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Pak clash toll rises to 5
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SARS toll continues to mount Beijing, April 27 Most of the new cases were in Beijing and brought China’s total to 2,914 infections and 131 deaths by yesterday evening, the Health Ministry said. Beijing recorded 126 more probable cases and eight deaths. The Chinese capital has now reported 1,114 probable SARS cases, with 56 deaths and at least 1,000 suspected cases. The official Xinhua news agency said the Beijing authorities had ordered the closure of all karaoke bars, Internet cafes, video game centres, theatres, libraries and cinemas from today. HONG KONG:
The SARS virus has killed 12 more persons in Hong Kong and infected 16 others, including two healthcare workers, the territory’s government said on Sunday. The figures take the death toll from the disease to 133 and cumulative cases to 1,543, the government said in a statement. TAIPEI:
Taiwan will close its borders to visitors from SARS-stricken China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada for two weeks, the government said on Sunday, as the island reported its first known victim of the virus. KATHMANDU: China has barred the movement of tourists from all major entry points bordering Nepal from Saturday to prevent the spillover of the deadly SARS. The government here has said that no confirmed SARS case has so far been reported in Nepal and efforts are on to keep the Himalayan kingdom clean. SINGAPORE: Health Ministers from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) and East Asia have said people suspected of SARS should not be allowed to travel abroad to prevent the international spread of the disease. In a joint statement issued at the end of a special meeting on SARS in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, the ministers also called for strict pre-departure screenings at all exit points for the suspected SARS carriers.
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India ready with relief for Iraq Shanghai, April 27 “I was always of the view that the kind of war that was waged was not going to stop where it has. I believe that there will be far more destabilisation not only in Iraq which is already getting demonstrated,” Mr Fernandes said. “We are waiting to see when exactly it would be possible for us to move it there. We are ready,” he said. Concurring with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s views, Mr Fernandes stressed the thrust of future India-China relations should be to expand bilateral trade and commerce, cultural exchanges, sports and involving greater interaction between the two armed forces.
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Rumsfeld in Gulf for post-war talks Abu Dhabi, April 27 Mr Rumsfeld landed in Abu Dhabi six hours late after his aircraft suffered a mechanical problem on a refuelling stop in Ireland. That caused him to miss a planned visit to Afghanistan today, but officials said he hoped to go there later in the week. Mr Rumsfeld met first with Lieut-General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, chief of the armed forces, and was later due to hold talks with Crown Prince Sheikh Khalifa bin-Zayed al-Nahayan. Washington is studying possible changes in its costly military presence in West Asia, the removal of Saddam being seen as potentially allowing a reduction in the US bootprint in the oil-rich and politically sensitive region. Due to security considerations, Pentagon officials gave no advance indication of whether Mr Rumsfeld would visit Iraq itself, where more than 130,000 US troops are now deployed, and would not name other stops on the trip.
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No. 49 on US list in custody Camp as Sayliyah (Qatar),
April 27 General Amin, a former Iraqi National Monitoring Director, was No. 49 on the US list of the 55 most wanted figures from the regime of Saddam Hussein. No further details were released. The General was among the key figures in Saddam’s weapons programmes and would have detailed knowledge of any illegal armaments, if Iraq still possesses them. KUT (Iraq): US forces have imposed their will on the strategic eastern Iraqi city of
Kut, forcing out a cleric who had taken charge and seizing the Mayor’s office in a symbolic show of power. AP, Reuters |
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Pak clash toll rises to 5 Quetta (Pakistan), April 27 Yesterday, officials said, a paramilitary soldier had been killed and nine persons, including three soldiers, wounded when tribesmen opened fire on troops trying to destroy poppy fields in the Gulistan area, about 50 miles north of Quetta, the provincial capital. Officials said another four civilians, including a boy and a girl, were killed during yesterday’s clashes when a mortar bomb fired by troops hit their house. Provincial Home Secretary Badaruddin Aujan said the firing had stopped today but the situation was still very tense.
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11 injured in Jakarta airport blast Jakarta, April 27 The blast near a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, the second explosion in three days in the country, may be linked to current or pending trials of terror suspects, said top security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. “We cannot afford to relax our alertness ... do not only rely on the police, there should be a national movement to continue to prevent these acts of terrorism,” he said. The police cordoned off the scene of the blast at the domestic terminal of
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Govt, Maoists hold talks Kathmandu, April 27 |
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met leaders of the United Arab Emirates today as he launched a tour to thank regional allies for help in the Iraq war and to discuss possible new American military arrangements in the Gulf.
