Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 Canada / world Winnipeg free press thursday june 24, 2004 British sailors to be set free Iran plans to keep their boats weapons ment. By Ali Akbar Sareini t British diplomats were sent from Tehran to the Shatt Al Arab Tehran Iran ? Iran is no port of Abadan to receive the men longer holding eight British the foreign office in London said. Sailors in custody but their but there was a series of con handover to British officials has Trade Story reports from Britain yet to be worked out the iranian and Iran Over the men a status. Foreign ministry said yesterday. Earlier the foreign ministries of a ministry spokeswoman did not both Iran and Britain said the say where the men were located troops would be released some but insisted they were free to time yesterday. But in the evening Iran a arabic language to Chan the sailors were detained Mon Nel Al Alam reported that talks on Day after their boats apparently the detainees were postponed strayed on to the iranian Side of until today. The Shatt Al Arab waterway which the iranian state Channel had runs along the Iran Iraq Border. Previously reported that British iranian officials said earlier that and iranian officials were Degoti the incursion appeared to be Acci rating in the Southwest iranian town dental and agreed to release the of Mah Shah near the spot where men ? though Iran would keep the British servicemen were their boats weapons and equip detained. Genetic mutation makes baby Strong by Gina Kolata the moment the Little boy was born the Hospital staff knew there was something unusual about him. His Muscles looked nothing like the soft baby Muscles of the other infants in the Nursery. They were bulging and Well defined especially in his thighs and upper arms. Everybody noticed said Markus Schuelke a paediatric neurologist at Charite University med ical Center in Berlin. The baby it turned out had a rare double dose of a genetic mutation that causes immense strength in mice and cattle. Drugs Are under development that investigators Hope will use the same principle to help people whose Muscles Are wasting from muscular dystrophy or other illnesses. Experts say the Little boy now four years old and still very Strong offers human evidence for the theory behind such drugs. The boys Story written by Schuelke appears thursday in the new England journal of Medicine. Schuelke knew that Sejin Lee at Johns Hopkins University working with mice had found that when both copies of a Gene for a protein called Mycostatin were inactive the animals grew up lean and so muscular that Lee called them mighty the child smother was Strong and she came from a Strong family. So Schuelke and his colleagues decided to test the baby and his Mother for mutations in the Mycostatin Gene. ? new York times news service i Brief 92 die in night attack in russian Republic Vladikavkaz Russia ? a nighttime attack this week in the russian Republic of ing Shetia by militants near the Border of War ravaged Chechnya killed 92 people and wounded 125, a regional government official said yesterday. Among the dead were 67 members of Law enforcement agencies said the official Magomed Ziyao Pinnov. Harper May be called As inquiry witness Ottawa ? Stephen Harper might be called As a witness at the Maher Arar inquiry after the conservative Leader suggested then later denied he had received a secret briefing on the Case. Paul Cavalluzzo counsel for the commission of inquiry into Arar a arrest and deportation to Syria said Harper would be asked to testify if he can shed Light on the Arar file. Arroyo proclaimed Winner Manila Philippines ? the philippine Congress pro claimed incumbent Gloria map Cagal Arroyo the Winner of last months presidential election Early today after an All night session. Less funding provided to fight West Nile Toronto ? municipalities across Ontario Are getting less provincial funding this year to combat the West Nile virus reducing what the new democrats say is one of the provinces most important Public health programs. Gunshot wounds must be reported in Ontario Toronto ? Ontario will become the first province to require hospitals to notify police whenever a patient comes in with a gunshot wound Community safety minister Monte Kwinter announced yesterday. The policy on reporting currently varies from Hospital to Hospital even doctor to doctor Kwinter said. Kwinter said legislation will protect health care facilities so they can give authorized information to the police with out worrying about their exposure to Queen poses for 3-d portrait London ? the Queen has posed for Many artists in her time but she stepped up the technology ladder for her latest portrait. The 3-d laser Light Hologram titled equanimity was commissioned by the Jersey heritage Trust. Designer Chris Levine a Blue monochrome portrait shows the Monarch wearing a Crown pearls and Ermine Cape. Levine took More than 10,000 images of the Queen. ? from the news services asked about the Al Alam report the iranian spokeswoman said the britons Are not in detention any More. They Are free to the Issue of handing them Over to British authorities is merely a formality Issue that has to be sorted out Between iranian and British officials she said speaking on condition of anonymity. Iranian officials were quoted tuesday As saying they would prosecute the British servicemen for illegally entering iranian territory. But after two Telephone conversations Between British foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his Iran Ian counterpart Kamal Kharrazi Tehran announced yesterday that the men would be released. Britain has said the servicemen were delivering a new patrol boat to Iraq a River police when they were detained. ? associated press ;