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• China leadership transition formally moves on
• Compton comes good again as England takes control
• Sri Lanka lawyers oppose CJs impeachment
• Pak-India WC semi fixing reports baseless: ICC
• Japan vows to invest $700 million in Central Asia
• Kurd take control of two towns in north Syria
• Baghdad cancels $4.2b arms deal with Russia
• Doctors Without Borders serve in war-hit countries
• Kuwait releases two members of ruling family
• 10 killed in Karachi Saturday morning
• Four more shot dead in Quetta
• Fear-hit Mingora silent on Malala Day
• PML-N follows Talibans school of thought: Kaira
• Twin suicide bombs kill 20 soldiers in southern Syria
• Del Piero returns to lineup in Sydney FC loss

China leadership transition formally moves on Posted: At the same time, a list of some names also has been prepared for review.The official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday that the congresss presidium, 41 current and former members of the leadership, approved a candidate list for the Central Committee and sent it to the delegates. The delegates will cast votes before the congress closes Wednesday to choose the Central Committee, a roughly 350-member body.The Central Committee in turn will select the top leadership.The move is largely a formality, as is the congress itself. Deciding the lineup of leading bodies falls to a small group of powerbrokers. Candidates outnumber seats by only a small margin, giving the 2,268 congress delegates little choice.

Compton comes good again as England takes control Posted: After this, England reached 118-0 in its second innings after taking a 188-run first-innings lead over Haryana on the third day of a four-day practice game ahead of its test series in India.Compton scored an unbeaten 54, following his first-innings knock of 74. Trott was not out on 61 after being promoted to opener with captain Alastair Cook holding himself back. Compton has so far struck seven fours and Trott 10 fours as England leads by 306 runs with all 10 second-innings wickets intact.Earlier, opener Rahul Dewan carried Haryana, his 144 not out coming off 320 balls with 17 fours.

Sri Lanka lawyers oppose CJs impeachment Posted: The news follows a rare general meeting of the legal association to discuss threats to the independence of the judiciary.Bar association president Wijedasa Rajapaksa, who is no relation to the president, said a general meeting was held Saturday after nearly 24 years.The body represents Sri Lankas lawyers, with some 13,000 members. Government-allied parties have leveled charges of hidden wealth and misuse of power against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.They came after Bandaranayake ruled that a proposed bill was against the constitution.Bandaranayake has denied the charges against her.

Pak-India WC semi fixing reports baseless: ICC Posted: .Talking to Dunya News a spokesman of International Cricket Council said the news published in a British newspaper that semi-final match of World Cup 2011 between Pakistan and India was fixed was groundless.He said there was no solid evidence has been produced that the match was fixed and the newspaper had only raised certain questions.Allegation bases on mere speculations cannot be taken seriously, ICC spokesman said.“ICC cannot initiate any inquiry without substantial evidence,” he said.

Japan vows to invest $700 million in Central Asia Posted: It aims at helping the resource-rich region promote trade, energy-saving and regional cooperation in stabilising nearby Afghanistan.The commitment followed a meeting in Tokyo between foreign ministers from Japan and five Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.We had frank discussions to help build a stronger, richer and more open Central Asia, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba told reporters after the meeting, the fourth edition of the Central Asia plus Japan dialogue which started in Kazakhstan in 2004.According to a joint statement, the projects will cover five areas -- trade investment, environment and energy-saving, narrowing the wealth gap, regional cooperation in stabilising Afghanistan and cooperation in disaster prevention.Promoting cooperation between Japan and Central Asia will contribute to help sustain peace and stability in Afghanistan and resolve problems in the international community, said Gemba in an opening speech at the meeting.Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told the visiting ministers on Friday: I place importance on Central Asia which is placed in a geopolitically important position and rich in resources and energy.Tokyo wants Japanese firms to play a greater role in the mineral business in the region, which has ample reserves of crude oil, natural gas, uranium and other natural resources, media reports said.

Kurd take control of two towns in north Syria Posted: The regions Hasakeh province has seen heavy fighting in recent days between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels, with 46 combatants killed in two days as the opposition seized the border town of Ras al-Ain on Friday.The Kurds took control of the towns of Derbassiye and Tall Tamr late on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.They were backed by militia from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has links with Turkeys rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), it said.The residents and militiamen surrounded government and security offices in both towns and convinced pro-government forces to abandon their posts, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and residents on the ground.It said the residents had feared the same kind of violence that saw 9,000 Syrians flee to Turkey in 24 hours in the face of the fighting in Ras al-Ain.Derbassiye, northeast of Ras al-Ain, sits on the border with Turkey and is home to a small border crossing.Tall Tamr is located at a strategic crossroads. The road from provincial capital Hasakeh to Ras al-Ain meets the regions main east-west highway at the town.Government forces now control just two major cities in the province, Hasakeh itself and the far northeastern border town of Qamishli, the Observatory said.

Baghdad cancels $4.2b arms deal with Russia Posted: Cancellation of the deal, which had been announced when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki led a delegation to Russia last month, is a setback for Moscows attempts to firm up its slipping foothold in the Middle East and also throws into doubt efforts by Iraq to equip its armed forces.The deal was cancelled, Malikis spokesman Ali Mussawi said.When Maliki returned from his trip to Russia, he had some suspicions of corruption, so he decided to review the whole deal... There is an investigation going on, on this.Mussawi declined to say who specifically was being investigated, or if Iraq would begin new negotiations with Moscow.He also did not say exactly when the final decision was made to stop the deal.The Russian embassy in Baghdad was not available for comment.Had the deal been finalised and implemented, it would have made Russia Baghdads second-biggest arms supplier, after the United States.Russian media said the deliveries covered 30 Mi-28 attack helicopters and 42 Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems.Discussions were also said to be underway for Iraqs eventual acquisition of a large batch of MiG-29 fighters and helicopters, along with heavy weaponry.The statement announcing the deals said they were secretly discussed as early as April and revisited again in July and August during visits to Russia by Iraqi delegations that included acting Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi.The war ripping apart Syria threatens to unseat Moscows sole unwavering Arab ally, Bashar al-Assad, and has made it all the more crucial for Russia to forge other regional alliances.Russia also lost an estimated $4 billion in outstanding contracts in the NATO-led Libya offensive that toppled Moamer Kadhafi, a one-time friend of the Kremlin, and Moscow has been seeking to find a way to compensate for the loss ever since.Iraq, meanwhile, has sought to re-equip an army that, while regarded as a capable counter-insurgency force, lacks the ability to defend the countrys borders, airspace or maritime territory, according to officials.The deal with Russia was seen by diplomats in Baghdad as a way for Iraq to avoid becoming too dependent on American military equipment, and to hold more bargaining power in weapons negotiations with Washington, which remains Baghdads biggest arms supplier by far.It was also a short-term measure to boost Iraqs air defence capabilities in the years before a cadre of F-16 fighter jets are delivered by the United States.It is not a policy to go to Russia, Deputy National Security Adviser Safa Hussein told AFP in an interview last month. The backbone of our armaments is from the United States, but whenever it is required that we go with another country, we will go.The American programmes were a little slow, he added. We cant live with this gap in our defence capabilities for a long time, and the Americans understand this.

Doctors Without Borders serve in war-hit countries Posted: The countries where this humanitarian group of doctors is giving services include Sudan, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Now, they are on their first mission in the United States -- helping victims of Sandy, the megastorm that brought historic destruction to the New York metropolitan area.By last Saturday, medical teams were on the ground in the Rockaways, a hard-hit section of Queens, as well as Staten Island, New Jersey and Brooklyn.The doctors, nurses and medical students provide free medical evaluations to residents still without power, and help them fill and pick up prescriptions they might otherwise go without.While noting the environment was apples and oranges compared to many of the locations Doctors Without Borders has worked, media relations manager Michael Goldfarb said there were gaps in health care after Sandy that the organization could address.There are real needs here and were doing our best to try to meet them, he said. There are vulnerable people here.In Far Rockaway, where a crew of four doctors, one registered nurse, four medical students and several other volunteers were working from a makeshift clinic in the first-floor laundry room of an apartment building, police direct traffic because street lights have gone dark.There are National Guard trucks on the streets, and litter left behind where floodwaters receded.Gas rationing in New York City began Friday, with drivers only able to fill up on even or odd days depending on the number at the end of their license plate -- but that was of little use here.At abandoned gas stations, cones and caution tape alerted motorists that they should move on.Candice Humphrey, 28, lives in Brooklyn and never thought the first place she would work with Doctors Without Borders would be her own backyard.A nurse practitioner who started training with the organization in September, Humphrey is awaiting her first placement overseas.In Queens, she has provided home visit-type health care to residents in buildings such as one apartment complex that had no electricity and no running water above the fifth floor.Some residents on upper floors are essentially trapped, she said, particularly the elderly, and those with knee or back problems that make it impossible for them to walk up and down stairs.We are seeing a lot of people who are running out of their medications, Humphrey said. People with diabetes, type 2, HIV, high cholesterol, other chronic health conditions that are not getting the medications that they normally would be taking because their supply chain has been broken.Louis Nelson, the handyman for the building where the clinic is set up, has been walking up and down the stairs to fix broken drainpipes and other building issues and figured hed stop by to have his blood pressure checked.When New York University medical student Steffen Haider took his blood pressure and discovered it was high, Nelson said he would make an appointment with his doctor.Power is still out in apartments, and he said he had seen people lining up for the clinic.Im glad that my tenants here take advantage of it because they went through so much stress due to the hurricane, he said.Shauvan Nichols stopped by with her 9-year-old niece, Soraya, hoping to pick up medications for her elderly mother, who has diabetes and lives on the 15th floor of Nichols building across the street.The power is still out, and her mother cant go up and down all those stairs.For people like them, its good, because theyre not walking around, Nichols said. I think its really good that the guys came over here just to help them.Nikole Russell, 64, lives in the building where the clinic is set up and has been helping direct friends and neighbors to the clinic. She praised volunteers shed seen walk up 20 flights of stairs -- more than once -- to tend to patients on that floor.Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, we love you, we thank you, we appreciate what you have done for all the tenants, Russell said. And what youre about to do, because youve got to come back tomorrow, too.Indias car sales jumped by 23 percent in October -- the fastest rate in nearly two years -- industry data shows, driven by greater demand during the festival season and a slew of new model launches.Some 172,459 cars were sold in October, up 23.1 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to a Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) report.The rate we have seen in October is the best since January 2011 when we had 25 percent growth, SIAM director general Vishnu Mathur said.SIAM recently slashed its projected car sales growth for the financial year to March 2013 to between one and three percent from an earlier 10 to 12 percent forecast due to the economic slowdown, higher import tariffs and labour trouble at the countrys biggest passenger carmaker Maruti Suzuki.Mathur said seasonal factors helped spur the October rise -- the religious holidays are seen as an auspicious time to buy in India, along with a raft of new models rolling off assembly lines.But he said the real test of the auto sectors health -- regarded as an important barometer of overall economic performance -- will come once the festival season was over.India has been one of the worlds fastest-growing car markets in recent years.But it has been suffering a slowdown in demand as some buyers defer purchases due to expensive loans, high fuel costs and a downturn in economic growth that is making consumers wary of making big-ticket purchases.The next months will be very important (to the auto outlook), Mathur said, citing still high interest rates to counter stubbornly high inflation that has kept borrowing costs elevated as well as the overall economic weakness.Indias market outlook is of vital importance to global automakers from GM to Toyota, which have been steering to India and China with their billion-plus populations to boost sales and counter sluggish demand in developed nations.

Kuwait releases two members of ruling family Posted: They had been arrested over charges of criticism on the government, they said on Twitter Saturday.Sheikh Abdullah Salem Al-Sabah was released late on Friday, while Sheikh Nawaf Malek Al-Sabah was freed on Saturday afternoon.I asked them (police) to refer me to the public prosecution to defend myself from the horrifying accusations, but they insisted that I sign a pledge and they released me, late Friday, Sheikh Abdullah said on Twitter.Sheikh Nawafs lawyer Khaled al-Suwaifan said Saturday that his client was released but provided no details.Sheikh Abdullah said he was questioned by the secret service police on accusations of insulting Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and instigating against the regime.He is the grandson of the emirs half-brother, the late Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.The two young royals have written tweets sympathetic to the Kuwaiti opposition, which has been organising protests against an amendment to the electoral law seen as a ploy to produce a pro-government parliament in a snap December 1 general election.More than 150 protesters and 24 police have been injured in demonstrations since October 21 and the opposition plans another rally on Sunday.Young royal Sheikh Meshaal al-Malek Al-Sabah was detained for a few days in July for expressing political views deemed offensive.

10 killed in Karachi Saturday morning Posted: As the sun rose in Karachi the target-killing incidents started and four people, identified as Sadiq, Babar, Munawwar and Shahid, were shot dead in Pak colony area of the old Golimar near Rexer Bridge.Rescue teams reached the crime scene and transferred dead bodies to the civil hospital Karachi.Tension prevailed in the area after the incident. Police claimed that killings were related to a personal rivalry.The deceased belonged to the gang war, the police said.SP site Akram Abro said that the preliminary investigation tells that the dispute occurred between two groups and the four persons were called on gutter Bagicha and shot dead.Two people were killed and four were wounded in Quaidabad’s future colony when guns were taken out during a family dispute.A man was shot dead in Karimabad. Two other men were shot dead in different incidents of firing in Sohrab Goth and SherShah.A girl was killed in North Karachi.

Four more shot dead in Quetta Posted: According to police, the shooting took place in the provincial capital Quetta which is rich in oil and gas deposits but deeply impoverished and unstable.Six persons from the Shiite Hazara community were passing from the Jinnah road in a taxicab when they were targeted by two gunmen waiting for them at a traffic signal, Anwar Ali, a senior police official told AFP.Two persons were killed at the spot while one succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The gunmen fled the crime scene on a motorcycle, he said.Another local police official who reached the crime scene soon after the incident confirmed the toll.Baluchistan is rife with Islamist militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shiite Muslims and a regional insurgency waged by separatists.On Tuesday gunmen shot dead three Shiite Muslims from the Hazara community in a similar attack in Quetta which also left two others wounded.Violence has surged in the province this year and human rights activists have raised concerns about an increase in targeted killings.In September the advocacy group Human Rights Watch said more than 100 Shiites had been killed in sectarian attacks in Baluchistan this year.

Fear-hit Mingora silent on Malala Day Posted: As Pakistan marked Malala Day Saturday on a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls education, security fears in her hometown meant her schoolmates could not honour her in public.Taliban hitmen shot Malala Yousafzai on her school bus a month ago in Mingora in Pakistans northwestern Swat Valley in a cold-blooded murder attempt for the crime of campaigning for girls rights to go to school.Miraculously the 15-year-old survived and her courage has won the hearts of millions around the world, prompting the UN to declare Saturday a global day of action for her.People around the world are expected to hold vigils and demonstrations honouring Malala and calling for the 32 million girls worldwide who are denied education to be allowed to go to school.Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf saluted Malalas courage and urged his countrymen to stand against the extremist mindset that led to her attack.The outpouring of sympathy for Malala and abhorrence over the cowardly act demonstrate the determination of the Pakistani society not to allow a handful of radicalised elements to dictate their agenda, he said.But in Mingora, the threat of further Taliban reprisals casts a fearful shadow, and students at Malalas Khushal Public School were forced to honour her in private.We held a special prayer for Malala today in our school assembly and also lit candles, school principal Mariam Khalid told AFP.We did not organise any open event because our school and its students still face a security threat.Though their bid to kill Malala failed, the Taliban have said they will attack any woman who stands against them and fears are so great that Khalid said even speaking to the media could put students lives in danger.Malala rose to prominence with a blog for the BBC charting life in Swat under the Taliban, whose bloody two-year reign of terror supposedly came to an end with an army operation in 2009.Despite the dangers, some children in Mingora were determined to speak out and pledged to follow Malalas brave example.Malala is a good friend of mine. She is brave and has honour and whoever attacked her did a terrible thing, Asma Khan, 12, a student in Saroosh Academy, close to Malalas school told AFP.After the attack on her and her injuries, we have now more courage to study and now we will fulfil her mission to spread education everywhere.Khans schoolmate Gul Para, 12, added: Malala is the daughter of the nation and we are proud of her.She has stood by us and for our education up to now and now it is time that we should stand by her and complete her mission.Nearly 100,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Malala to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and on Friday UN special education envoy Gordon Brown handed a separate million-strong petition in support of Malala to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

PML-N follows Talibans school of thought: Kaira Posted: On the other hand, Malala Yousufzai was symbolic of the school of thought followed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto, adding that, said federal information minister.Speaking at a press conference in Karachi, Kaira said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif had also been accused of taking funds from Osama bin Laden.The minister added that in the wake of the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Asghar Khan case, the government elected as a result of the 1990 elections had lost its legal standing.He said both governments headed by Benazir Bhutto were overthrown through bogus mandate.Kaira added that advertising campaigns using fake names had also been run against the PPP.The minister added that Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was used during the campaign for the creation of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) and was later discarded in order to bring in Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.

Twin suicide bombs kill 20 soldiers in southern Syria Posted: Twin suicide bombings at a military officers club in the southern Syrian city of Daraa killed at least 20 soldiers on Saturday and possibly many more, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The attacks targeted the back garden of the club, the Britain-based Observatorys director, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.The two bombings were the result of suicide attacks, carried out by two men who drove vehicles loaded with explosives into the garden a few minutes apart, said Abdel Rahman, who relies on a network of activists and medics on the ground.State news agency SANA reported that two car bomb attacks had hit the city, causing casualties and significant damage, but provided no further details.A third explosion later hit another military post in the city, but did not cause any casualties, the Observatory said. The cause of the third explosion was not immediately known.Syrian rebels have increasingly turned to suicide attacks and car bombs in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad, with jihadist groups such as the Al-Nusra Front often claiming responsibility.Daraa province on Syrias southern border with Jordan is considered the cradle of the countrys nearly 20-month uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Del Piero returns to lineup in Sydney FC loss Posted: Substitute midfielder Andrew Nabbout scored his second goal of the match a minute into added time to give Melbourne Victory a 3-2 comeback win over Sydney FC, spoiling Alessandro Del Pieros return to the starting lineup a day after the former Italy and Juventus stars 38th birthday.The 19-year-old Nabbout also scored in the 79th minute Saturday and Archie Thompson in the 86th to help the Victory overcome a 2-0 deficit. Panamanian striker Yairo Yau, converting a pass from Del Piero in the 14th minute, and Dutch defender Pascal Bosschaart, in the 48th, had given Sydney a 2-0 lead.Del Piero missed last weeks match due to tightness in both hamstrings, a 7-2 loss to the Central Coast Mariners. On Saturday, Del Piero was substituted after 66 minutes.

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