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Guard against threat to democracy, says Shekhawat 7 killed
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SARS alert in Singapore after man tests positive
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Guard against threat to democracy, says Shekhawat Mahe (Seychelles), September 9 “We must strive hard for a world free from fear, violence, conflicts and terrorism,” Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat said in his address to a special session of the National Assembly of Seychelles here. Mr Shekhawat, who arrived here on a five-day visit yesterday, said democracies must join together with a renewed commitment and dedication for the welfare of people, safeguarding the freedom and liberty not only in political terms but also ensuring freedom from hunger, poverty, disease and disaster. “And to accomplish this task without any distraction or hindrance, we need an international environment conducive to peace and growth. Peace must prevail if humanity has to survive,” he said. Earlier in the day, he held wide-ranging talks with his Seychelles counterpart and Vice-President James Michel followed by delegation-level parleys. The Vice-President also garlanded a bust of Mahatma Gandhi and visited the National Museum of History and Vivekananda Yoga Club. This is the first high-level visit by an Indian leader to the island republic since Vice-President Shankar Dayal Sharma toured the island nation in 1991. “The fight against terrorism has to be comprehensive and sustained. We need to isolate the elements who instigate, support or assist terrorism, in any form, as much as those who perpetrate it,” he said.
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7 killed
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Jerusalem, September 9 The attack came as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began a landmark visit to India where international terrorism was a major issue of discussions. The suspected suicide bomb blast occurred at a bus stop near the Tsrifin army base and the Assaf Harofeh hospital, near the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon
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A-I flight bombed to avenge attack on Golden Temple Vancouver, September 9 Ripudaman Singh Malik, a millionaire businessman in this western Canadian city, and Ajaib Singh Bagri, a millworker in rural British Columbia, each face eight criminal charges related to conspiracy and murder in 1985. On June 23, 1985, a bomb exploded on Air-India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 onboard. It had originated in Vancouver. The same day, a second bomb exploded at Narita airport in Tokyo, killing two baggage handlers, who were transferring it to another Air-India flight that had originated here. Government prosecutor Robert Wright said yesterday his legal team would show that Bagri and Malik worked to bomb two Indian planes to exact revenge against the Indian Government for attacking the Golden Temple in 1984 and to further the Sikh fight for an independent homeland called Khalistan. As the trial resumed after a summer-long break, Wright said phone and surveillance records and witness testimony would show that Malik and Bagri conspired with two other men, alleged mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyat. Parmar, who once lived in Canada, was the alleged leader of the Sikh extremist group Babbar Khalsa. He was killed in a shootout in 1992. Reyat pleaded guilty in February to manslaughter and was sentenced to five years in prison on top of 15 years he had already spent in custody. Rayat helped build a bomb that exploded at Tokyo’s Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers who were transferring it to another Air-India flight. Dressed in ceremonial Sikh robes and turbans, Malik and Bagri sat quietly in the bomb-proof underground courtroom, built specially for this trial.
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Annan backs Council expansion United Nations, September 9 The General Assembly, which has to elect permanent members of the Council, would have to have some criteria or understanding “at least not to elect on to Council States with issues before the Council, not to elect on to the Council States which are under sanctions by the Council,” Mr Annan told reporters yesterday. He, however, parried questions on whether the criteria would exclude India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Mr Annan said the requirement would be “at least a minimum. I hope that, as the member states begin to look at how we can perform better, they will look at those kinds of things as well.” “We started with 51 member states and now we have 191 member states. We are an organisation of sovereign states but the structure of the Council has not changed and I think it is about time we took the reforms very seriously,” he added. Mr Annan said the discussions on the Council reforms had been going on for more than a decade and the possibility of expansion of both permanent and non-permanent seats had been factored in them. The Secretary-General said the need for the Council reform was now not questioned. —
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SARS alert in Singapore after man tests positive Singapore, September 9 If further tests on the man confirmed the disease, it might be the first SARS case in the country since early May. The Health Ministry said it had started tracing people who had been in contact with the patient as a precautionary measure to control the spread of the disease. The report said the man, in his 20s, had not been to China where SARS originated and spread to 30 countries by travellers, infecting nearly 8,500 persons and killing more than 800 between March and June this year. The patient had been isolated at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the frontline hospital when the SARS hit Singapore in March earlier, the local media today reported. Meanwhile, 10 persons, who worked with the patient at National University of Singapore’s Microbiology Department, had been asked to stay at home. Manila: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said the fever of the Singapore an man who tested positive for SARS had eased and that the case was not yet being viewed as a return of the deadly virus. “At this stage, we are treating it as a suspected case — a perplexing case — but we’re not treating it as a probable SARS,” said Peter Cordingley, WHO’s head of public information in the Western Pacific region.
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Man of Indian origin jailed for fraud London, September 9 Sunil Mahtani, 26, from Watford, north of London, used fake credit cards to bilk banks of more than £ 2 million ($ 3.2 million). He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud between April 29, 1998, and September 12, 2001. His accomplices, Shahajan Miah and Shaidal Rahim, both 26 and from London, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and each was jailed for four years at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in London. The police said the gang could have got away with as much as 20 million pounds if they had not been
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Californians hostile to wife of Schwarzenegger Sacramento (California), September 9 |
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