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9:29 pm Sep 3, 2010
Cricket: “Pakistan commissioner believes trio were ‘set-up ‘ ”
Sport

“Police investigating alleged corruption involving Pakistani cricketers believe that video evidence crucial to the case is authentic, BBC Sport understands. Pakistan’s High Commissioner Wajid Shamsul Hasan claims News of the World video allegedly exposing the scandal may have been made after the incident. Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir are currently being investigated by the police for alleged spot-fixing.   But police and cricket’s governing body are treating the evidence as genuine.   The BBC also understands that the questions being posed by Hasan over the nature of the video evidence, after the Pakistan high commissioner had emerged from a Pakistan Cricket Board inquiry on Thursday, will not form part of the three cricketers’ defence.  In response to Hasan’s latest comments, the News of the World said it ‘refuses to respond to such ludicrous allegations’ Asif and Amir are alleged to have bowled three no-balls on purpose at pre-determined times to facilitate betting coups after a ‘middle-man’ was reported to have accepted £150,000 in cash from an undercover reporter from the News of the World.   The newspaper published the claims last Sunday, days after the incidents were alleged to have taken place on the Thursday and Friday of the fourth Test at Lord’s.  The cricketers Hasan referred to will now miss the rest of their country’s tour of England , but the International Cricket Council has agreed to not to speak to them until the Metropolitan Police give permission.  Earlier on Thursday, Hasan insisted the players were ‘innocent’. ‘The players have voluntarily offered not to be included [in the tour]‘, he said.  ’They want to clear their names first’ “

9:28 pm Sep 3, 2010
“Bombs blast Ramadan crowd in Pakistan”
Pakistan

“PakistanI militants have broken their short-lived ceasefire with a bloody sectarian attack in the eastern city of Lahore that has left 31 people dead and more than 280 injured.   Three co-ordinated bomb blasts targeted a huge funeral procession by Shi’ites, a minority Islamic sect in Pakistan, just after sunset on Tuesday night, local time, as thousands crowded the streets to break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan. The blasts are the first major attack since the country was hit by devastating floods, which have directly affected more than 10 per cent of the population.   An estimated 35,000 Pakistani Shi’ites were marching in the procession to mark the death of Hazrat Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Mohammed who was assassinated 1300 years ago during Ramadan, when a bomb was detonated near a well-known Shia building.   As panicked marchers scattered, suicide bombers triggered two more blasts, sparking a violent reaction from the crowd, which turned on police and set fire to nearby vehicles and buildings, including one police station. Lahore commissioner Khusro Pervez yesterday described the bombings as a ‘security lapse’, saying at least one attacker had successfully broken through a security cordon.  But police rejected that suggestion, saying several security officers had forced one of the suicide bombers to detonate his payload early, and had died in the process.  A second bomb went off as survivors and onlookers were gathering around the injured from one of the two earlier explosions”

9:25 pm Sep 3, 2010
UN: “Global cash support to fight AIDS is falling”
Finance

9:21 pm Sep 3, 2010
“Bob Katter says Kevin Rudd never tried to buy votes while in power”
Australia

“In a choice between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, Bob Katter would seem to prefer Kevin Rudd. As he entered Parliament House this morning spruiking his 20 point wishlist, Mr Katter once again heaped praise upon the Rudd government and poured scorn over Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott for their Hobart hospital funding offers to secure Mr Wilkie’s backing.   ‘There’s a famous old saying – but I better not use it on the national air – we now know what you are, it’s just a matter of how expensive you are’, Mr Katter quipped. It was something that only Bob Katter could say.   ‘We’ve established that they’re out there buying support’, he said later. ‘It’s simply a matter of how bad you are, how naughty.  That’s about the only thing. I regret to say that. I’ve got respect for both Julia and Tony…  All I can say is more credit to the two years of the Rudd government where they weren’t doing that’.   The dinner he had with the former Prime Minister earlier in the week must have left an impression on Mr Katter, who argued that Mr Rudd’s government was the first in a quarter century that had not attempted to buy votes. ‘For the first time in 25 years a government wasn’t out there buying votes’, he said. ‘Broadband was not a vote winning exercise.  The national energy grid, there wasn’t a single vote in that for the government. And yet they were committed to it’ “

11:43 pm Sep 2, 2010
“Burger King dumps Indonesian palm oil company”
Environment

“US fast food giant Burger King said it would no longer buy palm oil from Sinar Mas or its subsidiaries after Greenpeace campaigned against the Indonesian group’s land-clearing practices.  Burger King joins the likes of Unilever, Nestle and Kraft in shunning Sinar Mas in a move that will increase pressure on other corporate buyers of its palm oil products, such as Pizza Hut, KFC, and Dunkin’ Donuts.  Indonesia is the biggest producer of palm oil which is used in everything from biscuits to cosmetics, but environmentalists say plantations are driving deforestation blamed for habitat loss and greenhouse gases.  Burger King said a recent independent audit of Sinar Mas palm oil unit SMART’s land-clearing practices – commissioned by Sinar Mas in response to the Greenpeace allegations – revealed activities ‘inconsistent with our corporate responsibility commitments’.  ‘We believe the report has raised valid concerns about some of the sustainability practices of Sinar Mas’ palm oil production and its impact on the rainforest’, Burger King said on its Facebook page”

“As part of our… corporate responsibility program, Burger King Corp. is committed to sourcing our products from sustainable suppliers.”

It said it was looking for a new palm oil supplier for the 176 Burger King restaurants supplied by Sinar Mas.

“In addition, we are notifying our suppliers of our intent to discontinue the use of palm oil supplied by Sinar Mas in the manufacturing of our products.”

Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART) has been struggling to repair its image after a Greenpeace name-and-shame campaign led several foreign buyers to cancel major contracts.

Greenpeace says the company is clearing high-value peat forest against Indonesian law and failing to wait for environmental studies before starting plantation operations in sensitive areas of Borneo island.

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