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...traffic injuries burden hospitals: "Road traffic injuries place a huge strain on health care services in terms of financial resources, bed occupancy, and demand placed on health professionals. In Kenya, for example, road traffic injury patients represent between 45-60% of all admissions to surgical wards. Similarly, studies in India show that road traffic injuries account for 20-50% of emergency room registrations, 10-30% of hospital admissions, and 60-70% of people hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries...
Uncertainty about the economic recovery was also reflected in commodity markets, which sold off broadly on June 15. China is believed to be stockpiling a range of raw materials, notably copper, which has driven prices dramatically higher in recent months. But ubiquitous weakness in global demand is now taking a toll. The Reuters-Jeffries CRB commodity index fell 2.25% during the day. Gold prices dipped slightly, down $11 per ounce, but stocks of precious-metals companies were hammered, declining more than 7% on average...
Despite Iran's authorities' agreement to recount disputed votes in the presidential election, the main opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, rejected the offer, reiterating his demand for a fresh election, according to CNN. Looks likely that the rival demonstrations planned Tuesday night by supporters of Ahmadinejad and Mousavi will go ahead. Nevertheless, rumors circulate that Mousavi has told supporters the rally shouldn't proceed. But misinformation has been previously employed to try to confuse protesters...
...Ordering the Guardian Council, dominated by conservatives loyal to Khamenei, to take up Mousavi's complaint takes away the main demand around which the opposition is rallying on the streets - the allegation that the state has not followed its own laws during the election. By taking up Mousavi's complaints through the proper legal channels, Khamenei creates an acute dilemma for the opposition: the Guardian Council will deliver an answer only sometime next week, and if protests are suspended pending its outcome, it may be harder to get people back on the streets later. But an opposition that is demanding...
Iranian state media said the government organized the rally to demand punishment for those who protested violently after a larger demonstration Monday by hundreds of thousands of Mousavi supporters. Mousavi has said he won Friday's balloting and has demanded the government annul Ahmadinejad's victory and conduct a new election...