The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out in retaliation for the burning of copies of the Qur'an at a Nato base in the country.
“I want to finish the job the Australian people elected me to do when they elected me to become prime minister,” Rudd told reporters in Brisbane just hours after returning from the US.
The Yamaguchi-gumi group earns “billions of dollars” every year from crimes inside and outside Japan, including human and drug trafficking, prostitution, money laundering and fraud, the US Treasury Department said in a statement yesterday.
Officials said that almost 90 pounds of explosives planted in a white car parked at the Kohat bus terminal triggered a blast which destroyed more than 20 other vehicles.
Severe flooding in Thailand during the monsoon season killed more than 700 people, inundated two-thirds of the country, and hurt exports already dented by weaker demand in Europe.
Under the plan, which requires parliament’s approval, taxes will rise from the current 5 percent rate to 8 percent in April 2014, and then up to 10 percent by October 2015.
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