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One of Pakistan's most prominent policemenChaudhry Aslam has been killed by a Taliban suicideattack in Karachi. Chaudhry Aslam was renownedfor taking on the Taliban in some of the mostdangerous neighbourhoods of the city with police raids that frequently ended in gun battles.He's survived several previous attempts on his life. At least two other officers were killed whena car carrying explosives smashed into his convoy. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool is in Islamabad.
“He was accused on many occasions of killing militants instead of taking them into custody.And while publicly, he said he’d never carried out any extrajudicial killings. In privately, he saidwhy should I hand over these people to a judicial system which releases militants a lot of time,so he was saying as a hero to many who oppose the Pakistani Taliban and to all in sense ofopposers that he had been a fairly successful.”
The governor of the US state of New Jersey Chris Christie says he's fired an aide for allegedlyorchestrating traffic jams to spite a political rival. Mr.Christie said he felt embarrassed andhumiliated by the scandal over gridlock on the George Washington bridge between New Jerseyand New York. He said emails and texts revealed that his deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly hadordered the lane closures.
“I terminated her appointment because she lied to me. There's no justification for thatbehavior. There's no justification for ever lying to a governor or a person in authority in thisgovernment.” Mr. Christie is a leading republican and considered a possible contender for the2016 presidential nomination.
Germany says it's accepted a request by the United Nations to help destroy Syria's chemicalweapons. The Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Germany wouldn't shirk itsresponsibility. Germany has, until now, refused to accept chemical weapons. President Assad ofSyria agreed to surrender his chemical arsenal last year after hundreds of people were killed ina poison gas attack.
The French government has prevented a performance tonight by a controversial comedianDieudonne M'bala M'bala who's accused of anti-Semitism. France's highest administrative courtbanned the show following a request for a ruling by the Interior Minister. A regional court hadearlier said the comedian's tour opening performance could go ahead. Hugh Schofield reportsfrom Paris.
“First of all, a court in the western city of Nants created something of sensation when itoverturned an earlier order from a government representative there, the prefect banningDieudonne's performance on public order grounds. The court said that the right to freeexpression was paramount. But within minutes of that decision, the French governmentwhich's gone into high gear on this affair took the case to the State Council in Paris and withthousands gathering at the venue at the last minute, the ban was restored.”
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The United States has expressed concern about a plan by the Afghan government to releasescores of prisoners,considered to be dangerous by the US. Afghanistan says it doesn't haveenough evidence to prosecute them. The US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki saidthe 72 suspected Taliban fighters were, as she put it, dangerous criminals.
Medical staffs in Israel say the health of the former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who's been in acoma for 8 years has deteriorated further. Officials at the hospital where he's been treated sayhe's now in a grave condition and his family is by his bedside. Mr.Sharon played a major part inIsraeli history as an army general and later as a politician. But his legacy is divisive both thereand abroad. He was incapacitated by a stroke in 2006 just as he seemed likely to win a secondterm as prime minister.
The technology company IBM is planning to invest a billion dollars in finding commercial usesfor a computer system known as Watson, it's designed to think like a human. Our technologycorrespondent Mark Gregory has more.
“What special about Watson is he or should that be it is designed to have an ability to analyzeand learn from past mistakes. IBM sees commercial applications for Watson in areas like healthcare and financial services. But progress has been slower than anticipated because of theamount and complexity of the data Watson needs to absorb to make sensible decisions.”
The former Cuban President Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in 9 months.Fidel Castro, who's 87, attended the opening of an art studio in Havana on Wednesday night.Photos showed a grey-hair and frail-looking Castro walking with a stick and looking at works ofart. Fidel Castro led Cuba for nearly half a century before handing power to his brother Raul in2006 because he was seriously ill.
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