Bus disaster.A crowded bus crashed into a mountain gorge near the resort of Manali in the Himalayas after the driver lost control on a sharp curve, killing at least 18 people and injuring 20 others. Assasinated George Hawi, a former Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. chief who was a harsh critic of Syria's intervention in Lebanese affairs, was killed by a bomb in his car in Beirut today. Hawi, a Christian, frequently spoke out against Syrian intelligence and interference in Lebanese affairs. Pot painkiller A Cannabis-based painkiller for multiple sclerosis sclerosis /scle·ro·sis/ (-ro´sis) an induration or hardening, especially from inflammation and in diseases of the interstitial substance; applied chiefly to such hardening of the nervous system or to hardening of the blood vessels. patients has gone on sale in Canada, the first country to approve the spray, derived from the marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. plant. Sativex can now be obtained by prescription through Canadian pharmacies, Bayer HealthCare announced. It markets the drug in Canada for British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals, which developed it. |
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