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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

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MCG to host 2015 Cricket World Cup final

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - England and Australia are drawn in the same group and the 2015 Cricket World Cup final will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with the semifinals set for Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand.Tournament organizers announced Tuesday that New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and two qualifiers will join Australia and England in Pool A of the 14-team tournament that is held every four years.South Africa, defending champions India, Pakistan, the West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland and a qualifier will compete in Pool B.Australia and New Zealand will host 49 matches over 44 days during February and March 2015.Other Australian venues for the tournament will be the Sydney Cricket Ground, Brisbane's Gabba, the WACA in Perth, Adelaide Oval, Manuka Oval in Canberra and Bellerive Oval in Tasmania.

Eleven including 4 cops killed as militants attacked DI Khan prison

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Dunya News) - At least eleven people including four policemen, four insurgents and three civilians were killed while nine others were injured in the brazen attack in Dera Ismail Khan.The security sources said the jail is considered one of the largest jails of the province, as over 4000 prisoners are detained here. The security sources added as many as 150 terrorists have been kept in custody at this DI Khan jail.A curfew was clamped in the area after the militant engaged the security forces in gunfight. The area plunged into darkness as militants destroyed electricity transformers. Deputy Commissioner said that the curfew was imposed to avoid any damage to public.As per details insurgents wearing police uniforms and armed with mortars attacked a prison holding hundreds of militants in Dera Ismail Khan jail and escaped with prisoners after a gunfight with security forces, officials said.Security forces have entered the prison and cleared the building after which we have started counting prisoners with flashlights as there is no power in the prison and it is making our job difficult, Abbas said.The jail holds up to 5,000 prisoners including some 300 militants involved in attacks on security forces and sectarian killings, he added.Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying 150 militants took part and around 300 prisoners were freed.The attack in the town of Dera Ismail Khan began around midnight with a huge explosion, said intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. A local resident, Sharafat Khan, said the blast was so loud it rattled every house in the neighborhood.The militants then set off a series of smaller explosions to destroy the prisons boundary wall, said the intelligence officials. At least eight attackers wearing police uniforms stormed inside the prison once the walls fell. Security forces engaged the attackers, who were chanting God is great and Long live the Taliban.The militants also fired rocket-propelled grenades and lobbed hand grenades during the attack, said the deputy commissioner of Dera Ismail Khan, Khan Mushtaq Jadoon.Right now some of the attackers are inside the jail and others have occupied two buildings outside, said Jadoon. We are going to launch a major operation soon. The city has been sealed. The army is leading the operation.Khalid Abbas, head of the prison department in surrounding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the jail held 40 high profile prisoners.We are not sure if any of them escaped, Abbas said.The militants are reportedly calling out specific prisoners by name using a microphone and amplifier, said Jadoon. Authorities caught six prisoners trying to flee the city by car, he said.Officials received a letter threatening an attack on the prison, but they didnt expect it so soon, said Abbas. Army troops encircled the prison and exchanged fire with the attackers, he said, but security forces were having trouble distinguishing the militants in the dark because of their police uniforms.One prison official, Gul Mohammad, said he had just walked out of the prison at the end of his shift when two militants armed with AK-47s shot him. There are other officials who have been wounded, he said from a hospital bed, although the casualty toll was unclear.

Monogamy may sound sweet, but why it evolved isn't

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Only a few species of mammals are monogamous, and now two scientific teams think they have figured out why they got that way. But their answers arent exactly romantic.One team looked just at primates, the animal group that includes apes and monkeys. The researchers said the exclusive pairing of a male and a female evolved as a way to let fathers defend their young against being killed by other males.The other scientific team got a different answer after examining about 2,000 species of mammals. They concluded that monogamy arose in mammals because when females were spread out geographically, males had trouble guarding them against competitors unless they stuck close by.The studies are published online Monday in the journals Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Death penalty for Kenyan for killing UK man

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LAMU, Kenya (AP) - A Kenyan man was Monday sentenced to death for the September 2011 killing of a British man who was shot dead and his wife kidnapped by Somali gunmen at an island resort on the Kenya coast.Magistrate Johnstone Munguti found Ali Babito Kololo guilty of the murder of British tourist David Tebbutt, 58, who was killed.Tebbutts wife Judith, 56, was abducted and taken to Somalia and held by pirates before being released after six months.Munguti also sentenced Kololo to seven years in jail for the wifes abduction.Kenya has not carried out a death sentence in the past 26 years and most sentences for death row prisoners are commuted to life imprisonment.After the sentence was announced, Kololo said in Swahili, I am innocent. Let the court do what it wants to do. I have been victimized in this, since I was also kidnapped.Munguti said Kololo was convicted on circumstantial evidence after a total of 20 witnesses, including Judith Tebutt, testified in the case. The investigation was assisted by officers from Britains Metropolitan Police Service Counter Terrorism Command.A small team of British officers travelled to Kenya shortly after the murder and kidnap to support the local police investigation.Inquiries matched footprints found on the beach after Judith Tebbutts abduction to the shoes worn by Kololo when he was arrested shortly after the incident.Judith Tebutts kidnapping was among a string of abductions by Somali gunmen along the Kenya-Somali border. Kenyas military cited those attacks as the reason it sent troops in October 2011 into Somalia to fight the Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab.Gunmen easily entered the Tebbutts cottage at the Kiwayu Safari Village resort on the night of Sept. 10, the door was only a piece of colorful cloth. Police believe David Tebbutt resisted and was shot. The Tebbutts were the only tourists staying at the 18-cottage resort, located along a private beach 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Lamu, and the kidnappers spirited Judith Tebbutt away in a boat.A month later, gunmen kidnapped a disabled French woman who lived part-time in Lamu. She died in captivity. Before African Union troops expelled al-Qaida linked al-Shabab insurgent group from the major cities late 2012, kidnapping was a big business in Somalia, where opportunities to make money are limited.Two Spanish aid workers with the aid group Doctors Without Borders, who were kidnapped by Somali militants from a Kenyan refugee camp in October 2011, were released earlier this month, ending a 21-month hostage ordeal.In January 2012, U.S. Navy SEALs parachuted into Somalia and hiked to where a criminal gang was holding a 32-year-old American and a 60-year-old Dane kidnapped October 2011. Nine captors were killed in the raid that freed the two hostages.

Talks with Palestinians should start today: Israel

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Israels chief negotiator Tzipi Livni said negotiations with the Palestinians should start Monday evening when both sides meet in Washington after five years of diplomatic stalemate. The expectation had been that the Washington meeting would prepare for a new round of Mideast peace talks, but Livni said the idea is to start the negotiations today.There is a lot of cynicism and skepticism and pessimism but there is also hope, Livni told The Associated Press after meeting with U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon.Livini now heads to Washington for a dinner with the Palestinians hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.Kerry brokered an agreement early this month to bring both sides back to the negotiating table. It included a decision by Israel, which its Cabinet made on Sunday, to free 104 long-held Palestinian prisoners in four stages. That led to Monday nights dinner invitation from Kerry.It is the first time we are going to meet with the Palestinians today, Livni said. But during the last four months secretary Kerry was in the region working with us and with the Palestinians. So basically we are starting today.I believe that by relaunching the negotiations we can recreate hope for Israelis and Palestinians as well, she said.The Palestinians want a state in territories Israel captured in 1967, the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, which they want as their capital. They have accepted the principle of limited land swaps to allow Israel to annex some of the dozens of settlements it has built on war-won land.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had repeatedly said he will only resume talks if Israel either freezes settlements or recognizes the borders before the start of the 1967 war as a starting point for drawing the borders of a new Palestinian state.Pressed on whether Israel signs on to that starting point, Livni replied: You know what, Im trying to build trust between us and the Palestinians, and the last thing that I want to refer to is what they said before, what they are going to say now. Im going to meet them and we are going to discuss everything in the negotiations.She said there are a lot of core issues that are on the table and need to be addressed including a decision on borders, ending the conflict and security for Israel.Livni spoke soon after Kerry appointed former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, to shepherd the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.Im glad that he was nominated, Livni said. Hes familiar with all the situation in the region, the problems. Hes very involved and Id love to work with him.

Terrorists storm DIK Jail, army called in

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN (Dunya News) – According to initial reports number of blasts were heard followed by heavy firing in the Central Jail here in a apparent attack by the terrorists.According to Dunya News reporter, the terrorists, wearing police uniforms, occupied a house near the jail and some of them entered the jail.Terrorist also threw hand grenades at a police van as a result of which a DSP and his gunmen were seriously injured.Gunmen battled Pakistani security forces for control of a major prison holding hundreds of militants on Monday night, police said.The gunmen launched their attack with a series of heavy explosions before firing rocket propelled grenades and machineguns, district police chief said.Terrorists crossed the first police picket after a suicide attack and broke into the jail after blasting its main gate.Contingents of Army and security agencies rushed to the area and exchanged firing with the miscreants.According to initial reports at least 10 terrorists managed to enter the jail and blasts were heard inside the jail.Forces surrounded the jail and started operation against the terrorists.Heavy firing was heard in the town that was plunged into darkness due to loadshedding.According to Dunya News reporter 520 prisoners, including 60 dangerous terrorists from Waziristan, are imprisoned in the DIK jail.The prison, in the central town of Dera Ismail Khan, houses Taliban and militants from banned sectarian groups.Some prisoners belonging to banned outfits and terrorist groups were on a hunger strike after a conflict with the jail authorities over possession of mobile phones.The jail authorities had been issued warnings by the terrorists of attacks for the last three days.

Syria is in 'free fall': UN

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The head of the U.N. commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria says the country is in free fall and has become a battlefield where civilians are the main victims of acts of terror from indiscriminate shelling to rape and sectarian killing.Paulo Pinheiro told the U.N. General Assembly Monday that massacres and other unlawful killings are perpetrated with impunity, most by pro-government forces and some by anti-government armed groups.He demanded that the government stop using imprecise weapons such as unguided missiles on civilian areas, and said both sides must stop laying siege to cities and towns, cutting off vital supplies of food, water, medicine and electricity.Pinheiro said the international community must demand a diplomatic solution to the 2 1/2-year conflict that has killed over 100,000 people.

Tunisia to hold elections by Dec. 17: PM

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TUNIS (AP) - Tunisias prime minister responded to mounting opposition demands to dissolve the government with a defiant speech Monday, promising to complete the countrys democratic transition with a new constitution by August and elections in December.But the assassination of two opposition legislators over the last six months has plunged Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, into a crisis involving anti-government protests, Mondays resignation of a Cabinet minister, and a legislative walkout by dozens of lawmakers.Many had hoped that Tunisia would serve as a model for democratic transformations for North Africa and the Middle East, but its struggle comes as Egypt descends into chaos and Syria is enmeshed in a civil war.On Thursday, left-wing Tunisian politician Mohammed Brahmi was assassinated in Tunis, shot 14 times outside his home in front of his family. That followed the killing of another left-wing opposition legislator, Chokri Belaid, in February.The opposition has seized on these assassinations as evidence of the Islamist-led governments failure to manage the political transition and ensure security and said the government and the constitutional assembly elected in 2011 should now be dissolved.After Brahmis funeral on Saturday, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the assembly. The crowd swelled to 25,000 on Sunday night, according to the Interior Ministry, and was divided between pro- and anti-government groups.Police attempted to keep the rival demonstrations separate and finally cleared the area early Monday with widespread use of tear gas.Education Minister Salem Labiadh submitted his resignation on Monday. And dozens of opposition members in Tunisias 217-seat assembly, as well as a few from the ruling coalition, have announced their withdrawal from the body in effort to paralyze it. For the legislature to function, two-thirds of its members must be present, and opposition politicians say they nearly have the 73 seats needed.But Prime Minister Ali Larayedh refused to back down on Monday.In a forceful televised speech, during which often banged on a podium, he presented a road map for completing the long drawn out democratic transition with a new constitution by the end of August and the passage of the needed election laws by Oct. 23, the anniversary of the date in 2011 that brought the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party to power.He said an election for a new legislative body would be held on Dec. 17, the third anniversary of the self-immolation of itinerant fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi that sparked the uprising that overthrow dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali a month later.The assembly elected in 2011 was supposed to write a constitution and hold new elections within a year. Instead the transition has dragged on for nearly two years as the country has been beset by social unrest, a faltering economy and terrorist attacks.Referring to the weekend protests, Larayedh said: Dialogue should not be in the streets or through violence but at the table and about strategies and plans.The opposition, backed by the countrys largest trade union and civil society groups, says Brahmis assassination demonstrates the governments failure to protect its citizens and that the opposition should form a new national salvation Cabinet to replace the government.But Larayedh criticized the opposition and said: The government will continue its performance and redouble its efforts. We dont want to stay in power. We are not addicted to it.Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said Monday that security forces committed some abuses while dispersing protesters with tear gas early Monday. But he defended their efforts to avoid what he called a blood bath between the rival demonstrations.There also have been anti-government protests in several cities in the interior of Tunisia since Thursdays assassination.

12th head of state to be elected today

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - All preparations are in place to elect country’s 12th President today as there is one-on-one contest between Pakistan Muslim League (N) candidate Mamnoon Hussain and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf nominee Wajhihuddin Ahmad.The electoral college of the Presidential election consists of Senate‚ National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies. The election will be held through secret ballot. The polling will begin simultaneously at the parliament house and the four provincial assemblies at 10:00 am and end at 03:00 pm.The Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court will preside over the polling process at the parliament house while the chief justices of the four provinces will preside over the process in the provincial assemblies. The legislators have been asked not to carry mobile phones or any other electronic device during the voting process.The Election Commission has clarified that as per Presidential Election Rules‚ the voters for the Presidential Elections including members of the Senate‚ National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies after receiving the ballot paper‚ are required to proceed to the place reserved for marking the ballot paper with a Cross-Mark against the name of a candidate of their choice and no other mark. The Commission also clarified that that any sign like Tick Mark or OK on the ballot paper against the name of the candidate of the voters choice is incorrect.

Bruni-Sarkozy under fire over cost of website

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PARIS (AP) - Frances former first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is threatening legal action after an online petition asked her to repay nearly half a million euros used to fund her website while her husband was president.A website developer started a petition asking her to repay 410,000 euros, the amount the website cost French taxpayers from January 2011 to May 2012, when her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, left office. As of Monday afternoon, the petition had already been signed by more than 80,000 people.The developer argues the site could have been maintained for much less, and wants the model-turned-singer to donate the money to charity.Bruni-Sarkozys lawyer Richard Malka said Monday in a statement that the money went only to promote the former first ladys official activities.Carla Bruni-Sarkozy reserves the right to sue for all claims that would attack her personal honor, Malka said. He insisted that the site did not benefit the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation, a charitable organization that aims to bring education and culture to the poor and which has the same web address as the old site dedicated to the former first lady.The foundation says it kept the same address for practical reasons. She should still pay the money back, insisted Nicolas Bousquet, the French website developer who started the petition. I know the cost of such projects.A representative of the foundation insisted that its funding comes only from private sponsorships. The representative spoke on condition of anonymity because of the policy of the foundation.Bruni-Sarkozy married Nicolas Sarkozy on February 2008. She is currently promoting her new album Little French Songs.

FBI raids rescue 105 kids forced into prostitution

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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and arrested 150 pimps and others in a three-day sweep in 76 American cities, the FBI said Monday. The victims, almost all girls, range in age from 13 to 17.The largest numbers of children rescued were in San Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee, Denver and New Orleans.Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across the country, Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureaus criminal investigative division, told a press conference. The FBI said the campaign has resulted in rescuing 2,700 children since 2003.The investigations and convictions of 1,350 have led to life imprisonment for 10 pimps and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.The Justice Department has estimated that nearly 450,000 children run away from home each year and that one-third of teens living on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.Congress has introduced legislation that would require state law enforcement, foster care and child welfare programs to identify children lured into sex trafficking as victims of abuse and neglect eligible for the appropriate protections and services.

Economist withdraws Bank of Israel candidacy

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JERUSALEM (AP) - One of Israels top economists on Monday withdrew his candidacy as head of the central bank over an old shoplifting case.The incident happened in a Hong Kong airport seven years ago. Jacob Frenkel told Israeli media he mistakenly thought his companion paid for an item he was carrying.A committee reviewing his appointment raised questions about the incident, and Frenkel decided to withdraw his candidacy. Frenkel did not report the incident to the committee. It was meant to be the second time that 70-year-old Frenkel headed the Bank of Israel.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement praising Frenkel and harshly criticizing the reports that led to his withdrawal.This is a direct result of an atmosphere in which a person is slandered without the opportunity to present his side, the statement said. Frenkel was an outstanding governor of the Bank of Israel, and could have brought great benefit to the Israeli economy in dealing with the world economic crisis, said the statement, signed by Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid.An economics analyst said there is no indication that Frenkel was charged in the shoplifting case. The government did not comment on that aspect.Frenkel was governor from 1991 to 2000. He won praise for reducing inflation, liberalizing markets and integrating Israels economy into the global financial system. He has since worked in finance, including as chairman of JPMorgan Chase International.

Several injured in Swiss train collision

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GENEVA (AP) – At least 44 people were injured, four of them seriously, in a head-on collision of two trains in western Switzerland late Monday, Swiss television reported, citing police.Public TV station SRF quoted Vaud canton (state) police spokesman Pierre-Olivier Gaudard as saying that one person had yet to be recovered from the wreckage.News website 20min.ch quoted Patricia Claivaz of the Swiss rail company CFF as saying the trapped man, a driver of one of the trains, had been located. It was unclear if he was alive.Neither the police nor the rail company could immediately be reached for comment.The crash happened near the station of Granges-pres-Marnand shortly before 7 p.m. (1700 GMT) on a regional line about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of the capital, Bern.Photographs from the site showed the two regional trains locked together, partly lifted off the tracks by the force of the collision.

Amazon unveils new hiring spree ahead of Obama visit

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc unveiled a new hiring spree on Monday ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to one of the Internet retailers giant distribution warehouses this week.Amazon said it is looking to fill more than 5,000 new full-time jobs at 17 of its fulfillment centers across the United States. Thats roughly a 25 percent increase in full-time fulfillment center staff, which currently number more than 20,000 in the country.Amazon has been building lots of new fulfillment centers closer to customers in recent years as the company tries to speed up delivery of online orders and reduce shipping costs.Amazon needs a lot of workers to pick, pack and ship orders alongside high tech robots that whiz around its warehouses. The companys demand for employees is so strong that it has created special programs to woo candidates.Last year, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos used the front page of the companys website to announce a Career Choice program that pays thousands of dollars for warehouse employees to take technical and vocational courses in high-demand areas including engineering, information technology, transportation and accounting.Amazon made its latest hiring push as President Obama is due to visit a company fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Tuesday to speak about jobs in the United States.The President will discuss proposals to jumpstart private sector job growth and make America more competitive, according to a White House spokeswoman.

PML-N takes notice of Sanaullah's MQM remarks

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LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader and Interior Minister Pervez Rasheed has said that Rana Sannaullah’s remarks about MQM do not reflect the party policy and Rana made the statement in his personal capacity.“Rana Sanaullah’s remarks were against the party policy of PML-N,” he said, adding the two parties would continue efforts for improving mutual relations.“The statement of Rana Sanaullah does not reflect the party policy,” he said categorically.MQM is a mainstream political party and enjoys the support of masses, he said.He urged MQM leadership not take any negative impression about PML-N because of Rana Sanaullah’s statement.Pervaiz Rashid said that PML-N respected mandate of MQM and it wanted to establish better working relationship between both parties.According to the sources PML-N has contacted MQM to defuse the tension after Rana Sanaullah’s statement in which he had said that the PML-N posture about MQM had not changed.Meanwhile, talking to Dunya News Monday night, Rana Sanaullah said MQM had misunderstood his remarks and was overreacting.“I only said that MQM offered unconditional support to PML-N presidential candidate and there was no question of any political adjustment,” he said.Rana said that this was already stated by MQM’s leader Hyder Abbas Rizvi when the PML-N delegation visited Nine Zero to get the support of MQM for presidential candidate Mamnoon Hussain.Earlier, taking notice of the statement of Rana Sanaulla’s statement, MQM coordination committee has called an emergency meeting to discuss the strategy regarding participation in presidential election on Tuesday.

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