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The 200-million yuan ($31-million) fa- ing unnecessary software, a charge intercession of Mother Teresa, which
cility will include cloning laboratories denied as false and baseless by the is required for canonisation, involved
and a gene bank. It is being set up by firm. iYogi and its President Vishal the inexplicable healing of a man who
Chinese biotechnology firm Boyalife Dhar have been named in the lawsuit was suffering from a deadly brain dis-
and South Korea's Sooam Biotech - filed in King County Superior Court in ease. The paper, which has been well
whose founder was embroiled in con- Washington state. informed about similar stories in the
troversy a decade ago over claims to past, said the pope would most likely
have cloned human embryos - along The lawsuit alleges iYogi's tactics are hold a canonisation ceremony for
with two Chinese research institutions. unfair and deceptive business practices Mother Teresa in early September.
that violate Washington's Consumer
It will develop animals such as pet and Protection Act. It further alleges that World's refugees and dis-
police dogs, racehorses and cows, to iYogi induced consumers to install un- placed exceed record 60
be sold on the open market on an in- necessary software as part of its ploy million - U.N.
dustrial scale. The factory in the north- to coerce them into buying tech sup-
ern port of Tianjin is set to start pro- port services, a violation of The number of people forcibly dis-
duction next year, with initial capacity Washington's Computer Spyware Act. placed worldwide is likely to have "far
of 100,000 cattle embryos a year, surpassed" a record 60 million in 2015,
growing to one million. iYogi President Vishal Dhar denied the mainly driven by the Syrian war and
accusations as "false and baseless" and other protracted conflicts, the United
"Chinese farmers are struggling to pro- said in a statement that his company Nations said.
duce enough beef cattle to meet mar- "has attained its industry leadership by
ket demand," he said. Boyalife being customer focused and value The estimated figure includes 20.2
reposted the report on its website. But driven, and our service is successful million refugees fleeing wars and per-
social media users expressed scepti- because it addresses a genuine need." secution, the most since 1992, the U.N.
cism over consumer appetite for High Commissioner for Refugees
cloned meat, pointing out that the 'Mother Teresa to be (UNHCR) said in a report.
plant will be close to the site of deadly made saint in September'
chemical explosions that killed at least Nearly 2.5 million asylum seekers have
165 people in August, and that China Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel requests pending, with Germany, Rus-
is plagued with food safety scandals. laureate who dedicated her life to sia and the United States receiving the
helping the poorest of the poor, will be highest numbers of the nearly one mil-
Sooam is run by Hwang Woo-suk, who made a saint of the Roman Catholic lion new claims lodged in the first half
claimed in 2004 to have derived stem- Church in September 2016, an Italian of the year, it said. "2015 is on track
cell lines from cloned human embryos, Catholic newspaper reported. to see worldwide forced displacement
a world first, and was lauded as a na- exceeding 60 million for the first time
tional hero in South Korea before it Avvenire, the official newspaper of the - 1 in every 122 humans is today some-
emerged that his research was fraudu- Italian Catholic bishops' conference, one who has been forced to flee their
lent and riddled with ethical lapses. said on its website that Pope Francis homes," it said. The total figure at the
had earlier approved a decree end of 2014 was 59.5 million.
Indian tech firm sued in US recognising a miracle attributed to her
for illegal business prac- intercession with God. An estimated 34 million people were
tices internally displaced as of mid-2015,
Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at about 2 million more than the same
A technology support company run by the age of 87, was beatified in 2003 by time in 2014. Yemen, where civil war
an Indian-American entrepreneur has the late Pope John Paul. Beatification, erupted in March, reported the high-
been sued by the US state of Washing- which requires one miracle, is the last est number of newly uprooted people
ton for alleged illegal business prac- step before sainthood. Avvenire said at 933,500.
tices to pressure consumers into buy- the second miracle attributed to the
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