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| October 01, 2006 | Sunday | Ramazan 7, 1427 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Seven dead in clashes between rival Palestinian forces GAZA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian security forces clashed across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing seven and injuring 50 others, in the biggest outbreak of internal fighting in months over unpaid wages and stalled unity government talks. Violence also erupted in the West Bank city of Ramallah where supporters of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah started a small fire inside the offices of the Hamas-led government. (Posted @ 22:56 PST)
Gunmen kidnap 26 workers from Baghdad factory BAGHDAD, Iraq, October 1, (AP) _ Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated food factory in western Baghdad on Sunday evening in what appeared to be a new sectarian attack, a security official said. A car bomb in a vegetable market killed four civilians and wounded six in Falluja, 50 km west of Baghdad, police said. - Police retrieved five bodies, including that of a school girl, from the river Tigris in the town of Suwayra, 40 km south of Baghdad, police said. All bodies were shot in the head and chest. - The bodies of four people, bound and blindfolded, were found with gunshot wounds to the head in the town of Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, police said. - Police found the body of a policeman a day after he was kidnapped in the town of al-Shirqat, 80 km south of Mosul, local authorities said. - Police found the body of a man with a bullet wound to his head in the town of Balad, 80 km north of Baghdad, local authorities said. - Gunmen killed the mayor of Sulaiman Pek on Saturday as he had breakfast in a restaurant in Tuz Khurmatu, 70 km south of Kirkuk, police said. - Gunmen killed Sheikh Numan al-Nassri, the head of a civilian organization funded by the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), on Saturday, in Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad, police said.(Posted @ 22:52 PST)
Dam collapses in Nigeria, 40 dead LAGOS, Oct 1 (APP/AFP) - Some 40 people died when a dam collapsed near Gusau, capital of Zamfara state in northern Nigeria, the Nigerian news agency NAN reported late Saturday. The agency said about 500 houses in Gusau were swept away by the waters. Authorities refused to speculate on the causes of the collapse of the dam, but according to NAN staff had been unable to open the floodgates after the water level reached crisis point on Friday following torrential rains. State Governor Alhaji Ahmed Sani was on the scene but refused to make any statement. (Posted @ 13:38 PST)
Red Cross office bombed in Jaffna COLOMBO, Oct 1, (AFP) - A hand grenade exploded outside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Sri Lanka's embattled northern peninsula of Jaffna, the charity said Sunday. The blast caused "material damage" but no one was hurt in the attack on Saturday, the organization said in a statement that urged all sides in the Sri Lankan conflict to respect aid workers. (Posted @ 22:38 PST)
Retired Pakistani intelligence may be helping Taliban: Musharraf WASHINGTON, Oct 1, (AFP) - Pakistan's intelligence service has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf told US television Sunday, although he is investigating possible support to the rebels from retired Pakistani intelligence officials. (Posted @ 22:34 PST)
Yemen police kill two fugitive Al-Qaeda suspects SANAA, Oct 1, (AFP) - Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed the alleged mastermind behind the bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002 and a second suspected Al-Qaeda fugitive who escaped jail earlier this year, a security official said. Fawaz al-Rabihi, who was convicted of plotting the Limburg attack, "was killed in a shootout with security forces in a suburb of Sanaa, where he was hiding in a house," the official told AFP. (Posted @ 22:30 PST)
USAID to continue support Pakistan in education sector ISLAMABAD, Oct 1 (APP): US Agency for International Development (USAID) will continue to supporting Pakistan in higher education sector and for an improvement in basic education. This was stated by the Mission Director Jonathan S. Addleton while talking to APP here at concluding ceremony of 10-week training program for 48 teachers drawn from all four provinces, AJK and FATA. He said USAID had allocated an amount of $ 63 million in the current fiscal year for the education uplift in Pakistan. "One third of this amount is for higher education sector while the rest is for basic education which also focuses on teacher training," he added. (Posted @ 21:22 PST)
Iran slams 'useless' US sanctions TEHRAN, Oct 1, (AFP) - Iran on Sunday condemned as "useless" a new set of sanctions passed by the United States that target foreign countries which continue nuclear cooperation with Tehran and sell it advanced weaponry. "It is a useless approach and serves the hostile purposes of the US statesmen and therefore we condemn it," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini was quoted as saying by state media. (Posted @ 21:10 PST)
Road accident in Egypt kills 14 CAIRO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A truck and a minibus collided head-on south of Cairo in the early hours of Sunday, killing 14 people and injuring seven others, security officials said. They said the minibus driver was trying to overtake another vehicle on a two-lane road and collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction. The accident took place in the province of Beni Suef. (Posted @ 20:42 PST)
Explosion rocks Quetta QUETTA Oct 1 (PPI): An explosion Sunday rocked provincial capital and shattered windowpanes of buildings. According to details, an explosive device was planted near a house in Faisal Town Brewery road here today. It went off with a big bang in the early morning. It created a crater and shattered windowpane of buildings in the vicinity. Luckily there were no casualties reported. (Posted @ 20:12 PST)
Iran hands over 27 Pakistanis QUETTA Oct 1 (PPI): Iranian border authoirities arrested 27 Pakistani nationals for entering Iran illegally and handed them over to Levies in Taftan. According to detials, these Paksitanis had entered Iran without valid traveling documents and wanted to go to Europe via Turkey. (Posted @ 19:32 PST)
30 killed, 20 injured in China bus accident BEIJING, Oct 1, (AFP) - Thirty people were killed and 20 others injured when a fully loaded bus ran through a guard rail and plunged into a river in southwestern China's Chongqing city on Sunday, state press reported. The accident happened Sunday afternoon when the bus plunged some 30 meters into the Jialing river in downtown Chongqing, Xinhua news agency said. Rescuers rushed the survivors to local hospitals for emergency treatment, with one person listed in serious condition, it said. No other details of the wreck were immediately available. (Posted @ 18:45 PST)
Retired general Surayud sworn in as new Thai PM BANGKOK, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Former army chief Surayud Chulanont was sworn in as interim Thai prime minister on Sunday after the Sept.19 military coup against Thaksin Shinawatra. At a brief ceremony in Government House, coup leader and current army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin read out a statement confirming the king's approval of Surayud to run the country until elections are held under a new constitution. (Posted @ 17:54 PST)
Five die at French store's building site in Russia MOSCOW, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Five people died and three were injured on Sunday when a flight of stairs collapsed at the construction site of a French hypermarket outside Moscow, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said. (Posted @ 17:12 PST)
Seven Tamil guerrillas killed in clashes with navy COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct 1 (APP/AP): Seven Tamil Tigers were killed in clashes with the Sri Lankan navy in two separate battles, the military said Sunday. Three rebels were killed Saturday evening on Kayts Island, west of the Jaffna peninsula. (Posted @ 16:30 PST)
Capture of Iraq Al-Qaeda leader imminent: government BAGHDAD, Oct 1, (AFP) - The Iraqi government Sunday showed first-ever video images of Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and said his capture was imminent. "I can say we are very close to Abu Ayyub al-Masri and we say to him your days are numbered," said Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie.The insurgent training video, screened at a media conference broadcast live on state television, showed the bespectacled successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi describing how to make a bomb. (Posted @ 14:40 PST)
India to give evidence of Pakistan spy agency role in Mumbai blasts NEW DELHI, Oct 1 (AFP) - India's new foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said Sunday that New Delhi would give evidence to Pakistan about the alleged involvement of its spy agency ISI and militant groups in the deadly Mumbai train bombings in July. Menon, who most recently served as ambassador to Pakistan, said that Islamabad's denial of any involvement in the blasts would have to be reassessed after it reviewed the evidence and that India would "judge it by its actions." (Posted @ 11:05 PST)
China kicks off week-long national day celebrations BEIJING, Oct 1, 2006 (AFP) - China began its week-long national day holiday Sunday, with rail stations and airports packed and gridlock in the capital around Tiananmen Square and other major tourist sites, state press said.The government is expecting more than 330 million people to travel during the week-long holiday marking the 57th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, the People's Daily reported. (Posted @ 11:05 PST)
Seven dead in building collapse in Egypt CAIRO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and nine injured when a four-storey building collapsed in the Nile Delta town of Mansoura on Saturday, Egyptian police said on Sunday. (Posted @ 10:35 PST)
China mine explosion kills 13 - Xinhua BEIJING, Oct 1 (Reuters) - A gas explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province has killed 13 miners, Xinhua news agency reported. The explosion early Saturday trapped 21 miners working underground but eight people were pulled out alive, Xinhua said. (Posted @ 10:30 PST)
Polls open in Bosnia's general election SARAJEVO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Polls opened in Bosnia on Sunday for general elections in which voters will choose politicians to lead the nation after the planned end of international supervision next year. First preliminary results are expected late on Sunday. (Posted @ 10:20 PST)
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli air raid GAZA CITY, Oct 1, 2006 (AFP) - Two members of Islamic Jihad were killed and one person was wounded late Saturday in an Israeli air raid in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital sources said. No one was hurt in a separate attack in the northern Gaza Strip, sources added. The latest deaths bring to 5,406 the number of fatalities since the 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, the large majority of them Palestinians. (Posted @ 10:15 PST)
Israel pulls remaining troops out of Lebanon AVIVIM, Israel, Oct 1 (AFP) - Israel pulled its remaining troops out of southern Lebanon early Sunday, weeks after a UN-brokered truce ended a 34-day war. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers began to rumble into Israel just after midnight at border crossings in the north and within four hours, all of the troops remaining in Lebanon had crossed back into Israel. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Austrians vote in highly contested general elections VIENNA, Oct 1 (AFP) - Austrians began voting Sunday in general elections expected to be among the closest in the central European state since World War II. (Posted @ 10:05 PST)
Typhoon death toll in Philippines hits 76 MANILA, Oct 1 (AFP) - The official death toll from Typhoon Xangsane has risen to 76 in the Philippines, the Office of Civil Defense said Sunday. Rescuers were still searching for some 69 others still missing, the office said in its latest report. Eighty-one people were injured in the massive storm, the worst to hit the capital Manila in a decade. Xangsane slammed into Vietnam on Sunday, packing strong winds and heavy rains. (Posted @ 10:00 PST)
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