Mexican Authorities Close 3 Clinics Following Australian Woman’s Death

MEXICO CITY – Health officials closed three clinics and a hospital therapy center in Mexicali, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, in response to the death earlier this month of an Australian woman who underwent plastic surgery.

The medical facilities in the Valley of Mexicali were shut down after inspections discovered violations of the law, the Federal Commission for Health Risks Oversight, or Cofepris, said.

Eva Nicole Sarmonikas died on March 20 after undergoing liposuction on her abdomen and buttocks, the federal agency said.

Dr. Victor Manuel Ramirez Hernandez, who performed the procedures on the 28-year-old Australian woman, is under investigation by the Baja California Attorney General’s Office for possible negligence, the Cofepris said.

The medical facilities were cited for having expired medicines, poorly maintained and obsolete equipment, improperly handling biological waste and having undivided recovery areas, said the agency, part of the Health Secretariat.

Mexico -Kidnapped baby found alive 12 days later

 Kidnappings don’t often have happy endings. But a three-month-old baby abducted March 19 in León, Guanajuato, was discovered alive and well Sunday night.

Marco Iván Agustín Galindo was snatched from his mother’s arms by three men, one of them armed, in the Vibar neighborhood, a crime that subsequently provoked at least two protest marches by enraged mothers.

 Twelve days after Marco Iván disappeared, three young men heard a cry as they walked past a pile of garbage on the sidewalk in the city’s Valle del Real neighborhood.

On top of the garbage and wrapped in blankets was a baby.

The authorities were notified and the infant was identified soon after as the missing youngster. Marco Iván was reunited the same evening with his parents, who had spent nearly two weeks in anguish over their lost son.

A medical examination found the baby was in good health and bore no signs of maltreatment by his captors.

 

Iran - 3 Prisoners Hanged in Mashhad

Posted on: 31st March, 2015

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HRANA News Agency – Three prisoners were hanged in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), on Thursday morning, 26th March, 3 prisoners in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad were executed by hanging.

According to HRANA’s sources, the three men who had been convicted of drug crimes have not been identified yet and judiciary officials also have not given any information about them.

These executions are happening while, according to Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, the death penalty in Iran over the past decade has been rising from 99 cases a year in 2004 to 687 in 2013.

Ahmad Shaheed in his latest report described the increasing rate of executions in Iran as “alarming” and urged to stop this process.

Iran news in brief, 30 March 2015

India halts Iran oil imports under U.S. pressure

India halted oil imports from Iran for the first time in at least a decade in March as New Delhi responded to U.S. pressure to keep its shipments from Tehran within sanction limits during the last month of negotiations on a preliminary nuclear deal.

India is second-biggest buyer of Iranian oil on an annual basis after China, yet it did not take any crude from Tehran in March, according to tanker arrival data from trade sources and ship tracking services on the Thomson Reuters terminal.

Refinery sources in New Delhi told Reuters  this was the first time in at least a decade that no imports were made over the space of a month - indicating how Washington is trying to maximise economic pressure on Tehran regime amid the talks aimed at stopping it from gaining the capacity to develop a nuclear bomb.

"There is pressure from the U.S. on all Asian buyers to stick to the sanctions regime," said Johannes Benigni, chairman of JBC Energy GmbH in Vienna.

The international sanctions aimed at pressuring the Iranian regime to stop nuclear activities currently restrict Iran's overall exports to 1 million-1.1 million bpd, with Asian buyers required to keep their purchases near end-2013 levels.

Iran nuclear talks hit impasse

The Iranian regime and world powers are beginning a final day of talks to reach an outline agreement on the country’s nuclear program, with Germany’s foreign minister saying that negotiations are at a crucial stage, the Bloomberg reports.

“We’re in a bit of a crisis with the talks; perhaps we have a bit of a new approach, we will see,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters today. At the same time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is returning to the talks, a sign that a deal is still within reach.

Talks are stuck on how to roll back the sanctions that have slashed Iran’s oil output, and how to re-impose them should Iran violate the agreement, a European diplomat who spoke on condition of not being identified said on Monday. Both sides are playing a high-stakes game of chicken and the situation was changing hour-by-hour, the negotiator said.

According to the Reuters: Officials in the Swiss city of Lausanne said talks on a framework accord, which is intended as a prelude to a comprehensive agreement by the end of June, could yet fall apart. They have set a deadline of midnight on Tuesday for a framework agreement, but officials from all sides say it was possible the talks could run past the deadline.

"There still remain some difficult issues," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told CNN. "We are working very hard to work those through. We are working into the night."

As the ministers -- barring Russia's Sergei Lavrov, who was due back in Lausanne in the afternoon -- convened for the first plenary of the day, diplomats cautioned the talks could run deep into the early hours of Wednesday.

The Iranian regime has not backed down in any way, at any stage, from the positions with which it began the talks,MEMRI reports:

1. Tehran rejects the removal of its enriched uranium from Iran.

2. Tehran rejects a gradual lifting of the sanctions.

3. Tehran rejects restriction of the number of its centrifuges.

4. Tehran rejects intrusive inspections and snap inspections.

5. Tehran rejects any halt to its research and development activity.

6. Tehran rejects any change to the nature of its heavy water reactor at Arak.

7. Tehran rejects any closure of its secret enrichment site at Fordow.

8. Tehran rejects all restrictions to its nuclear activity following the agreement's expiration.

9. Tehran rejects the inclusion of its long-range missile program in the negotiations.

10. Tehran rejects reporting on its previous clandestine military nuclear activity.

11. Tehran rejects allowing inspections of military sites suspected of conducting nuclear activity.

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