Iran denies report of seven US troops detained–TV
September 19, 2010 by Trend PK
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TEHRAN: Iran denied on Sunday that border guards had detained seven U.S. troops, calling the report “unfounded”, the state-run English language Press TV said.
The country’s Arabic language television al-Alam also quoted Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, in charge of Iran’s border security, as denying that any such incident had happened in the southeastern province of Sistan Baluchestan, as earlier reported by a semi-official news agency. AGENCIES
4 NATO troops killed in Afghan roadside bombs
July 17, 2010 by Trend PK
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KABUL: Roadside bombs killed four NATO troops in Afghanistan, the international force said Saturday, adding to a violent summer as coalition forces step up patrols in the Taliban-dominated south.
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French youths torch cars in standoff with police
July 17, 2010 by Trend PK
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PARIS: A regional security official says youths torched cars and opened fire on police offers during an overnight confrontation with the police in the southeastern French city of Grenoble.
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NKorea”s Kim Jong-Il arrives in China
May 3, 2010 by Trend PK
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BEIJING: North Korea”s secretive leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in China early Monday, an official with the tourism bureau at China”s northeastern Dandong border crossing said.
“Kim arrived at about five this morning,” the official at the Friendship Bridge tourist site told foreign news agency.
Suicide blast near foreign base in Afghanistan
May 3, 2010 by Trend PK
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KHOST: A suicide bomber hit a convoy of Afghan forces near a base of foreign troops in the southeastern Afghan town of Khost on Monday, residents said, but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the bomber used a car laden with a huge quantity of explosives in the blast, the latest in a string of attacks in recent weeks.
Foreign and Afghan soldiers cordoned off the site of the attack in the town which lies near the border with Pakistan, residents said.
peter steele dead
April 15, 2010 by Trend PK
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Type O Negative’s Peter Steele Dead At 48?No official statement has been made yet, but the internet is buzzing with the rumor that Type O Negative’s frontman, Peter Steele, died of heart failure on Wednesday, April 14.
Mistress Juliya of Fuse TV wrote on her Twitter page that she spoke to the band’s guitarist Kenny Hickey and he confirmed that the rumors were true. Blabbermouth also reports on the story.
Back in 2005, the band’s official website proclaimed Steele to have died, although they later revealed that this was just a joke regarding the band changing record labels.
Right now we don’t know if this a rumor or a fact, but we will keep you updated once an official statement has been made.
volcano in iceland
April 15, 2010 by Trend PK
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Volcanic ash that spewed from a volcano in Iceland Wednesday has drifted over to Britain where it has forced authorities to close several airports and cancel flights.
More than 150 flights at London’s Heathrow Airport and hundreds more across England have been canceled early Thursday. There were also no flights going in or out of Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Air traffic officials say the volcanic ash is a “significant safety threat to aircraft.”
Authorities on Iceland evacuated hundreds Wednesday after a volcano melted part of a glacier, flooding part of the southeastern area of the island.
Experts say Wednesday’s eruption was stronger than one that occurred last month under the same glacier.
Police say no lives or property are in immediate danger and that the worst of the flooding appears to have subsided.
Iceland sits on a North Atlantic volcanic hot spot.
The volcano that has erupted twice since March 20th had been silent for nearly 200 years.
plane crash
April 13, 2010 by Trend PK
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A Navy training jet crashed in a north Georgia forest on Monday, the T-39N Plane Crash killed three people aboard and setting more than 10 acres of woodland ablaze. The T-39N took off from Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, about 400 miles south of Morganton, The cause of the crash is still under investigation.A Navy training jet crashed in a north Georgia forest on Monday, the T-39N Plane Crash killed three people aboard and setting more than 10 acres of woodland ablaze. The T-39N took off from Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, about 400 miles south of Morganton, The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
brad brownell
April 13, 2010 by Trend PK
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Brad Brownell of Wright State was hired Tuesday as the basketball coach at Clemson, which is turning to another coach from a mid-major school in Ohio.
Brownell succeeds Oliver Purnell, who was hired in 2003 from Dayton and led Clemson to the past three NCAA tournaments. Purnell surprised Clemson last week when he left to coach DePaul.
Clemson said Brownell was to be introduced Tuesday at an afternoon news conference, where terms of the agreement were to be discussed.
“Brad Brownell is an unbelievable coach,” Butler coach Brad Stevens said. “He has been a winner everywhere he has been. I am happy to see Brad go to a great school and a great program like Clemson.”
Brownell went 84-45 in four years at Wright State. He led the Raiders to a 20-12 record last year, including 12-6 in the Horizon League. Wright State lost to NCAA tournament runner-up Butler in the conference championship game.
Before arriving at Wright State, Brownell coached UNC-Wilmington and went 83-40 in four seasons.
At Clemson, Purnell was 138-88, including three straight first-round losses in the NCAA tournament. Purnell took a school that was near the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference and built it into a contender, although his teams tended to fade down the stretch.
Clemson had only once before made the NCAA tournament in three straight seasons. The Tigers, however, lost each time as the higher-seeded team. Last month, they were beaten by Missouri.
Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips learned of Purnell’s departure last Tuesday. Phillips spent the week vetting candidates that included former Boston College coach Al Skinner, Wofford coach Mike Young and Tigers interim coach Ron Bradley.
The most serious appeared to be Rick Stansbury of Mississippi State. He said Monday he and his wife met with Phillips and considered jumping from the Southeastern Conference before deciding to remain with the Bulldogs. That left Phillips targeting Brownell, who has won 20 games in each of his past six seasons.
Brownell inherits an inexperienced corps of players, and some challenges. Devin Booker, the brother of star Trevor Booker, has talked about leaving. The family of Tiger signee Marcus Thornton had asked the school for a release from his letter of intent after Purnell’s departure.
NATO helicopter downed in southeastern Afghanistan
April 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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KABUL: A helicopter belonging to international forces in Afghanistan has gone down in the country”s southeast, NATO reported Friday. Taliban and Afghan officials said militants shot it down.
A NATO spokesman said only that the helicopter went down in the southeastern province of Zabul, and that no other details were known about the incident, which was under investigation.
A Zabul government spokesman, Mohhamed Jahn Rasuliyar, said the helicopter had been shot down about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Qalat near the village of Now Haiz, but said he had no word on deaths or injuries.
Qari Yusuf Ahmedi, a spokesman for the Taliban insurgency that isactive in the area, said militants had shot down the aircraft around midnight.
