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Indian PM Singh begins US visit (BBC News | Americas | World Edition) Submitted at 11/22/2009 8:47:34 PM
Indian PM Manmohan Singh has begun a visit to the US for talks expected to be dominated by Afghanistan, climate change and nuclear energy cooperation. Mr Singh has said that a victory for the Taliban in Afghanistan would be a catastrophe for South and Central Asia. He said he was concerned about the spread of Taliban and alQaeda terrorism to Pakistan's heartlands. India hopes the summit talks will see the finalisation of the civilian nuclear deal with the US. During his visit, Mr Singh will hold meetings with business leaders and foreign policy scholars. He will meet US President Barack Obama on Tuesday. "It is very important that both the US and the global community
stay engaged in Afghanistan," Mr Singh told The Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek magazine ahead of his arrival on Sunday. Mr Singh urged the Obama administration to put pressure on Pakistan to crack down on militants in the country. 'Nothing to fear' "We have been the victims of Pakistan-aided, abetted and inspired terrorism for nearly 25 years. We would like the United States to use all its influence with Pakistan to desist from that path," Mr Singh said in the interview. "Pakistan has nothing to fear from India. It's a tragedy that Pakistan has come to the point of using terror as an instrument of state policy." Mr Singh expressed doubts over whether Pakistan and the US had similar objectives in Afghanistan. "I don't see Pakistan wholeheartedly in support of action against the Taliban in
Afghanistan. They of course are taking action against the Taliban, but only when it threatens the supremacy of the army," he said. In a separate interview, Mr Singh also said that he hoped that the Obama administration would complete the finalisation of the deal on nuclear energy which Delhi struck with former President Bush. India and the US have forged closer defence and economic ties in recent years. Last year they signed a civilian nuclear co-operation accord to end 34 years of US sanctions. India gains access to US civilian nuclear technology and fuel in return for inspections of its civilian, but not military, nuclear facilities. Print Sponsor This content has passed through fivefilters.org.
Submitted at 11/23/2009 3:03:58 AM
Four US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, military forces say. Three of the Americans were said by Nato to have died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and the other in the east in a bomb explosion on Monday. Three Afghan soldiers were also
killed in a separate incident on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Helmand province. This has been the deadliest year for foreign troops since the USled invasion overthrew the Taliban. In a statement released on Monday, Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said that of those who died in southern Afghanistan, two US soldiers had been killed by a
Morphine 'might spread cancer' (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)
MNTX inhibited the apparent tumour-promoting effects of opiates, and reduced the spread Submitted at 11/22/2009 5:40:55 PM of cancer in the mice by 90%. L a b o r a t o r y t e s t s s u g g e s t "If confirmed clinically, this morphine could in fact encourage could change how we do surgical the spread of cancer, for which it anaesthesia for our cancer is routinely prescribed to relieve patients," said Dr Singleton, pain from surgery and tumours. assistant professor of medicine at US scientists say the opiate t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o promotes the growth of new Medical Center and principal blood vessels which deliver author of the research. tumours oxygen and nutrients. "It also suggests potential new Speaking at a meeting of the applications for this novel class American Association for Cancer o f d r u g s w h i c h s h o u l d b e Research in Boston, they also e x p l o r e d . " claim to have found a drug which The tests were started after his counters this effect. colleague, anaesthetist Jonathan Cancer Research UK said more Moss, noted that several patients tests were needed before any receiving this kind of opiate changes in treatment. blocker survived longer than Dr Patrick Singleton from the might be expected after surgery. University of Chicago told the Dr Laura Bell of Cancer meeting of experts that in Research UK said the drugs had a laboratory tests, morphine not l o n g h i s t o r y o f p r o v i d i n g only strengthened blood vessels e f f e c t i v e p a i n r e l i e f . but also appeared to make it "Research in this area is in the easier for cancers to invade other early stages, so it's too early to tissues and spread. tell whether opiate-based bomb attack and the other in a But he said this could be painkillers have an effect on separate firefight with insurgents. o v e r c o m e b y a d r u g - cancer growth. Revised strategy methylnaltrexone or MNTX - "Much more research would be Afghanistan's Ministry of developed in the 1980s to prevent needed to justify changing the Interior said two other Afghan morphine-related constipation but way opiates are used to treat National Army soldiers had been only recently approved in the US. people with cancer." wounded in the Musa Qala It appears to work without Print Sponsor district by the same roadside i n t e r f e r i n g w i t h t h e p a i n - This content has passed through bomb that had killed their three relieving properties of the opiate. fivefilters.org. colleagues on Sunday. 'Long history' It also said six soldiers in Kunar In mice with lung cancer, FOUR page 66
Four US soldiers die in Afghanistan (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)
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