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Spain beat Argentina to clinch fifth Davis Cup

SEVILLE, Spain: Rafa Nadal mounted a thrilling comeback back from a set down to beat Argentina s Juan Martin Del P

Written on December 4, 2011 | Posted in Sports, UN, ad, argentina | Leave a comment

Japan launches gargantuan quake rescue effort

TOKYO: Japan mobilised 50,000 military and other rescue personnel Saturday to spearhead a Herculean rescue and recovery effort, a day after being hit by its most devastating quake and tsunami on record. Every wing of the Self Defence Forces was thrown into frantic service, with hundreds of ships, aircraft and vehicles headed to the Pacific coast area where at least 1,000 people were feared dead and entire neighbourhoods had vanished. As emergency staff in the quake-prone archipelago dug through rubble and plucked survivors off the roofs of submerged houses, Prime Minister Naoto Kan warned that day one after the catastrophe was a crucial window for survivors. “I realized the huge extent of the tsunami damage,” the centre-left premier said after taking a helicopter tour of the apocalyptic scenes, before meeting his cabinet ministers for an emergency meeting in Tokyo. “What used to be residential areas were mostly swept away in many coastal areas and fires are still blazing there,” he told them. The United States, with almost 50,000 troops stationed in Japan, sent aircraft carriers to waters off the disaster zone — just one of scores of nations that has offered assistance since Friday’’s monster quake. US forces on Friday helped Japan rapidly react by delivering a cooling agent to a nuclear plant where malfunctions threatened a dangerous meltdown. In the utter bleakness on the east coast of Japan’’s main Honshu island, where at least 3,600 houses were destroyed by the 8.9-magnitude quake, there were some rays of hope amid the carnage of smashed towns and shattered lives. Army helicopters airlifted people off the roof of an elementary school in Watari, Miyagi prefecture, and naval and coastguard choppers did the same to rescue 81 people from a ship that had been hurled out to sea by the tsunami. But for every piece of good news, there were more reminders of nature’’s cruelty against this seismically unstable nation — including the latest of a series of strong aftershocks in the morning, measuring a hefty 6.8. In large coastal areas, entire neighbourhoods were destroyed, with unknown numbers of victims buried in the rubble of their homes or lost to the sea, where cars, shipping containers, debris and entire houses were afloat. The coastal city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture was almost completely destroyed and submerged, said the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. Japan’’s military started its mass deployment Friday, when it dispatched 300 planes and an armada of 20 naval destroyers and other ships, while some 25 air force jets flew reconnaissance missions over the disaster zone. The Tokyo and Osaka police forces and the health ministry also all quickly dispatched medical and rescue teams. Among the international help pledged, a team from South Korea, with five rescue personnel and two sniffer dogs, was set to arrive Saturday. Japan said it had been offered help by scores of other governments — among them Australia, China, New Zealand, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Russia, Turkey, Germany, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Slovakia, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Jordan, Britain, the European Union, Chile, Spain, Greece, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Argentina and Iceland. The United States, which occupied Japan after World War II and is the country’’s main security ally, has many of its forces stationed on the southern island of Okinawa, far from the quake zone. Two aircraft carriers were en route to the disaster zone — the USS George Washington, which is based near Tokyo, and the USS Ronald Reagan, which was on its way to South Korea for exercises and has been redirected to Japan.(AFP)

Written on March 12, 2011 | Posted in 2011, Health, Hong Kong, International, News, Pakistan, Singapore, UK, UN, US, War, ad, aid, aircraft, argentina, army, australia, call, cars, chile, china, cia, defence, europe, france, helicopters, india, israel, korea, live, military, new zealand, police, teams, uth | Leave a comment

Argentine-US tensions simmer with ”Guantanamo” jibe

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine-US tensions over items seized from a visiting US military aircraft spiked higher Tuesday after Buenos Aires claimed its personnel “would have ended up in Guantanamo” if the situation were reversed. “Imagine what situation Argentina would have found itself in if it had transported the same things to the United States?” asked Argentina’’s cabinet chief, Anibal Fernandez. “We would have ended up in Guantanamo, in orange uniforms, in conditions I don”t even want to get into,” he told reporters. “We are talking about national sovereignty.” The harsh words ratcheted up a row that started when Buenos Aires authorities last Thursday seized what they said were undeclared weapons and drugs including morphine on a US Air Force C-17 transport plane carrying experts and material for a hostage rescue training exercise. Argentine President Cristina Kirchner’’s government said in a statement Sunday it was lodging a protest with Washington over the attempt “to violate Argentine laws by bringing in hidden material in an official shipment.” Foreign Minister Hector Timerman on Monday told CNN that US officials “refuse to cooperate with the investigation.” The US State Department has said it was “disturbed” by the confiscation of what it described as routine equipment for police training — including batteries, medicine, a rifle and communications equipment. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Argentine officials carried out “an unusual and unannounced search of the aircraft’’s cargo” and that any discrepancy between the cargo manifest and the items seized could have been resolved on the ground, without escalation. “We continue to call on the Argentine government to return our equipment,” he said. On Tuesday, a State Department official, Matthew Rooney, told reporters from AFP and other outlets in Miami that the friction was all the result of a “misunderstanding.” “That there could have been problems with the plane’’s papers, maybe, but we”ll clear up these discrepancies because there was no intent to illegally import prohibited things into Argentina,” he said. The incident comes amid a chill in US-Argentine bilateral relations, and follows US President Barack Obama’’s decision to exclude Argentina from his first scheduled trip to Latin America, in March. Obama will travel to El Salvador, Brazil and Chile. Timerman claimed Obama was not visiting Argentina because “it won”t buy arms or even sign a defense agreement.” The spat also follows revelations in November last year by the activist website WikiLeaks of a 2009 US diplomatic cable in which US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the US embassy in Buenos Aires about Kirchner’’s mental state. “How is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner managing her nerves and anxiety?” and “How does stress affect her behavior toward advisers and/or her decision making?” she asked. “What steps does Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner or her advisers/handlers take in helping her deal with stress? Is she taking any medications?” (AFP)

Written on February 16, 2011 | Posted in 2009, 2011, America, IPL, ISI, International, News, UN, US, War, Web, ad, aid, aircraft, argentina, call, chile, cia, defense, drugs, import, military, police, training, uniform, uth, wikileaks | Leave a comment

Palestinian leader to lay first stone of Brazil embassy

BRASILIA: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is to lay the symbolic first stone of an embassy in Brazil this week, following Brasilia’’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, the Palestinian representative here said. Abbas will head the stone-laying ceremony on Friday, and on Saturday he will attend the inauguration ceremony for Brazil’’s new president, Dilma Rousseff, Palestinian diplomatic representative Ibrahim al-Zeben said. Brazil angered Israel and the United States early this month when it declared it was recognizing a sovereign Palestinian state within the borders before the 1967 Six Day War. Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia have since followed suit. The other Latin American countries that previously recognized an independent Palestine are Cuba, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Venezuela. Israel has called the declarations “regrettable,” and said a Palestinian state should only be defined with its assent. Lawmakers in the United States, Israel’’s close ally, have also criticized the moves. Washington regularly uses its veto power in the UN Security Council to block any motions deemed to run counter to Israeli interests.

Written on December 29, 2010 | Posted in 2010, America, American, Cuba, IPL, ISI, International, News, US, War, ad, ads, aid, argentina, israel, urdu | Leave a comment

Beyond the Test World: MCC helps Argentina prepare for Division 4

Ellie Fielding Mike Gatting speaks to members of Argentina’s national cricket team

Written on August 11, 2010 | Posted in Cricket, ICC World Cricket League, ISI, Sports, argentina, batting, icc, wimbledon | Leave a comment

Spain beat Argentina to clinch fifth Davis Cup

Japan launches gargantuan quake rescue effort

Argentine-US tensions simmer with ”Guantanamo” jibe

Palestinian leader to lay first stone of Brazil embassy

Beyond the Test World: MCC helps Argentina prepare for Division 4

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