THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
MIDDLE EAST
Suicide bombers hit government buildings in latest attack
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Afghan victims of a suicide attack are transported in the back of a police truck in Guzara, Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 10. A blast blew up a four-wheel-drive vehicle during rush hour Tuesday outside a government office in Herat province, killing and wounding scores of people, authorities said.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Suicide bombers struck two government offices in southern and western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 16 people as militants step up attacks across the country with the arrival of spring temperatures, authorities said.
Insurgents have been targeting Afghan and NATO security forces as they fight to assert their power and undermine U.S. efforts to try to build up Afghan forces. Afghanistan's police and army are increasingly shouldering the job of providing security with the planned exit of most foreign combat troops by the end of 2014.
The deadliest bombing occurred in Herat when a sport utility vehicle packed with explosives blew up outside the gate of the Guzara district police office as people were waiting to go inside to see government officials about various business matters.
ASIA
Satellite to launch as part of centennial birthday celebration
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korean space officials said Tuesday that the rocket built to carry a satellite into space was ready for liftoff this week.
North Korea's national flag and the red hammer-and-sickle flag of the Workers' Party fluttered across chilly Pyongyang on Tuesday as delegates toured historic sites, including the birthplace of late President Kim II Sung. North Korea celebrates the 100th anniversary of his birth Sunday, a major milestone in the country he founded.
New posters in the capital welcomed the delegates from provincial
towns across the country. Workers scrambled to spruce up the city were painting railings a military green and crouching along roads to plant flowers.
Space officials, meanwhile, told foreign journalists at a news conference that the launch of the three-stage rocket is on target to take place between Thursday and Monday as part of the centennial birthday commemorations for Kim Il Sung.
"All the assembly and preparations of the satellite launch are done," including fueling of the rocket, Ryu Kum Chol, deputy director of the Space Development Department
of the Korean Committee for Space Technology, said at the briefing at the Yanggakdo Hotel.
The Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, equipped with a camera designed to capture images of North Korea's terrain and send back data about weather conditions, was being mounted on the rocket Tuesday.
The United States, Britain, Japan and others have urged North Korea to cancel the launch, saying it would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions prohibiting the country from nuclear and ballistic missile activity.
EUROPE
Ceremonies honor victims of crash amid conspiracy theory
WARSAW, Poland — Polish politicians held dueling observances Tuesday for President Lech Kacznski and 95 others killed two years ago in a plane crash in Russia, as conspiracy theories about the crash still smoldered.
The April 10, 2010 crash was Poland's worst disaster in decades and claimed the lives of the first lady and dozens of top Polish civilian and military leaders.
Wreaths and lights were placed at sites in Warsaw and in Smolensk, Russia, where the plane crashed.
President Bronisław Koromowski laid flowers at a plaque to the victims that was placed on the Presidential Palace.
Minutes later, Kaczynski's twin brother and opposition party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, laid a wreath at a different site in front of the palace. Dozens of his followers added lights, flowers and a wooden cross and the names of the victims were read out.
Kacynski then went to the Military Powazki Cemetery, where he laid a wreath at a granite monument honoring those killed. Prime Minister Donald Tusk also laid flowers there.
In Smolensk, Polish Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski, Russian Parliament Speaker Sergei Naryshkin and families of the victims laid wreaths at the site of the crash, which Russia's Foreign Ministry called a "deeply sad page in Polish-Russian relations."
Kaczynski, the head of the nationalist Law and Justice party, has been fueling theories that the crash was an assassination, feelings backed by a sense that the Russians were not fully transparent or cooperative in investigating the crash. Much of the evidence, including the plane's wreckage, is still in Russia.
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Polish opposition leader Jarosław Kaczynski, second right, lays a wreath at the memorial dedicated to the 96 victims of the presidential plane crash, among them his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, as he commemorates the second anniversary of the accident on April 10. Exactly two years ago, a plane with Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and officials crashed in Russia, killing all on board.
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