BBC news Syria conflict: Turkey shells Kurdish militia 13 February 2016 Turkey has shelled a Kurdish militia in northern Syria and demanded it retreat from territory it has seized, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. The US urged Turkey to stop the shelling and focus on fighting the group Islamic State (IS). Meanwhile Turkey's foreign minister said Turkey was mulling a ground invasion of Syria with Saudi forces. On Thursday world powers agreed to push for a cessation of hostilities in Syria within a week. Among the targets shelled by Turkey was the Menagh airbase, which was seized on Thursday from Syrian Islamist rebels by a Kurdish militia group known as the YPG. Speaking on Turkish TV, PM Davutoglu warned that Turkey would retaliate if the YPG did not leave the airbase. Finally, Turkey joined this fight against IS and to liberate Syrian land so that Syrian refuges can return to their homeland. Of course this is just the beginning allied forces have to liberate more land if they want to get rid of Syrian refuges. Another important thing is that YPG, which I can describe as Syrian PKK; lose land, supplies and manpower so among 7 different forces controlling Syrian territory they lose power so hopefully YPG will be gone forever very soon.
CNN News Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, defying religion and culture for love 14 February 2016
First of all Happy Valentines Day everyone, This week I wanted to share a magnificent love story. As you can see from the title of the article it’s about a young Afghan couple, who manages to stay together despite Zakia's family and their traditions about family honor.
At first Zakia was cagey about accepting Ali's proposal because she knew about the danger in such a marriage. She would be offending her family's "honor," for running away with a Shiite, Hazara man. Zakia thought her family would one hundred percent kill her. "There's even a law in Afghanistan," she explains, "that if you're a man and you kill a woman in your family because she offended your honor, the maximum penalty is two years."
They left their homes just after their parents found out about their relationship. Her father was outraged as Zakia tells the reporter Nordland. "I swear to God that even if it costs me everything, I will try to bring my daughter back home," Nordland quotes him as saying. "She is a part of my body like one of my limbs, how can I let her go with that boy?" At the end Ali's tenderness won her over, defying the near certain death she faced. "It was very hard," Zakia told Nordland. "Everyone in my family was against me." Zakia and Ali have survived, hidden from their families. But in Afghanistan, Nordland said, their future is bleak. Now they have a daughter who’s just over a year.
BBC News Syria conflict: France urges end to Turkish assault on Kurds 14 February 2016
"France's foreign ministry has urged Turkey to end its assault on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria." On Saturday, Turkey began bombing the militia, which it says is related to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party.
After Turkey's assault on Kurdish fighters in Syria, France also called on the regime and its allies to stop their bombardments "across the whole of the country". France said priority should be given to achieving an agreement reached in Munich this week, and the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu alerted that Turkey would retaliate if the YPG did not leave the airbase, which lies south of the town of Azaz and close to the Turkish border.
BBC News worker Mark Lowen analyzes this situation as opening of a new front in Syria's war.
BBC News Where one kiss brings 15 years of luck February 14, 2016 a.k.a. Valentines Day
Hello there ladies and gents, I want to star by saying happy valentines day to everyone and hope that you all had a miserable day. Because of todays concept I thought I should write about something that was somehow related to love and I found the perfect news post. A place where one kiss brings 15 years of luck. In this enchanting alley of romance, droves of couples kiss to honour the tragic tale of Ana and Carlos. If they don’t, they’ll be cursed.
It is basically a forbidden love between Ana and Carlos and it is definitely so romantic. Ana and Carlos were to young people who were madly in love. Ana, was the rich high society girl but Carlos on the other hand was poor and worked at the mines. Ana's father was completely against this love and was doing everything under his power to stop it. One night, he caught Ana and Carlos kissing at this tiny spot that crosses two alleys from the balcony and said that if this happens ever again he will kill Ana. The following night, it did happen and as a man of his word, Ana's father threw a dagger out of the window directed to his own child. Carlos, so madly in love and just thinking about Ana, covered her with his body and was deacon the third step of that tiny corner where they used to kiss.
It is considered as a bad luck for 7 years if you are at the Callejon del Beso, or the Alley of the Kiss, in Plaza de Los Ángeles and do not kiss on those stairs, but if you do it is believed that he will bring 15 years of good luck. I thought it was a charming and a lovely story. So romantic and hopefully (even though I do not believe in luck) I can do this with my soulmate as well. If he can come up and introduce himself to me already, I would really appreciate it.
BBC News Running from the Climate Challenge February 14th, 2016
It is New Hampshire Primaries week. The candidates' policies on energy, the environment, and climate change were debated topics, at least among the Democratic candidates vying for a shot at the presidency. However, the subject of climate change has been notably absent from the Republican debates and campaigning platforms. A USA Today Rock the Vote poll found that the biggest voting demographic bloc, millennials, overwhelmingly support clean energy efforts, and in addition to that 81 percent of Americans agree that we should transition to clean energy by 2030.
In an interview, Chris Williams, who is a long-time environmentalist activist said: “So what else can we do? I think we should be asking that question. Rather than lowering our, our sights, and thinking about, well, what can we kind of cajole out of these people who are basically controlled by big business, what else can we do? How can we form a larger movement, a larger organization, independent organizations? Why isn't Bernie running as an independent? He'd be a much stronger candidate. I think we should be asking those kind of questions, and really put up a fight with regard to saving our world.”
Scientists have found a number of drugs which could help protect against Alzheimer's disease, acting like statins for brain. University of Cambridge researchers designated drugs which prevented the first condition of Alzheimer. Experts mentioned that it was important to find out if these drugs could work safely in humans statins are helpful to reduce the risk of developing heart disease. A neurostatin could be used as a preventative facility to stop the phase phase appearing in the first place. The cancer drug bexoratene was found to stop the first phase which directs to death of brain cells in worms genetically programmed to develop Alzheimer's disease; thus it mentioned that, by understanding how thee defences work, researches might be able to support them by designing drug that behave in similar ways."The body has a variety of natural defences to protect itself against neurodegeneration, but as we age, these defences become progressively impaired and can get overwhelmed." Bexoratene has some side effects though; skin complaints, heart attacks and headaches, but it must be known that if it is going to be used for Alzheimer, what will happen.
BBC News Syria conflict: Three hospitals hit in air strikes February 15, 2016
Three hospitals have been hit in air strikes in Syria. Medecins Sans Frontieres said seven people died in an attack in Maarat al-Numan. Activists said another hospital in the town was also hit. Another strike in Azaz near the Turkish border killed 10. It was a deliberate attack. The rockets had hit the hospital within minutes of each other. After five years of civil war in Syria, the casualties are 250.000. Also more than 11 million people displaced. Middle East have been always problems but not as big as this. Because now, the two super powers of the world came against to each other. They are fighting and the people lives in Syria dies. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said a Russian ballistic missile had hit buildings in Azaz. Middle East is the bleeding wound of the world that we should treat. Not "WE", the people can do.
BBC News No safe way to suntan, new NICE guidance warns 9 February 2016
The article is about sun protection. People like to suntan and most of them don’t use enough protection or any at all. According to the article, even applying suntan cream once is not enough. After swimming, even after drying yourself with your towel, you have to apply suntan cream. Otherwise you will not be protected from the sun. But people need to be under the sun for a bit to get vitamin D. But everyone has to protect themselves if they don’t want to get cancer. In countries like Britain, people don’t get enough sun and they need to get suntan in order to get some vitamin D. But they have very fair skin so sun is actually extremely dangerous for them. Thats why they need to use enough protection. But nobody should avoid the sun even if they have fair skin. Vitamin D is needed, but cancer isn’t.
ALP ÇELENK BBC NEWS Syria crisis: Government approves aid deliveries, says UN The Syrian government has approved humanitarian access to seven besieged areas, the UN has said.
Convoys were being prepared to depart "as soon as possible", said spokesman Farhan Haq.
Among the areas due to receive aid is Madaya, where people have been dying of starvation.
World powers last week agreed to seek a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" and to accelerate and expand aid deliveries.
After talks in Damascus on Tuesday, the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said the Syrian government had a duty to allow access to whoever needed it. This obligation, he said, would be put to the test on Wednesday. The truce, which does not apply to jihadist groups, is due to come into force later this week. But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has cast doubts on the cessation, warning it would be "difficult" to implement and would not mean all parties would stop using weapons. His forces, backed by Russian air power, have been advancing in the north and threaten to surround the key city of Aleppo.
Earlier Russia said it "categorically rejects" accusations of war crimes over the bombing of hospitals in Syria.
Turkey has blamed Russia for a series of rocket attacks on several hospitals and schools that killed up to 50 people.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC that the only proof Russia would accept from the ground "comes from the Syrian authorities".
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Syria conflict: Turkey shells Kurdish militia
13 February 2016
Turkey has shelled a Kurdish militia in northern Syria and demanded it retreat from territory it has seized, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
The US urged Turkey to stop the shelling and focus on fighting the group Islamic State (IS). Meanwhile Turkey's foreign minister said Turkey was mulling a ground invasion of Syria with Saudi forces. On Thursday world powers agreed to push for a cessation of hostilities in Syria within a week. Among the targets shelled by Turkey was the Menagh airbase, which was seized on Thursday from Syrian Islamist rebels by a Kurdish militia group known as the YPG. Speaking on Turkish TV, PM Davutoglu warned that Turkey would retaliate if the YPG did not leave the airbase.
Finally, Turkey joined this fight against IS and to liberate Syrian land so that Syrian refuges can return to their homeland. Of course this is just the beginning allied forces have to liberate more land if they want to get rid of Syrian refuges. Another important thing is that YPG, which I can describe as Syrian PKK; lose land, supplies and manpower so among 7 different forces controlling Syrian territory they lose power so hopefully YPG will be gone forever very soon.
CNN News
Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, defying religion and culture for love
14 February 2016
First of all Happy Valentines Day everyone,
This week I wanted to share a magnificent love story. As you can see from the title of the article it’s about a young Afghan couple, who manages to stay together despite Zakia's family and their traditions about family honor.
At first Zakia was cagey about accepting Ali's proposal because she knew about the danger in such a marriage. She would be offending her family's "honor," for running away with a Shiite, Hazara man. Zakia thought her family would one hundred percent kill her. "There's even a law in Afghanistan," she explains, "that if you're a man and you kill a woman in your family because she offended your honor, the maximum penalty is two years."
They left their homes just after their parents found out about their relationship. Her father was outraged as Zakia tells the reporter Nordland. "I swear to God that even if it costs me everything, I will try to bring my daughter back home," Nordland quotes him as saying. "She is a part of my body like one of my limbs, how can I let her go with that boy?" At the end Ali's tenderness won her over, defying the near certain death she faced. "It was very hard," Zakia told Nordland. "Everyone in my family was against me." Zakia and Ali have survived, hidden from their families. But in Afghanistan, Nordland said, their future is bleak. Now they have a daughter who’s just over a year.
BBC News
Syria conflict: France urges end to Turkish assault on Kurds
14 February 2016
"France's foreign ministry has urged Turkey to end its assault on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria."
On Saturday, Turkey began bombing the militia, which it says is related to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party.
After Turkey's assault on Kurdish fighters in Syria, France also called on the regime and its allies to stop their bombardments "across the whole of the country".
France said priority should be given to achieving an agreement reached in Munich this week, and the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu alerted that Turkey would retaliate if the YPG did not leave the airbase, which lies south of the town of Azaz and close to the Turkish border.
BBC News worker Mark Lowen analyzes this situation as opening of a new front in Syria's war.
BBC News
Where one kiss brings 15 years of luck
February 14, 2016 a.k.a. Valentines Day
Hello there ladies and gents,
I want to star by saying happy valentines day to everyone and hope that you all had a miserable day. Because of todays concept I thought I should write about something that was somehow related to love and I found the perfect news post. A place where one kiss brings 15 years of luck. In this enchanting alley of romance, droves of couples kiss to honour the tragic tale of Ana and Carlos. If they don’t, they’ll be cursed.
It is basically a forbidden love between Ana and Carlos and it is definitely so romantic. Ana and Carlos were to young people who were madly in love. Ana, was the rich high society girl but Carlos on the other hand was poor and worked at the mines. Ana's father was completely against this love and was doing everything under his power to stop it. One night, he caught Ana and Carlos kissing at this tiny spot that crosses two alleys from the balcony and said that if this happens ever again he will kill Ana. The following night, it did happen and as a man of his word, Ana's father threw a dagger out of the window directed to his own child. Carlos, so madly in love and just thinking about Ana, covered her with his body and was deacon the third step of that tiny corner where they used to kiss.
It is considered as a bad luck for 7 years if you are at the Callejon del Beso, or the Alley of the Kiss, in Plaza de Los Ángeles and do not kiss on those stairs, but if you do it is believed that he will bring 15 years of good luck. I thought it was a charming and a lovely story. So romantic and hopefully (even though I do not believe in luck) I can do this with my soulmate as well. If he can come up and introduce himself to me already, I would really appreciate it.
BBC News
Running from the Climate Challenge
February 14th, 2016
It is New Hampshire Primaries week. The candidates' policies on energy, the environment, and climate change were debated topics, at least among the Democratic candidates vying for a shot at the presidency. However, the subject of climate change has been notably absent from the Republican debates and campaigning platforms. A USA Today Rock the Vote poll found that the biggest voting demographic bloc, millennials, overwhelmingly support clean energy efforts, and in addition to that 81 percent of Americans agree that we should transition to clean energy by 2030.
In an interview, Chris Williams, who is a long-time environmentalist activist said: “So what else can we do? I think we should be asking that question. Rather than lowering our, our sights, and thinking about, well, what can we kind of cajole out of these people who are basically controlled by big business, what else can we do? How can we form a larger movement, a larger organization, independent organizations? Why isn't Bernie running as an independent? He'd be a much stronger candidate. I think we should be asking those kind of questions, and really put up a fight with regard to saving our world.”
BBC News: Alzheimer's preventative drug hope
Scientists have found a number of drugs which could help protect against Alzheimer's disease, acting like statins for brain. University of Cambridge researchers designated drugs which prevented the first condition of Alzheimer. Experts mentioned that it was important to find out if these drugs could work safely in humans statins are helpful to reduce the risk of developing heart disease. A neurostatin could be used as a preventative facility to stop the phase phase appearing in the first place. The cancer drug bexoratene was found to stop the first phase which directs to death of brain cells in worms genetically programmed to develop Alzheimer's disease; thus it mentioned that, by understanding how thee defences work, researches might be able to support them by designing drug that behave in similar ways."The body has a variety of natural defences to protect itself against neurodegeneration, but as we age, these defences become progressively impaired and can get overwhelmed."
Bexoratene has some side effects though; skin complaints, heart attacks and headaches, but it must be known that if it is going to be used for Alzheimer, what will happen.
BBC News
Syria conflict: Three hospitals hit in air strikes
February 15, 2016
Three hospitals have been hit in air strikes in Syria. Medecins Sans Frontieres said seven people died in an attack in Maarat al-Numan. Activists said another hospital in the town was also hit. Another strike in Azaz near the Turkish border killed 10. It was a deliberate attack. The rockets had hit the hospital within minutes of each other.
After five years of civil war in Syria, the casualties are 250.000. Also more than 11 million people displaced. Middle East have been always problems but not as big as this. Because now, the two super powers of the world came against to each other. They are fighting and the people lives in Syria dies. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said a Russian ballistic missile had hit buildings in Azaz. Middle East is the bleeding wound of the world that we should treat. Not "WE", the people can do.
BBC News
No safe way to suntan, new NICE guidance warns
9 February 2016
The article is about sun protection. People like to suntan and most of them don’t use enough protection or any at all. According to the article, even applying suntan cream once is not enough. After swimming, even after drying yourself with your towel, you have to apply suntan cream. Otherwise you will not be protected from the sun. But people need to be under the sun for a bit to get vitamin D. But everyone has to protect themselves if they don’t want to get cancer. In countries like Britain, people don’t get enough sun and they need to get suntan in order to get some vitamin D. But they have very fair skin so sun is actually extremely dangerous for them. Thats why they need to use enough protection. But nobody should avoid the sun even if they have fair skin. Vitamin D is needed, but cancer isn’t.
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BBC NEWS
Syria crisis: Government approves aid deliveries, says UN
The Syrian government has approved humanitarian access to seven besieged areas, the UN has said.
Convoys were being prepared to depart "as soon as possible", said spokesman Farhan Haq.
Among the areas due to receive aid is Madaya, where people have been dying of starvation.
World powers last week agreed to seek a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" and to accelerate and expand aid deliveries.
After talks in Damascus on Tuesday, the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said the Syrian government had a duty to allow access to whoever needed it.
This obligation, he said, would be put to the test on Wednesday.
The truce, which does not apply to jihadist groups, is due to come into force later this week.
But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has cast doubts on the cessation, warning it would be "difficult" to implement and would not mean all parties would stop using weapons.
His forces, backed by Russian air power, have been advancing in the north and threaten to surround the key city of Aleppo.
Earlier Russia said it "categorically rejects" accusations of war crimes over the bombing of hospitals in Syria.
Turkey has blamed Russia for a series of rocket attacks on several hospitals and schools that killed up to 50 people.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the BBC that the only proof Russia would accept from the ground "comes from the Syrian authorities".
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