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Egypt court orders detention of Mursi over Hamas links
Zardari’s party boycotts Pak presidential poll
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Was recklessness to blame for Spain train crash?
Japan’s PM calls for talks with China
Suicide bombers kill 39 in Pakistan
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Egypt court orders detention of Mursi over Hamas links
Cairo, July 26 Mursi, already under detention by the army after he was deposed on July 3, will be quizzed on whether he collaborated with Hamas in attacks on police stations and prison breaks in early 2011 during the revolt against former president Hosni Mubarak, MENA news agency reported. This is the first official word on 61-year-old Mursi's status after his ouster by the army. The judicial detention was initially ordered for 15 days. The alleged crimes are being investigated by a Cairo court that is tasked to determine how inmates broke out of a prison late January 2011, after accusations that Mursi's Islamist group sought the help of the Hamas rulers of Gaza. Many Islamist leaders, including Mursi escaped from the prison in 2011. The international community had called on the Egyptian state to legalise the position of the former president. Leading Brotherhood member Essam El-Erian said that the decision to detain Mursi showed the true "fascist military regime" currently in Egypt. "Announcing a decision to detain a legitimate president who has immunity, who should not stand a trial except under specific constitutional procedures, under very suspicious timing in the absence of the simplest concepts of the state of law as well in the absence of his lawyer, shows the nature of the current struggling fascist military regime," said El-Erian on his official Facebook page earlier today. "The answer to this will be peaceful million-man protests in the squares. Our strength is in our peacefulness and our unity as a people against fascism, oppression and corruption," said El-Erian. "This is the fate of those who participated in January revolution at the hands of Mubarak's men who returned back to get revenge on the people," he said. — PTI
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Zardari’s party boycotts Pak presidential poll
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has announced to boycott the presidential elections citing unilateral change of election schedule by the Supreme Court. PPP presidential candidate Raza Rabbani made the announcement at hurriedly called news conference here on Friday. Senior party leaders were present on the occasion. Rabbani expressed concern over the fact that the Supreme Court decided to advance the scheduled date for the election as July 30 instead of August 6. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is an independent body and the court had no authority to change the date, he added. Rabbani noted that the court had acted unilaterally on a petition filed by the PML-N and did not bother to hear other candidates. It leaves a few days for the candidates to campaign for votes, he said, adding that the new schedule did not make sense logistically as the candidates are expected to stay in Islamabad till the scrutiny is over, visit all the provincial assemblies to ask for votes and then return to Islamabad to cast their vote. ANP senator Haji Muhammad Adeel said the ANP would also boycott the election due to the change in election schedule. He said his members would not cast their vote in any assembly. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s presidential candidate Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed, however, said, “I didn’t have an objection with the Supreme Court’s decision then, and I don’t have an objection now.” According to Ahmed, the Supreme Court is due to send out notices to only those who have a “vested interest”. The ECP falls into that category, while the 24 presidential candidates do not.
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Was recklessness to blame for Spain train crash?
Santiago de Compostela, July 26 The country was in mourning over Wednesday's horrific tragedy, which the police said had killed 78 persons, including foreigners, and left many more injured. The 52-year-old driver faces criminal accusations, including "recklessness", over the crash near the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela, said Jaime Iglesias, police chief in the north-western Galicia region. The grey-haired driver, who reportedly boasted of his love for speed online, was detained on Thursday in hospital where he had been under police surveillance, Iglesias told a news conference. A Spanish judge had ordered the police to question the man, identified as Francisco Jose Garzon Amo in local media, which published photographs of him with blood covering the right side of his face. He has not been charged with a crime and has yet to be quizzed by the police about the tragedy. Spain's leading El Pais newspaper said the driver of the train — which was carrying over 200 passengers and crew — had been unable to brake in time. Seventy-eight passengers perished, six of whom have yet to be identified, according to a revised police toll. Four foreigners are among the dead — an American, an Algerian, a Mexican and a French national, local officials said. — AFP
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Japan’s PM calls for talks with China
Singapore, July 26 Sino-Japanese ties, often fragile, have been seriously strained since September when a territorial row over tiny islands in the East China Sea flared. Concerns that the conservative Japanese leader wants to recast Japan's wartime history with a less apologetic tone have added to the tensions. "I think there should be a summit meeting and also a foreign ministers meeting as soon as possible. I think such meetings should be held without pre-conditions," Abe said in response to a question at an academic conference in Singapore, the second stop on a trip that includes Malaysia and the Philippines. China has reacted coolly to Abe's calls for dialogue, saying the onus for better relations rests with Tokyo. Earlier on Friday, the defence ministry in Tokyo issued a policy report repeating Japanese concerns about China's military build-up and its activities near the islands. — Reuters
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Suicide bombers kill 39 in Pakistan Peshawar, July 26 Sectarian violence has been on the rise in nuclear-armed Pakistan, where hardline Sunni militant groups have been relentlessly attacking Shiites whom they see as heretics. The first explosion took place metres away from a Shiite mosque near a busy market in Parachinar, capital of the tribal Kurram area. It was followed shortly afterwards by a second blast, close to another mosque in the town. Riaz Mahsud, the top administrator of the Kurram region, said 39 persons were killed and 72 others wounded, adding that the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers on motorbikes. "Some of the injured are still in critical condition and have been shifted to the main hospital in Parachinar," he said. It was unclear which group carried out the attack and no one immediately claimed responsibility. — Reuters
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today for questioning over charges of colluding with Palestinian militant group
Hamas, even as the Muslim Brotherhood slammed the decision as engineered by a "fascist military regime".
The Spanish police today said the driver of a speeding train, which crashed in the nation's deadliest rail disaster in decades, has been detained and accused of criminal recklessness.
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