Tag: mother
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Children aged 7 to 17 killed in Texas home by toxic chemical gas
Four children aged 7 to 17 died after a toxic gas leak from a pest control product at their home in Amarillo, Texas, fire officials said on Tuesday. Six others survived the incident, with Martha Balderas, the mother of the children, in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby Texas Panhandle city of Lubbock,…
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Children aged 7 to 17 killed in Texas home by toxic chemical gas
Four children aged 7 to 17 died after a toxic gas leak from a pest control product at their home in Amarillo, Texas, fire officials said on Tuesday. Six others survived the incident, with Martha Balderas, the mother of the children, in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby Texas Panhandle city of Lubbock,…
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Why you shouldn’t treat earwax without seeing a doctor
“Patients may try to blindly instrument their ears with cotton ear buds, bobby pins, or other tools,” said Dr. Seth Schwartz, chair of a committee that drafted new guidelines for diagnosing and treating earwax for the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. “Scratching of the ear canal skin can lead to pain…
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Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process
(Story repeats, adding reference to Sunday's canonization.) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta marked the culmination of a process – sometimes called “the saint-making machine” – that is long, complex, expensive, opaque and often contentious. The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during…
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Factbox: Key facts about Mother Teresa
Pope Francis will make Mother Teresa, the world’s most famous nun, a saint on Sunday. EARLY LIFE Mother Teresa was born to ethnic Albanian parents on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia, and named Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu. Two years later she was given the name Sister Teresa.
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Factbox: Key facts about Mother Teresa
Pope Francis will make Mother Teresa, the world’s most famous nun, a saint on Sunday. EARLY LIFE Mother Teresa was born to ethnic Albanian parents on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia, and named Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu. Two years later she was given the name Sister Teresa.
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After lifetime with the poor, Mother Teresa speeds to sainthood
By Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, just 19 years after her death. A Nobel peace prize winner, Mother Teresa was one of the most influential women in…
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Nearly half of Zika cases in Singapore are foreigners: media
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s ministry of health said of the 115 people who tested positive for Zika virus, 57 were foreigners who live and work in the city-state, Channel NewsAsia reported. It said most had displayed mild symptoms and had recovered. Most of the foreigners infected were from China, followed by India and Bangladesh, it…
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At the Russian Mosquito Festival, the more bites the better
BEREZNIKI, Russia (AP) — While fears of the Zika virus have kept some people away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, for residents of one Russian town the more mosquito bites the better.
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Undermining China: towns sink after mines close
By David Stanway HELIN, China (Reuters) – Deep in the coal heartlands of northern Shanxi province, people in Helin village are fighting a losing battle as the ground beneath them crumbles: patching up cracks, rebuilding walls and filling in sinkholes caused by decades of coal mining. Around 100 pits in Helin – buried in the…