European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 1 2007 stars and stripes Page 17 american wins world sudoku championship Prague czech Republic american Thomas Snyder won the second world championship in sudoku in the czech capital on saturday organizers said Snyder who was runner up in the sudoku first Ever world championship held in Italy last year claimed the title ahead of Yuhei Kusui of Japan Slovakia Peter Hudak was third organizer Vitezslav Koudelka said Japan won the team Competition followed by the United states and the czech Republic competitors from 32 countries took part in the championship sudoku an increasingly popular Puzzle consists of a Grid of nine rows of nine boxes which must be filled in so the numbers one through nine appear just once in each column Row and three three Square the Puzzle which originated in Japan has successfully spread around the Globe including Britain and the United states from the associated press 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residents who had electricity to watch televisions celebrated with gunfire that briefly pierced the quiet just before mid night wearing a Turquoise evening dress Shadha has Soun wrapped herself with the White red and Black Flag of Iraq and broke into tears As fans swarmed the stage in Beirut Lebanon where the contest was held and broadcast live throughout the Middle East her Triumph will show the world that iraqis will still sing despite their wounds Iraa Tariq a Home maker from Baghdad alg Adeer neighbourhood said before fridays final episode Hassouna run to the final in what is perhaps the Arab worlds most watched to entertainment pro Gram coincided with a particularly painful time in Iraq More than 500 people had been killed in the last six Days alone most of them perished in a series of horrific Sui cide bombings targeting Busy markets and in a Sec tarian massacre where innocent men were dragged out of their Homes and shot execution style dubbed the daughter of Mesopotamia by fans Hassoun has for weeks served As a pleasant distraction for a people in the fifth year of a War that har vests scores of iraqi lives each Day with a nighttime curfew in Force and the streets too dangerous after Sundown iraqis have been find ing Refuge in the wide variety of to channels provided by satellite dishes banned under Saddam Hus Sein but now sprouting on nearly every rooftop iraqis have been glued to their tvs each Friday since december eagerly monitoring Hassouna Progress in the Star Academy contest that is produced by a lebanese satellite Channel Hassoun a 25yearold Brunette who has lived most of her life outside Iraq outpaced three other finalists men from Egypt and Lebanon and a woman from Tunisia iraqi Singer Shadha Hassoun wrapped with her National Flag holds the trophy As she celebrates her win of an Arab singing contest on lebanese lbs satellite television Friday in Beirut television viewers across the Mideast voted for their favorite performer by email and text message is to the satellite Channel Iraq Al Shariyah satellite Channel devoted hours of live coverage Friday urging iraqis to vote for Hassoun and broadcast a phone in program for her supporters some fans called to say they had voted for Hassoun so Many times they had used up the credit on their prepaid phone cards How Beautiful we iraqis can be when we Are United said one caller alluding to the support has Soun received from her countrymen and women of All ethnic and religious backgrounds Pakistan tests Short Range missile the associated press Islamabad Stan successfully tested an indigenous Short Range nuclear Capa ble missile on saturday the Mili tary said the surface surface Abdali ballistic a Range of 125 Miles was launched from an undisclosed location inside Pakistan the missile can carry All types of warheads the military said in a statement issued from Rawal Pindi a Garrison City near the Cap ital Islamabad the military did not provide any further details but Pakistan and its nuclear armed rival neighbouring India routinely test missiles India and Pakistan Short medium and Long Range missiles Are Able to bit targets within each others territory Pakistan named its Abdali mis Sile after Ahmad Shah Abdali an 18thcentury afghan King who at tacked India and was accused of plundering the country riches the leaders from Pakistan and India will meet this week on the sidelines of a regional Summit in new Delhi poaching suspected in deaths of 3 rare Lions the associated press Ahmadabad India Forest guards recovered the carcasses of two rare Asiatic Lions and a cub believed to have been killed by poachers on the out skirts of their Only natural habitat in Western India a wildlife official said saturday nine of the endangered Lions have been killed in the past two months raising fears for the future of the rare cats said Bharat Pathak Gir National Parks conservation officer it seems to be yet another Case of poaching we have registered a Case with police and a manhunt has been launched in the area he said last saturday Park rangers found the mutilated bodies of two lionesses and a cub deep inside the Park the poachers took away their claws Bones and skulls which Are highly prize in traditional Chi Nese Medicine the claws Are also sometimes used for amulets in India according to the wildlife Protection society of India Asiatic Lions once roamed much of Asia from tur key to India but Only about 350 still exist All of them in the Gir Park
