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Syria closes airspace to Turkish civilian flights
Damascus has placed a ban on Turkish Airlines flying into Syrian airspace effective midnight Saturday, state news agency SANA reports. The agency did not elaborate on the terms. It comes three days after Ankara sent military jets to intercept a Syrian passenger plane, seizing what it claimed to be illegal Russian-made military equipment. The cargo turned out to be radar parts that ”a legal Russian supplier was sending in a legal way to a legal customer,” according to Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov. He also harshly criticized Turkey for endangering the lives of the flight’s 35 passengers and demanded to know why Russian diplomats and doctors barred from meeting the 17 Russian nationals on board.
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Nobel laureate leaves US cancer research project over corporate hijacking
Nobel laureate Phillip Sharp and six other leading scientists from Texas have walked out of a $3-billion cancer research project for ethical reasons, saying politicians have hijacked the study, placing commercial interests before science. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) is one of the US’s biggest recipients of federal aid in its field. Now the CPRIT is being accused of making funding with a “suspicion of favoritism,” Sharp wrote in his resignation letter. Those who left say CPRIT commercializes projects by pumping out new drugs instead of funding good research.
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Israeli strike on Gaza kills one
One Palestinian has been killed and another wounded by an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces allege that two men were "terror operatives of the Hashora Council of the Mujahideen, a Gaza-based Global Jihad affiliate." No extremist group in Gaza has confirmed the men’s membership, but the Hashora Council of the Mujahideen did claim responsibility for firing rockets into Israel on Friday.
