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Australia gives green light for therapeutic cloning
CANBERRA - Thousands of Australians living with debilitating diseases have been given new hope of a cure, with federal parliament overturning the ban on therapeutic cloning. Liberal senator Kay Patterson's private member's bill will allow researchers to clone embryos using donor eggs and cells without sperm, and extract their stem cells for medical research. New Zealand Herald (12/7)
U.S. demands N.K. show 'good faith'
The United States has relayed to North Korea the need for "good-faith actions" in order to see significant progress during the next six-party talks, the U.S. State Department said yesterday. The same operating principle of good-faith actions in return for good-faith actions was really the underlying message that U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill had conveyed to North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-gwan, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at a daily press briefing in Washington. Korea Herald (12/7)
Pakistan rules out change on Kashmir
Pakistan on Wednesday said that there is no change in its position on the disputed region of Kashmir and denied remarks attributed to President General Pervez Musharraf in an interview with an Indian TV channel. The Indian NDTV channel on Tuesday quoted President Musharraf as suggesting "Pakistan would give up its claim over disputed Kashmir if India accepted his peace proposals." "The headlines in the media have been misleading. There is no change in Pakistan's position on Kashmir," the Pakistani foreign office spokesperson said in a statement. People's Daily On line/Xinhua (12/7)
U.S. Conservative Movement to ordain openly gay rabbis
By Reuters
Leaders of the Conservative Jewish movement opened the door on Wednesday to the ordination of gay rabbis and the recognition of gay marriage, but made it clear the more orthodox in the faith may go on opposing such liberalization. "We as a movement see the advocacy of pluralism and we know that people come to different conclusions," said Rabbi Kassel Abelson, speaking for the 25-member Rabbinical Assembly Committee on Jewish Law and Standards which issued a series of advisory reports. "These ... are accepted as guides so that the gays and lesbians can be welcomed into our congregation and communities and made to feel accepted," he added. Ha'aretz (12/7)
Algeria has no right to accept or reject Moroccan autonomy project, CORCAS chairman
Rabat, Dec. 6 - The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affaires (CORCAS), Khalihanna Ould Rachid said, here Wednesday, that Algeria, which claims not to be concerned by the Sahara conflict, "has no right to accept or reject the autonomy project," which Morocco proposes for the settlement of the Sahara issue. Speaking at a press conference at the end of the CORCAS last extraordinary meeting, held Monday and Tuesday in Rabat, he added that "Algeria has adopted a contradictory stance over the Sahara conflict." Maghreb Arab Presse (12/7)
Chinese anger at humiliation of prostitutes
A parade of prostitutes by police aimed at naming and shaming sex workers in southern China has sparked a backlash by an unusual coalition of lawyers, academics and the All-China Women's Federation. As part of a two-month crackdown on vice in the booming city of Shenzhen, public security officers hauled about 100 women and some of their male customers through the streets on November 29. Mail & Guardian (South Africa) (12/7)
War crimes tribunal orders force-feeding of Serbian warlord
Milosevic associate Seselj 'two weeks from dying'Ultra-nationalist's party likely to do well in polls Ian Traynor in ZagrebThe UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague last night ordered the force-feeding of a Serbian warlord and senior politician who has been on hunger strike in custody for almost a month.The decision, the first such order since the court was set up more than a decade ago to deal with war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, came after a medical examination of Vojislav Seselj concluded that he might be a fortnight away from dying. Mr Seselj, a former close associate of the late president Slobodan Milosevic and an ultra-nationalist leader who heads the strongest political party in Serbia, is an advocate of aggressive strategies aimed at creating a "Greater Serbia" by appropriating parts of Croatia and Bosnia and incorporating Albanian-populated Kosovo. Guardian(UK) (12/7)
'I want those weapons recovered'-
- President tells GDF head
FACED with the murder of a young cadet officer and the disappearance of high-powered weapons from its main headquarters, President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday weighed in on the need for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to resolve these matters and for errant officers to be punished. “Chief of Staff, I want those weapons recovered,” President Jagdeo, Commander-in-Chief of the Disciplined Forces, told Brigadier General Edward Collins, referring to the 30 AK-47 rifles which were discovered stolen from Army headquarters, Camp Ayanganna, in February this year. Guyana Chronicle (12/7)
AIDS research backs healthcare workers jailed in Libya
A Palestinian physician and five Bulgarian nurses are accused of injecting 426 children with HIV
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer
A genetic analysis of the AIDS virus in Libyan children appears to exonerate a Palestinian physician and five Bulgarian nurses accused of deliberately injecting 426 children with HIV at a Benghazi hospital in 1998, researchers reported today. The genetic history of the human immunodeficiency virus indicates that it is a common West African strain that was circulating in Libya long before the group's arrival, a British and Italian team reported in the journal Nature. Los Angeles Times (12/7)
Kabila becomes Congo's first elected president in 40 years
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- A rebel leader's son who ushered in a peace plan was sworn in Wednesday as Congo's first freely elected president in more than four decades. Thirty-five-year-old Joseph Kabila was sworn in by Supreme Court justices outside the presidential palace in the capital, with thousands of onlookers shading themselves from the sun under umbrellas in the national colors of blue, red and yellow. Kabila took his oath after a series of prayers from different faiths -- including Muslim, Christian and the indigenous Kimbanguist Church. CNN (12/6)
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