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News for Saturday, 1 Oct 2011

All 18 in Indonesian plane crash found dead

All 18 people aboard a plane that crashed on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island were found dead on Saturday, an official said, after two days of hampered efforts to reach the remote...

Second typhoon slams Philippines

Typhoon Nalgae lashed the Philippines on Saturday, killing one person and bringing fresh misery for more than a million people trapped by earlier storm floods, officials said. The weather service said...

Cigarette vending machines banned in England

Cigarette vending machines were banned in England on Saturday, a move the government hopes will cut the numbers of children smoking. Anyone caught selling cigarettes from the machines, usually found...

Awlaqi latest victim of relentless US secret war

US-born Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi is the latest American enemy wiped out by a furtive, yet relentless and deadly, assault on terror suspects on foreign soil pursued by President Barack...

Syrian opposition opens meeting in Istanbul

The Syrian National Council (SNC), which is trying to unite opponents to the regime of President Bashar Assad, was holding negotiations behind closed doors here with rivals on Saturday. Several...

Sex scandals strain Church ties with Berlusconi

Sex scandals have strained relations between Silvio Berlusconi and the Church to breaking point, but the Vatican has not managed to find a viable Christian-democratic candidate to support. Fiercely criticised...

Kremlin furious as forest fires rage in Siberia

Russian emergency services on Saturday stepped up their fight against forest fires in Siberia that left a major city covered in toxic smog and prompted a furious reaction from President...

Clashes as Egypt army chief, party leaders meet

Scuffles and stone-throwing broke out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday as Egypt’s military chief of staff Sami Enan was due to meet party leaders a day after protesters in...

Iran ‘totally rejects’ Palestine’s UN statehood bid

Iran’s supreme leader rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid on Saturday, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a “cancerous tumour” forever threatening the security of...

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