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Larkana: No oxygen at Sheikh Zayed Hospital, 3 kids die
President felicitates Indian counterpart on assumption of office
Contempt law: Lawyers to boycott courts today in Karachi
Amitabh Bachchan to carry Olympic torch today
Guptill misses ton as NZ reach 232/4 at close against Windies
Syria army, rebels mass forces for Aleppo battle
Saudi Arabia seeks new UN resolution on Syria
Helicopter crashes in southeastern France, 6 dead
Oil prices decline as US supplies rise
US says drought will push up food prices in 2013
9 athletes banned in lead-up to Olympics
Olympic: Flag blunder delays North Korea football game
Olympics: US and Japan win women's football openers
Brazil routs Cameroon 5-0 in women's football
Federer, Azarenka top seedings for London Olympics

Larkana: No oxygen at Sheikh Zayed Hospital, 3 kids die

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According to details, two newborn kids died at the children ward of the Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Larkana due to non-availability of oxygen at the hospital while the third child was brought to hospital in critical condition where he died as no oxygen was available. The heirs of the children staged protest against hospital administration. On the other hand the hospital administration said that the cause of death was natural and not related to availability of oxygen in the hospital.

President felicitates Indian counterpart on assumption of office

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President Asif Ali Zardari has felicitated his Indian counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, President of the Republic of India, on assumption of the office. Felicitating the Indian President, President Zardari reiterated sincere desire of the Government and the people of Pakistan to work towards forging good neighbourly, friendly and cooperative relations with India, securely founded on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Contempt law: Lawyers to boycott courts today in Karachi

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According to president Karachi Bar Association, Mahmood-ul-Hassan, the lawyers will continue to boycott courts on every Thursday till the court’s verdict on contempt law case. The lawyers will wear black arm bands and will not appear in the courts today.

Amitabh Bachchan to carry Olympic torch today

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Amitabh Bachchan, the Shahenshah of Indian cinema, will carry the flame in Southwark on Thursday on the last day of the Torch Relay, also a day ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony. The actor will be part of the relay team which will carry the torch. Amitabh Bachchan, 69, tweeted that he would be carrying the Torch in London at around 10.30AM. "OK HERE IT IS: Have been invited by London Olympic Organizing Committee to carry the torch in the relay tomorrow...", senior Bachchan tweeted. "Honored to be asked to carry the Olympic Torch in London at Southwark around 10:30 AM A proud moment for me and country," he added. Bachchan is not the only celebrity to lend the Indian touch to the mega gaming event. Indian music maestro A R Rahman has teamed up with his Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle to compose a track for the inaugural event. "Clarifying the report on the Olympics track I am composing... It s a track in Punjabi celebrating the Indian influence in the UK. It s a part of a medley in the Olympics opening ceremony, according to Danny Boyle s creative wishes," Rahman had written on his Facebook page. Illaiyaraaja s song is also set to feature in the medley of music tracks to be used in the inaugural programme. The 32.7 mile relay of the Olympic flame has legendary personalities from all over the world and all walks of life, including Lawrence Dallaglio, Lewis Moody, Jim Anderson, Phil Packer, Darren Fitzpatrick and Tom Davis.

Guptill misses ton as NZ reach 232/4 at close against Windies

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New Zealand were 232/4 at the close on the opening day of the first of two Tests against the West Indies here on Wednesday as Martin Guptill spurned the chance of a century. Things had been going slowly the tourists  way when Guptill, on 97 and looking for his first ton against a side other than Bangladesh or Zinmbabwe, slogged Sunil Narine to the grateful waiting Narsingh Deonarine just three overs before the end of the session. It was Narine s third wicket and put the hosts back on an even keel after they had earlier looked to be toiling at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium after Kiwi captain Ross Taylor had won the toss. Guptill had already had a scare when a review got him out of jail when he appeared to have been trapped lbw. Taylor made 45 but was bowled by Narine, who ended the day with three for 73. But it was the demise of Guptill which hit the tourists as he was replaced by Kane Williamson, who had made two at the close with debutant and nightwatchman Neil Wagner on four. The match saw top-order batsman Chris Gayle return to the West Indies Test line-up for the first time since December 2010. Gayle has been absent from the Test side due to a standoff between himself and the West Indies Cricket officials board sparked by critical comments he made about officials in a radio interview after a sponsorship row. In a relatively sedate opening the Black Caps, beaten in the preceding one-day series, settled down as Daniel Flynn and Guptill moved the score along. Flynn had a scare when Kemar Roach made an early leg-before appeal in a slow start as six overs brought only as many runs. But the pace then quickened as Flynn hit two boundaries off Darren Sammy before Guptill survived a caught-behind appeal. Flynn hit another boundary off Sammy in the 18th over to bring the score up to 50 before Guptill slogged Sunil Narine for six. A review then went against the hosts as Guptill was given not out lbw to Sammy following an inside edge. A flurry of maidens held up the visitors either side of lunch before Flynn smashed Narine to the ropes while Guptill twice did the same to Ravi Rampaul. As the 100 mark beckoned Narine landed his first Test wicket as Flynn miscued an effort to Kieran Powell at point before Guptill secured his half-century in driving Roach for another boundary. New partner Brendon McCullum survived a review for lbw but then was out driving to Narsingh Deonarine at mid-off having made 25. The West Indies have dominated the tourists so far this summer, taking the Twenty20 series 2-0 in which Gayle was awarded man of the series, and the ODI series 4-1 in which Gayle made an aggressive century and half-century.

Syria army, rebels mass forces for Aleppo battle

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The Syrian army and rebels deployed more forces in and around Aleppo on Wednesday as a "decisive" battle for control of the country s second city raged, activists and regime sources said. "Hundreds of rebels from all over the north of Syria are arriving in Aleppo, which appears to have become the decisive battle," a journalist for a Syrian newspaper working in the city told AFP. "Around a dozen districts on the outskirts of the city are in the hands of the rebels and you can hear the sound of bombardment and automatic gunfire," he said. Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, confirmed the influx. They "are sending numerous fighters to Aleppo to battle the regime because, for them, Aleppo is as important as Benghazi was for the Libyan rebels," he said. Abdel Rahman said the army had also sent reinforcements to the city. "In the past 48 hours, there are army reinforcements arriving on the Damascus-Aleppo highway," he said, adding that rebels were targeting the convoys. On Wednesday afternoon, they used roadside bombs to hit a convoy of security forces travelling towards the city, killing eight. On Tuesday, they had attacked a convoy in a bid to delay its arrival in Aleppo. "It s a decisive battle and the regime is sending reinforcements to stop the rebels from taking its bases and public buildings," Abdel Rahman said. A security source said the key battle under way was in the districts between the city and the airport, "which are in the hands of the terrorists." Clashes continued in the neighbourhood of Bustan al-Qasr in the south of the city, where army helicopter gunships fired on the neighbourhood, the Britain-based Observatory said. There were also clashes in Aleppo s central Al-Jamaliya neighbourhood close to the local headquarters of the ruling Baath party. In Kalasseh, in the south of the city, rebels set fire to a police station, the Observatory said. Fighter jets overflew the city, breaking the sound barrier but not carrying out bombing raids, Abdel Rahman told AFP. Nationwide, the Observatory put the death toll at 108 by Wednesday evening -- 57 civilians, 36 soldiers and 15 rebels. The Observatory said 158 people were killed across Syria on Tuesday. The watchdog also reported clashes in the district of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad in Damascus, one of the last remaining rebel bastions in the capital, and Assali, 10 days after fighting broke out there. Helicopter gunships and heavy machinegun fire pounded Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, as the regime tried to "reclaim" it, the Observatory said. Amid unrelenting violence, university exams have been cancelled in several cities, including in Damascus, Aleppo and eastern Deir Ezzor.

Saudi Arabia seeks new UN resolution on Syria

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Saudi Arabia is proposing a UN General Assembly resolution which will highlight a Syrian government threat to use chemical weapons, its UN envoy said Wednesday. The new Arab initiative follows the failure of a western-attempt to get the UN Security Council to threaten sanctions against Syria s President Bashar al-Assad over the 16-month-old conflict, diplomats said. Russia and China vetoed the council resolution last week. Saudi Arabia s UN Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi told a small group of reporters the resolution would be submitted in coming days and he hoped for a vote "probably early next week." Asked whether the resolution would mention the Syrian government s threat made this week to use its chemical weapons if attacked, al-Mouallimi said "it will reference all of the issues that are of significance in the Syrian situation." UN diplomats said the resolution could call on the 193 UN member states to follow sanctions that have been ordered against Syria by the Arab League. That would be opposed by Russia and China after their veto last Thursday. The resolution could also demand humanitarian access to conflict-stricken parts of Syria, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity as talks on the resolution are still private. The UN General Assembly cannot force legally binding sanctions, like the 15-nation Security Council. But no country can veto any of its resolutions which just need a majority. A General Assembly resolution passed in February brought the Syria conflict back to the forefront of UN debate after Russia and China blocked two earlier Security Council resolutions. "The Arab states are frustrated at the lack of international action on Syria, particularly the vetos by Russia and China," said one UN diplomat. Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states have voiced strong support for Syrian rebels against Assad. The 16-month-old conflict has left more than 19,000 dead, according to Syrian activists.

Helicopter crashes in southeastern France, 6 dead

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Six people died when a helicopter crashed into an area often referred to as France s answer to the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, according to officials. Francis Mene, a defense official, said the helicopter crashed while carrying out a test flight in the Verdon Gorge in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southeastern France. Stephane Chery, the head of International Media Relations for aviation company Eurocopter, said all six were company employees. The EADS-owned firm earlier issued a statement confirming the aircraft involved was manufactured by them, adding that they were working on identifying the circumstances and exact cause of the accident. The rocky, limestone area seen as France s answer to the Grand Canyon is one of Europe s most beautiful river canyons and extremely popular with tourists and hikers. At 700 meters (2297 feet) deep, it is also one of Europe s biggest. Mene, speaking on French station BFM-TV, said the helicopter crashed "very deep in the gorge" near the village of Aiguines. He did not speculate on the causes behind the accident. Eurocopter is yet to reveal the identities of those involved. There was no one else onboard.

Oil prices decline as US supplies rise

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Benchmark US crude fell by 98 cents to $87.52 per barrel in afternoon trading in New York while Brent crude lost 67 cents to $102.75 per barrel in London. Prices fell after the Energy Information Administration reported that the United States  crude supply grew by 2.7 million barrels last week. Analysts were expecting supplies to fall by 250,000 barrels, according to a survey by Platts, the energy-information arm of McGraw Hill. US crude supplies have grown this year to the highest levels since 1990. Gasoline supplies also rose more than expected. The EIA said that gasoline supplies increased by 4.1 million barrels last week. Analysts were expecting supplies to grow by only 750,000 barrels. In other energy futures trading, heating oil lost 1.37 cents to $2.8107 per gallon while gasoline lost 7.23 cents to $2.7525 per gallon. Natural gas fell by 11 cents to $3.077 per 1,000 cubic feet.

US says drought will push up food prices in 2013

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The record drought gripping half the US will help push food prices up by 3 percent to 4 percent next year, the Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. Milk, eggs, beef, poultry and pork prices will all be affected by the drought, which has pushed up prices for feed. Beef prices are expected to see the biggest jump at 4 percent to 5 percent. Dairy product prices are forecast to climb 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent; poultry and egg prices are projected to rise 3 percent to 4 percent; and pork prices are expected to rise 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent in 2013, the agency said. "In 2013 as a result of this drought we are looking at above-normal food price inflation. ... Consumers are certainly going to feel it," USDA economist Richard Volpe said. Normal grocery price inflation is about 2.8 percent, he added, so even at the low end of the projected range people will see their grocery expenses rise more than usual next year. The USDA kept its projected food price increase for 2012 steady at 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent. The figures are the agency s first food price projections to factor in the drought, though farmers and others have been warning that prices will rise. The drought has sent corn, soybean and other commodity prices soaring in recent weeks as fields dry out and crops wither across much of the country s midsection. Volpe said the drought is not expected to affect prices for fruits and vegetables. Most of those crops are irrigated. The USDA is projecting an overall 2 percent to 3 percent increase for all fruits and vegetables next year, the same as it expects this year. USDA economists were aware of the drought a month ago when they did their last projections but didn t know how bad it would get, Volpe said. "This drought was a surprise for everybody," Volpe said. "The USDA was forecasting a record year for the corn crop until this drought materialized. Now we re not going to get that." Poultry prices will be the first to rise because of the drought because chickens and turkeys need only a few months to grow to market size, he said. Beef and pork take longer, and the agency actually revised its beef price projection for 2012 downward because producers are sending more cattle to the market at the moment as they reduce their herds in response to the drought, he said. Meat and poultry prices are the most affected because feed prices represent the biggest part of their cost of production. Processed food prices are less affected by changes in commodity prices because ingredients typically make up just a fraction of their production costs.

9 athletes banned in lead-up to Olympics

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Bans for nine track and field athletes were announced in the immediate lead-up to the Olympics on Wednesday as anti-doping officials promised the London Games would be the "most tested" ever and two new procedures would be used. The IAAF, the governing body for athletics, said that six of the nine athletes had been caught through the athlete biological passport scheme, which will be used at the Olympics for the first time this year. The other three positive doping results were retested samples from last year s world championships at Daegu, South Korea. The athletes were guilty of "sophisticated doping," the IAAF said, and received bans ranging from two to four years. "Today s announcements underline the IAAF s continued and unwavering campaign against doping in athletics," IAAF President Lamine Diack said in a statement. "We will not stint in our resolve to do everything in our power to eradicate cheating." The biological passport measures changes in an athlete s blood profile and is already used in professional cycling. It will be utilized in testing in track and field, swimming, cycling, rowing, modern pentathlon and triathlon at the Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency announced in a news conference at Olympic Park. WADA also said a new test for the abuse of human growth hormone would be used at the games, just weeks after it was cleared following a near 13-year development process. One of the athletes sanctioned by the IAAF from the world championships sprinter Inna Eftimova of Bulgaria was guilty of using synthetic human growth hormone. HGH abuse has been hard for the IAAF and other sporting bodies to test for and is among the three biggest doping worries for the London Games, according to WADA, alongside the blood booster EPO and synthetic testosterone use. The first HGH test at the Olympics was in Athens in 2004. This year, American weightlifter Pat Mendes the top-ranked lifter in his country in the over-105-kilogram weight class became the first U.S. athlete in an Olympic sport to test positive for HGH and be disciplined for it. He was banned for two years in April. WADA director general David Howman said the new HGH test would work alongside the old one in London, giving testers a larger window to find traces of the substance. WADA President John Fahey said it was "good to see" that the IOC and local organizing committee had decided to use the biological passport in the six sports at the Olympics. "It is spreading as a tool ... and we ve also seen sanctions as a result," Fahey said. WADA said this week that 107 athletes in Summer Olympics sports had been guilty of doping offenses in the six month period up to mid-June. That number would increase with the cases announced by the IAAF, which included Moroccan, Turkish, Greek, Ukrainian and Russian athletes alongside the Bulgarian. The IAAF on Wednesday also provisionally suspended Moroccan 1,500-meter runner Mariem Alaoui Selsouli from the London Olympics after she tested positive for a diuretic. There s been no announcement over Selsouli s  B  sample test. And the IOC is investigating up to five suspicious test results from the Olympics in Athens eight years ago, although time is running out for it to act on those. Athlete samples can be retested up to eight years after an Olympics ends, leading to possible retroactive sanctions. The statute of limitations from Athens expires on Aug. 29.

Olympic: Flag blunder delays North Korea football game

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North Korea s first women s football match of the London Olympics was delayed for more than an hour Wednesday after they refused to play in an embarrassing mix-up over national flags. A source told AFP the team were angry after Hampden Park s giant screen showed images of North Korean players next to the South Korean flag before their match with Colombia. The game failed to start as scheduled at 7:45 pm (1845 GMT) after North Korea refused to take the field. It finally kicked off at 8:50 pm. Olympics organisers said they would apologise to North Korea over the blunder, which came on the first day of competition of London 2012. "Today ahead of the women s football match at Hampden Park, the South Korean flag was shown on a big screen video package instead of the North Korean flag," said a statement from London 2012 organisers. "Clearly that is a mistake, we will apologise to the team and the National Olympic Committee and steps will be taken to ensure this does not happen again." It recalls a similar incident in March, when organisers of a shooting competition in Kuwait played a spoof anthem from comedy film "Borat" instead of the Kazakh national verse. Relations between the two Koreas, still officially at war and sharing the world s most heavily guarded border, have plunged in recent months over the North s nuclear programme. The countries did not hold talks on reprising 2004 s joint march at the Athens Olympics opening ceremony. However South Korea s weightlifters politely rearranged a training session this week after the North Korean team arrived at the same venue at the same time.

Olympics: US and Japan win women's football openers

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The United States and Japan, the two favourites for women s football gold, both made winning starts on Wednesday as hosts Great Britain also enjoyed a victory in the first fixture of the 2012 Olympic Games. Japan, bidding to add the Olympic title to the World Cup they won by beating the USA on penalties in the final in Germany last year, defeated Canada 2-1 in Coventry, central England but the Americans had to come from 2-0 down to beat France 4-2 at Glasgow s Hampden Park, Scotland s national stadium. In Coventry, Nahomi Kawasumi gave Japan a 33rd minute lead after finishing a slick passing move with a powerful shot from an acute angle. Then a blunder by Canada keeper Erin McLeod, who failed to collect a cross, allowed Japan captain Aya Miyama to head into an unguarded net as the  Nadeshiko  doubled their lead before half-time. However, Canada s Chrisrine Sinclair insisted: "You can t blame Erin. We let them get in there in the first place. She has saved us enough times in the past and we don t blame her for that goal." Canada pulled a goal back through Melissa Tancredi early in the second half but couldn t force an equaliser in this Group F clash. At Hampden, reigning Olympic champions the United States found themselves 2-0 down inside 15 minutes, Gaetane Thiney firing Les Bleus ahead with a long-range effort that left USA keeper Hope Solo groping at thin air. Moments later Marie-Laure Delie made it 2-0, capitalising on hesitant USA defending before bludgeoning in from eight yards. But the greater physicality of the United States, bidding for their fourth Olympic title in five attempts since 1996, began to tell and veteran striker Abby Wambach got them back into the game when she powered in a far-post header from a corner. Alex Morgan then latched onto a Solo clearance to level at 2-2 and in the second half it was one-way traffic with Carli Lloyd lashing in a shot from distance to make it 3-2 before Morgan added her second to make the points safe. "I have a lot of respect for France, they re a great team," said a relieved Lloyd. Great Britain, playing their first ever Olympic women s football match, got their London Games off to a winning start in Wales on Wednesday with a 1-0 victory over New Zealand. Two days before the Olympics officially open in the capital, Arsenal Ladies defender Stephanie Houghton scored the only goal of the game with a neatly-executed free-kick after 64 minutes. In a match played in bright sunshine but in front of a sparse crowd at the 75,000-capacity Millennium Stadium, the home of Welsh rugby, Britain were just about worthy winners. Houghton buried a 25-yard free-kick with a curling effort over the wall and past Jenny Bindon in the Kiwi goal. "It was something special and I m sure my family are really proud. I don t think it will sink in for a while," said Houghton.

Brazil routs Cameroon 5-0 in women's football

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Brazil scored two early goals and got two more from Marta in the second half to easily defeat Cameroon 5-0 at the London Olympics on Wednesday, getting off to a good start on its quest for its first major title in women s football. Francielle converted a free kick in the seventh minute and Renata Costa increased the lead with a header from a corner in the 10th, then Marta scored with a penalty kick in the 73rd, set up Cristiane s goal in the 80th and sealed the victory in the 88th. The opening victory moves Brazil atop Group E with three points along with Britain. Brazil has been close to winning a significant women s title several times but never came through with victory. The Brazilians settled for silver in the last two Olympics.

Federer, Azarenka top seedings for London Olympics

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The International Tennis Federation has named Roger Federer and Victoria Azarenka as the No. 1 seeds for the Olympic singles tournaments at Wimbledon. The ITF says it awarded the seedings based on the ATP and WTA rankings of July 23. Beijing Olympics bronze medalist Novak Djokovic is seeded No. 2 and local hope Andy Murray, who lost the Wimbledon final to Federer earlier this month, is No. 3. Rafael Nadal, the 2008 Olympic champion, withdrew from the London Games due to injury. Wimbledon winner Serena Williams is seeded fourth in the women s draw, behind Australian Open champion Azarenka, Wimbledon runner-up Agnieska Radwanska and French Open champion Maria Sharapova. Serena and Venus Williams, bidding for a third Olympic doubles title, were unseeded in the women s doubles.

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