India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy's mouth!

Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.

Dr Sunanda Dhiware head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC that the teenager Ashik Gavai, was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw. After he had been suffering for 18 months and traveled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.

"Ashik's malaise was diagnosed as a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour," Dr Dhiware said.

"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.

"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," she added.

The surgery, conducted on Monday, involved two surgeons and two assistants. The team was led by Dr Vandana Thorawade who heads the hospital's ENT (ear, nose and throat) department. Ashik now has 28 teeth.

Describing Ashik's case as "very rare", Dr Dhiware said she had "not seen anything like this before in my 30-year career", but said she was "thrilled to get such an exciting case".

"According to medical literature available on the condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the tumour in the past. But in Ashik's case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth."

Ashik's father Suresh Gavai was quoted by the Mumbai Mirror as saying that his son complained of severe pain a month ago.

"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai," he said.

Sudanese 'apostasy' woman arrives Rome en route New-York!

The Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim, who was condemned to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, reportedly arrived in Rome with her family on Thursday morning where they will stay for a few days before flying to New York.

According to reports, the 27-year-old, her husband and two children arrived at Rome's Ciampino airport at around 9.30am on a plane provided by the Italian government. 

Meriam was greeted at the airport by Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, his wife Agnese and Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini.

She was accompanied on the flight by Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli, who met with her on July 3rd and has been following the case closely.

Her stay in Italian was organized by the Italian government in collaboration with the Sudanese government. 

Ibrahim's arrival in the Italian capital follows a European Parliament resolution condemning her “degrading and inhumane treatment” and calling for legal reforms in Sudan. 

A spokesperson for the Italian government was reportedly not immediately available for comment.

BREAKING - AIR ALGERIE PLANE DISAPPEARS FROM RADAR!

The Algerian news agency says an Air Algerie flight with 110 people nd 6 crew on-board, from Ouagadougou -Burkina Faso to Algiers has disappeared from the radar.

Information made available said air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after takeoff early Thursday, last sited at 0155 GMT.

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Police IG MD Abubakar and Wife welcome baby boy!

The Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar and wife, Zarah had their first child recently.

The bouncing baby boy was delivered in Atlanta, USA and the excited father will leave Nigeria today to be re-united with his wife and the new baby.

The couple got married September 13, 2013 after the IGP lost his first wife, Maryam Abubakar to cancer in January, 2012.

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TERROR THREAT AGAINST NORWAY!

Norway's intelligence service revealed on Thursday that it received information about an imminent "concrete threat" against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria.

Head of Norwegian security service PST Benedicte Bjoernland, said the agency has received "reliable information" from a foreign partner about some kind of attack "within days."

"It was unspecific about what the target might be," Bjoernland said, adding PST has no information about how or when such an attack would take place.

According to PST's assessment last month, about 50 people have traveled to Syria from Norway as foreign fighters, half of whom have now returned to Norway. he declined to give further details.

The domestic intelligence agency could not exclude that people involved with the threat already were in Norway, adding it had called staff back from their summer vacation to further investigate the information.

CAR armed factions sign ceasefire pact!

Representatives of the majority-Muslim Seleka have signed a ceasefire agreement with Christian factions to end fighting in the Central African Republic.

The signing of the pact on Wednesday in Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Republic of Congo, came after heavy pressure from regional mediators, aims to put an end to months of sectarian violence.

It is however not clear if the ceasefire will be respected by the fighters in Central African Republic.

Mohamed Moussa Dhaffane represented the Seleka faction. 

CAR has been gripped by ethnic and religious violence since northern Seleka rebels seized power in the predominantly Christian nation in 2013.

The Seleka left power in January under international pressure and since then anti-balaka Christian militias have targeted Muslims.

Those attacks have largely driven Muslims from the capital Bangui and the west, effectively partitioning the country, whose east is controlled mainly by Seleka.

A civilian transitional government is now tasked with organizing national elections by February.

Gen. Buhari's convoy attacked as deadly explosion rocks Kaduna!

Two explosions have ripped through the northern Nigeria city of Kaduna, killing at least 40 people, police say.

The first explosion targeted moderate Islamic cleric Dahiru Bauchi while the second one targeted senior opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari, a BBC reporter in the city says. Both escaped unhurt.

There are body parts and damaged cars on the busy Alkali Road in the city centre where the bomb targeting Mr Bauchi exploded, reports the BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar from the scene. 

Kaduna Police chief Shehu Umar said at least 25 people were killed in that blast, apparently caused by a suicide bomber. 

Another 15 were killed in the second blast, he said. 

Mr Bauchi had completed a preaching session in the nearby Murtala Muhammed square, and was driving through the area in an open-roofed vehicle, greeting well-wishers when he was targeted. 

It was revealed that followers of the renowned cleric have reacted angrily, throwing stones at the security forces and accusing them of failing to protect Nigerians, our reporter says; the security forces retaliated by firing tear gas. 

About 90 minutes after the first attack, a second explosion ripped through the crowded Kawo area, targeting the motorcade of Gen Buhari, a former military ruler of Nigeria and a senior member of the All Progressive Congress opposition party. 



Information given by BBC's reporters says gunmen rammed a vehicle into his convoy, firing shots at it, as a result, two of Gen Buhari's bodyguards were slightly wounded in the attack.