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Over 200 families feared buried by landslides in Sri Lanka

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
The Disaster Management Center said that 114 homes have been destroyed and more than 137,000... Sri Lankan flood victims flock around a bus to receive food parcels on a inundated road in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 17, 2016 ... ....

Rwanda opens pioneering methane electricity plant

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
Rwanda formally opened a unique methane power plant Monday which it is hoped will one day provide 60 percent of the country's electricity, according to its operator. The generation station on Lake Kivu in Rwanda's west will also help reduce the risk of a potentially catastrophic natural disaster should the lake's vast quantities of methane and carbon dioxide be disturbed by an earthquake ... ....

Sorry! Weather agency apologises after fax triggers quake alert

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
It was a bad day at the office for one unfortunate employee of South Korea's weather service Wednesday, after a mistakenly sent fax triggered an earthquake alert. The message warning of a 6.5-magnitude quake was part of a five-day disaster response exercise and should never have been faxed ... ....

Sophie could learn from the Greatest Generation

Edit Toronto Sun 19 May 2016
It took our family days to come up with mother’s military registration with the Royal Canadian Air Force where she had been a wireless operator because, in the years that followed the end of the Second World War, she had never applied for a single veteran’s benefit ... She had the “gift” of being born to privilege as the only child of a Montreal stockbroker....

Iran wants U.S. to pay for 63 years of 'material damage'

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
The outgoing Iranian Parliament is demanding unspecified compensation ... During its Tuesday morning session, the Parliament cited examples such as the U.S involvement in the coup of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, America's support of Iraq in its war with Iran from 1980 to 1988, and the destruction of oil platforms in the late '80s....

Iran's IRGC says many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad's war against "terrorism", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported ... for his conflict with range of Sunni Muslim rebel and militant groups including Islamic State and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front....

WWII Vet Reunites with Man He Saved from Concentration Camp 71 Years Ago

Edit Topix 19 May 2016
A World War II veteran from Colorado was reunited with a Holocaust survivor whom he set free from a concentration camp seven decades ago -- and the emotional moment was captured on camera. Sid Shafner, 94, is back in the U.S. after a stirring eight-day trip to Israel and Poland last week ... ....

Mitchell: We can do a lot better than this

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 19 May 2016
The tragic and senseless killing of De’Kayla Dansberry is yet another horrible example of how we are failing our daughters ... But the tragedy was made far worst when police also charged that teen’s mother, Tamika Gayden, with first-degree murder and with contributing to the delinquency of a minor ... While I’m not accusing these institutions of negligence, I am suggesting they are behind the times in dealing with this problem....

Hey Conservatives, stop apologizing!

Edit Toronto Sun 19 May 2016
One of the great strengths of Liberals is that they couldn’t care less what Conservatives think about them. This as compared to one of the great weaknesses of Conservatives, who care far too much about what Liberals think of them ... Lawyers for war vets accuse the federal Liberals of betraying veterans in the same way the previous Conservative government did....

Afghan official: 20 dead as flash floods hits north

Edit Springfield News-Sun 18 May 2016
Around 22 people were wounded in the disaster, which happened as people slept ... Taliban insurgents, who have waged war against the Kabul government for 15 years, have extended their presence across previously peaceful areas of the north following the departure of most international combat troops in 2014....

At least 20 dead as flash floods hits north Afghanistan: Reports

Edit DNA India 18 May 2016
Around 22 people were wounded in the disaster, which happened as people slept ... Taliban insurgents, who have waged war against the Kabul government for 15 years, have extended their presence across previously peaceful areas of the north following the departure of most international combat troops in 2014....

Latur war room battles urban water woes

Edit The Times of India 18 May 2016
Some grievances also mention the supply of contaminated water," Sakeb Osmani, disaster management officer for Latur district, said on Tuesday. Claiming nearly 100% redressal of complaints till date, he said a team of over 110 officials has been working on the ground to address the complaints received by the war room ... Weekly review is being taken about the redressal of war room complaints....

OFS Bargaining 2016 (CWA - Communications Workers of America)

Edit Public Technologies 18 May 2016
The company has proposed concessions on Holidays requiring you to work the day before and after to be paid for the holiday, changes to bridging language and the elimination of the Alliance program. The company does not seem to understand the ......
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