Tag: from-the-air
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Officials: Zika found in South Beach; spraying not practical
MIAMI (AP) — South Beach has been identified as a second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, and containing it there will be difficult because high-rise buildings and strong winds make it impractical to spray the neighborhood from the air, officials said Friday.
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Justice elusive for slain aid workers on front lines of crises
By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was a massacre that shocked the world’s humanitarian community. Seventeen aid workers were killed outside their office in Sri Lanka’s northeast – executed at point-blank range with automatic weapons in one of the worst attacks on humanitarians. A decade on, justice remains elusive for families…