The News Review:
- Today in history: July 15
- How bodies can be given a name
- Kenya Forest Evictions Leave Thousands in Penury
- General News of Friday, 15 July 2005
Today in history: July 15
MSNBC – Jul 15, 2005
(It was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS). Ten years ago: A 19-year-old sales clerk was rescued after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, for 16 days. Five years ago: The United Nations launched a successful military operation to help 222 Indian peacekeepers and 11 military observers break out of a rebel stronghold in Sierra Leone. Lennox Lewis stopped Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in London. Former Rhode Island governor and longtime U.
How bodies can be given a name
BBC News – Jul 15, 2005
The fact that the bones do not fully fuse until the age of 25 can help pin down this last element. VolunteersExperts can call on high-tech X-ray equipment to help them. Mark Viner, based at Barts and the Royal London Hospitals, helped in the identification of victims of the IRA bombings in Victoria Station and Canary Wharf, and worked on atrocities in Sierra Leone, Bosnia and Croatia. He said that bodies can be scrutinised using a machine called a fluoroscope. This speeds up the identification process by providing a “real-time” video shot, allowing fragments to be removed from the body while the X-ray is being carried out, rather than waiting until it is over. In the case of the London bomb blasts, X-ray technology will not only help to identify victims – analysis of the pattern of injuries will provide vital clues about the nature of the explosions. The work of identifying victims falls under the auspices of the Assocation of Forensic Radiographers.
Kenya Forest Evictions Leave Thousands in Penury
planetark.com – Jul 15, 2005
“We were given five minutes to vacate my house. We showed them title deeds. They said they were useless pieces of paper,” said single mother Everlin Sitonik, standing in the rubble of a former market area known as Sierra Leone. “I have seven children. How can we survive now?” (Additional reporting by Gar Story by Andrew Cawthorne REUTERS NEWS SERVICE.
General News of Friday, 15 July 2005
ghanaweb.com – Jul 15, 2005
The governments of Benin, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, the Netherlands, Norway, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Turkey, Uganda and the Vatican gave their support, bringing the treaty much closer to being a reality, said campaigners today. A number of other governments, including the EU countries, some East African states and the Mercosur grouping of Latin American states also made positive statements in favour of stronger export controls based on global minimum standards. The proposed Arms Trade Treaty has the support of Nobel Laureates and citizens around the world. It would be legally binding and would ban arms transfers if they are likely to contribute to human rights violations or fuel conflict, or undermine development. The treaty would close the loopholes that currently exists between incompatible national arms export laws.