Mexico Nabs Hitman Linked To US Kidnap Posted: 25 Apr 2009 08:02 PM PDT
Police on Saturday said they arrested a Mexican drug cartel hitman wanted in connection with the abduction of a US anti-kidnap expert in German Torres Jimenez, who allegedly works for the powerful Gulf drug cartel, was detained after a shootout in the eastern city of Veracruz, Mexico’s Public Safety Secretariat (SSP) said in a statement. Two other suspected hitmen and two women were also arrested when police raided a home in the Poza Rica neighborhood of Veracruz. Torres is allegedly one of the founders of Los Zetas, the armed wing of the Gulf cartel. Los Zetas reportedly took control of the organization when cartel boss Osiel Cardenas was arrested, then extradited to the United States in 2005. Torres is suspected of involvement in the December 2008 kidnapping of Felix the northern city of Saltillo where he was giving security seminars to local
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Anti-capitalist Movement Borders On Domestic Terrorism - France Posted: 25 Apr 2009 07:54 PM PDT
At an electricity substation on a bleak industrial estate north of Paris a masked union militant is preparing to deprive a neighborhood of power. His colleague is outside, dragging nervously on a roll-up cigarette while keeping a lookout for police or security guards. “Get a move on,” he says. “And then let’s get out of here.” A switch is pulled down, the door of the sabotaged transformer is locked and the two activists — employees of EDF, the French state electricity supplier — drive off. In their wake hundreds of houses and a handful of businesses in morning. It was the second time in a week that blackouts had hit the Paris region as striking gas and electricity workers adopted radical tactics to support their call for a 10 per cent pay rise and an end to outsourcing of jobs. They are denounced as industrial saboteurs by the Government and face disciplinary action and prosecution, but say they are determined to press ahead with what they portray as a struggle against free-market forces. After failing to prevent the partial privatisations of EDF and GDF, the gas supplier, they believe that the tide has turned in their favour because of the
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Seven Stowaways Found Aboard Vessel In Halifax Being Interviewed Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:58 PM PDT
Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency are interviewing and examining the health of seven stowaways found aboard a vessel in Halifax. Jennifer Morrison, a spokeswoman for the agency, says the males were discovered Thursday night after a search of the vessel at the Ceres container say whether they are seeking refugee status. She says the agency’s foremost priority is ensuring the safety and security of the public.
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UK Crew Member In Hospital After Mexico Flight Posted: 25 Apr 2009 03:23 PM PDT
A British Airways cabin crew member was taken to a London hospital as a It was the first such reported precautionary measure in Britain since the emergence of a new flu strain that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico. It has also infected at least 11 people in the United States. The man has undergone tests, but the results are not expected back until Sunday. No other crew members or passengers on the BA242 flight into “He has flu-like symptoms and is responding well to treatment,” a hospital spokesman said in a statement. “The patient was admitted directly to a side room and the hospital is scrupulously following infection control procedures to ensure there is no risk to any other individual in the hospital.”
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Outbreak at New York City School Likely Swine Flu Posted: 25 Apr 2009 03:18 PM PDT
At least eight students at a New York City high school probably have human swine influenza, but health officials said Saturday they don’t know Mexico. At least two cases of the flu have been confirmed in Kansas. A strain of the flu has killed as many as 68 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico. The World Health Organization chief said Saturday the New York health officials said more than 100 students at the private St. New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said nose and throat swabs had confirmed that eight students had influenza type A, indicating Samples had been sent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for more testing. Results were expected on Sunday. via Source
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California Has Vigorous Swine Flu Plan - Schwarzenegger Posted: 25 Apr 2009 01:04 AM PDT
California has made a “rigorous and thorough” response to a new strain of flu that has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and infected eight in the California, home to six of the U.S. cases, was coordinating with federal and Other steps the state has taken include requesting extra flu experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and expanding lab testing and veterinary
California has also activated its Joint Emergency Operations Center with the avoid contracting the flu, including covering the nose and mouth when sneezing, Four of Mexico’s suspected cases have been reported in Mexicali, which shares a
via Reuters AlertNet - California has ‘rigorous’ flu plan -Schwarzenegger.
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CDC Says Too Late To Contain U.S. Flu Outbreak Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:38 PM PDT
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it was too late to contain the swine flu outbreak in the United States. CDC acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing it was likely too late to try to contain the outbreak, by vaccinating, treating or isolating people. “There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely,” he said. He said the U.S. cases and Mexican cases are likely the same virus. “So far the and such mild disease in the United States.
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WHO Ready With Antivirals To Combat Swine Flu Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:34 PM PDT
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it was prepared with flu outbreaks in Mexico and the United States. The Geneva-based agency has been stockpiling doses of Roche Holding’s Tamiflu, The new virus, not previously detected in pigs or humans, has proved sensitive to The WHO and its regional office in Washington, D.C., are also sending experts and clinical management of cases. Mexican health officials have reported more than 850 cases of pneumonia in the 24 cases including 3 deaths have been detected. They have also informed the WHO about a third suspected outbreak of swine flu
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Possible Swine Flu Outbreak At NYC Prep School Posted: 24 Apr 2009 09:10 PM PDT
Department Of Health Officials Testing 75 Students At St. Francis Preparatory School In Queens New York City health officials say that symptoms and testing is under way to rule out the strain of swine flu that has killed dozens in Mexico. The Health Department’s Dr. Don Weiss said Friday that a team of agency doctors and investigators were dispatched to the private St. Francis throat, cough, aches and pains. No one has been hospitalized. The handful of sick students who remained at the school were tested for a variety of flu strains. If they’re found to have a known human strain that Results could take several days. In the meantime, the school says it’s postponing an evening event and sanitizing the building over the
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