[Pak Daily Times] Health officials in Chad say an outbreak of cholera in the Central African nation has killed at least 41 people.
Mahamat Mamadou Adji said Friday that there have been nearly 600 confirmed cases of the fast-moving infection that causes diarrhea in victims, leading to severe dehydration. The outbreak in Chad come as officials in the neighboring countries of Nigeria and Cameroon also have expressed concern about cholera deaths.
In Nigeria, health officials say more than 350 people have been killed in only three months.
Cholera is highly contagious yet easily preventable with clean water and sanitation. But Nigerian health officials say in many areas, wells remain uncovered, allowing tainted water to flow into the communities' drinking water supplies.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a bullet-hit mugger after a gun battle between Rab and a gang of muggers in the capital's Kellarmor area of Lalbagh yesterday.
The arrestee, Md Awal Bepari, sustained bullet injury to his leg and Rab rushed him to city's Midfort Hospital. After giving primary treatment, they handed him over to Lalbagh police station.
Rab said a gang of muggers was trying to snatch valuables from a pedestrian Rahmat ullah at JN Saha Road of Lalbagh at around 11:30pm. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-10 appeared on the scene and chased the gang.
The gang opened fire while trying to escape and Rab retaliated with gunshots.
Rab then caught the mugger and seized two choppers from his possession.
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seized two choppers
Machete's?
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Mugger is derived from the Hindi magar, a type of crocodile that lurks in hiding for weak or altogether helpless victims.
But my first though went to "thugs" which is derived from the Hindi thag, meaning thief. "Thugees", of Indiana Jones fame, strangled thousands of people with special yellow scarves as a form of devotion to the Hindu goddess Kali.
I guess I watch too many movies.
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On Friday a man suspected of ordering the assassination of a US Consulate employee and her husband in Juarez earlier this year made a totally unexpected appearance in US court in San Antonio TX behind closed doors. Jesus Ernesto Chávez Castillo, known as "El Camello", was been arrested in Mexico in July & had been held in Mexico City. Neither US nor Mexican officials would provide any explanation as to how 'El Camello' came to appear in a US Federal courtroom. There are no official records of his extradition to the US.
Some Venezuelans seem to be worried for some reason. The rest don't get it. Yet.
"People depended on the government to eat, and nothing gives you more power than having people depend on you to get their food quota." Give me your guns, I'll give you food. Don't complain about the economy or the politics, I'll give you food. Give me your money, I'll give you food. Work for me, I'll give you food.
Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.
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"Good Life" in the context of Saberhagen's Berserker fiction has a traitorous and horrid connotation. It represents not just the refutation of liberty, but of life itself.
Life of the people; life of the puppies; life of the daisies. All must be extinguished. With "good life" facilitating in their demise.
[Iran Press] South Korea's foreign minister has offered his resignation to President Lee Myung-bak over his ministry's controversial hiring of his daughter.
Yu Myung-Hwan was accused of nepotism over his ministry's controversial hiring of his 35-year-old daughter for a well-paid job.
Yu said he was "sorry to have caused trouble to the public," the ministry's spokesman Kim Young-sun told reporters. The minister takes "responsibility for causing controversy over the issue," Kim added.
President Lee is expected to accept his resignation, Yonhap news agency said.
The Foreign Ministry provoked controversy this week after it selected Yu's daughter for a mid-level post among six other applicants.
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Accept it. Move on. More important problems press upon us.
I imagine basically a French and a Flemish Left, a French and a Flemish Right, a French and a Flemish Green or Communist, and a German party to represent them at the national level. Plus all sorts of splinter parties of the kinds that parliamentary systems with proportional representation encourage.
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Belgium seems like a weird country for one so small.
A few years ago I met an elderly fellow from Belgium. His name was Marcel, so I assume he was from the French side of Belgium. He said that the Northerners and Southerners hated each other. They speak different languages (sometimes on purpose, even though they understand the other language.)
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But TW, that's really only three parties - A nationalist/rightist for each side, and one big leftish group with various sects.
I've never understood the distinctions between greens/socialists/communists/etc.. on the left - Always struck me as sort of a Pampers/Luvs branding thing - same goals and leaders, just varied marketing.
The nationality/language/culture split which affects the right, I get.
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Tens of thousands of Flemish people, meanwhile, took part on Sunday in an annual demonstration which consists in symbolically "encircling" Brussels by bike or on foot, to remind locals that they are surrounded by Flanders.
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Tens of thousands of Flemish people, meanwhile, took part on Sunday in an annual demonstration which consists in symbolically "encircling" Brussels by bike or on foot, to remind locals that they are surrounded by Flanders.
The ominous clicking of wooden shoes ....
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If the United European dream doesn't melt I suspect a lot of nations might find certain enclaves going their own way. After all why should Bavarians pay taxes to Germany and Europe? Or Tuscany, or Basque or whatever.
[Iran Press] A stronger than expected recovery has encouraged Germany to lift this year's growth forecast from the previous 1.4 percent to 3.0 percent. How's the American recovery working out, Champ?
Germany expects an improvement in the job market with the number of unemployed dropping below three million, according to a report published in the German daily Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung on Saturday.
In August, the number of unemployed stood at 3.19 million, or 7.6 percent.
In April, Berlin didn't change its 1.4 percent growth forecast, but last month revised it to about 3.0 percent, up from 1.9 percent, the report added. The euro zone's top economy recorded growth of 2.2 percent in the second quarter, the highest growth since reunification in 1990.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved budget cuts of around 80 billion euros, which critics say may hit women and minorities the poorest hard and endanger the country. The measures in the plan include a new tax on passenger air travel but postpone a decision on a planned tax on nuclear fuel rods until later this month.
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... approved budget cuts...
... The measures in the plan include a new tax...
Bangs head
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Well, at least Germany didn't have to deal with the Big Crash in their banking system after all the TARP money that flowed across the Atlantic to cover their gambling investment loses.
(Itar-Tass) -- Talks on forming the Netherlands' new government with the participation of the Geert Wilders-led ultra-right Freedom Party ended in failure on Friday. In the evening Wilders announced withdrawal from the negotiating process.
The Dutch parties that entered parliament in the June 9 elections have been locked in there months of talks, trying to agree on forming a government coalition. The Queen-appointed intermediaries have reshuffled practically all possible combinations. For the past few weeks there have been consultations on creating a three-party coalition of the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, centrist Christian Democratic Appeal and ultra-right Freedom Party.
Whereas late last week reports arrived that the parties had managed to agree on the basic positions and the announcement they had agreed to form a government was a matter of days, just one week later the Dutch Government's information service said that the talks on forming a coalition suffered failure.
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Ultra right? They only promote harsh policies on security issues. Otherwise they are mainstream.
From the little I've read, it sounds like Mr. Wilders is standard Euro-socialist inasmuch as he has any economic principles at all, except for being against the creeping Caliphate and strongly pro-Israel.
well if Freedom is supposed to be "ultra-right"...
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In England it's the Far-Right, in Netherlands it's the Ultra-Right, and pretty much the same pattern everywhere. There is no "The Right" or "Right Wing", it's always "Extreme Right". Get it? And then there's the people who write all this drivel.
[Pak Daily Times] Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.
In the month since his home was destroyed in the raging floodwaters that inundated Pakistain, he has gotten no aid of any kind from the government or private aid groups to help him survive, he said.
Frustrated and desperate, he joined a protest with dozens of other villagers that blocked the main road in this area 10 days ago.
Sounds about right for that part of the world. In Bhopal the little people are still waiting for their share of the Union Carbide money, last I heard. Mr. Rehman might want to stop waiting for help that isn't likely to come, and team up with his neighbors to fashion what shelter and obtain what food they can.
In response, police opened a criminal investigation against him, he said. And he still has not gotten any food or even a tarp to shield his family of six from the blazing summer sun, he said.
More than three million people have yet to receive desperately needed food aid, according to the UN, and the Pak government says nearly one million people have received no help of any sort.
"They need everything," said Ahmad Kamal, front man for Pakistain's disaster management agency, who appealed to international donors to send tents, ambulances, mobile clinics and hygiene kits.
The lack of aid has led to anger against an already-fragile government that is seen as a key US ally in the battle against gunnies along the frontier with Afghanistan.
The anger itself is hampering relief efforts, with the Red Thingy twice halting distributions after being confronted by mobs of people upset they were not getting enough aid, the organisation said on Thursday.
Part of the problem is simply the scale of the crisis. The floods that began their slow wave of destruction across Pakistain at the end of July swamped as much as one-fifth of the country, leaving eight million people dependent on aid, according to the UN and that number keeps growing as more areas are affected. "This seems to be a never-ending disaster," said Stacey Winston, a UN spokeswoman.
But many of those affected also blame the problem on corruption by local government officials, who steer aid to their supporters and withhold it from others.
Of the 32 families in Daira Dinpanah, around 140 kilometres west of Multan, only seven who have ties to local political leaders have received aid of any kind, said Khalid Iqbal, 35, who stands on the side of the road clutching a list of all those needing assistance, waiting for an aid group to pass by.
The remainder have survived by scrounging meals at the local mosque, or, like Rehman, temporarily bouncing between relatives' houses before returning home.
A month after the flood hit, the village's fields are still filled with water and its roads are a muddy swamp. Rehman's house is surrounded by floodwaters and reachable only by a makeshift bridge of two steel girders laid end to end, held aloft in the middle by a bed sunk in the water.
His snack shop on the road is gone and even the ledger where he recorded the debts his customers owed him had been destroyed.
"There is nothing for us beside these broken homes," the 30-year-old said, surveying the piles of mud and brick where his house once stood. "We left this area in the night, at 2am, with only the clothes we were wearing. We still have only the clothes we were wearing," he added.
"The government should give us shelter, give us money to rebuild our houses and to buy some food. If it can't do that, than at least it should give us tents so that our children live in respectable conditions. Here we are living in the open sky. How can we survive like this," he said.
Ghulam Mustafa, 30, said he only received food once, a package of flour and other relief goods sufficient to feed a family of six for a week, but only enough to sustain his family of 10 for a few days.
When he later appealed to local officials for more food, they sent him away, he said.
"We are running behind the (aid) trucks, but they give us nothing. They are not listening to us," he said. "Nobody even came here to ask us, 'what do you need'.
Local opposition politician Javed Akhter said the vast majority of the government aid is being funnelled to the supporters of the local administration, and rued that his relatively well off region had been reduced to a town of beggars.
Kamal said workers from the disaster management agency sent aid to the affected areas but could not monitor how it had been distributed.
Malik Ahmed Hunajara, the local representative to the provincial assembly, denied political favours were influencing aid distribution.
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Allah helps those who help thmselves, try it FIRST, Whine later.
Some years back MY home was destroyed By a freak snowstorm (Montgomery Alabama does NOT get 8 inches of Snow) a huge pine tree about 4 feet across over topped and fell cutting my home in half.
I did NOT whine to the media, I did not do nothing and wait, I rebuilt from the rubble, and as I was working, my son showed up and helped.
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE, WORK FIRST
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"THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE, WORK FIRST"
You're assuming they've ever done anything but suck at the gumming teat and/or done what the gummint told them worked before, RJ. :-(
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[Dawn] A 10-metre breach at an embankment in a village near Mehar widened to 60 metres on Saturday evening, inundating more than 40 villages in three union councils.
The water from the breach at Suprio, in Mochi village, was now threatening Mehar itself. It was 10 kilometres from the town at Saturday midnight. Mehar was facing a danger from another side as the water released from a breach in Khairpur Nathan Shah was also advancing on the town.
Dadu DCO Mohammad Iqbal advised residents of the district and the internally displaced people to move to safe places. About 80 per cent of the residents have already abandoned Mehar.
Because of a shortage of vehicles, people were seen travelling on foot and riding donkey carts on Naseerabad, Larkana and Betto Jatoi roads.
Hamal lake has started overflowing from its spillways at the Main Nara Valley (MNV) drain, posing a threat to Dadu.
Qambar-Shahdadkot DCO Yaseen Shar said that gates of the Hamal lake was lifted by one foot on Saturday night to allow the water to discharge in the MNV drain and release the pressure on the lake.
OFFICIALS THRASHED: The guards and gunnies of PPP MNA Dr Talat Hussain Mahesar and MPA Fiaz Hussain Butt thrashed chief engineer of right bank of Sukkur barrage Agha Aijaz, chief engineer of small dams Khalid Hussain Memon, Larkana superintending engineer Shafaqat Hussain Wadho when they visited Suprio bund to plug a breach.
The officials fled for their lives and went to the Betto Jatoi rest house. However, There's usually a howeverin there someplace, isn't there? Sindh Labour Minister Amir Nawab, former MPA Kazi Shafique Ahmed Mahessar and MPA Fiaz Butt persuaded them to start work.
Later, irrigation officials, administration and elected representatives decided to give a 500-foot wide cut in Mehar drain to divert the water to Khairpur Nathan Shah town and Johi branch (canal). The K.N.S town has already been flooded.
MPA Fiaz Hussain accused the irrigation officials of not dumping stones at the Suprio embankment which resulted in a breach in Mochi village.
Chief engineer Agha Aijaz said the water level at the breach site of Suprio bund was high and it could not be plugged. He said that irrigation officials had sought army protection so that they could work without any fear.
The floodwater reached near Sita Road town in Dadu. The residents have collected Rs1.5 million to build a ring-embankment and save the town.
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Noah - how long can you tread water? (Allan is displeased.)
Apparently Iranian authorities saw a picture of her without her headscarf in the Times of London, which has retracted the photograph saying that it is that of another woman.
Personally, I think if they end up carrying through with these punishments that it would be a fitting representation of Sharia law if they dug her up and lashed her after she is stoned to death.
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Are the 99 lashes before, after, or instead of after stoning? Does Bloomberg still want to have religious freedom in NYC that allows Sharia law? There is religious freedom and then there is sheer stupidity that allows a suicide pact with the enemy.
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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Health officials in Chad say an outbreak of cholera in the Central African nation has killed at least 41 people.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a bullet-hit mugger after a gun battle between Rab and a gang of muggers in the capital's Kellarmor area of Lalbagh yesterday.
(Itar-Tass) -- Talks on forming the Netherlands' new government with the participation of the Geert Wilders-led ultra-right Freedom Party ended in failure on Friday. In the evening Wilders announced withdrawal from the negotiating process.
A 10-metre breach at an embankment in a village near Mehar widened to 60 metres on Saturday evening, inundating more than 40 villages in three union councils. 
