[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Son of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has died at the age of 33 due to heart attack.
See? See? Prayers for sepsis work...
A three-day mourning period was declared in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the announcement of Sheikh Rashid's death.
The state news agency -- WAM (Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat) confirmed today that Sheikh Rashid died of a heart attack.
He was the eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is the ruler of Dubai and his senior wife, Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum. Graduated from Sandhurst in 2002, Sheikh Rashid was an avid sportsman and horse racing enthusiast. His younger brother Sheikh Hamdan is Dubai's crown prince.
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About 15 Venezuelan soldiers entered Maicao municipality in eastern La Guajira province in apparent pursuit of an individual on a motorcycle who had attempted to cross the border into Venezuela, the Colombian army said in a statement.
"The Bolivarian National Guard fired shots with long guns and carried out the pursuit in a 4x4 vehicle inside Colombian territory," the statement said, adding that the soldiers went about a kilometer (half-mile) into Colombia. After the individual on the motorcycle entered a home, the soldiers burnt the abandoned vehicle and returned to Venezuela, the army said.
Community members said they were mistreated by the soldiers, and shell casings, as well as the remains of the charred motorcycle, were found by Colombian troops, the statement added. The army will remain in the municipality and has turned over details of the events to the defense minister.
Earlier on Friday a Venezuelan fighter jet crashed near the Colombian border, killing both pilots aboard. Venezuelan officials said an "illicit aircraft" likely linked to drug trafficking had entered its airspace.
Relations between the South American neighbors have been tense since Venezuela closed major border crossings in recent weeks and deported over 1,500 Colombians in what it calls a crackdown on crime. Tensions between Bogota and Caracas rose further last weekend when Colombia said three Venezuelan aircraft had been caught flying in its airspace without permission, a claim Venezuela characterized as "invented."
However, after mediations by Ecuador and Uruguay, the presidents of both countries said they would meet on Monday in Quito to discuss the dispute.
[RFE/RL] Vladimir Putin has backed the establishment of an air base in Belarus. Putin said in a statement that he had agreed to a proposal to sign a deal for the military air base and had ordered defense and Foreign Ministry officials to begin talks on the issue with Belarus. The plan is not expected to face major obstacles.
Russia has two military facilities in Belarus, a radar station and a submarine communications center. It also has some fighter aircraft in Belarus, but the plan would establish the first full-scale base there since Soviet times.
Russian officials said the base would station Su-27 fighter jets.
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The US repor has also claimed to had detected Russian Helo gunships, ostensib KA-52 "Alligators" aka one of Russia's most advanced types.
* FYI WAFF > IN RESPONSE TO JASSM IN POLAND, RUSSIA PLANS 33,000 TROOPS ON BELARUS | [Fox News Channel] PUTIN BACK SPLAN TO SET UP NEW MILITARY BASE IN BELARUS.
[PJ Media] While sob-sister German chancellor Angela Merkel scrambles to contain the looming damage to Germany's cultural integrity, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is being praised for finally saying enough to the Muslim hordes traipsing through his country:
Viktor Orban's fence may have earned the wrath of rights groups but it's going down well at a flower market near the Hungarian border town of Roszke, where the flow of migrants through fields of corn and sunflowers has suddenly dried up. The right-wing prime minister's critics say the fence on the frontier with Serbia flies in the face of international law. But to many on Hungary's southern frontier, the end justifies the means.
"Thank God that Viktor Orban is our prime minister," said a 46-year-old man who gave his name as Istvan and was selling flowers on Thursday at the Roszke market. "He doesn't have to be loved, but what he does is good." Echoing Orban in framing the issue as a defense of Europe's "Christian states" against mainly Muslim migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Istvan said: "So far it seems that Hungary is the most Christian of all."
[RFE/RL] Russia threatened Poland with "most serious consequences" for taking down a monument to a Soviet World War II general.
The removal of the memorial to General Ivan Chernyakhovsky began on September 17 in the northern town of Pieniezno, where the general died of injuries in 1945. Local officials argue he symbolizes the foisting of communism on Poland.
Go to the Wiki link and you'll see why the Poles don't like him much. Something about liquidating a Polish local resistance ghetto during the drive to Berlin...
The Russian embassy in Warsaw on September 18 issued a statement saying that Russia had "warned the Polish side many times" that removing such monuments "may not remain without the most serious consequences."
He was buried in Lithuania. When that country broke away his remains were moved to Moscow. The Lithuanians also tore down a statue of the guy. Common reaction amongst a free people, it seems...
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Young people taking antidepressants like Prozac are far more likely to commit violent crimes and doctors should warn of the dangers when prescribing, scientists at Oxford University have said.
A study of more than 850,000 people in Sweden found that those aged between 15 and 24 were 43 per cent more likely to be convicted of crimes like assault.
There has been a staggering rise in the prescribing of antidepressants in recent years, with around eight per cent of people in Britain now taking medication to combat depression. The vast majority are prescribed a type called SSRIs - selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - which include well known drugs like Prozac and Seroxat.
The researchers found that the 84,000 young people taking SSRI antidepressants had committed 2,081 violent crimes over a four year period between 2006 and 2010, around 890 more than would have been expected for the general population. Don't mess with things you don't understand.
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Just remember, the science was all worked out on this, anything to the contrary was anecdotal and rumor, but the National Health people say it's OK (because Big Pharma tells them so), so shut up and take you pills.
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My experience in caring for a friend who takes SSRIs:
90% of the time the drugs work as designed. !0% of the time (without pattern or warning) it has the exact opposite effect of what's expected or desired. Then its like being on a run-away freight train as you try to real him in.
Al
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Yes, this is a problem. But also 890 is an awfully small percentage of 89,000. And no, we apparently have no idea how SSRIs work, nor why they don't work for everybody who is given them.
But I've seen a young person who didn't get relief from SSRIs experience complete relief in only four hours from Scopalamine. Small risk vs. big reward? I'll take it, knowing that a careful watch is needed in the early stages.
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