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ISLAMABAD: The breast cancer risk for British Asian women has increased, a study carried out in Leicester suggests.Historically women from this ethnic group have had a lower risk of the disease than white British women, the University of Sheffield team researched.But they found breast cancer incidence had risen in recent years for South Asian women, BBC News reported here. Experts said lifestyle factors such as obesity, or more coming forward for screening could explain the change.The researchers, who are presenting their work to the National Cancer Intelligence Network Conference in Brighton on Friday, looked at census and cancer data for 135,000 women from different ethnic backgrounds from 2000-2009.In the year 2000-2004, South Asian women were found to have a 45 percent lower rate of breast cancer compared with white women.But by the 2005-2009 period, rates of breast cancer among South Asian women had increased significantly and had risen to be ...
HONG KONG: Two Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers on Friday urged US President Barack Obama not to prosecute Edward Snowden for exposing secret surveillance programmes, as supporters prepared for the city's first major rally calling for his protection.The United States has launched a criminal investigation after Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant, blew the lid on the National Security Agency's vast electronic surveillance operation.The 29-year-old, who is in hiding in the southern Chinese city, has vowed ...
MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday that data provided by the United States on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons was "unconvincing" and warned that direct military aid to rebels would hurt peace efforts.President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy adviser said US officials had recently presented Russia with new information about Assad's alleged chemical weapons use."What was presented by the Americans does not look convincing to us," Yury Ushakov told reporters."The information that ...
BERLIN: US President Barack Obama will also meet Angela Merkel's chief opposition rival in upcoming elections as well as the German chancellor and president during his visit next week to Berlin, the government announced on Friday.Obama, who is due in the German capital from late Tuesday with his wife Michelle after attending a G8 summit in Northern Ireland, will meet Peer Steinbrueck, the centre-left Social Democrats' (SPD) candidate for chancellor.Three months from elections, polls indicate ...
BEIRUT: Syria's foreign ministry said the United States was lying about chemical weapons use to give it an excuse to intervene in the country's two-year-old civil war."The White House relied on fabricated information in order to hold the Syrian government responsible for using these weapons, despite a series of statements that confirmed that terrorist groups in Syria have chemical weapons," it said."The United States, in resorting to a shameful use of pretexts in order allow ...
PORT LOUIS: Mauritius' tourism revenues plunged by 21 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the central bank said on Friday, reflecting weak economies in Europe, the source of most of the island's visitors.A sluggish tourism sector helped boost Mauritius's current account deficit to 6.8 billion rupees ($221.1 million) for the first three months of this year, from 4.2 billion rupees in the same period in 2012.Revenues from tourism fell by 20.9 percent ...
BUDAPEST: Hungary's economy will grow far more quickly than expected and if numbers for the second quarter show that, there will be room for more fiscal initiatives, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio on Friday.Orban, who faces elections next year, said if the central bank's lending growth programme proves to have benefited the economy by the time it wraps up in August, it could be continued.He added that the government, which agreed to change ...More Articles...
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