Pakistan election in disarray as incumbent rejects result
Briahna Gray
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz alleges ballot is rigged in favour of Imran Khan’s party
Pakistan election 2018: live updates
Pakistan’s general election has been plunged into chaos after the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) said it would reject the result amid widespread allegations that the military was rigging the ballot in favour of the party led by the former cricketer Imran Khan.
With only a third of the vote counted by 3am – an hour after the result was officially due – Khan’s Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led in 110 seats, with the PMLN trailing on 68.
Results continued to trickle in slowly on Thursday, hours after Khan’s supporters took to the streets to celebrate victory.
Japan executes remaining Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult members
The last of 13 cult members who had been sitting on death row have been put to death. The cult's sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system in 1995 killed 13 people, injured some 6,000 others and shocked Japan.
Japan executed a doomsday cult group's last six members that had been sitting on death row on Thursday, completing a streak of capital punishment that had begun in early July against individuals responsible for a deadly sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway in 1995.
In a press conference following the executions, Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa confirmed Thursday morning that all 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday group who had been on death row had been executed, Japan's public broadcaster NHK and AP reported.
'They let us die': suspicion, recrimination in aftermath of Greek fire
By Jason Horowitz
The first fire alarm sounded in Kineta, a town an hour west of Athens, the capital, at 12.30pm on Monday. Then, at 4.57pm authorities received calls on their hotline reporting flames near Rafina, east of the capital.
Just about an hour later, the wildfire had reached Neos Voutzas, to the north-east, and then, powered by gale-force winds, it moved "like a lava flow" down the hill to the seaside town of Mati, fire officials said.
Greeks are still piecing together one of the nation's worst disasters in recent memory. But many were asking how so many scattered fires had broken out in so short a span and spread with such fatal velocity. Suspicion of arson combined with grief and recrimination as the shattered sift through the ruins of fires that killed at least 81 people.A promising drug to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s was just unveiled
“It’s a cautious hope.”
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Alzheimer’s is one of the deadliest, costliest, and most emotionally draining diseases in this country. Yet we have no drugs to reverse the condition, and the last medicine that came on the market to treat Alzheimer’s symptoms was approved some 15 years ago.
So it’s no surprise that Alzheimer’s researchers, patients, and investors were eagerly anticipating the results of a phase 2 study on a potentially promising new medication, called BAN2401, from the drugmakers Biogen and Eisai.
On July 5, the companies released a summary of the findings from a trial of the drug involving 856 patients with early Alzheimer’s, showing the medication could slow the progression of the brain-ravaging illness. On Wednesday afternoon, they presented more details about their findings at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Chicago.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? THE ANTI-CAPITALIST FILM “SORRY TO BOTHER YOU” SHOWS THE WAY
Briahna Gray
IN A PARTISAN nation often consumed with a fight over the corporate center, identifying as an anti-capitalist can make for a lonely existence. But things are changing.
The revolution may not be televised, but it’s certainly influencing content.
Since her stunning primary victory, 28-year-old congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has successfully pitched democratic socialism to middle-American audiences on late-night shows, daytime TV, and, in defiance of skeptics, to “red state” Kansas. Recently, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon casually admitted that she sees herself as a democratic socialist — an announcement that was met with surprisingly little controversy. And House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is still reeling from the backlash to her tone-deaf dismissal of a pollshowing that only 19 percent of people ages 18 to 29 support capitalism.
Manzanar detainee Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga who revealed racism, not security, as reason for WWII interment dies at 93
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, who uncovered proof that thousands of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the United States during World War II were held not for reasons of national security but because of racism, has died at age 93.
Bruce Embrey, co-chair of the Manzanar Committee, told The Associated Press Wednesday that Herzig-Yoshinaga died July 18 at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.
Her discovery of a 1942 document revealing the real reason that approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans were kept in camps around the country led to formal apologies from President Ronald Reagan and others and the awarding of $20,000 each to those locked up.
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