NPR 2012-07-08

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In Ohio coroner says the the three people who died are suffering from heartt desease, died from stress caused by high tempretures in their houses, they were older and lived in rural areas. Tempreture inside the homes were said to be stifling², with window closed and dead evacuation, all were without power through the recent restore outages. The coroner reports the three likely could have survived if they'd been in cooler places. The forecast calls for tempretures to again exceed 100 degrees. State Officials are urging Ohio residents to take precautions against the severe heat and check on their neighbors to see if they need help.      

 

From NPR News I'm Fred Kight in Athens Ohio. 

 

Employees for the city of Scranton Pennsylvania now make $7.25 per hour. NPR's Jeff Brady reports Scranton's mayor says he cut publican employee salaries because there's not enough money in the bank to pay for wages. 

 

The judge ruled against the pay cut, but the mayor Chris Doherty said when the tax went out, he had no other choice. 

I want employees to get paid off, people worked hard .. I just don't have enough money, and I can't print it in the basement. 

Mayor Doherty and the city counsler are locked in a battle of whether the Scraton should raise taxes or buy a loan to fill a budget gap. John J as president at the local firefighters union. This is the power struggle as it's factually what it is with workers caught in the middle. Judge says the unions will take the issue back to court on Monday. Jeff Brady, NPR News.

 

The Obama administration has declared Afganistan a major none NATO ally. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton stopped at Kabul for a brief unannounced visit today. Clinton says this will promote close defensive³ cooperation between the countries, when US troops leave Afganistan in 2014. Clinton and Afganistan president Hamid Karzai. are now heading for Japan, they'll attend international conference on civilian⁴ assistance for Afganistan.  

 

Lybians are celebrating their first free election, since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi who controlled the country for decades. Voters are choosing members of a 200 seat parliament, it will create a new Lybian government, but there's been problems.  A helicopter carrying ballot⁵ was shut down this week over Benghazi, killing⁶ one election worker. Ballots⁷ have been burnt and polling stations were attacked. There're also disagreements over who will win the election.

 

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One person has been gored⁸ in the leg, several others injured in the annual running of the bull festival in Pomplona Spain. Despite the threat of injury and even death, the tradition lives on. As Lauren Frayer reports on Madrid. 

 

Up to a million runners packed Pomplonaeach each July for the San Fermin festival, who tells .. for their crisis and fill up months in advance. In the mist of B Spanish local counsling kicked off the San Fermin festival on Friday. Because during the next weekend with the running of the bull each morning, parties through the day and will fight by night. with Bulls floting in sometimes tre.. K streets, there are injuries every year. At least 15 people have died the past century including an America in 1995.

From NPR News I'm Lauren Frayer in Madrid.

 

Flooding in Southern Russia has killed nearly 100 people near the black sea region. Up to a foot of rain may have fallen on cross region, about 750 miles south of Mosco. The rain hit when most people were sleeping and had to flee their lives, a provincial⁹ government says there hasn't been nothing like this for the past 70 years. Photograph from the region show the recked cars, debris¹⁰ and waters high as the roofs of some houses.

 

British police have arrested a seventh person today in connection with an alleged¹¹ to terror plot. The police say they detained a 22 year old woman. She joins the six other people who were arrested on the same charges last Thursday. Including three brothers who live in the Olympian park in London.

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