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‘UK Admin Panders to Alcohol Lobby’
Senior doctors have accused the UK Government of its supporting attitude towards the drinks industry after the health officials and ministers had 130 meetings with alcohol and supermarket lobbyists regarding the new price controls. The government justified the meetings as being entirely proper. In a letter, twenty one senior doctors and campaigners including Prof Sir Ian Gilmore, […]
Obesity: Campaign for sugar cut
Group of experts including doctors and scientists are launching a campaign against the excessive usage of sugar in food and drinks. The obesity experts behind the campaign named Action on Sugar will be demanding theUK government to cut the sugar content by up to 30%. According to the campaign members, the reduction of the sugar content […]
Iran set to resume nuclear talks in Geneva
Talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers will be resuming in Geneva on Thursday. The two day meeting between Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s negotiator, and Helga Schmid, representative of the P5+1 group in Tehran aims to activate the landmark deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif said on his […]
African migrants rally outside Israeli Parliament
It’s the fourth day of strike by the African migrants outside Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem with the protestors sticking to the demand of recognition as refugees and opposing the state policy of long-term detention. Micky Rosenfeld, Israel’s police spokesman told AFP news agency that Wednesday’s demonstration was “calm” with the number of protestors “more than […]
Camel Tracks Down His Master
A camel identified its previous owner during a parade in Saudi Arabia making its way among the cars as it recognized the owner’s voice and embraced him by wrapping its neck around the man and restfully closing its eyes .The Saudi owner Mohammed bin Shouishan al-Sabaii had sold the camel to Sheikh Abdelmohsen al-Rajehi seven […]
E-readers have appetite for Mein Kampf
Digital versions of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” top the e-book bestseller list. Author and journalist Chris Faraone says that the surge in the sales is due to the fact that the people can download the digital copies and read in the “privacy of their own ipads”. There are currently six e-book versions of “Mein Kampf” […]
French restaurant’s ‘no Pakistani’ rule lands chef in hot soup
With coarse-grained sausages, blood pudding and beverages on his menu, Philippe Lafforgue thought he had cooked up the perfect recipe for expats in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. But the Frenchman’s refusal to serve Pakistanis unless they were accompanied by a foreigner has landed him in the soup in this deeply conservative country home to some of […]
Palestinian Prisoner Smuggles Sperm Home; Wife Gives Birth
The wife of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israel jail delivered a baby boy on Friday from the sperm smuggled into Gaza, her family said. Hana Al Za’anin, wife of Tamer Al Za’anin told Reuters that she had been banned from visiting her husband who had been detained since 2006 due to undisclosed “security reasons”. […]
Amidst boycott and Clampdown, Polling Favours New Constitution
Over ninety percent of the Egyptian voters who participated in the constitutional poll voted for the new constitution, indicating positive results in the election for the army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, amidst mounting criticism that the poll was one-sided with the intense clampdown on the Brotherhood and the boycott of the poll declared by […]
Tomb of Pharaoh the stranger Discovered
The tomb of a pharaoh from 1650 B.C previously unknown was discovered at the Abydos archaeological site, near the southern city of Sohag about 500 kilometers south of Cairo. A team of archaeologists led by the University of Pennsylvania’s Josef Wegner stumbled upon the structure while excavating the adjacent tomb of an earlier pharaoh, King […]
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