Medical evacuation plane carrying seven people crashes off Senegal

A medical evacuation plane carrying seven people, including a French patient, went down off the coast of Senegal, officials said Sunday.
The twin-engine aircraft, which was flying from Burkina Faso to Senegal, disappeared from radars shortly after 7 pm (1900 GMT) on Saturday while flying over the Atlantic, 111 kilometres west of the capital Dakar, Senegal’s civil aviation authority Anacim said in a statement.
Senegal’s air force was searching the area for the wreckage of the plane that left Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou for Dakar at 16:35

Drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi laid to rest in Syrian city he fled

• The child's mother and brother also drowned in Turkey
• "Everything I was dreaming of is gone," says his father, Abdullah Kurdi

 

Nigeria to deploy drones to fight oil theft

State oil firm announces plan to help military monitor ships carrying oil bid to fight theft on country's waterways.

Between June 2014 and June 2015, hundreds of deadly attacks were made on Nigerian pipelines across the country [AFP]

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Nigeria's state oil giant NNPC has announced a plan to deploy drones to monitor the movement of ships in a bid to fight oil theft on the country's waterways.
The managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ibe Kachikwu, made the disclosure on Tuesday at a special conference on security in the Gulf of Guinea.
"We are launching an armada of approaches which will include incorporation of drones to check movements of vessels within our territorial waters," he said, according to an NNPC official statement.

True life story of a man.

After graduating from the university,he could
not get a job then he strugled to get a car to
be used as taxi.He started this taxi business
but unfortunatly,things didn't work as he
expected.he will drive around the whole
town from morning till night,nobody will stop
him for once.The situation was like this for
many months which some times course him
to borow money to fuel the car.

Like Pope Francis, many USA Catholics' beliefs surprising

Pope Francis' evolving views on controversial social issues have surprised observers. Now an unprecedented bit of research shows that USA Catholics' views may be just as surprising. USA TODAY

Pope Francis' evolving views on a host of fraught social issues have surprised observers since his rise to the Vatican 2-and-a-half years ago. Now, an unprecedented bit of research shows that USA Catholics' views may be just as surprising.

Obama gets Iran deal win as Senate Dems amass enough votes

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory Wednesday as Senate Democrats amassed enough votes to ensure the Iran nuclear deal survives in Congress, despite ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel.

Powerful Syrup to Dissolve Kidney Stones

Kidney stones are one of the most common urinary disorders in the United States and the National Kidney Foundation estimates that they are responsible for approximately 10 million doctor’s visits each year (which includes trips to the emergency room). As anyone who has ever passed a kidney stone will know, it is an incredibly painful experience and not one which many would care to repeat.

Fortunately, there are some natural therapies which can be used to treat kidney stones and dissolve them into smaller pieces so that they will be easier and less painful to pass from the urinary tract. One recipe for just such a treatment is given below. It is possible to make this elixir in just a few minutes but it is a very powerful therapy for this particular condition.