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(AP) ISLAMABAD – Pakistani lawmakers elected a ruling party loyalist as the new prime minister Friday, despite corruption allegations and his failure to end the country’s energy crisis — setting in motion what is likely to be a short and turbulent premiership. The election of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is unlikely to reduce tensions among Pakistan’s jostling power centers that are destabilizing the nuclear-armed country, which is considered crucial to American hopes of winding down the war in neighboring Afghanistan. The latest round of turmoil was triggered earlier this week when judges at the activist Supreme Court disqualified former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for refusing to initiate a corruption investigation against his boss, 의성출장업소 President Asif Ali Zardari. U.S. Gen.: Afghan hotel attack likely Haqqani The court, considered by many to be hostile to Zardari, is likely to make the same demand of Ashraf, and many are predicting he will meet the same fate as Gilani within months. Ashraf, a minister in the ousted government, was originally put forward as a backup candidate but got the nod after the first choice was hit with an arrest warrant following his nomination on Thursday. The warrant was issued by an anti-narcotics force run by the military, which wields political power and has staged three coups in Pakistan’s short history. Ashraf was elected prime minister by Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party and its...

(CBS) Prince is no stranger to controversy. He courted so much of it that he called his fourth album “Controversy.” These days he’s stirring things up over two topics that have proved incendiary: Religion and his music. The singer, who embraced religion fully and became a Jehovah’s Witness about a decade ago after years of Biblical references in his music, told The Guardian, “It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.” He suggested people who aren’t happy with that are the kind of people who are never happy with anything. Everyone has to change, but this is a guy who sang about losing his virginity in a barn and asked his critics, “Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay?” He wrote “Darling Nikki.” What happened? Prince has always been off-beat. He changed his name to a symbol while he was battling with Warner Bros. over his recording contract and decided “Graffiti Bridge” was a good idea. He’s been all over the news lately with a successful tour and his claim that he won’t record and release new music because of piracy on the Internet. In the same Guardian interview, 옥천출장샵 he says, “‘I’m supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It’s like the...

Privilege doesn’t necessarily offer protection from drug addiction, new research suggests. Teens at elite U.S. high schools seem to face a higher risk of addiction as young adults, the study found. “We found alarmingly high rates of substance abuse among young adults who we initially studied as teenagers,” said study author Suniya Luthar, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University. “Results showed that among both men and women and across annual assessments, these young adults had substantial elevations, relative to national norms, in frequency of several indicators — drinking to intoxication and of using marijuana, stimulants such as Adderall, cocaine, and club drugs such as ecstasy,” she said in a university news release. The study included more than 500 students from affluent communities in the Northeast. They were assessed when they were high school seniors, then each year for 광주출장안마 four college years, and from ages 23 to 27. “We found rates of addiction to drugs or alcohol among 19 to 24 percent of women in the older cohort by the age of 26, and 23 to 40 percent among men. These rates were three and two times as high respectively, as compared to national norms,” Luthar said. In the younger group, rates of addiction for women were between 11 and 16 percent by 22 years old. That’s close to national norms, according to the researchers. But for...