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Three killed as forces fire on pro-Mursi rallies in Cairo
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South America's most outspoken leftist leaders demanded an explanation and public apology from four European countries on Thursday after Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane was diverted this week on suspicions that fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was aboard. Bolivian President Evo Morales EU threatens to suspend data-sharing with US
Dinner service of Patiala’s Maharaja fetches Rs 17cr
Lanka to hold polls in ex-war zone for first time in 25 years
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Three killed as forces fire on pro-Mursi rallies in Cairo
Cairo, July 5 Thousands of Mursi supporters demonstrated in cities across the country on what his Muslim Brotherhood called a "Friday of rage" against what they describe as a military coup that toppled Egypt's first elected leader a year after he took office. A witness said he saw several people fall to the ground, wounded by shotgun pellets. Security sources said at least three demonstrators were killed when security forces opened fire. Thousands of Islamists also took to the streets of Alexandria and Assiut to protest against the army's ouster of Mursi and reject a planned interim government backed by their liberal opponents. In the Suez city of Ismailia, soldiers fired into the air as Mursi supporters tried to break into the governor's office. The Islamists retreated and there were no casualties, security sources said. Egypt's liberal coalition issued an "urgent call" for its supporters to take to the streets in response to Islamist protests, raising the risk of clashes between the rival groups. In Damanhour, capital of the Beheira province in the Nile Delta, 21 persons were wounded in violence between the factions. Ehab el-Ghoneimy, manager of the Damanhour general hospital said three persons had been wounded with live bullets, others were wounded with birdshot, rocks, or had been hit with rods. — Reuters
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Pak ends ban on death penalty
Islamabad, July 5 Up to 8,000 people languish on death row in Pakistan's notoriously overcrowded and violent jails. Once a moratorium is in place, reinstatement of capital punishment is rare, with over 150 countries having already either abolished the death penalty or stopped administering it. A 2008 moratorium imposed by Pakistan's previous government, praised at the time by global rights groups, expired on June 30. "The present government does not plan to extend it," said Omar Hamid Khan, an interior ministry spokesman. Pakistan's President must approve all executions. The government puts the number of people on death row at about
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Bolivian President threatens to close US embassy
Cochabamba, July 5 Morales, who has suggested the US pressured European nations to deny him their airspace, warned he would "study, if necessary, closing the US embassy in Bolivia". "We don't need a US embassy in Bolivia," he said. "My hand would not shake to close the US embassy. We have dignity, sovereignty. Without the US, we are better politically, democratically." At a summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the leaders of Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Surinam and Venezuelajoined him in denouncing his "virtual kidnapping" and the US pressure they believe spurred it behind the scenes. — Reuters
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EU threatens to suspend data-sharing with US Brussels, July 5 Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU's home affairs commissioner, wrote to two senior US officials on Thursday to voice European concerns over implementation of the two agreements, both struck in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks and regarded by Washington as important tools in the fight against terrorism. EU-U.S. relations are going through a "delicate moment", she wrote in the letter to US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and David Cohen, Treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. — Reuters
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Dinner service of Patiala’s Maharaja fetches Rs 17cr
Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala’s banqueting service has been sold for a world record price of nearly Rs 17 crores (£1.965,875), nearly double its pre-sale estimate, at Christie’s in London. Weighing nearly 500 kg, the 1,400 piece silver gilt dinner service was commissioned by the Maharaja to commemorate a 1922 tour of Punjab and India by the then Prince of Wales, Edward, who later became King Edward VIII. The buyer, believed to be a Russian, has bought 166 table forks, 11 dessert forks, 111 dessert spoons, 21 table spoons, 37 soup spoons, six pairs of salad servers, six pairs of asparagus tongs, three pairs of grape scissors, 107 table knives, 74 cheese knives and 37 fruit knives.
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Lanka to hold polls in ex-war zone for first time in 25 years
Colombo, July 5 Northern Province, which includes the Jaffna Peninsula, has been under military control since the end of the war and the government had resisted requests by the West to pull out the army. Ariyaratne Athugala, director general of the Department of Government Information, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa had issued the proclamation to hold northern provincial council polls. The Elections Commission said the poll would probably be held on September 21 or 28. The West is pressuring Sri Lanka to allow an independent investigation of accusations of human rights violations in the final stages of the civil war. The government has said a military presence is necessary to prevent the re-emergence of terrorism three years after it crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Successive governments did not hold provincial polls in the north because most of the territory was under the LTTE control. Sri Lanka introduced provincial councils in 1987 with a constitutional amendment aiming at ensuring regional autonomy, mainly for the island nation's north and east where the LTTE had fought to create an independent state for Tamils. — Reuters
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