A terrorist cell dismantled in Mali: Official

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? A spokesman for Mali's ministry in charge of security confirmed that a terrorist sleeper cell belonging to the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa was discovered in the Malian capital, and dismantled.

Sougalo Togola, press officer for the Ministry of Internal Security, said Tuesday that the members of the cell were arrested over one month ago. The information was confirmed by an intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "There was indeed a MUJAO cell in Bamako and it's been dismantled," he said.

Photographs of the seven suspects were published Tuesday on Maliweb, a news portal which often publishes messages from the military. All seven have the last name "Diallo," indicating they're from the Peul ethnic group.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/terrorist-cell-dismantled-mali-official-123814638.html

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Sony "Honami" Cyber-shot camera phone details leaked

The Sony Honami is reportedly being worked upon by every department of Sony and not just Sony Mobile to create that "One" (pun intended) phone to rule them all. Consider it a statement phone to let others know what the the iconic Japanese multinational giant is really capable of.?

The new camera details are:

SENSOR

• Sony 1/1.6" Exmor RS stacked sensor

LENS

SOFTWARE

• All new image processing algorithm, similar to Sony's Cyber-shot digital cameras
• Completely revamped camera UI, software goodies from Cyber-shot digital cameras of 2013
• Superior Auto Scene Recognition, an improvement over the Superior Auto mode found in the Xperia Z/ZL

Sony is also working on an "Augmented Reality" app similar to Nokia's amazing City Lens.

FLASH

• Xenon or Dual LED flash, to be 10 times brighter than ordinary flash on smartphones. There was also a mention of using the new Plasma flash, although we believe that won't really happen.

^The above illustration was made to give you a better feel of Sony's Honami camera sensor. While Nokia's PureView 808 still has the largest sensor, the upcoming flagship will be the biggest camera sensor on a smartphone belonging to the Android camp. It's even bigger than Samsung's Galaxy camera, with the Xperia Z/Galaxy S4 (both using the same sensor) far behind (3 times larger).

Compared to Nokia N8 camera phone

The Nokia N8 was/is a brilliant camera phone, and this will be the first time an Android smartphone will actually pack a lens larger than the N8. Sony's Honami is expected to best the N8's camera in technical specs and results as well. However, the same cannot be said in comparison to the Nokia PureView 808.

Sony HONAMI phone design

All these camera features are sure to have an impact on Honami's design, but the impact won't be as prominent as the huge bumps that the N8 and PureView 808 form at the back of the phone. Sony's Honami won't be slim, with our internal estimates at about 10 mm thickness. Those who were are expecting a phone smaller than the Xperia Z, be prepared to get disappointed. The body will feature "Glass and Metal" construction with "Carbon Fibre" to top off Sony Japan's most beautiful smartphone design ever.

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Estrogen-Blocking Drugs May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

Drugs that block estrogen may lower women's risk of breast cancer for 10 years, according to a new review of studies.

Postmenopausal women in the studies who took drugs called selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), such as tamoxifen, were 38 percent less likely to develop any type of breast cancer over a 10-year period, compared with women who weren?t taking SERMs. The studies also involved the SERMs raloxifene, arzoxifene and lasofoxifene.

The review shows that "each of these drugs will prevent breast cancer in populations of women," said Dr. V. Craig Jordan, scientific director of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University.

The review "places into perspective the 40-year journey" of SERM research, said Jordan, whose studies in the 1970s showed that tamoxifen prevented mammary cancer in rats. He was not involved in the new study.

Only tamoxifen and raloxifene are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of breast cancer, and only tamoxifen is approved for use in premenopausal women who are at high risk for breast cancer. The other drugs in the studies are currently being studied as treatments for osteoporosis, but they also lower the risk of breast cancer, Jordan said.

The drugs come with side effects that have made women reluctant to take them, he said. The common side effects are similar to symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes and vaginal dryness.

"There is the belief that the gains do not exceed the discomfort," Jordan said. "I think it is now time for women to seriously consider taking advantage" of the drugs' effects. Women should talk with their doctors about their options, he noted.

In the new review, researchers looked at nine studies involving more than 83,000 women. Eight of the studies compared taking a SERM with taking a placebo, while one study compared raloxifene to tamoxifen.

Researchers found that 4.2 percent of women taking a SERM developed breast cancer, while 6.3 percent of women in the control groups developed breast cancer.

The reduction in risk was primarily seen with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancers, which are fueled by estrogen, according to the study.

Jordan said that in one "pivotal" trial included in the review, researchers found that both raloxifene and tamoxifen reduced women's risk of breast cancer by 50 percent while they were taking the drugs, but only the women who took tamoxifen continued to see a reduced risk after they stopped taking the drug.

The new study also showed that only tamoxifen reduced the risk of ductal carcinoma in situ, a precancerous condition. "The other ones don't tend to do that. One of the mysteries has been why only tamoxifen really reduces DCS. "We still don?t know why," Jordan said.

The more serious side but less common effects of SERMs include an increased of endometrial cancer, or cancer of the uterine lining. Among women in the studies, endometrial cancer was indeed more common in those taking SERMs, although a small number ? 168 women ? in the studies developed endometrial cancer.

The drugs also increase the risk deep-vein thrombosis.

The study did not look at whether the drugs might help women live longer. To get data on mortality rates, more time is needed, Jordan said. The drugs have not been used for long enough for an effect on mortality rates to be seen.

The study is published online Tuesday (April 30) in the journal Lancet.?

Pass it on: Taking SERMs may lower women's risk of breast cancer.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/estrogen-blocking-drugs-may-lower-breast-cancer-risk-224615819.html

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Oil above $94 on US data, hope of EU rate cut

NEW YORK (AP) ? The price of oil rose above $94 per barrel Monday as positive U.S. economic data added to optimism for a rate cut in Europe.

Benchmark crude for June delivery gained $1.50 to finish at $94.50 a barrel in New York. Oil hadn't finished above $94 since April 10.

The U.S. government said Americans spent more in March as their incomes went up. And pending home sales hit their highest level in three years. Traders also think the European Central Bank will cut its benchmark interest rate from the current record low of 0.75 percent to 0.50 percent, in a further attempt to turn around the economy there.

A weaker dollar also helped boost oil prices by making crude priced in dollars cheaper for traders using other currencies. On Monday, the euro was up to $1.3100 from $1.3065 late Friday in New York.

Drivers are still shelling out fewer dollars at the gas pump compared with a year ago. The national average for a gallon of regular is $3.50, compared with $3.82 on this date last year.

Brent crude, which is used to price oil from the North Sea used by many U.S. refiners, rose 65 cents to end at $103.81 on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

In other energy futures trading on Nymex:

? Wholesale gasoline was up almost a cent to finish at $2.83 a gallon.

? Heating oil was flat at $2.90 a gallon.

? Natural gas added 17 cents to end at $4.39 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oil-above-94-us-data-hope-eu-rate-163039674.html

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Sina Weibo, China's Equivalent of Facebook and Twitter, Gets $586M Investment From Alibaba

Sina Weibo, the micro-blogging platform that took root among China’s white-collar class, may be worth more than $3 billion today after Alibaba agreed to pay $586 million to buy preferred and ordinary shares in the company. The deal creates a strategic alliance between Alibaba, which runs the eBay of China, and Sina Weibo, which is kind of like a Facebook-Twitter hybrid. Weibo grew to 46 million daily users and earned $50 million in advertising revenue last year, according to an SEC filing last week from parent company Sina. It was 12 percent of parent company Sina’s total advertising revenue. Like Twitter and Facebook, Sina Weibo has gotten a lot more aggressive about pushing in-stream or news feed advertising. Last week, they announced a new product called ?Window Recommendations? in partnership with Alibaba’s Taobao. In that integration, about 3 to 5 ads featuring Taobao goods get pushed into a Weibo stream. The two companies say the deal happened so that both companies could better connect Alibaba merchants to their Weibo users and followers and experiment with new ideas in social commerce. The partnership could bring $380 million in advertising and e-commerce revenues to Weibo over the next three years, Sina said. Alibaba also reserves the right to bump its ownership up to 30 percent. It’s interesting because no such equivalent partnership exists in Western markets. E-commerce companies like eBay and Amazon have basic Facebook integrations but no deep strategic investments. Alibaba is also making the deal as it’s expected to go for a very highly anticipated IPO. The company recently did a management re-shuffle, putting in Jonathan Lu Xaoxi as its new CEO, after founder Jack Ma stepped down.

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Libya to help ease Egypt crisis with $1.2 billion oil deal

By Jessica Donati and Ghaith Shennib

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya will soon start shipping oil to neighboring Egypt on soft credit terms, two senior Libyan officials said, as Cairo struggles to pay for energy imports and avoid fuel shortages.

The officials told Reuters that Tripoli would supply Cairo with $1.2 billion worth of crude at world prices but on interest free credit for a year, with the first cargo expected to arrive next month.

Egypt has slid into economic crisis since president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown two years ago. Most international companies have reduced oil product supplies to the country fearing non-payments, as the government tries to curb soaring energy subsidy costs which swallow up a fifth of its budget.

Libya plans to ship one to two cargoes a month for refining in Egypt under a deal that involves 12 million barrels of crude over 12 months, the oil industry officials said.

With foreign currency reserves running low, Egypt has not bought any crude on the open market since January. In rough terms the Libyan deal would be worth slightly more than half its 2012 imports, which the central bank put at $2 billion.

"Their situation is very bad, and if necessary they can take up to a year to pay (for each delivery)," said one of the Libyan officials.

Libyan authorities themselves face a daily struggle to keep services running and take control of a country awash with weapons looted from the arsenal of Muammar Gaddafi, who was toppled in 2011.

But the official said Libya could not shy away from helping an important trading partner. "If you are a good neighbor and something is wrong with your neighbor, you will not feel comfortable with yourself. It's human nature," he said.

Cairo has so far failed to agree a $4.8 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund and has sought help from energy producing countries in the region and beyond.

Tripoli has already deposited $2 billion at the Egyptian central bank and Qatar has announced $8 billion in loans, grants and other deposits since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was elected last June.

WORLD PRICES

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) declined immediate comments on the details of the deal, although one of the oil industry officials said it would supply Sirteca, the cheapest of all the country's grades. "Shipments will be sold at world prices," said the second Libyan official.

An official at the Egyptian oil ministry confirmed some of the deal's terms. "(It will be) one million barrels a month and deferred payment for 12 months without interest starting from the first half of May, God willing," the official told Reuters.

However, the official maintained that the two sides were still discussing the kind of crude oil to be supplied and how long the shipments would last. The Libyan officials said that if the first cargo was sent next month as planned, they would last until April 2014.

The Libyan deal should ease the problems of Egypt, which owes at least $5 billion to oil companies, half of it overdue.

Cairo aims to raise prices of subsidized energy gradually, bringing them close to world levels in four years, to reduce the burden on its huge budget deficit. In the short term, it wants to avoid arousing more social unrest by ensuring energy supplies during the approaching summer when energy consumption peaks.

Libya has already shown willingness to step back into its old role as North Africa's version of a Gulf petro-state by using cash to open doors.

Libya's new rulers authorized a payment of almost $200 million to Mauritania after it extradited Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi last year, although they later denied there was a quid pro quo.

Diplomats and analysts have also suggested Libya's growing support may help persuade Egypt to hand over Gaddafi's cousin Ahmed Gaddaf Alddam, who was arrested in Cairo in March.

Egypt sent two other ex-Gaddafi officials to Libya last month but barred the extradition of Gaddaf Alddam, who is claiming Egyptian citizenship. Libya is appealing the Egyptian court ruling.

(Additional reporting by Asma Alsharif in Cairo; editing by David Stamp)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libya-help-ease-egypt-crisis-1-2-billion-130421776.html

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2 police shot outside Italian premier's office

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2 police shot outside Italian premier's office
By FRANCES D'EMILIOBy FRANCES D'EMILIO, Associated Press??

A wounded Carabinieri paramilitary police officer lies on the ground after being shot outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Two paramilitary police officers were shot and wounded Sunday in a crowded square outside the Italian premier's office as the new leader Enrico Letta was sworn in about a kilometer (half-mile) away. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, Lapresse) ITALY OUT

A wounded Carabinieri paramilitary police officer lies on the ground after being shot outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Two paramilitary police officers were shot and wounded Sunday in a crowded square outside the Italian premier's office as the new leader Enrico Letta was sworn in about a kilometer (half-mile) away. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, Lapresse) ITALY OUT

A wounded Carabinieri paramilitary police officer lies on the ground after being shot outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Two paramilitary police officers were shot and wounded Sunday in a crowded square outside the Italian premier's office as the new leader Enrico Letta was sworn in about a kilometer (half-mile) away. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A man believed to be the assailant lies on the ground detained by police after a shootout outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Reports say two paramilitary police officers were shot and wounded outside the Italian premier's office as the new leader Enrico Letta was sworn in about a kilometer (half-mile) away. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, Lapresse) ITALY OUT

A wounded Carabiniere paramilitary police officer is assisted after being shot at outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. The shootout took place as Italy's new premier, Enrico Letta, was been sworn into office with his Cabinet at the nearby Quirinale presidential palace. News reports said a paramilitary policeman was shot and wounded about a kilometer (half-mile) away in the square outside the premier's office. Sky TG24 TV said an assailant had been detained by police. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A wounded Carabiniere paramilitary police officer is assisted after being shot at outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. The shootout took place as Italy's new premier, Enrico Letta, was been sworn into office with his Cabinet at the nearby Quirinale presidential palace. News reports said a paramilitary policeman was shot and wounded about a kilometer (half-mile) away in the square outside the premier's office. Sky TG24 TV said an assailant had been detained by police. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

ROME (AP) ? Italy's interior minister says the shooting that seriously wounded two policemen in a square outside the premier's office in Rome was a "tragic criminal gesture by an unemployed man."

A female passer-by was slightly injured in the shooting, which happened just as Premier Enrico Letta and his new government were being sworn in Sunday elsewhere in the city.

Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told reporters the alleged gunman ? Luigi Preiti, a 49-year-old Italian ? wanted to kill himself after the shooting but ran out of bullets. The minister says Preiti fired six shots.

Associated Press

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