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Road mishaps kill 40 in 21 days

Road mishaps kill 40 in 21 days
BACK-TO-BACK road accidents that killed 40 persons in Cebu in the last three weeks prompted a call for an emergency meeting today of the Regional Council for Road Safety. read more

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Protester Run Over by Government Vehicle, Residents Enraged

Protester Run Over by Government Vehicle, Residents Enraged
Chinese villagers, unwilling to have their property forcibly demolished, have seized 22 demolition vehicles as bargaining chips.

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Chimp attack victim reveals face on Oprah

Chimp attack victim reveals face on Oprah
The Connecticut woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee earlier this year is making her first public appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Oprah Winfrey Show – Chimpanzee – United States – Connecticut – Animal

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Nine O’Clock

Nine O’Clock
Most people were reported killed after a week of torrential downpour caused rivers to burst their banks and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes. Specialists expect for floods to occur until Friday the earliest.

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Senate panels requires strong oil spill response plans, removes limits on liability

Senate panels requires strong oil spill response plans, removes limits on liability
WASHINGTON – Congress began advancing legislation Wednesday that imposes new safeguards on offshore oil drilling in hopes of preventing a repeat of the devastating spill that has brought environmental and economic havoc to the Gulf coast.

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Jerusalem police on high alert

Jerusalem police on high alert
JERUSALEM. Police in Jerusalem were on high alert yesterday as tens of thousands of angry ultra-Orthodox Jews prepared to march on the Holy City in protest over a ruling by Israel’s highest court.

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Jerry Rawlings And His Men

Jerry Rawlings And His Men
One afternoon in April 1978, as students of my secondary school were returning to school after a friendly soccer match with St. Augustine’s College, we were confronted with a funeral procession right in front of the main entrance to my school at the intersection of Kotokuraba and Aboom Wells streets in Cape Coast.

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India court convicts eight over Bhopal gas leak

India court convicts eight over Bhopal gas leak
BHOPAL, India (AFP) – An Indian court on Monday sentenced the former top managers of the company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas leak to two years in prison in the first convictions over the catastrophe.

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Guilty verdicts 25 years after India’s Bhopal gas disaster

Guilty verdicts 25 years after India’s Bhopal gas disaster
By Sonma Luxmi BHOPAL: An Indian court today found eight people guilty over the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, including the then-head of the company blamed for poisoning tens of thousands of people. A lethal plume of gas escaped from a storage tank at the US-run Union Carbide pesticide factory in the early hours of Dec 3, 1984, killing thousands instantly in the world’s worst industrial …

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BP oil spill: is Obama’s fury justified?

BP oil spill: is Obama’s fury justified?
As Obama fumes at BP, Simon Boxall of the National Oceanography Centre tells Channel 4 News that bashing BP is not the answer – to a spill that is not the worst ever, in fact, it ranks 50th.

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