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9 killed in clashes in southeast Turkey

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 20 Oktober 2012 | 21.29

CLASHES between Turkish security forces and Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country have reportedly left nine people dead.

The Anatolia news agency said on Saturday three Turkish troops and three Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting that broke out in Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq.

The agency said rebels also attacked a military unit in Bitlis province, northwest of Hakkari, killing three government-paid village guards who are helping the Turkish security forces.

The attack comes amid a sharp escalation in violence over the past few months in Turkey's southeast, where the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, are fighting for self-rule for Kurds.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the group took up arms in 1984.


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Kuwaiti elections announced

KUWAIT'S ruler has set parliamentary elections for December 1 after months of a deepening political crisis that has pitted the pro-Western ruling family against opposition forces led by Islamists.

It will be the second time an election for the 50-seat chamber is held this year.

In a February vote, Islamists and allies took control of parliament but the country quickly fell into a political dispute over the results.

Recent opposition protests have directly blamed Kuwait's emir for dragging the Gulf nation into political conflict.

State media said Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah set the election date on Saturday.


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ACT rejects Labor, Greens: Liberals

Triumphant Liberal leader Zed Seselja says ACT voters have rejected a Labor-Greens alliance in Saturday's election.

But he's stopped short of claiming victory, with the opposition falling one seat short of majority government in the 17-seat legislative assembly.

It will take days of negotiation with the Greens before a new minority government can be formed in the territory.

The Liberals, on the back of their biggest-ever primary vote, are on track to take eight seats to Labor's seven giving them their highest representation in the 23-year history of self-government.

With more than 70 per cent of the vote counted at 10.50pm (AEST), Labor had 39.1 per cent of the overall vote (up 1.7pc on 2008), to the Liberals 38 per cent (up 6.4pc) and the Greens 11 per cent (down 4.6pc)

A surprise Labor casualty could be Attorney-General Simon Corbell who might lose his seat to fellow Labor candidate Meegan Fitzharris.

The Greens drop from four seats to two with their leader Meredith Hunter still in a tight race with Summernats car festival founder Chic Henry, running for the Australian Motorists Party.

If she loses, the Greens would have only one seat in the assembly.

Mr Seselja said the election result was a rejection of both Labor and the Greens.

"Most importantly it is a rejection of their alliance," he told the party faithful.

"It would be a rejection of the verdict of the people if the Labor Party and the Greens were to now forge a closer alliance.

"We are ready to deliver the kind of government the ACT deserves."

Labor leader Katy Gallagher said it was not the night for victory speeches from any party.

"We're not arrogant, we're not coming out saying we have won this election," she told supporters.

"We've won the highest primary vote, we've increased our vote, we've held our seats and we've seen a swing towards us."

Ms Gallagher noted more than half the electorate voted for "a progressive government", referring to the combined Labor-Greens vote of 50.1 per cent.

Mr Seselja reiterated earlier pledges that he wouldn't offer the Greens a ministry as part of any negotiations, unlike in 2008.

But he shied away from questions on whether or not he would negotiate with them at all.

Liberal MLA Jeremy Hanson said: "Should we get eight seats we have a very strong case for government."

However, Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury said the minor party would not be taking the number of seats won into account.

"We want to make sure there's a stable government for four years," he told AAP.

"We delivered that this term, we expect to deliver it in the coming term."

The Greens had a duty to the one-in-eight Canberrans who voted for the party to deliver on as many of their policies as possible, Mr Rattenbury said.

"We're quite open to talking to both of them (major parties) and that's something we will start in the next few days," he said.

"We won't see an agreement to form a government, one way or the other, for quite some days yet."

Labor MLA Andrew Barr said a Liberal-Greens alliance would be "extraordinary" since "they are just a world apart".


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Flood evacuations in Catholic shrine town

FRENCH rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes.

Lourdes' grotto is said to be the site where the Virgin Mary appeared to a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette in 1858. Officials say the town draws about 6 million visitors a year.

A spokesman for the Lourdes sanctuary said the grotto itself was under 1.5 metres of water after the Gave River overran its banks. Visits were temporarily suspended.

Regional government spokesman Anatole Puiseux said about 500 people were being evacuated from riverside hotels and more rain was forecast for later on Saturday.

The shrine has special meaning for the suffering, many of whom believe its spring water can heal and even work miracles.


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Court blames brain tumour on mobile

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 19 Oktober 2012 | 21.29

ITALY'S top court has ruled that a businessman developed a benign brain tumour because he held a mobile phone to his ear for hours daily for his job and deserves worker's compensation.

Innocente Marcolini, whose face is partially paralysed, argued that using cell and portable phones six hours a day for 12 years while dealing with clients in China and elsewhere overseas caused the tumour on the trigeminal nerve in his head.

His lawyers presented doctors who testified that excessive cell phone use increases risk of such tumours.

The impact of the ruling earlier this week is unclear. Numerous large scientific studies have failed to find a causal link between cellphones and brain tumours.

The World Health Organisation classifies mobile phones as "possible" carcinogens, in the same category as pesticides and coffee.


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Group claims hack of US weather service

The US National Weather Service computer network was hacked this week, with a group from Kosovo claiming credit and posting sensitive data, security experts said.

Data released by the Kosovo Hackers Security group includes directory structures, sensitive files of the Web server and other data that could enable later access, according to Chrysostomos Daniel of the security firm Acunetix.

"The hacker group stated that the attack is a protest against the US policies that target Muslim countries," Mr Daniel said.

"Moreover, the attack was a payback for hacker attacks against nuclear plants in Muslim countries, according to a member of the hacking group who said, 'They hack our nuclear plants using STUXNET and FLAME-like malwares, they are bombing us 27*7, we can't sit silent - hack to payback them."

Paul Roberts, writing on the Sophos Naked Security blog, said the leaked information includes a listing of administrative account names, which could open the hacked servers to subsequent "brute force attacks."

"Little is known about the group claiming responsibility for the attack," he said.

"However, they allege that the weather.gov hack was just one of many US government hacks the group had carried out and that more releases are pending."

The weather service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Philippines, China hold talks after row

PHILIPPINE and Chinese officials held "candid" talks on Friday in a bid to improve relations strained by a bitter territorial dispute in the South China Sea, official statements said.

A delegation led by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying met Philippine President Benigno Aquino and other senior officials for talks aimed at minimising tensions and bolstering trade and economic links.

"The two sides... had candid and in-depth discussions on the issues existing in their relations and agreed to... properly address differences so as to avoid negative impact," Fu said in a statement.

Tensions over competing claims to parts of the South China Sea escalated in April this year when ships from the two countries became locked in a standoff over a tiny group of islets called Scarborough Shoal.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, even waters close to the coasts of neighbouring countries.

The Philippines says the Scarborough Shoal is well within its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.

Aquino told Fu that "the Philippines has been fostering a conducive atmosphere so that both sides can come to a mutually beneficial solution to issues of mutual concern", according to another joint statement.

"Vice Foreign Minister Fu also expressed the Chinese government's desire to move Philippines-China relations forward," the statement added, but did not specify if the maritime dispute was discussed.

Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Erlinda Basilio separately acknowledged that the issue was a topic of discussion, but refused to elaborate.

Earlier this week, Aquino said he hoped "ultra-nationalist" sentiment in China would ease after the leadership change there next month, leading to a resolution of the territorial dispute.

Philippine officials also presented Fu with a donation of $US200,000 ($A193,864) to help victims of the recent earthquakes that hit the Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou.


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2000 evacuated after gas leak fire

A LEAKING gas pipeline exploded in western Mexico, forcing the evacuation of 2000 people, and injuring at least three, as crews battled to put out the blaze.

The fire broke out Thursday evening in the town of Zapotlanejo near a highway and forced authorities to close the road, said Trinidad Lopez Rivas, head of the emergency services department in Jalisco state.

She said the pipe was ruptured by construction crews working in the area.

The accident injured two firefighters and an employee of the state-owned energy company Pemex.

Officials said they expect to have the fire extinguished later today.

In September, two powerful gas explosions triggered a major fire in a refinery in the northeast state of Tamaulipas, killing 30 Pemex workers in one of the company's worst accidents ever.


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Man who lived 6 months without heart dies

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 18 Oktober 2012 | 21.29

CZECHS are mourning the death of Jakub Halik, a 38-year-old fireman, who became the first human ever to have survived six months without a heart on artificial life support, but succumbed to liver and kidney failure.

Physicians treating an aggressive cancerous tumour in his heart removed it in April but were never able to find another compatible donor for a successful transplant.

"Up to now, no one the world over has ever survived such a long time in this kind of condition," the Dnes Czech newspaper said.

Meanwhile, the Blesk newspaper paid homage to "the man without a heart who was a man of great heart".

Black flags of mourning flew over fire stations across the Czech Republic as colleagues honoured Halik.

In August, eminent cardiologist Jan Pirk from Prague's IKEM experimental medicine institute had warned that finding a heart compatible for a "big lad" like Halek would be no easy task.

His condition deteriorated over the past few weeks with tests showing he was suffering from both liver and kidney failure.

"We did everything possible to save him," Dr Pirk said. Jakub Halik died on Saturday morning, but the news was only made public later in the week.

"This feisty fighter loved his family very much. His life's mission was to save the lives of others. Unfortunately, our ability to save his life were very limited," Eliska Breckova, his nurse at IKEM told Blesk.

Halik is survived by his wife and 12-year-old son.


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65-year-old man dies during Athens protest

A 65-YEAR-OLD man has died from heart failure during a demonstration in Athens where riot police fired tear gas to repel firebomb-throwing protesters, a health ministry official says.

"A 65-year-old man was taken to hospital where efforts to revive him failed," the official told AFP on Thursday, adding: "There were no bruises on his body."

A police source said the man had been picked up from a bench in front of a church - several hundred metres from the area where the clashes took place - while other reports said he had been found on central Syntagma Square, close to the scene.

Initial reports said the man was 66 years old.

The ministry official said two people had also been injured in sporadic clashes that broke out around Syntagma Square during the protest against a new wave of austerity cuts that the government is preparing to introduce next month.

Tens of thousands of people took part in the Athens protest while a smaller demonstration was held in Greece's second city Thessaloniki.

Last year, a 53-year-old builder similarly died of a heart attack at another anti-austerity protest though police denied that tear gas was to blame.


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US stocks lower after poor jobless numbers

US stocks have slipped in opening trade despite promising growth data from China and troubled Spain's holding a bond auction at lower borrowing rates.

A high number for weekly unemployment claims erased hopes from the previous week's sharp fall that the job market was rebounding.

Five minutes into trade on Thursday, the broad-based S&P 500 was down 3.20 points, or 0.22 per cent, at 1,457.71.

The tech-rich Nasdaq lost 9.24 points, or 0.30 per cent, to 3,094.88.

The narrower Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 blue chips lost 15.67 points, or 0.12 per cent, to 13,541.33.


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Syria air strikes kill 44: rescue workers

AT LEAST 44 people were killed in air strikes on the Syrian rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan on Thursday, rescue workers told journalists at the scene.

"We have recovered 44 corpses from under the rubble," one rescue worker said.

He said the air force's bombs had destroyed two residential buildings and a mosque, where many women and children were taking refuge.

In a makeshift field hospital, the AFP journalist saw 12 corpses wrapped in white sheets, and plastic bags marked "body parts."

"At the moment it seems only three people survived the attack, including a two-year-old child," said medic Jaffar Sharhoub.

"He survived in the arms of his dead father."

A resident who spoke on condition of anonymity said several of the dead had just returned from Kafr Nabal, a town west of Maaret al-Numan.

"They thought the danger had passed."

Several fighter jets flew over Maaret al-Numan and the surrounding area throughout the morning.

They made short dives to drop at least 10 bombs on the town and its eastern outskirts, near the Wadi Deif army base which is under rebel siege.

Strategically located on the Damascus-Aleppo highway, Maaret al-Numan was seized by rebels early last week.


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Afghan girl beheaded over prostitution

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 17 Oktober 2012 | 21.29

AFGHAN police have arrested four people who allegedly tried to force a woman into prostitution in western Afghanistan and beheaded her when she refused, officials say.

Mah Gul, 20, was beheaded after her mother-in-law attempted to make her sleep with a man in her house in Herat province last week, provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada told AFP.

"We have arrested her mother-in-law, father-in-law, her husband and the man who killed her," he said.

Gul was married to her husband four months ago and her mother-in-law had tried to force her into prostitution several times in the past, Sayedzada said.

The suspect, Najibullah, was paraded by police at a press conference where he said the mother-in-law lured him into killing Gul by telling him that she was a prostitute.

"It was around 2:00 am when Gul's husband left for his bakery. I came down and with the help of her mother-in-law killed her with a knife," he said.

The murder comes against a backdrop of a world outcry over the shooting by Taliban Islamists of a 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, who had become a voice against the suppression of women's rights.

While Yousafzai's case has made world headlines, people using social media in Afghanistan have made the point that oppression and violence against women are commonplace in Afghanistan.

Abdul Qader Rahimi, the regional director of the government-backed human rights commission in western Afghanistan, said violence against women had dramatically increased in the region recently.

"There is no doubt violence against women has increased. So far this year we have registered 100 cases of violence against women in the western region," he said, adding that many cases go unreported.

"But at least in Gul's case, we are glad the murderer has been arrested and brought to justice," he said.

Last year, in a case that made international headlines, police rescued a teenage girl, Sahar Gul, who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution.


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Syria battles rage as 2 sides weigh truce

SYRIAN forces have bombarded opposition belts in the country's battle-scarred north, as both sides indicated they are ready to explore a truce proposal floated by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.

Warplanes targeted a rebel blockade of a highway in Idlib province which has halted the regime's efforts to get reinforcements to Aleppo, theatre of intense fighting for the past three months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The early morning air raids also targeted the Idlib town of Maaret al-Numan and nearby villages, which fell to the rebels a week ago as they pushed their quest to create a northern "buffer zone" abutting Turkey, the watchdog said.

The fighting raged even as Brahimi, who arrived in Beirut on Wednesday on the latest leg of his regional tour aimed at ending the conflict in Syria, appeared to have won tentative support from both sides for a ceasefire during the four-day Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday starting on October 26.

The Syrian foreign ministry said it looked forward to talks with Brahimi on the ceasefire proposal he has been promoting on his tour, which has included stops in Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq.

But spokesman Jihad Maqdisi stressed the rebels and their backers would also need to be involved.

"In order to succeed in any initiative, it takes two sides," Maqdisi said in answer to a question from AFP.

"The Syrian side is interested in exploring this option and we are looking forward to talking to Mr Brahimi to see what is the position of other influential countries that he talked to in his tour," he said.

"Will they pressure the armed groups that they host and finance and arm in order to abide by such a ceasefire?"

The opposition Syrian National Council said it expected the rebel Free Syrian Army to reciprocate any halt to the violence but that it was up to the government to act first.

"We would welcome any halt to the killings but we think the appeal needs to be addressed first to the Syrian regime, which has not stopped bombarding Syrian towns and villages," SNC leader Abdel Basset Sayda told AFP.

Rebel fighters "are only acting in self-defence, so it is normal that they would halt hostilities when the war machine does so," he added.

Brahimi was expected to discuss the truce proposal in his talks on Wednesday in Beirut with Lebanon's leaders, among them President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri.

His office had earlier said the envoy had appealed for Iranian help to broker the truce.

"He reiterated the call by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for a ceasefire and a halt to the flow of arms to both sides. A ceasefire, he said, would help create an environment that would allow a political process to develop."

The UN chief had previously called for a unilateral government ceasefire to be matched by the rebels afterwards, but that idea was rejected by Damascus as its troop losses mount.

On the battlefront, fighting raged near Maaret al-Numan even as the warplanes were carrying out their bombings raids, the Britain-based Observatory said.

It said the violence erupted early on Wednesday when rebels attacked a six-tank convoy of government troops in the town of Maarhtat as it was making its way to reinforce the nearby Wadi Deif army base, the largest in the region.

At least five people were killed across Aleppo province, including in the city of the same name, as government forces pounded the area and clashed with rebels who fired rockets into an army base, the Observatory said.

The Observatory - which relies on a network of activists, medics and lawyers for its information - says some 33,000 people have been killed since the revolt began in March last year, among them 2300 children.

A UN commission investigating rights abuses in the wartorn country warned that foreign militants fighting in Syria "could contribute to an increased radicalisation."

"The presence of foreign militants, radical Islamists or jihadists, worries us very much," commission head Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told reporters in New York, estimating there were hundreds of foreign combatants on the ground in Syria.

"Their presence can contribute to radicalisation... this presence is particularly dangerous in a very volatile conflict," he said.


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UK doctor in court over Syria kidnaps

A BRITISH trainee doctor appeared in a London court on Wednesday charged with kidnapping two Western journalists in Syria.

Shajul Islam, 26, is accused of being part of a jihadist group that held photographers John Cantlie from Britain and Jeroen Oerlemans of the Netherlands at a Syrian camp between July 17 and 26.

Islam was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on October 9 after arriving on a flight from Egypt with his 26-year-old wife and one-year-old daughter, the court heard.

His wife was also arrested but was released without charge on Tuesday.

Islam, from east London, appeared at the short hearing wearing a black jacket with a grey shirt and tie. He spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.

The court heard he had studied medicine at two London hospitals and had left Britain in June.

Islam was remanded in custody and is next due to appear at London's Old Bailey court on November 2.

Cantlie, who was abducted with Oerlemans while covering the fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and rebel fighters, had said his captors included a man who said he was a doctor with Britain's National Health Service.

Writing in the Sunday Times newspaper in August, Cantlie said he and Oerlemans were held by some 30 Islamic militants from countries including Britain, Pakistan and Chechnya.

Both photographers suffered gunshot wounds when the Free Syrian Army, the main rebel movement, freed them from their captors.

"I ended up running for my life, barefoot and handcuffed, while British jihadists - young men with south London accents - shot to kill," he wrote.

"Not a Syrian in sight. This wasn't what I had expected."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that 33,000 people have been killed in Syria since the revolt against Assad began in March last year.


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Poor Intel, IBM earnings lower US stocks

US stocks fell in opening trade on Wednesday after two days of solid gains, dragged down by disappointing earnings from Intel and IBM.

Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 46.02 points (0.34 per cent) to 13,505.76.

The broad-based S&P 500 slipped 0.79 (0.05 per cent) to 1454.13, while the tech-rich Nasdaq fell 11.47 (0.37 per cent) to 3089.70.

Intel shares fell 3.4 per cent and IBM 4.0 per cent after their disappointing third-quarter reports following the close of trade on Tuesday.


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Clover Moore backs chosen successor

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 16 Oktober 2012 | 21.29

SYDNEY Lord Mayor Clover Moore says her farewell speech after resigning as an MP was like being at "your own funeral", as she handed the baton on to the man she hopes will replace her.

Ms Moore stepped down last month after 24 years at Macquarie Street, having been forced out by laws adopted by the government of NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell that ban councillors from sitting in parliament.

Speaking at Alex Greenwich's campaign launch, she said she was "really proud" to endorse his bid to replace her as an independent in the NSW parliament.

On preparing her final speech to parliament, Ms Moore admitted: "It was a bit like attending your own funeral.

"You put together the things you had done over the years - and I thought, this is pretty good."

She added that she was "grateful" that Mr Greenwich was standing for the seat so that he could hopefully continue her work.

Mr Greenwich returned the compliment by telling Ms Moore: "You are my political hero. Someone who has taught me so much about working with people."

He said he was inspired by the City of Sydney and its diverse electorate.

"I will be a loud voice and I will work hard for you," the gay marriage advocate promised supporters at a fund-raising dinner in Potts Point, Sydney.

After her speech, Ms Moore told AAP: "It's a great relief to me that I have Alex - but it's also a great sadness what happened."

She said she had confidence in the 31-year-old Mr Greenwich, adding: "He is an intelligent, honourable person who will work very hard for the city, and that's a great consolation for me."

Mr Greenwich said he was feeling positive about the October 27 by-election.

"There seems to be collective rage at the O'Farrell government and the neglect of Sydney," he told AAP after his speech.

He admitted he had "huge shoes to fill" and that if he succeeds, he faces "not a very welcoming working environment", however, describing the parliament as "a bear pit full of toxic negativity".

Liberal candidate Shayne Mallard, a former City of Sydney councillor, and Greens candidate Chris Harris, are also standing in the by-election.


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US stocks rise; Citigroup sinks

CITIGROUP shares fell 0.3 per cent to $36.55 on Tuesday as US markets opened after the shock resignations of chief executive Vikram Pandit and chief operating officer John Havens for unexplained reasons.

But US stocks were generally higher following widespread gains in European and Asian markets and better-than-expected earnings from Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs.

Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 54.98 points (0.41 per cent) to 13,479.21.

The broad-based S&P 500 rose 5.96 points (0.41 per cent) to 1446.09, while the tech-rich Nasdaq added 8.93 points (0.29 per cent) at 3073.11.


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Two Indonesian police found murdered

TWO policemen have been found murdered in central Indonesia, national police say, a week after they disappeared while investigating an alleged terrorist training camp.

"The two missing policemen were found dead with their throats slit. They were discovered buried together in a hole," national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told reporters.

He said the bodies were discovered in the mountains in central Sulawesi's Poso district, where thousands were killed in outbreaks of sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians between the late 1990s and mid-2000s.

Poso has since been described by police as a hotbed for terrorism.

A national police source told AFP the officers had been investigating an alleged militant training camp linked to Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT), declared a terrorist organisation by the United States in February.

JAT was founded in 2008 by the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, considered the spiritual leader of the al-Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).

JI is blamed for numerous deadly attacks on Indonesian soil in the past decade, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. Last Friday marked 10 years since that attack, the nation's deadliest.

Police in 2010 discovered a JAT training camp in Aceh on the island of Sumatra and said the militants were planning Mumbai-style gun attacks on high-profile Indonesians.

Indonesia has led an intensive decade-long crackdown on terrorism, crippling the JI network with deadly police raids, executions and imprisonment.

But experts say that known JI figures are assisting small but violent terror networks that also aspire to an Islamic caliphate.


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Breast cancer mortality at 'historic low'

BREAST cancer mortality is currently at historically low levels, with 43 deaths from the disease per 100,000 women in Australia.

But three women in their 50s and 60s die each day from the disease, which is the second most common cause of cancer-related death for women after lung cancer.

More than 1.7 million women had a mammogram through Breast Screen Australia in 2009/10, according to the figures from the Australian Institute of Health and welfare (AIHW) published on Wednesday.

About 55 per cent of the target group - women aged 50 to 69 - were screened that year.

Participation rates remain steady at between 55 and 57 per cent since 1997. Reporting only began the previous year when 52 per cent of the target group participated.

Deaths in the main target group have dropped 37 per cent since national screening was introduced in 1991, from 68 to the current historic low of 43 deaths per 100,000 women.

About 19 women aged 50 to 69 are diagnosed with breast cancer every day.


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Woman dies in Qld motorcycle crash

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 14 Oktober 2012 | 21.29

A 57-YEAR-OLD woman has been killed in a motorcycle crash in Queensland.

The Ducklo woman was riding her motorbike on the Warrego Highway, east of Bowenville, when it collided with two cars on Sunday afternoon.

The highway was closed for nearly seven hours and the forensic crash unit from Queensland Police is investigating.

Anyone with information on the circumstances of the collision is urged to contact police.


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20 shot dead outside Nigeria mosque

ARMED robbers have opened fire on a group of people as they left prayers at a mosque in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, killing about 20, a military spokesman says.

A resident reported the gunmen were disguised in police uniforms as they stormed the mosque in the village of Dogon Dawa just before sunrise on Sunday, shooting both those still worshipping within the building as well as some outside.

"It is a clear case of armed robbery," Lieutenant Colonel Sani Usman told AFP, confirming the shooting. "The last time I spoke with my (contact) in the area, he said it was 20 people dead."

Religiously divided Kaduna has seen waves of sectarian violence in recent months.

Suicide bombings at three churches in June that were claimed by Islamist group Boko Haram sparked reprisal violence by Christian mobs who killed dozens of their Muslim neighbours, burning some of their victims' bodies.

Muslim groups also formed mobs and killed several Christians.

Usman however told AFP that the latest attack was linked to a running feud between a group of "bandits" and a vigilante group in Dogon Dawa.

The thieves had tried to rob some residents earlier in the week but were repelled, he said, adding that the robbers returned to the village on Sunday and carried out what he termed a "revenge" attack.

Asked about a potential religious element in the shootings, he said only that "the victims were coming from prayers" at the mosque.

Village resident Dauda Maikudi told AFP that thieves regularly target the area as Dogon Dawa falls along a main road frequently used by traders carrying goods and cash between the north and south of Africa's most populous country.

"It was a pre-dawn raid," he said. "The attackers ..., some of them dressed in police uniform, came into the village. They killed eight worshippers in the mosque and killed 13 other residents in the village."

"We believe they were armed robbers because this area has been bedevilled with armed robbers for years," he added.


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Thousands of UK troops to exit Afghanistan

BRITAIN'S defence secretary says thousands of troops will leave Afghanistan next year, a major reduction in UK forces there.

Britain has said 500 of its 9500 troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn this year, and all will be brought home by the end of 2014, when international troops are due to hand security over to Afghan forces.

But it has not announced exactly how many will come home in 2013.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday that he planned "a significant reduction in force numbers by the end of next year".

He told the BBC that "thousands, not hundreds" of troops would be withdrawn late in 2013, "but I would not expect it to be the majority of our forces".

Since 2001, 433 British troops have died in Afghanistan.


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Five dead on Vic roads over the weekend

THE death of a man late on Sunday night has taken to five the number of people who died on Victoria's roads over the weekend.

In the latest death, police believe the man lost control of his car before it hit a tree on the Henty Highway near Heywood, in Victoria's southwest, just before 11pm (AEST).

An off-duty nurse and emergency services worked to save the man but he died at the scene.

A 58-year-old man died in a quad bike accident on Sunday afternoon at Murchison, in central Victoria, while in the early hours of Sunday morning a man was killed when his car veered to the other side of the road in Doncaster and hit a tree.

On Saturday, a female passenger aged in her 60s, died after a station wagon plunged off a road in southwestern Victorian and hit a tree.

And a newborn baby died on Saturday after its mother was involved in a car crash at Point Cook on Tuesday and she gave birth prematurely.

Their deaths take the state's road toll to 223 - five more than for the same time last year.


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