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| December 15, 2007 | Saturday | Zilhaj 4, 1428 |
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Suicide car bomb explodes near Kabul police chief office KABUL, Dec 15 (AP): A suicide car bomb exploded in front of the office of the Kabul police chief early Saturday, the Defence Ministry spokesman said. The car contained five 107 mm rockets rigged to explode. Two of the rockets detonated in the explosion but three did not. The sound of the blast reverberated through Kabul around 8:20 a.m. Casualties were feared though police and other officials did not immediately release any details. (First Posted @ 09:30 PST, Updated @ 09:40 PST)
US will offer Palestinians 500 million dollars WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (AFP): The United States will offer the moderate Palestinian leadership more than 500 million dollars at an international donors conference opening in Paris at the weekend, a US official said Friday. (Posted @ 09:40 PST)
30 Tamil Tiger rebels killed, says military COLOMBO, Dec 15 (Reuters): Sri Lankan troops killed 30 Tamil Tiger rebels in fighting in the north in which one soldier was killed, the military said Saturday. “Troops killed 30 LTTE terrorists in clashes in Vavuniya, Mannar and Jaffna on Friday,” said a military spokesman. He said one soldier was killed and seven wounded. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were not available for comment on the fighting. (Posted @ 09:15 PST)
Philippines Muslim factions agree to unity talks MANILA, Dec 15 (AFP): Rival Muslim factions in the Philippines have agreed to open unity talks on the urging of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's eldest son, the government said Saturday. Manila's peace negotiator said Saif Al-Islam Al-Kadhafi raised the need for unity between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the breakaway separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) during a meeting with MILF leaders earlier this week. (Posted @ 09:10 PST)
US indicts nine people for smuggling immigrants from India HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Dec 15 (AP): Nine people from India were indicted for smuggling undocumented immigrants into the United States through Thailand, federal prosecutors said Friday. A federal grand jury said that over the past five years the defendants -- eight Indian nationals and a naturalized U.S. citizen -- brought a dozen immigrants into the United States in a scheme that involved false passports and fabricated documents. (Posted @ 09:05 PST)
Indian doctor gets 30 years jail in U.S. PHILADELPHIA, Dec 15 (AP): A doctor from India who organised an illegal Internet pharmacy network was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. Akhil Bansal, a doctor studying for a business degree at Temple University, ran a network that smuggled 11 million prescription pills from India and distributed them to 60,000 Americans, prosecutors said. (Posted @ 09:05 PST)
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