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Ukraine Peace Talks Start as Fighting Rages Over Strategic Town
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian, Russian and OSCE representatives began talks on resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine, while rebel officials said their leaders won't attend unless government forces first declare a truce. Former Ukrainian President Leonid ... Ukraine crisis: 'Dozens killed' in east as Minsk talks openBBC News Rebels Suffer Heavy Losses in Battle for Ukraine's DebaltseveNBCNews.com Ukraine, rebels gather for peace talks as fighting rages in eastAl Jazeera America The Globe and Mail -The Indian Express all 403 news articles » |
Russia’s economy minister said Saturday that the country’s gross domestic product is expected to shrink by 3% in 2015 with oil prices at $50 a barrel and an estimated capital outflow at $115 billion, Russian news agencies reported.
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Greece seeks EU allies on debt but Germany holds firm
Arab News Athens: Greece's new government began a search for European allies Saturday in its bid to renegotiate its loans and end austerity, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel once again ruled out debt relief for Athens. Radical Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and ... and more » |
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said on Saturday that the country faces a long, hard battle against militancy, days after one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces in years. "This battle will be difficult, strong, evil and will take a long time," said Sissi in comments broadcast on state television after meeting Egypt's top military officers. Sissi’s remarks come three days after militants claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed at least...
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Islamic State Fighters Admit Defeat in Syrian Town of Kobani
ABC News The Islamic State group has acknowledged for the first time that its fighters have been defeated in the Syrian town of Kobani and vowed to attack the town again. In a video released by the pro-IS Aamaq News Agency late Friday, two fighters said the airstrikes ... ISIS bodies line Kobani streets after Kurdish claim victoryNew York Daily News Kurds liberate village near KobaniPress TV IS fighters acknowledge defeat in Syrian town of KobaniThe Daily Progress all 98 news articles » |
India on Saturday successfully used a mobile launcher to test-fire a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that could strike targets in Pakistan and China.
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By Joe White
Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:10pm EST
(Reuters) - The auto industry’s airbag troubles deepened on Saturday, as federal regulators said three big automakers will recall about 2.1 million older vehicles to fix defects that could cause airbags to deploy when they are not supposed to.
Toyota Motor Corp , Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Honda Motor Co have issued three earlier recalls to fix problems with a defective chip in the affected airbag systems. But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Saturday that "a small number of vehicles" fixed under those earlier actions had experienced inadvertent air bag deployments, hence the new recall.
An airbag going off suddenly could cause an accident, the agency said. There have been no known fatalities related to the problem, it said.
The latest air bag recalls were not related to a wider issue involving millions of vehicles recalled over Takata Corp air bags. U.S. safety regulators have said defective Takata air bag inflators in certain vehicles can rupture and spray metal fragments inside the vehicle.
NHTSA blamed the problems it reported on Saturday on "electrical noise" in the air bag system. The agency said a fully effective solution to the problem might not be available until late this year.
The NHTSA said the models affected were: 2002-2003 Jeep Liberty and 2002-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokees (about 750,000 vehicles); 2003-2004 Honda Odyssey; and 2003 Acura MDX (about 370,000 vehicles) and 2003-2004 Pontiac Vibe; Dodge Viper; and Toyota Corolla, Toyota Matrix, and Toyota Avalon (about 1 million vehicles, not all of which were sold in the United States.)
The agency said the affected models had a part called an electronic control unit that controls deployment of its air bags. An auto parts maker, TRW, supplied control units containing the same control circuit to all three automakers.
Although the recalls announced by the agency on Saturday are not related to the Takata cases, the NHTSA said there was an overlap, in that about 1 million of the vehicles affected were also covered in separate recalls of Takata air bag inflator systems.
The latest recall highlights the difficulty automakers and regulators have with increasingly complex electronic systems. The agency said in a statement it could take several months for the companies to get enough parts to fix all the vehicles involved.
In the Takata cases, Honda on Friday said it has confirmed that a Takata air bag inflator ruptured in a Jan. 18 crash in Texas that killed the driver. Prior to the incident that took place near Houston, air bags made by the Japanese company had been linked to at least five deaths.
(Reporting by Joe White; Editing by Frances Kerry)
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Health officials announced that a college student diagnosed with measles recently traveled across New York on a train, potentially exposing untold numbers of travelers to the virus, according to news reports.
The infected individual, a student Bard College, boarded a a 1:20 p.m. Sunday Amtrak train from New York City’s Penn Station to Rhinecliff, N.Y., according to ABC News. The train stopped in Albany before traveling on to Niagara Falls, ABC reported.
“Anyone traveling on Amtrak train #283 from Penn Station in NYC to Albany on January 25, 2015, and who is not immune to measles or not sure of their measles immunity, should contact their primary care physician if they become ill with fever,” the New York State Department of Health said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
Three New York state residents — one in Dutchess County and two in New York City — have been diagnosed with measles so far this year, ABC reported.
New York requires that college students taking six credits or more show proof of immunity to measles, according to university guidelines.
“At Bard College, medical forms show that a student’s immunity to the disease must be documented, but they don’t state whether exemptions are allowed,” according to ABC.
After notifying students and faculty of the measles case, Bard College, with the help of Dutchess County Department of Health, held a measles vaccination clinic for anyone on campus who has not been vaccinated against measles, according to ABC.
“In order to prevent the spread of illness, DOH is advising individuals who may have been exposed and who have symptoms consistent with measles to call their health care providers or a local emergency room BEFORE going for care. This will help to prevent others at these facilities from being exposed to the illness,” the Health Department said, according to the AP.
The latest measles outbreak has infected 84 people across 14 states, according to Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Most of the cases are traceable to an outbreak at Disneyland and another theme park in Southern California that began in late December and now has spread to six other states, including Utah, Washington, Oregon and Colorado.
The outbreak has generated sometimes fierce criticism of people who, for personal reasons or because they mistrust the vaccine, choose not to have their children immunized and prompted at least two school systems in California to ban unvaccinated students from school.
On Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Obama believes decisions for vaccinating children should remain in parents hands, but noted that he also thinks the public should heed the advice of public health professionals, according to Reuters.
“I’m not going stand up here and dispense medical advice,” Earnest said, according to the AP. “But I am going to suggest that the president’s view is that people should evaluate this for themselves, with a bias toward good science and toward the advice of our public health professionals, who are trained to offer us exactly this kind of advice.
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A New York college student with measles boarded an Amtrak station from Penn Station earlier this week and may have exposed other passengers to the contagious virus.
The student at Bard College in Dutchess County took Amtrak train #283 from Penn Station to Albany, according to state health officials. He got off in Rhinecliff, N.Y.
He has been isolated during his recovery, said officials with the college.
"In order to prevent the spread of illness, DOH is advising individuals who may have been exposed and who have symptoms consistent with measles to call their health care providers or a local emergency room BEFORE going for care. This will help to prevent others at these facilities from being exposed to the illness," said a statement from the New York State Department of Health.
At Bard College, the Dutchess County Department of Health held a measles vaccination clinic for any students, faculty, or staff who have not been vaccinated against measles. New York has had three cases of measles this year, the department said, one in Dutchess County and two in New York City.
New York requires that all college students show proof of immunity to measles. At Bard College, medical forms show that a student's immunity to the disease must be documented, but they don't state whether exemptions are allowed.
The current nationwide outbreak of measles has spread to 14 states and includes 84 cases reported this month.
Measles is one of the most contagious viruses in existence and will infect an estimated 90 percent of people who not immune to the virus. The incubation period is on average 14 days, but an infected person can be contagious up to four days before they start to show symptoms.
ABC News' Dr. Richard Besser contributed to this story.
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New York College Student With Measles Boarded Amtrak Train at Penn Station
ABC News A New York college student with measles boarded an Amtrak station from Penn Station earlier this week and may have exposed other passengers to the contagious virus. The student at Bard College in Dutchess County took Amtrak train #283 from Penn ... Amid growing vaccination debate, measles continues to spread and is now in ...Washington Post Amtrak rider with measles spurs alertRochester Democrat and Chronicle College Student Who Rode Train Upstate From NYC Diagnosed With MeaslesThe Daily Voice Gothamist -WGY -Poughkeepsie Journal all 48 news articles » |
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, growing frustrated with hardline resistance to a nuclear deal with the West, accused opponents on Saturday of effectively "cheering on" the other side in Tehran's grueling negotiations with world powers.
Germany will resist Greek efforts to do deals with individual creditor nations, even as Syriza finance minister heads to meet French counterpart
Angela Merkel has ruled out the prospect of Greece securing further debt cuts from its creditor nations, potentially putting the country’s new leftist government on a collision course with Brussels. The German chancellor’s uncompromising stance will not be welcomed in Athens, where the new ruling party, Syriza, insists that it will make good on its promises to halve the country’s €320bn (£240bn) debt obligations and scrap a range of swingeing budget measures that were imposed in exchange for the loans.
Athens is refusing to cooperate with the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund – the troika of institutions overseeing the loans, which total about 175% of Greece’s gross domestic product. Instead its new government is looking to meet with individual creditor nations as it seeks concessions that it claims are vital if Greece is to emerge from years of austerity.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama on Saturday expelled a former Colombian intelligence chief, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, to face charges at home of illegally intercepting phone calls from opposition Colombian lawmakers.
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US regulators recall 2.1 million vehicles in new air bag issue
Reuters (Reuters) - The auto industry's airbag troubles deepened on Saturday, as federal regulators said three big automakers will recall about 2.1 million older vehicles to fix defects that could cause airbags to deploy when they are not supposed to. Toyota Motor ... Automakers recall more than 2M vehicles for faulty air bagsMiamiHerald.com New Air-Bag Recall Involves 2.1 Million Jeep, Honda, Toyota CarsBloomberg 2.12 million cars recalled due to air bag defectWCVB Boston Automotive News -euronews all 10 news articles » |
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