Bangkok floods to ease early next month - PM
Floods engulfing parts of the Thai capital should
start to recede soon, the prime minister said Saturday after
barriers along Bangkok’s swollen main river prevented a disastrous
overflow. The city of 12 million people was on heightened alert
because of a seasonal high tide that was expected to coincide with
the arrival of runoff water from the central plains,
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Mobile phone brain cancer link rejected
Further research has been published suggesting
there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer. The risk
mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use
of the phones has soared.
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South Sudan wants to join Commonwealth
The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, wants to
join the Commonwealth, the bloc’s Assistant Secretary General
Stephen Cutts said Saturday. The landlocked African country, which
declared independence from Sudan in July after a long civil war, had
recognised the potential benefits of becoming part of the 54-nation
grouping,
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