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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Six year jail term for Sears Tower plotter
MIAMI: A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to one of five men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and allegedly swearing allegiance to al-Qaeda. US federal prosecutors have asked for prison sentences of between 30 and 70 years for five members of a homegrown terrorist group accused of plotting to attack the building, court documents showed this week.
Nepal deploys armed police
KATHMANDU: Armed police are to deploy to a village in the south of Nepal and alcohol has been banned there ahead of a mass animal sacrifice involving thousands of livestock, an official said on Wednesday. Chief district officer Tara Nath Gautam said he expected more than a million people to flock to the village of Bariyapur to attend the Hindu festival of Gadhimai next week. Hundreds of thousands of goats, buffaloes, chickens and other animals are slaughtered during the festival.
India adopts pollution norms
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday tightened air quality rules and said it will enforce a single standard for industrial and residential pollution. The Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards rule would lead to the use of “clean fuel” to lower emissions, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said. The announcement came less than a month before the December 7-18 climate change summit in Copenhagen. India, among the world’s biggest polluters, has come under international pressure to curb its greenhouse gas emissions. “We have removed the distinction between industrial and residential areas. This is very important. Now standards will be uniform irrespective of whether it is classified as industrial or residential area,” Ramesh told reporters.
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