An anti-terror exercise under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in Kazakhstan from Sept. 9 to 25, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng announced Thursday.
The drill, “Peace Mission 2010,” would be the seventh of its kind, Geng said.
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More than 5,000 troops from Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan would be involved, he said.
Geng said the exercise aimed to demonstrate SCO member states’ determination and capacity to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism, showcase their mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation, and the shared wish to protect regional peace and stability as well as to boost common development and prosperity.
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About 1,000 personnel from the land and air forces of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would take part in the exercise, Geng said.
Chinese armed forces have participated in anti-terrorism drills under the framework of the SCO, which includes Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, since 2002.
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The chiefs of staff of the armed forces of the participating countries would announce the launch of the drill in Almaty in Kazakhstan, and defense ministers from the SCO’s member countries would observe, said Geng.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that a peace deal with Palestinians was more than a year away, despite recent comments to the contrary floated by Palestinian National Authority and American officials.
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Lieberman said that Israel will renew construction in West Bank settlements, after a self-imposed 10-month building freeze concludes on September 26. It was not clear what the extent of that construction would be.
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But Palestinians have threatened to walk out on next week’s talks in Washington between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if the bulldozers are fired up.
This is the first time Israeli and Palestinians will be sitting across the table in direct talk in almost two years.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah II to attend the talks. Clinton said the U.S. had no illusions over the extent of the differences between the Israelis and Palestinians.
“There have been difficulties in the past, there will be difficulties ahead,” Clinton said in a statement, but added, “I ask the parties to persevere, to keep moving forward even through difficult times and to continue working to achieve a just and lasting peace in the region.”
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Palestinian officials, as well, expressed doubts over the success of the meeting, and warned of points of contention.
“It’s impossible to conduct negotiations alongside settlement construction,” Abbas wrote in a letter sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Catherine Ashton, high representative of the European Union on foreign policy.
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Netanyahu said on Friday in a statement from his office, that ” We are coming to the talks with a genuine desire to reach a peace agreement between the two peoples that will protect Israel’s national security interests, foremost of which is security.”
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“It can be done in less than a year,” chief PNA negotiator Saeb Erekat said last week of achieving a possible deal, but added, “the most important thing now is to see to it that the Israeli government refrains from settlement activities, incursions, fait accomplis policies,” according to Erekat.
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The Obama administration on Tuesday refused to offer comments on a reported visit by former president Jimmy Carter to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the release of a U.S. man detained there, saying Washington has no plan to send envoy to Pyongyang.
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“We will continue to withhold comment. We do not want to jeopardize the prospects for Mr. Gomes to be returned home by discussing any details related to private humanitarian efforts to get him released and back here safely to the United States,” U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters.
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Reports said former president Jimmy Carter will visit Pyongyang in the coming days to negotiate the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes who was detained by the DPRK on Jan. 25, 2010 for entering the country illegally. On April 6, Gomes was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment and a fine of about 700,000 U.S. dollars.
Crowley reiterated that the administration would not send a special envoy to the DPRK for the release of Gomes, whose healthy situation reportedly has been worsening, adding that the United States will continue evaluate Gomes’ situation through Swedish diplomats there to negotiate the release with Pyongyang.
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Sweden represents U.S. interest in Pyongyang in the absence of diplomatic relations.
“There are one instance in particular where through a private humanitarian mission we were able to secure the release of two journalists held captive in North Korea,” said Crowley, referring to a private visit by former president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang last August for the release of two U.S. journalists detained there for illegal entry.
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Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who worked for the Current TV co- founded by former vice president Al Gore, were captured in March, 2009, for illegally crossing the DPRK border from China and were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in June.
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Following Clinton’s visit, in which he met with the DPRK’s top leader Kim Jong-Il, Pyongyang announced the release. Analysts said Pyongyang wanted to use the journalists as chips to explore a direct dialogue mechanism with Washington for improving their relations.
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The Obama administration, however, has claimed that any dialogue should be conducted in the Pyongyang’s denuclearization process guided by the six-party talks mechanism, which participated by the two countries, China, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Russia.
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Haidian district of Beijing will invest a total of 3.5 million yuan on rejuvenating rare ancient trees, reported Beijing Youth Daily on Monday.
The project is set to start at the end of this month and should be completed by the end of November.
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The district has been investigating the health of its ancient trees since 2007 and has classified them according to their age, species and protection class. So far, it has invested 796,000 yuan on the rejuvenation of 196 ancient trees.
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The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planning body, said on Wednesday that it has selected a series of pilot carbon cities as a way of
addressing the nation’s carbon emissions issues.
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“China is an active and responsible country in dealing with climate change,” Xie added.
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China has mostly relied on administrative measures to realize its 20 percent energy intensity reduction target between 2006 and 2010. To that end, the country’s top 1,000 energy
consumers have signed contracts with the central government to improve their energy efficiency.
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intensity target.
Lin Boqiang, director of China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University, said the pilot projects are the central government’s response to global pressure over
China’s huge carbon emissions and demonstrate the government’s commitment to going green.
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This year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti was caused by a previously unknown fault, according to scientists.
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This discovery, the researchers say, could be the first sign of a larger system of seismic faults in the area.
The Enriquillo fault, which runs through Port au Prince, was originally blamed. But new evidence has shown that it was not linked to the event.
Eric Calais from Purdue University in Indiana, presented the findings at an scientific meeting in Brazil.
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At the American Geophysical Union’s Meeting of the Americas in Foz do Iguacu, he explained that the earthquake was more complicated than previously thought.
He said that the first “give-away” was the fact that there was no surface break along the known Enriquillo fault. This led to a search for other faults or fractures in the Earth’s crust, which may have slipped and caused the event.
The earthquake in January 2010 killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless. Amid the devastation, it took scientists several months to gather data about what really shifted the ground.
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Using techniques including GPS and radar, Dr Calais and his colleagues were able to show that the “pattern of motion was incompatible with slippage on a vertical fault such as the Enriquillo”.
Further calculations showed that the only way to fit the observations was by mapping the slip to a fault that was slightly oblique to the Enriquillo and dipped 60 degrees to the north.
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A military commission jury at U. S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday sentenced a Sudanese man accused of being al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden’s cook and driver to 14 years in prison.
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Qosi, who served as cook, bodyguard and driver for bin Laden from 1996 to 2001, was captured in December 2001 in Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan. He has been held ever since.
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U.S. President Barack Obama has promised to close the infamous Guantanamo prison facility, but has so far failed to deliver. Qosi is only the fourth person prosecuted under the military commissions. He is the second to plead guilty, and two others were convicted in trials.
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Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has returned to his flood-stricken country, after a foreign tour which has prompted widespread criticism. Air Max 90 Leather
Critics were angry he was not at home to oversee the government’s response to the disaster, and continued his visit to Europe as the floods worsened.
Mr Zardari is expected to go to some of the affected areas.
But his office said he had been holding meetings since his return and did not plan to visit those areas on Tuesday.
The UN says 1,600 people have been killed and nearly 14 million affected.
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As the floods hit Pakistan, Mr Zardari went on a visit to France and the UK, and was criticised back home for being absent when Pakistan was being struck by the worst floods in living memory.
He was already facing criticism for his handling of the economy and of security, says the BBC’s Jill McGivering.
Any perception that during the crisis the army has delivered, and the president proved ineffective, could compound the damage to Pakistan’s beleaguered civilian government, she adds.
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Enraged survivors have been physically attacking government officials in flood-hit areas, amid widespread anger at the pace of the relief effort.
Mr Zardari’s return comes as thousands of people are fleeing Muzaffargarh, a major city of about 250,000 people in Punjab province, central Pakistan, as rivers nearby are swelling and there are warnings of further floods.
The flood wave is also likely to hit the Kotri Barrage near Hyderabad later on Tuesday. With several low lying areas, Hyderabad, Sindh’s second largest city after Karachi, is nervous about a huge spillover.
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UN special envoy Jean-Maurice Ripert says Pakistan faces its “biggest catastrophe”
Flood waters have roared down from the north to the agricultural heartland of Punjab and on to Sindh along a trail more than 1,000km (600 miles) long.
In the early hours of Monday morning, the water flow coming down the Sukkur Barrage was recorded at up to 1.4m cusecs (cubic feet per second). It is only designed to withstand 900,000 cusecs.
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Upper Sindh is already under water, and rescuers are continuing to evacuate people from the province, where the Indus river banks are at risk of bursting. Two million people have already left the area.
BBC Urdu will transmit six daily bulletins in Urdu and Pashto providing vital information including how to stay safe, avoid disease and access aid.
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Jamie Murphy was on target as Motherwell progressed in the Europa League with an impressive win over Norwegian outfit Aalesunds. Air Max+ 2009
The striker gave ‘Well a dream start after four minutes when he collected Chris Humphrey’s cross and fired home a superb effort into the top corner.
Craig Brown’s men were warming to the task and John Sutton swept home a Steve Saunders centre to double their lead.
‘Well breezed into the play-offs with a late Jonathan Page strike.
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The Steelmen were eager to banish the disappointment of conceding an injury-time goal in last week’s first leg in Norway.
And they came haring out of the traps at Fir Park as they looked to take the lead in the tie.
Murphy, who was also on target in the 1-1 draw in Norway, gave the hosts the lead with a superb early strike.
The white-hot forward took one touch after good work from Humphrey and his shot flew past the helpless Anders Lindegaard for his third goal in Europe this season and seventh overall.
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Manchester United reserve team coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was at Fir Park to watch 26-year-old transfer target Lindegaard, who could do little about the goals he conceded.
Aalesunds were struggling for creativity in the absence of injured winger Demar Philips and Motherwell doubled their lead in 13 minutes.
The ball was worked down the right and Saunders’s driven cross was swept home by Sutton.
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The Norwegians tried unsuccessfully to breach the Motherwell rearguard as they found the home defence and goalkeeper Darren Randolph in superb form.
Aalesunds enjoyed a brief period of ascendancy early in the second half but could not find a way back into the game.
Substitute Page, who had replaced Sutton, grabbed ‘Well’s third goal in the closing minutes when he was fed by the unselfish Murphy to stroke the ball into an empty net.
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