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Haiti tensions mount amid scramble for last survivorsPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 Rescuers pulled three survivors from the rubble Sunday five days after the Haiti earthquake, but tensions were growing among a desperate population as police opened fire on looters, killing one man. After hours of painstaking digging through the ruins, a team from Florida unearthed a seven-year-old girl, a man aged 34 and a 50-year-old woman in the ruins of a store as dawn broke in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Later hundreds of rioters ransacked Hyppolite market in the heart of the devastated city as survivors besieged hospitals and make-shift field clinics, some carrying the injured on their backs or on carts. ... read more |
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Vienna (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Animal rights groups on Thursday condemned as "bizarre" and "macabre" an experiment in Austria in which 29 live pigs were to be buried under masses of snow to study human survival chances in avalanches. Several organisations threatened legal action against the Innsbruck Medical University, western Austria, and the emergency medicine centre in Bolzano, northern Italy, which organised the expe ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 13, 2010More than 100,000 people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. Schools collapsed, trapping the dead inside, and the cries of desperate victims escaped from flattened buildings in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince, which an AFP correspondent said was "mostly ." A massive aid operation swung into action, with rescue teams set to fly in from across the globe to try to pull victims from the debris, bringing desperately-needed medicines and food, as a humanitarian crisis unfolded. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010International medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) struggled Wednesday to cope with a "massive influx" of survivors of the powerful earthquake in Haiti, many with severe injuries, a spokesman said. Patients with "severe traumas, head wounds, crushed limbs" have been streaming into temporary structures set up by MSF in and around Port-au-Prince, but the medical charity is only able ... more |
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London (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 George W. Bush did not have to talk Tony Blair into sending troops to take part in the Iraq war, Blair's former spokesman said Tuesday, just as a Dutch inquiry concluded the war had no legal basis. Alastair Campbell, Blair's former spin doctor, told a British inquiry probing the controversial military campaign that Blair's position on Iraq was not shifted by Bush at a summit at his ranc ... more  
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jan 12, 2010New Mexico State University's fledgling, but rapidly growing aerospace engineering program, gained approval in December to begin offering master's and doctoral degrees. The graduate program will accept its first students in fall 2010. On Dec. 15, the New Mexico State Board of Finance awarded final approval for the program to move ahead, successfully closing a three-year approval process. ... more  
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2010Chinese researchers have become the world's fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed scientific literature on clock-reversing regenerative medicine even as a skeptical international research community condemns the practice of Chinese clinics administering unproven stem cell therapies to domestic and foreign patients. According to a study by the Canadian-based McLaughlin-Rotman ... more |
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