Year: 2014

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By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – In the three years since hundreds of police stormed the hills that her family calls home, Caroline Oliveira has been waiting for things to get better. True, the drug gangs that once controlled her Rio de Janeiro neighborhood are less dominant than they once were. As for the promise of nearby schools and health services, she will believe it when she sees it. "Not much has changed," says the 20-year-old mother of two, who has spent recent weeks seeking donations with neighbors to set up a community day-care center in their small corner of the Complexo do Alemão, a vast series of bare-brick shacks, open sewers and garbage heaps just north of central Rio.

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) – A worker at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant died on Friday after being buried under gravel while digging a ditch, prompting the operator to suspend cleanup work for safety checks. Tokyo Electric Power Co said it was the first time a laborer had died as a direct result of an accident inside the plant since the nuclear disaster in March 2011, the world's worst since Chernobyl in 1986. "In the three years since the disaster, we had not had any worker deaths caused by work (inside the plant). The fact that such a serious accident has occurred is deeply regrettable," said Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono.

By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) – That Afghan toddler Abuzar survived a bullet fragment to the head during a Taliban attack in Kabul last week is astonishing. The militant Islamist Taliban movement has declared war on the April 5 presidential election, and it may also be emboldened by the withdrawal of many foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan by the end of the year. "We are here to be surgeons of war," said Luca Radaelli, a doctor at the surgical center in Kabul run by an Italian non-governmental group called Emergency, where admissions have soared 36 percent so far this year. "Our plan is to expand and build on the facilities we have present in Afghanistan," he added.

Danish hearing aids group GN Store Nord has seen a jump in its U.S. costumer base following the launch of a new product developed jointly with Apple for the iPhone, the company told analysts at an industry conference in Orlando. GN Store Nord obtained at least 20 percent more new costumers in the United States in the first two weeks of March compared to same period in February, thanks to their launch of Resound Linx late February. Resound Linx is a hearing aid packed with bluetooth-like technology that installed in the ear allows users to stream voice and music from their iPhones. “The first data indicates that Resound Linx has been very well received in the U.S. Market,” head of investor relations Michael Bjergby told Reuters on Friday, after the presentation which analysts from both Danske Bank and Nordea called ‘very bullish’.