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• Three US states declare emergency over Hurricane Ida

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 10 (IANS) Governors of Florida and Alabama followed Louisiana’s Indian American chief executive Bobby Jindal in declaring emergency as hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical storm but still dangerously churned toward the US Gulf Coast.Forecasters warned of heavy rainfall when Ida comes ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  5 days ago

• U.N. evacuates foreign staff from Afghanistan

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 541
  kabul (reuters) - the united nations said on thursday it would evacuate hundreds of its international staff from afghanistan for several weeks due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for western efforts to stabilize the country.spokesman aleem siddique said the united nations would relocate about 600 of its ...
  6 days ago

• H1N1 Vaccine for Foreign Service Personnel

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 481
  Image by ghinson via Flickr At the DPB yesterday, a reporter inquired about provisions for Foreign Service personnel in the H1N1 outbreak: QUESTION: In regard to the H1N1 outbreak, what provisions are being made by the State Department on behalf of Foreign Service Officers serving at posts overseas? Are ...
  6 days ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  1 week ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Puerto Rico warns of health risk from fuel fire

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 443
  (AP Photo/Primera Hora, Vanessa Serra Diaz) Puerto Rico warns of health risk from fuel fire By DANICA COTO, AP posted: 23 MINUTES AGO, SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -Thousands of people living on the outskirts of a burning fuel-storage site in Puerto Rico were urged to relocate Saturday to avoid toxic smoke still ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  2 weeks ago

• Explosion hits Gulf facility in Puerto Rico (USA Today)

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 164
  An explosion at a Gulf gasoline facility Friday rocked a neighborhood outside Puerto Rico’s capital, causing minor injuries and forcing evacuations as firefighters raced to prevent additional blasts. Originally posted here: Explosion hits Gulf facility in Puerto Rico (USA Today)
  2 weeks ago

• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Broken gas pipe causes building evacuations, street closures

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 964
  Authorities evacuated several hundred people from four office buildings in Northwest Washington and closed five blocks to traffic Wednesday after construction workers accidentally broke an underground natural gas pipeline.
  3 weeks ago

• Tropical Storm Rick approaches resorts

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 458
  Once-powerful Hurricane Rick lost most of its punch as it headed toward Mexican resort regions as a tropical storm Tuesday, but local authorities still prepared for evacuations in case of flooding.
  3 weeks ago

• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hurricanes, Diabetes and Your Medicine

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Diabetes is causing a huge problem for those who attempt to stay and fail to listen to the mandatory evacuations required by law during large category hurricane landfalls. Many people who are diabetic need medicine and they need to eat properly. The problem comes when they do not have enough food stored and [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Wrongful detention was ’serious error’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has described the three year wrongful detention of a Vietnamese man as a "serious administrative error". Van Phuc Nguyen was detained in 2002 and held in Sydneys Villawood Detention Centre for more than three years. He is a permanent resident of Australia but immigration ...
  5 weeks ago

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