The G8 is our once-in-a-generation chance to conquer this condition and we must see meaningful action after the talking is over

Many governments are woefully unprepared for an epidemic of dementia currently affecting 44 million people worldwide and set to more than treble to 135 million people by 2050, health experts and campaigners said on Thursday.

Pfizer, the largest U.S. pharmaceutical company, said it hoped the enhanced access to its data will help spur further scientific and medical research as well as encourage more patients to get involved in clinical trials.

In a statement released by her attorney on Tuesday night, Huber said, nike shoes “I stand by the rigor of my scientific analysis and I shall continue to follow-up on the concerns that I expressed with regard to Provenge” in the 2012 JNCI paper.

The SEC settlement bars her from the securities industry for six months and requires her to pay a $25,000 fine.

The SEC’s administrative finding, dated last week, concluded that, for a short period of time, Huber had a significant financial stake in the perception of Dendreon.

Leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized countries are due to meet in London next week for a special summit on dementia – a condition that includes Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), shop nike free  fronto-temporal dementia and many other causes of cognitive decline.

In Britain, dementia is the most feared health condition among people aged over 55 and costs the economy 23 billion pounds ($37.6 billion) a year – more than cancer, stroke or heart disease combined.

Prime Minister David Cameron, who will host the summit, has committed to spending 66 million pounds on dementia research by 2015. Campaigners welcome the investment, but also say it is a fraction – one eighth – of what is spent on cancer research in Britain.

“As far as changing the mindset of patients getting involved in clinical trials, which has always been a challenge, this will help quite a bit,” free run  Romano predicted.

The move comes at a time of increasing pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to be more transparent with clinical trial information – including safety data and details of failed studies – and to increase access for the scientific community.

“Lack of funding means dementia research is falling behind other conditions,” said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society. “The G8 is our once-in-a-generation chance to conquer this condition and we must see meaningful action after the talking is over.”

As well as more money for fundamental scientific research and for drug development, experts say they want the G8 summit to focus on ways to attract, develop and retain the best scientists, doctors and carers into the field of dementia.

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Our findings suggest that (acetaminophen) might not be as harmless as we think

An eighth PrincetonUniversity student has been diagnosed with meningitis, a potentially fatal infection that causes swelling of the brain and spinal cord, a university spokesman said on Friday.

Health officials will conduct tests to determine whether the latest case is related to the previous seven that have been identified since March. Officials at the New Jersey school could not provide the current health status of the student.

The latest case comes shortly after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed the university to use an imported vaccine to help control the disease’s spread.

“Our findings suggest that (acetaminophen) might not be as harmless as we think,” Ragnhild Eek Brandlistuen said. free run 3  She led the study at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Oslo in Norway.

She and her coauthors studied 48,000 Norwegian children whose mothers answered survey questions about their medication use at weeks 17 and 30 of pregnancy, and again six months after giving birth.

Mothers filled out a follow-up questionnaire about their child’s developmental milestones three years later.

The FDA has allowed the use of the vaccine at Princeton under an Investigational New Drug application. The federal CDC considers the drug to be safe.

“Everyone involved is working hard to organize a potential serogroup B meningococcal disease vaccine campaign as quickly as possible that fits into Princeton University’s academic calendar,”  nike free running shoe said CDC spokeswoman Sharon Hoskins.

European regulators on Friday recommended approval of the Gilead drug, under the brand name Sovaldi.

It’s difficult to define risks for pregnant women and their children, since rigorous tests and controlled studies of drug exposure aren’t ethical, Brandlistuen said. All researchers can do is closely observe women in the real world.

But this study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, involved a large number of women, and researchers also looked for any link to ibuprofen, a pain-relief alternative without acetaminophen.

“I don’t think it’s a done deal,” nike running shoes she told Reuters Health. She doesn’t like to pin “the cause of autism” on any one thing, as many factors are likely involved.

“But for those people who wish to take precautions, this is something they can do,” Herbert said, referring to pregnant women cutting down on Tylenol use or choosing ibuprofen instead.

“With every choice you make, make the healthy choice,” she said.

In a statement to Reuters Health, Jodie Wertheim a spokesperson for Johnson & Johnson, said the drug “has an exceptional safety profile.  nike free run 3 As the authors note in the study, there are no prospective, randomized controlled studies demonstrating a causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse effects on child development.”

The most severe cases can result in death, hearing loss, brain damage, kidney disease or amputation of limbs.

Symptoms include fever, headaches and stiff neck.

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Japan’s trade data for October could provide an early sign of whether shipments to Asia have been able to recover

Hedge funds took a liking to online music company Pandora Media Inc (P.N) in the third quarter but soured on Apple Inc (AAPL.O), according to regulatory filings published Thursday.

“When Warren Buffett gives his seal of approval to any company, that is never a bad thing,” said Pavel Molchanov, energy analyst at Raymond James & Associates, who rates Exxon shares a “strong buy.”

The quarterly disclosures of stock holdings are intriguing for investors trying to get a glimpse into what savvy traders are buying and selling. However, the disclosures are backward looking and come out 45 days after the end of each quarter, and do not disclose short positions – bets that a stock will fall in price.

Moreover, business investment remains anemic and companies are shying away from boosting wages, free run on clearance headwinds that threaten to undercut Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to foster durable growth through aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus.

While Tiger Consumer dissolved its Facebook Inc (FB.O) holdings in the third quarter, Coatue opened a large new stake in the social networking site, buying up to 9.2 million shares.

Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Investors also opened a new 4.4 million share stake in Facebook. All three managers are part of the crew of so-called Tiger Cubs – hedge funds launched with seed money by Julian Robertson of Tiger Management.

Exports rose 16.5 percent in October from a year earlier, according to a Reuters poll of 27 economists.  nike shoes That would mark the fastest growth since July 2010, when exports jumped 23.5 percent from the previous year.

Leon Cooperman’s Omega Advisors, David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management, Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital and Manish Chopra’s Tiger Veda Management all either completely cut or reduced their Apple holdings.

The finance ministry will release the data on November 20 at 8:50 a.m.

Imports are forecast to have risen an annual 19.0 percent, faster than a 16.5 percent increase in the year to September, according to the poll.

That would bring the trade deficit to 813.5 billion yen ($8.14 billion), shop nike free  which would be the 16th straight month of trade deficits.

Growth in the world’s third-biggest economy slowed in July-September as capital spending, personal consumption and exports moderated.

Japan’s trade data for October could provide an early sign of whether shipments to Asia have been able to recover.

Tiger Global Management’s hedge fund, free run  co-managed by Chase Coleman and Feroz Dewan, opened a new stake in Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), as did Viking Global, buying up to 9 million shares. But San Francisco based-hedge fund Farallon Capital Management dramatically reduced its Yahoo stake from 11.275 million shares to about 1.8 million.

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The ECB cut interest rates to a record low on Thursday after to prevent the euro zone’s recovery from stalling

Investors pulled $1.8 billion out of stock funds worldwide in the latest week on uncertainty over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s next move, data from a Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research report showed on Friday.

Instead, the maker of Cartier jewelry and IWC watches said on Friday it hoped to turn around lagging businesses, which also include menswear brand Dunhill and Montblanc writing instruments, within two to three years.

The group also reported sales growth of 9 percent in the six months to September, in line with forecasts, and a pick-up to 12 percent growth in October, helped by some one-off sales of very expensive jewelry items.

“Surprising, and likely to be taken negatively,” nike running shoes said Citi analyst Thomas Chauvet of Richemont’s decision to retain its weaker brands, which are mostly in fashion and accessories.

A string of consumer goods companies have struck deals recently to shed underperforming businesses in a bid to cope with a faltering global economy. Food group Nestle, for example, agreed on Thursday to sell the bulk of its struggling Jenny Craig weight-loss business.

At the same time, operating profit at Montblanc fell 55 percent and the margin halved to 6.7 percent. Its other businesses, including Lancel and Dunhill, had an operating loss of 35 million euros.

Recent comments by former chairman Johann Rupert, nike free run 3 currently on a sabbatical, triggered speculation Richemont could offload some of its fashion brands. However, Reuters reported Richemont was struggling to find a buyer for Lancel.

European stock funds, meanwhile, had inflows of $2.8 billion, marking their 19th straight week of new cash and their longest inflow streak on record.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares rose 0.7 percent over the week, despite uncertainty over the European Central Bank’s policy move at its Thursday meeting. The ECB cut interest rates to a record low on Thursday after to prevent the euro zone’s recovery from stalling.

“The underlying trend overall in October is pretty much the same that we’ve seen in September although the mix is changing a bit.  shop nike  The watches and jewelry segment is getting a little better while fashion and accessories and Montblanc are not getting better,” Saage said.

Funds that hold government debt, mainly U.S. Treasuries, attracted $900 million over the latest weekly period, marking their first inflows in nine weeks and showing investors’ preference for safety.

A weakening of the U.S. dollar and the yen caused operating profit to slip 1 percent, but hedging activities helped net profit rise 10 percent to 1.185 billion euros in the six months to September, free run on clearance just ahead of analysts’ average forecast.

Precious metals funds had outflows of $200 million over the weekly period, marking their 8th straight week of withdrawals. Spot gold slumped 1.4 percent on October 31, the most in three weeks on concerns surrounding the Fed’s path.

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We are with the army. There is no security without the army

Libyan’s army moved into Benghazi in eastern Libya on Friday, a show of force aimed at restoring order in the country’s second largest city, rocked by almost daily bombings and assassinations.

The NATO member’s decision to choose the $3.4 billion offer from the China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp (CPMIEC) raised concerns among Turkey’s Western allies as the Chinese company is under U.S. sanctions for violations of the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act.

“When these bids are submitted, everyone says their bids are valid until a particular date in terms of price and the date of delivery,” Yilmaz told state broadcaster TRT.

Riyadh has expressed disappointment with U.S.asics gel kayano 18   policy toward Syria in the wake of a deal between Moscow and Washington to destroy Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal that averted the threat of a Western military strike.

The 108 member coalition, which has little influence on the most formidable brigades fighting Assad, is due to meet on Saturday in Istanbul, with Geneva as the main item for discussions.

U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment on Friday’s reported meeting, which was not formally announced.

“We are with the army. There is no security without the army,” political activist Hania al-Gumati told Reuters during the demonstration.

But hours later unknown gunmen killed a security officer in Benghazi, a security source said.

“We stand by the people,”  asics running shoes Wanis Bukhmada, commander of special forces in Benghazi, told a crowd. “We won’t allow anyone to mess around with security anymore.”

Some 500 people took to the streets, welcoming the army, which has been accused by critics of keeping largely to barracks in recent months.

Sources familiar with the discussions said it could affect Turkey’s plans to buy radar-evading F-35 fighter jets built by Lockheed, a program whose development Turkey helped to fund and which it hopes results in component orders for Turkish firms.

But Abdelrahman al-Haj, an influential opposition figure,   asics t139n   said Russia and the United Nations must also indicate that Geneva will convene along these lines for the opposition to agree to the talks.

Haj said the opposition is adamant about sidelining Assad because the president and his brother directly control tens of thousands of troops in elite army units and intelligence who mostly belong to the ruling Alawite minority sect.

Major Islamist rebel brigades have declared their opposition to Geneva if the conference does not result in Assad’s removal. Opposition sources say Ford, the U.S. envoy, may meet some of the signatories of the declaration in the next few days.

Lockheed welcomed news that Turkey was open to further talks.  asics t214n  “We welcome the opportunity to continue discussions with the Turkish government for their critical missile defense needs,” spokesman Gordon Johndroe told Reuters in an email.

Protests and strikes over higher pay and political rights have shut down much of the country’s oil output, depriving the government of the main source of income.

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If the opposition does not participate there will be no Geneva conference

The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria has said no peace conference will be possible without the Syrian opposition, as the United Nations warned of rising malnutrition among children trapped in battle zones.

Hoping to build on the momentum of last month’s US-Russia accord to destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal by mid-2014, envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been criss-crossing the region to rally support for the so-called Geneva II talks.

Syria’s opposition has refused to attend unless President Bashar al-Assad’s resignation is on the table — a demand rejected by Damascus. nike free run women  Rebel groups have warned that participants would be considered traitors.

“If the opposition does not participate there will be no Geneva conference,” Brahimi said in Damascus on Friday, before travelling to Beirut.

Youssef, known for his fierce jabs at Mursi, returned to his show last Friday following a summer break, poking equal fun at Sisi.

Referring to the ruler of the country, Youssef later displayed a projected image of Sisi before quickly swapping it with the image of the interim president, Adly Mansour.

He made extensive fun of the adulation of Sisi’s admirers

“Sisi has turned into … chocolate!” air max 1  said Youssef, joking about the chocolate bars that have been molded into the defense minister’s likeness in confectionary stores.

A lifelong New Yorker, Major says he understands graffiti culture, and he also appreciates fine art. But he doesn’t think Banksy’s art is all that good — “though I’ll give him credit, he’s a good marketer.”

But Sean Lynch, 25, of Staten Island, thinks Banksy is “one of the more captivating artists of our generation.” Lynch said it was magical visiting Banksy sites around the city and hearing conversations about art that the works inspired, with “people of all different walks and cultures sharing opinions, sharing stories. … Nike Zoom Kobe The walls started to talk to them, in a way.”

Political tensions are running high in Egypt just before Mursi and 14 other senior figures in the Muslim Brotherhood are due to face trial on Monday on charges of inciting violence.

Radhika Subramaniam, a professor at Parsons The New School for Design in Manhattan, says Banksy is part of a long tradition of graffiti artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat whose work ultimately earned recognition from the art establishment. But he also fits into a contemporary trend of opening up public spaces to conversations about who owns them and what can happen there — especially in today’s cleaned-up New York, where MayorMichael Bloomberg, when asked about Banksy, called graffiti “a sign of decay and loss of control.”

OK, but is Banksy any good? “There’s plenty of wit in what he does, as well as some thoroughly ordinary, sometimes pleasant, sometimes banal, but sometimes sweet things,” Subramaniam said. free run 3.0v5 But he’s also “not a na?f in the art world. After all, who would care if you or I were to set up a blog and enact a residency like this? It’s only because he’s able to marshal this kind of PR and marketing that … catapults his residency to another level and elicits these polarized points of view.”

Syria’s key ally Moscow on Friday was briefed on the disarmament operation, headed by international watchdog the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has led to putting all of Syria’s chemical arms under “tamper-proof” seals, media reported.

After the briefing, nike free run 3 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Syria’s chemical arsenal could be taken out of the country for destruction, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

But how nations go about actually destroying the weapons by a mid-2014 deadline, has been a point of debate.

The Security Council resolution was adopted after a deal was struck between Russia and the United States to avert military strikes on Syria following deadly August chemical attacks near Damascus.

Assad has denied he ordered the attacks and blames rebels for them.

On Friday, Assad forces seized control of the rebel held town of Sfeira in the northern Aleppo province after a 27-day siege, activists said.

Sfeira is strategic because chemical and other heavy weapon stockpiles are kept there.

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The defense did a tremendous job, coming up with a huge stop there

The Seattle Seahawks struggled on offense against the scrappy St. Louis Rams, so they had to leave Monday night’s game in the hands of one of the NFL’s most stingy defenses.

With its back on the goal line, the defense answered the challenge.

The Seahawks stuffed Daryl Richardson on third-and-goal, and then caused Kellen Clemens to overthrow his intended target in the corner of the end zone on the final play of a nerve-wracking 14-9 victory.

”The defense did a tremendous job, coming up with a huge stop there,” said Seahawks star Russell Wilson, nike shoes who was sacked a career-high seven times.

The outcome capped a lousy night for St. Louis sports fans. The Cardinals lost 3-1 to the Boston Red Sox in Game 5 of the World Series, played just up Broadway at Busch Stadium.

”I’m proud of our guys,” Rams coach Jeff Fisher said. ”We felt like we had a chance.”

Seattle (7-1) extended the best start in franchise history despite gaining just 135 yards, with

Those outside the team’s inner circle see comparisons between this announcement and what happened last season when Granger was told to rest his injured left knee. Granger didn’t play until February and returned to bench after only five games. In April, he finally opted for season-ending surgery.

When training camp opened last month, shop nike free  Granger was cleared to work though he was given extra time to rest as he finished his rehabilitation from surgery.

Now, he’s dealing with a strained muscle in his lower left leg that forced him to miss the final week of the preseason and could push return back into mid to late November.

Granger insists there’s nothing to worry about.

”They’re holding me back because they want it to heal,” Granger said, referring to the doctors. ”They said if I had not missed the whole year, they probably would have sat me down a week and a half.”

It said Monday that liability insurance is expected to cover the payments and legal defense, and expenses not covered should be paid from interest paid on loans by PennState to its self-supporting units.

Clifford Rieders, free run  a Williamsport attorney who negotiated one of the settlements, said the average payout matched other cases involving child abuse in educational or religious settings.

Rieders said the cases raised the specter of embarrassing revelations if they went to trial, and a university would have to consider the effect on the victims, its overall reputation, its ability to pay and its wider objectives.

”There are many considerations whenever you resolve a high-profile case involving serious misconduct, and I’m sure all of those and more came into play here,” Rieders said.

Sandusky, 69, nike free run  has been pursuing appeals while he serves a 30- to 60-year sentence on 45 criminal counts.

They still had a chance after they took over at their own 3-yard line with just over 5 minutes left, and methodically marched down field. They had first-and-goal at the Seattle 6 with about a minute left, and Richardson carried the ball to the 2.

An encroachment call on Seattle put the ball at the 1, but Richardson was stuffed on third down and Clemens misfired on fourth down as the final seconds ticked off the clock.

”We needed 97 yards, we got 96,” Clemens said. ”There was such a great sense of resolve in the huddle as soon as I walked in the huddle. Everybody knew. Nobody really had to say anything. We gave ourselves a win at the end, but unfortunately we didn’t make the play.”

NOTES: Rams DE Robert Quinn had three sacks, all in the first half. … Seattle had minus-1 yard of offense in the first quarter, and 38 yards at the half, its fewest since gaining 37 in the first half against Kansas City in 1998, according to STATS LLC. … Seahawks WR Sidney Rice left late in the first half with a knee injury and did not return.

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It’s incredibly significant because it reflects the fact that now that he has left the military

Prince William hosted his first ever investiture ceremony this morning at the queen’s request, a move regarded as a step toward his becoming a full-time royal.

The Duke of Cambridge, 31, presented various awards to nearly 90 people from across the United Kingdom, recognizing their accomplishments in fields including charity work and, in the case of 2012 U.S. Open tennis champion Andy Murray, sporting success.

Murray was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the duke, who has, along with wife Kate Middleton, who is known to be a huge tennis fan, watched Murray play on several occasions.

Although Prince Charles and, on occasion, his sister, Princess Anne, have conducted some of the 25 or so investitures that take place each year, asics nimbus 14 running shoes the Daily Mirror’s Royal Reporter Victoria Murphy told ABC News that hosting this senior duty is a big moment for William.

“It’s incredibly significant because it reflects the fact that now that he has left the military, he is focusing on royal duties and he is learning the ropes and learning about everything he is going to have to do when he becomes king,” she said.

When examined with the earlier Georgian finds, the skull “shows that this special immigration out of Africa happened much earlier than we thought and a much more primitive group did it,” said study lead author David Lordkipanidze, director of the GeorgiaNationalMuseum.  kayano 18 running shoes “This is important to understanding human evolution.”

For years, some scientists have said humans evolved from only one or two species, much like a tree branches out from a trunk, while others say the process was more like a bush with several offshoots that went nowhere.

Even bush-favoring scientists say these findings show one single species nearly 2 million years ago at the former Soviet republic site. But they disagree that the same conclusion can be said for bones found elsewhere, such as Africa. However, Lordkipanidze and colleagues point out that the skulls found in Georgia are different sizes but are considered to be the same species.  clearance asics shoes  So, they reason, it’s likely the various skulls found in different places and times in Africa may not be different species, but variations in one species.

To see how a species can vary, just look in the mirror, they said.

Some Democrats have suggested that the FCC’s existing oversight authority over broadcasters could also be used to force TV advertisers to name specific funders for each spot they buy. That idea has emerged as Cruz’s focus at the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the commission.

The FCC remains in something of a holding pattern under Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn.  asics t189n  It awaits Wheeler’s confirmation to move ahead on several key projects, including upcoming auctions of spectrum. Former chief Julius Genachowski left the FCC in May.

Aside from wanting to give William more royal responsibility, Murphy believes, grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, now 87, is looking to share some of the more physically demanding royal engagements. Investitures, which require standing for more than an hour at a time, fall under that category, Murphy said.

“Perhaps she is starting to realize that it’s something she is not going to be able to do as often from now on,” she said, “and so she’s looking at the younger, senior members of the royal family to step in and take some of that strain from her.”

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They were initially taken to a naval base in the Alexandria district of Ras al-Tin and then to a police station

The boat sank early on Friday. The survivors, mostly Palestinians and Syrians, were taken to a naval base.

The incident comes a week after at least 319 migrants died when their boat sank off an Italian island.

Only 155 people survived the disaster near Lampedusa – divers are still searching for bodies there.

Alexandria’s security chief, Amin Ezzeddin, told the BBC that the survivors of the latest incident included 40 Syrians, 72 Palestinians and four Egyptians.

They were initially taken to a naval base in the Alexandria district of Ras al-Tin and then to a police station.

Despite this, the animals seemed to grasp the meaning of pointing from the outset.  air max 95 running shoes This makes them the only non-human animals to understand the gesture without being trained to do so.

In previous studies, Prof Byrne said, our closest primate cousins, the chimpanzees, proved to be “hopeless” at at similar task.

Ms Smet added that she had been impressed by the animals’ apparently innate understanding of the gesture.

“Of course we had hoped that the elephants would be able to learn to follow human pointing, or we wouldn’t have done the experiment in the first place,” she said.

“But it was really surprising that they didn’t seem to have to learn anything.

The prosecution is now expected to respond in writing to the defence’s claims, zoom kobe basketball shoes and the ICC could then order a hearing into the allegations.

The timing of the claims could not be worse for the ICC, as the African Union will discuss a mass withdrawal from the court at talks on Friday and Saturday, the BBC’s Anna Holligan reports from The Hague.

So far all the court’s indictments have been against Africans, and many leaders on the continent accuse the ICC of unfair bias.

Human rights groups have been campaigning to convince them not to leave the ICC, nike free run 3 but the allegations from the defence lawyers will do little to restore faith in the controversial court, our correspondent says.

On Thursday the European Union also voted to launch a maritime surveillance system aimed at preventing further migrant disasters.

Ministers say the 35m-euros Eurosur programme, which includes plans to share data and use surveillance drones, nike free run 3.0v5  should speed up the EU response to boats packed with migrants heading for Europe.

But opponents insist the bloc needs to provide safer ways for genuine refugees to enter Europe. They say the money would be better spent on increasing physical rescue capabilities.

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But the fighting came late to Aleppo

The attempt for Syria’s additional city-limits Aleppo has been bound in stalemate for months, fuelling the annoyance of rebels who see no way out but to adamantly activity on.

“We yield a architecture and again lose it two or three canicule later, alone to yield it aback the afterward week,” said Abu Ahmad, whose army operates in the Salaheddin and Saif al-Dawla districts of the devastated city-limits that was already Syria’s bartering capital.

“There is no progress. We are not acceptable the war,” the 42-year-old fighter grumbled as he batten to an AFP anchorman who anesthetized the night with the army on the foreground line.

“Take this street, for example. nike free run We took it in just an hour a year ago, and back again we haven’t avant-garde one accent (yard).”

The battle in Syria has amount added than 115,000 lives back it erupted in March 2011 with peaceful protests that became a civilian war afterwards a acrid administration crackdown on dissent.

But the angry came backward to Aleppo.

Rebels bedeviled locations of the arctic city-limits in July 2012 and President Bashar al-Assad’s troops accept been aggravating anytime back to achieve abounding ascendancy of it.

Morale is decidedly low this night. Nike Free Run  One of the rebels has been actively blood-soaked by a assassin who attempt him in the chest.

Lukashevich added that all the admiral workers and their families cautiously beyond the bound into Tunisia Thursday. He said that the Libyan authorities had promised to assure Russian assets and try to bound restore altitude for the safe operations of the embassy.

Several chief diplomats will break in Tunisia to advance contacts with Libya, while the blow of the admiral workers will be aureate to Moscow Friday, Lukashevich said.

Kerry, responding to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advancement not to assurance Iran, dedicated the contempo assurance effort  Nike Womens Shoe Kerry met endure anniversary at the United Nations with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and again Obama placed a celebrated buzz alarm to Rouhani — the aboriginal amid U.S. and Iranian leaders in added than three decades.

He said it would be “diplomatic abuse of the affliction adjustment not to analysis at atomic Iran’s articulate promises that it is able to negotiate. Afterwards a ages during which Obama, Congress and the American humans waivered on advancing Syria afterwards a alternation of actinic weapons attacks there, Kerry fatigued the accent of analytical “every possibility” to abstain aggressive action.

They accessible fire, elimination their magazines into the darkness.

“And that’s the way it is, night afterwards night,” Nike Air Max footwear  said one of the fighters, Omar, his articulation brave with bitterness.

“The commanders accumulate cogent us to wait, that they are advancing a plan to yield Salaheddin, but all we do is blaze through holes in the wall.

“I don’t apperceive what they’re cat-and-mouse for. We can’t absorb 5 or 10 years analytical through holes in the bank and cat-and-mouse for Allah to win the war for us.”

Despite getting disillusioned, Nike Basketball footwear  the rebels see no another to accustomed on the fight.

“We couldn’t abandonment because they would appearance us no mercy, and a political band-aid wouldn’t change anything,” Abu Ahmad said.

“No, the alone band-aid have to be for Assad to leave.”

Hussein, a 23-year-old above apprentice of Arab philology at the University of Aleppo, tries to explain why.

“Assad is discredited in the eyes of the people. How could we do a accord with anyone who has massacred his humans and now wants to accommodate to break in ability as if annihilation had happened?”

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