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| March 24, 2007 | Saturday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 4, 1428 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Two policemen shot dead in Thai south NARATHIWAT, Thailand, March 24 (AFP) Insurgents shot dead two policemen Saturday near a busy market in southern Thailand, police said. A 30-year-old corporal and a 25-year-old lance corporal were shot in front of hundreds of shoppers who had crowded into a market in Narathiwat province. (Posted @ 12:40 PST)
Bhagwandas takes oath as acting Chief Justice KARACHI, March 24 (AFP) Rana Bhagwandas, the senior judge of the Supreme Court took over as new acting Chief Justice of Pakistan here Saturday. National and regional bar associations boycotted Bhagwandas' oath-taking ceremony held at the branch office in Karachi of the Islamabad-based top court amid tight security. The 64-year-old judge from Sindh province replaced justice Javed Iqbal who was as acting chief judge for two weeks. (Posted @ 12:15 PST)
Mortar attack in southern Baghdad kills three, wounds seven BAGHDAD, March 24 (AP) Two mortar shells landed on a southern Baghdad neighbourhood Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding seven, police said. (Posted @ 11:40 PST)
Rice seeks to revive Arab-Israel peace plan on Egypt stop SHANNON, Ireland, March 24 (AFP) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Egypt Saturday seeking to spur Arab allies to reinvigorate a plan for peace with Israel that she hopes may hold the key to keeping alive fractured Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Rice is scheduled to hold talks with officials from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates - the Arab Quartet. Rice said her discussions with the Arab Quartet will focus on US desires to see an Arab League summit next week in Riyadh formally endorse a renewal of the five-year-old Arab initiative for a peace deal with Israel. Speaking with reporters ahead of her trip, Rice argued that the Arab states needed to reinvigorate the plan, turning it from a set of static “principles” that leaves all the work to Israel into an active diplomatic endeavour involving negotiations with the Jewish state. (First Posted @ 09:30 PST, Updated @ 11:20 PST)
No match-fixing revelations in Woolmer's book: co-author LONDON, March 24 (AFP) Ivo Tennant, the co-author of murdered Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's planned book insisted Saturday that it would not have contained any explosive revelations on match-fixing. Writing in The Times newspaper, Tennant swiped at rumours that Woolmer was about to blow the whistle on corruption in the sport. “Rumours that Bob Woolmer was murdered because he was harbouring information on match-fixing or an association with corrupt bookmakers can be dismissed unequivocally,” Tennant wrote. (Posted @ 11:10 PST)
Myanmar boat capsizes, 16 killed, 12 missing YANGON, March 24 (Reuters) At least 16 people were drowned and 12 missing in Myanmar when an overloaded boat capsized in a river near Yangon, a local daily reported Saturday. There were at least 70 people on the small boat, along with sacks of rice bran, when it was caught in a whirlpool in the Toe river Friday. Forty two passengers were rescued. (Posted @ 11:00 PST)
Bush pushes Congress on Iraq funds WASHINGTON, March 24 (AFP) US President George W. Bush Saturday warned his Democrat foes that he will not budge on Iraq war funding and another feud pitting lawmakers against the White House. In his weekly radio address, Bush demanded that the Congress strip a measure setting a timetable for US forces to withdraw from Iraq and stood by his refusal to let top aides testify in a controversy over a prosecutor purge. “My administration has presented a reasonable way forward on the matter of US Attorneys, and on ensuring that our men and women in uniform have the funds and the flexibility they need to win in Iraq,” Bush said. “It is not too late for us to work together…I ask the Democratic leaders in Congress to seize the opportunity before us and move beyond political statements to bipartisan action,” he said. Bush renewed his threat to veto a 124-billion-dollar emergency spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, and called for lawmakers to approve the money without any restrictions and strip out funds for domestic projects. “Members of Congress need to put our troops first, not politics. They need to send me a clean bill, without conditions, without restrictions, and without pork,” said the president. (Posted @ 10:50 PST)
Tornado in New Mexico destroys about 12 homes LOGAN, New Mexico, March 24 (AP) A tornado destroyed about 12 mobile homes and campers and injured at least three people as it swept through a village in the southwestern state of New Mexico, police said. Hours later, another tornado rumbled through Crossroads, a community about 128 miles south of Logan Friday, forecasters said. Forecasters with the National Weather Service did not know how strong either tornado was. (Posted @ 09:20 PST)
Yemen says leading rebel among 15 killed by army SANAA, March 24 (Reuters) Yemen said Friday 15 rebels, including a leader of the group, were killed in clashes with soldiers. A government official said eight soldiers were also killed in battles with followers of rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in remote mountainous areas in the north of the country. “Yahya Khudhairi, who was one of the leaders of the Houthis, was killed,” the official said. (Posted @ 09:10 PST)
Rocket brings down cargo plane over Mogadishu, 11 dead MOGADISHU, March 24 (AFP) Suspected insurgents shot down a cargo plane over Mogadishu Friday, killing all 11 on board. The Belarussian plane was hit by a rocket shortly after takeoff from Mogadishu airport and crashed in the northern Karan neighbourhood, Somali government spokesman Hussein Mohamed Muhamoud said. (Posted @ 09:00 PST)
Cricket- West Indies beat Ireland by eight wickets KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 24 (AFP) West Indies beat Ireland by eight wickets in a rain-affected World Cup Group D match at Sabina Park here Friday. Brief scores (Match cut to 48 overs per side on Duckworth/Lewis method): Ireland 183-8 off 48 overs (Bray 41), West Indies 190-2 (revised target) off 38.1 overs (Chanderpaul 102no). (Posted @ 09:00 PST)
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