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Climate change poses a health threat in Europe and central Asia, especially among the poor, experts from the United Nations and the European Union's food safety watchdog said Tuesday.
The warning came in a statement from a seminar in Rome on the health effects of climate change on food, water safety and nutrition.
The seminar is...
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A powerful earthquake killed up to 72 people in Kyrgyzstan and wrecked dozens of homes in the remote and mountainous south of the Central Asian state on Sunday, the country's Health Ministry said on Monday.
The epicenter of the quake struck the Ferghana valley, a populated trading region at the corner of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and...
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 People in poor countries who suffer from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) will get a faster diagnosis thanks to a new diagnostic test unveiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The new test will allow doctors in poor countries to find out within hours, instead of months, whether a patient suffers from MDR-TB. According to...
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 A powerful earthquake shook Kyrgyzstan, close to China’s border. Sixty people were killed during the calamity, as the top emergency official of Kyrgyzstan announced on Monday. The former Soviet republic’s Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said that "according to preliminary figures, 60 people died and more than 100...
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Kyrgyz authorities Monday corrected the death toll to 68 in the crash of an Itek Air Boeing 737 passenger liner shortly after takeoff from Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek.
The ill-fated airliner, bound for Tehran, was completely consumed by fire after crashing Sunday evening according to the Civil Defence Ministry.
Only 22 of the 90...
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Kyrgyz authorities Monday ruled out terrorism as the cause of an air crash in which at least 65 passengers died near the Central Asian state's capital of Bishkek, saying mechanical failure was the probable cause.
Reports on the number killed and injured when the Itek Air Boeing 737 came down on Sunday evening varied.
The Interfax...
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 The party of incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Ak Zhol, looked set
for victory in parliamentary elections in the central Asian republic of
Kyrgyzstan, electoral experts said Sunday.
Despite accusations of fraud, the election was declared valid by
the Central Electoral Commission after 61 per cent of the electorate of
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 During the summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad raised and condemned the US strategic plans of settling missile
defense bases in Eastern Europe, suggesting that this would be a means of
threatening countries that oppose US influence.
Russia also objected fiercely against the...
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