A potential strike by about 800 airport security workers in Atlantic Canada has been delayed by the federal labour minister asking for a ruling on whether they provide an essential service. The workers are employees of Securitas Transportation Airport Security, which has the contract for airport security at 17 airports in the four Atlantic provinces. Read article
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JAIPUR: One more scrub typhus patient died in the state taking death toll due to the disease to 14. The medical health and family welfare department confirmed a scrub typhus death in Bundi district after which teams of the department inspected Nainwa area of the district. Read article
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The Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Marburg in Kabale district on October 19th 2012 after receiving laboratory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) confirming that two family members had died of the highly infectious viral hemorrhagic fever. Three other members of the same family had earlier died of a strange disease […]
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Health experts yesterday in Abuja expressed fears of possible outbreak of yellow fever in the country. They said 30 years after the last yellow fever epidemic outbreak in the country, no nationwide vaccination had been conducted since, stating that over 101 million Nigerians are at risk of being infected with the disease. Read article
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A breakdown in the wings of the cable, 5.7 kilometers long cable car Tatev in the southern mountains of Armenia, has left 37 tourists airborne according to actualidad.rt.com. Only ten people have been rescued so far, reports the country’s Emergencies Ministry. The highest point is 330 meters, was opened in 2010 and soon became a […]
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East Coast U.S. Travel Policy AA.com Due to the projected path of the hurricane, American Airlines offer customers the convenience to change their plans. Customers ticketed to travel on AA flights to, through, or from the airport listed may change flights as shown below. If you are traveling to or from: Baltimore, MD (BWI) Boston, […]
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flightaware.com reported thatover 3,000 flight cancellations so far as a result of Hurricane Sandy — details below: 707 flights cancelled to/from/within the US today. Most affected is Newark (EWR), a United hub, with over 265 cancellations today. 2,499 flights cancelled to/from/within the US tomorrow (Monday). Most affected is Newark (EWR), with 774 cancellations, second is […]
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FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE EXPECT 10:20 PM
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WEAK51 PAAQ 280653 TSUAK1 BULLETIN PUBLIC TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 8 NWS WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER PALMER AK 1153 PM PDT SAT OCT 27 2012 THE ADVISORY REGIONS ARE KEPT THE SAME. NEW OBSERVATIONS ARE ADDED BELOW …THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON FROM GUALALA POINT CALIFORNIA/LOCATED […]
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The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami advisory for the Southern Oregon Coast. Just before 11 p.m., the National Weather Service extended its existing tsunami advisory to include the southern Oregon and northern California coasts. The advisory area extends from north Gualala Point, Calif. to the county line of Douglas and Lane counties in […]
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