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| November 4, 2005 | Friday | Shawwal 1, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Seventy feared dead after boat capsizes in Pakistan KARACHI, Nov 4 (AFP) At least 70 people were feared drowned after an overloaded motorboat taking villagers to a funeral capsized in the Arabian Sea off southern Pakistan on Friday, government and navy officials said. Only ten survived when the vessel ferrying 80 people from Jangisar town, 100 kilometres southeast of the port city of Karachi, sank on way to a nearby village, a Sindh government spokesman said. Navy divers were still at the scene working to rescue any remaining survivors and recover the bodies of the victims, a Pakistani Navy spokesman said.(First Posted@ 14:08 PST, Updated @ 18:10 PST)
Africa to seek international help to fight bird flu KIGALI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Africa will seek financial and technical support next week at a conference in Geneva that will discuss a global fund and strategies to tackle the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus, officials said on Friday. (Posted @ 21:50 PST)
Bush says he's not a easy guest MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov 4 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush, the target of thousands of protesters at an Americas summit in this resort city, quipped Friday that he was not an easy guest to host. "I want to thank you for being a good host," Bush told Argentine President Nestor Kirchner as the 34-nation gathering opened. (Posted @ 21:05 PST)
ICRC hits US wall over secret terror detainees GENEVA, Nov 4 (AFP) The international Red Cross said Friday that it had so far failed to reach an agreement with the United States about access to terror suspects held abroad secretly, despite some two years of talks. Following newspaper reports this week about secret CIA prisons for terror suspects abroad, spokeswoman Antonella Notari said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been pressing Washington on the issue since at least January 2004. (Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Hundreds of vehicles torched in renewed French riots AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov 4 (Reuters) Rioters set fire to hundreds of vehicles in an eighth night of unrest in the impoverished suburbs of north-eastern Paris as exasperated local officials criticised the response of national leaders. Rioting erupted again late on Thursday despite hopes that festivities ending the fasting month of Ramadan would calm rioters, many of them Muslims of North African origin protesting against race bias they say keeps them in a second-class status. The rioting continued to spread, with firebombing in western Paris suburbs and similar areas near Rouen in northern France, Dijon in the east and Marseille in the south. French media said up to 600 vehicles were destroyed in the whole greater Paris region, including 23 buses at a terminal in Trappes in the southwest near Versailles. (Posted @ 16:55 PST)
China plans manned moon landing around 2017 BEIJING, Nov 4 (Reuters) China, which launched its first manned space mission just two years ago, plans to put a man on the moon around 2017 and investigate what may be the perfect source of fuel, a newspaper reported on Friday. The project also includes setting up a moon-based astronomical telescope, measuring the thickness of the moon's soil and the amount of helium-3 on the moon; an element some researchers say is a perfect, non-polluting fuel source. Some scientists believe there is enough helium-3 on the moon to power the world for thousands of years.(Posted @ 15:20 PST)
Cricket-West Indies 182-6 v Australia 435 - close BRISBANE, Nov 4 (Reuters) West Indies were 182 for six in their first innings at the close of play on the second day of the first test against Australia at the Gabba on Friday. Scores: Australia 435 (Ricky Ponting 149; Corey Collymore 4-72); West Indies 182-6 (Devon Smith 88; Glenn McGrath 4-58).(Posted @ 14:28 PST)
Three killed in Vietnam air force helicopter crash HANOI, Nov 4 (AFP) - A Vietnam air force training helicopter crashed close to the capital Friday, killing all three people on board, a defence ministry official said Friday. "The helicopter crashed around 9.00 am (02H00 GMT) in Gia Lam district in the capital's suburbs," the official told AFP. The cause of the accident has yet to be determined, he said. In April, a military officer was killed and another seriously injured when a training aircraft crashed in the city of Nha Trang, 400 kilometres (about 250 miles) north of the southern business capital, Ho Chi Minh City.(Posted @ 12:40 PST)
Six Iraqi soldiers killed in dawn clash BAGHDAD, Nov 4 (AFP) - Six Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in a dawn battle with insurgents at a checkpoint in northern Baghdad, a military source said Friday. The attack took place on the day that most Shiite Arabs in Iraq celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq the holiday season has often been characterized by an increase in insurgent attacks.(Posted @ 12:30 PST)
Two US soldiers killed in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 4 (AFP) - Two US soldiers died in Iraq on Thursday, the US military announced here. A US soldier died "as a result of non-battle related causes" late Thursday near the town of Tallil, near Balad, some 75 kilometers (45 miles) north of Baghdad, the US military said Friday. Earlier the military said that a military policeman was killed near the town of Baquba, close to Tallil. The MP "was killed in action while conducting combat operations in the vicinity of Baquba. The cause of death was an improvised explosive device," a statement said.(Posted @ 12:20 PST)
Suspected militant killed in attack on Thai policeman's home BANGKOK, Nov 4 (AFP) - A suspected militant in Thailand's restive south has been shot dead after he tried to attack a border patrol policeman with a machete, police said Friday. Baze Ha, 21, was shot once after he broke into the home of Corporal Anwar Benhawan, in Saiburi district of Pattani province late Thursday. He was pronounced dead at hospital, police said.(Posted @ 11:12 PST)
9,000 chickens die in latest Chinese bird flu outbreak: OIE BEIJING, Nov 4 (AFP) - Nearly 9,000 chickens have died in the fourth outbreak of bird flu to hit China in just over two weeks, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on its website Friday. Chinese authorities reported to the organisation that the latest outbreak, in the village of Badaohao in northeastern Liaoning province, began on October 26 and was officially confirmed on Thursday.(Posted @ 11:02 PST)
US Secretary of State Rice to visit Middle East, Asia WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (AFP) - The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, will tour the Middle East and Asia from November 10 to November 21, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday. Rice "will visit Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian Territories before continuing on to Asia," McCormack said. There she will travel to Pusan, South Korea, where she will lead the US delegation at the ministerial meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the spokesman said.(Posted @ 10:52 PST)
Al-Qaeda claims it downed US chopper in Iraq BAGHDAD, Nov 4 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda claimed Thursday it had shot down a US attack helicopter in western Iraq that killed two marines, as a radical Shiite Muslim preacher called on his countrymen to unite to "get rid of" Sunni extremists.(Posted @ 10:48 PST)
4,000 birds dead in new avian flu outbreak in Vietnam HANOI, Nov 4 (AFP) - Some 4,000 poultry and water fowl have died in fresh outbreaks of bird flu in northern Vietnam's Bac Giang province, north of the capital, an animal health official said Friday. "The chairperson of the provincial people's committee on Thursday declared that bird flu has hit three communes," said the official from Bac Giang's animal health department, refusing to be named. About 4,000 poultry and water fowl had died in the province's Yen Lu, Van Trung and Tang Tien communes, around 70 kilometers (45 miles) north of Hanoi from October 25, he said. The areas are now under a close watch and a quarantine has been imposed. Two people died in central Vietnam's Quang Binh province in late October with symptoms similar to bird flu but doctors said their samples had never been tested. Two-thirds of the more than 60 people killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu since late 2003 have been in Vietnam.(Posted @ 10:45 PST)
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