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Rescue workers reach Bangladesh landslide victimsCox's Bazaar, Bangladesh (AFP) June 16, 2010 Bangladeshi rescue workers battled blocked roads and floods Wednesday to distribute emergency aid to remote communities hit by landslides that have killed 55 people. Dry food rations and water purification tablets were given to thousands of people left homeless in the country's southeastern tip, which borders Myanmar, after the worst rains in decades struck Tuesday, officials said. "The death toll in my district is now 50 and at least 34 people are injured, some critically," Cox's Bazaar distric ... read more |
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Durham NC (SPX) Jun 10, 2010A new study pinpoints the genetic changes that enable Tibetans to thrive at altitudes where others get sick. In the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team has identified a gene that allows Tibetans to live and work more than two miles above sea level without getting altitude sickness. A previous study published May 13 in Science repor ... more  
Umm Qasr, Iraq (AFP) June 9, 2010At Iraq's southernmost tip, windswept sands and oppressive heat greeted a once-familiar visitor - a French naval vessel, making port in the country for the first time in 32 years. The FS Commandant Ducuing, which typically covers the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and along the shores of the Arabian Peninsula, on Tuesday docked at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr for a two-day goodwill visit as part o ... more  
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Jun 10, 2010Russia will transfer its Nerpa nuclear-powered attack submarine for a 10 year-lease to India in the autumn, the head of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation has said. "The training of the crew has been concluded, most of the tests have been carried out - everything is almost at the finish line," Mikhail Dmitriyev told journalists in New Delhi after a meeting of th ... more |
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Outrage in India over Bhopal disaster verdictsNew Delhi (AFP) June 8, 2010 Indian politicians, campaigners and newspapers vented outrage Tuesday at two-year prison terms handed to those found guilty over the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster that left thousands dead. Anger focused on the 25-year delay in the convictions, the perceived leniency of the sentences and the feeling that the "big fish" - the chief executive of the US parent group Union Carbide - had got away. Seven Indian managers from the pesticide factory that caused the world's worst industrial accident were ... read more |
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