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Sustainable Development Goals:
Post-2015 agenda must focus on implementation
The full text of the address made by President
Mahinda Rajapaksa at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in
New York on Wednesday. I congratulate Your Excellency Sam Kutesa on
being elected as the President of the 69th Session of the United
Nations General Assembly.
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Opinion:
Terrorists only understand lethal force - Barack Obama
“This group has terrorised all who they come
across. Mothers, sisters and daughters have been subjected to rape
as a weapon of war. Innocent children have been gunned down. Bodies
have been dumped in mass graves. Religious minorities have been
starved to death.
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Japanese universities patent traditional knowledge-based
painkilling drugs
Japanese scientists have patented pain-killing
drugs from kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a well-known Southeast Asian
medicinal plant. According to the researchers, from Chiba National
University and Josai University, the kratom painkillers act like
opium-derived analgesics (such as morphine) and are especially
useful because they do not have some of the undesirable side effects
of opiates.
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