
The Alashankou Border Crossing, Xinjiang, PRC. Photo courtesy of ERINA, Japan.
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China is spending £480 billion to expand its domestic railway network which will include links to Europe that will see 19,000 miles of new railways across China, and eventually trains travelling to Kings Cross. Under the scheme travellers from Beijing will be able to board high-speed trains going through Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France and then London. The total journey from London to Beijing is estimated to be two days, with a total of 5,070 miles; with the Chinese expecting trains to be as fast as planes. The plans to complete the project which will connect around 17 countries, is ten years, which will also allow China to transport raw materials more efficiently. (London Daily)
Pakistani security agents denied on Monday (March 08, 2010) that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect. Some Pakistani officials had said on Sunday that Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a US$1 million bounty on his head, had been arrested on the outskirts of the city of Karachi. (Reuters)
The NATO-led military force in Afghanistan said on Saturday (March 07, 2010) it had confidence in the choice of a man picked to run a former Taliban stronghold, despite a NATO commander saying he spent years in a German prison for assault. Abdul Zahir, head of the new administration installed in the town of Marjah, denies the accusation that could set back the biggest NATO military operation of the eight-year-old war by damaging his legitimacy. (Reuters)