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Soldiers patrol on October 4, 2010 in front of the Louvre in Paris. France said on October 3 that it was staying vigilant and had taken into consideration the US State Department’s warnings on travelling in Europe because of “the potential for terrorist attacks”. The US State Department earlier alerted “US citizens to the potential for terrorist attacks in Europe... current information suggests that AlQaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks”.
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U.S., UK raise terrorism threat level in Europe Reuters WASHINGTON/LONDON – The United States and Britain warned their citizens on Sunday of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, with Washington saying al Qaeda might target transport infrastructure. The U.S. State Department issued a warning directed at American citizens traveling in Europe, without singling out any specific countries, saying tourists should proceed with caution.
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Britain raised the terrorism threat level in its advice for citizens traveling to Germany and France to “high” from “gen-
eral.” It left the threat level at home unchanged at “severe,” meaning an attack is highly likely, and said it agreed with the
U.S. assessment for the continent as a whole. The moves came after a week in which a number of European offi-
cials had broadly confirmed media reports that new intelligence indicated possible attacks on the continent. Western intelligence sources said militants in hide-outs in northwest Pakistan had been plotting coordinated attacks on European cities, the plans apparently surviving setbacks from a September surge in drone strikes and an arrest. Continued on page 6
Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel Associated Press Writers
STOCKHOLM – Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that ignited heated controversy in the 1970s but has helped millions of infertile couples since then have children. Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950s. He developed the technique — in which
egg cells are removed from a woman, fertilized outside her body and then implanted into the womb — together with British gynecologist surgeon Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988.
On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown in Britain became the first baby born through the groundbreaking procedure, marking a revolution in fertility treatment. Continued on page 6
(FILES) A handout picture taken on July 12, 2008 shows IVF pioneer Professor Robert Edwards at Bourn Hall Clinic, the first clinic in the world to offer IVF to infertile couples, in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, eastern England. Robert G. Edwards of Britain won the Nobel Medicine Prize on October 4, 2010 “for the development of in vitro fertilisation,” the Nobel jury said.
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