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  • Mexico Gulf Cartel Leader Mario Ramirez Trevino Captured

    {{Mexican troops have captured one of the country’s most wanted drug-gang leaders.}}

    Mario Ramirez Trevino, known as X-20, is said to be the head of the cocaine and marijuana-smuggling Gulf Cartel.

    It is the second high-profile arrest since President Enrique Pena Nieto came to power last December.

    The US government was offering a reward of $5m (£3.2m) for information leading to the capture of Mr Ramirez, while Mexico offered about $3m.

    Ramirez Trevino is thought to have taken over as leader of the Gulf Cartel after the arrest of Jorge Eduardo Costilla, known as The Coss, last September.

    Mexican media reported that the drug lord was arrested by a joint Army and Marines operation in Rio Bravo, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

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  • North Korea agrees to family reunions with South

    North Korea has agreed to a South Korean proposal to resume reunions of families separated since the 1950-1953 war, official media in Pyongyang say.

    The reunions will take place in a North Korean tourist resort on 19 September.

    South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye called last week for the resumption of the reunions, last held in 2010.

    Her appeal followed an agreement to reopen a joint industrial plant, the latest step in the easing of tension between the two countries.

    The latest statement on the reunions came from the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea.

    It said: “The reunion of separated families and their relatives shall be made in Mt Kumgang resort on the occasion of the upcoming Harvest Moon Day.”

    Talks will take place between Red Cross officials from both sides on 23 August at Mt Kumgang to prepare for the reunions.

    Many families were separated at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War by the dividing of the peninsula. The two sides remain technically at war, because the conflict ended in an armistice and not a peace deal.

    The North Korean statement also called for the resumption of tourist trips to Mt Kumgang.

    The resort, the first major joint project between the nations, hosted thousands of South Korean visitors between 1998 and 2008 but tours were suspended after a North Korean soldier shot dead a tourist who strayed into a restricted area.

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  • Ethiopian Athletes Admit Kiprotich ‘was better’

    {{IAAF World Championships marathon silver and bronze medalists Lelisa Desisa and Tadese Tola, respectively, admitted Stephen Kiprotich proved “too strong” for them to keep up with in the final minutes of the race on Saturday.}}

    The Ugandan two-time gold medalist broke away from his closest challengers – the two Ethiopians – in the final 2km of a tense race to win his second major international athletics title in Moscow.

    At a press conference after the event, the Ethiopian duo told journalists they had planned to stop Kiprotich, but that when he broke away and took the lead, their plan immediately backfired.

    They admitted they could do little to catch up with the Ugandan runner who crossed the finish line at Luzhiniki Stadium on a time of 2:09:59.

    “He was strong. Even if we chased, there was so little we could do to get him. He was fired up,” said Tadese Tola, who finished third, and will be awarded with a bronze medal for his efforts at the crowning ceremony Sunday evening.

    NV

  • President Mugabe in bilateral talks with Botswana’s Khama

    {{President Mugabe is engaged in bilateral meeting with Botswana President Mr Ian Seretse Khama here.However, details of the meeting today are not yet known.Mr Khama, whose Government has been refusing to acknowledge President Mugabe’s resounding victory after the just ended harmominsed elections, on Friday made a major climb down at 11th-hour from its earlier intransigence of diverting from the rest of Africa over the credibility of the election.}}

    His Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Minister, Mr Phandu Skelemani, claimed to have been misled by the MDC-T and some elements of civil society at home and abroad on the conditions surrounding the polls.

    A source close to developments said Mr Skelemani requested a meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi on the sidelines of the Sadc Troika meeting on Friday night as it became clear that Botswana’s position was becoming ridiculous in light of MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai’s failure to back his allegations of rigging in court.

    Mr Tsvangirai withdrew his court challenge on Friday.

    After being apprised of developments, Mr Skelemani is said to have professed a Damascene moment, saying his country had been misled by the MDC-T and non-governmental organisations and also chided Zimbabwe for not effectively rebutting the claims over the voters’ roll.

    The 573-member Sadc Election Observer Mission, which included observers drawn from Botswana, endorsed the harmonised elections along with the Sadc Electoral Commissions Forum that consisted of electoral bodies drawn from 10 Sadc member states, among them Botswana.

  • Wenger Apologises to Arsenal Fans

    {{Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger apologised to the club’s supporters after the Gunners lost 3-1 at home to Aston Villa on the first day of the Premier League.}}

    Wenger’s side were booed off at full-time, with chants for the Frenchman to strengthen his squad before the transfer window closes on 2 September.

    “What hurts me is to disappoint people who love the club,” said Wenger.

    “I’m here to make them happy and when I do not I can only say sorry, come back and make them happy in the next game.”

    Earlier this summer, chief executive Ivan Gazidis revealed that Arsenal were ready to spend big after an “escalation in our financial firepower”.

    But the only arrival so far is 20-year-old striker Yaya Sanogo on a free transfer from Auxerre, with numerous players leaving Emirates Stadium.

    Wenger confirmed on Thursday that he will attempt to make signings right up until the transfer deadline at 23:00 BST on 2 September, and his team seemed to be in need of reinforcements against Villa.

    Olivier Giroud gave Arsenal an early lead but Christian Benteke equalised and then put the visitors 2-1 ahead before the Gunners were reduced to 10 men when Laurent Koscielny was sent off for a second yellow card.

    Antonio Luna, one of six new signings by Paul Lambert, scored a third to complete Villa’s victory as sections of the crowd turned on Wenger, with anger building as the match reached its conclusion.

    Lambert later said: “It’s never nice to hear it, you need the fans to stick with you. Mr Wenger certainly knows what he’s doing.”

    Wenger felt the side he named was good enough to win the match but confirmed he was willing to invest in new signings.

    “I’m there to buy players, if we find them we’ll do it,” he explained. “I’m not the only one working on that – it’s not my money, it’s the money of the club and we’re ready to spend it if we find the right players.

    “We could have won the game today with the players on the pitch, I’m convinced of that. We started well but after that everything went wrong – injuries, decisions, going down to 10 men and the chances missed.

    “It was a bad day, not on the quality of our display but everything went against us. That [injury to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain] did disrupt us at half-time already and especially when we went down to 10 men.

    “It was difficult but I must praise the spirit – until the last minute the players gave everything and the team showed great quality. It’s a great disappointment but the spirit and attitude of the players was fantastic.

    “I’m unhappy with the spirit the referee let the game [go in], I was quite amazed. But it’s not my job to talk too much about that, I have to take care of the team and, despite that, we could have won the game.”

    Arsenal turn their attention to Wednesday’s Champions League qualifying play-off first leg at Fenerbahce and travel to Fulham on Saturday.

    “We’re not happy, we’ve got to look at ourselves,” said Gunners midfielder Jack Wilshere. “We’ve got a big qualifier coming up and there can be no mistakes now – we’ve got to push on. We’ve got to pick ourselves up.

    “It [the crowd reaction] is understandable, they pay their money to watch us and we need to put in better performances and win games. My message to them is to stick with us – it’s a long season.”

    BBC

  • Breast cancer drugs ‘could treat lung cancer’

    {{Experimental drugs already used to treat breast cancer may also fight lung cancer, research reveals}}.

    Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the commonest type of lung cancer, is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Few drug treatments exist.

    Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London discovered breast cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors worked in up to half of NSCLC tumours.

    In the lab, the drugs killed cancerous cells and left healthy ones intact.

    Experts say more studies and clinical trials are needed, but they were excited by this early work, which will be published soon in the journal Oncogene.

    Study author Dr Chris Lord said: “This study suggests that PARP inhibitors, treatments already in clinical trials to treat breast and ovarian cancer, could also be a promising treatment for patients with certain forms of lung cancer.

    “Lung cancer is hard to treat and unfortunately has very poor survival, so there’s an urgent need to find new treatments.

    {{‘Save more lives’}}

    “Our research opens up an exciting new route, by showing how we could repurpose drugs originally designed for use against other forms of cancer.”

    Dr Harpal Kumar, of Cancer Research UK, which funded the work, said: “Lung cancer is the UK’s biggest cancer killer but it’s proven to be one of the hardest cancers to study and survival rates remain poor.

    “We’re making substantial investments in lung cancer research to discover better ways to diagnose and treat the disease. Our hope is that studies like this will lead to more effective treatments for lung cancer patients and ultimately save more lives.”

    Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK, accounting for more than a fifth of all cancer deaths.

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  • Four Thai nationals Rleased in Nigeria a week After Kidnapping

    {{Four Thai nationals have been released unhurt a week after they were abducted while travelling to a farm in southern Nigeria, police said on Sunday.}}

    Gunmen kidnapped the four in the Buguma area of Rivers state last weekend. Police spokeswoman Angela Agabe said they were released on Saturday.

    “Investigation is still going on with a view to apprehending the kidnappers,” she said, adding no ransom had been paid.

    Nigeria is one of the world’s worst countries for kidnapping, especially in oil producing states like Rivers, where criminal gangs make millions of dollars a year from ransom payments.

  • Institute to Analyse Zimbabwe’s Transport Sector Challenges

    {{Zimbabwe’s Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) is set to undertake an initiative where various stakeholders have been invited to suggest practical answers to the challenges facing the country’s transport sector.}}

    According to CILT, as transport practitioners respond to the challenges of economic decline and growth, social change, demographics and the need to become more sustainable, it will provide a forum for the presentation of an discussion on robust and affordable responses.

    “There is need to produce innovative and cost effective solutions to congestion, safety and travel behaviour change at a time of major budget constraint in Zimbabwe,” CILT said.

    The institute has invited its members and students from tertiary institutions to come up with solutions on the country’s transport challenges through presentation papers.

    Researchers have been invited to present papers on a range of transport-related topics, including ‘transport and the environment’, ‘transport modelling and simulation’, ‘sustainable urban mobility’, ‘integrated public transport systems’ and ‘traffic integration and control’.

    CILT said the papers presented by researchers would be accepted for publication and presented at a seminar to be arranged by the institute in October 2013, with awards given to the three leading papers.

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  • Qatar World Cup: Bernstein wants rebid not reschedule

    {{Former Football Association chairman David Bernstein says there should be a “rebidding process” for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar rather than the summer tournament being moved to winter.}}

    There are concerns over the heat in Qatar during the summer, when temperatures can reach 50C.

    “My end view is either that it should be left where it is or there should be a rebidding process,” said Bernstein.

    “It was a strange award in the first place, we all know that.”

    Qatar beat South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States to host the 2022 competition and its World Cup organising committee says it is ready to host the tournament in the summer.

    Bernstein’s successor at the FA, Greg Dyke, said last week it would be “impossible” to stage the World Cup in Qatar in the summer.

    He suggested that Fifa could either change when the tournament is played or change the location, adding “‘that the former is more likely than the latter”.

    However, Bernstein – similarly to the Premier League – opposes a change of dates.
    “It’s a huge issue,” he told Radio 5 live’s Sportsweek.

    “My personal view on this is unchanged. In 2010 Fifa awarded two World Cups at the same time. It was a controversial thing to do and I believe that Fifa regret doing it now.
    “Bidding for a World Cup is a serious business. There is a lot of money and national prestige involved.

    “The bid that Qatar submitted was a summer bid. It was accepted by Fifa as a summer bid so I don’t believe that it is impossible to hold the competition in the summer.

    “It may be undesirable, with fans coming out of cool stadia into boiling heat clearly an issue.

    “But I think the idea of just arbitrarily changing from summer to winter smacks of what I would call a false prospectus.”

    He added: “It’s not just the Premier League, I think all the European leagues and maybe leagues and competitions outside of Europe will feel the same about this.

    “It is a massive thing. It will not affect just one season but, I believe, three seasons – those either side of 2022. It’s a very big thing to do.

    “I just think to fundamentally bid on one basis for something as massive as this and then just to change it afterwards cannot be right.”

  • Madagascar’s ex-First Lady Under Pressure to Quit Presidential Race

    {{The list of candidates to be disqualified from contesting the upcoming Madagascar presidential election is expected on Saturday while those officially cleared will be announced next Wednesday.}}

    The decision on who to disallow and who to clear hinges on the country’s newly-established Special Electoral Court (CES).

    The deadline for filing official requests by interested parties for a candidate’s disqualified passed on Friday morning.

    Six complaints were lodged regarding former First Lady Lalao Ravalomanana, the wife of ousted leader Marc Ravalomanana, according to her lawyer Hanitra Razafimanantsoa.

    Gal Albert Camille Vital, a former prime minister and current envoy to Geneva, was one of the competitors calling for her expulsion.

    A committee named CCL had also asked her name to be removed.

    However, Mrs Ravalomanana’s proxies immediately lodged a defence at the CES headquarters on Friday.

    “We have attacked nobody. We are just defending our candidate,” Ms Razafimanantsoa said. “What we are awaiting is the actual CES confirmation of the upholding of the decision made by previous electoral judges in April.”

    For her, the fact that the actual electoral court will make another decision signifies that the country must disregard the existing law.

    NMG