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| October 31, 2005 | Monday | Ramzan 26, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Pakistan president Musharraf phones Indian PM over bomb blasts NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (AFP) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday to express his condolences over the bomb blasts that rocked the Indian capital on the weekend killing 62 people, Singh's spokesman said. The spokesman said Singh told President Musharraf that he expected Pakistan to honour its commitment to ending cross-border terrorism. "India expects Pakistan to act against terrorism directed at India," spokesman Sanjaya Baru quoted Singh as telling Musharraf.(Posted @ 22:30 PST)
UN Security Council adopts Syria resolution over Hariri murder UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (APP/AFP): The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a Western-sponsored resolution demanding full Syrian cooperation with the UN probe into the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier.(Posted @ 22:10 PST)
Pakistan rejects Indian comments over New Delhi bombings ISLAMABAD, Oct 31 (AFP) - Pakistan on Monday rejected Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comments that there were indications the weekend blasts in the Indian capital had links with militant groups in Pakistan. "Unless they share the evidence with us, it remains a mere claim which we cannot accept," Pakistan foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told AFP. She was reacting to an Indian foreign ministry statement that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in a telephone conversation "to act against terrorism directed against India."(Posted @ 22:00 PST)
Seven policemen slain in southern Philippines ambush COTABATO, Philippines, Oct 31 (AFP) - Unknown gunmen shot and killed a police chief and six of his officers in an ambush in the southern Philippines on Monday, their regional commander said. They were attacked while driving home from police headquarters in police cars, the regional commander said.The authorities suspect the attack was linked to a family feud involving two Muslim clans in the Lanao region of Mindanao.(Posted @ 19:25 PST)
Musharraf pledges to support probe into 'dastardly' Delhi attacks RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 31 (AFP) - President Pervez Musharraf Monday promised Pakistan would fully support India's investigation into the weekend bombings in New Delhi, calling them "the most dastardly terrorist attack". Musharraf told reporters India would get "total and unequivocal support from Pakistan in any investigation that India would like to carry out" into Saturday's blasts, which killed 62 people and wounded another 210.(Posted @ 18:48 PST)
Britain to start citizenship test for immigrants LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Immigrants who want to become UK citizens will have to show a knowledge of British customs and history if they are to pass new compulsory tests unveiled by the government on Monday. The 45-minute "Life in the UK" tests, which all applicants must sit from Tuesday, require immigrants to answer 24 multiple questions about British life ranging from knowledge of Queen Elizabeth to regional dialects. The tests, which cost 34 pounds and can be taken at about 90 centres across the country, come on top of a need for new citizens to demonstrate a working knowledge of English. "An understanding of the British language and our way of life is vital," said Immigration minister Tony McNulty. Those who fail the test will have to take it again. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, told BBC radio he was opposed to a test but said immigrants should be encouraged to develop skills to integrate into society. He added that the people "most attached to Britishness" in the whole population were ethnic minorities living in England.(Posted @ 18:42 PST)
Trescothick spares England's blushes RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 31 (AFP) - Opener Marcus Trescothick hit a fighting hundred to help England recover from a disastrous start in their warm-up game against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI here on Monday. Trescothick made an unbeaten 124 as the tourists made 256-9 on the first day of their three-day match at the Pindi stadium after England were left tottering at 60-6 at lunch. Pakistani pacemen Yasir Arafat (4-45) and Najaf Shah (3-58) destroyed the top order with their ability to reverse-swing the ball -- a bitter irony for England, who relied on the same technique to beat Australia this summer.(Posted @ 18:30 PST)
Police clash with youths in fourth night of violence in Paris suburb CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Oct 31 (AFP) - Police clashed with angry youths in a Paris suburb for the fourth straight night, police said Monday, with accusations over a police teargas grenade thrown into a mosque set to exacerbate the situation further. In all, 27 people have been arrested since the violence first erupted late Thursday night. The unrest was originally triggered when two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, died by electrocution on Thursday after they scaled the wall of an electrical relay station and touched a transformer. Molins said the boys thought they were being chased by police, but authorities denied that was the case.(Posted @ 18:25 PST)
Bush picks conservative judge for Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (AFP) - Embattled US President George W. Bush on Monday nominated a conservative appeals court judge, Samuel Alito, to the Supreme Court in a move expected to heal a rift in his Republican party.(Posted @ 18:25 PST)
Six US soldiers killed in Iraq BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (AFP) - Six US soldiers were killed in two separate bomb explosions Monday in Iraq, the military said. Four died when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device in the Yusufiyah district, southwest of Baghdad. And two were killed in an explosion while on patrol near Anaconda base, on the outkirts of Balad, 75 kilometres (45 miles) north of the capital. "The names of the soldiers are being withheld pending the notification of next of kin," the military said. Their death bring to at least 2,020 the number of US military personnel killed in the Iraq operation since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP tally.(Posted @ 18:22 PST)
India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in third one-dayer JAIPUR, India, Oct 31 (AFP) - India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the third one-day international to take a 3-0 lead in the seven match series here on Monday. Brief scores: Sri Lanka 298-4 in 50 overs; India 303-4 in 46.1 overs.(Posted @ 17:42 PST)
Pakistani sentenced to death for India attack NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - An Indian court on Monday sentenced a Pakistani to death over a militant attack on New Delhi's famous 17th Century Red Fort five years ago. Presecutors had said Ashfaq Rehman, convicted of "waging war" on India, was a member of the banned Pakistan militant group that some analysts suspect of involvement in weekend bombings in New Delhi that killed at least 59 people. Five others, all Indians, were jailed for between seven years and life over the Red Fort attack, in which three people died.(Posted @ 17:30 PST)
Security incidents in Iraq, Oct 31 Baghdad, Oct 31 (Reuters) Police killed two insurgents and detained another three when clashes erupted between police and insurgents north of Kerbala, 110 km ( southwest of Baghdad.Two Iraqi army soldiers were killed and four wounded when several mortars fell on an Iraqi army headquarters south of Baquba, a military source said. An Iraqi translator working for U.S. forces was killed in Duloeyah, north of Baghdad, when gunmen opened fire on his car while he was driving to work, police said. One person was killed and seven wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an Iraqi army checkpoint in Sinjar west of Iraq, police and medical sources said.(Posted @ 16:42 PST)
Bomb targeting US convoy kills one Afghan, wounds five JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Oct 31 (AFP) - A remote-controlled bomb exploded seconds after a US military convoy passed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing an Afghan civilian and wounding five others, police said. The bomb was fixed to a bicycle left at the side of a road Nangarhar police spokesman Ghafoor Khan said. (Posted @ 16:05 PST)
US military condemns abuse after latest Afghanistan claims KABUL, Oct 31 (AFP) The US-led coalition announced late Sunday that two US soldiers had been charged with allegedly assaulting two detainees in their custody in southern Uruzgan province, including by punching them in chest, shoulders and stomach. Coalition spokesman Colonel Jim Yonts told reporters the US military was conducting three investigations into television footage broadcast this month showing US soldiers burning the bodies of suspected Taliban fighters. (Posted @ 15:50 PST)
Cargo plane crashes in northern Italy, killing three crew members ROME Oct 31 (APP/AP) A cargo plane under contract with international shipper DHL crashed in northern Italy, killing all three crew members, authorities said Monday. (Posted @ 14:10 PST)
US says bombs Qaeda house, Iraqis say 40 dead RAMADI, Iraq, Oct 31 (Reuters) U.S. aircraft bombed a house near the Syrian border before dawn on Monday in what the military said was a precision strike on an al Qaeda leader. A local hospital doctor in the Iraqi town of Qaim said 40 people were killed and 20 wounded, many of them women and children, and a tribal leader said there were no guerrillas in the area. A U.S. military spokesman said the precision bombing in Karabila, close to Qaim, was meant to avoid civilian casualties. (Posted @ 13:40 PST)
Five killed as man detonates grenades in China BEIJING, Oct 31 (APP/AFP) A police chief and four others were killed when an armed robbery suspect detonated two hand grenades as police tried to arrest him in southern China's Hainan province, state press said Monday. Six others, including two policemen, were injured in the Saturday night blast in Mutang township, the Hainan Daily said. (Posted @ 13:20 PST)
Two Russian soldiers killed in mudslide in Chechnya MOSCOW, Oct 31 (AFP) Two Russian soldiers were killed and four more wounded when a mudslide swept their car into a river in Russia's Caucasian republic of Chechnya, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported Monday. The unit was out on an engineering reconnaissance mission Sunday when their armored car was hit by a mudslide, law enforcement officials said. (Posted @ 12:10 PST)
Seven killed in stampede for Mecca charity RIYADH, Oct 31 (Reuters) Seven people were killed in a stampede for charity handouts in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi newspapers said on Monday. Arab News said the crush happened on Saturday night in a car park 6 km from the Grand Mosque where a man was distributing cash. Another 40 people were injured, it said. (Posted @ 12:10 PST)
Palestinian bomber killed in West Bank: army JERUSALEM, Oct 31 (AFP) Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian bomber in Kabatiya overnight, bringing the Palestinian toll in the northern West Bank town to three dead within 24 hours, an army spokesman announced Monday. (Posted @ 10:55 PST)
Gaza may turn into prison camp: Palestinian leader SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa said on Monday that the Gaza Strip could turn into a prison camp if there was no solution to the problems of the area. Kidwa's warning came as the region was gripped by the worst violence since Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip in September. Israel's withdrawal from Gaza was "a positive step" but must be followed up by actions to hand over real control, Kidwa told the conference after talks with South Korean officials including Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon. "There has been no change in the legal status of the Gaza Strip," he said, adding Israel continued to control water resources and passage rights through the region. (Posted @ 10:50 PST)
Japan's Abe named chief cabinet secretary TOKYO, Oct 31 (AFP) Shinzo Abe, a hawkish 51-year-old seen as a potential successor to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, was Monday named to the powerful post of chief cabinet secretary, television reported. (Posted @ 10:35 PST)
Two Philippine soldiers killed in communist rebel ambush MANILA, Oct 31 (AFP) Communist guerrillas ambushed a military truck in the southern Philippines, killing two soldiers and wounding four others, a military spokesman said Monday. (Posted @ 09:45 PST)
Karachi Stocks down 69.99 points: KARACHI, October 31: At close of tradiing, the KSE-100 index was at 8247.37 , down 69.99 points from Thursday's close. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:15 PST)
Forex update: KARACHI, July 5: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at Rs 59.78 to the US Dollar in the open market. (Bureau Report) (Updated @ 13:15 PST)
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