 Nicki Henderson has had plenty of reasons to be angry since Hurricane Katrina destroyed her Biloxi home, but it was a simple news item about dislocated dolphins that really made her blood boil. Henderson lost her temper when she logged on to her computer and spotted this headline: "New Orleans Dolphins Find New Home." She knew the dolphins actually came from a hurricane-ravaged marine park in Gulfport, not New Orleans. The headline writer's error reinforced her belief shared by many on Mississippi's Gulf Coast that New Orleans has gotten a disproportionate share of the news coverage and the nation's attention in the aftermath of the storm, now more than four months gone....
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 China Denies Police Violence in Protests. Would you believe they were all prefect Gentlemen? |
Police brandishing electric batons clashed with protesting villagers in southern China over the weekend, and several people were injured, villagers and Hong Kong media reported. State media blamed villagers for inciting the violence in Guangdong province. There were unconfirmed reports that a teenage girl died in the clash and that the village of Panlong was sealed off.Telephone calls late Monday to the Sanjiao township and Zhongshan city, which both oversee Panlong, were not answered. The lack of information is typical in a country where the communist central government tightly controls information.However, in a rare and swift acknowledgment of unrest in the countryside, the official Xinhua News Agency late Sunday cited a local official as saying police had not used force to disperse villagers. Would a Government lie to the people? ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181824,00.html
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| Bird Flu Kills Fourth Victim in Turkey; Israel Case Is Negative |
Avian influenza killed a 12-year-old girl in Turkey, the government said today. Israel said tests on what would have been its first human case of bird flu were negative. The girl died yesterday and her brother was in a critical condition, Turkey's Health Ministry said. There have been 20 confirmed human cases of bird flu in Turkey, four of which resulted in death, a spokesman for the Ankara-based Ministry said in a telephone interview today. The United Nations last week said the flu may become endemic in birds in Turkey and pose a risk to neighboring countries. The spread of the disease increases the risk that the virus will mutate into a form that people can pass to one another, causing a deadly pandemic. A sick man who lives in a village east of Jerusalem was tested for bird flu after being admitted to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital last night. ...
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| World Leaders Agree No Nukes For Iran. How about talking about no Nukes for Israel? Or is that a forbidden subject? |
Powerful members of the U.N. Security Council agreed Monday that Iran must fully suspend its nuclear program, Britain's Foreign Office said following a meeting aimed at forging a common response to Tehran's decision to resume uranium enrichment activities. Diplomats also announced plans to call for an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency board of directors on Feb. 2-3 to discuss what action to take against Tehran for removing some U.N. seals from its main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz last week. The Foreign Office said all five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China, and Germany had shown "serious concern over Iranian moves to restart uranium enrichment activities." ...
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| UN urges bird flu vigilance in Middle East |
A United Nations agency warned today that bird flu may already have spread to Turkey's neighbouring countries and urged improved poultry surveillance across the Middle East.Although the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) admitted it had no confirmation that the disease had spread outside Turkey, it told Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria to step up early warning procedures.Meanwhile, the Greek health minister, Nikitas Kaklamanis, warned its citizens not to visit Turkey, while officials in Indonesia confirmed that a 13-year-old girl had died from the disease, the 13th victim in the country. Samuel Jutzi, director of the FAO's animal production and health division, said there was no reason to believe that the virus "has not already passed the borders of eastern Turkey"....
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| Putin: Iran could conduct enrichment in Russia U.S., EU hope to gain support for tough stance on Tehran nuclear research |
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Iran has not excluded the possibility of conducting its uranium enrichment in Russia -- a proposal that could be a way out of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program. Putin, speaking after a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel, said "one of the main problems is the enrichment of uranium. "We proposed to our Iranian partners to set up a joint enrichment venture on Russian territory. We have heard various opinions from our Iranian partners on that issue. One of them has come from the Foreign Ministry -- our partners told us they did not exclude the implementation of our proposal." ...
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