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Iran is accusing Qatar of holding three of its military pilots who have been missing since
March.
“Iranian officials said the pilots were captured when their fighter jets were shot down and”
appears Hedil al-Shalti reports. The Iranian armed forces missing persons committee said the three pilots went missing early in the war with the U.S. and Israel when their jets were hit by "enemy defenses" and they ejected. In a statement, the committee said that the Qatar military was holding them and hadn't
allowed them to contact their families or Iranian officials. Hedil's military said in March that its Air Force shot down two Iranian bomber jets, but it did not immediately respond to Iran's latest accusations. Iran said until now there was no information on the soldiers and called on the Red Cross to intervene and investigate the pilot's conditions.
Hedil al-Shalti and PR News Istanbul.
The big island of Hawaii is bracing for its first hurricane this weekend.
A storm of its this category hasn't made land false since 1871. There could be as much as 25 inches of rain in some parts and maximum sustained winds
“of about 75 miles per hour is forecast for the volcanic slopes on the island's southern”
end. Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman isn't Oahu. He says locals are concerned about landslides. High winds and heavy rains, and that's a story in a nutshell, seeing pictures here and from people as well, the size of this storm is unusual.
We're feeling some early impacts here, but it's really the big island of Hawaii. It's Maui. It's going to be filling it after that. And the size of the storm, unusual, it has what meteorologists call a large wind field. Wind stretch out more than 200 miles from the center so the impact of the storm is going
to form beyond the location of the center. Bill Dorman with Hawaii Public Radio, the Food and Drug Administration says it's on the ground in Mexico to investigate the cause of contaminated lettuce that has sickened almost 10,000 people in at least 19 states and appears Laura Sullivan reports. FDA officials say they have initiated an onsite inspection at Taylor Farms in Mexico.
The farm linked to the largest known cyclopspora outbreak in U.S. history. They say they're coordinating with Mexican officials. The FDA says in a statement it's quote "confident" that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific outbreak is off the market. Officials noted that the best by dates on the lettuce packaging has also now passed.
The FDA says investigators in Mexico hope to sample different areas of the facility and the fields. Though critics say it will be hard to gain much useful information now because too much time has passed, Taylor Farms says it recalled all iceberg lettuce from the U.S. market on July 17.
Laura Sullivan and PR News, Washington. Red it will join the S&P 500 next week, this is NPR News. The CDC says medications that suppress your immune system can increase your risk of serious mosquito and tick-borne disease and appears ping-hoong reports. This Nile virus season started strong in early this year and is expected to continue through
early fall. The virus is spread by mosquitoes and can cause a flu-like disease that's mild for most. But those with weakened immune systems are more likely to develop serious illness that can lead to long-term neurological problems and even death. According to CDC, the risk of severe West Nile and other mosquito and tick-borne diseases
is especially high for patients taking B-cells-appleading drugs used to treat some cancers, arthritis, and other autoimmune conditions. The drugs dampen the immune system's ability to fight off new infections. Health officials advise everyone to use bug spray and where-long sleeves to prevent bites from infected mosquitoes and ticks.
Ping-hoong and PR News.
Two powerful earthquakes struck Indonesia early this morning.
On off the coast of Florida's island, this is about 1,000 mls east of Jakarta. Another hit near Sumatra, the country's national disaster management agency says, "At least 47 people have died, this number is expected to climb as emergency teams reach affected areas." That's the sound of spiders in the Regency of Sika trying to find survivors underneath
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