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By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: Jan 6, 2011 17:34 Updated: Jan 6, 2011 17:34 BEIJING: Twenty-four children have been hospitalized with lead poisoning caused by an illegal battery factory in their east China village, state media said Thursday, in the latest in a string of battery-related poisonings in recent years. The …

2011-01-04 19:53 Johannesburg – The water levels of the four largest dams in the Orange River catchment were rising following heavy rains in the past day, the department of water affairs said on Tuesday. The Vaal Dam was 103% full and three sluice gates were open, spokesperson Linda Page said …

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE |AP Published: Jan 5, 2011 22:35 Updated: Jan 5, 2011 22:46 LUCKNOW: Near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds have killed dozens of people in northern India over the past two weeks and forced schools to close in the capital, officials said Wednesday. A spokesman for worst-hit Uttar …

By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 4, 2011 22:42 Updated: Jan 4, 2011 22:42 JEDDAH: With memories of the November 2009 floods still very vivid, residents of Jeddah are browsing Internet sites looking for reliable weather forecasts only to get confused due to conflicting information. The contradicting weather …

2011-01-05 08:34 Bongani Hans, The Witness Pietermaritzburg – About 300 families were forced to vacate their houses when five towns in KwaZulu-Natal were hit by floods as a result of heavy rains between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. The affected towns are Newcastle, Ladysmith, Nquthu and Nkandla in the northern …

By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 3, 2011 23:32 Updated: Jan 3, 2011 23:43 JEDDAH: Heavy downpours in many parts of Jeddah flooded streets disrupting traffic once again on Monday. Residents in the eastern districts of Quwaiza and Suleimaniya fear rainwater would encroach into their houses due to …

By HISHAM ABU TAHA | ARAB NEWS Published: Jan 3, 2011 23:34 Updated: Jan 3, 2011 23:34 GAZA CITY: The Asia 1, an aid convoy that left India at the beginning of December and is backed by southeast Asian countries, entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing early …

By REUTERS Published: Jan 1, 2011 17:56 Updated: Jan 1, 2011 17:56 JOHANNESBURG: Ten people were killed in a stampede in a bar in a South African township during a New Year’s Eve celebration, an official said on Saturday. Most of the dead were believed to be between the ages …

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: Dec 31, 2010 23:10 Updated: Dec 31, 2010 23:10 CAIRO: Egyptian police say flood waters caused by torrential rains earlier this week swept a bus packed with 77 schoolgirls and their teachers off a highway in the country’s south, ending in the tragic death of 15 …

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: Dec 21, 2010 16:47 Updated: Dec 21, 2010 16:47 LONDON: It has come to this: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is complaining that someone leaked a Swedish police report on his alleged sexual offenses. In an interview with the British newspaper The Times, Assange complained …