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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Georgia protesters intensify action
Fire in Polish hostel 'kills 21'
At least 21 people have been killed in a fire at a hostel for homeless people in north-western Poland, officials say.Another 20 were injured in the blaze in the town of Kamien Pomorski, 60km (37 miles) east of the border with Germany, which began in the middle of the night.Many of the injuries were sustained as residents jumped from upper floors of the three-storey building.At least 77 people were registered at the hostel, waiting for the local authority to provide them with housing.Emergency teams are now sifting through the wreckage of the building. The cause of the blaze is not yet known.Prime Minister Donald Tusk broke off his Easter holiday to fly to Kamien Pomorski to inspect the damage and visit the survivors in hospital, whom he said would receive new housing and aid.He also promised to personally oversee the investigation into the fire, one of the deadliest in living memory. The hostel was built in the early 1970s as a workers' hotel and Mr Tusk questioned whether anyone should have been living in such an unsafe building.
National Assembly passes Nizam-e-Adl resolution
ISLAMBAD Pakistan's parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the president to endorse a controversial deal for Islamic law in Swat that has sparked alarm about emboldening Taliba hardliners.Parliamentary affairs minister Babar Awan submitted a resolution to the lower house seeking approval for President Asif Ali Zardari to ratify Sharia Nizam Adl Regulation 2009, in accordance with legislative practice.Monday's vote comes just days after pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad, who signed the February agreement with the local government, lashed out at Zardari for not ratifying the deal and withdrew from Swat in protest.Sharia courts have already started working in Swat, a former ski resort ripped apart by a nearly two-year brutal insurgency, but where the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government says the deal can bring peace.‘We want consensus of the whole nation. We want to take the house into confidence. We don't want to bypass the parliament,’ Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told lawmakers.‘We appreciate the sacrifices made by the people of North West Frontier Province in the war on terror.‘We are committed to implement the system and the whole nation should support it,’ he added before the regulation was unanimously approved by a voice vote among those lawmakers in the chamber.Karachi-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a member of the coalition, abstained.‘We have our apprehensions, we will not take part in the vote,’ said MQM leader and cabinet minister for overseas Pakistanis, Farooq Sattar.Thousands of Taliban followers spent nearly two years waging a terrifying campaign to enforce sharia law in Swat -- beheading opponents, bombing girls'