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8 Russian firm workers held, freed in Iraq Moscow, April 13 Interfax said the report had been confirmed by Russian Embassy sources in Baghdad. Three of the workers were Russians and the other five Ukrainian nationals. Their experience has led Russia, which opposed the US-led military operations in Iraq and has not contributed forces to the coalition, to consider evacuating hundreds of Russian workers, most of whom work in Iraq’s power sector. BAGHDAD: A bomb attack on a US convoy killed one US soldier early on Tuesday and wounded another soldier and a civilian contractor, the US Army said. An army spokesman said the convoy, travelling from Baquba to Najaf, was hit just after midnight by a roadside bomb planted south of Baghdad. The wounded were taken on to Najaf and were in a stable condition. — Reuters
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for UN, NATO role in Iraq Washington, April 13 The United States “must make the United Nations a full partner” in the Iraqi transition and renew efforts “to attract international support in the form of boots on the ground to create a climate of security in Iraq”, Mr Kerry said in a written commentary published today in The Washington Post. “We should urge NATO to create a new out-of-area operation for Iraq under the lead of a US commander,” Mr Kerry said. “The United Nations, not the United States, should be the primary civilian partner in working with Iraqi leaders to hold elections, restore government services and rebuild economy”, he added.— AFP |
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New York, April 13 Many Democrats want the book to be out at least before their national convention in late July so that Mr Clinton’s “outsize scandal and achievement” might not divert attention from their campaign, a media report said. They fear the book will embolden Mr Clinton’s foes to turn out and vote for President George W Bush, the New York Times said. Mr Clinton has not yet finished writing the memoirs and it takes at least six weeks for a serious book to be published and distributed. Mr Clinton, for his part, has increased the nervous speculation about the book in Democratic circles by making a habit of picking up the phone to regale friends with long passages and even chapters of his prose, the paper said. Mixing boyish enthusiasm with a craving for approval, people who have received the calls were quoted as saying, he has proudly narrated excerpts about everything from college antics with his pals at Georgetown to his 1995 standoff with Republicans that led to a government shutdown. “If it comes out any time before the election, it’s not particularly good for us because he takes up a lot of oxygen. It’s less that he’s a negative and more that he’ll be out on his book tour and he’ll be the story of the week rather than John Kerry,” a close associate of Mr Kerry said. — PTI
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Fund for uplift of women in Asia New York, April 13 The fund, christened The Women’s Advancement Fund, envisages helping the most disadvantaged women and girls across Asia — from China to Nepal and Mangolia to Cambodia,” the agency said launching the fund. Women constitute a majority of the world’s 875 million illiterate adults, and two-third of the world’s 100 million children without access to primary education are girls, it said, adding this negative trend was of “urgent proportions” in Asia. In many nations, it claimed, girls were denied basic education and women lacked marketable skills they needed to earn an income, which has severe negative consequences for themselves and their children. Without education and job skills, they were caught in a vicious cycle of poverty, illiteracy and ill-health, with little hope of improving their lives. Nowhere were these problems more serious than in Asia, home to more than half the world’s female population, the agency said. Every year thousands of Asian women and girls were forced to work in slave-like conditions in the sex industry, at sweat shops, as domestic servants and forced into “marriages” where they were beaten, raped and even killed, it claimed. —PTI
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A.Q. Khan says he saw 3 N.Korean N-bombs New York, April 13 Mr Khan was allowed to inspect the weapons briefly, according to Pakistani classified briefing to countries within reach of North Korean missiles, it said. If Khan’s account was true, it would be the first time that any foreigner has reported inspecting an actual North Korean nuclear weapon, the ‘New York Times’ report said quoting American officials. White House officials declined to discuss the reports, saying that the subject was “too sensitive.”
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Eight Indians killed in accident Sharjah, April 13 Brigadier Mutawa said the accident occurred at 1745 hrs (local time) yesterday. Recalling the accident, some workers at the site said the victims, were crushed and their bodies mangled under the weight of metal. The crane gave away at the operator’s cabin and the horizontal beam that moves pre-cast concrete slabs crashed on the van, virtually decimating the driver’s cabin and part of the rear section where workers were seated. An official of the construction company that has an office here said the workers could not be immediately identified since they were on the rolls of a sub-contracting company that in all probability, would have hired them from a labour supplier. A probe has been ordered into the accident which would focus on employment of sub-contracted companies and technical errors on installation of the crane. Mr Ismail Abul
Izz, head of Sharjah public prosecution, called for the arrest of the engineer in charge who installed the crane. He also called for a joint committee, including Sharjah municipality and an engineer from the Department of Public Works, to inspect the accident site.
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Plan for HIV-laced bomb foiled Jerusalem, April 13 The plot came to light after Israeli forces arrested a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade who revealed details of the plan mooted by the Fatah Tanzim infrastructure in Nablus, a media report said today. He said the suicide bomber was to be wrapped with a bomb “tainted” with the dangerous virus, Jerusalem Post reported. While there has been a noticeable decrease in violence in the recent past, intelligence officials have described the current situation as one of “imaginary calm.”
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