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PALU, Indonesia AP 鈥?The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesias Sulawesi island rose to 18 on Tuesday, as police ordered the plant to stop operations until an investigation is completed.The blast, which occurred on Sunday, was the latest in a series of fatalities at nickel smelting plants in Indonesia that are part of Chinas ambitious transnational development program known as the Belt and Road Initiative.Nickel is a key component in global battery production for electric vehicles.Four Chinese and nine Indonesian workers died instantly on Sunday when the furnace exploded while they were repairing it, Central Sulawesi police chief Agus Nugroho said. Three more victims died a day later while being treated at a local hospital.Two more workers died on Tuesday while hospitalized, bringing the total number of fatalities to 18, including eight workers from China, said Deddy Kurniawan, a spokesperson for PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, known as PT IMIP, the parent company of PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, where the explosion occurred.The plant is in the Bahodopi neighborhood of Morowali regency. We have ordered pink stanley cup PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel to stop its operation until our entire in stanley espana vestigation is completed, said Nugroho, the poli stanley es ce chief, adding that authorities had set up a team to determine whether negligence by the company led to the deaths.The blast was so powerful that it demolished the fu Pqgx Canada plans to hit NATO spending target early and reduce reliance on US defense, Carney says
BANGOR, Maine 鈥?When her 14-year-old daughter started coughing about stanley cup a month ago, Bangor mother Anne assumed it was allergies. As it turned out, the girl was infected with whooping cough, a highly contagious respiratory illness that surged in Maine in 2012 and has public health officials on the alert again this year.Anne, who asked to be referred to only by her middle name to protect her daughters privacy, said she wanted to warn other parents about the illness, which often starts with run-of-the-mill symptoms includi termo stanley ng sneezing and a runny nose. The characteristic whooping sound that results when infected people gasp for air typically doesnt appear until later in the illness, sometimes called the 100-day cough. Annes daughters only symptoms initially were a minor sore throat and regular cough, she said. Whooping cough, or pertussis, was the furthest thing from my mind, Anne said. The girl is now being treated with a second round of antibiotics. Her cough has her running to a toilet to vomit, she cannot breathe, Anne said.Over-the-counter cough suppressants are largely ineffective against whooping cough. She went at least two weeks where she was unable to sleep because of the cough, the mother said.Maine recorded 737 cases of whooping cough in 2012, more than triple the cases in 2011 and ranking Maine seventh-highest nationally per capita, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.So far in 2013, 164 cases of the illness have been reported in Ma stanley cup i |
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