Pakistan: Hospital siege follows Quetta bus bombing which killed 11 female students
At least 24 people have been killed, 11 of them female university students, and many others injured after a bomb was set off near a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta. A second device was then detonated at the hospital where friends and relatives had gone to visit the injured and gunmen stormed the building. The situation remains…
Quetta blast, hospital siege kill at least 21
Zee Media Bureau Islamabad: In a sinister attack, militants on Saturday targeted a bus of a women’s university with a bomb and then stormed a hospital where the victims were being rushed to in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 21 people including 11 girl students and injuring several others. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan addressing a press conference said that the siege has now ended and those trapped…
China Sets New Rules Aimed at Curbing Air Pollution
HONG KONG — China’s cabinet has adopted 10 measures to improve air quality in the latest move aimed at responding to the dense smog that has repeatedly enveloped Beijing and other major Chinese cities in recent years. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Many of the measures had previously been enacted by some cities, or were the subject of national experiments that had not yet received the imprimatur of the cabinet, which is known as the State Council. The measures, adopted on Friday, were announced on Saturday in state-controlled news media. The newest and least-expected of them is a mandate that…
Pakistan police storm hospital, ending standoff
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that began with a bombing just outside the emergency room and left five dead, officials said. The attack in Quetta, capital of restive Baluchistan province, came just after another blast ripped through a nearby bus carrying female university students, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, police chief Mir Zubair Mahmood said. Soldiers and police commandos had rushed to the scene of the attack, where five to seven gunmen had taken over different…
Pakistan: Gunmen storm hosptial after Quetta bus bombing which killed 11 female students
At least 24 people have been killed, 11 of them female university students, and many others injured after a bomb was set off near a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta. A second device was then detonated at the hospital where friends and relatives had gone to visit the injured and gunmen stormed the building. The situation remains…
Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly on their home computers via translucent helium balloons that sail by on the wind 12 miles above Earth. While the project is still in the very early testing stages, Google hopes eventually to launch thousands of the thin, polyethylene-film inflatables and bring the Internet to some of the more remote parts of the…
Bombings, gunfire at clinic in Quetta, Pakistan
Militants have attacked a hospital at Quetta in Pakistan and set off two bombs, killing 23 people. The first bomb hit a bus carrying female university students. The second went off in the hospital’s emergency section. Pakistani troops on Saturday fought gunmen who seized parts of the Bolan Medical Complex…
In search of lasting tranquility in Kashmir
Adense mist lifted, revealing mountains and water suffused with the magic of early morning light. Framed by the carved porch of my houseboat, the world of Dal Lake looked utterly serene. Suddenly the stillness was broken by an iridescent flash descending into the water, leaving just a hint of a ripple. A small kingfisher surfaced. It flew to the side of the houseboat where it perched, a taut and tiny assembly of turquoise and orange, scrutinising the water. Then, abruptly, it darted into the lake again. The extraordinary beauty and that burst of aggressive energy were, I felt, entirely symptomatic of the haunting nature of the Kashmir Valley. For a good 20 years, this fabled land in…
Ruler of the waves
A giant golf ball, housing the world’s most powerful and sophisticated radar, slips in and out of Ohau’s waters, with barely a local eyebrow raised in consternation. The nine-storey Sea-Based X-Band radar comes and goes from Pearl Harbor frequently. Recently it returned – having been shifted closer to North Korea as concerns grew over Pyongyang’s sabre-rattling. The super-sensitive equipment is designed to detect rogue missiles hurtling towards the US, and is said to be powerful enough to track a baseball 3000 miles away. Hawaii’s residents are as comfortable with the SBX monolith as they are with the rest of the US defence forces stationed on the island. The military is the island’s…
Pakistan _ Nuclear-Armed but Short of Electricity
GUJAR KHAN, Pakistan — A woman named Rehana Yasmin struggles to keep her sick 2-year-old granddaughter cool in a sweltering hospital where working air conditioners are rare and electric fans are idle for much of the day. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Elsewhere, households can’t rely on their refrigerators, and at textile factories, factory workers say they can’t operate their machines for enough hours to earn their daily bread. All are victims of Pakistan’s biggest problem, one that recently brought down a government — not the U.S. drone war in its backyard, not its permanent confrontation…
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