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4 Monday, March 27, 2017 DT Week in Review Drought-hit Kenyans burn March 20 Cambodia suspends human breast milk exports to US Cambodia has temporarily stopped an American company from exporting locally-pumped human breast milk, after reports highlighted how some of the country’s poorest women were supplementing their income through the trade. Utah-based company Ambrosia Labs claims to be the first of its kind to export human breast milk sourced overseas into the US for mothers who want to supplement their babies’ diets or cannot supply enough of their own milk. The milk is collected in Cambodia, frozen and shipped to the States where it is pasteurised and sold by the company for $20 each 5 oz (147 ml) pack. But on Monday Cambodia’s customs department confirmed it had halted exports. “We have asked them (the company) to contact the Ministry of Health because the product comes from a human organ, so it needs permission from the Ministry of Health but they did not get it yet,” Kun Nhem, General Director of Customs and Excise, said. March 25 Putin meets France’s Le Pen in Moscow President Vladimir Putin met French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen as she visited Moscow on Friday, with the Russian leader stressing that the Kremlin does not meddle in France’s politics. Le Pen’s meeting with Putin, their first, according to Moscow, comes a month before the first round of the French presidential vote and as she tries to boost her international status by meeting with world leaders. “We by no means want to influence the current events but we reserve the right to communicate with all representatives of all political forces of the country,” Putin said, according to a Kremlin-issued transcript. AFP AFP March 21 Taiwan launches submarine project in face of China threat Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen launched the island’s first ever home-grown submarine project Tuesday in the face of what the government says are growing military threats from China. The move comes after China sent its only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, through the Taiwan Strait in January, in one of a number of military drills held as relations deteriorate. Taiwan last week warned of an increased invasion risk from China and has pledged to boost its military in response. Tsai called the launch of the submarine plan a “historic moment” at a naval base in southern city of Kaohsiung. She was presiding over a formal signing ceremony to initiate the project between the navy, Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBS Corporation and the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, which develops combat system integration. March 22 One shot, several injured in UK parliament terrorist incident A policeman was stabbed, an assailant shot and several people injured on Wednesday close to Britain’s Houses of Parliament in what police said they were treating as a terrorist incident. Reuters reporters inside the building heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards a Reuters photographer said he saw at least a dozen people injured on Westminster Bridge, next to parliament. “Officers, including firearms officers, remain on the scene and we are treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
animal carcasses Week in Review 5 DT Monday, March 27, 2017 Villagers in northern Kenya have begun to burn piles of animal carcases, hoping to head off an outbreak of disease as their livestock starve to death in the region’s worst drought in five years. The smell of death hangs heavily over Lake Turkana and dried animal corpses dot the cracked mud where the lake has receded, leaving boats stranded on the dry land. The Kenyan government said 2.7m people are affected by the drought. It estimates 20% of livestock has died in the arid and semi-arid counties, an area comprising about 80% of Kenya’s landmass. reuters March 23 Polish PM warns multi-speed EU would bring ‘chaos’ AFP AFP Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo on Thursday said a multi-speed Europe would bring chaos, as the EU gears up for a Rome summit declaration that Poland warned it may not endorse. European Union leaders will plot their post-Brexit future at the summit this weekend, held on the occasion of the bloc’s 60th birthday. The central idea of the proposed multi-speed union is that some member states may choose to go faster, or slower, on European integration than others with regard to certain policies and topics. “The union needs to change, to correct what doesn’t work optimally, but we won’t make that happen through multi-speed. Instead of fixing the (EU) project, we would dismantle it,” Szydlo said in Warsaw at a conference on European integration. March 24 Trump’s truck driver moment Trump at the wheel of a big rig? Yes, it happened, at the White House. US President Donald Trump was rallying votes for his health care reform bill Thursday but made a pit stop in the afternoon to meet with truck drivers and trucking executives. During that meeting, he spent a few minutes happily exploring the cab of a tractor-trailer parked outside the White House. The 70-year-old Republican, dressed in a suit, enthusiastically honked the horn before pretending to drive the vehicle and making some funny faces, and the internet noticed, with #TrumpTruck getting some traction on Twitter. “No one knows America like truckers know America. You see it every day. You see every hill, and you see every valley and you see every pothole in our roads that have to be rebuilt,” he told his visitors during their meeting in the Cabinet Room. March 26 Thousands join antiabortion rallies in Romania, Moldova Several thousands of people took to the streets of Romania and Moldova in an anti-abortion March for Life on Saturday, including 2,000 in Bucharest, police said. According to the organisers, rallies took place in more than 300 towns across the two countries. “Women deserve better than abortion,” read one of the banners, while others said: “Life for the woman and life for the family.” In the Romanian capital Bucharest, young people joined with families and the elderly at a rally also attended by many priests from the powerful Orthodox church. “This word ‘abortion’ should not exist, it goes hand-in-hand with horror and death,” said a demonstrator called Alexandru Darie. Abortion was banned in Romania during the communist regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was killed in 1989 after a popular rebellion pushed him from power. It was then legalised in 1990. That year, as many as 992,000 abortions were registered, three times the number of births.
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