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Chinese spacecraft blasts off
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2005
Zhao Jianwei Xinhue/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zhao Jianwei Xinhua/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
China launches its second manned spacecraft Shenzhou-6 at the Juquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province at 9 a.m. local time on Wednesday.
China sends astronauts into orbit for the second time
BY STEPHANIE HOO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The mission, reportedly due to last up to five days, is a key prestige project for China's communist leaders, who have justified the expense of a manned space program by saying that it will drive economic development. It will be more complicated than the first flight in 2003, which carried one astronaut and lasted just 21 1/2 hours.
IAYUGUAN, China — Two years after China became the third nation to launch a human into orbit, a pair of astronauts blasted off Wednesday on a longer, riskier mission after receiving a farewell visit from Premier Wen Jiaabo.
A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 6 capsule and the astronauts blasted off Wednesday from the remote base in China's northwest. In a break with the space agency's typical secrecy, the launch was shown live on Chinese state television.
Wen said the "glorious and sacred mission" would demonstrate China's national confidence and ability.
Minutes after liftoff, mission announced that the first stage booster had successfully separated from the rocket and that the flight had entered its preset orbit.
The official Xinhua News
Images of Fei and Jun in their cockpit as the craft roared toward orbit were broadcast live to hundreds of millions of Chinese television viewers. None of the 2003 space flight was shown live by Chinese television.
The two taikonauts will conduct experiments in orbit, Xinhua said without elaborating.
Xinhua said the crew was picked from a field of six finalists. Nie was one of three finalists for the 2003 mission, which made a national hero of Yang Liwei.
Earlier in the day, Xinhua announced the identities of the two talkonaws — Fei Junlong, 40, and Nie Haishen, 41. Previous reports said 14 former fighter pilots were training for the mission.
China insisted ahead of the launch that its aspirations in space were strictly peaceful and that it opposes deploying weapons there. Space officials say they hope to land an unmanned probe on the moon by 2010 and launch a space station.
Agency said the two astronauts, or "taikonauts," will take off their 22-pound spacesuits to travel back and forth between the two halves of their vessel — a re-entry capsule and an orbiter that will stay aloft after they land.
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Three days after the quake, survivors still were being pulled from the rubble of pancaked schools and houses by British, German, French and Chinese rescue teams.
The agreement would allow the Sunnis to try to amend the constitution to reduce the autonomous powers that Shiites and Kurds would have under the federal system created by the charter, negotiators said.
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan Heavy rain and hail grounded helicopters and stopped trucks loaded with relief supplies Tuesday, imposing more misery on hungry, shivering earthquake survivors as the United Nations warned of potentially lethal outbreaks of measles, cholera and diarrhea.
Desperate villagers fought over food packages and looted trucks as the first aid reached the
city in the mountains of Kashmir. The Himalayan region was hardest-hit by Saturday's magnitude-76 quake. Officials said the death toll from Pakistan's worst quake had surpassed 35,000. Millions were left homeless after whole communities were flattened in the region touching Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
It boosts the chances for a constitution that Shiite and Kurdish leaders support and the United States has been eager to see approved in Saturday's vote to avert more political turmoil.
BAGHADAD, Iraq — Iraqi negotiators reached a breakthrough deal on the constitution Tuesday and at least one Sunni Arab party said it would now urge its followers to approve the charter.
Iraqi constitution sees breakthrough
The Associated Press
The two sides agreed that a commission would be set up to consider amendments to the charter that would then be put to a vote in parliament and submitted to a new referen-
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Storms delay rescue efforts post-quake
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Violence erupts in Afghanistan
BY DANIEL COONEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan About 60 militants ambushed a police convoy as it slowed to cross a river in southern Afghan mountains, sparking a fierce gunbattle that left 19 officers dead in the deadliest blow yet for the fledgling security force, officials said Tuesday.
In later violence, two rockets exploded near the U.S. Embassy in the center of the Afghan capital Wednesday, wounding two people hours before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due to arrive on an official visit. Rice's visit on Wednesday is her second trip to Afghanistan as secretary of state.
The attacks underlined the challenges facing Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government as it struggles to strengthen a fragile democracy while dealing with a stubborn rebellion by insurgents that has left about 1,400 dead in the past half-year.
In the attack late Monday on the police convoy, suspected Taliban rebels hiding behind rocks surrounded the vehicles as they slowed on a dirt road to cross the river in Helmand province, then opened fire with heavy machine-guns and AK-47 assault rifles, Interior Ministry spokesman Yusuf Stanikzai said.
Several officers were killed immediately, but 150 police in the convoy and the survivors returned fire, he said. Fighting raged for hours into Tuesday before the militants fled.
Security forces rushed 200 extra police officers to the area and were searching houses and mountain caves, but none of the
Among the 19 dead was Helmand's deputy police chief, Stanikzai said. Four police officers were wounded and five were missing, said Ghulam Muhiddin, the Helmand provincial administrator. Four police vehicles were destroyed after being riddled with bullets.
"This was a devastating attack on the police. We are doing our best to track these militants down."
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mutants were caught or killed, Muhidin said.
But he said the rebels were believed to have fled across the nearby Pakistani border. Many insurgents are believed to base themselves on the Pakistani side of the largely unguarded frontier, where they sneak into Afghanistan to launch attacks. Another Interior Ministry official, Dad Mohammed Rasa, said the attack was "the deadliest ever on the police," a force that now numbers some 55,000.
"This was a devastating attack on the police," he said. "We are doing our best to track these militants down."
Violence also continued in other areas. A U.S. soldier was wounded when militants opened fire Tuesday on his vehicle near Kandahar city, a former Taliban stronghold, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara said. Troops returned fire and the rebels fled.
Militants fired two rockets into Kandahar before dawn Tuesday, but they hurt nobody. Three other rockets were found and defused on a nearby hillside, officials said.
In neighboring Zabul province, U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed two Chechans and a Pakistani who were fighting alongside Taliban rebels, local government spokesman Ali Khail said. Afghan officials have warned that foreign militants linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida have entered Afghanistan to fight.
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