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Abbottabad: 10 people trapped in chairlift rescued
One killed, 5 injured in Karachi violence
Pakistan to face India for berth in hockey final
Federer wins on return from break
Davydenko surprises Simon in Valencia
China spacecraft launches on key mission
Oil prices slide on strong dollar, stocks sell-off
Metal prices fall after big October rally
US stocks drive amid eurozone jitters
US girls joined at chest to be separated
US probe says border attack was not Pakistani plot
Pakistan pledges action against Haqqanis: US
Mexico-crime-drugs-vote lead
US weighs bolstering military presence in Gulf
Police: 80 detained at Russian opposition rallies

Abbottabad: 10 people trapped in chairlift rescued

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According to details, the chairlift, with 10 people onboard, got stuck at 7:00pm on Monday night in Thai villages some 10 kilometers away from Abbottabad. The administration was informed about the incident but no rescue team reached for relief operation. A rescue team was called in from Murree which reached the site after seven hours. The team rescued the trapped people with the help of a crane after a hectic three hours effort. Talking to Dunya News, the DCO Abbottabad said that an inquiry has been ordered into the incident. He said strict action will be taken against those found responsible. He further informed that the chairlift service will remain shut for several days.

One killed, 5 injured in Karachi violence

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According to details, four people were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Sohrab Goth area. The injured were identified as Rehman, Zameer, Salman and Arsalan. In another incident of violence on Tariq Road a lawyer, Waheed-ur-Rehman was crictically injured in firing by some unidentified pareson. He was shifted to Jinnah Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. In New Karachi Sector-11, a 31-year-old man, Arif, was injured when he resisted during a dacoity attempt. Police have also arrested five alleged robbers, including a police official, from Gulberg area. Meanwhile, police have also arrested two suspects, Ghulam Murtaza and Arshad, from Awami Colony and recovered 12 mobiles from their possession.

Pakistan to face India for berth in hockey final

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The asian hockey giants will meet againg for a berth in the three-nation tournament today three days after their players brawled during an earlier match. With Australia already in the final following thumping triumphs against the two former Asian giants, the winners of the Pakistan-India encounter will feature in the title clash against the hosts on Nov. 3 in Perth. Pakistan and India played out a 3-3 draw the last time they met in the double-header – an ill-tempered match that was stopped 95 seconds before the final whistle after players from the rival teams got engaged in a free for all. Several players from both sides were injured and later after a probe, Tournament Director Graham Napier banned Indian hockey team manager, assistant manager and three players for matches ranging from one to five while Pakistan captain Shakeel Abbasi was banned for one match last Saturday. Two of Pakistan’s key players Muhammad Imran and Shafqat Rasool received injuries and were forced to miss Sunday’s crucial match against Australia. The Aussies, who were leading 3-2 at half time, went on to thrash Pakistan 8-2 in the match. Skipper Abbasi also missed Sunday’s match because of the suspension. However, Pakistan will be back to full strength, as Abbasi will return to lead them against India for a match that is virtually a semifinal with the winning team setting a date with Australia in the finale. Shafqat Rasool is set to be back while Imran is also likely to be fielded in the match.

Federer wins on return from break

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Roger Federer made a winning return from a six-week break, beating Potito Starace of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-4 in the first round of his hometown Swiss Indoors event on Monday. The fourth-ranked Federer took time to find the rhythm in his ground strokes, and saved a break point at 5-all before winning the first-set tiebreaker comfortably. The 30-year-old Swiss then broke the 54th-ranked Starace s serve in the opening game of the second. Federer last played on Sept. 18 in a Davis Cup match on grass in Australia where he beat Bernard Tomic in four sets. After opting to rest and recharge, Federer played his first match ranked outside the top three since winning the 2003 Wimbledon title as the No. 5. Federer came in with a 5-0 career record against Starace, but was unable to put pressure on the Italian right-hander s serve in the first set. Starace created the only break point in the set which Federer saved with a forehand winner. Federer converted his first set point in the tiebreaker by hitting a forehand winner down the line. Leading 5-3 in the second, Federer earned a first match point with an overhead backhand volley winner, but then netted a service return. He clinched the match in the next game with a service winner. Earlier, Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus rallied to beat eighth-seeded Viktor Troicki of Serbia 4-6, 7-6 (8), 6-2. Donald Young of the United States got a wild card entry and faced Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan in the late match. Kukushkin was promoted as a lucky loser after 30th-ranked Jurgen Melzer of Austria pulled out due to a season-ending back injury.

Davydenko surprises Simon in Valencia

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Nikolay Davydenko s defeat of fifth-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 was the biggest shock of the first round matches in the Valencia Open 500 here on Monday. Davydenko s win broke a five-match losing run for the Russian against Simon, currently number 12 in the ATP Rankings, and hits the Frenchman s hopes of reaching the ATP World Tour finals in London next month. Simon was the first big name to be knocked out here. Davydenko will next meet Simon s compatriot Nicolas Mahut who beat Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (7-5),6-2 in the last 16. Another shock on Monday was Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil s win against John Isner of the U.S, clinching a third set tie-break 11-9. After the twenty-one year old Pospisil, currently ranked 133 in the ATP rankings, took the first set 6-3, the big American, ranked 110 places higher, returned the gesture by the same score to set up the tight third set. Pospisil now faces a match in the last 16 against the winner of Tuesday s all-star Spanish duel between number one seed David Ferrer and Fernando Verdasco. The Italian Fabio Fognini comfortably beat Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-4, 6-3 and will face the winner of Tuesday s clash between fourth seed Nicolas Almagro and Argentine Juan Monaco in the last 16. Monaco did play on Monday in the Mens Doubles event with partner Juan Ignacio Chela, his Argentine Davis Cup partner. The pair were beaten, however, by Spaniards Marcelo Granollers and Marc Lopez 6-4, 7-6 (6-2), in a result that does not bode well for their possible participation in the Davis Cup Final to be played between Spain and Argentina on Dec 2-4.

China spacecraft launches on key mission

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China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020. The Shenzhou VIII blasted off from the Gobi desert in China s northwest, the state Xinhua news agency said, separating from its carrier rocket, a modified Long March-2F, about 200 kilometres above the earth. It is due to join with the Tiangong-1 or "Heavenly Palace", possibly within days, in what would be the country s first space docking with a module that is already orbiting the earth. The experimental docking is part of China s preparation for building its first space station by 2020, where astronauts can live for several months, as they do on NASA s International Space Station or the former Russian Mir. If it is a success, China will launch another two space craft next year to conduct more docking experiments. At least one will be manned, and two female astronauts are among those being trained for the mission, according to Xinhua. If they are chosen, they will be the first women China has sent into space. China began its manned spaceflight programme in 1990 after buying Russian technology and in 2003 became the third country to send humans into space, after the former Soviet Union and the United States. China sees its ambitious space programme as a symbol of its burgeoning global stature.

Oil prices slide on strong dollar, stocks sell-off

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World oil prices retreated further on Monday, in line with the strengthening dollar and sliding stock markets, as investor enthusiasm waned over last week s eurozone debt deal. New York s main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, closed at $93.19 a barrel, down 13 cents from Friday s closing level. In London, Brent North Sea crude for December dropped 35 cents to settle at $109.56 a barrel. The oil market had rallied last week after a breakthrough eurozone sovereign debt crisis deal helped ease stubborn concerns that problems in Europe could spark a new global recession. However, prices closed lower on Friday and extended losses on Monday as dealers grew skeptical that the debt deal would fully resolve the eurozone s long-running crisis. European stock markets meanwhile tumbled on Monday, led downward by the banks as investors fretted about their possible losses as a result of the eurozone crisis plan. "Higher risk perception against the backdrop of weaker equity markets and the strength of the US dollar are putting some pressure on oil prices," said Commerzbank analyst Carsten Fritsch. The European single currency slid to $1.3868 on Monday, making dollar-priced crude more expensive for buyers using the euro and in turn dampening demand for oil.

Metal prices fall after big October rally

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Copper for December delivery fell 2 percent, to settle at $3.632 a pound. December Gold 1 percent to settle at $1,725.20 per ounce. Prices were lower in part because traders sold some of their holdings to lock in profits. The price of copper shot up 15 percent last week and gold jumped nearly 7 percent. Metal prices rose after European finance officials announced a plan to shore up banks and indebted nations there. The bailout is expected to increase inflation, which makes precious metals like gold more valuable. It is also expected to foster economic growth, which drives up the price of industrial raw materials like copper.

US stocks drive amid eurozone jitters

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US stocks plunged Monday amid rising skepticism about the eurozone debt deal and after the debt crisis claimed it first major US casualty, a brokerage that filed for bankruptcy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average skidded 276.40 points (2.26 percent) to 11,954.71 in closing trade. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 52.74 points (1.93 percent) to 2,684.41, while the S&P 500 index, a broader measure of the markets, slid 31.87 points (2.48 percent) to 1,253.21.

US girls joined at chest to be separated

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Two-year-old twin girls who are joined at the chest and abdomen were undergoing final preparations for a complex surgery at a California hospital that is meant to separate them. Doctors at Stanford University s Lucile Packard Children s Hospital are planning a nine-hour procedure Tuesday that, if successful, will allow Angelica and Angelina Sabuco to live independently from each other. The girls were born in the Philippines and live in California with their family. Pediatric surgeon Gary Hartman, who has performed five similar procedures, said he expected the twins to survive and do well. The operation will involve more than 20 physicians and nurses from various specialties, and it culminates several months of planning. "I want them to live normally, like other children," Ginady Sabuco, the girls  mother, said in a statement from the hospital. The girls have done well so far. They love listening to stories and music, and they know their colors and can count to 10. They celebrated their second birthdays with cakes adorned with Disney princesses and Tinker Bell. But remaining conjoined carries risks for the girls  health, especially if they share organs unequally. If one conjoined twin dies, the other will die within hours. The girls  livers, diaphragms, breast bones, chest and abdominal wall muscles are fused. They have separate hearts, brains, kidneys, stomachs and intestines. The occurrence of conjoined twins is estimated to range from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 100,000 births worldwide, and the overall survival rate is approximately 25 percent, according to the hospital. The girls are expected to be hospitalized for nearly two weeks.

US probe says border attack was not Pakistani plot

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An attack on US troops in 2007 that left an American officer dead was the act of a rogue Pakistani gunman and not a plot by the country s military, according to a US probe released Monday. For years, details of the shooting on Pakistan s border with Afghanistan have been shrouded in secrecy amid speculation US officials were anxious to avoid aggravating tensions with Pakistan. A US military investigation into the shooting had remained secret until Monday. The Pentagon released a two-page unclassified excerpt from the probe into the May 14, 2007 shooting, in which US Major Larry Bauguess was killed when a militia member opened fire on American officers who had just finished a meeting with their Pakistani and Afghan counterparts. The probe concluded that Bauguess was shot at close range with a volley of AK-47 automatic fire by a man wearing a militia uniform from Pakistan s Frontier Corps, which is stationed along the Afghan border. But there was no proof that the shooter was helped by Pakistani forces, it said. "There is little evidence to support collaboration within the Pakistani militia or military," said the report. "The initial shooter caused all of the casualties incurred on the (NATO-led) coalition forces," it added. The probe found no sign of coordinating fire from Pakistani forces in support of the gunman. However, some "sporadic" fire from the Pakistani troops was likely a response to cover fire from US troops trying to withdraw from the area to a helicopter landing zone, the report said. The 10-minute gun battle that erupted after the shooting by the gunman left seven Pakistanis dead, it said. The investigation appeared to contradict an extensive New York Times report last month that suggested the Americans and Afghans had been targeted in an ambush in collaboration with Pakistani forces, possibly in retaliation for previous incidents in which Pakistani troops were mistakenly fired on by US forces. The Times  account quoted Afghan officers who witnessed the shooting as well as US military officers and an unnamed UN source. An Afghan officer at the meeting, Colonel Sher Ahmed Kuchai, told the newspaper that senior Pakistani officers left the meeting place minutes before the shooting erupted without saying goodbye, which he believed showed they knew an attack was coming. The meeting that preceded the shooting was held in Teri Mangal in Pakistan s Kurram agency and had been arranged after Afghan and Pakistani forces traded fire in a growing border dispute. The Pakistanis had objected to a new border outpost set up by Afghan forces, which Islamabad charged was on Pakistani territory.

Pakistan pledges action against Haqqanis: US

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According to senior administration official, General Pervaiz Kiyyani and President Asif Ali Zardari have assured US Secretary of State during her recent visit that Pakistan is ready to push and squeeze the terrorists, including Haqqanis to bring them on a negotiating table. “During her October 20-21 visit to Kabul and Islamabad, Clinton pressured Pakistani leaders to take military action against the Haqqani network in hide-outs along the Afghan border”, he said. "We think that Pakistan, for a variety of reasons, has the capacity to encourage, to push, to squeeze ... terrorists, including the Haqqanis and the Afghan Taliban, to be willing to engage in the peace process," she said October 21 in Islamabad. The US official was noncommittal when asked if Pakistan had moved against the Haqqani network, which some Western officials believe may have been behind a suicide bombing Sunday in Kabul that killed 13 foreigners, since Clinton s visit. "We continue to work very, very closely with them and Gen. Kayani and the civilian leadership have committed ... to undertaking actions and assisting in squeezing," he said, referring to Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. "Clinton was quite clear that we all need to see physical signs of progress as a matter of some urgency, in days and weeks, as she noted, as opposed to months and years," he added. "We are continuing to follow up through all of our channels of communication -- on the military, intelligence and diplomatic fronts."

Mexico-crime-drugs-vote lead

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At least five people were killed over the weekend in the Mexican state of Michoacan in clashes between security forces and drug traffickers two weeks ahead of local elections, prosecutors said Monday. Government troops killed two people in a shootout in the town of Tuzantla, and two others were killed when their car crashed during an escape attempt, the state prosecutor s office said. In the town of Benito Juarez, troops killed a member of a drug gang in a brief firefight, the official report said, adding that a kidnap victim was freed after that encounter. All five of the dead were alleged to be members of the La Familia Michoacana cartel and a gang that calls itself the Knights Templar. Michoacan, a state on Mexico s Pacific coast, holds local elections November 13 in which President Felipe Calderon s sister is running for governor as the candidate of the ruling National Action Party.

US weighs bolstering military presence in Gulf

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The United States is looking at bolstering its military presence in the Gulf after US troops stationed in Iraq withdraw by the end of the year, a US defense official said Monday. Amid concerns about Iraq s stability and Iran s role in the region, the Pentagon was weighing a move to shift some of the 39,000 forces due to leave Iraq to neighboring Kuwait, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. A Pentagon spokesman said he was not aware of any negotiations with Kuwait on stationing more US troops there. "I think we re going through a range of options right now about what it could look like, what it should look like going forward and no decisions have been made," Pentagon spokesman Captain John Kirby told reporters. The New York Times first reported the possible plan over the weekend, and said commanders -- mindful of Iran s influence -- also were considering stepping up the presence of US warships in the Gulf region. Kirby said the ultimate arrangement of US forces in the Gulf would be drawn up in line with security agreements with US allies. "Whatever decisions are made about force posture, it s going to be based on our security commitments that we have made and continue to honor in that region, not aimed at any particular threat," he said. President Barack Obama announced this month that the remaining US troops in Iraq would leave by the end of the year, after negotiations with Baghdad on a possible post-2011 force collapsed over the question of legal immunity for American soldiers. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking during a visit to Asia last week, warned Tehran against misinterpreting the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and cited the vast network of US bases in the region. "For Iran and anybody else who has any other ideas, let me make clear that the United States maintains 40,000 troops in that region, 23,000 in Kuwait, and numbers of others in countries throughout that region," Panetta said.

Police: 80 detained at Russian opposition rallies

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Some 80 Russian opposition activists have been detained during protests against the Kremlin s stifling of political and democratic freedom. Associated Press journalists saw police detain a dozen protesters who gathered in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Monday evening, chanting "Russia without Putin," referring to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The reporters witnessed police dispersing the rallies and forcing the protesters into police vans. Police officials told Russian media that more than 30 people were detained in Moscow and more than 50 in St. Petersburg. Russia s marginalized opposition groups have rallied on the last day of every month with 31 days, a nod to the 31st Article of the Russian constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly.

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