Sentences with phrase «deaths reported last»

The figures are more conservative than the estimated 60 000 deaths reported last week.

Not exact matches

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

The cable giant added 53,000 subscribers in the last quarter — its best performance in almost a decade — and some analysts saying reports of the death of cable «have been greatly exaggerated.»

Last year, Airlines for America, a trade group representing United and other large U.S. airlines, included the reporting requirements of animal deaths or injuries among those federal rules it would like to see repealed or changed.

Deaths resulting from heroin overdoses have more than tripled since 2010, The New York Times reported last month.

Last year, the U.S. reported its first - ever death stemming from a superbug resistant to all available antibiotics.

Drugmakers have benefitted from the surge of opioid - related deaths in the U.S.; last year, Bloomberg reported that the drug's price had risen tenfold in recent years, with state and local governments shelling out to make the med more widely available.

After media reports on his succession plans and ill health, Redstone last week issued a statement saying that after his death, his ownership interests in CBS and Viacom will be handled by a seven - member trust.

The messages represented a tiny minority of the tweets she received last night; per Topsy, an analytics service, thousands of well - wishers have tweeted their condolences to Williams's daughter in the time since news of his death broke, and several dozen reported her abusers to Twitter.

Austrian media have now reported that the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, confirmed the priest's death in a sermon during evening Mass last night on Easter Sunday.

Last week, physicist Stephen Hawking died at 76, but already, false reports are being spread about his death.

Such migrations hit a record high last year, reports the BBC, which has mapped the problem given the journey is also producing record deaths.

«An unfortunate mistake»... Get Religion: TV station mistakenly reports Bill Graham's death Evangelist Billy Graham was admitted to the hospital last week and was diagnosed with pneumonia.

There are unconfirmed reports of deaths and injuries after police stormed the building (pictured) following a hostage incident lasting more than 16 hours.

When my wife and I see news reports about the deaths of young people, as we did after the grisly slaughter at Virginia Tech last April, we inevitably think back to June 1999, when we lost our son, Daniel.

With 1,118 reported cases and a death toll at 41, the current outbreak of the West Nile virus is the biggest in U.S. history and also its fastest, with last...

More than 24,000 infections, 5,600 hospitalizations and 120 deaths were reported last year in the US, according to foodborne illness surveillance data.

Initial reports speculated that the bird, the team mascot, had been poisoned, but a federal investigation that was concluded just before the beginning of last season revealed that malnutrition was the cause of death.

And North Carolina is vying to be the homebirth death capital of the US: they had 5 publicly reported homebirth deaths last year for a rate 12X higher than low risk hospital birth.

In fact, a report published last month — Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban counDeath: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban coundeath in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban counties.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

While I was unable to find any statistics on choking on school grounds per se, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported last year that «[c] hoking on food causes the death of approximately 1 child every 5 days in the United States,» and some of the characteristics of the typical school cafeteria eating experience were identified in the report as enhancing the risk of choking:

Last year there were 13 deaths reported attributed to the flu in Monroe County.

Last month Sir Ian even staged an impromptu news conference outside Scotland Yard, quoting Mark Twain in saying: «The report of my death is an exaggeration».

The change of heart, it's being reported, was triggered in part by the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart at the hands of an intoxicated motorist last week.

From the horrors of Mid-Staffordshire to last month's reports that death rates in the NHS may be 45 % higher than in the USA, questions are being asked about the care provided in our hospitals.

At a lunch he hosted last year for Republican legislators, he described the pain he felt reading the reports produced following the investigations of the children's deaths.

The Times Union reported last year that Abelove, who personally presented the case to the grand jury that cleared French, did not require the officer to sign an immunity - from - prosecution waiver when the officer testified before the grand jury that cleared him — a highly unusual move that makes it virtually impossible for any prosecutor to pursue potential future charges against French for conduct surrounding Thevenin's death.

Last winter, the Associated Press reported that 56 - year - old former Marine Jerome Murdough had «baked to death» in a mental - health unit at the prison complex.

A chorus of construction industry union leaders blasted NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for what they called his inappropriate response to a Crain's report that the city's count of construction deaths excluded a third of fatalities last year.

Awaited Test Results Yield Another «Positive» for EEE «Virus Suspected in Two More Horse Deaths» The Oneida County Health Department today reported that test results on a suspected case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a horse in the north Rome / Lee Center has confirmed that the animal was infected with the disease when it was euthanized last week after developing neurological symptoms.

Last week, the officer at the center of Garner's death, Daniel Pantaleo, testified in front of a grand jury on Staten Island, DNAinfo New York first reported.

Last week, Dobbinson received a letter written to her son from a collection agency, attempting to claim he owed the city $ 710 for damages done to the police cruiser in Robinson's death, the Daily News reported.

The report covered 10 cases between 2009 and 2014 where the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined officers used chokeholds, but the office delayed the release of their 34 - page report by three weeks after the shootings deaths of the two police officers in Brooklyn last month.

Biello: The World Bank last year put out a report saying that air pollution was causing the Chinese economy a 100 - billion dollars a year and that's about 750,000 extra deaths could be attributed to that air pollution.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported late last year that 2014 saw a record 28,647 overdose deaths due to the misuse of prescription opioids and heroin.

In that spirit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a report last June calling for the integration of military and civilian medical trauma education, training and research, with the goal of completely eliminating all preventable trauma deaths across the country.

Now, it is being deployed to monitor the Zika as it spreads beyond Brazil, where reports last August of fetal deaths and newborns with brain disorders including microcephaly, a devastating condition that results in abnormally small brains and heads, began to trickle in.

A report released last week by Oxfam and Save the Children argued that the international relief effort was far too slow to get going, leading to thousands of avoidable deaths.

Recent reports of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico may well be due to last year's BP oil spill, but I imagine there are many threats to dolphins from pollution, human overfishing and other causes.

What most did not know, however, was that rumors of the tower's doom, like Mark Twain's death, were greatly exaggerated; a reporter misread the final report on the extension's construction and its impact on the tower, which was filed in 2009 and released last year under the U.K.'s Freedom of Information Act.

The calculated number of obesity - related deaths — 112,000 — contradicted a CDC report last year that placed the number of obesity - related deaths at around 365,000.

The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a report last month weighting the most serious accidents in terms of deaths and major injuries from 2005 to 2009.

The last death at a Detroit event was reported to be in 1994 when a 42 - year - old man died after running more than 20 miles.

And yet, a report released just last year from the World Health Organization (WHO) implicated unhealthy and polluted environments as causing a quarter of all deaths in children under five years old.

Most recently, sugar in the diet has also been implicated in cardiovascular disease deaths: A large study led by Dr. Hu reported last year that adults who had the highest intake of sugar — consuming 25 percent of daily calories as sugar — were nearly three times more likely to die of heart disease over a 14 - year period, compared with those whose sugar intake was less than 10 percent of calories.

When Ponicsan wrote Last Flag Flying in 2005, he decided to bring Nicholson's character back to life in a Mark Twain, «the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,» sort of way.

Even the reported death of Superman last time out is handled in a way that won't keep kids up nights.