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Indo-Russian naval exercises after 15 years Police digs for Chohan family’s bodies
UK harbours 50 suicide bombers: report
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Indo-Russian naval exercises after 15 years
Moscow, May 4 Speaking in the Ukranian coastal resort of Yalta yesterday after discussions with the Commander-in-Chief of Russia’s Black Sea fleet Admiral Vladimir Masorin, Mr Putin said the joint exercises would be “unprecedented”. He did not give any specific dates. A missile cruiser and several auxiliary ships from the Black Sea fleet, based in Sebastapol in Ukraine, have crossed the canal for the first time in 15 years, ITAR-TASS reported. They will be joined by two submarine destroyers from the Pacific fleet based in Vladivostok, it said. In all, nine Russian ships and at least two nuclear submarine will participate in the wargames in which Indian ships and submarines from the Eastern and Western Naval Command are scheduled to participate, the report said. The Russian Defence Ministry announced the exercises last month and said they would take place off the Yemeni island of Sokotra and in the Arabian Sea. The vessels will practise hunting for enemy submarines and attacking enemy naval groupings. Initially, the joint exercises were to be held in 1997 but Moscow put them on the back burner due to a cash crunch. During Defence Minister George Fernandes’ Russia visit in January, the project was revived at the insistence of his Russian counterpart Sergei Ivanov. Frontline warships from the Russian Pacific and Black Sea fleet, including missile cruiser ‘Moskva’, escort ships ‘Pytlivy’ and ‘Smetlivy’, large landing craft ‘Tsezar Kunikov’ and anti-submarine ships ‘Marshal Shaposhnikov’ and ‘Admiral Panteleyev’ will join an equally strong Indian naval warships and submarines. PTI, UNI
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Police digs for Chohan family’s bodies
London, May 4 Specialist units moved into a farm near Tiverton, Devon, soon after a floating corpse discovered near Bournemouth Pier was identified as 46-year-old Amarjit Chohan, owner of a fruit and vegetable import company, who had vanished in February. The police said his remains had been buried on the farm soon after his disappearance, then dug up and dumped in the sea. Detectives fear his family may still be buried there. As search teams excavated, detectives in London launched an international hunt for two men, suspected of being involved in the entrepreneur’s killing and his family’s disappearance. Interpol has been brought in to trace lorry driver Ken Regan, alias Ken Avery (54), from Salisbury, Wiltshire, who worked for Chohan, and William Horncy, travelling under the name William Smith (51), from Bournemouth. Both took a ferry from Dover to France early on Wednesday. Detective Chief Inspector Norman McKinlay said: “Following inquiries over a number of weeks, including before the discovery of Chohan’s body, I am satisfied Ken Regan and William Horncy are involved in the murder of Amarjit Chohan and are also involved in the disappearance of the missing members of Chohan’s family.” PTI
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Looters reappear in Baghdad
Baghdad, May 4 Law and order collapsed in Baghdad on April 9, the day US troops toppled Saddam Hussein, setting off a wave of thieving and violence. Security in the volatile city of five million has improved since then, but is far from complete. Some policemen had returned to work in the past week or two, in response to earlier US appeals for them to do so, but their presence was limited and barely visible. But today, the traffic police as back in its familiar uniform of blue trousers and white shirts, directing traffic at several of Baghdad’s clogged road junctions and patrolling roads in blue-and-white police cars. ‘’Today is the first day for trying to get the police back to re-establish law and order in the streets,’’ Phillip Hall, a US administration officer, said at the police academy. Hall told reporters many police, traffic police and firemen had responded to the US-led civilian administration’s call and reclaimed their old jobs. A US army officer said the military was helping to get the police force back on its feet. Regular Iraqi patrols were being launched and US military police would soon join some of them. Traffic police carry no weapons, but regular police officers are armed with pistols or assault rifles. Reuters
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UK harbours 50 suicide bombers: report
London, May 4 Hassan Butt, a self-styled recruiter of British volunteers for the Islamic holy war, said he had been approached by at least 50 men for guidance on how to carry out “martyrdom operations” in Israel and 20 of them are “absolutely serious” about what they planned to do. “They are waiting for the right time, the right people. You don’t just do it as individuals, you do it as an organisation. It’s about screening them, testing them, making sure they are sincere. Then, when it’s right, believe me they’ll all be used,” Mr Butt said. The warning came after last week’s suicide bombing on a bar in Tel Aviv, which killed three persons. The attack by Asif Mohammed Hanif, from Hounslow, West London, and Omar Khan Sharif, from Derby, was the first suicide by British citizens. PTI
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163 new SARS cases in China Beijing, May 4 China’s Health Ministry said four out of the seven new deaths were in the Chinese capital Beijing, currently the hardest hit place in the world, which accounted for 69 of the latest 163 cases. The ministry said the latest SARS figures took the Beijing death toll to 100, more than any other area of the country. The cumulative SARS cases on the Chinese mainland rose to 4,125 and death toll from the disease reached 197, the ministry said. A total of 1,416 SARS patients have been discharged from hospitals upon recovery, it said.
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Soyuz returns safely Astana, May 4 However, with the capsule landing some 500 km away from the preset destination, it was hours before the rescue teams could locate the capsule and its crew. The astronauts managed to make radio contact with the rescue teams and assured them that they were fine before communications broke off.
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