Monday, May 30, 2011

Why that hookah is as dangerous as a cigarette

Why that hookah is as dangerous as a cigarette

Why that hookah is as dangerous as a cigarette

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Hookahs are far from safe. And now, legislators, college administrators and health advocates are taking action against what many of them call the newest front in the ever-shifting war on tobacco. In California, Connecticut and Oregon, state lawmakers have introduced bills that would ban or limit hookah bars, and similar steps have been taken in cities in California and New York. Boston and Maine have already ended exemptions in their indoor-smoking laws that had allowed hookah bars to thrive.


Once Russia's richest man, now in jail seeking parole

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Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has filed for parole, according to the text of appeal released Monday by his supporters. A Moscow appeals court last week upheld the second conviction of Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, keeping him behind bars until 2016 on politically tainted charges of stealing oil from his own company.


When will women be US Navy SEALS?

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While America's last 10 years of war have propelled women into new and far more risky roles across the military, there are still some doors that are closed. Chief among those are the special operations forces.


Cannot defend Hafiz Saeed in US court: Pakistan

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The Pakistan government today informed a court that it could not defend Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a US lawsuit filed by relatives of two Jewish victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.


Taliban attacks target Italians, kill five Afghans

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Five Afghans were killed today and 52 people wounded, including five Italian soldiers, when the Taliban attacked a NATO compound and a crowded roundabout in a usually peaceful city.


Benazir murder case: Court declares Musharraf a proclaimed offender

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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Monday declared former president Pervez Musharraf a "proclaimed offender" or fugitive for failing to cooperate in the probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, media reports said.


Obama chooses Dempsey to be next Joint Chiefs head

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President Barack Obama moved on Monday to complete an overhaul of the national security apparatus, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as his new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid a winding down of the war in Iraq, protracted battle in Afghanistan and American assistance to the NATO-led effort against Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi.


At YouTube boot camp, future stars polish their acts

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Vanessa Wilson was back in class last week for the first time since law school. Only this time, she said, she wasn't bored.


Pak attack: Ex-navy commando arrested

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Pakistani intelligence agencies have taken into custody a former naval commando, who was court martialled earlier, and two other persons for their alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a naval airbase in Karachi that killed 10 security personnel.


Policeman detained for using Zimbabwe President's toilet

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A policeman in Zimbabwe has been placed in detention for using President Robert Mugabe's toilet at a trade fair a fortnight ago.


Drought affects 35 million in China

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A severe drought in China's central, eastern and southern provinces has affected nearly 35 million people and caused an economic loss of almost 15 billion yuan ($2.3 billion), officials said.


Dalai Lama formally relinquishes political role

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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has formally relinquished his political and administrative role by signing amendments to the Constitution of the Tibetan government-in-exile.


Now report says US got Osama tip-off from Taliban leader

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A Taliban leader tipped-off the US about where Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, a media report here said. The mirror.co.uk cited secret papers found at Osama's high-walled compound in Pakistan's Abbottabad city as suggesting that the Al Qaeda chief's cover was blown by his trusted ally, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Baradar.


NATO apologises for Afghan civilian deaths

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The top US generals in Afghanistan are apologising for an airstrike that killed civilians in southwestern Afghanistan. General David Petraeus, Lieutenant General David Rodriguez and the commander of the southwest say NATO's top priority is to prevent civilian casualties and it takes such cases very seriously.


Strauss-Kahn sets up multi-million fightback team

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Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now putting together an army of investigators, media advisors and former spies to fight back the sexual assault charges.


Tech mogul pays bright minds not to go to college

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Instead of paying attention in high school, Nick Cammarata preferred to read books on whatever interested him. He also has a gift for coding that got him into Carnegie Mellon University's esteemed computer science program despite his grades.


Goodluck Jonathan sworn in as Nigeria's President

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Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in Sunday for a full four-year term as president of Nigeria and is now faced with the challenge of uniting a country that saw deadly post election violence despite what observers called the fairest vote in more than a decade.


Clashes erupt in Belgrade to protest Mladic arrest

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Protesters throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police on Sunday in Belgrade after several thousand Serbian nationalist supporters of jailed war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside parliament to demand his release.


Greeks demonstrate against austerity measures

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About 30,000 people protested in Athens' central Syntagma square on Sunday evening against the government's tough economic austerity policies.


Germany announces end to nuclear power by 2022

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Germany's Environment Minister has said that Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government has agreed to shut down all of the country's nuclear power plants by 2022.


Sarah Palin's bike ride revs up questions on Presidential bid

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Sarah Palin bike ride: Sarah Palin rumbled through Washington on the back of a Harley as she and her family began an East Coast tour on Sunday, renewing speculation that the former Alaska Governor would join the still unsettled Republican Presidential contest.


US: Obama tours tornado ravaged areas

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Face to face with the legions of homeless and the bereaved, President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the apocalyptic landscape left by Missouri's killer tornado, consoled the community and committed the government to helping rebuild shattered lives.


Berlusconi 'helped her find faith', claims Italian actress

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A glamorous actress, who claims she helped organise Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties as he was "lonely", has showered accolades on the Italian Prime Minister, saying he is a "spiritual" man who helped her "find faith".


Zardari's chief security officer attacked

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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's chief security officer was fired at Karachi and two of his securitymen were injured in the shooting, a media report said on Sunday. Bilal Shaikh was travelling to Khamosh colony when gunmen opened fire at him.


Afghanistan: 52 killed in NATO air strikes

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Afghan authorities said Sunday NATO had killed 52 people, mostly civilians, in air strikes against insurgents as violence picked up in recent weeks with the start of the fighting season.


The math that proves Obama to be hit by scandal soon

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Based on his mathematical formula, Brendan Nyhan of Michigan University has predicted in his report to 'Center for Politics' website that President Obama's administration is set to be rocked by a major controversy soon.


Obama writes history with autopen

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US President Barack Obama has made history by using an autopen - an automatic signing machine - from an ocean away to sign a legislation into law hours before expiry. And stirred a new controversy.


3 killed, 8 injured in chemical plant blast in China

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Three people were killed and eight others injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in east China. The blast occurred last night in a chemical plant of Shandong Baoyuan Chemical Co Ltd in Zibo City, Shandong Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.


For anarchist, details of life as FBI target

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A fat sheaf of FBI reports meticulously details the surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of residents and guests and, in one case, speculated about a suspicious flat object spread out across the driveway.


US: Model, friend fall out of 10th-storey hotel window

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A model celebrating her birthday died and another woman was critically injured when they plunged from a 10th-storey window of a luxury Atlanta hotel early Saturday morning, investigators said.


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