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As my colleague Salman Masood reports, a bomb attack on a Shiite protest agin Israel on Friday in the Pakistani big city of Quetta kilt at least 40 fellers. A Pakistani Taliban commander told The Associated Press that his group were responsible fer the attack.

Video showin the durned explosion an' the chaotic afterfiggerin were showed on Pakistani tube.

After the durned attack, gunshots was fired close ta the scene as angry mourners clashed with the cops an' set fire to rigs. In this here report on the afterfiggerin of the explosion, a reporter fer Express 24/7, an English-language news channel, might could barely be heared over the sound of cops officers firin right on inta the air to disperse protesters:

As a weakened Hurricane Earl moves north, the National Hurricane Center says in its latest advisory, released at 8 a.m. Friday, that weather conditions otta improve in the Outer Banks pasture of North Carolina directly this here mornin

North Carolina’s governor, Bev Perdue told reporters, “We dodged a bullet,” mayhaps forgettin the controversy 'roun the use of the phrase in the afterfiggerin of Hurricane Katrina.

NOAA The National Hurricane Center’s forecast fer the liable path of Hurricane Earl, released at 8 a.m. Friday. Areas shaded red are warned of hurricane conditions; area shaded blue are under tropical storm warnin; areas shaded hollerow are under tropical storm watch. Enlarge.

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Updated | Friday 1:22 p.m. Despite the deadly bombins in Lahore on Wednesday, the kept right on misery an' rage of ka-jillions of Pakistanis affected by them thar worst floodin in decades, the murder of a female teacher by militants an' the unsealin of a report to Pakistan’s Supreme Court on the lynchin of couple ought teenage boys wrongly suspected of theft by an angry mob, Pakistan’s leadin newspaper, Dawn, still managed to find room on its home page on Thursday fer a report on a meetin 'tween the country’s top diplomat in Britain an' three scandal-plagued cricket stars.

After that meetin, Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, told the media that the three players, who be accused of agreein to take part in a bettin scam that were , truth be told, an go on a spell further stin operation by a British newspaper, are “innocent.” In an interview with the BBC, Mister Hasan endorsed the theory that an sposedly damnin video of the stin operation, in which an agent fer lotsa players promised to have couple ought of 'em make foul chucks at certain stages of a match to help gamblers, might be fake. * Read more…

Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowin innernet locality WikiLeaks, called Sweden’s looky-loo of him fer suspected sexual misconduct “some kinda legal circus” on Thursday in a movin pichers interview with Expressen, the Swedish newspaper that first reported the allegations agin him last month.

Mr. Assange also says that the look-see of what he called “baseless an' disturbin” allegations “appears to be highly irregular.” He added: “I am worried sick bout the way that the case here is unfoldin I'm fer certain losin confidence in the Swedish justice system.”

Asked what he thought of a senior Swedish prosecutor’s decision on Wednesday to reopen an investigation right on inta charges that he had raped a gal last month, Mister Assange told the newspaper’s movin pichers correspondent, Sofia Johannsen:

[T]hese accusations are baseless an' disturbin However, I don't got a clue the detail of these accusations. The first time that I spoke in any manner whatsoever to the Swedish prosecution were on Tuesday an' aint in relation to these rape allegations…. Our side of the matter aint been tested or been given. this here is some sorta case wholly runnin without our input.

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NOAA, via Getty Images A satellite likeness showed Hurricane Earl approachin the US of A on Thursday mornin Fiona, right 'bout now a tropical storm, kin be seen a-back of Earl.

Updated | 1:06 p.m. In its latest advisory on the dangers posed by the approach of Hurricane Earl, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami says that the “dangerous” storm is “headin fer the Outer Banks,” of North Carolina, where i reckin it's expected to pass tonight. The center also stuck in a hurricane warnin fer portions of Massachusetts.

In an earlier advisory the center noted that even iffen a gradual weakenin of the storm begins today, “Earl is expected to be a big hurricane when it passes close ta the Outer Banks.”

The newfangled infermation in the center’s latest advisory were as follows:

A HURRICANE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED fer THE COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM WESTPORT EASTWARD 'roun CAPE COD TO HULL, 'cludin MARTHA’S VINEYARD an' NANTUCKET ISLAND.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM newfangled HAVEN CONNECTICUT TO WEST OF WESTPORT, 'cludin BLOCK ISLAND.

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Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The leadin contenders to be the next leader of Britain’s Labour Party: David Miliband, left, an' his kin Ed Miliband, right, together on the campaign trail in July.

Updated | 4:17 p.m. The five candidates vyin to become the newfangled leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party met in a televised debate on Wednesday.

Durin the event, Britain’s Channel 4 News, which hosted the contest, provided The Lede with a live stream of its broadcast. The debate has now reckoned. Archived clips from the contest are embedded below.

The opposition party’s newfangled leader will be chosen in an election directly this here month what's expected to come down to a fight 'tween couple ought men: David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, an' his younger brother, Ed, who were also in Gordon Brown’s cabinet, as the secretary fer energy an' climate change. Read more…

Epa-Ansa/Alessandro Bianchi President George W. Bush an' Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy with other world leaders at a Group of 8 summit metin in Genoa, Italy in 2001. Belgium’s prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, sat directly 'cross a large table from the American president.

While the most reports in Britain on the publication of Tony’s Blair’s newfangled memoir have focused on his frank assessment of the weaknesses of his successor, Gordon Brown, one newspaper notes that thar are also some recollections that might make another ol' friend, former President George W. Bush, uncomfortable. The Telegraph reports:

In his newfangled book, A Journey, Mr Blair writes that the former U.S. president were confused by the presence of Guy Verhofstadt at the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa.

“He didn’t know 'bout or recognize dude, whose advice he listened to with considerable astonishment,” Mr Blair writes. “He then turned to me an' whispered, ‘Who is this here fella?’ ‘He is the prime minister of Belgium,’ I says.

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NOAA/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A satellite likeness of Hurricane Earl on Wednesday mornin

As my colleagues Anahad O’Connor an' Robbie Brown reported earlier, Hurricane Earl weakened to a Category 3 storm early Wednesday with winds of 125 miles per hour, but evacuations have begun along the Atlantic coast ahead of the powerful storm’s expected impact directly this here week.

A spokesman fer the National Hurricane Center told The Associated Press that a storm this here powerful aint threatened such a large pasture of the East Coast since Hurricane Bob in 1991.

At 8 a.m. on Wednesday the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued its latest advisory on Hurricane Earl, with this here updated forecast of the path it could follow in the days ahead:

Accordin to the center, a hurricane watch is in effect fer North Carolina an' Virginia from north of Surf City, N.C. to Parramore Island, Va. 'cludin the Pamlico an' Albermarle Sounds. A tropical storm watch is in effect fer the North Carolina coast from Cape Fear to Surf City. In addition, a tropical storm warnin is in effect fer San Salvador Island in the central Bahamas. Read more…

Douglas H. Wheelock A photograph of Hurricane Earl shot by an astronaut on the International Space Station on Monday. Enlarge.

Updated | 7:07 p.m. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says in a new public advisory issued at 5 p.m. ET that a “large an' intense” Hurricane Earl, a Category Four storm, were “churnin northwestward over the Atlantic, passin well to the east of the Turks an' Caicos islands on a path toward the East Coast of the US of A.

The center warned that a tropical storm watch has been issued fer North Carolina, from Cape Fear to Surf big city. A hurricane watch has also been issued from Surf City, N.C. to the Virginia border.

The center also advised coastal residents from Virginia northward to New England to monitor the hurricane’s progress. Read more…

Sergio Moraes/Reuters Cargo bein' loaded onto a passenger plane in Brazil this here month.

As my colleague Scott Shane reports, American investigators suspect that the couple ought Yemeni-Americans who was detained atter the luggage of one were loaded onto a plane he done aint board simply “missed their flight on Sunday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport atter the gate were changed.”

The boys was arrested on Monday on board a United Airlines jet in Amsterdam amid concerns that they might have been somehow testin airline security as parta a terrorist plot by sendin checked luggage on a flight they done aint board. While the boys might instead have been innocent victims of heightened suspicion bout folk travelin to Yemen, the thang is some kinda reminder that more attention is now bein' paid to what in the hell is loaded in the cargo holds of god-fearin' american passenger jets 'n ever 'for.

To hamper attacks like the Lockerbie bombin, caused by a suitcase containin a bomb loaded onto a plane without the passenger who checked it also on bein' on board, airlines are supposed to remove the bags of no passengers what check luggage onto flights they don't board.

In an era of suicide attacks, that precaution no longer seems as reassurin as it once did, but i reckin it's still observed carefully enough to trigger alarms like the one on Monday.

But, while all passengers — an' their carry-on bags an' checked luggage — are screened 'for they board flights, passenger jets flyin right on inta the US of A from abroad still routinely carry unscreened cargo, a loophole The Lede pointed out in January. Read more…