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Hurricane Celia gathers strength far off Mexican coastMiami (AFP) June 21, 2010 Hurricane Celia, the first of the 2010 Pacific season, gained strength Monday off the southeastern Mexican coast, the US-based National Hurricane Center said. Packing winds of 90 miles (150 kilometers) per hour) and higher gusts, Celia was centered some 515 miles (830 km) off Manzanillo, Mexico at 2100 GMT. However, Celia was located so far off land, that "there are no coastal watches or warnings in effect," the NHC said in a hurricane advisory. The Category One storm was expected to continu ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) June 21, 2010India is to push the US to extradite the American former boss of the company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as part of a new government response to the accident, a minister said Monday. Under fire for the slow pace of justice and inadequate clean-up of the site of the disaster, the world's worst industrial accident, the government created a panel of senior ministers to draw up reco ... more  
London (AFP) June 21, 2010Aid agencies on Monday appealed for 14 million pounds (21 million dollars, 17 million euros) to halt an escalating food crisis in West Africa, warning the situation was "an unfolding disaster." Oxfam and Save the Children are asking for donations that total seven million pounds each as more than 10 million people across the region face severe hunger and malnutrition because of drought and cr ... more  
Bogota, Colombia (UPI) Jun 21, 2010 Colombia's newly elected President Juan Manuel Santos faced immediate security challenges as part of his mixed inheritance from outgoing President Alvaro Uribe. The hugely popular Uribe, who hands over power to Santos Aug. 7, has been battling armed drug overlords involved in the cocaine trail to the United States. Controversial military pacts with U.S. forces couldn't dislodge the guer ... more |
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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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