Obama discuss Cairo embassy attack from Israeli President

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Washington: Obama expressed great concern about situation at the Israeli embassy and security of the staff.
President Barack Obama has assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US is acting “at all levels” to resolve the situation in Egypt, where protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy and dumped documents out the windows.

 

Obama also said in a phone conversation Friday with Netanyahu that the US was urging the Egyptian government to honour its international obligations to keep the Israeli Embassy secure.

 

The White House says Obama expressed “great concern” about the situation at the embassy and the security of Israelis there and said the US is working toward a resolution without further violence. The two leaders agreed to keep in touch until the situation is resolved.

 

 

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London: England won the match by 3 wickets

London: England beat India by five-match one-day international series and take 2-0 lead.
Craig Kieswetter scored 51 as England extended India s miserable summer with a three-wicket win with seven balls remaining in the third one-day international at The Oval on Friday.

The victory gives England a 2-0 lead in the five-match series and increases the chances of the hosts claiming an all-format whitewash over India, after a 4-0 win in the test series and a Twenty20 victory before the one-day matches.

After being put into bat by England, Ravindra Jadeja hit 78 and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni got 69 as India posted 234-7.

Chasing a revised total of 218 from 43 overs to win because of rain, England made a bright start but struggled to get over the line with Bopara s middle-order 40 proving crucial. Graeme Swann hit the winning runs.

 

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Irene charges into New England as it weakened a tropical storm

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Irene raced across New York and charged into New England region as it weakened to a tropical storm.
Hurricane Irene left behind a stunned US East Coast. At least 19 people died and severe flooding was widespread. About four million homes and businesses were without electricity.

As waves continued to pound the shores east and north of America s biggest city, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg lifted the evacuation order for 370,000 people in low-lying areas. Irene sent seawater surging into lower Manhattan s streets, but the city appeared to escape the worst fears of urban disaster vast power outages, hurricane-shattered skyscraper windows and severe flooding.

 

There was no immediate indication when New York might start its subways again, but the New York Stock Exchange was ready to open for trading Monday.

 

New England residents were feeling the brunt of the diminished but still-dangerous storm, which will cause flooding and winds that could topple many towering trees anchored in soil already saturated by earlier heavy rains. The storm was expected to move over eastern Canada by Sunday night.

 

Source: http://www.latestcnnnews.com/irene-raced-across-new-york.html

 

Forecasters said Irene, while diminished in strength, was still massive and powerful, with powerful winds extending hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the center. Early damage estimates were in the billions of dollars.

Bomb attacks in Iraq six people were killed

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IRAQ: Bomb and gun attacks six people killed among them there were 3 policemen.

Another 9 were also wounded, security officials said.

In the deadliest attack, militants in military uniforms killed three people in a car at a fake checkpoint they set up west of the restive ethnically mixed city of Baquba, an Iraqi army colonel in the provincial security command centre said.

In another incident in Diyala province, of which Baquba is the capital, two policemen were killed when gunmen opened fire at their checkpoint in Al-Saadiyah town.

And in the main northern city of Mosul, a magnetic “sticky bomb” attached to a police car in the centre of the city killed a policeman and wounded four others, local police said.

Meanwhile in Baghdad, three people were wounded by two separate roadside bomb attacks in Zafraniyah and Shuala districts, an interior ministry official said.

Two policemen were also wounded when explosives attached to a motorcycle blew up near a petrol station in town of Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres (110 miles) north of the capital.

 

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Netherlands took top position of world

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PARIS: The Netherlands took top position of world and European champions Spain in the latest FIFA rankings released on Wednesday.

Spain had held the position for over a year but a 2-1 friendly loss to Italy ensured the Dutch, World Cup runners-up, become the seventh team to occupy the top spot since rankings were created after Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Copa America winners Uruguay, World Cup semi-finalists, become the top South American team in fifth as Brazil, who were beaten 3-2 by Germany in a friendly this month, dropping two places to sixth.
Germany stay third and England move up to fourth, while the make-up of the top 10 remains the same, with Italy, Portugal, Argentina and Croatia the other sides.

Karishma Kapoor will join her on social website Twitter.

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Indian Bollywood’s Karishma Kapoor will join her on social website Twitter.
Karishma Kapoor is the latest to be bitten by the Twitter bug. She is set to join the micro-blogging site soon, says filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, who is directing her next movie “Dangerous Ishq”.

 

“With the gorgeous Karishma Kapoor… she is getting on twitter soon and wants to convey to her fans that she is really excited to be back!!!” Bhatt posted on Twitter.

 

Karishma will be back on the big screen after a gap of five years. She will star opposite model-turned-actor Rajneish Duggal in “Dangerous Ishq` and will be playing five different roles in five different lifetimes.

US worried over China wants to be No. 1 military power

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Washington: The US state Department is worried over China’s increasing No. 1 military power.
According the Pentagon’s annual China power report to Congress, released on Wednesday, China is steadily continuing a secretive and potentially destabilizing military buildup that would give the People’s Liberation Army a modernized regional armed force by the end of the decade. But the PLA will have limited ability to reach the United States for years to come, The Pentagon estimates China’s total military spending at $160 billion in 2010, more than Beijing’s stated military budget of $92 billion and a 12 percent spending increase over the previous year.

 

With Taiwan its chief concern, Beijing’s spending on “anti-access and area denial” weaponry designed to defend its claimed air and sea territory is tilting the balance of power toward the mainland. The Pentagon now feels Chinese leaders are worried about starting an arms race among its neighbors in the region.

 

Defense Department officials have said for months they believe China’s desire to modernize and increase its regional military capabilities is understandable given the rising power’s rapidly expanding global economic interests.

 

But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has said that some weaponry seems to push Chinese capabilities beyond stated limited goals of its government, which must reveal more about how much it spends on its military, what it buys, and why.

 

“The United States welcomes a strong, prosperous and successful China,” the Pentagon report says, “that reinforces international rules and norms and enhances security and peace both regionally and globally.”

 

But 2010 was marred by a months-long relations freeze from Beijing in retaliation for a $6 billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, the continuation of a pattern former Defense Secretary Robert Gates sought to break. The thaw began when Gates and Mullen visited China this year, trips bolstered by lower-level military engagements discussing defense policy, maritime security and other sensitive security issues.

 

In recent weeks, global attention turned to China’s sea trials of its first aircraft carrier, a remodeled Russian ship. Schiffer said the ship does not yet have aircraft, and China is only land-training future carrier pilots thus far, so its significance is unknown.

 

“Whether or not this proves to be a net-plus for the region or for the globe, or proves to be something that has destabilizing effects and raises blood pressure in various regional capitals, I think, remains to be seen,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Schiffer said in a briefing.

 

China likely will begin building its own aircraft carrier this year, to be operational after 2015. Several more Chinese carriers and support ships are expected in the next 10 years. But it will take years for Chinese pilots to reach a “minimal level of combat capability” from a carrier.

 

Eleven people dead in Australia fire

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Australia: 11 people  including up to eight children were feared dead, after a fire engulfed a house in the Queensland capital of Brisbane.
Local media quoted veteran police and firemen saying the incident was the worst they have ever seen.

 

Local media said 14 people – mainly members of two Pacific Islander families – were inside the house when the blaze broke out just after midnight. Police confirmed that three men escaped the fire.

 

The Police s Queensland Disaster Victim Identification Squad was at the scene to begin the process of identifying the victims.

 

Queensland Police Superintendent Noel Powers called for the community to be patient during the identification process.

 

The Acting Superintendent of Queensland Fire and Rescue, Peter Ryan, said the incident was the worst he has seen.

 

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

US court two Somali pirates to life in prison four American hostages killing

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US court two Somali pirates to life in prison for killing four American hostages.

The Somali pirates had hijacking the hostages’ yacht off the coast of Oman earlier this year. Officials in Norfolk, Virginia announced the sentences Monday in the case of 30-year-old Ali Abdi Mohamed and 31-year-old Burhan Abdirahman Yusuf.The two Somalis had pled guilty to piracy, which carries a mandatory life sentence. Officials also say nine co-conspirators have also entered guilty pleas and will be sentenced in the coming weeks.

The four Americans were sailing along with an international yacht race, the Blue Water Rally, before heading off on their own. Organizers of the rally say the four were sailing toward Salallah in Oman when pirates seized their vessel.

 

The Americans were shot to death in February, days after they were taken hostage. This was the first time U.S. citizens had been killed by the pirate gangs operating off the Somali coast. The Americans were yacht owners Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Ray, California, and Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle, Washington.

 

 

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