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Legal drugs, deadly outcomes

Prescription overdoses kill more people than heroin and cocaine.

An L.A. Times review of coroners’ records finds that drugs prescribed by a

small number of doctors caused or contributed to a disproportionate number of deaths.

BY SCOTT GLOVER, LISA GIRION. VIDEO AND PHOTOS BY LIZ O. BAYLEN

November 11, 2012

These six people died of drug overdoses within a span of 18 months. But according to coroners’ records, that was not all they had in common. Bottles of prescription medications found at the scene of each death bore the name of the same doctor: Van H. Vu.

After Finnila died, coroner’s investigators called Vu to learn about his patient’s medical history and why he had given him prescriptions for powerful medications, including the painkiller hydrocodone.

Investigators left half a dozen messages. Vu never called back, coroner’s records state.

Over the next four years, 10 more of his patients died of overdoses, the records show. In nine of those cases, painkillers Vu had prescribed for them were found at the scene.




Sunday’s Headlines:

South Africa loses faith with the ANC

Syria’s long search for peace

Drive for education drives South Korean families into the red

Are one in eight Australians really poor?

Leaders meet on military plan for Mali

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Close Army Ties of China’s New Leader Could Test the U.S.

By JANE PERLEZ

On one of his many visits abroad in recent years, Xi Jinping, the presumptive new leader of China, met in 2009 with local Chinese residents in Mexico City, where in a relaxed atmosphere he indirectly criticized the United States.

“There are a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country,” Mr. Xi said, according to a tape broadcast on Hong Kong television.  “China does not export revolution, hunger, poverty nor does China cause you any headaches. Just what else do you want?”

Mr. Xi is set to be elevated to the top post of the Chinese Communist Party at the 18th Party Congress scheduled to begin here on Nov. 8 – only two days after the American election. He will take the helm of a more confident China than the United States has ever known.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Fears grow over pace of reform as China ushers in new leaders

Steering EU-Asian ties through the debt crisis

Mediators to push Mali Islamists to cut al-Qaeda ties

Zetas cartel occupies Mexico state of Coahuila

How tourism cursed tomb of King Tut

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More Jews praying on site also sacred to Muslims

Israeli police and Muslim officials say the prayers at the Temple Mount-Al Aqsa mosque site are a provocation. Others call them a basic human right.

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times

October 28, 2012

A simple, ancient ritual is threatening the delicate security balance atop Jerusalem’s most sacred plaza: Jews are praying.

On most days, dozens – sometimes hundreds – of Jewish worshipers ascend to the disputed 36-acre platform that Muslims venerate as Al Aqsa mosque and Jews revere as the Temple Mount with an Israeli police escort to protect them and a Muslim security guard to monitor their movements.

Then, they recite a quick prayer, sometimes quietly to themselves, other times out loud.

Jewish activists call the prayers harmless acts of faith. Police and Muslim officials see them as dangerous provocations, especially given the deep religious sensitivities of the site and its history of violence. Twelve years ago, the presence of Jews on the plaza was so controversial that a brief tour by Israeli politician Ariel Sharon helped trigger a Palestinian uprising that lasted more than four years.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Wen Jiabao’s family deny ‘hidden riches’ report

Call me Kuchu: The life and death of a gay rights campaigner

Ukraine votes under watchful eyes

Iran is being set up to fail, just like Iraq

The doormen policing Egypt’s morals

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On Sunday

Source: Back-channel talks but no US-Iran deal on one-to-one nuclear meeting

By Andrea Mitchell, NBC News

A senior administration official told NBC on Saturday that there have been back-channel talks between the U.S. and Iran about meeting bilaterally on the Iranians’ nuclear program – but that no meeting has been agreed to.

Expanding on a statement issued by the White House after The New York Times reported that there was an agreement, the official says that the backchannel talks have been done in full consultation with the allies – the P5 + 1 and Israel.

The official pointed out that there have been bilateral talks in the past – but that Iran refused to even meet with the P5 +1 during the recent United Nations meetings. He said the Iranians know there will be no agreement unless they give up their nuclear program.

Asked about the impact on Monday’s foreign policy debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the official said the administration is not happy that the story came out before the debate, but said the American people might be happy to know the administration is willing to explore all possibilities to get Iran to give up its nuclear program.




Sunday’s Headlines:

A year after Gaddafi’s death, rebel hero is abandoning hope for peace in Libya

Anti-immigrant Golden Dawn rises in Greece

Afghanistan’s agony bears fruit at last

No easy formula for Syrian ceasefire, say analysts

Caught in the current of reverse migration

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Western defense budget cuts may be unstoppable

Companies, governments already preparing for reduced military spending

By Peter Apps Reuters

Whether or not America’s politicians can find a way to sidestep the brutal automatic military cuts of sequestration, the era of rising Western spending on weapons and wars is over.

That reality increasingly is challenging major arms manufacturers, spurring them to look for new markets, cost cuts and mergers. It is also confronting policymakers with difficult political and strategic choices as new rivals, particularly China, spend more on their armed forces.

U.S. military spending still dwarfs that of other countries – the equivalent of the next 13 nations’ spending by some estimates – but the global military balance is clearly shifting. With European states already cutting, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies this year reported that Asian military spending outstripped Europe’s for the first time in several centuries.

U.S. lawmakers may well avoid or delay automatic across-the-board budget cuts that would hit the military hard and are set to begin on January 2 if there is no deal on deficit reduction. But few see the United States avoiding military budget cuts in the next few years given that the government’s debt burden has now surged above $16 trillion and continues to rise.




Sunday’s Headlines:

IoS Investigation: The shocking truth about landmines

Nuclear world order triggers uncertainty in 2012

IMF warns millions face humanitarian emergency in W Africa

Two years after Mubarak, his prison torture apparatus still wounds Egypt

Spain’s next threat: Losing 20% of its economy

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Philippines in peace deal with Muslim rebels

President Benigno Aquino says the “framework agreement” between government and MILF separatists will be signed shortly.

Last Modified: 07 Oct 2012 06:12

The Philippine government and Muslim rebels have agreed to a preliminary peace deal for the country’s troubled south, President Benigno Aquino has announced, signalling an end to a 40-year conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and crippled the region’s economy.

The deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), announced on Sunday, sets in train a roadmap to create a new autonomous region in the Muslim-majority areas in the south of the mainly Catholic country before the end of Aquino’s term in 2016.

Aquino described the deal in a nationally televised announcement as a “framework agreement”. It follows marathon negotiations between the government and the MILF in Malaysia, which is brokering the talks.

The agreement is expected to be signed in a few days in the capital, Manila, officials said. It spells out the general principles on major issues, including the extent of power, revenues and territory of the Muslim region.

If all goes well, a final peace deal can be reached by 2016, when Aquino’s six-year term ends, according to the officials.




Sunday’s Headlines:

The forgotten girls: By 2020, there will be 50m child brides under the age of 15

An election in Bosnia shadowed by the past

Indonesia’s jihad factories: uncovering nurseries of terrorism’s next generation

Congo’s M23 rebels aim for Ugandan border town

Venezuela on edge as election arrives

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US military death toll in Afghanistan reaches 2,000

The US military has suffered its 2,000th death in the Afghan war – with a suspected “insider” attack at a checkpoint.

 30 September 2012 Last updated at 07:33 GMT

A US soldier and a foreign contractor were killed in the east of the country, apparently by a rogue member of the Afghan security forces.

“Insider” attacks sharply increased this year, prompting the coalition to suspend joint operations this month.

However, such operations resumed in recent days, the Pentagon said.

The nationality of the contractor was not given immediately.

The American death toll goes back to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

‘Checkpoint row’

The two new deaths occurred on Saturday in Wardak province, a spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force said.

Afghan officials say the incident took place at a checkpoint near an Afghan National Army base in the district of Sayedabad.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Bo Guagua speaks up for disgraced father Bo Xilai

Berlin’s gas lamps to be snuffed out

The two faces of Hezbollah

Favourites crash out of Mozambique succession race

Brazil: As prison populations grow is it time to rethink policy on drugs?

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Anti-Islam film: Pakistan minister’s bounty condemned

The Pakistani PM’s spokesman has condemned a minister’s $100,000 (£61,600) reward for the killing of the maker of an amateur anti-Islam video.

The BBC  23 September 2012

Shafqat Jalil told the BBC the government “absolutely disassociated” itself from comments by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour.

The film, produced in the US, has led to a wave of protests in the Muslim world and many deaths.

The bounty offer came a day after at least 20 died in clashes in Pakistan.

Friday’s violence, which saw protesters pitted against armed police, occurred in cities throughout Pakistan, with Karachi and Peshawar among the worst hit.

“I will pay whoever kills the makers of this video $100,000,” the minister said. “If someone else makes other similar blasphemous material in the future, I will also pay his killers $100,000.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Now in power, rifts emerge within Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Viva Macau: What does the future hold for China’s gambling capital?

Belarus elects new parliament amid opposition boycott

People power drums Libya’s jihadists out of Benghazi

Ex-Guatemalan Army commander accused in massacre faces charges in U.S

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On Sunday

U.S. Is Preparing for a Long Siege of Arab Unrest

 

By PETER BAKER and MARK LANDLER

After days of anti-American violence across the Muslim world, the White House is girding itself for an extended period of turmoil that will test the security of American diplomatic missions and President Obama’s ability to shape the forces of change in the Middle East.

Although the tumult subsided Saturday, senior administration officials said they had concluded that the sometimes violent protests in Muslim countries may presage a period of sustained instability with unpredictable diplomatic and political consequences. While pressing Arab leaders to tamp down the unrest, Mr. Obama’s advisers say they may have to consider whether to scale back diplomatic activities in the region.

The upheaval over an anti-Islam video has suddenly become Mr. Obama’s most serious foreign policy crisis of the election season, and a range of analysts say it presents questions about central tenets of his Middle East policy: Did he do enough during the Arab Spring to help the transition to democracy from autocracy? Has he drawn a hard enough line against Islamic extremists? Did his administration fail to address security concerns?




Sunday’s Headlines:

Mayhem and death with just one click

Iran’s children look on and families cry for pardons at daily hangings

Tens of thousands in anti-Putin protests

Japan PM Noda urges China to prevent anti-Japan violence

Venezuela blasts U.S. criticism over drugs

Six In The Morning

On Sunday

Colombia’s Santos believes peace is possible

 President remains cautious about FARC but tells Al Jazeera peace deal is possible if there is “goodwill” on both sides.

Al Jazeera

Colombia’s president says he will not lower his guard against the country’s main rebel group, but he believes a peace deal is possible if there is “goodwill” on both sides.

“If there is goodwill from both parts, we will reach an agreement much sooner than people expect,” Juan Manuel Santos told Al Jazeera on Saturday, as peace talks between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), aimed at ending half a century of war between the two sides, is set to kick off next month.

“I think the fundamental issues that are on the table, that we agreed to discuss and agree on in order to finalise the conflict, are not that difficult,” the president said in his first extensive interview with an international network.

Santos said he remained sceptical about FARC’s motives, and that the Colombian military and police had been instructed to intensify their offensive against the rebels as they entered the “last track of this conflict” and could not afford to lower their guard.




Sunday’s Headlines:

Controversial plan to split up Afghanistan

Tensions simmer after axe murderer’s pardon

DRC opposition figure seeks asylum from SA in Burundi

Following protests, Hong Kong backs down on Chinese patriotism classes

The Africa Express rolls into London

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