AP — Rescue ships looking for 31 missing crew members from a burning oil tanker have expanded their search area to more than 2,600 square kilometers (1,000 square miles), authorities said Friday. The expanded search comes six days after the Iranian-owned Sanchi collided with a freighter in the East China Sea and burst into flames. […]
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‘No safe havens’: Terrorism should be countered through teamwork, ambitions set aside – Lavrov
In an interview with Algerian newspaper L’Expression, Lavrov said that progress in the fight against terrorism can only be made through the joint efforts of the international community coordinated by the United Nations. “Fighting terrorism can be efficient only if we work together, based on the solid ground of international law, with the UN in the […]
Saving our 9/11 rescuers: Funds are limited, but ills aren’t
Clem Richardson The New York Daily News October 7, 2011 The boxes and bottles tumble out of William (Bill) Fischer’s hands onto his coffee table. It’s a veritable pharmacy, arranged in no particular order: Nexium, Flovent, Advair, Nasonex, trazodone, Execedrin Migraine, sumatriptan succinate tablets, ProAir and bupropion. Five years after he retired from the […]