European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages stars and Stripe s Friday March 30 2007 United nations agencies urge circumcision to reduce his by Alexander g Higgins the associated press Geneva in health Agen cies recommended wednesday that heterosexual men undergo circumcision because of compel Ling evidence that it can reduce their chances of contracting his by up to 60 percent but world health organization and Una ids experts said men need to be aware that circumcision is Only partial Protection against the virus and must be used with other measures we must be Clear said Cathe Rine Hanns of Una ids male circumcision does not provide Complete Protection against his studies suggest 57 million new cases of his infection and 3 Mil lion deaths Over 20 years could be prevented by male circumcision in sub saharan Africa the Agen cies said still men and women who con Sider male circumcision As an his preventive method need to continue using other forms of Protection such As male and female condoms abstinence delaying the Start of sexual activity and reducing the number of sexual part ners she said otherwise they could develop a false sense of Security and engage in High risk Behaviours that could undermine the partial Protection provided by male circumcision the agencies said men also should be warned that they Are at a higher risk of being infected with his if they re sume sex before their wound has healed likewise an i positive Man can More easily pass on the disease to his partner if the wound is still unhealed the recommendations were based on a meeting earlier this month in Monteux Switzerland where experts discussed three Tri als in Kenya Uganda and South Africa that produced Strong evidence of the risk reduction resulting from heterosexual male circumcision based on the evidence presented which was considered to be compelling experts attending the consultation recommended that male circumcision now be recognized As an additional important intervention to reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired his infection in men a statement said hunger crisis looming in n Korea baud rang the associated press Korea is fac ing one of its biggest food shortages in the past decade with Mil Lions of people going hungry be cause of a poor Harvest and a huge drop in donor Aid a in offi Cial said wednesday Anthony Banbury the asian regional director for the world food program who just returned from a six Day trip to North Korea said officials there told him they faced a food Gap of 1 Mil lion tons and asked the Agency to expand its rare admission and plea for help from the secretive regime while shortfalls have continued in recent years North Korea has been Able to meet the needs of its people thanks to multilateral food Aid through the Wop Bilat eral assistance and commercial imports Banbury said Hyung South korean workers Load fertilizer onto a cargo ship at Gakpo port in Yosu South of Seoul on tuesday South Korea was set to restart fertilizer shipments to North Korea marking the official resumption of economic assistance to Pyongyang but the weak Harvest in 2006 disastrous summer flooding and a 75 percent fall in donor Assis Tance dealt severe blows to the impoverished nation he said we Are losing the fight against hunger in North Korea Banbury told a news conference if do nors do not respond to the re quest millions of people Are going to go hungry North Korea has relied on for eign food Aid since natural disasters and mismanagement devastated its Economy in the mid1990s and led to a famine estimated to have killed some 2 Mil lion people but the government of North korean Leader Kim Jong n restricted the activities of Aid Agen cies and pressed them to reduce the size of their foreign staffs in the country in past years the Wop fed about 65 million people annually in North Korea but scaled Back its program last year to 19 Mil lion people after the government asked it in 2005 to switch its emphasis from food Aid to develop ment assistance claiming that food supplies were adequate the rom based Wop has since been Able to reach Only people about 3 percent of North Korea population of 23 million because of its smaller operation and Lack of funding we Are far from meeting the food needs of the most vulnerable Banbury said people in North Korea right now every Day Are going hungry Man sentenced to death for internet murders Tokyo a japanese Man was sentenced to death on wednesday for murdering three people he lured through a suicide web site by of Fering to die with them officials said Hiroshi Maesue 38 agreed to a death pact with a 25yearold office worker he met on a suicide web site but instead strangled her in a parked car and disposed of her body in Western Japan in 2005 Accord ing to a police statement he also killed a 14yearold boy and a 21yearold University student in the same year by luring them with promises of a suicide pact police said Maesue was sentenced to death on charges of murder and disposing of bodies illegally according to an Osaka District court official who did not give her name citing policy he pleaded guilty to the three murders but has appealed his death sentence Kyodo news Agency reported hundreds protest anti smacking Bill Wellington new zealand children joined their parents in marching on new zealand parliament on wednesday demanding Law makers throw out a Bill critics say is trying to outlaw smacking about 500 people including parents pushing babies in buggies and older children carried banners Reading dont mess with the family and kids dont belong to the state As they rallied in the largest of Sev eral protests against the Bill in recent Days one girl waved a sign that said you Are not my mum and dad parents some Church and political groups Are trying to derail a plan to repeal a Section of new zealand crimes act that allows parents to use reasonable Force to discipline their children British court rejects a Vinci code claims London Britain court of Appeal rejected a suit wednesday from two authors who claimed novelist Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel the a Vinci code Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued Browns publisher random House inc claiming he copied from their 1982 nonfiction Book the holy blood and the holy grail both books Deal with the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child and that the Bloodline continues from the associated press standing tall Bao Xishun the worlds tallest Man poses with his new wife Xia Chujian in Chifeng in chivas inner Mongolia Region Mon Day the two officially married on monday Bao at 7 feet 9 inches is listed by the guinness Book of world records As the worlds tallest Man while his wife is 5 feet 6 inches tall mothers pay is May 13th Send a message for free at Stripe com win accept mothers Day messages at Stripe com from March 30 to april 23 messages will be published in the Mideast european and Pacific editions 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