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Arsenic in water poisoned 77 million Bangladeshis: reportDhaka (AFP) June 20, 2010 Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by arsenic-tainted well water. By some estimates, between 35 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been chro ... read more |
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New Delhi (UPI) Jun 14, 2010 A paramilitary policeman was shot dead and a dozen Maoist rebels were killed when Indian security forces raided isolated jungle camps in the northeast. The dead policeman and six wounded were members of the Central Reserve Police Force, one of several government-organized militia engaged in fighting the increasingly active communist insurgents. The wounded soldiers were airlifted ... more  
New York (AFP) June 14, 2010US child activists made an impassioned plea Monday for the 90-year-old former boss of Union Carbide to help victims of the deadliest ever industrial disaster in Bhopal, India. The Indian government said last week the case against the chemical group's former CEO, Warren Anderson, was still open amid outrage over the lenient sentencing of some of the culprits. Dow Chemical purchased Union ... more 
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2010China plans to spend five billion dollars on reconstruction work in areas devastated by a deadly earthquake in April, the government said Sunday. A 6.9-magnitude quake struck Yushu county, a largely ethnically Tibetan area in Qinghai province in a remote part of the country's northwest on April 14, killing nearly 2,700 people and flattening thousands of homes. The 32 billion yuan will co ... more |
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Powerful quake rattles Indian Ocean islandsPort Blair, India (AFP) June 13, 2010 A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck under the Indian Ocean near India's Nicobar and Andaman Islands early Sunday, triggering panic on the archipelago and an initial regional tsunami alert. The quake shook people from their sleep and briefly disrupted power supplies, causing alarm on a string of islands which were hit by the massive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but there were no reports of casualties or damage. Tremors were also felt on mainland India, more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the ... read more |
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