Kerry extends Middle East peace mission

By Lesley Wroughton

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry extended his Middle East peace mission on Saturday, shuttling between Jerusalem and Amman for more talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders on reviving their stalled negotiations.

Cancelling a scheduled trip to Abu Dhabi, Kerry flew from Jerusalem to the Jordanian capital Amman for yet another meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He returned later via Tel Aviv to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the third time.

"Because Secretary Kerry's meetings on the peace process remain ongoing in Jerusalem and Amman, we will no longer be able to make a stop in Abu Dhabi," State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf said. Kerry had apologized to the United Arab Emirates for his change in plans.

An Israeli official involved in the talks said Kerry's visit could yield an announcement that Israeli and Palestinian delegates would meet under U.S. and Jordanian auspices.

"There is such a possibility, but it is not certain," the official told Reuters. A U.S. official declined to comment.

Direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations broke down in late 2010 in a dispute over Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories that Palestinians want within a future independent state.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat greeted Kerry on Saturday at Abbas's residence in Amman before the president joined them. Abbas and Kerry had met in Amman less than 24 hours earlier.

Erekat asked how Kerry's sessions with Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres on Friday went. Kerry responded: "It was good, it was interesting."

State Department officials said Abbas and Kerry met privately for about two hours before advisers joined them.

"U.S. efforts are continuing (but) until now no results that can lead to the resumption of negotiations," a Palestinian source, with knowledge of the talks, told Reuters.

SENSE OF URGENCY

It was unclear whether Kerry would be able to announce a resumption of talks before his scheduled departure for Asia on Sunday, but U.S. officials have compared his shuttle diplomacy to Henry Kissinger's Middle East peace efforts in the 1970s.

Kerry saw Netanyahu for several hours on Thursday as well as on Friday and had a Jewish Sabbath dinner with Peres. Israeli officials gave no details of those meetings.

Kerry - now on his fifth visit as a peace broker - has said he would not have returned to the region so soon if he did not believe he could make progress. He has been guarded about his plans to break the stalemate, while warning time is running out.

He is keen to clinch a deal to resume talks before the United Nations General Assembly, which has already granted de facto recognition to a Palestinian state, convenes in September.

Netanyahu is concerned that the Palestinians, in the absence of direct peace talks, could use the U.N. session as a springboard for further statehood moves circumventing Israel.

With the Middle East engulfed in turmoil from protests in Egypt to the Syrian civil war, which is spilling into neighboring countries, Kerry has said it is time for "hard decisions" by Israel and the Palestinians.

"It is urgent because time is the enemy of a peace process," he said in Kuwait last week. "The passage of time allows a vacuum to be filled by people who don't want things to happen."

State Department officials believe the sides will return to negotiations once there is an agreement on confidence-building measures - such as a partial Israeli amnesty for Palestinian security prisoners - and a formula for fresh talks.

As an incentive for talks, Kerry is also working on a $4 billion economic plan led by ex-British prime minister Tony Blair, which would channel new investments in Palestinian areas via the private sector to boost jobs and economic growth.

(Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-extends-middle-east-peace-mission-114711516.html

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Grant to further childhood sarcoma therapeutic research

Public release date: 26-Jun-2013
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Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital will use a $6.3 million grant to further their study of pediatric sarcomas, a rare form of the disease that affects bone or soft tissue and accounts for 11 percent of all childhood cancers. The project, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, will be led by Peter Houghton, PhD, director of the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's.

"The ultimate goal of this project is to develop novel therapeutic approaches for advanced childhood sarcoma," said Dr. Houghton, who has spent more than three decades studying pediatric cancer through work designed to bring knowledge from the laboratory to the bedside.

While more than 70 percent of children with sarcoma are cured, the outcome is still poor for those with advanced or metastatic disease. Specifically, the five-year, event-free survival rates are 30 percent or less in children with advanced or metastatic Ewing sarcoma, osteosarcoma or rhabdomyosarcoma. Intensive chemo-radiotherapy has not significantly altered this outcome, making the search for effective new therapies a critical pursuit.

Each of the three sarcomas targeted by this grant has distinct characteristics requiring in-depth analysis of disease pathways and treatment opportunities.

"The projects will characterize the interrelationship of these pathways and identify combinatorial inhibitory approaches most likely to yield biologic activity in the clinical setting," said Dr. Houghton, also a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Experts in sarcoma biology, cellular signaling pathways and drug development will collaborate on the grant, bringing together researchers from Nationwide Children's and The Ohio State University. Dr. Houghton is the principal investigator on the grant, and Nationwide Children's is responsible for its management. The researchers will collaborate on each of six smaller sections of the grant, sharing personnel and facilities. Each division of the grant will be overseen by a special director and team to create the best opportunity for synergy and innovation.

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Public release date: 26-Jun-2013
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Contact: Mary Ellen Peacock
maryellen.peacock@nationwidechildrens.org
614-355-0495
Nationwide Children's Hospital

Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital will use a $6.3 million grant to further their study of pediatric sarcomas, a rare form of the disease that affects bone or soft tissue and accounts for 11 percent of all childhood cancers. The project, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, will be led by Peter Houghton, PhD, director of the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's.

"The ultimate goal of this project is to develop novel therapeutic approaches for advanced childhood sarcoma," said Dr. Houghton, who has spent more than three decades studying pediatric cancer through work designed to bring knowledge from the laboratory to the bedside.

While more than 70 percent of children with sarcoma are cured, the outcome is still poor for those with advanced or metastatic disease. Specifically, the five-year, event-free survival rates are 30 percent or less in children with advanced or metastatic Ewing sarcoma, osteosarcoma or rhabdomyosarcoma. Intensive chemo-radiotherapy has not significantly altered this outcome, making the search for effective new therapies a critical pursuit.

Each of the three sarcomas targeted by this grant has distinct characteristics requiring in-depth analysis of disease pathways and treatment opportunities.

"The projects will characterize the interrelationship of these pathways and identify combinatorial inhibitory approaches most likely to yield biologic activity in the clinical setting," said Dr. Houghton, also a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Experts in sarcoma biology, cellular signaling pathways and drug development will collaborate on the grant, bringing together researchers from Nationwide Children's and The Ohio State University. Dr. Houghton is the principal investigator on the grant, and Nationwide Children's is responsible for its management. The researchers will collaborate on each of six smaller sections of the grant, sharing personnel and facilities. Each division of the grant will be overseen by a special director and team to create the best opportunity for synergy and innovation.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/nch-gtf062613.php

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Samsung Galaxy S 4 Developer Edition for Verizon now shipping for $650

Samsung's online listing for the Galaxy S 4 Developer Edition is back, and now you can actually follow through on a purchase. The device, currently available for Verizon customers, can be yours for the princely sum of $649.99. This isn't the Google Edition running stock Android that we first heard about at I/O; instead, the Developer Edition includes the TouchWiz UI and Android 4.2.2, but ships with an unlocked bootloader, letting you play around with custom ROMs and the like. Add it to your cart at the source link below.

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Telefonica to sell its Irish operations to Three for $1.1 billion

Think you're carrying a tad too much debt? Spanish telecom giant Telefónica wants to reduce its red ink to 47 billion euros ($62 billion) by the end of the year, so it's decided to sell its Irish mobile and broadband business to Hutchison Whampoa's Three for 850 million euros ($1.1 billion). If regulators approve the deal, it'll let Telefónica hack about 750 million euros of debt from its books, while giving Three a 37.5 percent share of the nation's mobile business and a strong number two position behind Vodafone. The deal follows a £200 million ($273 million) sale of Telefónica's fixed phone line business to Sky. Considering the whopping level of debt, though, that may be just the start.

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Kerry talks to Saudis about Syria, Mideast peace

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Saudi Arabia talking with leaders of the Gulf nation about how to stem the bloodshed in Syria and nudge forward a renewed effort to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Kerry flew to Jiddah on Tuesday after a two-day visit to India. The two stops are part of his two-week tour of Asia and the Middle East.

Syria is a major issue at nearly every stop. The war is increasingly pitting Sunni Muslims against Shiite Muslims and threatening the stability of the region. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni power, is a strong backer of Western-backed rebels trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kerry-talks-saudis-syria-mideast-peace-105401153.html

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Watch how Google brought Street View to the Burj Khalifa (video)

Street View's fine for navigation, but we're sure plenty more people use it just for their armchair tourism. Google has now turned its attention to giving thrill-seekers a chance to gaze out from the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. Using Trekker backpacks and trolleys, it took the Googlers three days to capture the images from both the viewing gallery on the 124th floor and the window cleaning gantry on the 80th. Curious to experience some of that vertigo for yourself? Video's after the break.

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