29 September 2013 Last updated at 08:14 GMT
Pakistan explosion: Dozens killed in Peshawar market
An explosion has ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, leaving at least 33 dead and dozens wounded, officials say.
Police said a bomb had exploded in the Kissa Khwani market, with shops and vehicles set alight.
The blast comes a week after a double suicide bombing that killed at least 80 people at a church in the city.
On Friday, at least 17 people were killed in the bombing of a bus carrying government employees near Peshawar.
Peshawar, the main city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has been hit by numerous bomb and gun attacks blamed on Taliban insurgents in recent years.
End of empire: The glory of the Ottomans - and the devastation wreaked since they lost power
There are few things more profoundly dead than an ex-empire, but around the time that the Soviet empire came apart at the seams, I became aware that the ghosts of a much older one – that of the Turkish Ottomans – were still haunting its former domains.
It was in the spring of 1990. All Europe's communist dominoes had already fallen over, the most recent being Romania, whose dictator Ceausescu had just been executed. The only one left standing was tiny, reclusive Albania. Every half-serious newspaper in Fleet Street wanted a bite of it, but foreigners were barred from entering – not only journalists, but even ordinary tourists. The only outsiders admitted were archaeology enthusiasts who were occasionally permitted to undertake study tours.
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Walesa: Europe 'needs prosperity' to integrate
Europe needs more solidarity and should become a single state, says the Polish Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, who turns 70 today. He told DW that rich EU countries needed to lend more support to their neighbors.
Lech Walesa, who turns 70 this Sunday (29.09.2013), is a trained electrician. But, in 1980, Walesa became the leader of the Polish union, Solidarity, the first trade union in the communist Eastern bloc. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. In the first elections after the fall of communism in 1990, Poles elected him president of their country.
Deutsche Welle: You have called for Germany to make more use of its influence in European planning and development. What do you think about Germany's policy toward European integration?
Lech Walesa: Germany is a heavyweight - and is one in every area. But Germans are also taking on responsibility for coping with the crisis, and they're developing ideas for the future, and they should continue doing so. At a time when we are removing borders, it's about being European - not German or Polish. It's only about Europe. We shouldn't think in categories hemmed in by national borders. There are many new, contemporary issues like information, ecology, crises - like the bank crisis.
Mega rally: Modi launches twin attack on Congress rule at the Centre, in Delhi
Shaswati, Neelam Pandey and Darpan Singh, Hindustan Times New Delhi, September 29, 2013
First Published: 11:30 IST(29/9/2013) | Last Updated: 14:24 IST(29/9/2013)
With an estimated five lakh people in attendance, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a twin attack on the Congress rule at the Centre and in Delhi.
Taking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress, he said Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif insulted Singh by calling him a "dehati aurat". "But how will Sharif respect the PM if his own party does not respect him. Rahul Gandhi has disrespected the PM by publicly denouncing ordinance on convicted lawmakers as nonsense," he said.
Modi said India lost a golden opportunity to showcase its soft power during the Commonwealth Games. "From South Korea to China, countries use such opportunities to showcase their sport prowess and improve their standing in the global community. India lost that opportunity due to the Commonwealth Games scams," he said.Sudan police fire teargas as thousands demand Bashir quit
Sudanese police on Saturday fired teargas to break up thousands of protesters who were calling President Omar Hassan al-Bashir a killer, witnesses said, after days of unrest in which dozens of people have died.
Daily demonstrations this week followed the government cutting fuel and cooking gas subsidies on Monday when pump prices doubled overnight.
Four protesters were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Friday, police said, bringing the official death toll to 33.
In Khartoum's Burri district, home to a top government official, more than 1,000 people gathered for the funeral of one of the victims, Salah Mudahir Sanhuri, a doctor from a prominent merchant family with ties to the government.
Within half an hour the crowd grew to over 3,000 people, many of whom were shouting "Bashir, you are a killer" and "Freedom, freedom," witnesses said.
Special Report: Myanmar old guard clings to $8 billion jade empire
Andrew R.C. Marshall and Min Zayar Oo
HPAKANT, Myanmar (Reuters) - Tin Tun picked all night through teetering heaps of rubble to find the palm-sized lump of jade he now holds in his hand. He hopes it will make him a fortune. It's happened before.
"Last year I found a stone worth 50 million kyat," he said, trekking past the craters and slag heaps of this notorious jade-mining region in northwest Myanmar. That's about $50,000 - and it was more than enough money for Tin Tun, 38, to buy land and build a house in his home village.
But rare finds by small-time prospectors like Tin Tun pale next to the staggering wealth extracted on an industrial scale by Myanmar's military, the tycoons it helped enrich, and companies linked to the country where most jade ends up: China.
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