tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84531745081827206462024-08-29T19:09:44.497+07:00Indonesia's leading English Newspaper. The journal and resource of Indonesia today.aiwarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09802524043271050049noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453174508182720646.post-42278502111400043672007-10-02T18:37:00.000+07:002008-12-12T05:29:23.211+07:00

Tuesday, 2 October 2007North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il has welcomed South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to Pyongyang for a historic summit.Live television footage showed the two men shaking hands ahead of three days of talks in the North Korean capital.The summit between the two leaders is only the second such meeting in more than 50 years since the Korean war.President Roh said he was

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has named his successor to take over as army chief, the military says.The appointee is former head of intelligence Lt Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kiani, military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad told the BBC.Gen Musharraf will resign as head of the army if he wins presidential elections on Saturday, his lawyers say.Opposition parties say his

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has met detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for a second time, hours after talks with military rulers.The meeting took place on Mr Gambari's return from the new capital, Naypyidaw, where he conveyed to General Than Shwe concerns over a violent crackdown.At least 10 people were killed, possibly many more, when troops ended

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007UK troops in Basra are to be cut by 1,000 by the end of the year, Gordon Brown has said on a visit to Baghdad for talks with senior politicians.Mr Brown also confirmed Basra province could be handed over to full Iraqi control in the next two months.Britain currently has about 5,500 troops stationed at Basra Airport.Mr Brown, on his first visit to Iraq as UK prime minister,

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007The FBI is to investigate the role of the private security firm, Blackwater USA, in the fatal shooting of 11 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad last month.An FBI spokesman said criminal charges were possible if its inquiry agreed with the Iraqi government's findings.Iraq has accused Blackwater's employees of opening fire on civilians without provocation, a charge the firm

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007A delegation of influential elder statesmen led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu is travelling to Darfur to try to find solutions to the conflict.The "Elders" will be talking to local community leaders and to displaced people living in camps.The visit comes three days after an attack on the African Union base in southern Darfur left 10 soldiers dead.At least 200,000 people have

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed has begun at London's High Court.A jury of six women and five men has been selected for the hearing, which could last six months. They were chosen by ballot from a shortlist of 25.Throughout the case, jurors will be escorted to and from court by police.The princess and Mr Al Fayed died in a car crash

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007Singer Britney Spears has been ordered to hand over her two young children to her former husband.Los Angeles judge Scott Gordon said Kevin Federline should be given custody of Sean Preston, two, and one-year-old Jayden James, until "further notice".The couple had shared custody and the reason for the change was not given.The decision comes two weeks after the same judge

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Fernando Alonso says he would rather not continue alongside Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next year.The Spaniard, set to lose the title to his team-mate, said: "I'd be delighted if I didn't carry on with Hamilton.""If we are not together next season and I can go to a good car, then great. If we have to carry on together then we will have another great battle."Meanwhile, Renault team boss Flavio

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A Canadian judge has acquitted four doctors and a US drug company of criminal negligence in a long-running tainted-blood scandal.At least 20,000 people were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the 1980s and 1990s before Canada used up-to-date blood screening practices.At least 3,000 people are known to have died as a result of receiving tainted blood products.The case is the first to stem from

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Monday, 1 October 2007Dominique Strauss-Kahn says that the slowdown in the US sub-prime mortgage market should not have a dramatic impact on the world economy.Mr Strauss-Kahn was giving his first news conference since being named as the next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday."I think the situation is now under control," the socialist former French finance minister said."The

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Monday, 1 October 2007Reports from Zimbabwe say bakeries have run out of flour and there will be no bread in the foreseeable future.The Agriculture Ministry has confirmed that this year's wheat harvest yield of 145,000 tonnes is only one third of the country's requirements.Agriculture Minister Rugare Gumbo is quoted as blaming the shortages on the failings of what he called the "new farmers"

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An attack on an African Union army base in the Sudanese region of Darfur has killed at least 10 peacekeepers.Thirty vehicles overran the base, and 50 AU soldiers were missing and seven seriously injured. Vehicles and property were looted or vandalised.Rebel sources told the BBC that the raiders were members of breakaway factions from two rebel groups.The attack came as S African Archbishop

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Younes Kaboul completed an amazing comeback by Tottenham as they fought back from 4-1 down to hold Aston Villa.Dimitar Berbatov nodded Spurs in front but Martin Laursen levelled after Paul Robinson's error, then made it 2-1 when he deflected in Zat Knight's header.Gabriel Agbonlahor drilled home a third and Craig Gardner's low free-kick made it 4-1 before Pascal Chimbonda replied after Jermain

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Chelsea captain John Terry could face Valencia in Wednesday's Champions League clash after having a protective mask made for his broken cheekbone.Terry, who underwent surgery on Sunday, will travel with the rest of the team to Spain for the key encounter."The reason for getting it all done as soon as possible is so he can be back and playing," Chelsea doctor Bryan English told the club website."

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Ralf Schumacher is to quit Toyota at the end of the season after three years with the Japanese team, but has not confirmed which team he will move to.Schumacher's future has been the source of speculation following a torrid season in which the 32-year-old has taken five points in 15 Grands Prix."I have opted to look for a new challenge," he told his website."I'm going to have conversations in the

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America's former Olympic discus champion Al Oerter has died aged 71 after suffering from high blood pressure and heart problems.He won gold medals in four consecutive Olympics, a record only he and American sprinter Carl Lewis share in track and field.But in each of Oerter's successes in 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968, the thrower from New York, set an Olympic record.His wife Cathy Oerter said: "He

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Toddlers who watch too much television are more likely to suffer later behavioural problems - but the damage can be reversed, say researchers.The Johns Hopkins University experts found that under-fives who watched over two hours a day increased their risk.However, young children who watched too much, but cut back by five years old, removed the risk, the study in the journal Pediatrics suggested.A

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Monday, 1 October 2007New York's leading shares have broken their record closing level after economic data made an interest rate cut more likely.The rises came after a report showed that manufacturing grew at its slowest pace for six months in September.The Federal Reserve's next rate-setting meeting is on 30-31 October.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 1.38% or 191.92 points at

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Monday, 1 October 2007The US handheld computer maker Palm has reported a three-month loss as the launch of Apple's iPhone hit sales of its own smartphones.It made a net loss of $841,000 (£412,000) between June and August, compared with a profit of $16.5m in the same three months of 2006.Palm warned on 19 September that it was likely to report a loss.Analysts blamed it on increased competition

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Monday, 1 October 2007Leaders of the two Koreas are preparing to meet each other in only the second top-level summit between the two sides.South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun says forging a permanent peace between the countries will be his top priority when he meets the North's Kim Jong-il.He plans to cross the heavily fortified border on foot in a symbolic gesture.The 1950-53 war between the

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Monday, 1 October 2007Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.They are being held at a disused race course and a technical college.Sources from a government-sponsored

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Monday, 1 October 2007Singer Britney Spears has been ordered to hand over her two young children to her former husband.A judge in Los Angeles ruled that Kevin Federline be given custody of Sean Preston, two, and one-year-old Jayden James, until further notice.Ms Spears has recently been charged over a motoring incident, and dropped by her management firm.Representatives for Ms Spears and Mr

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Monday, 1 October 2007Ukraine's President, Viktor Yushchenko, has demanded an urgent investigation into the delays in the vote counting of Sunday's early parliamentary election.This came after partial results from eastern and southern Ukraine gave the Russia-leaning party of Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych a narrow lead.However, the combined total of Mr Yushchenko and the opposition leader,

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Monday, 1 October 2007The commander of the new hybrid peacekeeping force in Darfur has blamed a breakaway rebel faction for an attack that killed 10 African Union troops.Speaking from the scene of the attack, General Martin Agwai told the BBC it was a splinter group "who broke away from a faction called SLA United".About 30 AU soldiers are missing and seven were badly injured in the raid, by

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