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| August 7, 2005 | Sunday | Rajab 1, 1426 |
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Stricken Russian submarine resurfaces: official PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia, Aug 7 (AFP) - A small Russian military submarine with seven crew members aboard resurfaced Sunday following a multinational rescue operation three days after it was pinned to the ocean floor off Russia's Pacific coast, Rear Admiral Vladimir Pepelyayev, deputy chief of the navy general staff, said. The submarine resurfaced at 0325 GMT.The hatch of the vessel was opened shortly thereafter and all seven crew members were in perfect shape, a later report said. The submarine was retrieved after a British undersea robot equipped with heavy-duty cutting blades succeeded in extracting the vessel from undersea debris in which it was entangled at a depth of about 600 feet. Russian officials said it got entangled due to a combination of fishing net fragments becoming entangled in the vessel’s propeller and parts of an undersea coastal surveillance antenna system which snared the mini-submarine.(Posted @ 09:12 PST)
India beat West Indies by seven runs to enter final COLOMBO, Aug 7 (AFP) - India defeated the West Indies by seven runs in the last league match to qualify for the final of the triangular one-day cricket series at the Premadasa Stadium here on Sunday. Brief scores: India 262-4 in 50 overs; West Indies 255-9 in 50 overs(Posted @ 21:58 PST)
China coal mine flood traps 103 underground BEIJING, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A flood has trapped 103 miners underground in China's southern Guangdong province, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Rescue efforts were underway at the Daxing colliery in Xingning city, the agency quoted a local official saying. No further details were immediately available. China's mining industry is the deadliest in the world, and Xinhua recently reported that it claimed some 2,700 lives in the first half of this year alone.(Posted @ 21:48 PST)
Explosions hit Pakistan's remote southwest, no casualties QUETTA, Pakistan, Aug 7 (AFP) - Three explosions Sunday hit parts of Pakistan's troubled southwestern Baluchistan province but caused no casualties, police and officials said.One blast shattered some windows in Turbat, 600 kilometres (370 miles) southwest of Quetta, said a police officer. And two blasts damaged an electricity pylon in southeastern Rakhni district, said utility company spokesman Jibrael Khan.Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks, but officials have blamed tribesmen demanding autonomy and greater benefits from the region's natural resources for a string of recent bomb blasts and rocket attacks.(Posted @ 19:55 PST)
Suspected kidnapper of Italian aid worker 'freed by Afghan army general' KABUL, Aug 7 (AFP) - A man arrested this weekend over the kidnapping of an Italian aid worker was allegedly freed by an Afghan army general who attacked the police holding him, an interior ministry source said Sunday. Timur Shah, accused of abducting Clementina Cantoni, was caught in northern Parwan province Saturday, but local army General Zamaray Khan then attacked the police holding him and freed Shah, said a senior interior ministry official. (Posted @ 18:35 PST)
KASHMIR- Troops martyr five more Kashmiris Srinagar, August 07 (PPI) In occupied Kashmir, the Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism, martyred five Kashmiri youth, and destroyed a house at different places, reports Kashmir Media Service. During siege and search operations, they destroyed a house of Alam Din Chat, by heavy firing and mortar shells at Rajwar in Handwara area. Three dead bodies were recovered in the debris. Two more youth were shot dead by troops in a fake encounter at Wavan Bahek in Bandipore area. A woman was killed and four others injured in a grenade blast near Gujjar Hostel in Doda town. Unidentified gunmen shot dead one person at Sopore bus stand and a woman was also injured in the shoot out, and was hospitalised.(Posted @ 17:55 PST)
England beat Australia by two runs BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug 7 (AFP) - England beat Australia by two runs to win the second Ashes Test on the fourth day at Edgbaston here Sunday. England's victory, achieved with more than a day to spare, saw them level the five-Test series at 1-1 after their 239-run defeat at Lord's last month.(Posted @ 16:20 PST)
Twelve killed as Iraq leaders seek to end constitution stalemate BAGHDAD, Aug 7 (AFP) - Iraq's political leaders were set to meet Sunday to negotiate on issues holding up the completion of the country's constitution, as at least 12 Iraqis were killed in attacks.(Posted @ 15:40 PST)
Suicide car bomber kills five at Iraq police base TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 15 in an attack on an Iraqi police headquarters in the northern town of Tikrit on Sunday, police sources said. Men volunteering to join the force had been crowding the area at the time, they added.(Posted @ 14:35 PST)
Eight suspected militants killed in southeast Afghanistan: police KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 7 (AFP) - Eight suspected Taliban militants were killed and three captured as Afghan and US-led troops raided their hideouts in southeastern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday. The raids by Afghan security forces, supported by members of the 19,000-strong US-led coalition, were conducted Saturday in Zabul province, said local police commander Ghulam Rashoul Aka."During the the operation we killed eight Taliban and captured three others," he said. At least one policeman was wounded during a day-long exchange of fire, he added.(Posted @ 13:05 PST)
Casualties in Iraq, Aug 7 BAGHDAD, Aug 7 (Reuters) Gunmen killed two Ministry of Oil employees and wounded two others when they opened fire on their car in the New Baghdad district of the capital, police said. In another incident gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes in the Saydiya section of Baghdad, police said.(Posted @ 11:15 PST)
North Korea repeats it has nuclear weapons; US must change policy BEIJING, Aug 7 (AFP) - North Korea repeated Sunday that it is building nuclear weapons and said the United States must change its policies if the deadlock over its programs is to broken.(Posted @ 11:10 PST)
US rules out light-water reactors for North Korea BEIJING, Aug 7 (AFP) - The United States on Sunday ruled out North Korea being allowed to have light-water nuclear reactors for energy purposes, and said Pyongyang's insistence on them have blocked an agreement in six-way talks. "The issue came down to the DPRK (North Korea). They not only want the right to use nuclear energy, but the right to use light-water reactors. That is simply not on our table," the US envoy to the six-nation talks, Christopher Hill, told reporters. "It is quite appropriate for them to go back to their capital to tell them that the light-water reactor is simply not on the table," he said. The reactors are capable of producing weapons-grade nuclear material.(Posted @ 11:02 PST)
White House officials meet anti-war protesters CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 6 (Reuters) - About 70 anti-war protesters shouted "bring the troops home" from Iraq near President George W. Bush's ranch on Saturday, prompting two White House officials to come out to meet with mothers who lost children in combat in Iraq. "I want to ask the president, why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" Sheehan, 48, Vacaville, California, told reporters before meeting the officials. The protest coincided with release of a Newsweek poll that said 61 percent of Americans disapproved of the way Bush was handling the situation in Iraq. The group of protesters, including U.S. veterans from the Iraq and Vietnam wars, were loud yet peaceful (Posted @ 10:14 PST)
Three-week break for North Korean nuclear talks BEIJING, Aug 7 (AFP) - North Korean nuclear talks will take three weeks off, China said Sunday after intense negotiations failed to secure a breakthrough over the North’s demand to be allowed peaceful atomic programs. Negotiators from the United States, China, the two Koreas, Japan and Russia will meet again in Beijing in the week beginning August 29 after consultations with their capitals on what more they can do to defuse the three-year impasse. (Posted @ 09:55 PST)
Two US soldiers killed in central Iraq BAGHDAD, Aug 7 (AFP) - Two US soldiers were killed and three wounded Saturday in a bomb attack on their patrol vehicle near Samarra, north of Baghdad, the US military said Sunday. (Posted @ 09:36 PST)
Saudis alerted Britain to looming London attacks: Sunday papers LONDON, Aug 7 (AFP) - Saudi officials alerted Britain several weeks before the deadly July 7 bombings in London that a terror attack was being planned, two Sunday newspapers reported. The Observer quoted a security official in the Saudi capital Riyadh as saying that information was passed to MI5 and MI6, Britain's domestic and foreign intelligence agencies respectively. The Sunday Telegraph quoted the Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Turki al-Faisal, as saying that details of a possible conspiracy to attack London -- apparently extracted from terrorism suspects in Saudi Arabia -- had been given to British intelligence. "There were reports passed on to your authorities several months ago (in April-May) in general terms of a heightened expectancy of attacks on London," said the ambassador, a former chief of Saudi intelligence. Security sources played down the reports while there was no immediate comment from the Foreign Office or the Home Office, but Prime Minister Tony Blair has previously rejected suggestions of an intelligence failure. (Posted @ 09:36 PST)
Casualties in Iraq hit Bush's standing WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush took a political beating this weekend after a second opinion poll, taken after a spike in US casualties in Iraq, showed a sharp drop in public support for his Iraq policy. The survey by Newsweek magazine indicated only 34 percent of Americans approved of the way Bush was handling the situation in Iraq while 61 percent expressed their disapproval. (Posted @ 09:23 PST)
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