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| July 7, 2005 | Thursday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 29, 1426 |
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Tiscali plans to build German DSL network -paper FRANKFURT, July 7 (REUTERS) - Italian telecoms and Internet firm Tiscali wants to invest in its own broadband DSL infrastructure in Germany, the head of the company's German unit told Handelsblatt in an article to be published on Friday. The German business daily reported that Tiscali would like to build a network in the greater Frankfurt area by the end of the year.(Posted @ 23:05 PST)
Three soldiers, two policemen killed in Chechnya VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia, July 7 (AFP) - Three Russian soldiers and two pro-Russian Chechen policemen have been killed in the last 24 hours in Chechnya, an official in the local government told AFP on Thursday. The official, who asked not to be named, said two of the soldiers were killed when the lorry they were travelling in ran over a mine in the village of Duba-Yurt, southeast of the regional capital Grozny. The third soldier was accidentally shot by a colleague in Khankala, south of the capital. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said earlier this week that so far this year, 51 soldiers have been killed as a result of separatist attacks, shoot-outs and mine blasts in Chechnya.(Posted @ 23:00 PST)
Two suspected Taliban militants killed in southern Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 7 (AFP) - Two suspected Taliban militants were killed and three others captured after they ambushed a police checkpost in southern Afghanistan, police said Thursday. Two policemen were also wounded in the attack late Wednesday in a remote village near the town of Spin Boldak on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Abdul Wasy, Spin Boldak police chief, told AFP. The firing between the suspected Taliban militants and police lasted one and half hours. Two attackers were killed and three were captured, he said.(Posted @ 21:15 PST)
CHRONOLOGY-Thursday's bomb blasts in London LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - A series of bombs rocked central London on Thursday. Following is a GMT timeline of where and when they went off. 0751 - Explosion around 100 yards (metres) into the underground tunnel from Liverpool Street station. 7 confimed fatalities. 0756 - Explosion underground between King's Cross station and Russell Square. 21 confirmed fatalities. 0817 - Explosion on train going into Edgware Road underground station. Blew a hole through a wall and hit another train, and possibly a third. 5 confirmed fatalities. 0847 - Explosion on a bus near Tavistock Place. Police said there were fatalities but could not yet say how many.(Posted @ 21:02 PST)
G8 reaches climate deal in principle -Germany GLENEAGLES, Scotland, July 7 (Reuters) - The Group of Eight powers meeting in Scotland have agreed the text of a communique on combating global warming, German negotiator Bernd Pfaffenbach told reporters. He said they had agreed to try to reduce greenhouse gases by promoting cleaner technology and energy efficiency, but alsomade reference in their text to the Kyoto Protocol -- which theUnited States, alone among G8 members, has not signed. No specific targets were mentioned in the text. "The document was accepted and you can be sure that therewon't be any more changes," he said. "The Kyoto accord will be mentioned but the document won't contain any concrete figures."(Posted @ 21:00 PST)
India releases water, Pakistan faces floods ISLAMABAD, July 7 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities told villagers to evacuate their homes on Thursday after India released a large volume of water into river Chenab that flows from the Himalayas into Pakistan. "The situation is serious," the director-general of Pakistan's Meteorogical Department, Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, told Reuters. The volume of water released into the Chenab was about 566,000 cusecs, he said adding that "we are expecting heavy floods in some parts of northern Punjab," he said. The flood peak was expected to hit by late Thursday, he said adding that India had not given advance warning before releasing the water."Normally they do," he added.(Posted @ 21:00 PST)
Up to 50 dead, 1,000 hurt in London attacks: French official PARIS, July 7 (AFP) - The attacks that hit London on Thursday killed between 45 and 50 people and left some 1,000 injured, a top French official said. The statement, from an official who asked not to be named, came shortly after British police said that at least 33 people died in three of four main attacks that hit the city. Police said they did not know how many people had died in the fourth attack, which devastated a bus. Separately, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu told parliamentarians in Rome that the attacks had killed some 50 people.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
Ten people killed as Indian occupied Kashmir rocked by fresh violence SRINAGAR, July 7 (AFP) - Ten people were killed in fresh violence in revolt-hit Indian occupied Kashmir, officials said Thursday. Indian troops shot dead three militants Thursday near the LoC, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Vijay Batra told AFP. Indian troops also Thursday shot dead four more militants in two separate encounters in the districts of Anantnag and Kupwara. Police said suspected militants shot dead the son of a ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) member and another civilian in southern Anantnag district late Wednesday. Police recovered Thursday the body of an unidentified 10-year-old Muslim boy whose throat has been slit in central Budgam district.Militants also attacked a paramilitary camp housed in a hotel in Srinagar late Wednesday."There were no casualties but the attack sparked panic in the residential areas around the hotel," a police spokesman said.(Posted @ 20:29 PST)
Pakistan condemns London attacks, resolves to fight terror ISLAMABAD, July 7 (AFP) - Pakistan condemned the deadly bomb attacks on London's transport net