S China sea: Beijing says no to int’l arbitration
Beijing: China on Friday rejected the Philippines’ move for international arbitration by a UN body over islands in the South China Sea claimed by both the countries. The Philippines had applied for arbitration by the international tribunal on the law of the Sea, which has now set up a committee to hear the case.
Pak-trained UK terror cell leader gets lifer
london: Three British men, including the ringleader of a terror cell trained in Pakistan have been jailed for masterminding a plot to set off up to eight bombs in the UK that could have been more devastating than the 9/11 in the US and the July 7 attacks here. The sentencing coincides with the announcement of new UK Government rules under which suspected terrorists face having their passports confiscated.
Indian-origin man shot dead in Malaysia
Kuala lumpur: A 39-year-old ethnic Indian man was shot dead in his car by motorcycle-borne gunmen near the Malaysian capital. The victim identified as N Ragunathan was alone in his car after he had apparently conducted a transaction at the Road Transport Department office, when two men on a motorcycle moved along side his car and shot him on Thursday.
Psychiatric hospital fire leaves 38 dead
Moscow: A pre-dawn blaze at a Russian psychiatric hospital on Friday killed 38 people, mostly patients, who died in their sleep inhaling the fumes, officials said. The fire, broke out around 3.00 am local time in the one-story hospital in the Ramenskoye settlement on the outskirts of Moscow, was caused by a short circuit, Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted police officials as saying.
Gunmen kill 5 workers loading sand in Mexico
Acapulco: Authorities in Mexico say gunmen killed five men who were loading sand onto a truck at a riverbank near the resort city of Acapulco, while a shootout in an adjacent state killed one federal police officer and four alleged attackers.
Heavy fighting reported in syria
Beirut: Syrian Government troops pushed into two northern Damascus neighbourhoods on Friday, triggering heavy fighting with rebels as they tried to advance under air and artillery support, activists said. The drive was the latest in a day-long offencive by Government forces in and around the capital, an apparent bid to secure President Bashar Assad’s main stronghold against rebel challenges.
Gunmen quit Iraq town as 190 killed
Kirkuk: Iraqi security forces began moving back into a northern town on Friday after gunmen who seized it withdrew, as the death toll from four days of violence reached 190, officials said. The gunmen pulled out of Sulaiman Bek under a deal worked out by tribal leaders and government officials, local official Shalal Abdul Baban and municipal council deputy chief Ahmed Aziz said.
Bostonsuspect moved to federal prison
Boston: The lone surviving Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was injured in a deadly shootout with police here last week, was on Friday transferred from a hospital to a prison medical centre in Massachusetts.