Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Site of the Pakistan plane crash

Site of the Pakistan plane crash

Site of the Pakistan plane crash

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152 people are on a plane that has crashed near Islambabad in the Margalla Hills. It is an Airblue Airline plane. All the people on board are feared dead.


Plane crash near Islamabad; 152 on board feared dead

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152 people are on a plane that has crashed near Islambabad in the Margalla Hills. Civil aviation officials say it's unlikely that there are any survivors.


US-South Korea: Joint maneuvers at sea

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On the 57th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War, the US and South Korean ships intensified high-profile military exercises on Tuesday that underscore rising tensions in a region yet to truly find peace.


US woman charged with smuggling 3 night vision rifle scopes to Russia

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Federal authorities have charged a Dallas-area woman with trying to smuggle three night-vision rifle sights to Russia. A federal court affidavit filed in New York accuses 24-year-old Anna Fermanova of suburban Plano of trying tried to move the scopes in March without the proper export licenses.


Japan's first execution in a year, executes 2 convicted killers

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Japan says it has executed two convicted killers. Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said the executions took place on Wednesday. It was Japan's first round of executions in a year.


Malaysian Politics: Sex, Sodomy and Trials

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A Malaysian prosecutor who is allegedly having an affair with the young man who accused opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy has been axed from the trial. Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail said late Tuesday that Farah Azlina Latif had been removed not because she was guilty but to protect the integrity of the prosecution team.


New oil leak near BP disaster in Gulf

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Oil and gas leaked from a damaged well on a waterway in Louisiana in the United States on Tuesday, north of a bay where officials have been fighting the spill from the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.


Better kindergarten teachers may mean earning more as adults

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How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life? Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much. By junior high and high school, children who had excellent early schooling do little better on tests than similar children who did not — which raises the demoralizing question of how much of a difference schools and teachers can make.


New York to pay $7 million in police shooting case

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Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man who was fatally shot by the police in 2006 on what would have been his wedding day.


Obama breaks silence on WikiLeaks, says nothing new in leaked documents

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America tried to downplay the enormous document dump about the war in Afghanistan, which disclosure experts are calling the biggest leak since the Pentagon Papers about Vietnam.


London marks 2-year countdown to 2012 Olympic Games

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London celebrated the two-year countdown to the London Olympics on Tuesday by launching a search for games-time volunteers and opening some of the venues to let athletes test out the facilities where they will be competing for medals after the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012.


Cameron begins high octave India visit

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It is being described as the biggest charm offensive in diplomacy. As David Cameron begins his much hyped India visit, his main aim as one diplomat described it, is to put the excitement back in a long term marriage.


Pentagon opens criminal probe into Afghan war file leaks

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The US Army has started a criminal probe into the leak of some 92,000 classified military files on the war in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.


Nothing new in leaked Afghan documents: Obama

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US President Barack Obama says he is concerned about the massive leak of sensitive US documents about the Afghanistan war, but that the papers do not reveal any concerns that were not already part of the debate.


Osama held suicide bomber recruitment in Pakistan: WikiLeaks

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Contradicting CIA's assertion that it has no intelligence on the world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden since 2003, leaked secret US military documents say the Al-Qaida chief personally attended a recruitment drive for suicide bombers in Pakistan in 2006.


British PM calls Gaza 'prison camp'

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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday urged Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a "prison camp."


Russians spacewalk, repair ISS laboratory

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Two Russian cosmonauts have completed a nearly seven-hour-long spacewalk to replace a video camera and improve cable connections to the orbiting laboratory's newest module.


Facebook helps Philippine cops nab murder suspect

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Officials say Philippine police tracked down a suspect in a series of grisly robberies and murders with the help of his Facebook account. Mark Dizon, a 28-year-old computer technician, is accused of killing nine people.


Was this 22-year-old behind war on WikiLeaks?

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A 22-year-old US Army intelligence analyst, facing a court-martial, appears to be behind the biggest leak in US military history of classified documents on the war in Afghanistan that also exposed Pakistan's double- game in the war-torn country, including its Taliban links.


Afghanistan uses WikiLeaks to slam Pakistan

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The Afghan government said on Tuesday that leaked Pentagon documents on the war in Afghanistan showed the country's Western allies had an incoherent approach to the insurgency, now in its ninth year.


Lufthansa cargo crashes in Riyadh; no casualties reported

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A Lufthansa official says one of the airline's cargo planes has crashed in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh but there was no immediate word on casualties.


Petition for permanent banning of Facebook in Pakistan

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Even as the Jamaat-ud-Dawah mounts pressure on Pakistani authorities to slap a ban on Facebook, a petition filed in a court has sought a permanent bar on access to the social networking website due to the launch of an "anti-Islam competition". Acting on the petition filed by Judicial Activism Panel chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought the stance of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to the demand for a permanent ban on Facebook. In his petition, Siddique sought a permanent ban on the website as it was hosting a page with a contest named "Everybody Burn Quran Day". Siddique said in his petition that Facebook was also displaying blasphemous pictures of "Khana-e-Kaaba". Siddique asked the court to declare such acts as "illegal, un-Islamic, unconstitutional and against the injunctions of Islam." He also asked the court to launch contempt of court proceedings against the websites owners and to punish them accordingly. Siddique asked the court to direct authorities to ensure that no blasphemous material is published, displayed, visualized or aired in the country. The JuD, which has been organising protests every Friday against the US and other Western countries for committing blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed, has been pressuring authorities to ban Facebook for anti-Islamic contents.


'The worst thing to be is an Afghan woman'

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When Shabnam was barely more than a child, her father gave her away to pay off a debt. She was about 13 years old, her husband was in his 50s, and from almost the moment she entered his house he beat her mercilessly, she said. Shabnam thinks she is about 17 now.


He beheaded three children in Texas

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A jury rejected an insanity defense and found a South Texas man guilty of capital murder on July 27 for beheading his common-law wife's three children in 2003. John Allen Rubio, 29, of Brownsville, showed no reaction when guilty verdicts were returned for each of the four counts of capital murder. Each count reflects one death, and the fourth covers all three.


Chinese parents forbidden to spy on kids' 'e-life'

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Parents in China can no longer secretly browse through their children's computer or mobile phones from September after a law was passed aiming to protect the privacy of children. The new law, the first of its kind anywhere in China, was passed by the regional government in Chongqing province, and will provide children with the legal means to defend themselves against cases of "spying" by their parents, China Daily reported.


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