UN envoy Annan, Syria president to hold 2nd meeting

UN envoy Annan, Syria president to hold 2nd meeting

March 11, 2012 - 15:38 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - United Nations envoy Kofi Annan will hold a second meeting with the country's President Bashar Assad on Sunday, March 11 to discuss proposals for stopping violence and starting a political dialogue, a U.N. official in Damascus said, according to AP.

In his talks with Assad on Saturday, Annan made several proposals towards ending the country's yearlong political crisis. He was rebuffed by the president who rejected any immediate negotiations with the opposition, striking a further blow to already staggering international efforts for talks to end the conflict.

Assad told Annan that a political solution is impossible as long as "terrorist groups" threaten the country.

The opposition's political leadership has also rejected dialogue, saying talk is impossible after a crackdown that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 7,500 people. That makes it likely that the conflict will continue to edge toward civil war.

The official said Annan is scheduled to meet with the country's grand mufti, who is a senior cleric, and again with Assad Sunday before heading to the Gulf state of Qatar. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Meanwhile, activists said fresh violence erupted again in Syria's northern Idlib province, where troops launched Saturday a long-anticipated assault to crush the opposition, bombarding its main city with tank shells from all sides and clashing with rebel fighters struggling to hold back an invasion.

Troops had stormed the village in the northern Jisr al-Shughour area early Sunday and began a campaign of raids and arrests, activists said.

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Jamaican drug lord faces sentencing in US case

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents bring Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke from the Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle, in White Plains, N.Y. Coke has asked for leniency when he is sentenced on charges of drug and gun trafficking, but prosecutors in New York will be seeking the maximum 23 years when he is sentenced on Friday, March 16, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents bring Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke from the Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle, in White Plains, N.Y. Coke has asked for leniency when he is sentenced on charges of drug and gun trafficking, but prosecutors in New York will be seeking the maximum 23 years when he is sentenced on Friday, March 16, 2012. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

FILE - In this June 24, 2010 file photo, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents bring Jamaican drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke from the Westchester County Airport to a waiting vehicle, in White Plains, N.Y. Coke has asked for leniency when he is sentenced on charges of drug and gun trafficking, but prosecutors in New York will be seeking the maximum 23 years when he is sentenced on Friday, March 16, 2012 (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

(AP) ? U.S. authorities say Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke was so ruthless that he once ordered a rival killed with a chainsaw.

However, another episode left a more lasting impression with the general public: He was arrested wearing a curly black wig.

A mug shot of Coke wearing the wig as a disguise while on the run went viral on the Internet after his capture in Jamaica during a bloody siege of his ghetto stronghold in 2010 that left more than 70 dead. At the time, he waived extradition to the United States and vowed to fight drug trafficking, gun smuggling, racketeering and other charges.

But following a guilty plea last year, Coke faces up to 23 years in prison at sentencing this week in federal court in Manhattan.

The 43-year-old Coke has sought mercy in a letter to the judge ? seven handwritten pages that in tone are formal and polite but in substance barely touch upon a litany of accusations painting him as a cold-blooded killer.

"Good day to you, sir," he wrote. "I am humbly asking if you could be lenient on me."

Prosecutors have argued that leniency isn't an option. They want Coke to serve the maximum term and be deported.

Coke was a divisive figure in Jamaica, where he followed in the footsteps of his father, Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as Jim Brown, a leader of the notorious Shower Posse during the 1980s cocaine wars. Authorities say he took over the organization when his father, also sought in the United States, died in a mysterious fire in a Jamaican prison cell in 1992.

Once in power, Coke became a folk hero to some followers in the West Kingston slum of Tivoli Gardens. He listed his good deeds in his letter to the judge ? throwing Easter parties for seniors, passing out school supplies and Christmas gifts to children and starting a school to teach computer skills to the disadvantaged.

"I implemented a lot of social programs for the residents of my community ? programs that teach them about self-empowerment," he wrote.

The court has received other letters of support from Jamaica. One man described how "Dudus" started youth soccer leagues, paid medical bills for sick neighbors and even helped children with their homework. "Peace is the answer," it says was his constant message.

The altruism won Coke loyalty and political clout in Tivoli Gardens. But authorities allege his hold on power came at a severe cost that had repercussions in the United States.

In court papers, federal prosecutors call Tivoli Gardens "a garrison community" patrolled by Coke's young henchmen armed with illegal weapons bought on the black market in the United States and smuggled into Jamaica. The enforcers' job included guarding stash houses, punishing anyone who challenged Coke's monopoly on the drug trade and using intimidation to influence elections, the papers said.

Anyone who crossed Coke was detained and subjected to harsh punishments. One person accused of thievery "was brought to the 'jail,' tied down and killed by Coke with a chainsaw," the court papers say.

In the U.S., Coke controlled a network of large-scale drug dealers who would send him "tribute" payments of cash, electronics or guns, court papers say. On wiretaps, Coke "discussed with them the number and types of firearms they were sending and the methods of packaging," the papers say.

The firearms "were crucial to Coke's ability to maintain his power within, and control over the Tivoli Gardens area," prosecutors wrote.

Prosecutors also allege Coke relied on women to smuggle cocaine ? concealed in condoms and inserted into their vaginas ? into the United States on commercial flights to New York City or Miami. One woman who refused to do it was gang-raped and murdered, the court papers say.

Several women abused by Coke's gang in Jamaica have written to the sentencing judge asking him to give the defendant a harsh punishment. They've also insisted on anonymity.

"I might be targeted for death by the Shower Posse if this letter is brought to the public record," the woman wrote. "But this letter is my contribution to Jamaica and the Jamaicans for their future."

Associated Press

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Afghans find victims entombed by avalanche

RAWANAK, Afghanistan (AP) ? The only warning was the strong wind that howled through the village of Daspai.

One minute Nazar Khuda's sister was at her sewing machine. The next minute she was dead.

She was one of at least 50 people killed when an avalanche of snow, ice and mud thundered off a nearby mountain and buried the village in a disaster-prone area of northeastern Afghanistan where Mother Nature is a bigger enemy than the Taliban.

"We dug down to find the house, and we found the body of my sister over the sewing machine," said Khuda, who lost a total of eight relatives in the avalanche that struck at 9 a.m. last Sunday. "When I saw her body, I couldn't stop crying. After that, I helped the others dig bodies out of the snow."

Twenty children and teenagers and two teachers were found inside a mosque where they had been studying the Quran.

People from nearby villages continued to work on Saturday to see if any more people were still buried in up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow in the remote village that is still cut off from most outsiders. It's unclear if more will be found. Government officials said 200 people lived in Daspai, but area residents said that estimate was high. They said up to 13 people were injured.

Accounts by Khuda and others who walked through deep snow to get to Daspai are the first detailed narratives of the tragedy in Shakay district of Badakhshan province near the Tajikistan border.

"We spent all day looking for our family members," Khuda said Thursday, standing atop a steep mountain in Rawanak, about a five-hour trek over snow-covered mountains from the avalanche site. "From morning until evening, we dug in the snow and mud. The wooden beams of the houses had collapsed. It was difficult to find the bodies."

His sister's 4-year-old son, 6-year-old daughter, who was at the mosque, her husband and four relatives from his family also died in the avalanche. Another one of his sister's children, 13-year-old Abdul Wasi, was staying with Khuda in Rawanak. The storm turned him into an orphan.

Khuda said he spoke with a young girl who was in the mosque when it collapsed from the weight of the snow. "She had been trying to warm her hands near a stove in the mosque and when the avalanche hit, her hands were pressed onto the stove," Khuda said. "She had burns on her hands, feet and forehead."

Other people suffered head injuries when ceiling beams in their homes collapsed, he said. One woman in her 20s told him that she hit the back of her head on a wall when a powerful burst of wind blew a door to her home open and flung her to the other side of the room. Khuda said she told him that the ceiling then fell, and she was hit by flying debris. She didn't remember anything after that, he said.

Abdul Ghafor hiked three hours to reach Daspai. He was too late. His brother, Salim; his 8-year-old niece; and four of his nephews, ages 20 and under, were dead.

"We helped take the bodies from the mosque," said Ghafor.

"The ceiling of the mosque fell. The walls collapsed," he said. "The heavy snow pushed walls from the neighboring houses into the mosque as well."

When Doste Khuda of Rawanak arrived at the site, other villagers had already removed some of the bodies and buried them in mass graves containing about five victims.

"They were so tired," he said. "Eight bodies were buried at the mosque so we took those bodies out and buried them in separate graves."

He used his cell phone to capture the scene. The video shows workers reciting verses of the Quran while removing bodies wrapped in white sheets from a makeshift grave covered by bloodstained beams, a piece of green plastic covered with dirt. A woman in a burqa can be seen crying, "My son. My son."

"The village is destroyed, completely destroyed," Doste Khuda said. "The wounded people have been moved to other villages because they cannot live there any more. They lost everything."

Three Afghan parliamentarians, the director of Afghanistan's National Disaster Management Authority, a U.N. humanitarian coordinator, an Associated Press reporter and others flew to Badakhshan on Wednesday aboard two Afghan military helicopters. They went first to the capital of Faizabad, landing on a bumpy metal runway the Soviets built in the 1980s.

They then flew on to Shakay district center, landing between mountains on the banks of a blueish green river, which separates Afghanistan from Tajikistan. They waited late into the evening to hear from officials and aid workers who had walked for nine hours in deep snow and along narrow paths that clung to the mountainsides to reach Daspai.

Parliamentarian Fawzia Kofi finally reached an employee of the Geneva-based Agha Khan Foundation who hiked to the site. He reported that 47 bodies had been recovered; nine people were wounded and three of those later died.

"People from nearby villages have come to help," Kofi said, recounting the call under a full moon that illuminated nearby mountain peaks. "They are trying to find them. They're using shovels and their hands. There is no medical team."

Unable to land at the avalanche site, the parliamentarians and other government officials flew on Thursday to Rawanak where they spoke with Khuda and others.

The deputy director of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan, Joseph Inganji, said 500 kilograms of medicine, food for infants and 40 family kits of blankets, plastic sheeting, cooking supplies and warm clothes has been sent to help survivors. But that aid, ferried in by two Afghan military helicopters, has only made it as far as Rawanak.

Afghans living in the rugged mountains of northern Afghanistan are used to avalanches. The most deadly one in the past two years occurred in February 2010, when more than 170 people were killed at the 12,700-foot (3,800-meter) -high Salang Pass, which is the major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the capital to the north.

Before this avalanche, the people of Daspai lived in stone and mud houses built in a valley between two mountains. They eked out a living by herding animals and growing wheat, barley and mulberries.

This is an area where many children are malnourished and the infant and maternal mortality rates are some of the highest in the world. During the winter when snow blocks the roads, the only way in or out of Daspai and other remote villages is on foot or with donkeys and horses.

The desperation caused by isolation was on full display in Rawanak. As the helicopters landed with the officials, about a dozen university students who had returned to the village to see their families but were stranded by snow, rushed the chopper in hopes of hitching a ride to Faizabad. They tried to get on before the dignitaries got off; one later jumped into the chopper as it was taking off.

"We have a lot of districts that are closed off for six months of the year because of snow," said Shah Wali Adeeb, the governor of Badakhshan. He said nine of the 27 districts surrounding the provincial capital are at risk from landslides, avalanches and flooding.

"This year, we had a lot of snow. We are worried now that when it melts, it will destroy many more villages," Adeeb said.

This has been the worst winter in 15 years, according to humanitarian workers. In anticipation, they stockpiled food and medicine in various parts of the province last fall.

The people in the area, who have suffered from drought during eight of the past 11 years, now face the threat of landslides and spring floods.

"It's a silent tsunami here," Kofi said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghans-victims-entombed-avalanche-192116375.html

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Melanoma (also, Cutaneous Melanoma, Malignant Melanoma) ? Cancer cells are growing in the melanocytes, the cells that are responsible for skin pigmentation. According to University of Maryland medicine and other experts, of all of the types of skin cancer, Melanoma is ?the rarest and the most virulent?.? It is typically found in people with fair skin, light hair, and/or light eyes, though it is possible in others with different complexions, and as the experts above also assert, does not exempt those with dark brown or black skin. Identifiable symptoms include, most commonly, a mole changing color, size, shape, or state (starts oozing or bleeding), or a mole that UMM notes ?feels itchy, hard, lumpy, swollen, or tender to the touch.?

Squamous Cell Carcinoma?Also called non-melanoma skin cancer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma usually begins as a red-looking, scaly patch or patches of skin, or can appear as nodules. Of the three types of skin cancer, Squamous, affecting Caucasians, usually fair-complected, is the second most common and shows up, typically, on the ears (ear-rims), face, lips, and mouth.

Basal Cell Carcinoma ? The second of the types of skin cancer, Basal Cell Cancer, typically starts as a ?small, fleshy bump or nodule,? most commonly found on the head, neck, and/or hands. Of the three types of skin cancer, Basal Cell Carcinoma, which is typically found in Caucasians, say those at UMM, make up ?more than 90 percent in theU.S. Skin Cancer Screening San Clemente is your best early detection of cancer and treatment.

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spirituality-and-practiceRegardless whether one believes in God, or? thought of their Spirituality and/or Practiced it,? we can be a spiritual individual. Whether you realize it or not, you probably practice spirituality while not even knowing it.

The definition of spirituality is that which relates to or influences the human spirit or soul compared to material or physical things. Spirituality touches that element of you that is not dependent on material things or physical comforts.

Anyone, regardless of beliefs, can practice spirituality. In essence, spiritualism is a quest for self improvement; at times called modern age spiritualism.

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