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border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="250" alt="99362_news_image" src="http://lh4.google.com/uzairimran1/R_OZsjPqMBI/AAAAAAAAA8w/jkQhxRHkMFY/99362_news_image_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg" width="404" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;COLOMBO&amp;#160; ( 2008-04-02 13:37:22 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At least 13 Tamil Tiger rebels and one government soldier have been killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lanka's north, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.    &lt;br /&gt;Security forces said they captured a long string of rebel defence bunkers in the northwestern district of Mannar early Wednesday, with the fighting also leaving 40 guerrillas and 12 government soldiers wounded.     &lt;br /&gt;The latest casualty claims brings to at least 2,533 the number of rebels killed by security forces since January, according to defence ministry data.     &lt;br /&gt;The ministry has reported losing 152 of its soldiers in the same period.     &lt;br /&gt;Casualty figures given by both sides cannot be independently confirmed because Colombo bars journalists and rights groups from front-line areas.     &lt;br /&gt;The ministry also said its fighter jets bombed and inflicted &amp;quot;extensive damage&amp;quot; on a rebel base in Mullaittivu district in the northeast on Tuesday.     &lt;br /&gt;There was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Eelam (LTTE), who are fighting to carve out an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the ethnic Sinhalese-majority island's north and east.     &lt;br /&gt;The pro-rebel website Tamilnet.com, however, said the Tigers beat back an army offensive in Mannar on Tuesday, killing 15 soldiers and injuring 25 others. It did not give details of LTTE casualties.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/04/fourteen-dead-in-sri-lanka-fighting.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-4497533508951724715</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-02T19:27:11.136+05:00</atom:updated><title>US govt memo authorized extreme interrogation methods: report</title><description>&lt;p&gt;WASHINGTON&amp;#160; ( 2008-04-02 14:08:50 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A newly declassified 2003 US Justice Department memo gave US military interrogators broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning al Qaeda detainees, US media said on Wednesday.    &lt;br /&gt;The memo -- sent to the Pentagon as it struggled to establish guidelines for its interrogators -- argued that the US president's wartime authority exempted them from US and international laws banning cruel treatment.     &lt;br /&gt;Withdrawn nine months after it was written, the document helped create the legal environment for the use of techniques such as simulated drowning and the abuses that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, experts said.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;If a government defendant were to harm an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner that might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al Qaeda terrorist network,&amp;quot; The Washington Post cited the memo as saying.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;In that case, we believe that he could argue that the executive branch's constitutional authority to protect the nation from attack justified his actions.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;The 81-page memo was written at a time when the Pentagon was trying to come up with a list of approved interrogation methods for use on detainees at the US &amp;quot;war on terror&amp;quot; prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.     &lt;br /&gt;Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld had been forced in December 2002 to suspend a list of aggressive techniques, due to objections from senior military lawyers.     &lt;br /&gt;But, largely because of the memo, a Pentagon working group approved in April 2003 the continued use of &amp;quot;extremely ag&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/04/us-govt-memo-authorized-extreme.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-3569463323448547975</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-02T19:04:31.615+05:00</atom:updated><title>Kayani briefs PM on security, war against terrorism</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.google.com/uzairimran1/R_OSZzPqL6I/AAAAAAAAA74/vJ9Ks1gJYs4/2_news_image%5B4%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="430" alt="2_news_image" src="http://lh4.google.com/uzairimran1/R_OSbjPqL7I/AAAAAAAAA8A/U8q3BkP7D_I/2_news_image_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg" width="419" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ISLAMABAD&amp;#160; ( 2008-04-02 15:12:48 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday chaired a high level briefing on security situation in the country and Pakistan's role in the global war against terrorism.    &lt;br /&gt;Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvaiz Kayani and other senior security officials briefed the prime minister and leaders of coalition parties about the ground situation and how it was being tackled by the country's armed forces, an official source at the PM House told APP.     &lt;br /&gt;The meeting was attended co-chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari, Minister for Defence Ch. Ahmed Mukhtar, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik, PML-N leader Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, Asfandyar Wali of ANP and Maulana Fazalur Rehman of JUI-F.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/04/kayani-briefs-pm-on-security-war.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-5446280439881477923</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-01T21:47:10.035+05:00</atom:updated><title>US urges North Korea to move quickly on nuke deal</title><description>&lt;p&gt;SEOUL&amp;#160; ( 2008-04-01 20:54:56 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;US negotiator Christopher Hill, who arrived on Tuesday in South Korea to discuss ways to restart stalled nuclear talks with North Korea, urged the communist state to move 'very quickly' to seal a deal.    &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Obviously we are getting to the point where we need to make some progress very quickly,&amp;quot; he told reporters at the airport, when asked about delays in the North's promised declaration of all atomic programmes and activities.     &lt;br /&gt;Hill said no candidate in the upcoming US presidential election &amp;quot;has suggested they are interested in giving the DPRK (North Korea) a better deal than the one we put on the table.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;So I would say, from the DPRK's point of view, it's time to settle now.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;A six-nation denuclearisation deal, involving the United States, China, the two Koreas, Japan and Russia, offers the North energy aid and major diplomatic and security benefits in return for full denuclearisation.     &lt;br /&gt;But the deal has stalled over the declaration, which was due to be handed over by the end of last year.     &lt;br /&gt;The North says it submitted the document last November. But the United States says it has not fully accounted for a suspected secret uranium enrichment weapons programme or for alleged nuclear proliferation to Syria.     &lt;br /&gt;Hill said the North had not submitted a declaration last year. &amp;quot;They showed us some research materials, research reference materials. It's very clear that it's not a complete and correct declaration.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;Hill said his meeting last month with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-Gwan in Geneva had made some progress and there had been subsequent indirect contacts.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I would say there was some progress but it doesn't really mean anything until we actually get a declaration.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;Seoul's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said Hill has already confronted Pyongyang with alleged evidence of its nuclear links to Syria.     &lt;br /&gt;It said he handed over a list of North Korean officials and engineers said to be involved in the technology transfer during an earlier meeting with Kim, who has denied any knowledge of the list.     &lt;br /&gt;The South's foreign ministry declined comment on the Chosun report.     &lt;br /&gt;The North insists it has no covert uranium programme and says it never transferred atomic technology to Syria. It has threatened to slow down ongoing work to disable its plutonium-producing plants if the deadlock continues.     &lt;br /&gt;Hill will hold a dinner meeting late Tuesday with his counterpart Chun Yung-Woo. He is scheduled to meet Vice Foreign Minister Kwon Jong-Rak and Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-Joon on Wednesday, and then head to Indonesia on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/04/us-urges-north-korea-to-move-quickly-on.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-4105203670028142614</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-01T19:36:00.663+05:00</atom:updated><title>US &amp;#39;hopeful&amp;#39; on missile defence deal with Russia: Bush</title><description>&lt;p&gt;KIEV&amp;#160; ( 2008-04-01 15:52:28 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he was hopeful of an agreement with Russia on US missile defence plans in Europe but admitted the United States still had work to do to persuade Russia.   &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We're dealing with a lot of history and a lot of suspicion I'm hopeful we'll have some breakthroughs we'll see,&amp;quot; Bush said at a press conference with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during a visit to Kiev.    &lt;br /&gt;Bush was in Kiev at the start of a week-long European tour that will end with a meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi with President Vladimir Putin.    &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Obviously we've got work to do to persuade the president and the people around him that the missile defence system is not aimed at Russia,&amp;quot; he said, insisting that the missile system was not &amp;quot;an anti-Russian device.&amp;quot;    &lt;br /&gt;The United States has outlined plans to place interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic to counter potential threats from &amp;quot;rogue&amp;quot; states such as Iran or North Korea.    &lt;br /&gt;Russia has objected to the plans, saying there is no immediate threat and that the system is aimed at Russia. Talks on missile defence between the United States and Russia are ongoing but have so far not yielded any agreement.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/04/us-on-missile-defence-deal-with-russia.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-7870983079865594238</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-01T19:30:44.441+05:00</atom:updated><title>France opposes Nato membership for Ukraine, Georgia</title><description>&lt;p&gt;PARIS&amp;#160; ( 2008-04-01 15:58:26 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;France opposes allowing Ukraine and Georgia into Nato, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Tuesday on the eve of an alliance summit in Bucharest that is to consider their membership.    &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We are opposed to the entry of Georgia and Ukraine because we think that it is not a good answer to the balance of power within Europe and between Europe and Russia,&amp;quot; said Fillon in an interview to France Inter.     &lt;br /&gt;His remarks coincided with a visit to Kiev by US President George W. Bush, who said on Tuesday that Washington &amp;quot;strongly supports&amp;quot; Ukraine's accession and that Georgia also should be allowed to take a step toward Nato membership.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;France has a different view from the United States on this issue,&amp;quot; said Fillon.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We want to have a dialogue with Russia on this subject and that is what the president will say in Bucharest&amp;quot; during the Nato summit opening on Wednesday, he added.     &lt;br /&gt;Russia has warned that allowing Ukraine to move toward Nato membership would have a negative impact on European security and create a serious crisis in relations between Moscow and Kiev.     &lt;br /&gt;Albania, Croatia and Macedonia hope to receive invitations to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) at the summit. Georgia and Ukraine have applied for a Membership Action Plan (MAP), which prepares nations for entry.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/04/france-opposes-nato-membership-for.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-6083457784645031</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-28T18:46:40.220+05:00</atom:updated><title>PKK threatens to retaliate against Turkey</title><description>&lt;p&gt;MOUNT QANDIL&amp;#160; ( 2008-03-28 14:08:41 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has threatened to retaliate against Ankara after the violence during the New Year celebration of Newroz in southeastern Turkey.    &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The Turkish state must listen to the message of freedom from the Kurdish people and immediately halt its violence against civilians,&amp;quot; the number two of the PKK group, Bozam Tekim, told AFP in an interview on Thursday.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;There will be uncontrolled reaction. The Turkish state and the ruling party will bear the responsibility of these new developments.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;Tekim warned that unless Ankara ended its actions of &amp;quot;abuse against civilians, the PKK will retaliate&amp;quot;.     &lt;br /&gt;The interview was conducted in the Qandil mountains, an area of tall, rugged mountains which serves as a PKK hideout in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region along the border with Turkey and Iran.     &lt;br /&gt;Two people were killed and dozens injured over the past week in southeast Turkey during the celebration of the Kurdish new year, which fell on March 21.     &lt;br /&gt;Dozens of people have been detained in Turkey's mainly Kurdish-populated southeast where celebrations of Newroz Day turned into protests of support for the PKK.     &lt;br /&gt;Newroz is a traditional platform for Turkey's Kurds to demonstrate support for the rebels and demand broader rights. &amp;quot;The Kurdish people continue to fight for freedom. They have once again demonstrated their support for the PKK and its leader Abdullah Ocalan (PKK founder who is imprisoned in Turkey),&amp;quot; said Tekim, whose group is regarded as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and European Union.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The new violence against civilians demonstrates that the Turkish state continues its policy of force and denial of our rights,&amp;quot; he charged.     &lt;br /&gt;The recent incursions by the Turkish army in northern Iraq, &amp;quot;despite the support of the United States, has resulted in its failure&amp;quot;, the rebel leader said.     &lt;br /&gt;The Turkish army &amp;quot;got a severe lesson&amp;quot; during the incursion in the last week of February in the Zap region of Iraq.     &lt;br /&gt;The PKK claims it killed 127 Turkish soldiers and lost nine of its fighters.     &lt;br /&gt;Ankara says it dealt a severe blow to the rebel movement during the incursion that killed 240 rebels.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/pkk-threatens-to-retaliate-against.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-9180873555571535157</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-28T18:14:00.601+05:00</atom:updated><title>Dalai Lama appeals for talks with Beijing</title><description>&lt;p&gt;NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama appealed to China Friday to enter into &amp;quot;meaningful dialogue&amp;quot; over the crisis in Tibet, asserting he did not want to undermine the Beijing Olympics and was not seeking independence.    &lt;br /&gt;In an open letter to his &amp;quot;Chinese brothers and sisters,&amp;quot; the exiled spiritual leader said he was a &amp;quot;simple monk&amp;quot; trying to preserve &amp;quot;the Tibetan people's distinctive culture, language and identity.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;He warned, however, that Chinese &amp;quot;state media's portrayal of the recent events in Tibet, using deceit and distorted images, could sow the seeds of racial tension with unpredictable long-term consequences.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Even at this juncture I have expressed my willingness to the Chinese authorities to work together to bring about peace and stability,&amp;quot; he said in the statement, carried by his exiled administration's website Tibet.net.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I have appealed to the leadership of the PRC (People's Republic of China) to clearly understand my position and work to resolve these problems. I urge the Chinese leadership to exercise wisdom and to initiate a meaningful dialogue with the Tibetan people,&amp;quot; the message said.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/dalai-lama-appeals-for-talks-with.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-4644085555852248119</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-28T17:59:29.221+05:00</atom:updated><title>Sectarian clashes intensify in northwest Pakistan</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="LatestNews"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;KOHAT, Pakistan, March 28 (Reuters): Sectarian violence intensified in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan Friday, with at least 22 people reportedly killed in gunbattles, said Qalb-i-Hassan, a newly elected provincial legislator from Kohat town. Fighting overnight was concentrated in three villages of Kohat district of North West Frontier Province and the tribesmen were armed with semi-automatic weapons, machine guns, mortars and rockets. &amp;#8220;I have reports that at least 22 people were killed in fighting overnight,&amp;#8221; said Kamran Zeb, a senior administrator in Kohat. The latest clashes, between the Mishti and Kachai tribes, brought the toll to more than 50 in an outbreak of sectarian violence that began last week.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/sectarian-clashes-intensify-in.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-7318499901775244379</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-27T22:47:53.060+05:00</atom:updated><title>U.S. suspends Afghanistan ammunition deal</title><description>&lt;p&gt;WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army has suspended a munitions contractor from government contract work for reportedly providing Chinese-made ammunition to the Afghanistan army in violation of its contract and U.S. law.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;AEY Inc., a company based in Florida with just eight employees, is under criminal investigation for reportedly claiming that the munitions were made in Hungary, according to documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said there have been no reports that the ammunition was unsafe or failed to work properly. He said some of it may not have been used because of its substandard packaging.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But The New York Times reported in Thursday editions that some of the ammunition was more than 40 years old and Afghan officers complained that it was junk.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In a letter Tuesday, the Army told company owner Efraim Diveroli that the investigation could lead to AEY being barred from any U.S. government work.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Diveroli's attorney, Hy Shapiro, said Thursday he had not seen the Army's letter and declined further comment until he had. No one answered the door at the Miami Beach apartment listed in Florida state records as Diveroli's.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;According to an Army Legal Services memo, AEY began contracting for the Defense and State departments in 2004, and to date has been awarded more than 150 contracts, worth in excess of $200 million.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The main contract, awarded in 2007, was for various types of ammunition for the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police. It included ammunition for machine guns, assault rifles, shotguns and pistols.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After questions arose about the origin of the munitions, U.S. Army investigators in January reviewed shipments at an Afghan Army weapons depot. Stamps on munitions in 14 containers showed that the ammunition was manufactured in factories in China, the memo said.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;According to the contract, based on federal law, companies doing business with the U.S. government cannot buy any munitions directly or indirectly from a Chinese military company, or any entity that is part of China's defense industrial base.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/us-suspends-afghanistan-ammunition-deal.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-2226393500737600425</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-27T22:14:09.548+05:00</atom:updated><title>At least 105 killed in Iraq clashes</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.google.com/uzairimran1/R-vV2zPqLMI/AAAAAAAAA2I/WlfRUIMAkcs/98782_news_image%5B2%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="98782_news_image" src="http://lh6.google.com/uzairimran1/R-vV4DPqLNI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/AFQkxHGCakI/98782_news_image_thumb.jpg" width="164" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;BAGHDAD&amp;#160; ( 2008-03-27 15:54:45 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At least 105 people have been killed in Iraq since fierce clashes between Shia militants and security forces broke out three days ago, according to an AFP tally based on reports by security officials.    &lt;br /&gt;Hundreds of people have been wounded in the battles.     &lt;br /&gt;Fighting has raged in four cities since Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the security forces to raid strongholds of Shia militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern port city of Basra.     &lt;br /&gt;At least 23 people have been killed in Basra, which was on Thursday rocked for a third straight day by fighting, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross and Iraqi security officials.     &lt;br /&gt;Fighting spread on Thursday to the central city of Kut, where 44 people -- 40 gunmen and four policemen -- died, according to local police chief Abdul Hanin al-Amara.     &lt;br /&gt;Another 30 people were killed in clashes between Shia gunmen and Iraqi and US forces in Sadr City, the Baghdad stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia, Iraqi security officials said.     &lt;br /&gt;Eight people have been killed in the province of Babel, south of the capital, Iraqi and US officials said.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/at-least-105-killed-in-iraq-clashes.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-6922151228336378396</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-27T21:51:27.766+05:00</atom:updated><title>Ukrainian helicopter crashes, 12 missing</title><description>&lt;p&gt;KIEV&amp;#160; ( 2008-03-27 19:32:05 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A helicopter belonging to Ukraine's border guards crashed off an island in the Black Sea on Thursday and the fate of 12 of its 13 passengers was unknown,the Emergencies Ministry said.    &lt;br /&gt;Ministry spokesman Ihor Krol said one passenger aboard the Mi-8 helicopter, a military workhorse in post-Soviet states, had been rescued off Poludenniy island near the port city of Odessa.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The helicopter was flying from Odessa to Serpent Island,&amp;quot; Krol said by telephone. &amp;quot;It was spotted overturned. There were 13 people on board. One person was rescued. The fate of 12 others remains unknown.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;All but one of those on board were military officers. The ministry gave no reason for the crash, but a storm warning was in effect for the region.     &lt;br /&gt;Serpent Island, a windswept outcrop in the Black Sea, has long been in dispute between post-Soviet Ukraine and Romania. The row has been referred to international courts.     &lt;br /&gt;A border guard contingent on the island regularly receives its supplies by air.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/ukrainian-helicopter-crashes-12-missing.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-1755984340886055545</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-25T23:02:53.638+05:00</atom:updated><title>FUTURE FLIGHT</title><description>&lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:8ff05d33-0403-4212-b0b9-a2d0c17807c2" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="350" height="330" id="ray_player_object" align="middle"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.myaviationpage.com/ray/modules/global/app/holder.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high" /&gt;&lt;param name="base" value="http://www.myaviationpage.com/ray/modules/movie/" /&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="module=movie&amp;amp;app=player&amp;amp;file=10&amp;amp;url=http://www.myaviationpage.com/ray/XML.php" /&gt;&lt;embed id="ray_player_embed" name="ray_player" src="http://www.myaviationpage.com/ray/modules/global/app/holder.swf" quality="high" width="350" height="330" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" base="http://www.myaviationpage.com/ray/modules/movie/" FlashVars="module=movie&amp;app=player&amp;file=10&amp;url=http://www.myaviationpage.com/ray/XML.php" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/future-flight.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-1261193638626695337</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-25T22:18:37.641+05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NEWS</category><title>DG Rangers Pakistan, BSF quarterly meeting on Wednesday</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.google.com/uzairimran1/R-kz5DPqK4I/AAAAAAAAAzo/BRlQehNavUg/3-25-2008_15850_l%5B2%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="156" alt="3-25-2008_15850_l" src="http://lh5.google.com/uzairimran1/R-kz6TPqK5I/AAAAAAAAAzw/t6YjGlxfLBY/3-25-2008_15850_l_thumb.gif" width="231" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; LAHORE: The quarterly meeting between Director General Rangers Pakistan and Indian Inspector General Border Security Force (BSF) will begin from Wednesday.    &lt;br /&gt;The four-day meeting will kick off in the Indian city of Chandigarh.    &lt;br /&gt;A 15-member Pakistani delegation led by DG Rangers Pakistan will set out for Chandigarh through Wagah Border. The delegation will return through the same route on March 29.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/dg-rangers-pakistan-bsf-quarterly.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-1581722532062487805</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-25T22:12:57.825+05:00</atom:updated><title>Zimbabwe police to crush premature election celebrations</title><description>&lt;p&gt;HARARE&amp;#160; ( 2008-03-25 19:57:47 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Zimbabwe's police vowed on Tuesday to crush any premature victory celebrations ahead of the official release of results from this weekend's general elections.    &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Let me at the onset indicate that we will not brook any situations of chaos or conduct likely to cause a breach of peace, pandemonium, commotion, tumult or disturbance of peace,&amp;quot; assistant police commissioner Faustino Mazango told a news conference in the capital Harare.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We will not countenance any mischievous claims by anyone winning an election just because they have led in one part of the constituency whether it is council, parliamentary, senatorial and presidential election.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We urge politicians not to excite members of the public when they have a lead at one time or the other in any part of the constituency.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;Mazango urged people to rejoice only after announcement of official results but warned against provocative celebrations.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We are more than prepared to deal a deadly blow to any such repugnant forces,&amp;quot; Mazango said.     &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;These are not mere threats, but words of advice to our brothers and sisters and indeed everyone, lest people fail to understand and appreciate our actions to situations of anarchy.&amp;quot;     &lt;br /&gt;Last month, police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri warned that his force was prepared to use firearms to stamp out violence during or after joint presidential and legislative elections this month.     &lt;br /&gt;The police have also banned the carrying of weapons such as knives, catapults, axes and clubs in the run-up to the polls, and for two weeks afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Allow Blog Feeds&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://uzairimran1.blogspot.com/2008/03/zimbabwe-police-to-crush-premature.html</link><thr:total>0</thr:total><author>uzairimran1@gmail.com (imran)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7504095227360236373.post-6957300978722060658</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-25T19:23:03.891+05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NEWS</category><title>Malian soldiers held by Tuareg rebels in Niger: source</title><description>&lt;p&gt;BAMAKO&amp;#160; ( 2008-03-25 18:10:57 ) :&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Malian soldiers taken hostage last week by local Tuareg rebels have been moved across the border to Niger where they are being kept by another Tuareg group, a western military source said Tuesday.   &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The Malian soldiers, some of whom are wounded, have been sent to be guarded by the Nigerien MNJ rebels,&amp;quot; the source said in Bamako, referring to the Movement of Niger People for Justice.    &lt;br /&gt;About 20 hostages have been taken to Niger where they are being held by Tuaregs loyal to rebel leader Ibrahim Ag Bahanga, she added.    &lt;br /&gt;They count among some 29 wounded Malian troops who were abducted in northern Mali on Friday, following clashes between the army and the rebels in the mountainous Tinzaouatene region.    &lt;br /&gt;Four other soldiers were taken prisoner the day before in the area which is considered Ag Bahanga's stronghold.    &lt;br /&gt;The Malian government has since reinforced troops in the restive region.    &lt;br /&gt;Ag Bahanga's group, &amp;quot;supported by other Tuareg bands from countries neighboring Mali, attacked military supply convoys and planted mines,&amp;quot; Mali's Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane said.    &lt;br /&gt;A nomadic people who have roamed the southern Sahara for centuries, Tuaregs have staged uprisings over the years both in Mali and Niger claiming autonomy for their traditional homeland.    &lt;br /&gt;But Ag Bahanga has refused to go along with the peace deal agreed by the majority of former rebels from the Tuareg tribes, and the Malian government believes his group is cooperating with Niger-based militants to launch attacks.    &lt;br /&gt;In Niger, Tuareg rebels want a share in the country's revenue from uranium.&lt;/p&gt; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;!--&lt;br /&gt;digg_bodytext = 'The 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections was a scientifically focused meeting of the world's leading researchers working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its complications. At the Conference which took place from February 3-6, 2008 at Boston - The subjects that were highlighted were: immunology, vaccines (preclinical and clinical trials), virology (including other retroviruses), pathogenesis, neuropathogenesis and neurologic complications, antiretroviral therapy (preclinical, clinical randomized trials, clinical observational studies, and complications), therapeutic vaccines and immune-based therapies, primary/acute infection, clinical pharmacology, HIV drug resistance (including molecular mechanisms, clinical implications and epidemiology of HIV drug resistance), opportunistic infections (including tuberculosis), AIDS-related malignancies (e.g., lymphoma and kaposi's sarcoma), pediatrics/adolescents, maternal/fetal, HIV in women/women's health, novel diagnostic technologies and new monitoring tools, epidemiology of HIV infection, molecular epidemiology (including distribution and diversity of retroviruses), epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases other than HIV, prevention studies (including microbicides and behavioral interventions), and research on clinical care and scale-up in developing countries (including operational research and implementation).The Conference featured the thirteenth Annual Bernard Fields Memorial Lecture, the second N'Galy Mann Lecture, plenary lectures that were highly scientific in nature, roundtable symposia that presented and debated controversial scientific issues, several hundred original oral abstract and poster presentations of new data, and late breakers that&amp;nbsp; consisted of important preliminary research findings. Text and graphic courtesy conference website. Additional resources courtesy The Body, a partner and Cooperating Organization with dgCommunity HIV/AIDS.';&lt;br /&gt;//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections was a scientifically focused meeting of the world's leading researchers working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its complications.    &lt;br /&gt;At the Conference which took place from February 3-6, 2008 at Boston - The subjects that were highlighted were: immunology, vaccines (preclinical and clinical trials), virology (including other retroviruses), pathogenesis, neuropathogenesis and neurologic complications, antiretroviral therapy (preclinical, clinical randomized trials, clinical observational studies, and complications), therapeutic vaccines and immune-based therapies, primary/acute infection, clinical pharmacology, HIV drug resistance (including molecular mechanisms, clinical implications and epidemiology of HIV drug resistance), opportunistic infections (including tuberculosis), AIDS-related malignancies (e.g., lymphoma and kaposi's sarcoma), pediatrics/adolescents, maternal/fetal, HIV in women/women's health, novel diagnostic technologies and new monitoring tools, epidemiology of HIV infection, molecular epidemiology (including distribution and diversity of retroviruses), epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases other than HIV, prevention studies (including microbicides and behavioral interventions), and research on clinical care and scale-up in developing countries (including operational research and implementation).    &lt;br /&gt;The Conference featured the thirteenth Annual Bernard Fields Memorial Lecture, the second N'Galy Mann Lecture, plenary lectures that were highly scientific in nature, roundtable symposia that presented and debated controversial scientific issues, several hundred original oral abstract and poster presentations of new data, and late breakers that&amp;#160; consisted of important preliminary research findings.     &lt;br /&gt;Text and graphic courtesy conference website. 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Investors have sent shares in Delta and Northwest down 14 percent since Feb. 7, when a deal appeared imminent. Still, observers expect the&amp;nbsp;merger to happen, because a combined carrier would be more robust in the face of rising energy prices and tough competition. “We will eventually get an agreement,” airline consultant Julius Maldutis tells Bloomberg television. He says that despite the problems now, he expects to see a merger announced “over the next several days.”';&lt;br /&gt;//--&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Delta (&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=DAL"&gt;DAL&lt;/a&gt;) and Northwest Airlines (&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=NWA"&gt;NWA&lt;/a&gt;) still can&amp;#8217;t get together. 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