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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Asia Cup 2012: India beat Sri Lanka by 50 runs


Virat Kohli (108) and left-handed opener Gautam Gambhir (100) scored centuries as India posted a challenging 304-3 before bowling Sri Lanka out for 254 in the day-night match. Skipper Mahela Jayawardene (78) and Kumar Sangakkara (65) were the main scorers for Sri Lanka, while seamer Irfan Pathan bagged four wickets for India. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and paceman Vinay Kumar each took three wickets. Skipper Mahela Jayawardene (78) and Kumar Sangakkara (65) were the main scorers for Sri Lanka, while seamer Irfan Pathan bagged four wickets for India. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and paceman Vinay Kumar each took three wickets. Brief scores: India 304-3 in 50 overs; Sri Lanka 254 in 45.1 overs

Qatar & Saudi Arabia responsible for the bloodletting in Syria


Both states are responsible for the bloodletting in the country, Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud told AFP on Monday. "Some of the countries backing armed terrorist gangs, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are accomplices to the terrorism targeting the Syrian people... and bear responsibility for the bloodletting," he said.

Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip


The strikes killed four more Palestinians, as a teenager died in a mystery blast, raising the death toll so far to 23. The latest strike killed a man in his 60s and his daughter in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, a medical spokesman said. Several hours earlier, a teenager was killed nearby, just outside Beit Lahiya in what the Palestinians claimed was a drone strike. But the Israeli military said they had not mounted any strikes in the area since the early hours of the morning. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue targeting Palestinians for "as long as necessary" and several hours later, Israeli warplanes carried out at least eight strikes across the territory, targeting a weapons storage facility and five rocket-launching sites across Gaza. The first deaths were two militants who were killed in strikes around the southern city of Khan Yunis, both of them from the Islamic Jihad group, which identified them as Raafat Abu Eid and Hamada Suleiman Abu Mutlaq, both 24. Shortly afterwards, a blast killed 15-year-old Nayef Qarmut and wounded six other teenagers, two critically, near Beit Lahiya. "A drone strike hit a group of students who were walking by empty land on their way to school," emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya told AFP. But the Israeli military denied activity in the area at the time, and an AFP correspondent at the scene confirmed there was no sign of an air strike. "From an initial check, there were no air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip since the early hours of the morning," a military spokesman told AFP. The latest attack, which hit the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp, killed Mohammed Mustafa al-Hasumi, 65, and his daughter Faiza, 35, medics said. The latest deaths brought to 23 the Palestinian toll from a weekend of tit-for-tat violence that began with Israel s killing of a senior militant on Friday afternoon. Before the latest strike, Abu Selmiya said 73 people had been wounded in 36 Israeli air strikes across the tiny coastal territory.

Afgahanistan under worst winter in 30 years


At least 45 people were killed as they became latest victims in the country s worst winter in 30 years. Heavy snow blanketed 13 houses and blocked roads leading into a district of Nuristan province, near the border with Pakistan, preventing help from reaching avalanche victims, deputy provincial governor Mohammad Nabi Ahmadi said. An entire village in northern Badakhshan province was covered by an avalanche almost a week ago, killing at least 50 people. Though avalanches are common in the mountainous north and east, the latest deaths are particularly painful during a winter that has killed dozens in the capital Kabul and created further food shortages in one of the world s poorest countries.

Haqqani accepts contacts with Ijaz, denies memo talk


The former Pakistani envoy to the United States reiterated in his reply submitted to the memo Commission that he did not write or ask Mansoor to write the memorandum which had sought US intervention to avert any perceived military coup after the May 2 incident. The reply has been submitted to the Memo Commission by Haqqani’s counsel Sajid Tanoli. The counsel also handed in over 100 articles written by Mansoor Ijaz against Pakistan’s nuclear programme and sensitive agencies. Haqqani admitted having contacts with Mansoor Ijaz but denies ever discussing memo with him. The former envoy also said he had not been given access to records of evidence presented to the Memo Commission by Mansoor Ijaz as part of his testimony via video link from London. Haqqani has also submitted phone bills for May to November 2011.