Tag: said-on-monday
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Kidnapped Mexican striker Pulido escaped by punching captor: official
By Natalie Ann Schachar MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The authorities billed it as a rescue, but Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido escaped his kidnappers by punching the one guarding him, snatching a cellphone and calling for help, a top official in the country's violent northeast said on Monday. State security forces located Pulido within minutes…
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Kidnapped Mexican striker Pulido escaped by punching captor: official
By Natalie Ann Schachar MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The authorities billed it as a rescue, but Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido escaped his kidnappers by punching the one guarding him, snatching a cellphone and calling for help, a top official in the country's violent northeast said on Monday. State security forces located Pulido within minutes…
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Chile’s red tide outbreak recedes, giving fishermen a break
By Anthony Esposito SANTIAGO (Reuters) – An unusually widespread and deadly “red tide” outbreak in southern Chile’s fishing-rich waters is abating, a top scientist said on Monday, giving some reprieve to communities that depend on the Pacific Ocean for their livelihoods. The red tide – an algal bloom that turns the sea water red and…
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Health officials now confirm 11 cases of measles in Arizona
ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — An outbreak of measles that began with an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants in central Arizona has now grown to 11 confirmed cases, officials said Monday.
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Delaying Rio Games would give ‘false security’ on Zika: WHO panel head
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Postponing the Rio Olympics due to fears that the event could speed the spread of the Zika virus would give a “false” sense of security because travelers are constantly going in and out of Brazil, the head of the World Health Organization's emergency committee said. More than 100 medical…
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Tenet sees competitors picking up UnitedHealth exchange business
Tenet Healthcare Corp , the third-largest U.S. for-profit hospital operator, expects other insurers to step in and absorb UnitedHealth Group Inc's share of the exchange market when the largest U.S. health insurance provider exits that business, company executives said on Monday. UnitedHealth, one of the biggest sellers of plans on the exchanges, last month said…
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Sharapova positive test sparks renewed vigilance in NZ
Athletes in New Zealand have become more vigilant about the medication and supplements they take in the wake of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova’s positive test, Drug Free Sports New Zealand (DFSNZ) said on Monday. The five-times grand slam champion announced in March she had tested positive for the banned substance meldonium at the Australian…
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Washington’s MedStar Health shuts down computers after virus
MedStar Health, one of the biggest medical providers in the Washington, D.C., area, said on Monday it shut down some computer systems after discovering a computer virus. “Networks temporarily shut down to prevent virus spread,” MedStar, the operator of 10 hospitals in Washington and Maryland, said on Twitter. All facilities remain open.” The Federal Bureau…
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Drought may affect 49 million in southern Africa: WFP
As many as 49 million people in southern Africa could be affected by a drought that has been worsened by the most severe and longest El Nino weather pattern in 35 years, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. The WFP, which has already said 14 million people face hunger in the…
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Missiles hit school and hospital in Syrian border town, 14 dead: residents
At least 14 civilians were killed when missiles hit a children's hospital, a school and other locations in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz near the Turkish border on Monday, a medic and two residents said. Tens of thousands of people have fled to the town, the last rebel stronghold before the border with Turkey,…