Current News for Monday September 12, 2011

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VA Experience Shows Patient 'Rebound' Hard To Counter (KaiserHealth) United States (KaiserHealth) - The Veterans Health Administration, the largest integrated health care system in the country, has long employed many of the approaches Medicare is pushing on all hospitals to cut unnecessary readmissions. But new data show VA hospital patients are just as likely to end up back in a hospital bed as are patients at private hospitals. The new statistics ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

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American retailers start roll-out of yearend holiday merchandise (AHN) Vittorio Hernandez - AHN News New York, NY, United States (AHN) - Although the Yuletide holiday is more than three months away, some American retailers have started to bring out their Christmas merchandise in a bid to boost sagging sales. Costco started to place Christmas goods at the start of September, while Home Depot will start displaying them on Sept. 19. Kmart and ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Madagascar rice production slips again. Lack of rain to blame. (IRIN) Antananarivo, Madagascar (IRIN) - Production of Madagascar's staple, rice, is expected to be down 10 percent on last year and slip by 400,000 tons, according to preliminary findings by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP). David Orr, WFP spokesperson for East and Southern Africa, told IRIN local rice production had decreased from 4.7 million ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Suspicious device shuts down Kasas terminal airport (AHN) Kris Alingod - AHN News Contributor Kansas, MO, United States (AHN) - An airline passenger was taken into custody Sunday in Missouri after he was found carrying a suspicious device. The incident briefly disrupted operations in a section of the airport as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11. According to the Kansas City Star, authorities called in the bomb... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

5 killed in terrorist attack in Turkey SEMDINLI, Turkey (UPI) -- Two terrorist attacks in Turkey killed three civilians and two security personnel, authorities said. Hakkari province Gov. Muammer Türker said 10 people, including 7 gendarmes, were injured during the Sunday attacks on a gendarmerie command unit and the police department in Semdinli, Today's Zaman reported. The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Al-Qaida driven from two Yemeni cities ZINJIBAR, Yemen (UPI) -- Military officials said 230 soldiers and 30 al-Qaida members were killed during three months of battles to drive the militants out of two Yemeni cities. Six-hundred soldiers were injured, the officials said. Minister of Defense Mohammed Nasser Ahmed said Sunday the Yemeni military forced al-Qaida fighters out of Zinjibar and Ja'ar Saturday, the Yemen... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Pipeline fire kills at least 100 in Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) -- A pipeline near a Kenya Pipeline Co. depot in Nairobi caught fire Monday, killing at least 100 people and injuring dozens, officials said. Rescuers were having a difficult time reaching the site in the capital's industrial area and were fearful the fire would spread to a nearby slum, Capital FM Kenya reported. Witnesses said a pipeline had burst ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It

Cargill recalls ground turkey (AHN) David Goodhue - AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) - Cargill, the Wichita, Kansas-based meat company, has voluntarily recalled about 185,000 pounds of ground turkey because of possible salmonella contamination. The company said in a statement that the measure was taken after the results of a U.S. Department of Agriculture test sample taken at Cargill's ... Continue Reading Print | Comment | Tweet It | Facebook It