Obama will call again Armenian deaths "Genocide" - the associated press

Obama will call again Armenian deaths ' genocide'(AP) - 13 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama on Saturday the anniversary of the massacre of Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago by marked called it a "horrific" massacre, but briefly stopped by branding genocide.

In a written statement, Obama said that the 1915 killings of some represent "one of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century" 1.5 million Armenians. But he could use the third year in a row the word genocide to describe it.

As candidate for the Presidency vowed always to recognize the genocide to Obama, once in Office, take "principled obliged as a memorial to and ending genocide."

But declined since 2009 Obama use the word in the face of furious opposition from Turkey, a key NATO ally.

Most historians see the killings as the first genocide of the twentieth century, and accept the figure of Armenian 1.5 million deaths. However Government rejected Turkish State and long the concept, contending, that the numbers are inflated and say, there were many deaths on both sides as the Ottoman Empire in the first world war collapsed.

In his statement, Obama said "contested history the present destabilised and stains the memory of those whose living were taken." He said that America knows this by the dark chapter in its own history.

He praised efforts in Armenia and the Turkey ", promote a dialogue which confirms their shared history."

But Obama limited use of Armenian called for the killing, meds Yeghern, and homage "to the memories of those who perished."

He said that his point of view what happened the amended has, since the campaign, adding "a full, frank, and is the only acknowledgment of the facts in our interest."

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Compostella Valley death toll now 5; more deaths feared - Inquirer.NET

USING TUKAN, Compostela Valley, Philippines?(UPDATE) four bodies were found on Sunday, bringing to five the official death toll in the good Friday tragedy which posted village here, said a mining area in Panganason in Kingdom officials.

The municipal social welfare office identifies the retrieved corpses as the Brendo Dane, 26; Marjun Guilabtan, 20; Marvin Anglai, 19; and Relieto Tabag, 29.

Two of the victims seen on Sunday authorities was already as Saturday but said that they do not immediately could be extracted due to the thickness of the mud, they covered.

The other victims after the landslide was recovered hours from 2:30 pm, was identified as 15-year-old John Ric Torrejos. His father, Cristituto SR. and brother Cristituto Jr. remains to this day is missing.

Rhona Theresa Siojo said that the Torrejoses among the 17 people officially as missing have been listed.

But survivors and other officials believed that the number of people under buried alive tons of mud in the mining village could be higher than what had been thought of.

Rico class, a survivor of the avalanche of mud good Friday Inquirer from the hospital bed here said Sunday, tunnel went about 60 people to work within some gold as was the disaster.

Class said before he Home drinking gone to sleep after a spree, he saw the large group of people to their tunnel.

Lambert Detros, an other survivors, supports class's story.

?From where I stayed at the camp with my spotlight on the hand, I saw the rush of people come through, and the steep and narrow paths, ? Detros said.

Class said more people arrived in the mining area on Thursday evening and ?apparently they also there. slept ?

Mayor Celso Sarenas conceded that it fresh arrivals in the area of mining in the landslide reports received.

Sarenas had said that many of those who had not registered civil servants of the community.

Governor Arthur UY said, that he not Survivors? account of more fatalities was discounting.

?IT more than (estimates) could. There is a possibility the number was greater than we thought, said ? UY.

Such hours no signs of additional survivors painted, recognized Siojo the possibility that the missing persons under tons of mud were buried and could by now.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lyndon Paniza, spokesman of the 10th Infantry Division, said their work on search and operation retrieve of had moved, although it hoped that some of those were buried alive by mud.

As of 1: 15 P.m. on Sunday, rescuers and volunteers, armed with shovels and supported by heavy machinery, combed through the hardened mud in the hope of uncovering more facilities.

?We are not stop until we get the body. We are not to lose hope, that there are still people who are alive, said ? Sarenas.

For Joel Lapatis, 26, has not dimmed the hope that his brothers Joenil, 21, and Andy, 28, are alive.

Joel has in the search process despite the bruises and he suffered bruises when the mudslide swept their shanty on good Friday.

?I am still hoping that they are still alive, he said the debris in the review ?.

Jay Salonga, one other Miner, who joined the rescue effort, at some point, call the names of his missing friends.

?Please shows you, ?, he would say in a sing-song manner.

Environment Minister Ramon Paje said that he had ordered the evacuation of some 30 households in Panganason after the discovery that same a 70-meter-wide crack in the face of the mountain, the good Friday?s caused the landslide.

The crack, which was a meter deep, which was discovered by workers Apex Mining?who was asked by the Department of environment and natural resources (Dr), perform risk assessment in the area.

Ford Hipólito, Apex mining risk manager, said that the ground above ?go down anytime. ? could fissure

?IT could fall. Due to the leap, which give ground, exacerbated by movements in the area. On the basis of the jump, will enter into these areas, he said ?.

But for a group of small miners here, the Government could use completely shut down the mining district of small groups the string of events from good Friday.

Omar Ocampo of the Association Panganason Smale scale miners said that the Government could force them from the area because of the landslide and the alleged discovery of the fissure.

There were setting the mining activities in Panganason Uy?s the appointment for a 30-day and other parts of the province, which he said was a prelude to the dislocation of the small miners and the entry of multinational companies.

The Save Pantukan Alliance, a group of small mining associations, said the Government itself against small mining was.

?The Aquino Government already has an anti-small scale Miners? attitude, categorically say that our operations are more difficult to regulate when compared to those of large-scale mining. It was not even that we have long maintained that their role in the development and rehabilitation of small-scale mining, so that we better to the development of national help the Government to do, and change the practices that can affect the environment, ? Rolando Dela Cerna, speak for save Pantukan, said.

The environmental group Panalipdan southern Mindanao said the Government had shut down the door, to small miners, but it maintained ?open arms treatment mining multinational companies (MNCs) and foreign investments. ?

?The Government has completely neglected the SSM industry while it assured by laws and policies of large for large-scale and foreign mining Investments?assurance of the support of the Government, lower tariff rates and tariffs, tax breaks and holidays and low payments for damage to the environment support, ? Francis Morales, Panalipdan Secretary General, said. ?Frinston Lim, Rosa can de Guzman-Maitem, Dennis Santos and Jeffrey Tupas, Inquirer Mindanao

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Hospital deaths related to pharmacy

The bacteria in bags of intravenous nutrition in six Alabama hospitals were found used State said health Beamten.Gefunden in a bag in which pharmacy is bacteria in the blood of the VictimsThe that same bacteria on a faucet in the bacteria were found PharmacyInvestigators goal match put together a likely chain of events

(CNN) --Alabama health officials, the source of the bacteria find the suspected the deaths of nine hospital patients and the unbearable 10 others announced Thursday that they found the same bacteria in a pharmacy in Birmingham.

"With a view on the DNA fingerprints, this organism an exact match of organisms that had the patients so that we, being inserted do not know to the pharmacy leave", said Dr. Don Williamson CNN.

The pharmacy, IV meds, Birmingham, had prepared the intravenous nutrition solutions, given all the patients in six hospitals in the State. Bacteria in their blood bacteria in a bag of suspicious products found in the pharmacy voted, he said.

"Now it only a question which identifies the source it from the pharmacy except out of pocket", said Dr. Mary McIntyre, a medical officer with the Bureau of communicable disease within the Alabama Department of public health. "This is not yet complete."

She said the same bacteria-with Serratia Marcescens--were found on a cotton swab from a faucet in the pharmacy. McIntyre described as a small business that had a full time staff pharmacist IV meds. The company's Web site was taken down and calls to the business went unanswered.

The bacteria themselves are ubiquitous in the environment, but found rarely in the blood, she said. "It is all for us." "What you are looking for is what types of practices of sterile technique were followed and what kind of processes were."

The goal is a likely chain of events put together, that the solution always contaminated led and then to put site practices, to ensure that it not be repeated, said Williamson.

But he said it is unlikely that researchers are always certain of what happened. "I think the reality is the best, what, at the end will we with, is a very likely cause of infection," he said. "You will never be able to get the smoking gun."

The match between the bacteria in your Pocket IV found and those found in patients "is pretty close to a smoking gun", he said. But how it came into the Pocket where it in the environment was a "most likely, no certain way." is probably way

Investigators have uncovered now more details about the nature of the disease. All patients, which this month received the intravenous nutrition solution, also called total parenteral Ern?hrung-- or TPN--35% of them were sick, Williamson said.

None of the seven children received TPN infected with bacteria, a fact that has fascinated investigators. ", Which may be processed with some problems like things in the pharmacy were to do," Williamson said. Continuous cultures of samples in the pharmacy can help to clarify issues, he said.

At the age of the affected area from 38 to 94 years. He said 11 women and eight men.

But moving figures to a definitive cause will not be easy, he predicted. "It is relatively easy, I think, to quantify the numbers." Is much more difficult as you try it, by simply, 'The numbers are' move, "like that happen?" "

The outbreak led Mary Ellen Kise Thursday represent the submission in Autauga County Circuit Court of a civil lawsuit against IV meds for wrongful death related to one of the fatalities. A man who their telephone answered in accordance with a caller their attorney, Jere Beasley, CNN said, that he is been contacted by six families.

"With the ultimate responsibility of the company are, produced and marketed the product," he said. "As far as it was at this time where they put one a defective drug out, a danger to the created and is dangerous, we will find as we go."

He conceded that the Ministry of health has yet to determine the cause of the outbreak, but said he had no doubt. "You have 19 people we know were affected;" We know six died and we know that all of them were always this specific product. So, it's pretty easy to figure out that the product caused the infection. "CNN's Craig Bell contributed to this report."

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