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BERLIN: A former German army officer involved in two
failed plots to assassinate Hitler but who remained undetected until
the end of World War II has died aged 90, his family said Friday.
Philipp von Boeselager was one of eight officers who planned to
shoot Hitler and SS head Heinrich Himmler in March 1943 on a visit
to the eastern front, but the plot was called off after Himmler
decided not to come. Von Boeselager was also one of the 200 people
involved in a July 1944 assassination attempt when a bomb was
planted under a table in Hitler’s eastern headquarters in East
Prussia.
--AFP
KINSTON, North Carolina: With
polls showing softening support for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Friday pursued her relentless quest for a comeback ahead of next
week’s crunch White House nominating showdowns. Obama, reeling
from days of uproar over his fiery former pastor, finally got a
boost Thursday, as a high-profile former Democratic party Joe Andrew
chief ditched Clinton and joined his pace-setting campaign and
called on his party to unite and muster to fight McCain.
--AFP
HARARE: Deadlocked all-party
talks hosted by Zimbabwe’s electoral commission resumed on Friday
in Harare with the opposition claiming an outright victory over
President Robert Mugabe in a March 29 poll. Election officials told
the first day of the closed-door meeting on Thursday that opposition
leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won 47.8 percent and Mugabe had won
43.2 percent, several sources present at the talks told Agence
France -Presse.
--AFP
JAKARTA: The future of a major US
Navy research laboratory in Indonesia is in doubt amid allegations,
dismissed as “crazy” by US diplomats, of espionage and secret
experiments. Negotiations between Washington and Jakarta over the
renewal of the operating contract of US Naval Medical Research
Unit-2, or Namru-2, have stalled over a range of issues including
diplomatic immunity for its US staff. Established in 1970, the
facility employs 19 Americans and more than 100 Indonesians.
--AFP
WASHINGTON: US President George
W. Bush issued an executive order on Thursday to impose new
sanctions on Myanmar. “I have signed a new Executive Order that
will block all property and interests in property of designated
individuals and entities determined to be owned or controlled by,
directly or indirectly, the Government of Myanmar or its to expands
existing authorities that allow the US to target those who are
responsible for supporting, empowering, and enriching the Burmese
regime.”
--Xinhua
NEW DELHI: Rights group Amnesty
International appealed on Friday to India to declare a
“moratorium” on executions as an interim step towards abolishing
the death penalty. The London-based rights groups said “India has
an opportunity to exercise regional leadership and to send a strong
signal of its determination to fully uphold human rights” by
rejecting the death sentence.
--AFP
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