Thursday, 23 February 2012 06:46 'Amid Moscow’s insistence on negotiation on the unrest in Syria, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that dialogue about Syrian situation is ‘futile. ’In a telephone conversation with Medvedev on the Syrian situation, the Saudi monarch said that Russia should have "coordinated with the Arabs...before using the veto,” state-owned Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday. Earlier in February, China and Russia vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution on the country, which called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign and hand over the power to opposition leaders.' Thursday, 23 February 2012 06:42 'In a letter published in the Daily Telegraph, a group of politicians, regulators and charities called for NHS nurses and care workers to sign a 'Dignity Code' drawn up by the National Pensioners’ Convention, promising to treat pensioners with dignity.
Urging hospitals and care homes to agree a set of common standards of care to prevent cases of neglect and abuse, they warned that British pensioners are being spoken down to, prevented from taking decisions, and denied privacy and the best medical treatment.'
Thursday 23 February 2012
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