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Research gives hope for brain disease cure
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26 million people suffer the ravages of the mind-wasting disease known as Alzheimer's - a degeneration of the brain for which there is currently no cure. But now a new study is offering hope to those in the early stages. Researchers at Oxford University in the UK have discovered high doses of vitamin B appear to slow - if not stop - the advance of the disease. Tarek Bazley has the details. |
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News Bulletin - 14:05 GMT update
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The main headlines on Al Jazeera English, featuring the latest news and reports from around the world. |
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News Bulletin - 05:35 GMT update
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The main headlines on Al Jazeera English, featuring the latest news and reports from around the world. |
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News Bulletin - 14:05 GMT update
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Witness - Witness - The Colony
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A look at how the swell of Chinese globalisation is having an impact on the coast of Africa. |
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Iraqis fear bleak future
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Barack Obama, the US president, said in a message this weekend that Iraq would "chart its own course" as US combat operations come to an end. This may have been welcome news for war-weary Americans, but it has fuelled anxieties about the future among Iraqis. Meeting the August 31 deadline allows Obama to say he is fulfilling a pledge to end the war launched by George Bush, his predecessor, seven years ago. However, some 50000 US troops will remain until the end of 2011 to advise Iraqi security forces in combat missions and protect US interests - in what Washington is calling an "advisory and support" role. But the failure of Iraqi leaders to form a new government almost six months after elections, and persistent attacks by insurgents, have done little to instill confidence among Iraqis. Overall violence in Iraq has fallen sharply since the peak in 2006-07 of the sectarian killings unleashed after the 2003 US-led invasion, but levels of violence remain high. Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna reports from Baghdad on Iraqis who are left wondering what the future will bring. [Tuesday, August 31, 2010] |
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Many die in Slovakia shooting spree
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A man armed with a rifle has shot seven people dead and wounded at least 14 before killing himself in Bratislava, the Slovakian capital. His motive is still unclear, but six of the dead were members of the same Roma family, people who often face discrimination in Eastern Europe. Witnesses say he "shot at everything that moved," in the hour-long shooting spree. Erica Wood reports. [August 30, 2010] |
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Iran scientist alleges US torture
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The Iranian scientist who says he was kidnapped by US agents over information on Iran's nuclear programme, has returned to his home country. Shahram Amiri claims he was drugged and abducted by US agents during a Hajj pilgrimmage to Saudi Arabia and flown to the United States against his will. He also says he was tortured physically and psychologically during the 14 months he was held for interrogation in the US. But that contradicts an earlier Youtube posting in which he said he was in the US of his own free will. Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi reports from Tehran. [July 15, 2010] |
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Afghan Taliban attack airfield
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The Taliban in Afghanistan seem to be growing bolder, despite an increase in foreign troops. On Wednesday they attempted to storm a US military base at Jalalabad airfield, just east of the capital, Kabul. A suicide bomber detonated his car at the entrance as fighters clashed with international troops and Afghan security forces. The fighting lasted for almost an hour before several Taliban fighters were killed. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reported from Afghanistan. |
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Witness - Video of US attack in Iraq 'genuine'
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The editor of one of the internet's biggest sources of classified government information says there is strong evidence to suggest that video footage of an alleged US attack on Iraqi civilians is genuine. Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks.org, told Al Jazeera that the footage, released on Sunday, corroborates witness testimony. The video is believed to show a US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq in 2007, during an attack in which 12 civilians were killed, the website said. |
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Al Jazeera English - What do you think?
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Welcome to the Al Jazeera English channel on YouTube - tell us what you think of the news, the stories, the programmes and the coverage - send us a comment or better still, send us a video comment. |
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