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The video with the dying patient totally ignored by the
medical staff at Kings County Hospital
Center has shocked the entire New York, leaving even its
top official “disgusted.”
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he was “horrified” while
watching the video showing Esmin Elizabeth Green, a 49-year-old woman, collapsing
on the hospital’s floor and lying there for an hour with no help at all from
the medical staff.
Green was brought at the hospital on June 18 showing signs
of agitation and psychosis. She was left waiting in the emergency room for
nearly 24 hours because...
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Tuesday night, the man who allegedly killed 8 people from
both Illinois and Missouri
was arrested by Illinois
state police. According to the Chicago Tribune, authorities said that Nicholas
Troy Sheley, 28, was captured in Granite
City, Ill. He went
outside a bar to smoke and police made their move, arresting him.
The FBI said that Sheley killed 8 people by “blunt force
trauma” to the head, using an ax in some of the homicides. That made
authorities think the crimes were related. Apparently this whole situation
began on June 14 when Sheley broke into an elderly woman’s home and...
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President George W. Bush made his first visit to Monticello
in Charlottesville, Va,
on his last Fourth of July as president. The purpose of the visit to the home
of Thomas Jefferson, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was
to welcome 72 men and women from 30 countries, including one from Burma,
as they prepared to take the oath of citizenship at the annual Independence Day
ceremony. Addressing the honorees, the U.S.
president discoursed about the passage to citizenship, Jefferson’s
heritage and the goals and principles deriving from the Declaration...
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With the number of salmonella infections reaching more than
850, federal health officials have begun to doubt that tomatoes alone are
behind the outbreak. That’s why, during a conference held on Tuesday, they said
they had expanded their hunt beyond tomatoes, looking to see whether other
products might be responsible for the outbreak.
That does not mean they will exclude tomatoes from the list
of products being investigated. “The tomato trail is still hot. It’s a question
of whether other products are getting hotter,” Dr. David Acheson, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration’s...
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United States President George W. Bush along with top U.S. military commander Admiral Mike Mullen advised Israel to think twice before considering bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. A military operation against Teheran would be unwise for the moment said the two officials especially because an attack would have unforeseeable consequences and could involve the United States in a third war that would put a lot of stress and pressure on its forces. Instead, the western powers and Israel need to use more diplomacy to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, Bush said. "This is a very...
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Japanese remembered on Wednesday those fallen during World War II in a ceremony attended by Premier...
Coordinated attacks killed 220 Iraqis and injured at least 400 in a northwestern town late Tuesday,...
Six Italian nationals were shot dead Wednesday morning in Duisburg, western Germany, the police...
Canada’s defence minister Gordon O'Connor was demoted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper who began...
Dozens of environmentalists set up their tents near Heathrow airport in London to protest towards...
Violence continues to escalate in Somalia, a human rights group saying at least 30 people have been...
During a meeting with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
Israeli Defence Force (IDF) soldiers carried out an operation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, four...
North Korea is seriously affected by floods after rain fell incessantly for almost a week, hundreds...
Pakistan celebrated on Tuesday 60 years of independence from Britain amid an increasing political...
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