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Abe support rate rises to 43%; male backers outpace females

05/16/2007
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

The support rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet recovered to 43 percent, buoyed especially by the increasing backing among men, according to a survey released Tuesday.

In the opinion poll conducted over the weekend by The Asahi Shimbun, the support rate was up by 3 percentage points from the previous survey in mid-April. The nonsupport rate for the Cabinet was 33 percent, a decrease from 38 percent in the previous survey.

What's surprising is that any one supports this fool who thinks the bad old days of the past are just wonderful.

Two Koreas Set for Cross-Border Train Test Run
The two Koreas hold ceremonies Thursday at Munsan Station in the South and Mt. Kumgang Station in the North before launching trial runs of cross-border trains. For the first time in half a century, trains will cross the Demilitarized Zone on the Gyeongui and Donghae lines, one headed for Kaesong in the North and the other for Jejin in the South.

Riding the rails of diplomacy to nowhere.

ULFA kills 3 more traders

Sushanta Talukdar

Death toll goes up to nine

Guwahati: Suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three more Hindi-speaking traders at Dergaon in upper Assam's Golaghat district on Wednesday.

Inspector-General of Police (Law and Order) D.K. Pathak told The Hindu that the militants gunned down two traders at Disoi Tiniali and the other at Ghiladhari around 7 p.m. The death toll in fresh attacks by the ULFA on Hindi-speaking people has gone up to nine with the police recovering one more body from Belbari under the Tengakhat police station in Dibrugarh district.

Earlier four bodies were recovered, while suspected ULFA rebels gunned down a trader at Borhat in neighbouring Sivasagar district.

Love your neighbor with all the hate you muster.

Police and Rangers did ‘good job’ in Karachi, says Aziz

* PM says no need for emergency or governor’s rule

KARACHI: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has categorically ruled out the imposition of a state of emergency or governor’s rule in Sindh and praised the police and Rangers for doing a “good job” in containing the volatile situation in Karachi.

“There is no need for an emergency or governor’s rule. The government is effectively bringing the situation under control,” he told the press after chairing a meeting on law and order at Governor’s House on Wednesday. “The government will not allow anyone to disturb the law and order situation. If any such activity takes place, we will certainly take action,” he said.

They did a wonderful job of making sure there was out of control violence.

German Police Declare No-go Zone for G8 Protestors
In a move criticised by left-wing groups, German authorities have said protestors will not be allowed near a Baltic Sea resort where G8 leaders will hold their June summit.

August Hanning, deputy interior minister, defended the decision by police to ban protests near the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm during the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations in June.

"As host of the G8 summit, we have a duty to do everything to protect our guests," Hanning told German public broadcaster ARD.

Making sure that Free Speech and the Freedom of Assembly are never far from the scrape heap of history.

Irate passengers set Constitución on fire


Several shops were destroyed amid the worst incidents at Constitución in 15 years.
Some of the injured also suffered from smoke inhalation as passengers of the former Roca line set fire to train facilities causing severe damage, and even clashed with police in a pitched battle after a train was stuck near Constitución at about 5pm. The Metropolitanos train concessionaire said that the stranded train prevented several departures from Constitución.

What would these passengers due if there was a real emergency? Kill all those might help in a rescue?

Militants bomb VP-elect’s home

•4 policemen killed •Explosion rocks Yenagoa

DENNIS NAKU, Yenagoa

ESCALATING militancy in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region yesterday assumed a frightening dimension, when unidentified gunmen bombed and destroyed the country home of vice-president-elect, Goodluck Jonathan in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, killing four policemen.

Similarly, an explosion rocked Barrat Hotel in the state capital Yenagoa, said to be owned by deputy speaker of the state Assembly, Bright Ereware, on Tuesday night, causing pandemonium as people ran for their lives.

In Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, a child whose identity is yet to be established as at press time was said to have been abducted by unknown gunmen.

Police said Jonathan’s house was partially destroyed and that the attackers also blew up a nearby police station leading to the death of two policemen.