Pope John Paul II falters reading arrival speech in Slovakia
The frail pope slurred words and failed to read his full arrival text as aides read it instead during a Slovakia visit. He faced mobility issues from Parkinsons and joint ailments, with medical equipment seen before a service in Trnava.
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Bratislava
Slovakia
John Paul II
Trnava
John Paul
Jozef Tomko
Vatican
Joa
Quin Navarro-Valls
Navarro-Walls
Switzerland
Austria
Poland
Navarro-Valls
Pope John Paul II
Rudolf Schuster
Irena
Isabel Escalates to Cat 5 Hurricane Offshore
Hurricane Isabel intensified Thursday to an extremely powerful Category 5 with winds up to 160 mph as it moves west across the Atlantic. Forecasters projected the storm near the Bahamas within five days, cautioning uncertainty about U.S. coast impact and noting Mitch of 1998 was the last Cat 5 in the region with severe death tolls.
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Miami
Isabel
Atlantic
Bahamas
Richard Pasch
U.S
Mitch
Caribbean Sea
Nicaragua
Honduras
Guatemala
Stalin’s granddaughter receives US World War I files
Galina Dzhugashvili, granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, was handed copies of World War I era documents in Moscow. The files confirm the death of her father Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s eldest son, in Sachsenhausen in 1943 after being shot while attempting to escape. The papers include cables, a Nazi interrogation protocol, a Himmler death notice, and guards’ and a physician’s statements.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Jerry Jennings
Galina Dzhugashvili
U.S
Dzhugashvili
Yakov Dzhugashvili
Sachsenhausen Camp
USS
Germany
National Archives
Washington
U.S. State Department
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Global smoking death toll matches in developing and developed regions
A Lancet study estimates 4.83 million deaths from smoking worldwide in 2000, with 2.41 million in developing countries and 2.43 million in rich nations. Researchers Alan Lopez and Majid Ezzati base findings on recent studies, highlighting varied death causes by region and urging stronger anti smoking policies.
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London
Lancet Medical Journal
World Health Organization
China
West
India
Thun
Alan Lopez
University of Queensland
Brisbane
Australia
Majid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health
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