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Suicide bomber’s car kills six in Iraq Fallujah (Iraq), October 28 The blast occurred when a pick-up truck, belonging to Fao construction company, exploded about 150 metres from the police station in Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, where US soldiers come regulary under attack. Bodies were severely charred and mutilated. The blast came one day after five suicide car bombings in Baghdad killed 43 and wounded more than 200, according to hospitals contacted by
AFP. According to Reuters, police officers said a small car driven by one man exploded near the main police station, outside a boys’ secondary school. —
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Arabs blame Baghdad bloodbath on USA Cairo, October 28 They agreed that Washington had only itself to blame for the chaos and said the USA had failed Iraqis by not providing enough security to prevent the devastating attacks that killed more than 30 persons yesterday, the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramzan. “Iraq, on the first day of Ramzan, was the scene of a bloodbath and occupation forces are directly responsible for this because of the instability they created in Iraq,” wrote the daily al-Khaleej, published in the UAE. But, like others, the daily said it feared the bombings, that included an attack on the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad, would only extend the US occupation that many in the region see as a thinly veiled act of colonialism. Saudi Arabia’s leading al-Riyadh newspaper said the USA had to give up its dreams of controlling Iraq and the whole region or face further attacks. “The political bubble has burst in Baghdad. Will it be followed by other explosions or will the voice of reason prevail over the American dream of hegemony?” the Arabic daily wrote. Some were outspoken against those who carried out the attacks that cost the lives of dozens of Iraqis and wounded 230 by targeting the Red Cross and three police stations. “What happened yesterday in Baghdad is a crime by all measures, but it is more disgraceful than a crime: it is a deadly political mistake,” wrote Lebanon’s as-Safir daily. Yemeni journalist Fares Ghanim said US mistakes were driving people to despair. “If the security situation continues, it will provide a fertile ground for Muslim extremists who want to take revenge on Americans,” he said. —
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21 killed in Nepal clashes Kathmandu, October 28 Six Maoists were shot dead by security forces in Nawalparasi district, while in Dhanusha district, three rebels were killed when they tried to ambush a patrol party yesterday, Radio Nepal reported today. In the Malakheti area of Kaliali district, six villagers were killed yesterday when they tried to repulse a Maoist attack, the report said, adding two Maoists were killed when their own socket bombs exploded. In another incident at Biruwatar village of Gorkha district yesterday, four security personnel, including an SP, belonging to the Armed Police Force (APF) were killed when an underground bomb installed by the Maoists exploded, a police release said today. APF SP Surya Kumar Shrestha and three other APF personnel who were killed in the ambush trap laid by the guerrillas were on a routine patrol. —
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Pak to build Iran gas line sans India Islamabad, October 28 Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Nauraiz Shakoor said Pakistani and Iranian technical experts would meet in about two months to discuss the route and other details related to laying a pipeline between the two countries. “It is now an Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline without India,” Shakoor said. The land route for a gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan has been under discussion for a decade, but has been on hold because of New Delhi’s cool response to the project. Despite Islamabad’s assurances, India has been wary of building the pipeline across rival Pakistan with which it has fought three wars since 1947. The two nuclear-armed foes went to the brink of another war in 2002, although relations have thawed in recent months. —
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India to be third biggest economy by Washington, October 28 China, India, Russia and Brazil can outrank the combined economic might of today’s Group of Six — the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the UK — by the middle of this century, says the report quoted by the Wall Street Journal. “The implication is that the economic and financial power is going to shift away from us,” says Dominic Wilson, a senior Goldman economist and one of the authors of the report, which sees the USA as No 2 by 2050, sandwiched between China and No 3 India. In making its forecasts, Goldman doesn’t focus on the four developing nations’ current economic-growth rates, even though these certainly haven’t been too shabby. Instead, using demographic projections and a model of capital accumulation and productivity trends, it calculates likely gains in gross domestic product and income per capita, and currency movements. Over the next 50 years, the model assumes that GDP will rise at an average annual clip of 3.8 per cent in Brazil, nearly 6 per cent in India, 4.7 in China, and 3.2 in Russia, against the US’ projected 1.7 per cent. It also assumes that the value of the four nations’ currencies will rise. —
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Indian American leaves Bush Admn Washington, October 28 He is now senior associate with the Global Policy Programme of the Washington—based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mumbai-born Mr Tellis, considered one of America’s foremost strategic experts, left the National Security Council (NSC) where he worked for just two months as special assistant to the president and director of strategic planning and Southwest Asia. He cited health reasons for leaving the NSC, where he was inducted on the recommendation of former ambassador to India Robert Blackwill. “I had health problems and nothing else when I quit the NSC. I actually enjoyed working with the NSC people, but then I had to take care of my health,” Mr Tellis said. He agreed that the NSC job was a “taxing one” with long hours, “almost a 24-hour job, you may call it”, and he could not have done justice to what he had been doing at the NSC if he had to devote more attention to his health problem, which he said includes a strict exercise regimen and regular medication over the next couple of years. He also denied that there was any ill feeling at the NSC or any parting of ways with Mr Blackwill. “I have excellent relations with the Ambassador and if I get over my immediate problems concerning my health, and do get another chance to work with Mr Blackwill, I would be more than happy to serve the Ambassador in any way I can,” Mr Tellis said. —
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Talks with India constructive, says China Beijing, October 28 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhang Qiyue said the talks between special representatives of the two countries — Indian National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and Vice-Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo — were held in a “cordial’’ and “cooperative’’ atmosphere. The talks were held on October 23 and 24 in New Delhi. Ms Zhang said the two sides not only exchanged views on the boundary issue but also agreed to meet again at a date acceptable to both sides in Beijing. During the meeting, India and China agreed to peacefully settle the decades-old dispute that has bedevilled their relations.—
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The woman behind the successful Jindal Washington, October 28 A newspaper in Louisiana said it is not just Bobby who is a high achiever but Supriya Jolly Jindal was also brilliant as a student at Tulane University majoring in chemistry. She underplayed her intelligence to her friends, her college friend Lisanne McDearman, a former CNN auditor who’s now an Atlanta wedding planner said, according to a report in the Lafayette Daily Advertiser, published from Louisiana. “She would turn in a chemical engineering project and say, ‘I’m sure I failed,’ and then she would get the highest grade in the class,” said Lisanne, adding that “We would laugh at her about it.” McDearman says Supriya Jindal is “extremely intelligent, but so down-to-earth about it, so humble.” Now the 31-year-old underplays how she handles her chemical engineering job with Albemarle Corp., her 21-month-old daughter, pregnancy with a second child, helping in her husband’s political campaign and working on a doctoral degree. “I’m just like a lot of other working moms,” she said. “You have to juggle a lot of things during the day to make it work. We’re lucky we have the support of our families.” Unlike many other working moms, one of the things she juggles is speaking engagements on her husband’s behalf. Her most recent appearance was an address to the Acadiana Republican Women’s Association in Lafayette. She doesn’t consider herself a politician’s wife because “Bobby’s not a traditional politician. He’s never run for office before and he never envisioned running for an elected office.” Bobby Jindal has emerged as an improbably strong contender for Governor of this conservative southern state and the November 15 poll will decide whether this over-achieving America-born son of Indian immigrants will become the only Indian American to have won Louisiana’s highest elected office. Asked whether she will continue working if her husband wins the November 15 election, she said: “We’ll see how it goes one day at a time.” She laughs when asked what kind of influence she has over her husband’s political decisions. “We talk in the evenings,” she said, “but we don’t really get into issues. Our typical conversations are about Selia (their daughter) and our personal lives.” Occasionally, the two discuss strategy “but he makes his own decisions at the end of the day”, she said. —
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Kurt Schork prize for Indian journalist New York, October 28 Krishnakumar, who works for Frontline magazine, published biweekly from Chennai, and Ruth, freelance reporter for the New York Times magazine, were chosen by an international panel of judges. The award, established in memory of Kurt Schork who was killed in a military ambush while on assignment for Reuters in May, 2000, in Sierra Leone, comprises a prize money of $ 10,000. The award is given to a reporter in a developing country or a nation in transition and to a freelance journalist of any nationality covering international news. —
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ABC reconstructs Kennedy killing New York, October 28 A two-hour special on the event is scheduled to air on ABC News in the USA on November 20, two days before the 40th anniversary Kennedy's killing. "It leaves no room for doubt," said Tom Yellin, executive producer of the special, narrated by Peter Jennings. He called the results of ABC's study "enormously powerful. It's irrefutable." The conclusion that Oswald alone shot Kennedy during a motorcade in Dallas mirrors that of the Warren Commission, the official government inquiry into the assassination. Even today, public opinion surveys find that less than half of Americans don't agree with that conclusion, said Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas. —
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Filmstar jailed for beating up ex-girlfriend Los Angeles, October 28 Sizemore, 48, the star of such hit movies as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down,” was convicted in August of committing domestic violence on his former girlfriend Fleiss. But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto yesterday stayed Sizemore’s sentence pending a January 30 hearing at which his jail term may be cut in half. Barreto also placed Sizemore on three years’ probation, ordered him to undergo domestic violence and anger-management counselling and to pay $ 1,200 in fines. The actor also entered a no-contest plea to another charge of battery involving a different woman. The judge sentenced him to probation and a $ 100 fine on the charge. —
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