Turkey’s Earthquake Toll a Grim Reminder of Lessons Not Learned
Fact 1: Turkey is earthquake prone. Sitting on the intersection of theEurasian, African and Arabian tectonic plates, it is crisscrossed by activefault lines. Fact 2: The death toll and devastation caused by an earthquakeis determined in no small part by a country’s building codes. Turks learntthat the hard way in 1999, when a massive quake in the country’s west killed20,000 people, mostly as a …
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Turkey’s Earthquake Toll a Grim Reminder of Lessons Not Learned
U.S. man nabbed for smuggling grenade parts (Reuters)
Reuters – Mexican police arrested a U.S. man accused of trafficking grenade and gun parts to one of the country’s deadliest drug cartels in a sign the gangs could now be making their own weapons, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Country bans night travel to end road carnage (Reuters)
Reuters – Cameroon has banned night-time public transport between cities after a spate of deadly accidents last year, many involving heavy drinking on the country’s infamously poor roads.
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Pirates swallow suspended fine after porridge attack (Reuters)
Reuters – South African club Orlando Pirates have received a suspended fine after one of their fans threw porridge at a referee, the country’s Premier Soccer League said on Friday.
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St Patrick’s diet similar to today’s health foods (Reuters)
Reuters – Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, probably ate fare similar to today’s pricey health foods such as cereal, fish and seaweed, according to a researcher who has studied the country’s 5th century diet.
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China’s first capsule hotel to open in Shanghai (Reuters)
Reuters – China’s first capsule hotel is set to open in Shanghai, targeting budget-conscious travellers in the country’s glitzy commercial capital — with rooms divided into different zones depending on snoring.
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Homeless Ohio man with velvety voice back with mom (AP)
AP – A homeless man whose silky announcing voice has catapulted him to national fame reunited Thursday with his mother, recorded a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and agreed to do voiceover work for MSNBC.
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"Eat’ em" stratagem for lionfish invasion in Florida (Reuters)
Reuters – Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life — eat them.
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Huge Brazil oil field will bear Lula’s name (Reuters)
Reuters – To the list of accolades for Brazil’s wildly popular outgoing President Luiz Inacio da Silva, add the following: one of the country’s biggest new offshore oil fields will bear his name.
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Republicans block youth immigration bill (AP)
AP – Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.
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