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• Karachi: Transporters to remain off the roads today
• Karachi: 20 killed in protests over sacrilegious film
• Blasphemous film may spark 3rd World War: Altaf
• Islamabad: 43 injured in protest against anti-Islam film
• Libyans hold giant march against militias
• New NASA photo satellite to join 40-year mission
• Vettel fastest in Singapore GP practice
• Olympics: Rio 2016 officials sacked for stealing London files
• Oil prices rebound after sharp losses
• Gold hits 2012 high on hope for Spain's economy
• Euro rises on Spain bailout hopes
• Romney to file tax returns of 2011
• Clinton urges protection of diplomatic missions
• World T20: England beat Afghanistan by 116 runs
• Biden presses Iraqi PM to bar arms passage to Syria

Karachi: Transporters to remain off the roads today Posted: According to president All Karachi Transporters Ittehad, Irshad Bukhari, transports feel insecurity after Friday’s violent protests in the city and decided to remain off the roads today.He said that law enforcement agencies have failed to protect life and property of the citizens and in such situation the transporters feel insecurity and cannot bring their vehicles on roads.

Karachi: 20 killed in protests over sacrilegious film Posted: Protest rallies were taken out by different political and religious parties and social organization from different parts of Karachi to mark Youme Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) which was observed on Friday against sacrilegious film made in the United State. At least 20 people were killed in violent protests held against blasphemous film in different parts of Karachi.Police placed containers on roads near Jinnah Bridge and PIDC Bridge to block M T Khan Road for all kind of traffic to bar protestors from reaching American Consulate.The protest turned violent when Sunni Ittehad Rally came under police shelling when it reached Near Tower area. The protestors pelted stones on police after which both sides exchanged fire. The participants of the rally said that their protest was peaceful but it turned violent after police opened fire.On the other hand angry protestors torched five cinema houses and two private banks. Six vehicles, including a police armored vehicle and three mobiles, were also set ablaze.The dead and wounded were shifted to Civil Hospital and Jinnah Hospital. Nine dead bodies were brought to Civil Hospital while six to Jinnah Hospital. More than 100 injured people were shifted to these two hospitals. The angry demonstrators also ransacked equipment at the Civil Hospital in protest against not getting treatment.Meanwhile, police have arrested more than 100 people in connection with violent protest.

Blasphemous film may spark 3rd World War: Altaf Posted: During his telephonic address to the participants of a protest rally in Karachi, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said that the sacrilegious film made in US can spark 3rd World War.He said that the world community should take notice of protests by Muslims across the world and take action against the culprits involved in making the anti-Islam film.However, he said that protests should be peaceful and incidents of looting and damaging public and private property are against the teaching of Islam.

Islamabad: 43 injured in protest against anti-Islam film Posted: Youme Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) was observed in the federal capital against the anti-Islam film made in the US. Protest processions were taken out from different parts of the city.Police have placed containers at the entry point to the capital Faizabad and Dhokary Chowk and Sareena Chowk and D Chowk in Red Zone.The protesters encountered with police a Faizabad and succeeded in entering Islamabad. The protest turned violent at Abpara Chowk after Juma prayers and the demonstrators clashed with police. At least 43 people were injured during the clashes while protestors torched four police vehicles parked at a CNG station. The CNG station was also partially damaged.Meanwhile, the protestors damaged sign boards and government buildings at Sareena Chowk and Dhokary Chowk.Police resorted to aerial firing and managed to disperse a large number of protestors. However, the dispersing protestors damaged government buildings in other areas too.

Libyans hold giant march against militias Posted: Around 30,000 Libyans marched through the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday in an unprecedented protest to demand the disbanding of powerful militias in the wake of last weeks attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, in which at least one militia is suspected of participating, has sparked a backlash among many Libyans against the multiple armed factions that have run rampant for months in cities around the country. The militias have become more powerful than the regular security forces, and successive governments since last years fall of Moammar Gadhafi have been unable to rein them in.The militias, which are the legacy of the revolutionary brigades that fought Gadhafi in the civil war, have taken on roles as security, guarding state facilities and neighborhoods, but they also are accused of acting like gangs, detaining people, intimidating critics and clashing in the streets.Fridays march targeted in particular Ansar al-Shariah, a militia of Islamic extremists who officials and witnesses say participated in the consulate attack. The group is also accused of attacking Muslims who dont follow its harsh interpretation of Islam.No, no, to militias, the giant crowd chanted as it marched along a lake in the center of Benghazi, filling a broad boulevard. They carried banners and signs demanding that militias disband and that the government build up police to take their place in keeping security. Benghazi is in a trap, signs read. Where is the army, where is the police?Other signs mourned the killing of U.S. Amb. Chris Stevens, reading, The ambassador was Libyas friend and Libya lost a friend.Benghazi has been thrown wide open, its full of chaos, looting and crime, said Ihsan Abdel-Baqi, a woman in her 50s who joined the march. We want our dignity back. We are not afraid of anything.The giant crowd poured into a square in front of the main camp of Ansar al-Shariah in the city, unfurling a long Libyan flag and chanting, With our lives and souls, we redeem you, Benghazi. Military helicopters and fighter jets flew overhead, and police mingled in the crowd.Several thousand Ansar al-Shariah supporters lined up in front of the camp in the face of the crowd, waving black and white banners. But there was no immediate friction between the two sides.The militias first arose when Benghazi and the rest of the east rose up against Gadhafis rule early last year. Residents formed local brigades that took up arms and fought regime forces. Over the civil war that followed such militias formed around the country.Since Gadhafis fall and death around a year ago, the militias have remained in place and have grown stronger, boasting arsenals of automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and pick-up trucks with heavy machine guns. Many have no particular ideological bent, but some are strongly Islamist.Their strength was on display in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. Heavily armed gunmen believed to be militiamen mixed in with a crowd of Libyans protesting an anti-Islam film outside the mission, Libyan officials say. Libyan security forces at the scene withdrew because they were heavily outnumbered and outgunned.The government has been unable to convince militias to disband or integrate into the regular army or security forces, which remain underfunded and weak. Many say authorities have inadvertently fueled the growth with a program that pays militiamen to join a state-sponsored council that does little to bring them under government control.

New NASA photo satellite to join 40-year mission Posted: A fleet of picture-snapping NASA satellites that for 40 years has documented forest fires, tsunamis and everyday changes in the Earths geography will soon get a new member.With Landsat 8 set for a February launch, nearly 140 scientists and engineers from more than 25 countries are scheduled to gather in South Dakota next week to discuss how to best download, process and distribute the millions of data-rich images used in agriculture, education, business and government.Since 1972, Landsat satellites have been continuously snapping pictures across the globe as part of a 40-year mission to document the planet.But with Landsat 7 aging and its older sibling Landsat 5 failing, a new orbiter is needed to continue the long-term data record, said Jenn Sabers, remote sensing branch chief at the U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observations and Science.One of the things we want to do is preserve that legacy by ensuring that we collect consistent data with the prior missions, Sabers said. Although we have that consistency, we also want to make improvements.The USGS Center for EROS, located in the middle of farmland north of Sioux Falls, is the main federal repository for satellite images. Officials wanted to locate the center in the middle of the U.S, and they chose South Dakota in 1970 over several other states, partly due to persistent campaigning by the late Sen. Karl Mundt.Members of the Landsat Technical Working Group will gather at the center next week to discuss how to best use the data-packed photos from the new orbiter, which will be known as Landsat 8 once it reaches space. The team, which provides scientific and technical input to the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, will plan how to establish reception, processing and distribution capabilities from the new satellite.Landsat satellites help document calamities, such as forest fires and hurricanes, as well as mapping the worlds mangrove forests and tracking ice in the Antarctic. The images differ from programs such as Google Earth, as you cant see individual homes, but are able to see larger things, such as highways, NASA says.Sabers said Landsat 8 will take pictures at a scale and resolution consistent with previous Landsats, with much improved accuracy and data quality. It will also work harder, capturing at least 400 scenes a day instead of 250, and record additional information to detect clouds and mapping of surface water. Another new feature will be off-nadir pointing capability, which can greatly assist the gathering of data during a disaster, she said.Before where the satellite would see exactly below it in the track, we can actually point the collection as well, Sabers said. So we can get something next to where we would normally be collecting.EROS is part of an international charter that allows the U.S. to get access to other countrys satellite data during a disaster and provide it to other countries when calamity strikes there.Engineers have worked through many anomalies to keep the grizzled veterans taking snapshots. NASA launched the first Landsat satellite in 1972, and the orbiters have been sending images back to EROS ever since. Landsat 7 was launched in 1999, and Landsat 5 dates back to 1984.Landsat 7 continues to document the globe despite a faulty scan line corrector that leaves zigzag gaps in some of the images. And Landsat 5 is still going more than 28 years after its launch, but it began showing signs of impending failure in November and USGS halted the downloading of images.Sabers said engineers resurrected an older sensor on Landsat 5, and its again sending data, but EROS is just archiving the data it cant currently process.Landsat 6 never reached orbit after its 1993 launch because of a ruptured manifold.The newest orbiter will hitch a ride on an Atlas 5 rocket, currently scheduled for a Feb. 11 liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in San Luis Obispo, California, said Rani Gran, a NASA spokeswoman based at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.Landsat 8, which is about the size of a compact SUV with a 30-foot(9-meter)-long deployable sheet of solar panels, is being built with a 5-year design lifespan but will be stocked with at least a 10-year supply of fuel.NASA is in charge of building and launching the satellite before turning over operation to the USGS, though NASA also uses Landsat data for science, Gran said.Long-term plans call for another orbiter to be launched before the end of Landsat 8s run.Hopefully well be able to continue with the next mission after that that will extend it even further, Sabers said.

Vettel fastest in Singapore GP practice Posted: Red Bull signaled it was ready to resume its fight for the Formula One title with a strong performance in Fridays practice for the Singapore Grand Prix.Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel topped the time sheets in both sessions, while teammate Mark Webber was fourth in the second practice. Neither driver had finished their previous race, the Italian Grand Prix on Sept. 9.Overall we can be happy with today, but lets see what we do tomorrow, its still Friday and todays results are not so conclusive as some drivers got stuck in traffic, Vettel said. Most important is that the car seemed to work on either tire, so we go from there.McLarens Jenson Button was second fastest ahead of championship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, with the presence of three different teams in the top three places indicating a close fight in Sundays race.I would say today was positive, even if the first impression is that we are not as competitive as we were in Monza, two weeks ago, Alonso said. We still lack a bit of performance on tracks like this one, where you need maximum aerodynamic downforce.Buttons teammate Lewis Hamilton was fifth, seven tenths of a second off Vettels time.The other title contender, Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus, was down in 12th a full two seconds behind Vettel after missing the closing stages of the second session with hydraulic problems.Usually we improve on Saturday time-wise but we are not suddenly going to catch up two seconds to the front,Raikkonen said. I am sure they will improve also, and it shows that we are not as fast as we should be.Michael Schumacher of Mercedes also sat out the final minutes due to brake problems.While there were no major incidents on Friday, plenty of drivers ran wide and flirted with the tight concrete walls as they tested the limits of the street circuit and came to grips with a slippery, dusty surface.Williams driver Bruno Senna clipped the wall heavily and stalled his car, bringing out the red flags midway through session two, and ending his night.Vettel won this race last season, but his dominance of 2011 is now a distant memory, having won only one race in this campaign. Fridays performance should provide a timely boost for him and the team particularly as there were no signs of the alternator failure which had plagued the Red Bulls in Italy.Most teams were running very different settings in Singapore than in Italy, switching from the high speeds of Monza to the twists and turns of Marina Bay.The biggest change was made by Mercedes, which had a new exhaust system that directed air to the rear wing and rear diffuser to improve traction. Fridays performance, with Schumacher 11th and Nico Rosberg in eighth, showed the team had more work to do to integrate it to the chassis.Force India pair Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg were sixth and seventh fastest in an encouraging performance for the Silverstone outfit, while Ferraris Felipe Massa was ninth and Lotus Romain Grosjean 10th in his return to action after serving a one-race suspension.

Olympics: Rio 2016 officials sacked for stealing London files Posted: Ten members of the 2016 Olympics organising committee have been sacked for stealing computer files relating to the organisation of the 2012 London Olympics, a Rio 2016 spokesman told AFP on Friday.The Rio employees, who had been working alongside London staff during the summer Olympics and Paralympics, had downloaded internal documents without authorization.These Brazilian officials worked in partnership with the London 2012 Games (LOCOG) in London, had free access to the archives but did not have the right to download, the spokesman added.In a statement, the Rio 2016 Committee stressed the attitude of the officials was contrary to the principles governing mutual trust between the two organisations.Those involved were identified and the leadership of Rio 2016 and LOCOG acted jointly and quickly to repair the situation, the statement continued.All of the documents were recovered and returned, and the employees were dismissed by Rio 2016.Rio 2016 officals insisted this was an isolated incident given that some 200 of their employees were in London for the duration of the Games.According to reports, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe telephoned his Brazilian counterpart Carlos Nuzman when he discovered that the documents had been downloaded without permission, and demanded that immediate action be taken.Brazilian sports commentator and journalist Juca Kfouri claimed in his blog that the London files included information about strategic planning of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and security.

Oil prices rebound after sharp losses Posted: Oil prices headed higher Friday after a week of sharp falls, but analysts remained bearish on the prospects for further slow global economic growth.New Yorks benchmark contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery, rose 47 cents from Thursday to $92.89 a barrel.In London, Brent North Sea for November ended up $1.39 at $111.42 a barrel.Analysts saw the upturn as more of a correction from the heavy selling early in the week, when the two contracts sank $7-8 a barrel.I wouldnt get too excited for the WTI bulls, this is just a little deleveraging before the week-end, said Rich Ilczyszyn of iiTrader.com.Were just a little bit oversold... After an eight dollar drop, you have some profit taking, he said.David Bouckhout of TD Securities said talk that Spain could soon firm up a rescue deal to shore up its finances also encouraged buying.A Financial Times report on Friday said EU authorities were working behind the scenes to prepare the ground for a new rescue program and unlimited bond buying by the European Central Bank for Madrid, which would be unveiled next week.Rumors that Spain is looking at bailout options (...) could be good for risk assets, Bouckhout said.He also pointed to ongoing tensions in the Middle East, which he said offers consistent support for the market.

Gold hits 2012 high on hope for Spain's economy Posted: Gold has hit a high for the year on speculation that Spain may be working on a request for financial help from other European countries.December gold rose $7.80 to finish at $1,778 per ounce. Earlier Friday, it hit $1,790 per ounce, which topped the previous 2012 high, set in late February.Analysts speculated that Spain is working on an economic reform plan that will include a request for bailout funding from Europe.The countrys borrowing costs have dropped sharply since the European Central Bank said recently it will buy unlimited amounts of government bonds to help countries with heavy debt loads. Those borrowing costs probably will rise again if Spain doesnt request a bailout soon, analysts said.In the U.S., the Federal Reserve also has put a plan in place to encourage economic growth.Such economic stimulus programmes continue to benefit gold prices, said Phillip Streible, a senior commodities broker at RJ OBrien.Investors buy gold as a hedge against inflation and volatility in currencies. Gold is priced in dollars but can be converted into any currency.

Euro rises on Spain bailout hopes Posted: The euro rose against the dollar Friday on hopes that Spain is getting closer to asking for financial aid from Europes bailout fund.Speculation is rising that Spain is negotiating with its partners in the euro zone on a new economic reform program. The reform would help the country make a formal request for aid.The euro rose to $1.2989 in late trading Friday from $1.2967 late Thursday. The euro is down 1.2 percent for the week, but is still up 3 percent so far in September.The British pound rose to $1.6247 from $1.6211.The dollar fell to 78.15 Japanese yen from 78.26 Japanese yen, to 0.9323 Swiss franc from 0.9330 Swiss franc.The dollar rose to 97.71 Canadian cents from 97.66 Canadian cents.

Romney to file tax returns of 2011 Posted: According to his campaign, Romneys paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent on $13.6 million in income.The campaign also said a tax summary will be released showing the Romneys paid taxes for each of the past 20 years at an average effective rate of 20.2 percent, and that the lowest tax rate during that period was 13.6 percent.

Clinton urges protection of diplomatic missions Posted: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reminded governments Friday of their solemn duty to protect diplomatic missions, amid a wave of anti-American unrest in the Muslim world.As I have said before and as is embodied in the Vienna Convention and other international agreements, all governments have the duty, the solemn duty, to defend diplomatic missions. They must be safe and protected places, she said before meeting Tunisias foreign minister.

World T20: England beat Afghanistan by 116 runs Posted: Defending champions England knocked Afghanistan out of the World Twenty20 with a 116-run victory in the group A match in Colombo on Friday.England rode on an unbeaten 99 off 55 balls by Luke Wright to pile up 196-5, before bowling Afghanistan out for 80 in 17.2 overs in the day-night game at the Premadasa stadium.Afghanistans second successive defeat in the tournament meant both England and India qualified for the Super Eights round from the group.

Biden presses Iraqi PM to bar arms passage to Syria Posted: US Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqs Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a telephone call Friday to bar the passage of weapons shipments to Syria through Iraqi airspace, the White House said.The vice president and the prime minister addressed issues of regional security, including the need to prevent any state from taking advantage of Iraqs territory or air space to send weapons to Syria, the White House said.

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