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Russian soldiers killed in ambush
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204 Indians in British jails London, August 8 Overcrowded jails in England and Wales house people from more than 160 countries after a steady increase in foreigners convicted since the late 1990s. The latest figures indicate that the percentage of foreign citizens — anyone without a UK passport — in the 138 jails has risen from 8 per cent in 1999 to 13.1 per cent in 2003. While crime of Asians imprisoned is not revealed, the maximum number of the foreign citizens in British jails — from Jamaica 2,795 including 434 women — were imprisoned on the charge of drug smuggling. Wandsworth jail in London has the largest concentration of Jamaican prisoners with 400. Recently the jail had to employ a Mongolian translator to help a prisoner. But Morton Hall women’s prison, at Swinderby, Lincolnshire, has the first majority foreign population, with 65 per cent of the 350 population foreign citizens and with 54 per cent from countries outside the EU and 140 from Jamaica. Britain plans to scan all suspicious passengers flying from eight Caribbean islands to Britain. The initiative comes after an experiment in Jamaica resulted in a significant fall in the number of people smuggling drugs into Britain inside their bodies.
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No need to resume nuclear testing now, says Powell Washington, August 8 “The President has no intention of testing nuclear weapons,” Powell said yesterday. “We have no need to.” While the USA and other nuclear powers have a responsibility to keep their nuclear weapons stockpiles safe and reliable “we see no need to test in order to do that at the moment,” Powell said. “We can’t rule it out forever,” he said. But, Powell added, “we have no plans to test” and the topic is not likely to be discussed by President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin at their meeting next month at Camp David. The USA has signed the international treaty to ban nuclear tests, but the Senate refused to ratify it. Bush, like his predecessor, Bill Clinton, has imposed a voluntary moratorium on US tests. Some Bush Administration officials have suggested, however, that tests may be necessary if there is a decision to develop new US nuclear weapons. Mr Daryl Kimball, executive director of the private Arms Control Association, said: “It’s useful that the Secretary is reinforcing the current commitment to the test ban.” But, Mr Kimball said in an interview, that “commitment is not solid, given the view of others in the Administration that nuclear testing might be needed to develop and produce new types of nuclear weapons.”
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Algebra
points the way to fate of marriage London, August 8 Prof James Murray says the two formulae he devised have a 94 per cent success rate when it comes to forecasting whether a couple will stay together, the Daily Telegraph said today. The formulae were calculated during a 10-year study of 700 couples in the USA, conducted by Professor Murray, a mathematics professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. The experiment, conducted with the help of a psychologist, involved observing the couples during a 15 minute conversation when they were newly-married, he said. He presented his findings to a conference in Dundee, Scotland, for the first time yesterday, the Telegraph said. A couple’s ability to communicate on subjects such as sex, child-rearing or money was measured using a scale that gave positive points for good signals, such as smiles and affectionate gestures, and negative points for bad signals, such as rolling of the eyes, mocking and coldness. “We used an accepted psychological scoring system to award them points, such as minus three for scorn and plus two for humour,” Professor Murray, the author of “Mathematics for Marriage”, told the newspaper.
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Russian soldiers killed in ambush Rostov-On-Don (Russia), August 8 The convoy came under automatic gunfire yesterday evening near the village of Alkhasty, in the republic of Ingushetia which borders Chechnya to the west, a duty officer at the Northern Caucasus military command centre said. The band of approximately 30 gunmen slipped back into the woods after the attack. Fighting from the nearly four-year-old war in Chechnya occasionally spills into Ingushetia, particularly near its border with Chechnya.
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killed in S. Korea train mishap
Seoul, August 8 South Korea’s MBC television quoted the police as saying that the death toll was expected to rise as some of the 80 injured were in serious condition. The crash occurred as the passenger train, carrying 176 passengers, slowed down to enter the station in Daegu, and collided with a parked freight train, a police official said. Some of the passengers waited at least 30 minutes while trapped inside the wrecked cars until rescue teams arrived.
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opposition leader challenges court ruling Lahore, August 8 Shahbaz Sharif filed the petition yesterday against a decision made by an anti-terrorism court here, saying that he never received orders to appear at the trial, said his lawyer. The court has initiated a trial against Sharif on complaints filed by relatives of the five victims. They allege that Sharif, the brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, ordered the police to kill the men in 1998.
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Indonesians
applaud death sentence for Amrozi Jakarta, August 8 On the streets of Jakarta and Bali, some said the firing squad was too good for Amrozi, the first of 38 Muslim militants arrested over the October 2002 attacks that killed 202 people. Amien Rais, a top presidential contender for next year’s elections and a key Muslim leader, said those convicted of terror crimes should not be allowed to appeal and that separate courts should handle such crimes to speed up the process.
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