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| July 01, 2007 | Sunday | Jamadi-us-Sani 15, 1428 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Flash flood kills more in storm-hit Pakistan QUETTA, Pakistan, July 1, (REUTERS) - A flash flood swept through six villages in Pakistan's storm-hit Baluchistan province killing 30 (42 according to AP) people and forcing more than 10,000 from their homes as a huge effort to help up to 1.5 million people geared up. Early rainy season storms have brought death and destruction to parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and India killing about 600 people over the past 10 days. Pakistan has been worst hit. A storm battered the nation's biggest city, Karachi, on June 23 killing about 230 people. Three days later, a cyclone hit the southwest coast flooding huge tracts of mostly flat, usually desert-like, Baluchistan province. The cyclone and floods have affected between 1.2 million and 1.5 million, deputy provincial relief commissioner Ali Gul Kurd said on Sunday. About 250,000 people are homeless. (Posted @ 16:28 PST)
Pakistan busts gang supplying suicide bombers to Taliban LAHORE, Pakistan, July 1, 2007 (AFP) - Pakistani intelligence have busted a gang of Islamic militants supplying suicide bombers and explosive devices to Taliban fighters in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said Sunday. The gang led by former fighters of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group was based in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, a senior police official said. They used to collect materials and volunteers from the central province of Punjab, the official said, requesting anonymity. The suspects were arrested in Punjab over the past few days. “During the interrogation they confessed to having carried out a series of suicide bombings and bomb blasts against foreign forces in Afghanistan over the past several years,” he said. (Posted @ 14:12 PST)
JFK airport terminal closed briefly, suspicious package found NEW YORK, July 1, (REUTERS) - Authorities briefly closed the American Airlines terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday after a suspicious package found. Port authority officials said the package was being investigated by bomb squad and other experts but the terminal was reopened and the “all clear” given shortly after it was evacuated, media reports said. (Posted @ 21:46 PST)
Three of a family die as house collapses in Sakrand SAKRAND, Sindh, July 01 (PPI) - Three of a family died and three others injured when a house collapsed in Sakrand town of Nawabshah district on Saturday night due to torrential rains. (Posted @ 20:36 PST)
Palestinians start receiving withheld tax funds RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 1, (AFP) - Israel transferred more than 110 million dollars, out of a total of over 500 million dollars, in tax duties to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, lifting a 17-month economic boycott to bolster president Mahmud Abbas over Hamas. (Posted @ 19:48 PST)
NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan GIRISHK, Afghanistan, July 1, (AFP) - A NATO soldier was killed Sunday in a Taliban attack that included a suicide blast in southern Afghanistan where dozens of civilians were said killed in foreign air strikes days ago, officials said. (Posted @ 18:42 PST)
Pakistan releases 50 Indian fishermen KARACHI, July 1, (AFP) - Pakistan on Sunday released 50 Indian fishermen from Karachi's Landhi jail who were caught poaching in its territorial waters, an official said. The men will travel to Lahore and will be handed over to the Indian authorities at the Wagah border crossing on Monday, officials said. (Posted @ 17:36 PST)
Car bomb kills at least five in Ramadi-Iraq police BAGHDAD, July 1 (REUTERS) - A suicide car bomber killed five policemen in Ramadi on Sunday in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, Iraqi police said. Police Captain Abbas al-Dulaimi said the attack was aimed at a police station in the eastern side of Ramadi, a restive city 110 km west of Baghdad. (Posted @ 16:58 PST)
Browns tells Britons the terrorist threat they face is 'long-term' LONDON July 1, 2007 (AP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday that Britons must realize that the terrorist threat their country faces is ''long-term and sustained'' and that that they must remain ''constantly vigilant'' about security. In a nationally televised interview, Brown said that Britain's message to the terrorists must be: ''We will not yield, we will not be intimidated, and we will not allow anyone to undermine our British way of life.'' He spoke on British Broadcasting Corp. TV one day after a suspected terrorist drove a burning Jeep into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, and two days after two car bomb plots were foiled in central London. Four suspects were in custody. (Posted @ 14:15 PST)
Afghan investigation finds 62 Taliban, 45 civilians killed in southern battle An investigation into airstrikes that slammed into Afghan homes where Taliban fighters sought shelter found that 62 insurgents and 45 civilians were killed, two Afghan officials said Sunday. An investigating team sent to Helmand province's Gereshk district found 62 Taliban and 45 civilians were killed in the fighting between insurgents and Western forces late Friday, said Dur Ali Shah, the mayor of Helmand province's Gereshk district, and Mohammad Hussein Andewal, the provincial police chief. NATO's International Security Assistance Force has acknowledged some civilians were killed in the southern battle but has said the death toll was nowhere near as high as Afghan officials have claimed. (Posted @ 13:10 PST)
Seven killed in Maoist attack on Indian police NEW DELHI, July 1, 2007 (AFP) - Some 200 heavily-armed Maoists attacked two police stations in India's eastern Bihar state, killing six constables and a villager, police said Sunday. The attacks on the neighbouring stations took place late Saturday, police said from district headquarters some 30 kilometres (18 miles) away. (Posted @ 11:30 PST)
Israel kills 7 in series of Gaza air strikes GAZA, July 1 (Reuters) - Israel killed seven Palestinians in a series of air strikes in Gaza on Saturday, including three senior Islamic Jihad militants and a rocket manufacturer for a wing of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the attacks (Posted @ 09:25 PST)
HK's first decade under Chinese rule HONG KONG, July 1 (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang and his cabinet for a new five-year term on Sunday and reminded the territory that the motherland comes first, as the city embarked upon its second decade under Beijing's rule. “One country is a pre-requisite of two systems,” he said at the ceremony. (Posted @ 09:22 PST)
Police raid properties in Liverpool over terror alert LONDON, July 1, (AFP) - British police launched raids Sunday on two properties in Liverpool after making a fifth arrest in connection with the national terrorism alert, a police statement said. “The man was arrested overnight on behalf of Metropolitan Police Service counter-terrorism command. Following on from that, Merseyside Police is executing search warrants at two addresses in the Liverpool area,” it said. (Posted @ 18:08 PST)
Police arrest two people in connection with failed car bombings LONDON, July 1 (AFP) - Police have arrested two people in northwest England in connection with three failed car bombings in London and Glasgow, police said Sunday.The two are in addition to two men who were arrested by Scottish police after they rammed a jeep into the main terminal at Glasgow Airport earlier Saturday, setting the building on fire but causing no major injuries. A double car bombing plot was foiled in London early Friday. (Posted @ 09:20 PST)
Helicopter crashes near F1 race site: 3 dead, 2 injured NEVERS, France, July 1 (AFP) - A helicopter carrying people involved in the F1 French Grand Prix auto race crashed Saturday in central France killing three people and seriously injuring two, police and officials said Sunday but did not disclose the names of those killed or injured. (Posted @ 09:18 PST)
Holyfield takes Savarese in 10-round decision EL PASO, Texas, July 1 (AP) - Evander Holyfield, the 44-year-old former heavyweight champion, outworked and outclassed Lou Savarese on Saturday, winning a 10-round unanimous decision to remain undefeated in his latest comeback. (Posted @ 09:28 PST)
Iraqi prime minister criticizes U.S. raid that leaves 26 dead in Baghdad's Sadr City BAGHDAD, July 1 (AP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned a U.S. raid in Baghdad's Sadr City in which American troops searching for Iranian-linked militants sparked a firefight that left 26 Iraqis dead. The Iraqi government totally rejects U.S. military operations ... conducted without prior approval from the Iraqi military command,” al-Maliki said in a statement recalling his earlier declaration that “anyone who breaches the military command orders will face investigation.” Meanwhile, in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of the capital, police said a suicide bomber blew himself up near a crowd of police recruits, killing at least 23 people and wounding 17. U.S. troops have discovered a mass grave with as many as 40 bodies near Fallujah. (Posted @ 09:16 PST)
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