abc newsmail newslistsyourabcnetau abc news wednesday august 6 2008 news visit abc news online httpabcnetaunews receive email html preferred topics log email address httpabcnetaunewsalertsdefaulthtm abc newsmail headlines glance china toughens security rounds dissidents rba could cut rates next month rwanda accuses france 1994 genocide murder charges laid missing man kidney failure 8 times likely indigenous people brisbane researchers claim leukaemia breakthrough fraud gang stole 40m credit card numbers iran says halt stoning executions punter puts 100k bet nt election russian doping systematic olympic official scroll details china toughens security rounds dissidents chinese police increased security countrys northwestern xinjiang province amid claims thousands falun gong followers rounded elsewhere country runup olympic games xinjiang crackdown came response attack killed 16 policemen monday chinese police checking cars buses entering city kashgar riot police ringed hospital injured officers treated authorities say two local ethnic uighur men taxi driver vegetableseller responsible killing 16 officers injuring 16 state television said police found propaganda materials promoting jihad weapons similar captured terrorist camp last year exiled world uighur congress says many people rounded wake attack beaten local authorities also announced arrest 18 foreign agitators say involved mondays attack falun gong arrests claim director association asian research erping zhang also says chinese government rounded thousands falun gong practitioners mr zhang says government used games crack dissenting voices including members underground churches prodemocracy intellectuals activists told abc tvs lateline chinese government detained 8000 members banned spiritual movement falun gong reports different sources rights groups rounded runup games sent place nobody knows said even family members identify location rba could cut rates next month increasing number economic forecasters brought forward predictions interest rate cuts early next month warn guarantee banks follow reserve bank australia rba yesterday left rates hold 725 per cent signalled ready start lowering rates anz westpac forecasting cut next month national australia bank commonwealth bank say possibility westpacs chief economist bill evans says rba board believes economy weaker made case cut rates next month reserve bank left door open cut rates next month clearly unforseen events next board meeting would happen said dont expect would developments data front particularly wages front next week would stop cutting rates given indications got governors statement speculation rbas first rate cut could much 05 per cent economists warning guarantee banks cut borrowing rates even reserve bank lowers official rates rbc capital markets senior economist sulin ong says could prompt rba make 05 per cent cut risk banks wont fully pass interest rate moves rba strong argument rba aggressive said reserve bank rarely changes rates 025 per cent one 05 per cent shift last 16 rate moves ms ong says private sector banks signalled remain pressure lift interest rates regardless official movements much risk reserve bank delivers 25 points easing banks wont fully pass key lending rates standard variable mortgage rates said rwanda accuses france 1994 genocide rwanda accused france helping plan 1994 genocide killed 800000 people african nation report independent rwandan commission set government alleges senior french politicians military officials involved genocide recommends put trial among named complicit genocide late french president francois mitterrand former prime ministers dominique de villepin edouard balladur report accuses france providing military diplomatic support ethnic hutu leaders instigated slaughter tutsis rwandan government always maintained france partly responsible 1994 massacres left around 800thousand ethnic tutsis moderate hutus dead gone accusing french forces directly assassinating tutsis investigation found 33 french political military officials prosecuted frances foreign ministry declined comment report saying neither independent legitimate french government repeatedly denied involvement atrocities although admitted political mistakes made time murder charges laid missing man sydney man appear court today charged murder matthew leveson disappeared last year 20yearold last seen leaving surry hills nightclub partner 200am aedt september 23 reported missing failed show work police later found car abandoned waratah oval sutherland police yesterday arrested 45yearold man searched home cronulla sydneys south mr levesons mother faye said yesterday family hoped mans arrest might lead police finding sons body accused man scheduled appear sutherland local court kidney failure 8 times likely indigenous people public health association says urgent need health initiatives education chronic disease kidney failure indigenous communities new research findings published australian new zealand journal public health show indigenous people eight 10 times likely suffer endstage kidney failure australians public health association chief executive michael moore says high rate kidney disease could prevented improvements social circumstances aboriginal people chronic diseases suffered much indigenous people theyre young diabetes infections run things impact kidneys theyre younger things need addressed said mr moore says findings indicate urgent need initiatives help prevent diseases preventing comes education sanitation dealing infections early quickly dealing chronic disease areas like obesity problems associated good nutrition said brisbane researchers claim leukaemia breakthrough researchers brisbanes princess alexandra hospital pah university queensland say made two breakthroughs could lead cure common type leukaemia within five years cancer affects blood bone marrow cells pah director haematology professor devinder gill says research team found way keep chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells alive outside body says scientists studying live cells discovered two socalled growth factors help keep cancer cells alive professor gill says team looking way block factors killing cancer researchers say expecting start trialling treatments cancer five years fraud gang stole 40m credit card numbers us department justice charged 11 people theft sale 40 million credit debit card numbers accused stealing numbers hacking computers nine major us retailers case largest identity theft case ever prosecuted us department justice numbers stored computer servers us europe sold people used withdraw tens thousands dollars time automatic teller machines charged include three us citizens one estonia three ukraine two china one belarus iran says halt stoning executions iranian judiciary announced suspending use stoning means executing people punishment stoning death officially penalty adultery carried rarely recent times last case believed man executed last year human rights campaigners warn least eight women one man sentenced stoned death exhausted appeals critics say method unnecessarily brutal usually involves condemned person buried neck ground stones big enough cause serious pain large enough lead quick death thrown group people judiciary spokesman says four facing stoning sentences commuted either prison terms lashes sentences stoning death halted cases reviewed punter puts 100k bet nt election darwin punter placed 100000 bet labor win upcoming northern territory election centrebet says wager astonishing one biggest bets state election history bid prompted bookmaker tighten odds labor winning saturdays election 114 russian doping systematic olympic official senior olympic official says evidence systematic doping russian track field athletes comments came another russian athlete race walker vladimir kanaikin suspended russias olympic team failed drugs test conducted countrys athletics federation international olympic committee medical commission head arne ljungqvist says revelations disappointing seems example systematic doping said think frustrating find type cheating planned cheating still going kanaikin 11th russian athlete come drug cloud lead beijing games five members russian track field squad suspended international association athletics federations iaaf investigation found urine samples match dna tests athletes claimed submitted professor ljungqvist says evidence substantial obviously data convincing says dna analysis 100 percent know urine belong athletes say urine definitely case answer cyclist vladimir gusev also dropped olympic team amidst reports recorded abnormal blood results noncompetition testing kanaikin one three athletes test positive banned substance epo although one three made olympic team professor ljungqvist says increased penalties could apply russia doping proves widespread news visit abc news online httpabcnetaunews unsubscribe please go httpabcnetaunewsalertsunsubscribehtm receive email 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