SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- A Scottsdale, Arizona, woman is being charged after police say she slapped one of their patrol horses.
KTVK-TV reported Saturday that Scottsdale police charged 25-year-old Selma Iris Gonzalez with intent to kill or harm a service animal, which could qualify as a felony.
Authorities say Gonzalez smacked Greyhawk the horse in the rear July 19 outside a nightclub in Scottsdale's entertainment district. Police say the smack was loud enough to be heard by the crowd of bar patrons.
I'd let the horse deal with this: I've seen my daughter's horse kick someone after being startled, and that person limped for quite a while thereafter...
They say Greyhawk was spooked and could have started running into a crowd, possibly hurting others.
Gonzalez told police she was only petting the horse.
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I'm sorry, but unless she's the terminator, a woman is very unlikely to be able to hit a horse hard enough to actually hurt it even if she's trying. A playful nip from a horse can take your fingers. off.
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Silentbrick. I have owned horses for many many years. Under the right conditions a horse can be easily spooked, even the most calmn one. If a horse is already alert a slap won't hurt but will startle. Seen it happen more than once.
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Greyhawk wants Selma's phone number. Tell them to drop the charges Wilbur.
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Police horses are supposed to be trained to deal with crowds and not get spooked. Otherwise mounted police would be rather ineffective in rowdy crowds. I've seen several people hauled off for doing this exact thing on Beale St. over the years. Drinking, police horses, and slap-ass don't mix.
[DAWN] Veteran politician and the last crown prince of the princely state of Swat, Miangul Aurangzeb passed away in Islamabad on Sunday. He was 86.
He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Saidu Sharif, Swat.
His funeral prayers were attended by politicians of different parties including Adviser to Prime Minister Eng Ameer Muqam, members of provincial assembly, bureaucrats, local people and family members.
Miangul Aurangzeb, who served as governor of NWFP (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... ) in 1999 and governor of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... from 1997 to 1999, was born on May 28, 1928 in Saidu Sharif. His father Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb was the last ruler (Wali) of the princely Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... state.Miangul Aurangzeb joined army in 1948 and served as aide-de-camp (ADC) to the then president Ayub Khan.
He quit army after marrying the daughter of Ayub Khan in 1955 and joined politics.
Miangul Aurangzeb represented the princely state of Swat in the West Pakistain Assembly from 1956 to 1958. During the martial law of Ayub Khan, he was nominated to National Assembly in 1962.
He represented the princely state in National Assembly for another term when he was nominated again as member of the assembly in 1965. He was declared crown prince in 1966.
After the merger of Swat state into Pakistain in 1969, Miangul Aurangzeb continued his political activities and became Member of National Assembly from Swat in 1970 general elections. He had contested the election on Mohammedan League's ticket and defeated the candidate of National Awami Party.
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The high-tech pelvic floor trainer space just became more competitive. ???
Remember kGoal? Well, a Kickstarter campaign's looking to fund the production of a similar device called Skea (short for Smart Kegel Exercise Aid), which boasts something kGoal doesn't offer. See, Skea's creators want to make kegel exercises more enjoyable, so they added a gaming aspect to it, turning the device into a kegel-exerciser-and-game-controller-in-one. Make it vibrate when you reach your goal and you'll have a winner.
If the start-up does raise the $38,000 it needs to go into production, a Skea package will come with an iOS or Android game called Alice in Continent (these exercises are supposed to solve incontinence in women, if you're unaware). It's an endless runner with all the usual obstacles, and to jump over them, the user needs to squeeze Skea with their pelvic floor muscles. As one tester said: "It's like playing Temple Run with Fitbit. Just that I don't use fingers but use my pelvic muscles!" Also, when the user squeezes the device, it... vibrates to confirm that she's doing things right.
In addition to helping improve bladder control, the gadget promises all the usual benefits of kegel exercises, including preparing pelvic muscles for pregnancy and improving sensations in women. At this point in time, the campaign is nowhere near its funding goal, but if you want to take a chance at getting a Skea by December, you'll need to pledge at least $85. Hmmm . . . .
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Uncle P, the cartoon left out the Universal Translator that converts what she "means" to what you hear and what you say (clearly) to what she wants to hear. Other than that, spot on.
ATLANTA -- An American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatment in a special isolation ward is improving, the top U.S. health official said on Sunday.
A few do survive, and it's great Brantly may well be one of them.
Dr Kent Brantly was able to walk, with help, from an ambulance after he was flown on Saturday to Atlanta, where he is being treated by infectious disease specialists at Emory University Hospital.
"It's encouraging that he seems to be improving - that's really important - and we're hoping he'll continue to improve," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
Frieden told CBS's "Face the Nation" it was too soon to predict whether Brantly would survive, and a hospital spokesman said Emory did not expect to provide any updates on the doctor's condition on Sunday.
Brantly is a 33-year-old father of two young children who works for the North Carolina-based Christian organization, Samaritan's Purse. He was in Liberia responding to the worst Ebola outbreak on record when he contracted the disease.
Frieden told ABC's "This Week" that the CDC was "surging" its response, and that it will send 50 staff to West Africa "to help stop the outbreak in the next 30 days."
Amber Brantly, Dr. Brantly's wife, said she was able to see her husband on Sunday and he was in good spirits, and that the family is confident he is receiving the very best care. "He thanked everyone for their prayers," she said in a statement.
Standard treatment for the disease is to provide supportive care. In Atlanta, doctors will try to maintain blood pressure and support breathing, with a respirator if needed, or provide dialysis if patients experience kidney failure, as some Ebola sufferers do.
Despite public concern over bringing in Ebola patients, the CDC's Frieden said the United States may see a few isolated cases in people who have been traveling, but did not expect widespread Ebola in the country.
The facility at Emory chosen to treat the two infected Americans was set up with CDC and is one of four in the country with the ability to handle such cases. The Americans will be treated primarily by four infectious disease physicians, and will be able to see relatives through a plate-glass window and speak to them by phone or intercom.
Frieden said it was unlikely Brantly's wife and children, who left Liberia before he began showing symptoms, contracted the disease because people who are exposed to Ebola but not yet sick cannot infect others.
The CDC has said it is not aware of any Ebola patient having been treated in the United States previously. Five people entered the country in the past decade with either Lassa Fever or Marburg, both hemorrhagic fevers similar to Ebola.
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I posted a link elsewhere on today's 'Burg about one of the Marburg cases that did get into the USA in 2008 - not identified as such for more than 6 months. Even though she had initially been considered a patient of a viral hemorrhagic fever contracted in Africa, the initial CDC tests were negative, more advanced tests were done months later and showed Marburg virus fragments in her blood when she was most ill. Contacts were tracked down, nobody else got sick.
[ARABNEWS] A Saudi-French archaeological team has unearthed in Najran what might be considered the oldest inscription in the Arabic alphabet, said a front man from the French Foreign Ministry.
"The epigrapher Frederic Imbert, a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille, found the Nabatean Arabic inscription about 100 km north of Najran near the Yemeni border," said the front man. "The first thing that makes this find significant is that it is a mixed text, known as Nabatean Arabic, the first stage of Arabic writing," he said.
This script had previously only ever been seen north of Hejaz, in the Sinai and in the Levant. The second is the fact that these inscriptions are dated. The period indicated corresponds to the years 469-470 AD. This is the oldest form of Arabic writing known to date, the "missing link" between Nabatean and Arabic writing, he added.
This discovery, which is important to the history of the Arabian Peninsula and language, represents a success for the network of archaeological missions funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, which executed 148 projects this year in more than 60 countries worldwide. It is also an excellent example of cooperation between Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and La Belle France, the official said.
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[HINDUSTANTIMES] A strong earthquake jolted a mountainous area in southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday, killing at least 180 people, injuring over 1,300 and disrupting electricity and transportation facilities over a wide area.
The corpse count is expected to rise sharply with at least 180 people reported missing till late on Sunday night.
State media reported that the strong quake hit at 4:30pm Sunday (Beijing Time) with a depth of 12 km and the epicenter in Longtoushan township, 23 km southwest of the county seat of Ludian, Zhaotong City.
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[Al Ahram] The well-known Armenian belly dancer Safinaz has been summoned by Egyptian prosecutors over a report alleging she insulted Egypt and its people by wearing a dancing costume fashioned after the Egyptian flag.
The report, filed by angry citizens, said that Safinaz wore the flag-inspired costume to a party in the Red Sea resort of Ain Sokhna last week and accused her of defaming the Egyptian people and state.
Prosecutors summoned both Safinaz and the party organisers on Sunday for questioning over the allegations.
Egypt's former interim president Adly Mansour issued a law in early June imposing a jail term of up to one year and a fine with a maximum penalty of LE30,000 ($4,000) for anyone who insults the flag.
Some forms of insulting the flag, as stipulated by the law, include raising, displaying or trading a flag if it is damaged, faded or not suitable in any other way. It is also prohibited to add any slogans, designs or pictures to the flag.
Safinaz has been an immediate success since her arrival in Egypt over two years ago, with appearances in several Egyptian movies as well as paid performances at prestigious weddings.
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Safinaz has been summoned by Egyptian prosecutors over a report alleging she insulted Egypt and its people by wearing a dancing costume fashioned after the Egyptian flag. Naw, she did it in good taste--the photos don't lie. Now, maybe the Muslim Brotherhood and other such groups should be called on the carpet for defiling the flag.
[ARABNEWS] Sixteen Jeddah Municipality employees, including a bigwig, are facing trial for allegedly swindling and accepting bribes while implementing a water conservation project in the city.
Trial for the 16 officials is set to begin at Jeddah's General Court by the end of this month, according to a report published by sabq.org electronic newspaper.
Officials include representatives at firms that carry out municipal projects.
The defendants were accused of exploiting their official positions, engaging in corruption and taking bribes in the form of cars and cash from company reps that had won the municipality contracts.
"They are also accused of collecting money from private companies for the water conservation campaign and using it for their personal purposes," the paper said quoting the charges against the defendants.
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What kind of creative maiming happens when they are convicted?
[MIRROR.CO.UK] Airport staff tonight told of their fears of an Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick.
Workers said they were terrified the virus could spread globally through the busy international hub from the West African country which is in the grip of the deadly epidemic.
The woman, said to be 72, became ill on the gangway after she left a Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... Bird jet with 128 passengers on board. She died in hospital.
Ebola has killed 256 people in Sierra Leone. A total of 826 have died in West Africa since the outbreak began in February. Tests are now being carried out to see if the woman had disease. The plane was quarantined as officials desperately tried to trace everyone who had been in contact with the woman.
Airport workers face an anxious wait to see if the woman had Ebola. One said: "Everyone's just petrified. We've all seen how many people have died from Ebola, especially in Sierra Leone, and it's terrifying."
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Thanks fred interesting story
I would like to know if she vomited or had the runs
Otherwise she could just be a deep vein thrombosis i mean 73 is getting on...
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On the plane she was sweating profusely and vomiting. No reports of bleeding but at her age she may not have lived long enough to get to the bleeding stage which is also the most contagious stage of the ebola illness. Initial tests were negative for ebola but additional extensive test are yet to be carried out.
[Iran Press TV] Peru's high court has ordered American mining company Doe Run to pay USD 163 million for failing to take sufficient environmental measures at one of its sites in the country.
The court said Saturday that Doe Run, one of the world's largest producers of lead, failed to honor its environmental commitments at its site in the central Peruvian city of La Oraya.
In addition to lead, the site produces other metals including copper, which create large amounts of polluting byproducts.
According to the company's contract with the Peruvian government, Doe Run, which has been operating in the city since 1922, is required to take stringent preventive measures to safeguard the environment in the area.
Peruvian officials said Lima decided to sue the American company after it failed to build a treatment plant to reduce the emissions.
A report published by the International Federation for Human Rights last year found that the air in La Oraya "been contaminated by emissions of lead and other heavy metals spewed from the chimneys of the refinery" run by Doe Run and that the city's water and soil also had been contaminated.
La Oraya was ranked in August 2013 among the five worst-polluted cities in the world. According to data, the Peruvian city, home to 20,000 people, 97 percent of children aged between 6 months to 6 years and 98 percent of children from 7 to 12 show high levels of lead in their bloodstream.
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[Iran Press TV] Twelve Ukrainian soldiers have laid down their weapons and crossed into Russia's Rostov region, Russian officials say.
A spokesperson for the regional border department said on Sunday that the soldiers laid down their arms and entered through the Gukovo border checkpoint a day earlier.
"The motives for this act are currently being established," he said, adding that the 12 former soldiers had served in Ukraine's 72nd mechanized brigade.
This is not the first time Ukrainian soldiers has entered Russia through a border checkpoint and refused to fight against their own people. In late July, 41 servicemen left their military units and asked pro-Russia forces in Ukraine's eastern regions to help them cross into the Russian territory.
This comes as Ukraine's military crackdown on pro-Russia forces in the east of the country continues. According to reports, heavy shelling by Ukrainian government forces on the outskirts of eastern Donetsk region has left at least nine civilians dead over the past 24 hours. The Ukrainian army said it had suffered no losses in the latest fighting.
Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking regions have witnessed deadly festivities between pro-Russia protesters and the Ukrainian army since the government in Kiev launched military operations in mid-April in a bid to crush the pro-Russia protests. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... says at least 1,129 people have been killed in the military campaign.
The fighting has intensified in east Ukraine since July 17, when a Malaysian airliner, carrying 298 people, was downed in the Donetsk region.
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GUARDIAN.UK Artic o'er at BHARAT RAKSHAK claims its 400 Ukrainian Soldiers whom fled over the border into Mama Russia for safety???
Azerbaijan has said four of its troops were killed in clashes with Armenia near the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region. The fresh confrontations on Saturday, which also led to the death of an ethnic Armenian soldier, come after Azerbaijan said on Friday that eight troops had been killed in three days of fighting.
A leading Azeri military expert earlier this week said that Baku has not suffered such losses in a single burst of hostilities since 1994, when a ceasefire was agreed upon.
The defense ministry in Baku said Saturday, "Armenia's reconnaissance and sabotage groups once again tried to attack Azeri positions at the line of contact" near Nagorno Karabakh.
Azeri troops repelled the overnight attack, forcing Armenian soldiers to retreat, according to the defense ministry. In a statement the ministry said, "As a result of the clash, four Azeri troops died."
Authorities in Nagorno Karabakh for their part said an ethnic Armenian soldier had been killed, and accused Azerbaijan of trying to carry out "sabotage and reconnaissance activities". They claimed three Azeri troops had been killed and seven were injured.
On Saturday, Armenia announced that President Serzh Sarkisian would meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Sochi next week to discuss the crisis.
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Yikes, this again (still)?? The only conflict in the region that really has nothing to do with Russia - a gen-yu-ine local stupidity (tho Moscow generally sides with Armenia against its non-Christian/Orthodox adversaries). Alas it's a robust stalemate, a la Iz'rl and the Paleos (though far less active, obviously) - no way Baku can ever cede the territory, no way Yerevan can allow it to go back. At one point Azerbaijan had the second largest displaced/refugee population on the planet (though nobody could've told you that). I can only add that the nicest hwy in the region is the one starting at the Armenian border and going to Stepanakert (odd that such a beautiful bit of infrastructure would be found connecting "nowhere" to a small town, hmmm?) - and that Agdam would make a spectacular set for a post-apocalyptic movie, uh, except for all the ordnance lying around rusting in plain sight.
North Korea got a sweet surprise from its neighbor to the south on Wednesday.
In South Korea, about 200 people South Koreans along with North Korean defectors packed 770 pounds of Choco Pies into plastic bags, which they attached to 50 giant balloons and released into North Korea from a park in the border city of Paju, according to organizers of the event. It was an act of rebellion against the alleged North Korean ban on the chocolate confections.
The pies, which are produced in South Korea, are wildly popular in North Korea. Fearful that the treats would encourage an uprising, Kim Jong-un reportedly banned Choco Pies from the country earlier this month. The pies, which have become something of a political statement, are viewed as a symbol of capitalism and represent a taste of the world outside North Korea. Besides, it's an inflationary attack against the Nork economic system.
Choco Pies have occasionally been doled out in North Korea as bonuses to workers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Employees make around $100 a month there, according to the news site Daily NK, but only take home about 30% of their wages as a result of deductions by the North Korean government. The pies were used to supplement low wages and give the workers a literal taste of the outside world.
"Choco Pies are an important mind-changing instrument ... [North Koreans] are suffering and starving, but thanks to Choco Pies, DVDs and large-scale labour migration to China, people don't buy the old story [that the South is even poorer] and the government does not sell it any more," Andrei Lankov, an expert on Korean studies, told The Guardian. Other items like DVDs have also been transported to North Korea via balloons.
It is not unusual for such balloons to travel across the border to North Korea. Often, they carry things like anti-North Korean leaflets and USB sticks containing photos from places outside the country.
In response to the bombardment of chocolate pie-filled balloons, North Korea's leadership has threatened to shell the people responsible on the other side of the border. Careful, or they'll double the amount of Choco Pies they send over . . . .
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I am so, so white, but even more southern, an AreRa Cee Cola and a you-know-what are a summer necessity. I will settle for a Double-Cola if low on cash.
[ARABNEWS] Pro-Russian separatists battled on Sunday to keep advancing Ukrainian government forces at bay in heavy fighting on the outskirts of Donetsk, the rebels' main stronghold in eastern Ukraine.
Shelling by Ukrainian troops, some of them in sunflower fields outside the large industrial city, killed six people over the weekend, city officials said, as well as setting buildings ablaze and leaving shell craters in roads.
The army has all but encircled the other main rebel redoubt of Luhansk, where three non-combatants were killed in the latest fighting, and is trying to tighten the noose around Donetsk.
Fighting has intensified since the downing of a Malaysian airliner in rebel-held territory on July 17 and, with each side blaming the other for the deaths of the 298 crew and passengers, relations between Russia and the West are deteriorating rapidly.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... to persuade the rebels to end the conflict and to ensure they do not hinder international experts trying to recover human remains from the plane's wreckage.
"It is an unspeakable abomination that two weeks after this crash there are still bodies on the crash site unrecovered and the Russians have not used their influence with the separatists," Hammond told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
"I said last week that there is one man who can snap his fingers and make this happen and he hasn't done so. He must now do so," Hammond said, urging Putin to cut off arms to the rebels and "stop destabilising and interfering" in Ukraine.
Putin denies arming the rebels or trying to orchestrate events in Ukraine since the ousting of a president sympathetic to Moscow in February. He accuses the West of attempting to 'contain' Russia, using a Cold War-era phrase to suggest the United States wants to reduce Moscow's global influence.
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[DAWN] A man and his son were killed inside their house over a marriage dispute in Tehkhal area of the scenic provincial capital here on Sunday.
An official of local cop shoppe identified the victims as Younus Khan and his son, Almas Khan.
He said that a case had been registered against the suspect, Naeem of Peshtakhara, but he could not be tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! so far.
He said that Jawad Khan, son of Younus Khan, and sister of Naeem had got married against the will of their parents some months ago, which led to the double murder.
"Naeem stormed into the house of Younus Khan and opened indiscriminate fire on the inmates," the official said and added that Jawad Khan was not at his home at the time of the incident, but his father and a brother fell victim to the targeted attack.
The official said that the victims' family belonged to Mardan, but had been living in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. for many years. The bodies were shifted to Mardan for burial.
"We have conducted raids at the residence of the accused but they weren't home have gone into hiding," said another official of Tekhal cop shoppe.
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RTWT: The only reason the case was actually diagnosed is because the Colorado patient who survived her case of Marburg HF later read about the death of another tourist who had visited the same bat-infested cave in Africa that she had visited before returning to the USA, and asked for herself to be re-tested with that in mind. While the Colorado patient had been hospitalized, she was given some tests for Marburg & Ebola, including the standard screening tests done by the CDC, but apparently not the right kind of tests. After she recovered, some more sophisticated testing found Marburg viral fragments in her blood drawn when she was sick, in addition to an appropriate antibody level in her blood 6.5 months after she recovered.
Retrospectively, they tracked down 260 contacts of this patient -- none turned out to have been sick with anything resembling a virus during the appropriate time frame. They also tracked down other people who had visited the same African cave at the same time as the patient-survivor. None of those got sick either.
Marburg virus in Africa has proven to be about as deadly as Ebola in Africa. It took a year before the CDC could notify the WHO & the Ugandan health ministry of this particular case.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- A Scottsdale, Arizona, woman is being charged after police say she slapped one of their patrol horses.
The high-tech pelvic floor trainer space just became more competitive. 
ATLANTA -- An American doctor stricken with the deadly Ebola virus while in Liberia and brought to the United States for treatment in a special isolation ward is improving, the top U.S. health official said on Sunday.
[HINDUSTANTIMES] A strong earthquake jolted a mountainous area in southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday, killing at least 180 people, injuring over 1,300 and disrupting electricity and transportation facilities over a wide area.
[MIRROR.CO.UK] Airport staff tonight told of their fears of an Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick.
laid down their weapons
Azerbaijan has said four of its troops were killed in clashes with Armenia near the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region. The fresh confrontations on Saturday, which also led to the death of an ethnic Armenian soldier, come after Azerbaijan said on Friday that eight troops had been killed in three days of fighting. 
North Korea got a sweet surprise from its neighbor to the south on Wednesday. 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
