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Polio strain spreads to China from Pakistan

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Egypt students protest over mass poisoning case

Cairo (News and Us)-hundreds of students from the Islamic University in Egypt on Monday protested and demanded an investigation and punishment for those who should be responsible for the food poisoning case happened en masse on their campuses this month.

About 90 students from Al-Azhar University in Cairo was hospitalized on Monday after they ate in the cafeteria on campus, according to Egypt's Ministry of health had previously said about 450 college students were treated for food poisoning on campus.


The students said the incident Monday, a sign that college officials of Al-Azhar does not pay attention to the College and the thousand-year-old mosque that has attracted students from the Sunnis around the world.


Initial investigation conducted by units of the poison from the Hospital of Ain Shams in Cairo said that the food eaten victims that had been polluted.


"You guys are tight-lipped over this issue, why clamming?" exclaimed student on Monday.


Facing the street in front of their campus in Cairo's Nasr City borders.


Ibrahim El-Hodhod, Vice-President of education and students at Al-Azhar said, the Committee of inquiry has been constituted to prosecute this incident report, Egypt, MENA news agency.


El Hodhod looking student who was hospitalized on Monday, MENA.


An emergency meeting of the management of the University was held Tuesday to deal with the problem.


The Prime Minister of Egypt, Hisham Candlestick also looking students in the hospital Monday and asked the Interior Minister to urgently investigate the mass poisoning, according to a statement broadcast from his Office on Monday night, according to Reuters.


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Israel killed a settler was stabbed

Jerusalem (News and Us)-An Israel settler was killed Tuesday as a result of the Palestinian citizen was stabbed at a bus stop in the West Bank in northern Israel, police said.

"The suspect had stabbed a resident of Israel, which are sit in bus stops. He was killed, "a police spokesman said Luba Samri told AFP, adding that the incident took place near the Tapuah junction in the South of the city of Nablus.


Israel border police soon came to that location and shoot in the direction of the attackers, who seized the weapons of their victims and return return shot was his weapon but was stripped and he was arrested and detained, he said.


He took a gun and shot the victim into the border police forces were in the area. They are membalss and capture the attackers, "he said.


Palestinians, residents of the town Tulkarem, injury and was taken to a hospital in Israel, he added.


The victim, a 20-year-old man, living in a neighborhood in the northern part of the West Bank, said Samri, without mentioning his name.


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North Korea said the US free citizens

Illustration. Uniformed military personnel lined up outside the Kumsusan Palace in pictures taken from the video. (Photo FROM REUTERS/KRT/via Reuters TV)

Washington (News and Us)-the United States called North Korea, on the basis of humanity to immediately release its citizens Kenneth Bae, who is accused of trying to overthrow the country's Government closed it.

United States citizens of Korea Kenneth Bae (44 years) it is one of the five tourists, who visit the city of Rajin in the Northeast, in the course of five days in November 2012 and North Korea arrested since then.


"We called for the DPRK to free Kenneth Bae soon for reasons of humanity," said State Department Spokesman United States Patrick Ventrell told reporters in a daily briefing, Monday, as quoted from Reuters.


KCNA, North Korea's official news agency Saturday, said Bae had "admitted that he committed a crime that aims to overthrow the DPRK with wicked ways". KCNA, North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.


"The crime is proven by the evidence," he said, adding that the question will soon be taken to the Supreme Court for trial.


Step it up in the middle of a long diplomatic stalemate between Pyongyang and Washington over North Korea's nuclear program.


Tensions between North Korea and South Korea and its allies United States has improved in recent weeks since the United States tightened sanctions after testing nuclear weapons North Korea third in February.


New sanctions that make Pyongyang threatened nuclear attack against South Korea and the United States.


A number of United States citizens of Korea has experienced difficulties in North Korea for years, and Pyongyang has tried to use their detention to trigger visits of high-level Americans, especially former President Bill Clinton.


A United States official who spoke on condition anonymity said Bae had entered North Korea with a valid visa and that the United States does not want the case being exploited for political purposes.


"In the past there have been many examples where ... citizens United used as key political bargaining and we value individuals cannot be used to the way it was," said officials of the United States, as reported in Reuters.


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Two F-16 fighter jet of the NATO emergency landing in Tallinn

Tallinn (News and Us)-Two F-16 fighter jet of the NATO emergency landing in Tallinn airport in Estonia, Monday, after one of them hit a bird in flight training.

After landing, the tech stated jet engines damaged, thus delivered Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR), as quoted by Xinhua.


Report ERR, which cites a press representative description of Tallinn airport, Lauri Linnamae, saying that "it would be safer to leave the plane here now."


The two aircraft fly in the sky Kingdom of Denmark the Baltic as part of a NATO mission to police the airspace.


Denmark holds the rotating responsibilities to provide aircraft for the mission police Baltic airspace from January until the end of April, as quoted by Xinhua.


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