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(AP) CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s highest court upheld the world’s toughest law on cigarette promotion on Wednesday despite protests from tobacco companies that argued the value of their trademarks will be destroyed under new rules that will strip all logos from cigarette packs. The decision by the High Court means that starting in December, tobacco companies will no longer be able to display their distinctive colors, brand designs and logos on cigarette packs. The packs will instead come in a uniformly drab shade of olive and feature graphic health warnings and 파주출장만남 images of cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children. The government hopes the new packs will make smoking as unglamorous as possible. “This is a victory for all those families who have lost someone to a tobacco-related illness. For anyone who has ever lost someone, this is for you,” Attorney General Nicola Roxon and Health Minister Tanya Plibersek said in a joint statement. “No longer when a smoker pulls out a packet of cigarettes will that packet be a mobile billboard.” British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International are worried that the law will set a global precedent that could slash billions of dollars from the values of their brands. They challenged the new rules on the grounds that they violate intellectual property rights and devalue their trademarks. The cigarette makers argued...

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Maslah Yare says pirates bundled Paul and Rachel Chandler into a car Monday and took them into a forest, soon after receiving word that al-Shabab fighters were approaching the town of Haradhere, a town on the Somali coast that is a pirate lair. Ahmed Salad, a businessman, says an advance team of militants entered Haradhere in two vehicles late Sunday. Somali pirates and insurgents are two separate groups. If al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaeda, takes control of pirate strongholds, the pirates’ 300-plus foreign hostages could be in greater danger. The Chandlers have been held hostage for nearly six months and 모히간 카지노 were seen pleading for help in a video released in January, though the video’s date could not be verified. British broadcaster Sky News aired the footage of 59-year-old Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel. The pair were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, when they were kidnapped by pirates late last October. In the video, both appear uninjured but frail and underweight. The couple claim that they’ve been separated and held in solitary confinement. They ask for help to pay for their ransom, saying they’re innocent people who’ve done no wrong. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband recently said the government won’t get involved in any ransom payments, but, he says the government can’t stand in the way of private citizens. “They kept asking for money...

After 20 years of darkness, there is light for a man in Medford, Massachusetts. A bionic eye implant has helped Anthony Andreotolla gain back some vision. It’s not eyesight in the way most people see, but the technology is making a difference in his daily life. “It’s not actual vision. It’s what they call artificial vision,” Andreotolla told CBS Boston. He suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that affects the retina. Andreotolla began to lose his vision in his teens and by his thirties, he couldn’t see anything. “Once everything is black, for many, many years, that was it,” he said. For 20 years he lived in that darkness until he became one of the first people to receive a bionic eye. Every day, Andreotolla puts on special glasses and commutes on public transportation to his job in Boston about six miles south of his home. A tiny camera in the glasses sends images to a wearable computer and then those images are processed and sent wirelessly to an implant in his eye. The implant surgery took place in Baltimore at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. “I don’t see things the way other people do. I see everything in different flashes, lights, shapes,” Andreotolla explained. It’s more of a cloudy, black and white vision, he explains. “I can tell the difference between a car or a bus or...

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