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Moscow (ANTARA News / Reuters) - The death toll from a bomb blast in the southern Russian city of Stavropol increased to seven, oada Thursday and wounded 16 others in critical condition, state media said.

The explosion occurred on Wednesday moments after the concert started a dance-related associations involving President Cheche, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed.

Russia has said, investigators have opened a criminal case under terrorism legislation after the explosion of ethnic Russian Stavropol region, which borders rocked by violence, especially in the Muslim North Caucasus republic.

The Islamic fighters vowed to expand penembangan operations and a bombing in Moscow metro in March, which killed 40 people in the worst attack in the heart of Russia since 2004,

A doctor in Stavropol told Rossiya TV-24 that increases the number of victims who were killed two people last night to seven, and 16 other victims, otherwise his condition was critical in the chest, abdomen and gunshot wounds.

Bomb equivalent to 400 grams of TNT was disguised in a juice box.

In the past year, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered that the Stavropol region, including the new North Caucasus Federal District together with the Muslims of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia to overcome the increasing violence.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Play Pac-Man appears on Google pages to commemorate the 30th birthday of the game is interesting. Many people who do not miss to taste it. However, on the other hand, the presence of potentially harmful game business because it makes millions of people waste time just to play it.

In fact, from the analysis, the total time spent in vain by all people around the world because the game is to reach 5 million hours or about 549 years. With so much wastage of productive time, the potential loss of business reached 120 million U.S. dollars. So the result of calculation from software companies as reported by the BBC Time Rescue.

Rescue Time use time tracking software that can monitor every computer user access destination and length of time. Than 11,000 software users are, on average every 22 people doing searches on Google every day and spend time each 11 seconds. However, when there is a game Pac-Man, long time they do a search up to 36 seconds.

By doing ektrapolasi to 504 million users (unique users) who access the Google page every day, additional time wasted total of 4.8 million hours aka 549 years. Assuming an average of every worker is paid 25 dollars per hour, therefore the cost incurred in vain for 120 million U.S. dollars. With that much money, Rescue Time count that money can roughly be used to pay the salaries of all Google employees during the six weeks.

Pac-Man game appeared on pages 21 to 22 May 2010 in Google. Because of high demand, Google decided to create a special page so that users can permanently play Pac-Man anytime and anywhere.

Asadabad, Afghanistan (AFP / Reuters) - A top leader of Pakistan's Taliban may have died in clashes with Afghan troops near the border of both countries, said a senior Afghan police officer, said Thursday.

Mauvi Fazlullah, the head of one faction of the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley, was reported killed along with six of his men in barg Matal district, Nuristan province of Afghanistan, which lies near the border with Pakistan, said Mohammad Zaman Mamozai, chief of the border troops to eastern Afghanistan.

"Maulvi Fazlullah were killed in a direct firefight with border police forces ... Wednesday night," he said.

He did not elaborate further. Afghan Taliban confirmed the engagement, but insisted no foreign guerrillas involved.

The news of the death of Fazlullah appeared after the reports for a few days crossfire between troops and guerrillas in barg Matal.

Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, who leads one faction of the Taliban based in Pakistan's tribal region Bajuar, denied media reports that Fazlullah led attacks in Afghanistan.

"He was probably in Nuristan since the Taliban had retreated to the border (Pakistan-Afghanistan)," he told Reuters by telephone before the report Fazlulah death.

"He probably lives in Nuristan, but he was involved in fighting there," he said.

In an interview with British radio BBC last November, Fazlullah said that he fled to Afghanistan after Pakistani military offensive against Taliban militants in Swat Valley base in April last year.

WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com - The U.S. government plans soon to upgrade technology satellites global positioning system (GPS) to improve the accuracy and reliability. Total money spent for it to reach 8 billion U.S. dollars.

Currently the GPS uses 24 satellites that orbit Earth at an altitude of about 11,000 miles (about 17 500 km) to support its navigation systems on the entire surface of the Earth. However, to perform location determination requires only 3-4 away from the nearest satellite GPS signal receiving device.

These satellites will be replaced one by one gradually to avoid interference. The project was done by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. There are 30 satlit made with 6 in reserve.

The new satellites have the ability to emit a signal up to three times the old satellite. Device at the satellite are also more sophisticated with more accurate atomic clocks with accuracy up to billionth of a second and faster processing. Determining the location of the error rate can be twice as better than the current capacity by a margin of error of about 6 meters.

GPS was originally developed by the U.S. military 30 years ago for military purposes only. However, in its development, its services opened to the public, though still controlled by the Pentagon. Many countries seek rival the GPS such as the European Union, Russia, and China. However, until now practically the only GPS satellite navigation system the most reliable and comprehensive.

Liputan6.com, Jakarta: Figures of violence against children in 2007 reached 1726 cases. This number increased to 1998 cases in 2009. "Approximately 65 percent of cases of sexual violence," said Aris Merdeka Sirait, newly elected as Chairman of the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) in the period 2010 to 2014 in Cikarang, Bekasi, West Java, on Thursday (27 / 5) [read : Aris Merdeka Sirait Replace Seto Mulyadi]

To anticipate the problem, said Aris, Komnas PA makes short-term agenda and long term. Short-term agenda is to amend a law that did not favor products in children, such as the Juvenile Court Act. PA Commission will also encourage the emergence of regional regulations (Perda) protection of children in every city and province.

While long-term agenda, continued Aris, to consolidate and strengthen institutional. PA Commission will also establish a child protection agency to the local level. "All of the programs for responding to cases of violence against children quickly," said Aris.

Aris was elected to replace the Seto Mulyadi. Furthermore, Seto will serve as Chairman of the Board of the National Consultative Commission PA. Aris promised to put a lot of young people in the stewardship of new ones. (ANT / Ulf)

Fanny Fabriana crazy about Alopecia Also Men Perfume

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - For film stars Amanda and lively Days To No Semati, Fanny Fabriana, typical ideal man is balding and fragrant. He had been sitting on the bench mengidamkannya since Elementary School (SD).

"I like the bald guy and fragrant," said Fanny when found in Senayan City, South Jakarta, Tuesday (05/25/2010).

For Fanny, bald-headed man will look neater. "Alopecia is simple and neat, but simple does not mean that long-haired baseball. If you smell delicious aja ya definitely have a sweet guy," said Fanny.

Looking back, Fanny confessed love the opposite sex the first time since she was underage. "The first time was like the first grade, and that funny little kok already love-love with each other," he recalls. (FAN)

Liputan6.com, Garut: Hundreds of market stalls Leles, Garut, West Java, on Thursday (27 / 5) to be offered, sold out on fire. There were no fatalities, but the loss of market traders are estimated to reach billions of rupiah.

The fire is thought to come from the middle market continues to grow propagate to other stalls. A number of merchants were trying to extinguish the fire with a makeshift tool, but their efforts wasted because the fire continues to grow.

Five fire engines that arrived at the scene could not do much because the fire had devoured the entire kiosk enlarged. Enough officers to control the fire because of the difficulty the market location in the middle a densely populated residential area. All the stalls in the market which amounts to 400 Leles eventually run out engulfed in the red rooster.

A number of traders look hysterical as she watched the flames engulfed hold his own stall. In fact, some of them fainted from the powerless to hold back the sadness. The merchants claimed to not know exactly the cause of the fire was unknown because the fire was bigger than the middle market.

This event could also jam up the traffic flow up to tens of kilometers. Direction of the traffic from Bandung to Garut and vice versa, was forced Leuwigoong diverted to alternate routes. (TEST / ANS)

Razia foreigners will Digencarkan

Liputan6.com, Jakarta: Razia foreign nationals who allegedly violated a lot of a residence permit will digencarkan Directorate General of Immigration. This was followed terjaringnya dozen foreign national women in a gym and relaxation in Jalan Gajah Mada, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday. They come from China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan.

According to Justice Minister Patrialis Akbar, DGI has pocketed the name of the sponsor that brought these women. It would also ordered their repatriation to their respective home countries. However, no further explanation of Menkum and related human rights sanctions should also be imposed on the sponsor [read: Secure DGI WNA 19 Women Workers Spa]. (ADO)

Cameroon Awaiting Permission For Two players FIFA Slideshow: Photos Sport

Linz, Austria (AFP / Reuters) - Cameroonian waiting for permission from FIFA for two players who have previously been included in their team that will compete in the World Cup in South Africa.

Gaetan Bong defender and striker Eric Choupo front-Moting not revealed with other players in the friendly against Georgia in Linz Tuesday, as the world football governing body did not give permission to them to switch citizenship, according to coach Paul Le Guen told reporters.

Bong is a former French junior players while Choupo-Moting has played four times for the German team under-21 years of age.

Both are descendants of Cameroon and has dual citizenship.

Under the rules of FIFA, soccer players can change their citizenship if they have not played at senior level.

Both players were selected along with other new players in the squad names 30 players for the World Cup beginning in South Africa, which will take place June 11 to July 11.

Cameroon in Group E will be faced with the Danish, Japanese and Dutch.

Liputan6.com, Bangkok: The Thai government is now hunting the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. To that end, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the Office of the Attorney General, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand will cooperate approached Interpol. In particular, aim to be an Interpol red alert for Thaksin.

This statement was issued by Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, in response to Thaksin's interview with Australian Broadcasting Corporation., Not long ago. In the interview, Mr Thaksin said, "Interpol will not act on the warrant due to politically motivated."

Like other countries, added Suthep, the Thai government will provide protection to Mr Thaksin, extraditing him back to Thailand to face charges. He also does not care about Thaksin's lawyer who appealed to the Criminal Court, to withdraw the arrest warrant.

"If Thaksin's sure is innocent, he should be back to fight these charges," said Suthep, affirming [read: Former Prime Minister Thaksin sued As Terrorists]. (AST / ANS / Xinhua)