Friday, September 11, 2009 WASHINGTON: The US Coast Guard, on high alert for the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, fired 10 rounds on a suspicious boat on the US capital's Potomac River, a US news channel reported Friday.It was not immediately clear if the boat posed any danger to Washington, as President Barack Obama for the first time led ceremonies to mark the eighth anniversary of the attacks.The vessel was challenged in a restricted part of the river, adjacent to the Pentagon where Obama was attending a ceremony to mark the 2001 attacks, the channel said.Contacted by a foreign news agency the coast guard said they could not immediately confirm the incident, and were checking the details. Police declined any comment saying they were not handling the situation.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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