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Over 130 dead as typhoon rips through Philippines
Maldives poll: Nasheed fails to get majority in first round
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Can’t reopen graft cases against Zardari: Pak govt
B'desh arrests top BNP leaders
Talks over Iran hit a snag
Deities’ images on beer bottles irk Hindus in US
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Over 130 dead as typhoon rips through Philippines
Manila, November 9 According to the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, 118 of the 138 victims were from the central Philippine province of
Leyte. Regional military commander Lt General Roy Deveraturda said that the casualty figure "probably will increase," after viewing aerial photographs of the widespread devastation caused by the typhoon, which was heading toward Vietnam after moving away from the Philippines. Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras, a senior aide to President Benigno Aquino III said the number of casualties could not be immediately determined. The government troops were helping recover bodies, he said. Civil aviation authorities in Tacloban, a city of 200,000 located about 580 km of Manila, reported that the seaside airport terminal was "ruined" by storm surges, Andrews said. US Marine Colonel Mike Wylie, who surveyed the damage in Tacloban prior to possible American assistance, said that the damage to the runway was significant. Military planes were still able to land with relief aid. “There are cars thrown like tumble weed and the streets are strewn with debris," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, the head of a United Nations disaster assessment coordination team.
— Agencies 1,200 feared dead, says Red Cross
Manila: About 1,200 people are believed to have died when one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded hit the Philippines, the head of the local Red Cross said on Sunday. Philippine Red Cross secretary general Gwendolyn Pang said the figure of 1,200 was an estimate, with authorities yet to get an accurate assessment.
— PTI Over 2 lakh people evacuated in Vietnam
Hanoi: More than two lakh people crammed into Vietnam storm shelters and soldiers helped reinforce vulnerable homes as a super typhoon bore down on the country on Saturday after leaving a deadly trail of devastation in the Philippines. Some 170,000 soldiers have been mobilised to provide emergency relief.
— AFP China issues alert; ships off sea
Beijing: The China National Marine Environmental Forecasting Centre on Friday issued a warning for very high sea waves generated by typhoon Haiyan. The centre has asked ships to return to ports, and told coastal areas to take precautionary measures in advance.
— IANS
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Maldives poll: Nasheed fails to get majority in first round
Male, November 9 Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) chief Nasheed bagged 46.3 per cent of the votes, a marginal increase from his previous tally of 45.45 per cent votes in the September 7 polls that were annulled by the Supreme Court. All but two of the 475 ballot boxes had been counted till late tonight, Haveeru reported. Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) leader Abdullah Yameen made a significant gain of nearly five per cent over the 25.35 per cent of votes he secured in the annulled polls and managed 30.3 per cent of the votes today. Jumhooree Party leader and resort tycoon Gasim Ibrahim bagged 23.4 per cent of the votes as second runner up. Nearly 2.03 lakh people or 85 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise, as against the turnout of 88 per cent cast during the voting in September.
— PTI
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Can’t reopen graft cases against Zardari: Pak govt
Islamabad, November 9 Attorney General Munir Malik told the court that reviving the graft cases against Zardari over the alleged laundering of $60 million was not possible because the government's appeal was "hopelessly time-barred" and the decision to close the cases by the former attorney general in Geneva in 2008 had become final, Dawn daily reported. But a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, which had taken up all cases closed under a controversial graft amnesty issued by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, expressed disappointment over what it said was a violation of its order. The government was waiting for a court order instead of taking steps in the matter, the court observed during the hearing yesterday.
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PTI
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B'desh arrests top BNP leaders
Dhaka, November 9 Three members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's highest policymaking committee — Moudud Ahmed, MK Anwar and Rafiqul Islam Mia — were arrested overnight. Later, police detained BNP chief Khaleda Zia's adviser, business tycoon Abdul Awal Mintu, and her special assistant Shimul Biswas.
— PTI
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Geneva, November 9 A Western diplomat in Geneva for the talks said the French were holding out for conditions on the Iranians tougher than those agreed to by the US and France's other negotiating partners, raising doubts a final deal could be struck today. — AP
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Deities’ images on beer bottles irk Hindus in US Nevada, November 9 "Lord Ganesh and Goddess Lakshmi were highly revered in Hinduism and they were meant to be worshipped in temples or home shrines and not to be used in selling beer for mercantile greed," said Zed, president of Universal Society of Hinduism. He demanded that the brewery withdraw the beer bottles carrying the images. — IANS Sentiments hurt Universal Society of Hinduism has demanded that the Australian brewery should withdraw the beer bottles carrying the juxtaposed images
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