More than 80000 killed in Syria conflict NGO
Posted by admin on May 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment
BEIRUT: More than 80,000 people have been killed in Syria’s conflict since it erupted more than two years ago, a monitoring group said on Sunday.
Nearly half of those who died were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The conflict started out in March 2013 as a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad but spiralled into a civil war after the army unleashed a brutal crackdown against...
Suicide claims more Americans than car crashes CDC
Posted by admin on May 02, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: Suicide rates among US adults aged 35-64 are on the rise — with more Americans now taking their lives than dying in car accidents, according to official statistics released Thursday.
Motor vehicle accidents killed 33,687 people in 2010 — well below the 38,364 who died from suicide in the same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The spike in suicides was seen exclusively among...
100 dead in China quake more than 3000 injured
Posted by admin on Apr 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment
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Attacks leave more than 50 dead in central Nigeria
Posted by admin on Mar 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment
JOS, Nigeria: Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this week, officials said Saturday, as authorities pleaded for peace over the Easter holiday.
The attacks around Jos, a city in Nigeria’s fertile central belt, come as a string of unsolved killings continue to plague the region that has seen thousands killed...
Afghan NATO forces kill more than 20 militants
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan and NATO forces killed more than 20 insurgents in a joint operation in the eastern Logar province, military officials said Wednesday.
The two-day operation that ended Tuesday night in the province’s Baraki Barak district also killed a local Taliban commander, said provincial government spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh.
Two civilians were wounded, Darwesh said. There were no immediate reports...
Joseph Town tragedy police arrest more than 100 miscreants
Posted by admin on Mar 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment
LAHORE: More than 100 miscreants, allegedly involved in Badami Bagh tragedy, have been arrested from different parts of Lahore, Geo News reported.
DIG Operations, Rai Tahir said police have detained more than 100 alleged perpetrators and raids are also being conducted to arrest the others involved.
Meanwhile, affectees of Joseph Town, Badami Bagh Lahore have not only stopped government organizations from relief work but...
Sindh government decides to permanent more than 12000 employees
Posted by admin on Feb 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment
KARACHI: Government of Sindh has decided to permanent more than 12,000 temporary employees across the province, sources said.
According to sources, doctors, paramedical staff and teaching staff in the hospitals would get permanent status. The employees of Benazir Bhutto Youth Programme, Peoples Primary Healthcare, Hepatitis Control Programme, Malaria and TB control programme staffers would get permanent status.
Sources...
Russia cleans up after meteor blast injures more than 1000
Posted by admin on Feb 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment
CHELYABINSK, Russia: Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, damaging buildings, shattering windows and showering people with broken glass.
Divers searched a lake near the city of Chelyabinsk, where a hole several feet wide had opened in the ice, but had so far failed to find any large fragments, officials said.
The scarcity...
Women smokers face greater health risks than in past study
Posted by admin on Jan 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON Women smokers are at a greater risk than at any time in recent decades from lung cancer and other ailments linked to their tobacco use, according to a study published on Wednesday.
The research in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) found a marked increase in deaths among female smokers from lunger cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease and other health ailments.
The study of more than 2.2 million...
More than 30 Syrians killed in Hama suicide blast NGO
Posted by admin on Jan 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment
BEIRUT: More than 30 people, both civilians and pro-regime militiamen, were killed Monday in a suicide car bombing in the town
of Salmiyeh in the central province of Hama, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
A high-ranking regime official confirmed to AFP that dozens were killed in the attack, which the Britain-based Observatory said targeted a building used by loyalist paramilitary fighters.
The watchdog gave...
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