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Rouhani due in
Russia on
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President Hassan Rouhani will
depart for Moscow on Thursday to
meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of Shanghai summit.
The two premiers will hold a bilateral meeting in Russia’s city of
Ufa on the sidelines of the Shanghai summit while the negotiating
teams of Iran and the 5+1 group of
countries are finalizing the text of a
possible nuclear deal in the Austrian
city of Vienna.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Eurasian political, economic and military organization, is
scheduled to meet in the Russian
city of Ufa on July 9 and 10. Iran,
together with Afghanistan, Pakistan
and India, are observers to the organization.
Russia and China have supported
the decision that Iran be granted fullmembership of the forum which was
formed in 2001.
IAEA delegation in Tehran
for talks
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Final deal to open
new horizons
in Iran-EU ties
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Greek finance
minister resigns
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Iran nuclear deal
within reach
Second MERC case reported in Phillippines
The Philippines has confirmed the second
case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory
Syndrome (MERS) corona virus.
The Department of Health (DOH) announced on Monday that a 36-year-old
male foreigner who arrived in the Philippines from the Middle East tested positive
for the virus and is now under quarantine.
The foreign patient showed symptoms af-
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ter arriving in Manila from Dubai. He had
also stayed in Saudi Arabia before flying to
Manila.
Health Ministry spokesman Lyndon Leesuy said that the man was admitted to a government hospital on July 4 and was under
observation, adding that the DOH is monitoring eight people who had close contact
with the patient to prevent the spread of the
disease.
Meanwhile, Health Secretary Janet Garin
said there is no need to panic as there has
been no known transmission to the community.
Those who are at risk of contracting the
virus are hospital workers and household
members with close and repeated contact
with the patient, Garin added.
The Philippines reported the first case,
which was a Filipino nurse working in Saudi Arabia, in January. The woman survived
the disease.
MERS has killed 33 people in South Korea, where 186 cases have been confirmed,
according to the World Health Organization. The MERS outbreak in South Korea is
the biggest outside the Middle East region.
MERS was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. The disease is part of the corona virus family of viruses, which includes
the common cold and SARS. It can cause
symptoms including fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
There is no known cure or vaccine for the
disease yet.
About 36 percent of reported patients have
died, according to the World Health Organization.
Russians find cure to Alzheimer’s disease
Russian scientists have reportedly discovered a new
technique of DNA repair by which neurodegenerative
diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s may be
forestalled and even cured. “Early detection and repair
of damaged DNA is essential for cell functioning and
survival,” concludes a study by a Russian research team
titled, “Structure of transcribed chromatin is a sensor of
DNA damage,” and published Sunday in the Science Advances journal. The study raises the question of singlestrand breaks (SSBs) which are referred to in the paper
as “common DNA damages generated during various
processes of cell metabolism.” According to the study,
“Unrepaired SSBs can interfere with transcription, replication, and DNA repair; induce accumulation of double-stranded DNA breaks; increase genomic instability
and apoptosis [process of programmed cell death]; and
lead to severe neurodegenerative diseases.” Common examples of neurodegenerative diseases are Alzheimer’s,
Parkinson’s as well as spinal muscular atrophy. Professor Vasily Studitsky of the Lomonosov Moscow State
University, who led the research team that conducted the
study, told science portal psys.org that his team of scientists “has shown, not yet in the cell but in vitro, that the
repair of breaks in the other DNA chain, which is ‘hidden’ in the nucleosome, is still possible.” “According to
our hypothesis, it occurs due to the formation of special
small DNA loops in the nucleosome, although normally
DNA wounds around the histone ‘spool’ very tightly,” he
added. The study also concludes that such observations
“raise the possibility that nucleosomal structure could
affect the process of detection and repair of DNA damages.” Authors of the research say their findings can suggest the “existence of a chromatin-specific, transcriptiondependent mechanism that allows detection of NT-SSBs
that are otherwise hidden in the chromatin structure.”
Iran jumps 2 spots
in world fencing
rankings
Iranian, Turkish singers to
perform in Istanbul in August
Iranian singer Kamran Rasulzadeh accompanied
by Turkish vocalist Murat Kekilli will give a joint
concert in Istanbul on August 21.
The performance is part of program entitled “Persian Night”, which will be held at the Halic Congress Center in Istanbul, Rasulzadeh said in a press
conference at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Saturday.
Kekilli and Rasulzadeh will perform two pieces
jointly and then each will give their own performances during the program, the coordinator of Rasulzadeh’s performance, Arman Mehraban, said at the conference, according
to Tehran Times. He added that he has prepared the musical score for each member and
hoped that the band will make its best efforts to give a good performance.
Rasulzadeh called Kekilli a fine, committed singer and added that he had tried to arrange the joint concert in Tehran twice over the past few years, however, the concerts
were canceled for reasons unknown. “Based on a signed agreement, we will possess the
copyrights to distribute the video of the concert, and we are planning to film and release
the concert here in Iran,” he explained. Rasulzadeh has performed “Bu Aksam Olurum”
(Tonight I Will Die) with Kekilli a few years ago.
New Yorkers protest police
brutality on July 4th
New Yorkers held a protest against
police brutality amid July 4th celebrations.
New York Prospect Park has been
the scene of a protest where a large
group of people demanded justice
for police brutality victims in the
United States.
The protesters on Saturday expressed their anger over the shooting deaths of a number of AfricanAmerican citizens by unfurling a
giant banner that read “Stop killing
black people.” The group urged the
American people to think about the
patriotic values that are supposed
to be honored on the Independence
Day, July 4. Limited freedom for
black people in the United States
was another key issue that was
pointed out in the protests.
Imani Henry, an African-American activist, told Press TV that
people in his country are attacked
by police on a day-to-day basis.
“For us it is not just about police
brutality, it is about a war on us, an
economic war,” he said.
The protesters also remembered
some of the well-known victims
of police brutality who were killed
by police in cold blood. “I’m here
today because I want to raise the
question of whose independence
are we truly celebrating?” said Kalisa Moore with the People’s Power
Assembly. Black people are being
killed with impunity every single
solitary day,” she said. “There has
been over 500 cases of murders by
police terror this year alone and we
haven’t even reached a full year.”
The protesters were then joined
by a sympathetic crowd of people
who were initially gathered in the
park for the Independence Day celebrations. New York police were
present at the scene and reportedly
expressed hostility towards the protesters, but they did not take action
as they were outnumbered.