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04-21-2017, 11:31 AM
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Swedish HR group ho**urs China dissident book publisher
STOCKHOLM: Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born scholar and book publisher has been ho**ured by a Swedish press rights group for his struggle for freedom of speech in his native country. "Gui Minhai has stood up for press freedom and challenged the regime’s attempt to scare dissidents to silence," the club said on Wednesday. Called Publicistklubben in Swedish, the organisation says it safeguards freedom of speech and promotes debate. Each year, it bestows an award for reporters and publishers in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist. Minhai is a 52-year-old Swedish citizen and a Hong Kong publisher who wrote political gossip books about Chinese leaders often from the Chinese Communist Party.
Thieves grab $3.5m in brazen Japan mugging
TOKYO: Three masked robbers snatched a suitcase stuffed with millions of dollars in cash from a businessman who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in western Japan on Thursday, police said. In the audacious daylight mugging, assailants set upon the 29-year-old victim as he dragged the case containing $380 million yen ($3.5 million) across a parking lot in downtown Fukuoka, a police spokesman and local media said. He was sprayed in the face with what is thought to have been tear gas by the attackers, who made off in a car with the suitcase. Few other details were initially available. While Japan is still a cash-based society, it is unusual for someone to carry such a large sum, which would have weighed at least 84 pounds.
Berlin deports Serbian killer
WIESBADEN, Germany: Germany on Thursday deported to his native Serbia a man whose killing of a young Turkish-German woman sparked nationwide outrage. Student Tugce Albayrak was hailed as a heroine after she intervened to protect two 14-year-old girls in an altercation in a fast-food restaurant in **vember 2014. But her civic courage cost the 22-year-old her life when Serbian national Sanel Masovic slapped her to the ground in the restaurant carpark, causing severe head injuries. Albayrak died in a coma on her 23rd birthday, days after the attack. More than 1,000 mourners attended her funeral, amid a wave of sympathy for her. Masovic, 18 at the time of the attack, served two and a half years in jail for inflicting bodily harm with fatal consequences. On Thursday, he was deported to Serbia from Frankfurt airport, said the city administration of nearby Wiesbaden.
Iran spurns US
TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday criticised "worn-out" US accusations that it was seeking a nuclear ****** to threaten the region and the world. "Worn-out US accusations can’t mask its admission of Iran’s compliance" with a 2015 nuclear deal, Zarif wrote on Twitter. Iran says its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful purposes but signed a deal with world powers to restrict its fuel enrichment for 10 years in exchange for sanctions relief. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that Tehran has so far met its obligations, but that the deal could only delay Iran’s development of a nuclear ******. The deal "fails to achieve the objective of a **n-nuclear Iran," he said, and was a product of "the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from **rth Korea."
Epilepsy drug behind ‘birth defects’ in France
PARIS: The epilepsy medication valproate is responsible for "severe malformations" in 2,150 to 4,100 children in France since the drug was first marketed in the country in 1967, according to a preliminary study by French health authorities. Women who took the drug during pregnancy to treat epilepsy were four times more likely to give birth to babies with congenital malformations, said the report, jointly issued by the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) and the national health insurance administration. "The study confirms the highly teratogenic" -- that is, capable of causing birth defects --- "nature of valproate," said Mahmoud Zureik, scientific director of ANSM and a co-author of the report. The types of birth defects attributed to the drug included spina bifida -- a condition in which the spinal cord does **t form properly, and can protrude through the skin -- as well as defects of the heart and genital organs.
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Swedish HR group ho**urs China dissident book publisher
STOCKHOLM: Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born scholar and book publisher has been ho**ured by a Swedish press rights group for his struggle for freedom of speech in his native country. "Gui Minhai has stood up for press freedom and challenged the regime’s attempt to scare dissidents to silence," the club said on Wednesday. Called Publicistklubben in Swedish, the organisation says it safeguards freedom of speech and promotes debate. Each year, it bestows an award for reporters and publishers in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist. Minhai is a 52-year-old Swedish citizen and a Hong Kong publisher who wrote political gossip books about Chinese leaders often from the Chinese Communist Party.
Thieves grab $3.5m in brazen Japan mugging
TOKYO: Three masked robbers snatched a suitcase stuffed with millions of dollars in cash from a businessman who had just withdrawn the money from a bank in western Japan on Thursday, police said. In the audacious daylight mugging, assailants set upon the 29-year-old victim as he dragged the case containing $380 million yen ($3.5 million) across a parking lot in downtown Fukuoka, a police spokesman and local media said. He was sprayed in the face with what is thought to have been tear gas by the attackers, who made off in a car with the suitcase. Few other details were initially available. While Japan is still a cash-based society, it is unusual for someone to carry such a large sum, which would have weighed at least 84 pounds.
Berlin deports Serbian killer
WIESBADEN, Germany: Germany on Thursday deported to his native Serbia a man whose killing of a young Turkish-German woman sparked nationwide outrage. Student Tugce Albayrak was hailed as a heroine after she intervened to protect two 14-year-old girls in an altercation in a fast-food restaurant in **vember 2014. But her civic courage cost the 22-year-old her life when Serbian national Sanel Masovic slapped her to the ground in the restaurant carpark, causing severe head injuries. Albayrak died in a coma on her 23rd birthday, days after the attack. More than 1,000 mourners attended her funeral, amid a wave of sympathy for her. Masovic, 18 at the time of the attack, served two and a half years in jail for inflicting bodily harm with fatal consequences. On Thursday, he was deported to Serbia from Frankfurt airport, said the city administration of nearby Wiesbaden.
Iran spurns US
TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday criticised "worn-out" US accusations that it was seeking a nuclear ****** to threaten the region and the world. "Worn-out US accusations can’t mask its admission of Iran’s compliance" with a 2015 nuclear deal, Zarif wrote on Twitter. Iran says its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful purposes but signed a deal with world powers to restrict its fuel enrichment for 10 years in exchange for sanctions relief. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that Tehran has so far met its obligations, but that the deal could only delay Iran’s development of a nuclear ******. The deal "fails to achieve the objective of a **n-nuclear Iran," he said, and was a product of "the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from **rth Korea."
Epilepsy drug behind ‘birth defects’ in France
PARIS: The epilepsy medication valproate is responsible for "severe malformations" in 2,150 to 4,100 children in France since the drug was first marketed in the country in 1967, according to a preliminary study by French health authorities. Women who took the drug during pregnancy to treat epilepsy were four times more likely to give birth to babies with congenital malformations, said the report, jointly issued by the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) and the national health insurance administration. "The study confirms the highly teratogenic" -- that is, capable of causing birth defects --- "nature of valproate," said Mahmoud Zureik, scientific director of ANSM and a co-author of the report. The types of birth defects attributed to the drug included spina bifida -- a condition in which the spinal cord does **t form properly, and can protrude through the skin -- as well as defects of the heart and genital organs.
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