination, with a difficult choice: whether to embrace a new optimism about jobs or to continue waging a campaign based on the premise that angry voters will blame Mr. Obama for a sinking economy.

nytimes.com — With the darkening approach of another ice-hard Saturday night in western Maine, the man on the telephone was pleading for help, again. His tank was nearly dry, and he and his disabled wife needed precious to keep warm. Could Ike help out? Again?

nytimes.com — They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances - efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

nytimes.com — You're looking for a rousing pop anthem to pump up your troops and underscore your message. There's plenty of music out there, but you have a problem: most of the pop stars, it seems, prefer Democrats. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were forced this week to stop using songs at their rallies after songwriters complained that the campaigns had played the pieces without permission.

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nytimes.com — So it was jarring recently when some commanders got e-mails from the boss with photos of vagrants taken by his personal staff. The messages cited "a condition that requires your immediate attention." They specified no action, but officers said those highlighted sometimes later wound up in handcuffs.

travel.nytimes.com — Brian P. Hall for The New York Times JUST 100 miles west of Los Angeles, I was living a wildlife lover's dream. A friend and I were cut off from civilization, unarmed save for cameras and canteens, standing on an idyllic beach where turquoise waves crash into fine white sand.

nytimes.com — They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances - efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

nytimes.com — Illustration by Sophia Martineck Ramona Ausubel's fantastical and ambitious first novel, "No One Is Here Except All of Us," was inspired by reminiscences and stories told by her Romanian-born grandmother. Ausubel, who grew up in New Mexico, is several generations removed from Nazi-dominated Europe.

nytimes.com — When the nation's pre-eminent advocacy group, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, decided to stop most of its financing of in December, Komen's leaders hoped to quietly distance the foundation from a politically controversial organization that they feared was costing them support and donations, a board member said.

nytimes.com — ¶ Mirwais, son of Hayatullah Haideri. He was 1 ½ years old and had just started to learn how to walk, holding unsteadily to the poles of the family tent before flopping onto the frozen razorbacks of the muddy floor. ¶ Abdul Hadi, son of Abdul Ghani.

nytimes.com — ¶ Mirwais, son of Hayatullah Haideri. He was 1 ½ years old and had just started to learn how to walk, holding unsteadily to the poles of the family tent before flopping onto the frozen razorbacks of the muddy floor. ¶ Abdul Hadi, son of Abdul Ghani.

nytimes.com — There is new data to confirm what generations of New Yorkers have long known in their bones: just as the afternoon rush is about to begin, the taxicabs disappear by the hundreds.

nytimes.com — You're looking for a rousing pop anthem to pump up your troops and underscore your message. There's plenty of music out there, but you have a problem: most of the pop stars, it seems, prefer Democrats. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were forced this week to stop using songs at their rallies after songwriters complained that the campaigns had played the pieces without permission.

nytimes.com — Like most questions asked in our tech-dependent era, these underestimate the power of the human mind. It is surprisingly good at developing "mental maps" of an area, a skill new research shows can grow stronger with use. The question is, with disuse - say, by relying on a GPS device - can we lose the skill, too?

nytimes.com — They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances - efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

nytimes.com — DISTANT as it may now seem, with the Republican race dominating the news and President Obama sitting in the White House, the Democrats are not all that far from the tumult of another nominating contest themselves. No matter what happens on Election Day in November, when Mr. Obama wakes up the next morning, he will no longer be the future of his party.

goal.blogs.nytimes.com — Aberdeen's Pittodrie Stadium has a long history of pioneering. Among its boasts, it was the first soccer stadium in the world to feature a dugout and it was the first all-seat stadium in Britain.

gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com — Most football fans will be forced to spend at least part of the weekend away from televised Super Bowl coverage. For those not willing to endure that sort of pain, the N.F.L. this week released three apps to help.

nytimes.com — On Oct. 31, 2011, Witt learned he had been selected as a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship, a prestigious award given for achievements in academics, athletics and personal character. That same day, Witt, the quarterback on the school's football team, received an e-mail message from the Yale professor in charge of the university committee that handles allegations of sexual misconduct.

nytimes.com — Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they had closed their investigation of without charging him, nearly two years after they began looking into possible crimes related to allegations that he and his cycling teammates participated in illegal doping. The possible crimes being investigated included the defrauding of the government, drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy involving Armstrong and other top cyclists.

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nytimes.com — In Crown Heights, a 36-year-old rabbi's speech remains a little slurred, and he struggles with balance. It has been almost 18 years. In the Bronx, a 17-year-old girl is still learning how to operate a new, slightly damaged version of herself after two years.

nytimes.com — In a rare public disclosure, the Trust confirmed that it had put on hold the candidacy of the quarterback, Patrick J. Witt, upon learning that a fellow student had filed a complaint against him. Elliot F. Gerson, the American secretary of the Trust, made clear to Yale officials on Nov.

nytimes.com — The commissioner, , stopped short of declaring the shooting unjustified but said at a news conference: "At this juncture, we see an unarmed person being shot. That always concerns us." Mayor Michael R.

thelede.blogs.nytimes.com — We want to apologize for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives. - Susan G. Komen (@komenforthecure) February 3, 2012 The Susan G.

nytimes.com — At the Charahi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, a boy stands inside his smoke filled hut. At least two children froze to death at the camp this week.

video.nytimes.com — The Caucus | Voters on the I-4 Corridor Scaling Skyscrapers to Leave Their Mark The Caucus | Strong Debate From Romney They Will Say We Are Not Here Giants-Patriots: Four Years Later

nytimes.com — This week we had a huge political fight about breast cancer. Clearly, we have now hit the point where there's nothing that can't be divided into red-state-blue-state. Nothing. The other day I saw a blog called "I Dig My Garden" that had a forum on whether Republicans could truly love gardening.

video.nytimes.com — The Far Side of the Moon An Interview with Lizzie Phelan Florida Primary | Romney Victory Speech Super Bowl Media Day: Mike's Wrapup Super Bowl Media Day: Small Talk Super Bowl Media Day: Giants Salsa Super Bowl Media Day: Colts Fans Super Bowl Media Day: Special Souvenir Douglas Trumbull on Shooting Action Douglas Trumbull's Virtual Set Studio Super Bowl Media Day: David Carr Fan Super Bowl Media Day: Tom Brady Super Bowl Media Day: Dragon Spirit Super Bowl Media Day: Ross Ventrone Newt Gingrich on Iowa Caucus Night Michel Hazanavicius and Bérénice Bejo The Cast of ‘The Artist' at SAG Awards Kenneth Branagh at the SAG Awards The Debate Heads to the Moon Romney and Gingrich Clash on Immigration Mitt Romney Previews Thursday's Debate Mitt Romney on His Tax Returns Mitt Romney on 'Self Deportation' Gingrich and Romney on Electability Gingrich and Romney on Freddie Mac Santorum Claims Victory in Iowa A Scene From ‘Lula: Son of Brazil' Penelope Ann Miller on the Red Carpet Glenn Close on the Red Carpet Paul Feig on the Red Carpet Tate Taylor on the Red Carpet Jessica Chastain on the Red Carpet The Carpetbagger at the Golden Globes "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" TimesTalks: Kristen Wiig & Paul Feig King of Bain: 30 Second Advertisement Suzan-Lori Parks on 'Porgy and Bess' Former President Jimmy Carter on Egypt Johnny Depp on "Life's Too Short" Newt Gingrich: "Massachusetts Moderate" Familiar Stumps: Red Arrow Diner Familiar Stumps: The Puritan Backroom Familiar Stumps: Riley's Gun Shop

nytimes.com — (Reuters) - Susan G. Komen for the Cure said on Friday it was retreating from a decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, and apologized for a move that thrust the world's largest breast cancer charity into a deeply politicized controversy.

nytimes.com — James Ross, 58, is a founder and managing member of Rossrock, a Manhattan-based private investment firm that focuses on commercial real estate and distressed commercial mortgages. "I realize I am very fortunate, and in fact I am a member of the 1 percent," Mr. Ross wrote in an e-mail.

nytimes.com — In a rare public disclosure, the Trust confirmed that it had put on hold the candidacy of the quarterback, Patrick J. Witt, upon learning that a fellow student had filed a complaint against him. Elliot F. Gerson, the American secretary of the Trust, made clear to Yale officials on Nov.

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — Readers, we would like your help. The Caucus has been busily scouring the most recent "super PAC" filings with the Federal Election Commission, trying to identify donors whose true identities remain shrouded in mystery.

nytimes.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields arrived at the site where protesters with the "Occupy" movement have been staging a demonstration since October, but it was not immediately clear whether they would evict the protesters. The U.S.

nytimes.com — Peter Dasilva/European Pressphoto Agency Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. But the co-founder has indirectly done so in the documents for his company's public stock offering later this year. Mr. Zuckerberg, 27, one of the world's youngest billionaires, plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead of the offering.

nytimes.com — SPICEWOOD BEACH, Tex. - The water that once nourished this central Texas community never traveled far: it came from a fenced-in well at the edge of Lake Travis, down a winding street next to the golf course. These days, the water that flows from kitchen and bathroom faucets takes an extraordinary journey that can be measured not in feet but in miles.

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com — In a Mother Jones post, Tom Philpott has aptly summarized the issues raised by a new Humane Society of the United States investigation and video report on the conditions in which pigs are propagated by two big Oklahoma pork suppliers: The remarkable thing…is how banal it is.

nytimes.com — With the darkening approach of another ice-hard Saturday night in western Maine, the man on the telephone was pleading for help, again. His tank was nearly dry, and he and his disabled wife needed precious to keep warm. Could Ike help out? Again?

nytimes.com — Andrew Trader of Maveron is among those entrepreneurs who wear brilliantly colored and patterned socks.

6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com — This is the August 31, 1946, issue of the New Yorker, famous for containing a single article, John Hersey's report on the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima. I found it at my mother's house on Shelter Island; it was a keepsake of the previous owners, a couple who both worked as book editors.

nytimes.com — DISTANT as it may now seem, with the Republican race dominating the news and President Obama sitting in the White House, the Democrats are not all that far from the tumult of another nominating contest themselves. No matter what happens on Election Day in November, when Mr. Obama wakes up the next morning, he will no longer be the future of his party.

lens.blogs.nytimes.com — There are all sorts of reasons why people become New York City police officers. Tradition. Family ties. The pension. Antonio Bolfo's reasoning was simple. It was 2006, and Mr. Bolfo - a born-and-bred New Yorker with a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design - was an animator working on PlayStation games like Guitar Hero and Amplitude.

nytimes.com — By granting exemptions to laws and regulations that act as a deterrent to securities fraud, the S.E.C. has let financial giants like JPMorganChase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America continue to have advantages reserved for the most dependable companies, making it easier for them to raise money from investors, for example, and to avoid liability from lawsuits if their financial forecasts turn out to be wrong.

thelede.blogs.nytimes.com — As my colleague David Kirkpatrick reports from Cairo, protesters battled police officers in several Egyptian cities on Friday, two days after more than 70 soccer fans were killed following a security lapse at a stadium in Port Said.

lens.blogs.nytimes.com — There are all sorts of reasons why people become New York City police officers. Tradition. Family ties. The pension. Antonio Bolfo's reasoning was simple. It was 2006, and Mr. Bolfo - a born-and-bred New Yorker with a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design - was an animator working on PlayStation games like Guitar Hero and Amplitude.

loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com — Michael Appleton for The New York Times Earlier today I went out of my way to agree with Newt Gingrich-saying he was right to take issue with Florida's unfair winner-take-all primary system. I thought maybe he'd say something nice in return about the Times editorial staff. But I was wrong.

nytimes.com — He is neither a player nor a coach, and yet he is almost always standing behind the head coach, waiting to serve. When the game ends, he jogs off the field at the side of his liege, pausing as a shoulder-to-shoulder witness to the ceremonial handshake with the opposing coach.

nytimes.com — No economic indicator is a political holy grail. The American economy is a hard thing to measure, and initial estimates of economic performance are subject to significant revisions. Noneconomic matters - wars, candidates, scandals and so forth - matter, too.

nytimes.com — Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they had closed their investigation of without charging him, nearly two years after they began looking into possible crimes related to allegations that he and his cycling teammates participated in illegal doping. The possible crimes being investigated included the defrauding of the government, drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy involving Armstrong and other top cyclists.

nytimes.com — NEW YORK - Mitt Romney's thumping victory in the Florida primary this week is bringing us closer to a Romney-Obama face-off in the autumn.

nytimes.com — Syrian government forces used a barrage of mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire in an assault that began Friday night in the central city of Homs, killing at least 200 people and wounding hundreds more, opposition activists reported on Saturday.

economix.blogs.nytimes.com — How many jobs did the American economy add in January? The Labor Department estimated today that the economy gained 243,000 jobs. The department also estimated that the economy lost 2,689,000 jobs in the month. Notions on high and low finance.The difference in the two numbers is in seasonal adjustment.

nytimes.com — DISTANT as it may now seem, with the Republican race dominating the news and President Obama sitting in the White House, the Democrats are not all that far from the tumult of another nominating contest themselves. No matter what happens on Election Day in November, when Mr. Obama wakes up the next morning, he will no longer be the future of his party.

nytimes.com — Although the number killed - 3,021 civilians - represented a relatively small 8 percent increase in casualties over 2010, it was the fifth straight year in which civilian casualties rose. The overall trend suggested that the fighting was worsening and that, for all the talk about peace efforts and a drastic increase in the number of insurgents that had killed and captured, day-to-day dangers for Afghan civilians were rising.

thelede.blogs.nytimes.com — As my colleague Joan Nassivera reports, activists say at least 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the Syrian city of Homs amid a barrage of mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire that began Friday night. A video purported to capture some of the violence Friday night.

nytimes.com — LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong on Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the seven-time winner and his teammates participated in a doping program.

nytimes.com — LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal prosecutors dropped their investigation of Lance Armstrong on Friday, ending a nearly two-year effort aimed at determining whether the seven-time winner and his teammates participated in a doping program.

nytimes.com — The surprising finding answers a longstanding question and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said. And they suspect that other degenerative brain diseases like may spread in a similar way. Alzheimer's researchers have long known that dying, tau-filled cells first emerge in a small area of the brain where memories are made and stored.

nytimes.com — In 1959, as this collection begins, William S. Burroughs was living in Paris at 9, rue Git-le-Coeur, the address that would come to be known as "the Beat Hotel." "Naked Lunch" had just been published by the Olympia Press; because of censorship it would not be published in the United States for another three years.

mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com — Time was, the Super Bowl was the equivalent of a red-carpet premiere for advertisers: big-budget entertainment being shown to the public for the first time. This year, many of the ads (perhaps half) will have been released before Sunday's game in an attempt to take advantage of interest on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as the advertising columnist Stuart Elliott wrote on the Times front page on Friday.

nytimes.com — Joan Barnett Lee/The Modesto Bee, via Associated Press The United States economy gained momentum in January, adding 243,000 jobs, the second straight month of better-than-expected gains. The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, giving a cause for optimism as the economy shapes up as the central issue in the presidential election.

nytimes.com — Syrian government forces used a barrage of mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire in an assault that began Friday night in the central city of Homs, killing at least 200 people and wounding hundreds more, opposition activists reported on Saturday.

nytimes.com — Isaac Brekken for The New York Times LAS VEGAS - When Nevada held its first Republican caucuses in 2008, Philip A. Kantor walked to the library next door to his synagogue. He took in the spectacle, watching others ballot for their chosen candidate.

nytimes.com — Syrian government forces used a barrage of mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire in an assault that began Friday night in the central city of Homs, killing at least 200 people and wounding hundreds more, opposition activists reported on Saturday.