[Military Times] Syphilis cases are rising among active-duty troops -- to the tune of a 41 percent increase since 2010, according to a new Pentagon report.
In the past month alone, the Navy saw nine new cases, as many as the sea service's diagnoses of Lyme disease, salmonella and giardia combined.
Syphilis is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease that, if left untreated, can cause blindness, dementia and paralysis.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the disease was "on the verge of elimination" in the U.S. at the turn of the century. But it has rebounded with a vengeance, particularly among gay males, the CDC found. A connection btwn arse buggery and disease? Who knew ?
BELEDWEYNE, Somalia -- At least fourteen people have been reported killed after two clan militias disagreed on taxing truck in central Somalia town of Beledweyne on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
The fighting raged between the two clan militias in Beleweyne’s Hawlwadag neighborhood. Twenty others have been wounded in the deadly confrontation according to medics and officials.
A group of militiamen reportedly refused another clan militia to solicit money from the truck driver and operators on the pretext of taxation. Efforts have got underway, with clan elders trying to broker ceasefire between the warring clan militias.
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[Ynet] The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... killed at least 2,110 pilgrims, a new News Agency that Dare Not be Named tally showed Monday, after officials in the kingdom met to discuss the tragedy.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdul Aziz, who is also the kingdom's interior minister, oversaw the meeting late Sunday, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. It did not mention any official response to the rising corpse count. The country's own toll since Sept. 26 has stood at 769 people killed and 934 injured.
"The crown prince was reassured on the progress of the investigations," the SPA report said. "He directed the committee's members to continue their efforts to find the causes of the accident, praying to Allah Almighty to accept the deaders and wishing the injured a speedy recovery."
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A new world's record, perhaps? And we silly infidels were worried about some virus!
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A new world record indeed, Bobby. The previous record was in 1990, when 1,426 suffocated in a tunnel near Mecca. Both incidents occurred on the day they stone the Devil.
[DAWN] A clash between the PIA employees union and engineers left three ground staffers of the airlines' engineering section maimed and caused delay in international and domestic flights at Bacha Khan International Airport on Sunday, sources said.
They said that the scuffle between PIA engineers and others employees occurred owing to stoppage of payment of allowance and closure of night shift. They said that the incident affected schedule of a domestic and two international flights of PIA.
Two of the maimed engineers identified as Israr Ahmad and Abdul Rauf were taken to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for treatment and checkup.
As a result of the clash, an Abu Dhabi-bound flight scheduled to depart at 4:45pm and a Kuala Lumpur-bound flight scheduled for 5:45mp were delayed. A domestic flight leaving for Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... was also delayed due to the brawl.
The passengers of the international flights were sitting in the departure lounge at the airport as the authorities scrambled to bring down tempers, officials said, adding that boarding passes were already issued to passengers and they waited at the departure lounge for several hours.
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[DAWN] Sihala police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against a person who died six years ago.
Rashid Razaq, a resident of Sihala cop shoppe limits, told Dawn that on October 15 a group of men had tried to occupy land belonging to one Imtiaz Bibi and her two sons, Zulfiqar Ali and Sajjad Ali.
He said: "Zulfiqar and Sajjad tried to stop the men and threw stones at them. The men reacted by opening fire at them. Imtiaz Bibi then tried to file a complaint with the police but she was ignored."
The police deny that Imtiaz Bibi had come to them with a complaint.
Mr Razaq said the trespassers filed a complaint against Imtiaz Bibi and her sons and also included Makhan Khan, a man who has been dead for six years, in their report. He added: "The FIR states that Makhan Khan was armed and had threatened and attacked the encroaching men."
A police source said the police were required by law to register an FIR as soon as a complaint is made.
"We registered the FIR when the men came to us. After investigations, if we find that one of the men mentioned in the FIR is dead, we will remove his name from the report." He added, "The police don't work like the FIA, which investigates first and then registers an FIR. Our process is different."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pak police have tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! a Christian faith healer under the country's controversial blasphemy laws for having Islamic script on a sword he used to treat his clients, officials said Monday.
Naveed John was arrested in the agricultural town of Sargodha, some 175 kilometres (108 miles) southwest of the capital Islamabad, on October 8 after Muslim residents in the area complained, local police official Ameer Mukhtar told AFP.
"The arrest was made after residents complained that the Christian man used a sword for healing patients on which Islamic verses were inscribed and it was offending for their religious sentiments," Mukhtar said.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against John under the blasphemy law, a section of which deals with outraging the religious feelings of citizens, he said.
The accused regarded the sword as a "sacred" item which had healing properties when placed on patients.
Offenders can be imprisoned for up to 10 years under the law.
Investigator Mahmood Ahmad Khan said that police had completed their investigations and submitted a court report.
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistain, an Islamic republic of some 200 million, where even unproven allegations frequently stir mob violence and lynchings.
Critics including European governments say the country's blasphemy laws are often misused to settle personal scores.
This month the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of a politician who sought blasphemy law reform, in a historic verdict hailed by moderates as a blow against religious extremism.
The ruling prompted prison authorities to put Asia Bibi, a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy, in isolation over fears of attacks by vigilantes.
Officials told AFP last week there had been "genuine" threats to the mother-of-five's life.
Bibi, whose high-profile plight has prompted prayers from the Vatican, was convicted in 2010 of committing blasphemy during an argument with a Muslim woman over a bowl of water.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Military Times] Syphilis cases are rising among active-duty troops -- to the tune of a 41 percent increase since 2010, according to a new Pentagon report.
[Ynet] The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in 
