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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ From foreign press Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has expressed his gratitude to Russia for granting him temporary asylum. Snowden said that over the past 8 weeks he has seen the Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law, but in the end the law is winning. He added he thanks Russia for granting him asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations. WikiLeaks has helped Snowden file asylum documents and paid for his transportation costs. xxxxxx South Korea has urged Japan's senior officials to be more careful about what they say after Japan's Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso withdrew remarks he made about Nazis. Aso on Thursday retracted remarks that could be taken as citing the Nazis as an example for Japan to follow in revising its Constitution. Aso said he regrets that his remarks were not interpreted as he intended. South Korean foreign ministry spokesperson Cho Tai-yong said Thursday that his government requests that Japan's government and political leaders be more cautious about their words and actions. Earlier on Tuesday, Cho expressed displeasure over Aso's remarks, saying their meaning is clear to sensible people and neighboring countries that suffered damage from Japan's past invasions. xxxxxx The United States has criticized Russia for granting temporary asylum to former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told a news conference on Thursday that the US government is extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take the step. Carney stressed that the US does not view Snowden as a whistleblower. He said the former National Security Agency contractor is accused of leaking classified information from his home country, and should be returned to the US as soon as possible. xxxxxx Nearly one in nine adult New Yorkers have now been diagnosed with diabetes, an all-time high, according to data released Thursday by the city's Health Department. According to the Health Department's Community Health Survey, the proportion of adults with diabetes increased by 33 percent, from 8 percent to 10.7 percent between 2002 and 2012, and the proportion increased by 15 percent from 2010 to 2012 alone. The department estimates that in 2012 there were 667,000 New Yorkers with diabetes, an increase of more than 200,000 since 2002. "Even more people have diabetes and don't know it. This is a health crisis that is being driven by the city's epidemic of obesity, and like obesity, it is preventable," said Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley. Diabetes is a complex and chronic disease that is associated with obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol. People with diabetes are at increased risk of heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage, and amputations. Diabetes is twice as common among obese New Yorkers. In 2011, the number of diabetes-related deaths in New York City was 5,695, a record high. One person dies of diabetes-related causes every 90 minutes in New York city.