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200 Mursi’s supporters killed in Saturday’s firing: Brotherhood
Israel Cabinet okays release
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Mali heads to polls for ‘fresh start’
Spanish train crash: Judge to quiz driver
Millions pack Brazilian beach to hear Pope Catholic pilgrims attend World Youth Day and (right) Pope Francis waves at faithfuls at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. — AFP
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200 Mursi’s supporters killed in Saturday’s firing: Brotherhood
Cairo, July 28 Vowing to stand their ground despite violent crackdown on their supporters by armed forces, Brotherhood leaders addressed protesters overnight, saying they would not back down from their demands, including the reinstatement of Mursi. Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, was toppled by the military on July 3. Mursi, who is facing criminal charges in many cases, was last seen in public on June 26 and has been detained along with senior aides of his Muslim Brotherhood party. Meanwhile, Brotherhood's official website said at least 200 persons had been killed and over 5,000 others wounded, Ahram Online reported. However, a Health Ministry official, Khaled El-Khatib, put the death toll from Friday and Saturday's clashes to 80. Seventy-two of the casualties fell during violence between the police and pro-Mursi supporters on the fringes of a month-long sit-in held by the president's loyalists in northern Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawia mosque, Ahram Online said. Eight people were killed in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria during deadly clashes between pro and anti-Mursi supporters. The official put the tally of injured at 792 nationwide, including 411 in clashes near the pro-Mursi sit-in in Cairo's Nasr City neighbourhood. Meanwhile, a spokesman from Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood said that over 4,000 persons were wounded by tear gas and bullet or birdshot wounds in one of the bloodiest days in the nation. Yesterday's killings followed a day of rival rallies. The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar mosque -- the highest Sunni Muslim authority in Egypt -- has called for an investigation, while the vice-president of the interim government, Mohamed ElBaradei, has condemned the excessive use of force. The bloodshed has thrown Egypt into deeper turmoil weeks. The violence has claimed the lives of dozens and wounded hundreds since Mursi's ouster from the presidency. The US, Canada and the United Nations have called for calm and peace in Egypt amidst escalation of violence in the most populous Arab country. — PTI
US calls for calm in Egypt
Washington: The US, Canada and the United Nations have called for calm and peace in Egypt amidst escalation of violence.US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken to Egyptian leaders like interim Vice- President Mohammed ElBaradei and Interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy asking for calm. |
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Israel Cabinet okays release of 104 Palestinian prisoners Jerusalem, July 28 The Cabinet also approved a bill to submit any peace treaty with the Palestinians to a referendum, largely seen as an effort to appease an overwhelming right wing coalition wary of concessions that Israel could be demanded to make during the talks to be held in Washington on Tuesday or Wednesday. "Any agreement which may be reached in negotiations will be put to a referendum," the Prime Minister's office said in a statement. "It is important that on such historic decisions, every citizen should vote directly on an issue deciding the country's future." After nearly six-hour meeting, the 22-member Cabinet approved Netanyahu's proposal by 13 votes to seven with two abstentions. Under this, 104 long-serving Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners will be released in 4 stages over 9 months. The Cabinet also voted for the bill to bring peace deal to national referendum. The peace talks were stalled since September 2010 over Isarel's policy of settlement in the occupied land. Earlier, a Cabinet briefing paper said the government saw the referendum bill as "urgent and important" and said it would be asking Parliament to fast-track its passage into law. Sources said the referendum bill could be brought to the Knesset for a first reading as early as this week. A referendum, if passed, would be a final endorsement of a treaty after ratification by the government and Parliament. — PTI
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UK judge ‘begs’ NRI couple to rethink costly divorce battle
Shyam Bhatia in London London is known as the divorce capital of the world because of its reputation for generous cash settlements for divorcing wives. And London is where lawyer Aloke Ray (41) and his wife anaesthetist Charoo Sekhri (39) have spent over Rs 8 crore (£860,000) in legal fees since they separated in 2009, prompting a British judge to urge the feuding NRI couple to save money by reaching a speedier conclusion to their legal dispute Ironically, Ray is a lawyer specialising in dispute resolution. He and his wife met through an Internet dating agency. Their case is being heard in London’s High Court where the judge, Justice Holman, said he had “begged” the couple to stop their expensive legal fight about where their divorce should be heard. “Each has spent a staggering sum of about £430,000 on worldwide legal costs, a combined total of over £860,000,” Holman said. “I begged these parties to resolve their differences.” The judge added, “They met through an online dating agency when each was in their mid-thirties. They were already mature people. They were, and are, each highly intelligent, successful professional people. They each felt that what they lacked in their lives was a long-term partner or spouse.” One year after they got married, Charoo Sekhri gave birth to a son. Justice Holman commented, “This case is the story of a tragedy... (in) under two years after a marriage with so much promise, divorce became inevitable.” Ray owns property in London’s upmarket Hampstead suburb. His estranged wife practices at the famous Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London. Legal fees so far: Rs
8 crore!
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Mali heads to polls for ‘fresh start’
Bamako, July 28 Candidates wound up campaigns promising reconstruction and reconciliation. But underscoring security fears despite a successful French offensive against Al-Qaida-linked fighters, an Islamist group threatened to attack polling stations. Separatist and Islamist rebels swept across the desert north of the former French colony last year shortly after soldiers ousted the president. A successful vote on Sunday would take the gold-producing country a step towards recovery. Voting was taking place at about 21,000 polling stations across Mali and long queues formed in schools in the capital in the south. In the northern desert town of Timbuktu, seized by Al-Qaida-linked rebels during last year's rebellion, people turned up in large numbers. — Reuters |
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Spanish train crash: Judge to quiz driver
Santiago de Compostela, July 28 Francisco Jose Garzon Amo (52) refused to answer police questions on Friday from his hospital bed, and the case was passed to the courts. He was taken to a police station yesterday after being discharged from the hospital and will appear today before a judge who will decide whether to press formal charges. Under Spanish law, a suspect can be detained for a maximum of 72 hours before being heard by a judge. Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters yesterday that Garzon Amo faced possible charges of reckless homicide. He was speaking during a visit to the north-western city of Santiago de Compostela where the crash happened. The train was said to have been travelling at more than twice the speed limit on a curve when it was flung off the rails on Wednesday and slammed into a concrete wall, with one carriage leaping up onto a siding. Regional authorities now say that 78 passengers died and 178 were injured in the accident. It was Spain's deadliest rail accident since 1944 when hundreds were killed in a train collision, also between Madrid and Galicia. Regional health officials said 71 persons were still in hospital, including 28 adults and three children in a critical condition. Eight foreigners were among the dead — a US citizen, an Algerian, a Mexican, a Brazilian, a Venezuelan, an Italian, a national of the Dominican Republic and a Frenchman. — AFP
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Liberals gain in Kuwait polls Jewels worth 40 mn euros stolen in Cannes Berlusconi won’t seek ‘exile’ if found guilty Musician JJ Cale dies at 74
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Defying threats to evict them, thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi today staged a sit-in at a mosque
here.
Jerusalem, July 28
