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Turkey appoints new armed forces chiefs.

Turkey appoints new armed forces chiefs

ANKARA: Turkey selected four new generals to lead its armed forces on Thursday in a shake-up which is seen as consolidating civilian control of the military after four top generals quit last week in protest at the jailing of officers in coup conspiracy cases. General Necdet Ozel,previously head of the paramilitary gendarmerie,was named as new chief of general staff for the second largest armed forces in NATO. President Abdullah Gul approved the appointment.

3 Pak Navy men to face court martial

Islamabad: Three senior Pakistani Naval officers will face court martial for their alleged negligence during a terrorist attack on Mehran airbase in Karachi that left 10 security personnel dead and two surveillance aircraft destroyed. Commodore Raja Tahir,former commander of PNS Mehran airbase,the naval aviation commander and the security officer of the airbase are to face trial in a court martial,reports said.

UK probes Nigeria Qaeda kidnap claim

lagos: British authorities said Thursday they were investigating a video claiming an al-Qaeda group now holds a British and Italian man kidnapped from northern Nigeria in May. The one-minute video,distributed by the French news agency Agence France-Presse,shows the two men kneeling in front of three masked men holding a heavy machine gun and two Kalashnikov rifles. The hostages identified their kidnappers are belonging to al-Qaeda.

US charges 72 in child porn probe

Washington: Investigators announced on Wednesday that they had dismantled Dreamboard,a global network of paedophiles,who traded pornographic videos and images of children as young as infants over the web. The Justice Department said 72 people had been charged. The network created an incentive among members to create new files by kicking them out if they did not upload material once in 50 days,and by granting greater access if they created their own pornography.

Japan sacks 3 nuclear energy officials

TOKYO: Prime Minister Naoto Kan removed three top officials in charge of Japanese nuclear energy policy on Thursday,taking aim at cozy ties between regulators and the power industry that were exposed after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident. One of them is Nobuaki Terasaka,the head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency,the nations main nuclear regulatory body.