11 reported injured in major fire in India

MUMBAI, India (AP) ? Hundreds of employees were evacuated Thursday from a seven-story government building as more than two dozen fire engines battled a major fire that raged for several hours in India's financial and entertainment capital.

At least people 11 were injured and hospitalized due to the fire at the Maharashtra state government headquarters in southern Mumbai, TimesNow television news channel reported.

Television images showed some people being taken on stretchers as the blaze and the billowing smoke engulfed building from the fourth floor upward. A strong sea breeze fanned the fire, which could be seen for kilometers (miles).

Firefighters used hydraulic platforms to evacuate trapped people, and two navy helicopters hovered over the building to pick up people from the rooftop.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Some witnesses complained that the firefighters took almost half an hour to reach the site.

Associated Press

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Microsoft: 'Amazing games coming to Windows Phone 8'

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Winda Benedetti

At its Windows Phone Summit Wednesday, Microsoft showed off its new mobile operating system and in doing so highlighted how Windows Phone 8 will bring some?big improvements to mobile gaming.

One of the primary points Microsoft wanted the developers,?tech pundits and, yes, gamers,?to take away from its presentation was the importance of gaming ?- and how Windows Phone 8 will make it easier to bring PC games to mobile phones.

Microsoft execs announced that Windows Phone 8 would use a native game development platform based on DirectX and showed off how, when Windows Phone 8 arrives in the fall, it will share a "common core" with the Windows 8 operating system for the PC.

As our own Wilson Rothman explains, what this means is that "under the hood,?the phone platform will look enough like a Windows PC to share common file formats, networking,?security protocols, IT?management tools and apps." (Check out Wilson's full?coverage of the Windows Phone 8 event?right here.)

All of this means that developers won't have to spend a bunch of time re-writing code and can, instead, quickly port PC games to Windows phones.

Middleware partners such as Havok Technology and Autodesk will support Windows Phone 8. And?Havok?s Andrew Bowell took to the stage Wednesday to explain that Windows Phone 8 games developed using the Havok?Technology Suite, will feature "immersive and real 3-D worlds, highly realistic characters and cinematic visuals."

Microsoft it trying hard to woo more developers to its smartphone platform ?- and understandably so. When it comes to the amount of apps available, Microsoft's current mobile operating system -- Windows Phone 7 ?- is signficiantly behind the Android and iOS platforms.

But?"amazing games are coming to Windows Phone 8," promises Microsoft's Kevin Gallo.

Winda Benedetti writes about video?games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things?on Twitter?here?@WindaBenedetti?and you?follow her?on Google+. Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.?

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Former Giffords aide sworn in as House member

In an election to fill former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., congressional seat, Democratic candidate Ron Barber, left, gets a hug from Giffords as they celebrate a victory before Barber addresses supporters at a post election event, Tuesday, June 12, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. Gabrielle Giffords' former district director, in a special election for the seat Giffords left in January to focus on her recovery from a gunshot wound to her head during a gunman's shooting spree a year earlier.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, pool)

In an election to fill former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., congressional seat, Democratic candidate Ron Barber, left, gets a hug from Giffords as they celebrate a victory before Barber addresses supporters at a post election event, Tuesday, June 12, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. Gabrielle Giffords' former district director, in a special election for the seat Giffords left in January to focus on her recovery from a gunshot wound to her head during a gunman's shooting spree a year earlier.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, pool)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Ron Barber, who almost died in the Arizona shooting that wounded former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was sworn in Tuesday as a member of the House.

Barber is a Democrat who won a special election to succeed Giffords, his former boss.

He was shot twice, once in the face and once in the leg, in the January 2011 shootings in Tucson that left six dead and nearly killed his predecessor.

Barber defeated Republican Jesse Kelly, who narrowly lost to Giffords in 2010. Giffords was in Tucson during the campaign's final days to help her former district director.

Barber won about 52 percent of the vote while Kelly had 46 percent.

Both parties made claims about the significance of Barber's victory. Democrats cast the race as a referendum on Republican proposals for Social Security and Medicare. Republicans stressed that Barber's victory came after he emphasized his differences with President Barack Obama on health care and other issues.

Barber, in his maiden speech, paid tribute to his former boss.

He noted that he was standing "on the floor of the House in the very spot where five months ago, my friend and my predecessor Gabrielle Giffords bravely delivered her resignation from Congress.

"I thank the congresswoman for her vision and leadership and the inspiration she gives to our country."

Barber said he does not want to be driven by partisanship, and cited the example of the late Rep. Mo Udall, a Democrat, and the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, a Republican ? Arizona lawmakers who disagreed "but did so without being disagreeable." Barber said they came together many times for the good of the country.

Barber will serve for the remainder of Giffords' term, but will have to run again in November.

There are now 242 House Republicans, 191 Democrats and two vacancies.

Associated Press

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UK: 'Arms' ship for Syria heading back to Russia

LONDON (AP) ? A Russian-operated ship said to be carrying military helicopters to Syria appears to have turned back after its British insurer removed coverage for the vessel, U.K. officials said Tuesday.

Britain's Foreign Office said the ship, the MV Alaed, changed course in Europe after news reports emerged about its alleged contents. Earlier, the Foreign Office confirmed it was aware that a ship carrying a consignment of refurbished Russian-made attack helicopters was heading to Syria.

The ship has "turned back now apparently toward Russia," Foreign Secretary William Hague told British lawmakers in Parliament. The vessel appeared to have been avoiding UK territorial waters and EU territorial waters, his ministry added.

"It is good news that the shipment of attack helicopters we've been tracking in the North Sea in recent days is heading away from Syria," British Prime Minister David Cameron said during the G-20 summit in Mexico on Tuesday. "But we will continue to work to stem the flow of weapons."

The news came after the U.K.-based insurer Standard Club said it removed insurance coverage for the ship owner when it became aware it was carrying munitions, a clear breach of its rules.

The BBC reported Tuesday that the ship was about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the Outer Hebrides off the northwest coast of Scotland. The Foreign Office said it was heading toward the Netherlands when it changed course to avoid Dutch territorial waters and turned north.

Russian officials have not commented on the ship or its reported contents. The vessel's Russian operator, Femco, refused to comment Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G-20 summit that only the Syrian people have the right to decide whether their president, Bashar Assad, steps down.

Putin said Tuesday that not all Syrians want a change in leadership and that all parties need to negotiate a solution to end the bloodshed.

Britain has joined the United States and other countries in pressing Russia to halt arms shipments to Assad's regime. Opposition groups say more than 14,000 people have been killed since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011 with mostly peaceful protests. A ferocious government crackdown, however, led many to take up arms and the conflict is now an armed insurgency.

Syria is Russia's last remaining ally in the Middle East, and has been a major customer of Soviet and Russian weapons industries for the last four decades, acquiring billions of dollars' worth of combat jets, helicopters, missiles, armored vehicles and other military gear. Russia has also shielded Assad's regime from international sanctions over its violent crackdown.

The Foreign Office said Hague has told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that all defense shipments to Syria must stop.

"We are working closely with international partners to ensure that we are doing all we can to stop the Syrian regime's ability to slaughter civilians being reinforced through assistance from other countries," the Foreign Office said in a statement.

President Barack Obama said at the G-20 that China and Russia were "not aligned" with the U.S. and other nations on Syria but said both countries' leaders recognize the dangers of a civil war.

Obama met with Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the economic summit. Syria was a top subject.

China and Russia have close ties to Syria and have vetoed two U.N. resolutions that mentioned the threat of sanctions against Assad's regime. China and Russia, however, did support an observer mission in Syria and a plan by special envoy Kofi Annan to end the violence.

Obama said Russia and China believe "everyone would be better served" if Syria had a mechanism for ceasing the violence."

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a harsh reprimand to Russia last week, saying that Moscow "dramatically" escalated the crisis in Syria by sending attack helicopters there. The State Department acknowledged later the helicopters she accused Moscow of sending were actually refurbished ones already owned by the Assad regime, but Russia was clearly annoyed, and the spat further fueled tensions between the two countries over Syria.

It was not immediately clear whether the helicopters reported to be aboard the Alaed were the ones Clinton had been referring to.

Separately on Tuesday, Syria's government said it was ready to act on a U.N. call to evacuate civilians trapped in the rebellious central city of Homs for more than a week, but blamed rebels for obstructing efforts to get them out.

Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, chief of the U.N. observer mission in the country, has demanded that all warring parties in the conflict allow safe passage for women, children and sick people who need to leave the city and other combat zones.

Mood, speaking after briefing the U.N. Security Council during a closed meeting on the situation in Syria, said that questions about canceling the mission were premature and noted, "We are not going anywhere."

Activists said shelling and clashes between rebel fighters and troops in Homs continued unabated Tuesday, underlining the difficulty in organizing any sort of evacuation. Fierce shelling was reported on the rebel-held districts of Khaldiyeh and Jouret el-Shayeh and nearby areas. Troops backed by helicopter gunships were also bombarding the town of Rastan, north of Homs, which is controlled by rebels.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reiterated an urgent appeal for world leaders to intervene to stop the shelling that has trapped more than 1,000 families and "the systematic killings that the Syrian people in Homs are being subjected to."

A Syrian Foreign Ministry statement carried by state-run news agency SANA said the government has contacted the U.N. observer mission and local authorities in Homs to start efforts to bring out the trapped civilians.

"But the efforts of the U.N. monitors' mission failed in achieving this goal because of the armed terrorist groups' obstructions," the statement said, claiming that armed groups were using civilians as "human shields."

The Syrian government regularly refers to the rebels as terrorists.

___

Associated Press writers Meera Selva in London, Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow, Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.

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