In 2005, a record 196 bodies were found in Pima County. This year, the death toll could be worse. Already, authorities have recovered the remains of 170 migrants.
"We're kind of looking at a record-breaking year this year," Peters said.
July was the worst month of this year so far, with 59 people found dead. More than half of them died from heat-related causes. On July 15, the deadliest day of the month, seven bodies were found, among them the remains of Omar Luna Velasquez, 25. The high temperature that day was 108 degrees.
To accommodate the bodies in the summer heat, a 50-foot refrigerated trailer truck has been parked in the coroner's receiving area.
More than 66 percent of the bodies found this year are still unidentified. Sometimes corpses are reduced to skeletal remains; some are mummified by the sun and shriveled like raisins. Of the seven bodies found July 15, only Luna's could be identified. The Sonora desert is very unforgiving.
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If and when we get a government that is really interested in controlling this, they need to make business execs and agents who hire illegals go spend a month or more down there assisting with the clean up.
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This is why you have the bleeding hearts who set water bottles out for the migrants. It's hard to be hardhearted but that sort of thing only encourages the migrants.
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Ebbang: There's a big difference between being a bleeding heart and throwing a drowning man a life preserver. The ranchers down there don't like dead bodies on their property any more than you would.
In summer, water consumption in the southern AZ Sonora can go to 5 gal per man per day, in the shade and doing no work. This is not optional. You do not urinate unless you force yourself.
Once you get heat exhaustion, which feels like sea sickness, you are counting minutes until you die. It is unpleasant. Walking a hundred feet feels like miles.
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call me a cold and heartless bastard, but this number is about 200K below optimum if they are foreign nationals attempting entry in violation of US sovereignty and criminal statute.
more, and faster please. Maybe that would de-incentivise the hoards that are pouring across the border and damaging this country.
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In July and August Tucson (Pima County) is a hellhole. Might as well be walking on the sun. Those who cross at this time must have had fried brains BEFORE they began the trek. BTW, the Arizona RED Daily Star published this as a front page leftist sympathy story this past Sunday on the front page.
[The News (Pak)] THATTA: The breach in Saifullah Magsi Canal near Shahdadkot has inundated Qabu Saeed Khan and Chaukhi, Geo News reported Tuesday.
The erosion at Soorjani Bund has exposed the urban areas to increased risk of inundation, as the Bund's 450-km stretch has begun to disintegrate under surging pressure from floodwater. The local people are scrambling hard to plug it with sand sacks.
It should be mentioned here that current with 800,000 cusecs is passing through the Bund with stormy winds roaring around leading floodwater to devour the embankment's soil, putting the nearby residential areas at jeopardy.
The people from the nearby villages started evacuation along with their cattle.
The educational institutions scheduled to re-open on August 25, will remain closed for yet one week more, according to Thatta administration.
GOC Pannu Akil Maj Gen Nasrullah Dogar inspected Akil Agani Loop Bund in Larkana and lauded the jawans for their efforts. The GOC also discussed with Speaker Sindh Assembly Nisar Khuro and MPA Ayaz Soomro over the Akil Loop Bund and overall flood situation in the area.
The sources told that they could no more find stones besides broken down machinery to stem the erosion at Akil Loop Bund, resulting in the halt to the repair work.
The breach in Saifullah Magsi Canal near Shahdadkot has submerged under water Qabu Saeed Khan and Chaukhi, with 90 percent population already evacuated.
The breach in a bund near Qabu Saeed Khan has spawned problems to people living in areas abutting Wara and Qambar bunds.
DCO Qambar Yasin Shar issued caveat this morning to the local people for early evacuation.
Also, the repair work at Main Nara Valley drain and FP Drain, is afoot.
It has been reported that relief camps in Dadu are not being provided with the clean potable water, giving spur to various epidemic diseases among children and women.
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repair work at Main Nara Valley drain and FP Drain, is afoot
[Dawn] An exceptionally high flood hit the Kotri Barrage on Tuesday. River Indus was flowing in exceptionally high flood level with rising trend at the barrage with a water inflow of 912,582 cusecs while the outflow was recorded at 809,977 cusecs.
On the other hand, dozens of villages were submerged around Thatta. Water levels at Sukkur and Guddu barrages were receding; the same situation was reported from upper Sindh.
Scores of villages in Kot Magsi were flooded. Sources said the deluge has affected about one-fifth of Pakistan's territory. At least six million people have been left homeless and 20 million affected overall.
A flood relief camp established at the Mono-Technical College near Hyderabad was pulled out after floodwaters entered its premises. Local volunteers started relief work on a self help basis in Latifabad and other parts of the city.
The dykes on the river were being strengthened and the embankments had been broken at Khanpur and Al-Manzar to save Hyderabad. Floodwaters also inundated the Khanpur area. Another breach was made near the Khair Mohammed Rajar Goth near the Kotri upstream, which has submerged the katcha area.
Flood survivors were being kept in government school buildings and Labour Department flats due to the congestion at the central relief camp in Hyderabad. People were in desperate need of food, shelter and clean drinking water.
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[Geo TV] Flood hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were still reeling from the devastation of the worst floods of the country. Waterborne diseases have affected many while the situation is Gilgit Baltistan was still bad and the food prices have skyrocketed, Geo News reported.
There was a shortage of food items and medicines in GB and the scarcity of fuel has compounded the problems of the people.
The water was stagnant in Nowshera, Mohib Banda, Aman Goth, Pashtoon Garhi and Nowshera Kalan areas resulting in epidemic of diseases.
The residents of Badarshi, a district of Nowshera, attacked a World Food Programme (WFP) store after facing weeklong shortage of foodstuff. Later, police arrived and restored the order.
Law enforcement personnel seized 70 bags of flour provided by WFP and held five suspects.
Charsadda flood affectees started returning but facing difficulties because of stagnant water.
Flash floods have destroyed much of the communication network in Swat valley but the restoration work has not yet started while the electricity in upper areas was cut for the last one month.
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[Geo TV] A moderate earthquake deep in the Hindu Kush mountain range Tuesday jolted parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, but there were no reports of any casualties or damage, officials said.
"A moderate earthquake of 5.2 magnitude was recorded at 1334 (Pakistan standard time — 0834 GMT)," Zahid Rafi, director of the seismic centre at Pakistan's meteorological department said.
"The epicentre of the earthquake was on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border and its depth was 230 kilometres. It was also felt in Swat Valley and other areas close to Hindu Kush," he said.
On October 8, 2005 a 7.6-magnitude quake killed more than 73,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi preacher Yusuf al-Ahmed slammed stores that hire women cashiers and called upon shoppers to boycott them on the grounds that their owners violate Islamic teachings and promote Westernization. Did he get this cleared through the Fatwa High Council?
The recent appointment of several female cashiers in Banda Shopping Centers, owned by the Savola Group, led Sheikh al-Ahmed, who is also a professor at the Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University, to issue a fatwa banning the practice.
"This is prohibited because it is part of the Western project that is imposing itself upon our society," he said in an interview with a fatwa show. "This is a project of hypocrites and has to be stopped."
Ahmed said he contacted those in charge of the "project" and conveyed to them the concerns of the society about hiring women cashiers, but their response was "inappropriate."
"I am surprised at support the administration of this place is getting. Is this project directly backed by the United States?" Bhwa-ha-ha, we're everywhere ...
Ahmed called upon Muslims to boycott Banda Shopping Centers in all of Saudi Arabia and sue them if they do not stop.
"Boycotting is one of the legitimate ways of fighting those who violate Islamic teachings and come up with novelties imported from the West and it was sanctioned by scholars and the prophet." The other legitimate way, of course, is blowing up the stores and beheading the cashiers ...
Before starting the boycott, Ahmed suggested, the stores should first be given some time to redress their mistakes. If they don't, the boycott should start.
"If we stand still while this is happening, it will spread and the Westernized will get the opportunity to implement their project." Next will be a Pentecostal church in Medina ...
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Female cashiers could be victims of "harassment" from young male customers. Oh, the scandal!
This could also create a domino effect whereby Saudi women become housemaids or other such disreputable tasks reserved for foreigners.
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"You don't unnerstand! If you give wommen money, they won't stay in the kitchen and bake you pah! They think they better 'n you an' act all sassy an' want to wear shoes. An' it ain't right!"
Bangla #88. Burkina Faso #100.
[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh has been ranked 88th among the 100 countries in the first-ever list of the world's best countries prepared by international newsmagazine, Newsweek in its latest issue. Bangla cracked the top 100? Who, besides Zim and Somalia, out of the 192 countries making up the UN didn't make the list?
For this special survey, published in its August 23 & 30 issue, Newsweek chose five categories of national well-being such as education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness and political environment across the 100 nations. Ah, Newsweek. That explains it.
Bangladesh's position is one rank up from Pakistan (89th) and way down from Sri Lanka (66th) and India (78th).
Finland has topped the list and all the top 10 winners are Nordics. The Nordics are Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia .. wait a minute, that's only seven.
Burkina Faso found itself at the bottom. Can't get much more un-Nordic than Burkina-Faso. Say, what ever happened to Dahomey?
Newsweek says the survey has found that the best countries tend to "be small, rich, safe and cold."
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Maybe they're counting the UK, Ireland, and Iceland as being Nordic? I mean, except for recent immigrants there was massive settlement by Vikings into those countries.
Where was Canada?
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And don't be down on Bangladesh, they _do_ have the Rapid Action Battalion, which is pretty neat.
(Prensa Latina) The United States has not changed and continues to have interfering, pro-coup, and threatening policies, and that is a problem not only for Latin America but for the whole world, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated.
Ortega made those comments in an exclusive August 18 interview with journalist Elena Rostova, host of the "A Solas" television program broadcast by Russian RT television, and a transcript was released here on Monday.
Referring to political changes in Latin America in the last few years, the Nicaraguan leader recalled the meeting between several Latin American and Caribbean statesmen and U.S. President Barack Obama in Trinidad and Tobago, where he announced Washington had a new policy on the region.
"A few weeks after that meeting, a coup d'etat was carried out in Honduras, which was against the goodwill expressed in Trinidad and Tobago," Ortega said.
The Nicaraguan president stressed that the coup not only went against the countries of Latin America, but also against the policy that Obama himself announced in that meeting.
Ortega said that was proof that the situation in Latin America has changed, but the U.S. has only changed its rhetoric, and continues acting as usual. What has changed is U.S. methods, he said.
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exclusive August 18 interview
Exclusive? He's been spouting this hatred for most of his adult life. Why should anyone listen to this tripe? He's playing to the left in the U.S.?
This is a not-squat article worthy of the days when Pravda wasn't the Weekly World News, except...
I was struck by the contrast between Putin, trying to come up with ways to strengthen Russia's fishing and shipbuilding industries and the B.O. regime's cavalier destruction of 23,000 American jobs in association with the BP oil spill.
I can't imaging any official of the current administration, much less His Excellency Himself, saying similar things. "Jobs" remain generic except for when they're "green" and they're only discussed with union members, then forgotten as soon as the union guys are out of earshot.
B.O. still on vacation
(Itar-Tass) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested additional support to the construction of fishing vessels in Russia.
"I think we should take additional measures in support of the construction of fishing vessels. We can build modern fishing vessels, and we should probably have a separate program to that effect," he said.
A fisherman told Putin that they were worried by terms of fishing quota distribution, which would enter into force a decade from now. Then fishing quotas will be given to those who buy locally produced vessels and sponsor domestic shipyards.
The fisherman said that domestic shipyards were not competitive right now and it was cheaper to buy ships abroad.
Abolition of certain benefits may be harmful for domestic shipyards, Putin said. "That is a universal question. Our airlines ask for the possibility to buy Airbus and Boeing jetliners and for levying the zero duty on imported aircraft. If we do that, we will lose the domestic aircraft building industry," he said.
"It is the same with the shipbuilding industry. If we stop developing our shipyards, we will lose the knack and will never do anything. Competition is extremely tight on the world market," he said.
"Our policy must be balanced. We must permit imports at some point and tell potential clients that terms will be tightened later on," he said.
Putin noted that it would be possible to import only those types of vessels that would not be built in Russia.
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I am convinced that whatever country invests in deep sea aquaculture first is going to make a fortune. There have been experiments with little more than pontoons with drop nets, plus Purina fish chow, that have produced huge amounts of fish with low overhead.
All you need is a quiet patch of sea, perhaps in the lee of an island, where the water is calmer. It is also scalable, so with just a few square miles of sea farm you could raise enough fish to feed Japan.
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Wow. When you see it this way, it is dramatic. But it's all Bush's fault--whatever is bad. Even when BHO fell off his bike as a kid.
Where is Baghdad Bob Gibbs? Has he fallen off the planet? Haven't seen him in awhile. Are the donks not letting him out. Is he on a ghost plane to nowhere?
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..he's still in the company of the fawning WH medianews political corps, all in their bunker cocoon having lost contact with the world outside of the beltway.
Note the island encompassing the Beltway in the East when the map stops.
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Hello! That sure is a nice looking hog you got there Moonbeam. Oh where was I. Oh now I remember I believe Obama knows how bad things are and wants to get his vacation time in. He will be back shortly to make some announcement or pronouncement and run off again. He's doing a little duck and cover or a little bob'n weave (leave).
[ANSA] The sale of existing homes in the U.S. in July collapsed to the lowest since 1999 . Last month, according to the National Association of Realtors, sales fell by 27.2% to 3.83 million units, even worse than the estimates of analysts who had expected a decline of 13.4%.
Sales of detached houses dropped to the lowest since May 1995. ''The recovery of real estate and is linked to the recovery of the labor market in the U.S.'', said one analyst, noting that ''low interest rates are not enough to revive the real estate sector.''
On August 19 the average rate on 30-year loans in the U.S. stood at an historic low of 4.42%, according to data from Freddie Mac. Earlier in the year the market showed signs of recovery thanks to an incentive tax of $8,000, which lasted until April 30.
DOW JONES BELOW 10,000 U.S. HOMES SALES SLUMP AFTER
The Dow Jones dropped below the psychological threshold of 10,000 points after the collapse of home sales in the United States. Shortly after the statistical index went up to 10,061.
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I'm seeing rental property being foreclosed in my area as well. Many rental signs are up. It might just be me but I bet people are going back to family unit homes which might not be a bad thing. Perhaps rent rather than lose the property is an option now.
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I bicycle a fair bit and usually get an evening ride in around the neighborhoods where I live. We had lots of developments going in during the mid 2000s since where I live is at the point where exurbs meet country.
Now I bicycle through those neighborhoods and I see: lots of homes for sale. Empty lots for sale. Houses for rent. Lawns that aren't being maintained.
These were solid working-class and middle-class neighborhoods, two-level and ranch and split-ranch homes that had all the usual amenities when they were built.
I am thankful I don't have to sell a house right now and that I have a job that should weather the storm.
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''The recovery of real estate and is linked to the recovery of the labor market in the U.S.''
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One of my clients is a Real Estate agent in a major US City. In her 70's with many years experience and top seller. She has had NOTHING in the Title company for two months. There are plenty of buyers but there is no money to borrow. She has switched to finding renters for homes, her fee is first month's rent plus 10% of the rent each month to manage it. Only way she is able to survive, barely, as a Real Estate agent right now.
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Oh, she said yesterday if you have an account with Citi, close it. Citi is about to go under. When such a huge US bank collapses, the repercussions nationally and world wide will be catastrophic.
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#2,#5 Hello!
CITI - that is good information to ponder but what can a person do. With the September stock market skidders who knows how tough it can get. Then we have the October surprise yet Woopie!. If I was faced with losing my home I would consider taking in a renter or boarder like they did in the old days. I think alhaltzhimers or dementia may occur for a reason.
Come election time our politicians (Rino's and Dino's) will talk tough but they will not have the resolve. Look at Norway and Russia both are in good shape.
TORONTO -- Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers in the Arctic as they approached Canadian airspace on the eve of a visit from Canada's prime minister who will observe an Arctic military exercise, a spokesman for the prime minister said Wednesday.
Dimitri Soudas, Stephen Harper's director of communications, said two Canadian CF-18 jets shadowed a pair of Russian TU-95 Bear jets in international airspace on Tuesday. Still flying the Bears... TU-95's first entered service in 1956, the B-52 in 1955. Good designs last a very long time.
Soudas said the bombers flew within 30 miles (50 kilometers) of Canadian soil. They were first spotted approximately 120 nautical miles north of Inuvik, Northwest Territories.
Canada has linked recent Russian flights in the area to the competition between Canada, Russia, the U.S. and other countries to secure Arctic resources. With polar ice melting there are new opportunities to exploit the region's oil, gas and mineral reserves. Yep, gotta stick to the narrative...
Two Russian bombers were intercepted last month off Canada's East Coast near the Arctic and in February 2009, fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Russian bomber in the Arctic as it approached Canadian airspace on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to Ottawa. The Russians said then the plane never encroached on Canadian airspace and that Canada had been told about the flight beforehand. Canada's defense minister said Russia gives no warning prior to the flight, despite Canada's request for Russia to do so.
Swell. They can come onto your private property, tag your car, and follow your every move.
Their logic is that you do not have a right to privacy in your driveway or off your private property. Maybe they are right, since the government has been been staking out people for years to follow them from their home to see what they are up to.
As far as I am concerned, they don't have a right to go onto my driveway, and they don't have a right to touch my car. Unless they don't mind the idea of me touching their car, that is.
Cellphones now all have triangulation between towers, even if they are in passive mode or off. As well, there is even software on the Internet by which cellphone conversations can be monitored, and even a passive cellphone acts as a listening device to anyone who wants to listed to what you are saying in the area.
But the problem is the minority of people who do not use or carry cellphones, nor have equivalent tracking devices in their vehicles. Outside of expensive satellite surveillance, they can gallivant all over the place while being "black", and the government won't otherwise be able to track them.
After some furtive efforts to require auto manufacturers to have LoJack-style systems in all new cars, they settled for just being able to selectively target particular vehicles at will. No warrant necessary.
Likewise, if you discover such a device on your vehicle, it is a criminal offense to remove or tamper with it, a law which has long been used against organized criminals who were being surreptitiously monitored.
Remember, your government watches you because it loves you.
Alex Forrest:"Well, what am I supposed to do? You won't answer my calls, you change your number. I mean, I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan!"
And I'm glad my car is in a garage. If some liberal ass-twat judge tells me I don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in there, I'm going to take a dump on his couch since he shouldn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his own goddamn home.
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Your Emails are already being covertly read widout yur knowledge or consent, + being monitoring you in public restrooms, etc.
IFF YOU'RE LUCKY, THE ONLY NOTICE ONE SEES IS A BRIEF WINDOW POSTER BROADLY = SUBJECTIVELY INFORMING YOU THAT THE ENTIRE AREA IS UNDER "GENERAL" SECURITY WATCH/
MONITOR/SURVEILLANCE, whiel NOT specifically saying that they're also doing the above.
WHATS STOPPING THEM FROM BEING MORE SPECIFIC - NOTHING EXCEPT THEMSELVES + FEAR OF PUBLIC BACKLASH IFF THEY KNEW.
IMO iff the Govt is going to be covertly reading your PRIVATE EMAILS + WATCHING YOU USE THE RESTROOM, ETC, THEN IT SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY PROBS ALLOWING THE MAINSTREAM TO SEE THEIRS, CORRECT?
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, "SUNSHIEN LAWS, ETC.???
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SOCIALIST-GOVTIST-TOTALITARIAN "UNIVERSAL SECURITY" = ONLY THE GOVT KNOWS, BUT NOT THE REST OF US???
The Govt absolutely positively categorically undeniably, ...........@etc. has Has HAS H-A-S HHHHHAAAAAAAAAASSSSS "HAS, HAS, YA KNOW spelled
H-I-Z-Z, HAS" TO KNOW, D **** NG IT, WHERE THAT THAT MOLE OR TATTOO YOU GOT DURING YOUR TWEEN OR TEEN YEARS OR "SPRING BREAK", ETC. CAME FROM, BUT YOU + ONLY YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO KNOW THAT OF THE POTUS, GOVT ACCOUNTING, OR EVEN A LOWLY OFFICE CLERK-AIDE AS PER "NATIONAL SECURITY"???
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As for "GPS", youse have probably UNKNOWINGLY = NON-CONSENSUALLY eaten andor swallowed
"EDIBLE/CONSUMABLE" ADVANCED = NT MICRO-DEVICES already [months iff not years, decades ago.
And in true MANO-A-MANO, "GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY" GUMPTION THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU, NOR EVEN TRIED TO TELL YOU, ABOUT IT, hence of course they're absolutely categorically undeniably, etc. as innocent as newborn Babes-Lambs.
No wonder the bills are so big.
Baucus: "I don't think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the health care bill. You know why? It's statutory language. We hire experts." That and because all this "statutory language" makes a great vehicle for anonymous pork spending. Why don't we just make the experts into Senators and cut out the middleman?
[Chosun Ilbo] Cambodia says Thailand's fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned as Cambodia's economic advisor, clearing the way for an easing of strained relations between the two countries.
Phnom Penh said Monday Thaksin stepped down at his own request because of difficulties in fulfilling his duties.
The former Thai leader, who now lives abroad, was ousted in a 2006 coup and was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison. Thailand accuses Thaksin of organizing and funding anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters.
Thai government officials indicated Monday that both countries could reinstate their ambassadors in light of Thaksin's resignation. The diplomatic row started in November when Cambodia appointed Thaksin as an economic advisor. Thailand accused Cambodia of intervening in Thai politics, and both countries recalled their ambassadors.
Relations between Cambodia and Thailand also are troubled by a festering territorial dispute. Other Southeast Asian countries are discussing a Cambodian request that the Association of South East Asian Nations mediate the dispute over land around an ancient Hindu temple, Preah Vihear.
The International Court of Justice ruled in 1962 that the Preah Vihear temple lies on Cambodia territory. But both sides lay claim to a 4.6 km stretch of land that controls access to the site.
Each side has thousands of troops positioned along the border, where skirmishes since 2008 have left at least eight soldiers dead.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[The News (Pak)] THATTA: The breach in Saifullah Magsi Canal near Shahdadkot has inundated Qabu Saeed Khan and Chaukhi, Geo News reported Tuesday.
[Geo TV] Flood hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were still reeling from the devastation of the worst floods of the country. Waterborne diseases have affected many while the situation is Gilgit Baltistan was still bad and the food prices have skyrocketed, Geo News reported.
[Geo TV] A moderate earthquake deep in the Hindu Kush mountain range Tuesday jolted parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, but there were no reports of any casualties or damage, officials said.
[ANSA] The sale of existing homes in the U.S. in July collapsed to the lowest since 1999 . Last month, according to the National Association of Realtors, sales fell by 27.2% to 3.83 million units, even worse than the estimates of analysts who had expected a decline of 13.4%.
