Dadah tiruan ancam dunia

DADAH sintetik seperti syabu digilai penagih kerana kesannya yang mampu membuatkan seseorang menjadi agresif. - Gambar hiasan

GENEVA - Gejala penagihan dadah tiruan didakwa sudah tidak terkawal dan merebak di banyak negara dunia, lapor Lembaga Kawalan Dadah Antarabangsa (INCB) semalam.

Dadah tiruan itu merujuk kepada dadah yang mengandungi bahan kimia yang diubah suai di makmal sama ada melibatkan dadah baru atau dadah sedia ada bagi mengaburi mata pihak berkuasa sekali gus mengelakkan ia dikategorikan sebagai bahan larangan di sisi undang-undang.

Antara dadah tiruan yang popular selain ekstasi dan amphetamine adalah mephedrone atau lebih popular dengan nama meow meow, MCAT atau buih.

Meow meow dilaporkan memiliki kesan yang sama dengan amphetamine, ekstasi dan dadah kokain.

Dadah meow meow amat popular dalam kalangan pengunjung kelab malam di London.

Menurut INCB yang merupakan badan pemantau narkotik Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB), penyalahgunaan dadah tiruan meow meow kini merebak di kebanyakan negara dan ceruk rantau.

"Mephedrone merupakan penyumbang utama gejala penagihan dadah di Eropah, Amerika Utara, Asia Tenggara, Australia dan New Zealand," kata INCB dalam laporannya.

Menurut laporan tersebut, penyebaran meow meow sukar dibendung kerana dadah tiruan itu mudah didapati.

Dadah itu juga dijual lebih murah daripada kokain.

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0303&pub=Kosmo&sec=Negara&pg=ne_04.htm

Amphetamine :

–noun Pharmacology .

a racemic drug, C ₉ H ₁₃ N, that stimulates the central nervous system: used chiefly to lift the mood in depressive states and to control the appetite in cases of obesity.

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Aset Mubarak dibeku

GENEVA - Switzerland semalam membekukan semua aset milik bekas Presiden Mesir, Hosni Mubarak, ahli keluarganya dan beberapa individu yang mempunyai kaitan dengan pentadbirannya berkuat kuasa serta-merta, jelas jurucakap Kementerian Luar Switzerland, Lars Knuchel.

Selain anak dan menantu Hosni, senarai tersebut turut meliputi bekas Menteri Perumahan, Perkhidmatan dan Pembangunan Bandar, Ahmed Alaa El Din Amin El-Maghrabi, bekas Menteri Pelancongan, Mohamed Zoheir Mohamed Wahid Garana, bekas Menteri Dalam Negeri, Habib Ibrahim El Adli, bekas Menteri Perdagangan dan Industri, Rachid Mohamed Rachid serta seorang ahli perniagaan terkenal yang juga bekas setiausaha Parti Demokratik Nasional, Ahmed Ezz.

Knuchel bagaimanapun tidak memberi perincian tentang akaun bank apa atau aset-aset lain yang mungkin dimiliki oleh Hosni dan ahli keluarganya di Switzerland. "Kerajaan mahu mengelak daripada sebarang risiko menggelapkan aset milik negara Mesir," jelas Kementerian Luar Switzerland dalam satu kenyataan. Ia juga menghalang penjualan apa jua aset terutama pegangan hartanah.

"Kami dalam proses mengenal pasti dan menyiasat perkara ini sebelum membuat tindakan sewajarnya," kata Menteri Kewangan Switzerland, Widmer-Schlumpf.

Menurut Swiss National Bank, pada penghujung tahun 2009, wang deposit warga Mesir di akaun-akaun bank di Switzerland berjumlah AS$3.5 bilion (RM10.6 bilion).

Hosni sebelum ini didakwa menjadi individu paling kaya di dunia dengan kekayaan mencecah AS$70 bilion (RM213.1 bilion). Angka itu sekali gus mengalahkan ahli perniagaan terkenal dari Mexico, Carlos Slim Helu yang mempunyai kekayaan sebanyak AS$54 bilion (RM164.7 bilion) dan pengasas Microsoft, Bill Gates dengan kekayaan AS453 bilion (RM161.3 bilion)

Kekayaan itu dipercayai diperoleh daripada aktiviti pelaburan hartanah dan rasuah sepanjang memegang jawatan selaku Presiden Mesir selama hampir tiga dekad. - Agensi

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0213&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_02.htm

Switzerland freezes any assets tied to Mubarak

AP – Demonstrators, some of them Egyptians living in Switzerland, carry anti-Mubarak transparents and shout …

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GENEVA – The Swiss government on Friday froze any assets belonging to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or his family in Switzerland.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel said the order took effect immediately but gave no details on what bank accounts or other assets Mubarak or his family might have in Switzerland.

He spoke as pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo were jubilantly celebrating the announcement that Mubarak has resigned after nearly three decades of authoritarian rule and handed power over to the military.

"(The government) wants to avoid any risk of misappropriation of state-owned Egyptian assets," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It also forbid the sale of any assets, especially real estate holdings.

Swiss Finance Minister Widmer-Schlumpf was asked earlier this week by Swiss national TV station SF whether Mubarak or his family had any money in Switzerland.

"We're in the process of clarifying this and we'll act appropriately," she said, adding that the Foreign Ministry was investigating the issue.

At the end of 2009, Egyptian deposits in Swiss bank accounts totaled 3.6 billion Swiss francs (about $3.5 billion), according to the Swiss National Bank.

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UN health agency sounds alarm on alcohol abuse

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GENEVA – Alcohol abuse is killing 2.5 million people each year and governments must do more to prevent it, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Some 4 percent of all deaths worldwide are attributable to alcohol, the U.N. body said. The main causes of alcohol-related deaths are injuries incurred when drunk, cancer, liver cirrhosis, heart disease and strokes.

"It's a killer and it's not good from a public health point of view," Melvin Freeman of South African's Ministry of Health and a contributor to the report, told reporters in Geneva.

Worldwide, over 6 percent of male deaths are related to alcohol, but only just over 1 percent of deaths in women. Almost one in 10 deaths among young people aged 15-to-29 is from alcohol-related causes — about 320,000 each year — WHO said.

The global body's first report on the subject in seven years recommended that governments raise alcohol taxes, restrict sales, promote alcoholism prevention and treatment programs, and ban some alcohol advertising.

WHO declined to provide a specific recommendation on the acceptable limit of alcohol consumption, saying setting such a level was up to member states.

Shekhar Saxena, the director of WHO's mental health and substance abuse department, said the effects of alcohol use also differ in ethnic groups. Populations in Asia, for example, are more susceptible to throat cancer from alcohol abuse.

But he added "in WHO's perspective, no drinking is entirely safe."

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Online:

WHO report: http://bit.ly/eNzZep

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_he_me/un_who_alcohol_abuse

Barat pulau persidangan PBB

BEBERAPA delegasi dari negara-negara Eropah meninggalkan persidangan ketika Mahmoud berucap dalam persidangan berhubung perkauman di Geneva semalam.

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GENEVA - Negara-negara Barat memulau persidangan perkauman yang dianjurkan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) semalam kerana khuatir medan mengkritik Yahudi akan berlaku.

Setiausaha Agung PBB, Ban Ki-Moon mengutuk tindakan pemulauan itu manakala negara-negara Eropah mengancam untuk meninggalkan persidangan.

Israel turut memanggil pulang dutanya kerana membantah keputusan Presiden Switzerland menemui Presiden Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"Ada negara yang sepatutnya hadir untuk membantu merintis jalan ke arah masa hadapan yang lebih baik tetapi tidak hadir. Saya sangat kesal berhubung tindakan itu," kata Ki-Moon.

Poland menjadi negara terbaru memulaukan persidangan itu setelah Amerika Syarikat (AS), Israel, Kanada, Australia, Jerman, Itali, Belanda dan New Zealand.

Sementara itu, Mahmoud menyelar negara-negara yang memboikot sidang PBB itu.

Menurutnya, tujuan negara-negara itu berbuat demikian kerana sombong dan mementingkan diri.

"Pada pendapat kami (Iran), perkara ini berlaku kerana kesombongan dan mementingkan diri yang merupakan punca kepada masalah dunia pada hari ini," kata Mahmoud sebagai reaksi terhadap tindakan Barat memboikot sidang yang diadakan selama lima hari itu. - Agensi

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/arkib.asp?y=2009&dt=0421&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_10.htm