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Bus plunge kills 25 in India
AP, JAMMU: A passenger bus plunged into a gorge in northern India early yesterday, killing at least 25 people, police Said. . , i
An additional 40 people were injured in the accident near Panthal. a town about 50 kilometres north of Jammu, a major city in Jammu-Kashmir state, senior police officeial Anand Jain said. Jain said the bus plunged 200 feet into the gorge after the driver lost control while negotiating a steep turn on a mountainous road. The injured were taken to a government hospital.
Indian police arrest Maoist spokesman
BBC ONLINE, KOLKATA Police in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta have formally arrested a leading Maoist "spokesman’ as he walked out of a talk show on aTVchannel.
Officials said Gour Chakrabarty was initially detained for interrogation but has now been arrested on suspicion of involvement in Maoist activity, in his interview on a local TV station, Chakrabarty defended Maoist violence in the Lalgarh area ofWest Bengal.
Chinese dissident Liu
Xiaobo arrested
AP. BEIJING: A prominent Chinese dissident who called for political reform has been arrested for allegedly trying to overthrow the country's socialist system, his wife said yesterday. marking the highest-profile activist arrest since before last year’s Olympics.
Liu Xiaobo had already been held at a secret location for more than six months without being charged or formally arrested. He was taken into police custody on Dec. 8, a day before a manifesto he co-authored was released urging sweeping changes to China's rigid political system.
Hamas parliament Speaker released
BBC ONLINE, West Bank Israel has released Hamas parliamentary Speaker Aziz Dweik two months before the end of a three-year jail sentence.
Dweik and other Hamas politicians were detained in the West Bank in 2006 He was charged with belonging to an illegal organisation. His detention followed Hamas's capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid.
Kim Jong II makes son head of spy agency
AP, SEOUL The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong 11 has taken charge at the country's spy agency to prepare him to inherit the leadership of the communist nation from his father, a news report said yesterday.
Kim told senior officials of the State Security Department in March to "uphold" his 26-year-old third son, Kim Jong Un, as head of the agency, while doling out foreign-made luxury cars to the officials as gifts, Seoul’s Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported.
Two militant leaders detained in Philippines
.AFP, MANILA: Troops have detained wo suspected Islamic militant leaders in the southern Philippines, the military said yesterday.
The army revealed the separate arrests of Abu Sayyaf suspect Mubin Sakandal and alleged Jemaah Islamiyah liaison Ansar Bernardino Venancio after they were flown to Manila, where they underwent medical tests at a military hospital Wednesday before being remanded to unspecified jails.
China finds 'Asia's largest iron ore deposit': state media
AFP, BEIJING: China said yesterday it had found a new iron ore deposit in northeastern Liaoning province that state media has described as the largest in Asia.
The official China News Service said Tuesday that an iron ore deposit with an estimated reserve of more than three billion tonnes was discovered in the region.
15 rare Sumatran elephants killed in Indonesia
AP, JAKARTA: At least 15 endangered Sumatran elephants have been shot or poisoned to death with cyanide-laced fruit this year in Indonesia, marking a sharp rise over the previous year, a government conservationist said yesterday.
The giant mammals were mostly killed by poachers for their ivory, said Tony Suhartono, the director of biodiversity conser-vation at the Forest Ministry. The number killed in the past six months is equal to the total for the whole of2008, he said.