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4 killed as Taliban bomber targets Pak Rangers HQs
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Assad vows to ‘live and die’ in Syria
After Sandy, Athena pours misery on US
A man shovels snow caused by a storm in New York.
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4 killed as Taliban bomber targets Pak Rangers HQs
Karachi, November 8 The attacker slammed the truck into the gate of the Pakistan Rangers office in the heavily-populated North Nazimabad area of Karachi at about 7 am. The impact of the blast was such that a two-storey building inside the Rangers headquarters in North Nazimabad area of Karachi was razed to the ground. Apart from the suicide bomber, three Rangers personnel on duty at the gate were killed in the attack, which also left 28 others injured, officials said. "The intensity of the blast was very high as at least 180 kg of explosives were used in the attack. The blast was heard across the area and caused panic and fear," Sindh police chief Fayyaz Leghari said. The suicide attack took place as people were waking up and getting ready for office. The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack, Geo News reported. A Rangers spokesman said at least 22 personnel of the paramilitary force were among 28 persons injured in the bomb attack. The Sindh police chief said that it was a suicide attack and a mini truck was used in the blast. "We have found body parts, which suggests it was a suicide attack," Leghari told the media. Leghari said the police had been alerted by intelligence agencies about possible attacks by terrorists to destabilise Karachi though there was no information about specific targets. Security personnel detained two men who were filming the injured with mobile phones at a hospital. Television channels reported that a suspicious person was also arrested from the vicinity of the Rangers headquarters soon after the blast. Witnesses said the suicide bomber's truck was carrying vegetables. The explosion triggered a fire in the Pakistan Rangers building that was put out after about 90 minutes. Footage on television showed a column of smoke rising into the sky. The blast also damaged several nearby buildings. — PTI
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48 killed in Guatemala earthquake
San Marcos, November 8 The quake in the midst of the work day, caused terror over an unusually wide area, with damage reported in all but one of Guatemala's 22 states and shaking felt as far away as Mexico City. President Otto Perez Molina said at a news conference that 40 persons died in the province of San Marcos and eight more were killed in the neighbouring province of Quetzaltenango. San Marcos, where more than 30 homes collapsed, bore the brunt of the temblor's fury. More than 300 persons tried to dig through a half ton of sand at a quarry in the commercial center of town in a desperate attempt to rescue seven people believed buried alive. — AP
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Assad vows to ‘live and die’ in Syria
Damascus, November 8 "I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country," Assad, who is facing a nearly 20-month revolt against his rule, told the channel in English, according to transcripts posted on the state-backed Russian news channel's website. "I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria," he said. British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday floated the idea of granting Assad safe passage from the country, saying it "could be arranged" though he wanted the Syrian leader to face international justice. Assad also warned against a foreign intervention to deal with Syria's escalating conflict, saying such a move would have global consequences and shake regional stability. "We are the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region... it will have a domino effect that will affect the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific," he said. "I do not think the West is going (to intervene), but if they do so, nobody can tell what is next," Assad said. In a separate video extract of the interview, Assad also said: "The price of this invasion, if it happens, is going to be big, more than the whole world can afford." Many in Syria's opposition have urged the international community to intervene to stop escalating bloodshed in the country that rights groups say has left more than 37,000 people dead. — AFP
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After Sandy, Athena pours misery on US
New York, November 8 The National Weather Service said the latest storm, named Athena, was moving northward off the East Coast and would bring a wintry mix of precipitation to areas across the northern mid-Atlantic and northeast. It forecast wind gusts as high as 60 miles per hour along the coast and snowfall across the New England region of up to 6-10 inches over the next two days. The agency said apart from rain, minor to moderate coastal flooding is also possible in New Jersey and New York. The mix of rain and snow, which covered buildings, roads and cars in parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, also led airlines to cancel flights for a day. According to airline tracking service FlightAware.com, 1710 flights were cancelled, with major cancellations occurring at New Jersey's Newark Airport, New York's LaGuardia and JFK Airport. The storm threatened to hamper the slow and difficult recovery process underway in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which a week after being ravaged by superstorm Sandy are still struggling to return to normalcy. With millions already living without power in the wake of Sandy, the new storm left thousands more residents in the region without electricity. The new storm further exacerbated the damage caused by Sandy with high winds, snow and rain brining down trees, branches and power lines already weakened by Sandy. — PTI
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Spy Noor’s bronze bust unveiled in Britain London, November 8 The bust was unveiled today at the Gordon Square Gardens here near the house where she lived as a child, by Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne, who praised her valour and supreme sacrifice. It is said to be the first such memorial in Britain dedicated to a Muslim and the first in honour of an Asian woman. Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her work in France and for revealing nothing of use to her interrogators despite being tortured by the Gestapo for 10 months. Noor's father Inayat Khan was the great grandson of Tipu Sultan. She was captured and killed by the Gestapo at the age of 30.— PTI
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Nepal inks deal to transform Lumbini into ‘world peace city’
Blasts kill 20 in Afghanistan Obama to visit Myanmar Nov 19
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A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a pickup truck laden with 180 kg of explosives into the headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers here today, leaving at least four persons dead and 28 others injured.
A new storm brought heavy rains, snow and powerful winds to New York and New Jersey, leaving over 1700 flights cancelled and thousands of residents without power in the US East Coast, which is still reeling under the devastating impact of hurricane Sandy.
