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Democracy in Pak impossible, support to movements like Taliban will continue: Rights activist

washington - pakistanWashington, July 10 : A Washington-based human rights activist o

Two workers die in Czech mine

PraguePrague - Two rescue workers died Thursday in a coal mine in the Czech Republic's north-east, a mining group said.

The workers, aged 34 and 46, were found unconscious in the mine's disused tunnel. Efforts to resuscitate them failed, a spokesman for the OKD coal mining company said.

The cause of death was not immediately known and was under investigation by an expert commission, he said.

The deaths occurred in the mine Darkov, one of the OKD's four active mines, and had no effect on production, the spokesman said.

Explosion targets charity in southern Gaza Strip

Gaza City  - Unknown assailants detonated a bomb at the offices of a charity in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah in the early hours Thursday, witnesses said.

`You kill 20,000 Taliban, another 20,000 will follow’

afghanistanKabul, July 10 : Seven years after the eradication of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, one would have thought that the fight would have gone out of the Islamic fundamentalists, but if you ask those confronting this group in war-ravaged Afghanistan, he or she will just say: “You kill 20,000 Taliban, another 20,000 will follow”.

That in effect, sums up the resurgence of rabid Islamism.

For ordinary Kabulites, life pretty much goes on normally. The international community has colonised the Afghan capital, but that does not take away the growing fear among locals that a terror strike is just seconds or hours away.

Wartime bomb kills three children in Vietnam

Hanoi  - Three Vietnamese children were killed when a shrapnel bomb, believed to be left over from the Vietnam War, exploded in central Vietnam, an official said Thursday.

Tran Duy Quyet, 14, Pham Nhu Hoi, 13, and Dao Ba Thanh, 12, were tending buffaloes on a field in Hai Chanh commune in the central province of Quang Tri Thursday morning when the bomb exploded, Bui Thi Thu Van, an official with the commune's People's Committee said.

All three children were killed on the spot, he said.

"We don't know why the bomb exploded, but we think that the children were playing with the bomb," Van said. "We found them lying dead on the field after the explosion."

Japanese nuclear fuel plant worker exposed to radiation

Tokyo - A Japanese nuclear fuel company said Thursday that one of its workers was exposed to minor levels of radiation.

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