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HEALTH
Last step for girl shot by Taliban
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After last surgery, girl expected to make full recovery LONDON (AP) — A Pakistani girl whose defiance of the Taliban turned her into an international icon is headed toward recovery once she undergoes a final surgery to reconstruct her skull, doctors said Wednesday. D r. D a v e R o s s e r o f B i r m i n g h a m ’s Q u e e n Elizabeth Hospital said that 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai needs the operation to replace the bone shattered when a Taliban gunman, angered at her objection to the group’s restrictions on girls’ education, sent a bullet through her skull. Rosser said that Malala had made a “remarkable recovery.” “She’s very lively, she’s got a great sense of humor,” Rosser told journalists at the hospital. “She’s not naive at all about what happened to her and the situation she’s looking forward to in terms of being a high-profile person, and potentially a high-profile target. “She’s not naive to any of that, but she remains incredibly determined, incredibly cheerful and incredibly determined to speak for her cause.” That cause has turned Malala into a symbol for a girl’s right to an education. At t h e a g e o f 1 1 , s h e began writing a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in Pakistan’s picturesque Swat Valley, which Taliban militants briefly overran. After the military ousted them in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls’ education.
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WORLD NEWS BRIEFS 1. VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Austrian charity plans to move into Hitler’s childhood house An Austrian charity that helps immigrants reportedly plans to set up an office in the house where Adolf Hitler was born. The villa in the Upper Austrian town of Braunau has been empty for more than a year since a workshop for the mentally disabled moved out. The charity’s head said renting the house to an agency like his would send a “great signal.”
2. MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Pussy Riot cathedral protest video banned for ‘extremism’
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Top: Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old girl who was shot at close range in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan, reads a book as she continues her recovery at the hospital.
Footage of feminist rockers Pussy Riot’s irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral last year has been banned in Russia and must be removed from the country’s Internet. Moscow City Court on Wednesday rejected band member Yekaterina Samutsevich’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling in November, meaning that its ban of the video now takes effect. Samutsevich said the decision amounted to censorship and vowed to fight on.
Right: Malala Yousufzai says goodbye as she is discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England to continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary home in the area on Jan. 4.
She appeared frequently in the media and was given one of the country’s highest civilian honors for her bravery. Malala was shot on Oct. 9 as she headed home from school. The Taliban said they targeted her because she promoted “Western thinking,” but the attempt to murder a teenage girl over her desire to go to school sent a wave of revulsion around the world. Amid a blaze of publicity over her plight, Malala was
flown to England for advanced medical care — and for her own protection. There was no indication Wednesday of whether or when she would return to Pakistan, although Rosser said it would likely be a year or 18 months before she has finished recuperating. “Anybody who’s required a lengthy intensive care stay or undergone significant neurological injuries, studies tell us people don’t report feeling as well as they
used to for 15 to 18 months,” he said. Asked whether Malala showed any signs of brain damage — such as memory loss or hormonal changes — Rosser said doctors had seen none. Barring any complications, he said the skull reconstruction should be Malala’s final surgery. “She’s certainly pleased with the thought that this will be the end of it,” Rosser said.
3. NAIROBI, KENYA
Kenya leader issues stern warning to int’l media as elections near Kenya’s government spokesman seemed to make a veiled threat against international journalists while announcing a tough stance on information deemed divisive surrounding nationwide elections March 4. Government spokesman Muthui Kariuki told the journalists: “We will set you on fire before you set us on fire.” He said the media and pollsters were the catalysts of violence that rocked Kenya following a disputed presidential vote five years ago. The Associated Press
PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
HISTORY
Germany marks 80 years since Hitler siezed control of the state Nazi history warns against citizen apathy, leader says BERLIN (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hi t l e r ’s r i s e t o p o w e r, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to always fight for their principles and not fall into the complacency that enabled the Nazi dictator to seize control. Speaking Wednesday at the opening of a new exhibit at the Topography of Terror memorial documenting Hitler’s election, Merkel noted that German academics and students at the time happily joined the Nazis only a few months later in burning bo oks deemed subversive. “The rise of the Nazis was made possible because the elite of German society worked with them, but also, above all else, because most in Germany at least tolerated this rise,” Merkel said. After winning about a third of the vote in G e r m a n y ’s 1 9 3 2 e l e c tion, Hitler convinced ailing President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933 — setting Germany on a course to war and genocide. “This path ended in Auschwitz,” said Andreas Nachama, the director of the Topography of Terror.
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A visitor wearing a kippah attends an event for the victims of the Nazi era at the German Bundestag parliament in Berlin, Germany on the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s rise Wednesday.
The Topography memorial is built around the ruins of buildings where the Gestapo secret police, the SS and the Reich Security Main Office ran Hitler’s police state from 1933 to 1945. A stretch of the Berlin Wall along the edge serves as a reminder of Germany’s second dictatorship under the Communists in the 20th century. Once chancellor, Hitler was able to use his position to consolidate absolute control over the country in the months to follow. About a month after being appointed chancellor, Hitler used the torching of the
Reichstag parliament building — blamed on a Dutch communist — to strengthen his grip on power. He suspended civil liberties and cracked down on opposition parties, paving the way for the police state. By midsummer 1933, he had declared the Nazi Party to be the only political party in Germany. He later named himself “Fuehrer” or “Leader” of the country. The fact that Hitler was able to destroy German democracy in only six months serves as a warning today of what can happen if the public is apathetic, Merkel said.
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Bahraini women chant anti-government slogans during a mourning procession for Qassim Habib, 8, in Manama, Bahrain, on Wednesday. Clashes between riot police and mourners erupted after the procession for the boy, who opposition groups say died from respiratory problems triggered by heavy tear gas.
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