Israeli air strike kills 2 Palestinian gunmen: medics

GAZA: Israeli aircraft on Sunday killed two Palestinian in the northern Gaza Strip, medics and officials from the enclave’s rulers Hamas said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was checking the report.

A surge in cross-border violence over the past week prompted fears of a possible escalation into war.

Israeli raids in Gaza killed five suspected militants and four civilians last week, a declared response to firing more than 70 rockets at the Jewish state, some of them landing deep inside its cities. AGENCIES

Last rescuer emerges from Chile mine escape shaft

COPIAPO: The last rescue specialist involved in the extraction of 33 miners trapped for more than two months in a Chilean mine was lifted to safety early on Thursday, ending a 69-day saga that captured theworld’s attention.

All of Chile’s 33 trapped miners were rescued on Wednesday after a two-month ordeal inside acollapsed copper and gold mine in Chile’s northern Atacama desert.

Here is a timeline of the ordeal, one of the greatest mining accidents in Chile’s history.

Aug. 5 – A cave-in leaves 33 miners trapped about 2,050 feet (625 metres) vertically underground in a small copper-and-gold mine near the northern Chilean city of Copiapo, 500 miles (800 km) north of Santiago.

The mine’s owners, local private company Compania Minera San Esteban Primera, notifies authorities several hours later, saying they first had to evaluate the

The Longest Day Of 2010 today

KARACHI: The Summer Solstice 2010 the longest day of the year is today, June 21st 2010.

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Suicide bomber kills 8 in north Iraq

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed eight people, including six policemen, and wounded 10 in a market in the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat, an Interior Ministry source said.

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Two NATO soldiers killed in northern Afghanistan

KABUL: Two NATO soldiers were killed by an improvised bomb in northern Afghanistan Wednesday, as the foreign alliance continued to suffer a surge of attacks in the war-torn country.

The soldiers, whose nationalities were not released, were part of NATO”s International Security Assistance Force, whose estimated 142,000 troops in Afghanistan are set to increase to 150,000 by August.

Last week NATO forces suffered their bloodiest spate of the year as 30 soldiers were killed, including four Americans when the Taliban shot down a helicopter in southern Helmand province.

Quakes kill three in Indonesia

MANOKWARI: Three people were killed and hundreds of homes damaged Wednesday when a series of strong earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning and widespread panic.

Two victims were crushed when their homes collapsed on Yapen island, close to the epicenter of the most powerful 7.1-magnitude quake off the northern coast of Papua province, police said.

The quake struck off the southeast coast of Yapen at 12:16 pm (0316 GMT), officials said. It was the second of a series of strong quakes felt across a vast but sparsely populated area including Biak island. Another person was killed when a 5.3-magnitude quake rattled West Sulawesi province, the local news agency reported.

15 killed in Thai temple as curfew extends

BANGKOK: Thai authorities have confirmed killing of 15 people in clashes at a temple within a Thai anti-government protest zone in last three days whereas curfew has been imposed for three more days.

A curfew has been imposed for three more nights in Bangkok and 23 other provinces to quell conflict in the aftermath of an army offensive against anti-government protesters.

A meeting chaired by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva “agreed to impose the curfew to better secure the area and curtail their activities”, said Dithaporn Sasasmit, spokesman for the army-run Internal Security Operation Command.

A curfew was ordered in Bangkok and 23 provinces Wednesday night between 8pm and 6am to control looting and arson that broke out after the deadly campaign to close down the “Red Shirts” six-week occupation of central Bangkok. However, the new curfew would be shortened to between 9pm and 5am, Dithaporn said, “to lessen the effect on the public”.

Death toll rises to 28 in Turkish mine blast

ISTANBUL: Turkish rescue teams found 28 dead in a coal mine in the northern Black Sea province of Zonguldak on Thursday, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said, three days after an underground explosion caused the mine to collapse.

Some 40 miners were reported to have been working in two separate areas at a depth of about 540 metres when the explosion occurred on Monday.

Eight workers were initially reported injured. Two more workers were still underground, but Yildiz said there was little chance they were alive.

Winter Solstice Traditions

TrendPK.com Winter Solstice Traditions:On the one hand, it’s the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. On Monday, Dec. 21, the sun is scheduled to rise in Madison at 7:26 am and set at 4:26 p.m. That’s nine hours of daytime (though the actual count is 23 seconds shy [...]

Roadside Bomb in Iraq, 3 Policemen killed

BAGHDAD: Roadside Bomb in Iraq, 3 killed Policemen, A roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi police patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing three policemen and wounding four others, police said.

The blast targeted the patrol of emergency forces in al-Khadra area of central Kirkuk.

The wounded were taken to Kirkuk health office for treatment.

Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, is a city disputed by Arabs, ethnic Kurds and Turkman, and violence there is common. Settling its final status is one of the most sensitive issues of Iraq.

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