Militants kidnap Afghan governor
July 3, 2011 by Trend PK
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KABUL: Suspected militants have kidnapped the governor of a volatile Afghan district near the border with Pakistan, a senior local official said.
Musafir Khan Qayumzai, the district governor of Ghazi Abad, was snatched Friday (local time) along with his son and two bodyguards, Kunar provincial governor Sayed Fazlullah Waahedi said.
“When he was en route to his office from home, he was taken out of his car by unidentified men and was taken away,” Waahedi said.
He added that local officials have now “taken steps to release the district governor through tribal mediation and negotiation with the Taliban.”
The Taliban and other militants frequently kidnap police, soldiers and non-governmental organisation workers in Afghanistan but it is relatively rare for them to target prominent local politicians.
Violence has flared in Afghanistan since the Taliban insurgents began their spring offensive at the start of May, after record deaths in 2010. AGENCIES
At least eight die in minibus blast in Turkey
September 16, 2010 by Trend PK
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DIYARBAKIR: At least eight people were killed and three wounded when an explosive device ripped apart their minibus in southeast Turkey on Thursday, local officials said.
The blast occurred near the village of Gecitli in Hakkari province near the borders with Iraq and Iran.
Resul Kaya, mayor of the nearby town of Durankaya, told Reuters nine people died when the minibus hit a landmine. Security officials said it was a remote-controlled explosive device left in the road.
Those officials earlier said that at least 10 people had died. The Hakkari governor’s office put the death toll at eight people, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
Separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants have frequently carried out similar attacks in the past. However, such attacks are generally on military targets and the PKK declared a ceasefire last month,
Two dead in Philippine airport blast
August 6, 2010 by Trend PK
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MANILA: A bomb went off outside an airport in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, killing two people and wounding 24, local officials said.
Police said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device. “There was one man who died on the spot and he could be the one who detonated the explosive device,” Celso Lobregat, mayor of the city on Mindanao Island, told reporters after the incident.
He later said another man had died while being treated at a hospital and 24 were wounded. They included Sakur Tan, governor of the southern island of Jolo, a hotbed of militancy in the mainly Roman Catholic state.
Heavy rains in Japan kill two, three missing
July 15, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
TOKYO: Heavy rains have killed two women in western Japan and left three people missing, local officials said Thursday, as the weather agency warned of the risk of more floods and landslides.
Police said a woman, 72, had died in a mudslide, a day after the body of a 77-year-old woman was pulled from a river, both in Hiroshima prefecture.
Torrential rains have for days battered western Japan, including Kyushu island, leaving vast areas of farmland flooded. Authorities had issued evacuation advisories for some 300,000 people as of late Wednesday.
Three more people were listed missing Thursday — two elderly women in Hiroshima and an 82-year-old man in neighbouring Shimane prefecture.
The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast up to 50 millimetres (two inches) of rain an hour Thursday, warning of more possible mudslides and flooding.
Last year 25 people died in the same region after torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides, including one that devastated a retirement home.
Seven dead in US tornado
June 7, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
WASHINGTON: Seven people were killed when a devastating tornado swept through northwestern Ohio, a state emergency management official told foreign news agency on Sunday.
“All seven deaths were a result of the tornado,” said spokeswoman for the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, adding that the fatalities were from a tornado that touched down in Wood County, southeast of Toledo, Ohio.
As many as seven tornadoes touched down in northwestern Ohio late Saturday and early Sunday morning, according to data from the US National Weather Service. A five-year-old child was among the dead in the small town of Millbury, Ohio, local media reported, citing Lake Township Police Chief Mark Hummer.
Heavy storm winds were already raking Millbury when the main twister touched down at around 11:00 pm Saturday, destroying some 50 homes, businesses, and the roof and walls were ripped from the local high school, local officials said. A dozen people were hospitalized following the tornado.
jinnah
May 31, 2010 by Trend PK
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At least 12 people have been killed, and up to 40 wounded, in an attack on a hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials and media say.
At least three armed men
attacked the hospital on Monday, taking several patients hostage, a senior doctor told the Reuters news agency.
“They barged into the hospital building and opened indiscriminate fire,” Javed Ikram, chief executive of Jinnah hospital, said.
“As a result, 12 people were killed. Most of them were police officials. Some hospital guards and attendants were also killed,” he said.
Police are still battling the attackers.
At least 30 victims and one of the alleged perpetrators of an attack on two mosques of a minority religious community in Lahore were being treated in the hospital when it was attacked.
Eighty-two people were killed in those attacks on Friday, which targeted Ahmadiyya mosques.
lahore hospital
May 31, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
At least 12 people have been killed, and up to 40 wounded, in an attack on a hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials and media say.
At least three armed men
attacked the hospital on Monday, taking several patients hostage, a senior doctor told the Reuters news agency.
“They barged into the hospital building and opened indiscriminate fire,” Javed Ikram, chief executive of Jinnah hospital, said.
“As a result, 12 people were killed. Most of them were police officials. Some hospital guards and attendants were also killed,” he said.
Police are still battling the attackers.
At least 30 victims and one of the alleged perpetrators of an attack on two mosques of a minority religious community in Lahore were being treated in the hospital when it was attacked.
Eighty-two people were killed in those attacks on Friday, which targeted Ahmadiyya mosques.
80 militants killed in Orakzai, say officials
May 28, 2010 by Trend PK
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KALAYA: Army fighter planes destroyed at least 10 suspected militant hideouts and one dozen vehicles in the Orakzai tribal region on Friday, killing at least 80 insurgents, local officials have said.
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80 militants killed in Orakzai, say officials
thad allen
May 27, 2010 by Trend PK
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Coast Guard Commander Thad Allen talks about Gulf oil spill
There are signs that the “top kill” operations may be effective, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen told NPR. He is in Houma, Louisiana, meeting with local officials and residents.
“Since yesterday afternoon, British Petroleum and their subcontractors have been pumping a heavy mud down into the well bore below the blowout preventer, and over the course of the last 12 to 18 hours, they’ve been able to force mud down, and not allow any hydrocarbons to come up,” Allen said, in an interview on Morning Edition. He is in charge of clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.
The “top kill” effort, launched Wednesday afternoon by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block oil and gas spewing from the well, Allen said. The pressure from the well was very low, he said, but persisting.
BP has made enough claims during this process that they need to be careful making any others. Even Fox News anchors recognize they cannot be trusted. Enough mud has apparently been pumped into the well to stop oil from being pumped out, but that could change; it’s basically a pressure battle. And importantly, capping the well this very second would still mean untold millions of gallons of oil on and below the surface of the Gulf. But capping the underwater gusher is clearly a top priority, and right now they’re claiming some success on the top kill.
The communities most directly harmed by oil’s abuse are organised, networked and ready. The public is roused, angered and ready to act. The oil corporations are on notice: the true cost of their operations is simply too great to bear. For as long as we continue to use oil, the operations of its providers will be restricted, reined in, regulated and, ultimately, retired.
| Admiral Thad Allen talks about the oil spill |
Turkish Quake Death Toll Rises To 41
March 8, 2010 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com Turkish Quake Death Toll Rises To 41:KOVANCILAR: A strong earthquake killed 41 villagers in eastern Turkey early on Monday, local officials said, as rescuers worked to free survivors trapped under the rubble.
The quake woke residents from their sleep when it struck at 4:32 am local time (0232 GMT), [...]
