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50 killed in Baghdad car bomb blasts
US, China try compromise on North Korea
Bush waives two curbs on Libya
Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian militants
2 suicide bombers held in Pak
NRI admits to killing wife
Heathrow catering firm, staff patch up
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Mission solidarity
Kathmandu, September 29 Nepal’s struggle for restoration of democracy will be fought solely by the Nepalese people themselves but they will need moral support from the international community, including India, for its success, said Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepali Congress President and a main leader of the alliance, during discussions with the five-party delegation. The Indian leaders including CPM’s Sitaram Yechuri, NCP’s D.P. Tripathi and CPI’s D. Raja, who are here on a three-day visit, said Indian people were with Nepalese people’s movement for restoration of democracy and extended solidarity to the movement. Koirala also said the seven parties have been working to intensify their pro-democracy movement and it was gaining momentum, Nepali Congress central member Krishna Sitaula, one of the participants at the meeting, said. During the meeting, both the delegates also stressed the need for strengthening party-to-party relations between the two countries to consolidate people-level relations. Besides Koirala, they met Nepal Communist Party-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali Congress (Democratic) acting President Gopal Man Shrestha, Nepal Sadbhavana Party acting President Bharat Bimala Yadav, Janamorcha Nepal leader Himlal Puri and United Left Front chairman C.P. Mainali. Yechuri also extended invitation to the seven party leaders to visit India at the earliest. He said the Indian leaders were here to assess the situation and they would take the matter with their respective parties at home and chalk out future plan for extending cooperation. Earlier, the Indian delegates met Koirala, CPN-UML general secretary Nepal and Nepali Congress (D) acting president Gopal Man Shrestha separately and discussed the current political situation.
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50 killed in Baghdad car bomb blasts
Baghdad, September 29 One source in the regional police force put the death toll at 37 dead and 50 wounded. Others spoke of 50 dead and up to 100 wounded. They said the first two bombs went off 10 minutes apart at dusk near a busy market in a predominantly Shi’ite area, in a street with a bank and next to a police station in the town about 90 km north of the capital. A third bomb went off about half an hour later, one police source said. Iraq’s Sunni Arab insurgents frequently target the majority Shi’ite community for attack, striking Shi’ite neighbourhoods, towns and mosques. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, one of the most feared militant groups, has pledged to wage “all out war” on the Shi’ite community, an apparent effort to provoke sectarian civil war and drive the country further into chaos.
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US, China try compromise on North Korea
Vienna, September 29 The diplomats, who requested anonymity in exchange for discussing the confidential details of the dispute over a North Korean resolution, said China wanted mention of a light-water nuclear reactor and other commitments made to the North in exchange for its decision — something the four other nations opposed. Chinese and the US negotiators were meeting on the sidelines of the 139-nation IAEA conference to try to find common language on the resolution, the diplomats said. “The Chinese want that all commitments are listed in detail that were taken on by the other countries,” said one of the diplomats. “But the others think this should be a resolution over North Korea and not over the sixparty talks.” China is Pyongyang’s last major ally and its chief source of food and other assistance, and its influence over the reclusive Stalinist regime remains pivotal. |
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Bush waives two curbs on Libya
Washington, September 29 In another order, the President waived restrictions on Libya so it can refurbish eight C-130 aircraft the nation bought from the USA in the 1970s. Libya owns the aircraft but never took possession of the planes. Bush’s actions yesterday waived certain restrictions of the Arms Export Control Act, which prohibits defence exports to Libya because it is on the State Department’s list of states that sponsor terrorism. The waivers are in keeping with the US commitment to unblock Libyan property in the USA in response to Libya’s disarming.
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Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian militants
Jenin (West Bank), September 29 The confrontations erupted during an Israeli incursion overnight, apparently to arrest gunmen in the occupied territory and as Israel continued air raids against militant targets in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said troops opened fire at two gunmen who attempted to shoot at them near the village of Burqin, both wanted members of Islamic Jihad. Palestinian witnesses said the gunmen had hid in an olive tree when Israeli troops shot them. In Jenin, the troops exchanged fire with a gunman during an arrest raid, killing him. Palestinian sources said the gunman was a member of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed wing of the mainstream Fatah movement. Soldiers also arrested 12 suspected militants in raids conducted in the Jenin, Nablus and Bethlehem areas of the West Bank, the Israeli army said. In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, the Palestinian police blew up the largest synagogue building of the demolished Neve Dekalim settlement, planting explosives then detonating them, which destroyed the building, witnesses
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2 suicide bombers held in Pak
Islamabad, September 29 The Sunni Muslim extremists were arrested from a house in Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, hours after Saturday’s arrest of Asif Choto, chief of the Al-Qaida-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group. “Information gleaned from Choto led us to the timely arrest of the two men just as they were preparing to launch the attacks,” the official said on the condition of anonymity. The police said Choto, 28, was one of the country’s most wanted militants and had masterminded suicide attacks that killed scores of minority Shiite Muslims. Choto’s detention was confirmed by Farooq Awan, a top police investigator in the southern city of Karachi, where most of the attacks took place. “His arrest will bring a halt to sectarian killings till the militants regroup,” Awan said. Security forces said one of the bombers was due to blow himself up on the same day as he was arrested. “His target was a close relative of the leader of a main Shiite party,” said the security official. The official said agents recovered two suicide jackets, some arms and ammunition from the house where the bombers were staying, and arrested another senior sectarian militant, named Rashid, alias Shahid Satti.
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7 killed as train hits minibus
Peshawar, September 29 All of the casualties were from the same family who were going to attend the wedding of a close relative when the accident occurred its Shah Maqsood, about 100 km east of Peshawar, said Ataullah Wazir, the regional police chief.
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NRI admits to killing wife
London, September 29 Narendra Tailor, 39, had initially denied murdering Sheila, in last December, but changed his plea yesterday at Leicester Crown Court. Tailor had been unfaithful to his wife but could not go through a divorce because of the humiliation he would face among his peers. He had intended to suggest that his 34-year-old wife had been having an affair with a drug dealer. He hatched an elaborate plan to drug his wife over a period of time before killing her and claiming that she was murdered because of her involvement with a drug dealer. Tailor also knew that his wife’s death would gain him about £ 250,000 by way of life insurance and endowments. As part of his “utterly wicked” scheme, Tailor spent weeks secretly doping his wife with ecstasy to make it appear that she was involved in drugs. He finally hit her on the head and strangled her in their home in Oadby, Leics, before hiding her body in her car and calmly going to watch his children in a school nativity play. The following day, he drove the car, with Sheila’s body hidden under a coat in the back seat, and abandoned it in the middle of Leicester. It remained there for a month, before police were called. The prosecutor said that when police found her body, “Mrs Tailor’s clothes were arranged to make it look as though she had been the victim of a sexual assault, but she had not.” “It was not a spur-of-the-moment, hot-blooded killing. It was a carefully planned, cold-blooded killing. His intention was that when his wife’s body was found everybody would come to the wrong conclusion that she had been killed by another man,” he told the court. Tailor wept as he admitted murder yesterday. His part-time receptionist, Manjinder Binning still denies murder but has admitted preventing the course of justice. Binning, 34, accepts that she helped Tailor to dispose of his wife’s body but denies taking part in the murder itself. Tailor will be sentenced at the end of Binning’s trial. — PTI |
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Heathrow catering firm, staff patch up
London, September 29 Under the deal, which union sources said workers had voted overwhelmingly to accept, almost 400 of the 700 workers who were sacked when the dispute flared up last month, would be offered their jobs back. Others have indicated they would take voluntary severance, but 144 would be made compulsorily redundant. The dispute had been simmering for some time over Gate Gourmet’s efforts to reduce its losses at Heathrow by cutting jobs and changing working practices.
— PTI |
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