Friday, August 12, 2011
Estonian gunman kills himself
TALLINN, Estonia: A gunman who took hostages at the Estonian defence ministry killed himself and the two hostages escaped unharmed as police intervened on Thursday, a police spokesman said. Spokesman Mihkel Loide told the local Delfi news agency that the gunman shot himself while hostages escaped unscathed during the police operation.
DPRK considers ‘US reunions’
SEOUL: North Korea said on Thursday it would consider holding talks on temporary reunions between Korean-Americans and their relatives living in the isolated communist state.
Egypt to end ‘emergency’
CAIRO: Egypt has begun procedures to end the country’s three-decade old state of emergency, the government said on Thursday, a key demand of the protesters who toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.
Leukaemia cure
NEW YORK: Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukaemia — turning the patients’ own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells. They’ve only done it in three patients so far, but the results were striking: Two appear cancer-free up to a year after treatment, and the third patient is improved but still has some cancer. Scientists are already preparing to try the same gene therapy technique for other kinds of cancer. “It worked great. We were surprised it worked as well as it did,” said Dr. Carl June, a gene therapy expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aung Suu Kyi
YANGON: Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is to hold a second round of talks with the country’s nominally-civilian government, her spokesman said on Thursday, amid tentative signs of a thaw in relations.
Ivorian forces
ABIDJAN: Ivorian forces have carried out 26 extrajudicial killings in the past month, the UN mission said on Thursday, a revelation likely to increase pressure on President Alassane Ouattara to discipline his troops and bring some commanders to justice.
Swedish police
STOCKHOLM: Stockholm police stormed the Libyan embassy on Thursday and arrested seven people who had broken in and appeared likely to try to kill themselves or set fire to the building, police said.
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Estonian gunman kills himself
TALLINN, Estonia: A gunman who took hostages at the Estonian defence ministry killed himself and the two hostages escaped unharmed as police intervened on Thursday, a police spokesman said. Spokesman Mihkel Loide told the local Delfi news agency that the gunman shot himself while hostages escaped unscathed during the police operation.
DPRK considers ‘US reunions’
SEOUL: North Korea said on Thursday it would consider holding talks on temporary reunions between Korean-Americans and their relatives living in the isolated communist state.
Egypt to end ‘emergency’
CAIRO: Egypt has begun procedures to end the country’s three-decade old state of emergency, the government said on Thursday, a key demand of the protesters who toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.
Leukaemia cure
NEW YORK: Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukaemia — turning the patients’ own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells. They’ve only done it in three patients so far, but the results were striking: Two appear cancer-free up to a year after treatment, and the third patient is improved but still has some cancer. Scientists are already preparing to try the same gene therapy technique for other kinds of cancer. “It worked great. We were surprised it worked as well as it did,” said Dr. Carl June, a gene therapy expert at the University of Pennsylvania.
Aung Suu Kyi
YANGON: Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is to hold a second round of talks with the country’s nominally-civilian government, her spokesman said on Thursday, amid tentative signs of a thaw in relations.
Ivorian forces
ABIDJAN: Ivorian forces have carried out 26 extrajudicial killings in the past month, the UN mission said on Thursday, a revelation likely to increase pressure on President Alassane Ouattara to discipline his troops and bring some commanders to justice.
Swedish police
STOCKHOLM: Stockholm police stormed the Libyan embassy on Thursday and arrested seven people who had broken in and appeared likely to try to kill themselves or set fire to the building, police said.
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