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Costa Rica volcano erupts

China.org.cn - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Costa Rica's Institute of Volcanology and Seismology says the eruption occurred at around 9 a.m. local time. People in the nearby village of La Central have been ...
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El Salvadorian village getting outside help with water needs

A non-profit organization, the Minnesota State Mankato chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has set their sights on El Salvador and will be travelling to a small village in Piedras Azules to help the local community with their water access needs.

The problem is that in the village in Piedras Azules there is just one water source with unreliable water access as the water table changes depending on the time of year and the weather. This leads to long queues at the well, with some residents sometimes waking up at midnight to beat the water rush. Read more

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Mexican woman gets first transplant of ovaries in Latin America

El Salvador News.Net - Friday 24th May, 2013

A Mexican woman received Latin America's first transplant of ovaries in a hospital in the western city of Guadalajara, the director of the Mexican Infertility Institute, Luis Arturo Ruvalcaba, announced. Ruvalcaba told EFE by telephone that the patient is a 32-year-old women who had developed cervical and uterine cancer that was detected and treated in France. "The ethics committee of the ...
Nicaraguan Government Implements Preventive Campaign against Drugs

Prensa Latina - Friday 24th May, 2013

Managua, May 24 (Prensa Latina) More than 15, 300 social awareness activities are planned in Nicaragua until next September as part of a national campaign against drug abuse. Marches, exhibition fairs on the phenomenon of drug addiction, outpatient care to addicted youth and training to students of primary and secondary schools are part of the program, said the deputy minister of government ...
Panama President will Convene Extraordinary Sessions of Parliament

Prensa Latina - Friday 24th May, 2013

Panama, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli convene next May 27 the National Assembly into special session to discuss 11 topics, confirmed Sergio Galvez, parliamentary leader. Among the issues to be addressed, according to Galvez, stand the project to amend articles of Law 10 of 2010 which created the Fire Department of Panama and allows them to have a trust in the ...
Many Mexican Young Adults Have A Genetic Predisposition To Obesity

Medical News Today - Friday 24th May, 2013

obesity , said a University of Illinois scientist who conducted a study at the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potos?. "The students who inherited genetic risk factors from both parents were already 15 pounds heavier and 2 inches bigger around the waist than those who hadn't. They also had slightly higher fasting glucose levels," said Margarita Teran-Garcia, a U of I professor ...

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Suspect killed in Orlando has confessed to 2011 triple murders says FBI

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has confessed to slashing the throats of three people in a 2011 gruesome triple murder, federal law enforcement officials have said. Ibragim Todashev, who made the confession, was killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law ...
Obama seeks more transparency in use of drones

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

WASHINGTON - In a major counter-terrorism speech, President Barack Obama Thursday defended the covert US drone program and stressed that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save lives. He also said the use of lethal force extends to U.S. citizens as well. This disclosure comes a day after his administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US ...
Taliban car bomb kills 13 in Pakistan

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car bomb targeting a police vehicle in western Pakistani city of Quetta Thursday, police officials said. The bombing also injured at least 20 people in the capital of Baluchistan province, riven by Islamist militancy and a violent separatist insurgency. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...

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Canada threatens to retaliate against change in US meat labeling rules

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

OTTAWA - Canada has threatened "retaliatory measures" against the United States move changing the so-called country of origin labeling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution systems, stating that it is discriminatory, a view shared by the World Trade Organisation. On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a final modification to its ...
After breaches Twitter beefs up security with two-step login

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...
Irish biotech firm Elan rejects revised Royalty Pharma bid

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

DUBLIN/ WASHINGTON Ireland-based biotechnology firm Elan Thursday rejected Royalty Pharma's increased $6.4 billion takeover bid, shortly after the U.S. firm cut the acceptance bar for its latest offer to 50 percent plus one share. Royalty raised its hostile cash bid to $12.50 per share on Monday, from $11.25 previously, but made the new offer conditional on Elan shareholders rejecting, at a ...
Import alert by USFDA hits Wockhardt shares

El Salvador News.Net - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

MUMBAI - Shares of Wockhardt, one of the leading Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, witnessed a sharp fall of 20% to Rs. 1,315 ($23.61) on the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) on Thursday after the US FDA published an import alert on one of its three manufacturing facilities near Aurangabad. The import alert, 'detention without physical examination of drugs from firms which have ...

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