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No Indian dance, play sports, says PM Cameron UK gives non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels 10 killed in China dam burst
Paramilitary men search for victims in the debris of destroyed houses after a flood caused by a dam breach. Reuters Gu confesses killing Briton
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Mourners pay homage to US shooting victims Oak Creek, August 10 Mourners gathered inside the Oak Creek High School gymnasium for the visitation and memorial service. Friends and family members brought the simple wooden caskets bearing the bodies of those killed into the school for their funeral. The caskets were accompanied by some two dozen men, their heads covered in turbans. The men sang prayers during slow and emotional journeys from hearses to the gymnasium. The memorial service began with rendering of Sikh spiritual hymns and slogans "Wahe Guru" amidst tight security at the premises. Flowers were arranged at the foot of each casket. Hundreds of people made their way inside. Everybody took off their shoes and covered their heads. Worshippers were allowed back into the gurdwara for the first time since Sunday's attack yesterday. The 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, an ex-army veteran, went on a shooting spree killing six Sikhs on Sunday before dying of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. A large number of top federal and state officials and political leaders including the US Attorney General Eric Holder attended the memorial service."Today is the most tragic day," said Badal as he thanked the federal and the state government and the local community for coming up the occasion. As he described the sadness people felt in India and globally after the shootout, Badal was highly appreciative of the police officer, who countered the lone gunman. Wearing an orange head scarf, his voice suffused with emotion, Walker told mourners that they are not alone. "Today, we mourn with you, we pray with you and we support you," Walker said, standing by the open caskets. "And I experienced love driving out hate when I visited the families of the victims and heard wonderful stories about the compassion of the victims," the Governor said. PTI 
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Siblings warned people of gunman on rampage Oak Creek, August 10 "We ran as fast as we could inside to warn everybody in the kitchen and everybody else there is a man outside with a gun," Abhay was quoted by CNN as saying. "We were a little bit scared," he added. The children said they hid with others in a pantry after sounding the alarm. Their mother, Kanwal Singh, and father had told them to stay inside while they went to a store to get supplies for a meal at the
Gurdwara. But the children said the inside was hot. The horrified parents could not immediately reach the children. "We were worried and praying like hopefully we will see them again," Kanwal Singh said. PTI
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No Indian dance, play sports, says PM Cameron London, August 10 Hopping across television studios this morning, Cameron defended his decision to scrap the target of two hours for sports in schools, and regretted that instead of sports, schools were spending the time doing things like 'Indian dance'. Cameron said: "I see it with my own children... because you know, the two hours that is laid down is often met through sort of Indian dancing classes. Now, I've got nothing against Indian dancing classes but that's not really sport." PTI
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UK gives non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels London, August 10 Foreign secretary William Hague said that Secretary for International Development Andrew Mitchell has announced the quadrupling of British aid for Syrian refugees, and added that Britain was also helping to feed 80,000 Syrians displaced internally per month. "So now, in the absence of diplomatic progress, the United Kingdom will do much more. We will expand our support to the Syrian people and the Syrian political opposition, with an extra 5 million pounds in non-lethal practical assistance," Hague said. "This will help protect unarmed opposition groups, human rights activists and civilians from some of the worst of the violence. This is in addition to and separate from our humanitarian assistance," Hague added. Hague said the Syrian people needed urgent help, and noted that Britain had already trained 60 Syrian activists to document human rights violations and abuses and had provided support for 100 Syrian citizen journalists. baric crimes," he said. Britain's assistance to Syrian rebels will include trauma and medical supplies for civilians in areas under regime control, and could include items such as paramedic trauma kits, specialist trauma treatment for surgical equipment, field dressings, antibiotics, painkillers, and water purification kits to respond to the cutting of fresh water supplies. PTI US slaps sanctions on Hezbollah Washington: The US on Friday imposed a new set of economic sanctions against Hezbollah for providing support to Syria's government, the Obama administration's latest move aimed at stopping President Bashar al-Assad from violently suppressing Syrian people. The US is committed to take every step to isolate the Assad regime, the White House said as the Obama Administration announced a new sanctions.
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Beijing, August 10 Dikes of Shenjiakeng Reservoir, a rainwater pooling dam in Zhoushan City, east China's Zhejiang Province collapsed this morning flooding the nearby areas. The Zhajiang provincial authorities have urged an all-out effort searching for the missing. A water conservancy expert team sent by the provincial government has arrived at the site to help carry out emergency repairs of the dam. Zhejiang has been lashed by downpours over the last few days with the arrival of typhoon Haikui, which landed in the province early Wednesday morning before moving into neighbouring Anhui Province. The typhoon affected more than 3,30,000 people in east China's Jiangxi Province, Xinhua reported. Typhoon-triggered torrential rainstorms have battered Jiangxi since the typhoon made landfall early Wednesday morning in east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters. Over 33,780 residents had been relocated in the province. State television reported over 7,000 houses were damaged 2,000 tourists were rescued from resort which was cut off by floods. Haikui, the 11th typhoon of the year, was the third typhoon to wallop China's eastern coast in a week, after storms Saola and Damrey hit the region over the weekend. PTI
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Gu confesses killing Briton Beijing, August 10 In her "final statement" to the Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei, Gu said she "accepted all the facts written in the indictment". "This case has been like a huge stone weighing on me for more than half a year. What a nightmare. During those days last November, I suffered a mental breakdown after learning that my son was in jeopardy," state-run Xinhua news agency reported tonight. There was no mention in her statement why she feared for the life of her son Bo Guagua and the reason for administering poison to British businessman and family friend, Neil Heywood. PTI
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With a heavy heart and a prayer on their lips, hundreds of mourners, including the Wisconsin Governor and the Punjab Chief Minister, today paid their final respects to the six Sikhs gunned down by a white supremacist at a gurdwara here.
Ten persons were killed and 27 injured in a dam burst in China due to heavy rains caused by typhoon Haikui which affected lakhs of people and toppled over 7,000 houses.
Dikes of Shenjiakeng Reservoir, a rainwater pooling dam in Zhoushan City, east China's Zhejiang Province collapsed this morning flooding the nearby areas.
