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December 31, 2009

DNA tests as Argentina seeks children of ‘disappeared’

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An Argentine judge has ordered the heirs to a powerful media empire to take DNA tests to establish if they are victims of a forced adoption scheme.
Under the country’s former regime, babies were often given to families considered loyal to the military.
Rights groups believe the two children of media mogul Ernestina Herrera de Noble were taken from political prisoners who gave birth in custody.
Felipe and Marcela were adopted by Ms Herrera de Noble in 1976.
They both gave their blood samples at a federal forensics agency, their lawyer said.
They made no comment after giving the sample, but a spokesperson said the family had nothing to hide.
The move to take the sample at the agency rather than the state-run National Bank of Genetic Data – which holds DNA samples of families of the disappeared – has angered campaign groups.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group, which seeks to find some 500 children born to prisoners or abducted along with their parents during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, has demanded that the DNA be collected at the data bank.
The group’s founder, Estela de Carlotto, said on Tuesday that the tests would not be valid and said they would take further legal action to ensure a fully independent investigation.
Last month, the Congress backed a proposal from the group, allowing the forced extraction of DNA from adults who may be the children of political prisoners – even when they do not want to know.

Somali pirates hijack UK tanker in Gulf of Aden

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Somali pirates have announced a tanker for chemicals in the United Kingdom, kidnapped in the Gulf of Aden, officials said.
St James Park was arrested on Monday, when traveling in Thailand, Spain, said the program helps sailors in Kenya.
The 26 crew members come from Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Georgia, India, Turkey and the Philippines.
Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia and the international teams have been frequently used for the fight.
St James Park has an emergency call Monday evening, said he had issued had been attacked by hackers, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
Make the tanker with a cargo of chemicals for the manufacture of plastics, had changed course and led in the direction of the northern coast of Somalia, said Andrew Mwangura Assistance Program for seafarers.
It is expected to arrive later, said Mwangura told AFP news agency.
The waters around Somalia are among the most dangerous in the world.
Correspondents say the rise in piracy in the region is a consequence of the impossibility of a solution to the political turmoil in Somalia will continue.

Papers reveal Britain’s anxiety over Iranian Shah

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Britain despatched an undercover diplomat on a covert mission to the Bahamas to convince the deposed Shah of Iran not to seek to settle in the UK.
The revelation comes in official archive documents made public 30 years after they were written.
The 1979 papers reveal that the British government was very concerned that Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, then in exile, would seek to live in England.
But Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was upset she could not help the Shah.
Mrs Thatcher told her foreign minister she was “deeply unhappy” not to be able to offer refuge to the Shah whom she said had been a “firm and helpful friend to the UK”.
She somewhat unwillingly accepted the advice of the foreign office that to allow the Shah to settle on his estate in the countryside just outside London would generate security problems and put the staff at the British embassy in Tehran at risk.
Prime Minister James Callaghan and officials had already made the decision not to welcome the Shah before Mrs Thatcher won the 1979 election.
The archives reveal that Mr Callaghan wrote: “He is an immensely controversial figure in Iran and we must consider our future with that country. He will need to make interim arrangements”.
A retired former ambassador to Iran was chosen to travel to the Bahamas, where the Shah had taken up residence at the Ocean Club to pass on the message.
Sir Denis Wright travelled to Paradise Island and, disguised as an old friend, succeeded in passing on the British government’s message, though the details of the meeting itself are considered too sensitive to be made public.
Several months after the Shah arrived in the US for cancer treatment in late 1979, students took 63 hostages at the US embassy demanding that he be returned to the country to stand trial.
The Shah never returned to Iran. He died in exile in Egypt in 1980.

Singer Van Morrison becomes father again at 64

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Acclaimed Belfast singer Van Morrison is a father again at age 64.
A statement on the website of the singer announced the birth of George Ivan Morrison III, the musician and Gigi Lee, who controls.
He described the recent Morrison, was born Tuesday, as cut from the face of his father.
It has taken a dual citizenship, Northern Ireland v United Kingdom and the United States, the statement said.
A spokesman said the increase in torque, Morrison kept secret.
Van Morrison, whose career includes 45 years of soul, blues, jazz, R & B and country, is 39 years old daughter, singer-songwriter Shana Morrison, the first wife, Janet Minto.
Was induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, but did not attend the ceremony.
Van Morrison was born in 1945 in Bloomfield, east Belfast, the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard worker and Violet Stitt Morrison.
He began his career as a teenager in the 1950s, playing in several different areas of Ireland show focusing on popular hits of the day.
The singer rose to the fore in the 1960s as lead singer of Gritty Northern Ireland R & B band Them, in which Classics GarageBand, Gloria.
Solo career began in the pop-hit-oriented direction of Bert Berns, with the release of the hit Brown Eyed Girl in 1967.
After the death of Berns, the Warner Bros Records bought his contract and let him take several sessions to Astral Weeks in 1968.
Even if this album out praise Garner will be high, was initially welcomed, but the next, Moondance , established Morrison as a major artist, and in the 1970s, he built his reputation with a series of known Album critically and live performances.
Was induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, but did not attend the ceremony.
In 2008, he joined Astral Weeks live for the first time since 1968.

Deadly double blast hits street in Iraq city of Ramadi

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At least 23 people have died in two suicide bombs in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, with conflicting reports about the provincial governor’s fate.
Police and state TV said Anbar Governor Qassim Mohammed was dead, although his deputy said he had only been wounded.
The attacks struck in quick succession in the same street in the provincial capital.
Analysts have blamed recent attacks in Iraq on al-Qaeda trying to destabilise the country ahead of March elections.
The bombers are reported to have exploded their devices after driving what appeared to be official vehicles in to Ramadi’s green zone, where government buildings are located under heavy protection.
The first bomb went off near the entrance to the provincial council.
A short time later the second bomb was detonated at the other end of the same street.
The governor was said to have been injured when the second attacker struck after he came out of his office to inspect damage from the initial blast.
The BBC’s Jim Muir in Baghdad says that while Anbar has been generally quiet, the number of attacks has been rising in recent months, a worrying development in advance of March’s general elections.
It was the heart of Iraq’s Sunni Islamist insurgency following the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but became relatively secure after local tribal leaders turned against al-Qaeda in 2006.

December 30, 2009

South Korea awarded UAE nuclear power contract

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A South Korean consortium to build an order worth around 40 billion U.S. dollars (25 billion euros) to four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates.
The group, led by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), has beat a Japanese-American businesses and French.
South Korean officials have said the case was the largest contract ever to win the only country abroad.
Although the third-largest oil exporter in the world, said the United Arab Emirates, that only nuclear energy can meet its energy needs.
Nuclear reactors will be operational around 2020, the demand for electricity should be in the UAE more than doubled. The first is for the supply of power in 2017.
How KEPCO, the winning consortium include Samsung, Hyundai and Doosan Heavy Industries and the American firm Westinghouse and Toshiba, Japan.
The office of South Korean President has described the agreement as the largest mega-project in the history of Korea.
It is also the first time the country exported a nuclear power plant by Associated Press news agency.
South Korea’s first nuclear power in 1978 and now has 20 operating nuclear reactors.

Oil price goes above $78 a barrel

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Oil prices rose above $ 78 per barrel, reaching its highest level in almost a month.
In London morning trading, U.S. light crude for delivery February at 30 cents closing figure on Christmas Eve for $ 78.35 per barrel.
Brent by 40 cents to $ 76.71 per barrel.
Prices rose on hopes that the figures will be published later this week shows shares falling in the United States.
This shows that demand is growing, and the sign of an improving U.S. economy.
Some market participants expect a good price of U.S. crude oil more than $ 80 per barrel by the end of the year.
On Thursday of last week, the benchmark crude oil rose $ 1.38 to settle at $ 78.05. Oil markets were closed Monday for Christmas.
Inventory data from the Energy Information Administration to decide this week whether the oil price in late May of this year, about $ 80 per barrel, according to Clarence Chu, a trader at Hudson Capital Energy in Singapore.
The government said last week that crude stocks, at five million barrels, and if stocks continue to decline – suggests that demand has improved – is an increase in oil prices.
The best employment figures in the U.S. last week, also helped to raise the hopes for an economic recovery and the expectations of a stronger private consumption.

Boxing Day sales attract ‘record’ number of shoppers

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Boxing Day sales has attracted more buyers since records began, according to retail analysts.
Are believed up to 12 million people around in search of bargains around 24 hours have been after Christmas.
The total number of customers by almost 20% from the day after Christmas in 2008 has increased, said Experian.
The increase is due to the chase back to the front before the VAT rate to 17.5% on 1st trading January and the fact the day after Christmas falls on a weekend.
BBC Nick Cosgrove, said: The rush to the shops at the weekend was remarkable.
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced that VAT would be 15% in its previous report on the budget reduction last year in an attempt to encourage consumers to spend more and boost the economy.
In a recent survey for the BBC’s piggy bank, 27% of respondents said they would on behalf of their expenses before taxes on sales to forward back to 17.5% respectively.
The increase in VAT will have the greatest impact on sales of expensive items such as furniture and are looking for so-called white goods like refrigerators and washing machines, the people for the best material.
A spokesman for the consulting firm Planet Retail, said: The cold weather did not spend a lot of people just before Christmas money.
People in the adjustable mortgages are still very rich in species, and now: We still want to make the sales tax increase, especially on expensive items like TVs and white goods.

Heart study targets immune cells in the arteries

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Scientists try to treat the harmful immune cells in the arteries that many heart attacks are suspected of developing target.
It is two decades since the founding of the patient’s immune system can lead to inflammation in the arteries that leads to an attack.
But this knowledge-based treatments have been ineffective.
The Bristol Heart Institute, says it could be because the drugs kill aid and harmful cells.
With the support of the British Heart Foundation who are trying to choose a treatment that specifically with the immune cells that most want to harm develop.
It is assumed that through the arteries by plaque deposits of fat that accumulates will be attracted here.
This can cause the artery becomes inflamed and damaged the wall.
The plaques may rupture, reducing the formation of a blood clot, which can cause a heart attack.
This research in May, new ways to protect fat stores by selectively damaging immune cells are stable, maintaining their activity helps, says Professor Andrew Newby, who will lead 750,000 survey.
This discovery will help to pave the way for new therapies for the prevention of heart attacks, the thousands of lives could be saved per year. Researchers at Bristol is a team of experts from France, Sweden and the Netherlands to test the efficacy of the combination of conventional medicine and new therapies to reduce the immune response in the arteries of patients with heart disease who are at risk of heart attacks, too .
The work was for the research at Imperial College London, where scientists conducted recently based a molecule that has been the mode of immune cells attack identifies changes in the arteries.
More than 300 people die of a heart attack every day, and it seems, brings a climax on Christmas and New Year – perhaps, he speculates, because of the rich food, alcohol, and the fear of party season.

India ’sex scandal’ governor resigns and goes to Delhi

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The commander of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is the capital of New Delhi after his resignation following a sex scandal behind.
ND Torres, who was also a prominent member of the Congress Party, according to a regional station aired footage of what supposedly in bed with three women.
Mr. Torres office denied the claim that the video had been tampered with.
The 86-year-old Mr. Torres has been a federal minister in previous governments.
It was in health reasons on Saturday night, his office said.
Opposition parties and human rights groups of women in the capital of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, since the material is supposed to show, Mr. Torres was broadcast on the bed with three women complained.
The channel said that women in Mr. Torres from a woman who allegedly had been promised mining concession of the former governor did.
The channel said the woman had decided to expose Mr. Torres, as they have not fulfilled their promise.
This is the news channel, false and malicious, could harm the image of the captain, said a statement issued by the adviser to the commander.
Mr. Torres resignation comes at a time, Gujarat, protests the decision by the federal government, shaken to allow a new situation in the region of Telangana.
An estimated 35 million people live in the new state.
Mr. Torres is a high-level policy of the Congress Party and has served as head of government of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the northern states and served as a minister.

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