Food poisoning hits E. Java
Food poisoning hits E. Java
INDONESIA: Fifty-two people were taken to a community health
center in Mojokerto regency, East Java, on Saturday in a
suspected outbreak of food poisoning.
The Dinoyo subdistrict residents complained that they felt
dizzy and some vomited after they ate an iced dessert, served by
a resident during a gathering at their house.
Police were still investigating the incident, said Susi, a
nurse at Jatirejo Community Health Center in Mojokerto. -- Antara
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French shoot down Ivory Coast planes
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French down Ivory Coast planes
IVORY COAST: French forces shot down two Ivory Coast warplanes
and a military helicopter on Saturday after the aircraft bombed a
French position, a UN military spokesman said.
The clash -- the biggest confrontation ever between militaries
of Ivory Coast and its former colonial ruler -- happened at the
town of Brobo, near Bouake in Ivory Coast's rebel-held north, UN
military spokesman Philippe Moreux said.
"At 13:30 the Ivorian army launched an air raid at Brobo. The
planes bombed French positions. As a response, the French shot
down two Sukhoi 25s and one MI-24 helicopter," Moreux said.
French military spokesman in Paris and in Ivory Coast could
not immediately be reached for comment.
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Latest coal mine blast in China kills 16 -Xinhua
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China coal mine blast kills 16
CHINA: A gas explosion in a coal mine has killed 16 miners in
northern China, the latest in a string of accidents to hit the
mining industry, the official Xinhua news agency said on
Saturday.
Forty-eight miners were working underground at the time of the
blast, in the early hours of Friday at the Shiyawan coal pit,
near the city of Shuozhou in the northern province of Shanxi.
Xinhua reported that 32 miners escaped, and the cause of the
explosion is being investigated.
The Shiyawan mine is run by the local township and churns out
about 90,000 tonnes of the hard, dirty hydrocarbon each year.
China's coal industry, already the world's biggest and most
hazardous, produces the main fuel for the world's seventh-biggest
economy and has expanded with little supervision as the country
races to keep up with energy demand. --Reuters
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Report: Singapore to put guards, TV cameras in schools to deter
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S'pore beefs up security in schools
SINGAPORE: Singapore will deploy security guards and install
closed-circuit TV cameras in all of this city-state's schools to
deter terror attacks, newspapers reported on Saturday.
The measures are expected to cost the government up to S$20
million (US$12 million), the Straits Times reported.
Addressing students at a forum on Friday, education minister
Tharman Shanmugaratnam said it was necessary to beef up security
even though there was no immediate threat, the paper reported.
The measures are expected to be implemented in all of
Singapore's 351 schools in six to eight months, the paper said.
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Netherlands-Filmmaker Slain
Police detain eighth suspect in connection with Dutch filmmaker's
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Dutch police nab eighth suspect
THE NETHERLANDS: Police have detained an eighth suspect in the
slaying of a Dutch filmmaker, allegedly by a group accused of
threatening to kill several Dutch politicians in the name of
Islam, prosecutors said on Saturday.
The 23-year-old suspect, who was not named in a statement
issued by Amsterdam prosecutors, was detained Friday. It was not
clear if he was a Dutch citizen, but the statement specified that
he was "of Moroccan origin."
The suspects' ethnicity has become an issue because the
government announced plans to revoke the Dutch citizenship of
dual citizens suspected of terrorism.
Filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on Tuesday in Amsterdam. A
letter pinned to his body also threatened death to lawmaker Aayan
Hirsi Ali, who worked with Van Gogh on a movie criticizing the
treatment of women under Islam. --AP