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• Multan: 5 killed as oil tanker, military vehicle collision
• New Federal Cabinet to take oath today
• Nawaz convenes energy conference
• New Palestinian government to be unveiled today: PM
• US soldier pleads guilty in Afghan massacre
• Yemen launches major offensive against Al Qaeda
• Kerry says US, Venezuela on track to better ties
• Sharapova rallies past Jankovic at French Open
• Ballack's farewell draws a crowd of 45,000
• Athletics: Injured Ennis Hill out of Edinburgh meet
• Oil rises as US supplies of oil, gasoline drop
• Curiosity rover to head toward Mars mountain soon
• Scientists see Achilies heel for childhood malaria
• South Africa face India in Champions Trophy opener today
• England get consolation win

Multan: 5 killed as oil tanker, military vehicle collision Posted: LAHORE (Dunya News) – According to details, the military vehicle was on its way to Kot Addu when an oil tanker collided with it at the Sher Shah Road near Multan, critically injuring five soldiers including Muhammad Hafeez, Gul Tasib and Allah Rakha.The injured were rushed to CMH Multan where all of them died of their wounds. Police have arrested oil tanker driver Adnan and conductor Irfan and registered a case at the Muzaffarabad Police Station.

New Federal Cabinet to take oath today Posted: ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – President Asif Ali Zardari will administer the oath to the new ministers. Chaudhry Nisar, Khawaja Asif, Ishaq Dar, Saad Rafiq, Ahsan Iqbal, Murtaza Jatoi, Pervez Rasheed, Pir Sadar-ud-Din Shah Rashdi and Abdul Qadir Baloch are among the new federal cabinet.According to sources, Chaudhry Nisar will get Interior Minister portfolio, Khawaja Asif will get Energy ministry, Ahsan Iqbal will be appointed Science and Technology ministry, Ishaq Dar will get Finance Minister portfolio while Pervez Rasheed will be appointed Minister of Information.

Nawaz convenes energy conference Posted: LAHORE (Dunya News) – Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has called an energy conference at the State Guest House in Lahore today. Prime Minister will reach Lahore in the afternoon. He has summoned experts and party leaders to discuss issues relating to the ongoing energy crisis and ways of dealing with the situation at the conference.According to sources, key decisions about power outages are also expected during the energy conference.

New Palestinian government to be unveiled today: PM Posted: RAMALLAH (AFP) - Incoming Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said he would announce the composition of his government on Thursday evening and reiterated that his cabinet would govern only for a transitional period.Hamdallah also said that most ministers in the existing cabinet would retain their posts.Consultations are in the final stage and hopefully we will announce the new government on Thursday evening, Hamdallah told Voice of Palestine radio on Wednesday.We agreed with the president that most ministers would remain in place, said Hamdallah, who was appointed on Sunday by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.He succeeds Salam Fayyad, who resigned in mid April after months of difficult relations with Abbas, and whose term as caretaker prime minister ended on Sunday night.Hamdallah reiterated that his government would rule only for a transitional period until formation of a unity government comprising Abbass Fatah faction and the rival Hamas movement.Such a coalition is laid out in as-yet unfulfilled unity agreements signed in Cairo in 2011 and in Doha the following year.At a meeting in Cairo on May 14, Abbas and Hamas set a three-month timeframe to implement key provisions of the 2011 agreement.Lets be optimists and hope that we can achieve a unity government on 14 August, and I will do everything in my power to do so, Hamdallah said.I ask all Palestinian factions to work together to end this sad situation of division.The (new) government will not necessarily have the same policy as the previous one, he said, adding that after unveiling it he would hold a press conference on its policy on all issues concerning Palestinian citizens.

US soldier pleads guilty in Afghan massacre Posted: JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD (AP) - The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year has pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.Staff Sgt. Robert Bales entered the plea Wednesday in a military courtroom to multiple counts of premeditated murder and other charges.A military judge will question the soldier about what happened before deciding whether to accept the plea.Bales was charged in the March 2012 attacks on two villages near the remote base in southern Afghanistan where he was posted. Most of the victims were women and children, and some of the bodies were burned.Bales attorney, John Henry Browne, has said he expects his client to admit to very specific facts about the killings at the hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.

Yemen launches major offensive against Al Qaeda Posted: SANAA (AP) - Thousands of Yemeni troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched an offensive on Wednesday in a southern province to drive Al Qaeda militants from the area, killing at least seven suspected militants, the Defense Ministry said.The unusually large operation followed efforts by Yemens new government to force remaining Al Qaeda militants out of their former strongholds captured during a year of political turmoil in Yemen that ended with the replacement of its longtime president early last year.The operation in Hadramawt began at dawn and involved more than 10,000 troops, officials said. Attack helicopters and jet fighters provided air support. The fighting was taking place in farmland, and civilians have been instructed to stay indoors.The successful operation resulted in killing of seven leaders and members of the terrorist Al Qaeda group and injury of large number of them, in addition to destruction of weapon caches and takeover of equipment, explosives and motorcycles used in cowardly assassinations, a DefenseMinistry statement said. It said one military commander was killed and five others wounded.Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi praised the military offensive, describing it as heroic. The battle against terrorism will be decisive, he pledged.The United States sees Al Qaeda branch in Yemen as among the worlds most active in the terror network. Its fighters overran large swaths of southern Yemen in 2001 but they have been pushed back with U.S. help.Yemen has been torn by wars on several fronts. In addition to Al Qaeda in the south, almost a decade ago Shiite Yemenis began a rebellion in the northern city of Saada, complaining of marginalization.Thousands were killed on both sides during that uprising.The Shiite rebels are often referred to as Hawthis after their spiritual leader, cleric Hussein Badr Eddin al-Hawthi, who led the 2004 uprising and was killed later that year. His body was first buried in undisclosed location, and Hadi ordered the body handed over to the family last month.On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Yemenis attended the funeral for al-Hawthi, joined by a Cabinet minister as a good will gesture to the former rebels by the new leadership.Leading political parties differ in their views to the former Shiite rebel group. The Socialist Party sent the Hawthis a condolence message, calling al-Hawthi a martyr. The Islamist Reform party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, accused them of receiving funds from Iran.The former rebels are taking part in the countrys six-month National Dialogue, which aims at getting all Yemens rival groups, political parties, religious and tribal leaders together to discuss a new political system for the country before drafting a constitution.

Kerry says US, Venezuela on track to better ties Posted: ANTIGUA (AP) - The United States and Venezuela have agreed to begin a high-level dialogue with the aim of restoring ambassador-level relations and ending more than a decade of steadily deteriorating ties. That from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.On his first trip to Latin America since taking office and after meeting Venezuelas foreign minister in the first cabinet-level discussion between the two nations in several years, Kerry said Wednesday he was hopeful that better relations with Venezuala.The meeting, which came at Venezuelas request, took place just hours after Venezuela released from prison an American filmmaker who had been jailed on espionage charges, removing an immediate irritant in the relationship.

Sharapova rallies past Jankovic at French Open Posted: PARIS (AP) - Maria Sharapova shrugged off losing the first six games and swept the last four to reach the French Open semifinals on Wednesday.The defending champion overcame a miserable start in the quarterfinals to beat Jelena Jankovic, 0-6, 6-4, 6-3.It was the first victory of Sharapovas career after losing an opening set 6-0.Her opponent on Thursday will be two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka, who reached her first Roland Garros semifinal by beating Maria Kirilenko 7-6 (3), 6-2.Sharapova earned her first Roland Garros title a year ago to complete a career Grand Slam. She has won 12 matches in a row at the French Open.The No. 2-seeded Sharapova against No. 3 Azarenka offers the prospect of a deafening semifinal between the two most notorious grunters in tennis. Azarenka is 7-5 against Sharapova.Obviously it only gets tougher from here, Sharapova said, but Im really happy Im at this stage again.The warmest weather of the tournament greeted the quarterfinalists, and Jankovic quickly had Sharapova sweating. In the first set the Russian repeatedly missed the lines by narrow margins or clipped the net cord, and the match was 35 minutes old before she won a game and only then because Jankovic double-faulted on break point.Jankovic won 27 points in the first set, 20 on unforced errors by her opponent.I still felt like I was in the match, Sharapova said. And I was.She then began to find the range while hitting even harder than before, while Jankovic did her best to withstand the barrage. In contrast with Sharapovas metronomic shrieking, Jankovic went about her business in silence until she started muttering to herself as her lead disappeared.It was a big fight, Jankovic said. It was great tennis out there. We battled.Sharapova earned the first break of the final set to take her first lead at 4-3. Toward the end the rallies became longer, and she won the majority, often by hitting shots at improbable angles.Twice Sharapova yanked lunging backhand returns cross-court for winners. She finished off another point with a forehand struck so violently her necklace flew into her face.When Jankovics final shot sailed wide, Sharapova responded with a slack-jawed smile, as though she couldnt quite believe her comeback. She had dropped a first set 6-0 five other times in her career and went on to lose each match.Most of her results this year have been less stressful. Shes 35-4, with all but four of those matches decided in straight sets.Azarenka is 27-2 and enjoying her best run in eight appearances at Roland Garros.She needed 76 minutes to take the grueling first set against Kirilenko, and the Belarusian improved her record this year in tiebreakers to 4-0. The second set went more quickly, with Azarenka losing only six points in four service games.Azarenka advanced to the semifinals at her fourth consecutive major event.

Ballack's farewell draws a crowd of 45,000 Posted: LEIPZIG (AP) - Former Germany captain Michael Ballack bid goodbye to football on Wednesday, scoring three goals before a crowd of 45,000 in a charity match that was nearly called off because of flooding in eastern Germany.Ballack scored twice for his friends of Ballack team and then scored one more for a world selection coached by Jose Mourinho.Ballack, who changed sides at halftime, played for Mourinho at Chelsea.The world selection won 4-3.The teams included the likes of Didier Drogba, retired Formula One great Michael Schumacher, Lothar Matthaeus, Andriy Shevchenko and Philipp Lahm.

Athletics: Injured Ennis Hill out of Edinburgh meet Posted: LONDON (AFP) - Newly married Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill revealed on Wednesday she has had to delay her start to the season due to an Achilles injury.The 27-year-old British athlete, who won gold at last years London Olympics, had been due to compete in the Womens Athletic League Meeting in Edinburgh.Obviously I am really disappointed as I was really looking forward to getting my season under way on Saturday, but I am not going to take any risks, she told the website Give Me Sport.I have been told if I rest this now I should be able to resume my competitions as soon as possible -- hopefully next week.I am sorry to all the people in Edinburgh who planned to come and support me alongside the other athletes, but hope I can compete there another time.It promises to be a really good meeting and I wish all the other athletes good luck with their performances.Ennis-Hill had been scheduled to compete in the hurdles, javelin and long jump in what would have been her first outdoor appearance of the season, but she has withdrawn on the advice of the UK Athletics medical team.Her next scheduled event is the Diamond League meet in Oslo on June 13.

Oil rises as US supplies of oil, gasoline drop Posted: NEW YORK (AP) - The price of oil rose Wednesday as a big drop in U.S. oil supplies offset concerns about a plunge in the stock market.Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 43 cents to close at $93.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.The price rose as high as $94.48 a barrel immediately after the Energy Department said U.S. crude oil inventories shrank by 6.3 million barrels in the week ended May 31, thanks to a sharp drop in imports. Analysts expected a drop of 1 million barrels. Gasoline supplies also fell, by 400,000 barrels, while analysts were looking for an increase.Tighter supplies tend to push oil prices higher.Oil gave back some gains in the afternoon as the stock market slumped after some subpar U.S. economic news. The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 22 points, or 1.4 percent, to 1,608. But the supply report gave oil traders enough cover to hold on to some gains.A tug of war appears to be playing out between some weakening equities and some bullish news on the fundamental oil front, wrote Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates.In other markets, Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, fell 20 cents to finish at $103.04 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

Curiosity rover to head toward Mars mountain soon Posted: LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ten months after landing on Mars, the NASA rover Curiosity is finally about to pack up and head toward a mountain.Discoveries and longer-than-expected scientific studies delayed the long-awaited drive to Mount Sharp, where scientists are anxious to examine the rock layers.Mission scientists said Wednesday the six-wheel rover should start the trek to the mountain in a few weeks after making three quick observations of nearby rocks. The 5-mile (8-kilometer) journey is expected to take 10 months to a year with stops along the way.Since touching down near the Martian equator last year, Curiosity has discovered an ancient streambed and found evidence of a habitable environment long ago. It has yet to turn up signs of complex organic molecules that are fundamental to all living things.

Scientists see Achilies heel for childhood malaria Posted: PARIS (AFP) - European researchers on Wednesday said they had identified how the malaria parasite sticks to blood vessels, a finding that opens up new targets for drugs to protect children who are the biggest victims of the disease.Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, grows in red blood cells.It adheres to the wall of blood vessels to avoid being swept by the bloodstream down to the spleen, where it would otherwise be destroyed.The binding trick has been known for more than a century, but how it is done has remained unclear.A first insight came last year, when a lab team pointed the finger at a protein on the parasite called PfEMP1.The new study, published in the journal Nature, has taken things further by looking for the docking point where PfEMP1 latches a hold on the blood-vessel lining.A team led by Louise Turner at the University of Copenhagen screened 2,500 profiles, but only one provided a fit: a receptor called endothelial protein C, or EPCR.To check whether the hunch was right, the researchers looked at parasites taken from 15 children in Tanzania who had fallen ill with severe malaria, and confirmed the association with EPCR.It was true eureka moment, said fellow researcher Thomas Lavstsen, in a press release issued by the university.Under normal conditions, ECPR plays a crucial role in regulating blood clotting inflammation, cell death and the permeability of blood vessels.The discovery that parasites bind and interfere with this receptors normal function may help us explain why severe symptoms of malaria develop.The new findings will help pharmaceutical engineers target the parasites binding mechanism, said Matthew Higgins of Oxford University.We want to know exactly which bits of the parasite protein are needed to bind to the receptor in the blood vessel wall. Then we can aim to design vaccines to drugs to prevent this binding.In 2010, an estimated 219 million people were infected with the disease and some 660,000 died, most of them African children aged under five, the UNs World Health Organisation (WHO) said last December.A study published in the Lancet in February 2012 said the global death toll was likelier to be around 1.2 million a year.

South Africa face India in Champions Trophy opener today Posted: CARDIFF (AFP) - Gary Kirsten begins his final stint as South Africas coach against former team India in the Champions Trophy opener in Cardiff on Thursday.The last time the two teams played a one-day international, during the 2011 World Cup, Kirsten was on the other side as Indias coach, plotting their eventual title triumph on home soil.Former South African opener Kirsten left India after the World Cup to take up the job with his home country, leading Graeme Smiths side to the top of the world rankings in Test cricket.The final edition of the Champions Trophy will be the popular 45-year-olds last assignment with South Africa, before he makes away for his deputy Russell Domingo in order to devote time to his family.South Africas one-day captain, AB de Villiers, hoped his side, often ridiculed as chokers for their failure to win major titles, will give the coach a fitting farewell by winning the eight-nation tournament.It would be nice to give him a good farewell, said de Villiers. Hes been a great coach to us. Weve learnt a lot from him in the few years that hes been with us.Hes more like a mentor on the team. I find it funny calling him coach because no one calls him coach. Hes almost like one of our friends and a mentor kind of guy.Kirsten will be up against an almost new-look Indian squad with just three players -- skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina -- having played in the World Cup final against Sri Lanka in Mumbai two years ago.India go into the tournament as the top-ranked one-day side, but have lost five of their last seven internationals against South Africa, including a three-wicket defeat in the World Cup in Nagpur.The Proteas are often regarded as the best side never to have won crickets showpiece, the 50-over World Cup, or the World Twenty20, and de Villiers was desperate to set the record straight.We represent a very proud cricketing nation, and wed like to make them proud in this tournament.But South Africas prospects of making a winning start could be hampered if star fast bowler Dale Steyn is ruled out with the side strain that meant he only bowled five overs in a warm-up match against Pakistan.The Proteas have misfired so often in major events that few can recall their victory in the inaugural ICC knockout tournament in Bangladesh in 1998, an event that later became the Champions Trophy.Dhonis men, meanwhile, will look to draw millions of their fans back to on-field cricket issues following the unsavoury spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League that has hogged the media spotlight for the past fortnight.Three IPL players have been arrested, while the powerful Indian cricket chief Narayanswamy Srinivasan stepped down temporarily on Sunday after his son-in-law was also accused of spot-fixing.The Indian team got a boost ahead of the tournament when it received a shield and a cheque of $175,000 from the International Cricket Council for being the top-ranked one-day side at the annual cut-off date of April 1.I am very proud of this huge achievement, Dhoni said. Being number one brings with it a certain respect for the game itself and for the way in which we play the game and conduct ourselves on the field.And there was a fresh boost for India when they hammered Champions Trophy-holders Australia by 243 runs in a warm-up match in Cardiff on Tuesday.Australia were bowled out for just 65 after India, who were 55 for five themselves, saw Dinesh Karthik (146 not out) and Dhoni (91) take them to 308 for six.But India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin warned against reading too much into the extraordinary result.Its a practice game and it is good to get as much as you can out of it from our point of view rather than looking at what the result is, he said. The day after tomorrow (Thursday) this does not matter and we will have to start again.

England get consolation win Posted: NOTTINGHAM (Agencies) - Jos Buttlers astonishing hitting transformed Englands fortunes to help set up a 34-run victory over New Zealand in the third and final NatWest Series match at Trent Bridge.England struggled to 211 for five after 46 overs, Ian Bell top-scoring with 82. But after Buttlers unbeaten 47 from just 16 balls and Eoin Morgans 49 had turned that into 287 for six, they held on to the winning momentum.New Zealand raced to 69 for one in the 10th over of their reply, and Ross Taylor (71) kept Kiwi hopes alive until he was ninth out in the 43rd over - brilliantly caught, principally by Steven Finn who ferried an attempt at a third successive six off James Tredwell (three for 51) safely away from the boundary rope and into the hands of Tim Bresnan.Stuart Broad had broken a hectic opening stand when Luke Ronchi mistimed a pull to mid-on. But it was Tredwells breakthrough - with the precious wicket of Martin Guptill - which began the consolidation of Buttlers outstanding performance. The England wicketkeeper-batsman shared a stand of 62 with Morgan in only 22 balls.Mitchell McClenaghan, previously so successful in stifling England, was sufficiently rattled to produce a 10-ball over including two wides and two no-balls. Buttler did not spare Tim Southee either, and had he managed his fourth six from the final ball of the innings, he would have recorded the fastest 50 in ODI history.His innings was a startling contrast with what had gone before. Alastair Cook was gone for a duck in the third over, lbw on the back foot to McClenaghan (three for 54), after England had been put in. The return of McClenaghan did for Jonathan Trott, aiming one of his trademark clips to leg but lbw to a hint of inswing from the left-armer.Bell then shared Englands highest partnership of the series - 80 with Joe Root - until the young Yorkshireman was run out. Bell was rightly furious with himself when he clubbed McClenaghan low to mid-off just when it seemed England needed him to underpin the rest of the innings.Instead, Morgan and Ravi Bopara were thrown together without a run between them at the start of the mandatory powerplay. Bopara aimed a big hit at part-time off-spinner Kane Williamson but was caught at deep midwicket - and it turned out, thanks to Buttler, to have been absolutely the best thing he could have done.The Kiwis faced a significant run chase after all and once Guptill was second out, a classic off-spin dismissal bowled through the gate by Tredwell, England were always favourites. Cook surprisingly replaced Tredwell with Root, who got Williamson - lbw pulling.Colin Munro was caught-behind off Bresnans first ball and Tredwell returned to have Brendon McCullum edging an attempted cut to Buttler. At 111 for five, New Zealands batting resources were already compromised, and although Taylor refused to give up, he could not quite take the contest to the wire as the tourists were eventually all out in 46.3 overs.

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