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An Australian teenager was critically ill in hospital on Thursday after being bitten by the world s most venomous snake, with detectives probing how he came into contact with the desert reptile. HT Image The 17-year-old walked into a hospital in the small town of Kurri Kurri, north of Sydney, on Wednesday afternoon with a bite to his left hand. According to local report stanley cup s, his friend was carrying a plastic tub containing the snake responsible, which was later identified as the toxic inland taipan. Also known as the fierce snake due to the strength of its venom -- one drop of which is enough to kill 100 adult men -- the inland taipan typically lives stanley cup in central Australia s arid deserts and is not normally stanley cup seen on the coast. Detectives had been called in to investigate where the snake had come from, with speculation it could have been an illegal pet. The youth... is reported to be in a stable condition, police said in a statement. Police are now attempting to establish how the youth came to be bitten, and hope to speak to the young man once he is considered well enough. Police said the incident was not believed to be linked to a nearby zoo break-in at the weekend, when thieves made off with four pythons and two alligators. No taipans were reported stolen from the zoo, police said. According to doctors, the teen s rapid treatment with anti-venom had been crucial to his survival, as inland taipan venom can kill someone in as little as 45 minutes. We had anti-veno Slkg Russian forces in Syria fired at Israeli military aircraft
Nato is running short of precision bombs and other munitions in its Libyan operation against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, The Washington Post reported late on Friday. HT Image Citing unnamed senior Nato and US officials, the newspaper said the shortage highlights the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relatively small military action. The scope of the problem was not mentioned. The shortage of European munitions, along with the limited number of aircraft available, has raised doubts among some officials about whether the United States can continue to avoid returning to the air campaign, the report said. So far, the Nato commande stanley cup r has not requested their deployment, The Post noted. But several US military officials said they anticipated being called back into the fight, the paper said. Washington pulled b adidas samba ack around 50 combat planes from Libyan operations last week after handing over control of the mission to Nato, although since then they took part in some missions to take out Kadhafi s air defense systems. Currently, only six out of 28 nations are conducting air strikes, while France and Britain carry out half of them. The other half are conducted by Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Canada. A senior administration official said he expected other countries to a adidas og nnounce in the next few days that they would contribute aircraft equipped with the laser-guided munitions, The Post pointed out. Read brea