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Kidney disease: A possibility overlooked
By Jatal D. Mannapperuma Kidney disease in the dry zone has become the subject of renewed discussion after the submission of the final report by the World Health Organisation. The key findings of this report identify long-term exposure to arsenic and cadmium as the cause of the disease. It rules out drinking water as the [...]
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When writing works at the pace of walking
Sean Borodale, who was in Sri Lanka recently for Colomboscope, is a poet and artist; his debut collection was published by Jonathan Cape last year and has gone on to be shortlisted for the T S Eliot and the Costa Book Awards. He was made a Granta New Poet in 2012. He studied at The [...]
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Evacuation warnings, missile fears stoke N. Korea crisis
SEOUL, April 6 (AFP) -Foreign diplomats in Pyongyang were considering a North Korean evacuation advisory Saturday as concerns grew that the isolated state was preparing a missile launch at a time of soaring nuclear tensions. Bulgaria said the heads of EU missions would meet to hammer out a common position after Pyongyang warned embassies it could [...]
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No deal in sight on final day of Iran nuclear talks
ALMATY, April 6 (Reuters) – World powers and Iran began the second day of nuclear talks today with little hope of striking a breakthrough deal in the decade-old dispute that threatens to erupt into a new Middle East war. Negotiators failed to narrow their differences when the two-day meeting began on Friday, which followed a round [...]
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Pakistan’s top court to hear Musharraf treason petition
ISLAMABAD, April 5 (AFP) -Pakistan’s top court will on Monday hear a petition asking for Pervez Musharraf to be put on trial for treason, the latest in a barrage of challenges to his bid for election, officials said. Taufiq Asif, president of the Rawalpindi high court bar association, told AFP that he had asked the Supreme [...]
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Death toll rises to 72 in Mumbai building collapse
MUMBAI, April 6 (Reuters) – The death toll from a collapsed building in India’s financial centre Mumbai rose to 72 on Saturday, as an injured woman trapped for 36 hours was freed from the rubble of the illegal and half-constructed building. Rescue workers using cranes and bulldozers continued to search through the wreck of twisted steel [...]
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Mass leaks ‘reveal secret world of tax havens’for the super rich
LONDON (AFP) – Millions of emails and leaked records from offshore tax havens have exposed the identities of thousands of holders of offshore accounts, including the family of the president of Azerbaijan and French President Francois Hollande’s one-time campaign treasurer, the Guardian and Le Monde newspapers reported on Thursday. The alleged involvement of Jean-Jacques Augier [...]
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Arab women film-makers in spotlight
By Emma Jones It’s an event dedicated to women in film – and this year the Birds Eye View Film Festival in London focuses only on features made by Arab female directors. The reason for this, according to its programme director Elhum Shakerifar, is that their work is currently on a size and scale unmatched elsewhere. [...]
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Wanted, wife for tycoon: Must not have fat bottom
Indian multi-millionaire, Dinshah Vimadalal, 69, takes out £15,000 ad for new wife who must be under 40, childless and not a vegetarian By David Gardner After years of fruitless searching for love, retired multi-millionaire Dinshah Vimadalal decided drastic action was needed. The 69-year-old travel agency tycoon splashed out £15,000 on a full-page advertisement in The [...]
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China readies to fight new bird flu
BEIJING (Reuters) – The death toll from a new strain of bird flu rose to five in China on Thursday as Beijing said it was mobilizing resources nationwide to combat the virus, Japan and Hong Kong stepped up vigilance and Vietnam banned imports of Chinese poultry. The H7N9 bird flu strain does not appear to [...]
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Desmond Tutu wins $1.7 million Templeton Prize
LONDON (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth $1.7 million for helping inspire people around the world by promoting forgiveness and justice, organizers said on Thursday. A leading human rights activist of the late 20th century, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town played a pivotal role in [...]
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Saudi court said to order criminal to be surgically paralyzed
DUBAI (Reuters) – Amnesty International has condemned a reported Saudi Arabian court ruling that a young man should be paralyzed as punishment for a crime he committed 10 years ago which resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair. The London-based human rights group said Ali al-Khawaher, 24, was reported to have spent 10 years [...]
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McDonald’s demands a bachelor’s degree – just to be a cashier
By Helene Pow It used to be high school drop outs flipping burgers at McDonald’s, now the fast-food joint is demanding a bachelors degree. In a frightening example of how competitive the job market is for young people right now, a McDonald’s outpost in Winchedon, Massachusetts, has just posted a call-out for a full time cashier [...]
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Obama’s zombie prison: Gitmo is worse than Alcatraz
By Naomi Wolf NEW YORK – Why add to something that is not supposed to exist? The something in question is the Unites States’ prison in Guantánamo Bay, for which the Pentagon recently requested $49 million in extra funding. Despite Barack Obama’s promise in 2009 – one of his first as President – to shut [...]
