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Top judge at the helm in Egypt
India asks all political forces to hold dialogue
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Morales back in Bolivia after plane drama over Snowden
A man flashes a victory sign during a rally in support of Edward Snowden in Berlin.
World’s first ‘human liver’ created from stem cells
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Top judge at the helm in Egypt
Cairo, July 4 The military rounded up the top leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, arresting its supreme leader Mohammed Badie in a resort village in Marsa Matrouh, a day after the army deposed the Arab nation's first democratically elected President. He was flown to Cairo on a military helicopter, media reports said quoting officials. Badie, and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater, are wanted for questioning on their role in the killing of eight protesters this week in clashes outside the Brotherhood's headquarters here. Badie is on a wanted list of more than 200 Brotherhood officials and leaders of other Islamist groups. As an uncertain new political order began to take shape in Egypt following the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mursi, Justice Adly Mahmoud Mansour, head of High Constitutional Court, took the presidential oath of office. Mansour saluted the army, the judiciary and the police in a brief acceptance speech to rapturous applause. He praised the protesters whose mass demonstrations spurred the military action, calling them a unifying force. In his remarks, Justice Mansour also paid tribute to the youth of the revolution and all revolutionary forces for taking part in the "glorious day of 30 June." "I swear by Almighty God that I will uphold the republican system, respect the constitution and the law, look after the interests of the people, protect the independence of the nation and the safety of its land," Mansour said while taking oath telecast live on state TV. Mansour's appointment came after the military last night removed Mursi from power, a little more than a year after the 61-year-old Islamist leader assumed office, following massive protests against his style of functioning. Egypt's iconic Tahrir Square, the hub of the anti-Morsi protesters, erupted into ecstasy as the military announced his outer.
However, a statement on Morsi's Facebook page denounced the army move as a "military coup". — PTI
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India asks all political forces to hold dialogue
New Delhi, July 4 “We are closely monitoring the evolving situation in Egypt. As the world’s largest democracy, India was amongst the first countries to welcome January 25 revolution and the promise of genuine democracy in a large and important country like Egypt with which we have traditionally enjoyed close and friendly ties,” MEA spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said in response to a query. There are about 3,000 Indian nationals in Egypt. In addition, some 50 Indian companies are functioning in the country. “Our embassy in Cairo is in active and regular contact with all sections of the Indian community with the objective of ensuring their welfare,” the spokesman added. With the situation in Egypt turning from bad to worse, many countries have issued advisories, asking their nationals to leave that country or not to travel there. India has so far not issued any advisory to its nationals. The Indian mission in Cairo has indicated to the Indians nationals the areas where protests were taking place so that they could avoid these areas.
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Docs ‘advised’ unplugging Mandela’s life support
Johannesburg, July 4 "He is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine," said a legal filing related to a family dispute over reburying the remains of three of Mandela's children. The "Certificate of Urgency" document was obtained by AFP today from a lawyer representing Mandela family members who had successfully sought a court order to return the disputed children's remains to the revered South African leader's childhood home, after a grandson had them moved to his own village. The document was presented to South Africa's Eastern Cape High Court as President Jacob Zuma reported that Mandela's health had faltered and cancelled a trip to Mozambique. The next day Zuma reported that Mandela's condition had "improved during the course of the night". "He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night. The medical team continues to do a sterling job," Zuma said in a statement dated June 27. Since then the government has said Mandela's condition remains "critical but stable", but has provided few details, citing patient confidentiality. — AFP
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Mandela’s grandson lashes out at family in grave row Mvezo, July 4 “In the past few days I have been the target of attacks from all sorts of individuals wanting a few minutes of fame and media attention at my expense,” Mandla said at a nationally televised press conference held at a grass thatched public hall in the remote village of Mvezo where he is chief. “At the moment it seems that anyone and everyone can come and say ‘I am a Mandela’ and demand to be part of decision-making in this family. Individuals decided to jump on the Mandela waggon,” he added, before launching personal attacks on a number of his relatives. He accused Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe of trying to “sow divisions and destruction” in her family. The icon’s ex-wife Winnie, who has regularly visited him in hospital, “has no business in the matters of the Mandelas,” he added. He also lashed out at his own brother Ndaba for claiming he was born out of wedlock. “I don’t want to hang out our dirty linen as a family in public but he knows very well that my father impregnated a married woman of which he is the result of that act... As for the remaining of my two brothers we all know that they are not my father’s children.” He said one of his brothers, Mbuso, had “impregnated my wife”. The targets of his anger jointly took Mandla to court to force him to return the remains of the three Mandela children to the revered leader’s childhood village of Qunu, from the grandson’s estate in the village of Mvezo. — AFP
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Morales back in Bolivia after plane drama over Snowden
La Paz, July 4 Morales was greeted by his Cabinet and cheering, fist-pumping crowds at La Paz’s airport after a dramatic journey from Moscow that ignited a diplomatic furore when his plane had to make an unscheduled stop in Vienna on Tuesday evening. “This was an open provocation toward a continent, not just a president,” said Morales. “North American imperialism uses its people to terrify and intimidate us. I just want to say they will never frighten us because we are a people of dignity and sovereignty.” Other Latin American leaders were also fuming over the plane incident, with heads of state in the 12-nation South American bloc Unasur denouncing the “unfriendly and unjustifiable acts.” The bloc said a group of leaders from member countries would hold an emergency summit in Bolivia on Thursday to discuss the matter. Unasur includes close leftist allies of Bolivia like Venezuela, Ecuador and Argentina as well as more centrist governments like those in Chile and Brazil. The Bolivian government said it had filed a formal complaint with the UN and was studying other legal avenues to prove its rights had been violated under international law. — Reuters
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World’s first ‘human liver’ created from stem cells
Tokyo, July 4 Takanori Takebe and Hideki Taniguchi at Yokohama City University showed the generation of vascularised and functional human liver from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) by transplantation of in vitro grown liver buds (rudimentary liver). The study demonstrates a proof-of-concept that organ bud transplantation offers an alternative approach for treating organ failure by generating a 3D and vascularised organ. During the early liver organogenesis, liver progenitor cells delaminate from the foregut endodermal sheet and form a three-dimensional liver bud (LB), a condensed tissue mass that is soon vascularised. Such large-scale morphogenetic changes depend on the orchestration of signals between liver, mesenchymal and endothelial progenitors prior to blood perfusion. — PTI
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Mohammed Mursi was put under detention today by the army, which launched a massive crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood movement, arresting its senior leaders, even as a top jurist took over as the interim head of state..
Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived home to a hero’s welcome late on Wednesday, saying some European countries’ refusal to let his plane enter their airspace because of suspicion it carried fugitive US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was a provocation aimed at all of South America.
