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By David Brunnstrom MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Streams of people clambered into the hills of northern Pakistan carrying aid back to quake-shattered villages on Tuesday as clear weather helped a huge relief operation accelerate. Some villagers had trekked as much as 35 km (22 miles) to the wrecked town of Muzaffarabad to pick up food and blankets as the harsh Himalayan winter approaches. "We are desperate," said Muhammad Naeem after walking seven hours with dozens of men, women...
By David Fox MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Vital helicopter flights carrying food, blankets and tents to untold numbers of survivors of the earthquake in northern Pakistan resumed on Monday as lashing rains which compounded their misery ended. But many are likely to die before help can reach them in the remnants of remote mountain villages cut off by landslides and buckled roads with winter approaching rapidly. "We saw rows of people in a really bad way with suppurating wounds....
By Robert Birsel MUZAFFARBAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Quake-hit northern Pakistan faces a second wave of deaths with thousands of injured lying untreated in the remnants of remote mountain villages as winter closes in fast, doctors and aid officials said on Monday. Authorities are launching a house-to-house survey in Pakistani Kashmir this week to try to determine the scale of the disaster, but aid and medial workers say the dying hasn't stopped and it could accelerate unless more help...
By David Fox MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Forecast clear skies raised hopes on Monday that supplies of food, blankets and tents will start getting through to a million homeless survivors from the earthquake in northern Pakistan over a week ago. After heavy rain and thunderstorms frustrated relief operations on Sunday, grounding all but a few helicopter flights to the stricken areas in Pakistan Kashmir and North West Frontier Province (NWFP), a change in the weather would be a...
By Robert Birsel MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Soldiers pulled a young girl alive from the rubble of the Kashmir earthquake on Sunday, giving shattered Pakistan a moment of joy on a day when storms poured more misery on a million homeless survivors. After a night exposed to solid rain under the flimsiest of shelters, many survivors waited in vain for help as the weather grounded all but a few of a growing fleet of relief helicopters eight days after the quake pulverized a wide...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan army helicopter crashed in Pakistani Kashmir during a relief operation for the earthquake-shattered region, killing all six soldiers on board, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "The Mi-17 helicopter crashed during daytime sometime on Saturday, when it went to provide relief items in some inaccessible areas in the Bagh valley," military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told Reuters. "When it was going to Haji Peer Pak, which is a very difficult...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan army helicopter crashed in Pakistani Kashmir during a relief operation for the earthquake-shattered region, killing all six soldiers on board, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "The Mi-17 helicopter crashed during daytime sometime on Saturday, when it went to provide relief items in some inaccessible areas in the Bagh valley," military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told Reuters. "When it was going to Haji Peer Pak, which is a very difficult...
By Robert Birsel MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A week after South Asia's strongest earthquake in 100 years, survivors woke to a cold and drizzly Saturday morning still uncertain how they would survive the coming winter without permanent shelter. Dark clouds hung low over the foothills of the Himalayas, covering the capital of Pakistani Kashmir like a shroud, as thunder and lightning rolled through the valleys. Thousands were due to gather in the country's largest mosque, Shah...
By Aamir Ashraf MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A prominent Islamist cleric in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir accused the government of responding too slowly to help survivors of last weekend's earthquake and criticized looting of aid supplies. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed more than 25,000 people last Saturday, most of them in the Pakistani part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. About 1,200 people were killed in Indian Kashmir. Survivors in the devastated region waited...
By David Fox MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Thunderstorms followed by cold weather promised more misery for survivors of the Kashmir earthquake at the weekend as the focus of international aid efforts turned on Friday from rescue to relief. International rescue teams began leaving Pakistani Kashmir as efforts shifted from searching for people in the rubble to keeping survivors alive with an eye to winter just weeks away. Officials denied that the search for survivors had been...
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The Kurilian bobtail, also known as the Curilsk Bobtail or the Kurilean bobtail, among many other names, is a breed of domestic cat that is sometimes considered a breed group by some registries. The origin of this breed has been claimed by Kamchatka, Sakhalin Island, Russia, and Japan, but it is thought to have originated on the Kuril Islands. The first members of the breed occurred naturally on the islands as a shorthaired variant about two hundred years ago, but the modern variant has only...
The Persian Gulf is located in the western part of Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It’s an addition to the Indian Ocean. The Gulf was the focal point of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, which each side assaulted the other’s oil tankers. In the year 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was known as the “Persian Gulf War” or otherwise known as the “Gulf War”, despite the fact that this disagreement was mainly a land conflict, when Iraq raided Kuwait...
Yunnanosaurus, meaning "Yunnan lizard," is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early to Mid Jurassic Period. This was perhaps one of the last living prosauropods of the time. It was discovered by Yang Zhongjian in the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. The find consisted of twenty incomplete skeletons, including two skulls, and were excavated by Tsun Yi Wang. The type species, Y huangi, was named by C.C. Young in 1942, and created the family Yunnanosauridae based on the findings as a...
Lufengosaurus, meaning "Lufeng lizard", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early and Middle Jurassic Period of what is now southwestern China. It was named by C. C. Young in 1941. The type species, L. huenei, was discovered in the Lower Lufeng Formation of the Yunnan Province in China. Young described and named a second species a few years later. This is one of the few prosauropod dinosaurs to survive from the Early Jurassic into the Middle Jurassic eras. Lufengosaurus was about 20...
The Marco Polo Sheep (Ovis ammon polii), is a subspecies of sheep, specifically the Argali. These sheep are found only in the Pamir Mountains in the border region of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Some of the protected areas where the species occurs include the Khunjerab National Park and Central Karakoram National Park in northern Pakistan and the Taxkongau Nature Reserve in southwestern China. The Marco Polo sheep is particularly known for its long horns. The longest horn...
