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When people first started dying in this outbreak, doctors thought it was malaria.
The region is endemic for it, the lab facilities are poor, and the new Ebola strain slipped past the existing tests. By the time it was identified, the virologist Gagandeep Kang says, it had likely been spreading for over two months.
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There is a vaccine for Ebola. It does not work on this outbreak.
The shot protects against the Zaire species of the virus. The strain spreading through eastern Congo is a different species, Bundibugyo, and the CDC says the vaccine is not expected to protect against it.
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A drone hit Sayeed Azeem's ship. The oil container it struck was empty. A missile narrowly missed the damaged vessel as it fled. When he reached Dubai and quit the sea for good, a missile shut the airport in front of him. He made it home for Ramadan and has not gone back to the water.
The sea he left has not calmed: three more ships attacked in the last three days, Indian sailors aboard.
#IndianSeafarers #MaritimeSecurity #StraitOfHormuz #GulfOfOman #AndhraPradesh #NWSFacts
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Drones, missiles and sea: How Southern India's fishing villages caught in U.S.-Iran war
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Jun 13
₹2 lakh a month. That is what a good ship placement pays in three Andhra coastal villages, and why 70% of their men are at sea.
Nobody ordered them into the war zone. The salary is the order. Weeks ago, about 60 of them were stranded in the Gulf. This week, three ships attacked in three days, Indian crews aboard.
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Jun 13
In the 1950s, a freedom fighter saw British merchant ships at Visakhapatnam port and asked how local men could get aboard. Seventy years later, three villages he touched send most of their sons to sea.
Weeks ago, a mother there heard her son cry on the phone for the first time, his ship destroyed near Hormuz, his life saved by a lifeboat. This week, three more ships with Indian crews were hit in three days. The 70-year bargain is being repriced.
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Three merchant ships attacked in three days this week, Indian sailors aboard. The men on those decks come from somewhere. Often it is a place like three adjoining Andhra villages, where, weeks ago, about 60 men were stranded on ships in the Gulf, some inside the Strait of Hormuz itself.
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Jun 10
Philadelphia has just had its safest year since 1966, and 2026 is running lower still. Through that calm, one corner pizza shop kept appearing in homicide reports.
We pulled its reviews, the police files and the property records, and set them side by side for you.
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Jun 10
The emptiness has a paper trail. Federal inspections through the 2010s flagged failing conditions and empty units, years after the towers came down under the HOPE VI rebuild. All of it sits in public housing records.
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Delivery-lure cases here have been solved before. Arrests followed. While detectives work this one, the family waits on the paperwork to bring him home to Hyderabad, the Indian Consulate assisting. His sister Tanvi's plea ran across the Indian press: "Do not send your children to the US."
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Jun 7
India records about 800 heat deaths a year.
A new study finds a single hot day kills more than four times that.
Most are never counted.
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A five-day heatwave in India could kill nearly 30,000.
That is more than the combined populations of Tuvalu, Nauru and Vatican City.
The estimate comes from a UC Berkeley study published recently.
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Surya Rao, 65, has sold fruit from his moped across rural Andhra Pradesh, India for 40 years.
On the heat that has turned the road, in his words, to a river of lava: "We are like bubbles. We are like tourists. Mother Earth bears us for as long as she can. Then she lets us go."
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Jun 5
A grass that stores carbon from its first year in the ground. Most trees take years.
This World Environment Day, the plant doing it is one India has known for 2,000 years. Vetiver, named in Sangam-era Tamil verse. Its roots reach 10 feet down, earning the name living soil nail.
Two World Bank scientists found farmers using it in a Karnataka village in 1987. Now more than 100 countries use it.
The answer was Indian all along.
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Jun 3
Xi asked if the US would defend Taiwan. Trump didn't answer.
By Trump's own account, Xi asked if Washington would step in, and Trump gave no answer, only that he didn't want another war. He may delay the $14bn arms deal, floated as a bargaining chip.
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A virus that kills more than a third of the people it makes seriously ill. And the WHO calls the global risk low.
Both are true.
The Andes hantavirus, behind a cruise-ship outbreak that has killed three, carries a fatality rate of 35 to 40 per cent in its severe form. Yet it barely moves. Passing it person to person needs close, sustained contact, and it has never turned epidemic. Deadly to the one it reaches. Slow to reach the many.
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Jun 2
Thailand bombed the online-scam compounds across its border with Cambodia. It did not stop them.
The US think tank CSIS found the criminal networks can relocate and rebuild within days.
The buildings fall. What runs inside moves on.
Amnesty International counts more than 50 such centres in Cambodia, earning an estimated $12.5 billion a year.
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#ชายแดนไทยกัมพูชา #ThailandCambodia #CambodiaThailand #CambodiaOpenedFire
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Jun 2
A war near Iran is quietly showing up in Indian grocery bills, fuel pumps and savings accounts. We traced the whole chain, from the Strait to the shelf.
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