Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2012
Nature
9th August, 2012
The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals has not been available. Here we show that the accident caused physiological and genetic damage to the pale grass blue Zizeeria maha, a common lycaenid butterfly in Japan. We collected the first-voltine adults in the Fukushima area in May 2011, some of which showed relatively mild abnormalities. The F1 offspring from the first-voltine females showed more severe abnormalities, which were inherited by the F2 generation. Adult butterflies collected in September 2011 showed more severe abnormalities than those collected in May. Similar abnormalities were experimentally reproduced in individuals from a non-contaminated area by external and internal low-dose exposures. We conclude that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused physiological and genetic damage to this species.
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Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2012
RIANovosti
21st August, 2012
Israel has asked Egypt to remove its tanks from the Sinai Peninsula because their continued presence violates the peace agreement between the two countries, Israel’s Maariv daily reported on Tuesday.
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Posted by seumasach on August 20, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
21st August, 2012
The gloom in Washington must be deepening. Egypt is careering away from the alliance with the United States – and the bitter truth cannot be hidden or obfuscated anymore.
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2012
New Zealand Herald
19th,August, 2012
Ecuador has received powerful backing from regional allies as they warned Britain of “grave consequences” if it breaches diplomatic security at the London embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holed up.
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Posted by seumasach on August 19, 2012
Voltairenet
17th August, 2012
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Twitter that he “fails to understand the position” of the Western Security Council members who refused to condemn the 15 August 2012 bomb attack behind the Dama Rose Hotel in Damascus used by the UN observer mission in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2012
Israel mantiene diálogos con rebeldes sirios
HispanTV
18th August, 2012
Mendi Safadi, el enviado especial del viceprimer ministro del régimen israelí para el Desarrollo de Neguev y Galilea, Ayoub Kara, se ha reunido en Bulgaria, con la oposición siria que combate contra el presidente de Siria, Bashar al-Asad.
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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th August, 2012
I wrote yesterday for Asia Times that in Muslim politics such as the event of the summit meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference that was held in Jeddah last week over the Syrian crisis, it is invariably the case that the sub-texts turn out to be more important than the narrative.
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2012
Kaveh Afrasiabi
Asia Times
18th August, 2012
Two steps forward, one step back. This is how this week’s Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Mecca could be characterized in terms of Iran-Saudi relations.
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
18th August, 2012
The narrative could not have been simpler – Saudi Arabia has taken its cold war with Iran, which is being fought on the beaches, in the air and in the hills of the Middle East, to the great arena of the Muslim ummah. And Iran has badly lost in the tournament.
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2012
Voltairenet
17th August, 2012
Sergey Lavrov, ministre russe des Affaires étrangères, a indiqué sur Twitter « ne pas comprendre la position » des membres occidentaux du Conseil de sécurité qui ont refusé de condamner l’attentat perpétré, le 15 août 2012, à l’arrière de l’hôtel Rose de Damas où résident les observateurs de l’ONU.
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Posted by seumasach on August 17, 2012
Chris Ray
Counterpunch
17th-19th August, 2012
Around 1500 people, mostly Australians of Syrian descent marched in Sydney on August 5, calling for an end to foreign intervention aimed at destroying the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The Australian media gave the march almost no coverage, unlike well-publicised though much smaller protests against the Syrian government.
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