 Two Pakistani journalists who were held for three months for filming an air base have been granted bail. Mukesh Ropeta, a reporter, and cameraman Sanjay Kumar disappeared three months ago but surfaced in court on Thursday. Relatives alleged that the men, who work for a private television station, had been tortured. A judge has now ordered that they be released after posting bail of 20,000 rupees ($400) each. They were apparently detained on 5 March after filming an air base near the Pakistani city of Jacobabad which is used by US forces. ...
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 Iraq bomb attacks leave 14 dead |
At least 14 people have been killed in two bomb attacks in Iraq, police have said. At least 10 people died in a blast outside a mosque near Baquba, while four people were killed in an explosion near a petrol station in Basra. The Iraqi government meanwhile is expected to unveil a plan to persuade insurgents to lay down their arms. Officials said an amnesty will be granted to some detainees who agree to reject violence. Iraqi sources have described the initiative as a comprehensive political, military, economic and social plan aimed at bringing insurgents into the political process. ...
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| Cheney confident of nuclear deal |
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that a landmark nuclear deal with India will win support of the US Congress despite strong opposition by critics. Mr Cheney said in Washington that the deal was "one of the most important strategic foreign policy initiatives of President Bush's second term". The deal would give India access to US nuclear technology. It reverses US policy, which had restricted nuclear co-operation since India tested a nuclear weapon in 1974. The agreement was finalised during US President George W Bush's visit to India in March. ...
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| Mugabe anger at church criticism |
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has condemned some churches as "agents of violence and purveyors of falsehood". Mr Mugabe made his remarks after church leaders called for a boycott of a national day of prayer on Sunday, which the president was planning to attend. He also warned the opposition Movement for Democratic Change that it was dicing with death if it went ahead with a planned wave of street protests. Zimbabwe is suffering a deep economic crisis, with inflation at over 1,000%. Speaking during a passing-out parade for police recruits on Thursday, Mr Mugabe sent a warning to those "who claim to be champions of democracy while, in fact, they are willing conduits of violence", the state-run Herald newspaper reported. ...
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| Small Plane Crash in Maine Leaves Four Dead |
A light plane carrying a pilot and three passengers on an introductory flying lesson crashed on a remote mountainside in western Maine, killing everyone aboard. State and local officials worked Friday to recover the bodies from Barker Mountain near the Sunday River ski area.The Cessna 172 crashed Thursday about an hour after picking up the passengers at the Bethel airport.The cause was not immediately known, said Nate Humphrey, president of Auburn-based Twin Cities Air Service, which operated the plane. The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.The wreckage was spotted by a rescue helicopter, and emergency crews fought through dense woods before reaching it at dusk Thursday, officials said....
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| Ancient web spins evolution story |
The oldest-known spider web with prey still entrapped has been found preserved in a chunk of amber in Spain. The mesh of silk strands - snaring the remains of a fly, beetle, mite and wasp - dates back 110 million years to the time of the dinosaurs. The fossil web appears to have been designed along the same lines as the round nets woven by modern spiders. The find, described in Science, sheds light on the early evolution of spiders and the insects they fed on. The web consists of some 26 silk strands preserved in a thin layer of amber together with an arachnid's prey. Although it is not intact, enough of the web structure has survived to convince its discovers - from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and the American Museum of Natural History, New York, US - that it was probably a classical wheel-shaped, or orb, web. ...
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