BRUSSELS, Oct. 2 (UPI) — A surge in rebel violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Marriott hotel bombing in Pakistan topped a monthly report monitoring global crises.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up as he tried to run into a house owned by a member of Pakistan’s ruling coalition Thursday, killing four people but missing the politician, officials said.
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The United Nations and Britain Thursday ordered the children of international staff to be evacuated from Pakistan in the wake of the deadly bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up as he tried to storm the house of a member of Pakistan’s ruling coalition Thursday, killing four people but missing the politician, officials said.
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The United Nations said on Thursday it has ordered children of its international staff to leave Pakistan after raising its security level in the wake of last month’s suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in the capital.
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At least four people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up close to a politician’s home in northwest Pakistan.
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A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in Pakistan on Thursday in an attack aimed at a prominent ethnic Pashtun politician, police said.
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LONDON: Oil prices dropped Thursday as the market refocused on data revealing a jump in American crude stockpiles, after a brief rally in response to the US Senate’’s approval of a revised financial bailout.London’’s Brent North Sea crude for delivery in November dropped 1.24 dollars to 94.08 dollars a barrel.New York’’s main contract, light sweet crude for November, fell 95 cents to 97.58 dollars a barrel.Brent oil had already slumped by almost three dollars Wednesday on news of a surprise jump in crude inventories in the United States, the world’’s biggest consumer of energy.”Crude prices have been extremely volatile,” said Dresdner Kleinwort analyst Gareth Lewis-Davies.”Increased risk aversion and price volatility — the latter in part due to lower participation — may be currently feeding off each other, leading to the prospect of continuing oil price volatility while the prospect for all markets remain highly uncertain,” he added.The US Department of Energy (DoE) said Wednesday that American crude stockpiles rose 4.3 million barrels in the week ending September 26, surprising a market which had been expecting a fall of around 1.7 million barrels.
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ISLAMABAD: The United Nations and Britain said Thursday that they will withdraw the children of international staff from Pakistan in the wake of the deadly bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.The move comes despite increased security measures by Pakistani authorities after last month’’s attack, in which 60 people were killed, and reinforces fears that Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants are destabilising the country.Nuclear-armed Pakistan has faced a wave of suicide bombings by extremists based in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, while tensions are rising between Islamabad and Washington over US military incursions.”The United Nations has raised the security level… which provides for the movement of dependent children,” Fikret Akcura, the UN resident coordinator for Pakistan, told a foreign news agency.”They can either go to a third country outside Pakistan or to their home country,” Akcura said, adding that the UN would monitor the situation and would reduce the security level “when we find it is safe.”He did not say how many children would be affected.In New York, Farhan Haq, a UN spokesman described the move as “a precautionary measure…so that the family members of staff, as well as some non-essential staff, can be relocated temporarily to other sites.”"All essential staff will remain on duty, and all UN work will proceed as normal,” he added. “This is a temporary measure and the United Nations intends to return to regular staffing levels as soon as conditions allow.”There was no immediate comment on the evacuation from the Pakistani government.The British Foreign Office said separately overnight that more than 60 children of British diplomats will be withdrawn from Islamabad over the next few weeks, the Foreign Office said.They are all aged under eight, as older children tend to attend boarding school in Britain.”Following a review of security in the wake of the attack on the Marriott Hotel, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has decided that the children of UK-based staff at the British High Commission in Islamabad should return to the UK,” a spokesman told AFP.Any dependents, such as spouses, could return to Britain if they chose.
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LAHORE: Australian coach of Pakistan cricket team Geoff Lawson is arriving in Pakistan tonight and he will review the performance of players in the National Twenty20 event.Director operations Pakistan Cricket Board Zakir Khan told Geo News that Geoff Lawson along with trainer David Dyre had to reach Pakistan on September 30 but he is coming late by two days due to non-availability of flight.Zakir Khan said that Lawson and Dyre have reached Dubai and they would arrive in Lahore tonight.Lawson will review the performance of the players in the Twenty20 Cup, beginning from October 4 in Lahore.
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