No striking miners will be fired in the week that South Africa officially mourns the killings of 44 men at a platinum mine, including 34 strikers shot by police, a spokesman for the presidency told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Everything Everywhere wins head start in UK's 4G race
LONDON (Reuters) – Industry regulator Ofcom has given the go-ahead for Britain’s biggest mobile operator Everything Everywhere (EE) to use its existing airwaves to provide next generation 4G services while rivals have to wait, saying the benefits to consumers outweighed any risk of unfair competition. The operator, a joint venture between France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile, said in February it wanted to start rolling out the first 4G services in Britain by the end of the year. …
Top U.S. general's aircraft damaged by rockets in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgents fired two rockets at the main NATO airbase in Afghanistan, damaging an aircraft used by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey, a NATO spokesman said on Tuesday. The general was not on board at the time. Dempsey arrived in the country on Monday in a C-17 transport aircraft which was parked at Bagram Airbase, north of Kabul, when two rockets landed near the apron late on Monday night, slightly wounding two ground staff. "He was nowhere near the aircraft. We think it was a lucky shot," NATO senior spokesman Colonel Thomas Collins said. … NHS set to go international under new govt scheme
The National Health Service could be expanding abroad as the government invites hospitals to set up profit-making branches overseas to raise funds for patients in England, officials said Tuesday. NKoreans talk shop with foreigners at trade fair
Fleets of shiny minivans, Chinese-made bulldozers and dump trucks festooned with red ribbons fill the plaza while toys, clothes and even probiotics digestive capsules are on display inside an exhibition hall. Afghan militants hit US military chief's plane
A military official says militants have fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan, damaging the plane of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit. The top American military chief was not near the plane at the time of the attack and no one was injured.
Gunfire outside Yemeni intelligence HQ in Aden
DUBAI (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants fought security guards at a Yemeni intelligence headquarters in the southern port city of Aden on Monday night, two days after 14 people were killed in an attack on the same building. The assailants fired machineguns from a nearby hill overlooking the building and the state television headquarters next to it, a local official and residents said. Guards responded but no one was hurt. …
Kurdish militant group says not behind Turkey bomb
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Kurdish separatists said on Tuesday they were not responsible for a car bomb that killed nine people in the southeastern town of Gaziantep near Turkey’s border with Syria late on Monday. “Our fighters have nothing to do with this explosion,” Firat News, a website close to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, cited the PKK as saying in a statement. …
Iran unveils new missile, other weapons
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran unveiled upgrades to six weapons on Tuesday, including a more accurate short-range missile, a more powerful naval engine and an airborne testing laboratory, Iranian media reported. The hardware was presented at a ceremony marking Defence Industry Day and attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi. Israel has said it is considering military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites if the Islamic Republic does not resolve Western fears it is developing atomic weapons technology, something Tehran denies. Iran says it could hit Israel and U.S. …
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