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Japan PM 'wins key upper house poll'

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 21 Juli 2013 | 18.20

21 July 2013 Last updated at 07:13 ET

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has won a majority in the upper house, exit polls suggest.

His Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner New Komeito were set to get at least 71 of the 121 seats being contested, broadcaster NHK projected.

This would give him control of both houses of parliament for the first time in six years.

The deadlock in parliament has been seen as a key factor in Japan's recent "revolving door" of prime ministers.


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Veil row sparks Paris suburb unrest

21 July 2013 Last updated at 07:16 ET

Crowds of youths have thrown stones at French police and set fire to cars in a second night of disturbances in the Paris suburb of Trappes.

The trouble was sparked by the arrest of a man whose wife was told by police on Thursday to remove an Islamic face-covering veil, banned in public.

He has been accused of trying to strangle the officer.

Up to 300 people attacked a police station in Trappes on Friday night where the man was being held.

One leading Muslim group disputed the authorities' version of events, blaming police "provocation".

The suspect, described as a Muslim convert aged 21, was later released on Saturday pending an appearance in court, French media say.

The ban on wearing the full face veil in public was introduced in April 2011 with the threat of a financial penalty for not observing it.

'Beginning to spread'

Reinforcements from the CRS riot police were drafted in and Interior Minister Manuel Valls said they would remain in place until calm was restored. Thirty riot police vehicles were seen outside the Trappes police station.

In the latest violence which erupted in Trappes and several neighbouring areas, bus-shelters and cars were torched and fireworks directed at police, who responded with tear gas and baton charges.

The worst of the trouble took place in the early hours of Sunday. In one reported incident, a car was driven at police but no-one was hurt.

"It's beginning to spread to surrounding areas - Elancourt and Guyancourt," David Callu of the SGP police officers' union told BFM-TV news channel.

Four people were arrested and 20 cars burned, Mr Valls said in a statement.

Tensions in France's high-immigration city suburbs continue to fester, the BBC's Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports.

Although there has been no sustained unrest since the 2005 riots, sporadic violence is far from rare, he adds.

In 2005, a state of emergency was imposed when a wave of rioting spread across France, sparked by the deaths of two teenagers in a Paris suburb.


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Philippe made king of the Belgians

21 July 2013 Last updated at 07:17 ET Continue reading the main story

Crown Prince Philippe has been sworn in as king of the Belgians after the emotional abdication of his father Albert II.

The Oxford- and Stanford-educated, trained air force pilot took the oath as the country's seventh king in a ceremony in parliament.

To warm applause, King Philippe, 53, promised to uphold the constitution.

Belgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role.

One of the duties the monarch does have is trying to resolve constitutional crises.

In his final address before signing a legislative act to step down, 79-year-old King Albert said his country must remain a "source of inspiration" to Europe.

He stressed his wish that Belgium - split between the Dutch-speaking north and the French south - remained united.

His resignation on the grounds of ill-health came after nearly 20 years on the throne and was timed to coincide with Belgium's national day.

Balcony appearance

In a colourful ceremony topped off by trumpet fanfare and cannon-fire, Philippe took his oath in the country's three official languages - Dutch, French and German.

King Albert II signs abdication papers

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King Albert II: "Philippe, you have all the emotional and intellectual qualities to serve our country well"

Flag-waving supporters gathered in the midday sun waiting for their new king and his wife, Mathilde, to greet them from the balcony of the nearby royal palace.

"The new king is a bit of history," said Xavier De Graef, draped in the red, yellow and black of the Belgian tricolour.

"That doesn't happen very often so we wanted to be here," Mr De Graef, from French-speaking Liege, told Reuters news agency.

But not everyone was celebrating.

The far-right separatist Vlaams Belang party boycotted the swearing-in ceremony.

Meanwhile, Jan Jambon, parliamentary head of the N-VA party that wants Dutch-speaking Flanders to break away from Belgium and favours a republic, said the occasion "leaves me cold".

Constitutional crises

In the abdication ceremony at the royal palace in Brussels, the former monarch told his son: "You have all the emotional and intellectual qualities to serve our country well."

He thanked an audience of some 250 dignitaries and political leaders "for all that you have achieved during my reign".

Ex-king Albert also thanked his wife, Paola, for the support she had given him during his reign, and was in turn thanked by Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo for his service to his country.

Mr Di Rupo holds the political power in the 183-year-old parliamentary democracy.

Albert then embraced his son and signed the official abdication papers, ending his reign.

King Albert exercised his authority in mediating between political leaders on the formation of a government during the 2010-2011 parliamentary stalemate, when Belgium was left without a government for 541 days after elections failed to find a clear winner.

Tensions between the Dutch-speaking and French communities sometimes run high, and the issue has brought down several governments, creating frequent political instability.

Respect for the royal family, though, is one of the few factors that crosses the communal divide.

King Albert's abdication comes only three months after Queen Beatrix of the neighbouring Netherlands vacated the Dutch throne in favour of her son Willem-Alexander.


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Riot hits Australian-run asylum camp

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 20 Juli 2013 | 18.19

20 July 2013 Last updated at 00:42 ET

Police have restored order after rioting broke out at an Australian-run immigration detention camp on the Pacific island state of Nauru.

Reports said several buildings were set alight on Friday and the camp's medical centre had been destroyed.

Australian immigration officials said about 150 asylum-seekers were involved.

The riot broke out hours after Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced tough new measures on asylum-seekers arriving by boat.

Witnesses said a large number of local residents carrying machetes and steel pipes arrived to help police in preventing the asylum-seekers - most of whom are believed to be Iranian - from breaking out.

Australian broadcaster ABC, citing an unnamed security guard at the camp, said refugees began rioting on Friday afternoon and within two hours had overrun the centre.

Many had armed themselves with knives taken from the kitchen, the report said.

At least four inmates and several guards were said to have been injured.

Local photographer Clint Deidenang said that a four-hour protest at the centre was abandoned when a large number of local residents arrived to help authorities contain the violence.

Australia's immigration department confirmed there had been "non-compliant behaviour" at the facility but that the centre "is actually now calm".

"We are still assessing the extent of the damage, all we know is that there is damage to property," a spokeswoman told AFP news agency.

She said that some detainees had escaped during the trouble but that all had now been accounted for.

Australia has seen a sharp rise in the number of asylum-seekers arriving by boat in recent months.

Mr Rudd has said they will no longer be resettled in Australia but will go to Papua New Guinea.

He said the move was in part aimed at dissuading people from making the dangerous journey to Australia by boat.

He was setting out an overhaul of asylum policy ahead of a general election expected shortly.


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Freed Kremlin critic vows poll win

20 July 2013 Last updated at 03:59 ET
Alexei Navalny

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A large crowd applauded Alexei Navalny as he arrived in Moscow, as Alice Baxter reports

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has told supporters he will fight and win the Moscow mayoral vote, after he was freed from jail pending an appeal against a five-year jail term.

He has returned to Moscow from Kirov, where a judge convicted him of embezzlement, in a case widely condemned as political.

The court ruled on Friday he could go back to Moscow until the appeal.

The jail term has been criticised by the US, EU and human rights groups.

Standing beside his wife Yulia, Navalny told a crowd of supporters at Yaroslavsky station on Saturday that "we are going to stand in the elections and we will win".

"We are a huge powerful force. We have taken away the Kremlin's privilege to put people in prison never to be seen again."

He was accepted as a candidate in the 8 September mayoral poll shortly before he was found guilty of embezzlement and there had been some doubt over whether he would run.

The anti-corruption activist said he would take part in campaigning for the election as long as it was possible.

'Boycott'

A number of riot police were at the station and security forces were deployed in the surrounding area, Interfax news agency reports.

Continue reading the main story Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov (file pic)

A convict first has to admit his guilt"

End Quote Dmitry Peskov President Putin's spokesman

The BBC's Oleg Boldyrev who was there said it was a very upbeat start to an election campaign.

Hours after his conviction was announced in Kirov on Thursday, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Moscow in an unsanctioned demonstration, with reports of scuffles and dozens of people being detained.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov has since warned activists not to hold any more protests without official approval.,

Asked late on Friday whether there was any chance of Navalny being pardoned, Mr Peskov told reporters: "A convict first has to admit his guilt."

Navalny's release from custody in Kirov, 560 miles (900km) north-east of Moscow, had been sought by the prosecution as well as his defence.

The unexpected step was seen by some as an attempt to soothe public anger over a case that prompted Germany to question whether criminal justice was the main motive behind the trial. The US said it was "deeply disappointed and concerned" by the outcome.

Alexei Navalny, 37, rose to prominence before parliamentary elections in 2011, writing a blog in which he condemned the ruling United Russia party as "crooks and thieves".

The case brought against him in Kirov was that he led a group that embezzled timber worth 16m roubles ($500,000; £330,000) from the Kirovles state timber company while working as an adviser to governor Nikita Belykh.

Navalny will have to return to Kirov in a few weeks' time to appeal against the verdict.

With the conviction and appeal hanging over him, no-one can predict whether he will see the result of the elections as a free man, our correspondent says.


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Israel to free Palestinian prisoners

20 July 2013 Last updated at 07:06 ET

Israel says it will release a number of Palestinian prisoners as part of an agreement made with US Secretary of State John Kerry to resume peace talks.

Yuval Steinitz, minister responsible for international relations, said it would involve "heavyweight prisoners in jail for decades".

Mr Kerry announced on Friday that initial talks would be held in Washington "in the next week or so".

The Israeli minister's remarks are the first details of the deal.

Mr Kerry had declined to tell reporters in Amman what the two sides had agreed to, saying that the "best way to give these negotiations a chance is to keep them private".

The agreement came at the end of four days of frenetic shuttle diplomacy, on Mr Kerry's sixth visit to the region in the past few months.

Mr Steinitz told Israeli public radio that the deal adhered to the principles set out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for kick-starting the talks.

The release of prisoners would take place in stages, he said.

While the number of detainees to be freed is unclear, one Palestinian official said discussions had earlier focused on the release of 350 prisoners over a period of months, including around 100 men held since before 1993, when Israel and the Palestinians signed the Oslo peace accords.

According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, 4,817 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails.

For their part, the Palestinians had committed themselves to "serious negotiations" for a minimum of nine months, said Mr Steinitz, who is a member of the prime minister's Likud party.

John Kerry

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John Kerry said the two sides had decided the "difficult road ahead is worth travelling"

But he made clear that Israel had not accepted Palestinian pre-conditions, including a halt to settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

"There is no chance that we will agree to enter any negotiations that begin with defining territorial borders or concessions by Israel, nor a construction freeze."

Israel and the Palestinians last held direct talks in 2010, which were halted over the issue of settlement-building.

Settlements are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

Announcing the agreed resumption of talks, Mr Kerry warned that while it was significant, it was still "in the process of being formalised" and the issues that needed to be tackled were "complicated".

One of the major sticking points for the two sides is the issue of territorial borders.

Palestinian officials say a core demand is that Israel recognises pre-1967 ceasefire lines but right-wing members of Mr Netanyahu's coalition had refused to accept talks based on the issue.

Mr Kerry praised the Arab League's decision to back the plan and said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni would be travelling to Washington to hold the "initial talks".

Israeli commentators point out that while Mr Erekat has been in discussions with the Israeli PM, the Washington talks will not yet involve Mr Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

A spokesman for Mr Abbas said "progress has made it possible to agree on the principles that allow for the negotiations to resume".

The Middle East Quartet, made up of the US, Russia, the EU and UN, welcomed the "huge achievement" made by Mr Kerry and his team.

Ms Livni responded optimistically to Friday's developments on her Facebook page, saying "four years of diplomatic stagnation" were about to end, after "months of scepticism and cynicism".

She promised to protect Israel's "national and security interests", saying that she was convinced the talks were "the right thing" for Israel's future.

Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza, has rejected the announcement of a return to talks. "Mahmoud Abbas does not have the legitimacy to negotiate on fateful issues on behalf of the Palestinian people," spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.


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Five guilty in Costa Concordia trial

20 July 2013 Last updated at 07:10 ET
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How the Costa Concordia capsized

A court has convicted five people of manslaughter over the deadly 2012 Costa Concordia shipwreck off Italy.

The boat's helmsman, cabin service director, two ship officers and the head of the Italian company's crisis team were sentenced to up to two years and 10 months in prison for multiple manslaughter, negligence and shipwreck.

Reports say they may avoid prison-time.

The trial of Captain Francesco Schettino has been adjourned after he requested electrical tests on the ship.

He is charged with multiple manslaughter for causing the shipwreck and abandoning the vessel with thousands still aboard. His case will resume on 23 September after Italy's summer holidays.

Thirty-two people were killed when the Costa Crociere ship capsized off the island of Giglio in January 2012.

Deputy commander Ciro Ambrosio, third officer Silvia Coronica, helmsman Jacob Rusli Bin, cabin service manager and Costa Crociere crisis co-ordinator Roberto Ferrarini

Captain's plea

The five defendants were Roberto Ferrarini, director of the Italian cruise company's crisis unit, cabin service director Manrico Giampedroni, first officer Ciro Ambrosio, Indonesian helmsman Jacob Rusli Bin and third officer Silvia Coronica.

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  • Roberto Ferrarini - two years and 10 months
  • Manrico Giampedroni - two years and six months
  • Ciro Ambrosio - one year and 11 months
  • Jacob Rusli Bin - one year and eight months
  • Silvia Coronica - one year and six months

They received prison sentences ranging from 18 months to two years and 10 months as the court agreed to plea bargains in order to avoid a lengthy trial.

The heaviest sentence was given to Roberto Ferranini who was ashore as the disaster unfolded and in charge of co-ordinating the cruise ship company's response to the crisis.

None is likely to go to jail as sentences of under two years are suspended in Italy, while longer sentences may be appealed or replaced with community service, Reuters cited judicial sources as saying.

Capt Schettino's lawyers say he faces a maximum 20 years in jail if found guilty. He denies the charges and says that without his actions many more people would have died.

The trial is taking place in Grosseto, the city nearest the site of the wreck, and much of the case against him has already been disclosed in a report by court-appointed experts.

He has been accused of leaving the luxury liner before all those on board - 4,229 - had been evacuated and steering it too fast and too close to shore during a night-time, sail-past salute to people on the tiny island off Tuscany.

Capt Schettino has already accepted some degree of responsibility, asking for forgiveness in a television interview last year as he talked of those who died.

However, Capt Schettino maintains he managed to steer the stricken vessel closer to shore so it did not sink in deep water where hundreds might have drowned.

His lawyers say he is being made a scapegoat for what was simply an accident.

The vessel was holed by rocks just as many passengers were dining on the first night of their cruise. A disorganised evacuation followed as many of those on board panicked when the ship began to tilt to one side.

Costa Crociere, part of the American-based Carnival Corporation, agreed to pay a $1.3m (£860,000) fine in April to settle possible criminal charges.

Most passengers have already accepted compensation of about 11,000 euros ($14,200: £9,400) each, but remaining groups of survivors are holding out for more.

The Costa Concordia still lies partially submerged while salvage crews work to refloat it.


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Boston suspect capture photos leaked

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 19 Juli 2013 | 18.20

19 July 2013 Last updated at 05:49 ET

A US police photographer has leaked images of Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during his capture in anger at the picture used by Rolling Stone magazine for its next cover.

Police Sgt Sean Murphy said his photos showed "the real bomber" - the magazine cover was "hurtful" to the victims' memories and their families.

The images, given to Boston Magazine, show him with the red dot of a laser sight of a sniper rifle on his face.

The bombings killed three people.

More than 260 were injured in the two explosions at the marathon finish line on 15 April.

Mr Tsarnaev is also accused of the murder of a fourth person, a university police officer, who was allegedly shot dead by him and his brother Tamerlan in the days after the attack.

The pictures were taken when Mr Tsarnaev, wounded after a gunfight with police, was found hiding in a dry-docked boat in a residential garden.

'Relieved of duty'

A spokesman for state police said the release of the photos had not been authorised, and they would not be given to other news media.

The spokesman also said Sgt Murphy, a police photographer, was subject to an internal investigation.

A tweet from the author of the Boston Magazine article said Sgt Murphy had been "relieved of duty".

The police photographer told the magazine he released the contrasting images of Mr Tsarnaev as a response to the Rolling Stone cover.

The latest pictures show the "real Boston bomber, not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine", Sgt Murphy said.

"These were real people, with real lives, with real families," he said in a statement. "And to have this cover dropped into Boston was hurtful to their memories and their families."

On Wednesday, Rolling Stone defended its decision to put Mr Tsarnaev on the cover, saying it was committed to serious, thoughtful coverage.

But two Massachusetts-based convenience store chains, Rockland and Tedeschi Food Shops, and national pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens, said they would not stock the edition.

An outpouring of angry comments appeared on social media networks saying the magazine cover was tasteless.


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Detroit in largest US bankruptcy

19 July 2013 Last updated at 05:50 ET
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The BBC's Samira Hussain explains why Detroit has racked up such big debts

Detroit has become the largest US city ever to file for bankruptcy, with debts of at least $18bn (£12bn).

The city, once a symbol of US industrial power, is seeking protection from creditors who include public-sector workers and their pension funds.

Unions described the bankruptcy filing as a power grab.

Detroit has faced decades of problems linked to declining industry. Public services are nearing collapse and about 70,000 properties lie abandoned.

Mayor Dave Bing has vowed that public services will keep running and wages for public workers will be paid.

On Thursday, Michigan state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr asked a federal judge to place the city into bankruptcy protection.

If it is approved, he would be allowed to liquidate city assets to satisfy creditors and pensions.

Detroit - known as Motor City for its once-thriving automobile industry - stopped unsecured-debt payments last month to keep the city running as Mr Orr negotiated with creditors.

He proposed a deal last month in which creditors would accept 10 cents for every dollar they were owed.

But two pension funds representing retired city workers resisted the plan. Thursday's bankruptcy filing comes days ahead of a hearing that would have tried to stop the city from making such a move.

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Detroit's fall is complete. It is a depressing, if inevitable, end to a grotesque saga of decline, corruption and mismanagement. The irony is that the bankruptcy comes just as the private sector is picking up in Motor City. There is a buzz downtown, with commercial and residential occupancy at record levels.

But public services are in a state of near collapse. Around 70,000 properties lie abandoned. Great swathes of the city need to be written off. For some, the announcement will come as some kind of relief. When I was last there business leaders told me that some kind of decision had to be taken about the city's future - that agonising limbo was unsustainable.

The problem now is not just image. Bankruptcy looks bad. But Detroit is already a poster child for urban failure. Nor is it just about being locked out of capital markets - few would lend to the city anyway. But bankruptcy could take years to sort out, when Detroit's real world problems need urgent remedies.

Mr Orr suggested at the time there was a 50-50 chance of the city needing to file for bankruptcy. He also said the city's long-term debt could be between $17bn and $20bn.

'Only alternative'

At a press briefing on Thursday, Mr Orr said filing for bankruptcy was the "first step toward restoring the city".

Alongside him, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said that residents had to make a new start.

"I really didn't want to go in this direction - but now that we are here, we have to make the best of it," Mr Bing said.

The mayor also assured residents that the city would stay open and bills would be paid despite the filing.

"Paychecks for our city employees will continue, services will continue," he said.

But Ed McNeil, the lead negotiator for a coalition of 33 unions, told Reuters news agency the move was about "busting the unions".

"I've said all along that this is a power grab," he was quoted as saying.

"This is not about fixing the city's finances. It's about the governor and his own agenda to take over the city of Detroit."

In a letter accompanying Thursday's filing, Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican, said he had approved the request from Mr Orr to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy.

"Only one feasible path offers a way out," Gov Snyder said, adding that residents needed a clear exit from the "cycle of ever decreasing services".

"The only way to do those things is to radically restructure the city and allow it to reinvent itself without the burden of impossible obligations.

Rick Snyder

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Governor Rick Snyder announced: "Let me be blunt. Detroit's broke"

"It is clear that the financial emergency in Detroit cannot be successfully addressed outside of such a filing, and it is the only reasonable alternative that is available".

Meanwhile, the White House said it was closely monitoring developments in Detroit.

"While leaders on the ground in Michigan and the city's creditors understand that they must find a solution to Detroit's serious financial challenge, we remain committed to continuing our strong partnership with Detroit as it works to recover and revitalise and maintain its status as one of America's great cities," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage.

Analysts say there are some concerns that businesses might ditch their operations in Detroit.

But, in the wake of the filing, US car company General Motors said it did not expect any impact on its operations, and hoped it would mark a "clean start" for Detroit.

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  • Population has shrunk from a peak of 2 million in the 1950s to 713,000 today
  • Highest violent crime rate of any major US city, with 15,245 reported incidents in 2011
  • Some 78,000 abandoned and blighted buildings
  • 40% of street lights do not work
  • Only a third of the city's ambulances are in service
  • Just 53% of owners paid their 2011 property taxes

Source: City of Detroit Proposal for Creditors

"GM is proud to call Detroit home and today's bankruptcy declaration is a day that we and others hoped would not come," the company said.

The city, once renowned as a manufacturing powerhouse, has struggled with its finances for some time, driven by a number of factors, including a steep population loss.

The murder rate is at a 40-year high and only one third of its ambulances were in service in early 2013.

Declining investment in street lights and emergency services have made it difficult to police the city.

And Detroit's government has been hit by a string of corruption scandals over the years.

Between 2000-10, the number of residents declined by 250,000 as residents moved away.

Detroit is only the latest US city to file for bankruptcy in recent years.

In 2012, three California cities - Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino - took the step.

In 2011, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania tried to file for bankruptcy but the move was ruled illegal.

But Thursday's move in Detroit is significantly larger than any of the earlier filings.

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Pioneering stem cell trial approved

19 July 2013 Last updated at 06:28 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News

The first trial of stem cells produced from a patient's own body has been approved by the Japanese government.

Stem cells can become any other part of the body - from nerve to bone to skin - and are touted as the future of medicine.

Researchers in Japan will use the cells to attempt to treat a form of blindness - age-related macular degeneration.

The announcement was described as "a major step forward" for research in the field.

There are already trials taking place using stem cells taken from embryos. But this is ethically controversial and the cells will not match a patient's own tissues, so there is a risk of rejection.

Adult stem cells - which are also called induced pluripotent stem cells - are made from a patient's skin, so there should be no risk of rejection.

Sight saving?

Japan's health minister, Norihisa Tamura, has ruled that the cells can now be tested in patients.

The trial will by run by the Riken Center for Developmental Biology and the Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation Hospital in Kobe.

Initially, six patients will receive transplants of cells to see if the procedure can restore their damaged vision.

Prof Chris Mason, an expert on regenerative medicine at University College London said: "This was expected, but it's obviously a major step forward.

"They are beneficial for two main reasons. One, they are from the patients themselves so the chance of rejection is greatly reduced and there are the ethical considerations - they do not have the baggage which comes with embryonic stem cells.

"On the down side we are a decade behind on the science. Induced pluripotent stem cells were discovered much later, so we're behind on the safety."

In 2012, Prof Shinya Yamanaka shared the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery that adult human tissue could be coaxed back into a stem cell state.


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