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| October 14, 2005 | Friday | Ramzan 9, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Security incidents in Iraq, Oct 14 Baghdad, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Five people were wounded when a car bomb detonated near a mosque in Kirkuk. Police Captain Salam Zangana said four of the wounded were guards from the Northern Oil Company. Four civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol exploded in the southern Bayaa district of Baghdad. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military on the incident. Gunmen set fire to an office of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Falluja, and roadside bomb exploded next to another Islamic Party office in Baghdad, while gunmen attacked and destroyed the party's office in Baiji, police sources said. The party had decided this week to back the constitution in Saturday's referendum, the first Sunni Arab organisation to do so. In Mosul, police said 15 insurgents were arrested as they prepared to attack polling centres in the city, and in Ramadi three detainees were killed and seven wounded on Oct. 11 when insurgents attacked a convoy carrying them to a regional detention facility outside the city, the U.S. military said in a statement. Three U.S. soldiers were also wounded in the attack.(Posted @ 20:55 PST)
Bomb in mosque kills cleric in eastern Afghanistan KHOST, Afghanistan, Oct 14 (AFP) - A bomb exploded in a mosque in Khost's Tanai district in eastern Afghanistan Friday, killing a cleric while he was delivering a sermon and wounding a dozen worshippers. The bomb was placed under a chair from which the Imam was delivering the khutba, intelligence official Naqibullah Esmati told AFP.(Posted @ 18:52 PST)
Around 100 people killed in Nalchik assaults NALCHIK, Russia, Oct 14 (AFP) - Multiple shootouts between pro-Chechen militants and Russian forces in the southern city of Nalchik have killed around 100 people, an interior ministry official told AFP. "Twelve civilians and more than 70 militants have been killed and the number of dead among security forces is close to 20," Marina Kyasova, spokeswoman for the ministry in Kabardino-Balkaria province, said in telephone interview. The militants "attacked the police stations since these contain weapons arsenals but they did not succeed in getting hold of arms otherwise the number of victims would have been far higher," she added.(Posted @ 16:46 PST)
Four soldiers killed in chopper crash in northern Thailand BANGKOK, Oct 14 (AFP) - Four Thai soldiers including a senior local commander were killed after their helicopter crashed in northern Thailand, the military said on Friday.The helicopter apparently crashed in bad weather killing Major General Pairat Thongjattu and his aide who were flying to Chiang Rai province. Two pilots were also killed in the crash.(Posted @ 16:38 PST)
US and France warn Iran over nuclear activities PARIS, Oct 14 (AFP) - The United States and France Friday urged Iran to resume negotiations on its nuclear activities, and reaffirmed a threat to bring Tehran before the UN Security Council over the issue. "We have to have a very strong message that if course there is always the course of negotiation ... but there is also the course of the Security Council," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after talks in Paris. "It is a course that is available to the international community and it is therefore important that Iran negotiate in good faith," she said.A spokesman for President Jacques Chirac said that he and Rice agreed that "the perspective of an Iran in possession of nuclear weapons is unacceptable."(Posted @ 16:23 PST)
Dutch police seal off government buildings, shots heard: report THE HAGUE, Oct 14 (AFP) - Dutch police have sealed off the seat of government in The Hague and carried out several raids in the city, with witnesses reporting shots being fired, the ANP news agency said Friday.(Posted @ 16:20 PST)
Saudi king vows to destroy 'devilish' Al-Qaeda WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (AFP) - Saudi King Abdullah vowed in his first television interview as monarch to eliminate Al-Qaeda even if the battle took decades to win, condemning the terror network as "the work of the devil". Abdullah also told US channel ABC in an interview due to be broadcast later Friday that Riyadh would work to bring down oil prices whose rise he admitted had helped Saudi Arabia while damaging other countries.(Posted @ 16:16 PST)
Kuwait's crown prince to step down this week-paper DUBAI, Oct 14 (Reuters) Kuwait's ailing crown prince was expected to announce that he was giving up his post when he returned from London this week, a UAE-based newspaper quoted family members as saying on Friday. Sheikh Saad al-Abdulla al-Sabah, 76, was due to succeed his cousin the emir, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, 77, but illness has incapacitated him for several years. The emir also suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2001. The United Arab Emirates Arabic-language daily, Al Bayan, quoted family sources as saying Saad's son, Sheikh Fahd, called from London to say his father would step down. (Posted @ 13:35 PST)
China demands Japan destroy WW2 chemical weapons BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) China demanded on Thursday that Japan destroy about 2 million chemical weapons abandoned by the retreating Japanese Imperial Army at the end of World War Two. China has complained that Japan has been slow in clearing up the weapons buried or discarded by the Japanese after the war ended in 1945 and says some 2,000 Chinese have been harmed by such weapons. (Posted @ 13:35 PST)
Cricket-Australia 331 for six in first innings against World XI at close of play SYDNEY, Oct 14 (Reuters) Australia were 331 for six in their first innings when bad light ended play early on the opening day of the ICC super test against the Rest of the World on Friday. Adam Gilchrist was not out 94 with Shane Warne on one when the batsmen agreed to go off early with five overs still remaining at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia 1st innings 331 for 6 (J. Langer 0, R. Ponting 46, M. Hayden 111, M. Clarke 39, S. Katich 0, S. Watson 24; Harmison 55-1, Flintoff 55-1, Vettori 73-1, Muralitharan 102-2) (Posted @ 13:30 PST)
Cricket-Buchanan reappointed Australia coach until 2007 SYDNEY, Oct 14 (Reuters) John Buchanan was reappointed on Friday as Australia coach through to the 2007 World Cup in West Indies. Buchanan's job had been under review after Australia's Ashes loss in England but Cricket Australia chairman Bob Merriman said the board had agreed to extend his contract. (Posted @ 13:30 PST)
Bush included Saudi Arabia, Pakistan in weapons concern: report WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (AFP) Two months before the Iraq war, President George W. Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair that his concern over the spread of weapons of mass destruction went beyond Iraq and mentioned Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, The New York Times said Friday. The details of a January 30, 2003 telephone conversation between the two leaders, according to notes taken by a Blair adviser, was reported in a US edition of "Lawless World," by Philippe Sands, the newspaper said. The New York Times said neither the White House nor the British Embassy here would comment on the report. (Posted @ 13:25 PST)
Japan's upper-house approves Koizumi's postal reforms TOKYO, Oct 14 (AFP) Japan's parliament on Friday enacted plans to privatize the huge post office as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi achieved his long-held dream of breaking up the three-trillion-dollar financial giant. Japan Post was now set to be privatized in October 2007, ending a decades-long campaign by Koizumi. (Posted @ 12:15 PST)
WHO says SE Asia needs $260 million to fight bird flu MANILA, Oct 14 (Reuters) The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday the international community needed to raise about $260 million in the short term to fight the deadly bird flu virus in Southeast Asia. Health experts believe the H5N1 strain of the avian influenza virus, which has killed more than 60 people in Asia since 2003, was moving towards a form that could pass easily among humans. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Blast destroys convoy carrying fuel for U.S. base KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Oct 14 (Reuters) An explosion caused by a bomb planted on a fuel truck destroyed eight tankers carrying fuel for a U.S. base in Afghanistan, witnesses said on Friday. Two Pakistani truck drivers were wounded in Thursday night's explosion at a check point near Kandahar airport, they said. Local officials said the bomb was fixed to one of the trucks in Pakistan, but offered no proof. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. (First Posted @ 11:35 PST Updated @ 12:00 PST)
Rebels killed, hostages freed in Russia town MOSCOW, Oct 14 (Reuters) Russian forces killed eight Chechen rebels and freed the five hostages they had been holding in a police station in a southern Russian town, a senior justice official said on Friday. Interfax quoted other police sources as saying the hostages were freed after the rebels, who seized the police station in a major attack on Nalchik on Thursday, tried to drive off with their captives in a mini-bus but ran into a tree. (Posted @ 10:35 PST)
Karachi Stocks up 99.40 points: KARACHI, October 14: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 8860.90, up 99.40 points from Thursday's close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 12:10 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, October 14: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 60.15 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 12:10 PST)
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