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China health officials have detected the first human case of the H3N8 bird flu, according to the country s National Health and Wellness Commission. No other human cases of the flu have been detected.On April 5, a 4-year-old boy from Henan Province who had chickens and ducks in and around his home developed a fever and other symptoms. He was admitted to a local medical facility ten days later, the health commission said. The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cond airforce ucted a test on the boy on April 24, and it came back positive for the H3N8 bird flu virus.Health officials later tested close contacts of the infected child and no other cases were found.The strain does not yet have the ability to effec salomon speedcross tively infect humans and poses a low risk for a large-scale epidemic, according to a preliminary assessment by Chinese health officials. However, the health commission instructed Henan Province officials to implement prevention and control programs in response to the case.China is among 135 countries affected by the type A influenza pathogen, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr hoka wanderschuh evention. In the United States alone, more than 33 million cases of the bird flu have been detected so far this year. The outbreak among poultry in the U.S. is the largest since 2015, according to theAssociated Press. Birds can catch the highly pathogenic illness when they come into contact with the saliva, nasal secretions or feces of an infected bird, the CDC says. Xdfw Violence erupts in Gaza as Palestinians ratchet up protests
A cold front hit western Russia Thursday, ending the exhausting two-month spell of of heat and clearing skies over Moscow from suffocating smog.Colder temperatures and rains are expected to help firefighters put out the wildfires that have bedeviled Russia through the summer.Russia s Emergency Situations Ministry said the amount of land on fire has been halved in the last 24 hours. It said fires burned Thursday on the ter stanley thermoskannen ritory of about 28,000 acres, nearly a 20th of the area they covered earlier this month when wildfires were at their peak.The heat wave unseen in 130 years on record has triggered thousands of wildfires in Russia. Drought has cost Russia a third of its wheat crop, prompting the government to ban wheat exports through the year s end.More than 50 people have died directly in the wildfires across Russia, and more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed. The number of deaths recorded in Moscow had doubled to an average of 700 per day during the worst of the scorching heat and smog, city officials said.Earlier this month, fires threatened Sarov, the birthplace of Soviet nuclear weapons, prompting Rosatom state nuclear corporation to move all explosive and radioactive materials as a precaution, and deploy aircr stanley website afts and robots to stem the blazes.Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko, who personally oversaw firefighting effor stanley termohrnek ts in Sarov, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Thursday that at times emergency crews faced 10-kilometer 6-mile long front of flames. He said so
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With Mark Phillips this morning we ll take a walk among the Stonehenge stones:At Stonehenge, it s always been about the Sun. For more than 4,000 years, the mo adidas samba og nument has stood like a giant sundial, marking the longest day of the year, and the shortest -- taking aim at the Sun like a giant stone gunsight. Views of Stonehenge 34 photos Yet, Stonehenge is also about mystery. The big stone circle is only the most obvious part of the site. Lesser monuments -- some much older, and most of them buried under the soil now -- stretch for miles across the landscape. And they re being looked at in a way that s never been possible before, using high definition, ground-penetrating radar and other magnetic- an adidas samba d resistance-sensitive survey equipment in what s being called the Hidden Landscapes Project.A documentary team from the Smithsonian Channel has been following the archaeologists around; and -- using computer generated imagery -- it s been digitally reconstructing some of the monuments that have long since disappeared, like a burial chamber built of wooden posts, with timbered walls and covered with earth. It predates Stonehenge by centuries, and would have held the remains of around 50 bodies. Henry Chapman, an arc adidas campus 00s haeologist from the Universit Uthc Syria isolated amid intensifying violence
Reformist commentators in Iran urged President Mohammad Khatami Monday to use his huge mandate to push for swifter reforms in his second term but conservative newspapers continued to voice defiance. The president and the next government should make a critique of the past four years and move fearlessly to implement political, economic and social reforms with the support of the people, the pro-reform daily Norouz said. It is time for those who have effectively stood in the people s way by opposing r stanley deutschland eforms to 133;engage in criticism instead of revenge, the daily said, referring to hard-liners who largely blocked Khatami s reforms in his first term.Khatami, promising to press ahead wi stanley water jug th efforts to reform the Islamic Republic, was re-elected with 77 percent of the vote Friday. The leading conservative candidate came a distant second with 15.6 percent.The reformist-dominated parliament re-elected pro-Khatami cleric Mehdi Karroubi as speaker Monday and Mohammad Reza Khatami, the president s brother and head of stanley cup the main reformist group, as deputy speaker. During Khatami s first term courts led by hard-liners cracked down on his reform program by closing some 40 pro-reform newspapers, jailing several of Khatami s allies and arresting dozens of liberal Islamist dissidents.The conservative daily Qods played down the hard-liners defeat, stressing that voters had primarily expressed confidence in the Islamic system by going to the polls. The popular turnout in the election was
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BERLIN - Police say more than 120 officers were injured and 86 demonstrators were detained during leftist riots in the German capital which police call the most aggressive and violent protests in the last five years. Berlin police said in a statement Sunday that protesters threw bottles, cobblestones and fireworks, destroyed cars and attacked officers. Only one of the police officers required treatment at a hospital. It wasn t immediately clear how many rioters were injured.About 3,500 protesters participated in the rallies, which started Saturday evening and lasted until early Sunday. Activists had called for the demonstration to protest against police operations at buildings taken over the squatters in the easter airmax plus n part of the city last month.Around 1 adidas originals damen ,800 police officers were called in to monitor the protesters. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id adidas yeezy -2686e9dc-d90b-41c0-9149-baa7aa6500a9, right-rail-recirc-item--id-2686e9dc-d90b-41c0-9149-baa7aa6500a9 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-2686e9dc-d90b-41c0-9149-baa7aa6500a9 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; In: Riot Germany Fnfl Civilian rescue operation underway in Mariupol as Russian forces enter steel plant
The army sent soldiers into the streets Thursday for the first time since a wave of attacks on foreigners began in South Africa nearly two weeks ago, leaving 42 people dead and tarnishing the country s reputation as a bastion of economic and political stability in Africa.Even as the violence subsided, terrified immigrants crammed onto buses bound for Mozambique and elsewhere to flee. Hundreds squeezed onto buses, hurriedly passing bags - and sometimes even babies - through the windows of departing buses.More than 25,000 foreigners have fled their homes since the attacks began earlier in the month. At least 42 people have been killed - burned alive, stabbed, shot or beaten to death - by South Africans who blame them for crime and unemployment.Two burned bodies were found Thursday in the Ramaphosa slum outside Johannesburg where mobs set shacks on fire. Inc stanley cup idents of anti-foreigner violence also were reported elsewhere.Many Zimbabweans said they had nowhere to run. Dzidzah Masiiwa, a Zimbabwean painter, said he spent three nights in the relative sanctuary of the police station in the township of Alexandra, where the violence first kicked off. He reluctantly returned to his shack Wednesd stanley cup ay but said he didn t feel safe. It s scary. I think maybe they will come back to attack me, he said after a brief visit to the police station to see visiting Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.The images of naked stanley cup usa hatred and black-on-black violence - splashed on front pages wor
China health officials have detected the first human case of the H3N8 bird flu, according to the country s National Health and Wellness Commission. No other human cases of the flu have been detected.On April 5, a 4-year-old boy from Henan Province who had chickens and ducks in and around his home developed a fever and other symptoms. He was admitted to a local medical facility ten days later, the health commission said. The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cond airforce ucted a test on the boy on April 24, and it came back positive for the H3N8 bird flu virus.Health officials later tested close contacts of the infected child and no other cases were found.The strain does not yet have the ability to effec salomon speedcross tively infect humans and poses a low risk for a large-scale epidemic, according to a preliminary assessment by Chinese health officials. However, the health commission instructed Henan Province officials to implement prevention and control programs in response to the case.China is among 135 countries affected by the type A influenza pathogen, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr hoka wanderschuh evention. In the United States alone, more than 33 million cases of the bird flu have been detected so far this year. The outbreak among poultry in the U.S. is the largest since 2015, according to theAssociated Press. Birds can catch the highly pathogenic illness when they come into contact with the saliva, nasal secretions or feces of an infected bird, the CDC says. Xdfw Violence erupts in Gaza as Palestinians ratchet up protests
A cold front hit western Russia Thursday, ending the exhausting two-month spell of of heat and clearing skies over Moscow from suffocating smog.Colder temperatures and rains are expected to help firefighters put out the wildfires that have bedeviled Russia through the summer.Russia s Emergency Situations Ministry said the amount of land on fire has been halved in the last 24 hours. It said fires burned Thursday on the ter stanley thermoskannen ritory of about 28,000 acres, nearly a 20th of the area they covered earlier this month when wildfires were at their peak.The heat wave unseen in 130 years on record has triggered thousands of wildfires in Russia. Drought has cost Russia a third of its wheat crop, prompting the government to ban wheat exports through the year s end.More than 50 people have died directly in the wildfires across Russia, and more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed. The number of deaths recorded in Moscow had doubled to an average of 700 per day during the worst of the scorching heat and smog, city officials said.Earlier this month, fires threatened Sarov, the birthplace of Soviet nuclear weapons, prompting Rosatom state nuclear corporation to move all explosive and radioactive materials as a precaution, and deploy aircr stanley website afts and robots to stem the blazes.Rosatom chief Sergei Kiriyenko, who personally oversaw firefighting effor stanley termohrnek ts in Sarov, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Thursday that at times emergency crews faced 10-kilometer 6-mile long front of flames. He said so
Ztgs European Union foreign ministers gather to make post-Trump victory plan
With Mark Phillips this morning we ll take a walk among the Stonehenge stones:At Stonehenge, it s always been about the Sun. For more than 4,000 years, the mo adidas samba og nument has stood like a giant sundial, marking the longest day of the year, and the shortest -- taking aim at the Sun like a giant stone gunsight. Views of Stonehenge 34 photos Yet, Stonehenge is also about mystery. The big stone circle is only the most obvious part of the site. Lesser monuments -- some much older, and most of them buried under the soil now -- stretch for miles across the landscape. And they re being looked at in a way that s never been possible before, using high definition, ground-penetrating radar and other magnetic- an adidas samba d resistance-sensitive survey equipment in what s being called the Hidden Landscapes Project.A documentary team from the Smithsonian Channel has been following the archaeologists around; and -- using computer generated imagery -- it s been digitally reconstructing some of the monuments that have long since disappeared, like a burial chamber built of wooden posts, with timbered walls and covered with earth. It predates Stonehenge by centuries, and would have held the remains of around 50 bodies. Henry Chapman, an arc adidas campus 00s haeologist from the Universit Uthc Syria isolated amid intensifying violence
Reformist commentators in Iran urged President Mohammad Khatami Monday to use his huge mandate to push for swifter reforms in his second term but conservative newspapers continued to voice defiance. The president and the next government should make a critique of the past four years and move fearlessly to implement political, economic and social reforms with the support of the people, the pro-reform daily Norouz said. It is time for those who have effectively stood in the people s way by opposing r stanley deutschland eforms to 133;engage in criticism instead of revenge, the daily said, referring to hard-liners who largely blocked Khatami s reforms in his first term.Khatami, promising to press ahead wi stanley water jug th efforts to reform the Islamic Republic, was re-elected with 77 percent of the vote Friday. The leading conservative candidate came a distant second with 15.6 percent.The reformist-dominated parliament re-elected pro-Khatami cleric Mehdi Karroubi as speaker Monday and Mohammad Reza Khatami, the president s brother and head of stanley cup the main reformist group, as deputy speaker. During Khatami s first term courts led by hard-liners cracked down on his reform program by closing some 40 pro-reform newspapers, jailing several of Khatami s allies and arresting dozens of liberal Islamist dissidents.The conservative daily Qods played down the hard-liners defeat, stressing that voters had primarily expressed confidence in the Islamic system by going to the polls. The popular turnout in the election was
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BERLIN - Police say more than 120 officers were injured and 86 demonstrators were detained during leftist riots in the German capital which police call the most aggressive and violent protests in the last five years. Berlin police said in a statement Sunday that protesters threw bottles, cobblestones and fireworks, destroyed cars and attacked officers. Only one of the police officers required treatment at a hospital. It wasn t immediately clear how many rioters were injured.About 3,500 protesters participated in the rallies, which started Saturday evening and lasted until early Sunday. Activists had called for the demonstration to protest against police operations at buildings taken over the squatters in the easter airmax plus n part of the city last month.Around 1 adidas originals damen ,800 police officers were called in to monitor the protesters. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id adidas yeezy -2686e9dc-d90b-41c0-9149-baa7aa6500a9, right-rail-recirc-item--id-2686e9dc-d90b-41c0-9149-baa7aa6500a9 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-2686e9dc-d90b-41c0-9149-baa7aa6500a9 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; In: Riot Germany Fnfl Civilian rescue operation underway in Mariupol as Russian forces enter steel plant
The army sent soldiers into the streets Thursday for the first time since a wave of attacks on foreigners began in South Africa nearly two weeks ago, leaving 42 people dead and tarnishing the country s reputation as a bastion of economic and political stability in Africa.Even as the violence subsided, terrified immigrants crammed onto buses bound for Mozambique and elsewhere to flee. Hundreds squeezed onto buses, hurriedly passing bags - and sometimes even babies - through the windows of departing buses.More than 25,000 foreigners have fled their homes since the attacks began earlier in the month. At least 42 people have been killed - burned alive, stabbed, shot or beaten to death - by South Africans who blame them for crime and unemployment.Two burned bodies were found Thursday in the Ramaphosa slum outside Johannesburg where mobs set shacks on fire. Inc stanley cup idents of anti-foreigner violence also were reported elsewhere.Many Zimbabweans said they had nowhere to run. Dzidzah Masiiwa, a Zimbabwean painter, said he spent three nights in the relative sanctuary of the police station in the township of Alexandra, where the violence first kicked off. He reluctantly returned to his shack Wednesd stanley cup ay but said he didn t feel safe. It s scary. I think maybe they will come back to attack me, he said after a brief visit to the police station to see visiting Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.The images of naked stanley cup usa hatred and black-on-black violence - splashed on front pages wor
