Saturday, October 9, 2010

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Trapped Chilean miners: rescue drill reaches their refuge at last
The Guardian
A drill boring a rescue shaft to 33 Chilean miners trapped in a collapsed mine has broken through into an underground chamber where they have been stranded since August. The milestone at the San Jose mine came just after 8am Chilean time, ...
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Pak to reopen NATO supply from Pak-Afghan border
Daily News & Analysis
Place: ISLAMABAD | Agency: PTI Pakistan today said it was reopening the main supply route for transporting supplies to US and allied forces in Afghanistan, ten days after it was closed in the wake of an air strike by NATO helicopters that killed two ...
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Hungary evacuates village threatened by toxic sludge
The Guardian
A Hungarian village deluged with red toxic sludge earlier this week has been evacuated after further damage to a burst reservoir at the centre of the deadly chemical spill was discovered. Prime minister Viktor Orban said the village of Kolontar, ...
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Sudan on agenda as Arab League summit opens
AFP
SIRTE, Libya — The Arab League opened a summit in Libya on Saturday with the pressing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Sudan added to the original agenda, its secretary general Amr Mussa said. "Two important issues, Sudan and the Arab-Israeli conflict ...
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N-facilities free of western spies: Iran
The Hindu
Iran's nuclear chief has acknowledged that the West had managed to infiltrate its nuclear facilities but Tehran had emerged successful in combating espionage. Mr. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic energy agency, told the semi-official Fars News ...
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China Spurns Pledges in Climate-Change Accord, US's Stern Says
Bloomberg
By Stuart Biggs - Sat Oct 09 10:53:40 GMT 2010 Talks aimed at reaching an agreement to mitigate climate change neared a close in China with little sign the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters are resolving their differences. ...
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Slain leader saw Taliban threat
Sydney Morning Herald
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan: An outspoken governor who repeatedly warned of the expansion of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in his region has been killed along with 19 others when a bomb ripped through the mosque where he attended the weekly prayer. ...
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Karachi shrine bomb attack links 'traced to South Waziristan': Malik
Sify
The suicide bomb attack on the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine in Karachi on Thursday has been found to have links with the Taliban-infested tribal area in South Waziristan, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said. "Its links have been traced to ...
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Karunanidhi meets Sonia, raises Sri Lankan Tamils issue
The Hindu
PTI AICC President Sonia Gandhi being received by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi at Chennai Airport on Saturday. Union Minister for Textiles Dayanidhi Maran is also in the picture. Photo : DIPR Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on ...
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The Hindu
Pak court bars AQ Khan from speaking about nuclear programme
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The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered nuclear scientist Dr. AQ Khan against making any statements about the country's nuclear programme or about security issues. Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry announced the decision while disposing off a petition to ...
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UN expresses Darfur alarm at end of Sudan visit
AFP
KHARTOUM — The UN Security Council ended a controversial tour of Sudan on Saturday by signalling growing alarm over the Darfur war, but saying a self-determination referendum in South Sudan could still be held on time. The four-day visit by the 15 ...
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AFP
Where women rape men for healing purpose
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London: Zimbabwean women are abducting and raping men for ritual purposes, media reports here said on Saturday. Six men have been gang-raped by women in the last 11 months in this deeply conservative society, the Scotsman reported. ...
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Taiwan, Britain to boost flights
Independent
Taiwan said Thursday it had reached an agreement with Britain to increase passenger and cargo flights to promote trade and tourism. From March 2011, seven weekly flights between Taipei and Manchester will be launched while Taipei-London flights will ...
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JMM legislators resent denial of cabinet berths
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Ranchi, Oct 9 (IANS) Four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) legislators Saturday expressed anger at being denied berth in the Arjun Munda cabinet, a day after the state chief minister inducted nine more ministers in his team. There was deep resentment among ...
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French ports strike grows, fuel shortages feared
AFP
MARSEILLE, France — A growing strike blocked French Mediterranean ports Friday as dockers joined oil terminal workers whose action against port reforms entered its 12th day, raising fears of fuel shortages. Dockers at the ports of Marseille, ...
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AFP
Suspected Islamists kill outspoken Nigerian cleric
AFP
KANO, Nigeria — Suspected radical Islamists on Saturday shot dead an outspoken cleric in the latest of a series of killings in Nigeria blamed on a sect that staged a bloody uprising last year, police said. Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead Bashir ...
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