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Athletes worried after AP probe into pollution
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLISTAP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 July 20151. Various aerial shots of Marina da Gloria2. Wide of Rodrigo de Freitas lake (left) and Leblon and Ipanema beach (right)AP...
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Rio Games coins unveiled, official on dead fish
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTAP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRio de Janeiro - 17 April 20151. Brazilian Sports Minister George Hilton and Brazilian Central Bank Director Altamir Lopes showing gold commemorative coin for the...
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Cholera epidemic spreads into Haiti's capital; authorities say one case confirmed
1. Wide shot health ministry news conference on the cholera outbreak
2. Various cutaways journalists and cameramen
3. SOUNDBITE: (Creole) Gabriel Timothee, Director General, Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population:
"It is our...
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Rare cholera outbreak kills 3 in the east of the country
Cuban authorities in the eastern province of Granma are in full prevention mode to contain a rare cholera outbreak amid fears that it may have spread to the capital.
The precautions follow last week's announcement that three people in...
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Pinning down the source of Europe's second largest river
Europe's second largest river is causing ripples in a German town, where people are fighting over where its true source lies.
There's a dispute over the spring that feeds the famous waterway.
The picturesque Black Forest town of...
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Indians celebrate Ganesh festival in spectacular style
Indians are celebrating the Ganesh festival, dedicated to the elephant-headed Hindu god.
This year the celebrations are more lavish than ever, with worshippers creating idols made of gold, and some surprising eco-friendly idols designed...
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Iconic housboats of Kashmir face an uncertain future
The iconic houseboats of Kashmir are facing an uncertain future.
The government has banned the repair and re-construction of the boats because of long running pollution concerns.
Many of the famous tourist attractions are now sinking to...
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Michigan Gov. Snyder Booed at Obama Flint Event
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus054834Speaking over waves of boos, Gov. Rick Snyder has apologized for Flint's contaminated water crisis.Snyder's appearance at a Flint high school Wednesday surprised more than 1,000 people who...
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Michigan Gov. Snyder Booed at Obama Flint Event
Speaking over waves of boos, Gov. Rick Snyder has apologized for Flint's contaminated water crisis.Snyder's appearance at a Flint high school Wednesday surprised more than 1,000 people who were waiting to hear from President Barack...
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AP Investigation: Rio Beaches Dangerously Dirty
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRIO DE JANEIRO - 8 JULY 20161. Wide of tourists in the Corcovado (where the statue of Christ the Redeemer is) and Guanabara Bay and sugar loaf behind2. Various...
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Feds: Poor Maintenance Led to Fatal Subway Fire
A fire that caused a Washington subway train to fill with smoke inside a downtown tunnel last year, killing one passenger and sickening dozens, can be traced to poor maintenance and ineffective inspection practices by the city's...
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Michigan governor booed at Obama Flint event
Speaking over waves of boos, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder apologised for Flint's contaminated water crisis.Snyder's appearance at a Flint high school on Wednesday surprised more than 1,000 people who were waiting to hear from President...
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Yemenis suffer from deteriorating water quality
LEAD IN: The quality of drinking water in the Yemeni city of Taiz has deteriorated due to a lack of supervision by health authorities.The people of Taiz now have very little option but to consume contaminated water.STORY-LINE: The people...
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Brazilian sailors on water conditions in Rio
Brazil's sailing team members gathered on Tuesday beside Guanabara Bay, where Olympic sailing and rowing will take place, at a time the Summer Games organizing committee is under fire for the filth still present in the waterways of Rio...
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Trump Tours Flint Water Treatment Plant
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump briefly toured the Flint, Michigan water treatment facility Wednesday afternoon.The mayor of Flint, Michigan, is not happy that Donald Trump is planning to visit her city as it deals with its...
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Thousands infected in Yemen cholera epidemic
Collapsing in the street and constantly vomiting, some of the Yemeni villagers barely make it to the tiny health centres where doctors spread sheets in the backyard and use trees to hang bags of IV fluids for patients.
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Clean-up after palm oil spill in HKong
A Hong Kong environmental official visited a beach on Lamma Island on Tuesday to inspect the cleanup progress of a 1000-ton palm oil spill that occurred following a ship collision.
Tse Chin-wan, Undersecretary for the...
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Rio waterways still filthy 1 year after Olympics
Environmental activists sailed across Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay on Saturday to protest pollution in the city's waterways and broken promises to clean them up around the 2016 Olympics.
The silent flotilla coincided with...
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Outbreak of diseases feared in Freetown disaster zone
Aid groups in Sierra Leone were distributing water filters, buckets, storage tanks and hygiene materials across Freetown on Saturday to prevent an outbreak of waterborne following deadly flooding and mudslides in Sierra Leone.
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Long lines for water and ice in Puerto Rico town
In the town of Dorado, just 15 miles west of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, people are coming from far and wide to get their rations of clean water and bags of ice Saturday.
The local water treatment plant, whose...
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Coolers replace fountains in Detroit schools
Thousands of Detroit public schools students were told Tuesday to drink from district-supplied water coolers or bottled water on the first day of classes, after the drinking fountains were shut off because of contaminants in some water...
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Detroit public schools cut water over lead worries
Thousands of Detroit public schools students were told Tuesday to drink from district-supplied water coolers or bottled water on the first day of classes, after the drinking fountains were shut off because of contaminants in some water...
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Trump proposes major rollback of water rules
The Trump administration proposed withdrawing federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands across the United States on Tuesday.