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| June 25, 2006 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 28, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Militants call ceasefire in Pakistan's Waziristan ISLAMABAD, June 25 (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants called a month-long ceasefire on Sunday in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border to give tribal elders a chance to broker a settlement after months of fierce fighting. "We decided that there will be a total ceasefire in the area from our side for one month, as the government wants to set up a tribal jirga here," Abdullah Farhad, a commander of the militants in North Waziristan, told Reuters. (Posted @ 22:52 PST)
India says no to Musharraf's latest proposal to "demilitarise" Kashmir NEW DELHI, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - India's defence minister Sunday rejected a call by Pakistan for troop cuts in Kashmir to push forward a slow-moving peace process, citing a recent spiral of violence in the region. "With the present situation, I am not confident that we can reduce troops," India's Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the CNN-IBN TV channel. Infiltration and attempts at infiltration have also increased, Mukherjee said. The minister's comments came after Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf on suggested demilitarisation as a solution to the decades of dispute between India and Pakistan over the Himalayan region of Kashmir. "I have proposed demilitarisation as a ... final resolution. Demilitarise Kashmir, give self-governance to people of Kashmir with a joint management arrangement on top. This is an idea I am proposing," reports quoted Musharraf as saying. (Posted @ 23:06 PST)
Hamas minister wants missing Israeli soldier freed GAZA CITY, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - The deputy prime minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian government Nasser Shaher demanded the immediate release Sunday of an Israeli soldier believed kidnapped in an attack near the Gaza Strip.(Posted @ 23:52 PST)
Four dead as blast hits tourist spot in southern Turkey ANKARA, June 25, (AFP) - Two Turks and two foreigners were killed, and around 25 others injured, in an explosion at a waterfall in southern Turkey popular with tourists, CNN Turk television said. A Norwegian man, a Ukrainian man and two Turks were those killed by the blast at Manavgat, a seaside resort, the channel said.(Posted @ 22:38 PST)
Al-Qaida linked group says it killed 4 Russian diplomats in Iraq CAIRO, Egypt, June 25, (AP) _ An Al-Qaida-linked group said Sunday it has killed four Russian hostages in Iraq, according to a statement posted on the Internet.(Posted @ 21:34 PST)
Two coalition soldiers, 45 Taliban killed in clash KABUL, June 25 (Reuters) - About 45 Taliban insurgents and two U.S.-led coalition soldiers have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan and suspected rebels kidnapped five Afghan health workers in the east, officials said on Sunday. The clash in the south erupted after coalition forces engaged between eight and 10 Taliban fighters in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province on Saturday. "The enemy fighters attempted to flee the area, but then joined other reinforcements in a nearby compound," a U.S. military spokesman said in a statement. (First Posted @ 11:15 PST Updated @ 20:28 PST)
Sixteen Iraqis kidnapped north of Baghdad BAGHDAD, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - At least 16 Iraqis, most of them working at a scientific research centre north of Baghdad, were kidnapped by gunmen Sunday, a security official said. On Sunday the 16 people, including 10 employees of the Taji research centre, were transporting goods from Baghdad to the centre when they were ambushed by gunmen on the main road between the two cities. They were travelling in more than one truck and "spirited away to an unknown location" the official said. Six of those kidnapped were truck drivers and labourers.(Posted @ 18:20 PST)
Two Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza border attack KEREM SHALOM, Israel, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - An Israeli officer and soldier were killed and one soldier was missing in a Palestinian attack on an army post along the border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, an army official said. Four other soldiers were wounded in the assault on the outpost, including one officer who sustained serious injuries, the official said. According to security source, the soldier who was not accounted for was feared kidnapped and taken into the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants.(Posted @ 18:05 PST)
Iraq PM unveils peace plan in parliament BAGHDAD, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday began presenting to parliament his much-awaited reconciliation plan that aims to end the violence plaguing the country. "The plan is open to all those who want to enter the political process to build their country and save their people as long as they did not commit crimes," Maliki told MPs in his opening remarks. "Reconciliation and national dialogue does not mean honouring and reaching out to the killers and criminals, no and a thousand nos, there is no reconciliation with those until they are punished for their crimes."(Posted @ 17:15 PST)
Iran warns it could use oil as weapon if interests attacked TEHRAN, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - Iran's oil minister has warned that the country would use oil as a weapon if its interests are attacked, state television reported Sunday. "If the country's interests are attacked, we will use all our capabilities and oil is one of them," Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said on Saturday, the television reported. Iran is currently locked in a standoff with the international community over its nuclear program, facing the threat of sanctions if it does not accept a US-backed offer and halt sensitive nuclear work.(Posted @ 16:28 PST)
Japan begins withdrawal from Iraq BASRA, Iraq, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - Japan began withdrawing military vehicles and engineering equipment from Iraq on Sunday as a convoy of more than a dozen trucks left its base in the southern province of Muthanna for Kuwait, an AFP photographer reported from the Kuwaiti border. The Japanese military officials in Samawa also confirmed that the process of withdrawing its 600 troops from Iraq had begun with the dispatch of military trucks and other engineering equipment to Kuwait.The trucks left the Samawa base at around 6:45 am (0245 GMT) and have already crossed the Kuwaiti border, a Japanese military official said(Posted @ 15:55 PST)
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup field hockey result KUALA LUMPUR, June 25, 2006 (AFP) - Result from the 15th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup for third and fourth placing on Sunday: India 3 (Khandhar 18, Prasad 35, Sandeep 42) New Zealand 2 (Child 7, Shaw 40). (Posted @ 14:10 PST)
Russia launches new military satellite MOSCOW, June 25 (AFP) - Russia launched a new military satellite early Sunday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, the latest addition to a network of about 60 similar Russian devices orbiting the planet, Russian space authorities said. (Posted @ 12:00 PST)
Sri Lanka's president seeks direct deal with Tigers: report COLOMBO, June 25 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's president is bypassing peace broker Norway to seek a deal with Tamil Tiger guerrillas which halts weeks of killings in return for keeping a breakaway rebel faction in check, reports said Sunday. President Mahinda Rajapakse contacted the LTTE through a Tamil-language newspaper editor, the pro-opposition paper Sunday Leader reported, saying that he had asked for a two-week truce with the rebels. "Both the LTTE and the army are preparing for war and the people and I are caught in the middle. We don't have to work through Norway, why don't we deal directly?" the president was quoted as saying by the paper. There was no immediate comment from Rajapakse's office. (Posted @ 11:20 PST)
6.2 magnitude quake strikes central Indonesia JAKARTA, June 25 (AP) _ A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island early Sunday, panicking residents but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, the Hong Kong Observatory said. (Posted @ 09:50 PST)
Abbas, Haniya hold pivotal meeting in Gaza GAZA CITY, June 25 (AFP) - Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas and prime minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas held a pivotal face-to-face meeting Saturday in a bid to halt a deadly power struggle. They agreed at the late-night meeting to continue their talks Sunday on a document that would seal an understanding between the Palestinian factions, government spokesman Ghazi Hamad said, adding that "the atmosphere is good." (Posted @ 09:45 PST)
Three Palestinians killed in anti-Israel attack GAZA CITY, June 25 (AFP) - Three Palestinian activists were killed early Sunday in an attack on an Israeli military post on the border between Israel and the south of the Gaza Strip, the group Committees of Popular Resistance announced. Military sources in Jerusalem said several Israeli soldiers were also killed or wounded in the attack. (Posted @ 09:35 PST)
CRICKET: Strauss issues World Cup warning to woeful England CHESTER-LE-STREET, England, June 25 (AFP) - England captain Andrew Strauss admitted his team had to get their act together quickly if they were to be a force at next year's World Cup after suffering their most humiliating defeat yet in the ongoing one-day series with Sri Lanka. Admittedly England were without six senior players, including key all-rounder Andrew Flintoff and regular captain Michael Vaughan, but that was no excuse for the succession of short and wide deliveries they served up to the Sri Lanka batsmen, he said. "Every game between now and the World Cup is vitally important," Strauss told reporters. "Sure we have injuries and there are players to come back but you don't know who's going to be injured come the time of the World Cup. "The guys that are not necessarily in our first-choice XI at the moment, they've got to show they are up to world-class standard and so far we haven't done that.” (Posted @ 09:30 PST)
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