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• Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 20
• Iran opposes Israel-Palestinian peace talks
• Bombs, shootings kill 13 in Iraq
• 3 policemen shot to death in Egypt's Sinai
• Philippe becomes king of Belgium
• 3 Iranian mountaineers missing in Pakistan
• Golf: Phil Mickelson wins Pritish Open
• Froome rides to victory in 100th Tour de France
• Chelsea beat Malaysia All Stars 4-1
• MotoGP leader Marquez wins US Grand Prix
• Misbah stars as Pakistan beat Windies in 4th ODI
• Clarke says batting performance was 'unacceptable'
• Arthur rues 'deliberate campaign' against him
• Karachi: Two ANP activists killed as blast hits party office
• Windies 261-7, Samuels 106 not out

Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 20 Posted: AMMAN (AP) - Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 20 civilians, activist groups said.The mortar shells struck the town of Ariha, which is held mostly by opposition fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, two opposition groups tracking the violence in Syria, said at least 20 people were killed including two children and two women. It was not immediately clear what triggered the shelling.Also Sunday, state media said government forces killed nearly 50 rebels in an ambush near Damascus.Separately, Kurdish rebels freed the local commander of an al-Qaida-linked group in a town near Syrias northern border with Turkey in return for 300 Kurdish civilians detained by the group, as part of an agreement to end rebel infighting that erupted a day earlier in the region.The commander in the town of Tal Abyad, who is known as Abu Musaab, was captured during intense fighting between the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and Kurdish militants late Saturday, the Observatory said. The Islamic fighters retaliated by rounding up civilians believed to be relatives of the Kurdish fighters to hold as bargaining chips.Infighting between al-Qaida militants and more mainstream Syrian rebels, as well as between Kurds and Arabs, has grown more common in Syria in recent weeks part of a power struggle that is undermining their efforts to topple President Bashar Assad.Kurdish gunmen have been fighting to expel al-Qaida militants many of whom are foreign fighters from the northeastern province of Hassakeh over the past week. More than 60 fighters have been killed from both sides, according to activists.On Saturday evening, the fighting spread to Tal Abyad, which is located in neighboring Raqqa province near the Turkish border.The inter-rebel clashes, along with the efforts by extremist foreign fighters to impose their strict interpretation of Islam in areas they control, are chipping away at the oppositions popularity at a time when the Assad regime is making significant advances on the ground.In recent weeks, Assads troops have seized the momentum in the civil war, now in its third year. His forces have been on offensive against rebels on several fronts, including in the north.Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said Abu Musaab was seized by Kurdish fighters late Saturday during clashes between the two sides. That prompted the al-Qaida militants to arrest hundreds of Kurdish residents in retaliation. He said Kurdish rebels freed Abu Musaab Sunday following mediation for a cease-fire and an agreement that the militants would release 300 civilian Kurds in exchange. The fighting subsided Sunday.Kurds, the largest ethnic minority in Syria, make up more than 10 percent of the countrys 23 million people. Their loyalties in the conflict are split between the two sides. Most Kurds live in the poor northeastern regions of Hassakeh and Qamishli, wedged in between the borders of Turkey and Iraq. Damascus and Aleppo also have several predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods.More than 93,000 people have been killed since the Syria uprising started in March 2011, according to the United Nations. It escalated into a civil war after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown.

Iran opposes Israel-Palestinian peace talks Posted: TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Sunday voiced opposition to a US-mediated resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, predicting the Jewish state would never agree to withdraw from occupied Arab lands.Tehran along with Palestinian groups expresses its opposition to the proposed plan and its certain that the occupying Zionist regime will utterly not agree to withdraw from the occupied lands, foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by Iranian media.Past experience shows that the occupying Zionist regime is basically not ready to pay the price for peace since war mongering and occupation lie at its very core, he added.US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators had agreed to meet to prepare a resumption of direct peace talks, stalled since 2010. The exact basis for Kerrys plan remains unknown.The last round of direct talks between the two sides nearly three years ago broke down over the issue of Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned ministers on Sunday that renewed peace talks with the Palestinians would be tough, and he said any draft treaty would be put to a referendum.Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has repeatedly stressed that his demands for a freeze to Israeli settlement building and the release of prisoners held by Israel must be met before talks can resume.The Iran-backed Islamist movement Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip rejected a return to talks, saying Abbas had no legitimate right to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian people.Iran rules out a two-state solution and has its own vision of how to resolve the six-decade-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.The end of occupation ... self-determination for the Palestinians, the return of all refugees to their ancestral land, and the creation of an integrated Palestine with Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital, Araqchi reiterated.

Bombs, shootings kill 13 in Iraq Posted: BAGHDAD (AP) - Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 13 people on Sunday, as the death toll from a coordinated wave of late-night car bombings and other attacks the day before jumped past 70, authorities said.The explosions were the latest in a relentless surge in bloodshed that has rocked Iraq since the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on July 10. They follow months of surging violence across the country that is raising fears of a return to the widespread sectarian killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.The deadliest of Sundays attacks came in the afternoon, when gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by the Kurdish security forces known as peshmerga near Kirkuk, killing five peshmerga fighters.The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad.Saturday nights blasts went off after the sundown iftar meal that breaks the daily Ramadan fast. Streets during the holy month are often filled with people out shopping and relaxing in cafes in the evenings, suggesting the attackers aimed to hit as many civilians as possible.What crime have those innocent people committed? asked Kadim Mohsen, who was surveying the damage in the central neighborhood of Karrada.Several storefronts were wrecked by the force of an explosion there, and broken watermelons and sandals littered the street.Who will compensate owners of those shops? he asked. We see explosions every day. We blame the army and police.As the scale of the carnage became clearer early Sunday, police reported that a total of 12 car bombs went off in Baghdad late Saturday. They said the blasts and a shooting in the same area as one of the explosions killed 57, including some who died in the hospital overnight. More than 125 were reported wounded.Those attacks and others around Iraq on Saturday killed a total of 71, according to police and hospital officials.That made for the countrys deadliest day since May 17, when a series of explosions in Sunni areas in and around Baghdad killed at least 76 people.There has been no claim of responsibility for the latest attacks, although coordinated bombings against Shiites are a favorite tactic of al-Qaidas Iraq branch.Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi urged security forces not to give up their fight against violent extremists, while demanding that they do more to prevent security breaches. Al-Nujaifi is a Sunni who is frequently critical of the Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.We strongly condemn the evil and criminal attacks that targeted our people, he said. These attacks are part of heinous efforts that aim to ignite unrest and sectarian strife.Al-Maliki ordered a shake-up among the military brass in May in the wake of a series of deadly attacks, but the move appears to have done little to slow the pace of the killing.The violence raged on Sunday.In addition to the attack in Kirkuk, police said a bomb exploded in a fish market in the town of Taji, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad. Police and hospital officials said that blast killed four and wounded 15.Another bomb exploded outside the house of an anti-al-Qaida Sunni militia leader in the town of Basmaiya, killing two and wounding four. The town is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of the Iraqi capital.Also, gunmen sprayed a security checkpoint in the restive city of Mosul in the north, killing two soldiers.

3 policemen shot to death in Egypt's Sinai Posted: CAIRO (AP) - An Egyptian security official says snipers have killed three policemen in the volatile Sinai Peninsula.The official says the coordinated attacks killed police guarding an administrative building, a TV station and a police station in El-Arish, the main city in northern Sinai near the border with Gaza and Israel.The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.Islamic militants, long active in the area, have intensified their attacks against security forces since the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on July 3. The almost daily attacks have targeted the El-Arish airport, checkpoints and police stations.At least 13 policemen have been killed in Sinai since then.

Philippe becomes king of Belgium Posted: BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgians shouted Long live the king Sunday to welcome their new monarch to the throne on a sunny national holiday. But several legislators from northern Flanders boycotted King Philippe Is coronation, highlighting longstanding feuding between the nations Dutch-speaking Flemings and Francophones the biggest challenge the new monarch will face.In his first speech as king shortly after his father King Albert II abdicated, Philippe made no attempt to paper over those cracks, instead casting the countrys division between its 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings and 4.5 million Francophones as one of its strengths.The wealth of our nation and our institutions consists in turning our diversity into a strength, he said after taking his oath of office at the countrys parliament.The ceremony capped a day of transition which started when Philippes father, the 79-year-old Albert, signed away his rights as the kingdoms largely ceremonial ruler at the royal palace in the presence of Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, who holds the political power in this 183-year-old parliamentary democracy.Less than two hours later, the nation got its seventh king when Philippe, 53, pledged to abide by Belgiums laws and constitution.While crowds of well-wishers cheered the royal familys every move Sunday, far from everybody in Belgium was happy with the new king.One Flemish separatist group, the Flemish Interest party, boycotted the parliamentary ceremony, while the legislatures biggest party, the N-VA New Flemish Alliance, sent only a limited delegation.We are full-blooded democrats and the purest form of democracy is the republic, said Jan Jambon, the parliamentary leader of the alliance, which has surged to become the main opposition party seeking Flemish independence through democratic transition. It wants the new king not to have any role in coalition negotiations to form a new government, not be head of the armed forces and not sign any laws.The small N-VA delegation highlighted one of the biggest challenges Philippe will face in his reign how to remain relevant as a unitary symbol in a nation ever more drifting apart between the prosperous northern Flemings and the economically struggling southern Francophones.Briefly, at least, the differences took a back seat Sunday as the new royal couple appeared on the palaces balcony cheered by some 10,000 well-wishers braving the relentless sun and 30C (86F) heat.Flanked by huge bouquets of white roses, lilies and gerbera, King Philippe kissed new Queen Mathildes hand and got a peck on the cheek in return.President Barack Obama sent the new king congratulations.The president also sends his heartfelt appreciation to King Albert II for his warmth, service, and leadership as he steps down after nearly 20 years, the U.S. government statement said. Belgium is a valued friend of the United States, and the president looks forward to continuing to deepen this bond in the years to come.Unlike a disturbance during the oath-taking by King Albert II 20 years ago, when one legislator shouted Long live the European Republic, Sundays ceremony in the packed legislature went off without a hitch, with Albert and Philippes wife, Queen Mathilde, looking on as he confidently took the oath.Philippe has long been contested as a worthy successor of Albert, but after years of wooden and timid public performances, the silver-haired, bespectacled monarch came over as poised on the day he had been groomed for all of his adult life.Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy, Albert said as he signed away his rights as the kingdoms largely ceremonial ruler at the royal palace.

3 Iranian mountaineers missing in Pakistan Posted: ISLAMABAD (AP) - The head of a mountaineering club says rescuers have called off their search for three Iranian mountain climbers who went missing in northern Pakistan.Manzoor Hussain, president of Pakistans Alpine Club, said Sunday his outfit was coordinating the expedition, and that the three Iranians successfully ascended the 8,051-meter (26,414-foot) summit of Broad Peak.He says the men sent a call for help last Tuesday while descending the peak, saying they were exhausted and had run out of food.Hussain says rescue teams were dispatched, but failed to find them. A helicopter search Sunday has been called off.He says the three men were last in touch with their homeland via satellite phone on Saturday.

Golf: Phil Mickelson wins Pritish Open Posted: GULLANE (AP) - Instead of another excruciating loss in a major championship, Phil Mickelson got a chance to celebrate early.A brilliant closing round at challenging Muirfield made it possible.Mickelson won the claret jug for the first time and his fifth major championship with a 5-under 66 on Sunday, matching the best round of the tournament on a day when the other contenders including Tiger Woods faded away.Lefty birdied four of the last six holes, winning by three strokes and emphatically erasing the memory of all those close calls that didnt go his way the latest one just last month when he was runner-up at the U.S. Open for a staggering sixth time.This is such an accomplishment for me, Mickelson said. I never knew if Id be able to develop the game and the shots to play links golf effectively.To play what is arguably the best round of my career, to putt the way I putted, to shoot the round of my life, it just feels amazing to win the claret jug.Overall, Mickelson has eight runner-up finishes in the majors, including one at golfs oldest major championship just two years ago.Now, at age 43, hes finally got his name on the claret jug, three-fourths of the way along to a career Grand Slam and assuring hell go down as one of the greats of the game.I putted soooo good, Mickelson said.He began his amazing finish with a 8-footer for birdie at the 13th, getting his score back to even par and giving him a score that he thought would be in the mix at the end if he simply parred out.Mickelson did much better than that, rolling in a 20-footer at the 14th for another birdie, reaching the green in two at the par-5 17th to set up yet another birdie, and closing it with a 10-footer on the final hole for a 3-under 281 total.Even though there were still four groups still on the course, Mickelson knew he had done more than enough to win. He pumped his fists and let out a yell. His caddie burst into tears. His wife and kids celebrated just off the green.Lee Westwood began the day with a two-stroke lead but was again denied his first major title. He struggled to a 75 that left him four shots back, and Mickelsons victory was assured when Westwood didnt come close to making the eagle he needed on the 17th. Woods was two shots out at the start but a 74 left him five shots behind the winner.Mickelson was the only player to break par over four days at a baked-out course that bedeviled the worlds best golfers.Everyone but Mickelson, that is. Henrik Stenson was the runner-up at 284. Ian Poulter and Adam Scott finished another shot back.Phil mustve played really well, Westwood said. Five-under par is a good round of golf this afternoon.

Froome rides to victory in 100th Tour de France Posted: PARIS (AP) - Chris Froome won the 100th Tour de France on Sunday, having dominated rivals over three weeks on the road and adroitly dealt with doping suspicions off it.In two years, Britain has now had two different winners: Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and then Froome, a cooler, calmer, more understated but no less determined character than his Sky teammate with famous sideburns.Froome rode into Paris in style in the canary yellow race leaders jersey he took on Stage 8 in the Pyrenees and never relinquished, vigorously fending off rivals whose concerted challenges turned this Tour into a thriller. Froome and his Sky teammates linked arms as they rode for the line.The 100th edition was visually stunning, too, starting with a first-ever swing through Corsica, Frances so-called island of beauty, before veering through the Pyrenees to Brittany and then across France to the races crescendo in the Alps 3,404 grueling kilometers (2,115 miles) in total.Uniquely, the 100th Tour treated itself to a late-afternoon start for its final Stage 21 so the riders raced a few hours later on the cobbles of the Champs-Elysees as the sun cast golden hues over the peloton and the shadows lengthened over the dense, cheering crowds.French Air Force jets in formation trailed red, white and blue smoke in the skies about the leafy avenue as the peloton powered up it for the first time and, exceptionally, circled like a necklace around the Arc de Triomphe in their brightly colored team jerseys.After setting off from the magnificent Versailles Palace, the former residence of three kings and their seat of power until the French revolution of 1789, the riders were granted the privilege of meandering through the chateaus manicured gardens, past lakes like mirrors, spurting fountains and statues looking on stonily.As per tradition and because Froomes big race lead made him untouchable, Sundays 133-kilometer (82-mile) final ride was a largely leisurely affair until the pace picked up sharply on the Champs-Elysees. Marcel Kittel won the final sprint on that famous avenue, the Germans sprinters fourth stage win of this Tour.Riders pedaled up to Froome to offer congratulations; he sipped from a flute of champagne as he rode; a Tour organizer stuck an arm from his car window to shake Froomes hand. Peter Sagan colored his beard green to celebrate the green jersey he won for picking up the most points in sprints over the three weeks.Its a dream to arrive in yellow on the Champs-Elysees, Froome said before leading the pack from Versailles. Cest formidable.His efforts to speak French have been gratefully noted by TV commentators here.Nairo Quintana, the 23-year-old Colombian who secured second place behind Froome with an impressive win on Saturdays penultimate Stage 20, laughed as third-placed Joaquim Rodriguez tried to spark up a cigar in the saddle. The wind seemed to snuff out his lighter.Neither Froome, Quintana nor Rodriguez have ever failed a drug test or been directly implicated in any of cyclings litany of doping scandals. That is an encouraging and notable departure both from the era of Lance Armstrong and many other Tour podiums before and since.Froomes clear physical superiority made him overwhelming favorite going into the Tour and carried him through it. His winning margin of more than 5 minutes was the largest since 1997, when Jan Ullrich who has since admitted to doping beat Richard Virenque who also confessed to using performance-enhancers by 9 minutes and 9 seconds.Armstrong had larger margins of victory than Froome but all seven of the Texans wins were stripped from him last year for serial doping. In the Tours official history book, his name has literally been crossed out.As the first Tour champion since that shockwave, Froome rode through a barrage of doubt and skepticism, especially since his strength in the mountains and time trials reminded some observers of Armstrong and the way he and his team used to suffocate the race.Froomes three stage victories in the Pyrenees, on Mont Ventoux in Provence and in a mountainous trial trial were the most for a Tour winner since Armstrong got five in 2004, results now annulled.Unlike some other riders who cut short questions about doping and bristled, Froome said he was happy to discuss the issue that has so poisoned his sport. He insisted he rode clean and said he, too, felt let down by his cheating predecessors.Froome argued that his success demonstrates that cyclings anti-doping system now among the most rigorous, invasive and sustained of any sport must be working, because otherwise he wouldnt be able to win.At 28, Froome is entering his peak years as a bike racer. His prowess on climbs and in time trials gives him the essential ingredients to win more Tours. At Sky, hes backed by one of the best-funded, organized and smartest teams.With few exceptions, including the absent Giro dItalia winner Vincenzo Nibali and Wiggins, the cream of cyclings grand tour riders raced in the 100th edition. That Froome beat them so handily suggests hell again be the overwhelming favorite in 2014 in the 101st Tour that starts in Leeds, northern England.

Chelsea beat Malaysia All Stars 4-1 Posted: KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Chelsea defeated a Malaysia All Stars team 4-1 on Sunday for its second straight preseason win under new manager Jose Mourinho.Teenage midfielder Bertrand Traore scored in the 5th minute after converting a cross by Kevin De Bruyne, who later scored with a volley in the 28th minute at Malaysias Shah Alam Stadium.Romelu Lukaku slipped in a low shot before halftime for his second goal on the tour after converting a penalty kick in Chelseas 1-0 win over Thailand Singha All-Stars on Wednesday.Victor Moses scored the Blues fourth goal in the 88th minute before Malaysian substitute Mohammad Fadhli Shas grabbed a consolation for the hosts.

MotoGP leader Marquez wins US Grand Prix Posted: MONTEREY (Reuters) - Spanish rookie sensation Marc Marquez outduelled pole sitter Stefan Bradl to win the U.S. Grand Prix for Honda on Sunday and stretch his lead at the top of theMotoGP standings to 16 points.It was the second consecutive win and third of the season for the 20-year-old, who becomes the youngest rider to win back-to-back races in the premier class.The previous youngest was American Fast Freddie Spencer, the 21-year-old winner of the opening two races of the 1983 season.Bradl, the first German to start a premier class race on pole in the modern era, settled for second and his first podium in MotoGP.Italys seven-times world champion Valentino Rossi completed the podium places after holding off Spains Alvaro Bautista to take third for Yamaha.I could see that Marc had a good speed, he was behind me all the time, said LCR Honda rider Bradl. But anyway I am very happy with my first podium in MotoGP.Its a great result for me and also for the team.It was so important because the pressure was high and all the last weekend we were close to it. We knew we had the speed and now we jump on the podium and its so nice.Marquez has 163 points to compatriot and team mate Dani Pedrosas 147 in the championship race.I am very happy not for that moment but for the 25 points because that race was very important for me, said Marquez. At that circuit I expected to be struggling a little bit but in the end we take 25 points. I am so happy.The Honda rider also becomes the first rookie to win at Californias Laguna Seca circuit with its famed Corkscrew twisting turn.Marquez set up his victory with a daring pass on the Corkscrew, diving under Rossi and briefly leaving the track.The inspiration for the move came to Marquez from watching video of the 2008 race, when Rossi pulled off a similar pass on Casey Stoner in the same part of the circuit.I watched a video of him on Casey, I thought that was impossible to repeat but then when I tried to pass him in the braking point, he stayed there and I just released the brakes and I go in the same way that Valentino did in 2008, explained Marquez.After missing last weekends German Grand Prix with collarbone injuries, world champion Jorge Lorenzo and Pedrosa were both back in action on Sunday.Hondas Pedrosa took fifth to keep his championship hopes on track while Lorenzo guided his Yamaha to a sixth place finish.The series will remain in the United States with round 10 set for Indianapolis and the famed Brickyard on August 18.

Misbah stars as Pakistan beat Windies in 4th ODI Posted: GROS ISLET (AP) - Captain Misbah-ul-Haq hit his third half-century of the series to overshadow Marlon Samuels 106 not out as Pakistan defeated West Indies by six wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis Method in the fourth one-day international on Sunday.Misbah scored an unbeaten 53 off 43 balls after Pakistans target was revised to 189 in 31 overs when more than an hour of play was lost due to rain. Samuels smashed nine fours and four sixes to steer West Indies to 261-7.Misbah hit three fours and a six and added a match-winning 72 runs for the third wicket with Mohammad Hafeez, who scored 59.Pakistan leads 2-1 in the five-match series. The last game is on Wednesday.Pakistan was 68-2 after 17 overs and needed a further 121 off 14 overs when play resumed. Hafeez made his intentions clear by hitting out before he was well caught by Darren Bravo at point with Pakistan needing 57 in 7.3 overs.Shahid Afridi fell for 7, but Umar Akamal (29 not out) and Misbah added 45 for Pakistan to cruise home with an over to spare.It was like a normal T20 game. Hafeez and I wanted to play normal cricketing shots, Misbah said. It was the case of not panicking.... and the team will gain from the momentum today.West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo, who was hit for three successive boundaries by Akmal in the 30th over, had to rely on himself as his main bowlers had already bowled five overs before the rain came. He proved costly, giving away 49 runs in his six overs for the sole wicket of Hafeez.I could have done a lot better. It was always us against a very good batting line-up, Bravo said. We wanted to bat first anyway, and Marlon batted through for us today.Earlier, Samuels smashed a brilliant 106 not out off 104 balls and featured in two productive stands adding 95 off 89 balls with Lendl Simmons (46) for the fifth wicket after putting on 57 with Chris Gayle (30), who was dropped on zero when Hafeez. Gayle was dropped down to No. 5 after previous scores of 1, 1 and 8.Samuels answered in style to those who criticized him for facing too many balls in the past three games, scoring his fifth ODI century and second against Pakistan. He ended the innings with a six over mid-wicket off Mohammad Irfan, who claimed 2-60.

Clarke says batting performance was 'unacceptable' Posted: LONDON (AP) - Australia captain Michael Clarke appealed to his under-performing batsmen to raise their game ahead of the third Ashes test against England and help the team avoid equaling its worst losing run.England hammered Australia by 347 runs at Lords with a day to spare to go 2-0 up in the five-match series on Sunday. While England is closing in on its third straight Ashes series triumph, the Australians are coming to terms with a sixth straight test loss for the first time in 29 years. Australia lost seven straight tests in 1888.Australia was bundled out for 128 on Friday in good batting conditions, and coped only slightly better in its second innings with 235.Our performance with the bat was unacceptable, Clarke said. The wicket was very good for batting. We had a great opportunity but we let ourselves down. We have plenty of experience in our top seven, and we have seen already on this tour that guys can score runs against this attack. But our shot selection was poor and we didnt have the discipline that England had.They were willing to bat for long periods and graft through the tough times, but we certainly werent in that first innings. There are going to be times when you feel comfortable and you can play some shots and there are going to be other times when the opposition bowl well and you have to back your defense.Clarke has led the team in five of those six test defeats. While he is unfortunate that many of the great names of recent generations such as Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist have since retired, he still knows the team is capable of better as it copes with a period of transition.Conversely, England captain Alastair Cook is enjoying his teams success. It has won all four tests so far in the English summer to close in on South Africa at the top of the world rankings.But Cook said he is not considering a 5-0 whitewash, as Australia inflicted on England in 2006-07.Its too early for that, Cook said. You only have to look at our dressing room to see how hard weve had to work to win these two games.You (the media) can think all you want (about 5-0), but we know how hard it is going to be the next few games.

Arthur rues 'deliberate campaign' against him Posted: SYDNEY (AFP) - Axed Australian cricket coach Mickey Arthur on Sunday said there had been a deliberate campaign against him in past days and his reputation had suffered greatly from his sacking.Returning to Perth after attending his mothers funeral in South Africa, Arthur said he had no choice but to take legal action against Cricket Australia after he was dismissed just days before the start of the Ashes series against England.After my dismissal, I received nothing in writing from Cricket Australia, no contact, and no payment at all, not even my basic leave pay, until I was forced to bring in lawyers to assist in the process, he said.I had tried on a number of occasions to make direct contact at a very senior level of Cricket Australia, for days there was just no response.Arthur, who was replaced by Darren Lehmann, said that given the circumstances of his dismissal, he had hoped that Cricket Australia would be willing to resolve the matter through private talks.But explosive details of his Aus$4 million case to the Fair Work Commission, including claims of divisions within the Australian team, were leaked to the media ahead of the second Test.Selective leaks by others have ruined my attempts to protect the Australian cricket team and everyone involved, Arthur read from a statement in Perth.As Ive said, no one associated with me has played any part in releasing that confidential document.Arthur, who was sacked after a series loss in India, a poor showing in the Champions League and incidents of ill-discipline among the team, said that Cricket Australias chief executive James Sutherland had even acknowledged that he had to some extent been made a scapegoat.The damage to my reputation and career has been immense, which means the chances of me getting a senior job are that much less, the South African said.I was truly shocked and devastated by my dismissal. I had received a positive appraisal on all my key performance indicators just prior to departing for the Ashes tour.Arthur said that he had been told that batsman David Warners off-field behaviour, in which he punched England batsman Joe Root in a Birmingham bar, had been the last straw for the CA board.I received no hearing at all over that issue, and no one was doing more to improve discipline in the young Australian team than I was, he said.Meanwhile a CA statement issued later Sunday at Lords, where the national side were facing a crushing defeat by England in the second Ashes Test, disputed Arthurs version of events.Cricket Australia stands by its earlier statements on this matter and disputes a number of claims made by Mickey Arthur today, it read.We will not be articulating these disputes publicly except to say that we are confident in our legal position, are comfortable with the level of support provided to Mickey and look forward to resolving this matter in an appropriate manner.Arthur, according to leaked legal documents, said that Australia captain Michael Clarke had told him that all-rounder Shane Watson and his faction were a cancer upon the team.Australia had to fight the flames of yet more controversy Sunday in response to an abusive Twitter message criticising Watson posted by Warners brother Steven on Friday after the all-rounder wasted a review in an attempt to overturn a plumb lbw decision.Steven Warner tweeted: Fucking selfish Watson the sooner you are out if [sic] the side you great pretender the better.David Warner, temporarily exiled from the Ashes series to take part in the Australia A tour of Africa, distanced himself from his brothers remarks.Earlier this week, my brother Steven Warner published a Tweet about Shane Watson. Like everyone, he is entitled to his opinions but I want to state categorically that I do not endorse his comments and fully support Shane and all my team mates -- David Warner, the batsmans statement said.

Karachi: Two ANP activists killed as blast hits party office Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) - At least two persons were killed and six others injured in a blast near ANP office in Gulshan-e-Boneer area of Landhi.According to police officials gun shots were also heard before the blast.DIG East Tahir Naved said the terrorists targeted an ANP office in the area.According to ANP sources, unit president Behrooz and a party member were killed in the blast.Police and rescue teams rushed to the blast site and emergency has been declared at Jinnah Hospital.Earlier, on Saturday a government official survived a bomb attack on his vehicle on a busy road that left his police guard dead hardly an hour before another bomb went off in a house due to ‘mishandling’ by suspected terrorists in another area, killing two of them.At least four persons, including a police guard of Karachi’s metropolitan commissioner, were killed and four others injured in two separate bomb blasts within an hour at different locations in the city on Saturday.The first explosion took place on the ramp of the Lyari Expressway Essa Nagri interchange where the vehicle of Karachi’s Metropolitan Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan was attacked in a motorcycle bombing.The police guard of the KMC Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan, who was identified as Sohail Siddiqui, died in the attack while three persons, including Matanat Ali Khan, his driver Haroon and a city warden Abid were injured but were recovering at Aga Khan Hospital.The second explosion took place inside a three-storeyed building in the Patel Para area of the city in the limits of Soldier Bazaar police station where three persons were killed and one other injured when they apparently touched a power bomb packed with ball bearings.There has been no letup in the terrorist attacks and violence in Karachi even in the month of Ramzan.

Windies 261-7, Samuels 106 not out Posted: Saint Lucia (Web Desk – West Indies Sunday managed to put challenging total of 261 for 7 in fourth ODI in 49 overs.Samuels played a magnificent innings by scoring 106 runs.West Indies pushed Chris Gayle down to No 5 after his poor form of late, but he still was facing only an eight-over-old ball as the hosts lost three early wickets.Gayle himself would have made it four had Mohammad Hafeez held on to a sharp chance at first slip.Gayle hadnt even scored a run. After 25 overs, West Indies seemed headed towards a middling total, which in this series between weak batting orders has proved to be pretty competitive.To replace Gayle at the top of the order, West Indies brought in Devon Smith and left out Kieron Pollard.And because Hafeez had - before this match - dismissed Smith six times in 33 international deliveries, Hafeez opened the bowling.Smith, coming off back-to-back ducks, managed to get off the mark, but couldnt last long. This time, though, he fell to Mohammad Irfan.It was not the extra bounce, but the anticipation of extra bounce. He pulled over the ball, and bottom-edged it to the keeper.Not for the first time Johnson Charles and Darren Bravo started a slow recovery, and not for the first time they threw it away.Bravo played a loose flick at one that stopped a touch at him, and lobbed Wahab Riaz to mid-on.Charles played all around a length ball coming in from Junaid Khans round-the-stumps angle. West Indies were 63 for 3 now, and in walked Gayle to face a big test of having been demoted at this stage of his career.Like the rest of the series, Gayle was unsure again, and had two left-arm quicks, a variety that has troubled him of late, bowling at him.It should have become 64 for 4 immediately as Gayle followed Riaz outside off, but Hafeez spilled it.Gayle looked determined after that, and along with fellow Jamaican Marlon Samuels fought through till 25 overs, which by the way is not halfway mark as the game was reduced to 49 overs a side after an early-morning shower.

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