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| November 1, 2005 | Tuesday | Ramzan 27, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
G8, emerging powers meet in London to discuss climate change LONDON, Nov 1 (AFP) The world's emerging economic powers, including China and India, were encouraged Tuesday to join their Group of Eight seniors to develop sustainable clean energy sources in response to climate change. Meeting in London, energy and environment ministers from the G8 leading industrialised nation and from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and South Africa sought common ground on the pressing issue. "The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technology to make the transition to a low-carbon economy," British Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett said.(Posted @ 21:35 PST)
Bush asks Congress for $7.1 billion for flu defence WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday for $7.1 billion in emergency funding to prepare the United States for a pandemic of avian influenza. The total includes requests of $1.2 billion to make 20 million doses of the current vaccine against H5N1 avian influenza, $2.8 billion to accelerate new flu vaccine technology and $1 billion to stockpile more antiviral drugs.(Posted @ 21:30 PST)
UK pays tribute to London suicide bomb victims LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) Britain paid poignant tribute on Tuesday to the victims of July's suicide bombings with a memorial service for the 52 people killed in the train and bus blasts.(Posted @ 21:28 PST)
Egypt soldiers kill two at Egypt-Israel border CAIRO, Nov 1 (Reuters) Egyptian security forces shot dead two Egyptian men they said were trying to smuggle tobacco into Israel from Egypt, security sources said on Tuesday.(Posted @ 21:25 PST)
Israeli air strike kills two top Gaza militants GAZA, Nov 1 (Reuters) Israel killed two Palestinian militant commanders in a missile strike on Tuesday as it pressed a deadly air campaign in Gaza following a suicide bombing and rocket fire in the Jewish state. Hamas vowed that Israel would "pay a dear price" after aircraft destroyed a car in the Jabalya refugee camp, a militant stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip. Fawzi Abu al-Qarea, leader of Hamas's armed wing in the camp, and Hassan al-Madhoun, a top al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades commander, were killed in the blast, witnesses said.(Posted @ 21:18 PST)
U.S. frees 500 prisoners from Iraq's Abu Ghraib BAGHDAD, Nov 1 (Reuters) Five hundred prisoners walked free from the U.S. military's Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq on Tuesday, released in a goodwill gesture to mark the end of Ramadan. The detainees were presented with a Koran and $25 on their release which marked Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Their release was in addition to 1,000 prisoners set free in October at the start of the month of fasting. All 1,500, were released after their cases went before an Iraqi-led review board and were found not to have committed serious or violent crimes, the U.S. military said in a statement.(Posted @ 21:13 PST)
India homes in on bombers NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (AFP) Police have prepared a sketch of a key suspect in New Delhi's deadly bombings, Indian media said Tuesday as Hindus marked a subdued Diwali festival under tight security and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hinted at a Pakistani link to the blasts. Police say the bodies of eight of the 41 corpses brought to Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital were still unclaimed. Investigators were hunting for a casually-dressed unshaven man in his twenties, police sources were quoted as saying. Witnesses saw him slipping off a bus after leaving a bag which exploded minutes later in the Okhla industrial area. All passengers were saved when the bus driver threw out the abandoned bag. Police said bags used in Saturday's two other blasts which killed 62 people in the Sarojini Nagar and Paharganj markets were of similar make and they were questioning shopkeepers in the hope of identifying the purchasers. Investigators also said timer devices and traces of Research Developed Explosive (RDX) have been found in the bombs usually assembled only by experts. Karnail Singh, the head of New Delhi's anti-terrorism unit, said the attacks were probably coordinated by a single group but executed by different units. "They targeted chaat shops at both markets as they are generally crowded with women and children. The target was maximum damage," he said. The city, which has brought in 2,600 security personnel to bolster its 71,000-member police force, remained on high alert. (First Posted@ 12:40 PST Updated@ 20:58 PST))
Japanese artist to recreate destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas with laser beams TOKYO, Nov 1 (AFP) Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata announced plans Tuesday to recreate Afghanistan's destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas using as many as 240 laser beam images, a giant project that could also bring electricity to local people. The 60 million-dollar exhibit, which was slated to begin in June 2007, will for several years replicate the images of the statues, which were the world's tallest standing Buddhas until the Taliban regime destroyed them. Yamagata was still in negotiation with the Afghan government and local entities on how long the exhibition will last but it will likely be for years, he said. To create the laser images, Yamagata planned to install 120 laser systems, 10 windmills and 11,988 solar energy panels. Yamagata and the Afghan government anticipate the power generating systems would be able to supply about 100 watts for six hours daily to each household of the area which were still not being provided electricity.(Posted @ 20:50 PST)
Guantanamo detainee attempts suicide during lawyer visit: report WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (AFP) A Bahraini detainee at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba attempted suicide during his lawyer's visit in a sign of growing desperation among the more than 500 detainees in the military camp, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Jumah al-Dossari, who has been held since late 2001 after being seized in Pakistan, slashed his arm and hung himself from the ceiling during a bathroom break from talks with his US lawyer on October 15, the Post reported. While suicide attempts have been reported before in the Guantanamo prison, it was the first to be witnessed by an outsider. According to Amnesty International, Dossari has undergone frequent beatings, torture and long stretches of solitary confinement. Like many Guantanamo inmates, most of them seized in Pakistan four years ago, Dossari has never been charged and faces indefinite detention. A Guantanamo spokesman said there have been 36 suicide attempts at the facility, according to the Post. As many as 200 inmates are reported to have taken part in a rolling hunger strike since August to protest conditions at the prison. According to the Post, two dozen are being force-fed by prison staff.(Posted @ 20:40 PST)
Militant group denies involvement in New Delhi bombings SRINAGAR, Nov 1 (AFP) A Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, denied on Tuesday any involvement in the Delhi attacks saying it does not target civilians. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Taiba, told local Kashmir media in a telephone conversation that allegations of involvement were "baseless and false." "We do not believe in killing innocent people especially women and children. Our religion does not allow killing innocents. There is no way we can be linked to these bombings," the Kashmir News Service quoted the Lashkar-e-Taiba spokesman as saying in a statement.(Posted @ 18:54 PST)
US declines UN panel's request for information on Guantanamo GENEVA, Nov 1 (AFP) United States has turned down a UN human rights panel's request to provide information about its detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a report revealed Tuesday. Washington declined to include information on detention facilities outside US territory in its report submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee, according to the document. The committee, made up of 18 independent experts elected by the UN General Assembly, in July 2004 pressed Washington for information about its overseas military detention centres. However, according to the US response late last month, these fall outside the committee's remit because they are "governed by the laws of war."(Posted @ 18:32 PST)
Two killed in fresh Sri Lanka violence COLOMBO, Nov 1 (AFP) A police constable and a Tamil rebel informant have been killed in separate incidents in Sri Lanka's embattled northeast, the defence ministry said Tuesday.(Posted @ 18:28 PST)
Troops storm Kyrgyz prison, restore control MOLDAVANOVKA, Kyrgyzstan, Nov 1 (Reuters) Kyrgyz government troops stormed and seized back control of a prison held by inmates for nearly two weeks on Tuesday in an operation that left two inmates dead. Grenades, submachine guns, rifles and pistols were seized, a prisons service official said adding that two of the inmates were killed and one was wounded.(Posted @ 18:22 PST)
Cinema is back in Saudi Arabia RIYADH, Nov 1 (Reuters) Thirty years after the big screen disappeared from Saudi Arabia, cinema is making a tentative comeback in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom. Authorities in Riyadh plan to hold public screenings of children's cartoons this week as part of celebrations of the Eid al-Fitr holiday. It will be the first time films will be showed in public since the 1970s when the rising power of religious authorities put an end to the practice. Saudi liberals have welcomed the move but conservative religious scholars were angry. As well as films, the Riyadh celebrations will also include plays performed by women. Even though their audience will also be exclusively female, they too have been condemned by conservatives. Officials in the capital say the cartoons will be educational and insist the women's theatre is not un-Islamic because there will be no mingling of sexes.(Posted @ 18:22 PST)
Israeli ministers approve Gaza border crossing JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's inner cabinet approved on Tuesday a proposal for a crossing to let Palestinians come and go between Egypt and Gaza following the Israeli withdrawal from the strip. The decision, following U.S. pressure, was an important step towards freeing access to the Gaza Strip, seen internationally as vital for translating Israel's pullout from the occupied territory into a new chance for peacemaking. Opening the Rafah crossing would mark the first time since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967 that Palestinians would be allowed to enter and leave either territory without passing through Israeli controls. But details, including the possible role of European Union monitors, still have to be finalised.(Posted @ 17:54 PST)
Cricket-England collapse to 39-6 in tour match RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Nov 1 (Reuters) England were in dire straits after being reduced to 39 for six wickets in their second innings at close of play on the second day of their three-day match against the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Patron's XI. Paul Collingwood (1) and Ian Bell (0) were batting with England just 84 runs ahead in their first tour game. Having taken a first innings lead of 45 runs after dismissing the home side for 211, England shuffled around with their batting order and were rocked by pace bowlers Mohammad Irshad and Yasir Arafat. Six wickets fell in only 9.3 overs. England had declared on their overnight total of 256 for nine, with Trescothick unbeaten on 124.(Posted @ 17:46 PST)
Four dead as Turkish forces clash with Kurd rebels DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 1 (Reuters) Two Turkish soldiers and a state-sponsored village guard were killed in a clash with Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey overnight, the local governor's office said on Tuesday. One militant from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was also killed in the fighting in Sirnak province when the guerrillas attacked a hillside army post. (Posted @ 15:35 PST)
England's 'Barmy Army' descends on Pakistan RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Nov 1 (AFP) England's "Barmy Army" of cricket supporters started to arrive in Pakistan Tuesday, hoping their bawdy chants can help the team keep up its Ashes-winning form. "We're the first batch," said veteran supporter Phil Long as he and three of his colleagues crammed into a taxi bound for Pindi stadium, where England are playing their tour opener against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI. The "Barmy Army" are famous for their raucous cheers and humorous songs and travel across the globe to cheer England. (Posted @ 15:15 PST)
1,299 deported Pakistanis arrive by sea KARACHI, Nov 1 (APP) Some 1299 Pakistanis released from various jails in Muscat and deported by the Government arrived here on Tuesday. They were ferried to Pakistan in a boat. (Posted @ 14:58 PST)
Iraqi President says he lacks power to stop US from using bases against Syria DUBAI, Nov 1 (AFP) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said he opposed military action against neighbouring Syria but lacked the power to prevent US troops from using his country as a launchpad if it chose to do so. "I categorically refuse the use of Iraqi soil to launch a military strike against Syria or any other Arab country," Talabani told the London-based Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview published Tuesday. "But at the end of the day my ability to confront the US military is limited and I cannot impose on them my will." (Posted @ 14:42 PST)
Bangladesh cracks down on illegal foreigners DHAKA, Nov 1 (Reuters) Bangladesh has launched a drive to deport foreigners who were staying in the country illegally, as part of an increase in security ahead of next month's South Asian summit in Dhaka, police said on Tuesday. "We have already told 24 suspicious foreigners to leave the country while checking out the legality of scores of others," said a senior police officer. "We have asked foreigners who have improper travel documents to leave Bangladesh by Nov. 7," he added. Dhaka newspapers on Tuesday said the 24 included Pakistanis, Libyans and Indians. (Posted @ 14:12 PST)
Twenty killed in Iraq bomb blast BAGHDAD, Nov 1 (AFP) - At least 20 people were killed when a car bomb tore through a crowded market in the southern port city of Basra as Iraqis shopped for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, security sources said. Meanwhile, the month of October, the fourth deadliest month of the war for the United States, ended with the deaths of six more US soldiers in roadside explosions Monday. According to an interior ministry source "twenty people, mostly civilians, were killed and 45 wounded in the car bomb attack," late Monday in Basra just ahead of the holiday to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. grave following a tip-off, a military statement said. Twelve "were bound and appear to have been shot in the head execution-style while two others were decapitated," and appeared to have been killed between one and three months ago. Meanwhile, many US-financed reconstruction projects in Iraq are unlikely to get off the drawing board because of soaring security costs related to the insurgency, a report to Congress said. Security costs now represent 25 percent of the nearly 30 billion dollars appropriated by the United States for reconstruction projects in Iraq, said the report, which covers the three-month period ending September 30. (Posted @ 13:30 PST)
Two mine clearers killed in blast at main Afghanistan airport KABUL, Nov 1 (APP/AFP) - Two Afghan men clearing hundreds of mines littering runways around Afghanistan's main airport were killed when one of the devices exploded, the government said Tuesday. Three other men were wounded in the explosion at the Kabul International Airport on Monday, the interior ministry and police said. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
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