[BBC] Actor Robert Vaughn, best known as the secret agent Napoleon Solo in The Man from UNCLE, has died aged 83.
Vaughn was also famous for his role as Lee in the Magnificent Seven, and television roles in Hustle and Coronation Street.
The iconic actor died after a battle with acute leukaemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, told the BBC.
Vaughn died in New York on Friday morning surrounded by his family, he said.
The suave, debonair and impeccably dressed star David McCallum, from the hit TV show NCIS, who as Illya Kuryakin starred alongside Vaughn in The Man From UNCLE, told TVLine.com he was "utterly devastated" by the news.
"Robert and I worked together for many years and losing him is like losing a part of me. My deepest sympathies go out to Linda and the Vaughn family," he said.
Vaughn, who was "a few months shy of 84" had been seeking treatment for his leukaemia, Mr Sullivan said.
"He was a great human being. I enjoyed every day of working with him," he said.
[Breitbart] Snoop Dogg didn’t seem to take Donald Trump’s presidential election victory Tuesday night well -- the rapper is already contemplating a move out of the country.
Snoop posted a photo to Instagram of Toronto’s iconic Canadian National (CN) Tower, and said he needs to get the "hookup" on "some property."
"My new home. @champagnepapi I need the hookup on some property. Nefew fuc* this shit I’m going to the. 6ix [sic]," Snoop wrote, mentioning Toronto-based rap mega star Drake.
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She is definitely sad and probably high, but then didn't stump around like a lot of other jackass celebrities. Instead she says she wants to help Trump be better.
It would be wise and cost very little to make nice with her and the community she represents.
Never forget that she has stayed at the top of her industry for a decade. She knows how to be popular and make money. She is a lot smarter than she seems to be.
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a long time ago, Joseph Kennedy Sr. told JFK "gimme the bill for how many people we need to buy to win - but do NOT go overboard - I'm not gonna pay for a landslide (this may be apocryphal)
AFAIK Trump owes nobody - except his supporters - so no chits getting cashed
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BV that was for the West Virginia primary (one of very few at the time), I suspect it's true.
A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia's largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday. The country's largest lender, state-controlled Sberbank, said it had been hacked into on Tuesday but managed to neutralise the attack automatically without disturbing its operations.
Kaspersky said in a statement that the distribution of denial attacks (DDoS) began Tuesday at 1300 GMT and targeted "the websites of at least five well-known financial institutions in the top 10" in Russia.
The attacks were still continuing on Thursday. Most lasted around one hour but the longest lasted almost 12 hours, Kaspersky said.
DDoS attacks involve flooding websites with more traffic than they can handle, making them difficult to access or taking them offline entirely.
These attacks saw as many as 660,000 requests being sent per second using a network of more than 24,000 hijacked devices located in 30 countries. More than half the devices were in the United States, India, Taiwan and Israel, Kaspersky said.
Contacted by AFP, Russia's central bank confirmed that it had identified "attacks on a number of large banks," describing their intensity as "medium" and saying they did not disrupt access to banking services. It said the attacks used botnets made up of the "Internet of things" -- electronic devices such as CCTV cameras or digital video recorders plugged in to offices and homes worldwide.
A senior executive at Sberbank, Stanislav Kuznetsov, told Interfax news agency that the bank had suffered 68 such attacks this year and that the latest was among the biggest.
Kaspersky said that DDoS attacks "have long been one of the most popular instruments used by criminals to attack businesses."
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U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday told President Park Geun-hye the U.S. stands by Korea "100 percent," Cheong Wa Dae said.
"We are going to be with you 100 percent," Trump said when Park called him in the morning. "We will be steadfast and strong with respect to working with you to protect against the instability in North Korea."
On the campaign trail Trump repeatedly singled out the alliance with Korea as an expensive commitment the U.S. can do without, and described the free trade agreement with Korea as a "disaster."
But now the reality of his election win sinks in he appears to have changed his tune.
"We are with you all the way and we will not waver," he told Park.
Good. Trump is already growing in office. Now start planning the grand swap with the powers in the region to depose Fat Boy and divide North Korea between the South and China.
Park told Trump the two countries "have built mutual trust while advancing their alliance over the past six decades."
"We're looking forward to working closely with you to bolster and develop the alliance in more diverse areas for the sake of common interests."
Park added the most serious challenge facing the alliance "is the North Korean nuclear and missile threats."
Trump said he agrees 100 percent.
The real estate tycoon also claimed to have bought many Korean home appliances and thought they were very good.
All the Trump Hotels have Samsung TVs!
Park expressed the hope that Trump will visit Korea at an early date, saying, "I'm looking forward to meeting you to have more in-depth discussions in the near future."
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"Park said"
"Park said"
"Park said"
I wonder if there really was a call and what Trump might have said beyond 'thank you' pleasantries.
North Korea imported record amounts of rice from China in September, apparently to stabilize prices amid rapid hikes, Voice of America reported on Thursday.
Another good harvest, eh?
The North imported 16,000 tons of rice worth US$9.9 million, from China in September, VOA reported quoting analysis of customs data by Kwon Tae-jin of the GS&J Institute in Seoul.
Over the whole first eight months the North imported only 14,000 tons of rice. The North's imports of wheat flour increased 15 times and its imports of starch more than doubled on-month in September.
Meanwhile, the North also imported 772 tons of fertilizer from China in September, up 73 percent on-year.
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[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's air force in September made a public appeal to hundreds of former pilots to return to its depleted ranks to replace more than 350 airmen purged after July's failed coup.
The call has largely gone unanswered, according to military officials and former pilots, as the deep divisions exposed by the coup attempt in Turkey's military and other institutions remain unhealed.
Six pilots who left the air force over the past decade and would be eligible to return spoke to Rooters. Only one said he would re-register to help replace dismissed colleagues whom the government blames for being part of a network that planned the failed July 15 coup.
Air force pilots played a major role in the abortive putsch, commandeering jets and helicopters that bombed parliament and threatened the aircraft of President Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkish media have reported that only a tiny proportion of the several hundred pilots who left the force between 2010 and 2015 and would be eligible to return have actually re-registered. The numbers are "below expectations," said a military source who is not authorized to speak publicly.
The depletion in air-force resources comes at a delicate time for Turkey, the second-most militarized member of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... . Ankara is pursuing military incursions against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria and battling Kurdish PKK Lions of Islam in Turkey and northern Iraq.
Yet the former air force pilots contacted by Rooters said they felt betrayed by a military which had failed to protect them from followers within the ranks of Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , the U.S.-based holy man Turkey blames for the attempted coup and whose supporters have been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! en masse since.
Working in commercial aviation is also more remunerative than air force salaries of less than 10,000 lira ($3,200) a month.
"Flying an F-16 was an honor for me and I have been unfairly deprived of that. I feel betrayed. Why should I come back?" said a former major who only gave his first name, Mehmet, for fear of being seen as disloyal.
Mehmet ‐ who graduated at the top of his pilot training course and has a post-graduate diploma from an international military school ‐ said he was grounded in 2008 by military doctors who said he had a heart condition.
He left the air force and built a career as a commercial pilot after other doctors gave him a clean bill of health, he said. Rooters could not independently confirm his medical status.
The military doctors who grounded him are now in jail, accused by the government of being members of the Gulen network.
Government officials deny that the coup and its aftermath have damaged Turkey's military capabilities. They acknowledge staff shortages but say that a more loyal and focused military will ultimately emerge.
The defense ministry and military command both declined to comment for this story.
The military source said the air force was considering a reserve system to allow commercial pilots to take temporary contracts, a move that could help lure back experienced fliers because it would allow them to maintain their lucrative commercial contracts at the same time.
The defense ministry also plans to start enrolling students from private universities to the Air Force Academy, widening its pool of candidates by dropping a condition that they must have attended military school.
"In two years time, you will see, our air force will be stronger than before," Abidin Unal, the top air force commander, told Turkey's Vatan newspaper two weeks ago.
The Turkish government blames Gulen and his sympathizers for infiltrating state institutions over decades and ultimately criminal masterminding the July 15 coup attempt.
Erdogan's critics, particularly Turkish secularists, say he and the Islamist-rooted AK party he founded allowed Gulen's followers to rise through the ranks to help control the military.
Turkey’s military institutions have long seen themselves as the guardians of the country's secular order and have ousted four governments since 1960 for posing what they saw as an Islamist threat.
The Gulenists ... the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag... ' impact was particularly acute in the air force, former military officials say. Several former pilots said military doctors struck off colleagues on what the pilots said were minor medical grounds as they tried to remove non-Gulenists from senior positions.
"I can count dozens of people like this ... It seemed that some people were getting rid of others who didn't necessarily think like them. But we could never be sure, so we didn't speak up enough," the second former air force pilot said.
Air force pilots were prominent in the coup attempt on July 15, commandeering fighter jets and helicopters in part of the bid to seize power. Fighter jets flown by pilots involved in the attempted coup harassed Erdogan's aircraft while he tried to return to Istanbul as the events unfolded.
More than 350 pilots and 40 technicians have been dismissed, detained, or are being sought.
Among those detained were the former head of the air force and several commanders of air bases including Incirlik, a hub for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State. Three squadrons were taken off duty at the Akinci air base near Ankara, nerve center of the failed coup and home to some of the force's top pilots.
"Those who were dismissed mostly consisted of either experienced pilots or junior ones who were in the process of receiving weapons and tactics training," said Arda Mevlutoglu, a defense industry consultant.
"It can safely be said that Turkey's air force had lost a huge portion of experience and know-how because of this coup attempt," he added.
Turkey does not disclose the total number of its combat pilots, but its Defence and Aerospace magazine quoted the head of the air force in March 2015 as saying overall pilot numbers were expected to rise to 1,300 that year.
Turkish media have reported that the ratio of jets to combat pilots has dropped to below the 1:1.5 considered a healthy standard internationally, although there is no NATO rule on what the ratio should be. The air force has 240 F-16 jets and 49 F-4s for combat use, according to its website.
One NATO diplomat said that while there was concern about the purge of the Turkish air force, it had not yet resulted in any change to Turkey's commitments to NATO operations.
Faced with the shortfall, the force appealed in September for pilots with combat experience to rejoin, a call launched on its website and announced by the defense minister and widely publicized in the Turkish media.
Ersoy Cil, 40, a former F-4 pilot who left the military in 2015 after nearly two decades, is now returning.
"I never would have had the opportunity of a university education if it wasn't for the force," he said.
Cil’s parents would not have been able to afford a private university education but he was able to go through state-funded higher education after graduating from military school.
"This is me trying to pay back my huge debt."
But the others contacted by Rooters all shared a sense of betrayal for what had happened in the past.
"If there was an emergency situation, I'd go running," said a pilot who left the force in 2013 after more than a decade patrolling Turkey's borders and fighting the PKK. "But apart from that, the moment has gone, I've set up a new life."
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Why do I see a Turkish version of the Pak air force coming?
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says a prosecutor is seeking a life term in prison for author and columnist Asli Erdogan, whom he accuses of membership in an armed terror organization.
Anadolu Agency says Thursday the prosecutor is also demanding life sentences for eight other employees of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper. The prosecutor's indictment accuses all nine of membership in the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, threatening Turkey's unity and engaging in terrorist propaganda.
Erdogan -- who is not related to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... -- was tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in August amid heightened concerns that authorities are using emergency powers meant to deal with perpetrators of the failed military coup in July to go after all government critics.
The indictment must be accepted by a court before trial can begin.
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[PJ Media] Turkey’s Dogan Holding held two international events on October 20 in Washington, D.C., reported the Dogan News Agency (DHA), "in a bid to globally fight against the fallacies and prejudices directed toward Islam."
A panel titled "Islamophobia: Overcoming Myths and Engaging in a Better Conversation" was organized in cooperation with the U.S.-based Atlantic Council think tank and the Smithsonian Institution.
Also, the opening gala of the exhibition -- titled "The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts" -- was held on October 19 at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian.
Marking a first in the U.S., centuries-old Qur’ans taken from the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul are being shown at the exhibition, which is being sponsored by the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, Koc Holding, Dogan Group, and Turkish Airlines. The exhibition will be open through February 20, 2017.
While the Turkish government and Turkish organizations are striving so hard to "fight against Islamophobia," religious minorities and even non-observant Muslims in Turkey are continually exposed to discrimination, physical violence, as well as unlawful detentions and deportations.
The latest Christian victims are Rev. Andrew Brunson and his wife Norine. The pastor of the Resurrection Church in the city of Izmir, and his wife were detained on October 7.
Norine was released on October 20. She is allowed to stay in Turkey only until November 12, when her residence permit will expire. However, Turkish authorities are still holding her husband in isolation in an Izmir detention facility on the grounds that he is "a national security threat to Turkey." The couple has resided in Turkey for the past 20 years.
Rev. Brunson has been refused contact with lawyers since he was detained.
Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Ankara went to Izmir to see Brunson, but they were prevented by Turkish authorities from contacting the pastor. Con't.
[Newsmax] Billionaire U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he does not want the $400,000 annual salary that comes with the White House job and would turn it down if elected. I would have very publicly donated it to the NRA, but that's why I'll never be President.
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[IsraelTimes] Election results set up Republican Party to enact conservative policies and potentially cement political power for years to come.
Buoyed by Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s surprising strength, the Republicans maintained their control over a large majority of state legislatures across the country, setting up the GOP to enact conservative policies and potentially cement its political power for years to come.
Democrats had seen 2016 as a chance to chip away at the large advantage in statehouses the Republicans have enjoyed since 2010. But in state after state, they fell short.
With Tuesday’s results, the Republicans will control at least as many legislative chambers as they do now -- 68 out of 99, an all-time high for the GOP. And they will have full control of 33 legislatures, up from 31. (That includes Nebraska, which has a technically nonpartisan, single-chamber legislature.) The Democrats will be in full command in 13 states.
Republicans scored major victories by taking control of the Iowa and Minnesota Senates and the Kentucky House. They also held on to their majorities in chambers in several states that had been targeted by the Democrats, and apparently gained a tie in the previously Democratic-controlled Connecticut Senate.
The GOP wave also extended to governor’s races, where Republicans were expanding their sizable majority of seats.
The election wasn’t a total loss for Democrats. They picked up both chambers in Nevada and the House in New Mexico. They also took a one-seat advantage in the Washington Senate, but they still won’t have operating control, because one Democrat caucuses with the Republicans.
The results give Republicans a better chance of directing the redrawing of congressional and legislative districts that the states will undertake after the 2020 census. That, in turn, could help the GOP maintain its grip on power for years.
Some Democrats said they think the party could bounce back and gain the upper hand during redistricting.
"If a Trump presidency at all resemble the Trump candidacy, Democrats nationwide will be buoyed by Republican backlash in the next two election cycles," Carolyn Fiddler, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, said in an email.
More immediately, the Republicans’ successes on Tuesday could have implications for joint state-federal programs such as Medicaid, infrastructure funding and energy policy, all of which could change dramatically under a Trump administration.
"It’s an obvious and unavoidable trend at this point," said Matt Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which ran TV ads on behalf of legislative candidates in Kentucky and other competitive states.
He said he expects more state control of health insurance if President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ’s Affordable Health Care Act is scaled back or repealed. Anti-union right-to-work laws also could expand in the states.
Stephen Voss, a University of Kentucky political scientist, said he expects rapid change in policies in his state with Republicans now firmly in control, including perhaps programs that use taxpayer money to send students to private schools.
With the Kentucky win, Republicans now control every state legislative chamber in the South. One Democrat ousted was Greg Stumbo, the House speaker and former state attorney general who was a major force in Kentucky politics for decades. He represents a rural district where Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... was especially unpopular.
Republicans appeared to hold onto many legislative bodies that Democrats went after hard, including the Senate in West Virginia and the House in Michigan.
In Iowa, the Republicans stunned the Democrats to easily take control of the Senate by picking up at least six seats in the 50-seat chamber. They needed to flip just three districts to win the chamber.
The election swept out Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a powerful Democrat who had been a fixture in state government for three decades. Democrats had credited Gronstal in recent years with blocking GOP efforts to roll back gay marriage and abortion rights, enact restrictions on voting and limit the clout of public employee unions.
Republicans now control the Iowa governor’s office and both houses of the General Assembly for the first time since the late 1990s.
[Reuters] Officials in New York and Los Angeles on Thursday said they hoped President-elect Donald Trump would not follow through on a campaign promise to withhold federal funds from "sanctuary cities" that shield people who are in the country illegally.
Good luck with that. It's low-hanging fruit for President The Donald to withhold your funds -- he can do it with a simple executive order and he'll make his base very, very happy...
The nation's two largest cities have sharply limited their cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities seeking to deport undocumented immigrants.
President Barack Obama's administration has used so-called detainer requests to target undocumented immigrants convicted of criminal acts, especially violent ones. New York and Los Angeles do not hold undocumented inmates in jail at the request of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless the detainer request is accompanied by a judge's order, officials said.
Trump said during a debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in October he would seek to deport major drug dealers. "We have some bad hombres here and we're going to get them out," he said.
Trump early in his campaign pledged to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and also threatened to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference on Thursday that New York would continue to defend undocumented immigrants.
"We are not going to sacrifice a half million people who live among us, who are part of our community," de Blasio said, referring to an estimate of the number of unauthorized immigrants living in New York. "We are not going to tear families apart."
De Blasio said Trump's threat to withhold funds from sanctuary cities was "dangerous," but it was too soon to tell whether the president-elect intended to follow through on all his proposals.
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Bold talk for one eyed fat men. I recommend your legal team have a discreet talk with Rudy's legal team. Be a shame to see you both behind bars for obstruction of Federal law. But thanks for going on record anyway.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he is willing to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which US President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to change or scrap.
During the campaign, Trump called NAFTA the worst trade deal the United States has ever signed, while proposing protectionist measures to repatriate American jobs lost to free trade.
"I think it's important that we be open to talking about trade deals," Trudeau -- a fierce defender of free trade, which helps bolster the Canadian economy -- told reporters.
"If the Americans want to talk about NAFTA, I'm more than happy to talk about it," he said, adding that it was important to periodically reassess trade deals to ensure that they continue to be of benefit to Canadians.
Trudeau called the president-elect on Wednesday to congratulate him on his election victory.
The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) binds 530 million consumers in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Bilateral trade crossing the US-Canadian border amounts to US$1.8 billion daily.
Thirty-four US states rely on trade with Canada, which supports nine million American jobs, while exports to the United States represents 20 percent of Canada's GDP.
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Mexico is willing to "modernize" the North American Free Trade Agreement with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration and Canada, but will not renegotiate the pact, the foreign minister said.
Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu said NAFTA has "yielded great results" for the three nations, but that there is an opportunity to make it "more beneficial" to all.
"We are willing to talk about this with the new government and with Canada as well," Ruiz Massieu told CNN late Wednesday.
"We think it is an opportunity to think if we should modernize it, not renegotiate it, but to modernize it," Ruiz Massieu said.
Call the process what you will...
NAFTA will be discussed with Trump's transition team in the coming months, she said.
President Enrique Pena Nieto announced on Wednesday that he and Trump had agreed to meet, possibly before the New York billionaire's inauguration in January.
Trump has vowed to renegotiate or rip up the 22-year-old free trade deal. He has also angered Mexicans with his pledge to force Mexico to pay for a border wall and deport millions of undocumented migrants, whom he has called rapists and drug runners.
Two-way trade in goods between Mexico and the United States totaled $531 billion in 2015.
Ruiz Massieu said Mexico "believes in free trade" and the governments "have the challenge to make sure that the opportunities created by NAFTA are more inclusive and that more people in the three countries feel the benefit of this integration agreement."
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[DAWN] A cardiac patient died outside the emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital on Wednesday when young doctors protesting there allegedly denied him entry.
The incident took place shortly after a faction of the young doctors seeking restoration of a post-graduate trainee shut down the emergency ward. They turned violent when the institute’s administration made arrangements to reopen the outpatient department (OPD) by deputing senior medics.
“They are killers and not doctors,” tearful Ahmad standing near the body of his father Chaudhry Muhammad Sadiq told media outside the emergency ward.
Sadiq, 60, was rushed to the Mayo emergency ward at around 1pm when he complained of severe chest pain and difficulty in breathing.
A group of youths wearing white coats asked us to take the patient to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology as doctors were on strike. We begged but they did not let us move in and my father breathed his last in the process. These criminals have murdered my father, he alleged.
A senior doctor on duty at the emergency told Dawn that Sadiq was taken to the Coronary Care Unit and attempts were made to revive him, “but it was too late”.
Protesting activists of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) had stopped work at the emergency at around 11am following a clash with a deputy medical superintendent over reopening of the OPD.
After breaking open the locks of the OPD, the hospital administration had asked its consultants and senior doctors to start seeing patients there. A number of senior doctors were coming to the OPD when a group of YDA activists reached there and started relocking the rooms.
When Deputy Medical Superintendent (Security) Dr Tariq Ejaz challenged them, they ran off threatening him with dire consequences. Later, the YDA activists asked their colleagues at the emergency ward to stop working as the OPD had opened.
The Mayo administration swiftly deputed half a dozen senior doctors at the emergency but the YDA activists remained at the entrance, asking patients’ attendants to leave.
A doctor holding a senior administrative post said the YDA activists had been roaming the hospital in groups to ensure the OPD was not opened.
“Our OPD works in two shifts and we have been breaking open the locks put on by these black sheep in our ranks for the last four days. Today, a group of YDA activists manhandled technicians conducting tests on patients at the eye ward. Their attempts to damage the costly machine were foiled by some attendants of patients and staff members,” said the doctor.
Meanwhile, as a result of a meeting between Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education (SHME) Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah and Punjab Safe Cities Authority Chief Operating Officer Nasir Akbar Khan a few days back, experts from the Safe Cities Authority (SCA) visited the Mayo Hospital for a security audit.
A five-member team of experts evaluated the security requirements of the hospital. They started working on setting up security zones in and around the hospital.
An SHME spokesman said more CCTV cameras, electronic devices and digital video recorders would be installed within the hospital and on the incoming as well as exit roads.
Under the new security plan, a control room would also be set up in the hospital for which the SCA would impart training to the technical staff and help in procurement of electronic devices.
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It doesn't matter if the patient died, what matters is if the young doctors intended to cause the death, right? Worked for Hillary!
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Thursday directed the concerned authorities to block a fake Facebook account associated to him, said Supreme Court front man.
"Justice Jamali has instructed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to take action against those operating his fake account under relevant law," said the SC front man.
"Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali is neither using any Facebook account or page nor any other ID on any other social media websites," the front man added.
The chief justice also directed the authorities to take legal action against the delinquents in accordance with the law.
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[Bus Insider] When President-elect Donald Trump spoke about expanding the Navy to 350 ships in his September national security speech, he's most likely taking his cues from Randy Forbes, the Republican Congressman from Virginia poised to take over as Secretary of the Navy in a Trump administration.
"The 350-ship navy, cruiser modernization ‐ those naval planks [in Donald Trump’s policies] are lifted from Randy Forbes," a source familiar with the matter told USNI News.
The president appoints a Secretary of the Navy to "conduct, all affairs of the Department of the Navy," which includes the Marine Corps. Trump, during his speech, said he wants to greatly increase the size of both the Navy and the Marines, and to generally "rebuild our military."
Additionally, Trump mentioned buying newer destroyers to bulk up the Navy's fleet of 272 ships, most likely with Zumwalt class destroyers, but the Navy has struggled so far to field those.
Forbes, a military adviser to Trump during his campaign, serves as a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and makes it plain on his website that he is "one of the nation’s most forceful advocates for a strong national defense."
In September, Forbes asserted before Congress that "more than rhetoric is required to counterbalance China’s growing military power and assertiveness," referring to China's artificial island building and militarization in the South China Sea, as well as China ignoring an international court ruling that said its claims in the region were illegal.
China has declared "no fly" and "no sail" zones in international waters in the Pacific that have gone unchallenged by the US in the last few years. Increasingly Beijing bullies ships from its neighbors, some of whom are US allies.
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The Chinese intrusion of the South China Sea began with its invasion and occupation of Viet Nam's Paracel Islands in the nineteen seventies. That invasion received but the most tepid response in Washington where the Nixon administration was bent on reopening relations with China. Little territorial grabs (e.g., Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland) often portend dangerous consequences.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[TMZ] Miley Cyrus just made a tearful plea for love and compassion after Donald Trump's stunning win over Hillary Clinton.
A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia's largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday. The country's largest lender, state-controlled Sberbank, said it had been hacked into on Tuesday but managed to neutralise the attack automatically without disturbing its operations.
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[DAWN] A cardiac patient died outside the emergency ward of the Mayo Hospital on Wednesday when young doctors protesting there allegedly denied him entry.
