Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Drug kingpin Khun Sa dead at 74

Khun Sa, as the highest profile drug warlord of the fabled Golden Triangle, is reported to have died in Rangoon.

His death as occurring between the dates of October 26 to 28, a police source in Rangoon said the drug kingpin died on Sunday at his residence.

Khuensai Jaiyen, editor of the Thailand based Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN), said the former drug lord, age 74, was suffering from diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and was half paralyzed before his death.

"His body was cremated this morning at Yaywai cemetery in Rangoon without much ceremony," Jaiyen added.

Born in 1933, Khun Sa is best known for operating a massive drug operation in a virtually autonomous stretch of territory in eastern Shan State and along the Thai-Burmese border from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s, maintaining a command center in the northern Thai town of Ban Hin Taek.

The establishment of Shan United Army, called himself as a freedom fighter in opposition to the central Burmese government, fighting for the rights and autonomy of the Shan provice and its peoples.

In year 1996 Khun Sa dissolved his fiefdom and is said to have "surrendered" to Burmese authorities. with tacit understanding,a well known that he continued to live out his days in Rangoon, with no irk or hassle from Burmese authorities.

Khuensai Jaiyen, a former secretary of Khun Sa with connections to Shan ethnic minority guerrilla groups, yesterday confirmed that his former boss died aged 74 in Rangoon on October 26.

His "surrender" came seven years after he was indicted by a New York court for drug trafficking, and at a time when Burmese authorities were keen to make a public show for their efforts in combating the trade in illegal narcotics.

The existing financial interests of Khun Sa and his family are not known in full, but his relations are rumored to continue to hold significant financial portfolios in Burma's urban centers as well as in Khun Sa's old hunting grounds along the Thai-Burmese border, including investment in a casino in the Burmese border town of Myawaddy.

Khun Sa presided over a narcotics kingdom spread over of jungle valleys, complete with latest logistics as satellite television, schools and surface-to-air missiles in the Golden Triangle region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet.

For four decades the Robinhood style, warlord claimed to be fighting for autonomy for the Shan procince, one of many ethnic minorities who have battled Burma's central government for decades.

But global narcotics agents used terms like the "Prince of Death" as designate. United States offered a reward of $2 million for his arrest. He is estimated to have control up to 60 per cent of the world's heroin supply was refined from opium in his area at his peak.

Brazil host World Cup football 2014

Brazil host World Cup football 2014
Fifa's rotation system has south American country for Gala event.
2007-10-31 02:45:48 - Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said: "Soccer is more than a sport for us, it's a national passion." World Cup is being held in Brazil since Argentina hosted, and won, the 1978 tournament.Brazil hosted this event in 1950 when they lost the event to Uruguay in the final.

Brazil is to to give face lift to fourteen grounds out of which the
Fifa may select for nine or ten ground each with the capacity of more
than 40000,Brazil has to build four from scratch and fourteens needs refurbish which needs inspections from Fifa for their approval as per their norms.
Brazil have won the tournament a record five times and hosted the World Cup once before, in 1950.

This World Cup will have such a big social and cultural impact in Brazil said Fifa president Sepp Blatter.

Fifa's inspection report added: "Brazil has a rich history of hosting sporting and other international events.News reached fans celebrations culminated in many towns around the country with fireworks and festivities continued late night.

Women's world champions Germany will host the 2011 Women's World Cup as it was contest between Canada and Germany ,the later beating off competition from Canada.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Germany to cooperate India's energy sector

Germany to cooperate India's energy sector

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PM Mr Man Mohan Singh inaugurated, 'Science Express' an exhibition on wheels that visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened in the capital along with him.Later in the day she attended meeting organised by conglomerate of various industries.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Germany to cooperate India's energy sector

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel said addressing industry leaders here at the jointly organised CII-FICCI-ASSOCHAM meeting that Germany is willing to cooperate with India "very closely" in the energy sector and asked New Delhi to take a long-term view while negotiating emission reduction obligations in any global climate deal.

"In the area of energy we have to cooperate very closely ...And efforts will be made to give priority to renewable energy," Merkel said India-Germany cooperation would not be narrow but broadbased. "India will be our strategic partner and we wish to enhance this relationship."

She said enhancing business has to be given the top priority in the strategic partnership.

Germany-India bilateral trade has crossed 10 billion euro in 2006, meeting the target four years in advance.

Merkel said while auto giant Volkswagen is enlarging its plants in India, Airbus has made "excellent offers" both for the civilian and defence aircraft.

Area of climate change, Merkel said India should take a long-term view in international cooperation. "India's per capita emission is at the bottom of the pyramid but we have to think of future," she said.

She said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told her that in the long-term a fair solution was possible if each individual was given his or her share of emission.PTI

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Argentina's first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wins

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First Lady Cristina elected President

29.10.2007 18:55:52 "We have won amply," she said. "But this, far from putting us in a position of privilege, puts us instead in a position of greater responsibilities and obligations."

(live-PR.com) - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had 45 percent of the vote, compared with 23 percent for former lawmaker Elisa Carrio and 17 percent for former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna.


Rest percentage split the other eleven contestants. Fernandez needed 40 percent and a margin of 10 percentage points over the runner-up to avoid a runoff.Fernandez is a lawyer and senator will succeed her husband Nestor Kirchner.She become Argentina's first elected female president.The Post of President in Argentina is both state and government head as per the constitution.

Polling was extended by one hour in some parts of the country to 1900 local time (2200 GMT) to accommodate a late rush of voters.Vice President Daniel Scioli won the race for governor of Buenos Aires province, the country's second most powerful post.

The outgoing president Nestor Kirchner, stood at her side, she said she would build on his work.On being compared with Hillary Clinton or with Evita in media she said ,"I don't want to be compared with Hillary Clinton or with Evita Peron, or with anybody," she said recently."There's nothing better than being yourself."

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will take over reins from her husband Nestor Kirchner in December in a unique rarity power handover between democratically elected spouses,a glamorous lawyer and centre-left senator enters into the Casa Rosada – or Pink House – as her husband’s successor after tomorrow’s elections in house where she lived for four years as First Lady.

Fernandez political journey from elected provincial legislator at the Chamber of Deputies in the locality of Santa Cruz in 1989, she was re-elected to the post in 1993. In 1999 that is six years later, she was elected Senator for Santa Cruz, and re-elected in 2001. She was elected Senator for Buenos Aires,in year 2005.

Her call for unity, and invited all social sectors to build a better nation as she wants to develop a joint social project for all sectors of Argentinean society, disregarding political differences. "I want all to join in to build the future, because we have advanced a lot since 2003 in our struggle against poverty and unemployment, and I want to call on you all without hard feelings or hatred," she stressed.The payment of debts to IMF of 100 Million dollars and to other Latin American countries paid rich dividend to her in election campaign.

Argentina economy has boomed as it rebounds from the depths of the crash, with 8 per cent growth last year. Unemployment has halved and poverty rates have been slashed. The glittering pampas are flush with new wealth, thanks to Chinese demand for soy, and a forest of cranes is testimony to the builders boom in Buenos Aires.


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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Merkel's first trip to India

Merkel will leave Monday for a four-day trip to India her first trip as Chancellor along with a trade delegates.Angela Merkel to boost business ties with India on her visit to the world's biggest democracy.she will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

"As Europeans, we have every opportunity, including in a country like India," Merkel said at an Asia conference in Berlin. "We just have to get involved."

A government official said German firms wanted to boost ties in newer areas such as environmental technology and software as well as machinery, electrical engineering and chemicals. German-Indian trade reached about 10.5 billon euros ($15.1 billion) last year.Asia's third-biggest economy has grown at an average of 8.6 percent in the past four years.
Germany has been very focused on China, she said, but India also "is a dramatically growing country" with great economic perspectives.Delegation of managers from top German companies such as industrial conglomerate Siemens AG and chemical company BASF as well as the Deutsche Bahn railroad firm on the trip to Delhi and Mumbai.

It will be Merkel's first trip to India; she has already visited another Asian economic power, China, twice during her chancellorship.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Gorbachev forms Union of Social Democrats Political outfit

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Former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev founded the Union of Social Democrats in Moscow on Saturday in an attempt to lead Russia towards a social democratic path.

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Former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev founded the Union of Social Democrats in Moscow on Saturday in an attempt to lead Russia towards a social democratic path.

Some 200 people from 58 Russian regions took part in the constituent congress of the union, which was, as claimed, aimed at eliminating the extremities of left-wing
and right-wing forces and building an integrated society.

"The Western countries found the solution (in combining left- wing and liberal values)," Gorbachev said, taking the coalition of Social Democrats and Christian Democrats in Germany as an example.

It's the former president and Communist Party chief's second attempt to lead his country towards a social democratic path.

In 2000, he founded the Russian United Social Democratic Party, which grouped a number of other social democratic parties and organizations in 2001 and was renamed to the Social Democratic Party of Russia (SDPR).

In May 2004 Gorbachev stepped down as the SDPR leader and the party was abolished last summer as it failed to meet the requirements of the legislation on political parties.

Russia will hold parliamentary elections in early December.
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Kurdish rebels ambushed a military unit near Turkey's

SIRNAK, Turkey - Kurdish rebels ambushed a military unit near Turkey's border with Iraq early Sunday, killing 12 soldiers giving way on the Turkish government to stage attacks against guerrilla camps in Iraq.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the referendum at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Turkey's leaders hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to decide what steps to take against PKK- Kurdish rebels, following an ambush that killed at least 12 soldiers.

Iraq's president, ordered Kurdish guerrillas to lay down their weapons or leave, but Turkey's deputy prime minister said words were no longer enough: "We are expecting concrete steps from them."

Soldiers died when rebels blew up a bridge as a 12-vehicle military convoy was crossing it, less than three miles from the Iraq border, news channel television said. Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said the military had circled a group of rebels, killed 23 of them and were shelling their positions.

"Our anger, our hatred is great," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on national television. He said the government would take "an approach that is calm, far from agitation and based on common sense."

The handing over of PKK leaders to Turkey is a dream that will never be realised," Talabani, himself a Kurd, told journalists.

"PKK's leaders are in Kurdistan's rugged mountains. The Turkish military with its mightiness could not annihilate them or arrest them, so how could we arrest them and hand them to Turkey?"

However, Talabani and Iraqi Kurdish president Massud Barzani hold most sway over Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters best suited for any operations Iraq could launch.

"We have appealed to the PKK and PJAK (an offshoot of the PKK) to stop fighting and to transform themselves from military organisations into civilian and political ones," Talabani said.

"But if they insist on continuing the fight, they should leave Kurdistan and not create problems here. They should go back to their countries and do whatever they want."

A statement from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office condemned what it described as a "terrorist action" carried out by the PKK against Turkish soldiers, after a meeting of Iraq's security committee.

Turkey's parliament on Wednesday approved a motion authorising military strikes into Iraq for a one-year period against PKK rebels using northern Iraq as a springboard for cross-border attacks.

Iraqi lawmakers overwhelmingly condemned the Turkish move on Sunday but urged their own government to do more to rid the country of the rebels.

"The parliament calls on PKK fighters to leave Iraqi territories and asks the Iraqi government to take the required measures to stop PKK activities being launched from Iraqi territories," a motion said.

In Ankara, Erdogan said he, President Abdullah Gul and top ministers and military leaders would meet later Sunday to decide on what action to take following the latest clashes.

The Turkish army has already sent additional troops to the region following the attack in which PKK rebels allegedly ambushed an infantry platoon.

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