Cain faces new sex assault accusation

Cain faces new sex assault accusation

THE sexual harassment scandal surrounding Herman Cain, a leading US Republican presidential candidate, deepened as another woman accused him of inappropriate behavior when he headed a restaurant industry lobbying group in the 1990s.

The woman's account came as Cain tried unsuccessfully to divert attention from the controversy, responding testily to reporters who had pressed him about the original accusations.

The scandal has jolted the contest for the Republican nomination, in which Cain, a former pizza chain executive and political novice, has upset the establishment by climbing to the top of opinion polls.

Cain appeals to some conservatives because he is a political outsider at a time of anti-Washington sentiment. But the allegations against him could threaten his standing near the front of the Republican field, which is just two months away from thinning out after early January contests in the traditional lead-off states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

The woman who came forward on Wednesday said he made sexually suggestive remarks or gestures about the same time that two co-workers at the National Restaurant Association settled separate harassment complaints against him.

The woman said she feared losing her job and damaging her reputation. She worked at a restaurant with Cain during the period in question, but she has no party affiliation.

Cain's campaign has denied he did anything wrong, accusing opponents of a "smear campaign" as he is riding high in opinion polls and accused rival Rick Perry's operation of being behind the original stories.

Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday, of the Cain-Perry spat,Pittsburgh Pirates Jerseys he does not know "what is true and what is not."

But he told a TV interviewer he thought the Cain controversy was a fleeting thing. He also said he did not believe it would hurt the Republican Party's chances of defeating Obama.

Candidates are scrambling to win endorsements from lawmakers who are influential in their home districts. Mitt Romney leads with 33 current members of Congress.

Perry,discount fashion jewelry the Texas governor who declared his candidacy only two months ago, has chalked up at least 14.

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He became irritated with reporters and denied any wrongdoing after reports surfaced that he faced sexual harassment accusations from two women when he was the head of the National Restaurant Association.

Confronted by reporters after he left a speech to healthcare professionals in Virginia, Cain told them "don't even bother" asking about the scandal.

50 deaths tied to anti-stroke pill

50 deaths tied to anti-stroke pill

BOEHRINGER Ingelheim's new stroke prevention pill Pradaxa has been linked to about 50 deaths from bleeding across the world since its market launch, the company said yesterday,,Cheap authentic nfl jerseys, heightening health regulators' attention.

"Fifty cases is a reasonable order of magnitude that has emerged so far," a company spokesman said yesterday, adding that the number of deaths was within expectations from the clinical study that led to its market approval.

Pradaxa, an anti-clotting pill,,cheap adidas shoes, won regulatory clearance in the United States for stroke prevention in October 2010, followed by other markets this year. Britain's health care cost-effectiveness watchdog on Tuesday recommended the use of Pradaxa. Like other anti-blood-clotting treatments, Pradaxa's benefit of cutting the rate of fatal or debilitating strokes comes at the risk of internal bleeding, which can also cost lives.

Germany-based Boehringer said this week it agreed with European regulators that patients about to take Pradaxa should have their kidneys checked,Sanyo Projector LampDemeco Ryans white jerseys further dimming the safety profile of the first in a promising new class of medicines.

Any malfunction of the kidneys, which gradually filter Pradaxa's active ingredient out of the blood stream, could lead to overdosing and increase the risk of dangerous bleeding.

The pill is one of many new anti-blood-clotting pills expected to replace the decades-old and difficult-to-handle warfarin pill. Rival drugs include Xarelto from Bayer and Johnson & Johnson, Eliquis from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer, and Daiichi Sankyo's Lixiana.

Poland's Warsaw airport closed after emergency landing

Poland's Warsaw airport closed after emergency landing

Warsaw's Frederic Chopin Airport will remain closed until 8:00am local time today after an emergency landing of a Polish airlines Boeing 767 on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.

The plane from Newark of the United States,,Moncler men jackets, with 230 passengers aboard, made an emergency landing in Warsaw after its landing gear failed to open.

No one aboard the plane was injured, said Leszek Chorzewski, spokesperson for LOT, the Polish airline that operated the flight.NEC Projector Lamp

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The airport has been closed for all flights until 8:00am today.

All planes that were to land in Warsaw will be directed to other Polish airports, Chorzewski said.

Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski, in a televised speech,Moncler women's jackets thanked the pilots and crew of the plane and all the airport services and praised the behavior of the passengers "who effectively cooperated during this very difficult moment."

Protesters set to tell G20 to put people first

Protesters set to tell G20 to put people first

THOUSANDS of protesters were converging yesterday on the French Riviera to urge the Group of 20 leading economies to focus on spreading global largesse more equitably instead of saving banks and pleasing financial markets.

Scores of French and international activist groups with a range of missions - from a tax on financial transactions to better environmental protection and fairer labor laws - are organizing protests around the summit of G-20 leaders in Cannes tomorrow and Friday.

Their biggest march was planned for yesterday in Nice, under the slogan "People First, Not Finance."

Later they will march on nearby Monaco, known for its friendly tax laws, to urge an end to tax havens.

While some of their goals overlap with that of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread to cities around North America and Europe, the protesters in Nice have not latched onto the Occupy name. The protesters planned their actions many months ago and are pushing agendas they have long championed.

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"Even if the public and the demonstration organizers want the protest to be a peaceful one and to take place in the best possible way,,cheap adidas shoes, there is nonetheless the risk that on the margins of this demonstration there could be small groups that could infiltrate the demonstration with no other desire than to cause trouble and we're particularly wary of that," he said.

Police in France, where protests and strikes are a common form of public debate and can occasionally degenerate into violence, are well-versed in crowd control and not shy about using tear gas to disperse rowdy demonstrators.

Organizers are expecting between 5,000 and 15,000 people for the protests. Among their leading causes is a push for a small tax on all international financial transactions that would be used for development aid to poorer nations.

But the leaders at the summit are primarily focused on keeping Greece from defaulting and helping Europe overcome its debt crises, which have threatened the global recovery and rocked financial markets.

British PM under attack over gay comments

British PM under attack over gay comments

British Prime Minister David Cameron has come under a salvo of attacks over his comments that Britain would withhold aid to countries that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality.

Cameron, in a recent interview with BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, threatened to cut aid to anti-gay countries, declaring that nations receiving British aid should "adhere to proper human rights."

Cameron said he raised the issue with some of the states involved at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia.

The comments received bitter criticism from Ghanaians, especially religious leaders, who said the British premier lacked understanding of Ghana's cultural values.

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, the Most Reverend Charles Palmer-Buckle, told a local radio that the country must stand up and uphold its values and not allow other countries to manipulate it.,hair weave,

A member of the Chief Imam's Educational Fund in Ghana, Alhassan Abdulai, also said the Islamic community was appalled by the threats of the British premier and gave indications that "if push comes to shove," the Muslim faithful in the nation would stage a demonstration against seeming plans by the British government to legitimize homosexuality in Ghana.

Minister of Trade and Industry Hannah Tetteh joined the fray on Tuesday, insisting same sex relationships were unacceptable in African cultural set-ups and that no amount of threats would make Ghana stoop to Britain's threat.

Interacting with a section of the media here, Tetteh took a swipe at the western world, saying that it had no right to force its cultural and moral orientations on Ghana and that the government would make its stance clear at the appropriate time.

"Every society has its norms and what it considers to be acceptable.discount fashion jewelry In the Western world, it is acceptable to have gay relationships and even move on to the next level to gay marriages; in our society, it is unacceptable," she stated.

A private legal practitioner, Kwame Akuffo, also condemned the British Prime Minister's comments, describing it as smacking of racism.

He urged African states to stand up against any vile or racist conduct from the West towards them, maintaining that since every country had its own peculiar beliefs and heritage, it was important to maintain one's sovereignty.

Meanwhile, the Ghanaian government said it had no position now on Cameron's comments on homosexuality until it received official correspondence from the British government.

The state-run daily newspaper, The Ghanaian Times,,Jogos Quentes Gold, quoted the Minister of Information John Tia Akologu as saying that it was not prudent for the government to comment or state a position on an issue for which no correspondence had been received.,Cheap moncler vests,

He stated further that the government was guided by the provisions of the country's constitution and would work towards preserving and protecting the rights of the people as provided for under it.

The threat to cut aid to Ghana and other countries first came to light early last month when British Daily Mail newspaper reported that Britain had taken a hard stance to cut aid to African countries which persecuted gays.

The paper quoted Andrew Michael, UK's International Development Secretary as saying that already his country had cut aid to Malawi by 19 million pounds after two gay men were sentenced to 14 years' in hard labor.

Mitchell, one of Cameron's closest allies, also threatened to impose further aid "fines" against Uganda and Ghana for their hard- line anti-gay and lesbian measures.

Again, the Mail, a private newspaper, claimed that during a visit to Ghana earlier this year, Stephen O'Brien, Mitchell's deputy, told Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills that Britain would cut its aid unless he stopped persecuting gays.

Cameron's threat is said to apply to only one type of bilateral aid known as "general budget support," and does not to reduce the overall amount of aid to any one country.

President Hu visits Mozart residence in Austria

President Hu visits Mozart residence in Austria

Chinese President Hu Jintao continued his state visit to Austria Tuesday and toured Mozart's residence in Salzburg and a farm outside the city.Replica Rolex watches

Art can serve as a bridge for communication and a messenger of friendship between different peoples, Hu said during his visit to the birthplace of 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Tuesday afternoon.

Hu expressed the hope that China and Austria could strengthen cultural exchanges.

Mozart, known for his gift for music, produced more than 600 works, including symphonies, operas, concertos and quartets. His music is heard around the world today.

Earlier Tuesday, Hu toured a farm near Salzburg. Hu was informed of the operations of the farm run by the Joseph Haas family, which produces 610 tons of milk annually. Hu and his wife, Liu Yongqing,Lions jerseys authentic chatted with the Haas family.

On Tuesday evening, Hu attended a welcome dinner held in his honor by Sulzburg Governor Gabi Burgstaller and Sulzburg City Mayor Heinz Schaden.

Burgstaller said that the Sulzburg State welcomes Hu's visit and the state is willing to step up the friendly cooperation with provinces and cities of China and play an active role in enhancing the friendly relations between Austria and China.

Hu arrived in Salzburg Monday evening from Vienna, where he held talks with his Austrian counterpart, Heinz Fischer, and met Chancellor Werner Faymann and other Austrian leaders on strengthening bilateral ties.Christian Louboutin shoes

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