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EU team to visit US over snooping row
Will continue to gather foreign intelligence: US
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Car bomb kills 20 in Syria
Pak court to hold hearing at Musharraf’s farmhouse
Political tension in B’desh: 5 die, 300 hurt during rallies
Saudi women buckle under threat, drop plans for drive-in
A bus set on fire by protesters in Dhaka on Monday. — AFP
Indian man sneaks into Pakistan to visit grandparents’ graves
A badly injured middle-aged man from Rajasthan with a fractured leg limped into Pakistan’s Sindh province, unnoticed by border guards of both countries, to visit the graves of his paternal grandparents. Nigeria bombs Boko Haram camps, kills
74 insurgents
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EU team to visit US over snooping row
Brussels, October 25 Members of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee will fly to Washington on Monday for the talks and explore "possible legal remedies for EU citizens" resulting from the alleged surveillance, the committee said in a statement on Friday. Berlin is also sending a separate delegation of staff from Merkel's office and top intelligence officials to the United States for talks, a German government spokesman said on Friday. Merkel demanded on Thursday that the United States strike a "no-spying" agreement with Germany and France by the end of the year, following accusations that the US National Security Agency accessed tens of thousands of French phone records and monitored Merkel's private mobile phone. The European parliament has already opened an inquiry into the effect on Europe of U.S. intelligence activities revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. It has also led a push for tougher data protection rules and the suspension of a transatlantic data-sharing deal. Merkel said in Brussels on Thursday that alleged espionage against two of Washington's closest EU allies, Germany and France, had to be stopped and she wanted action from President Barack Obama, not just apologetic words. — Reuters EX-NSA chief’s info leaked on tweet
Washington: A former National Security Agency chief, Michael Hayden, on Thursday was overheard by an activist while he gave interviews to reporters by phone on a train. He spoke with the journalists about allegations the US spied on foreign allies, Obama's smartphone and was “bragging about rendition and black sites”. The juiciest bits of the exchanges were soon available on Twitter. —
AP Spying: No worries for Indian PM
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not own a mobile phone or use personal email, giving New Delhi "no cause for concern" about new US hacking revelations, the Prime Minister's Office said on Friday. Asked if Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was concerned, his spokesman replied: "The Prime Minister doesn't use a mobile phone and he doesn't have an email account. His office uses email, but he has no personal email... We have no information and no cause for concern," he added.—
AFP France feared US spied on its Prez PARIS, October 25 US agents denied having anything to do with the May 2012 cyber attack on the Elysee Palace, the official residence of French presidents, and appeared to hint at the possible involvement of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, a classified internl note from the US National Security Agency suggests. Extracts from the document, the latest to emerge from the NSA via former contractor Edward Snowden, were published by Le Monde newspaper alongside an article jointly authored by Glenn Greenwald, the US journalist who has been responsible for a still-unravelling scandal over large-scale US snooping.— AFP Will continue to gather foreign intelligence: US
Washington, October 25 At the same time, President Barack Obama has sought review of intelligence gathering including with respect of foreign partners. “We want to ensure we are collecting information because we need it and not just because we can," Lisa Monaco, assistant to the US President for the Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, wrote in an op-ed in USA Today. The White House has also created the President's Review Group on to provide recommendations on these issues, she said. — AFP
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Car bomb kills 20 in Syria
Beirut, October 25 “At least three of the dead were children," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman. State news agency SANA also reported the blast, and blamed “terrorists,” the term the Assad regime uses for forces fighting to oust it. “The car exploded while the terrorists were packing it with explosives near the Osama Bin Zeid mosque. Terrorists and civilians were killed,” said the agency. An unidentified activist filming the video blamed the attack on troops loyal to President Assad. —
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Pak court to hold hearing at Musharraf’s farmhouse
A local court in Islamabad on Friday ordered that the hearings of the case relating to the murder of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rasheed Ghazi and his mother be held at the Chak Shahzad farmhouse of former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf (retd) which has been declared sub-jail. The case was heard by judicial magistrate Malik Aman. During the proceedings, police requested the court to extend his judicial remand. The police also informed the court that the case's investigation officer had been changed and that the new IO was Iftikhar Chattha. The court stated that orders had been issued to hold Musharraf's jail trial, and further said the case would be heard at the former president's farm house, which was declared as a sub-jail on April 20. The former military ruler was booked in the murder case of Rasheed Ghazi on September 2 after Haroon Rasheed, the cleric’s son, approached the IHC for registering an FIR against Musharraf for launching the Lal Masjid operation in 2007.
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Political tension in B’desh: 5 die, 300 hurt during rallies
Dhaka, October 25 BNP chief Khaleda Zia, addressing a massive rally here, issued an ultimatum to her archrival Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to initiate talks on her demand. Zia said if the demand was not accepted, the party would enforce a nationwide strike from October 27. Two demonstrators were killed in southeastern Cox's Bazar when security personnel fired at BNP supporters. Two more were killed in Chandpur district when protestors clashed with security forces. One protestor died in northern Jaldhaka town when Rapid Action Battalion opened fire at supporters of the rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami, a key ally of the BNP. Violence also erupted in different parts of Bangladesh, including southwestern Patuakhali, leaving over 300 people injured. — PTI
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Saudi women buckle under threat, drop plans for drive-in
Dubai, October 25 A government spokesman said : “Women in Saudi are banned from driving and laws will be applied against those who demonstrate in support” of this cause. — AFP |
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Indian man sneaks into Pakistan to visit grandparents’ graves
Islamabad, October 25 The man, Abu Bakar, is reportedly afflicted by a mental disorder, the Dawn newspaper reported today. He was detained by the Pakistan Rangers. Abu Bakar, the son of Ameer Nohri, reportedly told local residents he had visited the graves of his grandparents near Gogasar to seek forgiveness for murdering his sister in 1988. — PTI
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Nigeria bombs Boko Haram camps, kills 74 insurgents Maiduguri (Nigeria), Oct 25 The army, which is battling to crush a four-year Islamist uprising in Nigeria, said it deployed bombs and ground troops to destroy insurgent camps in Borno yesterday. Army spokesman Mohammed Dole said that "74 suspected militants" were killed in the assault outside the Borno capital Maiduguri, where Boko Haram was founded more than a decade ago. The operation followed an assault Monday on Boko Haram camps in another part of Borno, which the military said left 37 Islamists dead. In a separate outbreak of violence, suspected Islamist fighters stormed the city of Damaturu in coordinated raids yesterday. — AFP
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Activists pressing for an end to Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving have dropped plans to hold a "drive-in" tomorrow after threats of legal action against anyone getting behind the wheel. Several women said they had received telephone calls from the ministry, which openly warned yesterday of measures against activists who chose to participatein the drive tomorrow.
