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U.S. testing for the coronavirus is dropping even as infections remain high and the death toll rises by more than 1,000 a day, a worrisome trend. A couple things are going on.
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Wearing a face mask or choosing not to wear one goes beyond political affiliations - for some people it is a matter of their personal freedom being taken away. But we live in a country where we are governed by rules meant to keep us safe.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison cut short a Hawaii holiday on Friday following a barrage of criticism for vacationing while his country battles an unprecedented bushfire crisis.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Four more people have died in protests in Bolivia, raising the total number killed in the political unrest to 23, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Saturday.
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By AFP
Hanoi -
Vietnam police have arrested two people for trafficking in connection with the death of 39 migrants whose bodies were found in a truck in Britain, many of them feared to be Vietnamese.
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Oslo -
Norwegian veterinary authorities fear a mysterious and potentially fatal dog illness is spreading quickly around the country. Several hundred dogs are believed to have been infected and even died before their owners could get them to a vet.
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By AFP
Warsaw -
At least five people, including two children, were killed and more than 100 others were injured Thursday during a sudden thunderstorm in Poland and Slovakia's Tatra mountains, according to rescuers and officials.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
The deadly riot in a prison at Altamira in northern Brazil, which left more than 50 dead on Monday, is the latest unrest in Latin America's notoriously overcrowded jails.
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At least 17 military personnel have died of heat exposure during training exercises at U.S. military bases since 2008, according to the Pentagon. Fort Benning, Georgia reports 1,500 heat-related injuries in the last five years.
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Waterlogged parts of the central U.S. braced Wednesday for more rain, following days of severe storms that have battered Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma and caused at least four deaths.
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By AFP
Munich -
German police said Monday two more female bodies had been found during investigations into the deaths of three people discovered in a Bavarian hotel room and killed by crossbow bolts.
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By AFP
Berlin -
German police were investigating Sunday the deaths of three people found in a Bavarian hotel room with crossbow bolts in their bodies.
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Cyclone Fani, one of the strongest storms to strike India in the last 20 years, made landfall around 8 a.m. Friday morning, local time, pummeling the country's east coast with the equivalent force of a Category 3 hurricane.
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Thinking of going out on January 6 this year or any year? You might be better staying in. Statistics show you are more likely to die on January 6 than any other day of the year.
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Digital Journal lists some of the most notable deaths in the music industry in 2018. These include Aretha Franklin, Avicii, Joe Jackson and Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries, among others.
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The BMJ journal Christmas issue has not let readers down - producing another ground-breaking satirical study to wrap our minds around as we celebrate the holidays. BMJ takes on parachute safety, but the study is "well-grounded."
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By AFP
Geneva -
Road accidents kill someone every 24 seconds, with a total of 1.35 million traffic deaths around the world each year, the World Health Organization said Friday, demanding global action.
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By AFP
Paris -
More than 150 million vulnerable people worldwide were exposed to potentially life-threatening heatwaves last year, scientists said Thursday, warning that climate change posed an unprecedented global health risk.
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By AFP
Paris -
Millions of people in Europe, North America and Australia will die from superbug infections unless countries prioritise fighting the growing threat posed by bacteria immune to most known drugs, experts predicted Wednesday.
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DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced results of the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment, which outlines the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
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By AFP
Geneva -
Even as the number of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Europe has fallen sharply, the likelihood of dying during the dangerous voyage has risen significantly, the UN said Monday.
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By AFP
Fass -
In 2006, Khady Dieye's husband left the family home on Senegal's northern coast and boarded a dugout canoe in the hope of reaching Spain.
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By AFP
Jerusalem -
Israel's army announced Tuesday an investigation into soldiers who shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in separate incidents on the Gaza border, the first such probe in months of protests and clashes.
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By AFP
Beirut -
Syria's civil registries recorded 68,000 deaths in the war-torn country in 2017, pro-regime daily Al-Watan reported its head as saying Thursday.
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By AFP
Geneva -
The number of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Europe has fallen dramatically, but the likelihood of dying while attempting the dangerous voyage has grown exponentially, the UN said Friday.
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The northern hemisphere has been hit by extreme heat over the past two weeks, with record-breaking temperatures recorded in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East.
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Ii it's weekly update of the 2018 flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported 42 states had heavy flu-related patient traffic last week, up from 39 the week before. There have been 10 new child deaths.
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By AFP
Geneva -
The number of migrants who died near the US-Mexico border rose in 2017 even as the number of attempted border crossings fell dramatically, the United Nations' migration agency said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Bogota -
Colombia recorded its lowest murder rate in four decades this year in the wake of a peace deal with the leftwing FARC rebel group, the government said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Paris -
Sixty-five journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2017, according to annual figures published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday.Among them were 50 professional reporters, the lowest toll in 14 years.
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Workers use a methylene-based stripper to remove paint from a bathtub prior to refinishing. California Dept. of Public Health/OSHA
A sea lion basking in the sun in Malibu, California. Deserticola
Sea lions are dying in northern Chile and Peru because of a break in the food chain. ODN
In India, over 400,000 children will die before their fifth birthday. Press TV
Dead bodies wrapped after the Houla massacre in Syria FreedomHouse2
An Occupational Health Branch (OHB) poter on the paint stripper aisle in a California hardware store cites the risks associated with methylene chloride. California Department of Public Health
The enclosures for the exotic animals at Storybook Gardens in London, Ontario, were too small by today's standards but the seals, all born in London, seemed content.
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