Tag: the-official
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Top China coal province vows 20 percent cut in pollution by 2020: Xinhua
One of China’s top coal-producing provinces has vowed to slash its level of fine particle pollution by one-fifth by 2020, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing the provincial government. China has adopted various measures from policing barbeques to halting industrial production in efforts to ease the yearly winter haze that hit the…
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Palestinian president in hospital undergoing heart test: medical source
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was taken to hospital in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and a medical source said the 81-year-old leader was undergoing a heart test. A statement carried by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, and attributed to a presidential spokesman, said Abbas' “health condition is very normal”. Doctors planned to perform…
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UK nurse who got Ebola in West Africa hospitalized again
LONDON (AP) — A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been hospitalized for a fourth time.