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Come up with N-proposals: US to Iran
2 cops killed, 11 hurt in Peshawar blast
India seeks
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US security deal not ready: Afghan prez
2 Americans, German get Nobel prize for medicine
Libya not told of anti-terror strike: Kerry Malala calls for dialogue with Taliban
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Come up with N-proposals: US to Iran
Indonesia, October 7 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that the previous foreign offer, made by the “P5+1” group at two meetings in the Kazakh capital of Almaty before the June election of moderate President Hassan Rouhani, was no longer valid. But Kerry, while welcoming recent overtures, including a historic contact between Rouhani and US President Barack Obama, said the ball remained in Iran’s court. “The group of six put a proposal on the table at Almaty and I don't believe as of yet Iran has fully responded to that particular proposal. So I think we are waiting for the fullness of the Iranian difference in their approach now,” he told reporters in Indonesia after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “So what we need are a set of proposals from Iran that will fully disclose how they will show the world that their programme is peaceful.” Western powers and Israel have long accused Iran of seeking to develop nuclear bombs in the guise of a civilian programme, charges Tehran has always vehemently denied the proposals made in Almaty required Iran to suspend uranium enrichment at the 20 percent level it says it needs for a medical research reactor, and to halt enrichment at its underground plant at Fordo near the central city of Qom. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who represents the six powers in the talks, said last month that she was still waiting for Iran's response to those previous proposals. But Zarif said that Rouhani's election had changed the dynamics. “The previous offer by the P5+1 is history and they should come to the negotiating table with a new approach,” the ISNA news agency quoted him as saying yesterday, while renewing his insistence that a deal could be reached to address the concerns of both sides. A new round of talks is due in mid-October in Geneva between Iran and the P5+1, comprising the five UN Security Council permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — plus Germany. — AFP
Praises Syria
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday said Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad could take “credit” for starting the process of destroying his regime's chemical weapons. — PTI |
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2 cops killed, 11 hurt in Peshawar blast
Islamabad, October 7 The improvised explosive device (IED) was planted outside a basic health unit in the Badabher area where vaccination materials were being distributed to volunteers. Around 12 police officers were in the van at the time of the blast. A policeman and a volunteer of a pro-government peace committee were killed by the powerful blast. Eleven civilians sustained injuries in the incident, the latest in a string of attacks on volunteers engaged in Pakistan's polio eradication programme. "The explosion caused by an IED targeted policemen," said SSP (Operations) Najeebur Rehman. The van was carrying policemen who had been tasked to protect teams going out to vaccinate children in the area. A police spokesman described as incorrect earlier reports that seven persons, including several policemen, were killed in the attack. Several policemen and civilians, who lost consciousness due to the impact of the blast, were wrongly declared dead, he said. Rehman said the bomb went off just as the police van reached the health facility to provide security to polio teams. The polio vaccinators were unhurt as they were inside the health facility, officials said. The injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital. Two Taliban factions have banned vaccinations in the lawless North and South Waziristan tribal regions. They claimed health workers were spies for the US.
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India seeks devolution of power in Lanka’s Tamil areas Colombo, October 7 On his first visit here, External
Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid raised the issue of reconciliation
during his meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart GL Peiris at the
Ministry of External Affairs. During a joint news conference with
Peiris, he called for “meaningful devolution” of power to provinces,
including Tamil-inhabited areas in the north. “India has been
consistent in calling for an early political settlement and national
reconciliation through meaningful devolution of powers, so to ensure
that all citizens of Sri Lanka, including the Sri Lankan Tamil
community, would lead a life marked by equality, justice, dignity and
self-respect," Khurshid said. India hopes that the “vision and
leadership that resulted in an end to armed conflict and holding of
elections to the Northern Province will now be employed to work for
genuine reconciliation,” he added. — PTI
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US security deal not ready: Afghan prez
Kabul, October 7 President Hamid Karzai says he will convene a council of Afghan elders, a Loya Jirga, in a month's time to discuss the state of the agreement. It is doubtful a deal will be complete by that time. The deal will give the US a legal basis for having military forces in Afghanistan after 2014. If there is no deal, there will be no US forces in Afghanistan after that time. Karza also condemned what he described as repeated violations of Afghan sovereignty by the US. — AP |
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2 Americans, German get Nobel prize for medicine
Stockholm, October 7 The trio, who all work at US universities, were honoured for "their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells," it said. Their discoveries have had a major impact on understanding how cargo is delivered within and outside the cell and have implications for work on several diseases including neurological and immunological disorders, as well as diabetes, the Nobel committee said. Each cell is a factory that produces and exports molecules. "For instance, insulin is manufactured and released into the blood and chemical signals called neurotransmitters are sent from one nerve cell to another. These molecules are transported around the cell in small packages called vesicles," it explained. The three Nobel laureates "have discovered the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time in the cell," it said. The winners will share equally the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor (USD 1.25 million). The laureates will receive their prize at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896. — AFP
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Libya not told of anti-terror strike: Kerry Tripoli, October 7 Libi was a key suspect behind the bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, Xinhua reported. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of 2013 APEC meeting in Indonesia, Kerry said: “The Libyan authorities have not been reported previously in this operation.” "The US is doing everything possible and everything appropriate and legal to eliminate the terrorist threat," Kerry said. He added that Anas al Libi was a “legal target” and he would face justice in a court of law. — IANS
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Malala calls for dialogue with Taliban London, October 7 “That's the job of the government...and that's also the job of America...The Taliban must do what they want through dialogue. Killing and flogging people...it’s totally against Islam,” Malala said on a special BBC Panorama programme to be aired on Monday. — PTI
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Indonesia, October 7
US duo James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born Thomas Suedhof won the Nobel Medicine Prize today for their groundbreaking work on how the cell organises its transport system, the jury said.
The trio, who all work at US universities, were honoured for "their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells," it said.
