Archive for August, 2008
AFP - Iraqi and US troops were on alert on Sunday in Anbar, once the fiercest battleground in the war-torn country, as the American military prepared to transfer security control to local forces.
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Reuters - More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed
in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings
and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe
Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime.
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AP - With a historic evacuation of 1.9 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city’s empty streets Sunday night
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AFP - The United States girded for disaster Sunday as Hurricane Gustav plowed toward Louisiana, with over a million people fleeing the Gulf Coast and oil production all but shut off in the Gulf of Mexico.
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AFP - Two US hospitals were put on emergency lockdown Saturday after several patients arrived at St. Louis, Missouri emergency rooms after being exposed to an unknown substance, hospital officials said.
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AFP - Scientists Sunday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet — a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world’s coastline drowned by rising seas.
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Reuters - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered
the city’s more than 239,000 residents to evacuate on Sunday in
the face of powerful Hurricane Gustav, which he called “the
mother of all storms.”
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AP - A top conservative cleric close to Iran’s supreme leader criticized the economic policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying they threaten to keep Iran from its goal of becoming a regional superpower by 2025.
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HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — Daily supplements of omega-3
polyunsaturated fatty acids — the kind found in fish oil — reduced
deaths and hospitalizations of people with heart failure, an Italian study
found.
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AP - Zoo Atlanta’s giant panda family just got larger.
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