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Hungry Haitians wait for aid as toll nears 170,000Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 Haitians Wednesday faced a desperate lack of food and shelter more than two weeks after a deadly quake, as the president said that nearly 170,000 dead had been counted from the disaster. Pillagers ran rife in the ruins of the capital while there was no sign of the tent camps promised by authorities for hundreds of thousands of homeless people fleeing to the countryside from the squalor of Port-au-Prince. Near the destroyed presidential palace as crowds queued under a blazing sun, Immacula Cadet ... read more |
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Helicopters rescue tourists from flood-hit Inca ruinsCusco, Peru (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 Peruvian helicopters Wednesday airlifted some 600 tourists from the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu where hundreds remained stranded by heavy rains and mudslides that have claimed seven lives. "We have evacuated 600 tourists, but there are still almost 1,500 at Machu Picchu," Prime Minister Javier Velasquez told reporters. About a dozen helicopters were used in the unprecedented airlift but "the persistent rains on the Cusco region are delaying the operation," he added. The railway line that tran ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2010Twenty people have died in China's western Xinjiang region from the worst snowstorms in six decades, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Wednesday, amid warnings of more freezing weather to come. The blizzards and bitter cold that have pummelled the region near Central Asia since the beginning of the year have also left 1,304 people injured, the report said. China has endured an unusua ... more  
Montevideo, Uruguay (UPI) Jan 27, 2009 Uruguay's President-elect Jose Mujica is seeking a quick and amicable resolution of a continuing row with Argentina over a border pulp mill that threatens to keep the neighbors apart and become Latin America's most explosive environmental dispute. At issue is Uruguay's insistence on keeping the pulp mill running and Argentina's claim it is polluting the Uruguay River that defines the bo ... more  
Kigali (AFP) Jan 27, 2010Senior Chinese official Zhai Jun told Rwanda's President Paul Kagame in talks here that Beijing is ready to play a wider role in regional security, Radio Rwanda reported Wednesday. "As a permanent member of the UN security council, China is ready to play a constructive role in promoting sustainable stability and security in the Great Lakes region," said Zhai, an assistant foreign minister. ... more |
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Study Sees Little Dust Risk For Subway WorkersNew York NY (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 New York subway commuters may worry more about rats and rising fares than dust floating through the system, but for the workers who spend their whole shift below ground, air quality has long been a concern. Results from a new pilot study using miniaturized air samplers to look at steel dust exposure may help them breathe easier. Steel dust, produced as thousands of train wheels roll through the tunnels each day, is a major source of pollution in one of the world's most extensive commuter rail syst ... read more |
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