Thai soldier dies as violated the cease-fire with Cambodia - Reuters

Thais anti-explosive officers remove the shells with explosives found in Hua Ang village rubber plantation, in the province of Surin on the border between Cambodia and the Thailand on April 29, 2011. A Thai soldier is dead and four wounded in other clashes during the night on a disputed stretch of border between the Thailand and Cambodia, a Thai army spokesman, said Friday, as a ceasefire agreed the previous day did not have to take.

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SURIN, Thailand. Friday, April 29, 2011 2: 15 p.m. EDT

SURIN, Thailand (Reuters) - the Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged fire as early as Friday, breaking a ceasefire agreed the day before to end a week of border clashes that killed 16 people and injured scores in conflict of deadliest border of Asia over the years.

Each side blames the other for shooting first, but both said they still wanted to give the truce a chance.

Brief clashes with weapons fire and hand grenades small broke out two times per night, Thai regional commander of the army that thawatchai Samutsakorn said. The clash killed a Thai soldier and four others wounded. It was not step clear if there were losses on the Cambodian side.

The ceasefire was supposed to put an end to a week of sporadic and petit-rocket artillery inflamed nationalist passions in both countries, threatened to overshadow the elections in Thailand and reinforced doubts about the ambitions of Southeast Asia to form a community of style of the European Union by 2015.

The guns are silent since 3 o'clock in the morning but tension remained high with the troops still stationed nearby on two ancient temples in the Dongrak mountains poorly demarcated.

Thailand blamed the latest skirmish on a misunderstanding on the ground in Cambodia.

"On the side of Thailand, we understand the ceasefire but Cambodia agreement may have problems," Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban told reporters. "But give us a chance and examine the situation positively - their communications can have problems and the chain of command may be ineffective."

Commander of Cambodia, Colonel Suos Sothea, denied the Cambodian troops had fired everything first.

The Cambodian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that it was "regrettable" that Thai troops had attacked and said that the Cambodian army had always respected the ceasefire agreement.

Thursday, the two parties have agreed to keep troops in the region, but regular meetings between commanders on the ground and leave their territorial disputes long reach a joint boundary commission.

They also agreed to open border control points near two Hindu temples in the 12th century challenged at the heart of the fighting, although it was not clear, when the villagers would be allowed back permanently to their distance, ravaged cities.

More than 60,000 were evacuated during the fighting.

"STILL SAFE STEP."

The two parties remained at odds which controlled the Ta Moan and Ta Krabey temples after fighting that killed at least eight Cambodian and Thailand eight.

"We have to remain vigilant in the coming days to ensure that everyone on the field includes the agreement," said the Thai regional commander Thawatchai Samutsakorn.

Thailand insists that the ruins stone-walled reside in the province of Surin as a map of 1947. In Cambodia, says that they are in the province of Oddar Meanchey. Sovereignty over three temples - Ta Moan and Ta Krabey border over Preah Vihear - and the jungle they been challenged since the retreat of the French in Cambodia in the 1950s.

Analysts have expressed their scepticism conflict - which erupted in February near Preah Vihear, the death of 11 persons - is really on sovereignty and say that it seems politically driven on both sides. Some say hawkish generals in Thailand is in collusion with the nationalists to foment a crisis that could force the cancellation of the elections, scheduled in July and to marginalize the powerful opposition to preserve the stranglehold of the royalist establishment power.

In the village of border Hua Ang, dozens of civilians returned with mistrust to check their houses and agricultural land.

"This ceasefire seems a little suspicious." Look at what happened last night, "said Pailin Naralit, a 49-year old village Chief Deputy that he walked through his damaged rubber plantation."

"I am to check on my house and dating safe soon." I do not think that it is safe here yet. ?

(Other reports by Ambika Ahuja and Panarat Thepgumpanat in Bangkok and Prak Chan Toul in Phnom Penh;) Written by Alan Raybould; (Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)

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Checklist of autism speckles warning signs in infants

Signs of autism can be present at the age of one year, and a simple checklist could help screen of physicians, researchers say.

The babies who are not socially engaged, gesturing or babbling may raise flags for parents and family physicians.

In the issue on Thursday in the journal of Pediatrics, researchers in San Diego describe testing of a checklist of testing to find the language or development delays, conducted on the currently babies.

Testing uses a 24-issue which can be easily understood and responded by parents in five minutes approximately.

Neuroscientist Karen Pierce, of the University of California, San Diego, has led to the study of 137 pediatricians that the questionnaire in audits of one year and babies who did not have further testing. Children have been reevaluated all the six months to three years, when the diagnosis is more certain.

Babies who have been eliminated, 1,318 failed. Then, 346, these babies were referred to test more and 32 finally received a diagnosis of autism, language delay or developmental delay.

It is unclear why 972 children who do not have were never targeted for follow-up. It is possible there are errors in the records, physicians, and parents were not enough concerned to follow immediately, or elsewhere went to evaluate families.

"The screen just said something is bad - it does not tell you what is the problem,"said Pierce. ". The screen "will tell you what you should do."

Screening predict with accuracy a problem in 75% of the targeted children.

It is hoped that by identifying the problems more quickly, children can start receiving interventions earlier.

"You are now saying in a family," your child is showing warning signs at 12 months. ". "If you have nothing to give them in terms of treatment and intervention, you are defining a significant anxiety, for", said Suzanne Lanthier, Executive Director of the Autism Speaks Canada, whose 11-year-old son has autism and gets treatment.

Researchers that future studies should validate and refine the screening tool, follow the children to a much older age and assess the barriers to treatment.

The study was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health autism Centre of Excellence, Autism Speaks and the Organization for autism research.

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The U.S. at risk without majority border accord: Harper

Canada needs a strong conservative majority to protect trade relations with the United States, Stephen Harper said Thursday, adding that an agreement of border security with the neighbour to the South of the country is also at risk.

The Conservative leader said that without a Conservative Government: "the vision of the border would be dead."

The border agreement signed earlier this year by Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama was intended to support security at the border while foster trade and economic growth between the two countries.

"One in five jobs in the Canada is tied to trade with the United States," said Harper, who was in Niagara Falls, to talk about the importance of international trade with the United States and its commitment to the signing of new trade agreements.

The deal "will help to reinforce and strengthen our trade relations to complement the economic recovery and create jobs."

But the Union representing customs and immigration officers breakdown Harper Thursday, saying that it has closed the local centres of intelligence, points border land of entry and reduced opening hours.

"The Harper Government has previously prioritized effective border security in the course of the bureaucratic indifference, that is why their counterproductive acceptance of these decisions is so disturbing," Customs and Immigration Union said in a statement.

"I hope that this leadership will be once more demonstrated in concrete actions and not words;" This is what Canadians deserve.

The Conservative leader has also used his liberal message distance once more his party from the NDP, saying that his opposition to foreign trade agreements is "ideological" and his point of view "have not changed since the cold war."

"The NDP opposed every trade agreement that we signed" said Harper.

Harper moves his message of the campaign to focus the attack on "a coalition of opposition led by the NDP."

Until now, Harper has spent the campaign pitching its curators as an alternative to a coalition of the opposition Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff-led parties.

Harper continues to highlight the message that the Canada is in need of a strong majority, but surge to campaign for the end of the NDP in the polls apparently forced Harper to change its main target.

Harper said the choice is between a conservative majority government and a Parliament led to the minority, which he said would raise taxes and spending.

"It would be this huge step backwards, and Canadians must understand how radically different choices are really when you are looking to two parliaments, with a conservative majority, the other a minority Parliament with a rickety coalition, led by the NDP which will not last."", but that will do many things of destruction" said harper.

Harper also criticized plan of the NDP for a system of limits and Exchange, stating that their proposal would hike to the rising prices at the gas pump

"The NDP proposes 20 billion dollars in carbon taxes," he said. "It is at least 10 cents per litre gasoline and many other big increases in consumption".

Harper appeared to be referring to the figures cited by the economist Jack Mintz, who tweeted Thursday a ""NDP CAP and Exchange at $40 per tonne of carbon will be a 10 cents go hiking in the gasoline tax. ""

Mintz is found by his calculations after a history of Globe and Mail said later that his characters were based on the erroneous assumption that the NDP would include fossil fuels using consumers.

"Cap- and -Exchange on the refining will certainly increase the price of gas." Let's get realistic, "tweeted Mintz."

During this time, Layton shot back that gas companies are undue Canadian and that Harper has done nothing to stop it.

It suggested to toughen up laws on competition and establishing a special mediator to put pressure on oil companies.

"We want to start with competition law," said Layton. "It is what we first of all because it is not used correctly." Mr. Harper has clearly no desire to go after the oil companies. "He is too busy giving them subsidies."

NDP leader, Jack Layton poses with Jacq Brewer at a stop of the campaign in Yellowknife Thursday (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

Recent public opinion polls have shown that the Conservatives and the Liberals are all two losing support to the NDP.

The NDP has moved into second place in most national polls behind the conservatives.

That change also caused the Liberals aim their criticism more marked in the NDP.

Even former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien used his speech on Wednesday to take a jab at the NDP.

"And I checked the program of the NDP," said the former Prime Minister.

"Nobody had read until a few days ago.". Apparently this is not adding up. ?

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At least 400 civilians killed in the revolt of the Syria: Group - Reuters

AMMAN. Tue April 26, 2011 1 pm EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - the Syrian security forces shot dead at least 400 civilians in their campaign to crush the pro-democracy protests of long months, Sawasiah Syrian human rights organization said on Tuesday.

The group, founded by Mohannad al-Hassani imprisoned human rights lawyer, said that the United Nations Security Council should convene to start proceedings against the Syrian in the international criminal court officials and "reigns in security apparatus".

"This savage behavior, which aims to maintain the clique of decision power to the detriment of a growing number of life of civilians, calls for immediate international action beyond the convictions," Sawasiah said in a statement sent to Reuters.

"The murderers in the Syrian regime must be held accountable." The rivers of the blood by this oppressive regime over the past four decades are enough, said the statement.

Board of Directors of Sawasiah includes philosophy Syrian Professor Sadiq Jalal al-Azem, the book "Self-criticism after the defeat" helped to prepare the ground for a revival in Arab political thought after the victory of Israel in the 1967 war in the Middle East.

Separately, the Syrian human rights observatory, said security police arrested rights activist Qassem al-Ghazzawi Tuesday in his hometown of Deir al - Zor in the Syria is poor after protests intensified in the region last week.

The Observatory also said Mahmoud Issa, an activist and a former political prisoner arrested last week in the city of Homs, submitted to a military court Tuesday on charges of "owning a Thuraya satellite phone and edge computing."

(Reported by Khaled Yacoub Oweis;) (Editing by Louise Ireland)

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Stop Syria of Baath party members. reported military defections - Los Angeles Times

Syrian families arrive on foot in the region of Wadi Khaled of North of Lebanon, near the Lebanese-Syrian border. Hundreds of children and Syrian women crossed the northern border of the Lebanon, fleeing the violence in Syria. (Omar Ibrahim, Reuters / April 28, 2011)

Cracks appear in the Syrian regime Thursday with the resignation of the members of the Baath party to power and continuous reports of military divisions before another confrontation with demonstrators expected Friday.

About 200 people resigned from the Baath party in the past two days to protest Government's violent response disorders. Most of the resignations came from members of the party in the cities of Dara and Baniyas, points have been hot opposition.

"My resignation was a message and the duty," former party member Mohammad Sheghri said in Baniyas. "Security officials has clearly abused of peaceful demonstrators and unarmed." This ruthless violation and the oppression of citizens has never been something the party Baath represented. ?

He also continued reports of dissension within the armed forces. A resident of Dara said an entire army unit, a division or brigade, had broken and was hidden among the people.

His claim could not be verified. Media of the Syrian State cited Thursday a military employee without name dismissing these reports as a "distortion of the media", confirming the unity of the armed forces in "conspiracies."

Access to the sites of protest was widely denied to foreign journalists.

The pro-democracy movement erupted in Dara six weeks after the arrest and torture of a group of adolescents accused of writing graffiti policy opposition to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. It has quickly spread across the country.

Thursday from Dara resident, reached by telephone satellite, said 42 people had been killed by security forces, in the city since Monday when 4th Division Army, the armoured, directed by his brother Maher Assad, stormed the city. Residents described the military assault as a "massacre" and complained about severe food and fuel shortages.

"They are bombing us from the South," said the resident, who requested anonymity for the sake of security. "We have no milk, no gas, light step, no electricity;" they cut everything. ?

He said the army and the shabiha, pro-Government armed plainclothes men who played a central role in the repression, filled the streets.

A witness, Mohamad al-Homsi, said the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera that three women who were captured in bringing milk to children in the city were forced to kiss the feet of soldiers until they were allowed to pass.

Homsi "our children have died of hunger," said on air shortly before the station announced that it had suspended operations in Syria in response to "restrictions and attacks on its staff."

Elsewhere in the country, the authorities took measures on the movement and communication as the militants and Government forces prepared for the Friday prayer, often followed by massive protests by anti-Government.

Video posted on the Internet appears to show Government forces open fire on the crowd in the third city of the Syria, Homs, kill several people. The video has been downloaded Thursday but could not be confirmed.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should hold a session of emergency Friday to draft a resolution calling on the Syrian Government and its supporters to stop the use of violence against the demonstrators. Organization of Syrian rights sawasiah reported arrested thousands and more than 500 civilians killed so far, Reuters news.

Even former allies of the Syria Turkey and the Iran appear to be increasingly uncomfortable with repression. Istanbul, Turkey, organized a series of top-level between the Syrian opposition meetings, and a group of prominent poets and writers of autour region Thursday issued a statement here condemning the "massacres committed by the Syrian regime against unarmed civilians."

Another sign that it is less than pleased with his neighbour, the Turkey also sent a delegation headed by the National Intelligence Agency Assistant Hakan Fidan and State Planning Organization under Secretary Kemal Madenoglu in Damascus, the Syrian capital", Thursday to discuss the recent incidents" "The unofficial Turkey Anatolia news agency reported."

The Turkey and the Syria maintains healthy trade and diplomatic relations and the sending of those responsible for security and trade could be considered a warning veiled in Syria.

Lutz and Hajjar are special correspondents.

Personal time writer Borzou Daragahi contributed to this report.

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Buffett questions from face to Sokol

April 29, 2011, 12: 09 pm EDT by Andrew Frye

April 29 (Bloomberg)--Warren Buffett asked difficult questions at the annual meetings of its Inc. Berkshire Hathaway he can get his wish after the Executive praised outgoing which was then charged by a Committee of the Council to induce the company trade shares.

Buffett uses his meeting and annual Omaha, Nebraska, press conference to promote the growth of Berkshire, planting the society as a purchaser of potential targets for recovery and his emphasis on ethics. Chief executive officer of 80 years has started to have investigations of journalists screen shareholder in 2009 and encouraged to choose the most difficult to replace requests for years about baseball and religion.The departure of David Sokol, 54, in March, after he has invested in a company that he launched as a candidate of redemption, raised questions about the monitoring of the Buffett and succession planning. Sokol, once considered a possible replacement for Buffett as CEO, ethics of violated Berkshire Audit Committee said on 26 April, weeks after Buffett has praised its "extraordinary" contributions when he announced his resignation.Buffett is going to get questions about his own behaviour "meeting tomorrow said Lyman Johnson, Professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law." "I do not think that Buffett has erred in its initial announcement."Buffett oversees Berkshire heads more than 70 subsidiaries with the help of Vice President Charles Munger, 87 and a staff of about 20 at the headquarters of the company. Berkshire employs more than 250 000 people across industries spanning insurance, energy and consumer goods, and Buffett says the operational authority for the President and CEO of the individual units.Governance, CreditBerkshire a challenges "governance", which can hurt credit quality of the company, Investors Service Moody said on 1 April, citing trade actions and the resignation of the Sokol. The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushed if Sokol bought shares of Lubrizol Corp. on the inside of the information, a person who refused to be identified, said on March 31.Buffett, who revealed the trades in a statement March 30, announcing the departure of the Sokol, congratulated the Manager for his work leading Weather energy Holdings of Berkshire, its roof unit Johns Manville and luxury-flight NetJets unit. "Dave or I myself that its purchases of Lubrizol were in any illegal manner," Buffett said. "The concept of Berkshire Hathaway, operating on a higher plane was based on the idea that they did not only do what was legal, they have done what was ethical,"said Cornelius Hurley, Professor at the Faculty of law at the University of Boston and General Counsel, Assistant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. "When one of your senior management is taken with his hand in the jar and you say,"Oh this is legal", you type blown this principle of higher standards."Purchase of SurgeSokol on the part of about $ 10 million in stock Lubrizol while representing Berkshire in discussions about the purchase of the lubricant manufacturer has violated the policies of the company to insiders, the Committee concluded. Prior to its agreement to buy Lubrizol, Buffett did not know the time of the Sokol trades worked with banks Citigroup Inc. to care for society based in Wickliffe, Ohio, the report. Lubrizol jumped 28 percent on 14 March, where Buffett announced the $ 9 billion deal.The Sokol "misleadingly incomplete disclosures to senior management of Berkshire Hathaway on these purchases violated the duty of candour to the company", said the .sokol Committee "would not and did not trade improperly, nor it does any reading Berkshire Hathaway policy objective""," according to a statement by William Levine, a lawyer for Sokol Dickstein Shapiro LLP in Washington. "The grand Inquisition'Buffett, who built the personal fortune of third largest in the world by boosting the price of the shares of Berkshire in four decades as CEO, said executives in a memo of the 2010 whereas society can withstand financial losses, "we cannot afford to lose reputation - even the slightest reputation."Andrew Ross Sorkin, the writer of the New York Times, which is scheduled to be on the Panel to ask questions, said in a column 5 April this year's meeting could be called "the great Inquisition" because of questions about Sokol instead of the "Woodstock" capitalismas it was called Buffett.Buffett requested at the meeting of the year last on the investment of $ 5 billion of Berkshire Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which was sued by the SEC early in 2010 over its disclosures related to back-to-back obligations. Buffett has praised, Goldman Sachs, which settled the suit in July by agreeing to pay $ 550 million and said that he has committed an error by omitting certain information to investors.PetroChina StakeShareholders the meeting of 2007 has called Buffett to yield a $ 3.3 billion interest in PetroChina Co. because its parent company oil reserves in pipelines in Sudan where the Government has accused of supporting genocide. Buffett said at the meeting that he had no disagreement with shares of PetroChina. He sold the game later this year.In 2009, when Buffett has established the new format, Berkshire is handed a year where its shares fell by 32%. The shares of class a company advanced 21% in 2010 and 3.6% this year through yesterday. Buffett's annual letter asked shareholder questions and said that he and Munger "know journalists will choose some difficult establishments, and so we wanted to."More than 30,000 people travel from around the world in Omaha, for the annual meeting in the Qwest Center, where Buffett and Munger took questions for about five hours. Buffett's annual press conference is scheduled for May 1.

-Editors: Dan Kraut, Dan Reichl

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The Yemeni Government argues the plan of the CCG - Xinhua

(BEIJING, April 29, Xinhuanet.com) - cooperation Yemen Gulf Council power transfer Plan expected to be signed Sunday in the Saudi capital Riyadh. The plan provides a framework for Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign as President in a month.

The Yemen Government has insisted that the deal mediated by the Gulf aimed at ending the political crisis must go forward. But opposition groups warn against demonstrators demanding the immediate resignation of the Saleh could sabotage the violence led by the Government.

Hhttp://English.CNTV.CN/program/newsupdate/20110429/103659.shtmle said: "we insist that the same delegation to Abu Dhabi will travel to Riyadh and sign the Gulf initiative." The final clause, if any, will be adopted by Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of the General Congress of the people and not as the President of the Yemen, because the agreement is an agreement between the parties and political organizations. ?

(Source: CNTV)

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