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Disasters
A third explosion
within a week occurs at the
Pike River Mine
on the
South Island
of
New Zealand
, where 29 men are presumed dead.
(ABC Australia)
International relations
Korean peninsula
:
North Korea
issues warnings about a planned exercise by
South Korea
and the
United States
this weekend.
(
Jerusalem Post
)
North Korea holds an
artillery
drill near
Yeonpyeong Island
, which it
shelled
earlier this week.
(
Times of India
)
(
Jerusalem Post
)
Law and crime
A
Rwandan court
reschedules the trial date of the
United Democratic Forces
opposition party leader,
Victoire Ingabire
for another 30 days for prosecutors to complete building their case against her.
(Bloomberg)
Pakistani police
arrest two
Islamist militants
planning a
suicide bombing attack
against a mosque and a government building in
Islamabad
.
(UK Press Asscociation)
(VOA)
Authorities in
Saudi Arabia
have arrested 149 people with links to
al-Qaeda
suspected of planning attacks on government officials and journalists.
(Al-Jazeera)
Authorities find the largest cache of homemade
explosives
ever discovered in the
United States
, in two houses near
Escondido
,
California
.
(CNN)
(Los Angeles Times)
Politics
Kim Kwan-jin
becomes the new
Minister for Defense
in
South Korea
, replacing
Kim Tae-Young
who resigned following the
shelling of Yeonpyeong
.
(Yonhap)
Pearse Doherty
of
Sinn Féin
wins a
by-election
for the
Donegal South West
constituency in the
Irish parliament
reducing the majority of
Fianna Fáil
and the
Green Party
to two.
(BBC)