SNIPPET OF THE DAY 09 March 2013

Bomb hits mosque in Peshwar kill four , dozens injured

Edit Published March 9, 2013 by sagarmedia

An explosion at a mosque in Pakistan has killed four people and left dozens injured. Blast took place  as Sunni Muslim worshippers were saying afternoon prayers in a mosque located in the densely populated Mohalla Baqar Shah area of Peshawar city in the northwest of the country.
“The bomb, which was planted inside the mosque, went off killing four people and wounding 28 others,” senior local police official, Imran Shahid, told Agence France Presse. Shahid said that there were up to 40 people inside the building at the time of the blast. The attack came less than a week after a car bomb killed 50 people in a primarily Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Karachi. Pakistan says some 35,000 people have been killed as a result of terrorism since the start of the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

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Seven blasts follow president Jonathan visit to northeast Nigeria

A series of seven violent explosions rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri hours after President Goodluck Jonathan visited there Friday. Jonathan when in town trying to gain support for his fight against militant Islamic group Boko Haram – which is known for executing bombings in close chronological succession.
Maiduguri is the country’s insurgency capital, with Boko Haram attempting to create a fundamentalist Islamic state in northern Nigeria. There has been no report thus far on injuries or deaths from the blasts.

Kenyatta is all set to take Kenyan presidential election by 0.03% margin

 

Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of first Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta, appears to have won the country’s national presidential election by an extremely slim margin. Kenyatta won 50.03% of the country’s votes – a majority by only 4,109 votes. If the result is final, rival candidate Raila Odinga is expected to file a legal objection. Official results will be announced Saturday morning at 11:00 local time.

Venezuela :Maduro swears in as acting president

Chavez’s successor Maduro swears in as president

Hours after the state funeral of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, Vice President Nicolas Maduro has been sworn in as acting president of the country at a meeting of the National Assembly. Chavez had hand-picked Maduro as his successor. The country is set to hold new elections in 30 days, with Maduro set to run against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who lost last year’s elections to Chavez. Maduro has said that he asked Venezuela’s election authority to call an election immediately.