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| June 10, 2007 | Sunday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 24, 1428 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
New reference against CJ Iftikhar ready Islamabad, June 10, (REUTERS) - Pakistan's government has prepared a new misconduct complaint against the suspended chief judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, law minister Wasi Zafar said Sunday. He said the government had prepared a new complaint, known as a reference, against Chaudhry for activities deemed a violation of a top judge's code of conduct. “It has been drafted ... and will have to be filed at an appropriate time,” Zafar told Reuters, without giving details. (Posted @ 21:58 PST)
Van falls off mountain road in northwestern Pakistan, at least 12 killed ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 (AP) - A van carrying passengers to the town of Chitral, the famed mountain tourist resort, veered off a road in Malakand area in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring six others, police officer Mohibullah Khan said. The van skidded off an under-construction section of the road and fell into the ravine, he said. A security official near the scene of the crash said rescuers were trying to remove the bodies from the wreckage. The van was heading to the town of Chitral, near the border with Afghanistan, from Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, Khan said. It was not known how many people were in the van. (Posted @ 10:32 PST)
47 suspected Taliban, 2 policemen killed in Afghan clashes Kabul, June 10, (AP) - A battle between police and Taliban killed 20 suspected militants and two policemen in northwestern Afghanistan, while airstrikes and clashes left another 27 militants dead in the south, officials said Sunday. Militants attacked three separate police posts Saturday in the Murghab district of Badghis province, said provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Ayub Naizyar. Police repelled the attack and sent reinforcements to the area, forcing the militants to withdraw, Naizyar said. The six-hour battle left 20 suspected insurgents and two policemen dead, he said, adding that the district is under government control. (Posted @ 16:14 PST)
Karzai survives apparent assassination attempt by Taliban Kabul, June 10, (AP) - Taliban militants fired rockets near President Hamid Karzai in an apparent assassination attempt in central Afghanistan on Sunday, but the missiles fell far from their target and no one was hurt, officials and witnesses said. Karzai was giving a speech to the elders and residents of Andar district in Ghazni province when rockets were fired nearby, said Ali Shah Ahmadzai, provincial police chief. No one was wounded in the attack, he said. Witnesses said they heard between three and six rockets, but the Taliban claimed it fired off 12. (Posted @ 16:38 PST)
Over a dozen killed in Pakistan heat wave KARACHI, June 10: Heat wave through out Pakistan has claimed more then a dozen lives, while scores of people have been hospitalized due to heatstroke besides hundred on account of gastro problem. In most parts of the country the temperature has been in closed to 50 C. The present heat wave is likely to persist for another four to five days at least, Met officials said. The problem has aggravated on account of power outage and load shedding besides acute shortage of water. (Posted @ 22:26 PST)
Tennis: Nadal beats Federer to win French Open title PARIS, June 10, (REUTERS) - Rafael Nadal captured a hat-trick of French Open titles with a 6-3 4-6 6-3 6-4 win over world number one Roger Federer on Sunday. The Spaniard became the first man since Bjorn Borg to win three successive titles at Roland Garros. (Posted @ 22:42 PST)
US airman killed in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 10, (AFP) - A roadside bomb killed a US airman and wounded another on Sunday near the city of Diwaniyah as a convoy traveled from an American base to Baghdad airport, the military said. (Posted @ 23:32 PST)
High-speed train line opens between France, Germany STRASBOURG, France, June 10, (REUTERS) - Passengers were greeted with music and free pretzels as a new high-speed train line linking France and Germany opened on Sunday. (Posted @ 23:10 PST)
Putin calls for setting up alternative to WTO, greater role of national currencies ST.PETERSBURG, Russia, June 10, (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for creating an alternative to the World Trade Organization which would favor developing economies and suggested it was necessary to give a greater role to regional currencies. Speaking at an economic forum in the second largest city of St. Petersburg, Putin lamented that today's international economic organizations ''look archaic, undemocratic and awkward'' by protecting the interests mainly of developed economies. (Posted @ 17:02 PST)
14 people hurt in Istanbul blast: TV ISTANBUL, June 10, (REUTERS) - At least 14 people were wounded on Sunday in an explosion outside a store in Istanbul, Turkey's CNN Turk private television said. The blast occurred in the Bakirkoy district of Turkey's largest city, the state Anatolian news agency said. (First Posted @ 20:08 PST Updated @ 21:44 PST)
Six people shot dead in Wisconsin: report WASHINGTON, June 10, (AFP) - Six people have been shot dead in a resort community in the northern US state of Wisconsin, Fox News reported on its website early Sunday, citing local police. (Posted @ 19:26 PST)
Pakistan arrests 3 foreign suspected militants QUETTA, Pakistan, June 10, (AFP) - Pakistani security forces have arrested three suspected foreign militants, including two German nationals, from a checkpoint near the Iranian border, security officials said Sunday. The arrests were made in the border town of Taftan in southwestern Baluchistan province on Saturday, border security force official Mohammad Akbar said. “We have arrested three foreigners -- two were holding German passports and one is a Central Asian national from Kyrgyzstan,” Akbar told AFP. (Posted @ 19:08 PST)
5 dead in Philippine ferry fire MANILA, June 10, (AFP) - Five people were killed when a ferry with more than 200 people on board caught fire Sunday in waters off the central Philippine island of Mindoro, the coast guard said. Initial reports said the MV Catalyn-D was en route to the western island of Palawan when the blaze erupted, the coast guard said. It had set sail from Manila Saturday evening. (Posted @ 18:56 PST)
Afghan operations kill 157 insurgents in past 10 days KABUL, June 10 (APP/AFP) - Afghan army-led operations supported by NATO troops killed 157 Taliban militants in the past 10 days, with six Afghan soldiers also dead, the defence ministry said Sunday. The army this month launched four operations in southern and southeastern Afghanistan aimed at clearing the area of militants. (Posted @ 18:28 PST)
Suicide truck bomber kills nine Iraqi policemen TIKRIT, Iraq, June 10, (AFP) - A suicide bomber slammed his explosives-laden truck into a police building near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on Sunday, killing nine policemen and wounding dozens, police told AFP. The bomber detonated the vehicle against a building belonging to the police department in an area called Albu Ajil, east of Tikrit, on the main road between the city and the oil hub of Kirkuk, police officials said. (Posted @ 18:04 PST)
11 killed in ethnic clashes in India's remote northeast GAUHATI, India, June 10 (APP/AP) - Clashes between rival ethnic groups in India's remote northeast have killed 11 people, police said Sunday. Militants from Manipur state's majority Meiti tribe killed six members of the minority Kuki tribe in a gunbattle, sparking a retaliatory attack by armed Kuki that killed 5 ethnic Meiti construction workers, said a statement from the police control room in Imphal, the capital of Manipur. (Posted @ 17:14 PST)
Taliban attack leaves 30 militants, two police dead HERAT, June 10 (AFP) - Around 200 Taliban insurgents attacked the Murghab district of Badghis province Saturday afternoon, sparking a 14-hour battle which resulted in the death of 30 militants and two police, police said Sunday. The fighting continued until Sunday morning, provincial police chief Mohammad Ayob Niazyar told AFP. Thirty Taliban were killed in the battle and their bodies are at the battle site now. Two police were also killed, he said. (Posted @ 10:20 PST)
Deadly storms hit Australian city 'like a quake' SYDNEY, June 10 (AFP) - Rescue workers evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as deadly storms lashed Australia's east coast Sunday, leaving parts of the city of Newcastle looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said. The death toll rose to eight when police found the bodies of the occupant of a family travelling in a car that was trapped in the storm (Posted @ 10:12 PST)
Iraq: 28 bodies found Baghdad, June 10 (Reuters) - Police said they have found the bodies of 24 people around Baghdad in the past 24 hours. That included the body of Colonel Faris al-Duri in al-Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad. Besides, the body of a policeman was found shot in central Diwaniya, while police found the bodies of three Iraqi soldiers -- shot, bound and tortured in southeastern Kirkuk. (Posted @ 09:10 PST)
Afghanistan attacks kill NATO soldier, a dozen police KABUL, June 10 (AFP) - A NATO soldier was killed in combat in Afghanistan on Saturday and a police general was assassinated amid a wave of attacks that also left 11 other policemen and a dozen Taliban dead, officials said. The ISAF soldier was killed and four others wounded in a clash in the south of the country while General Mohammad Daud Saleh, deputy police chief in Kandahar province, was shot dead after leaving a barber shop, police said. (Posted @ 09:00 PST)
Bomb kills three soldiers, wounds four in Turkey DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 10 (AFP) -Three soldiers were killed and four others seriously wounded on Saturday as a military convoy passed by in Sirnak province, on the mountainous border with Iraq , security sources said. The dead included two officers, they said. (Posted @ 08:55 PST)
One killed, 40 wounded in Fatah-Hamas clashes in Gaza GAZA CITY, June 10 (AFP) - A Palestinian was killed and 40 others wounded in armed clashes late Saturday between rival gunmen from Fatah and the Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said.(Posted @ 08:52 PST)
'Rang De Basanti' wins best film award at Bollywood Oscars SHEFFIELD, England, June 10 (AFP) - Rakeysh Mehra's blockbuster “Rang De Basanti” won the award for best film early Sunday at Bollywood's answer to the Oscars, an annual highlight for the Hindi film industry staged this year in northern England. (Posted @ 08:50 PST)
Floods leave 66 dead or missing in China BEIJING, June 10 (AFP) -At least 66 people are dead or missing and more than 260,000 have been left homeless by floods and landslides set off by torrential rain in southern China, officials and press reports said Sunday. Four days of heavy rains have pummelled the regions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Hunan. (First Posted @ 08:47 PST Updated @ 21:22 PST)
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