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powerful earthquake has hit Russia’s Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow.Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk’s seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on Friday the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale.Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a...
Source : India TV | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
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A number of vehicles and people fell into a river when a highway bridge collapsed in Washington state, officials said. But no death was reported.The four-lane bridge links Seattle with the rest of the US Pacific Northwest and Canada, Xinhua reported Friday. The incident took place Thursday.Three people were rescued and shifted to hospitals. It was not clear what caused the disaster.Whether...
Source : India TV | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
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Ireland fell one run short of a first ever win against a Test-playing nation in the Republic when theyPakistan had appeared in full control when Mohammad Hafeez's fifth ODI century helped them to 266-5 - a total bumped up to 275 on the Duckworth-Lewis method after three overs were lost to rain.But a Paul Stirling century put Ireland in contention and the tie was secured when Kevin O'Brien swept th...
Source : BBC | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
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police crackdown has been launched to tackle possible drug supply on ferries from Aberdeen to the Northern Isles.Police Scotland said Friday afternoon's operation at Aberdeen Harbour - which involved sniffer dogs - was a result of intelligence.Ch Insp George MacDonald said officers on the mainland could help protect island communities from criminals involved in the drugs trade.Ch Insp MacDonald ad...
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Immediate action is needed by the NHS in Wales to increase vaccinations of young children, reduce AE waiting times and to get to grips with bed blocking, health chiefs say.The NHS Delivery Framework priorities for 2013/14 also include spot-checks relating to patients' dignity of care.NHS Wales chief executive David Sissling said the focus was "quality, patient experience and outcome".This...
Source : BBC | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
Gibraltar has been accepted as a full member of Uefa, European football's governing body.The application was approved on a majority vote at the organisation's congress in London, with no votes against and no abstentions.The British Overseas Territory off the south coast of Spain has a population of just under 30,000.Gibraltar will be allowed to enter qualifying for the 2016 European Championship.S...
Source : BBC | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
settings.Asking a country to change its flag is like asking a country to change its name - so bonded is a nation to its flag, it's rarely changed except in circumstances of upheaval, says the editor of the literary journal, Zora Sanders. Which is why, Sanders suggests, finding a replacement for the present flag has been such a protracted ordeal.'s designer Jenny Grigg commissioned nine artists and...
Source : Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
Model T, the first ute and the GT-HO are among the Fords of which the company can be most proud.If Hubert French were still alive, it would hard to know what he'd make of the news of Ford pulling the plug on its manufacturing in Australia.French - who was appointed general manager of Ford in Australia in 1925 - established a car-making dynasty that will have lasted more than 90 years when producti...
Source : Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
settings.Supercentenarian: Jiroemon Kimura, right, is the last man alive to have been born in the 19th century.With the death in Barbados on Thursday of James Emmanuel ''Doc'' Sisnett, at the age of 113 years and 90 days, Jiroemon Kimura, of Japan, has become the last man alive to have been born in the 19th century.Literally the last man. There are, according to the Gerontolgy Research Group at UC...
Source : Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
settings.Former prime minister Bob Hawke has paid tribute to his late ex-wife Hazel for being a ''constant support'' through difficult times. Mr Hawke said he remembered Hazel ''with deep affection and gratitude''.''She was more than a wife and mother, being father as well during my frequent absences as I pursued an industrial then political career,'' he said in a statement issued on Friday.''I th...
Source : Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
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suffers from the chronic abuse of indigenous Australians it chooses to keep in the care of its prisons.John Pat and Kwementyaye Briscoe lived and died 2000 kilometres and three decades apart, but the two young Aboriginal men share a terrible bond: the fate of each has become a shameful landmark in the continuing chronic abuse of indigenous Australians in the nation's police cells and prisons.Both ...
Source : Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
Please enable JavaScript to use My News, My Clippings, My Comments and user settings.In the mid-1960s, when Australia's trade minister Sir John McEwen was urging Holden and Ford to seek export markets in Asia, the leader of one of Asia's poorest countries decided his country needed a car industry. Defying the advice of economists, he ordered the country's biggest company to start making cars - wit...
Source : Sydney Morning Herald | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : International
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