European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pace 8 stars and s t pipes july 2007 in the world blasts hit besieged red mosque Pakistan intensifies attacks on militants by Denis Gray the associated press gunfire and explosions rocked a besieged Radical mosque in Pakistan capital on thursday As militants holed up in the Complex snubbed a plea from their captured Leader to Interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpa said troops were trying to blast holes in the Walls of the fortress like compound of the mosque and an adjoining Seminary for soldiers backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters surrounded the Lai or red before Dawn on a Day after the Start of clashes Between Security forces and Radical followers of the mosque that have killed 19 the violence brought to a head a six month stand9ff Between Pakistan government and its top cleric Maulana Abdul who has challenged president per Vez Musharraf with a drive to impose Tali ban style islamic Law in the the keen to avoid a Bloodbath that would damage Musharraf s already embattled said it would not storm the mosque so Long As women and Chil Dren remained several explosions rocked the Anjum pakistani religious followers walk on their Way to surrender thursday outside the Lai or red in area during a period of intense gunfire before dusk on sending a plume of Black smoke into the officials said they were using helicopters and explosions to shatter the nerves of the mosque defenders and persuade them to give we Are using restraint on instructions from the president so that people surrender Sherpa who was captured wednesday evening As he tried to slip through the army cordon disguised in a woman Burqa and High said on state television that As Many As 700 women and about 250 men remained inside the if they can get out quietly they should or they can surrender if they want Aziz i saw after coming out that the siege is very intense our companions will not be Able to stay for his comments raised the Prospect of a Swift Resolution and a Victory for who is under growing pressure at Home and abroad Over spreading extremism and his botched at tempt to fire Pakistan chief but the clerics Abdul Rashid remained inside the mosque with Fol Lowers and rejected Calls for an unconditional i the site in chivas Liaoning province where a blast ripped through a Karaoke parlor leaving 25 people dead and 33 explosion at China Karaoke bar kills 25 the associated press Beijing a blast ripped through a Karaoke parlor and Bath House in North East killing 25 people and injuring 33 state Media reported thurs Xinhua news Agency said the cause of the wednesday night blast in Tia Shifu township in Liaoning province was being several employees and the wife of the parlor who was were being it without saying if they were Xinhua initially put the death toll at but said 25 bodies were found when rescuers had finished Clearing away de Bris from the China has suffered a string of fires and accidents in shopping movie Heaters and other Public places despite repeated government promises to improve Many Are blamed on lax safety procedures and in a fire in an illegally run bar in the Southern City of Zongshan killed 26 local officials said the bar lacked fire extinguishers and its emergency exit was too in chivas worst recent nightclub ousts a fire blamed on a welding Accident Tore through a disco in the Central City of Luoyang in december killing 309 Logal reports at the time said the build ing had failed 18 safety checks in two rental Home is searched for clues in bomb plots by David rising the associated press London police searching for clues in three car bomb plots investigated a rented House near where Media reports speculated thursday that bombs had been the government lowered the terrorism threat level from critical to severe after the arrest of eight people connected with the three failed but authorities were still investigating the possibility there May be other suspects on the peripheries of the plot still at with All suspects connected to the medical proves prime minister Gordon Brown has ordered an investigation the procedures of recruiting foreign Doc which health Secretary Alan Johnson promised would be done very it is what More we need to do Between striking a bal Ance Between ensuring that we have people with the right skills in this country to make sure the nos National health service works properly and How we ensure we have a proper oversight of he told British broadcasting at least two of the car bomb suspects most of whom Are doctors Are believed to have rented a House just a few Miles from the Glasgow where two men crashed a Gas Laden jeep Cherokee into the barriers out Side the main terminal on British news citing unidentified said the two men slept upstairs in the House and used the downstairs to put together police have refused to identify which suspects lived in the but Denis Odonnell of the local Paisley cab said his taxis had picked up Iraq born physician Bilal Abdulla from the House nearly 20 times since a British was questioning an Indian doctor arrested in australian police arrested Muhammad on monday in the Eastern City of Brisbane As he tried to Board a flight with a one Way believed to be to India via subway train derails in injuring 37 subway train de railed in East London during morning Rush hour in Juring a few dozen officials about 900 passengers Many covered in dust thrown up during the Accident were evacuated after the westbound Central line train derailed Between the Beth Nal Green and mile end police paramedics treated 37 people at the scene for mostly minor injun 11 of whom were Hospital two trains were the one that derailed and another that stalled behind 11 palestinian militants killed in Gaza clashes Gaza Gaza strip israeli troops clashed with Palestin Ian militants inside the Gaza strip on killing 11 in fierce fighting that Drew in israeli air tanks and and sent militants laying mines against troops had probed about half a mile inside Gaza on a routine operation against rocket squads when airmen covering their and Vance spotted a group of armed palestinians the Mil itary aircraft fired at the gunmen and a ground Battle developed Between the patrol and the the army Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said the groups fighters opened the clash by firing at an israeli undercover somali troops publicly execute two men Somalia so Mali soldiers on thursday publicly executed two men accused of killing two intelligence the first such punishment since the government took control of Mogadishu seven months the men one of whom had been a government Soldier before defecting earlier this year were blindfolded and shot at a police training school in Southern in front of about 30 witnesses and a govern ment official a government who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak said the men helped 30 insurgents attack two intelligence officers on june 24 bodies More sought in Mexico slide Mexico soldiers and Rescue workers on thursday recovered 24 bodies from a bus buried in a landslide but held out Little Hope of finding frantically digging through tons of Earth and hundreds of soldiers and Rescue workers braved threats of additional slides to pull victims from the which officials said was carrying Between 40 and 60 the bus was travelling along a Remote winding Road wednesday morning when a rain soaked Mountainside gave Way near the town of Elozo Hitlan in the Cen trial state of Rios said 15 of the 24 victims have been identified and that their Ages Range from 6 to from the associated press