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Updated at 7:54 a.m. ET (CBS/AP) ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s top court declared on Tuesday that the country’s prime minister was ‘disqualified’ from office due to an earlier contempt conviction, delivering what appeared to be a fatal blow against the premier’s political career and 맞고사이트 ushering in political turmoil In its ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the country’s election commission to formally dismiss Yousuf Reza Gilani and said he was no longer the prime minister. Gilani’s party, which heads a ruling coalition, announced that it accepts the ruling, CBS News Islamabad bureau chief Maria Usman reports. The party expected to decide on a nominee for prime minister at a meeting Tuesday night. If the Pakistani parliament accepts the decision of the Supreme Court, the ruling coalition’s nominee would have to be appointed in a vote of confidence. Gilani was convicted in April for refusing to open a corruption probe against his boss, President Asif Ali Zardari. He has been refusing to step down. The Supreme Court ruling came in response to petitions filed against Gilani for not standing down after that conviction. Party supporters have said that they believe they have the support in parliament to elect a new prime minister in the event of Gilani’s disqualification. A senior official at the office of President Asif Ali Zardari told CBS News’ Farhan Bokhari that the president is already looking at...

Millions of Americans have had to swear off shellfish, eggs, peanuts or soy to avoid allergic reactions that can range from stomach cramps to life-threatening swelling of the airways, new research shows. Approximately 4 percent of Americans have a food allergy, with women and Asians the most affected, the study found. “Recent reports suggest that food allergies are on the rise, with more food allergy-related hospitalizations in the U.S. over the last decade,” said lead researcher Dr. Li Zhou. She’s with the division of general medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Food allergies cost the United States an estimated $25 billion annually, Zhou said. For the study, Zhou and 섯다사이트 her colleagues reviewed nearly 3 million medical records identifying more than 97,000 patients who suffered from one or more food allergies or an intolerance to a food. The most common allergy was to shellfish, such as shrimp and lobster, Zhou said. “In addition, 1 in 6 patients with a food allergy or intolerance had a documented anaphylaxis [life-threatening swelling of the airways],” she noted. Other common food allergies included fruits or vegetables, dairy and peanuts, the researchers found. Food allergies can lead to reactions such as hives, anaphylaxis, shortness of breath, wheezing, itching, swelling or allergic-like reactions called intolerances, Zhou said. Her team found that nearly 13,000 patients were allergic or had an intolerance...

Harry Potter is entering the digital age with lots of new material for fans looking for a fix. The release of an online reading experience called “Pottermore” shows the creator of the wildly successful series, J.K. Rowling, still has a few tricks up her sleeve. J.K. Rowling unveils “Pottermore” websiteJ.K. Rowling launches mysterious new websiteJK Rowling to reveal secret of ‘Pottermore’ CBS News Correspondent Charlie D’Agata reports the online interactive game goes through the Harry Potter universe, where users with magical names can find new material from Rowling. Rowling has written 18,000 words on Potter for the interactive site, which promises to immerse users in her world of wizards, combining elements of computer games, social networking and an online store. Fans, D’Agata explained, can become characters in their own story and their own wands, and are assigned houses at the wizard school of Hogwarts after answering a few questions to figure out their personalities. Rowling says the site includes “information I have been hoarding for years” about the books’ characters and settings. “(It’s) a way I can be creative in a medium that didn’t exist when I started the books back in 1990,” Rowling told reporters, a way to incorporate the thousands of “stories, drawings, ideas, suggestions” she still receives from fans, four years after the last Potter book was published. The website is free, but it’s also the...

(CBS News) Aung San Suu Kyi, 67, has been imprisoned by the military dictatorship in her homeland of Burma — one of the most repressive countries on Earth. Her struggle for democracy and human rights there has led to reform. This weekend, she was allowed to go to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize she won two decades ago. Suu Kyi gave a rare interview to CBS News anchor Pelley. The democracy activist said there was never a time she thought of leaving or giving up. Maybe she was bound by her family name. Her father Aung Sun liberated the country from the British and the Japanese, but was assassinated when his daughter was two years old. Suu Kyi spent nearly half her life in Britain, where she married and raised two sons. But in 1988 she went to Burma to care for her sick mother, and that same week the dictatorship gunned down hundreds of protesters in the streets. Suu Kyi stayed to lead a non-violent democracy movement. For 25 years, she was in prison or under house arrest. Always free to leave Burma, as long as she never returned. She chose imprisonment — even as her husband was dying of cancer in England. Like Nelson Mandela, her confinement kept the movement alive, and democracy is taking root. Pelley: Why did you become involved in the struggle...

Updated 2:02 a.m. Eastern (AP) TOKYO – Japanese police Friday arrested the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult’s deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways 17 years ago: the cult leader’s former bodyguard, who was finally tracked down at a comic-book cafe. Katsuya Takahashi, 54, a former member of Aum Shinrikyo cult, 하이 로우 was arrested on suspicion of murder, a Tokyo police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity, citing department rules. An employee at the downtown Tokyo cafe had recognized him and called police, she said. Takahashi admitted who he was when approached by the police at the cafe. His trail had been cold for years, but it heated up after another fugitive from the cult was arrested June 3. Thousands of officers had been hunting for him across the capital, handing out fresh photos of the suspect and monitoring transportation hubs to keep him from escaping. Woman who housed Japan cult fugitive in custody Takahashi, who had been cult guru Shoko Asahara’s bodyguard, was on Japan’s most wanted list for his suspected role in the sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways, which killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000. He allegedly helped one of the members who released sarin on one of the subway lines run away from the scene. He is also suspected in a 1995 cult-related kidnapping-murder, as well as a mail bomb...