"Norway has no opportunities to prioritize a military contribution to the EU force in the Central African Republic," Baard Glad Pedersen William Carvalho Portugal Jersey , state secretary in the Foreign Ministry, was quoted by the Norwegian news agency NTB as saying.
The UN Security Council has not yet made any formal decision on taking over the African Union force in the violence-torn African country and so it is too
early to decide on a possible Norwegian contribution, said Pedersen.
Plagued by decades of instability and fighting Rui Patricio Portugal Jersey , the CAR witnessed a resurgence of violence last December when the Seleka rebels launched a series of attacks,
culminating in March when CAR President Francois Bozize was forced to flee from
the city.
The CAR is facing a dire humanitarian situation affecting some 4.6 million people.
In early December 2013, the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of 2 Ruben Neves Portugal Jersey ,000 French and 6,000 African troops to restore order in Bangui, who have so far failed to stop the conflict.
After much delay Rolando Portugal Jersey , the EU launched a peacekeeping force for the CAR on April 1 after last-minute offers of help came from some EU governments.
The 1,000-strong EU force will reinforce the African Union and French troops to restore order in the landlocked, impoverished country where violence has left
thousands dead.
The EU force will stay in the African country for up to six months to provide security in Bangui and at Bangui airport Ricardo Quaresma Portugal Jersey , where about 70,000 people are living in dire conditions.
France has been urging its EU partners to do more to help in its former colony.
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MARSEILLE, France, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo said here on Thursday that his side deserves to win.
""It was very difficult,"" he said. ""Poland did well - they have a strong team and play good football. They're a very intense team, they're physical and
experienced, but I think Portugal were better and created more chances.
Ronaldo was the first to take the penalty kick after the two sides were deadlocked at 1-1 in the extra time.
""Penalties are always a lottery, but Portugal took their penalties better and were worthy winners.""
Portugal will take on the winner of the match between Wales and Belgium in the semifinals the Real Madrid super star predicted no easy oppoment.
""Both are very difficult,"" he said. ""Wales have had an excellent tournament. Belgium are also a very dangerous team that have done well with some
good results. Either team would be complicated.
""Our objective was for Portugal to win. I want to congratulate my colleagues, our coach and technical team; we all did a fantastic job. Now on to
the next opponent who we will prepare for and we will give our all.""
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LAGOS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's Super Falcons interim coach Christopher Danjuma has invited 35 players to camp in preparation for the women's soccer
event of the 11th All Africa Games in Congo Raphael Guerreiro Portugal Jersey , Brazzaville.
The Games will take place from Sept. 4 to Sept. 19 in Brazzaville.
The players are expected to report at the Serob Legacy Hotel, Abuja on Aug. 10 with their international passports and training kits.
The Super Falcons will play host Congo-Brazzaville, Tanzania and Cote d'Ivoire in Group A at the Games. The Group B would feature Cameroon Pepe Portugal Jersey , South Africa, Ghana and Egypt.
The Falcons qualified for the Games after a 9-1 aggregate against Mali at the end of the qualifying rounds.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Stanford University have designed a home urine test that uses a black box and a smartphone camera to help
analyze a standard medical dipstick.
The dipstick test, or color-changing paper test, was invented to test blood sugar in 1956. It now involves a paper strip with 10 square pads. Dipped in a
sample, each pad changes color to screen for the presence of a different
disease-indicating chemical.
After waiting the appropriate amount of time, a medical professional or, increasingly an automated system, compares the pad shades to a color reference
chart for results.
The test seems simple, but do-it-yourself systems on the market can be error prone, said Audrey Bowden, assistant professor of electrical engineering at
Stanford. "You think it's easy -- you just dip the stick in urine and look for
the color change, but there are things that can go wrong. Doctors don't end up
trusting those results as accurate."
Considering the dipstick as a given, Bowden and Gennifer Smith, a PhD student in electrical engineering, designed a system to overcome three main potential
errors in a home test: lighting, volume control and timing.
As a color-based test, the dipstick needs consistent lighting conditions. The same color can look different depending on its background, so Smith and Bowden
created a black box that covers the dipstick. Its flat, interlocking parts make
it easy to mail, store and assemble.
They tackled volume control. "If you have too little or too much urine on the dipstick, you'll get erroneous results," Smith said. To fix this, they designed
a multi-layered system to load urine onto the dipstick. A dropper squeezes urine
into a hole in the first layer, filling up a channel in the second layer and ten
square holes in the third layer. When the third layer is inserted into the black
box, a uniform volume of urine is deposited on each of the ten pads at just the
right time.
Then, a smartphone is placed on top of the black box with the video camera focused on the dipstick inside the box. Custom software reads video from the
smartphone and controls the timing and color analysis.
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