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  • Boston Bombers’ Parents Suspend trip to US

    {{The parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have retreated to a village in southern Russia to shelter from the spotlight and abandoned plans for now to travel to the United States, the father of the suspects said on Sunday.}}

    Speaking in the garden of a large house, Anzor Tsarnaev said he believed he would not be allowed to see his surviving son DzhokharŸ, who was captured and has been charged in connection with the April 15 bomb blasts that killed three people and wounded 264.

    “Unfortunately I can’t help my child in any way. I am in touch with Dzhokhar’s and my own lawyers. They told me they would let me know (what to do),” Tsarnaev said in an interview in the village where he relocated with the suspects’ mother.

    He agreed to the face-to-face meeting on condition that the village’s location in the North Caucasus, a string of mainly Muslim provinces in southern Russia, not be disclosed.

    “I am not going back to the United States. For now I am here. I am ill,” said Tsarnaev, pacing nervously in the garden at sunset in the quiet village set in rolling hills and surrounded by cow pastures.

    His face gaunt and tired, Tsarnaev said he suffered from high blood pressure and a heart condition.

    Tsarnaev had said in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Thursday that he planned to travel to the United States to see Dzhokhar and bury his elder son, Tamerlan, who was killed during a manhunt four days after the bombings.

    In Sunday’s interview he said he had decided to move away from the family home in Dagestan to the new location because he wanted to keep a low profile.

    “I feel hopeless. We are simple people. We are trying to understand. We are attacked from all sides,” he said, clutching his head in despair.

    “I don’t know whether I should talk or stay silent. I don’t want to harm my child. … We are used to all sorts of things here but we didn’t expect this from the United States.”

    He and other members of the family believe a man shown on television being led naked into a police car the night of the shootout was Tamerlan, and that the blurry footage, still widely available on YouTube, proves Tamerlan was captured alive.

    Boston police say Tamerlan was killed in a shootout, and the man seen being led into the car was a bystander who was briefly detained.

    Anzor Tsarnaev said he raised the issue with U.S. officials who visited him earlier in the week in his home in Dagestan.

    “I asked them: ‘I saw my child alive, he was being put into a police vehicle alive and healthy. How come media said he was killed?’ They were shocked themselves,” the father said.

    {reuters}

  • Syrian Prime Minister Survives Bomb Attack

    {{Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived a bomb attack that targeted his convoy in central Damascus on Monday, Syrian state media reported.}}

    “The terrorist explosion in al-Mezze was an attempt to target the convoy of the prime minister. Doctor Wael al-Halqi is well and not hurt at all,” state television said.

    It had earlier reported that a “terrorist explosion” in the Mezze district, where many government and military institutions are situated and where senior Syrian officials live, had caused casualties.

    A picture uploaded by opposition activists showed thick black smoke rising from the purported site of the explosion.

    The Britain-based Syria Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across Syria, said initial reports indicated one person accompanying the prime minister had been killed.

    {Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki in Damascus, April 3, 2012. Below the scene of Bomb Blast}.

    {wirestory}

  • US: Black Voter Turnout Rate Passes Whites For First Time

    {{America’s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.}}

    Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis.

    Census data and exit polling show that whites and blacks will remain the two largest racial groups of eligible voters for the next decade. Last year’s heavy black turnout came despite concerns about the effect of new voter-identification laws on minority voting, outweighed by the desire to re-elect the first black president.

    William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, analyzed the 2012 elections for the AP using census data on eligible voters and turnout, along with November’s exit polling.

    He estimated total votes for Obama and Romney under a scenario where 2012 turnout rates for all racial groups matched those in 2004. Overall, 2012 voter turnout was roughly 58 percent, down from 62 percent in 2008 and 60 percent in 2004.

    The analysis also used population projections to estimate the shares of eligible voters by race group through 2030.

    The numbers are supplemented with material from the Pew Research Center and George Mason University associate professor Michael McDonald, a leader in the field of voter turnout who separately reviewed aggregate turnout levels across states, as well as AP interviews with the Census Bureau and other experts. The bureau is scheduled to release data on voter turnout in May.

    Overall, the findings represent a tipping point for blacks, who for much of America’s history were disenfranchised and then effectively barred from voting until passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

    But the numbers also offer a cautionary note to both Democrats and Republicans after Obama won in November with a historically low percentage of white supporters.

    While Latinos are now the biggest driver of U.S. population growth, they still trail whites and blacks in turnout and electoral share, because many of the Hispanics in the country are children or noncitizens.

    In recent weeks, Republican leaders have urged a “year-round effort” to engage black and other minority voters, describing a grim future if their party does not expand its core support beyond white males.

    The 2012 data suggest Romney was a particularly weak GOP candidate, unable to motivate white voters let alone attract significant black or Latino support. Obama’s personal appeal and the slowly improving economy helped overcome doubts and spur record levels of minority voters in a way that may not be easily replicated for Democrats soon.

    Romney would have erased Obama’s nearly 5 million-vote victory margin and narrowly won the popular vote if voters had turned out as they did in 2004, according to Frey’s analysis. Then, white turnout was slightly higher and black voting lower.

    More significantly, the battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida and Colorado would have tipped in favor of Romney, handing him the presidency if the outcome of other states remained the same.

    “The 2012 turnout is a milestone for blacks and a huge potential turning point,” said Andra Gillespie, a political science professor at Emory University who has written extensively on black politicians.

    “What it suggests is that there is an ‘Obama effect’ where people were motivated to support Barack Obama. But it also means that black turnout may not always be higher, if future races aren’t as salient.”

    Whit Ayres, a GOP consultant who is advising GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a possible 2016 presidential contender, says the last election reaffirmed that the Republican Party needs “a new message, a new messenger and a new tone.”

    Change within the party need not be “lock, stock and barrel,” Ayres said, but policy shifts such as GOP support for broad immigration legislation will be important to woo minority voters over the longer term.

    “It remains to be seen how successful Democrats are if you don’t have Barack Obama at the top of the ticket,” he said.

    AP

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  • Man who raised hostage’s son jailed for kidnapping

    {{A court in Colombia has sentenced a peasant who looked after the baby son of a Farc hostage to 33 years in jail.}}

    Jose Crisanto Gomez was found guilty of kidnapping and extortion.

    In 2005, Farc rebels handed him the baby of Clara Rojas, a woman they were holding hostage and who had given birth in captivity.

    Mr Gomez looked after the child for seven months before handing him over to a state orphanage, where he stayed until DNA tests revealed his identity.

    A court in the central city of Villavicencio overturned an earlier decision to absolve Mr Gomez of the charges.

    Mr Gomez was not present at the sentencing, which can still be appealed against. Prosecutors are searching for him.

    Jungle ordeal

    Mr Gomez was living in a rural part of southern Guaviare province with his family when members of Colombia’s largest rebel group, the Farc, handed him an eight-month old boy in January 2005 and ordered the family to look after him.

    Mr Gomez says the Farc gave him the boy because his father-in-law was a healer, and the baby was ill.

    The boy had a fractured arm, an injury he had sustained during his delivery by Caesarean section in the make-shift jungle camp where he was born, and suffered from malaria and leishmaniasis.

    Mr Gomez and his family looked after the baby in their rural home before fleeing from the armed conflict to the provincial capital, San Jose del Guaviare.

    There he took the boy to hospital, telling nurses the baby’s name was Juan David Gomez and he was a relative of his.

    Noting the baby’s broken and untreated arm, the nurses suspected Mr Gomez of having abused the boy.

    They carried out a DNA test, which revealed Mr Gomez and the baby were not related.

    Unable to care for the boy and facing growing questions by medical staff, Mr Gomez agreed to hand the baby over to the state authorities.

    Desperate search

    However, the boy’s identity was not revealed until January 2008.

    A policeman who had been held hostage along with Clara Rojas, and who had managed to escape from the Farc, told Ms Rojas’s mother about the child, whom Ms Rojas had named Emmanuel.

    The authorities at first assumed Emmanuel was still in the hands of the rebels, but when the Farc delayed the planned release of mother and child, they began to suspect Emmanuel may no longer be with them.

    According to Mr Gomez, it was at this time that he first found out about the true identity of the child he had looked after for seven months, and informed the authorities.

    Ms Rojas’s mother then began to search orphanages throughout the country for a trace of her grandson.

    A child matching his description was finally found in a foster home in the capital, Bogota. A DNA comparison between the boy and Ms Rojas’s mother showed the two were related.

    Ms Rojas was released by the Farc in January 2008 and re-united with her son shortly afterwards, after three years of separation.

    Mr Gomez was arrested in 2008 and charged with kidnapping, extortion, rebellion and giving false testimony.

    He has always maintained that he was never a member of the Farc and did not know that the baby had been taken from his captive mother.

    In interviews given to local media after his release in 2012, he said he and his family had been threatened by the rebels, who blamed him for handing over their “prize possession” to the state authorities.

    A film about his story, Operation E, was recently released but has been criticised by Ms Rojas for “violating the privacy of Emmanuel”.

    Mr Gomez was absolved of the earlier charges in April of last year, but prosecutors appealed against the decision, leading to Wednesday’s sentence.

    The court in Villavicenio said Mr Gomez could appeal against the decision.

    BBC

  • China Reports New Bird Flu Case

    {{China on Saturday reported its first case of H7N9 bird flu in the southern province of Hunan, the latest sign the virus that has killed 23 people in the country is continuing to spread.}}

    The patient was a 64-year-old woman from Shaoyang city who developed a fever on April 14, four days after having contact with poultry.

    Her condition had improved with treatment, local media reported.

    The flu was first detected in March. This week, the World Health Organization called the virus “one of the most lethal”, and said it is more easily transmitted than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world since 2003.

    None of the 41 people who had come into contact with the newly-confirmed Hunan patient, identified only by the surname Guan, had shown symptoms,local media reported.

    A 54-year-old man who fell ill in Jiangxi province was also being treated in Hunan, where he was diagnosed with H7N9.

    The Hunan cases come a day after the eastern province of Fujian reported its first case and during the same week that a man in Taiwan become the first case of the flu outside mainland China. He caught the flu while travelling in China.

    Chinese scientists confirmed on Thursday that chickens had transmitted the flu to humans.

  • Gut bugs Linked to Heart Attacks & Stroke

    {{Thousands of heart attack victims every year have none of the notorious risk factors before their crisis – not high cholesterol, not unhealthy triglycerides.

    Now the search for the mystery culprits has turned up some surprising suspects: the trillions of bacteria and other microbes living in the human gut.}}

    In a study released on Wednesday, scientists discovered that some of the bugs turn lecithin – a nutrient in egg yolks, liver, beef, pork and wheat germ – into an artery-clogging compound called TMAO.

    They also found that blood levels of TMAO predict heart attack, stroke or death, and do so “independent of other risk factors,” said Dr Stanley Hazen, chairman of cellular and molecular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, who led the study.

    That suggests a TMAO test could enter the arsenal of blood tests that signal possible cardiovascular problems ahead. “TMAO might identify people who are at risk (for heart attacks and strokes) despite having no other risk factors,” Hazen said.

    The discovery also suggests a new approach to preventing these cardiovascular events: altering gut bacteria so they churn out less TMAO.

    The study joins a growing list of findings that link human “microbiota” – microbes in the gut, nose and genital tract, and on the skin – to health and disease.

    Research has shown that certain species of gut bacteria protect against asthma, for instance, while others affect the risk of obesity.

    Last week scientists reported that circumcision alters bacteria in the penis, and that this change (not only the anatomical one) helps protect men from HIV/AIDS, probably by reducing the number of bacteria that live in oxygen-free environments such as under the foreskin.

    “It’s very strong work,” Dr Martin Blaser of New York University Langone Medical Center, a pioneer in studies of the microbiota, said of the TMAO study. “They show clearly that human microbiota play a key role in producing TMAO, suggesting new approaches to prevention and treatment” of cardiovascular disease.

    {{Normal Cholesterol , Fatal Heart Attack}}

    The new study builds on a 2011 discovery by the Cleveland Clinic team that, in lab mice, gut bacteria turn lecithin in food into TMAO, or trimethylamine-N-oxide, causing heart disease. In addition, they found, people with high levels of TMAO are more likely to have heart disease.

    But that research left two questions hanging: Do human gut bacteria trigger the lecithin-to-TMAO alchemy, like those in mice? And do high levels of TMAO predict heart attacks and stroke in people many years out, not simply mark the presence of cardiovascular disease at the time of the blood test?

    To answer the first question, Hazen and his colleagues had 40 healthy adults eat two hard-boiled eggs, which contain lots of lecithin.

    Just as in lab mice, TMAO levels in the blood rose. After a week of broad-spectrum antibiotics, however, the volunteers’ TMAO levels barely budged after they ate eggs, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

    “That showed that the intestinal bacteria (which antibiotics kill) are essential for forming TMAO,” said Hazen.

    Next, to see whether TMAO predicts cardiovascular events, the researchers measured its levels in 4,007 heart patients.

    After accounting for such risk factors as age and a past heart attack, they found that high levels of TMAO were predictive of heart attack, stroke and death over the three years that the patients were followed.

    Moreover, TMAO predicted risk more accurately than triglyceride or cholesterol levels, Hazen said. And it did so in people without substantial coronary artery disease or dangerous lipid levels as well as in sicker patients.

    Specifically, people in the top 25 percent of TMAO levels had 2.5 times the risk of a heart attack or stroke compared to people in the bottom quartile.

    The reason TMAO is so potent is that it makes blood cholesterol build up on artery walls, causing atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and, if the buildup ruptures and blocks an artery, stroke or heart attack.

    Earlier this month, the Cleveland Clinic researchers reported that gut bugs also transform carnitine, a nutrient found in red meat and dairy products, into TMAO, at least in meat eaters.

    Vegetarians made much less TMAO even when eating carnitine as part of the study, suggesting that avoiding meat reduces the gut bacteria that turn carnitine into TMAO, while regular helpings of dead animals encourages their growth and thus the production of TMAO.

    More studies are needed to show whether TMAO reliably predicts cardiovascular crises, and does so better than other blood tests. Experts disagree on how many people have no other risk factors but would be flagged by TMAO.

    Dr Gordon Tomaselli, chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and past president of the American Heart Association, guesses it is less than 10 percent or so of the people who eventually have heart crises.

    Someone with high levels of TMAO could reduce her cardiovascular risk by eating fewer egg yolks and less beef and pork.

    But someone with a two-eggs-a-day habit but low TMAO probably has gut microbes that aren’t very adept at converting lecithin to TMAO, meaning she can eat eggs and the like without risking a coronary.

    Just as statins control unhealthy cholesterol, prebiotics (compounds that nurture “healthy” gut microbes) or probiotics (the good bugs themselves) might control unhealthy TMAO.

    For now, however, no one knows which prebiotics or probiotics might do that. In one study, probiotics actually increased TMAO-producing bacteria – “not what you want,” Hazen said.

    Neither will popping antibiotics work: bacteria become resistant to the drugs. Developing compounds that crimp the ability of the bacteria to turn lecithin into TMAO, Hazen said, is more likely to succeed.

  • Italy forms new government

    {{Center-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government Saturday in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s conservatives, an unusual alliance of bitter rivals that broke a two-month political stalemate from inconclusive elections in the recession-mired country.}}

    The daunting achievement was pulled off by Letta, who will be sworn in as premier along with the new Cabinet at the presidential Quirinal Palace on Sunday.

    Letta, 46, is a moderate with a reputation as a political bridge-builder. He is also the nephew Berlusconi’s longtime adviser, Gianni Letta, a relationship seen as smoothing over often nasty interaction between the two main coalition partners.

    Serving as deputy premier and interior minister will be Berlusconi’s top political aide, Angelino Alfano.

    He is a former justice minister who was the architect of legislation that critics say was tailor-made to help media mogul Berlusconi in his many judicial woes.

    The creation of the coalition capped the latest political comeback for Berlusconi, a former three-time premier who was forced to resign in 2011 as Italy slid deeper in to the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis.

    On Monday, Letta is expected to lay out his strategy to Parliament, before required confidence votes from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

    AP

  • Russia Caught Boston Bomber on Wiretap

    {{Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.}}

    In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said.

    The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family.

    As it was, Russian authorities told the FBI only that they had concerns that Tamerlan and his mother were religious extremists.

    With no additional information, the FBI conducted a limited inquiry and closed the case in June 2011.

    Two years later, authorities say Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhohkar, detonated two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 260.

    Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout and Dzhohkar is under arrest.

    In the past week, Russian authorities turned over to the United States information it had on Tamerlan and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva.

    The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens who emigrated from southern Russia to the Boston area over the past 11 years.

    Even had the FBI received the information from the Russian wiretaps earlier, it’s not clear that the government could have prevented the attack.

    In early 2011, the Russian FSB internal security service intercepted a conversation between Tamerlan and his mother vaguely discussing jihad, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation with reporters.

    The two discussed the possibility of Tamerlan going to Palestine, but he told his mother he didn’t speak the language there, according to the officials, who reviewed the information Russia shared with the U.S.

    In a second call, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva spoke with a man in the Caucasus region of Russia who was under FBI investigation.

    Jacqueline Maguire, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington Field Office, where that investigation was based, declined to comment.

    {wirestory}

  • Hitler’s Food Taster Tells of Poisoning Fears

    {{They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. }}

    Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler’s food taster.

    Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent two and a half years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler’s food to make sure it wasn’t poisoned before it was served to the Nazi leader in his “Wolf’s Lair,” the heavily guarded command center in what is now Poland, where he spent much of his time in the final years of World War II.

    “He was a vegetarian. He never ate any meat during the entire time I was there,” Woelk said of the Nazi leader. “And Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him — that’s why he had 15 girls taste the food before he ate it himself.”

    With many Germans contending with food shortages and a bland diet as the war dragged on, sampling Hitler’s food had its advantages.

    “The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine. And always with a side of rice or pasta,” she recalled. “But this constant fear — we knew of all those poisoning rumors and could never enjoy the food. Every day we feared it was going to be our last meal.”

    The petite widow’s story is a tale of the horror, pain and dislocation endured by people of all sides who survived World War II.

    Only now in the sunset of her life has she been willing to relate her experiences, which she had buried because of shame and the fear of prosecution for having worked with the Nazis, although she insists she was never a party member.

    She told her story as she flipped through a photo album with pictures of her as a young woman, in the same Berlin apartment where she was born in 1917.

    Woelk first revealed her secret to a local Berlin reporter a few months ago. Since then interest in her life story has been overwhelming. School teachers wrote and asked her for photos and autographs to bring history alive for their students.

    Several researchers from a museum visited to ask for details about her life as Hitler’s taster.

    Woelk says her association with Hitler began after she fled Berlin to escape Allied air attacks. With her husband gone and serving in the German army, she moved in with relatives about 435 miles (700 kilometers) to the east in Rastenburg, then part of Germany; now it is Ketrzyn, in what became Poland after the war.

    There she was drafted into civilian service and assigned for the next two and a half years as a food taster and kitchen bookkeeper at the Wolf’s Lair complex, located a few miles (kilometers) outside the town.

    Hitler was secretive, even in the relative safety of his headquarters, that she never saw him in person — only his German shepherd Blondie and his SS guards, who chatted with the women.

    Hitler’s security fears were not unfounded. On July 20, 1944, a trusted colonel detonated a bomb in the Wolf’s Lair in an attempt to kill Hitler.

    He survived, but nearly 5,000 people were executed following the assassination attempt, including the bomber.

    “We were sitting on wooden benches when we heard and felt an incredible big bang,” she said of the 1944 bombing.

    “We fell off the benches, and I heard someone shouting ‘Hitler is dead!’ But he wasn’t. ”

    Following the blast, tension rose around the headquarters. Woelk said the Nazis ordered her to leave her relatives’ home and move into an abandoned school closer to the compound.

    With the Soviet army on the offensive and the war going badly for Germany, one of her SS friends advised her to leave the Wolf’s Lair.

    She said she returned by train to Berlin and went into hiding.

    Woelk said the other women on the food tasting team decided to remain in Rastenburg since their families were all there and it was their home.

    “Later, I found out that the Russians shot all of the 14 other girls,” she said. It was after Soviet troops overran the headquarters in January 1945.

    When she returned to Berlin, she found a city facing complete destruction. Round-the-clock bombing by U.S. and British planes was grinding the city center to rubble.

    On April 20, 1945, Soviet artillery began shelling the outskirts of Berlin and ground forces pushed through toward the heart of the capital against strong resistance by die-hard SS and Hitler Youth fighters.

    After about two weeks of heavy fighting, the city surrendered on May 2 — after Hitler, who had abandoned the Wolf’s Lair about five months before, had committed suicide.

    His successor surrendered a week later, ending the war in Europe.

    For many Berlin civilians — their homes destroyed, family members missing or dead and food almost gone — the horror did not end with capitulation.

    “The Russians then came to Berlin and got me, too,” Woelk said. “They took me to a doctor’s apartment and raped me for 14 consecutive days.

    That’s why I could never have children. They destroyed everything.”

    Like millions of Germans and other Europeans, Woelk began rebuilding her life and trying to forget as best she could her bitter memories and the shame of her association with a criminal regime that had destroyed much of Europe.

    She worked in a variety of jobs, mostly as a secretary or administrative assistant. Her husband returned from the war but died 23 years ago, she said.

    With the frailty of advanced age and the lack of an elevator in her building, she has not left her apartment for the past eight years.

    Nurses visit several times a day, and a niece stops by frequently, she said.

    Now at the end of her life, she feels the need to purge the memories by talking about her story.

    “For decades, I tried to shake off those memories,” she said. “But they always came back to haunt me at night.”

    {AP}

  • Bangladesh building toll rises to 341. Four Arrested

    {{Two factory bosses and two engineers were arrested in Bangladesh on Saturday, three days after the collapse of a building where low-cost garments were made for Western brands, as the death toll rose to 341 but many were still being found alive.}}

    As many as 900 people could still be missing, police said.

    The owner of the eight-storey building that fell like a pack of cards around more than 3,000 workers was still on the run.

    Police said several of his relatives were detained to compel him to hand himself in, and an alert had gone out to airport and border authorities to prevent him from fleeing the country.

    Officials said Rana Plaza, on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, had been built without the correct permits, and the workers were allowed in on Wednesday despite warnings the previous day that it was structurally unsafe.

    Two engineers involved in building the complex were also arrested at their homes early on Saturday, Dhaka district police chief Habibur Rahman said.

    He said they were arrested for dismissing a warning not to open the building after a jolt was felt and cracks were noticed on some pillars the previous day.

    The owner and managing director of the largest of the five factories in the complex, New Wave Style, surrendered to the country’s garment industry association during the night and they were handed over to police.

    The factory, which listed many European and North American retailers as its customers, occupied upper floors of the building that officials said had been added illegally.

    {reuters}