Tag: village
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Dutch destroy 190,000 ducks in first bird flu cull
Some 190,000 ducks were destroyed on Saturday at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country’s first cull of an epidemic sweeping northern Europe. Outbreaks of avian flu, primarily the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain, have been reported in Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden over the past week. Dutch authorities did not…
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Iraqi civilians stranded north of Mosul grow desperate
By Stephen Kalin BAYBUKH, Iraq (Reuters) – Hundreds of civilians who fled fighting near Islamic State-controlled Mosul last week are stranded without basic humanitarian assistance, underlining the challenges of the largest military operation in Iraq in over a decade. Families have been living for up to six days in abandoned homes and a school building…
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Iraqi civilians stranded north of Mosul grow desperate
By Stephen Kalin BAYBUKH, Iraq (Reuters) – Hundreds of civilians who fled fighting near Islamic State-controlled Mosul last week are stranded without basic humanitarian assistance, underlining the challenges of the largest military operation in Iraq in over a decade. Families have been living for up to six days in abandoned homes and a school building…
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Dynavax says FDA rejects its hepatitis B vaccine
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected Dynavax Technologies Corp's marketing application for its hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav-B, for the second time in three years, sending the company's shares tumbling 71 percent in premarket trade. The drug developer said on Monday it received a “complete response letter” from the FDA, seeking information about…
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After Boko Haram, Nigerians return home to perilous northeast – U.N
By Matthew Ponsford LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of Nigerians who fled Boko Haram in northeast Borno State have returned to devastated towns and villages in recent days after the army seized back the militant group's last remaining strongholds, said the United Nations. Families will return to find their homes and farmland destroyed, basic…
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Australians stay away from Village due to blocked toilets, exposed wiring
The Australian team will not move into the Olympic Village for next month's Rio de Janeiro Games because of problems including “blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring”, the head of the country's delegation Kitty Chiller said on Sunday. The first Australian athletes to arrive in Rio were due to move into the Village on…
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Olympics-Australians stay away from Village due to blocked toilets, exposed wiring
(Adds details, quotes, background) RIO DE JANEIRO, July 24 (Reuters) – The Australian team will not move into the Olympic Village for next month’s Rio de Janeiro Games because of problems including “blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring”, the head of the country’s delegation Kitty Chiller said on Sunday. The first Australian athletes to…
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India urges security forces to exercise restraint in Kashmir
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – India has asked its security forces to exercise restraint in responding to protests in disputed Kashmir and replace pellet guns with non-lethal weapons, its home affairs minister said on Sunday. Forty six people have been killed and more 5,000 wounded, including Indian security forces, since protests erupted after…
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Full of hot air: Helium producers eye Canada as U.S. reserve shrinks
By Rod Nickel MANKOTA, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – An approaching squeeze in U.S. helium supplies has producers of the gas, used in everything from party balloons to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, looking north to Canada's wheat fields. Almost three quarters of U.S. helium demand is filled by an underground reserve in Amarillo, Texas. In April,…
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Full of hot air: Helium producers eye Canada as U.S. reserve shrinks
By Rod Nickel MANKOTA, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – An approaching squeeze in U.S. helium supplies has producers of the gas, used in everything from party balloons to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, looking north to Canada's wheat fields. Almost three quarters of U.S. helium demand is filled by an underground reserve in Amarillo, Texas. In April,…