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MANAGUA: Cuba’s Vice President Esteban Lazo Hernandez said
Wednesday that the current world food crisis is essentially caused
by the unequal and unjust distribution of world health and the
unsustainable non-liberal model of economic development pursued by
some countries in the last 20 years. Lazo also said high oil prices,
the US war against Iraq, and the United States and European
Union’s use of grains and cereals for bioenergy production further
aggravated the problem.
-- Xinhua
SEOUL: South Korea on Thursday banned 21
Americans convicted of sex crimes against minors from entering the
country in the first such measure against foreign pedophiles, the
Justice Ministry said. The move came after the ministry received a
list of 21 names from US immigration authorities. “They have been
convicted of assaulting or having sex with minors aged under 14 in
the US, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and South
Korea,” Park Young Yoon, a prosecutor in charge of immigration at
the ministry, told journalists.
-- AFP
CANBERRA: A new report by the Cancer Institute
of New South Wales reveals that four standard alcoholic drinks per
day increases a man’s risk of developing bowel cancer by 64
percent. For women, just two standard drinks per day increases their
risk of developing breast cancer by up to 22 percent. For both men
and women, two standard drinks a day increase the risk of developing
mouth cancer by 75 percent.
-- Xinhua
PRISTINA: Kosovo leaders on Wednesday denied
claims that Kosovo Albanians abducted and killed hundreds of Serbs
and sold their organs near the end of the 1999 Kosovo war, which
were revealed in a recently published memoir by former UN war crimes
prosecutor, Carla del Ponte. Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu
described del Ponte’s claims as street defamation. “Kosovo
Liberation war was fair,” said Sejdiu.
-- Xinhua
BUENOS AIRES: The International Women’s Forum
(IWF) staged a seminar here Wednesday, bringing together about 500
influential women leaders from around the world to discuss such
issues as globalization and poverty eradication. The two-day
seminar, themed “Women in power: A new leadership,” was attended
by preeminent women from all walks of life.
-- AFP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday successfully
tested a ground-hugging cruise missile capable of carrying both
nuclear and conventional warheads, the military said. The Hatf-VIII
(Ra’ad) missile, developed exclusively for launch from the air,
has a range of 350 kilometers (217 miles), a statement said. “It
has enabled Pakistan to achieve a greater strategic stand-off
capability on land and at sea,” it said.
-- AFP
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