World NewsUPDATED: 21:08, June 25, 2007 |
South Korean Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday that 13 South Korean citizens were aboard the airplane that crashed in Cambodia earlier in the day. Hamas armed wing, the Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, released on Monday an audio message for the Israeli captive corporal Gilad Shalit to mark the one-year anniversary for his abduction. A school in the provincial seat of Yala, one of Thailand's three southernmost provinces, was torched early Monday, the latest arson attack in violence-torn region. The 15th Anniversary Summit of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Heads of State and Government began in Turkish metropolis of Istanbul on Monday with a meeting of foreign ministers of BSEC countries, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held in Gaza one year after his captivity, is alive and healthy, a spokesman for the captors said on Monday. The death toll rose to 10 and dozens wounded, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of Mansour Mellia Hotel in central Baghdad on Monday. A reporter for a Philippine state-run radio station was killed, while another was wounded on Monday in an attack in the south of the country, according to reports. Vincent Sumalpong, a senior reporter of the government-owned Radyo ng Bayan (People's Radio) in the southernmost province of Tawi-Tawi, was attacked at about 8 a.m. local time by a group of gunmen in Bongao city, the Inquirer news network quoted local police as saying. The South Korean government plans to dispatch officials on the next flight out of Seoul to Cambodia to deal with a plane crash in Cambodia following reports that 13 South Koreans were aboard the ill-fated plane, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said Monday. The Indonesian prosecutors Monday recommended a 10-year imprisonment for a man who has exploded a pipe bomb at "A and W" fast food restaurant in Jakarta in India and Thailand will sign two pacts in the sectors of energy and culture Tuesday and speed up talks to firm up a free trade agreement (FTA), Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported here Monday. Egypt's state security court on Monday sentenced Mohamed Sayyed Saber, a nuclear engineer at Egypt's state-run Atomic Energy Agency, and two others to 25 years in jail for spying for Israel, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported. The Islamic Hamas movement said on Monday that all options were open to free a BBC reporter held hostage in Gaza since March 12. Preparations and tight security measures are underway for the four-way summit of The trade ministers of Indonesia and Australia promised to promote and deepen bilateral trade and investment not only in mining but also in manufacturing, servicing, staff training, health care and other sectors at the 7th Indonesian and Australian Trade Ministerial Meeting held on Monday. Muhammad Lutfi, chairman of Indonesia's Investing Coordinating Board, said here Monday that foreign investors would be particularly welcome in the area of downstream value-adding derivatives in the petrochemical industry. A suicide car bombing struck an Iraqi army checkpoint outside a U.S. airbase in the Salahudin province on Monday, killing at least two Iraqi soldiers, a provincial police source said. Funds of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) defrozen from a Macao-based bank have been transferred into a DPRK bank on Monday, removing a major obstacle for a multi-national talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. Dubai Ambulance Services Center will soon introduce new services to streamline the rescue of heart patients in collaboration with Dubai police, UAE's local newspaper Khaleej Times reported on Monday. The official KCNA news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Monday that the issue of frozen funds at the center of the nuclear impasse has been resolved and it will begin implementing a joint agreement reached in February's six-party talks. Afghan troops evicted Taliban insurgents from a district in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province and reestablished its control there, provincial governor Assadullah Khalid said Monday. At least 15 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a tanker bomb at the police headquarters in the town of Beiji in Salahudin province, north of Baghdad on Monday, a provincial police source said. Asia must continue to reform banking and broaden capital markets to push ahead the region's remarkable recovery from the financial crisis a decade ago, a Singapore senior financial official said Monday. The West should stop the hypocritical blame game and work collectively with developing countries to fix the global warming problems, Asian panellists said Monday at a session on sustainable growth on the second day of the World Economic Forum on East Asia. Six militants of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in operations staged by the Turkish security forces on Sunday in southeastern and eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Monday. Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity. Tony Blair is expected to convert to Catholicism, but the Pope has not been a fan of his premiership. There he is," whispered a beaming Vatican official. "The great convert." Thailand will investigate the source of the funds that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will use to buy Britain's Manchester City soccer club, the Thai finance minister said yesterday. Olli Heinonen, chief inspector of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, set out for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) yesterday to agree details on the return of IAEA inspectors to monitor Pyongyang's promised atomic shutdown. France brings the United States, the United Nations, China and some 15 other nations together for a major conference today aimed at launching a new international drive to end the four years of conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. Israel agreed yesterday to begin releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, part of a package of planned goodwill gestures meant to strengthen the moderate Palestinian leader in his standoff against the Islamic militant group Hamas. |
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