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Commenting on a report published earlier today in The New York Times, the Pakistani official confirmed the offer made by General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani (Pakistan’s army chief of staff) during a visit last month to NATO headquarters in Belgium

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Commenting on a report published earlier today in The New York Times, the Pakistani official confirmed the offer made by General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani (Pakistan’s army chief of staff) during a visit last month to NATO headquarters in Belgium.

(Left: 청주 마사지 Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani presides at a meeting of top military commanders in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in this October 2009 file photo.)

By the end of the 1960s, he was looking abroad for funds

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The ANSA news agency said that Antonioni died at his home on Monday evening.

“With Antonioni dies not only one of the greatest directors but also a master of modernity,” Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said in a statement.

Antonioni depicted alienation in the modern world through sparse dialogue and long takes. Along with Federico Fellini, he helped turn post-war Italian film away from the Neorealism movement and toward a personal cinema of imagination.

In 1995, Hollywood honored his career work — about 25 films and several screenplays — with a special Oscar for lifetime achievement. By then Antonioni was a physically frail but mentally sharp 82, unable to speak but a few words because of a stroke but still translating his vision into film. The Oscar was stolen from Antonioni’s home in 1996, together with several other film prizes.

His slow-moving camera never became synonymous with box-office success, but some of his movies such “Blow-Up,” “Red Desert” and “The Passenger” reached enduring fame.

His exploration of such intellectual themes as alienation and existential malaise led Halliwell’s Film Guide to say that “L’Avventura,” Antonioni’s first critical success, made him “a hero of the highbrows.”

The critics loved that film, but the audience hissed when “L’Avventura” was presented at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The barest of plots, which wanders through a love affair of a couple, frustrated many viewers for its lack of action and dialogue, characteristically Antonioni.

In one point in the black-and-white film, the camera lingers and lingers on Monica Vitti, one of Antonioni’s favorite actresses, as she plays a blond, restless jet-setter.

Antonioni was born on Sept. 29, 1912, in the affluent northern city of Ferrara. He received a university degree in economics and soon began writing critiques for cinema magazines.

Antonioni’s first feature film, “Story of a Love Affair” (1950) was a tale of two lovers unable to cope with the ties binding them to their private lives.

But Antonioni grew more interested in depicting his characters’ internal turmoil rather than their daily, 전주 마사지 down-to-earth troubles. The shift induced critics to call his cinema “internal Neorealism.”

After the international critical acclaim of “L’Avventura,” which became part of a trilogy with “The Night” (1961) and “Eclipse” (1962), Antonioni’s style was established. He steadily co-wrote his films and directed them with the recognizable touch of a painter. His signature was a unique look into people’s frustrating inability to communicate and assert themselves in society.

On Oscar award night, his wife, Enrica Fico, 41 years his junior, and “translator” for him since his 1985 stroke, said: “Michelangelo always went beyond words, to meet silence, the mystery and power of silence.”

The first success at the box office came in 1966 with “Blowup,” about London in the swinging ’60s and a photographer who accidentally captures a murder on film.

But Antonioni with his hard-to-fathom films generally found it hard to convince Italian producers to back him. By the end of the 1960s, he was looking abroad for funds. American backing helped produce “Zabriskie Point” (1970), shot in the bleakly carved landscape of Death Valley, California.

Asked by an Italian magazine in 1980, “For whom do you make films” Antonioni replied: “I do it for it an ideal spectator who is this very director. I could never do something against my tastes to meet the public. Frankly, I can’t do it, even if so many directors do so. And then, what public? Italian? American? Japanese? French? British? Australian? They’re all different from each other.”

Using sometimes a notepad, sometimes the good communication he had with his wife and sometimes just his very expressive blue eyes, Antonioni astonished the film world in 1994 to make “Beyond the Clouds,” when ailing and hampered by the effects of the stroke.

With an international cast — John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons, Irene Jacob, and Fanny Ardant — the movie wove together three episodes based on Antonioni’s book of short stories “Quel Bowling sul Tevere” (“Bowling on the Tiber”) to explore the usual Antonioni themes.

Worried that Antonioni would be too frail to finish the movie, investors had German director Wim Wenders follow the work, ready to step in if the Italian “maestro” couldn’t go on. But Wenders wound up watching in awe and letting Antonioni put his vision on film.

Antonioni is survived by his wife. He had no children. ANSA said that a funeral would be held Thursday in Antonioni’s hometown of Ferrara in northern Italy.

Six people died at the scene and three later succumbed to injuries at hospitals, he said

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The blast Saturday in the city of Pune, 125 miles southeast of Mumbai, threatened to damage new efforts to reduce tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, with Hindu nationalist leaders placing blame for the attack on India’s Muslim neighbor.

“It was a bomb lying in an unattended bag,” Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told reporters Sunday after visiting the bakery and the wounded in hospitals.

Six people died at the scene and three later succumbed to injuries at hospitals, he said. Of the 57 wounded, 19 were released from medical facilities.

Chidambaram said forensic experts were trying to determine what explosives were used and how the bomb was triggered.

“All the information available to us at the moment points to a plot to explode a device in a place that is frequented by foreigners as well as Indians,” Chidambaram said.

Home Secretary G.K. Pillai earlier said the blast occurred at 7:30 p.m. at the German Bakery, near the Osho Ashram, a renowned meditation center.

It was the first terrorist strike in India since 10 Pakistan-based gunmen rampaged through hotels and a train station in the financial hub of Mumbai for 60 hours in November 2008, killing 166 people.

“It appears that an unattended package was noticed in the bakery by one of the waiters who apparently attempted to open the package when the blast took place,” Pillai told reporters.

The building and nearby shops were badly damaged and splattered with thick patches of blood and several limbs. “I came running to the bakery after hearing the explosion. I found people lying all over the place,” said Abba More, who lives nearby.

One foreigner was among the dead, but his nationality was not immediately known, Pillai said. Chidambaram said a Sudanese national was among the wounded in the blast.

The bombing came as ties between India and 천안 안마 archrival Pakistan appeared to be warming. The two countries agreed to hold talks in New Delhi on Feb. 25, their first formal negotiations since the Mumbai attacks.

Asked whether the explosion was linked to the India-Pakistan talks, Pillai said: “Forensic investigations have just begun. Till they are completed, we will not know who is (involved).”

But Gopinath Munde, a senior Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party leader, asserted, “This again is an attack from Pakistan.”

Crimes against humanity are considered the most serious of all international human rights violations after genocide

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Updated at 1:18 p.m. ET

Syrian security forces fired at thousands of protesters who poured into the streets throughout the country Friday, killing at least 20 people one day after the United States and its European allies demanded that President Bashar Assad step down, activists said.

At the same time, a European Union committee is considering what would be the alliance’s fifth set of sanctions against Syria, including a possible embargo on oil, spokesman Michael Mann said Friday.

Syria gets about 28 percent of its revenue from the oil trade, with exports going mostly to European countries, such as Germany, Italy and France. If the EU joins the effort, it could significantly slash the Damascus government’s revenues.

Activists said soldiers, tanks and armored personnel carriers were deployed in restive cities, despite Assad’s assurances to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that military and police operations had stopped. The harsh statements by President Obama and European leaders also appeared to have no immediate effect.

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Asked Friday whether the U.N. chief believes Assad when he says the violence has stopped, U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said: “He believes that any claim that violence has stopped needs to be verified.”

“We continue to hear some disturbing reports that we would need to look into,” Haq said. “We want to be able to verify indeed that violence has stopped. And, of course, for that to happen we would like to have access for our human rights team.”

Syria’s U.N. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said a U.N. humanitarian assessment team would arrive in Damascus on Saturday.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and The Local Coordination Committees, an activist group, said demonstrations took place in the capital Damascus, the central city of Homs, the southern province of Daraa, the coastal city of Latakia, the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and other areas.

The observatory said 20 people were killed, eight of them in the southern village of Ghabagheb, five in the nearby village of Hirak, three in Homs, two in the Damascus suburbs and one each in the southern villages of Inkhil and Nawa. LCC said that 22 people were killed in different areas, mostly south of the country.

Syrian state TV said gunmen shot dead a local police chief in Ghabagheb and a policeman in a Damascus suburb.

It was impossible to independently verify the death toll because Syria has banned foreign reporters and restricted coverage by local media.

There also was a wave of arrests Friday.

Russia, a longtime ally of Syria, threw its support behind Assad on Friday, saying it doesn’t back Western calls for him to resign. Moscow said the Syrian leader must be given sufficient time to fulfill promises of reforms.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Assad has already made some steps toward reform, including lifting the decades-old state of emergency and issuing a decree allowing peaceful demonstrations.

(At left, watch a report on Thursday’s actions)

Mr. Obama said Assad’s calls for reform ring hollow while he is “imprisoning, torturing and slaughtering his own people.” Mr. Obama also signed an executive order that gives his administration authority to impose sweeping new sanctions on Syria intended to further isolate Assad.

The leaders of France, Britain and Germany issued a statement saying Assad should “leave power in the greater interests of Syria and the unity of his people.”

Friday’s shooting came three days after troops finished a four-day military operation in Latakia mostly in area in and around a Palestinian refugee camp, forcing thousands of refugees to flee.

The U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees said Friday they have located about 6,000 of the 7,500 refugees displaced by the fighting. The agency has been helping them with cash grants for food, medicine and accommodation.

“Many, particularly the children and women, are traumatized and in a poor condition,” said agency spokesman Chris Gunness. “The refugees are too frightened to return to their homes.”

Protests also erupted Thursday night — part of a growing trend of evening protests when security forces tend to thin out. The observatory and the LCC said shootings on Thursday killed one person in a Damascus suburb and another died of his wounds early Friday in the central city of Homs.

Syrian state TV said gunmen shot dead one policeman and wounded four in the Damascus suburb of Harasta while four policemen were wounded in Inkhil on Friday.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the observatory, said there was wide security deployment including armored personnel carriers.

“I’ve seen soldiers walking through the streets of the city,” said an activist in Homs who asked that her name not be mentioned for fear of government reprisals. “But I can’t hear gunfire, and I don’t believe they are shooting.”

Assad is coming under mounting criticism for his crackdown on a 5-month uprising. Human rights groups and witnesses accuse Syrian troops of firing on largely unarmed protesters and say more than 1,800 civilians have been killed since mid-March.

Activists posted an amateur video online Friday showing two soldiers in uniform slapping and kicking about a dozen detainees inside a bus and 대전 마사지 forcing them to chant “our souls, our blood we sacrifice for you Bashar,” and “God, Syria and Bashar only.”

The Associated Press could not verify the videos.

In a report released in Geneva, a U.N. team said the violence in Syria should be referred to the International Criminal Court. Crimes against humanity are considered the most serious of all international human rights violations after genocide.

Makem died Wednesday in Dover, New Hampshire, where he lived for many years

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Makem died Wednesday in Dover, New Hampshire, where he lived for many years.

The Irish-born Makem, who came to America in the 1950s to seek work as an actor, grew to international fame while performing with the band The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. The brothers, also from Ireland, were Tom, Liam and Paddy Clancy.

Thursday, as fans and friends logged onto Makem’s web site to express their sorrow, 대구 안마 Irish President Mary McAleese sent condolences on behalf of her countrymen.

“In life, Tommy brought happiness and joy to hundreds of thousands of fans the world over,” said McAleese. “Always the consummate musician, he was also a superb ambassador for the country, and one of whom we will always be proud.”

Armed with his banjo, tin whistle, poetry, stagecraft and his baritone voice, Makem helped spread stories and songs of Irish culture around the world.

He brought audiences to tears with “Four Green Fields,” an allegorical song about a woman whose sons died trying to prevent strangers from taking her fields. Other songs included “Gentle Annie” and “Red Is the Rose.”

“He just had the knack of making an audience laugh or cry. … holding them in his hands,” Liam Clancy told RTE Radio in Dublin, Ireland.

The New York Times in 1967 called them “an eight-legged, ambulatory chamber of commerce for the green isle they love so well… At one point, Irish teenagers were paying as much homage to them as to the Beatles.”

After touring for about nine years as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, he struck out on his own, but he remained friends with the brothers. Tom Clancy died in 1990 and Paddy in 1998.

Back in the 1950s, Makem and his friends viewed the success of their first few albums — “The Rising of the Moon” and a collection of drinking songs — as a fluke.

In a 1994 Associated Press interview, Makem recalled he was astonished when a Chicago club offered him more money to sing for a week than he was getting for acting with a repertory company.

“I was the opening act for Josh White. I felt sort of silly, coming out and singing unaccompanied, and then Josh coming out and almost making the guitar talk,” he said.

As their fame spread, they appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and other major TV shows, and headlined concerts at Carnegie Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall.

A young Bob Dylan was one of the folk singers who got to know Makem and the Clancys during the early 1960s.

“Topical songs weren’t protest songs,” Dylan wrote in his memoir “Chronicles Volume One.” “What I was hearing pretty regularly, though, were rebellion songs, and those really moved me. The Clancy Brothers — Tom, Paddy and Liam — and their buddy Tommy Makem sang them all the time.”

In 1992, Makem and the Clancys were among the stars at Madison Square Garden in New York, joining Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman and many others in a tribute to Dylan.

Makem loved his work and had a quick answer a few years ago when asked if he’d thought about retirement.

“Yes, of course,” said Makem, who enjoyed being known as both the Godfather of Irish music and the modern day Bard of Armagh. “I retire every night. And in the morning when I awake, I realize just how lucky and privileged I am to be able to continue doing the things I love to do.”

Even while battling cancer, he continued to perform. In April – with the Spain Brothers – he won Best Folk Act at the Spotlight Awards in Portsmouth, N.H., and in July, he picked up an honorary degree from the University of Ulster in Belfast and returned to Armagh.

“He had very much wanted to get over there,” said his son, Conor Makem. “I think he knew it might have been his last time over.”