Wednesday 18 September 2013

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Karachi unrest case: SC to resume hearing today

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – A larger bench of the Supreme Court (SC), headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, will resume hearing of Karachi law and order case today (Thursday).Special reports by Federal Govt, Sindh Govt, DG Rangers and police will be submitted during today’s proceedings while notices have been issued to concerned parties including MQM Senator Babar Khan Ghauri, who has requested to become a party in the case.The SC was scheduled to hear the Karachi law and order case on September 18 at the Karachi Registry, however, the proceedings will now be held today (September 19) due to change in the court’s schedule.

PM invites Turkish businessmen to invest in Pakistan

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ISTANBUL (APP) - Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Wednesday invited the top executives of Turkish companies to invest in Pakistan in projects of low cost housing, energy, infrastructure and urban development.The Prime Minister was talking during a meeting with chairmen and chief executive officers of TAV, ALBAYRAK, LIMAK, Baynder, STFA and Zorlu Enerji.The Turkish businessmen showed keen interest to invest in Pakistan and they were assured, by the Prime Minister, of business friendly policies and initiatives of the government.The businessmen expressed satisfaction with the level of personal commitment shown by the Prime Minister towards taking steps for economic revival of Pakistan.The Prime Minister also performed soft inauguration of Zorlu Energy’s Wind Power Plant that has the capacity to generate over 50 MW electricity.Located at Jhimpir near Karachi, the power generated from this project has been added to the national grid, which will help reduce power shortage in the country.

Assad pledges to destroy chemical arms

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad pledged to destroy his stockpile of chemical arms but warned it would take a year to do so, in an interview with Fox News broadcast Wednesday.I think its a very complicated operation, technically. And it needs a lot of money, about a billion, he said.So it depends, you have to ask the experts what they mean by quickly. It has a certain schedule. It needs a year, or maybe a little bit more.Bashar al-Assad insisted that Syria is not gripped by civil war but has been attacked by tens of thousands of foreign jihadist fighters allied to Al-Qaeda.The Syrian leader urged US President Barack Obama not to threaten Syria but to listen to the common sense of your people.What we have is not civil war. What we have is war. Its a new kind of war, he said, alleging that Islamist guerrillas from more than 80 countries had joined the fight.We know that we have tens of thousands of jihadists, but we are on the ground, we live in this country, he said, disputing an expert report that suggested 30,000 out of around 100,000 rebels were hardliners.What I can tell you that 80 -- and some say it is 90 -- to be precise, we dont have clear data and precise data, 80 to 90 percent of the underground terrorists are Al-Qaeda and their offshoots.Assad admitted that at the start of the uprising there were non-jihadi Syrian rebels, but alleged that since the end of 2012, due to funding and influence from abroad, extremists had become a majority.He added that tens of thousands of Syrians and 15,000 government troops had been killed mainly because of the terrorist attacks, assassinations and suicide bombers.And he also repeated his insistence that an August 21 sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in the suburbs of Damascus had been carried out by rebels, and not by government forces.Western capitals, most Arab states and several independent rights watchdogs say there is clear evidence that the attack was launched by Syrian government troops.

6 killed as Canada bus strikes passenger train

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OTTAWA (AP) - Passengers screamed Stop Stop seconds before their bus crashed through a crossing barrier and into a commuter train during morning rush hour in Canadas capital on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 34.He smoked the train, witness Mark Cogan said of the bus driver, who was among those killed. He went through the guard rail and just hammered the train, and then it was just mayhem.It was not immediately clear what caused the bus to smash through the lowered barrier at a crossing in suburban Ottawa.The front of the double-decker bus was ripped away by the impact, and the trains locomotive and one passenger car derailed, though there were no reports of major injuries to train passengers or crew.Eight were still listed in critical condition late Wednesday. The crash brought trains on the national Via Rails Ottawa-Toronto route to a standstill.It was Canadas second major rail accident in less than three months. A runaway oil train derailed and exploded in a Quebec town on July 6, killing 47 people in the countrys worst rail disaster in more than a century.Tanner Trepanier said he and other passengers could see the four-car train bearing down on them as the bus approached the crossing.People started screaming, Stop Stop because they could see the train coming down the track, Trepanier said.But the driver didnt slow down, said Rebecca Guilbeault, who was on the bus with her 1-year-old son.I dont know if the bus driver blacked out, she said. Ive seen a few people dead, someone ripped in half.

Mexico floods kill 80, thousands stranded

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ACAPULCO (AP) - The toll from devastating twin storms climbed to 80 on Wednesday as isolated areas reported damage and deaths to the outside world, and Mexican officials said that a massive landslide in the mountains north of the resort of Acapulco could drive the number of confirmed casualties even higher.Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal authorities had reached the cutoff village of La Pintada by helicopter and had airlifted out 35 residents, four of whom were seriously injured in the slide. Officials have not yet seen any bodies, he said, despite reports from people in the area that at least 18 people had been killed.It doesnt look good, based on the photos we have in our possession, Osorio Chong said, while noting that up to this point, we do not have any (confirmed) as dead in the landslide. Osorio Chong told local media that this is a very powerful landslide, very big ... You can see that it hit a lot of houses.Mayor Edilberto Tabares of the township of Atoyac told Milenio television that 18 bodies had been recovered and possibly many more remained buried in the remote mountain village. Atoyac, a largely rural township about 42 miles (70 kilometers) west of Acapulco, is accessible only by a highway broken multiple times by landslides and flooding.Ricardo de la Cruz, a spokesman for the federal Department of Civil Protection, said the death toll had risen to 80 from 60 earlier in the day, although he did not provide details of the reports that drove it up.In Acapulco, three days of Biblical rain and leaden skies evaporated into broiling late-summer sunshine that roasted thousands of furious tourists trying vainly to escape the city, and hundreds of thousands of residents returning to homes devastated by reeking tides of brown floodwater.The depth of the destruction wreaked by Tropical Storm Manuel hit residents and visitors with full force as Mexicos transportation secretary said it would be Friday at the earliest before authorities cleared the parallel highways that connect this bayside resort to Mexico City and the rest of the world.Hundreds of residents of Acapulcos poor outlying areas slogged through waist-high water to pound on the closed shutters of a looted Costco, desperate for food, drinking water and other basics.Many paused and fished in the murky waters for anything of value piling waterlogged clothing and empty aluminum cans into plastic bags.If we cant work, we have to come and get something to eat, said 60-year-old fisherman Anastasio Barrera, as he stood with his wife outside the store. The city government isnt doing anything for us, and neither is the state government.Manuel re-formed into a tropical storm Wednesday, threatening to bring more flooding to the countrys northern coast. With a tropical disturbance over the Yucatan Peninsula headed toward Mexicos Gulf coast, the country could face another double hit as it struggles to restore services and evacuate those stranded by flooding from Manuel and Hurricane Ingrid, which hit the Gulf coast over the weekend.Mexicos federal Civil Protection coordinator, Luis Felipe Puente, said 35,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.Elsewhere in the verdant coastal countryside of the southern state of Guerrero, residents used turned motorboats into improvised ferries, shuttling passengers, boxes of fruit and jugs of water across rivers that surged and ripped bridges from their foundations over the weekend. Outside the town of Lomas de Chapultepec, the Papagayo River surged more than 30 feet during the peak of Manuels flooding, overturning a bridge that stretched hundreds of feet across the mouth of the river.In Acapulcos upscale Diamond Zone, the military commandeered a commercial center to use for tourists trying to get onto one of the military or commercial flights that remained the only way out of the city. Thousands lined up outside the malls locked gates, begging for a seat on a military seat or demanding that airline Aeromexico honor a previously purchased ticket.We dont even have money left to buy water, said Tayde Sanchez Morales, a retired electric company worker from the city of Puebla. The hotel threw us out and were going to stay here and sleep here until they throw us out of here.

Iran 'never' to seek nuclear weapon: Rowhani

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran will never seek nuclear weapons, newly elected President Hassan Rowhani said in a US interview Wednesday ahead of a visit to the UN General Assembly.Under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever, Rowhani told NBC News.We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb, and we are not going to do so, he said, according to the US network.Rowhani repeated Irans position that the clerical state -- slapped with US-led sanctions following sensitive uranium work -- was solely looking for peaceful nuclear technology.Rowhani, considered more moderate than his rivals, swept to power in June on promises to help repair Irans suffering economy and to ease tensions with the West.His stance has been met alternately with cautious optimism and skepticism in Washington, where experts note that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ultimately controls foreign policy.Rowhani told NBC News: In its nuclear program, this government enters with full power and has complete authority.The problem wont be from our side, he was quoted as saying. We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem.

Former heavyweight champion Norton dies

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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Former heavyweight champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali and then lost a controversial decision to him in Yankee Stadium, died Wednesday at a local care facility, his son said. He was 70.Norton had been in poor health for the last several years after suffering a series of strokes, a friend of the fighter said.Hes been fighting the battle for two years, said Gene Kilroy, Alis former business manager. Im sure hes in heaven now with all the great fighters. Id like to hear that conversation.Norton broke Alis jaw in their first bout, beating him by split decision in 1973 in a non-title fight in San Diego. They fought six months later, and Ali narrowly won a split decision.They met for a third time on Sept. 28, 1976, at Yankee Stadium in New York and Ali narrowly won to keep his heavyweight title.Norton won a heavyweight title eliminator the following year and was declared champion by the World Boxing Council. But on June 9, 1978, he lost a bruising 15-round fight to Larry Holmes in what many regard as one of boxings epic heavyweight bouts and would never be champion again.Norton finished with a record of 42-7-1 and 33 knockouts. He would later embark on an acting career, appearing in several movies, and was a commentator at fights.Norton lost only once in his early fights but had fought few fighters of any note when he was selected to meet Ali. At the time, Ali was campaigning to try to win back the heavyweight crown he lost to Joe Frazier in 1973.Few gave Norton much of a chance against Ali in the 1973 fight in San Diego, but his awkward style and close-in pressing tactics confused Ali and the win put him in the top echelon of heavyweight fighters.

Tennis: Tsonga wins in return from injury

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METZ (AP) - Defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made a winning return to tennis on Wednesday, beating fellow Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals of the Moselle Open.Sam Querrey of the United States and Tobias Kamke of Germany also advanced to the last eight.Tsonga was playing his first match since a troublesome left knee injury forced him to retire in the second round at Wimbledon and then pull out of the U.S. Open.Im very happy that my knee held up, Tsonga told Sport Plus television. I had a very good match. I didnt expect to play so well today.The top-seeded Frenchman, who split with Australian coach Roger Rasheed last month, broke serve once in each set.Step by step, Im raising my game, he added. I still choose the moments when I accelerate. In the next matches, Ill have to accelerate more and more often.Tsonga will now meet Kamke, who rallied from a set and a break down to see off Hungarian qualifier Marton Fucsovics 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.Kamke broke back at 3-2 in the second set and capitalized on four double faults from Fucsovics in the final set to win the last five games.The sixth-seeded Querrey led 6-2 when his opponent, French wild card Paul-Henri Mathieu, retired because of a right thigh injury.The American broke Mathieu twice and served an ace to take the first set. Querrey will play another Frenchman in the next round, either second-seeded Gilles Simon or Kenny De Schepper.Carlos Berlocq of Argentina, Benjamin Becker of Germany and Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and Albano Olivetti advanced to the second round with straight-set wins.Berlocq, who won the Swedish Open in July, did not face any break points in his 6-3, 6-4 victory over Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic, while Becker upset fifth-seeded Benoit Paire of France 6-3, 7-5.Mahut beat Leonardo Mayer of Argentina 7-6 (2), 6-4 and wild card Olivetti defeated 2010 runner-up Mischa Zverev of Germany 7-5, 7-6 (3).Mahut won two titles in the summer and is enjoying his best season. He blew a 4-2 lead in the first set but still won the tiebreaker before breaking Mayer in the opening game of the second set.Ranked 254th in the world, Olivetti saved four break points in the first set and fired a total of 20 aces.

Messi hits hat trick; Mourinho mulls Chelsea loss

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ROME (AP) - Lionel Messi scored a hat trick as Barcelona opened its Champions League campaign with a dominant 4-0 win over Ajax on Wednesday.It was a different story for Jose Mourinho, though, as Chelsea made a losing start for the first time as Basel came from behind to win 2-1 in London and add to the difficulties of the Special One during his Stamford Bridge homecoming.Last seasons runner-up Borussia Dortmund also had a bad night, losing 2-1 at Napoli with both coach Juergen Klopp and goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller being sent off.Seven-time champion AC Milan struggled, too, before two late goals gave the injury-hit Rossoneri a 2-0 victory at home to Celtic.Meanwhile, Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey scored as Arsenal opened its 16th straight campaign in the top European competition with a 2-1 win at Marseille to join Napoli atop Group F.Elsewhere, it was: Atletico Madrid 3, Zenit St. Petersburg 1; Schalke 3, Steaua Bucharest 0; and Austria Vienna 0, Porto 1.At the Camp Nou, Messi scored his 60th, 61st and 62nd career goals in his 80th Champions League match.Barcelona is full of individual talents, Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino said. Today we can talk about Messi and Valdes, another day Xavi or Neymar. It is normal that one of them rises to the occasion.Messi, the four-time FIFA world player of the year, opened the scoring in the 22nd minute after he was fouled on the edge of Ajaxs area, then stepped up to fire in a perfect-placed free kick.The Argentina forward doubled the hosts advantage in the 55th by hitting on the break when Ajax was caught looking for the equalizer.Neymar, on his European debut, set up Gerard Pique to add Barcelonas third goal in the 69th before Messi completed his hat trick in the 75th.Messis treble leaves him nine goals short of Raul Gonzalezs all-time record of 71.Barcelona and Milan top Group H, although the Rossoneri didnt take the lead until eight minutes from time with an own goal before Sulley Muntari sealed the result two minutes later.In London, boos rang out at the final whistle after Marco Streller clinched Basels first-ever win in England in the 82nd minute by flicking a header past goalkeeper Petr Cech after seizing on slack defending.I am responsible for everything, Mourinho said. Especially after a bad result. In the good moments I want everyone to shine, in the bad moments I want everyone to keep calm.Although Oscar lit up a drab start by putting Chelsea in front before halftime, Mohamed Salah began the Swiss sides comeback in the 71st by bending in an equalizer before Streller ensured that Chelseas worst start to a season in the decade under Roman Abramovichs ownership was prolonged.Basel and Schalke share the Group E lead.In Italy, prized signing Gonzalo Higuain put Napoli ahead 29 minutes in on a rainy night at San Paolo stadium by heading home a cross from Camilo Zuniga, after which Klopp was sent off for protesting.Higuain was also at the center of the action when Weidenfeller was shown a red card for using his hands outside his area to deny the striker in first-half added time.Zuniga scored an own goal for Dortmund in the 87th with a poorly intercepted cross.Napoli and Arsenal meet next in Group F.

Arsenal beat Marseille 2-1 in Group F

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MARSEILLE (AP) - Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey scored as Arsenal opened its 16th straight Champions League campaign by defeating Marseille 2-1 in Group F on Wednesday.Walcott capitalized on a miscued clearance from Jeremy Morel to volley into the top corner in the 65th minute. Ramsey doubled the lead with a low strike in the 83rd.Marseille scored a consolation goal with a penalty from Jordan Ayew in stoppage time.It was Arsenals sixth straight victory in all competitions.The Gunners showed their attacking flair in the second half despite missing several players through injury.Napoli beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the other Group F match.Marseille put the Gunners under pressure in the opening minutes but Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny saved Pierre-Andre Gignacs close-range backheel flick and a curling shot from Mathieu Valbuena.Arsenal quickly replied with a header from Walcott, cleared by Nicolas NKoulou in the third minute, and a half-volley from the England winger that goalkeeper Steve Mandanda stopped in the sixth.Second in the Premier League, Arsenal struggled to find space as Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil had very little impact in midfield.A well-organized Marseille team had the better chances before halftime. Ghana winger Andre Ayew headed a cross from Dimitri Payet wide in the 21st before Arsenal centerback Per Mertesacker intercepted a low pass from Payet for Ayew in the 39th.Gignac capitalized on the lackluster Arsenal defense to connect with a corner from Payet in the 40th but sent his header over the bar. On the stroke of halftime, Szczesny came off his line to punch the ball into Gignacs head and was lucky to see the ball bounce his way.Both teams traded blows in a lively second half that could have gone either way.Marseille fullback Rod Fanni took a pass from Alaixys Romao in the 47th but fired wide from close range. The Gunners then threatened in the 53rd when Ozil set up Kieran Gibbs with a backheel flick. However, Mandanda saved the first-time effort from the Arsenal leftback.The Arsenal defense seemed shaky at times. A cross from Morel eluded the Gunners in the 56th, forcing Szczesny to stop a low half-volley from Payet.Mertesacker then failed to clear a cross from Payet, which looped over Szczesny in the 60th. It took a desperate clearance from Gibbs to clear the ball off the line.Despite its average defensive display, Arsenal somehow rediscovered its attacking touch. Unmarked at the far post, Jack Wilshere volleyed a cross from Bacary Sagna in the 58th but Mandanda made the save. Seven minutes later, Gibbs charged down the left flank to make a cross that Morel failed to clear. From eight yards, Walcott punished the Marseille defense.Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud in the 72nd and Ozil in the 83rd missed the target, but Ramsey then made a run and beat Mandanda with a low strike from 18 yards that deflected off NKoulous leg for his sixth goal this season for the Gunners.Ramsey was a little too confident inside his area in the 92nd. Betrayed by a poor touch, the Wales midfielder tripped Andre Ayew, whose brother Jordan Ayew converted the subsequent penalty.Arsenal hosts Napoli on Oct. 1 while Marseille visits Borussia Dortmund.

AC Milan beats Celtic 2-0 in Champs League opener

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MILAN (AP) - Two late goals saw injury-hit AC Milan earn a scrappy 2-0 victory at home to Celtic in their opening match in Champions League Group H on Wednesday.Cristian Zapata broke the deadlock eight minutes from time, with the aid of a deflection, before Sulley Muntari sealed the result two minutes later.Milan was clearly understrength and struggled to carve out opportunities against a side widely deemed as the weakest in the group, although Muntari missed an open goal from six yards. Anthony Stokes hit the woodwork for Celtic.Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri claimed before the match he had only 13 fit players available, with the likes of Riccardo Montolivo, Kaka, StephanEl-Shaarawy, Giampaolo Pazzini, Ignazio Abate, Matias Silvestre and Mattia De Sciglio all out injured.Barcelona beat Ajax 4-0 in the other group match.

Clarke confident of making India tour

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SYDNEY (AFP) - Captain Michael Clarke is confident the chronic back problem that has hampered him for years will not keep him out of Australias upcoming one-day series in India.Clarke arrived back in Sydney late Wednesday after a gruelling England tour that saw Australia humbled 3-0 in the Test series before they bounced back to win the one-day international series 2-1.His back flared up again before the final ODI in Southampton and Clarke said he would consult team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris and probably undergo scans, but remained hopeful he could go to India.No doubt its quite stiff and sore, he told reporters at Sydney airport.But Ill be guided by the experts on what I need to do now to try and get myself as fit as I can be.I would certainly like to go and continue to play. Im enjoying my cricket at the moment.It was a good win for us in the ODI series and we need to keep that momentum going, he added. The last couple of weeks were a good start and (I) hope we can keep that going in India.Australia are due to play seven ODIs and one Twenty20 international in India. The T20 game, which kicks off the tour, is on October 10 in Rajkot.The squad is yet to be announced but The Sydney Morning Herald said veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin was in line for a recall after Matthew Wade had a lean tour of England.Haddin, 35, was brought back into the Test side in place of Wade for the Ashes to serve as Clarkes vice-captain and he broke Rod Marshs 30-year-old record for the most dismissals in a series, but he was not in the one-day team.Before the final Test at the Oval he signalled a desire to play in the 2015 World Cup in Australia.Clarke insisted a lot of positives came out of the England tour, despite the Ashes disappointment. But he would not be drawn on where Australia needed to improve for the return series starting in November.I dont think its right to go into specifics, we just have to play better cricket more consistently, he said.In patches we played some really good cricket but over a five-Test series youve got to be at your best consistently throughout the whole time and we just didnt quite do that.

Oil prices surge after Fed keeps policy unchanged

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LONDON (AFP) - Oil prices surged Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve kept its massive monetary stimulus programme, dashing expectations that it would begin scaling it back.New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate for October, jumped $2.65 to close at $108.07 a barrel. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in November climbed $2.41 to finish at $110.60 a barrel in London trade.A decline in US crude oil supplies last week also helped fuel the rally, as the drop suggested stronger demand in the world's biggest economy.October crude oil advanced for the first time in four sessions, gaining support from strong inventory data and the Federal Reserve decision to maintain its current monetary stimulus, Briefing.com analysts said in a markets note.Oil prices pushed higher after the Federal Reserve surprised markets by keeping its $85 billion a month asset-purchase programme unchanged.Analysts had widely expected the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee to announce its first reductions to the programme at the conclusion Wednesday of its two-day meeting, a move that might have confirmed views that the economy was picking up strength.The FOMC said, in a post-meeting statement, that although the economy appears to be holding up amid government sequester spending cuts, it decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases.The dollar weakened sharply on the news, making dollar-priced oil more attractive for buyers using stronger currencies.Traders also reacted to the bullish weekly snapshot of energy inventories in the United States.The US Department of Energy said US crude inventories tumbled 4.4 million barrels last week. Analysts' consensus forecast had been for a much smaller drop of 1.2 million barrels.

Dollar falls as Fed maintains stimulus

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NEW YORK CITY (AFP) - The dollar Wednesday tumbled against other major currencies after the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to maintain its aggressive monetary stimulus programme.The euro traded at $1.3511 around 2200 GMT, up sharply from $1.3356 late Tuesday.The dollar bought 98.13 yen, down from 99.14 a day earlier.The euro traded at 132.55 yen, up slightly from 132.38.The dollar also skidded against the British pound and the Swiss franc.Heading into Wednesday, investors had been primed for the Fed to scale back its $85 billion per month bond-buying programme. Many experts predicted the programme would be reduced by $10-$15 billion per month.But the Fed lowered its economic growth forecast for 2013 and 2014, expressing concerns that reducing the stimulus would harm the economy.Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could still taper the programme later this year if economic conditions warrant.The Fed statement was dovish across the board, said Jens Nordvig, an analyst at Nomura Securities. The dollar's weakening move could continue for several days, accompanied by a renewal of flows into emerging market assets.The pound rose to $1.6140, compared with $1.5904 late Tuesday.The dollar fell to 0.9128 Swiss franc from 0.9259.

Nude protest outside Brazilian parliament against secret voting

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BRASLIA (AFP) - A small group of Brazilian youths got naked outside Congress Wednesday to demand an end to secret voting in the legislature.Democracy is not conducted with secret votes, so we need an open vote, said Michael Mohallem, one of the organizers of the protest by several dozen.We have nothing to hide or I am here and I exposed myself read some of the placards held by the protesters.In Brazil, it is not made public whether lawmakers have voted yes or no to a given bill.The nudity stunt came as the Senate's Constitution and Justice commission was to consider a bill on scrapping secret voting, particularly to remove lawmakers from office.The bill has already been approved by the House of Deputies.In a secret vote last month, the House of Deputies failed to secure the necessary votes to expel Natan Donadon, who began serving a 13-year jail term for corruption in June.This means that in effect Donadon, the first sitting congressman to be jailed in Brazil since the end of the military dictatorship in the mid-1980's, can continue legislating from his prison cell.I think the public has the right to know how we, senators, the representatives of the people, vote, said Senator Eduardo Suplicy, who joined the protesters.I am in favor of the open vote, he told the G1 news portal.Last June, Congress was one of the targets of the more than one million Brazilians who took to the streets nationwide to demand an end to endemic corruption.
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