Qatari diplomat subdued on board

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LOS ANGELES, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The man who was allegedly trying to ignite his shoes on board a Washington-Denver United airliner was identified as a Qatari diplomat and preliminary investigation showed that he did not mean to hurt anyone, local media outlets reported Wednesday.

An air marshal smelled smoke and confronted a man emerging from a bathroom who claimed he was trying to set his shoes on fire a half hour before landing, according to reports. The marshal subdued the man and the pilot oil painting alerted authorities including FBI and Transportation Security Administration. A pre-recorded message from Denver International Airport confirmed a "security incident" had occurred. oil painting

United Flight 663,a Boeing 757 with 157 passengers and six crew members aboard, was diverted to a far corner of the airport after completing its flight from Washington Reagan Airportat about about 7 p.m. (0200 GMT).No one aboard was hurt during the incident, officials said. The jet has remained in a secure area.

The man was identified as Mohammed al Modadi, a diplomat in the Qatar embassy who has been in the United States for years. Officials do not believe the Qatari was trying to cause any harm. No explosives were found on him, according to latest reports.
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Passengers were removed by bus and were being questioned cheap designer handbags by the FBI.

Messages left with the airport were not returned.
The latest incident comes a week after the U.S.government announced new security cheap designer handbags measures to replace the mandatory screening of air travelers from 14 countries which the U.S.alleged were linked with terrorist activities.
Qatar is not on the list of 14 countries.

Casualties in suicide blast rise to 50 in Pakistan

3rd LD Writethru: Casualties in suicide blast rise to 50 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Casualties in the suicide blast in Pakistan's northwest city of Mingora on Thursday have risen to 50, local media reported.

According to the reports, so far at least five people were killed and 45 others including two women and seven children were injured in the blast and many of the injured who have been shifted to a nearby hospital are said to be in critical oil painting condition.

About eight vehicles including three military vehicles of the convoy were damaged in the blast, said eyewitnesses, adding that the legs and body parts of the suicide bomber were found on the blast spot. oil painting
Police have cordoned off the area where the blast took place and a large-scale search operation has been put underway, said police sources, adding that a bomb oil painting disposal squad is now searching the area for other possible bombs.

The blast took place at about 12:30 p.m. local time when a suicide bomber blew himself up among a convoy of security forces which is patrolling nearby a general bus stand in the downtown area of Mingora where a large-scale tourist festival is being held in the city, attracting thousands of visitors both from the city and the other parts of the country.
Local media said that the police had received a prior warning that a young suicide bomber had entered the city for possible attacks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the blast.
On July 1, three suicide bombers attacked a shrine in Pakistan' s eastern city of Lahore, killing 47 people and injuring 175 others. Not long after this, on July 5th, another suicide car bomb blast took place at the entrance of an army camp in Lower Dir area in northwest Pakistan, killing one troop and injuring 17 others including 11 security persons. dupont lighter

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UN achievements "are remarkable"

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UNITED NATIONS, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II said here Tuesday that "the achievements of the United Nations are remarkable." oil painting
The 84-year-old British monarch made the statement in addressing the UN General Assembly for the second time in her reign. She made first speech at the General Assembly in 1957, when the UN was all of 12 years old, and when she was a mere four years into her long reign as queen. oil painting

"The achievements of the United Nations are remarkable," she said. "When I was first here, there were just three United Nations operations overseas."
"Now over 120,000 men and women are deployed in 26 missions across the world," she said. "You have helped to reduce conflict, you have offered humanitarian assistance to millions of people affected by natural disasters and other emergencies, and you have been deeply committed to tackling the effects of poverty in many parts of the world."
"But so much remains to be done," she said in her speech, which lasted about seven minutes.
"I know there is no single formula for success," she said.

The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, were greeted by UN Air rift Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the General Assembly Ali Treki and their wives upon her arrival at the UN Headquarters in New York. Air rift
In a statement to welcome the queen, Treki said, "We, in the United Nations, are focused on making the world a better place."
For his part, Ban said in a separate statement to welcome the monarch, "Your majesty, you visited this chamber when the United Nations was still young."

After her speech, the queen met privately with members of the 15- nation UN Security Council and UN diplomats. Afterwards, she will visit the site of the World Trade Center, laying a wreath in tribute to the thousands who died in the Sept. 11 attack, including 67 Britons.
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"Blood diamonds" have faded away

"Blood diamonds" have faded away, but we may now be carrying "blood phones." An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some elegant symbols of modernity -- smartphones, laptops and digital cameras -- are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo.

I've never reported on a war more barbaric than Congo's, and it haunts me. In Congo, I've seen women who have been mutilated, children forced to eat their parents' flesh, girls who have been subjected to rapes that destroyed their insides.

Warlords finance their predations in part through the sale of mineral ore containing tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold. For example, tantalum from Congo is used to make electrical capacitors that go into phones, computers and gaming devices.

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Electronics manufacturers have tried to hush all this up. They want you to look at a gadget and think "sleek," not "blood."

Yet now there's a grass-roots movement pressuring companies to keep these "conflict minerals" out of high-tech supply chains. Using Facebook and You-Tube, activists are harassing companies like Apple, Intel and Research in Motion (which makes the BlackBerry) to get them to lean on their suppliers and ensure the use of, say, Australian tantalum rather than tantalum peddled by a Congolese militia.

A new video taunting Apple and PC computers alike went online last weekend on YouTube. It's a spoof on the famous "I'm a Mac"/ "I'm a PC" ad and suggests that both are sometimes built from conflict minerals. "Guess we have some things in common after all," Mac admits. oil painting
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Activists blanketed Intel's Facebook page with calls to support tough legislation to curb trade in conflict minerals.
Partly as a result, requirements that companies report on their use of conflict minerals were accepted as an amendment to financial reform legislation.
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"There's no magic-bullet solution to peace in Congo," notes David Sullivan of the Enough Project, an anti-genocide organization that has been a leading force in the current campaign. "But this is one of the drivers of the conflict."
The economics of the war should be addressed to resolve it.
The Obama administration also should put more pressure on Rwanda to play a constructive role next door in Congo (it has, inexcusably, backed one militia and bolstered others by dealing extensively in the conflict minerals trade).

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Manufacturers previously settled for statements from suppliers that they do not source in eastern Congo, with no verification. Auditing the supply chains at smelters to determine whether minerals are clean or bloody would add about a penny to the price of a cellphone, according to the Enough Project.

"Apple is claiming that their products don't contain conflict minerals because their suppliers say so," said Jonathan Hut-son, of the Enough Project. "People are saying that answer is not good enough. That's why there's this grass-roots movement, so that we as consumers can choose to buy conflict free."
Some ideas about what consumers can do are at raisehopeforCongo.org -- starting with spreading the word.
Maybe we can undercut wholesale designer handbags vicious militias by making it clear that no phone or computer can be considered "cool" if it perpetuates one of the planet's most brutal wars.
Nicholas D. Kristof writes for The New York Times.

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Police officers and athletes from across Connecticut laced up their running shoes Friday and raised money and awareness for Special Olympics.
More than 1,500 police officers and residents participated in the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics, going from one end of their town to the other, carrying a flame of hope.
The torch was to be delivered Friday night to the site of the Special Olympics state Summer Games, held this weekend at Southern Connecticut State University.

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Although he is accustomed to long runs, he is not used to running while carrying a torch above his head.

"The torch gets pretty heavy after a while," he said.
Last year, more than 85,000 Torch Run participants worldwide raised about $34 million. This year's goal in Connecticut is to raise $500,000.
According to Race, Madison brought in about $5,200 this year -- about five times the amount raised last year.

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O'Connor has participated in the Torch Run for years and has worked at the Special Olympics in the past.
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Connecticut's runners covered over 539 miles and raced through more than 100 cities and towns.
"What's really great is the support from residents," said Madison Lt. Allen Gerard. "A bunch of people were cheering us on."
Contact Alexandra Sanders at 203-789-5714.

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