Clashes between Pakistani tribesmen and foreign militants near the Afghan border this week have left up to 160 people dead, including about 130 Uzbek and Chechen fighters, the provincial governor said Friday.Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai, the top government official in North West Frontier Province, said between 25 and 30 tribesmen also had died in fighting that started Monday in the South Waziristan tribal region and was continuing Friday.The government says the bloodletting shows the success of its decision to use local tribesmen to root out foreign militants linked to Al Qaeda. However, experts say it also exposes authorities' lack of control of a region also used by the Taliban to support attacks in Afghanistan.Aurakzai, a retired Pakistani army general, said tribal militants had captured another 63 foreigners and were hunting 200 more who had scattered into the area's mountains....
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 Plane crashes in Somali capital |
A plane has crashed shortly after taking off from the main airport in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Local witnesses said they saw columns of smoke on the ground. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. One reporter said he saw a missile hit the plane but this is not confirmed. It crashed in the northern suburbs, where there was no fighting on Friday. A spokesman for the Uganda peacekeepers in Somalia, who control the airport, said 11 people were on board. "I saw the plane on fire... One of the wings exploded in the air... When it hit the ground, another explosion occurred," local resident Hassan Mahamud Jama told Reuters news agency. Some reports said the plane crashed because of a mechanical failure. Capt Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for Uganda's peacekeepers in Somalia, said he was aware of reports of a plane crash but was unable to confirm this. Mogadishu's international airport is located in the heart of the city. ...
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| China seen topping U.S. carbon emissions in 2007 |
China is on course to overtake the United States this year as the world's biggest carbon emitter, estimates based on Chinese energy data show, potentially pressuring Beijing to take more action on climate change.China's emissions rose by some 10 percent in 2005, a senior U.S. scientist estimated, while Beijing data shows fuel consumption rose more than 9 percent in 2006, suggesting China would easily outstrip the U.S. this year, long before forecasts. Taking the top spot would focus pressure on China to do more to brake emissions as part of world talks on extending the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol on global warming beyond 2012. Thirty five developed nations have agreed to cut emissions under Kyoto and they want others — especially the United States and China — to do more. ...
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| Iran 'seizes' 15 British sailors |
An Iranian naval patrol seized 15 British marines and sailors who had boarded a vessel suspected of smuggling cars off the coast of Iraq, military officials said. The British government immediately demanded the safe return of its troops and summoned Tehran's London ambassador to explain the incident. The Royal Marines and ordinary naval officers were believed to have been apprehended by up to six ships from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy who claimed they had violated Iranian waters. British naval officials said the sailors, using small boarding craft, had completed an inspection of a merchant vessel in Iraqi waters when the Iranians arrived. Commodore Nick Lambert, commander of the HMS Cornwall -- the frigate from which the British patrol had been deployed -- said the incident did not involve fighting or use of weapons....
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe says will survive Western attack |
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe vowed on Friday he would survive a Western onslaught to dislodge him from power, saying he still enjoyed majority support in his ruling party.Mugabe, who critics blame for plunging the southern African country into political and economic crisis, described himself as a battle hardened man, saying the West had always criticized him from his years as a guerrilla leader fighting white rule. "You think if I said I am 83 years you can push me," Mugabe said to applause from supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF party at a meeting in Harare. "It's solid 83 years of the struggle, of experience, of resilience and I know the tactics (to survive)," said Mugabe. ...
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| Iraq war deadline bill to pass House: Democrats |
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have secured enough votes to pass legislation setting a September 1, 2008, deadline for withdrawing American troops from Iraq, lawmakers said on Friday. A House vote was expected later on Friday on a bill that would provide about $100 billion to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. Attached to the bill are provisions mandating the troop withdrawal and conditions to ensure troops being sent into war in the meantime are properly trained and equipped.House Democrats were pushing the legislation despite warnings from the White House that President George W. Bush would veto it."The votes are very solid" in favor of imposing the deadline on the war, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (news, bio, voting record), a Missouri Democrat, told Reuters after leaving a meeting of House Democrats....
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