Archive for October, 2009

Blog:Yemen ceasefire ‘not respected’

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Fighting in Yemen is reported to be continuing despite a conditional ceasefire called by the government in its conflict with northern Shia rebels.
The government had called the ceasefire to coincide with the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The UN has appealed to both sides to allow humanitarian corridors to be opened so that aid can be delivered to those displaced by the fighting.
About 150,000 people have been displaced in the five-year conflict.
On Saturday, statements from both the military and the rebels accused the other side of continuing attacks in spite of the ceasefire.
The combat area has been cut off from journalists, and correspondents say it has been hard to verify conflicting reports from both sides.

Blog: Supplement

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An international team of researchers studied 493 Israeli families who had had a previous pregnancy which was affected by NTD and 516 families from the Ukraine who had had a pregnancy affected by Down’s.
Their findings were published in The Lancet.
It was found there were more than five times the number of pregnancies affected by Down’s syndrome, a total of 11 in 1,492 pregnancies in the NTD compared with 1.87 expected for women of the same age.
There was also an increase in NTD cases in the families at a higher risk of Down’s syndrome.
Seven cases were seen in 1,847 pregnancies, compared with an expected incidence of 1.37.
Writing in The Lancet, the researchers from Israel, the Ukraine and the UK recommended taking extra folic acid before conception, and in the first two months of pregnancy.
They added: “The risks seen in this study could be helpful in genetic counselling, including that given during antenatal screening for birth defects.

Blog: Indonesia militant confirmed dead

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DNA tests have proven beyond doubt that Indonesia’s most-wanted Islamist militant Noordin Mohamed Top is dead, police say.
The man wanted for a series of deadly attacks across the archipelago was among four killed in a raid on Thursday near Solo city in central Java.
After the raid, police had immediately identified Malaysian-born Noordin using fingerprint records.
On Saturday they said “the DNA also matches 100%”.
National police spokesman Nanan Soekarna told a news conference:
“There is no doubt that he’s Noordin M Top.”
It is not the first time Indonesian officials have claimed Noordin is dead.
In another raid in central Java in August police had initially thought they had killed the militant, only to have forensic tests prove them wrong days later.

Blog:Creating the wonder of fashion, LUCA STEFANI

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Blog: UGG Short Boots

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Blog: Renmin Ribao

Posted in news on October 30th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

Some dissenting voices are in evidence however on the bulletin board of the People’s Daily, where one poster suggests the money should have been spent on Chinese workers.
Below are quotes from the main papers:
After 11 years of strenuous efforts of tackling difficult problems, the Chinese have finally fulfilled their dream of flying to the Ninth Heaven, or the highest of heavens on the basis of four unmanned test flights. This effort made China become the third country, after Russia and the United States, which independently develops manned space technology. At the same time, manned space-engineering has also made China become an important member of the international space club, providing China with the motive force for sustainable development in the impending implementation of the project of probing into the moon and deep space.
This was a hero’s expedition. This was a great expedition for the Chinese nation historically… The Chinese have longed for this day for so long. The Chinese nation has waited for this moment for a millennium… ‘The five-starred red flag flutters in the wind, the victorious sounds of singing are resounding, singing of our great motherland’

Blog:. Lunar outpost

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“We’re going for a base on the moon,” Scott “Doc” Horowitz, Nasa’s associate administrator for exploration, said.
The agency’s deputy head, Shana Dale, is quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying that the “fundamental lunar approach” will be very different to earlier Moon missions
Nasa has elected to build a lunar outpost rather than operate brief trips to the satellite as it did in the 1960s.
Nasa is also expected to ask other countries – and businesses – to help it build the base.
The permanent base will be built near one of the two poles, as these are felt to have a moderate climate and more sunlight – essential if the base is to use solar energy.
“It’s exciting,” Shana Dale told the Reuters news agency. “We don’t know as much about the polar regions.”
According to Reuters, funds for building the lunar base will be diverted from the space shuttle programme, which is to be phased out by 2010.
After the Columbia space shuttle accident, US President George W Bush announced plans to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020.
Nasa announced in August that the Lockheed Martin Corporation will build the next US spaceship to take humans to the Moon.

Blog:Attack on Baghdad as Biden visits

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Several mortars or rockets have been fired into the fortified Green Zone of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.
The attacks took place while United States Vice-President Joe Biden was visiting the city.
The mortars or rockets landed near the US embassy. There was no immediate word on casualties, and Mr Biden’s exact whereabouts were not known.
He had arrived earlier on a visit aimed at reducing tensions between Kurdish, Shia and Sunni Arab communities.
The attack came after the senior American commander in Iraq had told the BBC that he was concerned that Iraq will be forgotten amid the current focus on Afghanistan.
Gen Ray Odierno suggested there was always a risk that the security situation in Iraq could deteriorate and said he wanted to finish what had been started.
The US has 130,000 troops in Iraq, almost twice the number in Afghanistan.
The US troop count is due to drop quickly to about 50,000 by this time next year.

Blog:UK army ‘rotten’, Iraq probe told

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British soldiers who abused an Iraqi detainee who died in their custody were not just “a few bad apples”, a public inquiry has been told.
There was “something rotten in the whole barrel”, Rabinder Singh QC said.
Troops in Iraq routinely used banned interrogation methods they did not think were illegal, lawyers told the inquiry into the 2003 death.
The inquiry, led by Sir William Gage, is focusing on Baha Mousa’s death, detainees’ treatment and army methods.
Mr Singh, counsel for Mr Mousa’s family and the other Iraqis detained alongside him, said: “This case is not just about beatings or a few bad apples.
“There is something rotten in the whole barrel.”
His comments came as legal teams for key parties were allowed to read statements to the inquiry.
It has already heard of the abuse Mr Mousa and his fellow detainees suffered.
A short video showing Cpl Donald Payne shouting obscenities at the hooded Iraqi prisoners calling them “apes” has also been played.
In 2007, Cpl Payne was jailed for a year and dismissed from the Army after being convicted of war crimes charges related to the death.
On Monday, Mr Singh told the inquiry: “The official version of events was that nothing on that video was in fact illegal

Blog: Ugg Amelie Suede

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