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Man killed in racial tension in UK
Man held for comments on
7/7 bombing
Murder of Saddam lawyer raises fears for fair trial
Blasts halt Iraq oil export, 12 killed
Storm Alpha hits Dominican Republic, Haiti
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Fresh quake rocks Pak
Aftershocks continue in Pak
Lord Paul gives Rs 20 lakh to quake-hit
3 rescued, search on for missing climbers
Pope names 5 saints
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Man killed in racial tension in UK
London, October 23 The police wielding shields and clubs were pelted with bricks,
stones and broken bottles yesterday after a public meeting among the
Afro-Caribbean community to discuss the alleged rape of the 14-year-old
girl by south Asians. “There has been one fatality and an officer
has been injured. The cause of the fatality is not known,” a police
spokeswoman said, without giving details. It was not clear whether
participants of the meeting had attacked the police. Meanwhile, a
witness said she saw South Asians attacking blacks and heard later that
a 20-year-old black man was stabbed to death. The violence which
erupted around 1700 GMT (2230 IST) left cars overturned, their
windshields broken and a food shop was smashed. A burnt-out car
smouldered outside the Asian Resource Centre in the middle of Lozzells
Road. The police did not specify who was involved in the violence or
how it had erupted, except to say tension in the community, where riots
also occurred 20 years ago, had been high for days after the alleged
rape. Inn owner India Murray told BBC television that the girl was
allegedly attacked by south Asians. A woman, who asked not to be
named, told Britain’s domestic Press Association that she had seen at
least 100 Asian men congregating outside an Asian shop put on hoods and
masks and heard them say they would get weapons. — AFP |
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Man held for comments on 7/7 bombing
London, October 23 The 27-year-old man from West Yorkshire was arrested late on Saturday on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism, a police spokesperson said, without giving details. “The arrest is made in connection with the ongoing investigation into the four bomb attacks in London on July 7 and comments alleged to have been made to a national newspaper,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in
statement. “We thank the News of the World for bringing this matter to our attention and material passed to the police by the newspaper is now being assessed by the Metropolitan Police Service’s Anti-Terrorist branch.” Four British Muslims killed themselves and 52 others in suicide bombings on three underground trains and a bus on July 7. Two weeks later four bombers failed in an attempt to repeat the attacks. A number of individuals have been arrested as part of police investigations into the July 7 bombings and the July 21
botched attacks. Most have been released on bail. — Reuters |
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Murder of Saddam lawyer raises fears for fair trial
Gunmen have killed the lawyer of one of the
co-defendants of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, after abducting him from office. The
murder will make it more difficult to conduct a fair trial of
the former dictator because officials working for the prosecution and
the defence are both threatened with death.
Saadoun al-Janabi was the
lawyer for Awad Hamad al-Bandar, a former judge on Saddam Hussein's
Revolutionary Court who stands accused of passing death sentences on
people from the Shia town of Dujail, 148 of whom were executed after an
attempt to assassinate Saddam in 1983. The day after proceedings
against Saddam were delayed, 10 men dressed in suits and ties arrived in
Mr al-Janabi's building in the al-Shaab district of Baghdad saying they
were from the Ministry of the Interior. They produced guns, kidnapped
him and soon afterwards his body was dumped, with bullet wounds to the
head and chest, near the Fardous mosque in the Ur district of
Baghdad. The murder will deepen suspicions among Sunni Arabs and Saddam
supporters that they are being targeted. They are already fearful of
being hunted by death squads from Shia groups such as the Badr Brigade,
the paramilitary arm of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in
Iraq (Sciri), the largest party in the National Assembly. But with
killings in Baghdad running at around a thousand a month and so many
groups prepared to kill enemies, it is unclear why Mr al-Janabi was
murdered. The government will now have to try to extend protection to
all those involved in Saddam's trial. A witness-protection programme
will be difficult to enforce in Iraq, where so many people are armed and
likely to seek revenge. Many Sunnis also believe the Ministry of the
Interior, now partly under Sciri's control, operates death squads. —
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Blasts halt Iraq oil export, 12 killed
Baghdad, October 23 “The exports to Ceyhan (Turkey) have stopped completely
because of four blasts that hit a main gathering centre for at least
four fields,” the official said. He said oil from Kirkuk, Janbour,
Bay Hassan, Khabaz and other northern fields was gathered at the
centre. Meanwhile, insurgents used bomb attacks and a drive-by shooting
to kill at least 12 Iraqis and injure 29 today, including a police
officer and his four children who died when an explosion set fire to
their vehicle in northern Iraq, officials said. In today’s deadliest
insurgent attack, a suicide car bomb in central Baghdad hit two police
vehicles in Al-Tahrir Square, killing two officers and two civilians,
said police Maj Mohammed Younis. The blast also injured four policemen
and seven civilians, he said. In south Baghdad, a roadside bomb in the
Dora neighbourhood injured two Iraqis, the police said. — Reuters, AP |
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Storm Alpha hits Dominican Republic, Haiti
Miami, October 23 Alpha formed
in the Caribbean Sea yesterday as the 22nd tropical storm or hurricane
of the Atlantic season, breaking the record for most storms, set in
1933. The center of the storm went ashore near the town of Barahona on
the southwest coast of the Dominican Republic early today. Forecasters
said the storm could drop as much as 15 inches (38 cm) of rain over
Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican
Republic. Haiti is vulnerable to devastating floods and mudslides. Much
of the impoverished country has been stripped of trees. Last year,
Hurricane Jeanne killed up to 3,000 people in and around the port city
of Gonaives while it was still a tropical storm. Sustained winds were
about 80 kph but the storm was expected to weaken rapidly and could
dissipate over the mountains of Hispaniola, forecasters said. The
naming of Alpha yesterday marked the first time the hurricane center
used the Greek alphabet, since it began naming storms in 1953 because it
has run out of preassigned names for this season. The 2005 hurricane
season has had so many storms that all the storm names preassigned for
this year were used up with Hurricane Wilma, which pounded the Mexican
resort of Cancun yesterday and was headed toward Florida today. Alpha
made 2005 the most active hurricane season since records began 150 years
ago, and the 2005 season still has five weeks to run. The 1933 season
had 21 named storms. |
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Fresh quake rocks Pak
Islamabad, October 23 The US Geological Survey said it struck at 8.34 pm with an epicentre near Mingaora, in North West Frontier Province. It was felt in Islamabad also. A Pakistani meteorologist said the epicentre was in the same area as the October 8 earthquake.
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Lord Paul gives Rs 20 lakh to quake-hit
London, October 23 In a letter to Defence Minister Pranab
Mukherjee, Lord Paul said he was saddened by the “loss of life caused
by the earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, especially those of the armed
forces and border security forces.” — PTI |
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3 rescued, search on for missing climbers
Kathmandu, October 23 The Himalayan
Rescue Association (HRA) rescued three Nepalese porters in the
expedition but others were still missing, Bikram Neupane, president of
the HRA, said, adding that they were picked up by helicopter and had
landed in Pokhara. Search is on for the other climbers, including
seven French nationals, who lost contact with Kathmandu, after an
avalanche hit western Nepal district of Manang. Seven French climbers
along with 11 Nepalese guides and helpers are trapped in the snow since
Thursday after an avalanche tore through the base camp of the Kangru
peak in north-west Nepal, according to the HRA. — PTI |
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Pope names 5 saints
Vatican City, October 23 Benedict highlighted some of the major issues that emerged
during the Synod of Bishops, calling priestly celibacy a ‘precious
gift’ and also telling lay Roman Catholics that there can be no
‘dichotomy’ between their faith and everyday life. That appeared to
be a reference to whether Communion can be denied to Catholic
politicians who support laws contradicting church teaching, such as
abortion rights - an issue raised by American prelates at the
Synod. Most of the 250 Bishops who attended the Synod joined the Pope
in celebrating the Mass and the ceremony to elevate five men to
sainthood. “Today I have the joy of presiding for the first time over
a canonisation rite,” Benedict said in an opening prayer. — AP |
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