Secretary of States John Kerry says the draft bilateral security agreements set up the rules for limited US military rule going forward in Afghanistan.

 

It is entirely train, equip and assist. There is no combat role for United States forces.

 

Kerry says Loya Jirga still has to approve the agreement which he says properly address concerned by President Hamid Karzai. He has denied the reports that Karzai is seeking an apology for civilian casualties in US military operations. Michelle Kelemen, NPR News, Washington.

 

There has been 12 days since typhoon Haiyan has landed in the central Philippines, killing thousands and shredding almost everything in its path. NPR’s Jonathan Blakeley reports from Tacloban city aid workers are desperately trying to keep up with needs of survivors.

 

In many parts of damaged areas, water has been at least partly restored or trapped in to recovering neighbor. UNICEF regional director Daniel Toole says getting water back to survivors was critical.

 

It is fantastic to see people drinking and washing their cloths, washing themselves and when you have lost everything those small things in life make it enormous different.

 

However electricity is almost non-existed in areas where the typhoon hit. Large trucks have been deployed to clean up the amount of twisted metal, falling trees and mounting garbage. Almost two weeks after this storm, bodies are still being found beneath the rubble. Jonathan Blakeley, NPR News, Tacloban.

 

NNNN from a definitive study on the matter by a group of Harvard researchers have spent 30 years, looking at whether people who eat nuts which often called heart-healthy are indeed any healthier. Conclusion after looking 119,000 men and women was that those who ate nuts roughly everyday were 20% less likely to die during the same period of those who never ate them. Doctor Charles S. Fuchs who is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute student says those studies exhibited other behaviors as well.

 

Irregular nut users tend to be leaner and tend to have lower rate of obesity. So it may be the natural of calorie is alternative to the high carbohydrate that people typically enjoy and meals should be affected on metabolic more general. 

 

Studies published in the England Journal of Medicine, the research was fund by the national institutes of the health along with from Grand the nut industry. 

 

Fewer Americans were buying existing homes last month. The National Association of Realtors is announcing today sales of previously owned homes fell 3.2% from the previous month due to seasonally-adjusted rates of 5.12 million. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow was down 66 points at close 15,900. The S&P fell six points.

 

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Apparently problems within the air force’s nuclear missile force were deeper than some experts have acknowledged that is according to an unpublished air force study which has found that burnout on the part of those launch officers whose finger around the nuclear triggers was higher than has been previously acknowledged. Study conducted by RAND researchers finds court-marshal rates in the nuclear missile force in 2011 and 2012 more than twice as high as for the air force overall. 

 

Congress has awarded its highest civilian honor, the congressional gold medal, to native of American to use their tribal languages to translate message the enemy could not decipher during the World War One and Two. NPR’s Craig Windham reports members of congress gather at the capitol. They tribute to so-called “Code Talkers”.

 

House Speaker John Boehner says the “Code Talkers” use their native tongues to help protect the nation’s battlefield secrets.

 

They mobilized the simplest weapon “language” to thwart the fiercest enemy that free people have ever known.

 

And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the “Code Talkers” deserved all the belated praise they are getting.

 

Their gift save countless lives and help win the war, and their willingness to share it made them American heroes.

 

Congress bestowed the gold medal on Navajo code talks over a decade ago. The honor is now also being given to more than two dozen other tribes. Craig Windham, NPR News, Washington.

 

The discovery of the remains of young boy who died 24,000 years ago in eastern Siberia is risen new questions about extents of NNNN Europeans in that part of the world. According to article in today’s New York Times, citing DNA analysis researchers appears to match western Europeans. Analysts who seem to indicate during the last ice age European’s range further across the region than many of them thought.