KABUL: Attorney General Abdul Jabar Sabit has said the soldiers of the foreign military accused of crimes will not be prosecuted in Afghanistan. Answering questions from members of the audit and assessment commission of the lower house of parliament, the attorney general said Afghan prosecutor could not interfere in cases pertaining to foreign military. Representative of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said according to their agreement with the Afghan government, foreign soldiers, accused of crimes, would be prosecuted under the laws of their native country. However, parliamentarian Abdul Sattar Khwasi said it was against the law of the land that a soldier committing crime against the Afghan people would not be prosecuted here....
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Editor - 09:26:00 04-20-07
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 Dwarf stars emit powerful pulse |
A class of "failed" star called a brown dwarf emits beams of radiation that are thousands of times brighter than any released by the Sun. The brown dwarfs are behaving like an altogether different and exotic cosmic object called a pulsar. Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit a flashing radio signal. When the rotating beams sweep Earth, astronomers detect the radio pulse, which has been likened to the rotating beacon of a lighthouse. Pulsars are created when a massive star explodes in a supernova and its core collapses into a rapidly spinning neutron star. Brown dwarfs, on the other hand, are stellar also-rans which lack the necessary mass to kick-start nuclear fusion reactions in their cores. Greg Hallinan from the National University of Ireland in Galway and his colleagues used the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico to observe a very cool, rapidly rotating brown dwarf called TVLM 513-46546. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6574433.stm
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Editor - 09:24:00 04-20-07
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| U.S. Republicans battle charge Iraq war is lost |
Bush and fellow Republicans struggled on Thursday with comparisons between the U.S. wars in Iraq and Vietnam as the Senate's top Democrat declared the Iraq war lost. A day after a White House meeting with lawmakers failed to resolve differences over whether to attach a troop withdrawal plan to a war funding bill, Bush and the Democrats continued their feud from afar. Asked to compare Iraq to Vietnam, a war that still weighs on the American psyche three decades after it ended, Bush told an Ohio audience a premature U.S. withdrawal from Iraq could lead to chaos and death the same way war broke out between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia after the fall of Saigon in 1975. "After Vietnam, after we left, millions of people lost their life. My concern is there would be a parallel there," Bush said, adding that "This time around, the enemy wouldn't just be content to stay in the Middle East, they'd follow us here."...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19440243.htm
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Editor - 09:18:00 04-20-07
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| Catholic Church buries limbo after centuries |
The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went. In a long-awaited document, the Church's International Theological Commission said limbo reflected an "unduly restrictive view of salvation," according to the U.S.-based Catholic News Service, which obtained a copy on Friday. The thumbs-down verdict on limbo had been expected for years and the document, called "The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptised," was seen as most likely to be final since limbo was never formally part of Church doctrine. Pope Benedict authorized the publication of the document. According to the CNS report, the 41-page document says the theologians advising the Pope concluded that since God is merciful he "wants all human beings to be saved." It says grace has priority over sin, and the exclusion of innocent babies from heaven does not seem to reflect ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/ts_nm/pope_limbo_dc
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Editor - 09:16:00 04-20-07
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| U.N. Rights Report Omits Iraqi Civilians |
The United Nations will not include Iraqi civilian casualty figures in its next human rights report, a spokesman said Friday, omitting what many had viewed as a rare, reliable indicator of suffering in Iraq. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq had been releasing bimonthly reports assessing the human rights situation and providing death and injury tolls. The last report was issued in late January, and U.N. officials in Baghdad had been saying for weeks that the new version would be released soon. Mission spokesman Said Arikat told The Associated Press that the next report would be released on Wednesday, but he said it would cover a three-month period starting in January and would not have a casualty toll. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3060790
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Editor - 09:13:00 04-20-07
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| Clerk's mistake turns into $200,000 lottery payoff |
A store clerk's slip-up at the cash register has paid off big time.Wadburn Allen on Tuesday accidentally rang up two duplicate Powerball tickets for a customer in this western North Carolina town. At the end of the day, after she was unable to sell the second ticket, Allen paid for it herself.The next day, Allen returned to the store and found the ticket matched all five numbers -- earning her a $200,000 jackpot.When Allen went to Raleigh to claim her prize, she met the customer who purchased the original ticket. The customer also will receive a $200,000 jackpot."They put two and two together and ended up hugging," said Pam Walker, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Education Lottery. Allen hasn't yet decided how she will spend her money....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/20/lottery.mistake.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us
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