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Pakistan monsoon flood death toll rises to 98

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Rescuers struggling to repair the damaged protective wall of a canal broken due to flash floods in Punjab Province. Senior Pakistani officials say heavy rains and flash floods over the past two weeks have claimed the lives of at least 98 people across Pakistan. According to government officials, 98 people died in flood-related accidents over the past fortnight, mainly in urban areas of the country. The... 

36 people die in Sudan floods

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A Sudanese man sits next to his house in a flooded street on the outskirts of the capital Khartoum on August 10, 2013. Heavy rain and flooding in a region north of Sudan’s capital Khartoum have killed 36 people, state media says. “Thirty-six people were killed in Nile state and 5,000 houses were destroyed because of heavy rain and floods,” Sudan’s Radio Omdurman reported on Sunday. Khartoum... 

Radioactive water overruns Fukushima barrier - TEPCO

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Contaminated groundwater accumulating under the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has risen 60cm above the protective barrier, and is now freely leaking into the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator TEPCO has admitted. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which is responsible for decommissioning the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on Saturday said the protective barriers that were... 

Snowden Revelation Of “Solar-Virus” Armageddon Shocks World

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A grim Ministry of Health (MoH) report on information obtained from former CIA/NSA whistleblower, and “global hero to the masses,” Edward Snowden reveals the Obama regimes fears of a raging pandemic due to upcoming solar storms that, according to the Americans, “may very well alter life on this planet as we know it.” According to the MoH, one of the computer devices (USB flash drive) provided... 

Oil pipeline blast injures seven people in central Mexico near capital

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A firefighter walks away from the burning pipeline ignited by an explosion on July 21, 2013 near Tonanitla, Mexico. Seven people have been injured in central Mexico in an oil pipeline explosion, which was ignited by an attempted theft of crude oil. Mexican authorities say five police officers and two firefighters were hurt early Sunday when they responded to the explosion and fire near the municipality... 

Japan's Fukushima operator confirms nuclear reactors ‘leaking to ocean’

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An aerial file photo of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has admitted for the first time that the site’s reactors are leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, admitted the leakage to the ocean for the first time since... 

Death toll in North Indian floods hits almost 6000

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Indian military personnel throw a rock with a rope attached across a river to help rescue pilgrims in Uttarakhand State, on June 22, 2013. The government in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand says nearly 6,000 people who went missing in last month’s flash floods north of the country are presumed dead. Tourists, pilgrims and local residents were swept away when floods caused by torrential monsoon... 

Fukushima ex-manager who foiled nuclear disaster dies of cancer

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Masao Yoshida The former Fukushima supervisor of damage control works at the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant has died of cancer. His decision not to follow a corporate order prevented Chernobyl-like explosions of overheated Fukushima reactors. The ex-head of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of esophageal cancer on July 9, 2013. Doctors have... 

Severe thunderstorms leave Toronto underwater, 300K without power

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Severe thunderstorms hammered Toronto Monday, leaving cars stranded throughout the city and over 300,000 residents without power. The Canadian city was hit with a month’s worth of rain in just one day, with approximately 3.5 inches of rainfall beginning at 4:00 pm EST. Commuters were soon stranded in traffic, with public transit enduring long delays. Environment Canada, the national weather service,... 

Russian Forces to Provide “Security” At US Events

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As part of a deal signed last week in Washington DC between the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry and FEMA, Russian officials will provide “security at mass events” in the United States, a scenario that won’t sit well with Americans wary of foreign assets operating on US soil. According to a press release by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense and Emergencies, US and... 

Obama Requests 15,000 Russian Troops For “Upcoming” Disaster

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An unsettling report prepared by the Emergencies Ministry (EMERCOM) circulating in the Kremlin today on the just completed talks between Russia and the United States in Washington D.C. says that the Obama regime has requested at least 15,000 Russian troops trained in disaster relief and “crowd functions” [i.e. riot control] be pre-positioned to respond to FEMA Region III during an unspecified... 

Apocalyptic Floods Hit India, Over 1000 Dead

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Early monsoon rains have swept northern India, causing floods and landslides, killing at least 600 and leaving tens of thousands missing, officials report. About 100 towns and villages remain cut off since Sunday, and the death toll is expected to rise. Many of the missing are pilgrims and tourists that were at the foothills of the Himalayas at the Ganges river, which is sacred to Hindus, at the time... 

Gigantic line of storms threatens 20 percent of Americans

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A series of severe storms are forecast to rip through the US on Wednesday, bringing tornadoes, lightning, hail and power outages to 20 percent of all Americans. Meteorologists are warning that a massive derecho could bring devastating weather conditions to 64 million people across 10 states. Cities including Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Columbus are expected to experience severe conditions... 

Flood evacuation order issued in eastern Germany

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A local resident wades to a neighbor’s house on a flooded street near the swollen Elbe River in Elster, Germany, on June 7, 2013. Officials in eastern Germany have issued evacuation orders for thousands of people living near the swollen Elbe River. According to reports on Sunday, in Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt, over 23,000 residents were evacuated after many buildings and streets... 

Russian Report Warns Of Grave Monsanto Threat To World

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A chilling new report prepared for President Putin by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MINPRIRODY) is warning today that the entire world is faced with a “grave and dangerously extreme threat” from what it calls “genetically modified mutant plants” created by the American multinational agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto that are now threatening our planets entire food... 
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