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Updated at 9:14 a.m. ET (CBS/AP) DAMASCUS, Syria – A bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded Wednesday outside a Damascus hotel where U.N. observers are staying, wounding at least three people, Syria’s state TV reported. The government controlled channel said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 yards away. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad toured the area of the blast and said none of the U.N. staff was hurt. The explosion occurred as U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos was in the Syrian capital but her team is believed to be staying at a different hotel. More in After the Arab Spring CBS News’ George Baghdadi reports the area near the blast was quiet following the explosion. There had been reports of clashes after the blast, but Baghdadi saw no sign of violence. Mekdad called the explosion a “terrorist act” meant to “destabilize” the country. The lot where the explosion occurred is near the Dama Rose Hotel, popular with the U.N. observers in Syria. Pentagon: Iran training militiamen for AssadU.S. lifts sanctions on ex-Syria PMPanetta: Syria no-fly-zone “not on the front burner” The hotel was slightly damaged in the blast, with some of its windows shattered. A Labor Union building across from the hotel was also damaged and black smoke was seen billowing into the sky before the...

(AP) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A man visiting a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka’s capital swallowed a 1.5 carat diamond in front of the owner and was taken by police to a hospital, where an X-ray showed the $13,000 stone inside him. Exhibitor Suresh Wijekoon said the man was behaving suspiciously at his stalls and when he reached closer to the suspect, the man suddenly swallowed the diamond at his hand before Suresh alerted police at the exhibition venue. Chou Wan, a 32-year-old from China, is in custody pending further investigation, police spokesman Ajith Rohana said. An X-ray proved the diamond was inside Chou’s body, said hospital director Dr. Anil Jasinghe at Colombo National, where the suspect was taken for 카지노사이트 the test. Suresh, owner of Belgrade International Pvt Ltd, said the diamond weighed about 1.5 carats. It was worth $13,636, Rohana said. Sri Lanka does not mine diamonds but is renowned for other highly treasured gems. Facets Sri Lanka 2012 is the island nation’s annual largest gem and jewelry exhibition and it attracts a large number of local and foreign...

Researchers say a new study should help ease the minds parents of premature babies when it comes to how well their children will perform in school. The report, published in JAMA Pediatrics, 마산출장안마 finds that babies born early often catch up to their peers academically. About 10 percent of babies in the U.S. are born prematurely — before 37 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We know a lot about the medical and clinical outcomes [of premature babies] and we know some about short-term educational outcomes, but what we didn’t know is how the babies do once they get further out into elementary school and middle school,” the study’s first author Dr. Craig Garfield, associate professor of pediatrics and of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told CBS News. The study found that two-thirds of babies born at only 23 or 24 weeks were ready for kindergarten on time. The researchers were surprised to see that nearly 2 percent of these extreme preemies even achieved gifted status in school.  Though extremely premature babies often scored low on standardized tests, preterm infants born 25 weeks or later performed only slightly lower than full-term infants. For babies born after 28 weeks, the differences in test scores were negligible. For the study, the researchers analyzed data on more than 1.3 million babies...

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(CBS News) KABUL – Coalition forces and their Afghan partners are continuing to put further measures in place to deter the so-called “insider attacks” by Afghan security forces on international troops, which have increased sharply in recent months and have left 45 Western troops dead this year, including 28 Americans. Efforts include new joint counter-intelligence teams, repeated and more thorough vetting of Afghan troops, and attempts to reduce cultural misunderstandings between the NATO troops and their Afghan hosts. More in Afghanistan: The way forward “Afghan and coalition forces are working in a high-stress and dangerous environment,” Lt Gen Adrian Bradshaw, Deputy Commander of the International Security Force – Afghanistan (ISAF) said Thursday in Kabul. “They’re working in close proximity in a culture where matters of honor and shame are extremely important to people. This requires the junior leadership to pay particular attention to the welfare of their people to ensure that when problems do occur they’re addressed very quickly,” explained Bradshaw. Bradshaw said there was a “renewed emphasis” on working with Afghan commanders to better address and understand the feelings of their subordinates, to “know their family backgrounds, know when they are under stress, to observe for these things. In particular to talk to them when they come back from leave at home, to ensure they haven’t come under pressure.” Hundreds of Afghan troops sacked, detained over “insider” fearsNATO...