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Lahore: Accused in Faisal Town motorcycle blast arrested
Karzai strikes softer tone on Pakistan
Obama: Al Qaeda would find 9/11 style strike 'very difficult'
Trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research
CIA contractor faces felony assault count in US
Karachi: Karachi: Rangers arrest three suspects during search operation
Pakistanis at risk over world inaction on floods: WFP
Olympics: London 2012 athletics track inaugurated
Roddick out, Wozniacki wins at China Open
Fish and Stepanek through at Japan Open
Injured Monfils withdraws from Beijing, Shanghai
Kobe Bryant, Bologna working 'intensely' on deal
Boxing: Champion Purevdorj extends winning path in Baku
World record broken in archery at Lord's
Athletic: Bolt, Blake in running for top IAAF award

Lahore: Accused in Faisal Town motorcycle blast arrested

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According to police, accused Hafiz Ma’az was arrested with the help of engine number and chassis number of the motorcycle which was used in the blast on night between September 26 and 27. The alleged accused revealed during initial investigation that he is student of a private university. Ma’az said that he was going to plant a time bomb in Gaja Pir shrine when the detonator went off while he was adjusting the tyre of the motorcycle. Police informed that the accused is a member of defunct Tehrik-e-Taliban and is also involved different low intensity blasts at different shrines of the city.

Karzai strikes softer tone on Pakistan

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Afghanistan’s president said Monday that Pakistan has broken promises to help end the Taliban-led insurgency but that he hopes the two countries can work together like brothers softening his rhetoric after days of tough talk in which he had suggested relations were about to break down. The two countries  relations have become increasingly strained since the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani two weeks ago. A host of Afghan officials have publicly accused Pakistan and its spy agency of supporting the militants who killed Rabbani. And Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suspended a series of talks with Pakistan and the United States aimed at improving cooperation in combating the Taliban. Karzai’s speech pre-recorded and broadcast on state television appeared to be an attempt to soothe relations while still calling for Pakistan to do more to rein in insurgents that maintain havens within its borders. “We hope the Pakistani government will think about the interests of the Pakistani people, who also want peace and stability,’ Karzai said. “Our two countries should cooperate.” Afghanistan and Pakistan have long been uneasy allies against the Taliban insurgency, largely because of a long history of the Pakistani government backing insurgents as a way to keep a check on Afghan administrations it worries might ally with its arch rival, India. But the Afghan government appeared emboldened in recent days by a strengthening of U.S. criticism of Pakistan.

Obama: Al Qaeda would find 9/11 style strike 'very difficult'

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US President Barack Obama on Monday said that it would be "very difficult" over the next two years for Al-Qaeda to stage a spectacular terror attack on the scale of the September 11 strikes in 2001. Obama said that given America s open society, it would always be vulnerable, but argued that as a result of a stepped-up US campaign which had "decimated" Al-Qaeda s leadership, the country was safer. "But for them to be able to mount something that is a big project with a lot of financing, that is very difficult for them to do now," Obama said in an interview with Yahoo.com and ABC News. "They are still dangerous, they are still our number one enemy, we have got to make sure that we don t let up. "But I think we are in a position over the next couple of years, if we stay on it, it is going to be very difficult for them to mount the kinds of spectacular attacks that we saw on 9/11." Obama spoke days after a top Al-Qaeda suspect, US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, was killed in a suspected US drone strike in Yemen, becoming the latest member of the group to die in a volley of intensified US attacks. Administration officials confided Friday that at least 23 senior extremist Islamic leadership figures had been killed or captured, in US or allied operations in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere since August 2009. The most spectacular coup for the campaign was the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a US special forces raid on his hideout inside Pakistan in May.

Trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research

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Three scientists won the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for work on the immune system, but in a surprising twist the jury learned that one of the winners of the award had died just days before. The new laureates were Bruce Beutler of the United States, Luxembourg-born Frenchman Jules Hoffmann, and Ralph Steinman of Canada, who it was discovered Monday had died on September 30. "This year s Nobel laureates have revolutionised our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation," the jury said in a statement. The three were lauded for their work on the body s complex defence system in which signalling molecules unleash antibodies and killer cells to respond to invading microbes. Understanding this throws open the door to new drugs and also tackling immune disorders, such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn s disease, in which the body mysteriously attacks itself. "Their work has opened up new avenues for the development of prevention and therapy against infections, cancer and inflammatory diseases," the jury said. The Nobel jury was caught off guard though when it discovered hours after announcing the prize that Steinman had died of pancreatic cancer on Friday the age of 68. Prize regulations stipulate the award cannot be given posthumously. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute that awards the prize was meeting late Monday to discuss how to handle the situation. Annika Pontikis, spokeswoman of the Nobel Foundation, could not confirm that if this was the first time such a situation had arisen, but said it was "very unlikely" it had occurred before. Earlier, the head of the Nobel Assembly, Goeran Hansson, insisted the committee would stand by its choice.

CIA contractor faces felony assault count in US

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Prosecutors have filed a felony assault charge against a CIA contractor accused of getting into a fight over a parking space in Colorado months after he was involved in a fatal shootout in Pakistan. Thirty-seven-year-old Raymond Davis was arrested Saturday after an altercation outside a bagel shop in Highlands Ranch, a community south of Denver where he lives. Prosecutors announced Monday Davis would be charged with second-degree assault, which carries a possible prison term of five to 16 years in prison. Davis  attorney William Frankfurt didn t immediately return a call seeking comment. In January, Davis said he shot two Pakistani men who tried to rob him in Lahore. He was released in March under a deal in which the victims  families agreed to accept $2.34 million in "blood money" under Islamic tradition.

Karachi: Karachi: Rangers arrest three suspects during search operation

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According to details, heavy contingent of Rangers raided a gambling den in Behar Colony of Lyari, however no arrest was made during the raid. The raids were also conducted in the areas of Dubai Chowk, Alfalah Road and Tannery Road. Meanwhile Rangers also cordoned off Liquat Square and Jinnah Square localities of Malir during night and arrested three suspects during search operation which lasted for three hours. Later, Rangers raided an office of a political party in Malir, however no arrest resulted in the raid.

Pakistanis at risk over world inaction on floods: WFP

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The United Nations warned on Monday that the international community had failed to respond to the latest flooding crisis in Pakistan, leaving three million people in urgent need of food handouts. The nuclear-armed state has suffered two consecutive years of floods but has been at increasing risk of international isolation since US troops found and killed Osama bin Laden near the capital in May. "Somehow the present flooding and the humanitarian impact of the present flooding has not yet picked the interest, the focus of the world," said Ramiro Lopes da Silva, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP). "If we have no resources, we have no response," he told a news conference in Islamabad after visiting the flood-hit southern province of Sindh. On September 18, the United Nations led an appeal for $357 million in emergency funding to shore up rescue and relief efforts for millions of people suffering after floods swept away homes and farm land in southern Pakistan. "The funding is not coming as swiftly and as fast at the levels it came to the response of the floods of last year," said Lopes da Silva. "Donors are being challenged by the level of resources required to address similar needs of humanitarian situations across the world," he added. Last month, the United Nations said only the Japanese government had pledged $10 million in response to the appeal. The Pakistani government says more than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people affected this year by floods, following the 21 million hit last year in the nation s worst ever disaster. The WFP official said three million Pakistanis were in urgent need of food security and said the UN agency would help "2.4 million of those severely affected by food insecurity". Pakistan has been forced to fend off charges of mishandling the crisis by failing to invest in adequate measures to mitigate against seasonal rains, after last year s floods caused losses of $10 billion. The country has faced increasingly trenchant criticism in the West for its alleged double dealings with Islamist militants opposed to Indian rule in Kashmir and fighting American troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Olympics: London 2012 athletics track inaugurated

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The red synthetic rubber track, made by an Italian firm, was tested by several athletes including middle-distance runner Hannah England, who won a 1500m silver medal at the recent world championships. "It s a great moment," said organising committee president Sebastian Coe, himself a former elite middle-distance runner. "The Olympic Stadium is starting to take shape and people now have a glimpse of how it will look in less than 10 months." The 80,000-capacity stadium, situated in London s East End, is expected to have cost 486 million euros ($753m) to build when completed. It will host the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2012 Games, on July 27 and August 12.

Roddick out, Wozniacki wins at China Open

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Andy Roddick was eliminated in the first round of the China Open Monday, falling to South Africa s Kevin Anderson 4-6, 5-7, while Caroline Wozniacki rallied from a set down to beat Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 3-6, 6-0, 7-5. Roddick managed to handle Anderson s huge serve, but the sixth-seeded American struggled with his own and was broken in the seventh game to go one set down. The second set brought more of the same, and while Roddick evened things up at 5-5, Anderson s momentum carried him through to the win. The 29-year-old Roddick s world ranking has slipped to 15th after several early-round losses this year. But the 2003 US Open champion responded tetchily when asked in his news conference on Monday how close he might be to retiring. Roddick rolled his eyes before replying: "I think you should retire." He then got up and left the news conference, to a round of applause. Top-ranked Wozniacki struggled at the start against another big-serving opponent, with Hradecka scoring nine aces to the Dane s two. But Wozniacki improved in the second set as the unseeded Hradecka s first serves increasingly hit the net, saving eight of 12 break points for the match. Third-seeded Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic defeated Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-1, while Maria Kirilenko of Russia beat Julia Goerges of Germany 7-6 (9), 6-3. Also, wild-card entry Zheng Jie of China outlasted Alberta Brianti of Italy 4-6, 6-1, 7-5, qualifier Virginie Razzano of France defeated Gisela Dulko of Argentina 6-2, 6-3, and Tamira Paszek of Austria beat Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. Unseeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia dismissed Russia s Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-2, 6-3 and Italy s Flavia Pennetta defeated China s Peng Shuai, 7-6 (6), 7-5. In the men s tournament, Marin Cilic of Croatia defeated Chinese wild card Di Wu 6-2, 6-0, Feliciano Lopez of Spain beat Marsel Ilhan of Turkey 6-2, 7-6 (6), Fernando Verdasco of Spain downed Michael Llodra of France 6-2, 6-4, Florian Mayer of Germany beat Albert Ramos of Spain 6-2, 6-4, and Flavio Cipolla of Italy defeated Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine, 6-1, 1-6, 6-0.

Fish and Stepanek through at Japan Open

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Fourth-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States defeated fellow American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in their first-round match at the Japan Open on Monday. Fish relied on his serve and volley game to outlast his compatriot in a battle that took 2 hours, 44 minutes at Ariake Colosseum. "It was a close match," Fish said. "It could have gone either way. He played well." Fish was impressed by his 19-year-old opponent, who had to qualify for the main draw. "He s a strong player and I think he will be a top player in the future," he said. Earlier, seventh-seeded Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic beat Somdev Devvarman of India 6-4, 6-3 in their first-round match. Stepanek and Devvarman exchanged breaks in the first set before Stepanek broke the Indian again in the 10th game to take the set. Devvarman broke Stepanek in the opening game of the second set and moved out to a 3-1 lead, but Stepanek then reeled off five straight games to take the match in 1 hour, 32 minutes. Qualifier Matthew Ebden of Australia downed Pablo Andujar of Spain 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4 in the day s other first-round match. Top seed Rafael Nadal, the defending champion in the $1.2 million event, will take on wild card Go Soeda of Japan in his first-round match on Tuesday.

Injured Monfils withdraws from Beijing, Shanghai

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Frenchman Gael Monfils on Monday withdrew from the China Open and next week s Shanghai Masters with a knee injury, the ATP confirmed. The Frenchman who lost in the Bangkok semi-finals at the weekend to Donald Young was to have started as second seed in Beijing behind compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Monfils, ranked ninth, has been plagued by injures all season, first suffering with a wrist problem which kept him out until the spring clay campaign. He lost early at the US Open, took nearly a month off and only returned to the courts last week in Thailand.

Kobe Bryant, Bologna working 'intensely' on deal

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Kobe Bryant s management and Virtus Bologna have released a joint statement saying they are working "very intensely" to bring the Los Angeles Lakers star to Italy during the NBA lockout. Bologna president Claudio Sabatini had said on Friday that he had reached a tentative deal with Bryant s agent Rob Pelinka for a 10-game contract worth more than $3 million (€2.22 million). "Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna and the management of Mr. Bryant are working very intensely to try and create this important deal," Monday s statement said. "Reaching such a complex deal requires both sides  maximum attention for every little detail. "Everyone wants a positive outcome to the deal, the goal of which is Kobe Bryant s presence in Italy, economic interests for the 17 clubs in Serie A and more attention for all of Italian basketball." However, the deal hinges on other clubs altering their schedules to ensure Bologna has five home games during Bryant s 10-game contract. Bologna also wants its opening five away games played in Italy s biggest arenas, and wants to avoid an early season bye. Smaller clubs Cremona and Varese have been reluctant to alter their schedules, although the Italian league said Saturday it was intervening to help arrange an agreement. "I hope that very shortly we ll have a deal," Sabatini said Monday, according to the ANSA news agency. "I want to thank Kobe, who demonstrated again overnight that he wants to return to Italy." Bologna would need to have the deal signed by the end of this week to register Bryant before its opening game with Roma on Sunday.

Boxing: Champion Purevdorj extends winning path in Baku

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Mongolia s reigning light flyweight world champion Serdamba Purevdorj extended his winning ways at the amateur world championship beating 11-6 Thomas Essomba of Cameroon here on Monday. The 26-year-old champion will now face Columbia s Ceiber David Avila Segura in a bout for a place in the quarter-finals. Beijing Olympics champion and last year s Asian Games winner, China s Shiming Zou, who is seeking his third world title here, also went through into the third round with a confident 12-2 win over Hungary s Istvan Ungvari. In the lightweight category this year Asian championship s silver medallist Qiang Liu of China beat Egypt s Mehamed Ramadan 14-6 to meet Soon Chul Han of South Korea, who ousted Kyrgyz Symyk Abdyldabekulu 24-11, in the bout for a place in the last eight. Another category favourite Yasniel Toledo Lopez of Cuba battled into the third round of the event through a tough bout against Australia s Luke Jackson winning with a narrow one-point advantage 11-10. In the middleweight Japan s Ryota Murata, who sensationally defeated two-time world champion and top seed Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan, clinched another win confidently beating Iran s Mohammad Sattarour 22-11. In the next round Murata will face Germany s Stefan Hartel, who saw off Jaba Khositashvili of Georgia 22-6. Heavyweight top seed Artur Beterbiev of Russia, who enjoyed an opening round bye, started with an easy win as his opponent Mexico s Mario Heredia retired in the first round of their bout. Meanwhile, China s Xuanxuan Wang, this year s Asian championship s silver medalists, was also in command of his fight with Iran s Reza Moradkhani winning all three rounds (3-0, 6-3, 7-1) for an overall 16-4 win to meet Ihab Derouiche Al Matbouli of Jordan in the third round of the event.

World record broken in archery at Lord's

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South Korean archer Im Dong-hyun broke his own world record as archery came to Lord s, the home of cricket, for a test event ahead of next year s London Olympics. Im scored 693 points on the 70-metre round, breaking his 72-arrow record by two points on the first day of qualifying in the London Archery Classic. Im led the men s draw, while compatriot Jung Dasomi topped the women s scoring with 666 points. The weeklong competition begins outright Tuesday with the men s team event. The 25-year-old Im won two team Olympic gold medals in 2004 and 2008. He will be a favorite for individual gold in London next year. Lord s, the famous cricket ground in northwest London, is being converted to an archery venue for the Olympics.

Athletic: Bolt, Blake in running for top IAAF award

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Jamaican sprint kings Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake have both been shortlisted for the 2011 World Athlete of the Year award, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced on Monday. Blake won the world championships 100m title in Daegu last month when his world record-holding compatriot was disqualified for a false start. And the duo sprinted to landmark times at the Diamond League last month, Bolt running the fastest 100m this year and Blake the second fastest 200m in history. Britain s Mo Farah has also made the cut after the 28-year-old won world gold in the 5,000 metres in South Korea and claimed silver in a closely fought 10,000m. Also included are Kenya s marathon world record holder Patrick Makau, middle-distance runner David Rudisha, German discus thrower Robert Harting, Japanese hammer thrower Koji Murofushi and Grenadian sprinter Kirani James. American triple-jumper Christian Taylor and compatriot Jesse Williams, who competes in the high jump, also made the shortlist. The women s list includes three Russians - world heptathlete champion Tatyana Chernova, high jumper Anna Chicherova and javelin thrower Maria Abakumova - American duo Lashinda Demus and Carmelita Jeter, New Zealand shot-putter Valerie Adams and Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown. Kenyan long distance runner Vivian Cheruiyot, Botswanan 400m runner Amantle Montsho, who won her country s first ever gold medal at the world Championships, and Australian sprint hurdler Sally Pearson complete the shortlist. The 10 male and 10 female candidates have been selected by an IAAF panel of eight experts with the winners to be announced on November 12.

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