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United Nations warns of 'massacre' in besieged Iraq Shiite town
Full Article The Times of India
23 Aug 2014

BAGHDAD: The United Nations warned today that Shiite Turkmen residents of an Iraqi town besieged by jihadists since June risk "massacre" if urgent action is not taken to rescue them. The town of Amerli, in Salaheddin province north of Baghdad, has been entirely cut off from the rest of government-held territory since fighters spearheaded by the...

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Amerli has been besieged by Islamic State since June 2014.
photo: AP

updated 17 Jun 2014; published 17 Jun 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - US Considers Air Strikes on Iraq, Holds Talks With Iran
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iran offers help if US acts against Iraq militants
updated 15 Jul 2014; published 15 Jul 2014
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UN says 77% of Gaza casualties are civilians
updated 23 Aug 2013; published 23 Aug 2013
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'Attacks kill 26, injure dozens in Iraq'
updated 27 Jun 2014; published 27 Jun 2014
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Syrian Jets Bomb Eastern Rebel Towns Near Iraq, At Least 16 Dead : BREAKING NEWS
updated 08 Aug 2014; published 08 Aug 2014
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President Barack Obama authorizes renewed airstrikes in Iraq
Do Harm, Look the Other Way: The New Hippocratic Oath?
Full Article WorldNews.com
23 Aug 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Hippocrates wrote in the late 5th-century BCE that, "Medicine, the most noble of all arts, falls far behind others thanks to the ignorance of those who practice it," he never envisioned that someday professional medical practitioners would use it as a weapon of war. Neither did he foresee that...

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A young Palestinian receives treatment in a UNRWA clinic in Jebel Al Hussein refugee camp in Amman
photo: IRIN / Photo: Dana Hazeen

updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Doctors, medical staff on drugs put patients at risk
updated 04 May 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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Budget Cuts, Bureaucratic Bungles Creating Medical Emergency for Dual-Eligible Patients, Doctors
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Doctors, medical staff on drugs put patients at risk
updated 03 Nov 2010; published 03 Nov 2010
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laughter yoga with medical doctors and patients
updated 09 Aug 2013; published 05 Mar 2012
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Medical Diagnosis: How doctors analyze symptoms to make diagnosis
updated 11 Aug 2014; published 11 Aug 2014
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Medical corruption exposed: Doctors capitalise on patients' suffering
Galileo satellites go into wrong, lower orbit - Esa
Full Article BBC News
23 Aug 2014

The satellites Doresa and Milena went up on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on Friday Continue reading the main story Related Stories Europe expands Galileo network EU Sentinel returns first images Map illustrates 'Russian GPS' fault The European Space Agency (Esa) says the latest two satellites for Europe's version of the...

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French Guiana Soyuz / Galileo navigation satellites
photo: AP / Henri Griffit

updated 23 Aug 2014; published 23 Aug 2014
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Galileo satellites go into wrong, lower orbit Esa
updated 16 Jun 2013; published 23 Jul 2012
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Soyuz-2 Rocket
updated 10 Jul 2014; published 10 Jul 2014
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Arianespace launches O3b satellites on Soyuz mission
updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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The Rocket Factory
updated 30 Apr 2014; published 30 Apr 2014
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Arianespace Flight VV03 - KasEOSat-1
updated 21 Oct 2011; published 21 Oct 2011
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EU launches Galileo satellite navigation
WHO warns of "shadow zones" and unreported Ebola cases
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
23 Aug 2014

By Stephanie Nebehay and Clair MacDougall GENEVA/MONROVIA (Reuters) - Families hiding infected loved ones and the existence of "shadow zones" where medics cannot go mean the West African Ebola epidemic is even bigger than thought, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Some 1,427 people have died among 2,615 known cases of the...

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In this Monday Aug. 4, 2014 file photo, Nigerian port health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and, in an alarming develop
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

updated 23 Aug 2014; published 23 Aug 2014
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WHO warns of 'shadow zones', hidden cases in Ebola outbreak
updated 23 Aug 2014; published 23 Aug 2014
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WHO warns of 'shadow zones' and unreported Ebola cases | BREAKING NEWS
updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
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Ebola Virus infection
updated 06 Aug 2014; published 06 Aug 2014
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Ebola Cases Being Hidden from Public
updated 04 Aug 2014; published 04 Aug 2014
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Ebola Cases Spreading Like Fire In West Africa
updated 09 Aug 2014; published 09 Aug 2014
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4 New Ebola Cases In Nigeria Are ALL Linked to 'Patrick Sawyer'
Goldman in deal worth $1.2B over US bond claims
Full Article Denver Post
23 Aug 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) — Goldman Sachs has agreed to a settlement worth $1.2 billion to resolve claims that it misled U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about risky mortgage securities it sold them before the housing market collapsed in 2007. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, announced the settlement...

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Goldman Sachs chairman and chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein
photo: AP / Susan Walsh

updated 13 May 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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Bank of America Has $100B Riding On This 3 Person Office
updated 18 Feb 2014; published 18 Feb 2014
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Former head of AIG blames Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and US regulators for insurance giant's fall.
updated 22 Feb 2014; published 22 Feb 2014
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Best Finance - JPMorgan Settlement Announced by U.S. Justice Dept.
updated 12 Dec 2010; published 22 Oct 2010
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What's Next for Goldman Sachs? (NYSE:GS)
updated 30 Dec 2012; published 30 Dec 2012
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A.G. Schneiderman Sues JPMorgan For Bear Stearns' Mortgage-Backed Securities Fraud
updated 11 Jan 2012; published 11 Jan 2012
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UBS Aryeh Bourkoff states MySpace in 2006 worth up to $30 Billion

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ABC News
Share Watch more news videos | Latest from the US Copy During the worst-ever Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a viral fundraiser has encouraged people to donate millions to combat...
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The Daily Beast
America’s fastest growing financial and political powerbase is totally dominated by white men, this is not progress. In a culture that maintains its belief in the individualism of...
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The Charlotte Observer
Americans are probably not unique in treating philanthropy as a sort of game, with the goal of making it go down painlessly. The ice bucket challenge sweeping the nation –...

Ebola in West Africa
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The announcement comes following the UN high level delegation’s meetings with government officials, NGOs and other partners to review and fill the gaps in the ongoing Ebola response. “Ebola in Liberia must be addressed to ensure a stable economy,...
photo: AP / Jonathan Paye-Layleh
Cabazon Dinosaurs is a roadside attraction at the Main Street exit in Cabazon. In Riverside County, I-10 goes through Calimesa before entering Beaumont and merging with the eastern end of State Route 60 (itself formerly the California segment of US 60).
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A high-school student in the US state of South Carolina has been arrested and suspended from school over a writing assignment in which he claimed to have killed his neighbour's pet dinosaur, it's...
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A French soldier waves to children as his jeep patrols between the airstrip and a makeshift camp housing an estimated 100,000 displaced people, at Mpoko Airport, in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014.
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Reuters BANGUI— At least 25 people have died in a collapse at a gold mine 60 km (40 miles) north of the Central African Republic town of Bambari, Ahmat Negat, spokesman for the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels, said on Friday. The mine at...
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
A Malaysian activist from the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) covers himself with a national flag as he walks off after a rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, July 9, 2011.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home Friday to a country still searching for those onboard another doomed jet and a government battling the...
photo: AP / Vincent Thian
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013.
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JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press Comments Geneva — The death toll from three years of Syria’s civil war has risen to more than 191,000 people, the United Nations reported Friday. The figure, covering the period from March 2011 to April 2014, is the...
photo: AP / Aleppo Revolution Against Assad Regime
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, March 15, 2013, to announce that the Obama administration will add 14 interceptors to a West Coast-based U.S.-based missile defense system reflecting concern about North Korea's focus on developing nuclear weapons and its advances in long-range missile technology.
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MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - The United States is warning that the Islamic State (IS) radical group presents a major threat to the stability and security of the Middle East region and long-term efforts from several countries will be required to...
photo: AP / Cliff Owen
 UN chief calls for international efforts to end Syrian bloodshed
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> • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday called for international efforts to end the Syrian crisis. • Ban also conveyed his deepest condolences to the families who lost their loved ones. • Syrian crisis, which began in March 2011, has killed...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe