Richard continues to weaken as it heads into Gulf
October 25, 2010 by Trend PK
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CANCUN: Tropical Storm Richard weakened to a tropical depression on Monday as it moved across northern Guatemala and headed to Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, where it was expected to dissipate by Wednesday.
The storm is expected to pass near the platforms that produce the bulk of Mexico’s 2.6 million barrels per day of crude oil on Tuesday, but state oil monopoly Pemex said it was only taking usual precautions and all operations were normal.
Most forecasting models suggest Richard will dissipate before nearing major oil and gas installations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and even if the storm did not fizzle out it would
likely be too weak to disrupt output.
Richard dumped moderate rains in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, and Mexican authorities said there were no injuries or major damage to report.
About 200 villagers returned home after
U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
October 1, 2010 by Trend PK
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WASHINGTON: The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.
In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic.
“The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
“Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research
U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
October 1, 2010 by Trend PK
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WASHINGTON: The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.
In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic.
“The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
“Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research
U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
October 1, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
WASHINGTON: The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.
In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic.
“The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
“Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research
U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
October 1, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
WASHINGTON: The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.
In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic.
“The sexually transmitted disease inoculation study conducted from 1946-1948 in Guatemala was clearly unethical,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
“Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research
Toll from Guatemala, Mexico landslides rises above 50
September 8, 2010 by Trend PK
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GUATEMALA CITY: The toll from the heaviest rains in living memory in Guatemala and Mexico rose above 50, as Guatemalan officials called off the search for 15 more corpses over safety fears.
Mexican authorities said three workers cleaning a drainage system in the center of the country had been buried by rocks and mud dislodged from a nearby hill, taking the toll there to at least seven after a week of downpours.
In Guatemala, where at least 45 people died over the weekend, rescuers had just resumed the grim task of digging for bodies in a ravine next to the Pan-American Highway when officials decided the sodden terrain was unsafe.
“The search has been called off because of the condition of the ground,” said David de Leon, a spokesman for the government’s emergency management office CONRED.
Many of Guatemala’s dead perished Saturday when dozens of
guatemala crater
June 1, 2010 by Trend PK
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This huge Guatemala crater according to Gizmodo “is a natural depression caused by the removal of soil by water. This process can happen slowly, but sometimes the land just cracks open. In this case, the sinkhole happened suddenly
The Guatemala sinkhole appeared after the zone was hit by tropical storm Agatha. Luckily according to official information there are no casualties as a result of the sudden appearance of the sinkhole, since it appeared in an intersection. I don’t even want to imagine what would have happened if a house had fallen in the never-ending hole.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said last Sunday during the Nation Address that there were nearly 112,000 have been evacuatedand 29,000 are living at temporary shelters. The Pacaya Volcano eruption distressed Guatemala greatly and was further extensified by the tropical storm Agatha and later on the Guatemala Sinkhole. Reports say that there were at least 92 deaths, 54 missing and 59 injured.
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This is a very devastating moment for the people who live there. We hope and pray that everyone will recover from this tragedy.
Storm Agatha kills 142 in Central America
June 1, 2010 by Trend PK
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WASHINGTON: Flooding and landslides from rain dumped by Tropical Storm Agatha has raised the death toll to 142 in Central America according to a report by the media.
The storm hit Saturday night, and has pummeled regions of Honduras and El Salvador with heavy rains.
Guatemala is the country worst hit. Guatemala was already under a state of emergency since last week after Pacaya Volcano began erupting, covering Guatemala City in ash forcing the closure of the main airport. The state of emergency has been extended.
Officials said 118 are confirmed dead, 53 are still missing and shelters in the country are overflowing with 110,000 homeless according to media.
In addition, the country’s infrastructure has been severely affected. Washed away roads are hampering rescue efforts and waterlines are broken.
lahore hospital
May 31, 2010 by Trend PK
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At least 12 people have been killed, and up to 40 wounded, in an attack on a hospital in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials and media say.
At least three armed men
attacked the hospital on Monday, taking several patients hostage, a senior doctor told the Reuters news agency.
“They barged into the hospital building and opened indiscriminate fire,” Javed Ikram, chief executive of Jinnah hospital, said.
“As a result, 12 people were killed. Most of them were police officials. Some hospital guards and attendants were also killed,” he said.
Police are still battling the attackers.
At least 30 victims and one of the alleged perpetrators of an attack on two mosques of a minority religious community in Lahore were being treated in the hospital when it was attacked.
Eighty-two people were killed in those attacks on Friday, which targeted Ahmadiyya mosques.
henin
May 31, 2010 by Trend PK
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Justine Henin’s streak of 24 consecutive match victories at Roland Garros came to an end on Monday when the former No. 1 was out-muscled 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 by Australia’s Sam Stosur in fourth-round action at the French Open.
Stosur will next face world No. 1 Serena Williams, who easily handled Israel’s Shahar Peer 6-2, 6-2.
“Obviously beating Justine is going to give me lot and lots of confidence,” Stosur said. “It’s a great achievement for me, but it’s not over yet. I’m just in the quarters and going to play the No. 1 player in the world next.”
No. 4 Jelena Jankovic and unseeded Yaroslava Shvedova will also meet in the quarters after winning in straight sets, Jankovic beating No. 23 seed Daniela Hantuchova 6-4, 6-2, and Shvedova topping Aussie wildcard Jarmila Groth 6-4, 6-3.
Henin’s backhand wing collapsed in the third set against Stosur, producing a un-Henin-like flurry of unforced errors.
“I just wanted so much that the adventure could keep going,” Henin said. “My nerves were simply not strong enough today. I felt very nervous, very upset, which is normally not the way I am. Maybe today I was feeling some nervous fatigue. Maybe that nervous fatigue prevented me from seeing things in a calmer way.”
Williams says she will need to continue playing her game against the Aussie in a match where both opponents will try and out-muscle the other.
“I seem to always be able to turn it up during this particular stage,” Williams said. “Hopefully I turn it up again…You can never underestimate anyone, and Sam is actually a wonderful claycourt player. She’s someone you can’t overlook.”
On court Tuesday at Roland Garros are (17) Francesca Schiavone vs. (3) Caroline Wozniacki, and an all-Russian encounter in (5) Elena Dementieva vs. (19) Nadia Petrova.
