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Tuesday 22 July 2014
Israel attacks Al-Jazeera office in Gaza
Israel attacks Al-Jazeera office in Gaza
BEIRUT: The offices of Al-Jazeera in Gaza came under Israeli attack Tuesday, according to a reporter from the station, who said the attack came from either shelling or a helicopter gunship.
Al-Jazeera reporter Wael Dahdouh said that the channel’s office was evacuated after being attacked by what he described as intentional, heavy Israeli gunfire.
The Israeli army confirmed the attack, according to Al-Jazeera, calling it “warning gunfire.”
Dahdouh denied that they were warning shots, saying that the glass of their 11th floor office was shattered, while an American news agency next door was untouched.
The attack came after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Leiberman called for the cessation of the Al-Jazeera coverage in Israel, due to the support that its owner, the state of Qatar, has provided for “terrorism.”
Airlines suspend Israel flights over missile fears
Airlines suspend Israel flights over missile fears
FAA places 24-hour ban on U.S. flights to Israel; many European airlines also suspend flights; sirens sound in south and central Israel, West Bank; EU calls for disarmament of Hamas, all terror groups in Gaza; UN chief urges Israel to exercise restraint; more than 600 Palestinians reported dead, 27 today.
95 kids confirmed killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, investigating 65 other cases s on Gaza, investigating 65 other cases
95 kids confirmed killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, investigating 65 other cases s on Gaza, investigating 65 other cases
Gaza conflict: Egypt may tweak truce deal as Hamas, Israel stick to positions
Gaza conflict: Egypt may tweak truce deal as Hamas, Israel stick to
positions
Egypt might be willing to amend its truce initiative to end the fighting in
Gaza in order to accommodate the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, which had
rejected its terms, three Egyptian officials told Reuters.
"Egypt does not mind adding some of Hamas' conditions provided that
all involved parties approve," one senior Egyptian official said, without
giving details.
Among Hamas's conditions are the lifting of the Israeli and Egyptian
blockade on Gaza and the release of several hundred Palestinians arrested by
Israel last month during its search for three Jewish teenagers abducted in the
occupied West Bank. The trio were later found dead in a killing Israel blamed
on Hamas.
Egyptian officials suspect Hamas rejected the ceasefire plan at the urging
of Qatar, a strategic player in reaching an effective deal as host to a large
number of exiled Islamists from across the Middle East, including Hamas leader
Khaled Meshaal.
The possibility of a truce amendment emerges after the top Hamas leader in
the Gaza Strip signalled Monday that the Islamic militant group will not agree
to an unconditional ceasefire with Israel, while Israel's defence minister
pledged to keep fighting "as long as necessary" — raising new doubt
about the highest-level mediation mission in two weeks.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had arrived in
Cairo to try to renew ceasefire efforts aimed at ending the Israel-Hamas
fighting that has killed at least 530 Palestinians and 20 Israelis and
displaced tens of thousands of Gazans in the past two weeks.
The U.S. is also sending $47 million in humanitarian aid to the besieged
Gaza Strip to help tens of thousands of Palestinians there who have been forced
from their homes since war broke out two weeks ago.
A State Department breakdown of the aid that was released Monday said
nearly a third of the money — $15 million — will go to the United Nations'
refugee mission in Gaza.
Despite the new diplomatic push, Israel continued to attack targets in the
densely populated coastal strip from the air and from tanks, while Hamas fired
more rockets and tried to infiltrate into Israel.
Seven Israeli soldiers were killed during clashes with Palestinian
militants, the Israeli military said, lifting the army death toll to 25 — more
than twice as many as in Israel's last Gaza ground war in 2009.
Local media had said there were a number of casualties when Palestinian
fighters slipped under the Gaza border earlier in the day via a hidden tunnel.
Two civilians have also died in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli cities.
Earlier on Monday, Israeli tank shells struck a hospital in the Gaza Strip,
killing four people and wounding 60, Palestinian officials said.
A dozen shells hit the Al Aqsa hospital in the town of Deir el-Balah on Monday,
said Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra. He said four people were
killed and 60 wounded when the shells landed in the administration building,
the intensive care unit and the surgery department.
Live video on Hamas's Al Aqsa TV station showed wounded being moved on
gurneys into the emergency department.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the report.
In one of several airstrikes, 25 people were buried under the rubble of a
home in the southern town of Khan Younis, including 24 from the same family.
Rescue workers pulled the bodies from the wreckage Monday.
No time limit to Gaza operation
"Twenty-five people!" said family member Sabri Abu Jamea.
"Doesn't this indicate that Israel is ruthless? Are we the liars? The
evidence is here in the morgue refrigerators. The evidence is in the
refrigerators."
Another Israeli airstrike hit the home of the Siyam family in southern
Gaza, near the town of Rafah, said the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. The
strike killed 10 people, including four young children and a nine-month-old
baby girl, al-Kidra said.
Hamas militants, meanwhile, tried to sneak into Israel through two tunnels,
the latest in a series of such attempts. The Israeli military said 10
infiltrators were killed after being detected and targeted by Israeli aircraft.
Hamas also fired 50 more rockets at Israel, including two at Tel Aviv,
causing no injuries or damage. Since the start of the Israeli operation, Hamas
has fired almost 2,000 rockets at Israel.
"The tank fire and the artillery fire is near constant," CBC News
correspondent Paul Hunter reported today from Erez, Israel, near the northern
border with Gaza. Erez is where the tunnels Hamas was using exited into Israel.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, speaking by phone from
London, told reporters today that Hamas can stop the shelling right now by
agreeing to a ceasefire proposal advanced by Egypt and agreed to by Israel.
"I think you can just conclude there's one group that is fully and
entirely responsible for this tragedy, and it is Hamas," he said.
"They're responsible, and they can stop this at any moment."
Hamas wants easing of border blockade
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said the Gaza military operation
would have no time limit.
"If needed we will recruit more reservists in order to continue the
operation as long as necessary until the completion of the task and the return
of the quiet in the whole of Israel especially from the threat of the Gaza
Strip," Yaalon told a parliamentary committee.
ANALYSIS | Hamas out of money, supplies, so why is it shooting at Israel?
Israel accepted an Egyptian call for an unconditional ceasefire last week,
but resumed its offensive after Hamas rejected the proposal.
Ban and Kerry were in Egypt to try to salvage that ceasefire proposal.
Hamas, with some support from Qatar and Turkey, wants guarantees that
Israel and Egypt will significantly ease a seven-year border blockade of Gaza
before halting fire.
"The resistance [Hamas] will not respond to any pressure," Hamas
spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a text message, in a reference to the renewed
ceasefire efforts.
Hamas remains deeply suspicious of the motives of the Egyptian government,
which banned the Hamas-friendly Muslim Brotherhood a year ago and tightened
restrictions on Gaza — to the point of driving Hamas into its worst financial
crisis since its founding in 1987.
When asked about such conditions, Ban told reporters Monday in Cairo that
"the best way at this time is to stop the violence and return to dialogue
and address the root causes of the problems."
"I am asking again without any condition, they must stop," he
said. "I know that this proposal by Egyptian government ... has been
rejected because of certain conditions. If they really want to discuss all
these conditions, they will take a very long time."
Deadliest single day
Sunday marked the single deadliest day in Gaza since the conflict erupted
on July 8, with more than 100 Palestinians killed, according to Palestinian
health officials. Most died in the first major ground battle of the conflict,
in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighbourhood, which Israel says is a major source for
rocket fire against its civilians.
In response to the escalation, the UN Security Council expressed
"serious concern" about the rising civilian death toll and demanded
an immediate end to the fighting.
On Sunday afternoon, rescue workers making a last sweep through Shijaiyah
had heard the voice of a woman under the rubble, pleading for help.
The team left because it deemed the situation too dangerous, but returned
later Sunday with a bulldozer to rescue the three people trapped underneath.
Seven-year-old Bissam Dhaher, her face bruised and bandaged, was recovering
Monday at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. Relatives watched over her as the girl
slept. Her uncle remained hospitalized, while an aunt — the one who had called
out for help — was released, relatives said.
On Sunday evening, Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri in Gaza claimed his
group had captured an Israeli soldier. An announcement on Gaza TV of the
soldier's capture set off celebration in the streets of West Bank.
But there was no official confirmation or denial of the claim in Israel.
For Israelis, a captured soldier would be a nightmare scenario.
Hamas-allied militants seized an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid in 2006
and held him captive in Gaza until Israel traded more than 1,000 Palestinian
prisoners, some of whom were involved in grisly killings, for his return in
2011.
Monday 21 July 2014
Autism risk is 'mostly genetic,' according to statistical analysis
Autism risk is 'mostly genetic,' according to statistical analysis
Autism is widely believed to be caused by an interplay of genetics and other factors. However, scientists have not reached a consensus on how much of an influence genes have on autism risk.
"We show very clearly that inherited common variants comprise the bulk of the risk that sets up susceptibility to autism," say the researchers.
Recent evidence has suggested that the genomes of people who have autism are more likely to include de novo mutations - rare and spontaneous mutations with significant effects that are thought to account for particular cases of autism.
"Many people have been focusing on de novo mutations, such as the ones that can occur in the sperm of an older father," explains Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhD, the study's lead investigator and director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment and professor of psychiatry,neuroscience and genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
"While we find these mutations are also key contributors, it is important to know that there is underlying risk in the family genetic architecture itself."
By conducting a "rigorous analysis" of DNA sequence variations as part of the Population-Based Autism Genetics and Environment Study (PAGES) Consortium, Dr. Buxbaum's team found that about 52.4% of autism cases can be traced back to both common and rare inherited variations. By contrast, spontaneous mutations were found to account for just 2.6% of total autism risk.
"We show very clearly that inherited common variants comprise the bulk of the risk that sets up susceptibility to autism," Dr. Buxbaum says. "But while families can be genetically loaded for autism risk, it may take additional rare genetic factors to actually produce the disorder in a particular family member."
The study used data from Sweden's universal health registry to compare about 3,000 participants, including autistic subjects and a control group. The researchers say that PAGES is the largest study of its kind to date.
New statistical methods promise 'more reliable results'
Limitations in sample size have previously made it difficult to ascertain the relative influence of common, rare inherited and rare spontaneous variations. Differences in the statistical models and methods used across studies have also presented challenges in obtaining a consensus view, with estimates of autism heritability varying from 17-50%.
In PAGES, new statistical methods - such as "machine learning techniques and dimension reduction tools" - were deployed, which the researchers claim allowed a more reliable method for assessing heritability.
The researchers were also able to access data from a parallel study of Swedish families that looked at twins, cousins, age of the father at birth and the psychiatric history of the parents.
Thomas Lehner, chief of the National Institute of Mental Health's Genomics Research Branch, says:
"This is a different kind of analysis than employed in previous studies. Data from genome-wide association studies was used to identify a genetic model instead of focusing just on pinpointing genetic risk factors. The researchers were able to pick from all of the cases of illness within a population-based registry."
Last month, Medical News Today reported on a study that suggested exposure to pesticides during pregnancy increases risk of the child developing autism.
Written by David McNamee
Simulated human heart used to test drugs' effects
Simulated human heart used to test drugs' effects
Dr. Helen Maddock, from the Centre for Applied Biological and Exercise Sciences at Coventry University, is an expert in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. She believes her new technique could improve the quality of treatment and save hundreds of patients' lives.
It works by using an in vitro technique - meaning "in glass," as it is carried out in a lab environment rather than in a living organism. Dr. Maddock uses a sample of heart tissue attached to a rig that enables the muscle to lengthen and shorten while being stimulated by an electrical impulse.
This action imitates the biomechanical performance of cardiac muscle, she explains.
Next, scientists can add trial drugs to the tissue in order to conclude whether or not they have a negative effect on the contraction of the muscles in the heart. Previously, researchers could only perform such a test on living animals, often with inconclusive results.
Because a major reason for why many medical treatments fail is negative effects of the drugs on the cardiovascular system, Dr. Maddock's technique could revolutionize the way drugs are tested before they even reach animal or human trials.
'Potential to shave years off development of successful drugs'
Her technique, called a "simulated" cardiovascular system and also known as a work-loop assay, is the most realistic heart muscle dynamic model in the world at present, one that creates the possibility of determining the negative effects of certain drugs early and without great cost.
In addition to saving lives, it could expedite development of drug treatments that work without major cardiovascular side effects.
"I'm delighted that our research is at a stage where we can confidently say the work-loop assay we've created is the world's only clinically relevant in vitro human model of cardiac contractility," says Dr. Maddock. "It has the potential to shave years off the development of successful drugs for a range of treatments."
To implement her technique in the pharma industry, she formed a spin-out company from Coventry University called InoCardia Ltd, which has already received a £250,000 ($427,000) investment from Mercia Fund Management, a UK-based technology firm.
Dr. Maddock adds:"Both the pharma industry and regulators recognize that existing methods of assessing the contractility of the heart are fraught with problems, so we're incredibly excited to be able to introduce a new way to accurately determine the safety of drugs in respect of the heart without the need to test on humans or animals."
She and her company are currently in discussions with a multinational biopharmaceutical company regarding applying her assay in industry.
Recently, Medical News Today reported on a gene transplant procedure that transforms heart cells into a biological pacemaker that regulates the heart's beating. The procedure could mean heart patients no longer need to have an implanted pacemaker, which carries certain side effects, such as infection of the leads connecting the pacemaker to the heart.
Written by Marie Ellis
NA committee oppose ban on alcohol sale to non-Muslims
NA committee oppose ban on alcohol sale to non-Muslims
ISLAMABAD: The National assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights on Monday opposed a proposal to withdraw an exemption allowing the drinking of alcohol by non-Muslims in Pakistan.
This was decided in the meeting of the committee which met under the chairmanship of MNA Mamhood Bashir Virk and was attended by its members along with officials of the ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights.
JUI-F MNA Maulana Mohammad Shirani said that parliament should impose a ban on the drinking of alcohol by non-Muslims and that such an exemption provided in the law should be withdrawn.
An official of the ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights told committee members that it was written in the Constitution that there will be no restriction on the drinking of alcohol by non-Muslims and that it is also part of the Hudood Ordinance.
Members of the committee showed their concerns on the move of Maulana Mohammad Shirani regarding the proposed ban.
Committee Chairman Mahmood Bashir Virk said that the government should first make efforts to control alcohol drinking by Muslims.
“The world already considers Pakistani as a conservative nation,” Virk said.
Committee members stated that such a move would create a bad image of Pakistan in the world.
Members of the committee voiced their opposition to the proposed amendment in the law.
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