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Monday, July 13, 2009, SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the authorities have imposed undeclared curfew in Srinagar and barricaded all the roads leading towards Lal Chowk to prevent the Lal Chowk March. Call for the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has given the March.Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Agha Hassan Al-Moosvi have been placed under house arrest.On the other hand, among other nine APHC women activists, Indian police has also detained APHC leader Yasmeen Raja lodging her at Ram Bagh Police Station.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 BOGOTA: Colombian right-wing paramilitaries have admitted to killing 21,000 people, prosecutors said on Monday. "We are up to 21,000 murders that have been confessed to," Luis Gonzalez, of the public prosecutor's office, told local radio. The confessions by the former fighters spanned a three-year period and are part of a peace deal that includes a drive to demobilize 31,000 former fighters, know as the United Colombian Self Defense Forces, or Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia Gonzalez told radio Caracol that the full extent of the "horrors" may be unknown "because there are still many murders to confess to. "We have documented around 246,000 cases that occurred in the regions that had the Autodefensa forces," he said.

Monday, July 13, 2009 TEHRAN: Fourteen Sunni rebels from the shadowy group Jundallah are to be hanged in public early on Tuesday in the restive city of Zahedan in southeast Iran, the official news agency said on Monday.The condemned rebels include Abdolhamid Rigi, a brother of Jundallah (Soldiers of God) leader Abdolmalik Rigi.The local judiciary of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has invited residents of the city to attend the executions due to be carried out at 6:30 am (0200 GMT), it added.Iran accuses Jundallah of launching regular attacks in Sistan-Baluchestan province, which is home to a sizeable Baluch minority of Sunni Muslims. The group strongly opposes the government of predominantly Shiite Iran.

Monday, July 13, 2009 NEWS DELHI: In the second mishap in as many days, six persons were injured on Monday when cranes carrying out debris clearance operation at the site of the metro accident collapsed. The incident comes a day after six persons were killed when an under-construction bridge of the Delhi Metro gave way at South Delhi's Jamrudpur. Metro authorities said the crane mishap was caused due to a mechanical fault and that heavier cranes would be used from now on. Metro chief E Sreedharan, who had resigned on Sunday taking moral responsibility for the accident, reached the site for the second time in the day following the mishap which occurred at around noon. Doctors at the AIIMS trauma centre said six persons were brought to the hospital from the accident site with minor injuries. However, DMRC officials said no one was hurt.

Monday, July 13, 2009 PRAGUE: Belgium-Canadian movie, Un Ange à la Mer (Angel at Sea) has captured the best film award at the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech republic.A feature debut by Belgian director Frederic Dumont, the movie tells of a 12-year-old boy living with his parents and brother by the sea whose life is altered when his father tells him a secret.Dumont's film beat out 14 other contenders for the Crystal Globe, which includes a cash prize of $30,000 US.Un Ange à la Mer also garnered another trophy when Olivier Gourmet shared the best actor accolade with American Paul Giamatti for his role in the film Cold Souls.The best actress award was handed to Paprika Steen for Applause from Denmark, while German Andreas Dresen won the directing prize for Whisky mit Wodka (Whiskey with Vodka ) described as a tragic-comedy about a famous actor who discovers a movie director has hired an understudy.The special jury prize went to Bist (Twenty) by Abdolreza K...

Sunday, July 12, 2009 GUANTUNXIANG: Thousands camped in tents in southwestern China on Saturday after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake destroyed thousands of homes, killed one person and injured 320, state media reported.At the epicenter of Thursday's quake in Yao'an county, nearly 22,000 people took shelter in some 3,000 tents, and emergency crews rushed in quilts, rice, cooking oil and other supplies, a local news agency said.The quake displaced some 250,000 people, the report said, sharply revising downward an initial estimate of 400,000. The news agency, which cited a deputy governor of Yunnan province where the quake occurred, did not give a reason for the discrepancy. A duty officer at the provincial government offices declined to comment, saying the media office was closed for the weekend.Yao'an, a hilly area, sustained the worst damage, accounting for nearly half the people displaced.In Guantunxiang, one of the hardest-hit villages, Li Fashun's house was reduced to a...

Sunday, July 12, 2009 NEW DELHI: Three people were killed and eleven other injured when an under-construction bridge of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation collapsed near Lajpat Nagar in India early Sunday morning.Fire Brigade officials said a pillar holding up the overhead railway tracks collapsed near the Lady Sri Ram College around 5:00 am. The labourers working at the site came under the concrete slabs that came crashing down.According to eyewitnesses more than 25 labourers were working at the site when the incident occurred. The falling structure has caused a major pipeline burst, hampering rescue operations. The Fire brigade officials are saving the people trapped under the debris while lifting the heavy concrete slabs with the help of cranes.Delhi Metro spokesperson Anuj Dayal told the media that it was a structural collapse. "We are investigating the matter.""It appears there is a problem in design of the peer of the bridge. We were trying to rectify it," he s...

COLOMBO: Debutant Fawad Alam scored an unbeaten century as Pakistan produced a remarkable turnaround to claw their way back in the second Test against Sri Lanka on Monday. The tourists, who were bowled out for 90 in their first innings, hit back to dismiss Sri Lanka for 240 and then cruised to 178-1 in their second knock by stumps on the second day.Left-handed Alam led the way with a determined 102 not out to give Pakistan a lead of 28 runs with nine wickets in hand on a dry pitch that appeared to have eased out under the hot sun.The fearless 23-year-old from Karachi moved to 98 by lofting left-arm spinner Rangana Herath for a six over mid-wicket and then flicked the next ball for two runs to reach the coveted century.Alam put on 85 for the first wicket with Khurram Manzoor, who made 38 before he was caught behind by wicket-keeper Tillakaratne Dilshan off Herath.Skipper Younus Khan, who was dismissed for zero in the first innings, was unbeaten on 35 at stumps after adding 93 for the u...

Unfortunately on Saturday, July 11, 41-year-old Go Mi-sun, after reaching the top of 26,658-foot (8,125-meter) Nanga Parbat, fell off a cliff on the descent in bad weather at 10:30 p.m. An expedition member told the Korean Times, “It happened on her way back to the base camp after conquering the mountain. We saw her fall from a cliff located at 6,200 meters.” She was missing for five hours before her body was spotted by team mates about 3,000 feet below the place where she fell. Before she became a high-altitude mountaineer a few years ago, Mi-sun was the best woman rock climber in Asia. She regularly cranked hard routes and usually won climbing competitions like the Asian X-Games. Go Mi-sun’s death is another tragic loss to the climbing world this year. It was looking forward to hearing more of her amazing accomplishments this year, like climbing the three Karakoram peaks this summer and then finishing off the top fourteen by climbing Annapurna in the autumn. She’ll be missed. We sen...

Monday, July 13, 2009 PARIS: Pierrick Fedrigo was first to reach finish line to take the glory on yesterday's ninth stage of the Tour de France.The Frenchman just pipped Italian Franco Pellizotti after the pair broke away from the pack on the 160km route between Saint-Gaudens and Tarbes.It was Fedrigo's second stage win for his Bouygues Telecom team after he and Pellizotti (Liquigas) were clocked at 4 hours, 5 minutes, 31 seconds - 34 seconds ahead of the peleton led by Spaniard Oscar Freire of Rabobank.Italian Rinaldo Nocentini was 24th but retained the yellow jersey by six seconds from Alberto Contador of Spain and eight from American Lance Armstrong.There was also no change in the race for the green jersey with Thor Hushovd still leading from Britain's Mark Cavendish going into today's rest day. But there was a change in the mountain standings with Spaniard Egoi Martinez taking over the polkadot jersey from Christophe Kern of France.Armstrong reckons the overall sta...