Setback for Japan’s new prime minister in upper house election

Japan’s new Prime Minister Naoto Kan has suffered in the upper house election on Sunday, a serious defeat. The coalition government led by Kan’s Democratic Party DPJ lost its majority in the second chamber of parliament, as Japanese media reported after counting of two thirds of the seats based on exit polls. Although the Premier
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Schroeder calls for broad debate about preimplantation diagnosis

Berlin – Federal Family Minister Kristina Schröder (CDU) has called for a public debate over preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) may be examined at the test-tube embryos to genetic damage. “We need these highly sensitive issues on a broad social discussion, in which contradictions are openly addressed,” Schroeder said the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper. For them, it
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