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A court in France this week handed out a 12-month suspended prison sentence to a woman who sexually assaulted two plumbers, who came to repair the central heating in her house.
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When the plumbers again declined, she smacked one of them across the ear before throwing them out of her home and refusing to let them take their plumbing equipment with them. Obviously, "plumbing equipment" should be taken literally and not in a double entendre sort of way.
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The only reason I would think of for a French man to say NO to such an advance would be if she were the size of an elephant AND four-star, four-bag UGLY.
I shudder to think of what this woman looks like...
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"Smacked one of them across the ear" > She saw Robert De Niro's + Michelle Pffeifer's mob movie last year, didn't we???
[AnNahar] A major vaccine alliance said Thursday it planned to purchase millions of Ebola vaccine doses as soon as a safe and effective one is found.
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which helps make vaccines available to developing countries, said it would be ready to act as soon as the World Health Organization recommends a safe vaccine against the virus, that has so far killed nearly 6,400 people.
There is no licensed treatment or vaccine for Ebola, and the WHO has endorsed rushing potential ones through trials in a bid to stem the epidemic, raging mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Gavi said it planned to spend up to $300 million to procure the vaccines, which would be used to immunize at-risk populations in affected countries.
It said it would spend another $90 million to support countries to introduce the vaccines, rebuild their devastated health systems and help restore immunization services for all vaccines in Ebola-affected countries.
"Plans to purchase millions of doses of an Ebola vaccine to support large-scale vaccination efforts were today agreed by the board," it said in a statement.
Two experimental vaccines are currently undergoing clinical trials in a number of countries: VSV-ZEBOV manufactured by the Public Health Agency of Canada and licensed by US firm NewLink Genetics, and ChAd3 made by Britannia's GlaxoSmithKline.
Trials of VSV-ZEBOV at the Geneva University Hospital were meanwhile suspended Thursday, after four of the volunteers experienced unexpected side effects, including joint pains.
The hospital said the side effects did not appear serious, but that it was launching an in-depth study to ensure the safety of the volunteers.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Oman's Shoura council has voted to ban alcohol, an official of the advisory body said, a move that, if approved by the cabinet, could affect plans to expand tourism.
"The members voted for generalizing the punishment on anyone practice alcohol-related activities including production, dealing, or trading," the official told Rooters.
"But, of course, this is still a recommendation, not a law by itself."
Oman, a small non-OPEC oil exporter, has smaller energy reserves than its wealthy Gulf neighbors and is trying to diversify its economy, in part by expanding its tourism sector. It seeks to become a major destination for cruise tourism.
Currently anyone found producing, consuming or trading alcohol without a permit is liable to a jail term of between 6 months and 3 years, or a minimum fine of 300 Omani rials ($779), or both, the council official said.
Permits to buy and drink alcohol are only issued to non-Moslems, in effect restricting alcohol only to visitors to Oman.
The council voted this week to recommend putting a blanket ban on such activities, and making them punishable with a jail term of between 10 days and one year, or a minimum fine of 200 rials, or both. Permits would be abolished.
The council's action remained only a vote, The Times of Oman newspaper quoted tourism ministry official Maitha Al Mahrooqi as saying. Oman had historically welcomed people from all over the world and would continue to do so.
She added, "We may be putting more rules and regulations in terms of the services and qualities, and not to ban it. That is what I can say at this stage."
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The global economy will improve over the next two years but eurozone weakness combined with the Ebola crisis and the Ukraine conflict are weighing on growth, a UN report said Wednesday.
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 report put global economic growth at 3.1 percent in 2015 and 3.3 percent in 2016, up from 2.6 percent in 2014.
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Now is the time for Putin to establish an EU of Asia. Perhaps even a UN of sorts. Turkey would be a willing participant. Did I say participant or sycophant?. I see Latin America, India, Israel, China, Africa, Australia, and Japan willing partners. The promise of less meddling will be a tremendous advantage. The EU with its left agendas will only hurt the little people as they are now. Permanent underclasses ruled by the elites.
[DAWN] Professors, doctors and post-graduate students, who were visiting famine-hit Tharparkar district of Sindh to provide healthcare assistance and to determine causes of malnutrition, are asked by administration and police to leave the area on Thursday.
Malnutrition, according to doctors, is the leading cause of a large number of deaths of newborns in Tharparkar and such deaths continue to take place with doctors working at district headquarter hospital of Mithi attributing them to reasons like pre-term labour cases, repeated pregnancies and asphyxia.
[DAWN] SARDAR Kalyan Singh, a teacher at a government-run college in Gujranwala, considers himself to be among a small minority of fortunate Sikhs for having managed to get his marriage registered, albeit following a tedious six-month legal proceeding in court. The crux of the problem is that there is no marriage law for Pakistain's Sikh or Hindu communities on the statute books. According to Mr Singh, a large majority of Sikh marriages in the country do not 'officially' exist.
Among the host of challenges facing our religious minorities, the absence of marriage legalisation and non-registration for the issuance of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) are the most pressing for a substantial portion of these communities.
CNICs are the very foundation of citizenship, and their denial or delayed issuance impacts the minorities' economic and political rights. The issue of marriage legalisation mainly concerns Hindu and Sikh communities as well as several Christians belonging to new denominations.
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The crux of the problem is that there is no marriage law for Pakistain's Sikh or Hindu communities on the statute books.
[AnNahar] NASA says a newly spotted 1,300-foot (400-meter) wide asteroid is not a threat to hit Earth, despite recent media reports.
NASA's Near Earth Object program manager Donald Yeomans said the asteroid, discovered in October by Russian scientists, won't even get that close to Earth in the next 150 years. And it isn't a threat to any other planet, either.
Calculations by NASA and Harvard say the closest asteroid 2014 UR116, will get to Earth is about 2.7 million miles in April 2047. Yeomans said that is so far away that it doesn't make NASA's running list of risky near-Earth objects.
Yeomans said in-depth analysis confirmed that that the space rock would not near Earth soon.
[IsraelTimes] TEHERAN ? Iranian authorities have locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! 12 people for siphoning off more than $4.5 billion from one of the country?s main banks over several years, media reported Thursday.
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The reports come amid government vows to clamp down on corruption in a bid to revive an economy devastated by decades of international sanctions.
President Hassan Rouhani warned Monday that corruption poses a threat to the Islamic republic, pinning the blame on monopolies.
The suspects embezzled from the Kerman branch of Tejarat Bank from 2009 until their arrest in 2013, Shargh newspaper quoted local prosecutor Yadollah Movahed as saying.
Media said most of the 130 billion rials embezzled had been retrieved and returned to the bank in Kerman, in southern Iran.
Tejarat was quoted as saying shareholders and clients were not undermined in any way.
Those arrested included two officials of the Kerman branch, considered to be the prime suspects, as well as other employees and some clients, media said.
Four people were released on bail, according to Movahed.
Iran is considered one of the world?s most corrupt places. It was ranked 136th out of 175 countries on Transparency International?s corruption index for 2014.
The main offences include the payment of bribes to facilitate trade in a country where state institutions, such as the military, control businesses ranging from telecoms to oil sales.
Earlier this week, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said three former government officials had been arrested in connection with fraud that occurred in 2011 and 2012.
Since Rouhani took office in August 2013, several prominent graft cases have come to light.
Mohammad Reza Rahimi, first vice president under former president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad, was sentenced to prison and fined, Iranian media reported in September.
And in May, a businessman convicted of criminal masterminding a $2.6 billion banking scam, the biggest fraud case in Iran?s history, was hanged.
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These guys are definitely not pikers in their embezzlement. How much did Bernie Madoff make off with--seems like it was far less?
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[DAWN] SARDAR Kalyan Singh, a teacher at a government-run college in Gujranwala, considers himself to be among a small minority of fortunate Sikhs for having managed to get his marriage registered, albeit following a tedious six-month legal proceeding in court. The crux of the problem is that there is no marriage law for Pakistain's Sikh or Hindu communities on the statute books. According to Mr Singh, a large majority of Sikh marriages in the country do not 'officially' exist.
