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Car bombs kill 42 at Lebanon mosques
China’s Bo rejects ‘crazy’ wife’s testimony
Punjabi youth shot dead in California
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Obama concerned over Syrian crisis, but says no US role
Arms race with India must end: Sharif
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Car bombs kill 42 at Lebanon mosques
Tripoli, August 23 That was the highest toll in an attack since Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war. Coming a week after a bombing in the Beirut bastion of Shiite party Hezbollah, a close ally of Bashar al-Assad, the bombings in the northern port of Tripoli risk further stoking tensions between supporters and foes of the Syrian President. "The death toll has risen to 42," a security source said. Earlier, the Lebanese Red Cross earlier said there were also at least 500 wounded, with director Georges Kettaneh adding that many of those hurt had serious burns and head wounds. Both blasts hit at the hour of weekly Muslim prayers, in a city where Sunni supporters of Syria's rebels engage in frequent, often deadly, clashes with Alawites, who back the Assad regime. The first bomb struck in the city centre at the Al-Salam mosque as worshippers were still inside. The second explosion struck outside Al-Taqwa mosque, about 2 km away, near the port. — AFP
Israeli jets pound target near Beirut
Jerusalem, August 23 The airstrike came in response to four rockets that were fired into northern Israel yesterday evening from Lebanon. Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Brig-Gen Yoav Mordechai said that the Israeli air force struck targets a few kms from Beirut A Lebanon-based Palestinian militant group confirmed that one of its bases south of Beirut was the target of the Israeli attack. — PTI |
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China’s Bo rejects ‘crazy’ wife’s testimony
Beijing, August 23 On day two of the trial today — being held in Jinan city in eastern Shandong province over bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power charges against 64-year-old Bo — Chinese prosecutors tried to fox him by releasing the video of his wife Gu Kailai's confessions as he continued to reject the allegations against him as a frame-up. The video — details of which were released by the Jinan Intermediate Court in its micro blog account — stated that Gu, 54, bought a villa near Nice in France with the help of British businessman Neil Heywood. Heywood was murdered in 2011 by Gu for threatening the safety of her son Bo Guagua. Gu was given a suspended death sentence with a two-year reprieve. According to a testimony of French architect Patrick Devillers, Heywood was very angry with Gu for asking to transfer his stake in the French property to another person and demanded £1.4 million as compensation in May 2011. He had previously been entrusted by Gu to hold the stake on her behalf. This is the first time prosecutors released the details of why Gu chose to kill Heywood, providing a graphic account. The prosecutors also produced confessions of police chief of Chongqing Wang Lijun who said he recalled Gu got angry because Heywood allegedly owed her several million yuan in rent income from the property and threatened the safety of her son Bo Guagua when she demanded the money. This led to the 2011 "November 15 incident", Gu said, referring to Heywood's murder in Chongqing. For his part, Bo continues to rebut his wife's confessions as nonsense and ridiculous. He said she was "crazy" and often lies. — PTI
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Punjabi youth shot dead in California
Los Angeles, August 23 He died after sustaining a single bullet wound to his upper torso. There is currently no identified suspect in this homicide, which appears to have been committed by the lone suspect, SouthTahoe Now.com reported. Police Department detectives are collaborating with the El Dorado County Sheriff's and District Attorney's offices, as well as with the FBI, to process evidence and to explore several investigative avenues, the report said. The South Lake Tahoe police said it does not appear that a robbery was the motive of the crime, KCRA TV reported on its website. The police released two still images taken from surveillance video, but the quality of the pictures makes it difficult to identify details of the gunman's appearance. His face was well-covered by a hooded sweatshirt, the report said. The Lake Tahoe Secret Witness Program has offered a $ 1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect in this case. An anonymous donor has contacted Secret Witness to contribute an additional $ 2,500 to this reward for a total of $ 4,000, the report said. — PTI Bullet wound in upper torso
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Obama concerned over Syrian crisis, but says no US role
Washington, August 23 "Well, we are right now gathering information about this particular event. But I can say that unlike some of the evidence that we were trying to get earlier that led to a UN investigator going into Syria, what we've seen indicates that this is clearly a big event of grave concern,” Obama said. Obama said his administration was already in communication with the entire international community following reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government used chemical weapons in an attack near Damascus on Wednesday that was said to have killed more than 1,300 persons. — PTI Russia urges Syria to cooperate
Moscow: Russia on Friday said it had told the Syrian Government to cooperate with UN experts after reports of a deadly chemical weapons attack outside Damascus, adding it was now up to rebels to allow access to the area. — AFP |
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Arms race with India must end: Sharif
Islamabad, August 23 "We’ve been in a very unfortunate arms race with India ever since Partition and I think we are a very unfortunate country from that point of view," he said. "I think this must come to an end. The money wasted in defence should have gone into social sectors," Sharif said in his first interview with The Telegraph after becoming Premier in June. The two countries should also "settle their conflict over Kashmir", he said. — PTI |
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