Ferry to fire due to an olive oil truck

There would be at least ten victims because of a fire effect on deck garage carrying nearly two hundred among cars and trucks of the ferry "Norman Atlantic" off the Greek island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea on their way to Italy, according to authorities one hundred and sixteen-two people still on board the ship tilted to one side waiting to be brought in except trying to resist in difficult conditions, with smoke and strong chill wind [completed the safe operations]. Difficult to understand the real causes of the fire, but it seems to have developed from some trucks carrying olive oil (to remember the poor harvest of olives in Italy because of bad weather and pathogens as the Xylella fastidiosa) that spread rapidly in the ferry to reach the higher decks until to dissolve the soles of the shoes of passengers. Controversy on safety that had several shortcomings, but despite this the ship was allowed to do regular service.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 29, 2014              n°:   2719      


Removed fuel rods at Fukushima

The safety of the nuclear power plant damaged Fukushima Daiichi continuing slowly and the plant manager informed that have removed four hundred tons of spent uranium rods in a reactor that still was left by March 2011, this is the first of four phases in which will also remove the other used fuel rods from reactors, but considered less dangerous, then also will be make the difficult operation (never tried before) to extract the core fused by reactors. It will take decades to reclaim the atomic plant still full of highly radioactive debris and in the meantime some complain about the lack of safety of two nuclear plants in Satsumasendai southwest of Kagoshima Prefecture that authorities intend to restart in a high-risk earthquake zone with several active volcanoes and next to a volcano that fear might erupt.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Nov 10, 2014                         n°:   2676      


Many cases of Ebola in Africa are not reported

Continue to increase the number of victims (nearly four thousand five hundred?) due to the outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa, but according to statements of international authorities the death reported toll would be less than half, however, the percentage of infections in the areas most affected would be slightly decreasing although this does not mean that this figure should be read as a success in containing the spread of the virus and for example nine health workers have died on a staff of sixteen. Meanwhile improve the condition of two nurses infected in Dallas and Madrid while in Leipzig the doctors were unable to save the life of an health care who was infected while serving in Liberia. An improvement of the protocol to be followed while treating patients would have been made lately and is discussing the case of another nurse infected in a Dallas hospital.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 15, 2014                         n°:   2654      


Control protocol on the Ebola virus to be reviewed

After the case of the nurse infected by Ebola virus in a large hospital in Madrid while attending two missionaries patients subsequently died some health experts contend the revision of the control protocol adopted in Spain against the spread of the virus and how it is crucial to understand what error has been committed in order to be sure that it can not happen again. Twenty people who have had contact with the nurse in the last ten days are under observation and in particular the husband (which for the moment is not showing symptoms of the disease), then with respect to the care used for this case would be based on the antibodies of a patient survived the virus. Meanwhile in the west of Africa are nearly three thousand and five hundred the victims of the epidemic mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone; moreover the health situation continues to deteriorate due to the lack of means to cope with the virus.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 08, 2014                         n°:   2648      


Tools for causing pain and human rights

There would be few laws to ban the production of "instruments of torture" in China, according to statements by international organizations for human rights complaint that the remarkable growth of exporting companies in the globe such as batons with electrodes to deliver electric shock stun or sharp points to cause pain despite the denials of the Chinese authorities. Among the various devices on the market there would also tools specially designed to leave no traces on the unlucky and other instruments decidedly inhuman as to shiver any person. Studies in the past have shown that can rip any confession through torture and therefore these tools can not serve as some claim to investigate in difficult cases that relate to security of whole communities or the whole society since they are unreliable and even can sidetrack the investigation.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Sep 24, 2014                         n°:   2635      


Fear due to the spread of the Ebola virus

The Ebola epidemic is a health challenge among the most serious and alarming that requires a global commitment and can not be considered limited to certain West African countries, at least according to the statements of international organizations that have compared the data relating to previous outbreaks of Ebola in 1976 and 1995 by making a list of points that require answers really incisive, in the meantime there are over nineteen victims and three thousand five hundred infections monitored positive for the virus. In Guinea Apparently there are people who still do not believe to the epidemic in spite in this country there have been hundreds of victims, and the crisis in the whole area not only have health issues but also economic with prices of some products in increase. According to some the window of opportunity with appropriate measures to contain the outbreak of Ebola is closing while others argue that it is still possible to intervene.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Sep 04, 2014                         n°:   2618      


Accident on the Moscow Metro perhaps avoidable

Increased to twenty-three the victims of the serious accident happened Tuesday in the Moscow metro on line Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya apparently due to a lack of energy that triggers the emergency system and stop abruptly derailed trains making given off a fire, but some argue that the derailment was caused by a cable that is sliced from the time that it was not well located in a junction of tracks while was working on the construction of a new path. This is the most serious incident never happened in the Moscow metro was inaugurated in 1935 and considered one of the most decorated and crowded in the world carrying about nine million people every day. According to the authorities the route of the subway was in good condition at the time of the accident and are still investigating to understand any responsibility of the technicians.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 17, 2014                         n°:   2575      


An ice wall in Fukushima

The works for the construction of a refrigeration system to freeze the ground beneath the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant should begin in June in order to stem the losses in the soil of highly radioactive water from the cracked reactors with a sort of ice wall, in practice by passing coolant to minus forty degrees Celsius steel tubing to thirty meters underground for a perimeter of about a kilometer and a half around the atomic plant. Some argue that this ice mass could collapse all the land around the power plant thus undermining the functionality of the decommissioning system, but the authorities have given assurances on the procedures adopted. There remain, however, doubts concerning the fact of how not to be proceeded to build a sarcophagus covering as Chernobyl.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    May 28, 2014                         n°:   2532      


Explosion in a coal mine in Turkey

Would be more than two hundred and forty the victims of an explosion of a transformer in a coal mine in western Turkey in Soma district of Manisa not far from Izmir, perhaps due to a short circuit accident occurred about two kilometers deep and one hundred and twenty miners are still trapped in very long tunnels of the mine as rescue teams struggle to move forward because of the dense smoke that is given off by the explosion and the lack of autonomy of gas masks. Pumps inject oxygen deep into the tunnels that are not affected by the explosion to allow four separate rescue teams to operate even if in difficult conditions. More of seven hundred and eighty miners were working in the mine of which three hundred and sixty were able to get out to safety, but would be dozens wounded (some seriously) considering that it seems the lifts do not worked.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    May 14, 2014                         n°:   2519      


Unexplained sinking of a ferry in South Korea

There were no still clarified the reasons why Wednesday is sunken a ferry sailed from the city port of Incheon in South Korea with four hundred sixty-nine passenger carrying hundreds of students for the holidays to the tourist island of Jeju with a provisional balance of nine victims even if some advance the hypothesis that there may have been an impact with the rocks since perhaps the ship's course was changed to retrieve a delay in departure of two and a half hours due to dense fog. The boys said that they heard a loud noise then the bow towards the cabin crew announced that he did not move from their places even though the ship was sinking fast, so without providing an escape route for passengers and will be difficult to find in the life of someone two hundred eighty-seven dispersed since the water is very cold even if are work many rescue ships.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Apr 17, 2014                         n°:   2498      



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