Japan, UAE sign nuclear dealJapan has concluded a
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Japan has concluded a deal with the United Arab Emirates to transfer nuclear power technology – its first since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Persian Gulf state on the third leg of a weeklong overseas trip.After visiting a railway that Japanese companies helped build, Abe met UAE Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on Thursday.
Abe conveyed Japan’s plan to hold ministerial-level strategic talks on a regular basis with 6 Gulf Arab states, known as the Gulf Cooperation Council. He also called for the start of working-level discussions with the UAE toward an investment agreement. Abe said Japan can contribute to the country’s energy supply. He pledged technology in the fields of energy conservation, renewables and nuclear power.Media agencies
Abe conveyed Japan’s plan to hold ministerial-level strategic talks on a regular basis with 6 Gulf Arab states, known as the Gulf Cooperation Council. He also called for the start of working-level discussions with the UAE toward an investment agreement. Abe said Japan can contribute to the country’s energy supply. He pledged technology in the fields of energy conservation, renewables and nuclear power.Media agencies
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China, ASEAN to talk on South China SeaForeign
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Foreign ministers of China and Indonesia have agreed that China and ASEAN countries will set up a working group to create rules for a peaceful resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea.Border rows involve China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa met in Jakarta on Thursday. Wang is currently touring Southeast Asia. Indonesian minister said the working group will craft a binding code of conduct to peacefully settle the territorial disputes. Ministers also agreed to establish a group of experts who will assist during negotiations on the code.China and Indonesia also agreed to set up an emergency hotline. Wang said China has sufficient historical and legal basis to claim sovereignty over the islands. He said it is not China but other parties that are causing a change in the region.Wang’s remark appears to be criticizing the Philippines. That country requested the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea arbitrate its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.
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Pak prosecutor handling Benazir & Mumbai attack case
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Federal Investigation Agency prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfizar Ali handling the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and Benazir Bhutto assassination case was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Islamabad, police said.
Gunmen riding a motorcycle fired at the Chaudhry’s car in the busy commercial area of Karachi Company at 7.30 am.
Ali, who was driving, was hit by several bullets and lost control of the car. The vehicle hit a woman crossing the road and she too died later in hospital. His bodyguard, Frontier Corps trooper Farman Ali, was injured in the attack.
Ali was heading for an anti-terrorism court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi for a hearing of the Bhutto assassination case when he was attacked, his son Nisar told the media.
The prosecutor and his bodyguard were taken to the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
Some doctors said Ali was killed instantly as several bullets had hit him in the face.
The gunmen escaped after the brazen shooting.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ali’s son Nisar and unnamed colleagues were quoted by TV news channels as saying that the prosecutor had been receiving threats from a banned extremist group for some time. His colleagues said he had continued pursing high-profile terrorism cases despite these threats.
The prosecutor was gunned down at a time when there have been important developments in both the Mumbai attack case and Bhutto assassination case.
On April 13, a private witness from Karachi had identified Shahid Jamil Riaz, one of the accused in the Mumbai attack case, as the person who had bought inflatable boats used by the terrorists who assaulted India’s financial hub in November 2008.
The Federal Investigation Agency had recently begun interrogating former president Pervez Musharraf over the 2007 assassination of Bhutto.
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Syrian PM survives bomb attack
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Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid on Monday, surviving a blast against his convoy in Damascus, in the latest attack on top members of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Soon after, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported an air raid on Halqi’s hometown of Jassem, in the country’s south, killed 11 people including eight rebel fighters.
The attacks came as UN chief Ban Ki-moon issued a new plea to Damascus to stop blocking an international inquiry into the alleged use of chemical weapons and Republican lawmakers in the United States stepped up calls for American action on the claims.
Syrian state television said Halqi was unharmed in the blast in the upmarket Damascus neighbourhood of Mazzeh.
“The terrorist explosion in Mazzeh was an attempt to target the prime minister’s convoy and Dr. Wael al-Halqi was unharmed,” the television reported, adding the blast had caused casualties.
The Observatory said the blast killed six people including one of Halqi’s bodyguards. “A second bodyguard and the driver are in critical condition,” its director Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding the convoy appeared to have been targeted by a remotely-detonated car bomb.
State television said the explosion happened near a public garden and a school in Mazzeh, a well-secured district home to embassies, government buildings, intelligence facilities and politicians.
“I was walking in the street when suddenly there was a very powerful explosion and I saw a car burning and people running,” a young man at the scene said. “I heard glass shattering,” he added, saying he had tried to hide for fear a second explosion would follow.
A news agency photographer at the scene said vehicles were destroyed, including a bus that was burned out. The windshields of other cars nearby were also blown out.
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