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NORTHERN ASIA
Frozen woolly mammoth found in Siberia
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Sculptures of woolly mammoths are on display in the Siberian town of Khanty-Mansiysk.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organizer said Tuesday.
Russia's North-Eastern Federal University said an international team of researchers had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow some 328 feet underground during a summer expedition in the northeastern province of Yakutia.
Expedition chief Semyon Grigoryev said Korean scientists with the team had set a goal of
finding living cells in the hope of cloning a mammoth. Scientists have previously found bones and fragments but not living cells.
Grigoryev told the online newspaper Vzglyad it would take months of research to determine whether they have indeed found the cells.
"Only after thorough laboratory research will it be known whether these are living cells or not," he said, adding that would take until the end of the year at the earliest.
Woolly manmoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on Russia's Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast.
phered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth from balls of mammoth hair found frozen in the Siberian permafrost.
SOUTHERN ASIA
Some believe it's possible to recreate the prehistoric animal if they find living cells in the permafrost.
Those who succeed in recreating an extinct animal could claim a "turassic Park prize," the concept of which is being developed by the X Prize Foundation that awarded a 2004 prize for the first private spacecraft.
Scientists already have deci-
Tobacco takes over Indonesia
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian men rank as the world's top smokers, with two out of three of them lighting up in a country where cigarettes cost pennies and tobacco advertising is everywhere.
A survey released Tuesday found that 67 percent of all males over 15 years old smoke. The sprawling archipelago ranked second only to Russia overall with a rate of 35 percent compared to 39 percent, respectively.
"We have failed in protecting our people," said Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi, commenting on the rate of male smokers jumping from 53 percent since 1995. "We have been defeated by the tobacco industry ...
we don't want this, we cannot accept this because our job is to protect people from cigarettes."
More than 8,000 people participated in the study last year, which is part of a global series of surveys taken in 15 countries with heavy tobacco use and supported by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also found a high rate of Indonesians were subjected to second-hand smoke at work, home and in public places.
Mboi said she was particularly alarmed to learn that nearly 80 percent of Indonesians are exposed to smoke at home.
"How is the number of parents smoking at home with kids so high? It means that they are damaging
their children's lungs, whether intentionally or not," she said. "As the health minister, I am ashamed to let this condition continue."
Indonesia has long been criticized for its lack of tobacco controls. It is one of a remaining handful of countries that has failed to sign the WHO's tobacco treaty. Giant billboards promote cigarettes and commercials run on television and before movies in theaters. Local and multinational tobacco companies also routinely sponsor sporting events and concerts — advertising that has long been banned in many countries.
Most Indonesian men crave kreteks, a pungent mixture of tobacco and cloves, but brands such as Marlboro, produced by U.S.-
based Philip Morris International, have also gained in popularity. About 3 percent of women smoke in the country.
Health regulations passed in 2009 call for a number of tighter tobacco controls, including bans on advertising and smoking in public places, but they have yet to be implemented by the government.
"It's just sitting there," said Mark Hurley of the Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who attended the report's launch in Jakarta. "I think if there was high-level approval, the health regulations would have been passed a long time ago."
Smoking-related illnesses kill at least 200,000 annually in Indonesia.
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An Indonesian man smokes a cigarette in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesian men rank as the world top smokers, although only 3 percent of Indonesian women smoke.
MIDDLE EAST
Al-Qaida leader killed in U.S. drone strike
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This frame grabbed from a video posted on a militant-leaning Web site, and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, shows Abu Yahya al-Libi, whose death was confirmed by al-Qaida chief Ayman Al-Zawahri in a video posted late Monday, Sept. 10, 2012.
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CAIRO (AP) — The leader of al-Qaida confirmed the death of the group's second-in-command, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan in June.
In a video posted late Monday on militant websites, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri described his lie lutenant Abu Yahu al-Libi as a "lion of ijad and knowledge."
The killing of al-Libi, who was Libyan by birth, was the biggest setback to al-Qaida since the death of Osama bin Laden.
Al-Zawahri also urged Libyans — al-Libi was born in the north African country — to attack Americans to avenge the late mili-
Al-Libi, whose real name was Hassan Mohammed Qaid, was considered a media-savvy and charismatic leader with
tant's death, saying his "blood is calling, urging and inciting you to fight and kill the Crusaders"
0religious credentials.
Al-Zawahri also recalled how al-Libi fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union in the 1980s and then against the U.S. after the American-led invasion following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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