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Wednesday, June 17, 2009, NOTTINGHAM: South Africa defeated India by 12 runs in their last Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 Cup 2009 here at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.Chasing 131, India could score 118 runs for the loss of eight wickets when the 20 overs were completed.Their top scorers were Rohit Sharma (29), Yuvraj Singh (25) and Gautam Gambhir (21). John Botha claimed three wickets for 16 runs and Dale Steyn took two for 25.Earlier, South Africa made 130 runs for the loss of five wickets after winning the toss.AB de Villiers top scored with 63 from 51 balls. He struck seven fours.For India, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina claimed one wicket each.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009, WASHINGTON: Alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. military officials that he had lied to the CIA after being abused, according to documents made public Monday. Mohammed made the assertion during hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was transferred in 2006 after being held at secret CIA sites since his capture in 2003."I make up stories," Mohammed said, describing in broken English an interrogation probably administered by the CIA concerning the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "Where is he? I don't know. Then, he torture me," Mohammed said of his interrogator. "Then I said, 'Yes, he is in this area.' "Mohammed also appeared to say that he had fingered people he did not know as being Al Qaeda members in order to avoid abusive treatment. Although there is no way to corroborate his statements, Mohammed is one of the militants whom the CIA repeatedly subjected to the simula...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 LONDON: The UK's foreign secretary says Britain tries to ensure foreign partners don't use torture but cannot guarantee that some allies don't abuse suspected terrorists.David Miliband says Britain has abandoned some operations because the risk a detainee would be mistreated overseas was deemed too high.Miliband said Tuesday that "it is not always possible to eradicate the risk of mistreatment" of detainees held by overseas governments.British officials are facing allegations they may have colluded in the torture of detainees held in Pakistan and elsewhere.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s Mufti Sheikh Abd Al-'Aziz Aal Al-Sheikh has issued a fatwa banning leaving or travelling to countries with outbreaks of swine flu. The fatwa says that doing so constitutes a violation of the religious law regarding saving lives.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 GAZA: Deposed Prime Minister of Hamas in Gaza Ismail Haneya told former U.S. President Jimmy Carter that Hamas accepts a Palestinian state established on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. Haneya told a joint news conference after his meeting with Carter in Gaza that Hamas accepts the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967 "with Jerusalem as its capital." Carter, meanwhile, told reporters that the principle of solving the conflict based on the two-state solution and sharing Jerusalem as a joint capital for the two states is the best for achieving a comprehensive and everlasting peace. Haneya said, "If there is a real project that aims at resolving the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it." "We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital," Hane...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 YEKATERINBURG: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday said the age of empires had ended and the capitalist system has started to crumble."The international capitalist order is retreating," the controversial president told world leaders, including Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and China's Hu Jintao, in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg."It is absolutely obvious that the age of empires has ended and its revival will not take place."A broadly-smiling Ahmadinejad, wearing a dark suit and as usual no tie, earlier shook hands with a beaming Medvedev before the leaders went into the second day of the summit.Whether Ahmadinejad -- who has a habit of stealing the limelight at such events -- would turn up had become a source of intrigue after he postponed his planned arrival on Monday following unrest in Iran. Ahmadinejad later held a bilateral meeting with Medvedev, the Kremlin said."Iraq is still occupied. There is no order in ...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 TEHRAN: Iran's top legislative body, the Guardian Council, said it is ready to recount votes in last week's presidential election won by incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state television said on Tuesday. The council said the recount may lead to changes in candidates' tally, according to the television report. A local television said the council had agreed for a recount of disputed ballot boxes in the election. Defeated candidate Mirhossein Mousavi has appealed to the council for the election to be annulled, but has said he was not optimistic about its verdict.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 TEHRAN: Seven people were killed when violence erupted during a massive opposition rally in the heart of Tehran against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election, state radio said on Tuesday. Tyres, dustbins and motorbikes were set ablaze by protestors as hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets in a public outpouring of anger reminiscent of the days of the Islamic revolution in 1979. State radio said at least seven people were killed when "thugs" attacked and vandalised government buildings at the end of the rally, which had been banned by the authorities as an illegal gathering. "A military post was attacked with the intention of looting its weapons. Unfortunately, seven of our citizens were killed and a number of them injured," it said. One source said the emergency services department had information that eight people were killed, while the coroner's office said it had registered no deaths in connection wit...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 NEW DELHI: Ram Pradhan Committee report looking into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks has been tabled in the Maharashtra Legislature.Earlier yesterday, Forest Minister Babanrao Pachpute informed the Legislative Council regarding the report submission.The report has been submitted after a demand by opposition Sena-BJP members for immediate tabling of the report.There were also reports of major differences on the issue at the meeting of the state cabinet held at Vidhan Bhawan on Monday.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 TEHRAN: Seven civilians were killed when a military post was attcked near a rally held a day ago in Tehran to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a local radio announced on Tuesday.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 YEKATERINBURG: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Russia on Tuesday to attend a security summit, in his first trip abroad following his disputed election victory, an official in the Iranian delegation said."Yes, yes, yes, his plane is now sitting" at the airport in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains, the Iranian official said on condition of anonymity. Ahmadinejad was expected in Russia on Monday, but postponed his trip following unrest over his disputed election victory. A Kremlin spokesman confirmed Ahmadinejad's arrival, saying the Iranian leader would participate in a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a six-group regional security organization dominated by Russia and China. The group also includes Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Iran has in the past expressed interest in becoming a full member and currently has observer status. Ahmadinejad was initially scheduled to hold ...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama says Italy will take three detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.Obama revealed the agreement at the end of an Oval Office meeting Monday with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Obama has been banking on foreign countries and some communities in the United States to take in some detainees who cannot go to their own countries for fear of ill-treatment.Last month, Italy's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said Italy was considering a U.S. request to take two Tunisian prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 SANA’A: Nine missing foreigners – including three children – in Yemen have all turned up dead, said a Yemeni official Monday, apparently executed by their kidnappers.The nine foreigners, including seven German nationals, a Briton and a South Korean, disappeared last week while on a picnic in the restive northern Saada region of Yemen.The bodies were found by the son of a tribal leader in Noshour, east of the volatile Saada mountainous area of northern Yemen where the nine were abducted, the official said.The authorities had accused Shiite Zaidi rebels in Saada of seizing seven Germans, a British engineer and a South Korean woman teacher. The rebels denied the charge.The nine – among them three German children and two women nurses – belong to an international relief group that has worked at a hospital in Saada province for 35 years, an official said Sunday.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the kidnapping – the latest in a string of abductions of f...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 WASHINGTON: The election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to complicate US President Barack Obama’s new approach to his country’s conflict with Iran.The reason behind the foreseen obstacle is neither the US nor Iran’s refusal to engage in future dialogue, but rather, Israel’s insistence on a hard-line approach to the problem. Iran’s presidential elections on June 12 were positioned to represent another fight between Middle Eastern ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’. That depiction, which conveniently divided the Middle East, according to the prevailing US foreign policy discourse, to pro-American and anti-American camps was hardly as clear in the Iranian case as it was in Palestine and most recently in Lebanon.Ahmadinejad’s main rival, Mir Hussein Mousavi served as Iran’s Prime Minister for eight years (between 1981-1989) during one of Iran’s most challenging times — its war with Iraq. He was hardly seen as a ‘moderate’ then. More, Mousavi wa...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 TAUNTON: Mithali Raj guides her team home as New Zealand joins the last four with win over South Africa.After Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team was knocked out on Sunday night, Mithali Raj made sure an India team made it through to the semi-finals of the ICC World Twenty20 after her fellow batters made heavy weather of the chase against Sri Lanka in a low-scoring encounter at Taunton on Monday.Sri Lanka reached 94-5 from a rain-reduced 18 overs, but India was stumbling in reply before player of the match Mithali stroked an assured 32 not out to seal the five-wicket win.Sri Lanka started off stodgily on a damp wicket, reaching only 34-3 from the first 10 overs after opting to bat. Some bright hitting from Deepika Rasangika late on, with a 20-ball unbeaten 24, pushed her team forward but the total still looked light. An impressive fielding effort, however, gave it a chance.Earlier, New Zealand rode into the semi-finals unbeaten after recording its third successive win, ...

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 LONDON: The West Indies have qualified for the semi-finals as they defeated England in the rain-delayed Super Eights under the Duckworth/Lewis rule for rain-affected matches here at The Oval on Monday. They were set a revised target of 80 runs from nine overs after rain interrupted the game. However, they achieved it in 8.2 overs for the loss of five wickets.LONDON: Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul steered the West Indies into the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 at England's expense as they beat the hosts by five wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis method here Monday.West Indies, set a revised target of 80 in nine overs after rain delayed the start of the second innings, finished on 82 for five at the Oval with four balls to spare to triumph in a Super Eights match where the winners knew they were going through to the last four.Sarwan was 19 not out and Chanderpaul 17 not out, their unbroken stand worth 37 after West Indies had been wobbling at 45 fo...